The title of Honorary citizen of Belgrade has been awarded since 19 July 1954, although Josip Broz Tito and Peko Dapčević, were awarded even before, in 1945 and 1947. Majority of honorary citizens of Belgrade were high foreign officials, who were visiting SFR Yugoslavia. The title of Honorary citizen of Belgrade was reintroduced, after 21 years, in 2006.
So far, the honorary citizens of Belgrade have been:
Peko Dapčević, lieutenant general JNA and Order of the People's Hero - 20 October 1945
Josip Broz Tito, president of SFR Yugoslavia and League of Communists of Yugoslavia - 25 May 1947
Fyodor Tolbukhin, 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 - 25 May 1947
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia - 22 July 1954
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India - 1955
Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt - 1956
Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia - 1959
Leonid Brezhnev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Soviet Union) - 1962
Ahmed Ben Bella, President of Algeria 1964
Habib Bourguiba, President of the Republic of Tunisia - 1965
Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India - 1965
Edvard Kardelj, federal political leader of SFR Yugoslavia and Order of the People's Hero - 1970
Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia - 1970
Edward Gierek, President of the Polish United Workers' Party - 1973
Nicolae Ceaușescu, President of Romania и General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party - 1976
Hua Guofeng, Premier of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Communist Party of China - 1978
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir and thirteenth Sheikh of Kuwait - 1981
François Mitterrand, President of France - 1983
Kim Il-sung, president of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - 1984
Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China - 1984
Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico - 1985
Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania - 15 March 1985
Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa - 15 May 2007
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs - 6 October 2009
Tadashi Nagai, Japanese Ambassador to Belgrade (Serbia) - 7 June 2010
