Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

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]

Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
Breast star of the Order
Type	5 Class Order with associated medal
Awarded for	Outstanding performance in civil and public offices
Presented by	Lithuania
Eligibility	Citizens of Lithuania and foreign nationals
Established	1928 re-established 1991
Precedence
Next (higher)	Order of the Cross of Vytis
Next (lower)	Order for Merits to Lithuania

Classes

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

1. Grand Cross
2. Commander's Grand Cross
3. Commander's Cross
4. Officer's Cross
5. Knight's Cross
6. Medal

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 Marcinkevičius, Bernardas Brazdžionis, priest Ričardas Mikutavičius, painter Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas and mathematician Jonas Kubilius.^[1]

Other notable recipients

• Victor Orban Hungary prime minister
• Edvard Beneš, Czech politician and President of Czechoslovakia
• Elena Bonner, physician, Soviet human rights activist, writer, wife of Andrei Sakharov
• Algirdas Budrys, clarinetist
• Christopher Cox, former U.S. Representative
• Štefan Füle, 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 Marčiulionytė, 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 Organization^[3]
• Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist^[1]
• Juan Antonio Samaranch, former President of the International Olympic Committee^[1]
• George Soros, philanthropist^[1]
• Antanina Vainiūnaitė-Kubertavičienė, Lithuanian actress
• Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
• Arvydas Každailis, Lithuanian artist

Images of order insignia

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  1st Class Order
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  2nd Class Order
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  3rd Class Order
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  4th Class Order
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  5th Class Order
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  Medal