Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of six awards in the memory of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of Dynamite. Every year the organization gives out six awards for the people "who best benefit mankind through their actions" in one of the six subjects; peace, literature, physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine. The Peace Prize is given out in Norway, but the other Prizes are given out in Sweden. This is because Norway and Sweden were one country when the prizes were started.
Gandhi Gandhi was born October 2, 1869 in the state of Gujarat at Porbander in India. Several members of his family worked for the government of the state. When Gandhi was older, he went to England for a few years to study law. After he became a lawyer, he went to the British colony of South Africa where he experienced laws that said people with dark skin had fewer rights than people with light skin. He decided then to become a political activist, so he could help change these unfair laws. He created a powerful, non-violent movement. He never won the Nobel Peace Prize but he was nominated in five occassions. On January 30, 1948, Gandhi was killed by an extremist Hindu activist.
Mother Teresa was born in Skopje (republic of Macedonia) in 1910. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with people.
Martin Luther King was a famous American who fought for human rights. He was born in Atlanta ( USA ) in 1929. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong ( British India, now Bangladesh). He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
Shirin Ebadi was born in Hamadán (Irán) in 1947. In 2003 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in 1940 in Nyieri (Kenia) . In 2004 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum was born in Guatemala in 1959). She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.
Dalai Lama (his name is Tenzin Gyatso).He was born in Tibet in 1935. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.