Top 20 Most Famous Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Of the 121 Nobel Peace Prize recipients, which winning people and organisations have been named most often in these quizzes?
Organisations are highlighted in green
Percentages choosing each answer as at October 2014; Year is year of most recent award.
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Year
Winner
85
2009
Barack Obama
46
1993
Nelson Mandela
46
1979
Mother Teresa
43
2012
European Union
43
2001
UN / UNESCO
40
2002
Jimmy Carter
39
1906
Theodore Roosevelt
38
1964
Martin Luther King Jr
31
1994
Yasser Arafat
31
1963
Red Cross
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Year
Winner
29
2007
Al Gore
26
1919
Woodrow Wilson
24
1990
Mikhail Gorbachev
21
1973
Henry Kissinger
20
1978
Anwar Al-Sadat
18
1994
Yitzhak Rabin
18
1984
Desmond Tutu
17
1999
Médecins Sans Frontières
17
1989
The Dalai Lama
15
1983
Lech Walesa
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Level 77
Oct 30, 2014
Funny I got the 5 at the end of the quiz. And only 3 straight at the beginning.
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Level 5
Aug 30, 2015
Martti Ahtisaari has won Nobel peace prize in 2008. He was the president of Finland. Correct this, please!
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Level 76
Aug 30, 2015
This quiz asks you to name, out of the 121 Nobel winners (of which President Ahtisaari is one), which 20 have been named most often in the Nobel Peace Prize Winners quiz. Despite being such a recent winner, only 9% were able to name him in that quiz, well outside the Top 20 of this quiz.