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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 .
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 ...
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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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
[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.
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 ...
Romania/ United States: Bill Clinton (born 1946) President of the United States (1993–2001) United States: Jacques Chirac (1932 - 2019) President of France (1995–2007) France: Gabriela Szabo (born 1975) Olympic athlete and Minister of Youth and Sports (2014–2015), named in 1999 the world's best athlete Romania: Nicolae Herlea (1927–2014 ...