自 1901 年以来，诺贝尔和平奖已颁发105 次。其中有 19 次未颁发：1914-1916 年、1918 年、1923 年、1924 年、1928 年、1932 年、1939-1943 年、1948 年、1955-1956 年、1966-1967 年和 1972 年。诺贝尔和平奖已授予 142 名获奖者，其中 111 名个人，31 个组织。自红十字国际委员会 (Comité International de la Croix Rouge) 三次获奖、联合国难民事务高级专员公署两次获奖以来，共有 111 名个人和 28 个组织获得过诺贝尔和平奖。在 111 位诺贝尔和平奖个人获得者中，有 19 位是女性。诺贝尔和平奖首次授予女性是在 1905 年，获奖者是贝尔塔·冯·苏特纳 (Bertha von Suttner)。
71 个和平奖仅颁给一位获奖者。31个和平奖由两位获奖者共同获得。3个和平奖由三位获奖者共同获得。1994年诺贝尔和平奖授予亚西尔·阿拉法特（Yasser Arafat,）、西蒙·佩雷斯（Shimon Peres）、伊扎克·拉宾（Yitzhak Rabin），2011 年诺贝尔和平奖授予埃伦·约翰逊·瑟利夫（Ellen Johnson Sirleaf）、莱伊曼·古博薇（Leymah Gbowee）和塔瓦库·卡曼（Tawakkol Karman），2022 年诺贝尔和平奖授予阿莱斯·比亚利亚茨基（Ales Bialiatski）、俄罗斯人权组织纪念组织（the Russian human rights organisation Memorial ）和乌克兰人权组织公民自由中心（the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties）。
迄今最年轻的和平奖得主为马拉拉·优素福扎伊（Malala Yousafzai，2014 年诺贝尔和平奖），17岁时获奖。
最年长的和平奖得主为约瑟夫·罗特布拉特（Joseph Rotblat，1995 年诺贝尔和平奖），86岁时获奖。
红十字国际委员会 (International Committee of the Red Cross，ICRC) 的工作是获得诺贝尔和平奖次数最多的组织，共获得过三次。此外，红十字国际委员会的创始人亨利·杜南（Henry Dunant）于 1901 年获得了首届诺贝尔和平奖。
迄今有一位和平奖得主拒绝了诺贝尔和平奖。越南政治家黎德寿（Le Duc Tho）与美国国务卿亨利·基辛格（Henry Kissinger）共同获得 1973 年诺贝尔和平奖，他是唯一一位拒绝接受诺贝尔和平奖的人。他们两人都因谈判越南和平协议而获得该奖。黎德寿表示，他无法接受诺贝尔奖，理由是越南局势。
1900s
1901: Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy
1902: Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat
1903: William Randal Cremer
1904: Institute of International Law
1905: Bertha von Suttner
1906: Theodore Roosevelt
1907: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
1908: Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
1909: Auguste Beernaert, Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant
1910s
1910: Permanent International Peace Bureau
1911: Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
1912: Elihu Root
1913: Henri La Fontaine
1914: Not awarded (World War I)
1915: Not awarded (World War I)
1916: Not awarded (World War I)
1917: International Committee of the Red Cross
1918: Not awarded (World War I)
1919: Woodrow Wilson
1920s
1920: Léon Bourgeois
1921: Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
1922: Fridtjof Nansen
1923: Not awarded
1924: Not awarded
1925: Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes
1926: Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
1927: Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
1928: Not awarded
1929: Frank B. Kellogg
1930s
1930: Nathan Söderblom
1931: Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
1932: Not awarded
1933: Sir Norman Angell
1934: Arthur Henderson
1935: Carl von Ossietzky
1936: Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1937: Robert Cecil
1938: Nansen International Office for Refugees
1939: Not awarded (World War II)
1940s
1940: Not awarded (World War II)
1941: Not awarded (World War II)
1942: Not awarded (World War II)
1943: Not awarded (World War II)
1944: International Committee of the Red Cross
1945: Cordell Hull
1946: Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott
1947: Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
1948: Not awarded (due to the death of Mahatma Gandhi)
1949: Lord Boyd Orr
1950s
1950: Ralph Bunche
1951: Léon Jouhaux
1952: Albert Schweitzer
1953: George C. Marshall
1954: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1955: Not awarded
1956: Not awarded
1957: Lester Bowles Pearson
1958: Georges Pire
1959: Philip Noel-Baker
1960s
1960: Albert Lutuli
1961: Dag Hammarskjöld (posthumously)
1962: Linus Pauling
1963: International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
1964: Martin Luther King Jr.
1965: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
1966: Not awarded
1967: Not awarded
1968: Not awarded
1969: International Labour Organization (ILO)
1970s
1970: Norman Borlaug
1971: Willy Brandt
1972: Not awarded
1973: Henry Kissinger, Lê Đức Thọ (Lê Đức Thọ declined the award)
1974: Seán MacBride, Eisaku Satō
1975: Andrei Sakharov
1976: Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
1977: Amnesty International
1978: Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin
1979: Mother Teresa
1980s
1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1982: Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
1983: Lech Wałęsa
1984: Desmond Tutu
1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1986: Elie Wiesel
1987: Óscar Arias
1988: United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1989: The ……
1990s
1990: Mikhail Gorbachev
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
1992: Rigoberta Menchú
1993: Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk
1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1995: Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), Jody Williams
1998: John Hume, David Trimble
1999: Médecins Sans Frontières
2000s
2000: Kim Dae-jung
2001: United Nations, Kofi Annan
2002: Jimmy Carter
2003: Shirin Ebadi
2004: Wangari Maathai
2005: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei
2006: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Al Gore
2008: Martti Ahtisaari
2009: Barack Obama
2010s
2010: -----
2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman
2012: European Union (EU)
2013: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
2014: Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai
2015: National Dialogue Quartet (Tunisia)
2016: Juan Manuel Santos
2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
2018: Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad
2019: Abiy Ahmed
2020s
2020: World Food Programme (WFP)
2021: Maria Ressa, Dmitry Muratov
2022: Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, Center for Civil Liberties
2023: Narges Mohammadi
2024: Nihon Hidankyo
