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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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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 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]
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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