If you don’t know what are the Nobel Prize winners by religion, we created a list of Nobel Prize winners by religion: Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Non-Religious in order to ease your research. It is fun to think about which religious group leads in terms of most number of Nobel Prize winners. There is an inherent sense of pride when you see the names of the people with the same religious beliefs as yourself making a contribution that merited the award of the esteemed Nobel Prize.
You can also get your patriotic flair going by checking out our list of 10 countries that have won the most Nobel Prizes and finding out if your home country made the cut. For this list, we consulted the records available with the Official Website of the Nobel Prize and various other online sources. Now without further ado, let’s continue with our list of Nobel Prize winners by religion: Jewish, Christian, Muslim and non-religious.
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4. Jewish Nobel Prize winners
# Name Year Country Field
1 Adolf von Baeyer 1905 Germany Chemistry
2 Henri Moissan 1906 France Chemistry
3 Otto Wallach 1910 Germany Chemistry
4 Richard Willstätter 1915 Germany Chemistry
5 Fritz Haber 1918 Germany Chemistry
6 George de Hevesy 1943 Hungary Chemistry
7 Melvin Calvin 1961 United States Chemistry
8 Max Perutz 1962 United Kingdom Chemistry
9 Christian B. Anfinsen 1972 United States Chemistry
10 William Howard Stein 1972 United States Chemistry
11 Ilya Prigogine 1977 Belgium Chemistry
12 Herbert C. Brown 1979 United States Chemistry
13 Paul Berg 1980 United States Chemistry
14 Walter Gilbert 1980 United States Chemistry
15 Roald Hoffmann 1981 United States Chemistry
16 Aaron Klug 1982 United Kingdom Chemistry
17 Jerome Karle 1985 United States Chemistry
18 Herbert A. Hauptman 1985 United States Chemistry
19 Sidney Altman 1989 Canada, United States Chemistry
20 Rudolph A. Marcus 1992 United States Chemistry
21 George Andrew Olah 1994 Hungary Chemistry
22 Harry Kroto 1996 United Kingdom Chemistry
23 Walter Kohn 1998 United States Chemistry
24 Alan J. Heeger 2000 United States Chemistry
25 Aaron Ciechanover 2004 Israel Chemistry
26 Avram Hershko 2004 Israel Chemistry
27 Irwin Rose 2004 United States Chemistry
28 Roger D. Kornberg 2006 United States Chemistry
29 Martin Chalfie 2008 United States Chemistry
30 Ada Yonath 2009 Israel Chemistry
31 Dan Shechtman 2011 Israel Chemistry
32 Robert Lefkowitz 2012 United States Chemistry
33 Arieh Warshel 2013 Israel Chemistry
34 Michael Levitt 2013 United States, Britain, Israel Chemistry
35 Martin Karplus 2013 United States, Austria Chemistry
36 Élie Metchnikoff 1908 Russia Physiology or Medicine
37 Paul Ehrlich 1908 Germany Physiology or Medicine
38 Robert Bárány 1914 Austria-Hungary Physiology or Medicine
39 Otto Fritz Meyerhof 1922 Germany Physiology or Medicine
40 Karl Landsteiner 1930 Austria Physiology or Medicine
41 Otto Heinrich Warburg 1931 Germany Physiology or Medicine
42 Otto Loewi 1936 Austria Physiology or Medicine
43 Joseph Erlanger 1944 United States Physiology or Medicine
44 Ernst Boris Chain 1945 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
45 Hermann Joseph Muller 1946 United States Physiology or Medicine
46 Gerty Cori 1947 United States Physiology or Medicine
47 Tadeusz Reichstein 1950 Switzerland / Poland Physiology or Medicine
48 Selman Waksman 1952 United States Physiology or Medicine
49 Hans Adolf Krebs 1953 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
50 Fritz Albert Lipmann 1953 United States Physiology or Medicine
51 Joshua Lederberg 1958 United States Physiology or Medicine
52 Arthur Kornberg 1959 United States Physiology or Medicine
53 Konrad Emil Bloch 1964 United States Physiology or Medicine
54 François Jacob 1965 France Physiology or Medicine
55 André Michel Lwoff 1965 France Physiology or Medicine
56 George Wald 1967 United States Physiology or Medicine
57 Marshall Warren Nirenberg 1968 United States Physiology or Medicine
58 Salvador Luria 1969 United States, Italy Physiology or Medicine
59 Julius Axelrod 1970 United States Physiology or Medicine
60 Bernard Katz 1970 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
61 Gerald Edelman 1972 United States Physiology or Medicine
62 David Baltimore 1975 United States Physiology or Medicine
63 Howard Martin Temin 1975 United States Physiology or Medicine
64 Baruch Samuel Blumberg 1976 United States Physiology or Medicine
65 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 1977 United States Physiology or Medicine
66 Daniel Nathans 1978 United States Physiology or Medicine
67 Baruj Benacerraf 1980 United States Physiology or Medicine
68 César Milstein 1984 Argentina Physiology or Medicine
69 Michael Stuart Brown 1985 United States Physiology or Medicine
70 Joseph L. Goldstein 1985 United States Physiology or Medicine
71 Stanley Cohen 1986 United States Physiology or Medicine
72 Rita Levi-Montalcini 1986 Italy Physiology or Medicine
73 Gertrude B. Elion 1988 United States Physiology or Medicine
74 Harold E. Varmus 1989 United States Physiology or Medicine
75 Alfred G. Gilman 1994 United States Physiology or Medicine
76 Martin Rodbell 1994 United States Physiology or Medicine
77 Stanley B. Prusiner 1997 United States Physiology or Medicine
78 Robert F. Furchgott 1998 United States Physiology or Medicine
79 Paul Greengard 2000 United States Physiology or Medicine
80 Eric Kandel 2000 United States Physiology or Medicine
81 Sydney Brenner 2002 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
82 H. Robert Horvitz 2002 United States Physiology or Medicine
83 Richard Axel 2004 United States Physiology or Medicine
84 Andrew Fire 2006 United States Physiology or Medicine
85 Ralph M. Steinman 2011 Canada Physiology or Medicine
86 Bruce Beutler 2011 United States Physiology or Medicine
87 James E. Rothman 2013 United States Physiology or Medicine
88 Randy Schekman 2013 United States Physiology or Medicine
89 Albert A. Michelson 1907 United States Physics
90 Gabriel Lippmann 1908 France Physics
91 Albert Einstein 1921 Germany Physics
92 Niels Bohr 1922 Denmark Physics
93 James Franck 1925 Germany Physics
94 Gustav Hertz 1925 Germany Physics
95 Otto Stern 1943 United States Physics
96 Isidor Isaac Rabi 1944 United States Physics
97 Wolfgang Pauli 1945 Austria Physics
98 Felix Bloch 1952 United States Physics
99 Max Born 1954 United Kingdom Physics
100 Ilya Frank 1958 Soviet Union Physics
101 Emilio Gino Segrè 1959 Italy Physics
102 Donald A. Glaser 1960 United States Physics
103 Robert Hofstadter 1961 United States Physics
104 Lev Landau 1962 Soviet Union Physics
105 Eugene Wigner 1963 United States Physics
106 Richard Feynman 1965 United States Physics
107 Julian Schwinger 1965 United States Physics
108 Hans Bethe 1967 United States Physics
109 Murray Gell-Mann 1969 United States Physics
110 Dennis Gabor 1971 United Kingdom Physics
111 Leon Cooper 1972 United States Physics
112 Brian David Josephson 1973 United Kingdom Physics
113 Ben Roy Mottelson 1975 Denmark Physics
114 Burton Richter 1976 United States Physics
115 Arno Allan Penzias 1978 United States Physics
116 Sheldon Lee Glashow 1979 United States Physics
117 Steven Weinberg 1979 United States Physics
118 Arthur Leonard Schawlow 1981 United States Physics
119 Karl Alexander Müller 1987 Switzerland Physics
120 Leon M. Lederman 1988 United States Physics
121 Melvin Schwartz 1988 United States Physics
122 Jack Steinberger 1988 United States Physics
123 Jerome Isaac Friedman 1990 United States Physics
124 Georges Charpak 1992 France / Poland Physics
125 Martin Lewis Perl 1995 United States Physics
126 Frederick Reines 1995 United States Physics
127 David Morris Lee 1996 United States Physics
128 Douglas D. Osheroff 1996 United States Physics
129 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 1997 France Physics
130 Zhores Alferov 2000 Russia Physics
131 Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov 2003 Russia, United States Physics
132 Vitaly Ginzburg 2003 Russia Physics
133 David Gross 2004 United States Physics
134 H. David Politzer 2004 United States Physics
135 Roy J. Glauber 2005 United States Physics
136 Adam Riess 2011 United States Physics
137 Saul Perlmutter 2011 United States Physics
138 Serge Haroche 2012 France Physics
139 François Englert 2013 Belgium Physics
140 J. Michael Kosterlitz 2016 United Kingdom Physics
141 Paul Heyse 1910 Germany Literature
142 Henri Bergson 1927 France Literature
143 Boris Pasternak 1958 Soviet Union Literature
144 Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 Israel Literature
145 Nelly Sachs 1966 Sweden Literature
146 Saul Bellow 1976 United States Literature
147 Isaac Bashevis Singer 1978 United States Literature
148 Elias Canetti 1981 United Kingdom Literature
149 Joseph Brodsky 1987 United States Literature
150 Nadine Gordimer 1991 South Africa Literature
151 Imre Kertész 2002 Hungary Literature
152 Elfriede Jelinek 2004 Austria Literature
153 Harold Pinter 2005 United Kingdom Literature
154 Patrick Modiano 2014 France Literature
155 Bob Dylan 2016 United States Literature
156 Paul Samuelson 1970 United States Economics
157 Simon Kuznets 1971 United States Economics
158 Kenneth Arrow 1972 United States Economics
159 Wassily Leontief 1973 Russia, Germany, United States Economics
160 Leonid Kantorovich 1975 Soviet Union Economics
161 Milton Friedman 1976 United States Economics
162 Herbert A. Simon 1978 United States Economics
163 Lawrence Klein 1980 United States Economics
164 Franco Modigliani 1985 Italy, United States Economics
165 Robert Solow 1987 United States Economics
166 Harry Markowitz 1990 United States Economics
167 Merton Miller 1990 United States Economics
168 Gary Becker 1992 United States Economics
169 Robert Fogel 1993 United States Economics
170 John Harsanyi 1994 Hungary Economics
171 Reinhard Selten 1994 Germany Economics
172 Myron Scholes 1997 Canada Economics
173 Joseph Stiglitz 2001 United States Economics
174 George Akerlof 2001 United States Economics
175 Daniel Kahneman 2002 Israel, United States Economics
176 Robert Aumann 2005 Israel, United States Economics
177 Leonid Hurwicz 2007 United States, Poland Economics
178 Eric Maskin 2007 United States Economics
179 Roger Myerson 2007 United States Economics
180 Paul Krugman 2008 United States Economics
181 Peter Diamond 2010 United States Economics
182 Alvin E. Roth 2012 United States Economics
183 Oliver Hart 2016 United States Economics
184 Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1911 The Netherlands Peace
185 Alfred Hermann Fried 1911 Austria Peace
186 René Cassin 1968 France Peace
187 Henry A. Kissinger 1973 United States Peace
188 Menachem Begin 1978 Israel Peace
189 Elie Wiesel 1986 United States Peace
190 Yitzhak Rabin 1994 Israel Peace
191 Shimon Peres 1994 Israel Peace
192 Joseph Rotblat 1995 United Kingdom Peace
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3. Muslim Nobel Prize winners
# Name Year Country Field
1 Anwar al-Sadat 1978 Egypt Peace
2 Yasser Arafat 1994 Palestine Peace
3 Shirin Ebadi 2003 Iran Peace
4 Mohamed El Baradei 2005 Egypt Peace
5 Muhammad Yunus 2006 Bangladesh Peace
6 Tawakel Karman 2011 Yemen Peace
7 Malala Yousafzai 2014 Pakistan Peace
8 Naguib Mahfouz 1988 Egypt Literature
9 Orhan Pamuk 2006 Turkey Literature
10 Mohammad Abdus Salam 1979 Pakistan Physics
11 Ahmed Zewail 1999 Egypt Chemistry
12 Aziz Sancar 2015 Turkey Chemistry
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2. Christian Nobel Prize winners
# Name Year Country Fields
1 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 1901 Germany Physics
2 Hendrik Lorentz 1902 Netherlands Physics
3 Pieter Zeeman 1902 Netherlands Physics
4 Antoine Henri Becquerel 1903 France Physics
5 Lord Rayleigh 1904 United Kingdom Physics
6 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard 1905 Austria-Hungary, Germany Physics
7 Joseph John Thomson 1906 United Kingdom Physics
8 Guglielmo Marconi 1909 Italy Physics
9 Max von Laue 1914 Germany Physics
10 William Henry Bragg 1915 United Kingdom Physics
11 Charles Glover Barkla 1917 United Kingdom Physics
12 Johannes Stark 1919 Germany Physics
13 Robert Andrews Millikan 1923 United States Physics
14 Gustav Hertz 1925 Germany Physics
15 Arthur Holly Compton 1927 United States Physics
16 Werner Heisenberg 1932 Germany Physics
17 Victor Francis Hess 1936 Austria Physics
18 George Paget Thomson 1937 United Kingdom Physics
19 Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton 1951 Ireland Physics
20 Frits Zernike 1953 Netherlands Physics
21 Willis Eugene 1955 United States Physics
22 Polykarp Kusch 1955 United States Physics
23 Ilya Frank 1958 Soviet Union Physics
24 Maria Goeppert-Mayer 1963 United States Physics
25 J. Hans D. Jensen 1963 West Germany Physics
26 Charles Hard Townes 1964 United States Physics
27 Antony Hewish 1974 United Kingdom Physics
28 James Watson Cronin 1980 United States Physics
29 Klaus von Klitzing 1985 West Germany Physics
30 Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. 1993 United States Physics
31 Douglas D. Osheroff 1996 United States Physics
32 William Daniel Phillips 1997 United States Physics
33 Riccardo Giacconi 2002 Italy, United States Physics
34 Peter Grünberg 2007 Germany Physics
35 Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff 1901 Netherlands Chemistry
36 Hermann Emil Fischer 1902 Germany Chemistry
37 Sir William Ramsay 1904 United Kingdom Chemistry
38 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer 1905 Germany Chemistry
39 Eduard Buchner 1907 Germany Chemistry
40 Ernest Rutherford 1908 United Kingdom, New Zealand Chemistry
41 Otto Wallach 1910 Germany Chemistry
42 Alfred Werner 1913 Switzerland Chemistry
43 Fritz Haber 1918 Germany Chemistry
44 Walther Hermann Nernst 1920 Germany Chemistry
45 Frederick Soddy 1921 United Kingdom Chemistry
46 Francis William Aston 1922 United Kingdom Chemistry
47 Fritz Pregl 1923 Austria Chemistry
48 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy 1925 Germany / Hungary Chemistry
49 The (Theodor) Svedberg 1926 Sweden Chemistry
50 Heinrich Otto Wieland 1927 Germany Chemistry
51 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus 1928 Germany Chemistry
52 Arthur Harden 1929 United Kingdom Chemistry
53 Hans Karl 1929 Sweden Chemistry
54 Hans Fischer 1930 Germany Chemistry
55 Carl Bosch 1931 Germany Chemistry
56 Friedrich Bergius 1931 Germany Chemistry
57 Harold Clayton Urey 1934 United States Chemistry
58 Paul Karrer 1937 Switzerland Chemistry
59 Richard Kuhn 1938 Germany Chemistry
60 Leopold Ruzicka 1939 Switzerland Chemistry
61 George de Hevesy 1943 Germany Chemistry
62 Otto Hahn 1944 Germany Chemistry
63 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen 1945 Finland Chemistry
64 James Batcheller Sumner 1946 United States Chemistry
65 John Howard Northrop 1946 United States Chemistry
66 Wendell Meredith Stanley 1946 United States Chemistry
67 Sir Robert Robinson 1947 United Kingdom Chemistry
68 William Francis Giauque 1949 United States Chemistry
69 Otto Paul Hermann Diels 1950 Federal Republic of Germany Chemistry
70 Kurt Alder 1950 Federal Republic of Germany Chemistry
71 Hermann Staudinger 1953 Federal Republic of Germany Chemistry
72 Max Ferdinand Perutz 1962 United Kingdom Chemistry
73 Karl Ziegler 1963 Federal Republic of Germany Chemistry
74 Giulio Natta 1963 Italy Chemistry
75 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 1964 United Kingdom Chemistry
76 Odd Hassel 1969 Norway Chemistry
77 Luis F. Leloir 1970 Argentina Chemistry
78 Gerhard Herzberg 1971 Canada/Germany Chemistry
79 Vladimir Prelog 1975 Yugoslavia/Switzerland Chemistry
80 Robert Bruce Merrifield 1984 United States Chemistry
81 Elias James Corey 1990 United States Chemistry
82 Mario J. Molina 1995 Mexico Chemistry
83 F. Sherwood Rowland 1995 United States Chemistry
84 Robert F. Curl Jr. 1996 United States Chemistry
85 Richard E. Smalley 1996 United States Chemistry
86 Peter Agre 2003 United States Chemistry
87 Gerhard Ertl 2007 Germany Chemistry
88 Brian Kobilka 2012 United States Chemistry
89 Stefan W. Hell 2014 Romania Chemistry
90 William E. Moerner 2014 United States Chemistry
91 Emil Adolf von Behring 1901 Germany Physiology or Medicine
92 Sir Ronald Ross 1902 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
93 Niels Ryberg Finsen 1903 Denmark Physiology or Medicine
94 Camillo Golgi 1906 Italy Physiology or Medicine
95 Santiago Ramón y Cajal 1906 Spain Physiology or Medicine
96 Emil Theodor Kocher 1909 Switzerland Physiology or Medicine
97 Albrecht Kossel 1910 Germany Physiology or Medicine
98 Alexis Carrel 1912 France Physiology or Medicine
99 Jules Bordet 1919 Belgium Physiology or Medicine
100 Schack August Steenberg Krogh 1920 Denmark Physiology or Medicine
101 Sir Frederick Grant Banting 1923 Canada Physiology or Medicine
102 Willem Einthoven 1924 Netherlands Physiology or Medicine
103 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger 1926 Denmark Physiology or Medicine
104 Charles Jules Henri Nicolle 1928 France Physiology or Medicine
105 Christiaan Eijkman 1929 Netherlands Physiology or Medicine
106 Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1929 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
107 Karl Landsteiner 1930 Austria Physiology or Medicine
108 Otto Heinrich Warburg 1931 Germany Physiology or Medicine
109 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington 1932 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
110 George Hoyt Whipple 1934 United States Physiology or Medicine
111 George Richards Minot 1934 United States Physiology or Medicine
112 William Parry Murphy 1934 United States Physiology or Medicine
113 Hans Spemann 1935 Germany Physiology or Medicine
114 Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrapolt 1937 Hungary Physiology or Medicine
115 Corneille Jean François Heymans 1938 Belgium Physiology or Medicine
116 Gerhard Domagk 1939 Germany Physiology or Medicine
117 Carl Peter Henrik Dam 1943 Denmark Physiology or Medicine
118 Edward Adelbert Doisy 1943 United States Physiology or Medicine
119 Sir Alexander Fleming 1945 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
120 Carl Ferdinand Cori 1947 United States Physiology or Medicine
121 Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz 1947 United States Physiology or Medicine
122 Bernardo Alberto Houssay 1947 Argentina Physiology or Medicine
123 António Caetano Egas Moniz 1949 Portugal Physiology or Medicine
124 Max Theiler 1951 South Africa Physiology or Medicine
125 Daniel Bovet 1957 Italy Physiology or Medicine
126 George Wells Beadle 1958 United States Physiology or Medicine
127 Edward Lawrie Tatum 1958 United States Physiology or Medicine
128 Severo Ochoa 1959 Spain Physiology or Medicine
129 Georg von Békésy 1961 United States Physiology or Medicine
130 Sir John Carew Eccles 1963 Australia Physiology or Medicine
131 Ragnar Granit 1967 Finland/Sweden Physiology or Medicine
132 Haldan Keffer Hartline 1967 United States Physiology or Medicine
133 Rodney Robert Porter 1972 United States Physiology or Medicine
134 Albert Claude 1974 Belgium Physiology or Medicine
135 George E. Palade 1974 Romania Physiology or Medicine
136 Renato Dulbecco 1975 Italy, United States Physiology or Medicine
137 D. Carleton Gajdusek 1976 United States Physiology or Medicine
138 Werner Arber 1978 Switzerland Physiology or Medicine
139 Barbara McClintock 1983 United States Physiology or Medicine
140 Sir James W. Black 1988 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
141 George H. Hitchings 1988 United States Physiology or Medicine
142 Joseph E. Murray 1990 United States Physiology or Medicine
143 Edmond H. Fischer 1992 Switzerland Physiology or Medicine
144 Louis J. Ignarro 1998 United States Physiology or Medicine
145 Ferid Murad 1999 United States Physiology or Medicine
146 Paul Greengard 2000 United States Physiology or Medicine
147 Linda B. Buck 2004 United States Physiology or Medicine
148 Mario R. Capecchi 2007 United States Physiology or Medicine
149 Sir Martin J. Evans 2007 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
150 Elizabeth H. Blackburn 2009 United States Physiology or Medicine
151 Carol W. Greider 2009 United States Physiology or Medicine
152 Sir John B. Gurdon 2012 United Kingdom Physiology or Medicine
153 John O’Keefe 2014 United States Physiology or Medicine
154 May-Britt Moser 2014 Norway Physiology or Medicine
155 Edvard I. Moser 2014 Norway Physiology or Medicine
156 William C. Campbell 2015 Ireland Physiology or Medicine
157 Theodor Mommsen 1902 Flag of the German Empire Literature
158 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1903 Union Jack of Sweden & Norway Literature
159 Frédéric Mistral 1904 France Literature
160 José Echegaray 1904 Spain Literature
161 Henryk Sienkiewicz 1905 Poland Literature
162 Selma Lagerlöf 1909 Sweden Literature
163 Paul von Heyse 1910 Germany Literature
164 Verner von Heidenstam 1916 Sweden Literature
165 William Butler Yeats 1923 Ireland Literature
166 Władysław Reymont 1924 Poland Literature
167 Grazia Deledda 1926 Italy Literature
168 Sigrid Undset 1928 Norway Literature
169 Thomas Mann 1929 Germany Literature
170 Ivan Bunin 1933 France Literature
171 Pearl S. Buck 1938 United States Literature
172 Gabriela Mistral 1945 Chile Literature
173 Hermann Hesse 1946 Switzerland Literature
174 André Gide 1947 France Literature
175 T. S. Eliot 1948 United Kingdom Literature
176 William Faulkner 1949 United States Literature
177 François Mauriac 1952 France Literature
178 Sir Winston Churchill 1953 United Kingdom Literature
179 Ernest Hemingway 1954 United States Literature
180 Halldór Laxness 1955 Iceland Literature
181 Juan Ramón Jiménez 1956 Puerto Rico Literature
182 Boris Pasternak 1958 Soviet Union Literature
183 Ivo Andrić 1961 Yugoslavia Literature
184 John Steinbeck 1962 United States Literature
185 Giorgos Seferis 1963 Greece Literature
186 Miguel Ángel Asturias 1967 Guatemala Literature
187 Samuel Beckett 1969 France Literature
188 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1970 Soviet Union Literature
189 Heinrich Böll 1972 Germany Literature
190 Odysseus Elytis 1979 Greece Literature
191 Czesław Miłosz 1980 United States Literature
192 Gabriel García Márquez 1982 Colombia Literature
193 Camilo José Cela 1989 Spain Literature
194 Octavio Paz 1990 Mexico Literature
195 Derek Walcott 1992 Saint Lucia Literature
196 Toni Morrison 1993 United States Literature
197 Günter Grass 1999 Germany Literature
198 J. M. Coetzee 2003 South Africa, Australia Literature
199 Herta Müller 2009 Germany Literature
200 Mario Vargas Llosa 2010 Peru, Spain Literature
201 Tomas Tranströmer 2011 Sweden Literature
202 Bob Dylan 2016 United States Literature
203 Élie Ducommun 1902 Switzerland Peace
204 Charles Albert Gobat 1902 Switzerland Peace
205 William Randal Cremer 1903 United Kingdom Peace
206 Bertha von Suttner 1905 Austria-Hungary Peace
207 Theodore Roosevelt 1906 United States Peace
208 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta 1907 Italy Peace
209 Louis Renault 1907 France Peace
210 Auguste Beernaert 1909 Belgium Peace
211 Paul Henri d’Estournelles de Constant 1909 France Peace
212 Elihu Root 1912 United States Peace
213 Woodrow Wilson 1919 United States Peace
214 Hjalmar Branting 1921 Sweden Peace
215 Christian Lange 1921 Norway Peace
216 Austen Chamberlain 1925 United Kingdom Peace
217 Charles G. Dawes 1925 United States Peace
218 Gustav Stresemann 1926 Germany Peace
219 Ferdinand Buisson 1927 France Peace
220 Nathan Söderblom 1930 Sweden Peace
221 Jane Addams 1931 United States Peace
222 Nicholas Murray Butler 1931 United States Peace
223 Arthur Henderson 1934 United Kingdom Peace
224 Carl von Ossietzky 1935 Germany Peace
225 Cordell Hull 1945 United States Peace
226 Emily Greene Balch 1946 United States Peace
227 John Raleigh Mott 1946 United States Peace
228 Friends Service Council 1947 United Kingdom Peace
229 American Friends Service Committee 1947 United States Peace
230 The Lord Boyd-Orr 1949 United Kingdom Peace
231 Ralph Bunche 1950 United States Peace
232 Albert Schweitzer 1952 France Peace
233 George Catlett Marshall 1953 United States Peace
234 Lester Bowles Pearson 1957 Canada Peace
235 Dominique Pire 1958 Belgium Peace
236 Philip Noel-Baker 1959 United Kingdom Peace
237 Albert Lutuli 1960 South Africa Peace
238 Dag Hammarskjöld 1961 Sweden Peace
239 Martin Luther King, Jr. 1964 United States Peace
240 Norman E. Borlaug 1970 United States Peace
241 Willy Brandt 1971 Germany Peace
242 Seán MacBride 1974 Ireland Peace
243 Betty Williams 1976 United Kingdom Peace
244 Mairead Corrigan 1976 United Kingdom Peace
245 Mother Teresa 1979 Albania Peace
246 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel 1980 Argentina Peace
247 Alfonso García Robles 1982 Mexico Peace
248 Lech Wałęsa 1983 Poland Peace
249 Desmond Tutu 1984 South Africa Peace
250 Óscar Arias 1987 Costa Rica Peace
251 Nelson Mandela 1993 South Africa Peace
252 Frederik Willem de Klerk 1993 South Africa Peace
253 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo 1996 East Timor Peace
254 José Ramos-Horta 1996 East Timor Peace
255 John Hume 1998 United Kingdom Peace
256 David Trimble 1998 United Kingdom Peace
257 Kim Dae-Jung 2000 South Korea Peace
258 Kofi Annan 2001 Ghana Peace
259 Jimmy Carter 2002 United States Peace
260 Wangari Muta Maathai 2004 Kenya Peace
261 Al Gore 2007 United States Peace
262 Martti Ahtisaari 2008 Finland Peace
263 Barack Obama 2009 United States Peace
264 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 2011 Liberia Peace
265 Leymah Gbowee 2011 Liberia Peace
266 Juan Manuel Santos 2016 Colombia Peace
267 Ragnar Frisch 1969 Norway Economics
268 Jan Tinbergen 1969 Netherlands Economics
269 Tjalling Koopmans 1975 Netherlands, US Economics
270 Theodore Schultz 1979 United States Economics
271 Arthur Lewis 1979 Saint Lucia, UK Economics
272 George Stigler 1982 United States Economics
273 James M. Buchanan 1986 United States Economics
274 Maurice Allais 1988 France Economics
275 Trygve Haavelmo 1989 Norway Economics
276 William Vickrey 1996 Canada, US Economics
277 Robert F. Engle 2003 United States Economics
278 Clive Granger 2003 United Kingdom Economics
279 Elinor Ostrom 2009 United States Economics
280 Christopher A. Pissarides 2010 Cyprus Economics
281 Eugene F. Fama 2013 United States Economics
282 Robert J. Shiller 2013 United States Economics
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1. Non-Religious Nobel Prize winners
# Name Field
1 Svante Arrhenius Chemistry
2 Paul D. Boyer Chemistry
3 John Cornforth Chemistry
4 Frédéric Joliot-Curie Chemistry
5 Irène Joliot-Curie Chemistry
6 Richard R. Ernst Chemistry
7 Herbert A. Hauptman Chemistry
8 Roald Hoffmann Chemistry
9 Harold W. Kroto Chemistry
10 Jean-Marie Lehn Chemistry
11 Peter D. Mitchell Chemistry
12 George Andrew Olah Chemistry
13 Wilhelm Ostwald Chemistry
14 Linus Pauling Chemistry
15 Max Perutz Chemistry
16 Frederick Sanger Chemistry
17 Michael Smith Chemistry
18 Harold Urey Chemistry
19 Milton Friedman Economics
20 John Harsanyi Economics
21 Friedrich Hayek Economics
22 John Forbes Nash, Jr. Economics
23 Reinhard Selten Economics
24 Amartya Sen Economics
25 Samuel Beckett (1969) Literature
26 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903) Literature
27 Pearl S. Buck (1938) Literature
28 Albert Camus Literature
29 Anatole France Literature
30 John Galsworthy (1932) Literature
31 Dario Fo Literature
32 Nadine Gordimer Literature
33 Gao Xingjian Literature
34 Pablo Neruda Literature
35 Eugene O’Neill Literature
36 Bertrand Russell Literature
37 George Bernard Shaw Literature
38 Jean-Paul Sartre Literature
39 Wole Soyinka. Literature
40 John Steinbeck Literature
41 José Saramago Literature
42 Norman Angell (1933) Peace
43 Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1908) Peace
44 Mikhail Gorbachev Peace
45 Linus Pauling Peace
46 Andrei Sakharov Peace
47 Elie Wiesel Peace
48 Zhores Alferov Physics
49 Hannes Alfvén Physics
50 Philip Warren Anderson Physics
51 John Bardeen Physics
52 Hans Bethe Physics
53 Patrick Blackett Physics
54 Nicolaas Bloembergen Physics
55 Niels Bohr Physics
56 Percy Williams Bridgman Physics
57 Louis de Broglie Physics
58 James Chadwick Physics
59 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Physics
60 Marie Curie Physics
61 Pierre Curie Physics
62 Paul Dirac Physics
63 Albert Einstein Physics
64 Enrico Fermi Physics
65 Richard Feynman Physics
66 Val Logsdon Fitch Physics
67 James Franck Physics
68 Dennis Gabor Physics
69 Murray Gell-Mann Physics
70 Vitaly Ginzburg Physics
71 Roy J. Glauber Physics
72 Peter Higgs Physics
73 Gerard ‘t Hooft Physics
74 Herbert Kroemer Physics
75 Lev Landau Physics
76 Leon M. Lederman Physics
77 Albert A. Michelson Physics
78 Konstantin Novoselov Physics
79 Jean Baptiste Perrin Physics
80 Isidor Isaac Rabi Physics
81 C. V. Raman Physics
82 William Shockley Physics
83 Erwin Schrödinger Physics
84 George Smoot Physics
85 Jack Steinberger Physics
86 Igor Tamm Physics
87 Johannes Diderik van der Waals Physics
88 Eugene Wigner Physics
89 Steven Weinberg Physics
90 Chen-Ning Yang Physics
91 Julius Axelrod Physiology or Medicine
92 Robert Bárány (1914) Physiology or Medicine
93 George Bea Physiology or Medicine
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This was our list of Nobel Prize Winners By Religion: Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Non-Religious.
