| Year |
Name |
Area |
| 2009 |
W. Frank Barton |
Businessman and Philanthropist |
| 2008 |
Fred Harvey |
Restaurant Owner & Entrepreneur |
| 2007 |
Walter Anderson and Edgar Waldo (E.W.) "Billy" Ingram |
Businessmen, Restaurant Owners |
| 2006 |
William Allen White |
Businessman, Country Editor, and Author |
| 2005 |
John J. Vanier |
Grain and Milling, Cattleman, Rancher |
| 2004 |
William Powell Lear |
Aviation Pioneer and Inventor |
| 2003 |
Clara and Russell Stover |
Candy-Making and Sales |
| 2002 |
Charles Quarles Chandler II |
Banker, Philanthropist |
| 2001 |
Cleyson L. "C. L." Brown |
Utility and Telecommunications Pioneer |
| 2000 |
Alva Lease Duckwall |
Entreprenueur, Business Builder, and Civic Leader |
| 1999 |
Lloyd Stearman |
Aviation Pioneer, Aircraft Designer and Manufacturer |
| 1998 |
Albert A. Hyde |
Mentholatum Entrepreneur, Business Leader and Philanthropist |
| 1997 |
Warren Bechtel |
Construction Engineer and International Contractor |
| 1996 |
Charles H. Hyer |
Boot maker Extraordinary and Civic Leader |
| 1995 |
Kenneth A. Spencer |
Innovator, Industrial Developer Philanthropist |
| 1994 |
Thomas McNally |
International Pioneer in Coal Processing Midwest Industrialist and Community Leader |
| 1993 |
Ray Hugh Garvey |
Entrepreneur Extraordinary Agribusiness, Oil, Real Estate |
| 1992 |
Fred C. Koch |
Industrialist, Manufacturer Pioneer of Worldwide Oil Refining |
| 1992 |
Clyde Cessna |
Aviation Pioneer, Aircraft Designer and Manufacturer |
| 1991 |
Arthur Capper |
Statesman, Publisher, and Benefactor of Handicapped Children |
| 1991 |
Walter Chrysler |
Automotive Genius, Business Strategist, Financier |
| 1990 |
Dane G. Hansen |
Entrepreneur, Business Leader, and Philanthropist |
| 1990 |
William Coffin Coleman |
Civic Leader, Industrialist, and Manufacturing Pioneer |
| 1989 |
Bernhard Warkentin |
Miller, Banker, and Importer and Promoter of Turkey Red Wheat |
| 1989 |
Cyrus K. Holliday |
Railroader and Promoter of Great Enterprises |
