| Season(s) | Name | Honours |
|---|
| 1914 | Alf Gough | |
| 1915 | Joe Larkin | |
| 1919 | Len Gibb | |
| 1920 | Ted Alley | |
| 1920 | Frank Rigaldi | |
| 1921 | Jim Jackson | |
| 1922 | Arthur Rademacher | |
| 1923–1924 | Bill Walton | |
| 1925 | Jim Jackson | |
| 1926 | Dan Minogue | |
| 1926 | Paddy Burke | |
| 1927 | Clarrie Lethlean | |
| 1928 | Bert Sutton | |
| 1929 | Albert Chadwick | |
| 1930–1931 | John Harris | |
| 1932 | Bert Mills | |
| 1933 | Fred Phillips | |
| 1933 | Bill Twomey Sr. | |
| 1934 | Bert Mills | |
| 1935–1937 | Ivan McAlpine | |
| 1938 | Bert Mills | |
| 1939 | Len Thomas | |
| 1940–1941 | Bert Mills | |
| 1942 | Jack Carmody | |
| 1943 | Bob Williams | |
| 1944 | Jim Bohan | |
| 1945 | Keith Shea | |
| 1946 | Jim Bohan | |
| 1947–1949 | Alec Albiston | |
| 1950–1951 | Kevin Curran | |
| 1952 | Peter O'Donohue | |
| 1953–1954 | Ted Fletcher | Best and fairest (1953) |
| 1955–1959 | John Kennedy, Sr. | |
| 1960–1964 | Graham Arthur | VFL premiership (1961)
Best and fairest (1962) |
| 1965 | Graham Arthur | |
| John Peck | Coleman Medal (1965)
Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1965) |
| 1966–1968 | Graham Arthur | |
| 1969–1973 | David Parkin | VFL premiership (1971) |
| 1974–1975 | Peter Crimmins | |
| 1976–1980 | Don Scott | 2×VFL premiership (1976,1978) |
| 1981–1985 | Leigh Matthews | VFL premiership (1983)
VFLPA MVP award (1982)
Peter Crimmins Perpetual Memorial Medal (1982)
4×Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984)
2× VFL Team of the Year (1982, 1983) |
| 1986–1991 | Michael Tuck | 4×VFL/AFL premiership (1986,1988,1989,1991)
VFLPA best captain (1986)
VFL Team of the year (1990) |
| 1992–1993 | Gary Ayres | |
| 1994 | Chris Langford | All-Australian team (1994) |
| 1995–1998 | Jason Dunstall | 3×Hawthorn leading goalkicker (1995, 1996, 1998) |
| 1999–2004 | Shane Crawford | Brownlow Medal (1999)
AFLPA MVP (1999)
2×All-Australian team (1999, 2002)
3×Peter Crimmins Memorial Trophy (1999, 2002, 2003) |
| 2005–2007 | Richie Vandenberg | |
| 2008–2010 | Sam Mitchell | AFL premiership (2008)
Peter Crimmins Medal (2009) |
| 2011–2016 | Luke Hodge | 3×AFL premiership (2013,2014,2015)
Norm Smith Medal (2014)
AFLPA best captain (2014) |
| 2017–2018 | Jarryd Roughead | Hawthorn leading goalkicker (2017) |
| 2019–2020 | Ben Stratton | |
| 2021–2022 | Ben McEvoy | |
| 2023– | James Sicily | All-Australian team (2023) |
