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The Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal is an award conferred by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs.[1]
The Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal was established in 1947 in honour of Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes and is awarded to "distinguished travellers and writers deemed to have increased man’s knowledge of and stimulated interest in Asia."[1][2]
- 2019 Francesc Vendrell CMG (1940–2022)
- 2016 John Curtis and Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
- 2015 Christoph Baumer
- 2013 Nancy Hatch Dupree
- 2012 Geoffrey Langlands
- 2011 Avi Schlaim
- 2009 John Keay
- 2007 Fred Halliday
- 2006 Shirin Akiner
- 2005 William Dalrymple
- 2004 Charles Allen
- 2002 Maurice Zinkin and Taya Zinkin
- 2001 Mark Tully
- 1999 Peter Hopkirk
- 1994 Akbar Ahmed
- 1992 Albert Hourani
- 1990 Denis Wright
- 1987 Charles F Beckingham
- 1983 Tim Severin
- 1980 David Stronach
- 1977 Basil Gray
- 1975 Cyril Philips
- 1974 Gunnar Jarring
- 1973 William Watson
- 1972 W E D Allen
- 1972 Giuseppe Tucci
- 1970 C H Ellis
- 1969 S C Sutton
- 1968 Violet Conolly
- 1967 C J Edmonds
- 1967 G E Wheeler
- 1965 C von Furer Haimendorf
- 1964 Laurence Lockhart
- 1963 Hugh Richardson
- 1962 Reader Bullard
- 1960 Ann K S Lambton
- 1958 Francis Tuker
- 1956 Douglas Carruthers
- 1955 Ella Maillart
- 1954 Tom Stobart
- 1951 Freya Stark
- 1947 Fakhri Dai Gilani
- 1941 Keppel Archibald Cresswell
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