2012
Thomas Demand
Thomas Heatherwick
Professor Tony Hunt
Kazuyo Sejima

2011
Dr Junichi Arai
Rineke Dijkstra
Bernard Tschumi
Jan van Toorn

2010
Rolf Fehlbaum
William Kentridge
Professor Simon Schama
Yinka Shonibare

2009
Tony Cragg
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling
Jonathan Ive

2008
Sir Jonathan Miller
Paula Rego
Dame Vivienne Westwood

2007
Tracey Emin
Brian Eno
Peter Schreyer

2006
Nick Park CBE
Ingo Maurer

2005
Jun Kaneko

2004
Zaha Hadid
Bill Viola
Marina Warner

2003
Laurie Anderson
Professor Stuart Hall
Jack Lenor Larsen

2002
Jean Nouvel
Sergio Pininfarina
James Turrell

2001
Eve Arnold
Manolo Blahnik
Professor Quentin Blake

2000
Gordon Baldwin
Jack Cardiff
James Dyson
Miuccia Prada

1999
Sir David Attenborough
David Mellor

1998
Sir Peter Blake
Dr William Brown
Ken Loach

1997
Rei Kawakubo
Ellsworth Kelly
Martin Scorsese
Hans Wegner

1996
Sir Terence Conran
Claes Oldenburg
Charlotte Perriand

1995
Ken Adam
Milton Glaser

1994
Sir Anthony Caro
Sir Michael Hopkins
Stanislav Libensky
Freddie Young

1993
Jack Lang
Roy Lichtenstein
Issey Miyake

1992
David Hockney
Sir Kenneth MacMillan
John Sculley

1991
Giorgio Armani
Lord Norman Foster
R B Kitaj
David Lynch
Dieter Rams

1990
Anni Albers
Roy Boulting

1989
Richard Avedon
Erte
Terry Gilliam
Jean Tinguely

1988
Sir Jeremy Isaacs
Saul Steinberg
Eva Zeisel

1987
Achille Castiglione
Susie Cooper
Umberto Eco
Patrick Heron
Michael Powell

1986
Sir Edward Hulton
Zandra Rhodes
Lord Rogers

1985
Kenneth Grange
Sir David Lean

1984
Giorgetto Giugiaro
Sir Ernst Gombrich

1983
Kaj Franck
André Kertész

1982
Roberto Burle-Marx
Michael Cardew
Elisabeth Frink
Karl Gunnar Pontus Hulten
Raymond Loewy

1981
Jean Muir
Antoni Tàpies

1980
Colin Chapman

1979
Milner Gray
Professor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
James Stirling

1978
Robin Campbell
Joris Ivens
Roberto Matta
Lord Reilly

1977
Bill Brandt
André François
Sir Anthony Lousada

1976
Ernestine Carter
Kenneth Martin
Sir Robert Sainsbury

1975
Sir Hugh Casson
Jack Pritchard
William Scott
Sir John Summerson

1974
Magdalena Abakanowicz
H L Beales
Robert Goodden
Satyajit Ray

1973
Shoji Hamada
Berthold Lubetkin
Sir John Pope-Hennessey

1972
Bernard Leach
Sir Duncan Oppenheim
Lilian Somerville

1971
Sir Robin Darwin
Giacomo Manzu
Benedict Nicolson
Jean Renoir
Tapio Wirkkala

1970
Edward Bawden
Duncan Grant
Max Nicholson
John Osborne
Andrew Ritchie
Ettore Sottsass

1969
Kenneth Armitage
Rodrigo Moynihan
José de Azeredo Perdigão
Lucie Rie
Michael Scott
Joseph Svoboda

1968
Sir Misha Black
Sir Christopher Cockerell
Victor Pasmore
Gio Ponti
Berthold Wolpe

1967
Sir Colin Anderson
René Clair
Naum Gabo
Henry Moore
Alex Moulton
HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Lord Robbins
Timo Sarpaneva