| 2007 |
No award |
| 2006 |
Vanessa Lawrence, Director General, Ordnance Survey |
| 2005 |
No award |
| 2004 |
Professor David Lowenthal |
| 2002 |
Professor Sir Ron Cooke DSc |
| 2001 |
The American Geographical Society, USA |
| 2000 |
Professor Kenneth J. Gregory, Chairman IGC 2004 |
| 1999 |
Professor Colin Clarke, School of Geography, University of Oxford |
| 1998 |
Professor J.T. Coppock CBE, Vice President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society |
| 1997 |
Professor Eckart Ehlers, International Geographical Union |
| 1996 |
Mr. Gilbert M. Grosvenor, National Geographic Society
|
| 1995 |
Professor H.Th. Verstappen |
| 1994 |
Dr. Denis St-Onge, The Royal Canadian Geographical Society |
| 1993 |
Professor Peter Haggett |
| 1992 |
The Sierra Club, USA |
| 1989 |
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Shackleton of Burley |
| 1988 |
Professor Stig Jaatinen, President, Finnish Geographical Society |
| 1984 |
Professor J. Wreford Watson |
| 1972 |
George E.R. Deacon |
| 1969 |
Professor J.A. Steers |
| 1964 |
Professor L. Dudley Stamp |
| 1958 |
Vivian Ernest Fuchs PhD |
| 1954 |
John Bartholomew MC JP |
| 1945 |
Professor Herbert J. Fleure DSc
|
| 1944 |
James M. Wordie |
| 1933 |
The Baron Meston of Agra and Dunotter KCSI LLD |
RSGS Gold Medal
|
| 1927 |
John Mathieson FRSE FRSGS |
| 1924 |
Dr. Hugh Robert Mill DSc, for his long-continued geographical work of high order |
| 1923 |
Professor J.W. Gregory FRS |
| 1919 |
Rt. Hon. Field-Marshal Earl Haig of Bemersyde KT |
| 1915 |
Dr. J. Scott Keltie LLD |
| 1913 |
Professor Albrecht Penck |
| 1912 |
Captain Roald Amundsen |
| 1911 |
J.Y. Buchanan |
| 1910 |
Professor James Geikie DCL LLD |
| 1908 |
Dr. Sven Hedin |
| 1906 |
HSH Albert, 1st Prince of Monaco |
| 1905 |
Colonel Sir F. Younghusband KCIE |
| 1904 |
Dr. W.S. Bruce |
| 1897 |
Dr. Fridtjof Nansen |
| 1890 |
H.M. Stanley MP
|