|
1993*
|
Arthur Ashe, Jr. (tennis
professional) |
|
1993
|
William J. Brennan, Jr. (jurist) |
|
1993
|
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
(conservationist) |
|
1993
|
J. William Fulbright (public
servant) |
|
1993*
|
Thurgood Marshall (jurist) |
|
1993
|
General Colin L. Powell1 (soldier) |
|
1993*
|
Joseph L. Raugh, Jr. (civil-rights and
labor activist) |
|
1993
|
Martha Raye (entertainer) |
|
1993
|
John Minor Wisdom (public
servant) |
|
1994
|
Herbert Block (cartoonist) |
|
1994*
|
Cesar Chavez (labor leader) |
|
1994
|
Arthur Flemming (government
servant) |
|
1994
|
James Grant (executive director,
UNICEF) |
|
1994
|
Dorothy Height (civil-rights
leader) |
|
1994
|
Barbara Jordan (public servant) |
|
1994
|
Lane Kirkland (labor leader) |
|
1994
|
Robert H. Michel (public servant) |
|
1994
|
R. Sargent Shriver (government
servant) |
|
1995
|
Peggy Charren (children's television
advocate) |
|
1995
|
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (public
servant and civil-rights advocate) |
|
1995
|
Joan Ganz Cooney (children's
television advocate) |
|
1995
|
John Hope Franklin (historian) |
|
1995
|
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (jurist and
civil-rights advocate) |
|
1995
|
Frank M. Johnson, Jr. (jurist) |
|
1995
|
C. Everett Koop (public-health
worker) |
|
1995
|
Gaylord A. Nelson (public servant and
conservationist) |
|
1995
|
Walter P. Reuther (labor leader) |
|
1995
|
James W. Rouse (urban planner) |
|
1995*
|
William C. Velasquez (voting rights
advocate) |
|
1995
|
Lew R. Wasserman (media
executive) |
|
1996
|
James Scott Brady (gun-control
advocate) |
|
1996
|
Cardinal Joseph Bernadin (Catholic
leader) |
|
1996
|
Millard D. Fuller (founder, Habitat
for Humanity) |
|
1996
|
David Alan Hamburg (physician and
children's advocate) |
|
1996
|
John H. Johnson (founder, Ebony
and Jet) |
|
1996
|
Eugene M. Lang (founder, “I Have a
Dream” Foundation) |
|
1996
|
Jan Nowak-Jezioranski (WWII Polish
resistance fighter) |
|
1996
|
Antonia Pantoja (Puerto Rican
educational and economic advocate) |
|
1996
|
Rosa Parks (civil-rights leader) |
|
1996
|
Ginetta Sagan (advocate for political
prisoners) |
|
1996
|
Morris Udall (public servant) |
|
1997
|
Robert Dole (public servant) |
|
1997
|
William J. Perry (soldier) |
|
1998
|
Arnold Aronson (civil-rights
advocate) |
|
1998
|
Brooke Astor (philanthropist) |
|
1998
|
Robert Coles (psychiatrist and
author) |
|
1998
|
Justin Dart, Jr. (founder of Americans
with Disabilities Act) |
|
1998
|
James Farmer (civil-rights
leader) |
|
1998
|
Dante B. Fascell (public servant) |
|
1998
|
Zachary Fisher (philanthropist) |
|
1998
|
Frances Hesselbein (former leader of
the Girl Scouts of America) |
|
1998
|
Fred Korematsu (activist redressing
Japanese-American internment in WWII) |
|
1998
|
Sol M. Linowitz (jurist) |
|
1998
|
Wilma Mankiller (former Cherokee
Nation leader) |
|
1998
|
Margaret Murie (environmentalist) |
|
1998
|
Mario G. Obledo (activist for
Mexican-American civil rights) |
|
1998
|
Elliot L. Richardson (public
servant) |
|
1998
|
David Rockefeller
(philanthropist) |
|
1998*
|
Albert Shanker (educator) |
|
1998
|
Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
(soldier) |
|
1999
|
Lloyd M. Bentsen (public servant) |
|
1999
|
Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr. (president of
World Jewish Congress) |
|
1999
|
President Jimmy Carter (public
servant, activist) |
|
1999
|
Rosalynn Carter (human-rights
activist) |
|
1999
|
Evelyn Dubrow (lobbyist) |
|
1999
|
Sister Isolina Ferré (advocate for the
poor) |
|
1999
|
President Gerald Ford (public
servant) |
|
1999
|
Oliver White Hill (civil-rights
lawyer) |
|
1999
|
Max Kampelman (arms-control
expert) |
|
1999
|
Helmut Kohl (former German
chancellor) |
|
1999
|
Edgar Wayburn (Sierra Club
leader) |
|
2000
|
Aung San Suu Kyi (human rights
activist) |
|
2000
|
James Edward Burke (businessman,
antidrug activist) |
|
2000*
|
John Chafee (public servant) |
|
2000
|
Gen. Wesley Clark (soldier) |
|
2000
|
Adm. William Crowe (soldier) |
|
2000
|
Marian Wright Edelman (lawyer,
president of Children's Defense Fund) |
|
2000
|
John Kenneth Galbraith
(economist) |
|
2000
|
Monsignor George Higgins (labor
movement advocate) |
|
2000
|
Rev. Jesse Jackson (civil-rights
activist) |
|
2000
|
Mildred Jeffrey (women's labor
activist) |
|
2000
|
Mathilde Krim (AIDS researcher) |
|
2000
|
George McGovern (public servant) |
|
2000
|
Cruz Reynoso (lawyer, civil-rights
advocate) |
|
2000
|
Rev. Gardner Taylor (author,
civil-rights advocate) |
|
2000
|
Simon Wiesenthal (concentration camp
survivor, Nazi hunter) |
|
2000
|
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (public
servant) |
|
2002
|
Hank Aaron (baseball player) |
|
2002
|
Bill Cosby (comedian and actor) |
|
2002
|
Plácido Domingo (tenor) |
|
2002
|
Peter Drucker (management
theorist) |
|
2002*
|
Katharine Graham (newspaper
publisher) |
|
2002
|
Dr. D. A. Henderson (leader in
eradication of smallpox) |
|
2002
|
Irving Kristol (author and
editor) |
|
2002
|
Nelson Mandela (former president of
South Africa) |
|
2002
|
Gordon Moore (Intel cofounder) |
|
2002
|
Nancy Reagan (former first lady) |
|
2002
|
Fred Rogers (children's television
host) |
|
2002
|
A. M. Rosenthal (editor and
columnist) |
|
2003
|
Jacques Barzun (writer,
historian) |
|
2003
|
Julia Child (chef) |
|
2003*
|
Roberto W. Clemente (baseball
player) |
|
2003
|
Van Cliburn (pianist) |
|
2003
|
Vaclav Havel (playwright,
Czechoslovakian president) |
|
2003
|
Charlton Heston (actor) |
|
2003
|
Edward Teller (physicist) |
|
2003*
|
R. David Thomas (Wendy's founder) |
|
2003*
|
Byron R. White (Supreme Court
justice) |
|
2003
|
James Q. Wilson (professor) |
|
2003
|
John R. Wooden (basketball coach) |
|
2004
|
Robert L. Bartley (editor) |
|
2004
|
L. Paul Bremer (diplomat) |
|
2004
|
Edward Brooke III (politician) |
|
2004
|
Doris Day (actress) |
|
2004
|
Tommy Franks (U.S. Army general) |
|
2004
|
Vartan Gregorian (historian) |
|
2004
|
Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (president
of the National Geographic Society) |
|
2004
|
Gordon B. Hinckley (president of the
Mormon Church) Gordon B. Hinckley |
|
2004
|
John Paul II (pope) |
|
2004
|
Estee Lauder (founder of cosmetics
company) |
|
2004
|
Rita Moreno (dancer and actress) |
|
2004
|
Arnold Palmer (golfer) |
|
2004
|
Arnall Patz (ophthalmology
researcher) |
|
2004
|
Norman Podhoretz (journalist) |
|
2004
|
George Tenet (former CIA
director) |
|
2004
|
Walter Wriston (economist and
banker) |
|
2005
|
Muhammad Ali (boxer) |
|
2005
|
Carol Burnett (comedienne and
actress) |
|
2005
|
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn (software
code designers) |
|
2005
|
Robert Conquest (historian) |
|
2005
|
Aretha Franklin (singer) |
|
2005
|
Alan Greenspan (chairman, Federal
Reserve Board; economist) |
|
2005
|
Andy Griffith (actor) |
|
2005
|
Paul Harvey (radio personality) |
|
2005
|
Sonny Montgomery (veterans' rights
activist, former U.S. congressman) |
|
2005
|
Richard B. Myers (U.S. Army
general) |
|
2005
|
Jack Nicklaus (golfer) |
|
2005
|
Frank Robinson (baseball player) |
|
2005
|
Paul Rusesabagina (Rwandan
hotelier) |
|
2006
|
Ruth Johnson Colvin (literacy
advocate) |
|
2006
|
Norman C. Francis (president of Xavier
University) |
|
2006
|
Paul Johnson (historian and
journalist) |
|
2006
|
B. B. King (singer and guitarist) |
|
2006
|
Joshua Lederberg (scientist) |
|
2006
|
David McCullough (author and
historian) |
|
2006
|
Norman Y. Mineta (public
official) |
|
2006
|
Buck O'Neil (former professional
baseball player) |
|
2006
|
William Safire (writer and
commentator) |
|
2006
|
Natan Sharansky (writer and human
rights advocate) |
|
2007
|
Gary S. Becker (economist and nobel
laureate) |
|
2007
|
Oscar Elias Biscet (medical doctor and
activist) |
|
2007
|
Francis S. Collins (director of NHGRI
at NIH) |
|
2007
|
Benjamin L. Hooks (attorney and
clergyman) |
|
2007
|
Henry J. Hyde (representative from
Illinois) |
|
2007
|
Brian P. Lamb (founder and CEO of
C-SPAN) |
|
2007
|
Harper Lee (writer) |
|
2007
|
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (president of
Liberia) |
1. With Distinction.
NOTE: An asterisk following a year denotes a
posthumous award.
