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June 24, 2026: The Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in Washington, D.C.

  • Hank Aaron
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Lynsey Addario
  • Edward Albee
  • Tenley Albright, M.D.
  • Svetlana Alexievich
  • Dame Julie Andrews
  • Maya Angelou
  • Frances H. Arnold, Ph.D.
  • Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D.
  • Sir Roger Bannister
  • John Banville
  • Ehud Barak
  • Lee R. Berger, Ph.D.
  • Sir Tim Berners-Lee
  • Yogi Berra
  • Jeffrey P. Bezos
  • Benazir Bhutto
  • Simone Biles
  • Keith L. Black, M.D.
  • Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.
  • David Boies
  • Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.
  • Benjamin C. Bradlee
  • Sergey Brin
  • J. Carter Brown
  • General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., USAF
  • Linda B. Buck, Ph.D.
  • Carol Burnett
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Susan Butcher
  • Sir Michael Caine
  • James Cameron
  • Benjamin S. Carson, M.D.
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Johnny Cash
  • William J. Clinton
  • Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
  • Francis Ford Coppola
  • Ray Dalio
  • Dame Olivia de Havilland
  • Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
  • Michael S. Dell
  • Ron Dennis
  • Joan Didion
  • David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.
  • David Doubilet
  • Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
  • Rita Dove
  • Gustavo Dudamel
  • Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
  • Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.
  • Larry J. Ellison
  • Nora Ephron
  • Julius Erving
  • Tony Fadell
  • Paul Farmer, M.D.
  • Suzanne Farrell
  • Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
  • Sally Field
  • Lord Norman Foster
  • Aretha Franklin
  • Milton Friedman, Ph.D.
  • Carlos Fuentes
  • Athol Fugard
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Ernest J. Gaines
  • William H. Gates III
  • Leymah Gbowee
  • Frank O. Gehry
  • Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.
  • Vince Gill
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Louise Glück
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Dame Jane Goodall
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.
  • Mikhail S. Gorbachev
  • Nadine Gordimer
  • Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.
  • Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.
  • John Grisham
  • Sir John Gurdon
  • Dorothy Hamill
  • Sir Demis Hassabis
  • Lauryn Hill
  • Sir Edmund Hillary
  • Reid Hoffman
  • Khaled Hosseini, M.D.
  • Ron Howard
  • John Hume
  • Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.
  • Daniel K. Inouye
  • Jeremy Irons
  • John Irving
  • Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Sir Peter Jackson
  • Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.
  • Frank M. Johnson, Jr.
  • Philip C. Johnson
  • Chuck Jones
  • James Earl Jones
  • Quincy Jones
  • Beverly Joubert
  • Dereck Joubert
  • Paul Kagame
  • Katalin Karikó, Ph.D.
  • Thomas Keller
  • Anthony M. Kennedy
  • B.B. King
  • Carole King
  • Coretta Scott King
  • Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.
  • Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Wendy Kopp
  • Henry R. Kravis
  • Nicholas D. Kristof
  • Mike Krzyzewski
  • Ray Kurzweil
  • Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.
  • Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.
  • Richard E. Leakey
  • Katie Ledecky
  • Leon Lederman, Ph.D.
  • Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.
  • Congressman John R. Lewis
  • Maya Lin
  • Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • George Lucas
  • Paul B. MacCready, Ph.D.
  • Norman Mailer
  • Peyton Manning
  • Wynton Marsalis
  • John C. Mather, Ph.D.
  • Johnny Mathis
  • Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.
  • Willie Mays
  • Frank McCourt
  • David McCullough
  • Audra McDonald
  • Admiral William H. McRaven, USN
  • W. S. Merwin
  • Reinhold Messner
  • James A. Michener
  • Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.
  • Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.
  • N. Scott Momaday, Ph.D.
  • Story Musgrave, M.D.
  • Ralph Nader
  • Peggy Noonan
  • Jessye Norman
  • Lt. Thomas R. Norris, USN
  • Lynn Nottage
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Pierre Omidyar
  • Jimmy Page
  • Larry Page
  • Arnold Palmer
  • Leon Panetta
  • Rosa Parks
  • Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Linus C. Pauling, Ph.D.
  • Shimon Peres
  • Itzhak Perlman
  • General David H. Petraeus, USA
  • Sidney Poitier
  • General Colin L. Powell, USA
  • Harold Prince
  • Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.
  • Lord Martin Rees
  • Lloyd Richards
  • Sally K. Ride, Ph.D.
  • Cal Ripken Jr.
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Anthony D. Romero
  • James Rosenquist
  • Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
  • Pete Rozelle
  • Bill Russell
  • Albie Sachs
  • Oliver Sacks, M.D.
  • Jonas Salk, M.D.
  • Frederick Sanger, Ph.D.
  • George B. Schaller, Ph.D.
  • Barry Scheck
  • Richard Evans Schultes, Ph.D.
  • General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA
  • Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D.
  • Neil Sheehan
  • Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN
  • Cindy Sherman
  • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Carlos Slim Helú
  • Frederick W. Smith
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • Sonia Sotomayor
  • Wole Soyinka
  • Esperanza Spalding
  • Martha Stewart
  • Admiral James B. Stockdale, USN
  • Hilary Swank
  • Amy Tan
  • Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
  • Edward Teller, Ph.D.
  • Twyla Tharp
  • Wayne Thiebaud
  • Lt. Michael E. Thornton, USN
  • Clyde Tombaugh
  • Charles H. Townes, Ph.D.
  • Lord David Trimble
  • Robert Edward (Ted) Turner
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  • John Updike
  • Tara VanDerveer
  • Gore Vidal
  • Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Lech Walesa
  • Herschel Walker
  • Alice Waters
  • James D. Watson, Ph.D.
  • Andrew Weil, M.D.
  • Leslie H. Wexner
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D.
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Tom Wolfe
  • John Wooden
  • Bob Woodward
  • Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.
  • General Chuck Yeager, USAF
  • Andrew J. Young
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