Source: Royal Geographic Society

1970 (1970): Henry Hamilton Beamish OBE
1971 (1971): Eugen Schuhmacher
1972 (1972): David Attenborough CBE^[4]
1973 (1973): Heinz Sielmann
1974 (1974): Des Bartlett/ Jen Bartlett
1975 (1975): Eric Ashby
1976 (1976): Dr Pamela Harrison^[5]
1977 (1977): Jeffrey Boswall
1978 (1978): Anthony Smith
1979 (1979): Rick Mason
1980 (1980): David Hughes
1981 (1981): Barry Paine
1982 (1982): Hugh Falkus
1983 (1983): Mike Andrews
1984 (1984): The Hon Lucinda Buxton
1985 (1985): Adrian Cowell
1986 (1986): Hugh Miles
1987 (1987): Colin Willock
1988 (1988): Dr Bradford Washburn^[6]
1989 (1989): Adrian Warren
1990 (1990): Julian Pettifer
1991 (1991): Peter Jones
1992 (1992): Mark Edwards^[7]
1993 (1993): Douglas Allan^[8]
1994 (1994): Jonathan Scott^[9]
1995 (1995): Paul Harris^[10]
1996 (1996): Alastair Fothergill^[11]
1997 (1997): Adrian Arbib^[12]
1998 (1998): Professor Jonathan Kingdon
1999 (1999): Dr Martha Holmes
2000 (2000): Carol Beckwith/ Angela Fisher^[13]
2001 (2001): Les Hiddins
2002 (2002): Tony Foster^[14]
2003 (2003): not awarded
2004 (2004): Pat Keough and Rosemarie Keough^[15]
2005 (2005): Michael Martin^[16]
2006 (2006): not awarded
2007 (2007): not awarded
2008 (2008): not awarded
2009 (2009): Simon King
2010 (2010): Frans Lanting^[17]
2011 (2011): Dale Templar^[18]
2012 (2012): Andy Rouse^[19]
2013 (2013): Yann Arthus-Bertrand^[20]
2014 (2014): Jens Bjerre^[21]
2015 (2015): Sebastião Salgado
2016 (2016): Wendy Darke^[22]
2017 (2017): Harry Hook^[23]
2018 (2018): Andy Goldsworthy
2019 (2019): Tacita Dean^[24]
2020 (2020): Steve McCurry
2021 (2021): David Coulson
2022 (2022): Nicholas Jones^[25]
2023 (2023): Harriet Fraser and Rob Fraser
2024 (2024): Leon McCarron

Recipients

See also

References