By Year
2022 Victoria & Albert
2021 Napoléon Bonaparte
2020 Moctezuma I
2019 Hadrian
2018 Ludwig II
2017 Scipione Borghese
2016 Peggy Guggenheim
2015 Luciano Pavarotti
2014 Henry E Steinway
2013 Ludovico Sforza (Milan)
2012 Joseph II
2011 Gaius Maecenas
2010 Elizabeth I
2009 Max von Oppenheim
2008 Francois I
2007 Alexander von Humboldt
2006 Sir Henry Tate
2005 Pope Julius II
2004 J P Morgan
2003 Nicolaus Copernicus
2002 Andrew Carnegie
2001 Marquise de Pompadour
2000 Karl The Great
1999 Freidrich The Great
1998 Alexander The Great
1997 Peter The Great
1997 Catherine The Great
1996 Semiramis
1995 The Prince Regent
1994 Louis XIV
1993 Octavian
1992 Lorenzo de Medici