The Wilbur Cross Medal, or Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Alumni Achievement, is an award by the Yale University Graduate School Alumni Association to recognize "...distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service..."
 Named in honor of Wilbur Lucius Cross, the medal is given to a small group of individuals (up to six) annually, and was first awarded in 1966 to Edgar S. Furniss.
 2023
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Robert Gooding-Williams
James Jones (psychologist)
Chi Chia-wei
 2022
Virginia R. Domínguez
Philip Ewell
Kirk Johnson
Sarah Tishkoff
 2021
Anat Admati
Tamer Basar
Donald Ingber
Mary Miller
 2020
Matthew State
Brenda Elaine Stevenson
Dorceta Taylor
Veronica Vaida
 2019
Ruth Garrett Millikan
Douglas R. Green
Susan M. Kidwell
Urjit Patel
 2018
Elizabeth W. Easton
Kelsey Martin
Marianne Mithun
Tan Eng Chye
 2017
Douglas Diamond
Donna J. Haraway
Eric J. Nestler
Lawrence W. Sherman
 2016
Arend Lijphart
Ira Mellman
Arthur Nozik
Eleanor Sterling
 2015
Carol S. Dweck
Philip Hanawalt
Jeremy Jackson
Jonathan Z. Smith
Thomas D. Pollard
 2014
Eric Fossum
Thomas C. Holt
Kristin Luker
Edmund Phelps
 2013
Fredric Jameson
Alan Lambowitz
Theodore J. Lowi
Annette Thomas
 2012
John D. Aber
Alfred W. McCoy
Jonathan M. Rothberg
Sarah Grey Thomason
 2011
Stanley Fish
Leslie F. Greengard
Bernice A. Pescosolido
Huntington F. Willard
 2010
Stephen Greenblatt
Fred Greenstein
Timothy J. Richmond
Paul Wender
Jon Butler
 2009
Laura L. Kiessling
Michael S. Levine
Richard J. Powell
William J. Willis
 2008
Robert Axelrod
Stephen G. Emerson
Yoriko Kawaguchi
David M. Kennedy
 2007
Carol T. Christ
Paul Friedrich
Anne Walters Robertson
John Suppe
 2006
Eva Brann
Richard Brodhead
Mimi Gardner Gates
Lewis E. Kay
Richard A. Young
 2005
Lincoln Pierson Brower
Peter B. Dervan
Jennifer L. Hochschild
Richard Rorty
Eric F. Wieschaus
 2004
William Cronon
Hong Koo Lee
Julia Phillips
Peter Salovey 
Barbara Schaal
Philip Zimbardo
 2003
Edward L. Ayers
Gerald E. Brown
John Fenn 
Robert D. Putnam 
Charles Yanofsky
Susan Hockfield
 2002
Linda Gordon
Sharon R. Long
Julia M. McNamara
David E. Price
 2001
Elliot M. Meyerowitz
Stephen Owen
Roger N. Shepard
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León
 2000
James G. Arthur
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Ruth Barcan Marcus
Shelley E. Taylor
 1999
Francis S. Collins
William N. Fenton
Allen L. Sessoms
Rosemary A. Stevens
Geerat J. Vermeij
 1998
Helen Murphy Tepperman
George A. Lindbeck
Peter Demetz
David M. Lee
Thomas Appelquist
 1997
Alvin M. Liberman
Francis C. Oakley
G. Virginia Upton
Janet L. Yellen
Anne M. Briscoe
William Louis Gaines
 1996
David C. McClelland
Marie Borroff
Miriam Usher Chrisman
James T. Laney
Heidi I. Hartmann
 1995
Alfred Edward Kahn
Gordon H. Bower
Jennifer L. Kelsey
Mark E. Neely Jr.
Catharine A. MacKinnon
 1994
Theodore Frederic Cooke Jr.
Vincent Scully
John Imbrie
Jerome John McGann
Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III
Zunyi Yang
 1993
Walles T. Edmondson
Estella Leopold
Marcia L. Colish
Richard Charles Levin
Jaime Serra Puche
 1992
Irving Rouse
Frances K. Graham
Raymond L. Garthoff
Gerald R. Fink
J. Dennis Huston
Judith Rodin
 1991
W. Edwards Deming
Aubrey L. Williams
Maxine Singer
Joseph P. Allen
Russell G. Hamilton
Jerome J. Pollitt
 1990
Franklin LeVan Baumer
Adolph Grünbaum
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
A. Bartlett Giamatti
 1989
Pauline Newman
Paul Webster MacAvoy
Garry Wills
Mary Lou Pardue
Menno Boldt
 1988
Ellis Crossman Maxcy
Charles Allen Walker
Joseph G. Gall
Gérard Lepoutre
Richard S. Westfall
Thomas Kaehao Seung
 1987
Thomas Brennan Nolan
Harry Rudolph Rudin
Julian M. Sturtevant
Richard David Ellmann
Barbara Ann Feinn
Nannerl Overholser Keohane
 1986
Robert Alan Dahl
A. Dwight Culler
Richard Derecktor Schwartz
Robert Joseph Birgeneau
Keith Stewart Thomson
 1985
Eugene Mersereau Waith
Peter T. Flawn
Victor Brombert
John Paul Schiffer
Nelson Woolf Polsby
 1984
Louis L. Martz
George Alexander Kubler
Homer D. Babbidge Jr.
Burton Edelson
Margaret W. Rossiter
 1983
George Harry Ford
Floyd Lounsbury
Barbara Illingworth Brown
Daniel Berg
Morton H. Halperin
 1982
Mary Ellen Jones
Richard N. Rosett
Theodore Ziolkowski
 1981
Henry Margenau
Warren Hunting Smith
Bernard Nicholas Schilling
Jerome Kagan
Grace Evelyn Pickford
 1980
Bingham Johnson Humphrey
Maurice Mandelbaum
Phyllis Ann Wallace
Wendell Garner
 1979
Richard B. Sewall
Elizabeth Read Foster
Jacquelyn Mattfeld
 1978
Jaroslav Pelikan
Thomas G. Bergin
Maynard Mack
Stephen Hopkins Spurr
 1977
Gordon Sherman Haight
Mary Rosamund Haas
Joseph Austin Ranney
Jacob T. Schwartz
 1976
Josephine P. Bree
James H. Wakelin Jr.
William G. Moulton
George Heard Hamilton
Laura Anna Bornholdt
 1975
Robert Phelan Langlands
Ralph Henry Gabriel
Eliot Herman Rodnick
George Berkeley Young
Orville Gilbert Brim, Jr.
Donald Wayne Taylor
 1974
Milton Harris
Amos Niven Wilder
Constance McLaughlin Green
Alvin Bernard Kernan
 1973
Samuel Miller Brownell
George Wilson Pierson
Marshall Hall
Eleanor Jack Gibson
Preston E. Cloud
 1972
Dumas Malone
John Collins Pope
Grace Murray Hopper
Lars Onsager
 1971
Gladden Whetstone Baker
Ernest Hilgard
Jane Marion Oppenheimer
Bernard Knox
John Robert Silber
 1970
Roland Herbert Bainton
Bertrand Harris Bronson
Leona Baumgartner
Melvin Spencer Newman
Lucian Pye
 1969
George Gaylord Simpson
Murray Barnson Emeneau
Allan Murray Cartter
James Patrick Shannon
John Perry Miller
Joshua Lederberg
 1968
James Bliss Austin
William M. Fairbank
James G. March
F. S. C. Northrop
 1967
Carl Blegen
Robert W. Buchheim
Neal E. Miller
George Murdock
Marjorie Hope Nicolson
Wallace Notestein
Frederick A. Pottle
Luther A. Weigle
 1966
Edgar S. Furniss