Patron’s Medal

Memorial

Jean Malaurie

12/22/1922 – 02/05/2024

101 years

Dieppe

Memorial

Richard Leakey

12/19/1944 – 01/02/2022

77 years

kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician

Nairobi

Memorial

John Young

09/24/1930 – 01/05/2018

87 years

American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer

Houston

Memorial

Hans Rosling

07/27/1948 – 02/07/2017

68 years

Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker

Uppsala

Memorial

Charles Swithinbank

11/17/1926 – 05/27/2014

87 years

Memorial

Keith M. Clayton

09/25/1928 – 02/12/2013

84 years

Memorial

Joachim P. Kuettner

09/21/1909 – 02/24/2011

101 years

Boulder

Memorial

Edmund Hillary

07/20/1919 – 01/11/2008

88 years

New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist

Auckland

Memorial

Kenneth Hare

02/05/1919 – 09/03/2002

83 years

Oakville

Memorial

Thor Heyerdahl

10/06/1914 – 04/18/2002

87 years

Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer

Colla Micheri

114

Memorial

Helge Ingstad

12/30/1899 – 03/29/2001

101 years

Norwegian explorer

Oslo

Memorial

Théodore Monod

04/09/1902 – 11/22/2000

98 years

French naturalist and explorer

Versailles

126

Memorial

Thomas Henry Manning

12/22/1911 – 11/08/1998

86 years

Ontario

Memorial

Mieczysław Klimaszewski

07/26/1908 – 11/27/1995

87 years

Kraków

Memorial

Paul-Émile Victor

06/28/1907 – 03/07/1995

87 years

Bora Bora

Memorial

Edmund George Irving

04/05/1910 – 10/01/1990

80 years

Memorial

Eduard Imhof

01/25/1895 – 04/27/1986

91 years

Erlenbach

Memorial

Eric Shipton

08/01/1907 – 03/28/1977

69 years

Wiltshire

Memorial

Edgar Hynes Thompson

01/13/1910 – 04/09/1976

66 years

Memorial

Raymond Priestley

07/20/1886 – 06/24/1974

87 years

Cheltenham

Memorial

Neil Alison Mackintosh

08/19/1900 – 04/09/1974

73 years

London

Memorial

Hans Wilhelmsson Ahlmann

11/14/1889 – 03/10/1974

84 years

Stockholm

Memorial

John Ian Bartholomew

02/12/1890 – 02/09/1962

71 years

Edinburgh