2018
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2017
Robin Roberts
2016
City of Orlando
2015
Allan H. "Bud" Selig
2014
Frank Deford
Wayne Embry
2013
Lonnie Ali
2012
Val Ackerman
Bob Beamon
2011
Nancy Hogshead-Makar
2010
Nelson Mandela
John Carlos
Tommie Smith
2009
Anita Defrantz
2008
Danny Wuerffel
Billy Mills
2007
Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Jr.
Col. Lawrence Roberts (posthumously)
2006
Thomas “Satch” Sanders
2005
Richard DeVos
2004
Jackie Robinson
Rachel Robinson
2003
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
2002
Julius Erving
2001
Lee Elder
2000
Muhammad Ali
1999
Nancy Lieberman
Eddie Robinson
Dean Smith