# King Faisal Prize

The King Faisal Prize (Arabic: جائزة الملك فيصل, formerly King Faisal International Prize), is an annual award sponsored by King Faisal Foundation presented to "dedicated men and women whose contributions make a positive difference". The foundation awards prizes in five categories: Service to Islam; Islamic studies; the Arabic language and Arabic literature; science; and medicine.
The first King Faisal Prize was awarded to the Pakistani scholar Abul A'la Maududi in 1979 for his service to Islam. In 1981, Khalid of Saudi Arabia received the same award. In 1984, Fahd of Saudi Arabia was the recipient of the award. In 1986, this prize was co-awarded to Ahmed Deedat and French Roger Garaudy.

## Award process
### Designation of subjects

Each year, the selection committees designate subjects in Islamic Studies, Arabic Literature, and Medicine. Selected topics in Islamic Studies category are aimed at highlighting areas of importance in Muslim societies. Arabic Literature topics relate to specialized areas within the discipline. Topics in medicine are supposed to reflect current areas of international concern. The science category covers a broad range of subcategories e.g. physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology.

### Nomination

Islamic institutions, universities and previous winners of the King Faisal Prize can nominate a person for the award. Nominations from ordinary individuals or political parties are not accepted. The nominee or nominated institution(s) must be known for their leading practical or intellectual role in the service of Islam and Muslims. Nominated works must be published, benefit mankind and enrich human knowledge.

### Selection

Winners of the Prize for category "Service to Islam" are chosen directly by the respective selection committee. For other Prize categories, pre-selection by peer reviewers is carried out, which is followed by scrutiny of the works of worthy nominees by selected referees of each discipline. Autonomous, international, specialist selection committees are then convened at the headquarters of King Faisal Foundation in Riyadh each January to make their final decisions.

## Prizes

The prize in each of the five categories consists of:
* A Certificate written in Arabic Diwani calligraphy and signed by the Chairman of the Prize board, His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Al-Faisal Bin Abd Al-Aziz, enclosed in a binder of the finest leather inscribed with the winner’s name and a summary of his/her work which qualified him/her for the prize.
* A 24 carat 200 gram gold medal, with one side bearing the image of King Faisal, and the prize category written in Arabic, and the other holding the logo of the prize and the prize category in English.
* A check of SAR 750 thousand (an equivalent of US$ 200 thousand), distributed equally between the winners if they are more than one.
Co-winners in any category share the monetary grant. The prizes are awarded during a ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, under the auspices of the King of Saudi Arabia.

## Country standings

The five countries with most award-winners included 2025 were:
| Position | Service to Islam | Islamic Studies | Arabic Language and Literature | Medicine | Science | Total |
| United States | 0 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 28 | 63 |
| Egypt | 7 | 7 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 39 |
| Saudi Arabia | 17 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 28 |
| Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
Sydney Brenner was considered to be the first Jew to win the King Faisal Award, in 1992. Ronald Levy was reported to be a Jewish recipient in 2009.

## Winners by subject
### Service to Islam

| Year | Branch | Country | Winner name | Winner title |
| 1979 | Service to Islam | Pakistan | Sayyid Abul Ala'a AI-Moudoodi | Maulana |
| 1980 | Service to Islam | India | Sayyid Abul-Hasan Ali Al-Hasani Al-Nadawi | Mufakkir-e-Islam |
| 1980 | Service to Islam | Indonesia | Mohammad Natsir | Doctor |
| 1981 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | King Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | His Majesty |
| 1982 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Abdulaziz bin Baz | Shaikh |
| 1983 | Service to Islam | Egypt | Hasanein M. Makhlouf | Shaikh |
| 1983 | Service to Islam | Malaysia | Tunku Abdul Rahman | Prince |
| 1984 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques |
| 1985 | Service to Islam | Afghanistan | Abdul Rasul Sayyaf | Mr |
| 1986 | Service to Islam | South Africa | Ahmad H. Deedat | Mr |
| 1986 | Service to Islam | France | Roger Garaudy | Doctor |
| 1987 | Service to Islam | Nigeria | Abu Bakr Mahmoud Gumi | Shaikh |
| 1988 | Service to Islam | Philippines | Ahmad Domocao Alonto | Doctor |
| 1989 | Service to Islam | Egypt | Muhammad Al-Ghazali Al-Saqqa | Shaikh |
| 1990 | Service to Islam | Syria | Ali Al-Tantawi | Shaikh |
| 1990 | Service to Islam | Pakistan | Khurshid Ahmad | Professor |
| 1991 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Dr. Abdullah Umar Nasif | His Excellency |
| 1992 | Service to Islam | Niger | Dr. Hamid AIgabid | His Excellency |
| 1993 | Service to Islam | Bosnia | President Alija Begovitch | President |
| 1994 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Muhammad Ibn Al-Uthaymeen | Shaikh |
| 1995 | Service to Islam | Egypt | Shaikh Gad AI-Haq Ali Gad AI-Haq | His Eminence |
| 1996 | Service to Islam | Kuwait | Abd AI-Rahman H. AI-Sumait | Doctor |
| 1997 | Service to Islam | Malaysia | Dr. Mahathir bin Muhammad | Prime Minister |
| 1998 | Service to Islam | Senegal | President Abdou Diouf | His Excellency |
| 1999 | Service to Islam | United Arab Emirates | Jum'ah AI-Majid Abd Allah | Mr |
| 2000 | Service to Islam | Egypt | AI-Azhar AI-Sharif | - |
| 2001 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | The Saudi Arabian High Commission for Donations to Bosnia-Herzegovina | - |
| 2002 | Service to Islam | United Arab Emirates | Shaikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi | His Highness |
| 2003 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Foundation | - |
| 2004 | Service to Islam | Sudan | Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad Siwar Adh-Dahab | Field Marshal |
| 2005 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Ahmed Mohamed Ali | His Excellency |
| 2005 | Service to Islam | Lebanon | AI-Hariri Foundation | - |
| 2006 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Shaikh Salih bin Abd AlRahman AI-Husayyin | His Excellency |
| 2006 | Service to Islam | Kuwait | Yusuf bin Jasim bin Mohammad AI-Hidji | Shaikh |
| 2007 | Service to Islam | Russia | Mintimer Sharipovich Shaimev | His Excellency |
| 2008 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques |
| 2009 | Service to Islam | Egypt | Principal Sharie Society for Quran and Sunnah Scholars Cairo | - |
| 2010 | Service to Islam | Turkey | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Prime Minister |
| 2011 | Service to Islam | Malaysia | Abdullah Ahmad Badawi | His Excellency |
| 2012 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Sulaiman Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al-Rajhi | Shaikh |
| 2014 | Service to Islam | Nigeria | Ahmed Lemu | Sheikh, Justice |
| 2015 | Service to Islam | India | Zakir A. Naik | Doctor |
| 2016 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Salih bin Abdullah al Humaid | Doctor |
| 2017 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Salman bin Abdulaziz | King |
| 2018 | Service to Islam | Indonesia | Irwandi Jaswir | Professor |
| 2019 | Service to Islam | Sudan | International University of Africa, Khartoum | - |
| 2020 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | The Makkah Document | - |
| 2021 | Service to Islam | Kuwait | Mohammed Al-Sharekh | Mr |
| 2022 | Service to Islam | Tanzania | Ali Hassan Mwinyi | His Excellency |
| 2022 | Service to Islam | Egypt | Hassan Mahmoud Al Shafei | Professor |
| 2023 | Service to Islam | South Korea | Choi Young Kil-Hamed | Professor |
| 2023 | Service to Islam | United Arab Emirates | Nasser bin Abdullah Al Zaabi | His Excellency |
| 2024 | Service to Islam | Japan | Japan Muslim Association | - |
| 2024 | Service to Islam | Lebanon | Mohammad Sammak | Doctor |
| 2025 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Liajlehum Association for Serving People with Disabilities | - |
| 2025 | Service to Islam | Saudi Arabia | Sami Abdullah Almaghlouth | - |

### Islamic studies world wide

| Year | Branch | Topic | Country | Winner name | Winner title |
| 1979 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with the influence of Muslim scholars on European civilization | Germany | Fuat Sezgin | Professor |
| 1980 | Islamic studies | Studies on the hadith of Muhammad | Saudi Arabia | Muhammad Mustafa Azmi | Doctor |
| 1981 | Islamic studies | Studies on the role of Shari'a in the restoration of the society | - | Not awarded | ----- |
| 1982 | Islamic studies | Contemporary economic problems from an Islamic perspective | India | Muhammad Najatuallah Siddiqui | Professor |
| 1983 | Islamic studies | Studies on the Quran | Egypt | Muhammad A. Odaimah | Professor |
| 1984 | Islamic studies | General theory in Islamic jurisprudence | Syria | Mustafa A. AI-Zarka'a | Shaikh |
| 1985 | Islamic studies | Studies and editions on the Islamic doctrine | Saudi Arabia | Muhammad Rashad Salim | Professor |
| 1985 | Islamic studies | Studies and editions on the Islamic doctrine | Egypt | Farouk A Oesouki | Doctor |
| 1985 | Islamic studies | Studies and editions on the Islamic doctrine | Egypt | Mustafa M. Suliman | Doctor |
| 1986 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with Islamic history | Iraq | Abd AI-Aziz AI-Duri | Professor |
| 1987 | Islamic studies | Principles and practices of international relations in Islam | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1988 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with Islamic education | Egypt | Muhammad Kotb Shathly | - |
| 1988 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with Islamic education | Turkey | Mikdat Yalçın | Professor |
| 1989 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with the Islamic city | Iraq | Saleh Ahmad AI-Ali | Professor |
| 1990 | Islamic studies | Financial dealings in Islamic Shari'ah | Sudan | Al-Seddiq M. Al-Darir | Professor |
| 1990 | Islamic studies | Financial dealings in Islamic Shari'ah | Saudi Arabia | Umer Chapra | Doctor |
| 1991 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with the spread of Islam into an area outside the present boundaries of the Islamic World | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1992 | Islamic studies | Origins of research methodologies in contemporary | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1993 | Islamic studies | Muslim achievements in the field of sociology | Egypt | Hasan As-Sa'ati Abd AI Aziz | Professor |
| 1994 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with Islamic law | Egypt | EI-Sayyid Sabiq At-Tihami | Shaikh |
| 1994 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with Islamic law | Qatar | Yousef A. AI-Qaradawi | Doctor |
| 1995 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with thematic commentary of the Quran | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1996 | Islamic studies | The life of Muhammad | Iraq | Akram Dia'a AI-Umari | Professor |
| 1997 | Islamic studies | Studies on the status of women in Islam | Iraq | Abd AI-Karim Zedan Biej | Professor |
| 1998 | Islamic studies | Studies on libraries or the evolution of Islamic book craft | Egypt | Abd AI-Sattar Al-Halwaji | Professor |
| 1998 | Islamic studies | Studies on libraries or the evolution of Islamic book craft | Saudi Arabia | Yahia M. bin Junaid | Professor |
| 1999 | Islamic studies | Contributions to the study, verification and authentication of the hadith | Albania | Shaikh Muhammad Nasir Ad-Din Al-Albani | Shaikh |
| 2000 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with the spread and cultural impact of Islam outside the Arab | Bangladesh | Muhammad Mohar Ali | Professor |
| 2001 | Islamic studies | Studies on matters with no Islamic legal precedent | - | Not awarded | - |
| 2002 | Islamic studies | Studies into the objectives of Islamic legislation | - | Not awarded | - |
| 2003 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with history of Islamic economics | Sudan | Izz EI-Din Omar Mousa | Professor |
| 2003 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with history of Islamic economics | Morocco | Ibrahim Abu Bakr Harakat | Professor |
| 2004 | Islamic studies | Basics of Islamic jurisprudence | Saudi Arabia | Yacoub Abd AI-wahab AIBahussain | Doctor |
| 2004 | Islamic studies | Basics of Islamic jurisprudence | India | Ali Ahmad Ghulam Muhammad Nadvi | Doctor |
| 2005 | Islamic studies | Defense of the Islamic state during the 5th and 6th centuries A.H | United Kingdom | Carole Hillenbrand | Professor |
| 2006 | Islamic studies | The origins of Islamic jurisprudence | - | Not awarded | |
| 2007 | Islamic studies | Muslims' contribution to pure or applied sciences | France | Roshdi Hifni Rashed | Professor |
| 2008 | Islamic studies | Rules governing international relations during peace and war in Islam | - | Withheld | - |
| 2009 | Islamic studies | Studies by Muslim scholars on the concept of "imran" (civilization cycles) | Morocco | Abdessalam M. Cheddadi | Professor |
| 2010 | Islamic studies | Studies dealing with religious endowments (Waqf) in Islam | - | Withheld | - |
| 2011 | Islamic studies | Socioeconomic aspects in the Islamic world through 10th–13th century H; | Turkey | Halil İbrahim İnalcık | Professor |
| 2011 | Islamic studies | Socioeconomic aspects in the Islamic world through 10th–13th century H; | Jordan | Muhammad Adnan Bakhit Al-Sheyyab | Professor |
| 2012 | Islamic studies | Human rights in Islam | Saudi Arabia | Professor Adnaan Bin Muhammad Al-Wazan | His Excellency |
| 2015 | Islamic studies | Cultural heritage of Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah | Saudi Arabia | Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Kaki | Doctor |
| 2016 | Islamic studies | Muslim geography heritage | Kuwait | Abdullah bin Yousif Al-Ghunaim | Professor |
| 2018 | Islamic studies | Critical editions of Islamic historical and biographical texts | Jordan | Bashar Awad | Professor |
| 2020 | Islamic studies | Islamic heritage of Alquds | Jordan | Mohammed Hashim Ghosheh | Doctor |
| 2021 | Islamic studies | Endowment in Islam | - | Withheld | - |
| 2022 | Islamic studies | Andalus's Islamic heritage | - | Withheld | - |
| 2023 | Islamic studies | Islamic architecture | United Kingdom | Robert Hillenbrand | Professor |
| 2024 | Islamic studies | Islamic Legislations and their Contemporary Applications | United States | Wael Hallaq | Professor |
| 2025 | Islamic studies | Studies of Archaeology in the Arabian Peninsula | Saudi Arabia | Said Faiz Alsaid | Professor |
| 2025 | Islamic studies | Studies of Archaeology in the Arabian Peninsula | Saudi Arabia | Saad Abdulaziz Alrashid | Professor |

### Arabic language and literature

| Year | Branch | Topic | Country | Winner name | Winner title |
| 1979 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on contemporary Arabic poetry | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1980 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on contemporary Arabic poetry | Palestine | Ihsan Abbas | Professor |
| 1980 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on contemporary Arabic poetry | Egypt | Abd Al-Qadir Al-Qit | Professor |
| 1981 | Arabic language and literature | Editing literary manuscripts from the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.H. | Egypt | Abd Al Salam Harun | Professor |
| 1982 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on ancient Arabic literature from the pre-Islamic era to the end of the 1st century A.H. | Jordan | Nasir Al-Din Al-Asad | Professor |
| 1983 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on ancient Arabic literature during the 2nd and 3rd centuries | Egypt | Ahmad Shawqi Daif | Professor |
| 1984 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on Arabic literature during the 4th century A.H. | Egypt | Mahmoud Mohamed Shaker | - |
| 1985 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on ancient Arabic literary criticism | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1986 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on Arabic literature during the 5th and 6th centuries A.H. | Iraq | Muhammad Bahjat Athari | - |
| 1987 | Arabic language and literature | Literary studies on modern Arabic prose | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1988 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on Arabic literature in Andalusia | Morocco | Mohammad Bin Sharifah | Professor |
| 1988 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on Arabic literature in Andalusia | Egypt | Mahmoud Y. Makki | Professor |
| 1989 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with prominent Arab writers and poets to the end of the 3rd century A.H. | Egypt | Yousef A. Khulaif | Professor |
| 1989 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with prominent Arab writers and poets to the end of the 3rd century A.H. | Syria | Shaker Al-Fahham | Professor |
| 1990 | Arabic language and literature | Short Novels | Egypt | Yahia M. Haqqi | Mr |
| 1991 | Arabic language and literature | Children's Literature | Morocco | MAli Abd Al-Qadir Al Siqilli | Mr |
| 1991 | Arabic language and literature | Children's Literature | Egypt | Abd Al Tawwab Yousef | Mr |
| 1991 | Arabic language and literature | Children's Literature | Egypt | Ahmed M. Najeeb | - |
| 1992 | Arabic language and literature | Translations of literary and critical studies into Arabic | Lebanon | Mohammad Yousef Najm | Professor |
| 1992 | Arabic language and literature | Translations of literary and critical studies into Arabic | Egypt | Abd Alfattah Shukri Ayyad | Professor |
| 1992 | Arabic language and literature | Translations of literary and critical studies into Arabic | Egypt | Mohammad Mustafa Badawi | Professor |
| 1993 | Arabic language and literature | Plays written in metrical or prose Arabic | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1994 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with ancient Arabic prose | United States | Wadad Afif Kadi | Professor |
| 1994 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with ancient Arabic prose | Egypt | Aisha Abd Al Rahman "Bint ash shati" | Professor |
| 1995 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with prominent contemporary Arab writers | Egypt | Mohammad Abu Al-Anwar Mohammad Ali | Professor |
| 1995 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with prominent contemporary Arab writers | Egypt | Hamdi Sayyid Ahmed El Sakkout | Professor |
| 1995 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with prominent contemporary Arab writers | Syria | Salma Lutfi Al-Haffar Al-Kowzbari | - |
| 1996 | Arabic language and literature | Literature analyzing the writings of early Arab travelers | Saudi Arabia | Hamad Bin Mohamad Al Jasir | Shaikh |
| 1997 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on the modern Arabic novel | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1998 | Arabic language and literature | Autobiographies by contemporary Arab writers | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1999 | Arabic language and literature | Comparative studies between Arabic and other literatures: theoretical and applied aspects | Morocco | Said Abd Al-Salam Allouche | - |
| 1999 | Arabic language and literature | Comparative studies between Arabic and other literatures: theoretical and applied aspects | Egypt | Makarim Ahmed Al-Ghamri | Professor |
| 2000 | Arabic language and literature | Studies pertaining to early Arab literary critics | Egypt | Izz Ad-Din Ismail Abd-Al Ghani | Professor |
| 2000 | Arabic language and literature | Studies pertaining to early Arab literary critics | Sudan | Abd Allah Al-Tayyeb | - |
| 2001 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with modern Arabic prose | Saudi Arabia | Mansour Ibrahim Al Hazmi | Professor |
| 2001 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with modern Arabic prose | Jordan | Ibrahim Abd Al-Rahim Al Saafin | Professor |
| 2002 | Arabic language and literature | Studies of modern Palestinian literature | Jordan | Husni Mahmoud Hussein | Professor |
| 2002 | Arabic language and literature | Studies of modern Palestinian literature | Syria | Husam Aldin Al-Khatib | Professor |
| 2003 | Arabic language and literature | Definitions of literary and critical terms of Arabic literature | - | Not awarded | - |
| 2004 | | Preservation of classical Arabic to the end of the 5th century AH | Egypt | Hussain M Nassar | Professor |
| 2005 | Arabic language and literature | Arabic prose in the 4th and 5th centuries A.H. | - | Not awarded | - |
| 2006 | Arabic language and literature | The Arabic language in modern linguistics | Morocco | Abdelkader Fassi Fehri | - |
| 2006 | Arabic language and literature | The Arabic language in modern linguistics | Egypt | Tammam Hassan Omar | Professor |
| 2007 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on ancient Arabic rhetoric | Egypt | Mustafa A. Nasif | Professor |
| 2007 | Arabic language and literature | Studies on ancient Arabic rhetoric | Morocco | Muhammad A. Al-Omari | Professor |
| 2008 | Arabic language and literature | Terminology Issues of the Arabic language | Tunisia | Muhammad Rachad Hamzaoui | Professor |
| 2008 | Arabic language and literature | Terminology Issues of the Arabic language | Iraq | Ahmed Matloob Al-Nasir | Professor |
| 2009 | Arabic language and literature | Verification of poetry, prose and anthology through 300 H – 700 H | Saudi Arabia | Abd Al-Aziz Bin Nasir Al-Manie | Professor |
| 2010 | Arabic language and literature | Studies Dealing with Arabic Grammatical Thought | Lebanon | Ramzi Mounir Baalbaki | Professor |
| 2010 | Arabic language and literature | Studies Dealing with Arabic Grammatical Thought | Algeria | Abderrahman El-Houari Hadj-Saleh | Professor |
| 2011 | Arabic language and literature | Renovation trends in Arabic poetry up to the end of the 7th century H. | - | Not awarded | - |
| 2012 | Arabic language and literature | Computer processing of the Arabic language: individual and institutional endeavors | Egypt | Nabil Ali Mohamed | Professor |
| 2012 | Arabic language and literature | Computer processing of the Arabic language: individual and institutional endeavors | Egypt | Ali Helmy Ahmed Moussa | Professor |
| 2013 | Arabic language and literature | Individual and institutional efforts In writing Arabic dictionaries | Egypt | Arabic language Academy In Cairo | - |
| 2015 | Arabic language and literature | Venture towards Arabisation of scientific and medical matters | - | Withheld | - |
| 2016 | Arabic language and literature | Analysis of the Arabic poetic text | Egypt | Mohamed Abdalmotaleb Mostafa | Professor |
| 2016 | Arabic language and literature | Analysis of the Arabic poetic text | Morocco | Mohammed El-Ghazouani Miftah | Professor |
| 2018 | Arabic language and literature | Studies dealing with autobiography in Arabic literature | Tunisia | Shukri Mabkhout | Professor |
| 2019 | Arabic language and literature | Arabic language and contemporary challenges | Morocco | Abdelali Mohamed Oudrhiri | Doctor |
| 2019 | Arabic language and literature | Arabic language and contemporary challenges | Egypt | Mahmoud Fahmy Hegazi | Doctor |
| 2020 | Arabic language and literature | Linguistic studies on Arabic in other languages | Australia | Michael G. Carter | Professor |
| 2021 | Arabic language and literature | The new rhetoric | Morocco | Mohamed Mechbal | Professor |
| 2022 | Arabic language and literature | Arabic literature studies in English | United States | Suzanne Stetkevych | Professor |
| 2022 | Arabic language and literature | Arabic literature studies in English | United States | Muhsin Al-Musawi | Professor |
| 2023 | Arabic language and literature | Classical Arabic narrative and modern theories | Morocco | Abdelfattah Kilito | Professor |
| 2024 | Arabic language and literature | Non-Arab Institutions and their Endeavors to Promote Arabic | - | Withheld | - |
| 2025 | Arabic language and literature | Studies of Identity in Arabic Literature | - | Withheld | - |

### Medicine

| Year | Branch | Topic | Country | Winner name | Winner title |
| 1982 | Medicine | Primary health care | United Kingdom | David C. Morley | Professor |
| 1983 | Medicine | Malaria | United Kingdom | Wallace Peters | Professor |
| 1984 | Medicine | Diarrheal diseases | United States | Michael Field (de) | Professor |
| 1984 | Medicine | Diarrheal diseases | United States | William B. Greenough III | Professor |
| 1984 | Medicine | Diarrheal diseases | United States | John S. Fordtran | Professor |
| 1985 | Medicine | Viral hepatitis | United States | R. Palmer Beasley | Professor |
| 1985 | Medicine | Viral hepatitis | Italy | Mario Rizzetto | Professor |
| 1986 | Medicine | Diabetes mellitus | Switzerland | Albert Renold | Professor |
| 1986 | Medicine | Diabetes mellitus | Italy | Lelio Orci | Professor |
| 1986 | Medicine | Diabetes mellitus | Italy | Gian Franco Bottazzo | - |
| 1987 | Medicine | Prevention of blindness | New Zealand | Barrie Russell Jones | Professor |
| 1988 | Medicine | Leukemia | United Kingdom | Melvin F. Greaves | |
| 1988 | Medicine | Leukemia | United States | Janet D. Rawley | Professor |
| 1989 | Medicine | Infertility | United Kingdom | Robert G. Edwards | Professor |
| 1989 | Medicine | Infertility | United States | Luigi Mastroianni Jr. | Professor |
| 1990 | Medicine | Schistosomiasis | United Kingdom | Anthony E. Butterworth | Professor |
| 1990 | Medicine | Schistosomiasis | France | André Capron | Professor |
| 1991 | Medicine | Biochemical aspects of mental health | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1992 | Medicine | Coronary artery disease | Italy | Attilio Maseri | Professor |
| 1993 | Medicine | Acquired Immuno-deficiency diseases | France | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi | Professor |
| 1993 | Medicine | Acquired Immuno-deficiency diseases | France | Jean-Claude Chermann | Professor |
| 1993 | Medicine | Acquired Immuno-deficiency diseases | France | Luc Montagnier | Professor |
| 1994 | Medicine | Medical applications of genetic engineering | United Kingdom | Robert Williamson (de) | Professor |
| 1994 | Medicine | Medical applications of genetic engineering | United States | W. French Anderson | Professor |
| 1995 | Medicine | Molecular immunology | Canada | Tak W. Mak | Professor |
| 1995 | Medicine | Molecular immunology | United States | Mark M. Davis | Professor |
| 1995 | Medicine | Molecular immunology | United Kingdom | Gregory P. Winter | Sir |
| 1996 | Medicine | Management of the premature infant | Japan | Tetsurō Fujiwara | Professor |
| 1996 | Medicine | Management of the premature infant | Sweden | Bengt Robertson | Professor |
| 1997 | Medicine | Degenerative diseases of the nervous system | Germany | Konrad Beyreuther | Professor |
| 1997 | Medicine | Degenerative diseases of the nervous system | Canada | James F. Gusella | Professor |
| 1997 | Medicine | Degenerative diseases of the nervous system | Australia | Colin L. Masters | Professor |
| 1998 | Medicine | Control of communicable diseases | United States | Robert H. Purcell | Professor |
| 1998 | Medicine | Control of communicable diseases | United States | John L. Gerin | Professor |
| 1999 | Medicine | Allergic diseases | United Kingdom | Stephen T. Holgate | |
| 1999 | Medicine | Allergic diseases | Australia | Patrick G. Holt [de] | Professor |
| 2000 | Medicine | Ageing | United States | Cynthia Jane Kenyon | Professor |
| 2001 | Medicine | Organ transplantation | United States | Norman E. Shumway | Professor |
| 2001 | Medicine | Organ transplantation | United Kingdom | Roy Calne | Professor |
| 2001 | Medicine | Organ transplantation | United States | Thomas Starzl | Professor |
| 2002 | Medicine | Pathophysiology of chronic heart failure | Denmark | Finn Waagstein [de] | Professor |
| 2002 | Medicine | Pathophysiology of chronic heart failure | United States | Eugene Braunwald | Professor |
| 2003 | Medicine | Breast cancer | Italy | Umberto Veronesi | Professor |
| 2003 | Medicine | Breast cancer | Germany | Axel Ullrich | Professor |
| 2004 | Medicine | Invasive cardiology | Switzerland | Ulrich Sigwart | Professor |
| 2005 | Medicine | Tobacco risks on human health | United Kingdom | Richard Doll | Sir |
| 2005 | Medicine | Tobacco risks on human health | United Kingdom | Richard Peto | Sir |
| 2006 | | Biology of vascular inflammation | United States | Michael Anthony Gimbrone [de] Jr. | Professor |
| 2007 | Medicine | Prostate cancer | Canada | Fernand Labrie | Professor |
| 2007 | Medicine | Prostate cancer | United States | Patrick Craig Walsh [de] | Professor |
| 2008 | Medicine | Trauma management | United States | Donald Trunkey | Professor |
| 2008 | Medicine | Trauma management | United States | Basil A. Pruitt [de] Jr. | Professor |
| 2009 | Medicine | Molecular targeted therapy | United States | Ronald Levy | Professor |
| 2010 | Medicine | Non-arthroplasty management of degenerative joint disease | Germany | Reinhold Ganz [de] | Professor |
| 2010 | Medicine | Non-arthroplasty management of degenerative joint disease | Canada | Johanne Martel-Pelletier | Professor |
| 2010 | Medicine | Non-arthroplasty management of degenerative joint disease | Canada | Jean-Pierre Pelletier [de] | Professor |
| 2011 | Medicine | Stem cell therapy | United States | James A. Thomson | Professor |
| 2011 | Medicine | Stem cell therapy | Japan | Shinya Yamanaka | Professor |
| 2012 | Medicine | Minimal invasive fetal management | United States | Richard L. Berkowitz [de] | Professor |
| 2012 | Medicine | Minimal invasive fetal management | United States | James B. Bussel [de] | Professor |
| 2013 | Medicine | The genetics of obesity | United States | Jeffrey M. Friedman | Professor |
| 2013 | Medicine | The genetics of obesity | Canada | Douglas L. Coleman | Professor |
| 2014 | Medicine | Non-invasive diagnosis of fetal diseases | Hong Kong | Yuk Ming Dennis Lo | Professor |
| 2015 | Medicine | Intestinal microflora and human health | United States | Jeffrey Ivan Gordon | Professor |
| 2016 | Medicine | Clinical application of next generation genetics | Netherlands | Joris Andre Veltman [de] | Professor |
| 2016 | Medicine | Clinical application of next generation genetics | Netherlands | Han G. Brunner [de] | Professor |
| 2017 | Medicine | Biologic therapeutics in autoimmune diseases | Japan | Tadamitsu Kishimoto | Professor |
| 2018 | Medicine | Immunotherapy for cancer | United States | James P. Allison | Professor |
| 2019 | Medicine | Bone biology and osteoporosis | United States | Steven L. Teitelbaum | Professor |
| 2019 | Medicine | Bone biology and osteoporosis | Norway | Bjorn Reino Olsen | Professor |
| 2020 | Medicine | Haemoglobinopathies | United States | Stuart H. Orkin | Professor |
| 2021 | Medicine | Regenerative medicine in neurological conditions | United States | Stephen Mark Strittmatter | Professor |
| 2021 | Medicine | Regenerative medicine in neurological conditions | United Kingdom | Robin James Milroy Franklin | Professor |
| 2022 | Medicine | Gene editing technologies | United States | David Ruchien Liu | Professor |
| 2023 | Medicine | Pandemics and vaccine development | United States | Dan Barouch | Professor |
| 2023 | Medicine | Pandemics and vaccine development | United Kingdom | Sarah Catherine Gilbert | Professor |
| 2024 | Medicine | Management of Peripheral Disabilities | United States | Jerry R. Mendell | Professor |
| 2025 | Medicine | Cellular Therapy | Canada | Michel Sadelain | Professor |

### Science

| Year | Branch | Topic | Country | Winner name | Winner title |
| 1984 | Science | Physics | Switzerland | Heinrich Rohrer | Professor |
| 1984 | Science | Physics | Germany | Gerd Binnig | Professor |
| 1985 | Science | - | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1986 | Science | Biochemistry | United Kingdom | Michael John Berridge | Sir |
| 1987 | Science | Mathematics | United Kingdom | Michael Atiyah | Sir |
| 1988 | Science | Biology | United Kingdom | Ricardo Miledi | Professor |
| 1988 | Science | Biology | France | Pierre Chambon | Professor |
| 1989 | Science | Physics | Germany | Theodor W. Hänsch | Professor |
| 1989 | Science | Physics | Egypt / United States | Ahmed Hassan Zewail | Professor |
| 1990 | Science | Chemistry | Canada | Raymond Urgel Lemieux | Professor |
| 1990 | Science | Chemistry | Egypt / United States | Mostafa El-Sayed | Professor |
| 1990 | Science | Chemistry | United States | Frank Albert Cotton | Professor |
| 1991 | Science | Mathematics | - | Not awarded | - |
| 1992 | Science | Biology | South Africa | Sydney Brenner | Professor |
| 1993 | Science | Physics | United States | Steven Chu | Professor |
| 1993 | Science | Physics | Germany | Herbert Walther | Professor |
| 1994 | Science | Mathematics | United States | Dennis Parnell Sullivan | Professor |
| 1995 | Science | Chemistry | United States | K. Barry Sharpless | Professor |
| 1996 | Science | Biology | United States | Günter Blobel | Professor |
| 1996 | Science | Biology | United States | James E. Rothman | Professor |
| 1996 | Science | Biology | United Kingdom | Hugh Pelham | Professor |
| 1997 | Science | Physics | United States | Eric Allin Cornell | Professor |
| 1997 | Science | Physics | United States | Carl E. Wieman | Professor |
| 1998 | Science | Mathematics | United Kingdom | Andrew John Wiles | Sir |
| 1999 | Science | Chemistry | Germany | Dieter Seebach | Professor |
| 1999 | Science | Chemistry | Japan | Ryoji Noyori | Professor |
| 2000 | Science | Biology | United States | John Craig Venter | Professor |
| 2000 | Science | Biology | United States | Edward O.Wilson | Professor |
| 2001 | Science | Physics | United States | Chen Ning Yang | Professor |
| 2001 | Science | Physics | Canada | Sajeev O. John | Professor |
| 2002 | Science | Mathematics | United States | Peter W. Shor | Professor |
| 2002 | Science | Mathematics | Russia | Yuri I. Manin | Professor |
| 2003 | Science | Chemistry | Japan | Koji Nakanishi | Professor |
| 2003 | Science | Chemistry | United States | M. Frederick Hawthorne | Professor |
| 2004 | Science | Biology | United Kingdom | Semir Zeki | Professor |
| 2005 | Science | Physics | United States | Federico Capasso | Professor |
| 2005 | Science | Physics | Austria | Anton Zeilinger | Professor |
| 2005 | Science | Physics | United States | Frank Wilczek | Professor |
| 2006 | Science | Mathematics | United Kingdom | Simon Kirwan Donaldson | Professor |
| 2006 | Science | Mathematics | India | Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan | Professor |
| 2007 | Science | Chemistry | United Kingdom | James Fraser Stoddart | Professor |
| 2008 | Science | Biology | Germany | Rüdiger Wehner [de] | Professor |
| 2009 | Science | Physics | Russia | Rashid A. Sunyaev | Professor |
| 2009 | Science | Physics | United Kingdom | Richard H. Friend | Sir |
| 2010 | Science | Mathematics | Australia | Terence Chi-Shen Tao | Professor |
| 2010 | Science | Mathematics | Italy | Enrico Bombieri | Professor |
| 2011 | Science | Chemistry | United States | George M. Whitesides | Professor |
| 2011 | Science | Chemistry | United States | Richard Zare | Professor |
| 2012 | Science | Biology | United States | Alexander Jacob Varshavsky | Professor |
| 2013 | Science | Physics | Hungary / Austria | Ferenc Krausz | Professor |
| 2013 | Science | Physics | Canada | Paul B. Corkum | Professor |
| 2014 | Science | Mathematics | Germany | Gerd Faltings | Professor |
| 2015 | Science | Chemistry | Switzerland | Michael Grätzel | Professor |
| 2015 | Science | Chemistry | Jordan / United States | Omar Mwannes Yaghi | Professor |
| 2016 | Science | Biology | United States | Vamsi Krishna Mootha | Professor |
| 2016 | Science | Biology | United Kingdom | Stephen Philip Jackson | Professor |
| 2017 | Science | Physics | Switzerland | Daniel Loss | Professor |
| 2017 | Science | Physics | Netherlands | Laurens Molenkamp | Professor |
| 2018 | Science | Mathematics | United Kingdom | John M. Ball | Sir |
| 2019 | Science | Chemistry | United States | Allen J. Bard | Professor |
| 2019 | Science | Chemistry | United States | Jean Fréchet | Professor |
| 2020 | Science | Biology | United States | Xiaodong Wang | Professor |
| 2021 | Science | Physics | United Kingdom | Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin | Professor |
| 2022 | Science | Mathematics | United Kingdom | Martin Hairer | Professor |
| 2022 | Science | Mathematics | Tunisia | Nader Masmoudi | Professor |
| 2023 | Science | Chemistry | United States | Jackie Yi-Ru Ying | Professor |
| 2023 | Science | Chemistry | United States | Chad Alexander Mirkin | Professor |
| 2024 | Science | Biology | United States | Howard Y. Chang | Professor |
| 2025 | Science | Physics | Japan | Sumio Iijima | Professor |