List of Awards Received By Ella Fitzgerald - Awards and Accolades - Awards, Citations and Honours

Awards, Citations and Honours

• Honorary membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha (1960)
• American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers highest honor (1965)
• Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement Award (1967)
• Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation (1967)
• Award of Distinction from the National Association of Sickle cell Diseases (1976)
• Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman (1976)

• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award (1979)
• Inductee into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
• Inductee into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
• Will Rogers award from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association (1980)
• Lord & Taylor Rose award for outstanding contribution to music (1980)
• Doctor of Human Letters from Talladega College of Alabama (1980)
• Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year from Harvard (1982)
• George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America (1983)
• National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award (1985)
• National Medal of Art awarded by President Ronald Reagan (1987)
• UCLA Medal for Musical Achievements (1987)
• NAACP Image Award (1988)
• The first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor (1989)
• Order of Arts and Letters, France (1990)
• Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President George H. W. Bush
• National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award
• Pied Piper Award
• George and Ira Gershwin Award for Outstanding Achievement
• Honorary doctorates from Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Howard University and Princeton
• VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll rank #13 (1999 – posthumous)