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The Insurance Hall of Fame honors leaders, innovators and visionaries in the insurance field and is presented annually by the International Insurance Society. It was created at the Griffith Foundation in 1957 and today has more than 100 laureates. The museum at the University of Alabama houses a collection of memorabilia illustrating the life and careers of Laureates, and displays an extensive selection of original portraits of Hall of Fame Laureates. A multimedia collection of laureate portraits, videos and biographies are also featured in the Claire and Joseph Smetana Gallery located at St. John's University in New York.
To qualify for inclusion in the Insurance Hall of Fame, nominees must be adjudged to have made a broad, encompassing and lasting contribution to the insurance industry, thereby affecting a substantial influence on the ability of the industry to serve society. Further, they may have shown creative thinking and imaginative actions - starting key trends, discovering new products or methods, or uncovering and resolving problems.
Each year, a slate of candidates, deemed to fulfill the Hall of Fame Awards criteria, is selected by the Honors Committee of the International Insurance Society. This slate is then voted on by IIS membership through a secret ballot certified by an independent public accounting firm. To recognize those leaders who are deemed worthy for induction into the Insurance Hall of Fame but are deceased, the International Insurance Society may also choose to elect an individual to receive the award posthumously.
Insurance Hall of Fame Laureates:
Denis Kessler - France
Robert Benmosche - USA
Ikuo Uno - Japan
Manuel Povoas - Brazil
Brian Duperreault - USA
Guy Carpenter - USA
Frank O ’Halloran - Australia
William C. Greenough - USA
Sir David Rowland - United Kingdom
Jack Byrne - USA
Patrick G. Ryan - USA
Professor G. S. Diwan - India
Dominic D' Alessandro - Canada
Frederic Reiss - Bermuda
José Manuel Martínez - Spain
Robert Clements - USA
Siegfried Sellitsch - Austria
Orio Giarini - Italy
William Meredith - Canada
Walter Kielholz - Switzerland
Ignacio Hernando de Larramendi - Spain
Kees J. Storm - Netherlands
Takeo Inokuchi - Japan
Per M. Hansson - Norway
Edmund Tse - Hong Kong
Clemente Cabello P. - Mexico
Lutgart Van den Berghe - Belgium
[[Aad Jacobs]] - Netherlands
Edison L. Bowers - USA
Josei Itoh - Japan
Leo Goodwin, Sr. - USA
James C. H. Anderson - USA
Jose Pinera - Chile
Hans Gerling - Germany
George J. Mecherle - USA
Edwin A. G. Manton - USA
Claude Bebear - France
Thomas Bassett Macaulay - Canada
Jose Maria De Delas Y Miralles - Spain
Hans Buhlmann - Switzerland
Alfonso Yuchengco - Philippines
Saburo Kawai - Japan
Yong Ho Shin - South Korea
Robert F. McDermott - USA
Ronald M. Hubbs - USA
Willem de Wit - Netherlands
Davis W. Gregg - USA
C. Arthur Williams - USA
Kenneth Black - USA
John E. Fisher - USA
Alfred H. Pollard - Australia
Horst K. Jannott - Germany
Douglas A. Barlow - Canada
Edwin S. Overman - USA
Maurice R. Greenberg - USA
Alex Moller - Germany
John S. Bickley - USA
Robert A. Beck - USA
Victor Dover - United Kingdom
Jorge Bande - Chile
Robert E. Dineen - USA
Jean-Baptiste Colbert - France
S. Bruce Black - USA
B. K. Shah - India
Benjamin Rush - USA
Ikunoshin Kadono - Japan
Haruo Murase - Japan
Antigono Donati - Italy
Joseph B. Maclean - USA
Andre Besson - France
Herbert W. Heinrich - USA
Henry S. Beers - USA
Taizo Abe - Japan
Otto Von Bismarck - Germany
Edwin W. Patterson - USA
Gen Hirose - Japan
Cornelius V. Starr - USA
Murray D. Lincoln - USA
J. Roger Hull - USA
Jacques Basyn - Belgium
Richard Price - United Kingdom
Cecil Edward Golding - United Kingdom
Harald Cramer - Sweden
Eugenio Artom - Italy
Maurice Picard - France
Albert Henry Mowbray - USA
David McCahan - USA
Walter Arnold Dinsdale - United Kingdom
John F. Dryden - USA
Paul F. Clark - USA
Alios Alzheimer - Germany
Tsuneta Yano - Japan
James Scott Kemper, Sr. - USA
Kenkichi Kagami - Japan
Hendon Chubb - USA
John Julius Angerstein - United Kingdom
Charles J. Zimmerman - USA
Harry J. Loman - USA
Max E. Eisenring - Switzerland
Arthur Hunter - USA
Joseph Arnould - India
Zachariah Allen - USA
William David Winter - USA
Georges Tattevin - France
Edmond Halley - United Kingdom
Alfred N. Guertin - USAR
Leighton Foster - Canada
Alfred Manes - Germany
Holgar J. Johnson - USA
Cuthbert Eden Heath - United Kingdom
Ernst Froelich - Switzerland
Haley Fiske - USA
James Dodson - United Kingdom
Johan DeWitt - Netherlands
James G. Batterson - USA
Nicholas Barbon - United Kingdom
William Leslie, Sr. - USA
Julian S. Myrick - USA
Sheppard Homans - USA
John Marshall Holcombe, Jr. - USA
Alfred M. Best - USA
Clarence Arthur Kulp - USA
Louis I. Dublin - USA
M. Albert Linton - USA
John A. Diemand, Sr. - USA
Frederick N. Ecker, Sr. - USA
Albert F. Dean - USA
Charles Evans Hughes - USA
Ralph H. Blanchard - USA
Elizur Wright - USA
Solomon S. Huebner - USA
Benjamin Franklin - USA