Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the president of the United States. The Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal are the highest civilian awards of the United States.
Presidential Medal Of Freedom People (First 49 people) - Page 3
Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian cellist
William Gates
American basketball player
Buckminster Fuller
American architect
Dolores Hope
American singer
Jan Cousteau
Philippe Cousteau's mother
Jacques Cousteau
French naval officer
Edward Kennedy, Jr.
Connecticut State Senator
Peter Pace
General
Edgar Bronfman Sr.
Canadian-American businessman
David Hamburg
American psychiatrist
Amelia Boynton Robinson
American activist
Lyman Lemnitzer
Military personnel
Elmo Zumwalt
Navy officer
Tomas Francis
Rugby union player
Maya Lin
American designer
Simon Wiesenthal
Austrian holocaust survivor
Lowell Thomas
American writer
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Former President of Liberia
Richard Myers
President of Kansas State University
Dolores Huerta
American labor leader
Pat Summitt
American basketball coach
Albert Sabin
American-Polish researcher
Thomas Francis Jr.
American physician
Nelle Lee
Actress
Bruce Catton
American historian
Rachelle Carson
Actress
Lewis Mumford
American historian
Anthony S. Fauci
Former Chief Medical Advisor to the President of United States
Eubie Blake
American composer
A. M. Rosenthal
Journalist
Lew Wasserman
American talent agent
Joan Ganz Cooney
American television writer
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American architect
Fred Rogers
American television host
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American theoretical physicist
Vladimir Horowitz
Russian-American classical pianist
Herblock
American editorial cartoonist
Marian Wright Edelman
President of the Children's Defense Fund
Jack Swigert
American pilot
Barry Goldwater Jr.
Former United States Representative
Jacques Barzun
American historian
C. Everett Koop
Former Surgeon General of the United States
Tom Lowell
Actor
John Shalikashvili
General
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
American advocate
Taylor James
Actor
Roberto Clementi
Musical artist