Other recipients are former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O 'Connor , the late congressman and housing secretary Jack Kemp , anti-apartheid leader and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu , civil rights leader Joseph Lowery , the late gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk , Race for the Cure founder Nancy Brinker , actors Sidney Poitier and Chita Rivera , Nobel laureate and physicist Stephen Hawking , tennis legend and activist Billie Jean King , medical activist Pedro Jose Greer Jr . , Plains Indian war chief and author Joseph Medicine Crow , former president of Ireland and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson , global anti-poverty leader Muhammad Yunus and geneticist and medical pioneer Janet Davison Rowley .