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 7
Hyman G. Rickover
Originator
Arthur Flemming
Former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Frances Hesselbein
Executive
John Paul Vann
Military officer
Sylvia Mendez
American activist
Francis Collins
Former Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
Margaret Hamilton
American computer scientist
Stanislav Shushkevich
Former Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR
Warren Christopher
Former United States Secretary of State
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American journalist
Andrew Goodman
American civil rights activist
Roger Nash Baldwin
American author
Gilbert M. Grosvenor
Geographer
Mike Mansfield
Former Majority Leader of the United States Senate
Ryan Crocker
Former Ambassador of the United States to Afghanistan
Jack Keane
Computer game
Cruz Reynoso
American lawyer
Vernon A. Walters
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Gaylord Nelson
Former Governor of Wisconsin
Sol Linowitz
American diplomat
Fred Korematsu
American civil rights activist
Lincoln Kirstein
American writer
Richard Garwin
American physicist
Alvin Ailey
American dancer
Dante Fascell
Former United States Representative
Anne Armstrong
Former Counselor to the President of the United States
Horace M. Albright
American conservationist
Wyatt Tee Walker
Pastor
Justin Dart Sr.
American businessman
Walter Reuther
Political leader
John Minor Wisdom
Former Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Laurence Silberman
Former United States Deputy Attorney General
Morris Childs
Robert J. H. Kiphuth
Leo Cherne
American economist
James Burnham
American Politician
Joseph Lowery
American minister
Edgar Wayburn
American environmentalist
Manlio Brosio
Former Secretary General of NATO
John Macy
Former Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States of America
Justin Dart Jr.
American activist
justin whitlock dart sr.
American businessman
Hanna Holborn Gray
American historian
George J. Mitchell
Former member of the United States Senate
Lila Acheson Wallace
American publisher and philanthropist
Newton N. Minow
Former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States
James Farmer
American civil rights activist
