Vogue editor Dame Anna Wintour, U2 vocalist Bono and billionaire George Soros are among those to receive the top U.S. honor from outsourcing President Joe Biden.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom will be awarded 19 are these years, including cultural icon, politicians and activists.
They were chosen because they were "good people who have made a contribution to selling out to the world and to the people of the world," the White House said.
Biden will deliver the medals to the White House in a ceremony on Saturday.
Bono, real name paul David Hewson, has not received France's highest culture honour and has received the title of honorary knighthood. He is known for his campaign against poverty and will be hiv/AIDS for me.
Wintour, one of the most important personalities in fashion, has performed as editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988 and other societies that are in the raising of more than $20 million for research into THE disease of MS. It also covered for arts organisations in the UK following funding cuts in 2022.
Billionaire philanthropist and major Democratic donor George Soros and U.S. policymaker Hillary Clinton are also among the beneficiaries.
In 2018, Soros, a financier with the Hungarian last year, was one of Donald Trump's high-profile critics.
Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, will receive the award just weeks before her former political rival is sworn in as president. She lost to Trump in the 2016 election.
Actors Denzel Washington and Michael J Fox, will receive the medal along with soccer star Lionel Messi, retired Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson and fashion designer Ralph Lauren.
The founder of the American Film Institute, George Stevens Jr. and former Kennedy Center chairman David Rubinstein are among the groups receiving the medals.
The other recipients are humanitarian and chef de cuisine José Andrés, whose World Central Kitchen has in providing food for civilians in war zones and hit by areas of nature zones; British conservative Jane Good and bill nye's science educator.
Former US Attorney General Robert F Kennedy, former Defence Secretary Ash Carter, civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer and former Michigan governor George W Romney will receive the award posthumously.
Under the foundation of former President John F Kennedy, the medal is awarded at the president's discernment on the advice of an external advisory panel.
Simone Biles, Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh and Apple founder Steve Jobs.