2019 |
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2018 |
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2017 |
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2016 |
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2015 |
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2014 |
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2013 |
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2012 |
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2011 |
- Sheryl Sandberg
- Roberta Guaspari
- Jenny Holzer
- Sylvia Rhone
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2010 |
- Meryl Streep
- Thelma Golden
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Shirley M. Tilghman
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2009 |
- Hillary Clinton
- Kay Crawford Murray
- Indra K. Nooyi
- Irene Winter
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2008 |
- Thelma C. Davidson Adair
- Michael R. Bloomberg
- Billie Jean King
- David Remnick
- Judith R. Shapiro
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2007 |
- Joan Didion
- Nicholas D. Kristof
- Mary Patterson McPherson
- Muriel Petioni
- Anna Deavere Smith
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2006 |
- Francine du Plessix Gray ’52
- Linda Greenhouse
- Audra McDonald
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2005 |
- Carla D. Hayden
- Amartya K. Sen
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2004 |
- Sylvia A. Earle
- Louise Glück
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2003 |
- Susan Band Horwitz
- Judith Miller ’69
- Martha Nussbaum
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2002 |
- Barbara Novak ’50
- Alice M. Rivlin
- Harold Varmus
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2001 |
- Morris Dees
- Maxine Greene ’38
- Susan Hendrickson
- Bernice Johnson Reagon
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2000 |
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Hanna Holborn Gray
- Annie Leibovitz
- Kathie L. Olsen
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1999 |
- Zoe Caldwell
- Abby Joseph Cohen
- Esther Dyson
- William Golden
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1998 |
- Mary Lowe Good
- Joan Ganz Cooney
- David A. Kessler
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1997 |
- Sarah Brady
- Merce Cunningham
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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1996 |
- Rita R. Colwell
- Kitty Carlisle Hart
- Maya Lin
- Dame Anne Warburton ’46
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1995 |
- Madeleine K. Albright
- Rosemary Park Anastos
- Derek Bok
- Sissela Bok
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1994 |
- Walter Cronkite
- Ellen V. Futter ’71
- Barbara S. Miller ’62 (posthumous)
- Arthur Mitchell
- Sheila E. Widnall
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1993 |
- Arthur Ashe (posthumous)
- Elizabeth B. Davis, M.D. ’41
- Helene L. Kaplan ’53
- Bette Bao Lord
- Cyrus R. Vance
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1992 |
- Ingrith Deyrup-Olsen ’40
- Fred W. Friendly
- Millicent McIntosh
- Frank Stella
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1991 |
- Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum ’50
- Tisa Chang ’63
- Mamphela Alette Ramphele
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1990 |
- Jacqueline K. Barton ’74
- Robert L. Bernstein
- Jean Blackwell Hutson ’35
- Julie V. Marsteller ’69
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1989 |
- Joan Kaplan Davidson
- Eugene M. Lang
- Bernice Segal (posthumous)
- Lottie L. Taylor-Jones
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1988 |
- Augusta Souza Kappner ’66
- Ntozake Shange ’70
- Maxine Singer
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1987 |
- Judith S. Kaye ’58
- Sally Falk Moore ’43
- James Parks Morton
- Ellen Stewart
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1986 |
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
- Frances Lehman Loeb
- Helen M. Ranney ’41
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1985 |
- Marian Wright Edelman
- S. Dillon Ripley
- Elizabeth Man Sarcka ’17
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1984 |
- Arthur G. Altschul
- Annette K. Baxter ’47 (posthumous)
- Joseph G. Brennan
- Anna Hill Johnstone ’34
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1983 |
- Mario M. Cuomo
- Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
- Mirra Komarovsky ’26
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1982 |
- Carol Bellamy
- Raymond J. Saulnier
- Twyla Tharp ’63
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1981 |
- Robert L. Hoguet
- Elizabeth Hall Janeway ’35
- Beverly Sills
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1980 |
- Dorothy I. Height
- Julius S. Held
- Mary Dublin Keyserlng ’30
- Margaret S. Mahler
- Alan Pifer
- Henriette H. Swope ’25
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1979 |
- Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
- Helen Gahagan Douglas ’24
- Eleanor Thomas Elliott ’48
- William A. Marsteller
- Toni Morrison
- Francis T.P. Plimpton
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1978 |
- Samuel R. Milbank
- Richard Rodgers
- Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger ’14
- Rosalyn S. Yalow
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1977 |
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