Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the organisation they founded

Jewish recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the organisation they founded documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 0% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

0%of all recipients are Jewish

5 documented recipients

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Ludwik Rajchman1946

Polish physician who founded UNICEF (Nobel Peace Prize 1965)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners

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Peter Benenson1961

British lawyer who founded Amnesty International (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners

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Bernard Lown1980

Co-inventor of the defibrillator; co-founded IPPNW (Nobel Peace Prize 1985)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners

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Bernard Kouchner1971

French physician who co-founded Médecins Sans Frontières (Nobel Peace Prize 1999); Jewish father

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners

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Arseny Roginsky1990

Historian who founded and chaired Memorial, the human-rights society (Nobel Peace Prize 2022)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners