List of honors and awards received by Jimmy Carter

Former President and Navy submariner Jimmy Carter (left) hoists a replica of the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) given to him by Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton (right) at a naming ceremony in the Pentagon on April 28, 1998

U.S. President Jimmy Carter (born 1924) has received numerous accolates, awards, and honorary degrees. Several places, institutions, and other things have been named for him.

Honorary degrees

Carter has received honorary degrees from many American and foreign colleges and universities. They include:

• LL.D. (honoris causa) Morehouse College, 1972; Morris Brown College, 1972; University of Notre Dame, 1977; Emory University, 1979; Kwansei Gakuin University, 1981; Georgia Southwestern College, 1981; New York Law School, 1985; Bates College, 1985; Centre College, 1987; Creighton University, 1987; University of Pennsylvania, 1998; Queen's University, 2012.
• D.Eng (honoris causa) Georgia Institute of Technology, 1979
• Ph.D (honoris causa) Weizmann Institute of Science, 1980; Tel Aviv University, 1983; University of Haifa, 1987
• D.H.L. (honoris causa) Central Connecticut State University, 1985; Trinity College, 1998; Hoseo University, 1998
• Doctor (honoris causa) G.O.C. University, 1995; University of Juba, 2002
• Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2007^[1]
• Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, 2007^[2]

Accolades

Among the honors Carter has received are the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Others include:

• Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1977
• Silver Buffalo Award, Boy Scouts of America, 1978
• Gold medal, International Institute for Human Rights, 1979
• International Mediation medal, American Arbitration Association, 1979
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Peace Prize, 1979
• International Human Rights Award, Synagogue Council of America, 1979
• Foreign Language Advocate Award, Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 1979 .^[3]
• Conservationist of the Year Award, 1979
• Harry S. Truman Public Service Award, 1981
• Ansel Adams Conservation Award, Wilderness Society, 1982
• Human Rights Award, International League of Human Rights, 1983
• World Methodist Peace Award, 1985
• Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, 1987
• Edwin C. Whitehead Award, National Center for Health Education, 1989
• S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, Jefferson Awards, 1990^[4]
• Liberty Medal, National Constitution Center, 1990
• Spirit of America Award, National Council for the Social Studies, 1990
• Physicians for Social Responsibility Award, 1991
• Aristotle Prize, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, 1991
• W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1992
• Spark M. Matsunaga Medal of Peace, US Institute of Peace, 1993
• Humanitarian Award, CARE International, 1993
• Conservationist of the Year Medal, National Wildlife Federation, 1993
• Audubon Medal, National Audubon Society, 1994^[5]
• Rotary Award for World Understanding, 1994
• J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, 1994
• National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award, 1994
• UNESCO Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, 1994
• Great Cross of the Order of Vasco Nunéz de Balboa, Panama, 1995
• Four Freedom Award; Freedom medal, 1995^[6]
• Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Award, Africare, 1996
• Humanitarian of the Year, GQ Awards, 1996
• Kiwanis International Humanitarian Award, 1996
• Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, 1997
• Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Awards for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 1997
• United Nations Human Rights Award, 1998
• The Hoover Medal, 1998
• The Delta Prize for Global Understanding, Delta Air Lines & The University of Georgia, 1999
• International Child Survival Award, UNICEF Atlanta, 1999
• William Penn Mott, Jr., Park Leadership Award, National Parks Conservation Association, 2000^[7]
• Zayed International Prize for the Environment, 2001
• Jonathan M. Daniels Humanitarian Award, VMI, 2001
• Herbert Hoover Humanitarian Award, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2001
• Christopher Award, 2002
• Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 2007^[8]
• Berkeley Medal, University of California campus, May 2, 2007
• International Award for Excellence and Creativity, Palestinian Authority, 2009^[9]
• Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, James Madison University (shared with his wife, Rosalynn Carter)
• Recipient of 2009 American Peace Award along with Rosalynn Carter^[10]
• International Catalonia Award 2010
• Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Crown by Royal Decree of King Albert II, 2011.
• International Advocate for Peace award, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution at Cardozo School of Law, 2013^[11]
• Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 2016^[12]

In 1998, the US Navy named the third and last Seawolf-class submarine honoring former President Carter and his service as a submariner officer, regardless of his having never qualified or served aboard a nuclear-powered submarine. It became one of the first US Navy vessels to be named for a person living at the time of naming.^[13]

In 2002, a fish species was named after him, the bluegrass darter, for his environmental leadership and accomplishments in the areas of national energy policy and wilderness protection, and his life-long commitment to social justice and basic human rights^[14]

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