About the Father of the Year Awards
The National Father’s Day Committee, an entity of the Father’s Day/Mother’s Day Council, each year confers Father of the Year Honors on contemporary lifestyle leaders of our culture whose lives are dedicated to family, citizenship, charity, civility, responsibility and reverence. The funds raised by our Annual Father of the Year Awards Presentation are directed to the support of worthwhile concerns affecting men, fathers, and families. The objective of our program is to enhance the meaning of Father’s Day and encourage universal observance.
| Year | National Fathers of the Year |
| 2013 | President Bill Clinton, Terry J. Lundgren, Ashok Sani All-Star Dad: Major Jackson Drumgoole II, U. S. Army MORE DETAILS |
| 2012 | Oscar Feldenkreis, Reynold Levy, Shaquille O'Neal, John Thain, “All-Star” Dad - Christopher Valerian |
| 2011 | Jim Boheim, Geoffrey Canada, Brendan Hoffman, Randall L. Stephenson, Amar'e Stoudemire, “All-Star” Dad - Robert Evans |
| 2010 | Francis “Ken” Duane, Michael Fascitelli, David Gregory, Jorge Posada, “All-Star” Dad – Captain Scott M. Smiley |
| 2009 | Al Unser, Sr., Jonathan M. Tisch, George Stephanopoulos, Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, General D.H. Petraeus, & Ronald Wurtzburger, "All-Star" Dad - Robert Wunder |
| 2008 | Randy Jackson, Ron Klein, Paul O’Neill, Mark Shriver, “All-Star” Dad - Murray N. Day |
| 2007 | General George W. Casey, Jr., John Edwards, Tom Glavine, Hulk Hogan, Allen Sirkin, Harry Smith, Dwyane Wade, “All-Star” Dad - Laurence D. Whitcomb |
| 2006 | Jack Klugman, Archie Manning, Michael Setola, Todd Smith (aka LL Cool L), "All-Star Dad"- Darryl Webster |
| 2005 | George Feldenkreis, Larry King, Donald Trump, “All-Star” Dad - Daniel Sullivan |
| 2004 | Tommy Lasorda, Ellis Marsalis, General Richard B. Myers, Richard Petty, Isiah Thomas |
| 2003 | Joseph Abboud, Patrick Ewing, Raymond W. Kelly, Lt. Gen. James E. Sherrard III, Steve Young |
| 2002 | Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, David Falk, Sirio Maccioni, J.W. Marriot, Jr. Alonzo Mourning |
| 2001 | Jim Fassel, George Foreman, Howard Lutnick, Jacques Pepin, Andy Pettitte, Michael K. Powell, Russell Simmons |
| 2000 | Bill Boggs, Paul R. Charron, “Smokin” Joe Frazier, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Jay Johnson, Gerald McRaney |
| 1999 | William Cohen, Mark Ewen, Michael Gould, Mike Jarvis, H. Carl McCall, Oscar Robertson |
| 1998 | Andrew Cuomo, Jack Ford, James Kallstrom, Jim Kelly, Don Marron, Henry H. Shelton, Earl Woods |
| 1997 | Mario Andretti, Wolf Blitzer, Larry Doby, Henry Kravis, Frank Rich, Howard Safir |
| 1996 | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., John McEnroe, Steve Schreck, Brian Williams |
| 1995 | William J. Bratton, Joseph McCarthy, MD, Karl Nelson, Tim Russert, George Pataki, Federico Pena |
| 1994 | Fred Barnes, David Checketts, Fred Epstein, MD, Boomer Esiason, Fernando Mateo, Thomas F. McLarty III, Harvey Weinstein |
| 1993 | Nicholas Buoniconti, Dennis Byrd, Alfred W. DiTolla, Lou Dobbs. James M. Fox, Leslie Gelb, Gregory Hines, Dr. Edwin W. Marhn |
| 1992 | Peter Arnett, Bill Beutel, Marty Glickman, David A. Kessler, MD, Robert M. Morganthau, General Colin Powell, Freddie Roman, Harry Smith, Andrew J. Stein |
| 1991 | Lee P. Brown, Alan M. Dershowitz, Ira Joe Fisher, Walter A. Haas, Jr., Jeff Hostetler, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Samuel Skinner, Dr. Louis Sullivan |
| 1990 | Jack Cafferty, Bill Demby, David N. Dinkins, Skitch Henderson, Stu Jackson, Lee Mazzilli, Mandy Patinkin, Thomas R. Pickering |
| 1989 | Ernie Anastos, Jeff Bingaman, Ron Darling, Malcolm Forbes, Stewart Klein, Bruce Morrow, Rick Pitino, J. Danforth Quayle |
| 1988 | Arthur Ashe, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Mazur, Steven McDonald, Willie Randolph, Charles S. Robb, William Sessions, Chris Wallace |
| 1987 | Marv Albert, William E. Brock, Tom Clancy, Ossie Davis, Phil Esposito, Rudolph Giuliani, Rev. Harold B. Halcomb, Bob Ojeda, John Palmer |
| 1986 | James Baker, Tim Gullikson, Tom Gullikson, Thomas H. Kean, Arthur Levitt, Jr., Lou Pinella, Maxwell M. Robb. Soupy Sales, Ozzie Smith, Rolland Smith, William H. Webster |
| 1985 | Gary Carter, Mario Cuomo, Marvin Hagler, Bruce Jenner, Charles Osgood, Gabe Pressman, Al Roker, Ben Vereen, John Walsh |
| 1984 | Bill Bradley, Albert Gore, Peter Jennings, Tommy John, Joseph Kramer, MD, Anthony Quinn, Willard Scott, Bryan Trottier, Paul Williams |
| 1983 | James Brady, Benny Goodman, Roy M. Goodman, Bryant Gumbel, Bernard Hughes, Hal Linden, Kojo Odo, Joe Piscopo, Hugh Sidey, Tom Weiskopf |
| 1982 | George Bamberger, John Y. Brown, Jr., Hugh Downs, William Fox, John Gambling, Victor Kiam, Donald Regan, Chi Chi Rodriquez, Warner Wolf |
| 1981 | Robert W. DeBolt, Geoffrey Holder, Sugar Ray Leonard, Joseph Papp, Dan Rather, Kyle Rote, John Rubenstein, Richard Thomas, Richard A. Vande, George Will |
| 1980 | Roger Grimsby, Bob “Captain Kangaroo” Keeshan, Irv Klein, Rev. Joseph Lowry, Robert MacKinnon, Michael Mullick, Alton Ochsner, MD, Bert Parks, Pete Rozelle, Murray Schisgal, Stan Smith, David “Sonny” Werblin |
| 1979 | Sam Erwin, Jim Jenson, John D. Rockefeller IV, Chuck Scarborough, Robert Suthers, Joe Torre, Eli Wallach, Tom Wicker, Robert Wilson |
| 1978 | Tom Brokaw, Arthur Burns, Yul Brynner, Hugh L. Carey, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., Thurman Munson, Thomas O”Neill, William Safire, John Sirica, Eugene B. Spitz, MD, Dick Van Patten |
| 1977 | James Broderick, John Chancellar, Benjamin Hooks, Leon Jaworski, John Newcombe, Jerry Stiller, Roy White, Andrew Young |
| 1976 | Brendan T. Byrne, John Cullum, Dave DeBusschere, Frank Field, Edward Kennedy, Jesse Owens, Hughes Rudd, Luis Tiant |
| 1975 | Kenneth A. Gibson, John W. Gardner, Jim Hartz, James “Catfish” Hunter, Ted Knight, Johnny Miller, Edmund Muskie, Neil Simon |
| 1974 | Michael DeBakey, MD, Dom DeLuise, Christopher E. Edley, Gerald Ford, Joel Grey, Frank McGee, Louis Nizer, Tom Seaver |
| 1973 | Jack Albertson, Howard Cosell, Redd Foxx, Bob Griese, Julius LaRosa, Charles Percy |
| 1972 | I. W. Abel, Spiro Agnew, Ted Brown, Mike Douglas, Vernon E. Jordan, Doc Severinsen |
| 1971 | Henry Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Greg Morris, Howard K. Smith, Big Wilson |
| 1970 | Frank Borman, Joe Garagiola, Leon H. Sullivan, Bowie K. Kuhn, Jack Nicklaus |
| 1969 | Jack Lemmon, Jerry Orbach, Fran Tarkenton |
| 1968 | Burt Bacharach, Cab Calloway, Whitey Ford, Arthur J. Goldberg, Ed Nelson |
| 1967 | Hershel Bernardi, Elston Howard, John Lindsay, Dick Van Dyke |
| 1966 | Eddie Albert, Tom Harman, Jacob Javits, Alan King, Fess Parker |
| 1965 | Frank Blair, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Gifford, Lorne Greene, Robert M. Hutchins, Jonathan Winters |
| 1964 | Yogi Berra, Douglas Edwards, Bert Lahr, Jack Paar, Sargent Shriver |
| 1963 | Henry Fonda, Paul Ford, Chet Huntley, John F. Kennedy, Don McNeil, Tom Tresh |
| 1962 | Gene Fullmer, John Glenn, Jr., E. G. Marshall, Robert Morse, Meredith Wilson |
| 1961 | Evan Hunter, Ralph Houk, Fred McMurray, Phil Silvers, Adlai Stevenson |
| 1960 | Pat Boone, Ray Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Charlton Heston, Robert F. Kennedy, Johnny Unitas |
| 1959 | Arthur Godfrey, Andy Griffith, Alfred M. Gruenther, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, Bob Turley |
| 1958 | Victor Borge, Walter Cronkite, Milton S. Eisenhower, Eddie Fisher, Martin Mayer. Peter Ustinov |
| 1957 | Paul Douglas, Billy Graham, Mickey Mantle, John L. McClellan, Mitch Miller, Ronald Reagan, Robert Weede |
| 1956 | Walter Alston, Bob Considine, Kirk Douglas, Harry Hershfield, John O’Hara, Joseph N. Welch, Lawrence Welk |
| 1955 | Don Ameche, Sid Caesar, George H. Combs, Alvin Dark, Danny Kaye, Basil O’Conner, Jonas Salk, Merriman Smith |
| 1954 | Chester Bowles, Paul G. Hoffman, Lloyd Nolan, Roy Rogers, Herb Shriner, Sam Snead, Lowell Thomas |
| 1953 | Alben Barkley, John Daly, James W. Doolittle, Melvyn Douglas, Henry Cabot Lodge, Rocky Marciano, Ezio Pinza, Danny Thomas |
| 1952 | Robert Alda, Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, H. V. Kaltenborn, Sam Levenson, Sugar Ray Robinson, David Sarnoff |
| 1951 | Abe Burrows, Estes Kefauver, Phil Rizzuto, James Stewart |
| 1950 | Sidney Blackmar, William O. Douglas, Jean Hersholt, Kay Kayser, Jackie Robinson, Walter Winchell, Robert Young |
| 1949 | Ralph Bunche, Alfred Drake, John Garfield, Gabriel Heatter, Connie Mack, Ed Sullivan |
| 1948 | Bob Feller, Horace Heidt, F. Van Wyck Mason, Drew Pearson, Gregory Peck, David Wayne |
| 1947 | Warren Austin, Edgar Bergen, Bob Hope, Babe Ruth |
| 1946 | Irving Berlin, Al Schmid, Frank Sinatra |
| 1945 | Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Frederic March, Harry S. Truman |
| 1944 | Eddie Cantor, Mark Clark, Charles Coburn, Dudley Diggs, Dixie Walker |
| 1943 | Ralph Bellamy, Dwight Eisenhower, Parker Fennelly, Walter Huston, Mell Ott |
| 1942 | Douglas MacArthur |