1831 William Smith
1835 Gideon Mantell
1836 Louis Agassiz
1837 Proby Thomas Cautley
1837 Hugh Falconer
1838 Richard Owen
1839 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
1840 Andre Hubert Dumont
1841 Adolphe Theodore Brongniart
1842 Leopold von Buch
1843 Jean Baptiste Elie de Beaumont
1843 Pierre Armand Dufrenoy
1844 William Daniel Conybeare
1845 John Phillips
1846 William Lonsdale
1847 Ami Boue
1848 William Buckland
1849 Joseph Prestwich
1850 William Hopkins
1851 Adam Sedgwick
1852 William Henry Fitton
1853 Adolphe d'Archiac
1853 Philippe Edouard Poulletier de Verneuil
1854 Richard Griffith
1855 Henry Thomas De la Beche
1856 William Logan
1857 Joachim Barrande
1858 Hermann von Meyer
1858 James Hall
1859 Charles Darwin
1860 Searles Valentine Wood
1861 Heinrich Georg Bronn
1862 Robert Alfred Cloynes Godwin-Austen
1863 Gustav Bischof
1864 Roderick Impey Murchison
1865 Thomas Davidson
1866 Charles Lyell
1867 George Poulett Scrope
1868 Carl Friedrich Naumann
1869 Henry Clifton Sorby
1870 Gerard Paul Deshayes
1871 Andrew Ramsay
1872 James Dwight Dana
1873 Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton
1874 Oswald Heer
1875 Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck
1876 Thomas Henry Huxley
1877 Robert Mallet
1878 Thomas Wright
1879 Bernhard Studer
1880 Auguste Daubree
1881 Peter Martin Duncan
1882 Franz Ritter von Hauer
1883 William Thomas Blanford
1884 Albert Jean Gaudry
1885 George Busk
1886 Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux
1887 John Whitaker Hulke
1888 Henry Benedict Medlicott
1889 Thomas George Bonney
1890 William Crawford Williamson
1891 John Wesley Judd
1892 (Paul Wilhelm) Ferdinand von Richtofen
1893 Nevil Story Maskelyne
1894 Karl Alfred von Zittel
1895 Archibald Geikie
1896 Eduard Suess
1897 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
1898 Ferdinand Zirkel
1899 Charles Lapworth
1900 Grove Karl Gilbert
1901 Charles Barrois
1902 Friedrich Schmidt
1903 Heinrich Rosenbusch
1904 Albert Heim
1905 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall
1906 Henry Woodward
1907 William Johnson Sollas
1908 Paul von Groth
1909 Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
1910 William Berryman Scott
1911 Waldemar Christopher Brogger
1912 Lazarus Fletcher
1913 Osmond Fisher
1914 John Edward Marr
1915 (Tannatt William) Edgeworth David
1916 Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky
1917 (Francois Antoine) Alfred Lacroix
1918 Charles Doolittle Walcott
1919 Aubrey Strahan
1920 Gerard Jacob De Geer
1921 Benjamin Neeve Peach
1921 John Horne
1922 Alfred Harker
1923 William Whitaker
1924 Arthur Smith Woodward
1925 George William Lamplugh
1926 Henry Fairfield Osborn
1927 William Whitehead Watts
1928 Dukinfield Henry Scott
1929 Friedrich Johann Karl Becke
1930 Albert Charles Seward
1931 Arthur William Rogers
1932 Johan Herman Lie Vogt
1933 Marcelin Boule
1934 Henry Alexander Miers
1935 John Smith Flett
1936 Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff
1937 Waldemar Lindgren
1938 Maurice Lugeon
1939 Frank Dawson Adams
1940 Henry Woods
1941 Arthur Louis Day
1942 Reginald Aldworth Daly
1943 Aleksandr Evgenevich Fersmann
1944 Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
1945 Owen Thomas Jones
1946 Emanuel de Margerie
1947 Joseph Burr Tyrrell
1948 Edward Battersby Bailey
1949 Robert Broom
1950 Norman Levi Bowen
1951 Olaf Holtedahl
1952 Herbert Harold Read
1953 Erik Andersson Stensio
1954 Leonard Johnston Wills
1955 Arthur Elijah Trueman
1956 Arthur Holmes
1957 Paul Fourmarier
1958 Penti Eskola
1959 Pierre Pruvost
1960 Cecil Edgar Tilley
1961 Roman Kozlowski
1962 Leonard Hawkes
1963 Felix Alexander Vening Meinesz
1964 Harold Jeffreys
1965 David Meredith Seares Watson
1966 Francis Edward Shepard
1967 Edward Crisp Bullard
1968 Raymond Cecil Moore
1969 William Maurice Ewing
1970 Philip Henry Kuenen
1971 Ralph Alger Bagnold
1972 Hans Ramberg
1973 Alfred Sherwood Romer
1974 Francis John Pettijohn
1975 Hollis Dow Hedberg
1976 Kingsley Charles Dunham
1977 Reinout William van Bemmelen
1978 John Tuzo Wilson
1979 Hatton Schuyler Yoder
1980 Augusto Gansser
1981 Robert Minard Garrels
1982 Peter John Wyllie
1983 Dan Peter McKenzie
1984 Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu
1985 Gerald Joseph Wasserburg
1986 John Graham Ramsay
1987 Jean-Claude Allègre
1988 Alfred Ringwood
1989 Drummond Hoyle Matthews
1990 Wallace S Broecker
1991 Xavier Le Pichon
1992 Martin Harold Phillips Bott
1993 Samuel Epstein
1994 William Jason Morgan
1995 George Patrick Leonard Walker
1996 Nicholas John Shackleton
1997 Douglas James Shearman
1998 Karl Karekin Turekian
1999 John Frederick Dewey
2000 William Sefton Fyfe
2001 Harry Blackmore Whittington
2002 Rudolf Trumpy
2003 Ikuo Kushiro
2004 Geoffrey Eglinton
2005 Ted Irving
2006 James Lovelock
2007 Andrew Knoll
2008 Norman Sleep
2009 Paul Hoffman
2010 Richard Hugh Sibson
2011 Robert Stephen John Sparks
2012 Christopher John Hawkesworth
2013 Kurt Lambeck
2014 Maureen Raymo
2015 James Jackson