Awards and Decorations
Rómulo is perhaps among the most decorated Filipino in history, which includes 82 honorary degrees from different international institutions and universities and 74 decorations from foreign countries:
- Philippine Congressional Quezon Service Cross, April 17, 1951
- Philippine National Artist in Literature, 1982
- United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, January 12, 1984
- Boy Scouts of America Silver Buffalo Award
- Distinguished Service Star of the Philippines
- Philippine Gold Gross
- Distinguished Conduct Star
- Purple Heart
- Presidential Unit-Citation with Two Oak Leaf Clusters
- Philippine Legion of Honor (Commander)
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix from the Greek Government
- Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Manuel do Cespedes from the Republic of Cuba
- Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence, 1942
- World Government News First Annual Gold Nadal Award (for work in the United Nations for peace and world government), March 1947
- Princeton University- Woodrow Wilson Memorial Foundation Gold Medal award ("in recognition Of his contribution to public life"), May 1947
- International Benjamin Franklin Society's Gold Medal (for “distinguished world statesmanship in 1947”), January 1948
- Freeman of the City of Plymouth, England, October 1948
- United Nations Peace Medal
- World Peace Award
- Four Freedoms Peace Award
- Named in the 100 Most Prominent Rotarians in the world
- Philippine Presidential Medal of Merit, July 3, 1949
- Hero of the Republic Award, 1984
- Honorary Member of Alpha Phi Omega
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