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1927 Albert Einstein
1929 Baron Pierre de Coubertin
1936 Arturo Alessandri Palma, President of Chile
1961 Lord Home, UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1964 William V.S. Tubman, President of the Republic of Liberia
1965 David Dacko, President of the Central African Republic
1969 El Hadj Ahmadou Ahikjo, President of the Republic of Cameroon
1969 Kenneth Kaunda, President of the Republic of Zambia
1969 Pope Paul VI
1969 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia)
1969 U Thant, Secretary-General to the United Nations
1970 Varahagiri Venkata Giri, President of India
1971 Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of Senegal
1972 Mohamad Reza Pahlevi, Shahanshah of Iran
1973 Habib Bourguiba, President of the Republic of Tunisia
1973 Urko Kekkonen, President of the Republic of Finland
1974 María Estela Martínez de Perón, Vice President of Argentina
1974 Tun Haji Abdul Razak bin Hussein, Prime Minister of Malaysia
1975 Sirima R.D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
1977 Crown Prince Hassan of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
1978 Raymond Barre, Prime Minister of the French Republic
1979 Julio César Turbay Ayala, President of Colombia
1979 King Juan Carlos of Spain
1980 Constantin Caramanlis, President of the Hellenic Republic
1980 Willy Brandt, President of the Brandt Commission
1981 Luis Herrera Campins, President of the Republic of Venezuela
1981 Lech Walesa, Chairman of Solidarnosc
1982 Pope John Paul II
1982 François Mitterand, President of the French Republic
1983 Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia
1983 Hosni Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
1983 Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
1984 Luis Alberto Monge, of the Republic of Costa Rica
1985 Rajiv Ghandi, Prime Minister of India
1986 Abdou Diouf, President of Senegal
1986 Richard von Weizsäcker, President of the Federal Republic of Germany
1987 Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, 17th President of Portugal
1988 Maria Corazón Cojuangco Aquino, President of the Republic of the Philippines
1988 Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain
1989 Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Federal Counsellor (Switzerland)
1990 Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress
1990 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, President of the Republic of Poland
1991 Michel Camdessus, Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund
1992 Frederick Chiluba, President of the Republic of Zambia
1993 Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
1994 Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Federal Counsellor of the Swiss Confederation
1994 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations
1995 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of the Tunisian Republic
1996 Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic
1997 King Hussein of Jordan
1997 James Wolfenshohn, President of the World Bank
1998 Raphael Caldera, President of the Republic of Venezuela
1998 Pascal Couchepin, Member of the Swiss Federal Council
1999 Aimé Henri Konan Bedié, President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
1999 Bill Clinton, President of the United States of America
1999 Ruth Dreifuss, President of the Swiss Confederation
1999 Gen. Fidel Valdez Ramos, President of the Philippines
1999 Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
2002 Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan
2003 Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland
2003 King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
2003 Kofi Annan
2003 Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
2003 Thabo Mbeki, President of the Republic of South Africa
2004 Georgi Parvanov, President of the Republic of Bulgaria
2004 Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
2004 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, President of the Government of Spain
2004 Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland
2004 Benjamin W. Mkapa, President of the United Republic of Tanzania
2005 Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
2005 King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain
2005 Olusegun Obasanjo, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
2006 Oscar Arias Sánchez, President of the Republic of Costa Rica
2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia
2007 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina
2007 Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Bahrain
2007 Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
2007 Prince Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Austurias
2007 John Kufuor, President of the Republic of Ghana
2007 Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal
2007 Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
2008 Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
2008 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, President of the Government of Spain
2008 Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
2008 Martín Torrijos Espino, President of the Republic of Panama
2008 Danilo Türk, President of the Republic of Slovenia
2009 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President, Argentina
2009 Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland
2009 Nicolas Sarkozy, Président of the French Republic
2009 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
2009 Marlee Matlin
2009 Armando Guebuza, President, Republic of Mozambique
2009 Lech Kaczyński, President of the Republic of Poland
2009 Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
2009 Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, President Togolese Republic
2010 Shakira Mebarak, musician
2010 Doris Leuthard, Federal Councillor for Economic Affairs of Switzerland
2011 Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland
2011 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President, Republic of Indonesia
2011 Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
2011 Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
2011 Micheline Calmy-Rey, President of the Swiss Confederation
2011 Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania
2012 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, President of the National League for Democracy and Member of Parliament of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
2012 Laura Chinchilla Miranda, President of the Republic of Costa Rica
2012 Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias
2012 Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic
2012 Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal, President of the Republic of Panama
2012 Ollanta Humala Tasso, President of the Republic of Peru
2012 Mohamed Moncef Marzouki, President, Republic of Tunisia.
2012 Michael Chilufya Sata, President of the Republic of Zambia
2013 Joyce Banda, President of the Republic of Malawi
2013 Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission
2013 Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council
2014 Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
2014 Mgr Tomasi, Apostolic Nuncio, The Holy See
2014 Professor Deepak Nayyar, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India)
2015 François Hollande, President of the French Republic
2015 Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize
2015 Juan Carlos Varela, President of the Republic of Panama
2016 Johann Schneider-Ammann, President of the Swiss Confederation
2016 Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission
2017 Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of the Republic of Malta
2017 Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of the Republic of Mauritius
2017 Bidya Devi Bhandari, President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
2017 Tabaré Vázquez, President of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay
2018 Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia and Nobel Prize winner
2018 Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
2018 Filipe Nyusi, President of Mozambique
2018 Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Laureate and founder of the Global March Against Child Labour
2018 Faustin-Archange Touadéra, President of the Central African Republic
2019 - ILC Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados
2019 - ILC Christophe Joseph Marie Dabire, Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
2019 - ILC Iván Duque Marquez, President of Colombia
2019 - ILC Marvin Rodriguez Cordero, Vice-President of Costa Rica
2019 - ILC Salvador Antonio Valdés Mesa, First Vice-President of Cuba
2019 - ILC Nicos Anastasiades, President of Cyprus
2019 - ILC Angel MESIE MIBUY, Second Vice Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea
2019 - ILC His Majesty King Ingwenyama Mswati III of Eswatini
2019 - ILC Emmanuel Macron, President of France
2019 - ILC Salome Zourabichvili, President of Georgia
2019 - ILC Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany.
2019 - ILC Nana AKUFO-ADDO, President of Ghana
2019 - ILC Sergio MATTARELLA, President of Italy
2019 - ILC Daniel Kablan DUNCAN, Vice-President of Côte d’Ivoire
2019 - ILC Andrew HOLNESS, Prime Minister of Jamaica
2019 - ILC King Letsie III of Lesotho
2019 - ILC Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
2019 - ILC Andry Rajoelina, President of Madagascar
2019 - ILC Oumar Hamadoun DICKO, Ministre du Dialogue Social, du Travail et de la Fonction Publique du Mali
2019 - ILC George Vella, President of Malta
2019 - ILC Hilda Heine, President of the Marshall Islands
2019 - ILC Saâd-Eddine El Othmani, Prime Minister of Morocco
2019 - ILC Khadga P. Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal
2019 - ILC Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway
2019 - ILC Mohammed Shtayyeh, Prime Minister of Palestine
2019 - ILC Mercedes Rosalba Araoz Fernandez, Vice-President of Peru
2019 - ILC António Costa, Prime Minister of Portugal
2019 - ILC Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
2019 - ILC Nicola Selva and H.E. Mr Michele Muratori, Two Captains Regent of San Marino (Presidents)
2019 - ILC Ana Brnabic, Prime Minister of Serbia
2019 - ILC Marjan Sarec, Prime Minister of Slovenia
2019 - ILC Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
2019 - ILC Stefan Lofven, Prime Minister of Sweden
2019 - ILC Alain Berset, Federal Councillor, Chef du Département fédéral de l'interieur of Switzerland
2019 - ILC Youssef Chahed, Chief of the Government of Tunisia
2019 - ILC Fuat Oktay, Vice-President of Turkey
2019 - ILC António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
2019 - ILC Theresa May, MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2019 - ILC María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the United Nations General Assembly