Source: [https://www.nace.org/membership/member-resources/awards/frank-newman-speller-award NACE International]
*1947 - Frank Newman Speller
*1948 - John M. Pearson
*1949 - Francis L. LaQue
*1950 - O.C. Mudd
*1951 - Kirk H. Logan
*1952 - Starr Thayer
*1953 - Scott P. Ewing
*1954 - E.H. Dix, Jr.
*1955 - Gordon N. Scott
*1956 - Mars G. Fontana
*1957 - Walter F. Rogers
*1958 - Robert J. Kuhn
*1959 - A. Wachter
*1960 - J.C. Hudson
*1961 - K.G. Compton
*1962 - C.P. Larrabee
*1963 - Thomas P. May
*1964 - Hugh P. Godard
*1965 - F.W. Wink
*1966 - Richard S. Treseder
*1967 - John D. Sudbury
*1968 - Lee P. Sudrabin
*1969 - Charles G. Munger
*1970 - Arland W. Peabody
*1971 - Andrew Dravnieks
*1972 - No recipient	
*1973 - Fred M. Reinhart
*1974 - K.N. Barnard
*1975 - Bernard Husock	
*1976 - E.H. Phelps
*1977 - Walter K. Boyd
*1978 - Joseph B. Cotton	
*1979 - M.C. Miller
*1980 - H. Spahn
*1981 - J.H. Morgan
*1982 - Richard F. Stratful
*1983 - Ernest W. Haycock
*1984 - Warren E. Berry
*1985 - Stanley L. Lopata
*1986 - R.N. Miller
*1987 - Einar Mattsson 
*1988 - Robert A. Baboian
*1989 - A.J. Sedricks
*1990 - M.E. Indig
*1991 - Sheldon W. Dean
*1993 - Bryan E. Wilde
*1994 - S. Evans
*1995 - P.R. Rhodes
*1996 - Peter L. Andresen 
*1997 - Jacques-Philippe Berge
*1998 - H. Okada
*1999 - Herbert E. Townsend
*2000 - Peter M. Scott
*2001 - G. Schick
*2002 - G.M. Gordon
*2003 - R.W. Schutz
*2004 - Boris A. Miksic
*2005 - D. Knotkova-Cermakova	
*2006 - Masakatsu Ueda
*2007 - Jorge A. González
*2008 - David C. Silverman
*2009 - Bruce Hinton
*2010 - Andrew Garner
*2011 - Pierre Combrade
*2012 - William Hartt
*2013 - John Beavers
*2014 - Shunichi Suzuki
*2015 - Jeffrey Gorman
*2016 - David Shifler
*2017 - Narasi Sridhar
*2018 - Robert Tapping
*2019 - U. Kamachi Mudali
*2020 - Roy Johnsen