U Thant
Over the years, he received many honors for his humanitarian service, including the Juliet Hollister Award presented at the United Nations in 1996 and in 2002, the U Thant Peace Award. U Thant Peace Award in 2014, he was posthumously honored as an “interfaith visionary,” with the James Parks Morton Interfaith Award by the Interfaith Center of New York. He was named a “Fellow of World Thanksgiving” by the World Thanksgiving Council in 1981 and also named “Hindu of the Year” by Hinduism Today magazine in 1994.