Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus Award Winners
| Year |
Award winner |
| 1938 |
Professor Trevor Kincaid |
| 1940 |
Professor Elizabeth Soule |
| 1941 |
Dr. Temple Fay |
| 1944 |
Eric A. Johnston |
| 1946 |
Dr. Waldo L. Simon |
| 1947 |
Dr. Edward Weber Allen |
| 1948 |
Dr. Kenneth Collins |
| 1949 |
Dr. Henry Schmitz |
| 1950 |
Charles W. Harris |
| 1951 |
Dr. Alfred S. Strauss |
| 1953 |
Robert S. Macfarlane |
| 1954 |
Welton D. Becket |
| 1955 |
Carol M. Shanks |
| 1956 |
William G. Newberg |
| 1957 |
Clair L. Egtvedt |
| 1958 |
Riley Harris Allen |
| 1959 |
Samuel G. Baker |
| 1960 |
Minoru Yamasaki |
| 1961 |
Dr. Richard E. Fuller |
| 1962 |
Dr. Frank L. Horsfall, Jr. |
| 1963 |
Dr. James Gilluly |
| 1964 |
Horace McCurdy |
| 1965 |
Esther Raushenbush |
| 1966 |
Dr. Neal Elgar Miller |
| 1967 |
Dr. Bertram D. Thomas |
| 1968 |
Dr. Paul Bruce Beeson |
| 1969 |
Dr. George Joseph Stigler |
| 1970 |
Edward E. Carlson |
| 1971 |
Chester R. Huntley |
| 1972 |
Dr. Andrew F. Brimmer |
| 1973 |
Dr. Charles E. Odegaard |
| 1974 |
Imogen Cunningham |
| 1975 |
Edwin O. Guthman |
| 1976 |
Angus Livingstone Bowmer |
| 1977 |
Dr. Victor Scheffer |
| 1978 |
John E. Steiner |
| 1979 |
Dr. Dael Wolfe |
| 1980 |
Dr. Arthur Anderson |
| 1982 |
Dr. Robert Dahl |
| 1983 |
Dr. William B. Hutchinson |
| 1984 |
Professor George Tsutakawa |
| 1985 |
George W. Jeffs |
| 1986 |
Dr. George H. Hitchings |
| 1987 |
Professor Emeritus Lauren Donaldson |
| 1988 |
Dr. John D. Corbally |
| 1989 |
Dr. George Kozmetsky |
| 1996 |
Dr. Shirley Mahaley Malcom |
| 1997 |
Chuck Close |
| 1998 |
Dr. Martin Rodbell |
| 1999 |
James R. Ellis |
| 2000 |
Dr. Rita Colwell |
| 2001 |
Joseph Sutter – Boeing |
| 2002 |
Donald W. Baker |
| 2003 |
Dr. William Elden Bolcom |
| 2004 |
Dr. Bonnie Dunbar |
| 2005 |
Jack Larsen |
| 2006 |
Dr. Linda Buck |
| 2007 |
The Honorable Daniel J. Evans |
| 2008 |
Beverly Cleary |
| 2009 |
Wayne Quinton |
| 2010 |
Bruce Nordstrom |
| 2011 |
Dr. Jane Lubchenco |
| 2012 |
Steven M. Holl |
| 2013 |
William H. Gates |
| 2014 |
Arthur D. Levinson |
| 2015 |
Norman D. Dicks |
| 2016 |
Sally Jewell |
| 2017 |
Norman B. Rice |
| 2018 |
Orin C. Smith |
| 2019 |
Dr. James G. Anderson |
| 2020 |
Patty Hayes |
| 2021 |
Larry Gossett |
| 2022 |
Pam Cipriano |
| 2023 |
Marilynne Robinson |
| 2024 |
Art Wolfe |