Biden's Presidential Medal of Freedom (Hopefully)

So far, in his first year and half as President, Joe Biden has awarded no Presidential Medals of Freedom. For this list I focused only on living candidates, and not the many deserving posthumous icons. I think Biden should award it to the following 25 people (in alphabetical order):

 

Harry Belafonte – Artist and Activist

Tim Berners-Lee – Inventor

Beyoncé and Jay-Z – Musicians

Ruby Bridges – Activist

Noam Chomsky – Linguist

Francis Ford Coppola – Director

Jared Diamond – Anthropologist

Sylvia Earle – Marine Scientist

Henry Louis Gates Jr. – Sociologist

Louise Glück – Poet, Nobel Laureate

Jane Goodall – Primatologist

Annie Leibovitz – Photographer

Joni Mitchell – Musician

Barrack Obama – 44^th President of the United States

Dolly Parton – Musician and philanthropist

Kip Thorne – Astronomer, Nobel Laureate

Denzel Washington – Actor

Jody Williams – Activist, Nobel Laureate

Malala Yousafzai – Activist, Nobel Laureate

Volodymyr Zelensky – President of Ukraine