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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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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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2006
His Highness Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa
Crown Prince of Bahrain
James L. Balsillie
Developer of the BlackBerry
The Honorable William T. Coleman, Jr.
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Chris Columbus
Director, Producer and Screenwriter
Sheryl Crow
Award-winning Singer and Songwriter
Dr. Richard Dawkins
Evolutionary Biologist
Dr. Daniel C. Dennett
Philosopher of Human Consciousness
Joan Didion
National Book Award
Jamie Dimon
CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Company
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei
2005 Nobel Prize for Peace
Carlos Fuentes
Author, Scholar and Diplomat
Dr. Robert H. Grubbs
2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dr. John L. Hall
2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Honorable Alphonso L. Jackson
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Peter Jackson
Oscar for Best Director
Samuel L. Jackson
Actor and Activist
Wendy Kopp
Founder and President, Teach for America
Bernard L. Marcus
Co-Founder, Home Depot
The Honorable John D. Negroponte
Director of National Intelligence
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Minority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
Sonny Rollins
Greatest Living Jazz Soloist
David M. Rubenstein
Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Dr. Henry Samueli
Inventor, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
The Honorable Margaret Spellings
U.S. Secretary of Education
Dr. A. Michael Spence
Nobel Prize in Economics
Julie Taymor
Theater, Opera and Film Director
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Legendary Opera Singer
Gore Vidal
National Book Award
The Honorable Antonio R. Villaraigosa
Mayor of Los Angeles
William Wrigley, Jr.
Industrialist and Philanthropist
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2005
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Edward Albee
Three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama
Richard Axel, M.D.
2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra
Baseball Hall of Fame
Sir John R.H. Bond
Chairman, HSBC Holdings
Linda Buck, M.D.
2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Aaron Ciechanover, M.D.
2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Katie Couric
Co-Anchor,"The Today Show"
The Honorable Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Prize for Peace
Sally Field
Two Oscars for Best Actress
John Fogerty
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales
Attorney General of the United States
David J. Gross, Ph.D.
2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
Carolina Herrera
First Lady of Fashion
Susan Hockfield, Ph.D.
President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Irving
National Book Award
The Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy
Supreme Court of the United States
Bernard Kouchner, M.D.
Founder, Doctors Without Borders
The Honorable Norman Y. Mineta
U.S. Secretary of Transportation
His Excellency Festus G. Mogae
President of the Republic of Botswana
Professor Toni Morrison
Nobel Prize for Literature
Itzhak Perlman
Virtuoso of the Violin
Paul Rusesabagina
Hero of "Hotel Rwanda"
Tim Russert
Moderator, "Meet the Press"
John Sexton, Ph.D.
President, New York University
Stephen Sondheim
Award-winning Composer and Lyricist
The Honorable Lawrence H. Summers
President, Harvard University
His Excellency Abdoulaye Wade
President of the Republic of Senegal
Denzel Washington
Oscar for Best Actor
Frank Wilczek, Ph.D.
2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
Tom Wolfe
America's Master Novelist
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