2005 - Mickey Mouse

2004 - John Williams

2003 - Bill Cosby, Art Linkletter, Fred Rogers

2002 - Regis Philbin

2001 - Tom Brokaw

2000 - Roy E. Disney

1999 - Buzz Aldrin, Shirley Temple Black, Jackie Robinson (posthumously), David L. Wolper

1998 - Carol Burnett

1997 - Carl Lewis

1996 - Kermit the Frog

1995 - Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez

1994 - William Shatner

1993 - Angela Lansbury

1992 - His Grace, Cristobol Colon, Congressman Ben Nighthorse Campbell

1991 - Bob Newhart

1990 - Senator John Glenn

1989 - Shirley Temple Black

1988 - Gregory Peck

1987 - Pelé

1986 - Erma Bombeck

1985 - Lee A. Iacocca

1984 - Danny Kaye

1983 - Merlin Olsen

1982 - Jimmy Stewart

1981 - Lorne Greene

1980 - Frank Sinatra

1979 - Lathrop K. Leishman

1978 - Gerald R. Ford

1977 - Roy Rogers & Dale Evans

1976 - Kate Smith

1975 - Henry L. "Hank" Aaron

1974 - Charles M. Schulz

1973 - John Wayne

1972 - Lawrence Welk

1971 - Reverend Billy Graham

1970 - Alan L. Bean, Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr. (Apollo 12 Astronauts)

1969 - Bob Hope

1968 - Senator Everett Dirksen

1967 - Thanat Khoman

1966 - Walt Disney

1965 - Arnold Palmer

1964 - Dwight D. Eisenhower

1963 - Dr. William H. Pickering

1962 - Albert D. Rosellini

1961 - William F. Quinn

1960 - Vice President Richard M. Nixon

1959 - E. L. "Bob" Bartlett

1958 - Robert Gordon Sproul

1957 - Eddie Rickenbacker

1956 - Charles Erwin Wilson

1955 - Chief Justice Earl Warren

1954 - General William F. Dean

1953 - Vice President-elect Richard M. Nixon

1952 - Major Carl Sitter, Captain Lewis Millet, Lt. Stanley Adams, Lt. Thomas Hudner, Captain Raymond Harvey, Sgt. Ernest Kouma, Sgt. Joseph Rodriguez (Medal of Honor winners)

1951 - Cpl. Robert S. Gray (For Gen. Eisenhower)

1950 - Paul G. Hoffman

1949 - Perry Brown

1948 - General Omar Bradley

1947 - Bob Hope

1946 - Admiral William Halsey

1945 - Herbert Hoover

1944 - Amos Alonzo Stagg

1943 - Governor-elect Earl Warren

1942 - Kay Kyser

1941 - E. O. Nay

1940 - Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy

1939 - Shirley Temple

1938 - Leo Carrillo

1937 - Eugene Biscailuz

1936 - James V. Alfred

1935 - Harold Lloyd

1934 - Admiral William S. Sims

1933 - Mary Pickford

1932 - William May Garland

1931 - General C. S. Farnsworth

1930 - Governor-elect James Rolph

1929 - Marco Hellman

1928 - John McDonald

1927 - Dr. C.D. Lockwood

1926 - Colonel L. J. Mygatt

1925 - Lewis H. Turner

1924 - Colonel George S. Parker

1923 - H.L. Gianetti

1922 - Harold Landreth

1921 - W. A. Boucher

1920 - Frank G. Hogan

1919 - Frank Hunter

1918 - Dr. Z. T. Malaby

1917 - Dr. C. D. Lockwood

1916 - Dr. Francis F. Rowland

1915 - M. S. Pashgian

1914 - Charles Daggett

1913 - Leigh Guyer

1912 - E. H. Groenendyke

1911 - Dr. Ralph Skillen

1910 - Dr. Francis F. Rowland, Prof. Charles F. Holder (one of the founders of the parade)

1909 - Walter S. Wright

1907 & 1908 - Dr. Ralph Skillen

1906 - John B. Miller

1904 & 1905 - Dr. Francis F. Rowland

1902 & 1903 - C. C. Reynolds

1900 & 1901 - Charles Daggett

1898 & 1899 - Martin H. Weight

1896 & 1897 - Edwin Stearns

1895 - Dr. H. H. Sherk

1894 - Dr. Francis F. Rowland

1893 - No Grand Marshal

1892 - Dr. Francis F. Rowland

1891 - No Grand Marshal

1890 - Dr. Francis F. Rowland