text: 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