| 1966 |
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Abdul Majid, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States |
| 1967 |
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Galo Plaza, Former President of Ecuador and United Nations diplomat |
| 1968 |
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George K. Togasaki, Japanese businessman, civic leader, and President of Rotary International |
| 1969 |
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Mario E. G. Bancora, Director of the Atomic Energy Commission, Argentina |
| 1970 |
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Sun Fo, President of Examination Yuan, and one of the framers of the Constitution of the Republic of China |
| 1971 |
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John J. Akar, Ambassador of Sierra Leone to the United States |
| 1972 |
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Garegin Saroukhanian, Adviser to the Ministry of Health for Health Planning and Training, Iran |
| 1973 |
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
| 1974 |
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Choh-Ming Li, Vice Chancellor and founding Chief Executive of the Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 1975 |
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Haakon Wexelsen, President and Professor, University of Agriculture, Aas, Norway |
| 1976 |
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Haraldur Kroyer, Ambassador of Iceland to the United States |
| 1977 |
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Menahem Rebhun, Head, Division of Environmental Engineering Laboratories and Research Centers, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology |
| 1978 |
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Sadako Ogata, Minister of Japan to the United Nations |
| 1979 |
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Joao Baptista Pinheiro, Ambassador of Brazil to the United States |
| 1980 |
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Kenneth D. Taylor, Ambassador of Canada to Iran |
| 1981 |
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Kuang Tou Chang, Vice President, Tsinghua University, Beijing |
| 1982 |
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Choong Kung Cho, Executive Vice President, Korean Air Lines |
| 1983 |
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Yoash Vaadia, Vice President, Finance and Administration, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1984 |
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Widjojo Nitisastro, Former Minister of State for Economic, Financial, and Industrial Affairs of Indonesia |
| 1985 |
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Allan Gotlieb, Ambassador of Canada to the United States |
| 1986 |
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Joon Lew, Director, World Vision Leprosy Research and Treatment Center, Seoul, Korea |
| 1987 |
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No award granted |
| 1988 |
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Hans Hollein, Internationally acclaimed architect, Vienna, Austria |
| 1989 |
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Julius G. Kiano, Chairman, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation and former assemblyman, Kenya National Assembly, 1963—79 |
| 1990 |
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No award granted |
| 1991 |
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No award granted |
| 1992 |
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Mohamed Alshaikh, Minister of Urban and Rural Affairs, Saudi Arabia |
| 1993 |
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Hans-Peter Duerr, Chairman of the Directorate of the Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany |
| 1994 |
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Han Sung-Joo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea |
| 1995 |
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James C. Y. Soong, Governor, Taiwan Provincial Government, Republic of China |
| 1996 |
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Venkataram Ramakrishna, Director, South East Asia Regional Bureau for the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (iuhpe) |
| 1997 |
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Laura Castillo de Gurfinkel, Minister of Education, Venezuela |
| 1998 |
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Dr. Ahmed Ahmed Goueli, Minister of Trade and Supply Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 1999 |
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Dr. Urvashi Malhotra Sahni, Educator and Education Reform Advocate, India |
| 2000 |
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Zivorad I. Kovacevic, Ambassador of Yugoslavia to the United States |
| 2001 |
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Miguel Angel Rodríguez Echeverría, President of Costa Rica |
| 2002 |
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Dr. Dorodjatun Kuntjoro-Jakti, Economic Minister of Indonesia |
| 2003 |
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Norman Myers, Environmental Scientist, United Kingdom |
| 2004 |
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David Harrison, CEO loveLife, South Africa |
| 2005 |
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Dr. Juree Vichit-Vadakan, National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Thailand |
| 2006 |
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Dr. Mu Sochua, Secretary General, Sam Rainsy Party, Cambodia |
| 2007 |
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Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary of the Stop TB Partnership |
| 2008 |
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Mario Bergara, President of the Central Bank of Uruguay |
| 2009 |
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Reynato S. Puno, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines |
| 2010 |
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Josephine Namboze, champion of public health research, practice, and education in Africa |
