List of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

A

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * Marian Wright Edelman
 * Edgar Mitchell
 * T. S. Eliot
 * Duke Ellington
 * Ralph Ellison
 * Gloria Estefan

F

 * Anthony Fauci
 * Gerald Ford
 * Felix Frankfurter
 * Aretha Franklin
 * Tommy Franks
 * Milton Friedman
 * J. William Fulbright
 * Buckminster Fuller

G

 * 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

 * 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

 * Daniel Inouye

J

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * Jack Nicklaus
 * Reinhold Niebuhr
 * Paul Nitze

O

 * Sandra Day O'Connor
 * Georgia O'Keeffe
 * Tip O'Neill
 * Jesse Owens

P

 * 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

 * Dan Quayle

R

 * 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

 * 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

W

 * Alan Tower Waterman
 * John Wooden