page_title: Woodrow Wilson Awards
section_title: Public Service
hierarchical_section_title: Woodrow Wilson Awards / Woodrow Wilson Award Recipients / Public Service
caption_attribution_description: English: Woodrow Wilson Awards
context_page_description: Woodrow Wilson Awards are given out in multiple countries each year by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution to individuals in both the public sphere and business who have shown an outstanding commitment to President of the United States Woodrow Wilson's dream of integrating politics, scholarship, and policy for the common good. Created in 1999 as a local Award for leadership in Washington, DC, the Awards were expanded in 2001 to recognize great leaders and thinkers throughout the world. Funding from the Awards supports additional research, scholars, and programs in Washington and the home community of the recipients.
context_section_description: The following individuals are among the recipients of the Woodrow Wilson Center award for Public Service:
  Jacques Attali, economist, writer and humanitarian
  James A. Baker III, United States Secretary of State
  Santiago Calatrava, architect
  Elaine L. Chao, United States Secretary of Labor
  Gustavo A. Cisneros
  Hillary Clinton, First Lady of the United States, United States senator, United States Secretary of State
  William Cohen, United States senator, United States Secretary of Defense
  Dianne Feinstein, United States senator
  Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States
  Frank Gehry, architect
  John Glenn, astronaut and United States senator
  John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia
  Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, 11th President of India
  Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor and United States Secretary of State
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
  Preston Manning, Canadian politician
  John McCain, United States senator
  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, United States senator
  Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada
  Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
  Janet Napolitano, Governor of Arizona and Secretary of Homeland Security
  Wayne Newton, entertainer, activist
  Queen Noor Al Hussein, Queen of Jordan
  Dolly Parton, entertainer, philanthropist
  David Petraeus, United States Army general
  Colin Powell and Alma Powell, United States Army general and United States Secretary of State
  Penny Pritzker, civil servant
  Tom Ridge, member of the United States House of Representatives, Governor of Pennsylvania and Secretary of Homeland Security
  Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil
  Ahn Sang-soo, former mayor of Incheon
  Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball
  Barbara Walters, journalist
  Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer
  Ronald Weiser, former Ambassador to Slovakia
  Pete Wilson, United States senator, and Governor of California
  Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore
caption: Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew accepts Woodrow Wilson Award in New York City
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