| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|
| Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén | Physics | 1970 | "for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics" |
| Klas Pontus Arnoldson | Peace | 1908 | |
| Svante August Arrhenius | Chemistry | 1903 | "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation" |
| Sune K. Bergström | Medicine | 1982 | "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances" |
| Karl Hjalmar Branting | Peace | 1921 | |
| Arvid Carlsson | Medicine | 2000 | "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system" |
| Nils Gustaf Dalén | Physics | 1912 | "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys" |
| George de Hevesy | Chemistry | 1943 | "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes" |
| Ragnar Granit | Medicine | 1967 | "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye" |
| Allvar Gullstrand | Medicine | 1911 | "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye" |
| Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld | Peace | 1961 | |
| Eyvind Johnson | Literature | 1974 | "for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom" |
| Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Literature | 1931 | "The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt" |
| Pär Fabian Lagerkvist | Literature | 1951 | "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind" |
| Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf | Literature | 1909 | "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings" |
| Tomas Lindahl | Chemistry | 2015 | "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair" |
| Harry Martinson | Literature | 1974 | "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos" |
| Alva Myrdal | Peace | 1982 | |
| Gunnar Myrdal | Economics | 1974 | "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena" |
| Bertil Ohlin | Economics | 1977 | "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements" |
| Svante Pääbo | Medicine | 2022 | "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution" |
| Bengt I. Samuelsson | Medicine | 1982 | "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances" |
| Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn | Physics | 1924 | "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy" |
| Kai M. Siegbahn | Physics | 1981 | "for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy" |
| Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom | Peace | 1930 | |
| The (Theodor) Svedberg | Chemistry | 1926 | "for his work on disperse systems" |
| Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell | Medicine | 1955 | "for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes" |
| Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius | Chemistry | 1948 | "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins" |
| Tomas Tranströmer | Literature | 2011 | "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality" |
| Ulf von Euler | Medicine | 1970 | "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" |
| Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin | Chemistry | 1929 | "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes" |
| Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam | Literature | 1916 | "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature" |
| Torsten N. Wiesel | Medicine | 1981 | "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system" |