Photo | Năm | Winner | Notes | References |
| 1958 | The People of Austria | Cultural heritage. Awarded at the University of Milan. Prize funds were granted to Austrians studying in Europe; foreign students studying in Austria; and excavations at Ephesus. | [3][4] |
| 1959 | Robert Schuman | | [3] |
| 1959 | Karl Jaspers | | [3] |
| 1960 | Marc Chagall | | [3] |
| 1960 | Oskar Kokoschka | | [3] |
| 1962 | Romano Guardini | | [3] |
| 1963 | Martin Buber | | [3] |
| 1964 | Union Académique Internationale | | [3] |
| 1965 | Charles Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman | | [3] |
| 1966 | Herbert Read, René Huyghe | | [3] |
| 1967 | Jan Tinbergen | | [3] |
| 1968 | Henry Moore | | [3] |
| 1969 | Gabriel Marcel, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker | | [3] |
| 1970 | Hans Scharoun | | [3] |
| 1971 | Olivier Messiaen | | [3] |
| 1972 | Jean Piaget | | [3] |
| 1973 | Claude Lévi-Strauss | | [3] |
Tập tin:Prins Bernhard reikt Erasmusprijs uit aan Ninette de Valois in aanwezigheid van Hare Majesteit en Prinses Beatrix; Prins Bernhard en Ninette de.jpg Tập tin:Prins Bernhard reikt Erasmusprijs uit aan Ninette de Valois in aanwezigheid van Hare Majesteit en Prinses Beatrix; v.l.n.r. HM, Bernhard en De Valois.jpg | 1974 | Ninette de Valois, Maurice Béjart | | [3] |
| 1975 | Ernst Gombrich, Willem Sandberg | | [3] |
| 1976 | Amnesty International, René David | | [3] |
| 1977 | Werner Kaegi, Jean Monnet | | [3] |
| 1978 | Puppet Theatre/Theme puppetry: - La Marionettistica of the Napoli brothers
- Ţăndărică of Margareta Niculescu
- Théatre du Papier of Yves Joly
- Bread and Puppet of Peter Schumann
| | [3][cần dẫn nguồn] |
| 1979 | Die Zeit, Neue Zürcher Zeitung | | [3] |
| 1980 | Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gustav Leonhardt | | [3] |
| 1981 | Jean Prouvé | | [3] |
| 1982 | Edward Schillebeeckx | | [3] |
| 1983 | Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Leszek Kołakowski, Marguerite Yourcenar | | [3] |
| 1984 | Massimo Pallottino | | [3] |
| 1985 | Paul Delouvrier | | [3] |
| 1986 | Václav Havel | | [3] |
| 1987 | Alexander King | | [3] |
| 1988 | Jacques Ledoux | | [3] |
| 1989 | International Commission of Jurists | | [3] |
| 1990 | Sir Grahame Clark | | [3] |
| 1991 | Bernard Haitink | | [3] |
| 1992 | General Archive of the Indies | | [3] |
| 1992 | Simon Wiesenthal | | [3] |
| 1993 | Peter Stein | | [3] |
| 1994 | Sigmar Polke | | [3] |
| 1995 | Renzo Piano | | [3] |
| 1996 | William Hardy McNeill | | [3] |
| 1997 | Jacques Delors | | [3] |
| 1998 | Mauricio Kagel, Peter Sellars | | [3] |
| 1999 | Mary Robinson | | [3] |
| 2000 | Hans van Manen | | [3] |
| 2001 | Claudio Magris, Adam Michnik | | [3] |
| 2002 | Bernd and Hilla Becher | | [3] |
| 2003 | Alan Davidson | | [3] |
| 2004 | Abdolkarim Soroush, Sadik Al-Azm và Fatema Mernissi | | [3] |
| 2005 | Simon Schaffer và Steven Shapin | | [3] |
| 2006 | Pierre Bernard | | [3] |
| 2007 | Péter Forgács | | [3] |
| 2008 | Ian Buruma | | [3] |
| 2009 | Antonio Cassese, Benjamin B. Ferencz | | [3] |
| 2010 | José Antonio Abreu | | [3] |
| 2011 | Joan Busquets | | [3] |
| 2012 | Daniel Dennett | | [3] |
| 2013 | Jürgen Habermas | | [3] |
| 2014 | Frie Leysen | Theme of "Theatre, audience and society" | [3][5] |
| 2015 | Cộng đồng Wikipedia | For "[promoting] the dissemination of knowledge through a comprehensive and universally accessible encyclopaedia. To achieve that, the initiators of Wikipedia have designed a new and effective democratic platform. The prize specifically recognises Wikipedia as a community — a shared project that involves tens of thousands of volunteers around the world." | [1][2] |
| 2016 | A. S. Byatt | For inspiring contribution to ‘life writing’ | [6][7] |