The Archons established the Distinguished Fiji Award in 1965. Their policy states, "The Distinguished Fiji Award will be presented annually to no more than six Graduate Brothers who shall be deserving of recognition for their faithful and unselfish service to Phi Gamma Delta or their special contribution to mankind and society at large."

To publicize the award, the Archons determined to distribute it to 111 charter members, consisting of living past archons, former section chiefs with two years or more of service, former field secretaries, past ekklesia host committee chairmen, and past appointed officers. This practice continued through 1968. At that point, it was felt that continuing the practice diminished the importance of the six annual recipients. Since then the award has only been given to six living brothers annually, with the exception of a seventh, posthumous award to Cecil J. Scoop Wilkinson in 2001.

CHARTER RECIPIENTS, 1965
Stephen J. Adorian (Lafayette 1962)
George R. Aldhizer, Jr. (Richmond 1953)
Robert H. Alexander (Lafayette 1955)
Eugene C. Andres, Jr. (Dartmouth 1928)
Edward L. Bacher (Williams 1911)
George D. Bailey (Wisconsin 1912)
Hugh J. Baker, Jr. (Ohio State 1931)
Benny J. Bedford (Texas Tech 1957)
Bruce Blanchard (MIT 1954)
Girard D. Bond (Ohio State 1922)
Louis W. Bonsib, Jr. (Indiana 1940)
Alfred Buckley, Jr. (Brown 1949)
Lyle K. Bush (Washington 1922)
Ralph H. Cake (Oregon 1913)
Frank B. Crandall (Ohio Wesleyan 1906)
Richard H. Crowder (DePauw 1931)
Marshall B. Dalton (MIT 1915)
Richard W. Darrow (Ohio Wesleyan 1936)
Harry L. Davis, Jr. (Western Reserve 1937)
Fred L. Dixon (Colorado 1944)
Robert M. Donovan (Virginia 1954)
J. Earle Dunford, Jr. (Richmond 1947)
J. Earle Dunford Sr. (Bethel 1912, Richmond 1915)
George R. Eshelman (Washington and Lee 1943)
Wallace W. Everett, Jr. (California at Berkeley 1927)
Richard L. Gannett (Texas 1958)
Robert M. Gardner (Ohio Wesleyan 1951)
Thomas M. Gilliland (Nebraska 1959)
Cornelis E. Groenewegen (Occidental 1929, Stanford 1928)
George Gunn, Jr. (Washington 1916)
Thomas P. Hanson (Union 1945)
Robert E. Harris (Toronto 1949)
Philip S. Harper, Sr. (Columbia 1916)
Donald S. Hauck (Wittenberg 1956)
William R. Hauser (Denison 1950)
W. Tyler Haynes (Richmond 1922)
Craig P. Hazelet (Washington 1914)
Benjamin T. Head, III (Oklahoma 1942)
Albert H. Heimbach, Jr. (Minnesota 1942)
Felix R. Helms (Alabama 1943)
Martin J. Her (Minnesota 1927)
Charles W. Hill (Minnesota 1905)
Albert F. Hillix (Missouri 1918)
James F. Hudson (Missouri 1946)
Alan W. Johnson (UCLA 1936)
Jordan S. Kanikkeberg (Idaho 1951)
Hubert B. Keenleyside (Toronto 1923)
John L. Kendall (DePauw 1966)
Alfred M. Landon (Kansas 1908)
John H. Lathe, Jr. (Western Reserve 1944)
Brainard W. LaTourette, Jr. (Westminster 1952)
Fred J. Lekson (Western Reserve 1952)
Charles E. Lovejoy (Illinois 1920)
William Cullen MacDonald (WPI 1962)
Louis A. "Bud" Mangels (Indiana 1956)
Danner L. Mahood (Virginia 1922)
Theodore M. Mann (Western Reserve 1943)
John R. McGillivray (Toronto 1928)
James R. McKeldin (Virginia 1925)
Carl H. McLauthlin (Colorado 1937)
Nicholas J. Melas (Chicago 1945)
Crandall Melvin, Jr. (Syracuse 1951)
Crandall Melvin, Sr. (Syracuse 1911)
William G. Mennen (Cornell 1908)
George Harold Merry, Jr. (Syracuse 1934)
F. Carl Meyer, Jr. (Lafayette 1935)
Kenneth J. Mighell (Texas 1952)
James Millan (Missouri 1953)
John Smith Miller (Idaho 1929)
Abbot P. Mills (Williams College 1911)
T. Dwight Mitchell, Jr. (Oklahoma 1942)
H. Gilbert Nicol (Amherst 1944)
Edward J. O'Connell (Michigan 1940, Alabama 1940)
Edwin J. Ogden III (Purdue 1952)
John A. Parker (Tennessee 1938)
Thomas N. Pollard, Jr., (Richmond 1953)
Edward S. Rand (Amherst 1931)
Charles R. Richey (Ohio Wesleyan 1945)
William S. Robb, Sr. (Pennsylvania 1934)
Gilbert M. Roddy (MIT 1931)
Charles L. Sargeant (Purdue 1926)
John E. Scott (Indiana 1930)
Michael R. Shaffer (Wittenberg 1949)
Kennedy Shaw (Syracuse 1950)
John D. Sheppard (Pittsburgh 1944)
George H. Shevlin, Jr. (Illinois 1935)
Michael O. Shipley (Syracuse 1958)
Herbert W. Smith (Michigan 1910)
Rollin B. Smith (Nebraska 1921)
Guy E. Snavely (Allegheny 1910)
Neil W. "Jerry" Solomon (Nebraska 1951)
F. Alan Stamper (Kansas 1964)
William Allen Steele (Colorado 1926)
James H. Stellar (Occidental 1954, Arizona 1954)
Joseph McLain Stewart (Washington and Lee 1938)
Calvin C. Stoddard (Oregon State 1938, Iowa 1938)
Arthur Surkamp (Texas 1913)
Harry E. Templeton (Stanford 1925)
T. Paul Tissot (Stanford 1917)
Hayse Tucker (Colorado College 1918)
Stanley T. Wallbank (Colorado 1917)
William J. Wardall (Illinois 1908)
Lucian C. Warren (Denison 1936)
Roger L. Weinheimer (Oregon State 1951)
Robert K. Whipple (DePauw 1953)
Lloyd H. Wiborg (Arizona 1961)
Floyd Wilkins, Jr. (California at Berkeley 1946)
Albert G. Williams (Western Reserve 1927)
Clarence H. Williams (Western Reserve 1914)
Carl R. Woodward, Sr. (Rutgers 1914)
Thomas L. Wylie (Hanover 1963)
Alfred H. Young (Toronto 1924)
William S. Zerman (Michigan 1949)

DISTINGUISHED FIJI AWARD RECIPIENTS SINCE 1965
1966
Stephen H. Edwards (Idaho 1964)
Walter L. Ditzler (Oklahoma 1917)
Eugene A. Cernan (Purdue 1956)
Edwin T. Colton (Illinois 1917)
Donal C. Bosson, Sr. (Tennessee 1944)
Alexander K. Scherer (Michigan 1930)
William A. Manuel (Ohio Wesleyan 1937)
Glenn R. Barr (Allegheny 1919)
Wilbur H. Nagel (Hanover 1914)
Douglas A. Corbishley (British Columbia 1959)
Gerald E. Veltmann (Texas 1932)
Robert P. Radcliffe (Sewanee 1961, Kansas 1961)
1967
Francis A. Gilfillan (Oregon State 1918)
William T. Morris (Pennsylvania State 1949)
Fred M. Selkregg (Pennsylvania State 1913)
Dale F. Renner (Ohio Wesleyan 1950)
Ronald J. Pedrick (Bucknell 1960)
Vernon M. Knox (Pennsylvania 1919)
William J. Armstrong (Allegheny 1916)
Ernest L. Mackie (North Carolina 1917)
John G. Pappajohn (Iowa 1952)
1968
John R. Dellenback (Yale 1940)
Ogden R. Reid (Yale 1949)
William R. Miller (Indiana 1962)
Walter B. Anderson (Richmond 1921)
David E. Satterfield III (Richmond 1943)
David C. Bland (Texas 1938)
Theodore R. Banks (Lafayette 1926)
Gordon T. Speckman (Denison 1947)
Gordon L. Allott (Colorado 1927)
Barratt O'Hara, II (Colorado College 1932)
Edmond A. Edmonston (Oklahoma 1942)
Thomas E. Shull (Idaho 1950)
Ronald C. Andrews (British Columbia 1938)
Alphonzo E. Bell (Occidental 1938)
Robert E. McCulloch (Toronto 1965, Western Ontario 1969)
Robert F. Clarke (Wisconsin 1966)
Francis C. Bragg (WPI 1924)
Richard I. Sampson (Washington 1946)
Roderick Stephens (Columbia 1906)
Charles B. Mills (Ohio Wesleyan 1919)
C. W. Swinford (Washington & Lee 1943)
1969
Willard B. Dean (Knox 1919)
William J. Carmichael (Illinois 1942)
Charles H. Graham (British Columbia 1967)
Ronald I. Enna (Oregon State 1965)
Walter B. Franklin (Colorado 1920)
Peter C. Rockel (Wittenberg 1921)
Hummel Fishburn (Pennsylvania State 1922)
William C. Reed (Indiana 1917)
1970
Chan F. Coulter (Iowa 1925)
U. Grant Miller (Washington & Jefferson 1907)
H. Dean Ritchie (Kansas 1940)
Arthur Madison (Minnesota 1919)
Ivan D. Robertson (Texas 1924)
Leland L. Atwood (WPI 1931)
1971
Theodore S. Curtis (Maine 1923)
John L. Swigert (Colorado 1953)
Roy W. Walters (Pittsburgh 1917)
Archibald H. McCulloch (Texas 1922)
Cyrus S. Fleck (Gettysburg 1920, Lafayette 1920)
Donald J. Zinn (Rhode Island 1937)
1972
Porter McCoy (Depauw 1913)
Richard W. Kerlin (William Jewell 1928)
Rowland Burnstan (Lafayette 1925)
Henry S. Brainard (Western Reserve 1922)
Burr S. Swezey (Purdue 1913)
Ellis T. Woolfolk (Davidson 1923)
1973
Edwin G. Halter (Western Reserve 1926)
Donald E. Johnson (Oregon State 1936)
J. Paul Miller (Pittsburgh 1915)
Andrew L. Minier (Nebraska 1935)
Norman V. Peale (Ohio Wesleyan 1920)
Barry L. Williams (Florida 1953)
1974
DeWitt R. Cogswell (Western Reserve 1915) 
Jenkin L. Jones (Wisconsin 1933)
Roland A. McCrady (Pittsburgh 1911)
T. Daniel Romero (Arizona 1922)
Edward B. Rust (Stanford 1940)
Byron R. White (Colorado 1938)
1975
Ellis E. Busse (Chicago 1931)
Donald J. Clark (Texas 1930)
John P. Collett (Wabash 1924)
Jack W. Nicklaus (Ohio State 1961)
George C. Sternad, Jr. (Ohio Wesleyan 1947, Pennsylvania 1947) 
William R. VanAken (Lafayette 1934) 
1976
Eugene A. Clapp II (Lafayette 1936) 
Frank Coyle (Washington 1910)
Samuel M. Dague (Wabash 1896)
George H. Dirks (DePauw 1929)
Craig P. Hazelet (Washington 1914) 
William G. Karnes (Illinois 1933)
1977
Luis W. Alvarez (Chicago 1932)
Howard C. Kauffmann, Jr. (Oklahoma 1943)
Robert B. Mathias (Stanford 1953)
Howard I. Scott (Pittsburgh 1945)
Thomas H. Williams, Jr. (Auburn initiate) 
John F. Winch (Michigan 1946)
1978
Arthur H. Bell (California at Berkeley 1911)
Dale J. Bruce (Ohio Wesleyan 1952)
James R. Ellis (Yale 1943)
Arthur G. Hansen (Purdue 1947)
Robert J. Harker (Iowa State 1943)
Charles E. Hugel (Lafayette 1951)
1979
Charles M. Brown (Georgia Tech 1925)
Glenn V. Cunningham (Kansas 1934)
George H. Decker (Lafayette 1924)
J. Kurt Mahrdt (DePauw 1928) 
Walter W. McAllister, III (Texas 1963)
Almer S. Monroney (Oklahoma 1924)
1980
Reginald H. Helvenston (Sewanee 1922)
Raymond Joseph Rudolph (Purdue 1945)
James R. Young, (Johns Hopkins 1925)
1981
Wallace A. Hilton (William Jewell 1933)
Jack H. Horenberger, Ill (Wesleyan 1937)
Donald B. Lindsley (Wittenberg 1932)
David W. Peck (Wabash 1923)
Dean E. Smith (Kansas 1953)
Robert D. Watt (Washington 1935) 
1982
Roone P. Arledge (Columbia 1952)
Richard E. Grace (Purdue 1951)
Clarence J. Gray (Richmond 1933)
John Richard Munro (Colgate 1957)
W. Paul Thayer (Kansas 1942)
George H. Watkins (Chicago 1935)
1983
Victor G. Atiyeh (Oregon 1945)
John W. Barkley (Allegheny 1911)
Richard E. Carver (Iowa 1959)
Robert S. Curtiss (Columbia 1927)
John Sagan, Jr. (Ohio Wesleyan 1948)
W. Edward Sell (Washington and Jefferson 1942)
1984
Edwin D. Dodd (Ohio State 1941)
W. James MacIntosh (Pennsylvania 1922)
Richard W. McKinney (Lafayette 1921, Texas 1923)
Frederick T. Merchant (Ohio Wesleyan 1933)
William H. Seay (Texas 1941)
G. Mennen Williams (Michigan 1963)
1985
Joseph B. Carney (DePauw 1950)
Arthur E. Humphrey (Idaho 1948)
Richard D. McCormick (Iowa State 1961)
Joel M. Pritchard (Washington 1947)
Glen C. Smith, Jr. (Northwestern 1941)
1986
William J. Crowe, Jr. (Oklahoma 1946)
John C. Cushman, III (Colgate 1963)
Fred F. Fielding (Gettysburg 1961)
Frank Iacobucci (British Columbia 1962)
Phillip J. Meek (Ohio Wesleyan 1959) 
Malcolm M. Renfrew (Idaho 1932)
1987
Edmund L. Browning (Sewanee 1952)
John F. Eulich (Kansas 1951)
Emlyn I. Griffith (Colgate 1942)
Joseph R. Kerrey (Nebraska 1965)
Howard M. Logan (Iowa State 1946)
Nicholas A. Veliotes (California at Berkeley 1953)
1988
Robert L. Albin (Missouri 1962)
Edward L. Bishop, III (Wash. & Lee 1968)
Kenneth H. Blanchard (Cornell 1961)
Karl Eller (Arizona 1952)
Thomas J. Peters (Cornell 1964)
Hicks B. Waldron (Michigan 1944)
1989
Charles G. Armstrong (Purdue 1964)
Lewis M. Costello (Virginia 1955)
Boyd A. Martin (Idaho 1936)
Roger S. Penske (Lehigh 1959)
Frederick Stines, Jr. (Iowa 1949)
John R. Taylor (Idaho 1949)
1990
Peter B. Teets (Colorado 1963)
Oliver B. Garver, Jr. (UCLA 1945)
Robert S. Jepson, Jr. (Richmond 1964)
Kenneth B. Hamlet (Cornell 1966)
C. James Jessee Jr. (Virginia 1949) 
Richard L. Dobson (Chicago 1953)
1991
Dean D. Thornton (Idaho 1952)
L. Jay Oliva (New York 1967)
Lee C. Schmitt (Miami 1963) 
David G. Elmore (Indiana 1955)
Robert S. McNamara (California at Berkeley 1937)
Douglas W. Miller (British Columbia 1950)
1992
Charles R. Lee (Cornell 1961)
James J. Howard, III (Pittsburgh 1957)
Ronald D. Crockett (Washington 1961) 
Victor S. Kamber (Illinois 1965)
Harold W. Andersen (Nebraska 1945)
Peter O. Clauss (Chicago 1955) 
1993
Daniel F. Evans (Wabash 1943)
Hamilton E. McRae (Arizona 1960) 
Frederick W Mielke, Jr. (California at Berkeley 1943)
Brian P. Lamb (Purdue 1963)
Robert W. Higgins (Washington State 1956)
A. Anthes Smith (Iowa 1942)
1994
Rick L. Allen (Wabash 1962, Arizona 1962)
Robert K. Erf (Michigan 1953)
Vance M. Hubbard (Texas Tech 1962)
Walter A. Koelbel (Colorado 1947)
David M. Joyner (Penn State 1972)
DeWitt James Griffin (UCLA 1938, California at Berkeley 1938)
1995
William P. Barnes (Idaho 1944)
Robert F. Coverdale (Ohio Wesleyan 1952)
James M. Davis (Ohio State 1937)
William S. Livingston (Ohio State 1942)
Frederick C. Robbins (Missouri 1936)
William H. Smith (Purdue 1939)
1996
Richard J. Borda (Stanford 1953)
Stuart W. Evey (Washington 1956) 
Henry N. R. Jackman (Toronto 1953)
William J. Kliber (Syracuse 1952)
DeWitt Waltmon (Texas 1949)
Sherman S. Welpton, Jr. (Nebraska 1930)
1997
Charles Robert Black (Texas Tech 1958)
John E. Gottschalk (Nebraska 1965) 
R. Kirk Landon (Georgia Tech 1950)
Frank L. O'Bannon (Indiana 1952)
1998
A. Russell Chandler, III (Georgia Tech 1967)
James P. Glenny (Idaho 1960)
O. Wayne Isom (Texas Tech 1962)
Philip H. Knight (Orgeon 1959)
Peter O'Malley (Pennsylvania 1960)
Fred R. Sutter, Sr. (Arizona 1958)
1999
Hale S. Irwin (Colorado 1967)
William H. Keck (Indiana 1941)
Raymond E. Lacy (Tennessee 1971)
William A. Martin, III (Mississippi State 1975)
William T. McConnell (Denison 1955)
Richard F. McNamara (Minnesota 1956)
James L. Tuman (Michigan State 1964)
2000
John Fox Arnold (Colorado 1961, Missouri 1961)
G. Wayne Clough (Georgia Tech 1963)
Donald R. Mighell (Texas 1956)
W. Payne Stewart (Southern Methodist 1979)
James T. Willerson (Texas 1961)
Richard D. Zanuck (Stanford 1956)
2001
Douglas H. Dittrick (Ohio Wesleyan 1955)
George Hopper (Wittenberg 1932)
George F. Qua (Michigan 1952)
Dr. Theodore J. Castele (Case Western Reserve 1951)
James C. Rinaman (Florida 1955)
Robert W. Rahal (Denison 1975)
Cecil J. Wilkinson (Ohio Wesleyan 1917) - posthumous
2002
Robert James Dixon (Dartmouth 1941)
J. Henry Doscher, Jr. (Texas 1942)
Gordon A. Elliott (British Columbia 1955)
George H. Nelson (Texas Tech 1958)
Jerry S. Rawls (Texas Tech 1966)
J. Proctor Ritchie (Kansas 1939)
2003
John H. Binning (Nebraska 1945)
Eugene D. Fletchall (Indiana 1932)
Richard A. Pecaut (Iowa State 1952)
Ronald A. Shuffield (Tennessee 1973)
Robert W. Taylor (Southern Methodist 1952)
2004
Charles W. Adair, Jr. (Wisconsin 1935)
Robert P. Bauman (Ohio Wesleyan 1953)
Robert W. Bomengen (Oregon State 1966)
Robert D. Cheeley (Georgia 1979)
John W. Creighton (Pittsburgh 1954, Ohio State 1954)
Richard A. Smudz (Ohio State 1975)
Louis F. Trost (Oklahoma 1950)
2005
Thomas M. Ryan (Rhode Island 1975)
Alan B. Graf, Jr. (Indiana 1975)
Charles W. Ergen (Tennessee 1975)
John F. White (William Jewel 1967)
Wayne H. Brunetti (Florida 1964)
Lee T. Hanley (Arizona 1964)
2006
Thomas E. Capps (North Carolina 1958)
Ernest L. Deal (Alabama 1952)
John A. Edwardson (Purdue 1971)
Jeffrey M. Heller (Texas 1961)
Rosendo G. Parra (Maryland 1982)
Robert G. Pohlad (Arizona State 1976)
2007
Richard C. Atkinson (Chicago 1949)
Michael M. Boone (Southern Methodist 1963)
Morgan J. Burke (Purdue 1973)
David R. Frick (Indiana 1966)
Ross J. Pillari (Case Western Reserve 1972)
James J. Terry, Jr. (Davidson College 1966)
2008
Clayton I. Bennett (Oklahoma 1981)
Douglas J. Bourne (Oklahoma 1943)
Roman W. DeSanctis (Arizona 1951)
Anthony J. Leitner, Jr. (Columbia 1965)
Jack L. Rives (Georgia 1974)
N. Clay Robbins (Wabash 1979)
2009
W. Todd Akin (WPI 1971)
Timothy W. Finchem (Richmond 1969)
Richard C. Marr (Arkansas 1970)
J. Timothy McGinley (Purdue 1962)
J. Shan Mullin (Washington 1956)
Richard W. Quick (SMU 1965)
2010
Joseph F. Callo (Yale 1952)
John W. Ellis (Washington 1950)
Jeff M. Fettig (Indiana 1979)
Michael R. Pence (Hanover 1981)
James P. Prentice (Alberta 1977)
Charles L. Shearer (Kentucky 1964)
2011
Timothy M. Curley (Penn State 1976)
William R. Darrow, M.D. (Ohio Wesleyan 1960)
William E. Geist (Illinois 1967)
John Boyd Martin (Kansas 1959)
Lee Allan G. Smith (Oklahoma 1951)
Jack H. Vaughn (Michigan 1943)