9. Mairead Corrigan
Mairead Maguire won the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1976 at the age of 32 years. The 70 year old peace activist from Northern Ireland, shared the award with Betty Williams (33), who herself was another young Nobel laureate “for being the Founder(s) of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)”. Corrigan also won Norwegian People’s Peace Prize, Pacem in Terris and Carl von Ossietzky Medal.
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