This is a list of mathematicians who've been awarded the Fields Medal, sorted by year.

1936: Lars Ahlfors (Finland), Jesse Douglas (U.S.)

1950: Laurent Schwartz (France), Atle Selberg (Norway)

1954: Kunihiko Kodaira (Japan), Jean-Pierre Serre (France)

1958: Klaus Roth (UK), René Thom (France)

1962: Lars Hörmander (Sweden), John Milnor (U.S.)

1966: Michael Atiyah (UK), Paul Joseph Cohen (U.S.), Alexander Grothendieck (France; boycotted ceremony), Stephen Smale (U.S.)

1970: Alan Baker (UK), Heisuke Hironaka (Japan), Sergei Petrovich Novikov (USSR), John Griggs Thompson (U.S.)

1974: Enrico Bombieri (Italy), David Mumford (U.S.)

1978: Pierre Deligne (Belgium), Charles Fefferman (U.S.), Jacques Tits on behalf of Grigory Margulis (USSR), Daniel Quillen (U.S.)

1982: Alain Connes (France), William Thurston (U.S.), Shing-Tung Yau (China)

1986: Simon Donaldson (UK), Gerd Faltings (West Germany), Michael Freedman (U.S.)

1990: Vladimir Drinfeld (USSR), Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones (New Zealand), Shigefumi Mori (Japan), Edward Witten (U.S.)

1994: Efim Isakovich Zelmanov (Russia), Pierre-Louis Lions (France), Jean Bourgain (Belgium), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (France)

1998: Richard Ewen Borcherds (UK), William Timothy Gowers (UK), Maxim Kontsevich (Russia), Curtis T. McMullen (U.S.)

2002: Laurent Lafforgue (France), Vladimir Voevodsky (Russia)

2006: Andrei Okounkov (Russia), Grigori Perelman (Russia; refused award), Terence Tao (Australia), Wendelin Werner (France)

Fictional winners

The backstory for MIT professor Gerald Lambeau in Good Will Hunting says he won the Fields Medal for his work in combinatorics.