Presidential medal of freedom
The presidential medal of American Freedom Presidential Medal off Freedom is one of both larger civil decoration S (the other larger is the Gold medal of the Congress) with the the United States of America. It is decreed with individuals who made " a special contribution for the safety or the national interests of the United States, a world of peace, cultural or any other public development or privé."
Rewarded personalities
The most known member elects, grouped by the activity which them a prime.
Academy
Structure
- Ludwig Crumbs van der Rohe
- Buckminster Fuller
- I.M. Pei
Data processing
Education
- Antonia Pantojas
History
- Robert Conquest
- Will Lasting
- Vartan Gregorian
- Samuel Eliot Morison
Literature
- Jacques Barzun
- T.S. Eliot
- Ralph Ellison
- Eric Hoffer
- Louis the Love
- James Michener
- Carl Sandburg
- John Steinbeck
- Elie Wiesel
- Thornton Wilder
- Edmund Wilson
Medicine
- Denton Cooley
- C. Everett Koop
- Jonas Salk
- Arnall Patz
- Michael DeBakey
Philosophy
- Will Lasting
- Sidney Hook
Sciences
- Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
- Neil Armstrong
- Apollo 11 Mission Of controlling S
- Apollo 13 Mission Controllers
- Michael Collins
- Jim Lovell
- Fred Hates
- Jack Swigert
- Rachel Carson
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Lewis Mumford
- Edward Teller
Sociology
- Robert Adhesives
- James Q. Wilson
Arts
Art
Dance
- George Balanchine
- Martha Graham
- Gene Kelly
Cinema
- Lucille Ball
- James Cagney
- Dory Day
- Walt Disney
- Kirk Douglas
- John Ford
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Helen Beam
- Audrey Hepburn
- Charlton Heston
- Bob Hope
- Danny Kaye
- Carole Lombard
- Rita Moreno
- Gregory Peck
- Jimmy Stewart
- John Wayne
- Marlene Dietrich
Music
- Marian Anderson
- Pearl Bailey
- Irving Berlin
- Pau Casals
- Van Cliburn
- Aaron Copland
- Plácido Domingo
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Aretha Franklin
- Frank Sinatra
- Kate Smith
- Isaac Stern
Photographs
Businesses and economy
- Edgar Mr. Bronfman, Jr.
- Peter Drucker
- Milton Friedman
- Alan Greenspan
- Estée Lauder
- David Rockefeller
- Dave Thomas
- Sam Walton
- Walter B. Wriston
Environnementalism
- Gilbert Mr. Grosvenor
- Margaret Matured
- Roger Tory Peterson
- Edgar Wayburn
Law
- Warren Burger
- Oliver White Hill
- Thurgood Marshall
- Cruz Reynoso
- Earl Warren
- Byron White
Media
Journalism
- Herb Block
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Walter Cronkite
- Edward R. Murrow
- Robert L. Bartley
Radio
- Paul Harvey
Television
- David Brinkley
- Carol Burnett
- Johnny Carson
- Peggy Charren
- Julia Child
- Bill Cosby
- Andy Griffith
- Fred Rogers
Philanthropy
- Brooke Astor
- Eugene Lang
Policy
Militants
- Arnold Aronson
- César Chávez
- Evelyn Dubrow
- James L. Farmer Jr.
- Jesse Jackson
- Helen Keller
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Fred Korematsu
- Roger Nash Baldwin
- Mario G. Obledo
- Rosa Parks
- Ginetta Sagan
- Andrew Young
Diplomacy
- John P. Davies
- George F. Kennan
- Jeanne Kirkpatrick
- Ground Mr. Linowitz
- Robert S. Strauss
Espionage
- Jacques Piette
- William Stephenson
- George Tenet
Soldier
- Omar Bradley
- Wesley Clark
- William J. Crowe
- Jimmy Doolittle
- Tommy Franks
- Franz Halder
- Richard B. Myers
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański
- Hyman Rickover
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf
- John Paul Vann
- Nancy Wake
- Chuck Yeager
- Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr.
- Andrew Goodpaster
Heads of States
- Tony Blair
- Don Shine A. Ferré
- Václav Havel
- Helmut Kohl
- Nelson Mandela
- Wilma Mankiller
- Luis Muñoz Marín
- Anwar Sadat
- Margaret Thatcher
- Jean XXIII
- Jean-Paul II
US government
- Dean Acheson
- James Baker
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- C. Douglas Dillon
- Henry Kissinger
- Robert S. McNamara
- William Perry
- Colin Powell (twice)
- Elliot L. Richardson
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Caspar Weinberger
First lady U.S.
Members of congress U.S.
- Lloyd Mr. Bentsen
- Edward W. Brooke
- Bob Dole
- Dante B. Fascell
- William Fulbright
- Barry Goldwater
- Henry Mr. Jackson
- Barbara Jordan
- George McGovern
- Steam Generator (Sony) Montgomery
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Tip O' Neill
- Margaret Drives out Smith
- Mo Udall
- Carl Vinson
- John H. Chafee
President U.S.
- Jimmy Carter
- Gerald Ford
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- John F. Kennedy
- Ronald Reagan
Vice-president U.S.
Other political personalities
- James Brady
- Paul Bremer
- Whittaker Chambers
- max Kampelman
- Irving Kristol
- Paul Nitze
- Norman Podhoretz
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Albert Shanker
- Jean Monnet, statesman off the world, 1963
Religion
- Horacio of Costa
- Sor Isolina Shoed
- Billy Graham
- Gordon B. Hinckley
- Jean-Paul II
- Norman Vincent Peale
- Mother Teresa
Sport
- Hank Aaron
- Muhammad Ali
- Arthur Ashe
- Moe Berg (it has to reject it)
- Earl Blaik
- Paul " Bear" Lenient Bryant
- Roberto
- Joe DiMaggio
- Jack Nicklaus
- Jesse Owens
- Arnold Micrometer caliper
- Frank Robinson
- Jackie Robinson
- Ted Williams
- John Wooden
Humanitarian
Other people notable
- Frances Hesselbein
- Lowell Thomas
- Zachary Fisher
- Genevieve de Galard
External bonds
List member elects of the medal of freedom (1945, origin - 2004), with biographiesList member elects of the medal of freedom (1993-2006), on the site of the Senate
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