The J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, established in 1993, is awarded by the Fulbright Association to recognize individuals or organisations which have made extraordinary contributions toward bringing peoples, cultures, or nations to greater understanding of others.
The recipients are listed below.
| Nelson Mandela | 1993 |  South Africa |
| Jimmy Carter | 1994 |  United States |
| Franz Vranitzky | 1995 |  Austria |
| Corazon Aquino | 1996 |  Philippines |
| Václav Havel | 1997 |  Czech Republic |
| Patricio Aylwin | 1998 |  Chile |
| Mary Robinson | 1999 |  Ireland |
| Martti Ahtisaari | 2000 |  Finland |
| Kofi Annan | 2001 |  Ghana |
| Sadako Ogata | 2002 |  Japan |
| Fernando Henrique Cardoso | 2003 |  Brazil |
| Colin Powell | 2004 | United States |
| Bill Clinton | 2006 | United States |
| Desmond Tutu | 2008 |  South Africa |
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 2010 | United States |
| Médecins Sans Frontières | 2012 |  France |
| Hans Blix | 2014 |  Sweden |
| Richard Lugar | 2016 | United States |
| Angela Merkel | 2018 |  Germany |