1960s
Thomas Hart Benton
Painter and Muralist
Herbert L. Block
Three Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning
Bob Hope
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
Yousuf Karsh
Portrait Photography
Theodore Roethke
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
George Silk
LIFE Photojournalist
William Wyler
Three Oscars for Best Director
Robert Stack
Actor, TV Series The Untouchables
Paul Manship
Prometheus at Rockefeller Center
King Vidor
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
Adolph Gottlieb
Painter and Sculptor
David Merrick
Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
Lee J. Cobb
Film and Stage Actor
Allan Nevins, Ph.D.
Two Pulitzer Prizes for History
Allen Drury
Pulitzer Prize for Advise and Consent
Philippe Halsman
101 Covers for LIFE Magazine
William H. Goetzmann, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for History
George Shearing
Pianist and Composer
Hanson W. Baldwin
Pulitzer Prize for WW II Reporting
David L. Wolper
Television Hall of Fame
1970s
Shirley Temple Black
Film Actress and Diplomat
George Cukor
Oscar for My Fair Lady
Walter Lantz
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
John Wayne
Legendary Film Actor
Walker Hancock
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Storytelling Phenomenon
Irving Stone
Master of the Biographical Novel
Louis I. Kahn
The Philosopher Architect
Lowell Thomas
Broadcaster and Author
Edward Villella
New York City Ballet
Frank Capra
Three Oscars for Best Director
Peter Graves
Actor, TV Series Mission: Impossible
Helen Hayes
First Lady of the American Theater
Rosalind Russell
Actress and Humanitarian
Jonathan Winters
Comedian
Lorne Greene
Actor, TV Series Bonanza
Mervyn LeRoy
Producer, The Wizard of Oz
Cloris Leachman
Television Hall of Fame
Patrick B. Oliphant
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
Jimmy Stewart
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
Ray Charles
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Art Linkletter
Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement
George Pal
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
Will and Ariel Durant
Pulitzer Prize for History
Donny and Marie Osmond
Television and Music
Stevie Wonder
Singer, Songwriter and Activist
Edward Asner
Television Hall of Fame
John Chancellor
Broadcast Journalism
Alex Haley
Pulitzer Prize for Roots
Jeffrey K. MacNelly
Three Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning
Erma Bombeck
Humorist and Bestselling Author
Two Oscars for Best Actress
Colleen McCullough
Author, The Thorn Birds
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Days
Henry Fonda
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
Louis L’Amour
Congressional Gold Medal
1980s
Clint Eastwood
Motion Picture Actor and Director
Norman Lear
Television Hall of Fame
Edmund Morris
Pulitzer Prize for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Charles M. Schulz
Congressional Gold Medal
Cicely Tyson
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
Lawrence Welk
Television Impresario
Henry Winkler
Actor, TV Series Happy Days
Larry Hagman
Actor, TV Series Dallas
Jim Davis
Creator of "Garfield"
John Forsythe
Actor, TV Series Dynasty
Robert K. Massie
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Music Impresario
John Travolta
Trendsetting Motion Picture Actor
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography
Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
Philosopher and Author
Lionel Richie
Singer and Musician
Elizabeth Taylor
Two Oscars for Best Actress
Michael Graves
Architecture Gold Medal
Clare Boothe Luce
Author and Diplomat
Loretta Lynn
Legend of Country Music
Marsha Norman
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Joseph Papp
Theatrical Producer and Director
Leontyne Price
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Robert Rauschenberg
Prolific American Painter
Steven Spielberg
Film Director and Producer
Herman Wouk
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
John L. Ashbery
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Ballerina Extraordinaire
Frances FitzGerald
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
Jim Henson
The Muppet Master
Tony Award-winning Director
Diane Sawyer
Broadcast Journalism
Painter and Teacher
Roy Acuff
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Bernard Bailyn, Ph.D.
Two Pulitzer Prizes for History
Sarah Cannon (Minnie Pearl)
Country Music Hall of Fame
Country Music Hall of Fame
Wendell Castle
Craft Furniture
Tom Clancy
Master of Military Thrillers
E. L. Doctorow
American Book Award
Michael Douglas
Oscar for Best Actor
Ahmet M. Ertegun
Music Industry
Pulitzer Prize for Music
August Wilson
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama
Tom Brokaw
Television Journalist and Author
Henry Mancini
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Arthur Mitchell
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Howard Nemerov
Poet Laureate of the United States
Mike Nichols
Motion Picture and Stage Director
Tom Selleck
Actor, TV Series Magnum P.I.
Beverly Sills
Legendary Opera Soprano
Dinah Shore
Television Hall of Fame
1990s
Poet and Historian
Pulitzer Prize for A Bright Shining Lie
Audrey Hepburn
Actress and Humanitarian
Ken Burns
Documentary Classics
Animation Pioneer
Jim Lehrer
Broadcast Journalism
Sidney Sheldon
Bestselling Novelist
Dizzy Gillespie
Jazz Musician, Composer and Bandleader
Dean of American Architects
Susan Lucci
Actress, TV Series All My Children
Peter Matthiessen
Naturalist and Novelist
James Merrill
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Martin Scorsese
Film Director, Screenwriter and Producer
Wallace Stegner
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Barbara Walters
Broadcast Journalism
Kevin Costner
Motion Picture Production
Michael Crichton, M.D.
Bestselling Author
Judith Jamison
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Legendary Opera Soprano
Dolly Parton
Queen of Country Music
Oliver Stone
Motion Picture Production
Barbra Streisand
53 Gold Albums and Two Oscars for Best Actress
Russell Baker
Recipient of Two Pulitzer Prizes
Kathleen Battle
Operatic Soprano
Betty Comden
Musical Comedy Author
Pat Conroy
Bestselling Novelist
Bestselling Author
Naomi Judd
Country Music Hall of Fame
Charles Kuralt
Television Hall of Fame
Thomas McGuane
Novelist and Journalist
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Agnes Nixon
Television Hall of Fame
Robert A. M. Stern
Architecture
Dancer and Choreographer
Judy Blume
Bestselling Children's Author
Art Buchwald
Pulitzer Prize-winning Humorist
Dale Chihuly
Master Glass Artist
Filmmaker, Producer and Screenwriter
Robert De Niro
Actor, Director and Producer
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Harrison Ford
Motion Picture Actor
Actress and Activist
David Halberstam
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
John Napier
Theatre Design
Lesley Stahl
Broadcast Journalism
Bernie Taupin
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Tommy Tune
Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D.
Education and Literature
Gold Medal for Architecture
James M. McPherson, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom
Trevor Nunn
Theatrical Director
Mike Wallace
CBS News Correspondent
Richard Wilbur
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry
Robin Williams
Comedian, Actor and Activist
Sam Donaldson
Broadcast Journalism
Lanford Wilson
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Washington Post
John Hope Franklin, Ph.D.
Educator and Historian
Pulitzer Prize for History
Amy Grant
Gospel and Pop Music Singer
John Guare
Award-winning Playwright
Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
Larry King
Broadcasters' Hall of Fame
Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall
Motion Picture Production
Richard Meier
Gold Medal for Architecture
Bestselling Novelist
Robert Zemeckis
Oscar for Best Director
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography
Gloria Estefan
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Country Music Hall of Fame
Oscar for Best Director
National Book Award
Cokie Roberts
Broadcast Journalism
Stephen E. Ambrose, Ph.D.
Biographer and Historian
Clarence Avant
Music Industry
Film Futurist
Morgan Freeman
Master Screen Craftsman
Carol Shields
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Culinary Revolution
A. Scott Berg
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Marcy Carsey
Television Hall of Fame
Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds
Singer, Songwriter and Producer
Shelby Foote
Novelist and Historian
The Queen of Soul
Holly Hunter
Oscar for Best Actress
Charles Krauthammer
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Trisha Yearwood
Country Music "Vocalist of the Year"
2000s
Christiane Amanpour
Broadcast Journalism
Clive Davis
Music Industry
Sir David Frost
Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Arthur Golden
Author, Memoirs of a Geisha
Singer, Songwriter and Rapper
Stage and Screen Actor
Justin Kaplan
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Ricardo Legorreta
Gold Medal for Architecture
Artist and Architect
Edna O’Brien
Novelist and Memoirist
Salman Rushdie
Novelist and Essayist
John Williams
Award-winning Composer
Author, A Lesson Before Dying
Tracy Kidder
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
Dan Rather
Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Chuck Berry
Father of Rock and Roll
Bono
Musician and Activist
Enya
Grammy Award-winning Musician
Gao Xingjian
Nobel Prize in Literature
Plácido Domingo
Internationally Acclaimed Tenor
Bob Dylan
Icon of American Culture
Thomas L. Friedman
Three Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism
Stage and Screen Actress
James Brown
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
José Carreras
Internationally Acclaimed Tenor
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Santiago Calatrava
Gold Medal for Architecture
Emmylou Harris
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction
Three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama
Katie Couric
Television Hall of Fame
Two Oscars for Best Actress
John Fogerty
Songwriters Hall of Fame
National Book Award
Toni Morrison
Nobel Prize in Literature
Virtuoso of the Violin
Tim Russert
Moderator of Meet the Press
Composer and Lyricist
Denzel Washington
Presidential Medal of Freedom
America's Master Novelist
Sheryl Crow
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Novelist and Essayist
Mexico's Greatest Novelist
Oscar for Best Director
Samuel L. Jackson
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
Saxophone Colossus
Julie Taymor
Theater, Opera and Film Director
Opera Singer
Novelist and Social Critic
Author and Filmmaker
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Broadway Producer and Director
Rick Atkinson
Pulitzer Prize for History
Joshua Bell
Grammy Award-winning Violinist
Pioneer of Underwater Photography
Novelist and Activist
Janusz Kaminski
Two Oscars for Cinematography
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry
Michael Ondaatje
Author, The English Patient
Brian Wilson
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Tony Bennett
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Jackson Browne
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Hal David
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Nobel Prize in Literature
Alexander McCall Smith
Bestselling Author
Nobel Prize in Literature
2010s
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Nobel Prize in Literature
Natasha Trethewey
Poet Laureate of the United States
Wolf Blitzer
CNN's Pioneering News Anchor
Six Tony Awards
Television Hall of Fame
Playwright, Actor and Director
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Jeff Koons
Contemporary Art Phenomenon
Oscar for Lifetime Achievement
Diana Ross
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Wayne Shorter
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Chris Wallace
Broadcast Journalist
Culinary Impresario
Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist
Nobel Prize In Literature
Acclaimed Irish Novelist
Dame Antonia Susan Byatt
English Novelist and Essayist
British Film Icon
Gold Medal for Architecture
Singer, Songwriter and Humanitarian
Nobel Prize in Literature
Sebastian Junger
Journalist and Filmmaker
Guitarist and Founder of Led Zeppelin
Bartlett Sher
Tony Award-winning Theater Director
Sting
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Ron Chernow
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Judy Collins
Singer, Songwriter and Activist
Roger Daltrey
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Denyce Graves
Mezzo-Soprano and Cultural Ambassador
Buddy Guy
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Thomas Heatherwick
Designer of the Extraordinary
Gladys Knight
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Musical Theatre Composer
Ian McEwan
English Novelist and Screenwriter
Sir Van Morrison
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
James Nachtwey
Photojournalist and War Photographer
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama
Orhan Pamuk
Nobel Prize in Literature
Justin Peck
Tony Award for Choreography
Armando Christian Pérez
Musician, Activist and Entrepreneur
Smokey Robinson
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
T.J. Stiles
Pulitzer Prizes for History and Biography
Pete Townshend
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Steven Tyler
Songwriters Hall of Fame
2020s
David W. Blight, Ph.D.
Pulitzer Prize for History
Gordon Lightfoot
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Tracy K. Smith
Poet Laureate of the United States
Steve Harvey
Humorist and Humanitarian
Jon Batiste
Singer, Songwriter and Activist
Gustavo Dudamel
Grammy Award-winning Conductor
Haruki Murakami
Acclaimed Japanese Novelist
Mavis Staples
Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement
Cindy Sherman
Master of Self-Portraiture