Presidential Medal of Freedom: Quick Facts

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Notable Honorees

Steven Spielberg • Joe Biden • Francis • Bruce Springsteen • Bob Dylan • Bill Clinton • Hillary Clinton • Angela Merkel • Lionel Messi • John McCain • Muhammad Ali • Nancy Pelosi • Steve Jobs • Tiger Woods • Jesse Jackson • Aretha Franklin • Jim Jordan • Simone Biles • Meryl Streep • Henry Kissinger • Robert Redford • Toni Morrison • Bill Russell • Robert De Niro • Sidney Poitier • Rosa Parks • Denzel Washington • Betty Ford • Barbra Streisand • Katie Ledecky • Ralph Lauren • Rosalynn Carter • Charlie Kirk • Opal Lee • Isabel Allende • Anthony Fauci • Tom Hanks • José Andrés • John Wayne • Irving Kristol • I.M. Pei • Bill Gates • Maya Angelou • Oprah Winfrey • John Lewis • Ben Carson • Michelle Yeoh • Frank Gehry • Michael Jordan • Harper Lee • Bob Hope • Dolores Huerta • Oliver Hill • Cesar Chavez • Megan Rapinoe • Eubie Blake • George Soros • Warren Buffett • Jens Stoltenberg • Maya Lin • Ethel Kennedy • Lewis Strauss • Diane Nash • James Stewart • Margaret Mead • Sally Ride • Anna Wintour • Michael J. Fox • Muhammad Yunus • Orrin Hatch • Norman Mineta • Stephen Sondheim • Barbara Mikulski • Robert M. Gates • Audrey Hepburn • Gabby Giffords • Bono • Danny Kaye • Neil Armstrong • Rita Moreno • John Glenn • Julia Child • Rush Limbaugh • George Mitchell • Magic Johnson • John Paul Stevens • Yo-Yo Ma • Bayard Rustin • Margaret Hamilton • Madeleine Albright • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar • Billie Jean King • Charlton Heston • Arthur Laffer • Norman Ernest Borlaug • Jack Kemp • Melinda Gates • Margaret Murie • Jesse Owens • Elie Wiesel • Babe Didrikson Zaharias • Desmond Tutu • Ellen DeGeneres • Phil Donahue • George Shultz • Ted Kennedy • Mary Robinson • Dean Smith • Yogi Berra • Plácido Domingo • Robert Kahn • Helen Hayes • Ellen Ochoa • Willie Mays • Katherine Johnson • Cecile Richards • Pat Summitt • David Brinkley • Cicely Tyson • Margaret Chase Smith • Norman Vincent Peale • Donna Shalala • Lloyd Bentsen • Arnold Palmer • Gordon B. Hinckley • Harvey Milk • Sister Simone Campbell • Daniel Inouye • Shirley Chisholm • James Baker • David McCullough • Stan Musial • Jasper Johns • Jane Goodall • Mariano Rivera • Tom Brokaw • Andrew Wyeth • Sylvia Mendez • Fred Rogers • Gloria Steinem • Hank Aaron • Daniel Kahneman • Chita Rivera • Jonas Salk • Grace Hopper • Stephen Hawking • Eudora Welty • Diana Ross • Marian Wright Edelman • Edward Brooke • Michael DeBakey • Lane Kirkland • Alan Page • Annika Sörenstam • Clare Boothe Luce • Fannie Lou Hamer • Bob Dole • Edmund Muskie • Johnny Carson • E.B. White • Ernie Banks • Henry M. Jackson • Jacques Barzun • Robert Michel • Denton Cooley • Eric Hoffer • Philip Charles Habib • Daniel Patrick Moynihan • Pearl Bailey • Theodore Hesburgh • Wilma Mankiller • James Taylor • Dorothy Height • Dan Gable • Mario Molina • R. Sargent Shriver • Juliette Gordon Low • Benjamin L. Hooks • John Sweeney • Gary S. Becker • Loretta Lynn • Ben Bradlee • Suzan Shown Harjo • Elliot Lee Richardson • Melvin Laird • Warren Christopher • Red Blaik • Buck O’Neil • Andy Griffith • David Packard • Mstislav Rostropovich • Eunice Kennedy Shriver • Bob Cousy • Gary Player • Claude Pepper • Martha Raye • Edgar Mitchell • Robert Solow • Lorne Michaels

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