| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|
| Samuel Beckett | Literature | 1969 | "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation" |
| William C. Campbell | Medicine | 2015 | "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" |
| George Bernard Shaw | Literature | 1925 | "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty" |
| Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton | Physics | 1951 | "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles" |
| William Butler Yeats | Literature | 1923 | "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation" |