Three natives of the city have been formally honored by the British Crown:

The filmmakers were formally honored at the Innocence Network's annual gathering of exonerees and legal counsel.

In 2007, the group was formally honored at the 4th VH1 Hip Hop Honors.

In 2000, twenty years after the collision, Flores was formally honored for his bravery.

Real Salt Lake was formally honored by President Barack Obama at a press conference in the White House on June 4, 2010.

Chrebet was formally honored by the New York Jets on "Wayne Chrebet Day" during halftime of the September 23rd, 2007 game against the Miami Dolphins.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Maryland University in 1984, and was formally honored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

World Food Prize Laureates are formally honored at the World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony annually on or near October 16, United Nations World Food Day.

As popular and highly regarded as had been The Big Sky, The Way West was the novel in the sequence to be formally honored with the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

He was formally honored along with these two kings and their wives in the Preah Ko temple in Roulous, built by King Indravarman I and inaugurated in 880 AD.