# List of recipients of the Paralympic Order

The following is a list of recipients of the Paralympic Order.
The Paralympic Order is the highest award of the Paralympic Movement, since 1994. The recipients get a medal with the IPC logo on it. The Paralympic Order is awarded to individuals for particularly distinguished contribution to the Paralympic Movement.
Before 2003, the Paralympic Order was given out in three categories: Gold, Silver and Bronze.

## Recipients
### 1990s

| Year | Name | Title | NPC |
| 1994 | Gerhard Heiberg | President of the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympic Games Organizing Committee and (LOCOG) Lillehammer 1994 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (LPOC) | Norway |
| 1994 | John Magdal | Managing director of LPOC | Norway |
| 1994 | Lill-Unni Østern | Office Manager of LPOC | Norway |
| 1994 | Rolf Jenssen | Venues Consultant of LPOC | Norway |
| 1996 | Juan Antonio Samaranch | President of the International Olympic Committee IOC | Spain |
| 1996 | Andrew Fleming | President of the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (APOC) | United States |
| 1998 | Goro Yoshimura | President of the Nagano 1998 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (NAPOC) | Japan |
| 1998 | Tasuku Tsukada | Mayor of Nagano | Japan |
| 1998 | Yoshifumi Ihara | Deputy Secretary General of NAPOC | Japan |
| 1999 | Joan Scruton | Past Secretary General of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF) | Great Britain |

### 2000s

| Year | Name | Title | NPC | Lvl. |
| 2000 | John Grant | President of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games Organizing Committee (SPOC) | Australia | |
| 2001 | Robert Steadward | First President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) | Canada | |
| 2001 | Michael Riding | Past IPC Medical Officer | | |
| 2001 | André Auberger | Past IPC Treasurer | | |
| 2001 | Elisabeth Dendy | Past President of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) | Great Britain | |
| 2001 | Lina Faria | Past President of CPISRA | | |
| 2001 | Enrique Sanz | Past President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) | | |
| 2001 | Guillermo Cabezas | Past President of the International Sports Organization for the Disabled (ISOD) | | |
| 2001 | Harry Fang | Founding Father of the Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled (FESPIC) | China | |
| 2001 | Walter Tröger | International Olympic Committee (IOC) Delegate Member for Disabled Sport | | |
| 2001 | George Dunstan | Past International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Regional Representative South Pacific | Australia | |
| 2001 | Gilbert Felli | IOC Sports Director | | |
| 2002 | Bob Garff | Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Salt Lake 2002 Organizing Committee (SLOC) | | |
| 2002 | Mitt Romney | Chief executive Officer and President of SLOC | United States | |
| 2002 | Fraser Bullock | Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of SLOC | United States | |
| 2002 | Bob McCullough | Past president of the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation (ISMWSF) | Australia | |
| 2002 | Gudrun Doll-Tepper | Past IPC chairperson of the science committee and president of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) | | |
| 2002 | Gertrude Krombholz | Past IPC chairperson Wheelchair Dance Sport | | |
| 2002 | Hans Lindström | Past IPC technical officer and regional representative Europe | | |
| 2003 | Yasuhiro Hatsuyama | Former IPC Executive Committee member and East Asia Representative | | |
| 2003 | Colin Rains | President of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) | | |
| 2003 | Hector Ramirez | Past President of the Pan American Wheelchair Sport Federation, President of the Argentine Paralympic Committee (COPAR) | | |
| 2003 | Donald Royer | President of the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association | | |
| 2003 | Jean Stone | Technical Secretary to the IPC Sports Council, Women in Sport Committee | | |
| 2003 | Carl Wang | Chairperson of the Norwegian Sports Organization for the Disabled and President of the European Paralympic Committee | Norway | Norway |
| 2003 | Xavier Gonzalez | Paralympic Games Liaison Director and interim COO | | |
| 2004 | Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | President of the Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (ATHOC) | Greece | Greece |
| 2004 | Ioannis Spanudakis | Managing director of ATHOC | | |
| 2004 | Ioanna Karyofylli | General Manager of ATHOC | | |
| 2004 | Ludwig Guttmann | Pioneer of sport for persons with a disability and founder of the Paralympic Movement | Germany | Germany |
| 2004 | Organizacion Nacional de Ciegos (ONCE) | For their involvement in the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, their support of the Paralympic Movement in Spain and their contributions to the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) | Spain | Spain |
| 2005 | Jack Benedick | Former athlete; World Championship and Paralympic Games Technical Delegate. Chairperson of IPC Alpine Skiing. Board of Directors of the US Ski and Snowboard Association | | |
| 2005 | Birgitta Blomquist | Past representative to a variety of sport federations (Swimming Committee Chairperson 1984-1992 and Wintersport Committee Chairperson 1986–1992) | | |
| 2005 | Chris Cohen | Chairperson of the IPC Athletics Executive Committee | | |
| 2005 | Leen Coudenys | IPC Executive Assistant | | |
| 2005 | Ian Harrison, MBE | President of the International Foundation for Disabled Sailing (IFDS) | | |
| 2005 | Robert Jackson | Past director, vice-president and president of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation from 1972 until 1984 | | |
| 2005 | Carol Mushett | Past IPC Technical Officer of the IPC Executive Committee | | |
| 2005 | Enrique Perez | Past President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) and President of the World Blind Union | | |
| 2005 | Deng Pufang | President of the National Paralympic Committee of China, the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF) and Executive President of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee (BOCOG) | China | China |
| 2005 | Albert Tricot | Founder of the Belgian Paralympic Committee | | |
| 2005 | Whang Youn Dai | Vice-president of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled (KOSAD) and founder of the ‘Whang Youn Dai Prize’ | | |
| 2006 | York Chow | Member of the international task force that formed the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 1989; former Vice President Policy and Planning on the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board until 2005 | | |
| 2006 | Giuseppe Ferrari | Secretary General of the Organizing Committee for the Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006 (ComParTo) | | |
| 2006 | Björn Hedman | Current member of the IPC Medical and Anti-Doping Committee; IPC Medical Officer and member of the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board (2001 to 2005) | | |
| 2006 | Fred Jansen | Current Chairperson of the IPC Sports Council; former member of the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board (1998 to 2005). Co-opted as a member of the IPC GB in March 2006 | | |
| 2006 | Tiziana Nasi | President of the Organizing Committee for the Paralympic Winter Games of Torino 2006 (ComParTo) | | |
| 2006 | Juan Palau | Former President of the International Sports Organisation for the Disabled (ISOD) and IOSD Representative on the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board from (1993 to 2005) | | |
| 2006 | Bob Price | Former Chairperson of the British Paralympic Association. President of the European Paralympic Committee (2001 to 2005) and former member of the IPC Executive Committee/ Governing Board (2001 to 2005) | | |
| 2006 | François Terranova | Former Chairperson of the Paralympic Games Liaison Committee since 1997; former Vice President of Paralympic Games on the IPC Executive Committee/Governing Board (1997 to 2005) | | |
| 2006 | Cesare Vaciago | Chief executive Officer of the Organizing Committee for the XX Olympic Winter Games (TOROC) | | |
| 2007 | Silas Chiang | Former Secretary General of the Hong Kong Disabled Sports Association and involved in the organization of the FESPIC Games for over 25 years | | |
| 2007 | Spyros Stavrianopoulos | First president of the Hellenic Paralympic Committee and promoter of sports for persons with a disability in Greece. | | |
| 2008 | Liu Qi | Former mayor of Beijing,resident of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee (BOCOG), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the CPC Beijing Committee | | |
| 2008 | Hui Liangyu | Vice Premier of the State Council, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee | | |
| 2008 | Liu Yandong | Vice-president of BOCOG, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor | | |
| 2008 | Chen Zhili | Vice-president of BOCOG, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | | |
| 2008 | Deng Pufang | President of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF), Executive President of BOCOG, Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) | | |
| 2008 | Liu Peng | Executive President of BOCOG, Minister of the General Administration of Sport of China, President of the Chinese Olympic Committee | | |
| 2008 | Guo Jinlong | Mayor of Beijing, Executive President of BOCOG | China | China |
| 2008 | Tang Xiaoquan | President of the Executive Board and Vice President of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, Executive Vice President of BOCOG | | |
| 2008 | Zhao Wenshi | Deputy of Paralympic Games Command Center, Vice Chairperson of CPPCC Beijing Committee | | |
| 2008 | Manolo Romero | Managing director of Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) | | |
| 2008 | Anne Ebbs | Former Secretary General of the Paralympic Council of Ireland (PCI) | | |
| 2009 | Valeriy Sushkevych | President of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine | | |
| 2009 | Maura Strange | Executive Director and Secretary General of the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) | | |
| 2009 | Pol Wautermartens | Former Chairperson of the IPC Powerlifting Sport Technical Committee | | |
| 2009 | Tony Sainsbury | Former Vice-President of IWBF Europe and five-time Chef de Mission of the British Team for the Paralympics | | |
| 2009 | Jerry Johnston | Founder of the Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing (CADS) | | |
| 2009 | Jens Bromann | Former President of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) | | |
| 2009 | Bob Fisher | Former Chairperson of the Football 7-a-Side Committee of the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) | | |

### 2010s

| Year | Name | Title | NPC |
| 2010 | John Furlong | CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Organizing Committee (VANOC) | |
| 2010 | Dena Coward | VANOC Paralympic Games Director | |
| 2010 | Jack Poole | VANOC Chairman of the Board of Directors (posthumous award) | |
| 2010 | Rusty Goepel | VANOC Chairman of the Board of Directors | |
| 2011 | Matthias Berg | Seven-time Paralympian. Member of the National Paralympic Committee of Germany (2011). | |
| 2011 | Luca Pancalli | President of the National Paralympic Committee of Italy (2011). Eight-time Paralympian. Commissioner of the Italian Football Federation (2011). | |
| 2011 | Nabil Salem | Former president of the National Paralympic Committee of Egypt; former president of the African Paralympic Committee; former vice president of the International Paralympic Committee. | |
| 2011 | Randy Snow | Three-time Paralympian and first Paralympian to be inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame (2004). | |
| 2012 | Sebastian Coe | Chair of London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) | |
| 2012 | Paul Deighton | CEO of LOCOG | |
| 2012 | Chris Holmes | Director of Paralmypic Integration of LOCOG | |
| 2012 | Boris Johnson | Mayor of London during the 2012 Summer Paralympics. | |
| 2012 | Keith Mills | Deputy chair of LOCOG | |
| 2013 | Bob Balk | Former Chairman of the IPC Athletes’ Council | |
| 2013 | Michael Barredo | Former president of International Blind Sports Federation | Philippines |
| 2013 | Duncan Campbell | Wheelchair rugby inventor | |
| 2013 | Jonquil Solt | Former chairwoman of the Equestrian Committee of the International Paralympic Committee | |
| 2014 | Dmitry Chernyshenko | President of Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee (SOOC) | |
| 2014 | Alexander Gorovoy | Deputy Chief of Interagency Security for the 2014 Winter Olympics |
| 2014 | Dmitry Kozak | Deputy Prime Minister of Russia |
| 2014 | Vladimir Lukin | President of Russia Paralympic Committee |
| 2014 | Anatoly Pakhomov | Mayor of Sochi |
| 2014 | Oleg Syromolotov | Chief of Interagency Security for the 2014 Winter Olympics |
| 2014 | Alexander Tkachov | Governor of Krasnodar Krai |
| 2015 | Dr. Axel Bolsinger | Ophthalmologist for the National Paralympic Committee Germany | |
| 2015 | Georgios Fountoulakis | President of Hellenic Paralympic Committee | |
| 2015 | Sylvana Mestre | Former chairwoman of the alpine skiing IPC committee | |
| 2016 | The citizens of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil | For "outstanding support" of the 2016 Summer Paralympics. | Brazil |
| 2016 | The people of the Rio de Janeiro government | | |
| 2016 | The volunteers and staff of the 2016 Summer Olympics | | |
| 2017 | Ann Cody | | United States |
| 2017 | Sir Philip Craven | | United Kingdom |
| 2017 | Paul DePace | | United States |
| 2017 | Gerard Masson | | France |
| 2017 | Karl Vilhelm Nielsen | | Denmark |
| 2017 | Jacques Rogge | | Belgium |
| 2017 | Miguel Sagarra | | Spain |
| 2018 | Patrick Jarvis | | Canada |
| 2018 | Lee Hee-beom | | South Korea |
| 2018 | Choi Moon-soon | | South Korea |
| 2018 | Yeo Hyungkoo | | South Korea |
| 2018 | Kim Jooho | | South Korea |
| 2018 | Kim Jaeyoul | | South Korea |
| 2018 | Kim Kihong | | South Korea |
| 2019 | Jose Luis Campo | | |
| 2019 | Greg Hartung | | Australia |
| 2019 | Alan Dickson | | |
| 2019 | Rudi van den Abbeele | | |
| 2019 | Bassam Qasrawi | | |
| 2019 | Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa | | |
| 2019 | Georg Schlachtenberger | | |

### 2020s

| Year | Name | Title | NPC |
| 2021 | Seiko Hashimoto | President of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee (TOCOG) | Japan |
| 2021 | Toshirō Mutō | Secretary-General of TOCOG | Japan |
| 2021 | Tamayo Marukawa | Minister of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games | Japan |
| 2021 | Yuriko Koike | Governor of Tokyo | Japan |
| 2021 | Mitsunori Torihara | Chairman of Japan Paralympic Committee (JPC) | Japan |
| 2021 | Tarō Asō | Former Vice PM and Former PM of Japan | Japan |
| 2021 | Yoshirō Mori | Former CEO of TOCOG | Japan |
| 2021 | Yoshihide Suga | PM of Japan | Japan |