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[[File:Small Coat of Arms Belgrade.svg|thumb|200px|Belgrade Coat of Arms]]
'''Honorary citizen of Belgrade''' is a title awarded by the leadership of [[Belgrade]] on behalf of the city.

==Requirements==
The title can be awarded to both a citizen of Serbia and any other state, as a politician or statesman, as well as a representative of a non-governmental organization or an artist. A candidate for honorary citizenship of Belgrade must have a contribution to the development of science, art, humanitarian activities, etc., which has helped the development and image of Belgrade, the development of democracy in Serbia and the world. The decision to award the title is made by the City Assembly (Parliament). Candidates are nominated by the City Council or at least 10 councilors.<ref name= "honorarycitizens">{{cite news |last1=S. |first1=Sanja |title=Ko su sve počasni građani Beograda?|url=https://www.beograduzivo.rs/beogradske-price/ko-su-sve-pocasni-gradjani-beograda/|access-date=15 September 2022|work=beograduzivo.rs|date=19 July 2021|language=Serbian}}</ref>

A person who has received the title of honorary citizen of Belgrade is presented with an official letter on official paper at an official meeting of the Assembly. A citizen of Serbia receives it on City Day, and a representative of another country receives it during their visit to Belgrade.<ref name="honorarycitizens" />

==History==
[[File:Stevan Kragujevic, Elizabeth II i Josip Broz Tito,1972, u Beogradu.jpg|thumb|270px|[[Elizabeth II]] next to [[Josip Broz Tito]] during her visit to [[Belgrade]], [[Yugoslavia]], 17 October 1972]]
The first to receive this title was General [[Peko Dapčević]] on 19 October 1945, who led the liberation of Belgrade in the autumn of 1944. On Yugoslav [[Youth Day]] in 1947, the title were given to the head of the Yugoslav Communist Party, [[Josip Broz Tito]], [[Fyodor Tolbukhin]], marshal of the Soviet Union, and [[Vladimir Zhdanov]], general of the Soviet army.<ref name= "honorarycitizens2">{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title=Svi počasni građani Beograda - političari|url=https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/116447/Svi-pocasni-gradani-Beograda-politicari|access-date=15 September 2022|work=politika.rs|date=19 December 2009|language=Serbian}}</ref><ref name="honorarycitizens" />

On 19 July 1954 (the year when the title was officially established), for the first time, the leader of a foreign state, the Emperor of Ethiopia, [[Haile Selassie]], became an honorary citizen of Belgrade. Of the foreign leaders after him, the title was awarded to [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], [[Norodom Sihanouk]], [[Leonid Brezhnev]] and others. Despite the warm relations of Josip Broz Tito with a number of leaders of Western European countries, only [[Elizabeth II]], Queen of the United Kingdom, became an honorary citizen of Belgrade during his life (and currently the only woman to be assigned this title). Till 1985, honorary citizens of Belgrade were high foreign officials, who were visiting [[SFR Yugoslavia]]. After 1985, the title was not awarded for more than 21 years. The title was reintroduced in 2006. Until 2006, an honorary Belgrade citizen could only become someone who was a senior foreign politician, statesman or military leader. [[Nelson Mandela]] received it in 2007.<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />

At the beginning of the 21st century, Bill Gates and Michael Schumacher were nominated as candidates for honorary citizens of Belgrade . Serbian historian Aleksandar Životić explained this by the breakdown of the socialist bloc and globalization, in an era in which society chooses new heroes.<ref name="honorarycitizens" />

In 2015, [[Nikita Mikhalkov]] and [[Peter Handke]] are the first artists to become honorary citizens of the Serbian capital.<ref name="honorarycitizens" />

==List of honorary citizens==
The list includes people who have been awarded the title of honorary citizen of Belgrade.

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="width: 100%; text-align:center"
! scope="col" |{{abbr|No.|Number}}
! scope="col" |Name
! scope="col" class="unsortable"|Portrait
! scope="col" |Date
! scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes
! scope="col" |Country
! scope="col" class="unsortable" |{{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}}
|-
|1
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Peko Dapčević|Petar Dapčević]]<br/>(1913—1999)
|[[File:Peko Dapčević (1944).jpg|100px]]
|20 October 1945
|[[Lieutenant general]] of [[Yugoslav People's Army|JNA]] and [[Order of the People's Hero]]
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|2
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Josip Broz Tito]]<br/>(1892—1980)
|[[File:Josip Broz Tito uniform portrait.jpg|100px]]
|rowspan=3|25 May 1947
|[[President of Yugoslavia]], [[Marshal of Yugoslavia]] and [[President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia]]
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|3
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Fyodor Tolbukhin]]<br/>(1894—1949)
|[[File:1974 CPA 4358.jpg|100px]]
|[[Marshal of the Soviet Union]], [[Hero of the Soviet Union]], [[Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria]] and [[Order of the People's Hero]]
|{{flag|USSR}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|4
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Vladimir Zhdanov]]<br/>(1902—1964)
|[[File:Vladimir Ždanov (1944).jpg|100px]]
|[[Colonel general]] of tank troops in the [[Soviet Armed Forces]]
|{{flag|USSR}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|5
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Haile Selassie I]]<br/>(1892—1975)
|[[File:Haile Selassie (1969).jpg|100px]]
|22 July 1954
|[[Emperor of Ethiopia]]
|{{flag|Ethiopian Empire}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|6
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<br/>(1889—1964)
|[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-61849-0001, Indien, Otto Grotewohl bei Ministerpräsident Nehru cropped.jpg|100px]]
|24 June 1955
|[[Prime Minister of India]]
|{{flag|India}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|7
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]<br/>(1918—1970)
|[[File:Gamal Nasser.jpg|100px]]
|23 July 1956
|[[President of Egypt]]
|{{flag|Egypt}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|8
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Norodom Sihanouk]]<br/>(1922—2012)
|[[File:Norodom Sihanouk (1983).jpg|100px]]
|20 September 1959
|[[King of Cambodia]]
|{{flag|Cambodia}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|9
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Leonid Brezhnev]]<br/>(1906—1982)
|[[File:Brezhnev-color.jpg|100px]]
|20 September 1962
|[[Premier of the Soviet Union|Chairman]] of the [[Council of Ministers (Soviet Union)]]
|{{flag|USSR}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|10
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Ahmed Ben Bella]]<br/>(1918—2012)
|[[File:Président Ahmed Ben Bella.jpg|100px]]
|6 March 1964
|[[President of Algeria]]
|{{flag|Algeria}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|11
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Habib Bourguiba]]<br/>(1903—2000)
|[[File:Bourguiba 1960.jpg|100px]]
|31 March 1965
|[[List of Presidents of Tunisia|President of the Republic of Tunisia]]
|{{flag|Tunisia}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|12
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]<br/>(1904—1966)
|[[File:Lal Bahadur Shastri (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|18 July 1965
|[[Prime Minister of India]]
|{{flag|India}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|13
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Edvard Kardelj]]<br/>(1910—1979)
|[[File:Edvard Kardelj (5).jpg|100px]]
|24 January 1970
|federal political leader of [[SFR Yugoslavia]] and [[Order of the People's Hero]]
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|14
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Kenneth Kaunda]]<br/>(1924—2021)
|[[File:Kenneth Kaunda 1983-03-30.jpg|100px]]
|6 May 1970
|[[President of Zambia]]
|{{flag|Zambia}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|15
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Elizabeth II]]<br/>(1952—2022)
|[[File:Queen Elizabeth II in March 2015.jpg|100px]]
|17 October 1972
|[[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|Queen of the United Kingdom]]
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|<ref>{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title=Poseta Beogradu i govor kraljice Elizabete II iz 1972. godine|url=https://www.danas.rs/svet/moj-narod-se-sa-simpatijama-divi-nesalomljivom-duhu-vasih-gradjana-poseta-beogradu-i-govor-kraljice-elizabete-ii/|access-date=15 September 2022|work=danas.rs|date=15 September 2022|language=Serbian}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title=Kraljičin govor prilikom proglašenja za počasnu građanku Beograda|url=https://rs.n1info.com/vesti/kraljicin-govor-prilikom-proglasenja-za-pocasnu-gradjanku-beograda/|access-date=15 September 2022|work=rs.n1info.com|date=9 September 2022|language=Serbian}}</ref>
|-
|16
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Edward Gierek]]<br/>(1913—2001)
|[[File:Edward Gierek 1980.jpg|100px]]
|8 May 1973
|President of the [[Polish United Workers' Party]]
|{{flag|Polish People's Republic}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|17
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Nicolae Ceaușescu]]<br/>(1918—1989)
|[[File:Nicolae Ceaușescu.jpg|100px]]
|19 September 1976
|[[President of Romania]] и [[General Secretary]] of the [[Romanian Communist Party]]
|{{flag|Socialist Republic of Romania}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|18
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Hua Guofeng]]<br/>(1921—2008)
|[[File:Hua Guofeng-1.jpg|100px]]
|22 August 1978
|[[Premier of the People's Republic of China]] and [[Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party|Chairman]] of the [[Chinese Communist Party]]
|{{flag|China}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|19
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah]]<br/>(1926—2006)
|[[File:Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah 1998.jpg|100px]]
|17 September 1981
|[[Emir]] and thirteenth [[Sheikh]] of [[Kuwait]]
|{{flag|Kuwait}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|20
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[François Mitterrand]]<br/>(1916—1996)
|[[File:Reagan Mitterrand 1984 (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|16 December 1983
|[[President of France]]
|{{flag|France}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|21
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Kim Il Sung]]<br/>(1912—1994)
|[[File:Kim Il Sung Portrait-3.jpg|100px]]
|19 June 1984
|[[president of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea]]
|{{flag|North Korea}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|22
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Li Xiannian]]<br/>(1909—1992)
|[[File:Li Xiannian - 1974.jpg|100px]]
|4 September 1984
|[[President of the People's Republic of China]]
|{{flag|China}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|23
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Miguel de la Madrid]]<br/>(1934—2012)
|[[File:De la madrid1.jpg|100px]]
|26 January 1985
|[[President of Mexico]]
|{{flag|Mexico}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|24
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Julius Nyerere]]<br/>(1922—1999)
|[[File:Julius Nyerere cropped.jpg|100px]]
|15 March 1985
|[[President of Tanzania]]
|{{flag|Tanzania}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|25
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Nelson Mandela]]<br/>(1918—2013)
|[[File:Nelson Mandela-2008 (edit).jpg|100px]]
|15 May 2007
|[[President of South Africa]]
|{{flag|South Africa}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|26
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Miguel Ángel Moratinos]]<br/>(1951—)
|[[File:Miguel Ángel Moratinos 2008 (cropped).jpg|100px]]
|6 October 2009
|[[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Spain)|Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
|{{flag|Spain}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" />
|-
|27
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Tadashi Nagai]]<br/>(1943—)
|[[File:Small Coat of Arms Belgrade.svg|100px]]
|7 June 2010 
|[[Japanese people|Japanese]] Ambassador to [[Serbia]]
|{{flag|Japan}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="honorarycitizens2" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beograd.rs/cir/beoinfo/1721075-gradonacelnik-mali-sa-pocasnim-gradjaninom-beograda-tadasijem-nagaijem/|title=Gradonačelnik Mali sa počasnim građaninom Beograda Tadašijem Nagaijem|author=|date=14 March 2016|publisher=beograd.rs|access-date=1 November 2018|language=sr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110175134/http://www.beograd.rs/cir/beoinfo/1721075-gradonacelnik-mali-sa-pocasnim-gradjaninom-beograda-tadasijem-nagaijem/|archive-date=10 January 2018}}</ref>
|-
|28
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Li Keqiang]]<br/>(1955—)
|[[File:Li Keqiang-19052015.png|100px]]
|18 December 2014
|Prime Minister of China
|{{flag|China}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beograd.rs/cir/beoinfo/1638272-kineski-premijer-li-keciang-pocasni-gradjanin-beograda/|title=Kineski premijer Li Kečiang počasni građanin Beograda|author=|date=28 November 2014|publisher=beograd.rs|access-date=1 November 2018|language=sr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110174731/http://www.beograd.rs/cir/beoinfo/1638272-kineski-premijer-li-keciang-pocasni-gradjanin-beograda/|archive-date=10 January 2018}}</ref>
|-
|29
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Nikita Mikhalkov]]<br/>(1945—)
|[[File:Председатель Союза кинематографистов России Никита Михалков.jpeg|100px]]
|17 April 2015
|Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union
|{{flag|Russia}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="Handke, Mihalkov i Stoltenberg počasni građani prestonice">{{cite web |url=https://www.blic.rs/vesti/beograd/handke-mihalkov-i-stoltenberg-pocasni-gradani-prestonice/3n1k0ev |title=Handke, Mihalkov i Stoltenberg počasni građani prestonice |author= |date=25 February 2015 |publisher=blic.rs |access-date=1 November 2018 |language=sr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110180243/https://www.blic.rs/vesti/beograd/handke-mihalkov-i-stoltenberg-pocasni-gradani-prestonice/3n1k0ev |archive-date=10 January 2018  }}</ref><ref name="Handke, Mihalkov i Stoltenberg počasni građani Beograda">{{cite web |url=http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/125/drustvo/1840534/handke-mihalkov-i-stoltenberg-pocasni-gradjani-beograda.html |title=Handke, Mihalkov i Stoltenberg počasni građani Beograda |author= |date=25 February 2015  |publisher=rts.rs |access-date=1 November 2018|language=sr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110174412/http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/125/drustvo/1840534/handke-mihalkov-i-stoltenberg-pocasni-gradjani-beograda.html |archive-date=10 January 2018}}</ref>
|-
|30
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Peter Handke]]<br/>(1942—)
|[[File:Peter-handke.jpg|100px]]
|21 May 2015
|Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, screenwriter, Nobel Prize winner
|{{flag|Austria}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="Handke, Mihalkov i Stoltenberg počasni građani prestonice" /><ref name="Handke, Mihalkov i Stoltenberg počasni građani Beograda" />
|-
|31
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Thorvald Stoltenberg]]<br/>(1931—2018)
|[[File:Thorvald Stoltenberg 2009.jpg|100px]]
|1 October 2015
|Norwegian politician
|{{flag|Norway}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref name="Handke, Mihalkov i Stoltenberg počasni građani prestonice" /><ref name="Handke, Mihalkov i Stoltenberg počasni građani Beograda" />
|-
|32
!scope="row" style="text-align:center"|[[Arne Sannes Bjørnstad]]<br/>(1965—)
|[[File:Small Coat of Arms Belgrade.svg|100px]]
|6 December 2016
|Norwegian ambassador for Serbia
|{{flag|Norway}}
|<ref name="honorarycitizens" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blic.rs/vesti/beograd/beograd-sutra-dobija-31-pocasnog-gradjanina-da-li-znate-o-kome-je-rec/jjlpl0p |title=BEOGRAD SUTRA DOBIJA 31. POČASNOG GRAĐANINA Da li znate o kome je reč? |author= |date=5 December 2016|publisher= blic.rs|access-date=1 November 2018|language=sr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110212921/https://www.blic.rs/vesti/beograd/beograd-sutra-dobija-31-pocasnog-gradjanina-da-li-znate-o-kome-je-rec/jjlpl0p |archive-date=10 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beograd.rs/cir/beoinfo/1730412-ambasador-norveske-arne-sanes-bjernstad-pocasni-gradjanin-beograda_2/|title=Ambasador Norveške Arne Sanes Bjernstag počasni građanin Beograda|author=|date=1 November 2018|publisher=beograd.rs|access-date=1 November 2018|language=sr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110174728/http://www.beograd.rs/cir/beoinfo/1730412-ambasador-norveske-arne-sanes-bjernstad-pocasni-gradjanin-beograda_2/|archive-date=10 January 2018}}</ref>
|}

==See also==
*[[List of people from Belgrade]]
*[[List of honorary citizens of Niš]]
*[[List of honorary citizens of Novi Sad]]
*[[List of honorary citizens of Zrenjanin]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Honorary citizenship}}

[[Category:Lists of honorary citizens by city|Belgrade]]
[[Category:People from Belgrade|*]]
[[Category:Belgrade-related lists|Honorary citizens]]
[[Category:Serbian awards|Honorary citizens of Belgrade]]