Baillie Gifford Prize tidligere Samuel Johnson Prize er en litteraturpris for sakprosa. Den ble innstiftet i 1999 gjennom en anonym donasjon, og administreres av BBC. Hver vinner mottar 30 000 britiske pund og hver finalist 2 500 britiske pund. Prisen er oppkalt etter Samuel Johnson.
2016: Philippe Sands for East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity[1]
- Wade Davis for Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
- Katherine Boo for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
- Robert Macfarlane for The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
- Steven Pinker for The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
- Paul Preston for The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
- Sue Prideaux for Strindberg: A Life
- Frank Dikötter for Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
- Alex Bellos for Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics
- Luke Jennings for Blood Knots: On Fathers, Friendship and Fishing
- Andrew Ross Sorkin for Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves
- Jenny Uglow for A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
- Richard Wrangham for Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
- Liaquat Ahamed for Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
- Ben Goldacre for Bad Science
- David Grann for The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
- Richard Holmes for The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- Manjit Kumar for Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
- Kate Summerscale for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Or The Murder at Road Hill House
- Tim Butcher for Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
- Mark Cocker for Crow Country
- Orlando Figes for The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- Patrick French for The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul'
- Alex Ross for The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
- Ian Buruma for Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
- Peter Hennessey for Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties
- Georgina Howell for Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell
- Dominic Streatfeild for Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
- Adrian Tinniswood for The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
- Jonathan Coe for Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson