The award was established in 1791, and past winners include (with year of award and professional highlights): •
Jared Sparks, 1815, historian and president of Harvard •
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820 and 1821, essayist and poet •
Charles Sumner, 1830 and 1832, politician and US Senator •
Jones Very, 1835 and 1836, Transcendentalist essayist and poet •
Richard Henry Dana Jr., 1837, lawyer and politician •
Edward Everett Hale, 1838 and 1839, author and historian •
Charles L. Flint, 1849, lawyer, horticulturalist, president of what is now University of Massachusetts Amherst •
Horatio Alger Jr., 1851, prolific author of "rags to riches" novels •
Henry Adams, 1858, historian and author •
James C. Fernald, 1860, preacher, author, and authority on the English language •
Richard Theodore Greener, 1870, statesman and dean of
Howard University School of Law •
George Lyman Kittredge, 1881 and 1882, educator and scholar in English literature •
Alain LeRoy Locke, 1907, first African-American Rhodes Scholar, academic, writer, and "Father of the Harlem Renaissance" •
R. Nathaniel Dett, 1920, composer •
Henry Friendly, 1923, judge •
George Frazier, 1933, journalist •
Nathan Pusey, 1934, president of Harvard •
Daniel J. Boorstin, 1934, Rhodes Scholar, historian, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize •
Howard Nemerov, 1940, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award •
I. Bernard Cohen, 1941, historian of science •
Robert Galambos, 1941, neuroscientist •
Arthur Kinoy, 1941, attorney and civil rights leader •
Constantine Cavarnos, 1947, teacher, author, monk •
Henri Dorra, 1949, art historian •
Christopher Lasch, 1954, professor, author, historian, and social critic •
John Updike, 1954, writer •
Allen G. Debus, 1957 and 1958, historian of science •
Larry Siedentop, 1959, Marshall Scholar, political philosopher •
Edward Said, 1960, Palestinian essayist and academic •
James Samuel Gordon, 1961 and 1962, author, psychiatrist, and mind-body medicine expert •
Patrick T. Riley, 1966 and 1967, political science professor •
Robert Kirshner, 1970, astrophysicist •
Paul Starr, 1974, professor of sociology and public affairs •
Ralph Jay Hexter, 1974, professor of classics and comparative literature and provost of UC Davis •
James D. Weinrich, 1975, sex researcher and psychobiologist •
Robert W. Brooks, 1975, mathematician •
John Glover Roberts Jr., 1976, Chief Justice of the United States •
Paul Alan Cox, 1978 and 1981, ethnobotanist •
Richard H. Ebright, 1979, molecular and microbiologist •
Mark W. Moffett, 1986, entomologist •
Jonathan Veitch, 1988, historian and president of Occidental College •
Nicholas A. Christakis, 1988, physician and sociologist •
Cyrus Patell, 1991, literary and cultural critic •
Faith Salie, 1992, Rhodes Scholar, actress, and media personality •
William Pannapacker, 1995 and 1999, academic and journalist •
Mark Greif, 1997, Marshall Scholar, academic and literary critic •
Joe Roman, 2000, author and conservation biologist •
Vivek Ramaswamy, 2007, entrepreneur in the healthcare and technology sectors, political commentator, a
New York Times bestselling author, and
US presidential candidate ==See also==