- Arne Aaras, Norway
- Munehira Akita, Japan
- René Amalberti, France
- Kazuo Aoki, Japan
- Thomas J. Armstrong, USA
- Moh M. Ayoub, USA
- Sebastiano Bagnara, Italy
- Deborah A. Boehm-Davis, USA
- Kenneth R. Boff, USA
- Frederick Bonjer, The Netherlands (IEA President, 2012-2015)
- Ole Broberg, Denmark
- Ogden Brown, Jr., USA
- Heiner Bubb, Germany
- Peter Buckle, United Kingdom
- Margaret Bullock, Australia
- David Caple, Australia (IEA President, 2006-2009)
- Pascale Carayon, USA
- Donald B. Chaffin, USA
- Alan H.S. Chan, Hong Kong
- Wen-Ruey Chang, USA
- Alphonse Chapanis, USA, (IEA President, 1976-1979)
- Min Chung, South Korea
- Nancy J. Cooke, USA
- E. Nigel Corlett, UK
- François Daniellou, France
- Biman Das, Canada
- Harry Davis, USA
- Veronique de Keyser, Belgium
- Maurice de Montmollin, France
- Luc Desnoyers, Canada
- Colin Drury, USA
- Jan Dul, The Netherlands
- Jörgen Eklund, Sweden
- Mica R. Endsley, USA
- Pierre Falzon, France (IEA President, 2003-2006)
- Frida Marina Fischer, Brazil
- Knut Inge Fostervold, Norway
- Ekkehart Frieling, Germany
- Yushi Fujita, Japan (IEA President, 2015-2018)
- Daryle Gardner-Bonneau, USA
- Valerie J. Gawron, USA
- Ravindra S. Goonetilleke, Hong Kong
- Daniel Gopher, Israel
- Margaret Graf, Switzerland
- Gorän M. Hägg, Sweden
- Sung H. Han, South Korea
- Peter A. Hancock, USA
- Roger A. Haslam, United Kingdom
- Yohio Hayashi, Japan
- Alan Hedge, USA
- Martin Helander, Sweden (IEA President, 1994-1997)
- Hal Hendrick, USA
- Yoshinori Horie, Japan
- Andrew S. Imada, USA (IEA President, 2009-2012)
- Waldemar Karwowski, USA (IEA President, 2000-2003
- Halimahtun Khalid, Malaysia
- Kazutaka Kogi, Japan
- Ernst Koningsveld, The Netherlands
- Stephan Konz, USA
- Karl H. E. Kroemer, USA
- Helmut Krueger, Germany
- Shrawan Kumar, Canada
- Ilkka Kuorinka, Finland, (IEA President, 1988-1991)
- Kurt Landau, Germany
- Kenneth R. Laughery, USA
- Martti Launis, Finland
- Antoine Laville, France
- Tom B. Leamon, USA
- Veikko Louhevaara, Finland
- Holger Luczak, Germany
- Wendy Macdonald, Australia
- Jacques Malchaire, Belgium
- Adnyana Manuaba, Indonesia
- William S. Marras, USA
- Barbara McPhee, Australia
- David Meister, USA
- Bernard Metz, France (IEA President, 1970-1973)
- Johan Molenbroek, The Netherlands
- Hugues Monod, France
- Anamaria de Moraes, Brazil
- Neville Moray, Canada/France
- Mitsuo Nagamachi, Japan
- Kageyu Noro, Japan
- Ian Y. Noy, Canada (IEA President, 1997-2000)
- Maury Nussbaum, USA
- Clas-Håkan Nygård, Finland
- Takao Ohkubo, Japan
- Masamitsu Oshima, Japan
- Leszek Pacholski, Poland
- Raja Parasuraman, USA
- Kyung S. Park, South Korea
- Ken Parsons, United Kingdom
- Stuart O. Parsons, USA
- Richard W. Pew, USA
- Yvon Queinnec, France
- Daniel Ramaciotti, Switzerland
- Jens Rasmussen, Denmark
- David M. Rempel, USA
- Michelle M. Robertson, USA
- Walther Rohmert, Germany
- Pieter Rookmaaker, The Netherlands
- Susumu Saito, Japan
- Eduardo Salas, USA
- Gavriel Salvendy, USA
- Penelope M. Sanderson, Australia
- Patricia Scott, South Africa
- Reginald G. Sell, United Kingdom
- Rabindra Nath Sen, India
- Brian Shackel, UK
- Thomas B. Sheridan, USA
- Tom Singleton, United Kingdom
- Michael J. Smith, USA
- Stover H. Snook, USA
- Richard So, Hong Kong
- Thomas F. M. Stewart, United Kingdom
- Helmut Strasser, Germany
- Sadao Sugiyama, Japan (IEA President, 1982-1985)
- Riccardo Tartaglia, Italy
- Catherine Teiger, France
- Henk F. van der Molen, The Netherlands
- Eric Min-yang Wang, Taiwan
- Mao-Jiun (Jim) Wang, Taiwan
- Sheng Wang, China
- Richard Wells, Canada
- Christopher D. Wickens, USA
- Robert C Williges, USA
- John Wilson, United Kingdom
- Alain Wisner, France
- Michael S. Wogalter, USA
- Kan Zhang, China
- Klaus J. Zink, Germany
This award, first presented in 1998, was originally composed of a Prize (given annually) and a Medal (best of the past three Prizes). The two were merged in 2009 into a Medal, given annually.
- 1998: Andrew Imada (Medal in 2000)
- 1999: Shirley Ann Gibbs
- 2000: Peter J. McAlindon
- 2001: Peter A. Hancock and Selma N. de Ridder (Medal in 2003)
- 2002: H. Hsiao, B Bradtmiller & J. Whitestone
- 2003: William S. Marras, Sue A. Ferguson, Deborah Burr, Kermit G. Davis and Purnendu Gupta
- 2004: David DeJoy, USA (Medal in 2006)
- 2006: D.M. Rempel, N. Krause, R. Goldberg, D. Benner, M. Hudes, and G.U. Goldner
- 2008: Andrea Shaw, Verna Blewett, Laurie Stiller, Christine Aickin, Drew Dawson, Sally Ferguson, Stephen Cox, Kaj Frick
- 2009: Suman Singh
- 2011: Marie Ward, Nick McDonald, Rabea Morrison, Des Gaynor, Tony Nugent
- 2012: Paul Schepers, and Berry P.L.M. den Brinker
- 2013: Sean Gallagher and John R. Heberger
- 2014: Priyadarshini R. Pennathur, David Thompson, James H. Abernathy III, Elizabeth A. Martinez, Peter J. Pronovost, George R. Kim, Lisa H. Lubomski, Jill A. Marsteller, and Ayse P. Gurses
- 2015: Bob Muffett, John R. Wilson, Theresa Clarke, Anthony Coplestone, Emma Lowe, John Robinson, and Stuart Smith
- 2016: Pieter Coenen, Idsart Kingma, Cécile R.L. Boot, Paulien M. Bongers, & Jaap H. van Dieën
- 2017: Stephen S. Bao, Jay M. Kapellusch, Andrew S. Merryweather, Mathew S. Thiese, Arun Garg, Kurt T. Hegmann & Barbara A. Silverstein
- 2018: Patrick G. Dempsey, Jonisha Pollard, William L. Porter, Alan Mayton, John R. Heberger, Sean Gallagher, Leanna Reardon, & Colin G. Drury
- 2015: Peter Hancock, Mitsuo Nagamachi, and Gavriel Salvendy
- 2018: Pascale Carayon
- 1982: Alphonse Chapanis, Etienne Grandjean
- 1985: M. Oshima, Alain Wisner
- 1988: P. Davis, N. Lundgren, W. Singleton
- 1991: Jan Rosner
- 1994: Harry Davis
- 1997: Hal W. Hendrick
- 2000: Martin G. Helander
- 2003: Y. Ian Noy
- 2006: Pieter Rookmaaker
- 2009: Sebastiano Bagnara
- 2012: Pascale Carayon
- 2015: Jan Dul
- 2018: Roger A. Haslam
- 1991: Kazutaka Kogi
- 1994: J. Leplat
- 1997: David Meister
- 2000: Heinz Schmidtke and Shrawan Kumar
- 2003: Neville Moray
- 2009: Klaus Zink
- 2012: Hal Hendrick
- 2015: Peter Hancock
- 1991: E. Nigel Corlett
- 1994: W. Rohmert
- 1997: M. M. Ayoub
- 2000: John Long
- 2003: Gavriel Salvendy
- 2009: Francois Daniellou
- 2012: Raja Parasuraman
- 2015: Helmut Strasser
- 2018: Peter Hancock
- 1991: Alain Wisner
- 1994: Houshang Shahnavaz
- 1997: R. Sen
- 2000: Najmedin Meshkati
- 2003: Patricia Ann Scott
- 2006: A. Manuaba
- 2009: Elias Apud
- 2012: Kamiel Vanwonterghem
- 2015: Kazutaka Kogi
- 2018: Gaur Ray
- 1997: Tom Leamon
- 2000: Neville Moray
- 2003: Gavriel Salvendy
- 2006: Jens Rasmussen
- 2009: Kazutaka Kogi
- 2012: Ernst Koningsveld
- 2015: Halimahtun Khalid
- 2018: Klaus J. Zink
- 1997: Laurel Ritmiller
- 2000: Caren A. Wenner
- 2003: Seung-Kweon Hong; Honorable Mention: Ming Hou
- 2006: Joanna Zander; Miriam Mattison
- 2009: Monica Lees; Molly Story
- 2012: Baiduri Widanarko, and Riley Splittstoesser
- 2015: Ademola James Adeyemi, and Ben Sawyer
- 2018: Yaar Harrari, Husam Muslim Hantoosh Alzamili, Esdras Paravizo, Adam Schwartz
- 2015: Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety
- 2018: The Ohara Memorial Institute for Science of Labour
- 2003: Ralph Lipsey Barnett
- 2006: Tien-I Liu, Akihiko Kumagai, Chongchan Lee, Marvin J. Dainoff, Arne Aaras, Gunnar Horgen, Maria Konarska, Stig Larsen, Magne Thoresen, Barbara G.F. Cohen: the MEPS Study Group
- 2009: Kalev Kuklane, Chuansi Gao, Ingvar Holmer, Lina Giedraityte, Peter Brode, Victor Candas, Emiel den Hartog, Harriet Meinander, Mark Richards and George Havenith