Notable Recipients
- Jack Dempsey, commissioned in 1932
- Joseph F. Guffey, commissioned in 1933
- Colonel Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, commissioned in 1935
- Stephen Foster, commissioned posthumously in 1940
- Johnny Podres, MVP of the 1955 World Series and former player for the Hazard Bombers of Hazard, Kentucky, commissioned in 1955
- James B. Carey, commissioned in 1957
- Winston Churchill, commissioned in 1963
- Pope John Paul II, commissioned in 1985
- Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, commissioned in 2001
- Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, commissioned in 2011
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