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The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the three highest civilian awards in the United States (the other two are the Presidential Citizens Medal and the Congressional Gold Medal).

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List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

List of Puerto Rican Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

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Louis L'Amour

Lowell Thomas

Lucille Ball

Luis A. Ferré

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Mabel Mercer

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Manlio Brosio

Margaret Chase Smith

Margaret McNamara

Margaret Mead

Margaret Murie

Margaret Thatcher

Marian Anderson

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Mary Robinson

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Max Kampelman

Melvin R. Laird

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Mike Mansfield

Millard Fuller

Millie Jeffrey

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Mo Udall

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Mstislav Rostropovich

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Nancy Brinker

Nancy Reagan

Natan Sharansky

Neil Armstrong

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rockefeller

Norman Borlaug

Norman Francis

Norman Mineta

Norman Podhoretz

Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

Norman Vincent Peale

Oliver Hill

Omar Bradley

Paul Bremer

Paul Harvey

Paul Johnson (writer)

Paul Nitze

Paul Rusesabagina

Pearl Bailey

Pedro José Greer

Peggy Charren

Peggy Knight

Peter Drucker

Peter Pace

Philip Habib

Plácido Domingo

Pope John Paul II

Pope John XXIII

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Qiu Qingquan

Rachel Carson

Ralph Ellison

Ralph McGill

Reinhold Niebuhr

Richard Myers

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Rita Moreno

Robert A. Lovett

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Ronald Reagan

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William Perry

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William Stephenson

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Yo-Yo Ma

Zachary Fisher

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Óscar Elías Biscet

 

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