| # | Award/First Awarded | Awarded by | Field | Remarks |
|---|
| 1. | Ramon Magsaysay Awards/1958 | Ramon Magsaysay Foundation, Philippines | Human development in Asia | Named after former President of Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay |
| 2. | Right Livelihood Award/1980 | Right Livelihood Foundation, Sweden | Challenges facing society | Also known as Alternative Nobel Prize |
| 3. | Templeton Prize/1973 | Templeton Foundation, USA | Spirituality | Established by Sir John Templeton (investor, banker and fund manager.) |
| 4. | Sakharov Prize/1988 | European Parliament | Human rights and freedom of thought | Named after Andrei Sakharov, Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, and activist for disarmament, peace and human rights. |
| 5. | Pulitzer Prizes/1917 | Columbia University, New York | Newspaper journalism, literary achievements, musical composition | Established as per the will of famous newspaper publisher, Joseph Pulitzer. |
| 6. | Kalinga Prize/1952 | UNESCO | Science and technology | Created on donation from Shri Biju Patnaik. |
| 7. | World Food Prize/1987 | World Food Prize Foundation | Food related issues | Conceived by Dr. Norman Borlaug, noted agronomist and humanatarian. |
| 8. | UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize/1989 | UNESCO (funded by South Korea) | Fight against illiteracy | Named after Sejong the Great of Korea who created the Korean alphabet, Hangul. |
| 9. | Avicenna Prize/2004 | UNESCO | Ethics in science | Named after the 11th century Persian physician and philosopher Avicenna |
| 10. | Abel Prize/2003 | Govt of Norway | Mathematics | Also known as the mathematician's Nobel, it is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. |
| 11. | Fields Medal/1936 | International Mathematical Union | Mathematics | Awarded to mathematicians under 40 years of age. Also described as mathematician's Nobel Prize. Awarded once in 4 years at the International Congress of the IMU. |
| 12. | Pritzker Prize/1979 | Hyatt Foundation, USA | Architecture | Founded by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the prize is sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize for Architecture |
| 13. | Turing Award/1966 | Association for Computing Machinery, USA | Computers | Named after Alan Turing, a British mathematician and reader in mathematics at the University of Manchester, the Turing Award is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and the "Nobel Prize of computing". |