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The following is a list of Goodwill Ambassadors along with the projects and activities they support.

• Antonio Abreu - Peace through the music
• Alicia Alonso - Promotion of ballet ( Intangible Program Inheritance )
• Patrick Baudry - Education of the youth
• Pierre Berge - HIV/AIDS issues, Cultural Heritage
• Grace Bumbry - Project of UNESCO "Road of slavery"
• Montserrat Caballé - Fundraising for children in distress and victims of war
• Pierre Cardin -
• Claudia Cardinale - Promotion of Women's Rights, especially women in the Mediterranean
• Marin Constantin - Music and World Heritage
• Catherine Deneuve - Protection of Film Heritage and Cultural Heritage
• Cheick Modibo Diarra - Promotion of education, especially in sciences, sustainable development in Africa
• Miguel Angel Estrella - Promotion of Culture of Peace and Tolerance through Music
• Vigdis Finnbogadottir - Promotion of linguistic diversity, Women's right and Education
• Princess Firyal - Humanitarian action, Refugees, World Heritage, Education of street children, HIV/AIDS prevention, Women's Rights, especially Arab women
• Ivry Gitlis - Support of Education and Culture of Peace and Tolerance
• Bahia Hariri - Preservation of World Heritage, Education, Culture, the Environment, Women's Rights and sustainable development in the Arab world
• Ikuo Hirayama - Safeguarding of the world cultural heritage by the rescue of the Sites and Monuments in danger
• Jean Michel Jarre - Youth and Tolerance, Defense of the world Heritage and the environment
• Omer Zülfü Livaneli - Peace and Tolerance through the music and the promotion of the humans right
• Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg - Main Area of Interest: Education, Woman's Rights, Microfinance and Campaign against poverty
• Lily Marinho - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Poverty
• Rigoberta Menchu Tum - Promotion of Culture of Peace, Protection of Rights of Indigenous People
• Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco - Protection of Childhood and Women's Rights
• Kitín Muñoz - Protection and Promotion of Indigenous Culture and environment
• Ute-Henriette Ohoven - (UNESCO Special Ambassador for the Education of Children in Need) - Education, UNESCO Programme Children in Need
• Edson Arantes do Nascimento ( Pelé) - Promotion of sports as a means of alleviating poverty and drug use
• Kim Phuc Phan Thi - Children and innocent victims of war
• Renzo Piano - Protection and Rehabilitation of World Heritage
• Susana RinaldiSusana Rinaldi (born 25 December 1935) is an Argentine tango singer. Rinaldi was born in Buenos Aires. She studied theater at the Theater School of the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica. She made her professional debut at the end of the 1960s, singing tang - Street Children, Culture of Peace
• Mstislav Rostropovitch - Art Education, Humanitarianism, Cultural Heritage
• Sheikh Ghassan I. Shaker - Fundraising, children and women in need and victims of war, education, microfinance
• Madanjeet Singh - Support to Sustainable Development through Communication and Information in South Asia, through projects of micro-credit, communication and information, Prix Madanjeet SINGH - UNESCO for the tolerance
• Wole SoyinkaAkinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (b. July 13, 1934 in Nigeria) is a Yoruba writer and the first African winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. Soyinka is very active in Nigerian politics; during the Nigerian Civil War he was detained and put in - Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, African Culture
• Zurab TsereteliEunice Kennedy Shriver Zurab Tsereteli (born January 4, 1934 in Georgia) is a Russian painter, sculptor and architect who graduated from the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi. Tsereteli was appointed professor in the Russian Academy of Arts and president of the - Cultural and artistic projects
• Giancarlo Elia Valori - Safeguarding Intangible Heritage
• Marianna Vardinoyannis - Protection of Childhood and promotion of cultural olympiads, humanitarian relief to war victims
• Julio Werthein - Education, Culture, Environment