Valedictorians at Davidson
| Year | Valedictorian |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Cooper W. Karisch Ryan H. Kozlowski |
| 2015 | Samuel T. Castle Elizabeth M. Engle James H. Helzberg |
| 2014 | James A. Durling Sarah H. Gustafson Geneveive D. Nielsen Justin C. Strickland |
| 2013 | Amy Louise Pugh |
| 2012 | Kelvin H. Bates Holly E. Sims |
| 2011 | Daniel Martin Allison Rauh |
| 2010 | Julia Ward |
| 2009 | Sarah Rhodes |
| 2008 | Halley M. Aelion |
| 2007 | Douglas J. Grunwald |
| 2006 | Rebecca Jay Taylor |
| 2005 | April Lynn Barnado |
| 2004 | Melinda Clare Baldwin Rachel Paton McCord |
| 2003 | Pearry Tarwasokono |
| 2002 | Brandt Arthur Leibe |
| 2001 | Justin David Perkins |
| 2000 | James Hilton Nolan |
| 1999 | Emily Elizabeth Setina |
| 1998 | Meredith Rossney Allen |
| 1997 | Elena Simone Franklin |
| 1996 | Tracy Elizabeth French |
| 1995 | George Andrew Antonelli |
| 1994 | Brett Edmund Martson |
| 1993 | Russell Reid French, Jr. |
| 1992 | Davidson Christopher Campbell Kristi Lynne Mitchem Tiffini Lyn Snellings |
| 1991 | Christopher Todd Wenzel |
| 1990 | Mary Adair Woodall |
| 1989 | Susan Martin Park Frederick George Wenzel IV |
| 1988 | James Edwin Earle |
| 1987 | Elizabeth Anne Lee Bowers |
| 1986 | James Stephen Dockery III Melissa Ruth Jones |
| 1985 | Murray Stephen Simpson |
| 1984 | Eric Eugene Fink |
| 1983 | Elizabeth Ivy Goodman |
| 1982 | Richard Lewis Gergoudis |
| 1981 | David Stanley Walls |
| 1980 | Michael Evans Garfield |
| 1979 | John Rood Cunningham III |
| 1978 | Clarence Foster Jennings, Jr. |
| 1977 | Thomas Edward Cooper |
| 1976 | Joel Randall Tew |
| 1975 | Susan Martin Parker |
| 1974 | Jeffrey Monroe Johnston |
| 1973 | Michael Stevens Wheeler |
| 1972 | Gary John Scibal |
| 1971 | Robert Shields Harris |
| 1970 | William Thomas Johnson |
| 1969 | Berkley Wells Latimer |
| 1968 | William Kirk Reed |
| 1967 | Drewry Hampton Morris IV |
| 1966 | Paul Cooper Simpson, Jr. |
| 1965 | David Hughes Walker |
| 1964 | Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr. |
| 1963 | Keith Brenner |
| 1962 | William Harrison Wellford |
| 1961 | James Thomas Anderson |
| 1960 | David Wallace Robinson, Jr. |
| 1959 | Richard Fretwell Brubaker |
| 1958 | Lloyd Walter Chapin, Jr. |
| 1957 | Lawrence Jefferson Trotti, IV |
| 1956 | John Brown Goehring |
| 1955 | John Leighton Green, Jr. |
| 1954 | Gary Symonds Daffin |
| 1953 | Larry Jones Dagenhart |
| 1952 | Thornton Wilson Tucker |
| 1951 | Donald Woods Shriver |
| 1950 | Earl Thornwell Groves |
| 1949 | Richard Giles Laurens |
| 1948 | Christopher Bland Walker |
| 1947 | Casper L. Woodbridge, Jr. |
| 1946 | Robert Hold Ardrey, Jr. |
| 1945 | Robert Edwin Hollinger |
| 1944 | Howard Edwin Pickard |
| 1943 | Myron G. Sandifer, Jr. |
| 1942 | Albert Curry Winn |
| 1941 | David Wilson Talmage |
| 1940 | Thomas H. Guion |
| 1939 | Locke White, Jr. |
| 1938 | Thomas Watson Street |
| 1937 | Jack Ellison Branch |
| 1936 | James Woodson Hasell, Jr. |
| 1935 | John Monroe Douglas |
| 1934 | John Alexander McGeachy, Jr |
| 1933 | Paul F. Brown, Jr. |
| 1932 | Thomas W. MacLean |
| 1931 | Henry S. Munroe, Jr. |
| 1930 | Alexander T. Edelman |
| 1929 | James Reid Graham |
| 1928 | David Halbert Howard, Jr. |
| 1927 | William A. Christian, Jr. |
| 1926 | Harry L. Shaw, Jr. |
| 1925 | Martin Trawick |
| 1924 | John Irving Smith |
| 1923 | Dunbar H. Ogden, Jr. |
| 1922 | James McDowell Richards |
| 1921 | Cecil Kenneth Brown |
| 1920 | Dwight M. Chalmers |
| 1919 | Edgar A. Woods |
| 1918 | James W. Clark |
| 1917 | Herman A. Campbell |
| 1916 | John D. McLeod |
| 1915 | George W. Gignilliat, Jr. |
| 1914 | Henry L. Elliott |
| 1913 | Clifton Murphy |
| 1912 | Andrew W. White |
| 1911 | William P. Parker |
| 1910 | Hasell N. Alexander |
| 1909 | Hugh A. Query |
| 1908 | Julius W. Pratt |
| 1907 | John B. McAllester |
| 1906 | Edward J. Erwin |
| 1905 | Samuel C. Williams |
| 1904 | Edgar D. Kerr |
| 1903 | William W. Arrowood |
| 1902 | Donald W. Richardson |
| 1901 | Rollin M. Patrick |
| 1900 | James A. Winn |
| 1899 | Joseph M. McConnell |
| 1898 | William G. Perry |
| 1897 | Walter Alexander Goodman |
| 1896 | Norwood Hodge McGilvary |
| 1895 | Frank A Barnes |
| 1894 | Mark E. Sentelle |
| 1893 | John H. Grey |
| 1892 | James B. Wharey |
| 1891 | Joseph A. Tillinghast |
| 1890 | Thomas E. Winecoff |
| 1889 | Robert R. Stevenson |
| 1888 | Robert G. Sparrow |
| 1887 | Robert M. Avery |
| 1886 | Joseph A. McMurray |
| 1885 | Jesse Weimer Siler |
| 1884 | Evander B. McGilvary |
| 1883 | John Wilson Lafferty |
| 1882 | Egbert W. Smith |
| 1881 | Atwell C. McIntosh |
| 1880 | James Porter Paisley |
| 1879 | Franklin P. Ramsay |
| 1878 | Charles M. Hepburn |
| 1877 | William Sadler Moore |
| 1876 | Duncan Rose |
| 1875 | Benjamin W. Mebane |
| 1874 | William Rogers Moore |
| 1873 | Samuel Smith Burton |
| 1872 | Thomas R. Englihs |
| 1871 | Thomas H. Brem |
| 1870 | James Baylis Smith |
| 1869 | John Wright Davis |
| 1868 | Anderson R. Kenney |
| 1867 | No Distinction |
| 1866 | No Graduates |
| 1865 | No Graduates |
| 1864 | James H. Douglas |
| 1863 | No Graduates |
| 1862 | No Graduates |
| 1861 | George Phifer Erwin |
| 1860 | Augustus Leazer |
| 1859 | Risden Bennett Gaddy |
| 1858 | Daniel A. Townsend |
| 1857 | Duncan J. DeVane |
| 1856 | Thomas Carnes Henderson |
| 1855 | Frontis H. Johnston |
| 1854 | James H. Hill |
| 1853 | Charles C. Alexander |
| 1852 | John S. Harris |
| 1851 | James C. Chambers |
| 1850 | Henry T. Burke |
| 1849 | James Douglas |
| 1848 | Benjamin F. Little |
| 1847 | Philip B. McLaurin |
| 1846 | Junius L. Geither |
| 1845 | Sylvanus N. Hutchinson |
| 1844 | Alexander L.Crawford |
| 1843 | Wilkes T. Gaston |
| 1842 | William P. Bynum |
| 1841 | Richard E. Sherrill |
| 1840 | William Flinn |