{{infobox award | name = Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas | image = Liettuan Gediminasin ritarikunnan suurristin rintatähti.png | image_size = 200px | caption = Breast star of the Order | presenter = {{LTU}} | country = | type = 5 Class Order with associated medal | eligibility = Citizens of Lithuania and foreign nationals | awarded_for = Outstanding performance in civil and public offices | campaign = | status = | description = | motto = | clasps = | post-nominals = | established = 1928<br>re-established 1991 | firstawarded = | lastawarded = | total_awarded = | total_awarded_posthumously = | total_recipients = | precedence_label = | individual = | higher = Order of the Cross of Vytis | same = | lower = Order for Merits to Lithuania | related = | image2 = | caption2 = }} The '''Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas''' is the Lithuanian Presidential Award which was re-instituted to honour the citizens of Lithuania for outstanding performance in civil and public offices. Foreign nationals may also be awarded this Order. The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas was instituted in 1928. It features the Columns of Gediminas, one of the national symbols of Lithuania.<ref name=president>{{cite web|title=Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas|url=http://adamkus.president.lt/ordinai/dlkgordinas_e.phtml|publisher=President of the Republic of Lithuania|access-date=16 November 2012|archive-date=27 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227050122/http://adamkus.president.lt/ordinai/dlkgordinas_e.phtml|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Classes== The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas has five classes:
{| |- |1. Grand Cross ||100px|Grand Cross Ribbon bar |- |2. Commander's Grand Cross ||100px|Commander's Grand Cross ribbon bar |- |3. Commander's Cross ||100px|Commander's Cross ribbon bar |- |4. Officer's Cross ||100px|Officer's Cross ribbon bar |- |5. Knight's Cross ||100px|Knight's Cross ribbon bar |- |6. Medal ||100px|Medal ribbon bar |}
==Notable recipients== The first five persons awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas after the restoration of the Independent State of Lithuania in 1991 were poets Justinas Marcinkevičius, Bernardas Brazdžionis, priest Ričardas Mikutavičius, painter Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas and mathematician Jonas Kubilius.<ref name=president/>
===Other notable recipients=== *Victor Orban, Hungarian prime minister *Edvard Beneš, Czech politician and President of Czechoslovakia *Elena Bonner, physician, Soviet human rights activist, writer, wife of Andrei Sakharov *Algirdas Budrys, clarinetist *Christopher Cox, former U.S. Representative *Štefan Füle, Czech politician and diplomat<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nato.int/cv/permrep/cz/fule.htm |title=NATO Biographies: Head of the Czech Delegation to NATO |publisher=Nato.int |access-date=16 November 2012}}</ref> *James L. Jones, retired United States National Security Advisor and Commandant of the Marine Corps *Jacek Kuroń, Polish historian and politician *Ina Marčiulionytė, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the Republic of Lithuania to UNESCO *George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nato.int/multi/photos/2003/m031104a.htm |title=NATO Media Library: - NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas by the Lithuanian President, Rolandas Paksas - 4 Nov. 2003 |publisher=Nato.int |access-date=16 November 2012}}</ref> *Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist<ref name=president/> *Juan Antonio Samaranch, former President of the International Olympic Committee<ref name=president/> *George Soros, philanthropist<ref name=president/> *Antanina Vainiūnaitė-Kubertavičienė, Lithuanian actress *Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta *Arvydas Každailis, Lithuanian artist *Jonas Trinkūnas, {{Lang|lt|krivis}} (high priest) of the Romuva faith
==Images of order insignia== <gallery class="center"> Image:1st Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.jpg|1st Class Order Image:2nd Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.jpg|2nd Class Order Image:3rd Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.jpg|3rd Class Order Image:4th Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.jpg|4th Class Order Image:5th Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.jpg|5th Class Order Image:Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas - medal.gif|Medal </gallery>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://adamkus.president.lt/ordinai/dlkgordinas_e.phtml Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227050122/http://adamkus.president.lt/ordinai/dlkgordinas_e.phtml |date=2013-02-27 }}
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