1903 | | Marie Skłodowska Curie (shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel) | Poland and France | Physics | "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" |
1905 | | Bertha von Suttner | Austria–Hungary | Peace | Honorary President of Permanent International Peace Bureau, Bern, Switzerland; Author of Lay Down Your Arms. |
1909 | | Selma Lagerlöf | Sweden | Literature | "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings" |
1911 | | Marie Skłodowska Curie | Poland and France | Chemistry | "for her discovery of radium and polonium" |
1926 | | Grazia Deledda | Italy | Literature | "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general" |
1928 | | Sigrid Undset | Norway | Literature | "principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages" |
1931 | | Jane Addams (shared with Nicholas Murray Butler) | United States | Peace | Sociologist; International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. |
1935 | | Irène Joliot-Curie (shared with Frédéric Joliot-Curie) | France | Chemistry | "for their synthesis of new radioactive elements" |
1938 | | Pearl S. Buck | United States | Literature | "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces" |
1945 | | Gabriela Mistral | Chile | Literature | "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world" |
1946 | | Emily Greene Balch (shared with John Raleigh Mott) | United States | Peace | Formerly Professor of History and Sociology; Honorary International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. |
1947 | | Gerty Theresa Cori (shared with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Houssay) | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" |
1963 | | Maria Goeppert-Mayer (shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner) | United States | Physics | "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" |
1964 | | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | United Kingdom | Chemistry | "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"[21] |
1966 | | Nelly Sachs (shared with Samuel Agnon) | Sweden and Germany | Literature | "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength" |
1976 | | Betty Williams | United Kingdom | Peace | Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People) |
| Mairead Corrigan |
1977 | | Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (shared with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones" |
1979 | | Mother Teresa | India and Yugoslavia | Peace | Leader of Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta. |
1982 | | Alva Myrdal (shared with Alfonso García Robles) | Sweden | Peace | Former Cabinet Minister; Diplomat; Writer. |
1983 | | Barbara McClintock | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements" |
1986 | | Rita Levi-Montalcini (shared with Stanley Cohen) | Italy and United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of growth factors" |
1988 | | Gertrude B. Elion (shared with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings) | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" |
1991 | | Nadine Gordimer | South Africa | Literature | "who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity" |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | Burma | Peace | "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights" |
1992 | | Rigoberta Menchú | Guatemala | Peace | "in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples" |
1993 | | Toni Morrison | United States | Literature | "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality" |
1995 | | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (shared with Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wieschaus) | Germany | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development" |
1996 | | Wislawa Szymborska | Poland | Literature | "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality" |
1997 | | Jody Williams (shared with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines) | United States | Peace | "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines" |
2003 | | Shirin Ebadi | Iran | Peace | "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children" |
2004 | | Elfriede Jelinek | Austria | Literature | "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power" |
| Wangari Maathai | Kenya | Peace | "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace" |
| Linda B. Buck (shared with Richard Axel) | United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" |
2007 | | Doris Lessing | United Kingdom | Literature | "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny" |
2008 | | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (shared with Harald zur Hausen and Luc Montagnier) | France | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of HIV, human immunodeficiency virus" |
2009 | | Elizabeth Blackburn (shared with Jack W. Szostak) | Australia and United States | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" |
| Carol W. Greider (shared with Jack W. Szostak) | United States |
| Ada E. Yonath (shared with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz) | Israel | Chemistry | "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" |
| Herta Müller | Germany and Romania | Literature | "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" |
| Elinor Ostrom (shared with Oliver E. Williamson) | United States | Economics | "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" |
2011 | | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberia | Peace | "For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work" |
| Leymah Gbowee |
| Tawakel Karman | Yemen |
2013 | | Alice Munro | Canada | Literature | "master of the contemporary short story" |
2014 | | May-Britt Moser (shared with Edvard Moser and John O'Keefe) | Norway | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" |
| Malala Yousafzai (shared with Kailash Satyarthi) | Pakistan | Peace | "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". |
2015 | | Tu Youyou (shared with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura) | China | Physiology or Medicine | "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria" |
| Svetlana Alexievich | Belarus | Literature | "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time" |