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! width="75" | Year
! width="300" | Name
! width="200" | Country |
| -
| 1966
| Mies van der Rohe
| Chicago, Illinois |
| -
| 1967
| Alvar Aalto
| Helsinki, Finland |
| -
| 1968
| Marcel Breuer
| New York, New York |
| -
| 1969
| John Ely Burchard
| Boston, Massachusetts |
| -
| 1970
| Kenzo Tange
| Tokyo, Japan |
| -
| 1971
| Josep Lluis Sert
| Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| -
| 1972
| Lewis Mumford
| Amenia, New York |
| -
| 1973
| Jean Labatut
| Princeton, New Jersey |
| -
| 1974
| Frei Otto
| Warmbronn, West Germany |
| -
| 1975
| Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
| London, England |
| -
| 1976
| I. M. Pei
| New York, New York |
| -
| 1977
| Ada Louise Huxtable
| New York, New York |
| -
| 1978
| Philip Johnson
| New York, New York |
| -
| 1979
| Lawrence Halprin
| San Francisco, California |
| -
| 1980
| Hugh Stubbins
| Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| -
| 1981
| Edward Larrabee Barnes
| New York, New York |
| -
| 1982
| Vincent J. Scully
| New Haven, Connecticut |
| -
| 1983
| Robert Venturi
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| -
| 1984
| H. H. Aga Khan
| Gouvieux, France |
| -
| 1985
| Leon Krier
| London, England |
| -
| 1986
| James Stirling
| London, England |
| -
| 1987
| Dan Kiley
| Charlotte, Vermont |
| -
| 1988
| Romaldo Giurgola
| New York, New York |
| -
| 1989
| Paul Mellon
| Upperville, Virginia |
| -
| 1990
| Fumihiko Maki
| Tokyo, Japan |
| -
| 1991
| John V. Lindsay
| New York, New York |
| -
| 1992
| Aldo Rossi
| Milan, Italy |
| -
| 1993
| Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany
| Miami, Florida |
| -
| 1994
| Frank O. Gehry
| Los Angeles, California |
| -
| 1995
| Ian McHarg
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| -
| 1996
| Jane Jacobs
| Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| -
| 1997
| Jaime Lerner
| Curitiba, Brazil |
| -
| 1998
| Jaquelin T. Robertson
| New York, New York |
| -
| 1999
| Richard Rogers
| London, England |
| -
| 2000
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan
| New York, New York |
| -
| 2001
| Glenn Murcutt
| Sydney, Australia |
| -
| 2002
| James Turrell
| Flagstaff, Arizona |
| -
| 2003
| Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
| New York, New York |
| -
| 2004
| Peter Walker
| Berkeley, California |
| -
| 2005
| Shigeru Ban
| Tokyo, Japan |
| -
| 2006
| Peter Zumthor
| Haldenstein, Switzerland |
| -
| 2007
| Zaha Hadid
| Baghdad, Iraq |
| -
| 2008
| Gro Harlem Brundtland
| Oslo, Norway |
| -
| 2009
| Robert Irwin
| San Diego, California |
| -
| 2010
| Edward O. Wilson
| Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| -
| 2011
| Maya Lin
| New York, New York |
| -
| 2012
| Rafael Moneo
| Tudela, Navarre, Spain |
| -
| 2013
| Laurie Olin
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| -
| 2014
| Toyo Ito
| Tokyo, Japan |
| -
| 2015
| Herman Hertzberger
| Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| -
| 2016
| Cecil Balmond
| Sri Lanka |
| -
| 2017
| Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
| Republic of Ireland |
| -
| 2018
| Sir David Adjaye
| United Kingdom |
| -
| 2019
| Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
| Japan |
| -
| 2020
| Weiss/Manfredi[{{cite web | title=WEISS/MANFREDI awarded the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Architecture | website=World Architecture Community | date=4 June 2020 | url=https://worldarchitecture.org/article-links/efech/weiss-manfredi-awarded-the-2020-thomas-jefferson-foundation-medal-for-architecture.html | access-date=29 April 2022}}]
| New York, New York |
| -
| 2021
| Diébédo Francis Kéré[{{cite web | title=Francis Kéré Receives the 2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture | website=ArchDaily | date=1 April 2021 | url=https://www.archdaily.com/959450/francis-kere-recieves-the-2021-thomas-jefferson-foundation-medal-in-architecture | access-date=29 April 2022}}]
| Berlin, Germany |
| -
| 2022
| Kenneth Frampton[{{cite web | title=Kenneth Frampton Wins Jefferson Medal | website=World-Architects | url=https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/headlines/kenneth-frampton-wins-jefferson-medal | access-date=29 April 2022}}][{{cite web | title=Kenneth Frampton 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalist in Architecture | website=University of Virginia School of Architecture | date=31 March 2022 | url=http://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/kenneth-frampton-2022-thomas-jefferson-foundation-medalist-in-architecture | access-date=29 April 2022}}]
| New York, New York |
| - |