List of Magsaysay awardees
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The following is a complete list of the awardees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award
Ramon Magsaysay Award
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered Asia's Nobel...

. Awardees' individual nationality or country of origin and citizenship are indicated.

GS Government Service

PS Public Service

CL Community Leadership

JLCCA Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts

PIU Peace and International Understanding

EL Emergent Leadership

Magsaysay awardees

Year Category Awardee Nationality / Base of Operations
1958 GS Jiang Menglin
Jiang Menglin
Jiang Menglin , was a notable Chinese educator, writer, and paramount politician. Between 1919 and 1927, he also served as the President of Peking University. He later became the president of National Chekiang University.-Biography:Jiang was born in Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province on 20 Jan 1886...

 
 Republic of China
1959 GS C D Deshmukh   India
1959 GS Jose Aguilar  Philippines
1961 GS Raden Kodijat   Indonesia
1962 GS Francesca Reyes-Aquino   Philippines
1963 GS Akhtar Hameed Khan
Akhtar Hameed Khan
Akhtar Hameed Khan was a Pakistani development activist and social scientist credited for pioneering microcredit and microfinance initiatives, farmers' cooperatives, and rural training programmes in the developing world. He promoted participatory rural development in Pakistan and other developing...

 
 Pakistan
1964 GS Yukiharu Miki
Yukiharu Miki
was a Japanese physician and politician. He served as Governor for the Okayama Prefecture from May 3, 1951 until he died September 21, 1964. During his governor period the prefecture went through considerable modernisation, becoming an important industrial district....

 
 Japan
1965 GS Puey Ungpakorn
Puey Ungpakorn
Puey Ungpakorn, MBE was an extremely successful bureaucrat who played a central role in the shaping of Thailand's economic development and in the strengthening of its system of higher education...

 
 Thailand
1966 GS Fon Saengsingkaew   Thailand
1967 GS Keo Viphakone   Laos
1968 GS Kwoh-Ting Li
Kwoh-Ting Li
Kwoh-Ting Li was a Chinese economist and politician best known as the "Father of Taiwan's Economic Miracle" for his work in transforming Taiwan's economy from an agrarian-based system into one of the world's leading producers of information and telecommunications technology...

 
 Republic of China
1969 GS Hsu Shih-chu   Republic of China
1971 GS Ali Sadikin
Ali Sadikin
Ali Sadikin was an Indonesian politician. He was often called Bang Ali. He served as the governor of Jakarta, the country's capital, from 1966 to 1977. Appointed by a weak Sukarno, he likely had the full approval of Suharto. A former marine, he saw the city as a battlefield...

 
 Indonesia
1972 GS Goh Keng Swee
Goh Keng Swee
Goh Keng Swee was the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1984, and a Member of Parliament for the Kreta Ayer constituency for a quarter of a century. Born in Malacca in the Straits Settlements into a Peranakan family, he came to Singapore at the age of two years...

 
 Singapore
1973 GS Balachandra Sekhar   Malaysia
1974 GS Hiroshi Kuroki   Japan
1975 GS Mohammed Sufian   Malaysia
1976 GS Elsie Tu
Elsie Tu
Elsie Hume Elliot Tu or Elsie Tu , GBM, CBE, is a prominent social activist, former elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong, and former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong...

 
 United Kingdom in  Hong Kong
1977 GS Bejamin Galstaun   Indonesia
1978 GS Dato Shahrum bin Yub   Malaysia
1979 GS Raden Wasito   Indonesia
1980 GS Muhammed Alias   Malaysia
1981 GS Prawes Wasi   Thailand
1982 GS Arturo Alcaraz
Arturo Alcaraz
Arturo Alcaraz is a Filipino volcanologist and a Thomasian 'Awardee' for government service.- Early life : was born Arturo Pineda Alcaraz to Conrado Alcaraz and Paz Pineda in Manila, Philippines...

 
 Philippines
1983 GS Su Nan-cheng
Su Nan-cheng
Su Nan-cheng , a Taiwanese politician, is a Senior Advisor to ROC President Chen Shui-bian. He was a mayor of Tainan, serving from 1977 to 1985, and an appointed mayor of Kaohsiung, serving from 1985 to 1990. He was the speaker of the ROC National Assembly in 1999. Su was in the Kuomintang and was...

 
 Republic of China
1984 GS Ta-You Wu
Ta-You Wu
Wu Ta-You was a Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist who worked in the United States, Canada, mainland China, and Taiwan. He has been called the "Father of Chinese Physics."...

 
 Republic of China
1985 GS Tan Sri Noordin   Malaysia
1986 GS Abdul Sattar Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI , or Maulana Edhi, as he is often known, is a Pakistani philanthropist. He is head of the Edhi Foundation, the world's largest ambulance help service and charity. Together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also...

 
 Pakistan
1987 GS Haji Hanafiah   Malaysia
1988 GS Miriam Santiago   Philippines
1989 GS Zakiah Hanum   Malaysia
1991 GS Alfredo R.A. Bengzon
Alfredo R.A. Bengzon
Alfredo Rafael Antonio Bengzon, also known as Alfredo R. A. Bengzon, is a Filipino doctor, educator, and former public official. He is currently Vice President for the Professional Schools of the Ateneo de Manila University, dean of the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, dean emeritus of...

 
 Philippines
1992 GS Chamlong Srimuang
Chamlong Srimuang
Major General Chamlong Srimuang is a controversial Thai activist and former politician. A former general, he was a leader of the "Young Turks" military clique, founded and led the Phalang Dharma party, served for six years as governor of Bangkok, led the anti-military uprising of May 1992, and...

 
 Thailand
1993 GS Vo Tong Xuan
Vo Tong Xuan
Dr. Võ Tòng Xuân is the rector of Tan Tao University . He is the former rector of An Giang University and the former vice rector of Can Tho University. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation....

 
 Vietnam
1994 GS Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi is an Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service officer. Bedi joined the police service in 1972 and became the first woman officer in the IPS. Bedi held the post of Director General at the Bureau of Police Research and Development before she voluntarily retired from...

 
 India
1995 GS Morihiko Hiramatsu
Morihiko Hiramatsu
is a Japanese politician who was elected Governor of Oita Prefecture from April 1979 to April 2003. As Governor, he initiated the One Village One Product movement for regional development, which became much copied by developing countries throughout the world....

 
 Japan
1996 GS T N Seshan   India
1997 GS Anand Panyarachun
Anand Panyarachun
Anand Panyarachun was Thailand's Prime Minister twice, between 1991–1992 and once again in 1992. He was effective in initiating economic and political reforms, one of which was the drafting of Thailand's "Peoples' Constitution", which was promulgated in 1997 and abrogated in 2006...

 
 Thailand
1998 GS Syed Abidul Rizvi   Pakistan
1999 GS Tasneem Ahmed Siddiqui   Pakistan
2000 GS Jesse Robredo
Jesse Robredo
Jesse Manalastas Robredo is the current Secretary of the Interior and Local Government of the Philippines. Robredo is a member of the Liberal Party....

 
 Philippines
2001 GS Yuan Longping
Yuan Longping
Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. His "hybrid rice" has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America, and Asia—providing a robust food source in high famine risk areas. He is called "The...

 
 Mainland China
2002 GS Hilario G. Davide, Jr.
Hilario G. Davide, Jr.
Hilario Davide, Sr. was the father of retired Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr.-Early life:Born Hilario Panerio Davide, Sr. was born in Argao, Cebu on January 14, 1905.-Career:...

 
 Philippines
2003 GS James Michael Lyngdoh
J. M. Lyngdoh
James Michael Lyngdoh is an Indian civil servant and was Chief Election Commissioner of India from June 14, 2001 to February 7, 2004. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2003.- Early life:...

 
 India
2004 GS Haydee Yorac
Haydee Yorac
Haydee Yorac was a Filipino public servant, law professor and politician.-Early life:Yorac was born on March 4, 1941 in E. B. Magalona, Negros Occidental. She earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines in 1962...

 
 Philippines
2005 GS Jon Ungphakorn   Thailand
2006 GS Ek Sonn Chan   Cambodia
2007 GS Jovito R. Salonga   Philippines
2008 GS Grace Padaca
Grace Padaca
Ma. Gracia Cielo "Grace" Magno Padaca has been the governor of the northern province of Isabela, Philippines since 2007. Among Filipino politicians, she is among the minority not from politically connected families...

 
 Philippines
2010 GS Pan Yue
Pan Yue
Pan Yue was born in 1960 in Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China, is one of the Vice Ministers for the Ministry of Environmental Protection in China.-Biography:...

 
 Mainland China
2010 GS Fu Qiping  Mainland China
2011 GS
1959 PS Joaquin Vilallonga   Philippines
1959 PS Tee Tee Luce
Tee Tee Luce
Tee Tee Luce was an award-winning Burmese philanthropist and wife of Gordon Luce, a Burmese colonial scholar.Tee Tee married her brother's close friend Gordon Luce, a Burmese scholar, on 20 April 1915. She was a founding member of the Children's Aid and Protection Society...

 
 Myanmar
1960 PS Henry Holland
Henry Holland
Henry Holland may refer to:* Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter , Lancastrian leader during the Wars of the Roses* Henry Holland , English writer on witchcraft...

 United Kingdom in  Pakistan
1960 PS Ronald Holland   United Kingdom in  Pakistan
1961 PS Nilawan Pintong   Thailand
1962 PS Horace Kadoorie
Horace Kadoorie
Sir Horace Kadoorie, CBE was a famous industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist. His father was Sir Elly Kadoorie, and his uncle, Sir Ellis Kadoorie. His family were originally Iraqi Jews from Baghdad who later migrated to Bombay , India in the mid-18th century...

 
 United Kingdom in  Hong Kong
1962 PS Lawrence Kadoorie   United Kingdom in  Hong Kong
1963 PS Helen Kim   Korea
1964 PS Augustine Nguyen Lac Hoa
Nguyen Lac Hoa
Father Augustine Nguyen Lac Hoa , a refugee Chinese Catholic priest in South Vietnam, led a militia called the Sea Swallows that carved out an anticommunist enclave in the Viet Cong's Ca Mau Peninsula stronghold...

 
 South Vietnam
1965 PS Jayaprakash Narayan
Jayaprakash Narayan
Jayaprakash Narayan , widely known as JP Narayan, Jayaprakash, or Loknayak, was an Indian independence activist and political leader, remembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s and for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution...

 
 India
1966 PS Kim Yong-ki
Kim Yong-ki
KIM, Yong-ki is a Korean agrarian movement leader, Christian and philosopher. He was a pioneer in waste land cultivation, and spent his life actively demonstrating that life as a farmer can be fulfilling and productive. His mission was to induce dynamic spiritual, inspirational, and economic change...

 
 Korea
1967 PS Sithiporn Kridakara   Thailand
1968 PS Seiichi Tobata
Seiichi Tobata
was a Japanese professor of agriculture, and a pioneer of agricultural economics. Seiichi Tobata was awarded the 1968 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, for his contributions to modernization of Japanese agriculture.-See also:...

 
 Japan
1969 PS Kim Hyung-Seo   Korea
1971 PS Pedro Orata   Philippines
1972 PS Cecile Guidote   Philippines
1972 PS Gilopez Kabayao   Philippines
1973 PS Antonio Fortich
Antonio Fortich
Right Reverend Bishop Antonio Fortich was a Catholic bishop and social activist who lived in Bacolod City in Negros Occidental in the Philippines.-Early years:...

 
 Philippines
1973 PS Benjamin Gaston   Philippines
1974 PS M.S. Subbulakshmi   India
1975 PS Phra Parnchand   Thailand
1976 PS Hermenegild Fernandez   Early Modern France in  Sri Lanka
1977 PS Fe del Mundo
Fe del Mundo
Fe del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician. The first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines...

 
 Philippines
1978 PS Prateep Hata   Thailand
1979 PS Chang Kee-ryo
Chang Kee-ryo
Chang Kee-ryo was a prominent surgeon, educator, and philanthropist of South Korea. He is the 1979 recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service and established Gospel hospital, in Busan, Korea, in 1951,during Korean war....

 
 Korea
1980 PS Ohm Dae-sup   Korea
1981 PS Johanna Nasution   Indonesia
1982 PS Manibhai Desai
Manibhai Desai
Manibhai Bhimbhai Desai was an Indian social activist, associate of Mahatma Gandhi, and a pioneer of rural development who founded the Bharatiya Agro-Industries Foundation in 1967....

 
 India
1983 PS Fua Hariphitak   Thailand
1984 PS Thongbai Thongpao   Thailand
1985 PS Baba Amte
Baba Amte
Murlidhar Devidas Amte, popularly known as Baba Amte was an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for his work for the rehabilitation and empowerment of poor people suffering from leprosy....

 
 India
1986 PS Abdul Sattar Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI , or Maulana Edhi, as he is often known, is a Pakistani philanthropist. He is head of the Edhi Foundation, the world's largest ambulance help service and charity. Together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also...

 
 Pakistan
1986 PS Bilquis Edhi
Bilquis Edhi
Bilquis Bano Edhi Hilal-e-Imtiaz, , wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi, is a professional nurse and one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan. She has been nicknamed, The Mother of Pakistan. She was born in 1947 in Karachi. She heads the Bilquis Edhi Foundation, and with her husband received the...

 
 Pakistan
1987 PS Hans Jassin   Indonesia
1988 PS Masanobu Fukuoka
Masanobu Fukuoka
was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, no-herbicide grain cultivation farming methods traditional to many indigenous cultures, from which he created a particular method of farming, commonly...

 
 Japan
1989 PS Lakshmi Chand Jain
Lakshmi Chand Jain
Lakshmi Chand Jain was a Gandhian activist and writer. In his youth, he participated briefly in the Indian freedom movement. Later, he served at various times as a member of the Planning Commission, as Indian High commissioner to South Africa, as a member of the World Commission on Dams and as...

 
 India
1991 PS Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn   Thailand
1992 PS Angel Alcala   Philippines
1993 PS Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
Banoo Jehangir Coyaji was an Indian physician and activist in family planning and population control. She was director of King Edward Memorial Hospital in Pune, and started programmes of community health workers in rural areas of Maharashtra, the third largest state in India...

 
 India
1994 PS Mechai Viravaidya
Mechai Viravaidya
Mechai Viravaidya is a former politician and activist in Thailand who has popularized condoms in that country.Since the 1970s, Mechai has been affectionately known as "Mr...

 
 Thailand
1995 PS Asma Jahangir
Asma Jahangir
Asma Jilani Jahangir is a leading Pakistani lawyer, advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, President Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan and human rights activist, who works both in Pakistan and internationally to prevent the persecution of religious minorities, women, and exploitation...

 
 Pakistan
1996 PS John Woong-Jin Oh   Korea
1997 PS Mahesh Chandra Mehta
Mahesh Chandra Mehta
Mahesh Chandra Mehta is a public interest attorney from India. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1996 for his continuous fights in Indian courts against pollution-causing industries. He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Asia for Public Service in 1997.-References:...

 
 India
1998 PS Sophon Suphapong   Thailand
1999 PS Rosa Rosal
Rosa Rosal
Florence Danon Gayda , better known as Rosa Rosal, is a FAMAS award-winning Filipino film actress dubbed as the "original femme fatale of Philippine cinema". She is also known for her work with the Philippine National Red Cross...

 
 Philippines
2000 PS Liang Congjie
Liang Congjie
Liang Congjie was a Chinese historian best known for his work as an environmental activist who established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization to be officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China.Liang's father,...

 
 Mainland China
2001 PS Wu Qing
Wu Qing
Wu Qing is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category F35-38 throwing events.She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a gold medal in the women's F35-38 javelin throw event and the F35-36 discus throw. She also finished second in the women's...

 
 Mainland China
2002 PS Ruth Pfau
Ruth Pfau
Dr. Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau is a German-Pakistani nun and a member of the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary who has devoted the last 50 years of life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. In 1996, Pakistan was declared by the World Health Organization to have controlled leprosy, one of the...

 
 Pakistan
2003 PS Gao Yajolie   Mainland China
2004 PS Jiang Yanyong
Jiang Yanyong
Jiang Yanyong is a Chinese physician from Beijing who publicized a coverup of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in China. Jiang was the chief physician of the 301 Military Hospital in Beijing a senior member of the Communist Party of China.-Introduction:In 1989, Dr. Jiang was the...

 
 Mainland China
2005 PS Teten Masduki   Indonesia
2005 PS V Shanta
V Shanta
Dr.V. Shanta is a prominent Cancer specialist and the Chairperson of Adyar Cancer Institute, Chennai. Her career which spans over 50 years has been dedicated to organising care for cancer patients, and intensive research in the prevention and cure of the disease...

 
 India
2006 PS Park Won-soon
Park Won-soon
Park Won-soon is a Korean lawyer. He was elected as Mayor of Seoul, South Korea on October 26, 2011. Elected as an independent candidate with the support of the Democratic Party and Democratic Labor Party, Park's victory is seen as a blow in particular to the Grand National Party and the...

 
 Korea
2007 PS Kim Sun-tae   Korea
2008 PS Aris Alip   Philippines
2008 PS Therdchai Jivacate
Therdchai Jivacate
Therdchai Jivacate is a Thai orthopedic surgeon and inventor known for his humanitarian activities in providing free prosthetic limbs to impoverished amputees, and for his development of techniques allowing low-cost, high-quality prostheses to be made from local materials...

 
 Thailand
2009 PS Krisana Kraisintu
Krisana Kraisintu
Krisana Kraisintu is a Thai Pharmaceutical Consultant in the local production and increased access to life-saving medicines in Africa, in particular, in the domains of Malaria and HIV/AIDS-related drug production.She was formerly Director of Research and Development Institute, Government...

 
 Thailand
2010 PS Christopher Bernido  Philippines
2010 PS Ma. Victoria Carpio-Bernido  Philippines
2011 PS
1958 CL Vinoba Bhave
Vinoba Bhave
Vinoba Bhave , born Vinayak Narahari Bhave often called Acharya , was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. He is best known for the Bhoodan Andolan...

 
 India
1959 CL Dalai Lama   Tibet
1960 CL Tunku Abdul Rahman
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah, AC, CH was Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955, and the country's first Prime Minister from independence in 1957. He remained as the Prime Minister after Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore joined the...

 
 Malaysia
1961 CL Gus Borgeest   United Kingdom in  Hong Kong
1962 CL Palayil Narayanan   Malaysia
1962 CL Koesna Poeradiredja   Indonesia
1963 CL Verghese Kurien
Verghese Kurien
Verghese Kurien is the founder of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation , an apex cooperative organization that manages the Amul food brand. He is recognised as the man behind the success of the Amul brand.He is credited with being the architect of Operation Flood – the largest dairy...

 
 India
1963 CL Dara Khurodi   India
1963 CL Tribhuvandas Patel   India
1964 CL Pablo Tapia   Philippines
1965 CL Lim Kim San
Lim Kim San
Lim Kim San ; was a Singaporean politician. He was credited for leading the successful public housing program in the Southeast Asian city-state during the early 1960s, which eased the acute housing shortage problem at that time....

 
 Singapore
1966 CL Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer, freedom fighter, and most remembered for her contribution to Indian independence movement, for being the driving force behind the renaissance of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in post-Independence India, and for upliftment of the...

 
 India
1967 CL Razak Abdul   Malaysia
1968 CL Rosario Encarnacion   Philippines
1968 CL Silvino Encarnacion   Philippines
1969 CL Ahangamage Ariyaratne
A. T. Ariyaratne
Sri Lankabhimanya Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne is the founder and president of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka.-Biography:...

 
 Sri Lanka
1971 CL M.S. Swaminathan   India
1972 CL Hans Westenberg   Indonesia
1973 CL Krasae Chanawongse   Thailand
1974 CL Fusaye Ichikawa
Fusae Ichikawa
was a Japanese feminist, politician and women's suffrage leader. Ichikawa was a key supporter of Women's Suffrage in Japan, and her activism was partially responsible for the extension of the franchise to women in 1945.- Early life :...

 
 Japan
1975 CL Lee Tai-Young   Korea
1976 CL Toshikazu Wakatsuki   Japan
1977 CL Ela Bhatt
Ela Bhatt
Ela Ramesh Bhatt is the founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India . A lawyer by training, Bhatt is a respected leader of the international labour, cooperative, women, and micro-finance movements who has won several national and international awards.-Early life:Ela Bhatt was born in...

 
 India
1978 CL Tahrunessa Abdullah
Tahrunessa Abdullah
Tahrunessa Ahmed Abdullah is an author, activist and community leader from Bangladesh. She became famous for her researches and contribution to an uplift in the lives of women in rural Bangladesh through her various levels of involvement with Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development.-Early Life and...

 
 Bangladesh
1979 CL Mabelle Arole   India
1979 CL Rajanikant Arole   India
1980 CL Fazle Hasan Abed
Fazle Hasan Abed
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG is a social worker with dual Bangladeshi/ British nationality and the founder and chairman of BRAC . For his outstanding contributions to social improvement, he has received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahbub Ul Haq Award and the inaugural Clinton Global Citizen...

 
 Bangladesh
1981 CL Pramod Karan Sethi
P. K . Sethi
Pramod Karan Sethi was an Indian orthopaedic surgeon. With Ram Chandra Sharma, he co-invented the "Jaipur foot", an inexpensive and flexible artificial limb, in 1969....

 
 India
1982 CL Chandi Prasad Bhatt
Chandi Prasad Bhatt
Chandi Prasad Bhatt is an Indian Gandhian environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the Chipko Movement, in which he was one of the pioneers, and for which he has been awarded the Ramon...

 
 India
1983 CL Anton Soedjarwo   Indonesia
1984 CL Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize...

 
 Bangladesh
1985 CL Zafrullah Chowdhury
Zafrullah Chowdhury
Zafrullah Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi public health activist. He is the founder of Gonoshasthaya Kendra , a rural healthcare organization. Dr...

 
 Bangladesh
1986 CL John Vincent Daly   United States in  Korea
1986 CL Paul Jeong Gu Jei   Korea
1987 CL Aree Valyasevi   Thailand
1988 CL Mohammed Yeasin   Bangladesh
1989 CL Kim Im-soon   Korea
1991 CL Ven. Cheng Yen
Cheng Yen
Cheng Yen is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun , teacher, and philanthropist. She is often called the "Mother Teresa of Asia." In 1966, Cheng Yen founded the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, commonly known as Tzu Chi; its motto is "instructing the rich and saving the poor"...

 
 Republic of China
1992 CL Shoaib Sultan Khan
Shoaib Sultan Khan
Shoaib Sultan Khan is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of rural development programmes in Pakistan.He served for 59 years in various development organizations including Aga Khan Foundation, UNICEF, UNDP, and Rural Support Programmes Network...

 
 Pakistan
1993 CL Abdurrahman Wadir   Indonesia
1994 CL Sima Samar
Sima Samar
Dr. Sima Samar OC is a politician in Afghanistan, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan from December 2001 to 2003...

 
 Afghanistan in  Pakistan
1994 CL Fei Xiaotong
Fei Xiaotong
Fei Xiaotong, or Fei Hsiao-Tung was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist...

 
 Mainland China
1995 CL Ho Ming-Teh   Republic of China
1996 CL Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Shastri Pandurang Vaijnath Athavale , also known as Dada-ji , which literally translates as elder brother in Marathi, was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyay Movement and the Swadhyay Parivar organization in 1954, a...

 
 India
1997 CL Eva Fidela Maamo   Philippines
1998 CL Nuon Phaly   Cambodia
1999 CL Angela Gomes
Angela Gomes
Angela Gomes is a social worker from Bangladesh. She won the Magsaysay Award in 1999 for community leadership. She leads the organization Bachte Shekha in the Jessore region of the country. It teaches rural women a vast range of income-generating skills, including handicrafts, raising crops,...

 
 Bangladesh
2000 CL Aruna Roy
Aruna Roy
Aruna Roy is an Indian political and social activist who founded and heads the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathana . She is best known as a prominent leader of the Right to Information movement, which led to the enactment of the Right to Information Act in 2005...

 
 India
2001 CL Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh is a well known water conservationist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2001 for his pioneering work in community-based efforts in water harvesting and water management. He runs...

 
 India
2002 CL Cynthia Maung
Cynthia Maung
Dr. Cynthia Maung is a Burmese medical doctor who since 1989 has lived in Mae Sot, on the Thai-Burmese border. An ethnic Karen, Dr. Maung left Burma after the 8888 Uprising and has since run a clinic treating Burmese refugees, migrants and orphans at Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot on the Thai-Burmese...

 
 Myanmar
2003 CL Shantha Sinha
Shantha Sinha
Prof. Shantha Sinha is an anti-child labour activist of international reputation. She is the founder of Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation, popularly known as MV Foundation , and is a Professor in the Department of Political science in Hyderabad Central University...

 
 India
2004 CL Prayong Ronnarong   Thailand
2005 CL Sombath Somphone   Laos
2006 CL Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation   Philippines
2006 CL Antonio Meloto   Philippines
2007 CL Mahabir Pun
Mahabir Pun
Mahabir Pun is a Nepalese teacher known for his extensive work in applying wireless technologies to develop remote areas of the Himalayas, also known as the Nepal Wireless Networking Project....

 
 Nepal
2008 CL Dr. Prakash Amte
Prakash Amte
Prakash Amte is a medical doctor and social worker from Maharashtra, India. Son of Magsaysay awardee and legend Baba Amte, he and his wife, Dr...

 
 India
2008 CL Dr. Mandakini Amte  India
2009 CL Deep Joshi
Deep Joshi
Deep Joshi is an Indian social worker and NGO activist and the recipient of 2009 Magsaysay award. He is recognized for his leadership in bringing professionalism to the NGO movement in India. He co-founded a non-profit organisation, Professional Assistance for Development Action of which he was...

 
 India
2010 CL A.H.M. Noman Khan  Bangladesh
2011 CL
1958 JLCCA Robert Dick
Robert Dick
Robert Dick , Scottish geologist and botanist was born at Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire.His father was an officer of excise. At the age of thirteen, after receiving a good elementary education at the parish school, Dick was apprenticed to a baker, and served for three years...

 
 United Kingdom in  Philippines
1958 JLCCA Mochtar Lubis
Mochtar Lubis
Mochtar Lubis was an Indonesian Batak journalist and novelist who co-founded Indonesia Raya. His novel Senja di Jakarta was the first Indonesian novel to be translated into English. He was a critic of Sukarno and was imprisoned by him...

 
 Indonesia
1959 JLCCA Tarzie Vittachi   Sri Lanka
1959 JLCCA Edward Michael Law-Yone   Myanmar
1961 JLCCA Amitabha Chowdhury   India
1962 JLCCA Jang Jun-ha
Jang Jun-ha
Jang Jun-Ha was a Korean independence activist, journalist and politician, and democracy activist....

 
 Korea
1964 JLCCA Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson
Ian Colquhoun Wilson OBE better known as Richard Wilson, is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster, best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave. He currently appears in the BBC drama Merlin.- Life and career :Wilson was born in Greenock, Scotland...

 United Kingdom in  Hong Kong
1964 JLCCA Kayser Sung   Mainland China in  Hong Kong
1965 JLCCA Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...

 
 Japan
1967 JLCCA Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

 
 India
1968 JLCCA Ton That Thien
Ton That Thien
Ton That ThienPlace of BirthHuế, Thừa Thiên, VietnamMovementNationalistReligionConfucianIn this Vietnamese name, the family name is Ton That which is given to the male of the Nguyen royal family of the last Vietnamese dynasty . Tradition dictate only the emperor is given Nguyen Phuc last name...

 
 Vietnam
1969 JLCCA Mitoji Nishimoto   Japan
1971 JLCCA Prayoon Chanyavongs   Thailand
1972 JLCCA Yasuji Hanamori   Japan
1973 JLCCA Michiko Ishimure
Michiko Ishimure
is a Japanese writer.In 1973 she won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for publicizing writings about the Minamata disease in Minamata.-External links:*...

 
 Japan
1974 JLCCA Zacarias Sarian
Zacarias Sarian
Zacarias "Zac" B. Sarian received the 1974 Ramon Magsaysay Award for his work in development journalism.-Career:As agriculture columnist for The Manila Chronicle in the 1960s, he proposed and got funding for a monthly magazine on farming and gardening. He edited Philippine Farms and Gardens, from...

 
 Philippines
1975 JLCCA Boobli George Verghese   India
1976 JLCCA Sombhu Mitra
Sombhu Mitra
Sombhu Mitra was an Indian film and stage actor, director, playwright and one of the pre-eminent Indian theatre personalities, especially Bengali theatre, where he is considered a pioneer. He remained associated with Indian People’s Theatre Association for a few years before founding Bohurupree...

 
 India
1977 JLCCA Mahesh Chandra Regmi   Nepal
1978 JLCCA Yoon Suk-joong   Korea
1979 JLCCA Lokukamkanamge Manjusri   Sri Lanka
1980 JLCCA F. Sionil Jose
F. Sionil José
F. Sionil José or in full Francisco Sionil José is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language. His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society...

 
 Philippines
1981 JLCCA Gour Kishore Ghosh
Gour Kishore Ghosh
Gour Kishore Ghosh , was a celebrated Bengali writer and journalist.-Early life:Gour Kishore Ghosh was born in Hat Gopalpur village in the Jessore district in undivided bengal, , on the 22nd of June 1923...

 
 India
1982 JLCCA Arun Shourie
Arun Shourie
Arun Shourie is an Indian journalist, author, intellectual and politician. He has been an economist with the World Bank , a consultant to the Planning Commission, India, editor of the Indian Express and Times of India and a minister in the government of India . He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay...

 
 India
1983 JLCCA Marcelline Jayakody
Marcelline Jayakody
Fr. Marcelline Jayakody was a well-known Sri Lankan Catholic priest, musician, lyricist, author, journalist and patriot, and an exponent of indigenous culture who, according to a former High Court Judge, directed the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka towards the mainstream of national life...

 
 Sri Lanka
1984 JLCCA R. K. Laxman
R. K. Laxman
Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Iyer Laxman is an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He is widely regarded as India's greatest-ever cartoonist and is best known for his creation The Common Man....

 
 India
1985 JLCCA Lino Brocka
Lino Brocka
Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines....

 
 Philippines
1986 JLCCA Radio Veritas
Radio Veritas
Radio Veritas Asia is the Catholic shortwave station broadcasting to Asia; based in Quezon City, Philippines.-History:On December 1958, the delegates of the Southeast Asian Bishops' Conference unanimously resolved to establish a radio station that will serve the countries of Southeast Asia...

 
 Philippines
1987 JLCCA Diane Ying   Republic of China
1988 JLCCA Ediriweera Sarachchandra
Ediriweera Sarachchandra
Ediriweera Sarachchandra was an Sri Lankan playwright, novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist and social commentator. Considered Sri Lanka's premier playwright, he was a senior lecturer at the University of Peradeniya for many years and served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to France .- Early...

 
 Sri Lanka
1989 JLCCA James Reuter
James B. Reuter
Reverend Father James B. Reuter of the Society of Jesus, born May 21, 1916 is an academician, theater writer, director and producer in the Philippines whose ministry includes work in the theater, radio, print and film.-Profile:...

 
 Philippines
1991 JLCCA K.V. Subbanna   India
1992 JLCCA Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...

 
 India
1993 JLCCA Bienvenido Lumbera
Bienvenido Lumbera
Bienvenido Lumbera is a prizewinning poet, critic and dramatist from the Philippines.He is a National Artist of the Philippines and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications...

 
 Philippines
1994 JLCCA Abdul Samad Ismail
Abdul Samad Ismail
Abdul Samad Ismail , who often went by the moniker Pak Samad, was a Malaysian journalist, writer and editor.- Early life :Samad was born on 18 April 1924, in Singapore, where he also attended Victoria School...

 
 Malaysia
1995 JLCCA Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemic and histories of his homeland and its people...

 
 Indonesia
1996 JLCCA Nick Joaquin
Nick Joaquín
Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila...

 
 Philippines
1997 JLCCA Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi is an Indian social activist and writer.- Biography :Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa...

 
 India
1998 JLCCA Ruocheng Ying   Mainland China
1999 JLCCA Raul Locsin   Philippines
1999 JLCCA Lin Hwai-min
Lin Hwai-min
Lin Hwai-min is a Taiwanese dancer, writer, choreographer, and founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. He was educated at National Chengchi University in Taiwan and University of Iowa in the US....

 
 Republic of China
2000 JLCCA Atmakusumah Astraatmadja   Indonesia
2001 JLCCA Wannakuwatta Amaradeva   Sri Lanka
2002 JLCCA Bharat Koirala
Bharat Koirala
Bharat Dutta Koirala, the winner of the 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, is one of the most prominent senior journalists of Nepal with a professional career of over four decades...

 
 Nepal
2003 JLCCA Sheila Coronel
Sheila Coronel
Sheila S. Coronel is winner of the 2003 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and the Creative Communication Arts. She is also one of the founders of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism...

 
 Philippines
2004 JLCCA Abdullah Abu Sayeed
Abdullah Abu Sayeed
Abdullah Abu Sayeed is a writer, television presenter, organizer and activist from Bangladesh.Born in 1939 in Calcutta, Sayeed was a professor of Bengali language in Dhaka College for many years...

 
 Bangladesh
2005 JLCCA Matiur Rahman
Matiur Rahman (journalist)
Matiur Rahman is the editor of Daily Prothom Alo, the largest circulated Bangla language daily in Bangladesh. He is the recipient of the 2005 Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts.-Early life:...

 
 Bangladesh
2006 JLCCA Eugenia Duran Apostol
Eugenia Duran Apostol
Eugenia Duran Apostol or Eggie Apostol is a Filipino publisher who played pivotal roles in the peaceful overthrow of two Philippine presidents: Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and Joseph Estrada in 2001...

 
 Philippines
2007 JLCCA P. Sainath
P. Sainath
Palagummi Sainath is an Indian journalist. He calls himself a 'rural reporter', or simply a 'reporter' – and photojournalist focusing on social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermaths of globalization in India...

 
 India
2008 JLCCA Akio Ishii  Japan
2009 JLCCA Ma Jun
Ma Jun (environmentalist)
Ma Jun is a Chinese environmentalist, non-fiction writer, environmental consultant, and journalist. He is a director with the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs ....

 
 Mainland China
2010 JLCCA Huo Daishan   Mainland China
2011 JLCCA
1958 PIU Operation Brotherhood   Philippines
1960 PIU Y. C. James Yen
Y. C. James Yen
Y.C. James Yen . Yen, known to his many English speaking friends as "Jimmy," was a Chinese educator and organizer who in the 1920s first organized the Mass Education Movement to bring literacy to the Chinese masses, then turned to the villages of China to organize Rural Reconstruction, most...

 
 Republic of China
1961 PIU Genevieve Caulfield
Genevieve Caulfield
Genevieve Caulfield was a blind American teacher, who started a school for blind people in Thailand.Born in Suffolk, Virginia, she lost her sight in an accident when she was two months old. Since her youth she had dreamed of becoming a teacher to help create a better understanding between Japanese...

 
 United States in  Thailand
1962 PIU Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa , born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950...

 
 India
1963 PIU Peace Corps
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...

 
 United States
1964 PIU Welthy Fisher
Welthy Honsinger Fisher
Welthy Honsinger Fisher was the American founder of and . Welthy was married to Frederick Bohn Fisher, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, missionary, author, and Official in Methodist Missionary and Men's movements...

 
 United States in  India
1965 PIU Bayanihan Folk Arts Center
Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company
The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company is the oldest dance company in the Philippines. A multi-awarded company, both nationally and internationally, Guillermo Gomez Rivera has called it the "depository of almost all Filipino dances, dress and songs."The company was founded in 1957 by...

 and its Supporting Entities
 Philippines
1966 PIU Mekong Committee
Mekong River Commission
The Mekong River Commission is an intergovernment body charged “to promote and co-ordinate sustainable management and development of water and related resources for the countries’ mutual benefit and the people’s well-being by implementing strategic programmes and activities and providing...

 and Cooperating Entities
 Cambodia
1967 PIU Shiroshi Nasu   Japan
1968 PIU Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere (CARE)  Philippines
1969 PIU International Rice Research Institute
International Rice Research Institute
The International Rice Research Institute is an international NGO. Its headquarters are in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, and it has offices in sixteen countries...

 (IRRI)
 United States in  Philippines
1971 PIU Saburo Okita
Saburo Okita
Saburo Okita was a Japanese economist and government official. Okita graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. In 1937 he worked as an engineer with the Ministry of Posts...

 
 Japan
1973 PIU Summer Institute of Linguistics   Philippines
1974 PIU William Masterson   Philippines
1975 PIU Patrick James McGlinchey   Republic of Ireland in  Korea
1976 PIU Henning Holck-Larsen
Henning Holck-Larsen
Henning Holck-Larsen was a Dane who co-founded the Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro .- Biography :...

 
 Denmark in  India
1977 PIU UPLB College of Agriculture
UPLB College of Agriculture
The University of the Philippines Los Baños College of Agriculture is one of the 11 degree-granting units of the University of the Philippines Los Baños...

 Philippines
1978 PIU Soedjatmoko   Indonesia
1979 PIU Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, commonly abbreviated ASEAN rarely ), is a geo-political and economic organization of ten countries located in Southeast Asia, which was formed on 8 August 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Since then, membership has...

 
 Indonesia
1980 PIU Shigeharu Matsumoto   Japan
1981 PIU Augustine Joung Kang   Korea
1983 PIU Aloysius Schwartz
Aloysius Schwartz
Aloysius Schwartz was born on September 18, 1930, in Washington, DC, USA. He grew up with the idea of becoming a secular priest. He heard his calling to serve the Lord at a very young age and at 13, he entered the seminary. In 1944, at age 14, he entered St. Charles Seminary in Maryland, finished...

 
 United States in  Korea
1984 PIU Jiro Kawakita   Japan
1985 PIU Harold Ray Watson   Philippines
1986 PIU International Institute of Rural Reconstruction   Philippines
1987 PIU Richard William Timm
Richard William Timm
Richard William Timm, CSC, also known as Father Timm or Fr. Timm, is an educator, a zoologist, and an active participant on the works on social development. He is the Superior of the Order of Holy Cross in Dhaka. He is also one of the founders of Notre Dame College in Dhaka, Bangladesh...

 
 Bangladesh /  United States
1988 PIU The Royal Project   Thailand
1989 PIU Asian Institute of Technology
Asian Institute of Technology
The Asian Institute of Technology is an international institution for higher education in engineering, advanced technologies, and management and planning...

 
 Thailand
1991 PIU Press Foundation of Asia   Philippines
1992 PIU Washington SyCip
Washington SyCip
Washington SyCip is a Chinese Filipino accountant, founder of the Asian Institute of Management and Sycip Gorres Velayo and Company. A product of the Philippine public school system, Sycip was in the United States completing a post-graduate degree during the outbreak of the Second World War...

 
 Philippines /  United States
1993 PIU Noboru Iwamura
Noboru Iwamura
was a Japanese biologist, medical doctor and professor of medicine. He was a survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima bomb. He spent eighteen years practicing medicine in the Nepal mountains, as a "barefoot doctor"....

 
 Japan
1994 PIU Eduardo Jorge Anzorena   Argentina in  Japan
1995 PIU Asian Institute of Management
Asian Institute of Management
The Asian Institute of Management, or simply AIM, is a graduate school of business and a center of business and management research. It is one of the few business schools in Asia to be internationally accredited with the AACSB. It was established in partnership with Harvard Business School and uses...

 
 Philippines
1996 PIU Toshihiro Takami
Toshihiro Takami
Toshihiro Takami is the founder of the Asian Rural Institute in Japan. Toshihiro was a Christian pastor assigned to a disaster relief project in Bangladesh after the floods of 1970. Discerning a dearth of capable and committed local leaders, he determined to establish an institute dedicated to...

 
 Japan
1997 PIU Sadako Ogata
Sadako Ogata
, is a Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator and professor emeritus at Sophia University.-Early life:Sadako Nakamura was born in 1927...

 
 Japan
1998 PIU Corazon Aquino
Corazon Aquino
Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was the 11th President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold that office in Philippine history. She is best remembered for leading the 1986 People Power Revolution, which toppled Ferdinand Marcos and restored democracy in the Philippines...

 
 Philippines
2000 PIU Jockin Arputham
Jockin Arputham
Jockin Arputham has worked for more than 40 years in ‘slums’ and shanty towns, building representative organizations into powerful partners with governments and international agencies for the betterment of urban living...

 
 India
2001 PIU Ikuo Hirayama
Ikuo Hirayama
-Life and Work:Ikuo Hirayama , was a Japanese Nihonga painter. Born in Setoda-chō, Hiroshima Prefecture, he was famous in Japan for Silk Road paintings of dreamy desert landscapes in Iran, Iraq, and China.In 1952, he graduated from the Tokyo School of Art, or what is today's Tokyo National...

 
 Japan
2002 PIU Pomnyun Sunim   Korea
2003 PIU Tetsu Nakamura
Tetsu Nakamura
is a Japanese medical doctor. He was awarded the 2003 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding. He has devoted his work among refugees in the Afghanistan/Pakistan borderlands.-ex.link:***...

 
 Japan
2003 PIU Seiei Toyoma   Japan
2004 PIU Laxminarayan Ramdas
Laxminarayan Ramdas
Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas served as Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian navy taking the reins on November 30, 1990. He was commissioned in the Indian navy on September 1, 1953.-Career:...

 
 India
2004 PIU Ibn Abdur Rehman
Ibn Abdur Rehman
Ibn Abdur Rehman, known as I.A. Rehman - born 1 September 1930 in Harayana, India, is a Pakistani peace and human-rights advocate. A protegé of the great Faiz Ahmed Faiz , in 1989, he became chief editor of the Pakistan Times. He is founding chair or the Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and...

 
 Pakistan
2006 PIU Dr. Sanduk Ruit   Nepal
2007 PIU Tang Xiyang
Tang Xiyang
Tang Xiyang is a Chinese environmentalist. He was awarded the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding....

 
 Mainland China
2008 PIU Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif
Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif
Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif is a prominent Indonesian intellectual. Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif was the leader of Muhammadiyah, one of the two biggest Muslim organizations in Indonesia, in 1998 - 2005. Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif was the founder of Maarif Institute and who led and inspired born of Jaringan Intelektual...

 
 Indonesia
2009 PIU Yu Xiaogang
Yu Xiaogang
Yu Xiaogang is a Chinese environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2006 for his efforts in "creating groundbreaking watershed management programs while researching and documenting the socioeconomic impact dams had on local Chinese communities"...

 
 Mainland China
2010 PIU Tadatoshi Akiba
Tadatoshi Akiba
is a Japanese politician and served as the mayor of the city of Hiroshima, Japan from 1999 to 2011.- Early life :He studied mathematics at the University of Tokyo, receiving a B.S. in 1966 and an M.S. in 1968. He continued his studies under John Milnor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...

 
 Japan
2011 PIU
2001 EL Oung Chanthol
Oung Chanthol
Oung Chanthol is the founder and executive director of the Cambodian Women's Crisis Center . She has documented cases of rape, trafficking, and domestic abuse in Cambodia. Under her leadership CWCC has mounted awareness campaigns against sex trafficking, educating local authorities and...

 
 Cambodia
2001 EL Dita Indah Sari
Dita Indah Sari
Dita Indah Sari is an Indonesian trade union and socialist activist. As a human rights campaigner during the Suharto regime, she was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in 1996 on the charge of sedition. After her release in 1999 she was elected Chairperson by the Congress of the National Front for...

 
 Indonesia
2002 EL Sandeep Pandey
Sandeep Pandey
Sandeep Pandey is an Indian social activist. He co-founded Asha for Education with Dr. Deepak Gupta and V.J.P Srivatsoy while working on his Ph...

 
 India
2003 EL Aniceto Guterres Lopes
Aniceto Guterres Lopes
Aniceto Guterres Lopes is an East Timorese lawyer living in Dili. He co-founded the Human Rights and Justice Foundation in 1996, in order to offer free legal services to human rights victims, when East Timor was still ruled by Indonesian armed forces...

 
 East Timor
2004 EL Benjamin Abadiano
Benjamin Abadiano
Benjamin Abadiano is a Filipino who has worked in the country's highlands with the Mangyan, Lumad, and other indigenous peoples. He did volunteer work nine years in Paitan, Oriental Mindoro, and later in Mindanao...

 
 Philippines
2005 EL Yoon Hye-Ran   South Korea
2006 EL Arvind Kejriwal
Arvind Kejriwal
Arvind Kumar Kejriwal is an Indian social activist fighting for greater transparency in Government. He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006, for activating India's Right to Information movement at grassroots and social activities to empower the poorest citizens to...

 
 India
2007 EL Chen Guangcheng
Chen Guangcheng
Chen Guangcheng is a blind civil rights activist in the People's Republic of China who drew international attention to human rights issues in rural areas. He was placed under house arrest from September 2005 to March 2006 after talking to Time magazine about the forced abortion cases he...

 
 Mainland China
2007 EL Chung To
Chung To
Chung To is a Chinese AIDS activist, co-founder of the Chi Heng Foundation . He was awarded the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership .-References:...

 
 Mainland China
2008 EL Ananda Galappatti   Sri Lanka
2009 EL Ka Hsaw Wa
Ka Hsaw Wa
Ka Hsaw Wa is a Burmese human rights activist. He is a member of the Karen indigenous group. Along with his wife, environmental and human rights attorney Katie Redford, he is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of , an organization that focuses on human rights in Burma and other areas "where...

 
 Myanmar
2010 EL
2011 EL Nileema Mishra and Harish Hande
Harish Hande
Harish Hande is an Indian social entrepreneur, who founded Selco India, a solar electric light company in 1995, which over the years has lit up over 120,000 households, to emerge as India's leading solar technology firm...

 India

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