• 1941:
Edna Manley, art and literature (first award) • 1942:
No gold medal awarded • 1943: Ena Ada Josephine, art and literature • 1944–50:
No gold medals awarded • 1951: George Goode, music • 1952–53:
No gold medals awarded • 1954: W. Adolphe Roberts, history literature • 1955–57:
No gold medals awarded • 1958:
J. E. Clare McFarlane, poetry • 1959–64:
No gold medals awarded • 1965: Theodore E. Sealy, cultural development • 1966: Phillip Sherlock, history and literature • 1967:
No gold medal awarded • 1968:
Roger Mais, literature, posthumously • 1969: Ansel Hart, history • 1970:
Alvin Marriott, sculpture • 1971:
Amy Jacques Garvey, history • 1972:
M. G. Smith, anthropology • 1973:
No gold medal awarded • 1974:
Nicolás Guillén, literature;
Albert Huie, art • 1975: Little Theatre Movement, theatre • 1976:
Victor Stafford Reid, literature • 1977: Alicia Alonso, artistic excellence;
Ronald Moody, sculpture • 1978:
Louise Bennett, poetry and theatre • 1979:
No gold medal awarded • 1980:
George Proctor, botany • 1981:
Rex Nettleford, dance and West Indian cultural development • 1982: Clinton Black, history (archival development) • 1983:
Frederic G. Cassidy, philology and etymology • 1984:
Cecil A. Baugh, ceramics • 1985:
Mallica 'Kapo' Reynolds, painting and sculpture • 1986:
Derek Walcott, literature; Kenneth E.N. Ingram, librarianship and history scholarship • 1987:
Olive Lewin, music;
Carl Abrahams, art; Francis Nicholas, dance • 1988: Alfred Sangster, science and technical education;
Trevor Rhone, drama; Clive Thompson, dance • 1989–92:
Osmond Watson, art;
Barry Higman, history; Gerald Lalor, science: Robert Hill, history • 1993:
No gold medal awarded • 1994:
Peter Abrahams, fiction and journalism;
Manley West, pharmacology • 1995: David Boxer, art through institution building and scholarship;
Graham Roger Serjeant, medical science; John Golding, medical science • 1996: Sir Roy Augier, Caribbean education history;
Stuart Hall, sociological studies • 1997:
No gold medal awarded • 1998: Jamaica Library Service, literature;
University of the West Indies • 1999:
Erna Brodber, literature;
Errol Morrison, medical science;
Lorna Goodison, poetry • 2000:
Monty Alexander, music;
Basil Barrington Watson, art; University Singers, music • 2001: Hon. Lawson Douglas, urology • 2002:
David Pottinger, art;
Clement Seymore 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd, music • 2003:
Chris Blackwell, development of Jamaican music; Franklyn Prendergast, medicine • 2004:
Olive Senior, documenting Jamaican heritage; Mico College, recognizing the importance of Jamaican culture • 2005:
Richard Hart, history • 2006:
Kamau Brathwaite, literature • 2007: Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, development of Jamaican music;
Bertram Fraser-Reid, chemistry • 2008: Carey Robinson, community development & heritage;
Mercedes Richards, astronomy • 2009: Wycliffe Bennett, arts development;
Maureen Warner-Lewis, literature • 2010: Terrence Forrester, science • 2011:
Hedley Jones, music and audio engineering • 2012: Horace Fletcher, medical science;
Edward Baugh, literature • 2013:
Lee “Scratch” Perry, music;
Franklin W. Knight, social history • 2014:
Anthony C. Winkler, literature;
Petrona Morrison, education; Celia Christie-Samuels, medical research • 2015:
Sly and Robbie, music;
Orlando Patterson, literature • 2016:
No medals awarded • 2017: Herbert Ho Ping Kong, science • 2018:
Peter Ashbourne, music; Basil Burke, science;
Mervyn Morris, literature • 2019: Michael Bucknor, academia; Winston Ewart, music • 2021:
Ishion Hutchinson, literature, Mona Webber, science, Steven Woodham, music; • 2022: Lenford Salmon, theater and culture;
Joy Spence, chemist and master blender; Diana McCaulay, author and environmental activist • 2023: Vivian Crawford, arts and culture; Professor Marcia Roye, science and education;
Professor Carolyn Cooper, expert in international and Jamaican popular culture ==References==