• Two hundred thirty-nine drivers have led the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, in 107 races.
• Career lap leader percentage rounded to hundredths of a percent.
• Green indicates drivers active as of most recent race.

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Rank	Driver	Laps Led	Career Laps Run	Career Lap Leader Percentage	Race Wins	Years Won
1	Scott Dixon	665	Active driver		1	2008
2	Al Unser	644	4,356	14.78%	4	1970	1971	1978	1987
3	Ralph DePalma	612	1,594	38.39%	1	1915
4	Mario Andretti	556	3,040	18.29%	1	1969
5	A. J. Foyt	555	4,909	11.31%	4	1961	1964	1967	1977
6	Wilbur Shaw	508	2,019	25.16%	3	1937	1939	1940
7	Emerson Fittipaldi	505	1,785	28.29%	2	1989	1993
8	Parnelli Jones	492	1,130	43.54%	1	1963
9	Bill Vukovich	485	676	71.75%	2	1953	1954
10	Bobby Unser	440	2,611	16.85%	3	1968	1975	1981
11	Michael Andretti	431	2,653	16.25%
12	Rick Mears	429	2,342	18.32%	4	1979	1984	1988	1991
13	Billy Arnold	410	821	49.94%	1	1930
14	Tony Kanaan	352	Active driver		1	2013
15	Gordon Johncock	339	3,158	10.73%	2	1973	1982
16	Louis Meyer	332	1,916	17.33%	3	1928	1933	1936
17	Dario Franchitti	329	1,940	16.96%	3	2007	2010	2012
18	Hélio Castroneves	326	Active driver		4	2001	2002	2009	2021
19	Jim Clark	298	682	43.69%	1	1965
20	Bill Holland	297	914	32.49%	1	1949
21	Johnny Rutherford	296	2,792	10.60%	3	1974	1976	1980
22	Rex Mays	266	1,385	19.21%
23	Rodger Ward	261	2,160	12.08%	2	1959	1962
24	Mauri Rose	256	2,326	11.01%	3	1941	1947	1948
25	Dan Wheldon	235	1,729	13.59%	2	2005	2011
26	Jimmy Murphy	220	907	24.26%	1	1922
27	Tommy Milton	218	1,204	18.11%	2	1921	1923
28	Jimmy Bryan	216	1,411	15.31%	1	1958
29	Tom Sneva	208	2,180	9.54%	1	1983
30	Frank Lockhart	205	280	73.21%	1	1926
31	Juan Pablo Montoya	193	1,263	15.28%	2	2000	2015
32	Arie Luyendyk	186	2,957	6.29%	2	1990	1997
33	Jimmy Snyder	181	495	36.57%
34	Lee Wallard	178	591	30.12%	1	1951
35	Ryan Hunter-Reay	171	Active driver		1	2014
36	Simon Pagenaud	169	Active driver		1	2019
37	Danny Sullivan	162	1,523	10.64%	1	1985
38	Howdy Wilcox	155	1,335	11.61%	1	1919
39	Tomas Scheckter	153	1,691	9.05%
40	Jim Rathmann	150	2,320	6.47%	1	1960
41	Peter DePaolo	148	738	20.05%	1	1925
42	Ed Carpenter	146	Active driver
43	Will Power	145	Active driver		1	2018
44	Marco Andretti	144	Active driver
45	Dario Resta	140	408	34.31%	1	1916
46	Sam Hanks	140	1,566	8.94%	1	1957
47	Jules Goux	139	773	17.98%	1	1913
48	George Robson	138	333	41.44%	1	1946
49	Pat Flaherty	138	812	17.00%	1	1956
50	Gary Bettenhausen	138	2,372	5.82%
51	Johnnie Parsons	131	1,504	8.71%	1	1950
52	Lloyd Ruby	126	2,357	5.35%
53	Bobby Rahal	126	2,007	6.28%	1	1986
54	Earl Cooper	123	939	13.10%
55	Tony Stewart	122	700	17.43%
56	Joe Boyer	119	555	21.44%	1	1924
57	Álex Palou	118	Active driver
58	Greg Ray	116	920	12.61%
59	René Thomas	114	744	15.32%	1	1914
60	Al Unser Jr.	110	3,173	3.47%	2	1992	1994
61	Kelly Petillo	108	1,283	8.42%	1	1935
62	Wally Dallenbach Sr.	108	1,448	7.46%
63	Sam Hornish Jr.	107	1,346	7.95%	1	2006
64	Babe Stapp	106	960	11.04%
65	Fred Frame	106	1,281	8.27%	1	1932
66	Buddy Rice	99	1,047	9.46%	1	2004
67	Ted Horn	94	1,944	4.84%
68	Dave Lewis	93	383	24.28%
69	Bill Cummings	93	1,229	7.57%	1	1934
70	Floyd Roberts	92	883	10.42%	1	1938
71	Kenny Bräck	89	885	10.06%	1	1999
72	Eddie Cheever Jr.	89	2,122	4.19%	1	1998
73	Ray Harroun	88	200	44.00%	1	1911
74	Takuma Sato	87	Active driver		2	2017	2020
75	Bob Sweikert	86	825	10.42%	1	1955
76	Patricio O'Ward	82	Active driver
77	David Bruce-Brown	81	225	36.00%
78	Alexander Rossi	81	Active driver		1	2016
79	Danny Ongais	79	1,527	5.17%
80	Arthur Duray	77	200	38.50%
81	Troy Ruttman	72	1,472	4.89%	1	1952
82	Gil de Ferran	71	601	11.81%	1	2003
83	Jack McGrath	70	1,094	6.40%
84	Mark Donohue	70	748	9.36%	1	1972
85	Buddy Lazier	70	3,015	2.32%	1	1996
86	Frank Brisko	69	1,330	5.19%
87	Leon Duray	68	693	9.81%
88	Ralph Hepburn	68	1,864	3.65%
89	George Souders	67	400	16.75%	1	1927
90	Eddie Sachs	66	1,069	6.17%
91	Felix Rosenqvist	61	Active driver
92	Maurício Gugelmin	59	396	14.90%
93	Harry Hartz	57	996	5.72%
94	Rinus VeeKay	57	Active driver
95	Roberto Guerrero	56	1,735	3.23%
96	Johnny Thomson	55	1,044	5.27%
97	James Hinchcliffe	54	1,656	3.26%
98	Robby Gordon	53	1,564	3.39%
99	Joe Leonard	52	1,265	4.11%
100	Jeff Ward	52	1,254	4.15%
101	Bruno Junqueira	52	734	7.08%
102	Max Chilton	50	997	5.02%
103	Deacon Litz	49	1,560	3.14%
104	Scott Goodyear	49	1,460	3.35%
105	Conor Daly	47	Active driver
106	Ray Keech	46	400	11.50%	1	1929
107	Pat O'Connor	46	768	5.98%
108	Davy Jones	46	784	5.86%
109	Gil Anderson	44	784	5.61%
110	Jimmy Gleason	43	617	6.97%
111	Josef Newgarden	43	Active driver		1	2023
112	Marcus Ericsson	43	Active driver		1	2022
113	Bob Burman	41	718	5.71%
114	Jackie Stewart	40	358	11.17%
115	Louis Schneider	39	863	4.51%	1	1931
116	John Paul Jr.	39	883	4.42%
117	Alex Tagliani	39	1,543	2.52%
118	Teo Fabi	37	963	3.84%
119	Bob Carey	36	200	18%
120	Jim Hurtubise	36	894	4.03%
121	Cliff Bergere	35	2,425	1.44%
122	Paul Russo	35	1,482	2.36%
123	Bob Swanson	34	267	12.73%
124	Nigel Mansell	34	292	11.64%
125	Oriol Servià	34	1,992	1.70%
126	Bobby Marshman	33	635	5.20%
127	Tony Gulotta	33	1,989	1.66%
128	Art Cross	32	768	4.17%
129	Duke Nalon	32	1,284	2.49%
130	Ryan Briscoe	31	1,840	1.68%
131	Phil Shafer	29	1,223	2.37%
132	Mark Dismore	29	820	3.54%
133	Danica Patrick	29	1,404	2.07%
134	Carlos Muñoz	29	1,200	2.41%
135	Graham Rahal	28	Active driver
136	Fernando Alonso	27	378	7.14%
137	Jimmy Vasser	26	1,249	2.08%
138	Jimmy Davies	25	631	3.96%
139	Tony Bettenhausen	24	1,975	1.22%
140	Lou Moore	23	1,304	1.76%
141	A. J. Allmendinger	23	200	11.50%
142	Jacques Villeneuve	22	600	3.67%	1	1995
143	Raul Boesel	21	2,213	0.95%
144	Alessandro Zampedri	20	199	10.05%
145	George Amick	18	200	9.00%
146	Johnny Boyd	18	1,427	1.26%
147	Charlie Kimball	18	1,910	0.94%
148	Kevin Cogan	17	1,556	1.09%
149	Johnny Aitken	16	194	8.25%
150	Jerry Grant	16	1,275	1.25%
151	Robbie Buhl	16	1,279	1.25%
152	Vítor Meira	15	1,622	0.92%
153	Mike Conway	15	476	3.15%
154	Zach Veach	15	729	1.92%
155	Colton Herta	15	Active driver
156	Santino Ferrucci	15	Active driver
157	Gaston Chevrolet	14	400	3.50%	1	1920
158	Ernie Triplett	14	559	2.50%
159	Russ Snowberger	13	1,633	0.80%
160	Josele Garza	13	707	1.84%
161	Billy Boat	13	1,112	1.17%
162	Justin Wilson	13	1,488	0.87%
163	Townsend Bell	13	1,898	0.68%
164	J. R. Hildebrand	13	2,202	0.59%
165	Swede Savage	12	62	19.35%
166	Felipe Giaffone	12	955	1.26%
167	Bertrand Baguette	11	383	2.87%
168	Ralph Mulford	10	1,619	0.62%
169	Graham Hill	10	333	3.00%	1	1966
170	Alex Barron	10	942	1.06%
171	Eddie Rickenbacker	9	355	2.53%
172	Albert Guyot	9	808	1.11%
173	Josef Christiaens	9	320	2.81%
174	Louis Chevrolet	9	452	1.99%
175	Dutch Baumann	9	90	10.00%
176	Len Sutton	9	708	1.27%
177	Jimmy Daywalt	8	999	0.80%
178	Pancho Carter	8	2,141	0.37%
179	Jim Crawford	8	1,043	0.77%
180	Scott Pruett	8	592	1.35%
181	Don Freeland	7	1,311	0.53%
182	Roger McCluskey	7	2,155	0.32%
183	Zachary Claman DeMelo	7	199	3.52%
184	Spencer Pigot	7	981	0.71%
185	Ira Hall	6	485	1.24%
186	Cecil Green	5	217	2.30%
187	Jimmy Jackson	5	845	0.59%
188	Spencer Wishart	5	604	0.83%
189	Steve Krisiloff	5	1,387	0.36%
190	E. J. Viso	5	843	0.59%
191	James Jakes	5	599	0.83%
192	Callum Ilott	5	Active driver
193	Fred Belcher	4	200	2.00%
194	Cliff Durant	4	888	0.45%
195	Mike Mosley	4	1,615	0.25%
196	Buzz Calkins	4	1,056	0.38%
197	Sam Schmidt	4	110	3.64%
198	Sébastien Bourdais	4	1,687	0.24%
199	Oliver Askew	4	91	4.40%
200	Sage Karam	4	1,368	0.29%
201	George Snider	3	1,832	0.16%
202	Davey Hamilton	3	1,783	0.17%
203	Scott Sharp	3	2,180	0.14%
204	Bryan Herta	3	965	0.31%
205	Adrian Fernández	3	583	0.51%
206	Mario Moraes	3	211	1.42%
207	Bryan Clauson	3	305	0.98%
208	Stefan Wilson	3	Active driver
209	Caleb Bragg	2	269	0.74%
210	Teddy Tetzlaff	2	371	0.54%
211	Joe Dawson	2	445	0.45%	1	1912
212	Robert Evans	2	158	1.27%
213	Paul Bost	2	66	3.03%
214	Herb Ardinger	2	884	0.23%
215	Dan Gurney	2	1,204	0.17%
216	Roger Rager	2	55	3.64%
217	Don Whittington	2	547	0.37%
218	John Andretti	2	1,852	0.11%
219	Robby McGehee	2	887	0.23%
220	Tora Takagi	2	379	0.53%
221	Jaques Lazier	2	979	0.20%
222	Rubens Barrichello	2	200	1.00%
223	James Davison	2	748	0.27%
224	Robert Wickens	2	200	1.00%
225	Jimmie Johnson	2	193	1.04%
226	Jean Chassagne	1	285	0.35%
227	Art Klein	1	413	0.24%
228	Roscoe Sarles	1	354	0.28%
229	Howdy Wilcox II	1	200	0.50%
230	Fred Agabashian	1	1,273	0.08%
231	Jack Brabham	1	510	0.20%
232	Bobby Allison	1	113	0.88%
233	Bill Vukovich II	1	1,527	0.07%
234	Tim Richmond	1	388	0.26%
235	Gordon Smiley	1	188	0.53%
236	Scott Brayton	1	1,905	0.05%
237	Stéphan Grégoire	1	760	0.13%
238	Jeff Simmons	1	609	0.16%
239	Mikhail Aleshin	1	524	0.19%
Note	Lora L. Corum*	0			1	1924
	Floyd Davis*	0			1	1941

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• Lora L. Corum and Floyd Davis are credited as being co-winners of the Indianapolis 500 in 1924 and 1941, respectively. However, as the winning entries in either race led only after their secondary drivers drove (and to the conclusion), Corum and Davis are not credited with leading any of those laps, nor did they lead throughout the remainder of their careers.

In 1964, Autolite created the "Pacemakers Club," which recognized drivers who had led at least one lap during the Indianapolis 500. It quickly rose in stature and popularity, and became a highly sought-after honor associated with the Indianapolis 500. After changes in sponsorship, the organization was renamed the "Leaders Circle Club".

The qualifications were simple: any driver who had led at least one lap during the history of the race, whether living or already deceased, were recognized as members. At its inception, 102 drivers were listed as members. A total of 56 were deceased at the time, and 46 were living.

Honorees receive a jacket, and are honored at a banquet in their honor. The number of new members inducted at the banquet varies annually, as it is solely based on the previous year's first-time lap leaders. Some years can have as few as one or zero new members inducted, while other years have had as many as 4-5. The "club" is still active as of 2012.