Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian politician, diplomat, and scholar who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. He also served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1958 to 1968 and as leader of the Official Opposition from 1958 to 1963. The Nobel Peace Prize 1957, announced October 3, 1957. Lester Bowles Pearson, “for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis”. Lester Bowles Pearson: born 1897, Toronto, Canada. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).