Some years have one winner and others have more than one. This year of 2021, Zaila Avant-garde, won the competition. She is the first African-American to win this award. She won by spelling the word murraya correctly, which is a flowering plant. She’s all in the Guinness Book of World Records.
| Year | Scripps Spelling Bee Winner(s) |
| 1925 | Frank Neuhauser |
| 1926 | Pauline Bell |
| 1927 | Dean Lucas |
| 1928 | Betty Robinson |
| 1929 | Virginia Hogan |
| 1930 | Helen Jensen |
| 1931 | Ward Randall |
| 1932 | Dorothy Greenwald |
| 1933 | Alma Roach |
| 1934 | Sarah Wilson |
| 1935 | Clara Mohler |
| 1936 | Jean Trowbridge |
| 1937 | Waneeta Beckley |
| 1938 | Marian Richardson |
| 1939 | Elizabeth Ann Rice |
| 1940 | Laurel Kuykendall |
| 1941 | Louis Edward Sissman |
| 1942 | Richard Earnhart |
| 1946 | John McKinney |
| 1947 | Mattie Lou Pollard |
| 1948 | Jean Chappelear |
| 1949 | Kim Calvin |
| 1950 | Diana Reynard/Colquitt Dean |
| 1951 | Irving Belz |
| 1952 | Doris Ann Hall |
| 1953 | Elizabeth Hess |
| 1954 | William Cashore |
| 1955 | Sandra Sloss |
| 1956 | Melody Sachko |
| 1957 | Dana Bennett/Sandra Owen |
| 1958 | Jolitta Schlehuber |
| 1959 | Joel Montgomery |
| 1960 | Henry Feldman |
| 1961 | John Capehart |
| 1962 | Nettie Crawford/Michael Day |
| 1963 | Glen Van Slyke III |
| 1964 | William Kerek |
| 1965 | Michael Kerpan Jr. |
| 1966 | Robert A. Wake |
| 1967 | Jennifer Reinke |
| 1968 | Robert L. Walters |
| 1969 | Susan Yoachum |
| 1970 | Libby Childress |
| 1971 | Jonathan Knisely |
| 1972 | Robin Kral |
| 1973 | Barrie Trinkle |
| 1974 | Julie Ann Junkin |
| 1975 | Hugh Tosteson García |
| 1976 | Tim Kneale |
| 1977 | John Paola |
| 1978 | Peg McCarthy |
| 1979 | Katie Kerwin |
| 1980 | Jacques Bailly |
| 1981 | Paige Pipkin |
| 1982 | Molly Dieveney |
| 1983 | Blake Giddens |
| 1984 | Daniel Greenblatt |
| 1985 | Balu Natarajan |
| 1986 | Jon Pennington |
| 1987 | Stephanie Petit |
| 1988 | Rageshree Ramachandran |
| 1989 | Scott Isaacs |
| 1990 | Amy Marie Dimak |
| 1991 | Joanne Lagatta |
| 1992 | Amanda Goad |
| 1993 | Geoff Hooper |
| 1994 | Ned G. Andrews |
| 1995 | Justin Tyler Carroll |
| 1996 | Wendy Guey |
| 1997 | Rebecca Sealfon |
| 1998 | Jody-Anne Maxwell |
| 1999 | Nupur Lala |
| 2000 | George Thampy |
| 2001 | Sean Conley |
| 2002 | Pratyush Buddiga |
| 2003 | Sai Gunturi |
| 2004 | David Tidmarsh |
| 2005 | Anurag Kashyap |
| 2006 | Kerry Close |
| 2007 | Evan O’Dorney |
| 2008 | Sameer Mishra |
| 2009 | Kavya Shivashankar |
| 2010 | Anamika Veeramani |
| 2011 | Sukanya Roy |
| 2012 | Snigdha Nandipati |
| 2013 | Arvind Mahankali |
| 2014 | Sriram J. Hathwar/Ansun Sujoe |
| 2015 | Vanya Shivashankar/Gokul Venkatachalam |
| 2016 | Jangam Hathwar/Nihar Saireddy Janga |
| 2017 | Ananya Vinay |
| 2018 | Karthik Nemmani |
| 2019 | Rishik Gandhasri/Erin Howard/Saketh Sundar/ Shruthika Padhy/Sohum Sukhatankar/Abhijay Kodali/Christopher Serrao/Rohan Raja |
| 2021 | Zaila Avant-garde |
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