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| Ronald Reagan presenting the award to Mother Teresa |
Only 7 non-American personalities have been awarded the Honorary Citizen Award throughout the history of the United States of America, among these personalities is the Albanian Gonxhe Bojaxhiu-Mother Teresa.
Only seven people have been honored with this award in the history of the United States, five after death, and two people while still alive, Mother Teresa and Sir Winston Churchill.
On November 16, 1996, a year before her death, Agnese Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known worldwide as Mother Teresa, became the only person along with Churchill to be honored with the U.S. Honorary Citizen Award while still alive.
Although the Albanian nun who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the President's Medal of Freedom award she had spent some time in the United States, the Charity Missionaries, which she had founded in 1950, opening a kitchen that served soup, in emergency shelters, for nursing homes and other shelters across the country.