Betty Williams

The Nobel Peace Prize 1976
Co-nobelist: Mairead Corrigan

Role: Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1977.

Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy

Betty Williams, not wanting to continue to receive a salary from the organization she founded with Ciaran McKeown and Mairead Corrigan, the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People), kept the Noble Prize money for herself.

Co Nobelist Mairead Corrigan did the same.