Amicus Poloniae

Laureates

• 1996 Stefan & Wanda Wilk – Los Angeles, California, Polish Music Center, University of Southern California
• 1997 Ellen K. Lee – La Senda, California, Helena Modrzejewska Foundation, California
• 1998 Paulina Babinski – Denver, Colorado, American Council of Polish Culture in Denver
• 1999 Joshua Siegel – New York, NY, Department of Film and Video Museum of Modern Art., New York
• 2000 Paul Mazursky – Beverly Hills, California, Actor, film director; Kevin Mulroy, Los Angeles, California, Research Director, Autry Museum
• 2001 Hanna Saxon – Miami, Florida, Chopin Foundation in the USA
• 2002 George E. Pataki – governor of New York State
• 2003 Richard Farwell – Executive Director of Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
• 2004 Frank Barnyak – President of the U. S. Navy League in Los Angeles
• 2005 Anna M. Cienciala – Professor of History and Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Kansas
• 2006 Salme Harju Steinberg – President of Northeastern Illinois University
• 2007 David Lynch – cinema director
• 2007 Clay Bullwinkel - Silicon Valley businessman and mentor of Poland-based technology companies
• 2008 Yola Czaderska-Hayek, Mahendra Patel – Chief Executive Officer, Hope Medical Institute
• 2009 Jane Kaczmarek – actress graduated from the University of Wisconsin and the Yale School of Drama.
• 2010 Wojciech Kielak – Former president of the Polish American Congress in Nebraska and a commanding officer in Gen. Maczek's Division in the Western European Front
• 2012 Paula Freer – Director of International Government Relations for Marathon Oil Corporation
• 2013 Teresa Lowenthal, Paul Lowenthal – American Institute of Polish Culture, Miami, Florida
• 2014 Bruce Rauner – governor of Illinois
• 2015 Georgetown University Press
• 2017 Zbigniew Kantorosinski – Chief of the Germanic and Slavic Division, Library of Congress