- 2018 : Alessio Figalli, Caucher Birkar, Peter Scholze, Akshay Venkatesh
- 2014 : Artur Avila, Manjul Bhargava, Martin Hairer, Maryam Mirzakhani
- 2010 : Cédric Villani , Ngô Bảo Châu, Elon Lindenstrauss, Stanislav Smirnov
- 2006 : Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman [declined], Terence Tao, Wendelin Werner
- 2002 : Laurent Lafforgue, Vladimir Voevodsky
- 1998 : Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis McMullen
- 1994 : Efim Zelmanov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
- 1990 : Vladimir Drinfeld, Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, Shigefumi Mori, Edward Witten
- 1986 : Simon Donaldson, Gerd Faltings, Michael Freedman
- 1982 : Alain Connes, William Thurston , Shing-Tung Yau
- 1978 : Pierre Deligne, Charles Fefferman, Gregory Margulis, Daniel Quillen
- 1974 : Enrico Bombieri, David Mumford
- 1970 : Alan Baker, Heisuke Hironaka, Sergei Novikov, John Griggs Thompson
- 1966 : Michael Atiyah, Paul Cohen, Alexander Grothendieck, Stephen Smale
- 1962 : Lars Hörmander, John Milnor
- 1958 : Klaus Roth, René Thom
- 1954 : Kunihiko Kodaira, Jean-Pierre Serre
- 1950 : Laurent Schwartz, Atle Selberg
- 1936 : Lars Ahlfors, Jesse Douglas
