| 100% | WIESEL | 6 | Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie who wrote the memoirs "Night," "Dawn," and "Day" |
| 48% | ELIEWIESEL | 10 | Nobel Peace Prize winner who survived the Holocaust |
| 46% | WANGARIMAATHAI | 14 | 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded the Green Belt Movement |
| 41% | WILSON | 6 | Woodrow ___, 28th President of the U.S. and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was born in December |
| 40% | TUTU | 4 | Nobel Peace Prize winner who was archbishop of Cape Town |
| 40% | IRENE | 5 | Nobel Prize winner ___ Joliot-Curie who is the daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie Curie |
| 39% | DESMONDTU | 9 | Nobel Peace Prize recipient who wrote "No Future Without Forgiveness" |
| 38% | ELIE | 4 | Wiesel who wrote the memoir "Night" |
| 38% | MARIARESSA | 10 | Filipino American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was honored with a 2024 Carnegie Great Immigrants award: 2 wds. |
| 38% | PADMA | 5 | Lakshmi who wrote the memoir "Love, Loss, and What We Ate" |
| 38% | OLGA | 4 | Nobel Prize-winner Tokarczuk who wrote Primeval and Other Times |
| 38% | OSLO | 4 | Where the Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced |
| 38% | YITZHAKRABIN | 12 | Former Prime Minister of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was born in 1922 (2 wds.) |
| 37% | NELSONMANDELA | 13 | 1993 Nobel Peace Prize winner who fought for racial equality in 28-Across: 2 wds. |
| 37% | OSLO | 4 | Nobel Peace Prize city whose name begins and ends with the letter "O" |
| 37% | PELE | 4 | Athlete who wrote the memoir "My Life and the Beautiful Game" |
| 37% | DALAI | 5 | 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, ___ Lama, who has a wax statue in Madame Tussauds, Vienna |
| 37% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | British novelist who wrote 19-Across and 31-Across and was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 37% | LOUISEERDRICH | 13 | Native American novelist who wrote 15-Across, 29-Across, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Night Watchman" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | OBAMA | 5 | 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Barack ___, who has a wax statue in Madame Tussauds, New York |
| 36% | UNICEF | 6 | 1965 Nobel Peace Prize winner (organization dedicated to the world's kids) |
| 36% | MLK | 3 | Monogram of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| 36% | MICHELLEOBAMA | 13 | Former first lady who wrote the memoirs "Becoming" and "The Light We Carry" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | DALAILAMA | 9 | Winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 35% | SEDARIS | 7 | Humorist David who wrote the essay collections "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and "Happy-Go-Lucky" |
| 35% | DESMONDTUTU | 11 | Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1984 |
| 35% | SADAT | 5 | Nobel Peace Prize winner Anwar |
| 35% | ELIHU | 5 | Nobel Peace Prize winner Root |
| 35% | NELSON | 6 | Nobel Peace Prize winner Mandela |
| 35% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wiesel |