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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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Flag of the European Union. Honorary Citizen of Europe is an honour bestowed by the European Council of the European Union, for extraordinary work to promote European cooperation. It has only been bestowed on three people: Jean Monnet (2 April 1976) [1] Helmut Kohl (11 December 1998) [2] Jacques Delors (25 June 2015) [3]
The freeman of the city award (Ehrenbürgerrecht) is the highest decoration of the city of Vienna.It can also be revoked. Since 1839, initiated by mayor Ignaz Czapka, recipients have been listed in the honorary citizenship book, although a few are missing.
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 ...
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. For example, he proclaimed the Baltic Freedom Day in 1982. 2 27 February 1996: Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson (1939–) Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland