Salutatorians at Davidson
| 2016 | No salutatorian – 2 first honors |
| 2015 | No salutatorian – 3 first honors |
| 2014 | No salutatorian – 4 first honors |
| 2013 | Claire Amer Brennan & Chadwick James Harper |
| 2012 | No salutatorian – 2 first honors |
| 2011 | No salutatorian – 2 first honors |
| 2010 | Baker Shogry |
| 2009 | Ben Van Dyke |
| 2008 | Brenna T. Burns |
| 2007 | Nelon Bryant Kirkland |
| 2006 | Caroline McCormack Black |
| 2005 | Nicole Alyssa Mah |
| 2004 | Matthew Thomas Whited |
| 2003 | Ashley Margaret Price |
| 2002 | Jeremy Michael Campbell |
| 2001 | Lauren Nicole Baird |
| 2000 | James Wilson White III |
| 1999 | Omar Lee Burnett |
| 1998 | Matthew Jay Ellis |
| 1997 | Jared Witherspoon Nelson Chandler |
| 1996 | Andrew Craig McGregor |
| 1995 | Qingfei Zhang |
| 1994 | Andrew John Haile |
| 1993 | Stephen Eric Wogen |
| 1992 | THREE FIRST HONORS |
| 1991 | John Terry Maheras |
| 1990 | Elizabeth Carey Bryan |
| 1989 | TWO FIRST HONORS |
| 1988 | Diana Kathryn Long |
| 1987 | Mark Steven Sandy Basil Gordon Watkins, III |
| 1986 | TWO FIRST HONORS |
| 1985 | Mark Winslow Batten |
| 1984 | James Rene Herlong |
| 1983 | Joyce Henri Robinson |
| 1982 | Craig Justice White |
| 1981 | Walter Davidson Pharr |
| 1979 | Fai Wong |
| 1978 | William Post Muldoon |
| 1977 | Hilton Gordon Oliver |
| 1976 | Richard Clair Williams, Jr. |
| 1975 | Michael Edward Mahla |
| 1974 | Albert Sidney Kyle, IV |
| 1973 | William Nichol Eskridge |
| 1972 | John Edward James |
| 1971 | Edwin Huss Shoaf, Jr. |
| 1970 | William Griffith Bowen |
| 1969 | William MacKeen Thomson |
| 1968 | Duard Francis Fleming, Jr. |
| 1967 | William David Purnell |
| 1966 | George Middleton Williams, Jr |
| 1965 | Alan Bruce Callender |
| 1964 | John Davidson Hall |
| 1963 | Daniel Allan Carrell |
| 1962 | David William Jordan |
| 1961 | Henry Christian McFayden |
| 1960 | Walker Dabney Stuart |
| 1959 | James Henry Herlong |
| 1958 | Edward Turlington Stewart |
| 1957 | Jerry Lewis Pietenpol |
| 1956 | Linny Marshall Baker |
| 1955 | Cortez Alonzo Cooper |
| 1954 | William Boyd Hood, Jr. |
| 1953 | George Francis Bason |
| 1952 | John Victor Hunter, III |
| 1951 | Clyde Kenneth Kistler |
| 1950 | John S. Lyles |
| 1949 | William Clarence Brownson |
| 1948 | William Stafford Joyner |
| 1947 | Price Henderson Gwynn, III |
| 1946 | William Howell Morrow, Jr. |
| 1945 | NO GRADUATES |
| 1944 | NO GRADUATES |
| 1943 | Ross Lombard Parks |
| 1942 | Roderick Greer Turner, Jr. |
| 1941 | John Raymond Jones |
| 1940 | Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr. |
| 1939 | John Henry Reisner, Jr. |
| 1938 | James Franklin Reinhardt |
| 1937 | Frank Augustus Brown, Jr. |
| 1936 | John Mack Walker, Jr. |
| 1935 | Robert Thornwell Coit, Jr. |
| 1934 | William McIlwaine Thompson |
| 1933 | William Frederick Mulliss |
| 1932 | Samuel Shannon Wiley |
| 1931 | James Bell Black, Jr. |
| 1930 | Ellis Eugene Marsh, Jr. |
| 1929 | Monroe Taylor Gilmour |
| 1928 | Howard Bell Arbuckle, Jr. |
| 1927 | Holcombe McCulloch Austin |
| 1926 | Aaron Hayden Hollingsworth |
| 1925 | William Wallace Purdy, Jr. |
| 1924 | Albert Miller Hillhouse |
| 1923 | Robert Franklin Davidson |
| 1922 | Robert Richard Deaver, Jr. |
| 1921 | Jacob Erisman Cassell |
| 1920 | Samuel Horton Askew |
| 1919 | Emery Flinn |
| 1918 | John Russell Woods |
| 1917 | Francis Marion Mitchell, Jr. |
| 1916 | Harlee Morrison |
| 1915 | Frank Wilson Price |
| 1914 | Will Tinsley Bitzer |
| 1913 | John Creelman Boyd |
| 1912 | Nathan Neely Fleming, Jr. |
| 1911 | Kenneth Joseph Foreman |
| 1910 | John Maxwell Harden |
| 1909 | Joseph James Murray |
| 1908 | Leigh Richmond Scott |
| 1907 | Wilfred Campbell McLauchlin |
| 1906 | Robert King |
| 1905 | William Thornwell Gibson |
| 1904 | Charles Arthur Cornelson |
| 1903 | Hugh Harris Caldwell |
| 1902 | John Shuford Rowe |
| 1901 | Reed Smith |
| 1900 | Ernest Jenkins Hoffman |
| 1899 | Henry Stokes Monroe |
| 1898 | Robert Andrew Love |
| 1897 | Robert Foster Kirkpatrick |
| 1896 | James Edward Mills |
| 1895 | Vernon James Hill |
| 1894 | James Marion Farr |
| 1893 | Edward Stansbury Tillinghast |
| 1892 | Walter Lee Lingle |
| 1891 | Albert Jackson Wittson |
| 1890 | Chase Brenizer |
| 1889 | William Preston Nesbitt |
| 1888 | William Hoge Baker |
| 1887 | James Argyle McLauchlin |
| 1886 | Charles Stewart Gilmer |
| 1885 | William Francis Stevenson |
| 1884 | Samuel Ezekiel Chandler |
| 1883 | William Mack |
| 1882 | John Peter Munroe |
| 1881 | Henry Louis Smith |
| 1880 | Peter Marshall Brown |
| 1879 | Benjamin Palmer Reid |
| 1878 | Jesse Lindsay Patterson |
| 1877 | Josiah McLeod Seabrook |
| 1876 | William Butler Arrowood |
| 1875 | John Whitehead |
| 1874 | James Edward Fogartie |
| 1873 | Orin Datus Davis |
| 1872 | Williams Banks Crawford |
| 1871 | David Smith McAlister |
| 1870 | Wilson James McKay |
| 1869 | Paul Patterson Winn |
| 1868 | Albert Conrad Wharton |
| 1867 | NO DISTINCTION |
| 1866 | NO GRADUATES |
| 1865 | NO GRADUATES |
| 1864 | NO DISTINCTION |
| 1863 | NO GRADUATES |
| 1862 | NO GRADUATES |
| 1861 | Luther McKinnon |
| 1860 | Joseph Thompson |
| 1859 | Armistead Burwell |
| 1858 | Robert Zenas Johnston |
| 1857 | Henry Howard Banks |
| 1856 | Joseph Cornelius Caldwell |
| 1855 | George Adams Cairns |
| 1854 | William Thomas Hall |
| 1853 | John Thomas Harry |
| 1852 | Robert Erasmus Allison |
| 1851 | William Edward Dick |
| 1850 | Jethro Rumple |
| 1849 | William Siler Moore |
| 1848 | Albert Allison James |
| 1847 | Asahel Enloe |
| 1846 | William James Cooper |
| 1845 | Ebenezer Nye Hutchison |
| 1844 | Joseph Miller Doby |
| 1843 | Thomas Morgan Kirkpatrick |
| 1842 | Thaddeus Constantine Crawford |
| 1841 | Murphy Calvin McNair |
| 1840 | Archibald Neely |