| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|
| Sidney Altman | Chemistry | 1989 | "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA" |
| David Card | Economic Sciences | 2021 | "for his empirical contributions to labour economics." |
| Frederick Grant Banting | Medicine | 1923 | "for the discovery of insulin" |
| Saul Bellow | Literature | 1976 | "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work" |
| Willard S. Boyle | Physics | 2009 | "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor" |
| Bertram N. Brockhouse | Physics | 1994 | "for the development of neutron spectroscopy" |
| William Francis Giauque | Chemistry | 1949 | "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures" |
| Gerhard Herzberg | Chemistry | 1971 | "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals" |
| David H. Hubel | Medicine | 1981 | "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system" |
| Charles Brenton Huggins | Medicine | 1966 | "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer" |
| John James Rickard Macleod | Medicine | 1923 | "for the discovery of insulin" |
| Rudolph A. Marcus | Chemistry | 1992 | "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems" |
| Arthur B. McDonald | Physics | 2015 | "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass" |
| Robert A. Mundell | Economics | 1999 | "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas" |
| Alice Munro | Literature | 2013 | "master of the contemporary short story" |
| Lester Bowles Pearson | Peace | 1957 | |
| James Peebles | Physics | 2019 | theoretical findings in physical cosmology |
| John C. Polanyi | Chemistry | 1986 | "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes" |
| Myron S. Scholes | Economics | 1997 | "for a new method to determine the value of derivatives" |
| Michael Smith | Chemistry | 1993 | "for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies" |
| Ralph M. Steinman | Medicine | 2011 | "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity" |
| Donna Strickland | Physics | 2018 | Method for generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses |
| Henry Taube | Chemistry | 1983 | "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes" |
| Richard E. Taylor | Physics | 1990 | "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics" |
| William Vickrey | Economics | 1996 | "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" |