Past recipients of the Lilly Award:
*1935 – Willard Myron Allen
*1939 – George Wald
*1941 – David Rittenberg
*1942 – Earl A. Evans, Jr.
*1943 – Herbert E. Carter
*1944 – Joseph S. Fruton
*1946 – John D. Ferry
*1947 – Sidney Colowick
*1948 – Dilworth Wayne Woolley
*1951 – John M. Buchanan
*1953 – Nathan O. Kaplan
*1954 – Harvey A. Itano
*1955 – William F. Neuman
*1956 – Robert A. Alberty
*1957 – Harold A. Scheraga
*1958 – Lester J. Reed
*1959 – Paul Berg
*1960 – James D. Watson
*1962 – Jerard Hurwitz
*1963 – William P. Jencks
*1964 – Bruce N. Ames
*1965 – Gerald M. Edelman
*1966 – Phillips W. Robbins
*1967 – Gordon G. Hammes
*1968 – Charles C. Richardson
*1969 – Mario R. Capecchi
*1970 – Lubert Stryer
*1972 – Bruce M. Alberts
*1974 – James Dahlberg
*1975 – Mark Ptashne
*1976 – Joan A. Steitz
*1977 – Robert G. Roeder
*1978 – Charles R. Cantor
*1979 – Christopher T. Walsh
*1980 – Phillip A. Sharp
*1981 – Roger D. Kornberg
*1982 – Harold M. Weintraub
*1983 – Richard Axel
*1984 – David V. Goeddel
*1985 – Gerald M. Rubin
*1986 – James E. Rothman
*1987 – Jacqueline K. Barton
*1988 – Peter Walter
*1990 – George L. McLendon
*1991 – Peter G. Schultz
*1992 – William DeGrado
*1993 – Stuart L. Schreiber
*1994 – Peter S. Kim
*1995 – Jeremy Berg
*1996 – Gregory L. Verdine
*1997 – Alanna Schepartz
*1998 – John Kuriyan
*1999 – Chaitan Khosla
*2000 – Xiaodong Wang
*2001 – Jennifer Doudna
*2002 – Kevan M. Shokat
*2003 – Andreas Matouschek
*2004 – Benjamin Cravatt III
*2006 – Linda Hsieh-Wilson
*2007 – Anna K. Mapp
*2008 – Paul J. Hergenrother
*2009 – Scott K. Silverman
*2010 – Alice Y. Ting
*2011 – Nathanael Gray
*2012 – Christopher J. Chang
*2016 – Elizabeth Nolan
*2017 – Howard C. Hang
*2018 – Bradley L. Pentelute 
*2019 – Neal Devaraj
*2020 – Yimon Aye
*2021 – Jordan L. Meier 
*2022 – Lingyin Li
*2023 – Polly Fordyce