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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."
This page presents a complete list of honorees from the years 2008 through 2012. Selected lists of Honorees from other years can be found at the links below, along with a Summary of Golden Plate Recipients grouped by decade and field of endeavor.
Selected Honorees: 1961 - 1976
Selected Honorees: 1977 - 1992
Selected Honorees: 1993 - 2007
Summary of Golden Plate Recipients
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2012
Dr. Lee R. Berger
The Origins of Humanity
David Brooks
Columnist & Cultural Commentator
Ray Dalio
Hedge Fund Master
Louise Glück
Former U.S. Poet Laureate
Hon. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
U.S. Attorney General
Salman Khan
Pioneer of Online Education
Hon. Edward J. Markey
U.S. House of Representatives
Audra McDonald
Five Tony Awards
Hon. Leon Panetta
U.S. Secretary of Defense
General David H. Petraeus
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Kevin A. Plank
Pioneer of High-Tech Sportswear
Dr. Adam G. Riess
Nobel Prize in Physics
James B. Rogers, Jr.
International Investor & Author
Dr. Nouriel Roubini
Economic Oracle
Joel Sartore
Portraits of Natural Wonder
Hon. Sonia Sotomayor
Supreme Court of the United States
Natasha Trethewey
Poet Laureate of the United States
Dr. Roger Y. Tsien
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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2009
Tony Bennett
Legendary Singer
Jackson Browne
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Hal David
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder, Partners in Health
Nadine Gordimer
Nobel Prize for Literature
Hon. 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
Johnny Mathis
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Chris Matthews
Host, MSNBC's "Hardball"
Alexander McCall Smith
Best-selling Author
Hon. Navanethem Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa
Legend of the Liberation Struggle
Anthony D. Romero
Guardian of Civil Liberties
Hon. 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
Pulitzer Prize for History
Joshua Bell
Master Violinist
David Doubilet
Undersea Photography
Kenneth C. Griffin
Financier & Patron of the Arts
Khaled Hosseini, M.D.
"A Thousand Splendid Suns"
H.E. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Nobel Prize for Peace
Janusz Kaminski
Two Oscars for Cinematography
Nicholas D. Kristof
Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism
W.S. Merwin
Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry
Greg Mortenson
"Three Cups of Tea"
Michael Ondaatje
Author, "The English Patient"
Dr. Svante Pääbo
Evolutionary Genetics
Dr. Lisa Randall
Theoretical Physics
Bill Russell
Basketball Hall of Fame
Professor Barry Scheck
Co-founder, Innocence Project
Dr. Jonathan D. Spence
Scholar of Chinese Civilization
Andy Stern
Nation's Fastest-growing Union
Deborah Voigt
Opera's Dramatic Soprano
Brian Wilson
Music Producer & Performer
Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.
Nobel Prize in Medicine
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