List of awards and honors received by Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Before that, he was the governor of Arkansas, and afterwards he has continued life in the public eye. He received many awards and honors throughout his career.

National honors

+ Country Date Decoration 5 January 2001 Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service 8 August 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom

Foreign honors Country Date Decoration 28 October 1994 Order of King Abdulaziz, First Class 28 October 1994 Collar of the Order of Mubarak the Great 27 March 1998 Grand Cross of the Order of Good HopeAddress by President Nelson Mandela at banquet in honour of President Clinton of the United States of America 16 September 1998 Collar of the Order of the White Lion 15 November 1999 Order of the State of the Republic of Turkey 11 July 2005 Grand Commander of the Most Courteous Order of Lesotho 6 February 2006 Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana 3 December 2006 Grand Companion of the Order of Logohu 21 July 2011 Grand Cross of the National Order of Honour and Merit 18 May 2013 St. George's Order of Victory 19 June 2013 President's Medal 11 June 2019 Order of Freedom 30 May 2019 Grand Collar of the Order of Timor-Lesteetan.org: Timor-Leste Honored President Bill Clinton . 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2023. 3 July 2023 Grand Cross of the Order of Public Gratitude 12 March 2024 Grand Cross of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Scholastic

Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships Location Date School Position October 1992Present University College, Oxford Honorary Fellow

Honorary degrees

InstitutionDegreeDateCitationNortheastern UniversityHonorary degree1993University of North Carolina at Chapel HillLL.D.1993University of OxfordD.C.L.1994Chulalongkorn UniversityHonorary Degree1996Remarks at Chulalongkorn University in BangkokUniversity of Nebraska at KearneyHonorary Degree2000Queen's University, BelfastLL.D2001University of PrishtinaDoctor honoris causa2003"Tempulli i dijes: monografi:1970–2012", University of Prishtina, City College of New YorkHonorary LL.D.2004Pace UniversityHonorary degree2006Tulane UniversityHonorary LL.D.2006University of MichiganLL.D.2006Rochester Institute of TechnologyL.H.D.2007Knox College (Illinois)L.H.D.2007University of Hong KongLL.D.2008McGill UniversityL.H.D.2009Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiL.H.D.2010West Virginia UniversityL.H.D.2010University of Central MissouriL.H.D.2011Mediterranean UniversityHonorary LL.D.2011New York UniversityDoctor of Laws2011University of Central FloridaHonorary L.H.D.2013University of EdinburghDoctor honoris causa2013University of LiverpoolHonorary LL.D.2014Loyola Marymount UniversityL.H.D.2016St. Francis Xavier UniversityDoctor honoris causa2017Dublin City UniversityHonorary doctorate2017University of HaifaHonorary degree2022

Other awards and honors Multiple schools have been named after Clinton, and many statues in his honor have been erected, including one in Kosovo."The statue portrays the former president with his left arm raised while holding documents bearing the date when Nato started its air campaign against Yugoslavia – 24 March 1999." The Clinton Presidential Center was opened in Little Rock, Arkansas in his honor on December 5, 2001. He has been honored in various other ways, in countries that include the Czech Republic, New Guinea, Germany, and Kosovo. U.S. states where he has been honored include Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, and New York.

In 1993, Clinton was selected as Time magazine's "Man of the Year", and again in 1998, along with Ken Starr. From a poll conducted of the American people in December 1999, Clinton was among eighteen included in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th century.

In 2000, Princeton University's American Whig-Cliosophic Society awarded him the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service.http://archives-trim.un.org/webdrawer/rec/552938/view/Item-in-KAA%20Schoolsuniversities%202002%20-%20oct.%20-%20dec..PDF Also in 2000, Clinton was awarded the Charlemagne Prize which is awarded for work done in the service of European unification.https://www.karlspreis.de/en/prize-winners/all-prize-winners/preistrager-in/william-jefferson-bill-clinton-2 . Retrieved 17 September 2025 In 2001, Clinton received the NAACP's President's Award.

In 2004, he received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the Russian National Orchestra's album Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf (along with Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren) and 2005 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for My Life. In 2005, he received the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, and 2007 TED Prize (named for the confluence of technology, entertainment and design).

In 2005 he received the Freedom Medal of the Four Freedoms Award.

On June 2, 2007, Clinton, along with former president George H.W. Bush, received the International Freedom Conductor Award, for their help with the fund raising following the tsunami that devastated South Asia in 2004. On June 13, 2007, Clinton was honored by the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria alongside eight multinational-companies for his work to defeat HIV/AIDS.

On September 9, 2008, Bill Clinton was named as the next chairman of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His term began January 1, 2009, and he succeeded former president George H. W. Bush.

On March 15, 2011, Bill Clinton was inducted into Irish America magazine's Irish America Hall of Fame for his crucial role in the Northern Ireland Peace Process.O'Dowd, Niall. "Politician, Peacemaker, and Hero to Millions of Irish" , Irish America magazine, March 10, 2011. Accessed March 22, 2011. "As a major supporter of the Irish peace process, Bill Clinton moved mountains."

In 2012, a fish species was named after him, the beaded darter (Etheostoma clinton), for his lasting environmental accomplishments in creating and expanding national monuments, preserving millions of acres of wilderness areas, his leadership and commitment during challenging economic times, and his continued commitment to global humanitarian issues and needs and peace. , Fishbase, 2012.

In April 2013, Bill Clinton was named the inaugural recipient of the honorary Advocate for Change GLAAD Media Award for his record of promoting tolerance of the LGBT community, including advocating for marriage equality in New York in 2011, advocating against Amendment 1 in North Carolina in 2012, and calling for the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013.

In March 2015, Bill Clinton was listed among the 10 recipients of the maiden edition of Global Seal of Integrity (GSOI) Honors list. An annual list by two young Nigerians, dedicated at promoting trust and honesty for the well-being of the universe.

In March 2018, Belfast City Council voted in favour of awarding Bill Clinton, the Freedom of Belfast, due to his work during the Northern Ireland Peace Process.

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