List of African Winners of the Nobel Prize

Name: Cohen-Tannoudji

Country of Birth: Algeria

Country of citizenship: France

Field: Physics

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1997

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

Name: Albert Camus

Country of Birth: Algeria

Country of citizenship: France

Field: Philosophy

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1957

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

Name: Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei

Country of Birth: Egypt

Country of citizenship: Egypt

Field: UN Secretry General (1997-2009)

Year of Nobel Prize win: 2005

Autobiography: Notable Biographies

 

Name: Ahmed Zewail

Country of Birth: Egypt

Country of citizenship: Egypt

Field: Chemistry, physics

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1999

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

Name: Naguib Mahfouz (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006)

Country of Birth: Egypt

Country of citizenship: Egypt

Field: Novelist

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1988

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

Name: Anwar Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981)

Country of Birth: Egypt

Country of citizenship: Egypt

Field: 3rd President of Egypt

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1978

Autobiography: Anwarsadat.com

 

Name: Kofi Annan

Country of Birth: Ghana

Country of citizenship: Ghana

Field: 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations

Year of Nobel Prize win: 2001

Autobiography: UN.orgbiography

 

 

Name: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Country of Birth: Liberia

Country of citizenship: Liberia

Field/Occupation: Current President of Liberia

Year of Nobel Prize win:2011

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

Name: Leymah Roberta Gbowee

Country of Birth: Liberia

Country of citizenship: Liberia

Field/Occupation: Peace Activist

Year of Nobel Prize win:2011

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

Name: Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011)

Country of Birth: Kenya

Country of citizenship: Kenya

Field/Occupation: Environmentalist, Political activist

Year of Nobel Prize win:2004

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

 

 

Name: Wole Soyinka

Country of Birth: Nigeria

Country of citizenship: Nigeria

Field: Novelist

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1986

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

 

Name: J. M. Coetzee

Country of Birth: South Africa

Country of citizenship: South Africa, Australia

Field: Novelist, essayist, literary critic, linguist

Year of Nobel Prize win: 2003

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

 

Name: Sydney Brenner

Country of Birth: South Africa

Country of citizenship: South Africa

Field: Physiology or Medicine

Year of Nobel Prize win: 2002

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

Name: F. W. de Klerk

Country of Birth: South Africa

Country of citizenship: South Africa

Field/Occupation:7th State President of South Africa

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1993

Autobiography: FWDdeKlerk Foundation

 

 

Name: Nelson Mandela

Country of Birth: South Africa

Country of citizenship: South Africa

Field/Occupation: President of South Africa (10 May 1994 – 14 June 1999)

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1993

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

 

Name: Nadine Gordimer

Country of Birth: South Africa

Country of citizenship: South Africa

Field: Playwright, Novelist

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1991

Autobiography: British Council

 

 

Name: Desmond Tutu

Country of Birth: South Africa

Country of citizenship: South Africa

Field/Occupation: Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1984

Autobiography: Desmond Tutu Diversity Trust

 

 

Name: Allan McLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998)

Country of Birth: South Africa

Country of citizenship: South Africa

Field: Physics

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1979

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

 

Name: Albert Lutuli

Country of Birth: South Africa

Country of citizenship: South Africa

Field/Occupation: President of the African National Congress (1952-1967)

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1960

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org

 

 

 

Name: Max Theiler

Country of Birth: South Africa

Country of citizenship: South Africa, USA

Field: Virology

Year of Nobel Prize win: 1951

Autobiography: NobelPrize.org