The White House on Thursday named the 2012 recipients of the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Here’s the list:

• Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright
• Former Assistant Attorney General John Doar, who worked to protect and widen civil rights in the 1960s.
• Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan
• Former Centers and Disease Control and Prevention Director William Foege, an epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox.
• Former Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, marine corps veteran and astronaut.
• Gordon Hirabayashi, who protested the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II.
• Civil rights advocate Dolores Huerta, co-founder of what became the United Farm Workers of America.
• Jan Karski, a former officer in the Polish Underground who helped bring the Holocaust to international attention.
• Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts.
• Novelist Toni Morrison
• Former President of Israel Shimon Peres
• Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
• Pat Summitt, legendary coach of the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team.