1961 Jerry Lucas College Basketball Final Four MVP
World Series MVP Johnny Podres was the Sportsmen of the Year in 1955.
1957 Stan Musial Baseball National League batting champion
1958 Rafer Johnson Track and field Decathlon world record
1954 Roger Bannister Track and field First sub-four-minute mile
1956 Bobby Joe Morrow Track and field Double Olympic gold medalist
Jerry Barber.
Joe Brown.
Joe Weatherly
Mughal-e-Azam won the Filmfare Award for Best Movie in 1961.
Bina Rai won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress in 1961 for the film Ghunghat.
Stanley Kramer won the Oscar for Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1961.
Fred Astaire won the Golden Globe for the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1961.