Honours and Awards
There are streets and schools named after Paderewski in many major cities in Poland. There are also streets named after him in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. In addition, the Academy of Music in Poznań is named after him. Paderewski has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, awarded in 1960.
In 1925 he was made an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. This entitled him to the postnominal letters GBE but not to be known as "Sir Ignacy" (despite the erroneous claim in Time), that title being reserved for citizens of one of the countries of which the British monarch is head of state.
- Order of the White Eagle
- Order of Virtuti Militari, Silver Cross (posthumously)
- Legion of Honour (France)
- Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (1925)
- Honorary doctorates from universities in Lvov (1912), Krakow (1919), Poznan (1924) and Warsaw (1931), as well as several American universities.
- Honorary citizen of Warsaw
- Honorary Studentenverbindung Patria
- Academic Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature for oratory
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