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Bill Gates Awards & Honors

The Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, India's Padma Bhushan, an honorary Harvard degree 32 years after dropping out — all 24 verified awards and honors Bill Gates has received, each one documented with its source.

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Bill Gates Accomplishments

Bill Gates Awards & Honors

Pakistan awards Gates the Hilal-e-Pakistan for polio work

Receives the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award for contributions to global health

Named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World — multiple times

Bill and Melinda Gates are made Commanders of France's Legion of Honour

Gates is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the U.S. highest civilian honor

Awarded India's Padma Bhushan for philanthropic work across the country

Bill and Melinda Gates Receive the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal

Bill and Melinda Gates Receive the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding

Gates receives the Franklin Institute's Bower Award for Business Leadership

Received the Boy Scouts of America Silver Buffalo Award

The Harvard Dropout Collects Honorary Doctorates Around the World

Gates Foundation Receives India's Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development

Receives Honorary Doctorate from Tsinghua University

Received an honorary degree from Harvard University 32 years after dropping out

Bill and Melinda Gates Win Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation

Awarded France's Légion d'honneur — the country's highest civilian distinction

TIME Names Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono 'Persons of the Year' as 'Good Samaritans'

Awarded an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

Named TIME Person of the Year alongside Melinda Gates and Bono

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan praises Gates Foundation's 'visionary leadership'

Bill and Melinda Gates Among the Inaugural Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Honorees

TIME Names Gates One of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century

Received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Bush