List of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
A
[edit]- Hank Aaron
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Dean Acheson
- Ansel Adams
- Madeleine Albright
- Buzz Aldrin
- Muhammad Ali
- Isabel Allende
- Maya Angelou
- Neil Armstrong
- Arthur Ashe
- Brooke Astor
- Aung San Suu Kyi
B
[edit]- Pearl Bailey
- James Baker
- Roger Nash Baldwin
- Lucille Ball
- Ernie Banks
- John Bardeen
- Jacques Barzun
- Count Basie
- Gary Becker
- Lloyd Bentsen
- Irving Berlin
- Yogi Berra
- Joe Biden
- Óscar Elías Biscet
- Tony Blair
- Norman Borlaug
- Omar Bradley
- William J. Brennan, Jr.
- David Brinkley
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
- Bear Bryant
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Warren Buffett
- Ralph Bunche
- Warren E. Burger
- James Burnham
- George H. W. Bush
C
[edit]- James Cagney
- Alexander Calder
- Ben Carson
- Johnny Carson
- Rachel Carson
- Jimmy Carter
- Pablo Casals
- Vint Cerf
- Whittaker Chambers
- Cesar Chavez
- Dick Cheney
- Julia Child
- Shirley Chisholm
- Wesley Clark
- Roberto Clemente
- Bill Clinton
- Francis Collins
- Michael Collins (astronaut)
- Robert Conquest
- Aaron Copland
- Bill Cosby
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Walter Cronkite
- William J. Crowe
D
[edit]- Doris Day
- Robert De Niro
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Joe DiMaggio
- John Dingell
- Walt Disney
- J. Frank Dobie
- Bob Dole
- Jimmy Doolittle
- Kirk Douglas
- Peter Drucker
- Will Durant
- Bob Dylan
E
[edit]F
[edit]- Anthony Fauci
- Gerald Ford
- Felix Frankfurter
- Aretha Franklin
- Tommy Franks
- Milton Friedman
- J. William Fulbright
- Buckminster Fuller
G
[edit]- John Kenneth Galbraith
- John W. Gardner
- Bill Gates
- Melinda Gates
- Robert Gates
- Frank Gehry
- John Glenn
- Barry Goldwater
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Billy Graham
- Katharine Graham
- Martha Graham
- Alan Greenspan
- Andy Griffith
H
[edit]- Tom Hanks
- W. Averell Harriman
- Paul Harvey
- Orrin Hatch
- Václav Havel
- Stephen Hawking
- Friedrich Hayek
- Helen Hayes
- Audrey Hepburn
- Theodore Hesburgh
- Charlton Heston
- Gordon B. Hinckley
- Eric Hoffer
- Lou Holtz
- Sidney Hook
- Bob Hope
- Grace Hopper
- Vladimir Horowitz
- John Howard
- Hubert Humphrey
I
[edit]J
[edit]- Henry M. Jackson
- Jesse Jackson
- Jim Lovell
- Pope John Paul II
- Pope John XXIII
- Jasper Johns
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Paul Johnson
- Barbara Jordan
- Michael Jordan
K
[edit]- Daniel Kahneman
- Danny Kaye
- Helen Keller
- Jack Kemp
- George F. Kennan
- John F. Kennedy
- Ted Kennedy
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Lane Kirkland
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
- Henry Kissinger
- Helmut Kohl
- Willem de Kooning
- C. Everett Koop
- Eugene F. Kranz
- Irving Kristol
L
[edit]- Louis L'Amour
- Arthur Laffer
- Edwin H. Land
- Tom Lantos
- Harper Lee
- John L. Lewis
- John Lewis
- Rush Limbaugh
- Walter Lippmann
- Joseph Lowery
- Clare Boothe Luce
- Loretta Lynn
M
[edit]- Yo-Yo Ma
- Archibald MacLeish
- Nelson Mandela
- Wilma Mankiller
- Thurgood Marshall
- Willie Mays
- George McGovern
- Robert McNamara
- Margaret Mead
- Edwin Meese
- Karl Menninger
- Angela Merkel
- Lorne Michaels
- James A. Michener
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Harvey Milk
- Newton N. Minow
- George J. Mitchell
- Jean Monnet
- Gordon Moore
- Rita Moreno
- Toni Morrison
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Lewis Mumford
- Edward R. Murrow
- Luis Muñoz Marín
N
[edit]O
[edit]P
[edit]- Peter Pace
- David Packard
- Rosa Parks
- Norman Vincent Peale
- Gregory Peck
- I. M. Pei
- Shimon Peres
- William Perry
- Gary Player
- Sidney Poitier
- Colin Powell
- Elvis Presley
Q
[edit]R
[edit]- Simon Ramo
- A. Philip Randolph
- Martha Raye
- Nancy Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
- Walter Reuther
- Hyman G. Rickover
- Sally Ride
- Frank Robinson
- Mary Robinson
- David Rockefeller
- Norman Rockwell
- Fred Rogers
- Carlos P. Romulo
- Diana Ross
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Bill Russell
- Bayard Rustin
- Babe Ruth
S
[edit]- Anwar Sadat
- William Safire
- Jonas Salk
- Carl Sandburg
- Antonin Scalia
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
- Vin Scully
- Natan Sharansky
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- George Shultz
- Charlie Sifford
- Beverly Sills
- Frank Sinatra
- Margaret Chase Smith
- Robert Solow
- Annika Sörenstam
- Steven Spielberg
- Bruce Springsteen
- Edward Steichen
- John Steinbeck
- Gloria Steinem
- John Paul Stevens
- Jimmy Stewart
- Meryl Streep