| 1921 |
 Joseph Joffre (6 April) |
| Armando Diaz (11 April) |
| Horace Smith-Dorrien (11 April) |
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| 1922 |
| Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral (24 October) |
| Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho (24 October) |
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| 1923 |
| Paul Sabatier (21 June) |
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| 1932 |
| René Leriche (18 February) |
| Charles Maurain (31 October) |
| Henri Begouen (31 October) |
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| 1934 |
| Octávio Mangabeira (8 May) |
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| 1942 |
| Alphonse Luisier (16 January) |
| José Casares Gil (11 July) |
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| 1946 |
| Gregorio Marañon (13 November) |
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| 1955 |
| Carlos Jiménez Díaz (12 March) |
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| 1968 |
| José de Magalhães Pinto (27 June) |
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| 1969 |
| Augusto de Castro (20 December) |
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| 1970 |
| Manuel Rocha (30 March) |
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| 1979 |
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Maurice Mercadier (21 November) |
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| 1982 |
| Ulrich Georg Trendelenburg (21 October) |
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| 1984 |
| Jean Delumeau (6 January) |
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| 1987 |
| Brebis Bleaney (4 April) |
| Henri A. Skinner (4 April) |
| José Henrique de Azeredo Perdigão (4 April) |
| Victor António Augusto Nunes de Sá Machado (15 July) |
| Boris Alpern (28 October) |
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| 1989 |
| Manoel de Oliveira (26 June) |
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| 1990 |
| Mário Soares (19 June) |
| António Barros Machado (11 July) |
| Jean Hamburger (21 December) |
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| 1991 |
| Júlio Ferry Borges (21 May) |
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| 1993 |
| Eugene Braunwald (8 May) |
| Neal S. Bricker (7 June) |
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| 1995 |
| Henri Bismuth (23 January) |
| Thomas Starzl (23 January) |
| Fernando Henrique Cardoso (22 July) |
| James Mcgill Buchanan (4 December) |
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| 1996 |
| Maria de Lurdes Belchior (5 May) |
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| 1998 |
| Arthur Bergles (19 October) |
| David Roger Jones Owen (19 October) |
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| 1999 |
| Jacques Delors (10 March) |
| Marie-Louise Bastin (28 June) |
| Jacqueline Hamesse (9 July) |
| Leonard Boyle (9 July) |
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| 2000 |
| D. Ximenes Belo (31 October) |
| José Luís Ramos-Horta (31 October) |
| Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (31 October) |
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| 2001 |
| João Havelange (1 February) |
| José Manuel Pereira de Oliveira (25 May) |
| Suzanne Daveau (25 May) |
| Jesus Prieto (29 October) |
| Michel Cremer (29 October) |
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| 2002 |
| António Lima de Faria (15 October) |
| Fernando Henrique Lopes da Silva (15 October) |
| João Pedro Pulido Valente Monjardino (15 October) |
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| 2003 |
| Nuno Teotónio Pereira (22 January) |
| Vittorio Gregotti (22 January) |
| Sydney Brenner (30 April) |
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| 2004 |
| Alfredo Gomes de Faria Junior (27 September) |
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| 2005 |
| Hermanfrid Schubart (28 January) |
| Agustina Bessa-Luís (22 March) |
| Eugénio de Andrade (22 March) |
| Jorge Manuel Moura Loureiro de Miranda (6 October) |
| Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (6 October) |
| Mário Júlio de Almeida Costa (6 October) |
| Fernando Lanhas (29 November) |
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| 2006 |
| Eckhard Meinberg (6 March) |
| Hans Joachim Appell (6 March) |
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| 2008 |
| Maria Manuela Gouveia Delille (15 May) |
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| 2009 |
| Christian Debuyst (15 May) |
| Eduardo García de Enterría (15 May) |
| Belmiro de Azevedo (22 May) |
| José Carreras (23 June) |
| Luís Portela (24 September) |
| Guilherme de Oliveira Estrella (16 October) |
| Susan Hockfield (25 November) |
| Jacques Rogge (26 November) |
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| 2010 |
| Artur Santos Silva (30 November) |
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| 2011 |
| Wei Zhao (20 March) |
| Alain Tranoy (10 October) |
| Patrick Le Roux (10 October) |
| Carl Djerassi (28 October) |
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| 2012 |
| Nadir Afonso (5 November) |
| Alim Louis Benabib (4 December) |
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| 2013 |
| Jean-Claude Juncker (9 July) |
| Manuel Ferreira Patrício (12 September) |
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| 2014 |
| Orlando Monteiro da Silva (15 January) |
| Carlos Caldas (17 February) |
| Vasco Graça Moura (7 March) |
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| 2015 |
| Jorge Sampaio (24 February) |
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| 2016 |
| José Manuel Constantino (26 September) |
| Germano Silva (3 November) |
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| 2017 |
| Carlos Alberto Mota Soares (7 April) |
| José Luís Borges Coelho (3 July) |
| José Aranda da Silva (3 October) |
| Sergio Mattarella (7 December) |
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| 2019 |
| Mário Cláudio (11 December) |
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| 2022 |
| Francesco Dal Co (20 April) |
| Kenneth Frampton (20 April) |
| Margaret Atwood (22 April) |
| Michael Grätzel (20 May) |
| João Schwalbach (30 September) |
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| 2024 |
| Anne L'Huillier (28 May) |
| Ilídio Pinho (17 June) |
| Gonçalo Byrne (20 November) |
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