2006 Honorees:
| Thad Allen Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard | A.G. Lafley CEO, Procter & Gamble |
| Nancy Barry President, Women's World Banking | Eric Lander Director, Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT |
| Donald Berkwick Founder, Institute for Healthcare Improvement | Patrick Lawler CEO, Youth Villages |
| Warren Buffet CEO, Berkshire Hathaway | Wynton Marsalis Artistic Director of Jazz, Lincoln Center |
| Charles Elachi Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Robert Moses Founder, The Algebra Project |
| Frank Gehry Architect | Marilyn Carlson Nelson CEO, Carlson Companies |
| Alan Khazei & Michael Brown Founders, City Year | Staff of the Times-Picayune |
| Joel Klein & Michael Bloomberg Chancellor, NYC Public Schools & Mayor, New York | Sandra Day O'Connor Ex-Associate Justice, SCOTUS |
| Wendy Kopp Founder, Teach for America | Paul Vallas CEO, Philadelphia Schools |
