List Of Female Nominees For The Nobel Prize

The five prizes are awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

Clockwise from top left: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Rosalind Franklin, Emmeline Pankhurst and Virginia Woolf were among the influential 20th-century women who largely contributed in their fields but were never considered for the Nobel Prizes.

As of 2023, 65 Nobel Prizes and the Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to 64 women and since 1901, the year wherein the awarding of the prizes began, hundreds of women have already been nominated and shortlisted carefully in each field.

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes. Of the currently revealed female nominees both in physics and chemistry, the notable scientists Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Astrid Cleve, Harriet Brooks, Alice Ball, Mileva Marić, Inge Lehmann, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Leona Woods and Helen Parsons were not included.

In 1912, Mary Edwards Walker became the first ever woman nominated for prize in physiology or medicine but her nomination was later declared invalid by the Nobel Committee because her nominator was not invited to nominate that year. Hence, Cécile Vogt-Mugnier, nominated first in 1922, became the official first female nominee but never won despite numerous recommendations. She was followed by Maud Slye who was nominated in the year 1923, but again never won. Only in 1947, that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was finally awarded to a woman, Gerty Cori, sharing with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori. Of the 13 currently revealed female nominees, the physiologists Nettie Stevens, Frieda Robscheit-Robbins, Rosalind Franklin, Miriam Michael Stimson, Louise Pearce, Virginia Apgar, Hattie Alexander and Alice Catherine Evans were not included.

The most number of female nominees was in the field of literature. The first woman to be nominated was the German memoirist Malwida von Meysenbug for the year 1901. She was nominated by the French historian Gabriel Monod but unfortunately did not win the prize. Her nomination was followed by Émilie Lerou and Selma Lagerlöf for the year 1904. Lagerlöf would later on become the first woman to win the prize in the year 1909. Of the 77 currently revealed female nominees for the literature category, the celebrated authors Kate Chopin, Alfonsina Storni, Virginia Woolf, Simone Weil, Edith Nesbit, Delmira Agustini, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Edith Hamilton, Marina Tsvetaeva, Zora Neale Hurston, Fannie Hurst, Flannery O'Connor and Agatha Christie were not included.

The first women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize were Belva Ann Lockwood and Bertha von Suttner, who would eventually be awarded in 1905. The latter was considered for authoring Lay Down Your Arms! and contributing to the creation of the Prize. Of the 57 currently revealed female nominees, the famous Susan B. Anthony, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Mary Harris Jones, Olive Schreiner, Aletta Jacobs, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ida B. Wells, Käthe Kollwitz, Muriel Lester, Katharine Drexel, Helene Schweitzer, Marie Stopes, Vera Brittain, Ava Helen Pauling, Golda Meir, Rachel Carson and Rosa Parks were not included.

Starting from 1902 to 1970, 11 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics and three of the nominees were subsequently awarded.

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1902
	Marie Skłodowska Curie	7 November 1867 Warsaw, Poland	4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, France	1902, 1903	Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with P.Curie and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1935
	Irène Joliot-Curie	12 September 1897 Paris, France	17 March 1956 Paris, France	1934, 1935	Awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
1937
	Lise Meitner	7 November 1878 Vienna, Austria	27 October 1968 Cambridge, England	1937, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.
1950
	Marietta Blau	29 April 1894 Vienna, Austria	27 January 1970 Vienna, Austria	1950, 1956, 1957	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.
	Hertha Wambacher	9 March 1903 Vienna, Austria	25 March 1950 Vienna, Austria	1950	Nominated jointly with Marietta Blau the only time by Erwin Schrödinger.
1955
	Maria Goeppert-Mayer	28 June 1906 Katowice, Poland	2 February 1972 San Diego, California, United States	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963	Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen.
1956
	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt	29 July 1994 Ilmington, England	1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961	Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1958
	Chien-Shiung Wu	31 May 1912 Liuhe, Taicang, China	16 February 1997 New York City, New York, United States	1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965
1964
	Margaret Peachey Burbidge	12 August 1919 Stockport, England	5 April 2020 San Francisco, California, United States	1964	Nominated jointly with William Alfred Fowler and Fred Hoyle the only time by Harold Urey.
1970
	Jocelyn Bell Burnell	15 July 1943 Lurgan, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	—	1970
	Janine Connes	19 May 1926 France	—	1970	Nominated jointly with Pierre Connes and Robert B. Leighton the only time by Rupert Wildt.
1971–1972
should be revealed by Nobel Committee

Starting 1911 to 1970, 15 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 3 of these nominees were subsequently awarded.

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1911
	Marie Skłodowska Curie	November 7, 1867 Warsaw, Poland	July 4, 1934 Sancellemoz, France	1911	Awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1924
	Lise Meitner	November 7, 1878 Vienna, Austria	October 27, 1968 Cambridge, England	1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948	Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too.
1933
	Ida Tacke Noddack	February 25, 1896 Rhine Province, Germany	September 24, 1978 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany	1933, 1935, 1937	Nominated jointly with Walter Noddack only.
1935
	Irène Joliot-Curie	September 12, 1897 Paris, France	March 17, 1956 Paris, France	1935	Awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Frédéric Joliot and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too.
1939
	Dorothy Maud Wrinch	September 12, 1894 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina	February 11, 1976 Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States	1939
1950
	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	May 12, 1910 Cairo, Egypt	July 29, 1994 Ilmington, England	1950, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964	Awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too.
	Thérèse Boyer Tréfouël	June 19, 1892 Paris, France	November 9, 1978 Paris, France	1950	Nominated the only time jointly with Jacques Tréfouël and Gladwyn Buttle.
1952
	Marguerite Perey	October 19, 1909 Villemomble, France	May 13, 1975 Louveciennes, France	1952, 1958, 1961, 1965, 1966
1956
	Joan Folkes	1927 Staffordshire, England	?	1956	Nominated jointly with Ernest Gale the only time by John Howard Northrop.
1957
	Marietta Blau	April 29, 1894 Vienna, Austria	January 27, 1970 Vienna, Austria	1957	Nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too.
1958
	Maria Goeppert-Mayer	June 28, 1906 Katowice, Poland	February 2, 1972 San Diego, California, United States	1958	Awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1960
	Martha Cowles Chase	November 30, 1927 Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States	August 8, 2003 Lorain, Ohio, United States	1960	Nominated jointly with Alfred Hershey, Alfred Gierer, Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat and Gerhard Schramm the only time by John Howard Northrop.
1963
	Alberte Bucher-Pullman	August 26, 1920 Nantes, France	January 7, 2011 Paris, France	1963, 1965	Nominated jointly with Bernard Pullman each time.
1967
	Mary Belle Allen	November 11, 1922 Morristown, New Jersey	1973 Fairbanks, Alaska	1967	Nominated jointly with Daniel I. Arnon and Frederick Whatley the only time by John Howard Northrop.
1968
	Erika Cremer	May 20, 1900 Munich, Germany	September 21, 1996 Innsbruck, Austria	1968	Nominated the only time by Franz Patat.
1971–1972
should be revealed by Nobel Committee
Others
2016
	Svetlana Zaginaichenko	10 August 1957 Kyiv, Ukraine	23 November 2015 Dnipro, Ukraine	2016

Starting from 1922 to 1953, 14 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine wherein one was declared invalid and one was subsequently awarded.

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1912
	Mary Edwards Walker	November 26, 1832 Oswego, New York, United States	February 21, 1919 Oswego, New York, United States	1912	Nominated the only time by A. S. Helton.
1922
	Cécile Vogt-Mugnier	March 27, 1875 Annecy, France	May 4, 1962 Cambridge, England	1922, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1950, 1951, 1953	Nominated jointly with Oskar Vogt each time.
1923
	Maud Caroline Slye	February 8, 1879 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States	September 17, 1954 Chicago, Illinois, United States	1923	Nominated the only time by Albert Soiland.
1925
	Gladys Rowena Henry Dick	December 18, 1881 Pawnee City, Nebraska, United States	August 21, 1963 Palo Alto, California, United States	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1935	Nominated jointly with George Frederick Dick each time.
1930
	Alice Bernheim	September 28, 1878 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States	July 14, 1968 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States	1930	Nominated the only time by William Cogswell Clarke.
1939
	May Tweedy Mellanby	September 9, 1882 London, England	March 5, 1978 London, England	1939	Nominated jointly with Edward Mellanby each time.
	Susan Smith	December 9, 1897 Greenville, South Carolina, United States	October 3, 1983 Durham, North Carolina, United States	1939	Nominated jointly with David Tillerson Smith and Julian Ruffin the only time by Osvaldo Polimanti.
1940
	Olive Watkins Smith	April 29, 1901 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States	1983 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States	1940	Nominated jointly with George Van Siclen Smith the only time by Frank Arthur Pemberton.
1946
	Gerty Theresa Radnitz-Cori	August 15, 1896 Prague, Czech Republic	October 25, 1957 Glendale, Missouri, United States	1946, 1947	Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Bernardo Houssay.
	Militsa Nikolaeva Lyubimova-Engelhardt	December 26, 1898 Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia	December 22, 1975 Moscow, Russia	1946	Nominated jointly with Vladimir Engelgardt the only time by Leon Orbeli.
1947
	Helen Brooke Taussig	May 24, 1898 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	May 20, 1986 Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States	1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953
1951
	Miriam Friedman Menkin	August 8, 1901 Riga, Latvia	June 8, 1992 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1951	Nominated jointly with John Rock and Roger Alfred Auguste Vendrely the only time by Bożydar Szabuniewicz.
	Madge Thurlow Macklin	February 6, 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States	March 4, 1962 Columbus, Ohio, United States	1951	Nominated the only time by Charles Clifford Macklin.
1952
	Elizabeth Bugie Gregory	October 5, 1920 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States	April 10, 2001 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States	1952	Nominated jointly with Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz the only time by Jevrem Nedelkovitch.
1954–1972
should be revealed by Nobel Committee
Others
1997
	Lida Holmes Mattman	31 July 1912 Denver, Colorado, United States	6 August 2008 Essexville, Michigan, United States	1997

From 1901 to 1972, 77 women have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and 8 of these nominees were subsequently awarded.

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1901
	Malwida von Meysenbug	October 28, 1816 Kassel, Germany	April 23, 1903 Rome, Italy	1901	Nominated the only time by Gabriel Monod.
1904
	Selma Lagerlöf	November 20, 1858 Värmland, Sweden	March 16, 1940 Värmland, Sweden	1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909	Awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Émilie Lerou	18 May 1855 Rouen, France	11 June 1935 Paris, France	1904	Nominated the only time by Jules Claretie.
1905
	Eliza Orzeszkowa	June 6, 1841 Mil'kovshchina, Belarus	May 18, 1910 Grodno, Belarus	1905
1908
	Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche	July 10, 1846 Lützen, Germany	November 8, 1935 Weimar, Germany	1908, 1916, 1917, 1923
1910
	Molly Elliot Seawell	October 23, 1860 Gloucester, United States	November 15, 1916 Washington, D.C., United States	1910, 1911	Nominated by Charles W. Kent each time.
	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach	September 13, 1830 Troubky-Zdislavice, Czechia	March 12, 1916 Vienna, Austria	1910, 1911	Nominated by Emil Reich each time.
1913
	Grazia Deledda Madesani	September 28, 1871 Nuoro, Italy	August 15, 1936 Rome, Italy	1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927	Awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1914
	Dora Melegari	June 27, 1849 Lausanne, Switzerland	July 31, 1924 Rome, Italy	1914, 1923
1922
	Sigrid Undset Svarstad	May 20, 1882 Kalundborg, Denmark	June 10, 1949 Lillehammer, Norway	1922, 1925, 1926, 1928	Awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Matilde Serao Scarfoglio	March 7, 1856 Patras, Greece	July 25, 1927 Naples, Italy	1922, 1923, 1924, 1925
1926
	Sofía Casanova Lutosławski	September 30, 1861 A Coruña, Spain	January 16, 1958 Poznań, Poland	1926
	Ada Negri Garlanda	February 3, 1870 Lodi, Italy	January 11, 1945 Milan, Italy	1926, 1927
	Concha Espina de la Serna	April 15, 1869 Santander, Spain	May 19, 1955 Madrid, Spain	1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1952, 1954
1927
	Edith Jones Wharton	January 24, 1862 New York City, New York, United States	August 11, 1937 Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France	1927, 1928, 1930
1928
	Anna Elisabeth de Noailles	November 15, 1876 Paris, France	April 30, 1933 Paris, France	1928	Nominated the only time by Tor Hedberg.
	Edith Annie Howes	August 29, 1872 London, England	June 14, 1954 Dunedin, New Zealand	1928	Nominated the only time by Francis Prendeville Wilson.
	Blanca de los Ríos de Lampérez	August 15, 1956 Seville, Spain	April 13, 1956 Madrid, Spain	1928
	Ricarda Huch	July 18, 1864 Brunswick, Germany	November 17, 1947 Kronberg, Germany	1928, 1935, 1937, 1946
1930
	Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo	September 19, 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela	(?) 1959 Caracas, Venezuela	1930	Nominated the only time by Manuel María Villalobos.
1931
	Laura Mestre Hevia	April 6, 1867 Havana, Cuba	January 11, 1944 Havana, Cuba	1931	Nominated the only time by Juan Miguel Dihigo Mestre.
	Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić	April 18, 1874 Ogulin, Croatia	September 21, 1928 Zagreb, Croatia	1931, 1935, 1937, 1938
1934
	Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício	April 19, 1884 Lisbon, Portugal	November 3, 1947 Lisbon, Portugal	1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947
1935
	Violet Beauclerk Clifton	November 2, 1883 Rome, Italy	November 20, 1961 Lytham St Annes, England	1935	Nominated the only time by Nevill Coghill.
	Elise Richter	March 2, 1865 Vienna, Austria	June 23, 1943 Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechia	1935
1936
	Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti	January 10, 1871 Vienna, Austria	April 8, 1955 Linz, Austria	1936
	Cécile Tormay	October 8, 1875 Budapest, Hungary	April 2, 1937 Gyöngyös, Hungary	1936, 1937
1937
	Maria Jotuni Tarkiainen	April 9, 1880 Kuopio, Finland	September 30, 1943 Helsinki, Finland	1937	Nominated the only time by Viljo Tarkiainen.
	Sally Salminen Dürhkop	April 25, 1906 Vårdö, Åland	July 18, 1976 Copenhagen, Denmark	1937, 1938, 1939
	Maila Talvio Mikkola	October 17, 1871 Hartola, Finland	January 6, 1951 Helsinki, Finland	1937, 1939, 1947
1938
	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	June 26, 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States	March 6, 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States	1938	Awarded on the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Margaret Mitchell	November 8, 1900 Atlanta, Georgia, United States	August 16, 1949 Atlanta, Georgia, United States	1938	Nominated the only time by Sven Hedin.
	Henriette Charasson	February 13, 1884 Le Havre, France	May 29, 1972 Toulouse, France	1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1957
1939
	Ethel Florence Richardson	January 3, 1870 East Melbourne, Australia	March 20, 1946 Hastings, England	1939	Nominated the only time by Sten Bodvar Liljegren.
	Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk	December 24, 1869 Noordwijk, Netherlands	November 21, 1952 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1939, 1950, 1952
	Maria Szumka Dąbrowska	October 6, 1889 Russów, Poland	May 19, 1965 Warsaw, Poland	1939, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965
1940
	Gabriela Mistral	April 7, 1889 Vicuña, Chile	January 10, 1957 Hempstead, New York, United States	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	Awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1941
	Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young	July 21, 1882 San Francisco, California, United States	February 18, 1954 Los Gatos, California, United States	1941
1943
	Elisaveta Bagryana	April 16, 1893 Sofia, Bulgaria	March 23, 1991 Sofia, Bulgaria	1943, 1944, 1945, 1969
1945
	Marie Under Adson	March 27, 1883 Tallinn, Estonia	September 25, 1980 Stockholm, Sweden	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1948
	Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette	January 28, 1873 Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France	August 3, 1954 Paris, France	1948	Nominated the only time by Claude Farrère.
	Dorothy Canfield Fisher	February 17, 1879 Lawrence, Kansas, United States	November 9, 1958 Arlington, Vermont, United States	1948, 1949	Nominated by David Baumgardt each time.
1950
	Karen von Blixen-Finecke	April 17, 1885 Rungsted, Denmark	September 7, 1962 Rungsted, Denmark	1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962
	Gertrud von Le Fort	October 11, 1876 Minden, Germany	November 1, 1971 Oberstdorf, Germany	1950, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963
1951
	María Enriqueta Camarillo de Monter	February 19, 1872 Coatepec, Mexico	February 13, 1968 Mexico City, Mexico	1951	Nominated the only time by Leavitt Olds Wright.
	Katharine Susannah Prichard Throssell	December 4, 1883 Levuka, Fiji	October 2, 1969 Greenmount, Australia	1951
1955
	Edith Louisa Sitwell	September 7, 1887 Scarborough, England	December 9, 1964 London, England	1955, 1958, 1959
1956
	Melpo Axioti	July 15, 1905 Athens, Greece	May 22, 1973 Athens, Greece	1956	Nominated the only time by André Bonnard.
	Marthe Lahovary Bibesco	January 28, 1886 Bucharest, Romania	November 28, 1973 Paris, France	1956
	Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge	April 24, 1900 Wells, England	April 1, 1984 Oxfordshire, England	1956, 1959	Nominated by Edmond Privat each time.
1958
	Elizabeth Bowen Cameron	June 7, 1899 Dublin, Ireland	February 22, 1973 London, England	1958	Nominated the only time by Roman Jakobson.
1959
	Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou	March 8, 1892 Melo, Uruguay	July 15, 1979 Montevideo, Uruguay	1959, 1960, 1963
	María Raquel Adler	ca. 1900 Argentine Sea	July 28, 1974 Bernal, Argentina	1959, 1965
	Anna Seghers	November 19, 1900 Mainz, Germany	June 1, 1983 East Berlin, Germany	1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972
1960
	Marie Noël	February 16, 1883 Auxerre, France	December 23, 1967 Auxerre, France	1960	Nominated the only time by Maurice Bemol.
1961
	Cora Sandel	December 20, 1880 Oslo, Norway	April 3, 1974 Uppsala, Sweden	1961	Nominated the only time by Harald Ofstad.
	Giulia Scappino Murena	1902 Italy	1970s (or prob. 1967) Riccione, Rimini, Italy	1961, 1962	Nominated by Alfredo Galletti each time and for the Nobel Peace Prize too.
	Simone Lucie de Beauvoir	January 9, 1908 Paris, France	April 14, 1986 Paris, France	1961, 1969, 1973
1963
	Nelly Sachs	December 10, 1891 Berlin, Germany	May 12, 1970 Stockholm, Sweden	1963, 1964, 1965, 1966	Awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with Shmuel Yosef Agnon.
	Ingeborg Bachmann	June 25, 1926 Klagenfurt, Austria	October 17, 1973 Rome, Italy	1963	Nominated the only time by Harald Patzer.
	Kate Roberts-Williams	February 13, 1891 Rhosgadfan, Wales	April 4, 1985 Denbigh, Wales	1963	Nominated the only time by Idris Foster.
1964
	Ina Seidel	September 15, 1885 Halle (Saale), Germany	October 2, 1974 Schäftlarn, Germany	1964	Nominated the only time by Günther Jachmann.
	Judith Wright McKinney	May 31, 1915 Armidale, Australia	June 25, 2000 Canberra, Australia	1964, 1965, 1967
	Katherine Anne Porter	May 15, 1890 Indian Creek, Texas, United States	September 18, 1980 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States	1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
1965
	Marguerite Yourcenar	June 8, 1903 Brussels, Belgium	December 17, 1987 Northeast Harbor, Maine, United States	1965	Nominated the only time by Ida-Marie Frandon.
	Anna Akhmatova	June 28, 1889 Odesa, Ukraine	March 5, 1966 Domodedovo, Russia	1965, 1966
	Marie Luise Kaschnitz	January 31, 1901 Karlsruhe, Germany	October 10, 1974 Rome, Italy	1965, 1967	Nominated by the Hermann Tiemann each time.
1967
	Lina Kostenko	March 19, 1930 Rzhyshchiv, Ukraine	—	1967	Nominated jointly with Pavlo Tychyna and Ivan Drach the only time by Omeljan Pritsak.
1968
	Marianne Moore	November 15, 1887 Kirkwood, Missouri, United States	February 5, 1972 New York City, United States	1968	Nominated the only time by Erik Lindegren.
	Mildred Matthews Breedlove	May 27, 1904 Coal Hill, Arkansas, United States	August 14, 1994 Ferron, Utah, United States	1968	Nominated the only time by United Poets Laureate International.
1969
	Nathalie Sarraute	July 18, 1900 Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Russia	October 19, 1999 Paris, France	1969	Nominated the only time by Lars Gyllensten.
1970
	Victoria Ocampo	April 7, 1890 Buenos Aires, Argentina	January 27, 1979 Béccar, Argentina	1970	Nominated the only time by Miguel Alfredo Olivera.
1972
	Nadine Gordimer	November 20, 1923 Springs, South Africa	July 13, 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa	1972, 1973	Awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Doris Lessing	October 22, 1919 Kermanshah, Iran	November 17, 2013 London, England	1972, 1973	Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Astrid Lindgren	November 14, 1907 Vimmerby, Kalmar, Sweden	January 28, 2002 Stockholm, Sweden	1972
1973
	Indira Devi Dhanrajgir	August 17, 1930 Hyderabad, Telangana, India	—	1973	Nominated the only time by Krishna Srinivas.
	Zenta Mauriņa	December 15, 1897 Lejasciems, Latvia	April 25, 1978 Basel, Switzerland	1973	Nominated the only time by Mārtiņš Zīverts.
1974
to be revealed in 2025
	Argentina Díaz Lozano	5 December 1909 Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras	13 August 1999 Tegucigalpa, Honduras	1974
Others
1976
	Anaïs Nin	21 February 1903 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France	14 January 1977 Los Angeles, California, United States	1976
1979
	Joyce Carol Oates	16 June 1938 Lockport, New York, United States	—	1979, 1999
1990
	Maria Luisa Spaziani	7 December 1922 Turin, Italy	30 June 2014 Rome, Italy	1990, 1992, 1997
1992
	Matilde Alba Swann	24 February 1912 Berisso, Argentina	13 September 2000 La Plata, Argentina	1992
1996
	Alda Merini	21 March 1931 Milan, Italy	1 November 2009 Milan, Italy	1996, 2001
1997
	Alicia Ghiragossian	13 July 1936 Córdoba, Argentina	22 May 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States	1997
1998
	Janet Frame	28 August 1924 Dunedin, New Zealand	29 January 2004 Dunedin, New Zealand	1998, 2003
1999
	Simin Behbahani	20 July 1927 Tehran, Iran	19 August 2014 Tehran, Iran	1999, 2002
2002
	Leyla Erbil	12 January 1931 Istanbul, Türkiye	19 July 2013 Istanbul, Türkiye	2002
2004
	Friederike Mayröcker	20 December 1924 Vienna, Austria	4 June 2021 Vienna, Austria	2004
2012
	Mahasweta Devi	14 January 1926 Dhaka, Bangladesh	28 July 2016 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	2012
2015
	Anna Nerkagi	15 February 1951 Yamalo-Nenets, Russia	—	2015, 2018, 2020
2016
	Lygia Fagundes Telles	19 April 1918 São Paulo, Brazil	3 April 2022 São Paulo, Brazil	2016
2018
	Agustina Bessa-Luís	15 October 1922 Amarante, Portugal	3 June 2019 Porto, Portugal	2018

From 1901 to 1973, 57 women have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and five of these nominees were subsequently awarded. Currently, the Nobel archives has revealed nominations from 1901 to 1973, the other enlisted women were verified nominations based on public and private news agencies.

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1901
	Bertha Sophie von Suttner	June 9, 1843 Prague, Czechia	June 21, 1914 Vienna, Austria	1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905	Awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize.
	Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood	October 24, 1830 Royalton, New York, United States	May 19, 1917 Washington, D.C., United States	1901, 1914
1903
	Priscilla Hannah Peckover	October 27, 1833 Wisbech, England	September 8, 1931 Wisbech, England	1903, 1905, 1911, 1913
1905
	Henriette Verdier Winteler de Weindeck	January 9, 1832 London, England	March 20, 1910 London, England	1905, 1907, 1910
1910
	Ángela de Oliveira Cézar de Costa	ca. 1860 Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina	June 25, 1940 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1910, 1911
1913
	Anna Bernhardine Eckstein	June 14, 1868 Coburg, Germany	October 16, 1947 Coburg, Germany	1913	Nominated the only time by Nils August Nilsson.
	Lucia True Ames Mead	May 5, 1856 Boscawen, New Hampshire, United States	November 1, 1936 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1913	Nominated jointly with her husband Edwin Doak Mead the only time by Samuel Train Dutton.
1916
	Jane Addams	September 6, 1860 Cedarville, Illinois, United States	May 21, 1935 Chicago, Illinois, United States	1916, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931	Awarded the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.
1917
	Rosika Bédy-Schwimmer	September 11, 1877 Budapest, Hungary	August 3, 1948 New York City, New York, United States	1917, 1948
1918
	Mary Shapard	c. 1882 Mississippi, United States	c. 1950s Texas, United States	1918	Nominated the only time by Morris Sheppard.
1920
	Caroline Rémy de Guebhard	April 27, 1855 Paris, France	April 24, 1929 Pierrefonds, France	1920, 1922, 1924, 1927, 1929	Nominated by Lucien Le Foyer each time.
1922
	Eglantyne Jebb	August 25, 1876 Ellesmere, England	December 17, 1928 Geneva, Switzerland	1922
	Elsa Brändström Ulich	March 26, 1888 Saint Petersburg, Russia	March 4, 1948 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1922, 1923, 1928, 1929
1931
	Annie Wood Besant	October 1, 1847 Clapham, England	September 20, 1933 Adyar, Chennai, India	1931	Nominated the only time by Peter Freeman.
	Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair	March 15, 1857 London, England	April 18, 1939 Aberdeen, Scotland	1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937
1933
	Margit Antonia Bárczy	November 29, 1877 Budapest, Hungary	March 26, 1934 Paris, France	1933	Nominated the only time by Charles Dupuis.
1935
	Janet Miller (prob. Janet Morison Miller (1891–1946))	—	—	1935
	Julie Bikle	January 8, 1871 Lucerne, Switzerland	May 11, 1962 Winterthur, Switzerland	1935, 1936, 1937	Nominated by Otto Pfister each time.
1936
	Moina Belle Michael	August 15, 1869 Good Hope, Georgia, United States	May 10, 1944 Athens, Georgia, United States	1936
	Irma Schweitzer-Meyer	January 30, 1882 Baden, Switzerland	July 4, 1967 Zürich, Switzerland	1936, 1937	Nominated by Nils August Nilsson each time.
1937
	Henrietta Szold	December 21, 1860 Baltimore, Maryland, United States	February 13, 1945 Jerusalem, Israel	1937	Nominated the only time by Royal S. Copeland.
1938
	Princess Henriette of Belgium	November 30, 1870 Brussels, Belgium	March 28, 1948 Sierre, Switzerland	1938
1939
	Carrie Chapman Catt	January 9, 1859 Ripon, Wisconsin, United States	March 9, 1947 New Rochelle, New York, United States	1939
1940
	Helene Stöcker	November 13, 1869 Wuppertal, Germany	February 24, 1943 New York City, US	1940	Nominated the only time by Ludwig Quidde.
1946
	Emily Greene Balch	January 8, 1867 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	January 9, 1961 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1946	Awarded the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize with John Mott.
	Alexandra Kollontai	March 31, 1872 Saint Petersburg, Russia	March 9, 1952 Moscow, Russia	1946, 1947
1947
	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt	October 11, 1884 New York City, New York, United States	November 7, 1962 Manhattan, New York, United States	1947, 1949, 1955, 1959, 1962
1948
	Katharine Bruce Glasier	September 25, 1867 Stoke Newington, London, England	June 14, 1950 Earby, England	1948	Nominated the only time by Gilbert McAllister.
1949
	María Eva Duarte Perón	May 7, 1919 Los Toldos, Argentina	July 26, 1952 Buenos Aires, Argentina	1949	Nominated jointly with her husband Juan Perón the only time by Virgilio Filippo.
	Maria Tecla Montessori	August 31, 1870 Chiaravalle, Italy	May 6, 1952 Noordwijk, Netherlands	1949, 1950, 1951
1951
	Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands	August 31, 1880 Noordeinde Palace, South Holland, Netherlands	November 28, 1962 Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, Netherlands	1951
1952
	Ada Barbara Waylen	1906 Oxford, England	1980 ?	1952	Nominated the only time by Norman Bentwich.
	Elisabeth Friederike Rotten	February 15, 1882 Berlin, Germany	May 2, 1964 London, England	1952, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961
1953
	Margaret Higgins Sanger	September 14, 1879 Corning, New York, United States	September 6, 1966 Tucson, Arizona, United States	1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1963
1954
	Helen Adams Keller	June 27, 1880 Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States	June 1, 1968 Easton, Connecticut, United States	1954, 1958
1955
	Gertrud Baer	November 25, 1890 Halberstadt, Germany	December 15, 1981 Geneva, Switzerland	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
1959
	Olave St. Clair Baden-Powell	February 22, 1889 Chesterfield, England	June 25, 1977 Bramley, England	1959
1961
	Marie-Elisabeth Lüders	June 25, 1878 Berlin, Germany	March 23, 1966 Berlin, Germany	1961	Nominated the only time by Erich Mende.
	Lotta Hitschmanova	November 28, 1909 Prague, Czech Republic	August 1, 1990 Ottawa, Canada	1961, 1962	Nominated by Arthur Ryan Smith each time.
	Gertrud Kurz-Hohl	March 15, 1890 Lutzenberg, Switzerland	June 26, 1972 Lutzenberg, Switzerland	1961, 1962
	Giulia Scappino Murena	1902 Italy	1970s (or prob. 1967) Riccione, Rimini, Italy	1961, 1962	Nominated by Udo Redano each time and for the Nobel Prize in Literature too.
1962
	Maude Miner Hadden	June 29, 1880 Manhattan, New York, United States	April 14, 1967 Palm Beach, Florida, United States	1962	Nominated the only time by Åke Sandler.
1963
	Catherine Devilliers (LEBLANC, Marie - Catherine)	December 30, 1923 Montpellier, France	—	1963
	Stella Monk	—	—	1963	Nominated the only time by Mohammed Sanusi Mustapha.
1967
	Margaret Susan Cheshire	July 3, 1924 Leeds, England	November 2, 2000 Bury St Edmunds, England	1967, 1968
1969
	Kaoru Hatoyama	21 November 1888 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan	15 August 1982 Tokyo, Japan	1969
1970
	Alva Reimer-Myrdal	31 January 1902 Uppsala, Sweden	1 February 1986 Stockholm, Sweden	1970	Awarded the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize with Alfonso García Robles.
	Britta Holmström	8 April 1911 Jönköping, Sweden	4 October 1992 Lund, Sweden	1970
1971
	Louise Weiss	25 January 1893 Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France	26 May 1983 Paris, France	1971
1972
	Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, M.C.	26 August 1910 Skopje, North Macedonia	5 September 1997 Kolkata, West Bengal, India	1972	Awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
	Isabelle Grant	3 July 1896 Lossiemouth, Moray, United Kingdom	1 June 1977 London, United Kingdom	1972	Nominated the only time by Harold T. Johnson.
	Elise Ottesen-Jensen	2 January 1886 Høyland, Norway	4 September 1973 Stockholm, Sweden	1972
	Annie Skau Berntsen	29 May 1911 Oslo, Norway	26 November 1992 Horten, Norway	1972	Nominated the only time by Henrik Bahr.
	Helen Suzman	7 November 1917 Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa	1 January 2009 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa	1972	Nominated the only time by Richard Luyt.
1973
	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	June 26, 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States	March 6, 1973 Danby, Vermont, United States	1973	Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	Indira Gandhi	19 November 1917 Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India	31 October 1984 New Delhi, India	1973	Nominated the only time by Buddha Priya Maurya.
	Jeannette Rankin	11 June 1880 Missoula, Montana, United States	18 May 1973 Carmel, California, United States	1973	Nominated the only time by Mike Mansfield.
1974
will be revealed in 2025
Others
1976
	Betty Williams	22 May 1943 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	17 March 2020 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	1976, 1977	Awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize in 1977.
	Mairead Maguire	27 January 1944 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom	—
1978
	Dorothy Day	8 November 1897 Brooklyn Heights, New York, United States	29 November 1980 Manhattan, New York, United States	1978, 1979
	Imelda Romualdez-Marcos	2 July 1929 in San Miguel, Manila, Philippines	—	1978
1979
	Hildegard Goss-Mayr	22 January 1930 Vienna, Austria	—	1979, 1987, 2005
1987
	Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino	25 January 1933 in Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines	1 August 2009 in Makati, Philippines	1987
1988
	Emmanuelle Cinquin, N.D.S.	16 November 1908 Brussels, Belgium	20 October 2008 Callian, Var, France	1988
	Inga Thorsson	3 July 1915 in Malmö, Sweden	15 January 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden	1988
	Dulce de Souza Pontes, S.M.I.C.	26 May 1914 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	13 March 1992 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	1988, 1992
1989
	Aung San Suu Kyi	19 June 1945 Yangon, Myanmar	—	1989, 1990, 1991	Awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
1990
	Anne, Princess Royal	15 August 1950 London, United Kingdom	—	1990
	Elise M. Boulding	6 July 1920 in Oslo, Norway	24 June 2010 in Needham, Massachusetts, United States	1990, 2005
1992
	Rigoberta Menchú	9 January 1959 Laj Chimel, Uspantán, El Quiché, Guatemala	—	1992	Awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize.
	Elisa Molina de Stahl	24 March 1918 Quetzaltenango, Guatemala	3 November 1996 Guatemala City, Guatemala	1992
	Shulamit Katznelson	17 August 1919 Geneva, Switzerland	6 August 1999 Netanya, Israel	1992, 1993
1999
	Helen Prejean, C.S.J.	21 April 1939 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States	—	1999
	Catherine Hamlin	24 January 1924 Sydney, Australia	18 March 2020 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	1999, 2014
2000
	Kathy Kelly	10 December 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, United States	—	2000
2003
	Lois Gibbs	25 June 1951 Grand Island, New York, United States	—	2003
	Irena Sendler	15 February 1910 Warsaw, Poland	12 May 2008 Warsaw, Poland	2003, 2007
2005
	1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe	a collective nomination of 1000 women from over 150 different countries for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.		2005
	Zilda Arns Neumann	25 August 1934 Forquilhinha, Santa Catarina, Brazil	12 January 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti	2005, 2006
	Medea Benjamin	10 September 1952 Freeport, New York, United States	—	2005, 2017
2006
	Rebiya Kadeer	15 November 1946 Altay City, Xinjiang, China	—	2006
2007
	Sheila Watt-Cloutier	2 December 1953 Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada	—	2007
	Oprah Winfrey	29 January 1954 Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States	—	2007
2008
	Íngrid Betancourt	25 December 1961 Bogotá, Colombia	—	2008
	Inge Genefke	6 July 1938 Frederiksberg, Denmark	—	2008, 2009, 2011, 2013
2009
	Piedad Córdoba	25 January 1955 Medellín, Colombia	20 January 2024 Medellín, Colombia	2009
	Sima Samar	3 February 1957 Jaghori, Afghanistan	—	2009, 2010, 2011
2010
	Svetlana Gannushkina	6 March 1942 Moscow, Russia	—	2010, 2011, 2013, 2016
2012
	Maggie Gobran	1949 Cairo, Egypt	—	2012, 2020, 2023
2013
	Malala Yousafzai	12 July 1997 Mingora, Swat, Pakistan	—	2013, 2014	Awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi.
	Lyudmila Alexeyeva	20 July 1927 Yevpatoria, Ukraine	8 December 2018 Moscow, Russia	2013
	Claudia Paz y Paz	7 June 1966 Guatemala City, Guatemala	—	2013
	Susana Trimarco	25 May 1954 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina	—	2013
2014
	Agnes Mariam de la Croix, O.Carm	1952 Beirut, Lebanon	—	2014
	Anne Merriman	1935 Liverpool, United Kingdom	—	2014
2015
	Kathryn Bolkovac	c. 1960 Ohio, United States	—	2015
	Aminetou Mint El-Moctar	13 December 1956 Nouakchott, Mauritania	—	2015
	Leyla Yunus	21 December 1955 Baku, Azerbaijan	—	2015
2016
	Nadia Murad	10 March 1993 Kocho, Iraq	—	2016, 2017, 2018	Awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize with Denis Mukwege.
	Emilia Kamvysi	c. 1930 Lesbos, Greece	12 March 2023 Lesbos, Greece	2016
	Angela Merkel	17 July 1954 Hamburg, Germany	—	2016
	Susan Sarandon	4 October 1946 Jackson Heights, New York, United States	—	2016
2017
	Maria da Penha	1 February 1945 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil	—	2017
	Marianne Stöger	24 April 1934 Matrei am Brenner, Tyrol, Austria	—	2017, 2020
	Margaritha Pissarek	1935 Austria	—
2018
	Anna Alboth	1984 Warsaw, Poland	—	2018
	Lidija Doroņina-Lasmane	28 July 1925 Ulmale, Aizpute, Latvia	—	2018
	Jaha Dukureh	1989 Gambia	—	2018
	Agnes Chow Ting	3 December 1996 Hong Kong	—	2018, 2019
	Nataša Kandić	16 December 1946 Belgrade, Serbia	—	2018, 2022
2019
	Ilwad Elman	22 December 1989 Mogadishu, Somalia	—	2019
	Amanda Nguyen	10 October 1991 Corona, California, United States	—	2019
	Hajer Sharief	1994 Libya	—	2019
	Sevgül Uludağ	15 October 1958 Nicosia, Cyprus	—	2019
	Loujain al-Hathloul	31 July 1989 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	—	2019, 2020
	Jacinda Ardern	26 July 1980 Hamilton, New Zealand	—	2019, 2020
	Greta Thunberg	3 January 2003 Stockholm, Sweden	—	2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
2020
	Leila de Lima	27 August 1959 Iriga, Camarines Sur, Philippines	—	2020
2021
	Maria Ressa	2 October 1963 Manila, Philippines	—	2021	Awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize with Dmitry Muratov.
	Stacey Abrams	9 December 1973 Madison, Wisconsin, United States	—	2021
	Zineb El Rhazoui	19 January 1982 Casablanca, Morocco	—	2021
	Aminatou Haidar	24 July 1966 Akka, Morocco	—	2021
	Jane Goodall	3 April 1934 Hampstead, London, United Kingdom	—	2021
	Veronika Tsepkalo	7 September 1976 Mogilev, Belarus	—	2021
	Maria Kalesnikava	24 April 1982 Minsk, Belarus	—	2021
	Juliana Taimoorazy	23 April 1973 Tehran, Iran	—	2021
	Marilyn Waring	7 October 1952 Ngaruawahia, New Zealand	—	2021
	Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya	11 September 1982 Mikashevichy, Belarus	—	2021, 2022
2022
	Masih Alinejad	11 September 1976 Qomi Kola, Iran	—	2022, 2023
	Maria Elena Bottazzi	1966 Genoa, Italy	—	2022
	Dee Dawkins-Haigler	31 January 1970 Lithonia, Georgia, United States	—	2022
	Opal Lee	7 October 1926 Marshall, Texas, United States	—	2022
	Miriam Were	12 April 1940 Kakamega, Western Province, Kenya	—	2022
	Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam	24 August 1990 Hong Kong	—	2022, 2023
	Chow Hang-tung	24 January 1985 Hong Kong	—	2022, 2023, 2024
2023
	Narges Mohammadi	21 April 1972 Zanjan, Iran	—	2023	Awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
	Vanessa Nakate	15 November 1996 Kampala, Uganda	—	2023
	Mahbouba Seraj	1948 Kabul, Afghanistan	—	2023
	Jani Silva	c. 1968 Colombia	—	2023
	Victoria Tauli-Corpuz	19 October 1952 Besao, Mt. Province, Philippines	—	2023
2024
	Yasmina Cánovas	El Vendrell, Spain	—	2024

From 1969 to 1971, 3 women have been nominated for the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences but none of them were subsequently awarded.

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1969
	Anna Schwartz	11 November 1915 The Bronx, New York, United States	21 June 2012 Manhattan, New York, United States	1969, 1971	Nominated by Bertil Gotthard Ohlin each time.
	Joan Robinson	31 October 1903 Surrey, United Kingdom	5 August 1983 Cambridge, United Kingdom	1969, 1970, 1971
1971
	Barbara Bergmann	20 July 1927 The Bronx, New York, United States	5 April 2015 Bethesda, Maryland, United States	1971
1972
should be revealed in 2023
1973
will be revealed in 2024

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