Jose Antonio ABREU, 2009
Conductor
Haifaa Al-MANSOUR, 2019
Documentary filmmaker
Vladimir ASHKENAZY, 1995
Pianist and conductor
Margaret ATWOOD, 2010
Author
Shabani AZMI, 2006
Actress and social activist
Amitabh BACHCHAN, 2009
Actor and director
Shigeru BAN, 2015
Architect
Luc BESSON, 2012
Filmmaker
Andrea BOCELLI, 2015
Tenor and Singer-songwriter
BONO, 2002
Singer
Mario BOTTA, 1996
Architect
Wissam BOUSTANY, 1998
Flautist
José CARRERAS, 2011
Opera singer
Yvonne CHAKA CHAKA, 2012
Singer
CHEN Kaige, 1996
Film director
YAO Chen, 2016
Actress
CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE, 1995
Artist-engineers
Paulo COELHO, 1999
Author
Matt DAMON, 2014
Actor and co-founder, Water.org
Leonardo DICAPRIO, 2016
Actor and founder, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Film
Michael DOUGLAS, 2006
Director, producer and actor
Umberto ECO, 2000
Writer, historian and philosopher
Idris ELBA and Sabrina Dhowre ELBA, 2023
Actors and Humanitarians
Olafur ELIASSON, 2016
Artist
Hans ERNI, 1999
Artist
Ivan FISCHER, 1998
Conductor
Renée FLEMING, 2023
Opera Singer
Juan Diego FLOREZ, 2014
Tenor and Founder, Sinfonia por el Peru
Peter GABRIEL, 2001
Singer, songwriter and musician
Theaster GATES, 2020
Artist
Richard GERE, 2005
Actor and President, Gere Foundation
Valery GERGIEV, 2004
Artistic & General Director, Mariinsky Theatre
Gilberto GIL, 2006
Musician and Minister of Culture
Nadine GORDIMER, 1995
Author
Barbara HENDRICKS, 1995
Soprano
Ikuo HIRAYAMA, 1995
Painter
Tao HO, 1997
Architect and artist
Jenny HOLZER, 1996
Artist
Ibrahim HUSSEIN, 1997
Painter and calligrapher
Quincy JONES, 2000
Producer, composer, musician
Sumet JUMSAI, 1999
Architect and painter
Udo JURGENS, 2010
Singer and composer
Dani KARAVAN, 1995
Sculptor
Amjad Ali KHAN, 1997
Composer and sarod player
Angelique KIDJO, 2015
Singer-songwriter
Lang Lang, 2010
Pianist
James LEVINE, 2003
Conductor and Artistic Director
Jet LI, 2009
Actor
Maya LIN, 2023
Architect
Julian LLOYD WEBBER, 1998
Cellist
Yo-Yo MA, 2008
Cellist
Amin MAALOUF, 2000
Writer and historian
Lorin MAAZEL, 2014
Conductor and musician
Richard MEIER, 1995
Architect
Lord MENUHIN, 1995
Violinist and conductor
MIDORI, 2012
Violinist
Nikita MIKHALKOV, 1996
Film director
Es’kia MPHAHLELE, 1998
Writer
Vik MUNIZ, 2013
Artist
Anne-Sophie MUTTER, 2017
Violinist
Youssou N’DOUR, 2001
Musician and singer
Shirin NESHAT, 2014
Artist
NOA, 1998
Singer and songwriter
Sharmeen OBAID-CHINOY, 2013
Documentary filmmaker
Ben OKRI, 1995
Author and poet
Julia ORMOND, 2003
Actress & co-chair, FilmAid Int’l
Deepika PADUKONE, 2020
Actress and fashion icon
Krzysztof PENDERECKI, 1997
Composer and conductor
Sidney POITIER, 2002
Actor, director and producer
Lord PUTTNAM, 1997
Film producer
A. R. RAHMAN, 2011
Film composer, musician and singer
Lionel RICHIE, 2005
Musician
SHAKIRA, 2017
Singer and Songwriter
Mallika SARABHAI, 2009
Artist and activist
Jorge SEMPRUN, 1999
Writer
Ravi SHANKAR, 1996
Sitarist and composer
Rodion SHCHEDRIN, 1995
Composer
Anant SINGH, 2001
Film producer
Wole SOYINKA, 1995
Poet and playwright
Frank STELLA, 1995
Painter
Oliver STONE, 1995
Director, writer and producer
TAN Swie Hian, 2003
Painter, poet, philosopher, author
Charlize THERON, 2013
Actor
Emma THOMSON, 2008
Actor and writer
Mario VARGAS LLOSA, 2001
Author
Maxim VENGEROV, 2007
Violinist
Lynette WALLWORTH, 2020
Artist
Forest WHITAKER, 2017
Artist and Social Activist
Elie WIESEL, 1995
Author
will.i.am, 2016
Musician
Jin XING, 2020
Choreographer
Benjamin ZANDER, 1999
Conductor