- 2024
- Ann Marie Bartuska ’75
- 2023
- James Sandman, Esquire
- Lawrence E. Cohen
- 2019
- Robert Bruggeworth
- Ronald W. Simms
- 2017
- William A. Perlmuth
- John J. Passan
- 2015
- Seymour Holtzman
- 2014
- Stelios Patsiokas
- Christopher N. Breiseth
- 2013
- Ronald Rittenmeyer
- Pauline Montgomery
- 2012
- Rev. Scott R. Pilarz
- Sharon Lee
- 2011
- Robert Listenbee
- 2010
- Edward G. Rendell
- 2009
- John Brooks Slaughter
- 2008
- Thomas H. Kean
- 2007
- Marlee Matlin
- 2006
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- 2005
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- 2003
- Ronald L. Sargent
- 2002
- Louis H. Pollak
- 2001
- Robert J. Bruce
- 2000
- James Doluisio
- Warren D. Evans
- Raphael Musto
- Daniel Klem, Jr.
- Charles Lemmond, Jr.
- 1999
- Paul E. Kanjorski
- Rev. James R. Lackenmier, CSC
- Janet Reno
- Sanford J. Ungar
- 1998
- Charles E. Myers
- Lester Saidman
- Frederick Rudolph
- Andrew J. Sordoni
- Edward Schechter
- Jerzy Kluger
- 1997
- Donald E. Burke
- George F. Ralston
- Doris Bartuska '49
- Lorraine Hale
- George L. Fenner
- 1996
- Thomas M. Check '50
- Vincent G. Sortino
- John R. Wodraska '70
- Dick Hyman
- Gary Alt
- William H. Corbett
- 1995
- Charles N. Burns '35
- Geoffery C. Ward
- Norman Mailer
- Norma C. Sanguiliano Tyburski
- 1994
- Richard Keeling
- Catherine DeAngelis '65
- 1993
- Robert Gerald Elias
- Joseph Cicippio
- Paul Wender '69
- 1992
- John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie
- John J. Pomerantz
- 1991
- Francis J. Michelini
- Daniel Louis Schorr
- Lisbeth Bamberger Schorr
- 1990
- Wallace F. Stettler
- Sheldon Hackney
- Edithe Judith Levit '45
- Flora Lewis
- 1989
- Bill Bradley
- Ronald C. Rescigno '58
- 1988
- Helen Farr Sloan Arnaud
- Arnaud Cartwright Marts
- Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
- 1987
- John Hope Franklin
- Samuel Hazo
- 1986
- Eleanor W. Winsor
- Edward Donley
- 1985
- Laura Bornholdt
- Dale R. Corson
- Laura Bornholdt
- 1984
- Roman W. DeSanctis
- Roman W. DeSanctis
- 1983
- Robert S. Capin '50
- G. Dennis O'Brien
- Robert S. Capin '50
- 1982
- Edmund D. Pellegrino
- Edmund D. Pellegrino
- 1981
- A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
- Max Aronoff
- 1980
- Andrew J. McGowan
- Roy E. Morgan
- Louis L. Banks
- Andrew J. McGowan
- 1979
- Arno A. Penzias
- John Heinz
- Arno A. Penzias
- 1978
- Joseph J. Pinola '49
- Joseph J. Pinola '49
- 1976
- Sheldon G. Cohen
- Robert H. Bork
- Sheldon G. Cohen
- 1975
- John D. MacArthur
- Wharton Shober
- Robert Considine
- 1974
- Jule Ayers
- Ruth Patrick
- Jule Ayers
- 1973
- Frank C. Carlucci
- Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
- Frank C. Carlucci
- 1972
- Daniel J. Flood
- William Wearly
- Daniel J. Flood
- 1971
- John Hohenberg
- 1970
- Boris Sokoloff
- Theodore L. Hazlett, Jr.
- Boris Sokoloff
- 1969
- John A. Perkins
- John A. Perkins
- 1968
- Eugene Shedden Farley
- Fred M. Hechinger
- Thaddeus Seymour
- Paul R. Anderson
- Eugene Shedden Farley
- 1967
- Jesse Choper '57
- Jesse Choper '57
- 1966
- William W. Scranton
- 1965
- Gaylord Harnwell
- 1964
- Charles Price
- Walter Carpente