CIVILIAN AWARDS OF OTHER COUNTRIES

The indian to receive all the four civilian awards is Satyajit Ray ( he has won an academy award also).

The Nishan-e-Pakistan is the highest of civil awards and decorations given by the Government of Pakistan for the highest degree of service to the state. The award was established on March 19, 1957. Recipients are entitled to the post-nominal NPk.

[edit] Foreign Recipients of Nishan-e-Pakistan

Year	Name	Field	Province	Country
1960	HM Queen Elizabeth II			United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms
January 13 1961	Josip Broz Tito			Yugoslavia
	Dwight Eisenhower			United States
August 1 1969	Richard Nixon[1]			United States
March 23, 1983	His Highness Sayyid Karīm al-Hussaynī[2]
May 19 1990	Morarji Desai[3]			India
October 3 1992	Nelson Mandela[4][5]			South Africa
1997	Dilip Kumar[6]			India
April 10 1999	Li Peng[7]			People's Republic of China
1999	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani[8]			Qatar
February 1 2006	King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud[9]			Saudi Arabia
November 24 2006	Hu Jintao[10]			People's Republic of China
October 26 2009	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan[11]			Turkey
March 31 2010	Abdullah Gül[12]			Turkey

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a decoration bestowed by the President of the United States and is – along with the equivalent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress – the highest civilian award in the U.S. It recognizes those individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors." The award is not limited to U.S. citizens and, while it is a civilian award, it can also be awarded to military personnel and worn on the uniform.

Ellis Island Medal of Honor

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The Ellis Island Medal of Honor was established in 1986 to pay tribute to the immigrant experience and individual achievement, and are awarded to U.S. citizens from various ethnic backgrounds. The honorees are awarded for showing outstanding qualities in their personal and professional lives, yet maintaining the richness of their particular heritage. The award ceremony is held each May on Ellis Island.
The Ellis Island Medal of Honor is recognized by the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, and as such the names of all winners are listed in the Congressional Record.

• Tony Blair (first non American to receive award)
• Peter A. Koo (first Chinese American Republican elected to New York City Council)

The Indian American recipients of the award are Dr. Hemant Patel, former president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin; Rao Anumolu, president and CEO of ASR International Corp; Suraj Bhatia, president of Technology Consultants Service International Inc.; Sudhir K. Gupta, vice-president of operations for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company; Shekhar Mitra, senior vice-president at Procter & Gamble; Kappana Ramanandan, president and CEO of Hydrox Laboratories; and Dr. Prasad Srinivasan, chairman, Community Health Advisory Committee, Public Health Foundation of Connecticut.