John Hume - Awards

Awards

  • Honorary D.Litt, St Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B., 2007
  • Honorary LL.D., Boston College, 1995. One of the 44 honorary doctorates Hume has been awarded.
  • Four Freedoms, Freedom of Speech Medal Recipient, 1996
  • Nobel Prize for Peace (co-recipient), 1998.
  • Martin Luther King Peace Award, 1999
  • International Gandhi Peace Prize, 2001.
  • Freedom of both cities of Derry City & Cork, 2004.
  • Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize, 2005 (presented by the Martin Luther King International Chapel, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia)
  • Honorary Patron, University Philosophical Society, Trinity College Dublin.
  • Ireland's Greatest (public poll conducted by RTE), 2010
  • Knight of Saint Gregory, 2012

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