Vogue editor Dame Anna Wintour, U2 frontman Bono and billionaire George Soros are among those who will receive America’s highest honor from outgoing President Joe Biden.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom will be awarded to 19 people this year, including cultural stars, politicians and campaigners.
These were chosen because “they are good people who have made an incredible contribution to their country and to the world,” said the White House.
Biden will present the awards at the White House at a ceremony on Saturday.
Bonowhose real name is Paul David Hewson, he has already been awarded the highest cultural honor in France and received a medal of honor.
He is famous for campaigning against poverty and supporting people with AIDS.
Wintourone of fashion’s most influential figures, she has served as Vogue’s editor-in-chief since 1988 and among other charities has helped raise more than $20m for Aids research.
And with him money collected to UK arts organizations following funding cuts in 2022.
Billionaire philanthropist and major Democrat donor George Soros and a US politician Hillary Clinton are also among the recipients.
In 2018, Soros, a Hungarian-born financier, is one of Donald Trump’s top critics to be targeted in the mail bomb.
Clinton, the former US secretary of state, will receive the award a few weeks before her former political rival is sworn in as president. He lost to Trump in the 2016 election.
Cultural luminaries – including actors Denzel Washington again Michael J Fox – you will get a medal and a football star Lionel Messiretired Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Earvin “Magic” Johnson and fashion designer Ralph Lauren.
Founder of the American Film Institute George Stevens Jr and former chairman of the Kennedy Center David Rubinstein they are among the group that receives medals.
Other recipients include humanity and the chef José Andrésits World Central Kitchen has helped provide food to civilians in war zones and areas affected by natural disasters; British conservationist Jane Goodall and science teacher Bill Nye.
Former US Attorney General Robert F Kennedyformer Secretary of Defense Ash Carterhuman rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer and former Governor of Michigan George W Romney you will receive a reward after death.
Established under former president John F Kennedy, the award is awarded at the president’s discretion on the advice of an external advisory panel.
Previous recipients of the award include the most decorated gymnast of all time Simone Biles, Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh and Apple founder Steve Jobs.
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