1985
G. Chris Andersen, Investment Banker
Cher, Actress, Singer
Tom Cruise, Actor
Caitlyn Jenner, Olympic Decathlon Champion
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
Richard C. Strauss, Real Estate Financier
1986
Harry Anderson, Comedian, Actor, Magician
Ann Bancroft, Arctic Explorer
Frank Dunkle, Head-US Fish and Wildlife Service
Greg Louganis, Olympic Diving Champion
Henry Winkler, Producer, Director, Actor
1987
Marina Bulgari, Jewelry Designer - Marina B
Chuck Close, Artist
Richard Cohen, Syndicated Columnist
Mark Torrance, Corporate Executive
Margaret Whitton, Actress
Roger W. Wilkins, Scholar, Author, Professor
1988
Tracey Gold, Actress
Malcolm Goodridge, III, Vice President, AMEX
Magic Johnson, Basketball Star
Thomas H. Kean, Governor of New Jersey
Emily Fisher Landau, Foundation President
Daniel Stern, Actor
1989
Harry Belafonte, Singer, Actor, Humanitarian
Gaston Caperton, Governor of West Virginia
William J. Doyle, Antiques Expert, Auctioneer
Fred W. Friendly, Broadcast Journalist, Scholar
Dexter Manley, Football Star
Paul Orfalea, CEO, Kinko's
1990
Donald S. Coffey, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Marc Flanagan, Producer, Writer
John Horner, PhD, Paleontologist
Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect
1991
Susan Butcher, Iditarod Dog Sled Race Winner
Charles Guggenheim, Academy Award winning Documentary Film Maker
Wendy Wasserstein, Prize-winning Playwright
Wallace Westfeldt, Television Producer
1992
Sir John Swan, Premier of Bermuda
1993
Elaine Heumann Gurian, Deputy Director, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Florence Haseltine, MD, PhD, Director, NIH Center for Population Research
J. Seward Johnson, Jr, Sculptor
Victor Villasenor, Author
1994
Richard Avedon, Photographer
Fannie Flagg, Actress, Author, Comedienne
General Joseph Hoar, Chief of US Central Command
Raymond Smith, CEO, Bell Atlantic
1995
Robert Benton, Director, Writer
David Copperfield, Illusionist/Humanitarian Award
Fred J. Epstein, MD, Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Neil Smith, Football Star
1996
James Earl Jones, Actor
Nell Minow, Lawyer, Corporate Turnaround Specialist, Author
Robert Nixon, Film maker, Conservationist
Daniel O'Brien, Olympic Decathlon Champion
1997
Carolyn McCarthy, Democratic Congresswoman, New York
Jonathan Pendragon, Magician, Illusionist
Steven M. Stanley, PhD, Paleobiologist
1998
John McDaniel, CEO Helix/Medlantic Healthcare
Dianne Pilgrim, Director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Vince Vaughn, Actor
David Yurman, Jewelry Designer
1999
Billy Blanks, World Martial Arts Champion, Tae-bo Creator
Don Coryell, Head Coach, San Diego Chargers (Ret.) College Football Hall of Fame
Sam Gejdenson, Democratic Congressman, Connecticut
2000
James Carville, Political Consultant
Kelly McGillis, Actress
Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist
Don Winkler, Chair and CEO, Ford Credit
2001
David Boies, Attorney
Zoe Caldwell, Tony Award winning Actress
John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems
Victoria MacKenzie-Childs, Creative Artist
2002
Ben Carson, MD, Director, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins
John F. Sandner, President & CEO, RB&H Financial Services; Special Policy Advisor & Former Chairman, Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Jim Shea, Jr, Olympic Gold Medalist, Skeleton
Billy Bob Thornton, Actor, Writer, Director
2003
Barbara Corcoran, Founder & Chairman, The Corcoran Group - Real Estate
Brooks Edwards, MD, Medical Director, Cardiac Transplantation, The Mayo Clinic
David Neeleman, Chairman & CEO, JetBlue Airlines
Jerry Pinkney, Caldecott Award Winning Children's Book Illustrator
2004
Adrianne Noe, PhD, Director, National Museum of Health and Medicine-Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Tom Rothman, Chairman, Fox Filmed Entertainment
Paul Sereno, PhD, Paleontologist and Explorer, National Geographic Society
Anthony A. Williams, Mayor, The District of Columbia
2005
Mark Batshaw, MD, Chief Academic Officer and Professor of Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center
Danny Glover, Actor, Director, Activist
Kendrick Meek, Democratic Congressman, Florida
Charles Schwab, Founder, Chairman & CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation
2006
Jim Molinaro, Washington Redskins
Nicholas Negroponte, Founder & Chairman, One Laptop per Child
Christopher B. Nelson, President, St. John's College, Annapolis
Lindsay Wagner, Emmy Award Winning Actress
2007
Ari Emanuel, Founder & Director, The Endeavor Agency
Patricia Polacco, Children's Book Author and Illustrator
John Shima, 5 Time World Champion Skeet Shooter
Robert Wiedmaier, Chef & Proprietor, Marcel's and Brasserie Beck
2008
Robert Allbritton, CEO Allbritton Communications, Founder, Politico
Joe Pantoliano, Emmy Award Winning Actor
Richard Rogers, Pritzker Prize winning Architect
2009
Lara Flynn Boyle, TV & Film Actress
William Milliken, Founder & Vice Chair - Communities in Schools
Jonathan Mooney, Author, Learning Outside the Lines & The Short Bus
2010
Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch, Army Veteran, Author & Public Speaker
John Muir Laws, Naturalist, Artist, Illustrator, Educator
2011
Erin Brockovich, Consumer advocate
Gavin Newsom, Lt. Governor of California
Michael Oren, Israel's Ambassador to the United States
Paul Rabil, Professional Lacrosse MVP
Philip Schultz, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author of My Dyslexia
2012
Peter Fisher, Senior Managing Director, BlackRock
Ben Foss, Inventor, Author, Founder of Headstrong Nation
Willard Wigan, Microsculptor
2013
Tiffany Coletti Titolo, Managing Director, Translation, LLC
Dannel Malloy, Governor of Connecticut
2014
Elijah Cummings, US Representative, Maryland
Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning Author
Vin Roberti, Chairman, Roberti + White
Karina Smirnoff, Professional Dancer - Dancing with the Stars
2015
Dean Bragonier, Entrepreneur, Founder of NoticeAbility
Louis "Bo" Polk, Jr, Business Executive, Venture Capitalist, Entrepreneur
Sally Taylor, Musician and Artist, Founder of Consenses
Justin Theroux, Actor, Writer, Director
2016
David Arquette, Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winning author
Domingo Zapata, Contemporary Artist
2017
Marilyn Bartlett, PhD, Attorney and Special Education Advocate
Gary Cohn, Director of National Economic Council
Ari Gejdenson, Founder and President, Mindful Restaurants
Betty McCollum, Republican Congresswoman, Minnesota
Mitra Taheri, PhD, Scientist, Engineer, Professor, Temple University
2018
Nancy Brinker, Founder Susan G. Komen and Race for the Cure
Lloyd Everitt, British Television and Stage Actor and Writer
2019
Platon, Portrait Photographer
Roy Schwartz, Co-Founder and President of Axios Media Inc.
2021
LeDerick Horne, Author, Poet, Advocate
2022
Jon Stocks, Physical Education Teacher, Coach
2023
Caela Carter, Educator, Writer
Megan Cavanagh, Actress
2024
Toby Cosgrove, MD, Former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic
Quinn Murphy, Celebrity Make-up Artist, Podcaster, Entrepreneur
All titles are at time of the award
