The Sierra Club John Muir Award is awarded annually by the Sierra Club. It is the club's highest award. According to the Sierra Club, "it honors a distinguished record of leadership in national conservation causes, such as continuing John Muir's work of preservation and establishment of parks and wildernesses."
- 1961 William Edward Colby
- 1962 Olaus Murie
- 1963 Ansel Adams
- 1964 Walter A. Starr
- 1965 Francis P. Farquhar
- 1966 Harold C. Bradley
- 1967 Sigurd F. Olson
- 1969 Henry M. Jackson
- 1970 George Marshall
- 1971 John P. Saylor
- 1972 Edgar Wayburn
- 1973 Richard M. Leonard
- 1974 John B. Oakes
- 1975 William O. Douglas
- 1976 Jacques Cousteau
- 1977 David R. Brower
- 1978 Phillip Berry
- 1979 J. Michael McCloskey
- 1980 Paul Ehrlich
- 1981 Brock Evans
- 1982 Wallace Stegner
- 1983 Margaret E. Murie
- 1984 Brant Calkin
- 1985 Denis A. Hayes
- 1986 Horace M. Albright
- 1987 John A. McComb
- 1988 John Seiberling
- 1989 Paul Brooks
- 1991 Celia Hunter
- 1992 James C. Catlin
- 1993 Martin Litton
- 1994 William E. Siri
- 1995 Joseph B. Fontaine
- 1996 Elden Hughes
- 1997 Doug Scott
- 1998 Jim Dodson
- 1999 Judy Anderson
- 2000 Carla Cloer
- 2001 Gaylord Nelson
- 2002 James Jeffords
- 2003 Vivian Newman
- 2004 Vicky Hoover
- 2005 Howard Booth
- 2006 Larry Melhalf
- 2007 Al Gore
- 2008 James E. Hansen
- 2009 Greg Haegele
- 2010 Dick Fiddler
- 2011 Bill McKibben
- 2012 Donald Parks
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