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List of honorary citizens of the United States; Num. Name Image Date Nationality Note Ref. 1 Sir Winston Churchill: April 9, 1963 United Kingdom: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, notably during World War II. [8] [15] 2 Raoul Wallenberg: October 5, 1981 [a] Sweden: Swedish diplomat who rescued Jews in Hungary from the Holocaust. [16] 3, 4 ...
This is a list of American citizens who have held titles of nobility from other countries. Nobility is not granted by the United States itself under the Title of Nobility Clause of the Constitution .
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The US Congress made Wallenberg an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1981, [34] the second person to be so honored, after Winston Churchill. In 1985, the portion of 15th Street, SW in Washington, D.C., on which the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is located, was renamed Raoul Wallenberg Place by Act of Congress. [35] [36]
Date awarded Name Occupation Awarded for [1]; 1 27 February 1996 Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) Former President of the United States: For his contribution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and his support of the independence of the Baltic states.
The legal basis for conferring this honour was the Prussian Act on Local Government from 1831, which introduced the term of an honorary citizen. In the period of the Free City of Gdańsk (1918-1945) and the Communist State (1945-1989) the title of an Honorary Citizen of Gdańsk was awarded to a number of controversial figures such as Adolf ...
Date Name Notes Location 1924: Phillip Andrews: United States Navy Admiral [1]: 26 October 1945: Josip Broz Tito: marshal of Yugoslavia [2]: extraordinary [verification needed] session of the National Board of City of Split