The Nobel Peace Prize 1979
Awarded on: 1979-10-27
"for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity"
Mother Teresa
Born: 1910-08-26 in Uskup, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, North Macedonia)
Gender: female
Field: Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (1910–1997)
Biography
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint.