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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• Complete list of awardees by year