Previous award winners
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| Presidential Awardees | Congress Chair Awardees | Sadoul Lecturers | Cournand Lecturers | Yernault Lecturers | Educational Awardees | ELF Award |
| 1993 G.R. Barer (UK) | 1993 A. Blasi (IT) | 1993 C. Voisin (FR) | 1992 S. Holgate (UK) | 2007 K-H. Carlsen (NO) | 2006 John Gibson (UK) | 2001 David Byrne |
| 1994 A. Robalo Cordeiro (PT) | 1994 J. Bignon (FR) | 1995 P. Quanjer (NL) | 1994 J.M. Anto (ES) | 2010 B.J. Whipp (UK) | 2007 Ewald R.Weibel (DE) | 2002 Claude Lenfant |
| 1995 G. Polgar (USA) | 1995 P. De March Ayuela (ES) | 1997 E.R.Weibel (CH) | 1996 B. Wallaert (FR) | 2013 P. Lévy (FR) | 2008 John Cotes (UK) | 2003 Gro Harlem Brundtland |
| 1996 J.F. Murray (USA) | 1996 E. Berglund (SE) | 1999 P.J. Barnes (UK) | 1998 M. Saetta (IT) | 2010 Robert Loddenkemper (DE) and Patricia Haslam (UK) | 2004 Robert Loddenkemper | |
| 1997 Dame M. Turner Warwick (UK) | 1997 H-J. Brandt (DE) | 2001 J-F. Bousquet (FR) | 2000 T. Similowski (FR) | 2011 Dario Olivieri (IT) | 2005 Professor Sir Richard Peto | |
| 1998 J. Milic-Emili (CAN) | 1998 A.F. Junod (CH) | 2003 J. Zielinski (PL) | 2002 L. Brochard (FR) | 2012 Claes-Goran Lofdahl (DE) | 2006 Professor Albert Osterhaus | |
| 1999 J-C. Yernault (BE) | 1999 R. Rodriguez-Roisin (ES) | 2005 P.J. Sterk (NL) | 2004 I.D. Pavord (UK) | 2013 Nicolino Ambrosino (IT) | 2007 Professor Bert Brunekreef | |
| 2000 A.J. Woolcock (AUS) | 2000 C. Giuntini (IT) | 2008 P. Burney (UK) | 2006 M. Humbert (FR) | 2014 Paolo Palange (IT) | 2008 Michael Rubens Bloomberg | |
| 2001 P.D. Wagner (USA) | 2001 R. Loddenkemper (DE) | 2011 M. Miller (UK) | 2009 T. Troosters (BE) | 2015 Antonio Artigas (ES) | 2009 Yvo de Boer | |
| 2002 G.J. Laurent (UK) | 2002 N.L. Svedmyr (SE) | 2014 K.F. Chung (UK) | 2012 D. Hartl (DE) | 2010 35 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) | ||
| 2003 N.B. Pride (UK) | 2003 S. Daum (DE) | 2015 S. Ryan (IE) | 2011 Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Juniper | |||
| 2004 E.A. Phillipson (CAN) | 2004 J. Crofton (UK) | 2012 Olaf Tufte & World Spirometry Day lung champions | ||||
| 2005 G. Barnes (UK) | 2005 K. Viskum (DK) | 2013 Ex-smokers are unstoppable Campaign/ FC Barcelona | ||||
| 2006 A. Gulsvik (NO) | 2006 P.A. Vermeire (BE) | 2014 Zsuzsanna Jakab, on behalf of the World Health Organization | ||||
| 2007 P.J. Barnes (UK) | 2007 K. Larsson (SE) | 2015 André Lassooij (NL) | ||||
| 2008 J.A. Nadel (USA) | 2008 P.T. Macklem (CAN) | |||||
| 2009 D.S. Postma (NL) | 2009 N. Voelkel (USA) | |||||
| 2010 W. Guerrero Ciquero (PE) | 2010 J.M. Anto (ES) | |||||
| 2011 M. Saetta (IT) | 2011 P. O'Byrne (CA) | |||||
| 2012 E. Bateman (ZA) | 2012 J. Moxham (UK) | |||||
| 2013 J. Ramirez (ES) | 2013 J. Roca (ES) | |||||
| 2014 R. Stockley (UK) | 2014 W. Seeger (DE) | |||||
| 2015 J. Drazen (US) | 2015 PJ Sterk (NL) |