Notable Winners
Some notable Knights and Dames to receive the Order of the Smile include: Pope John Paul II; Mother Teresa; Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama; King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia; Queen Silvia of Sweden; Sarah Ferguson; Tove Jansson; Dagmar Havlova; Jolanta and Aleksander Kwaśniewski; Jacek Kuroń; Astrid Lindgren; J. K. Rowling; Steven Spielberg; Kurt Waldheim; Nelson Mandela; Hilary Koprowski; Otylia Jędrzejczak; Oprah Winfrey; Peter Ustinov; and Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski.
The youngest Knight to ever receive the Order of the Smile was Marek Michalak in 1994, then aged 23. The oldest was Irena Sendlerowa in 2007, aged 97.
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