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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 .
Honorary Canadian citizenship requires unanimous approval in both houses of Parliament.The only people to ever receive honorary Canadian citizenship are Raoul Wallenberg posthumously in 1985; Nelson Mandela in 2001; the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso in 2006; Aung San Suu Kyi in 2007 (revoked in 2018); Prince Karim Aga Khan in 2009; and Malala Yousafzai in 2014.
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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 ...
5 14 March 2001 Dennis Hastert (1942–) Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives: For his support of Lithuania's membership in NATO: 6 25 July 2001 Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) Polish-American poet, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature [3] For his support of the independence of Lithuania.
Serbian physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist based in the United States. United States [1] 3 Edouard Herriot (1872–1957) 1933 French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies. French Third Republic [1] 4 Petar Živković (1879–1947) 1936
[1] [2] [5] Ten of the recipients were from English-speaking countries. [6] Joseph Priestley's son William had been granted citizenship earlier, on 8 June 1792, in recognition of his father's accomplishments. [2] James Madison and Thomas Paine enthusiastically accepted the honorary citizenship.