From time to time the Society awards a Gold Medal for distinguished services to bibliography to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of the subject and the furtherance of the Society’s aims. Over forty awards have been made since the Medal Fund was established in 1929 and recipients since 1990 have been Nicolas Barker, Bernhard Fabian, Lotte Hellinga, Don McKenzie, David McKitterick, Henri-Jean Martin, Paul Needham, Mirjam Foot, G. Thomas Tanselle, James Mosley, James P. Carley, Michael Twyman, and Peter Blayney.
| 1929 | Wilberforce Eames |
| 1929 | Konrad Haebler |
| 1929 | M. R. James |
| 1929 | R. B. McKerrow |
| 1929 | A. W. Pollard |
| 1932 | Falconer Madan |
| 1935 | Sir Frederic Kenyon |
| 1935 | W. W. Greg |
| 1948 | Stanley Morison |
| 1948 | Strickland Gibson |
| 1951 | F. S. Ferguson |
| 1951 | Victor Scholderer |
| 1956 | M. E. Kronenberg |
| 1956 | A. F. Johnson |
| 1957 | L. C. Wroth |
| 1960 | E. A. Lowe |
| 1960 | J. B. Oldham |
| 1965 | W. A. Jackson |
| 1969 | Fredson Bowers |
| 1969 | Graham Pollard |
| 1975 | John Carter |
| 1975 | Neil Ker |
| 1978 | Howard Nixon |
| 1982 | Bernhard Bischoff |
| 1982 | Sir Geoffrey Keynes |
| 1984 | David Foxon |
| 1986 | P. O. Kristeller |
| 1988 | Katharine Pantzer |
| 1990 | Don McKenzie |
| 1992 | Anthony Hobson |
| 1994 | Henri-Jean Martin |
| 1997 | Robin Alston |
| 1999 | Nicolas Barker |
| 1999 | Bernhard Fabian |
| 2001 | Andrew Watson |
| 2003 | Peter Davison |
| 2005 | David McKitterick |
| 2007 | Dennis Rhodes |
| 2009 | Lotte Hellinga |
| 2011 | Paul Needham |
| 2013 | Mirjam Foot |
| 2014 | Ian Doyle |
| 2015 | G. Thomas Tanselle |
| 2017 | James Mosley |
| 2019 | James P. Carley |
| 2021 | Michael Twyman |
| 2023 | Peter Blayney |
The Society would like to include links to short academic biographies of our Gold Medallists.
If you can suggest suitable additional or alternative ones, please send the links to the Hon. Editor of Electronic Publications.