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Medal of Freedom Recipients List Since 1993 Only
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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients List
Since 1993 Only - Alphabetical List
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 South African president)
2002
Gordon Moore (Intel co-founder)
2002
Nancy Reagan (former first lady)
2002
Fred Rogers (children's television host)
2003
Jacques Barzun (author and scholar)
2003
Julia Child (master chef and television pioneer)
2003
Roberto Walker Clemente (hall of fame baseball player)
2003
Van Cliburn (concert pianist)
2003
Vaclav Havel (former President of Czech Republic)
2003
Charlton Heston (Academy Award winning actor and civil rights spokesman)
2003
Edward Teller (physicist)
2003
R. David Thomas (businessman and philanthropist)
2003
Byron Raymond White (U. S. Supreme Court Justice)
2003
James Q. Wilson (author and scholar)
2003
John R. Wooden (basketball coach and author)
2004
Robert L. Bartley (journalist)
2004
Edward W. Brooke (Attorney General, Senator and combat military officer)
2004
Doris Day (actress and singer)
2004
Vartan Gregorian (scholar and historian)
2004
Gilbert M. Grosvenor (geographer and historian)
2004
Gordon B. Hinckley (religious leader)
2004
His Holiness Pope John Paul II (religious leader and humanitarian)
2004
Estee Lauder (entrepreneur)
2004
Rita Moreno (actress, dancer and singer)
2004
Arnold Palmer (professional golfer)
2004
Arnall Patz (ophthalmologist)
2004
Norman Podhoretz (journalist and intellectualist)
2004
Walter B. Wriston (banker)
2004
L. Paul Bremer III (public servent)
2004
Gen. Tommy Franks (soldier)
2004
George Tenet (public servent)
1. With Distinction
NOTE: An asterisk following a year denotes a posthumous award.
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