page_title: Ignacy Jan Paderewski
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Ignacy Jan Paderewski / Death and legacy / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of Postage stamp commemorating Ignacy Jan Paderewski
context_page_description: Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist and composer who became a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the new nation's Prime Minister and foreign minister during which he signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I.
  A favorite of concert audiences around the world, his musical fame opened access to diplomacy and the media, as possibly did his status as a freemason, and charitable work of his second wife, Helena Paderewska. During World War I, Paderewski advocated an independent Poland, including by touring the United States, where he met with President Woodrow Wilson, who came to support the creation of an independent Poland in his Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, which led to the Treaty of Versailles.
  Shortly after his resignations from office, Paderewski resumed his concert career to recoup his finances and rarely visited the politically-chaotic Poland thereafter, the last time being in 1924.
context_section_description: The Academy of Music in Poznań is named after Paderewski, and many major cities in Poland have streets and schools named after Paderewski. Streets are also named after him in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. In addition, since 1960 Paderewski has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.
  Order of the White Eagle (Poland, 1921)
  Order of Virtuti Militari, Silver Cross (posthumous) (Poland, 1941)
  Order of Polonia Restituta, Grand Cross (Poland, 1923)
  Legion of Honour, Grand Cross, (France, 1929)
  Order of the Crown, (Romania, 1889)
  Albert Order, (Saxony, 1895)
  Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy, 1925)
  Order of the Crown of Italy
  Order of Charles III, (Spain, 1902)
  Order of Leopold, (Belgium, 1924)
  Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (British Empire, 1925)
  Honorary doctorates from the Lviv University (1912), Yale University (1917), Jagiellonian University (1919), Oxford University (1920), Columbia University (1922), University of Southern California (1923), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1924), University of Glasgow (1925), Cambridge University (1926), University of Warsaw (1931), the University of Lausanne (1933), and the New York University
  Honorary Citizen of Lviv, 1912
  Honorary Citizen of Warsaw, 1919
  Honorary Citizen of Poznań, 1920
  Honorary Studentenverbindung Patria
  Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
  Academic Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature for oratory
  Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music, (British Empire, 1892)
  On 8 October 1960, the United States Post Office Department released two stamps commemorating Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Poland also honored him with postage stamps on at least three occasions.
caption: United States commemorative stamp honoring Paderewski, 1960 issue  4-cent version
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