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The Golden Plate Award is presented annually since 1961 by the Academy of Achievement to approximately twenty-five guests of honor at the International Achievement Summit.
Chosen by the Academy's Awards Council and other distinguished authorities,
these men and women of exceptional accomplishment in the sciences, professions, business, industry, arts,
literature, sports, entertainment, and public service are acclaimed ... not as winners, but as
"representatives of the many who excel."
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2009
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder, Partners in Health
Nadine Gordimer
Nobel Prize for Literature
The Honorable Barbara Hogan
Champion of Justice and Public Health
Beverly and Dereck Joubert
Award-winning Documentary Filmmakers
Sol Kerzner
Chairman and CEO
Kerzner International Holdings Limited
Chris Matthews
Host, MSNBC's "Hardball"
Alexander McCall Smith
Best-selling Author
The Honorable Navanethem Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa
Legend of the Liberation Struggle
Anthony D. Romero
Guardian of Civil Liberties
The Honorable Albie Sachs
Constitutional Court of South Africa
Wole Soyinka
Nobel Prize for Literature
Dr. Joseph E. Stiglitz
Nobel Prize in Economics
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2008
Rick Atkinson
Four Pulitzer Prizes as Journalist & Author
Joshua Bell
Grammy Award-winning Violinist
David Doubilet
Pioneer of Undersea Photography
Kenneth C. Griffin
Financier & Patron of the Arts
Khaled Hosseini, M.D.
Author, "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
Her Excellency Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
President of The Republic of Liberia
Janusz Kaminski
Two Oscars for Cinematography
Nicholas D. Kristof
Two Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism
W.S. Merwin
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Greg Mortenson
Educating the Children of Central Asia
Michael Ondaatje
Author, "The English Patient"
Dr. Svante Pääbo
Founder of Evolutionary Genetics
Dr. Lisa Randall
Pioneer in Theoretical Physics
Bill Russell
Basketball Hall of Fame
Professor Barry Scheck
Co-founder, Innocence Project
Dr. Jonathan D. Spence
Foremost Scholar of Chinese Civilization
Andy Stern
Leader of America's Fastest-growing Union
Deborah Voigt
Opera's Leading Dramatic Soprano
Brian Wilson
Legendary Music Producer & Performer
Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.
Human Stem Cell Research
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2007
Andre Agassi
Sportsman and Philanthropist
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee
Father of the World Wide Web
Kix Brooks & Ronnie Dunn
Kings of Country Music
Laura Bush
First Lady of the United States
Brian J. Druker, M.D.
Developer
Gleevec Anticancer Drug
Nora Ephron
Author and Filmmaker
Laurence D. Fink
CEO, BlackRock, Inc.
Dr. Ian Frazer
Developer
Cervical Cancer Vaccine
The Honorable Chuck Hagel
United States Senate
General Michael V. Hayden
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
President
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richard Leakey
Paleoanthropologist
and Environmentalist
Peyton Manning
Super Bowl Champion Quarterback
Dr. John C. Mather
2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
Dr. Craig C. Mello
2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine
John Morgridge
Pioneer of Silicon Valley
The Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senate
General Peter Pace
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Suzan-Lori Parks
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Honorable
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Dana Priest
Pulitzer Prize for Journalism
Harold Prince
Broadway Producer
and Director
The Honorable Harry Reid
Majority Leader
United States Senate
Hilary Swank
Two Oscars for Best Actress
Rex W. Tillerson
Chairman and CEO
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Calvin Trillin
Humorist and Novelist
Lawrence Wright
2007 Pulitzer Prize
for Nonfiction
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.
Director
National Institutes of Health
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