2005- David Branson
- ACT Brumbies
- Canberra Philharmonic Society
- Canberra Raiders
- Manning Clark AC and Dymphna Clark
- Helen Crisp AM and Fin Crisp
- Stasia Dabrowski OAM
- C S and Jessie Daley
- Frank Fenner AC CMG MBE
- Rosemary Follett AM
- James Fraser
- A D Hope
- John Murdoch CMG
- Notaras Family
- Gus Petersilka
- Andrew Pike OAM
- Arthur Shakespeare
2006- George Barlin AM
- Charles Bean
- Nancy Burbidge AM
- Bishop Pat Power
- Sylvia Curley OAM
2010- Corporal Ernest Albert Corey MM
- Dr Jill Landsberg
- Jack Waterford AM
- John Mackay AM
- Jan Brown AM
- Lindsay Pryor AO
- Dr Robert William Boden OAM
- Romaldo Giurgola AO
- Rosemary Dobson AO
- Sir John Overall CBE, MC and Bar
- The Honourable Margaret Reid AO
- The Honourable Sir Richard Blackburn OBE
- Charles Weston MBE
- Agnes Shea OAM
- Heather McKay AM MBE
- William Farrer
- Terry Snow AM
- Robert de Castella AO MBE
- RMC Duntroon
| 2012- Dr John Buckingham AM
- Canberra Capitals
- Val JefferyOAM
- Trevor Kaine
- Peter Leonard
- Marion Lê AM
- Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin
- Jim Murphy AM
- Chris Peters AM
2014- Lauren Jackson AO
- Heather Reid AM
- Elizabeth Dawson OAM and Peter Dawson
- Kate Carnell AO
- Gary Humphries
- Jon Stanhope AO
- Charles Robert Scrivener
2016- The Jennings Germans
- St John’s Anglican Church Canberra
- The Honourable Jeffrey Miles AO
- The Taverner family
- William (Bill) Hoffmann OAM
- Geoff Pryor
2018- Joan Kellett OAM
- Alan Foskett OAM
- Professor Tom Calma AO
- John Hanna
- Dawn Waterhouse
- Canberra Refugee Support
2020 (awarded in 2021 due to COVID-19)- Klaus Moje AO
- Ethel Clarice McGuire MBE
- Lyall L Gillespie ISO OAM
- Ross Gengos
- Tracey Fowler Whetnall
- Homosexual Law Reform Society of the ACT
2023- Olive Brown
- Companion House
- Sue Salthouse AM
- Professor Mike Gore AO
- Peter Cursley
- Dr Allan Hawke AC
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