La Medalla Hubbard es otorgada por la National Geographic Society por su distinción en exploración , descubrimiento e investigación . La medalla lleva el nombre de Gardiner Greene Hubbard , primer presidente de la National Geographic Society. Está hecho de oro y tradicionalmente es presentado por el Presidente de los Estados Unidos.
| Year | Name | Profession | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | Robert Peary | polar explorer | Farthest north travel by a human. |
| 1907 | Roald Amundsen | polar explorer | First to transit the Northwest Passage. |
| 1909 | Robert Bartlett | polar explorer | Traveled the farthest to the North Pole. |
| 1910 | Sir Ernest Shackleton | polar explorer | |
| 1926 | Richard E. Byrd | polar explorer/aviator | First flight over the North Pole. |
| 1927 | Charles Lindbergh | aviator | First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
| 1931 | Roy Chapman Andrews | Gobi Desert explorer | |
| 1934 | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | aviator | For serving as radio operator and copilot to her husband Charles on two flights in 1931 and 1933 |
| 1935 | Captain Orvil Arson Anderson and Captain Albert William Stevens | aeronauts | Record setting ascent in balloon Explorer II. |
| 1954 | British Mount Everest Expedition | mountaineers | First ascent of Mount Everest.(group award) |
| 1958 | Paul Allen Siple | polar explorer | Veteran of several Antarctic expeditions. |
| 1959 | Adm. Arleigh Burke Rear Adm. George J. Dufek | US Navy | Establishing Antarctic science stations. |
| 1962 | John Glenn | astronaut | First American to orbit Earth. |
| 1962 | Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey | anthropologist | |
| 1963 | Norman Dyhrenfurth and his team | mountaineers | First Americans to climb to the summit of Mount Everest |
| 1969 | Frank Borman Jim Lovell William Anders | astronauts | First crewed flight to the Moon. |
| 1970 | Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin Michael Collins | astronauts | For first crewed landing on the Moon. |
| 1981 | John Young Robert Crippen | astronauts | Awarded for first Space Shuttle flight. |
| 1994 | Richard Leakey | anthropologist | |
| 1995 | Jane Goodall | environmentalist | |
| 1996 | Robert Ballard | underwater explorer | Discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic |
| 1999 | Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones | balloonists | |
| 2000 | Matthew Henson | polar explorer | Companion to first recipient Robert Peary. Awarded posthumously. (Not awarded at the time because of his race). |
| 2010 | Don Walsh | oceanographer | Bathyscaphe Trieste Dive |
| 2012 | Jacques Piccard | oceanographer | First Mariana Trench expedition |
| 2013 | Sylvia Earle James Cameron E. O. Wilson | biologist film director/explorer biologist | Marine exploration Marine exploration Biological research |
| 2015 | George Schaller | biologist | for his unwavering commitment to the well-being of the world’s most endangered species |
| 2016 | Meave Leakey Nainoa Thompson | paleoanthropologist navigator | |
| 2017 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | astrophysicist, author andscience communicator | |
| 2018 | Peter H. Raven | Biologist andenvironmentalist |
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