Check all the winners of Founder's Gold Medal presented under Gold Medal since 1851 .
Keith Richards('for the encouragement and development of physical geography and fluvial geomorphology') |
Charles W. J. Withers('for the encouragement and development of historical and cultural geography') |
David N. Livingstone(\u2018for the encouragement and promotion of historical geography\u2019) |
Diana Liverman(\u2018for encouraging, developing and promoting understanding of the human dimensions of climate change\u2019) |
Alan R. H. Baker(\u2018for contributions to historical geography\u2019) |
Julian Dowdeswell(\u2018for the encouragement, development and promotion of glaciology\u2019) |
Roger Barry(\u2018for international leadership of research on climate and climate change\u2019) |
Derek Gregory(for international leadership of research in human geography and social theory) |
Nicholas Shackleton(\u2018for research on Quaternary palaeoclimatology\u2019) |
Leszek Starkel(\u2018For advancing international understanding of palaeohydrology and geomorphology\u2019) |
Michael Frank Goodchild(For contributions to geographical information science) |
Bruno Messerli(For contributions to mountain research and the public awareness of mountain issues) |
William Graf(For contributions to research on dryland river processes, and the interactions of science and public policy) |
Bryan Robson(For contributions to urban geography and geographical perspectives to urban policy) |
Mike Kirkby(For contributions to the development of processed-based and modelling approaches in geomorphology) |
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of CranbrookHonored for : Earl of Cranbrook |
David Stoddart(For contributions to geomorphology, the study of coral reefs and the history of academic Geography) |
R. Brown(For services to the science of map-making) |
Michael John Wise(For economic Geography, and for his contributions to international understanding in geographical teaching) |
Brian B. Roberts(For Polar exploration, and for contributions to Antarctic research and political negotiation) |
Laurence Kirwan(For contributions to the geographical history of the Nubian Nile valley and Eastern Africa, and for services to exploration) |
Chris Bonington(For mountain explorations) |
N. L. Falcon(Leader, the RGS\u2019s Musandam [North Oman] Expedition. For contributions to the geographical history of the Persian Gulf region) |
George Stephen Ritchie(For hydrographical charting and oceanographical exploration) |
George Deacon(For oceanographical research and exploration) |
Wally Herbert(For Arctic and Antarctic exploration and surveys) |
Rodolfo Panzarini(For services to Antarctic exploration and research and to international co-operation in Antarctic science) |
W. Brian Harland(For Arctic exploration and research) |
Claudio Vilas Boas, Orlando Villas Bôas(For contributions to exploration and development in the Mato Grosso) |
E. J. H. Corner(For botanical exploration in North Borneo and the Solomon Islands) |
E. F. Rootes(For polar exploration and research, with special reference to the Canadian Arctic.) |
Louis Leakey(For palaeographical exploration and discoveries in East Africa) |
Jacques-Yves Cousteau(For underwater exploration and research) |
Erwin McDonald(For coastal explorations in the Bellingshausen Sea (Antarctica)) |
Mikhail Somov(For Antarctic exploration and research) |
Phillip Law(For Antarctic exploration and research) |
William Anderson(For the first trans-Polar submarine voyage in command of USS Nautilus) |
Paul Allen Siple(For contributions to Antarctic exploration and research) |
Ardito Desio(For geographical exploration and surveys in the Himalayas) |
John Schjelderup Giæver(Leader of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, for contributions to Polar exploration) |
John Kirtland Wright(For services in the development of geographical research and exploration) |
John Hunt, Baron Hunt(Leader of the British Mount Everest Expedition) |
P. D. Baird(For explorations in the Canadian Arctic) |
Bill Tilman(For exploratory work among the mountains of East Africa and Central Asia) |
Vivian Fuchs(For his contributions to Antarctic exploration and his research as leader of the survey 1948-50) |
George Frederick Walpole(For contributions to the mapping of the Western Desert of Egypt) |
Laurence Dudley Stamp(For his work in organising the Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain and his application of Geography to National planning) |
Wilfred Thesiger(For contributions to the Geography of Southern Arabia and for his crossing of the Rub al Khali desert) |
Martin Hotine(For research work in Air Survey \u2026 and for his cartographic work) |
Edward A. Glennie(For his work on geodesy in India and his contributions to mapping in the Far East) |
Charles Camsell(For his contributions to the geology of the North) |
Freya Stark(For her travels in the East and her account of them) |
Pat Clayton(For his surveys in the Libyan desert, and his application of his experience to desert warfare.) |
Doreen Harold Ingrams, William Harold Ingrams(For exploration and studies in the Hadhramaut) |
Arthur Mortimer Champion(For his surveys of the Turkana Province (Kenya) and the volcanoes south of lake Rudolf) |
John Rymill(For the valuable scientific work of his British Grahamland Expedition) |
C. G. Lewis(For surveys in Iraq, Syria and the Irrawaddy Delta, and for his work on the Afghan and Turco-Iraq Boundary Commissions) |
G.W. Murray(For explorations and surveys in the deserts of Sinai and Eastern Egypt, and his studies of the Badawin tribes) |
Ralph Alger Bagnold(For journeys in the Libyan Desert) |
Hugh Ruttledge(For his journeys in the Himalayas and his leadership of the Mount Everest Expedition, 1933) |
James Wordie(For work in Polar explorations) |
Gino Watkins(For his work in the Arctic Regions, especially as leader of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition) |
Bertram Thomas(For geographical work in Arabia and his successful crossing of the Rub al Khali) |
Francis Kingdon Ward(For geographical exploration, and work on botanical distribution in China and Tibet) |
Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell(For his journeys in the Sahara and his studies of the Tuareg people) |
Tom George Longstaff(For long-continued geographical work in the Himalaya) |
Kenneth Mason(For his connection between the of surveys of India and Russian Turkestan, and his leadership of the Shakshagam Expedition) |
Edward Felix Norton(For his distinguished leadership of the Mount Everest Expedition, 1924, and his ascent to 28,100 feet) |
Charles Granville Bruce(For lifelong geographical work in the exploration of the Himalaya \u2026 and his leadership of the Mount Everest Expedition of 1922) |
Ahmed Hassanein(For his journey to Kutara and Darfur) |
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen(For exploration and research in the Arctic regions) |
Charles Howard-Bury(For his distinguished services in command of the Mount Everest Expedition) |
Vilhjalmur Stefansson(For his distinguished services in the exploration of the Arctic Ocean) |
St. John Philby(For his two journeys in South Central Arabia) |
E. M. Jack(For his geographical work on the Western Front) |
Gertrude Bell(For her important explorations and travels in Asia Minor, Syria, Arabia and on the Euphrates) |
David George Hogarth(For explorations in Asiatic Turkey) |
Percy Fawcett(For his contributions to the mapping of South America) |
Douglas Mawson(For his conduct of the Australian Antarctic Expedition which achieved highly important scientific results) |
Albrecht Penck(For his advancement of almost every branch of scientific geography, and in particular his idea of an International map of the world on the millionth scale) |
Charles Montagu Doughty(For his remarkable exploration in Northern Arabia, and for his classic work in which the results were described) |
Peter K. Kozloff(For explorations in the Gobi desert, Northern Tibet and Mongolia) |
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen(For geographical discoveries and surveys along the North-eastern frontier of India, especially his pioneer exploring in the Karakoram) |
Aurel Stein(For his extensive explorations in Central Asia, and in particular his archaeological work) |
Boyd Alexander(For his three years\u2019 journey across Africa from the Niger to the Nile) |
Francisco Moreno(For extensive explorations in the Patagonian Andes) |
Alfred Grandidier(The veteran French savant who for forty years has devoted himself to the exploration of Madagascar, and for his monumental work on the island in 52 large quarto volumes) |
Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington(For explorations in the mountain regions of Spitsbergen) |
Harry Johnston(For his many valuable services towards the exploration of Africa) |
Douglas Freshfield(In recognition of his valuable contributions to our knowledge of the Caucasus) |
Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard(For persistent attention to African Geography) |
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi(For his journey to the summit of Mount St. Elias, and for his Arctic voyage in the Stella Polare) |
Henry Hugh Peter Deasy(For exploring and survey work in Central Asia) |
Louis Gustave Binger(For valuable work within the great bend of the Niger) |
Sven Hedin(For important exploring work in Central Asia) |
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky(For his long-continued efforts in promoting Russian exploration in Central Asia) |
William MacGregor(For services to Geography in British New Guinea, in exploring, mapping and giving information on the natives) |
John Murray(For services to physical Geography, especially oceanography, and for his work on board the Challenger) |
Hamilton Bower(For his remarkable journey across Tibet, from west to east) |
Frederick Selous(In recognition of twenty years\u2019 exploration and surveys in South Africa) |
Alfred Russel Wallace(The well-known naturalist and traveller and co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of natural selection, in recognition of the high geographical value of his great works) |
James Hector(For investigations pursued as Naturalist to the Palliser expedition) |
Emin Pasha(For the great services he rendered to Geography during his twelve years\u2019 administration of the Equatorial Province of Egypt) |
Arthur Douglas Carey(For his remarkable journey in Central Asia during which he travelled 4750 miles through regions never visited by an Englishman) |
Clements Markham(In acknowledgment or the value or his numerous contributions to geographical literature ... on his retirement from the Secretaryship of the Society after 25 years\u2019 service) |
Thomas Holdich(For zeal and devotion in carrying out surveys of Afghanistan) |
Adolphus Greely(For having so considerably added to our knowledge of the shores of the Polar Sea and the interior of Grinnell Land) |
Joseph Thomson(For his zeal, promptitude and success during two expeditions into East Central Africa) |
Archibald R. Colquhoun(For his journey from Canton to the Irrawadi) |
Joseph Hooker(For eminent services to scientific Geography) |
Gustav Nachtigal(For his journeys through the Eastern Sahara) |
Alexandre de Serpa Pinto(For his journey across Africa ... during which he explored 500 miles of new country) |
Louis Palander(For his services in connection with the Swedish Arctic Expeditions in the Vega) |
Nikolay Przhevalsky(For successive expeditions and route-surveys in Mongolia and the high plateau of Northern Tibet) |
Ferdinand von Richthofen(For his extensive travels and scientific explorations in China) |
George Nares(For having commanded the Arctic Expedition of 1875/6, during which ships and sledge parties reached a higher Northern latitude than had previously been attained) |
Verney Lovett Cameron(For his journey across Africa from Zanzibar to Benguela, and his survey of Lake Tanganyika) |
Karl Weyprecht(For his enterprise and ability in command of expeditions to Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla) |
Georg August Schweinfurth(For his explorations in Africa) |
Ney Elias(For his enterprise and ability in surveying the course of the Yellow River, and for his journey through Western Mongolia) |
Henry Yule(For eminent services to Geography) |
Roderick Murchison(Who for 40 years watched over the Society with more than paternal solicitude, and has at length placed it among the foremost of our scientific Societies) |
George W. Hayward(For his journey into Eastern Turkistan, and for reaching the Pamir Steppe) |
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld(For designing and carrying out the Swedish expeditions to Spitzbergen \u2026 whereby great additions have been made to our acquitance with zoology, botany, geology and meteorology) |
August Heinrich Petermann(For his important services as a Writer and Cartographer) |
Alexis Boutakoff(For being first to launch and navigate ships in the Sea of Aral ... and for his survey of the mouths of the Oxus) |
Thomas Thomson(For his researches in the Western Himalayas and Thibet) |
Thomas George Montgomerie(For his great trigonometrical journey from the plains of the Punjab to the Karakoram Range) |
James Augustus Grant(For his journey across Eastern Equatorial Africa with Captain Speke) |
Francis Thomas Gregory(For successful explorations in Western Australia) |
Robert O'Hara Burke(In remembrance of that gallant explorer who with his companion Wills, perished after having traversed the continent of Australia) |
John Hanning Speke(For his eminent geographical discoveries in Africa, and especially his discovery of the great lake Victoria Nyanza) |
Jane Griffin(For self-sacrificing perseverance in sending out expeditions to ascertain the fate of her husband) |
Richard Francis Burton(For his various exploratory enterprises, and especially for his perilous expedition with Captain. J. H. Speke to the great lakes in Eastern Africa) |
Richard Collinson(For discoveries in the Arctic Regions) |
Augustus Charles Gregory(For extensive and important explorations in Western and Northern Australia) |
Elisha Kane(For services and discoveries in the Polar Regions during the American Expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin) |
David Livingstone(For his recent explorations in Africa) |
William Henry Smyth(For his valuable Maritime Surveys in the Mediterranean) |
Francis Galton(For fitting out and conducting in Expedition to explore the centre of Southern Africa) |
John Rae(For his survey of Boothia undermost severe privations ... and for his very important contributions to the Geography of the Arctic) |
Georg August Wallin(For his interesting and important travels in Arabia) |
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