- Renowned architect, whose projects include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney concert hall in Los Angeles. His style is characterized by a sculptural approach to architecture.
- Awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1989.
- In 2001, he renovated the wine cellar in the home of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. Pitt subsequently did an informal apprenticeship in Gehry's Los Angeles office.
- He was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1998 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
- Received an honorary diploma from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004.
- He was awarded the C.C. (Companion of the Order of Canada) on November 12,2002 for his services to architecture.
- Became a US citizen in 1950.
- Santa Monica, California (June 2007)
- He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Barack Obama, in a live televised ceremony held in the East Room of the White House, on November 22, 2016, along with twenty other recipients, the the largest, and final Medal of Freedom ceremony of Obama's presidency. At this ceremony, the twenty-one recipients, in alphabetical order, included: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elouise Cobell (posthumous award given to her son), Ellen DeGeneres, Robert De Niro, Richard Garwin, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Frank Gehry, Margaret Hamilton (as Margaret H. Hamilton), Tom Hanks, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (posthumous award given to her niece), Michael Jordan, Maya Lin, Lorne Michaels, Newton Minow, Eduardo Padron (as Eduardo Padrón), Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Vin Scully, Bruce Springsteen, and Cicely Tyson.
- Parents' main business was selling and servicing slot machines.
- Attended Bloor Collegiate Institute in Toronto.
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