Lenin Peace Prize

The International Lenin Peace Prize (Russian: международная Ленинская премия мира, mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya mira) was a Soviet Union award named in honor of Vladimir Lenin. It was awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government, to notable individuals whom the panel indicated had "strengthened peace among comrades". It was founded as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples, but was renamed the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples (Russian: Международная Ленинская премия «За укрепление мира между народами», Mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya «Za ukrepleniye mira mezhdu narodami») as a result of de-Stalinization. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Lenin Peace Prize was usually awarded to several people a year rather than to just one individual. The prize was mainly awarded to prominent Communists and supporters of the Soviet Union who were not Soviet citizens. Notable recipients include W. E. B. Du Bois, Fidel Castro, Lázaro Cárdenas, Salvador Allende, Mikis Theodorakis, Seán MacBride, Angela Davis, Pablo Picasso, Oscar Niemeyer, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, CV Raman and Nelson Mandela.

Lenin Peace Prize
Lenin Peace Prize medal (1951)
CountrySoviet Union
StatusDiscontinued
Established21 December 1949
Ribbon of the prize
Obverse and reverse of the Lenin Peace Prize Medal

History

The prize was created as the International Stalin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples on December 21, 1949, by executive order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in honor of Joseph Stalin's seventieth birthday (although this was after his seventy-first).

Following Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 during the Twentieth Party Congress, the prize was renamed on September 6 as the International Lenin Prize for Strengthening Peace Among Peoples. All previous recipients were asked to return their Stalin Prizes so they could be replaced by the renamed Lenin Prize. By a decision of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 11, 1989, the prize was renamed the International Lenin Peace Prize.[1] Two years later, after the collapse of USSR in 1991, the Russian government, as the successor state to the defunct Soviet Union, ended the award program. The Lenin Peace Prize is regarded as a counterpart to the existing Nobel Peace Prize.

The International Lenin Prize should not be confused with the International Peace Prize, awarded by the World Peace Council. In 1941 the Soviet Union created the Stalin Prize (later renamed the USSR State Prize), which was awarded annually to accomplished Soviet writers, composers, artists and scientists.

Stalin Prize recipients

Stalin Peace Prize medal depicted on a 1953 stamp
YearPictureNameOccupationCountryNotes
1950 Eugénie Cotton[2][3]
(1881–1967)
Scientist, President of the Women's International Democratic Federation  FranceAwarded 6 April 1951
Heriberto Jara Corona[2][3]
(1879–1968)
Politician, revolutionary  MexicoAwarded 6 April 1951
Hewlett Johnson[2][3]
(1874–1966)
Church of England priest, Dean of Manchester (1924–1931), Dean of Canterbury (1931–1963)  United KingdomAwarded 6 April 1951
Frédéric Joliot-Curie[2][3]
(1900–1958)
Physicist, Member of the French Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Collège de France, President of the World Peace Council (1950–1958), Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1935)  FranceAwarded 6 April 1951
Arthur Moulton[2][3]
(1873–1962)
Episcopal Bishop of Utah  United StatesDeclined
Pak Chong-ae[2][3]
(1907–after 1986)
Workers' Party of North Korea politician, Chairwoman of the Korean Democratic Women's League (1945–1965)  North KoreaAwarded 6 April 1951
Soong Ching-ling[2][3]
(1893–1981)
Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang politician, Vice President of China (1949–1954; 1959–1975)  ChinaAwarded 6 April 1951
1951 Jorge Amado[4][5][6]
(1912–2001)
Writer, Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1961–2001)  BrazilAwarded 20 December 1951
Monica Felton[4][5]
(1906–1970)
Town planner, feminist, politician  United KingdomAwarded 20 December 1951
Guo Moruo[7][4]
(1892–1978)
Writer, scientist, politician, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1949–1978)  ChinaAwarded 20 December 1951
Pietro Nenni[4][5]
(1891–1980)
Italian Socialist Party politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy (1946–1947; 1968–1969), Deputy Prime Minister of Italy (1963–1968)  ItalyAwarded 20 December 1951
Oyama Ikuo[4][5]
(1889–1955)
Politician, Member of the House of Councillors of Japan  JapanAwarded 20 December 1951
Anna Seghers[4][5]
(1900–1983)
Writer, Socialist Unity Party politician, founding member of the DDR Academy of Arts  East GermanyAwarded 20 December 1951
1952 Johannes R. Becher[5][8]
(1891–1958)
Writer, Socialist Unity Party politician, founding member of the DDR Academy of Arts  East GermanyAwarded 20 December 1952
Elisa Branco[5][8]
(1912–2001)
Brazilian Communist Party politician, Vice President of the Council of Brazilian Advocates for Peace (1949–1960)  BrazilAwarded 20 December 1952
Ilya Ehrenburg[5][8]
(1891–1967)
Writer, journalist, war correspondent for World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II  Soviet UnionAwarded 20 December 1952
James Gareth Endicott[5][8]
(1898–1993)
United Church of Canada clergyman, founder of Canadian Peace Congress,  CanadaAwarded 20 December 1952
Yves Farge[5][8]
(1899–1953)
Journalist, politician  FranceAwarded 20 December 1952
Halldór Laxness[9]
(1902–1998)
Writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1955)  IcelandAwarded 20 December 1952
Saifuddin Kitchlew[5][8]
(1888–1963)
Barrister, politician, Vice President of the World Peace Council (1955–1959), President of the All-India Peace Council  IndiaAwarded 20 December 1952
Paul Robeson[5][8]
(1898–1976)
Singer, actor, civil rights movement activist,  United StatesAwarded 20 December 1952
1953 Andrea Andreen[5][10]
(1888–1972)
Physician, educator, Chairman of the Swedish Women's Left-Wing Association (1946–1964), Vice President of the Women's International Democratic Federation  SwedenAwarded 12 December 1953
John Desmond Bernal[7][10]
(1901–1971)
Scientist, Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, Fellow of the Royal Society (1937), President of the World Peace Council (1959–1965)  United KingdomAwarded 12 December 1953
Isabelle Blume[7][10]
(1892–1975)
Belgian Labour Party politician, Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for Brussels (1936–1954), President of the World Peace Council (1965–1969)  BelgiumAwarded 12 December 1953
Pierre Cot[10]
(1895–1977)
Radical Party politician, Member of the National Assembly of France for Savoie and Rhône (1928–1940)  FranceAwarded 12 December 1953
Howard Fast[5][10]
(1914–2003)
Writer, 1952 American Labor Party presidential candidate  United StatesAwarded 12 December 1953
Andrea Gaggiero [it][5][10]
(1916–1988)
Priest  ItalyAwarded 12 December 1953
Leon Kruczkowski[5][10]
(1900–1962)
Writer, Member of the Sejm (1947–1962)  PolandAwarded 12 December 1953
Pablo Neruda[5][6][10]
(1904–1973)
Poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate in Literature (1971)  ChileAwarded 12 December 1953
Nina Popova[5][10]
(1908–1994)
Politician, Secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (1945–1957)  Soviet UnionAwarded 12 December 1953
Sahib Singh Sokhey[5][10]
(1887–1971)
Biochemist, Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization (1949–1952)  IndiaAwarded 12 December 1953
1954André Bonnard[11][12]
(1888–1959)
Scholar, writer, Professor at the University of Lausanne   SwitzerlandAwarded 18 December 1954
Bertolt Brecht[11][12]
(1898–1956)
Playwright, poet, theatre director  Austria (citizenship)
 East Germany (residence)
Awarded 18 December 1954
Nicolás Guillén[6][11][13]
(1902–1989)
Poet  CubaAwarded 18 December 1954
Felix Iversen[11][12]
(1887–1973)
Mathematician, Professor at the University of Helsinki, Chairman of the Peace Union of Finland  FinlandAwarded 18 December 1954
Thakin Kodaw Hmaing[11][12]
(1876–1964)
Poet  BurmaAwarded 18 December 1954
Alain Le Léap[11]
(1905–1986)
Trade unionist, General Secretary of the General Confederation of Labour (1948–1957)  FranceAwarded 18 December 1954
Prijono[11][12]
(1907–1969)
Academic, politician, Minister of Culture and Education of Indonesia (1957–1966)  IndonesiaAwarded 18 December 1954
Denis Pritt[11][14]
(1887–1972)
Barrister, Labour Independent Group politician, Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Hammersmith North (1935–1950)  United KingdomAwarded 18 December 1954
Baldomero Sanín Cano[6][11]
(1861–1957)
Essayist, linguist, journalist  ColombiaAwarded 18 December 1954
1955 Muhammad al-Ashmar[15][16]
(1892–1960)
Rebel commander in Great Syrian Revolt and 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Syrian Communist Party politician  SyriaAwarded 9 December 1955
Lázaro Cárdenas[15][16]
(1895–1970)
Mexican Army general, Institutional Revolutionary Party politician, President of Mexico (1934–1940)  MexicoAwarded 9 December 1955
Ragnar Forbech [no][15][16]
(1894–1975)
Priest, Chaplain of Oslo Cathedral (1947–1964)  NorwayAwarded 9 December 1955
Seki Akiko[15][16]
(1899–1973)
Singer  JapanAwarded 9 December 1955
Tôn Đức Thắng[15][16]
(1888–1980)
Communist Party of Vietnam politician, Chairman of the National Assembly of North Vietnam (1955–1960), President of North Vietnam (1969–1976), President of Vietnam (1976–1980)  VietnamAwarded 9 December 1955
Karl Joseph Wirth[15][16]
(1879–1956)
Bund der Deutschen politician, Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1921–1922)  West GermanyAwarded 9 December 1955
Unknown year (before 1953) Martin Andersen Nexø[17]
(1869–1954)
Writer  Denmark

Lenin Prize recipients

YearPictureNameOccupationCountryNotes
1957 Louis Aragon[14]
(1897–1982)
Poet  France
Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie[14]
(1900–1969)
Journalist, former French Resistance partisan, Union progressiste politician, Minister of the Interior of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1943–1944), Member of the National Assembly of France for Ille-et-Vilaine (1945–1958)  France
Heinrich Brandweiner [de][14]
(1910–1997)
Jurist, Chairman of the Peace Council of Austria  Austria
Danilo Dolci[14][18]
(1924–1997)
Social activist, educator, sociologist  Italy
María Rosa Oliver[6][14]
(1898–1977)
Writer, essayist  Argentina
Udakendawala Siri Saranankara Thero [nl][14]
(1902–1966)
Buddhist monk  Ceylon
Nikolai Tikhonov[14]
(1896–1979)
Writer, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee (1949–1979)  Soviet Union
1958 C. V. Raman[14]
(1888–1970)
Physicist, Professor at the University of Calcutta, Founder and President of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1934–1970)  IndiaAwarded on 14 June 1958
Josef Hromádka[7][19]
(1889–1969)
Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren theologian, founder of the Christian Peace Conference  Czechoslovakia
Artur Lundkvist[7][20]
(1906–1991)
Writer, literary critic, Member of the Swedish Academy (1968–1991)  Sweden
Louis Saillant[7]
(1906–1991)
Trade unionist, General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions (1945–1969)  France
Kaoru Yasui [ja][7][21]
(1907–1980)
Jurist, scholar, Professor at the University of Tokyo, Chairman of the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (1954–1965)  Japan
Arnold Zweig[7][22]
(1887–1968)
Writer  East Germany
1959 Otto Buchwitz [de][23][24]
(1879–1964)
Politician, Member of the Reichstag (1924–1933), Member of the Volkskammer (1946–1964)  East GermanyAwarded 30 April 1959
W. E. B. Du Bois[23][24]
(1868–1963)
Sociologist, historian, civil rights movement activist, professor at Atlanta University, founder of the NAACP  United StatesAwarded 30 April 1959
Nikita Khrushchev[23][24]
(1894–1971)
Politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953–1964)  Soviet UnionAwarded 30 April 1959
Ivor Montagu[23][24]
(1904–1984)
Filmmaker, critic  United KingdomAwarded 30 April 1959
Kostas Varnalis[23][24]
(1884–1974)
Poet  GreeceAwarded 30 April 1959
1960 Laurent Casanova[25][26]
(1906–1972)
French Communist Party politician, Member of the National Assembly of France for Seine-et-Marne(1945–1958)  FranceAwarded 3 May 1960
Cyrus S. Eaton[25][26]
(1883–1979)
Industrialist, organizer of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs  Canada
 United States
Awarded 3 May 1960
Aziz Sharif [ar][26][27]
(1904–1990)
Politician, Chairman of the Peace Partisans Organization of Iraq[28]  IraqAwarded 3 May 1960
Sukarno[25][26]
(1901–1970)
Politician, Indonesian National Revolution commander, President of Indonesia (1945–1967)  IndonesiaAwarded 3 May 1960
1961 Fidel Castro[29][30]
(1926–2016)
Politician, leader of Cuban Revolution, Prime Minister of Cuba (1959–1976), President of Cuba (1976–2008)  CubaAwarded 30 April 1961
Ostap Dłuski [pl][29][30]
(1892–1964)
Politician, Member of the Sejm (1961–1964)  PolandAwarded 30 April 1961
Bill Morrow[29][30]
(1888–1980)
Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) politician, Member of the Australian Senate (1947–1953)  AustraliaAwarded 30 April 1961
Rameshwari Nehru[29][30]
(1886–1966)
Social worker, founder of the All India Women's Conference  IndiaAwarded 30 April 1961
Mihail Sadoveanu[29][30]
(1880–1961)
Writer  RomaniaAwarded 30 April 1961
Antoine Tabet[29][30]
(1907–1964)
Architect, Chairman of the Lebanese National Peace Council[31]  LebanonAwarded 30 April 1961
Ahmed Sékou Touré[29][30]
(1922–1984)
Democratic Party of Guinea politician, President of Guinea (1958–1984)  GuineaAwarded 30 April 1961
1962 István Dobi[32][33][34]
(1898–1968)
Politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (1948–1952)  HungaryAwarded 30 April 1962
Faiz Ahmad Faiz[32][33][34]
(1911–1984)
Poet  PakistanAwarded 30 April 1962
Kwame Nkrumah[32][33][34][35]
(1909–1972)
Convention People's Party politician, Prime Minister of Ghana (1957–1960), President of Ghana (1960–1966)  GhanaAwarded 30 April 1962
Pablo Picasso[32][33][34]
(1881–1973)
Painter, sculptor  SpainAwarded 30 April 1962
Olga Poblete[32][34]
(1908–1999)
Teacher, feminist, Professor at the University of Chile, President of the Chilean Movement of Advocates for Peace  ChileAwarded 30 April 1962
1963 Manolis Glezos[36][37]
(1922–2020)
Communist Party of Greece politician, Greek Resistance/Greek Civil War guerilla  GreeceAwarded 1 May 1963
Modibo Keïta[35][38][36]
(1915–1977)
Politician, President of Mali (1960–1968)  MaliAwarded 1 May 1963
Oscar Niemeyer[36][37]
(1907–2012)
Architect, helped design Brasília and Headquarters of the United Nations  BrazilAwarded 1 May 1963
Georgi Traykov[36][39]
(1898–1975)
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union politician, Chairman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (1964–1971)  BulgariaAwarded 1 May 1963
1964 Rafael Alberti[40]
(1902–1999)
Poet  SpainAwarded 1 May 1964
Aruna Asaf Ali[40][41]
(1909–1996)
Communist Party of India politician, Indian independence movement activist, Vice President of the Women's International Democratic Federation  IndiaPresented 14 August 1965
Ahmed Ben Bella[42]
(1916–2012)
National Liberation Front politician, Algerian War revolutionary, President of Algeria (1963–1965)  AlgeriaAwarded 1 May 1964
Herluf Bidstrup[42]
(1912–1988)
Cartoonist, illustrator  DenmarkAwarded 1 May 1964
Dolores Ibárruri[13][42]
(1895–1989)
Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (1942–1960)  SpainAwarded 1 May 1964
Ota Kaoru[40]
(1912–1998)
Trade unionist, Chairman of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (1955–1966)  JapanAwarded 1 May 1964
1965Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph[35][43]
(1920–2006)
Politician  Nigeria
Jamsrangiin Sambuu[40]
(1895–1972)
Politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural (1954–1972)  Mongolia
Mirjam Vire-Tuominen [fi][43]
(1919–2011)
Politician, General Secretary of the Finnish Peace Committee (1949–1975), General Secretary of the Women's International Democratic Federation (1978–1987), Member of the Parliament of Finland (1970–1979)  Finland
1966 David Alfaro Siqueiros[44][45]
(1896–1974)
Painter  MexicoAwarded 1 May 1967
Miguel Ángel Asturias[6][43][46]
(1899–1974)
Writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate in Literature (1967)  Guatemala
Bram Fischer[44][45]
(1908–1975)
Advocate, anti-apartheid activist, Communist Party of South Africa politician,  South AfricaAwarded 1 May 1967
Rockwell Kent[44][45]
(1882–1971)
Painter, printmaker, adventurer  United StatesAwarded 1 May 1967
Ivan Málek [cs][44][45]
(1909–1994)
Microbiologist, Professor at Charles University, Member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia (1960–1968)  CzechoslovakiaAwarded 1 May 1967
Giacomo Manzù[43][47]
(1908–1991)
Sculptor  Italy
Martin Niemöller[44][45]
(1892–1984)
Lutheran pastor, theologian, founder of Confessing Church, President of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (1949–1961), President of the World Council of Churches (1961–1968)  West GermanyAwarded 1 May 1967
Herbert Warnke[44][45]
(1902–1975)
Trade unionist, Chairman of the Free German Trade Union Federation (1946–1975)  East GermanyAwarded 1 May 1967
1967 Romesh Chandra[48]
(1919–2016)
Communist Party of India politician, President of the World Peace Council (1977–1990)  India
Jean Effel[48]
(1908–1982)
Illustrator, journalist  France
Joris Ivens[48]
(1898–1989)
Documentary filmmaker  Netherlands
Nguyễn Thị Định[48]
(1920–1992)
Liberation Army of South Vietnam general, National Liberation Front politician, Vice President of Vietnam (1987–1992)  Vietnam/ Republic of South Vietnam
Endre Sík[48]
(1891–1978)
Politician, historian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary (1958–1961)  Hungary
Jorge Zalamea Borda[48]
(1905–1969)
Writer, politician  Colombia
1968–1969Akira Iwai[12]
(1922–1997)
Trade unionist, General Secretary of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan  JapanAwarded 16 April 1970
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz[12]
(1894–1980)
Writer  PolandAwarded 16 April 1970
Khaled Mohieddin[12]
(1922–2018)
Egyptian Army major, National Progressive Unionist Party politician, Chairman of the Egyptian Peace Council  UARAwarded 16 April 1970
Linus Pauling[12]
(1901–1994)
Chemist, educator, Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1954), Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1962)  United StatesAwarded 16 April 1970
Shafie Ahmed el Sheikh[12]
(1924–1971)
Trade unionist, politician  SudanAwarded 16 April 1970
Bertil Svahnström [sv][12]
(1907–1972)
Journalist, writer  SwedenAwarded 16 April 1970
1970–1971 Hikmat Abu Zayd[49]
(1922/1923–2011)
Arab Socialist Union politician, academic, Minister of Social Affairs of the United Arab Republic (1962–1965)  UAR
Eric Burhop[50][51]
(1911–1980)
Physicist, Professor at University College London, Fellow of the Royal Society (1963)  Australia
 United Kingdom
Ernst Busch[50]
(1900–1980)
Singer, actor  East Germany
Tsola Dragoycheva[50]
(1898–1993)
Bulgarian Communist Party politician, Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (1946–1990)  Bulgaria
Renato Guttuso[50][52]
(1912–1987)
Painter  Italy
Kamal Jumblatt[50][53]
(1917–1977)
Progressive Socialist Party politician, Member of the Parliament of Lebanon (1947–1977)  Lebanon
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti[54][55]
(1900–1978)
Teacher, leader of Abeokuta Women's Revolt, women's rights activist  Nigeria
Alfredo Varela[6][50]
(1914–1984)
Writer  Argentina
1972 James Aldridge[56][57]
(1918–2015)
Writer  Australia
 United Kingdom
Awarded 1 May 1973
Salvador Allende[56][57]
(1908–1973)
Politician, physician, President of Chile (1970–1973)  ChileAwarded 1 May 1973
Leonid Brezhnev[56][57]
(1906–1982)
Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)  Soviet UnionAwarded 1 May 1973
Enrique Pastorino[56][57]
(1918–1995)
Trade unionist, Communist Party of Uruguay politician, President of the World Federation of Trade Unions (1969–1975)  UruguayAwarded 1 May 1973
1973–1974 Luis Corvalán[58]
(1916–2010)
Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile (1958–1990)  Chile
Raymond Goor [ru][58]
(1908–1996)
Priest  Belgium
Jeanne Martin Cissé[58]
(1926–2017)
Politician, teacher  Guinea
Sam Nujoma[35]
(born 1929)
Politician, anti-apartheid activist, leader of SWAPO during the South African Border War, President of Namibia (1990–2005)  South West Africa (before 1990)
 Namibia (after 1990)
1975–1976 Hortensia Bussi de Allende[59][60]
(1913–2009)
Educator, librarian, First Lady of Chile (1970–1973)  ChileWidow of Salvador Allende (recipient in 1972)
Awarded May 1977
János Kádár[59][60]
(1912–1989)
Politician, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (1956–1988)  HungaryAwarded May 1977
Seán MacBride[59][60]
(1904–1988)
Clann na Poblachta politician, barrister, International chairman of Amnesty International (1965–1974), Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1974)  Ireland
 France
Awarded May 1977
Samora Machel[35][59][60]
(1933–1986)
FRELIMO politician, Mozambican War of Independence revolutionary, President of Mozambique (1975–1986)  MozambiqueAwarded May 1977
Agostinho Neto[35][59][60]
(1922–1979)
MPLA politician, revolutionary, President of Angola (1975–1979)  AngolaAwarded May 1977
Pierre Pouyade[59][60]
(1911–1979)
French Air Force brigadier general, Chairman of the Franco-Soviet Friendship Association  FranceAwarded May 1977
Yiannis Ritsos[59][60]
(1909–1990)
Poet  GreeceAwarded May 1977
1977–1978Kurt Bachmann [de][61][62]
(1909–1997)
Politician, Chairman of the German Communist Party (1969–1973)  West GermanyAwarded 1 May 1979
Freda Brown[59][60]
(1919–2009)
Politician, President of the Women's International Democratic Federation (1975–1989)  AustraliaAwarded 1 May 1979
Vilma Espín[59][60]
(1930–2007)
Revolutionary, politician, President of the Federation of Cuban Women (1960–2007)  CubaAwarded 1 May 1979
K. P. S. Menon[59][60]
(1898–1982)
Diplomat, Foreign Secretary of India (1948–1952)  IndiaAwarded 1 May 1979
Halina Skibniewska[59][60]
(1921–2011)
Architect, politician, Deputy Marshal of the Sejm (1971–1985)  PolandAwarded 1 May 1979
1979 Hervé Bazin[63][64]
(1911–1996)
Writer  FranceAwarded 30 April 1980
Angela Davis[61][62]
(born 1944)
Communist Party USA/CCDS member, second-wave feminist/anti-Vietnam War/prison abolition activist, academic, Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz  United StatesAwarded 30 April 1980
Urho Kekkonen[63][64][65][66]
(1900–1986)
Politician, lawyer, President of Finland (1956–1982)  FinlandAwarded 30 April 1980
Abd al-Rahman al-Khamisi [ar][63][64]
(1920–1987)
Poet, composer  EgyptAwarded 30 April 1980
Lê Duẩn[63][64]
(1907–1986)
Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1960–1986)  VietnamAwarded 30 April 1980
Miguel Otero Silva[63][64]
(1908–1985)
Writer, journalist  VenezuelaAwarded 30 April 1980
1980–1982 Mahmoud Darwish[67][68]
(1941–2008)
Poet  PalestineAwarded May 1983
John Hanly Morgan[67][68]
(1918–2018)
Unitarian minister  United States
 Canada
Awarded May 1983
Líber Seregni[67][68]
(1916–2004)
Broad Front politician, Uruguayan Army officer  UruguayAwarded May 1983
Mikis Theodorakis[67][68]
(1925–2021)
Composer  GreeceAwarded May 1983
1983–1984 Charilaos Florakis[69]
(1914–2005)
Politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (1972–1989)  GreeceAwarded September 1984
Indira Gandhi[70][71][72]
(1917–1984)
Politician, Prime Minister of India (1980–1984), (1966–1977)  IndiaAwarded posthumously on 1 May 1985
Jean-Marie Legay[70][71][72]
(1925–2012)
Academic  FranceAwarded 1 May 1985
Nguyễn Hữu Thọ[70][71][72]
(1910–1996)
Politician, Chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (1969–1976), Vice President of Vietnam (1976–1992), Acting President of Vietnam (1980–1981), Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam (1981–1987)  Vietnam/ Republic of South VietnamAwarded 1 May 1985
Eva Palmær [sv][70][71][72]
(1904–1995)
Writer, chemist, Chairwoman of the Sweden-Soviet Union Association (1979–1987)  SwedenAwarded 1 May 1985
Luis Vidales[70][71][72]
(1904–1990)
Poet  ColombiaAwarded 1 May 1985
Josef Weber [de][70][71][72]
(1908–1985)
Politician, peace activist  West GermanyAwarded 1 May 1985
1985–1986 Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann[73][74]
(1933–2017)
Sandinista National Liberation Front politician, Catholic Church priest, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua (1979–1990), President of the United Nations General Assembly (2008–2009)  Nicaragua
Dorothy Hodgkin[73]
(1910–1994)
Chemist, Fellow of the Royal Society (1947), Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1964)  United Kingdom
Herbert Mies[73]
(1929–2017)
Politician, Chairman of the German Communist Party (1973–1989)  West Germany
Julius Nyerere[73][75]
(1922–1999)
Politician, anti-colonial activist, President of Tanzania (1964–1985)  Tanzania
Petur Tanchev[73]
(1920–1992)
Politician, Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (1950–1990)  Bulgaria
1988 Abdul Sattar Edhi[76]
(1928–2016)
Philanthropist, ascetic  Pakistan
1990 Nelson Mandela[35][77][78]
(1918–2013)
Politician, founder of African National Congress, anti-apartheid activist, President of South Africa (1994–1999), Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1993)  South AfricaUnable to accept the prize until 2002 due to his trial and imprisonment in South Africa
1990 Martti Ahtisaari[79]
(1937–2023)
Politician, diplomat, President of Finland (1994–2000), Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2008)  Finland
1990Valerie Goulding[79]
(1918–2003)
Campaigner, Fianna Fáil politician, Member of the 14th Seanad (1977–1981)  Ireland

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