Notable Recipients
- 2011 – Georgi Parvanov (President of Bulgaria)
- 2009 – Nicolas Sarkozy (President of France)
- 2006 – Jacques Diouf (diplomat)
- 2003 – Ann Hartness (scholar)
- 1975 – Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian head of state
- 1968 – Elizabeth II (Queen of the United Kingdom and of the other Commonwealth Realms)
- 1963 – Blaže Koneski (President of the Association of Yugoslav Writers )
- 1963 – Sloven Smodlaka (Chief of Protocol of the Presidency)
- 1963 – Ivan Rukavina (Vice-Minister of Defense of Yugoslavia)
- 1963 – Josip Broz Tito (as President of Yugoslavia)
- 1961 – Che Guevara (revolutionary)
- 1961 – Yuri Gagarin (cosmonaut)
- 1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower (Supreme Commander WWII, US President)
- 1944 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (naval officer)
- 1940 – Robert B. Williams (pilot)
- 1935 – Jean Batten (as aviatrix)
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