Baillie Gifford Prize tidligere Samuel Johnson Prize er en litteraturpris for sakprosa. Den ble innstiftet i 1999 gjennom en anonym donasjon, og administreres av BBC. Hver vinner mottar 30 000 britiske pund og hver finalist 2 500 britiske pund. Prisen er oppkalt etter Samuel Johnson.
2016: Philippe Sands for East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity[1]
2012
Vinner
- Wade Davis for Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Nominerte
- Katherine Boo for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
- Robert Macfarlane for The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
- Steven Pinker for The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
- Paul Preston for The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
- Sue Prideaux for Strindberg: A Life
2011
Vinner
- Frank Dikötter for Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
Nominerte
- Andrew Graham-Dixon for Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane
- Maya Jasanoff for Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
- Matt Ridley for The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
- Jonathan Steinberg for Bismarck: A Life
- John Stubbs for Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
2010
Vinner
- Barbara Demick for Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nominerte
- Alex Bellos for Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics
- Luke Jennings for Blood Knots: On Fathers, Friendship and Fishing
- Andrew Ross Sorkin for Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves
- Jenny Uglow for A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
- Richard Wrangham for Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
2009
Vinner
- Philip Hoare for Leviathan or, The Whale
Nominerte
- Liaquat Ahamed for Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
- Ben Goldacre for Bad Science
- David Grann for The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
- Richard Holmes for The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- Manjit Kumar for Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
2008
Vinner
- Kate Summerscale for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House
Nominerte
- Tim Butcher for Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
- Mark Cocker for Crow Country
- Orlando Figes for The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- Patrick French for The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul'
- Alex Ross for The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
2007
Vinner
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran for Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Nominerte
- Ian Buruma for Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
- Peter Hennessey for Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties
- Georgina Howell for Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell
- Dominic Streatfeild for Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
- Adrian Tinniswood for The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
2006
Vinner
- James S. Shapiro for 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Nominerte
- Alan Bennett for Untold Stories
- Jerry Brotton for The Sale of the Late King's Goods
- Carmen Callil for Bad Faith
- Tony Judt for Post War
- Tom Reiss for The Orientalist
2005
Vinner
- Jonathan Coe for Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson
Nominerte
- Alexander Masters for Stuart: A Life Backwards
- Suketu Mehta for Maximum City
- Orhan Pamuk for Istanbul
- Hilary Spurling for Matisse the Master
- Sarah Wise for The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London
2004
Vinner
- Anna Funder for Stasiland
Nominerte
- Anne Applebaum for Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
- Jonathan Bate for John Clare: A Biography
- Bill Bryson for A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Aidan Hartley for The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War
- Tom Holland for Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
2003
Vinner
- T.J. Binyon for Pushkin
Nominerte
- Orlando Figes for Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
- Aminatta Forna for The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent
- Olivia Judson for Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
- Claire Tomalin for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- Edgar Vincent for Nelson: Love and Fame
2002
Vinner
- Margaret MacMillan for Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
Nominerte
- Eamon Duffy for The Voices of Morebath
- William Fiennes for The Snow Geese
- Richard Hamblyn for The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
- Roy Jenkins for Churchill: a Biography
- Brendan Simms for Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia
2001
Vinner
- Michael Burleigh for The Third Reich
Nominerte
- Richard Fortey for Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
- Catherine Merridale for Night of Stone
- Graham Robb for Rimbaud
- Simon Sebag Montefiore for Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin
- Robert Skidelsky for John Maynard Keynes
2000
Vinner
- David Cairns for Berlioz: Volume 2
Nominerte
- Tony Hawks for Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
- Brenda Maddox for Yeats's Ghosts
- Matt Ridley for Genome
- William Shawcross for Deliver Us From Evil
- Francis Wheen for Karl Marx
1999
Vinner
- Antony Beevor for Stalingrad
Nominerte
- Ian Kershaw for Hitler
- Ann Wroe for Pilate
- John Diamond for C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
- Richard Holmes for Coleridge: Darker Reflections
- David Landes for The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
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