Preisträger

• 2003
  • Jacques Barzun - Julia Child - Roberto Walker Clemente - Robert L. Bartley - Van Cliburn - Vaclav Havel - Charlton Heston - Papst Johannes Paul II - Edward Teller, Erfinder der Wasserstoffbombe - R. David Thomas - Byron Raymond White - James Q. Wilson - John R. Wooden
• 2002
  • Hank Aaron - Bill Cosby - Placido Domingo - Peter Drucker - Katharine Graham - D.A. Henderson - Irving Kristol - Nelson Mandela - Gordon Moore - Nancy Reagan - Fred Rogers - A.M. Rosenthal
• 2001
  • keine Verleihung
• 2000
  • Aung San Suu Kyi - James Edward Burke - John Chafee (posthum) - Wesley Clark - William Crowe - Marian Wright Edelman - John Kenneth Galbraith - George Higgins - Jesse Jackson - Mildred Jeffrey - Mathilde Krim - George McGovern - Cruz Reynoso - Gardner Taylor - Simon Wiesenthal - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• 1999
  • Lloyd M. Bentsen - Edgar M. Bronfman - Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter - Evy Dubrow - Sr. M. Isolina Ferre - Gerald Rudolph Ford - Oliver White Hill - Max Kampelman - Edgar Wayburn - Helmut Kohl
• 1998
  • Arnold Aronson - Brooke Astor - Robert Coles - Justin Dart, Jr. - James Farmer - Frances Hesselbein - Fred Korematsu - Sol Linowitz - Wilma Mankiller - Margaret Murie - Mario G. Obledo - Elliot L. Richardson - David Rockefeller - Albert Shanker (posthum) - Elmo Russell ("Bud") Zumwalt, Jr.
• 1997
  • Robert Dole - William J. Perry
• 1996
  • Kardinal Joseph Bernardin - James Brady - Millard Fuller - David Hamburg - John M. Johnson - Eugene Lang - Jan Nowak Jezioranski - Antonia Pantoja - Rosa Parks - Ginetta Sagan - Morris Udall
• 1995
  • Peggy Charren - William Thaddeus Coleman - Joan Ganz Cooney - John Hope Franklin - A. Leon Higginbotham - Frank M. Johnson - C. Everett Koop - Gaylord A. Nelson - Walter P. Reuther - James W. Rouse - William C. Velasquez - Lew R. Wasserman
• 1994
  • Herbert Block - Cesar Chavez (posthum) - Arthur Flemming - James Grant - Dorothy Irene Height - Barbara Jordan - Joseph Lane Kirkland - Robert H. Michel - Robert Sargent Shriver
• 1993
  • Arthur Ashe (posthum) - William J. Brennan - Marjory Stoneman Douglas - William Fulbright - Thurgood Marshall (posthum) - Colin Powell - Joseph L. Raugh (posthum) - Martha Raye - John Minor Wisdom
• 1992
  • Isaac Stern - Audrey Hepburn - Elie Wiesel - David Brinkley
• 1991
  • Richard B. Cheney - Friedrich Hayek - Norman Schwarzkopf - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar - Luis A. Ferré - Margaret Thatcher
• 1989
  • Lech Walesa
• 1988
  • Milton Friedman
• 1986
  • Walter H. Annenberg - Earl H. (Red) Blaik - Barry Goldwater - Helen Hayes - Matthew Ridgway - Vermont Royster - Albert Sabin
• 1985
  • Count Basie (posthum) - Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Jerome Holland (posthum) - Sidney Hook - Jeane J. Kirkpatrick - George M. Low - Frank Reynolds (posthum) - Dillon Ripley - Mutter Teresa - Frank Sinatra - James M. Stewart - Albert Coady Wedemeyer - Charles E. Yeager
• 1984
  • Ralph Bunche - Anwar as-Sadat - Eunice Kennedy Shriver
• 1983
  • George Balanchine
• 1981
  • Charles B. (Tex) Thornton - Morris I. Leibman - Walter H. Judd - Bryce N. Harlow - Ella T. Grasso - James H. (Eubie) Blake - Warren Christopher
• 1980
  • John Wayne - Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1977
  • Donald Rumsfeld - Henry Kissinger - Martin Luther King (posthum) - James D. Watson - Lady Bird Johnson
• 1976
  • Arthur Rubinstein
• 1970
  • Earl Behrens - Edward T. Folliard - William M. Henry - Arthur Krock - David Lawrence - George Gould Lincoln - Raymond Moley - Adela Rogers St. Johns
• 1969
  • Neil Armstrong - Michael Collins
• 1964
  • Aaron Copland
• 1954
  • John Steinbeck
• 1963
  • Johannes XXIII (posthum) - Andrew Johnson - Edwin Land, Gründer der Firma Polaroid - Mies van der Rohe
• 1956
  • John von Neumann
• erhalten, aber Jahr unbekannt
  • John F. Kennedy - Billy Graham - Arthur Fiedler - Wladimir Horowitz - Thomas Stearns Eliot - Ella Fitzgerald - Thornton Wilder - Walt Disney - Kirk Douglas - Irving Berlin - Gregory Peck - Tennessee Williams