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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recipients_of_the_Silver_Buffalo_Award
| Recipient | Year | Notability |
| Robert Baden-Powell | 1926 | Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer and founder of the Scout Movement |
| The Unknown Scout | 1926 | Unknown member of the British Boy Scout Association who inspired W. D. Boyce to form the BSA |
| William D. Boyce | 1926 | Publisher and entrepreneur, founder of the BSA and the Lone Scouts of America |
| Colin H. Livingstone | 1926 | Financier, first president of the BSA |
| James J. Storrow | 1926 | Investment banker instrumental in forming General Motors, third president of GM and second president of the BSA (posthumous award) |
| Daniel Carter Beard | 1926 | Illustrator, author, social reformer, founding pioneer of the BSA and the first national Scout commissioner |
| Ernest Thompson Seton | 1926 | Noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, founding pioneer of the BSA and first Chief Scout; heavily influenced Baden-Powell in his formation of Scouting |
| Edgar M. Robinson | 1926 | Senior secretary in the YMCA, co-founder of the BSA |
| Lee F. Hanmer | 1926 | /Co-organizer of the Boy Scouts of America |
| George W. Wingate | 1926 | /Advocate of Organized Outdoor Recreation |
| Joseph Lee | 1926 | /Advocate of Playground and Outdoor Recreation |
| Howard S. Braucher | 1926 | /Chairman, Committee on Organization, Boy Scouts of America |
| Mortimer L. Schiff | 1926 | Banker, philanthropist, vice-president of the BSA, member of the World Scout Committee, recipient of the Bronze Wolf, later president of the BSA |
| Milton A. McRae | 1926 | Publisher, co-founder of the Scripps-McRae League of newspapers, later the third president of the BSA |
| Frank Presbrey | 1926 | /Advertising Man; Developer of Boys' Life Magazine |
| George D. Pratt | 1926 | /Treasurer, Boy Scouts of America |
| John Sherman Hoyt | 1926 | /Manufacturer; Chairman, Finance Committee, Boy Scouts of America |
| Jeremiah W. Jenks | 1926 | /Educator; Formulator of Scout Oath and Law |
| William D. Murray (Scouting) | 1926 | /Lawyer; Chairman, Editorial Board, Boy Scouts of America |
| G. Barrett Rich | 1926 | /Chairman, National Committee of Badges, Awards, and Scout Requirements |
| James E. West | 1926 | Lawyer, advocate of children's rights, first professional Chief Scout Executive of the BSA |
| George J. Fisher | 1926 | Physician, leader in the fields of youth development and physical fitness with the YMCA, early proponent of volleyball, deputy Chief Scout Executive and national Scout commissioner |
| William Howard Taft | 1927 | United States Solicitor General, United States federal judge, Governor-General of the Philippines, Secretary of War, twenty-seventh President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice of the United States and first honorary president of the BSA |
| Hubert S. Martin | 1927 | Director of the International Bureau of the BSA |
| William Adams Welch | 1927 | /National and State Parks Commissioner |
| Stuart W. French | 1927 | /Business Executive; Organizer of Region 12 |
| Bolton Smith | 1927 | Banker, director of the Interracial Bureau of the BSA |
| Walter W. Head | 1927 | /Banker, fourth and sixth president of the BSA |
| Brother Barnabas McDonald F.S.C | 1927 | Founder of the Columbian Squires of the Knights of Columbus education director of the Catholic Bureau of the BSA and director of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting |
| The Unknown Soldier | 1928 | American soldiers who have died without their remains being identified |
| Charles Lindbergh | 1928 | Pioneering aviator and recipient of the Medal of Honor |
| Walter von Bonstetten | 1928 | President of the Swiss Federation of Boy Scouts, served on the World Scout Committee, recipient of the Bronze Wolf |
| Arthur N. Cotton | 1928 | /Promoter of High-Y Clubs |
| Clarence H. Howard | 1928 | Industrialist, philanthropist and early benefactor of the Junior Chamber of Commerce |
| Charles D. Velie | 1928 | /Philanthropist; Promoter of Scouting for Rural Boys |
| William H. Cowles | 1928 | /Publisher; First Chairman, Region 11 Committee |
| Calvin Coolidge | 1929 | Lawyer, governor of Massachusetts, twenty-ninth Vice President and thirtieth President of the United States, honorary president of the BSA |
| Richard Evelyn Byrd | 1929 | Pioneering polar explorer, aviator, Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, recipient of the Medal of Honor and the Congressional Life Saving Medal |
| Wilbert E. Longfellow | 1929 | Commodore of the U. S. Volunteer Life Saving Corps, early proponent of swimming instruction and of the Schafer method of artificial respiration |
| John H. Finley | 1929 | Educator and founder of the Junior American Red Cross |
| Howard F. Gillette | 1929 | /Banker; Promoter of Sea Scouting |
| Charles D. Hart | 1929 | /Physician; Promoter of Troop Camping |
| Edward VIII of the United Kingdom | 1929 | Prince of Wales, later King of Great Britain then governor of the Bahamas |
| Herbert Hoover | 1930 | Mining engineer, humanitarian administrator, United States Secretary of Commerce, thirty-first President of the United States, honorary president of the BSA |
| James Earl Russell | 1930 | /Educator; Scouter |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1930 | Senator and governor of State of New York, assistant Secretary of the Navy, member of the BSA National Committee, later thirty-second President of the United States and honorary president of the BSA |
| James Austin Wilder | 1930 | /Developed and Organized the Sea Scouts Program |
| Charles L. Sommers | 1930 | Business Executive, chairman of Region 10 of the BSA, the Charles L Sommers Canoe Base was later named in his honor |
| Charles C. Moore (engineer) | 1930 | /Engineer; Scouter |
| Lewis Warrington Baldwin | 1930 | /Railroad President; Regional Chairman |
| Herbert Stuart Pakington, 4th Baron Hampton | 1931 | Chief commissioner of the Boy Scout Association in the UK |
| Griffith Ogden Ellis | 1931 | /Editor and Publisher, American Boy Magazine |
| Lewis Gawtry | 1931 | /Banker; Philanthropist |
| George Welch Olmsted | 1931 | /Utilities Executive; World Scouter |
| Victor F. Ridder | 1931 | /Newspaper Publisher; Catholic Scouter |
| Robert P. Sniffen | 1931 | /Merchandising Consultant; Chairman, Committee on Supply Service |
| Mell R. Wilkinson | 1931 | /Manufacturer; National Executive Board Member |
| Dwight F. Davis | 1932 | Tennis player who founded the Davis Cup, served as Secretary of War and as Governor General of the Philippines |
| William Edwin Hall | 1932 | /Lawyer; President, Boys' Clubs of America |
| Alfred W. Dater | 1932 | /Utilities Executive; First Chairman, Sea Scout Committee |
| Barron Collier | 1932 | /Philanthropist; Promoter of Scouting |
| Frank A. Bean | 1932 | /Business Executive; Advocate of Rural Scouting |
| Hermann W. Merkel | 1932 | /Creative Administrator of Parks and Camps |
| Vincent Massey | 1933 | Canadian Diplomat; Philanthropist |
| Martin H. Carmody | 1933 | Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus |
| John P. Wallace | 1933 | Publisher; Advocate of Rural Scouting |
| Cyrus Adler | 1933 | Educator; Chairman, Jewish Committee on Scouting |
| Reginald H. Parsons | 1933 | Developer of Scouting in Pacific Northwest |
| John A. McGregor | 1933 | Region 11 Scouter; Friend to Youth |
| Newton D. Baker | 1934 | Statesman; Humanitarian |
| Paul P. Harris | 1934 | Lawyer and founder of Rotary International |
| John M. Phillips | 1934 | Conservationist; Recipient of Silver Wolf |
| Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. | 1934 | Public Servant; Explorer |
| Charles E. Cotting | 1934 | Philanthropist; Promoter of New England Scouting |
| Frederic Kernochan | 1934 | Jurist; Pioneer Scouter; Urban League Executive |
| George Albert Smith | 1934 | Business Executive; Religious Leader; Scouter |
| Booth Tarkington | 1935 | Pulitzer Prize Author; Immortalizer of Youth |
| Amos Alonzo Stagg | 1935 | Educator; Dean of American Coaches |
| Daniel A. Tobin | 1935 | Banker; Scouter; Cofounder, Columbian Squires |
| Fielding Yost | 1935 | Scout Commissioner; Exponent of Clean Sports |
| Calvin Derrick | 1935 | Educator; Penologist; Innovator |
| R. Tait McKenzie | 1935 | Educator; Sculptor of Boy Scout Statue |
