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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Lithuanian_Grand_Duke_Gediminas

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The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas is the Lithuanian Presidential Award which was re-instituted to honour the citizens of Lithuania for outstanding performance in civil and public offices. Foreign nationals may also be awarded this Order. The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas was instituted in 1928. It features the Columns of Gediminas, one of the national symbols of Lithuania.[1]

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The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas has five classes:

 

  1. Grand Cross Grand Cross Ribbon bar

  2. Commander's Grand Cross Commander's Grand Cross ribbon bar

  3. Commander's Cross Commander's Cross ribbon bar

  4. Officer's Cross Officer's Cross ribbon bar

  5. Knight's Cross Knight's Cross ribbon bar

  6. Medal Medal ribbon bar

Notable recipients

The first five persons awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas after the restoration of the Independent State of Lithuania in 1991 were poets Justinas MarcinkeviÄŤius, Bernardas BrazdĹľionis, priest RiÄŤardas MikutaviÄŤius, painter Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas and mathematician Jonas Kubilius.[1]

 

Othernotable recipients

Edvard Beneš, Czech politician and President of Czechoslovakia

Algirdas Budrys, clarinetist

Christopher Cox, former U.S. Representative

Ĺ tefan FĂĽle, Czech politician and diplomat[2]

James L. Jones, retired United States National Security Advisor and Commandant of the Marine Corps

Jacek Kuroń, Polish historian and politician

Ina MarÄŤiulionytÄ—, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the Republic of Lithuania to UNESCO

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation[3]

Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist[1]

Juan Antonio Samaranch, former President of the International Olympic Committee[1]

George Soros, philanthropist[1]

Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta