# 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