Wikipedia:List of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

In accordance with Alfred Nobel's will, the recipient is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. Every year, the Committee sends out invitations to qualified people to submit nominations for the Prize. Nomination of oneself if not permitted. Despite the annual invitations and selections there have been years wherein the prize was not awarded due to the outbreak of World War I (1914, 1915, 1916, and 1918), World War II (1939–1943), and some particular reasons (1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1955, 1956, 1966, 1967, and 1972). In 1948, the Peace Prize was also not conferred because, according to the Committee, "there was no suitable living candidate" following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The awarding of the Prize was also delayed for twelve times because the Committee decided that none of the nominations in the year in which they are listed met the criteria in Nobel's will, therefore, as rule of the Committee, it was conferred the following year but as previous year's recipient: Elihu Root (1912), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Austen Chamberlain (1925), Charles G. Dawes (1925), Frank B. Kellogg (1929), Norman Angell (1933), Carl von Ossietzky (1935), International Committee of the Red Cross (1944), Albert Schweitzer (1952), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1954), Albert Lutuli (1960), and Linus Pauling (1962).

From 1901 to 1967, there have been around 750 organizations and individuals nominated for the Prize. From these nominations were 44 female nominees starting with Bertha von Suttner (who was later awarded on 1905 and became the first female Peace Prize laureate) and Belva Ann Lockwood on 1901. Due to its political nature, the Nobel Peace Prize has, for most of its history, been the subject of numerous controversies. Among the controversies that surrounds the Prize is the nomination of Adolf Hitler on 1939 by Swedish politician Erik Gottfrid Christian Brandt. The nomination was immediately withdrawn, and Brandt stated that he never intended for it to be a serious proposal.

Though numerous pacifists, peace organizations, monarchs and politicians have been nominated for the Prize, there have been still some notable pacifists who were overlooked nor nominated such as Peace Pledge Union, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Pierre Brizon, Hugh O'Flaherty, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Émile Chartier, Pope John XXIII, Dorothy Evans, Edward J. Flanagan, American Union Against Militarism, Julia Ward Howe, Jean Jaurès, Te Whiti-o-Rongomai, Woman's Peace Party, Olaf Kullmann, No More War Movement, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henriette Beenfeldt, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Theophil Wurm, Franz Jägerstätter, Jeannette Rankin, Clara Tybjerg, Jeff Sharlet, Fernand Loriot, Young Christian Workers, Ellen Ammann, Rosa Luxemburg, Rosa Manus, Thomas Merton, Malcolm X, and Elena of Montenegro.