List of Makdougall Brisbane Prize winners

• 1859 – Roderick Murchison
• 1860–62 – William Seller
• 1862–64 – Sir John Denis Macdonald
• 1864–66
• 1866–68 – Alexander Crum Brown and Thomas Richard Fraser
• 1868–70 – Not awarded
• 1870–72 – George Allman
• 1872–74 – Joseph Lister
• 1874–76 – Alexander Buchan
• 1876–78 – Archibald Geikie
• 1878–80 – Charles Piazzi Smyth
• 1880–82 – James Geikie
• 1882–84 – Edward Sang
• 1884–86 – Sir John Murray
• 1886–88 – Archibald Geikie
• 1888–90 – Ludwig Becker
• 1890–92 – Hugh Robert Mill
• 1892–94 – James Walker
• 1894–96 – John Gray McKendrick
• 1896–98 – William Peddie
• 1898–1900 – Ramsay Traquair
• 1900–02 – Arthur T. Masterman
• 1902–04 – John Dougall
• 1904–06 – Jakob Karl Ernst Halm
• 1906–08 – David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan
• 1908–10 – Ernest Wedderburn
• 1910–12 – John Brownlee
• 1912–14 – Charles Robertson Marshall
• 1914–16 – Robert Alexander Houstoun
• 1916–18 – Abercrombie Lawson
• 1918–20 – Joseph Wedderburn
• 1920–22 – William Thomas Gordon
• 1922–24 – Herbert Stanley Allen
• 1924–26 – Charles Morley Wenyon, protozoologist
• 1926–28 – William Ogilvy Kermack
• 1928–30
• 1930–32 – Alexander Aitken
• 1932–34 – Alfred Ernest Henderson Cameron
• 1934–36 – Ernest Masson Anderson
• 1936–38 – David Meredith Seares Watson
• 1938–40 – Edward Lindsay Ince
• 1940–42 – William Wright Smith
• 1942–44 – Max Born and Peng Huanwu
• 1944–46 – William Black
• 1946–48 - Mowbray Ritchie
• 1948–50
• 1950–52 – Edward Maitland Wright
• 1952–54 – William Charles Osman Hill
• 1954–56 – Maurice Yonge
• 1956–58 – Ian Sneddon
• 1958–60
• 1960–62 – Edward McWilliam Patterson
• 1962–64 – Arthur Holmes
• 1964–66 – Daniel Edwin Rutherford
• 1966–68 – James Norman Davidson
• 1968–70 – Norman Feather
• 1970–72
• 1972–74 – David Paton Cuthbertson
• 1974–76 – Frederick Valentine Atkinson
• 1976–78
• 1978–80 – Walter Eric Spear
• 1980–82 – William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett
• 1982–84 – John Henderson Knox
• 1984–86 – Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith
• 1988
• 1990
• 1992 – Tom Brown, University of Oxford
• 1994 - Gordon Hayward
• 1996 – Mike Ferguson, University of Dundee
• 1998 – Weiping Lu, Heriot Watt University
• 1999 – Anne Neville –
• 2001 – Dario Alessi
• 2003 – James Wright
• 2005 – Colin McInnes
• 2007 – Andrew Baker
• 2009

• 2012 – Sharon Ashbrook, University of St Andrews and Rob Jenkins, University of York
• 2013 - Aidan Robson, University of Glasgow
• 2014 - Per Ola Kristensson and Catherine Cazin, University of St Andrews
• 2015 - Stefan Hild, University of Glasgow
• 2016 - Malcolm Macdonald, University of Strathclyde
• 2017 - Stephen Brusatte, University of Edinburgh
• 2018 - Kimberley Kavanagh, University of Strathclyde
• 2019 - Martin Lavery, University of Glasgow