List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name
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The following is a List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name. The Légion d'honneur is the highest order of France.
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Combined list of recipients (by last name):
[edit] A
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- Alfred Agache (painter)
- Ekrem Akurgal
- Pierre Albaladejo
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
- Henry Allingham
- Auguste Jean Ameil
- Dimitri Amilakhvari
- Jacques Ancel
- Wladyslaw Anders
- Alfred Anderson
- Colonel (later Brigadier General) AT Anderson
- Constantine Andreou
- Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
- Jacques Anquetil
- Geoffrey Arbuthnot
- Denys Arcand
- Elizabeth Arden
- Dombasle Arielle (1953-), French actress, singer, producer
- Edwin Howard Armstrong
- Szymon Askenazy
- Olivar Asselin
- Celal Atik
- Vera Atkins
- Pierre Augereau
- Jacqueline Auriol
- Charles Aznavour
[edit] B
- Victor Babes
- John Tremayne Babington
- Amitabh Bachchan - India
- Louis Bachelier
- Absalom Baird
- Josephine Baker
- Albert Ball
- Raffaello de Banfield
- François Barbé-Marbois
- Van T. Barfoot
- George Barnett
- Charles Barrois
- Jeanne Julia Bartet
- Maryse Bastié
- Paul Bazelaire
- Gérald Beaudoin
- Roger Beaufrand
- Thomas Beecham
- Azouz Begag
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Guillermo B. Belt (1906 - 1989), Cuban Diplomat.
- Józef Bem
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
- Jean Béraud
- Henri Bergson
- Louis Bernacchi
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Pier Luigi Bersani
- Louis Alexandre Berthier
- Pierre Berthier
- Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough
- Jean-Baptiste Bessières
- Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827–1898), Puerto Rican medical doctor, political leader and diplomat
- André Bettencourt
- Jacques Claude Beugnot
- Marthe Bibesco
- Marcel Bigeard
- Kenneth W. Bilby
- Carl Bildt
- Wilfred Bion
- Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet
- George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood
- Billy Bishop
- Harry Gore Bishop
- George G. Blackburn
- Tasker H. Bliss
- Denise Bloch
- Marc Boegner
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- Bono
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Frank Borland
- Wladyslaw Bortnowski
- Alfred Bossom, Baron Bossom
- Lucien Bouchard
- Georges Ernest Boulanger
- Pierre Boulle
- Frank Henry Bowater
- Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski
- Charles Boyer
- Ali Bozer
- Olga Boznanska
- Lloyd Samuel Breadner
- Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman
- Louis de Broglie
- Louis Bromfield
- Robert S. Brookings
- Romaine Brooks
- Margaret Brown
- John Bruce-Lockhart
- Angelique Brulon
- Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné
- Michael Bruxner
- Théophile Marie Brébant
- Frank Buckles
- Eugene Bullard
- Omar Bundy
- Robert Busnel
- Stephen Butcher (Royal Marine)
- Myles Byrne
[edit] C
- Alphonse de Cailleux
- René Caillié, French explorer.
- Italo Calvino (1923-1985), Italian author.
- Patrick de Cambourg
- Francis Cammaerts (1916-2006), British SOE operative during World War II.
- Jacques Camou (1792-1868), French general.
- Maxime Du Camp (1822-1894), French writer and photographer.
- Gordon Campbell (1886-1953), British Admiral.
- James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
- Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Erskine Nicolson, 3rd Baron Carnock
- Alexis Carrel
- Madeleine Carroll
- Henry H. Carter
- Mary Cassatt
- Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau
- Frederick Walker Castle
- Clifton B. Cates
- Albertus W. Catlin
- Marcel Caux
- Nicolae Ceausescu
- Cedric Prakash
- Ivica Ceresnjes
- Clifford Chadderton
- Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois
- Jean-Antoine Chaptal
- Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield
- Alexander Chavchavadze
- Ferdinand J. Chesarek
- Gabriel Chevallier
- Julia Child
- Dezydery Chlapowski
- Józef Chlopicki
- Winston Churchill
- Michel Ciment
- Wesley Clark
- Pierre Clostermann
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Jean Cocteau
- Colette
- Jean-Philippe Collard
- Eileen Collins
- J. Lawton Collins
- Sean Connery
- Cyril Connolly
- Charles H. Coolidge
- Julian Coolidge
- Corneliu Coposu
- William Corbet
- Charles H. Corlett
- Doina Cornea
- Pierre Auguste Cot
- Georges Courteline
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Edgar William Cox
- Paul Coze
- James Crafts
- Austen Crehore
- Kenneth Cummins
- Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
- Ivan Curkovic
- Arthur Currie
- Walerian Czuma
[edit] D
- Stefan Dab-Biernacki
- Jan Henryk Dabrowski
- Salvador Dalí
- Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920-) - Pakistani archaeologist
- Barney Danson
- Robert Darnton (1939-) - American cultural historian
- Raymond Daudel
- Paul Davenport
- Athanase David
- Michel David-Weill
- Michael S. Davison
- Louis-Nicolas Davout
- Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
- Clara Longworth de Chambrun
- George W. Deckard (1896-2001) USA WWI Veteran for service in France
- André Debry
- Reza Deghati (1952-), Iranian photojournalist.
- Simone Del Duca
- Cino Del Duca
- Léon Delagrange
- Sonia Delaunay
- Eugène Deloncle
- Gérard Depardieu
- William E. DePuy
- Louis Dewis
- Harry DeWolf
- Joseph T. Dickman
- Laure Diebold
- Céline Dion
- Jacques Diouf
- Do Cao Tri
- Douglas Dodds-Parker
- Arnold Dolmetsch
- Kees van Dongen
- William Joseph Donovan (1883-1959) USA WWI for service in France
- Gustave Doret
- Kirk Douglas
- Henry Doulton
- Wayne A. Downing
- Alfred Dreyfus
- Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt
- Francis P. Duffy
- Alexandre Dumas, fils
- Jules Dumont d'Urville
- Richard Saunders Dundas
- John Dunmore (1923-) - New Zealand historian
- Anny Duperey
- Charles François Dupuis
- Marcel Déat
- Durga Charan Rakshit - India
[edit] E
- Ira C. Eaker
- Clint Eastwood (1930-)
- Shirin Ebadi
- Félix Éboué
- Albert Edelfelt
- Clarence Ransom Edwards
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Duke Ellington
- Birger Kristian Eriksen
- Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans
- Léopold Eyharts
[edit] F
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
- František Fajtl
- Henry Farman
- Horace Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar
- Charles S. Farnsworth
- Faucher de Saint-Maurice
- Logan Feland
- Francis Worgan Festing
- David Feuerwerker
- Art Fiala
- Alfred Finnigan
- Eugène Fiset
- Hamilton Fish III
- Robert John Fleming
- Maurice Floquet
- Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers
- Ferdinand Foch
- René Fonck
- Just Fontaine
- George Forbes (scientist)
- Glenn Ford
- Victor Fortune
- Tsuguharu Foujita
- Maximilien Sebastien Foy
- Abraham Foxman
- Français of Nantes
- Auguste Franchomme
- Aleksander Fredro
- Paul L. Freeman, Jr.
[edit] G
- Gabby Gabreski
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela
- Valentino Garavani
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Timothy Garden, Baron Garden
- Jean-Claude Gaudin
- James M. Gavin
- Hobart R. Gay
- George Reginald Geary
- Jacob Casson Geiger
- Étienne Maurice Gérard
- Alain Gerbault
- Paul Gérin-Lajoie
- Leonard T. Gerow
- Gilberto Gil
- Guy Gilbert
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Pierre Gilliard
- Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
- Lady Feodora Gleichen
- Jane Goodall
- Allan Goodman
- Nadine Gordimer (1923-), South African novelist and writer
- Amédée Gordini
- Pete Goss
- Théodore Gosselin
- Henri Gouhier
- Bill Graham
- Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard
- David E. Grange, Jr.
- Ulysses S. Grant III
- Jules Gravereaux
- Cary Travers Grayson
- John Campbell Greenway
- Henri Grégoire
- Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
- Earle Davis Gregory
- Robert Gregory
- Jean Grelaud
- James Grierson
- Stanislaw Grzmot-Skotnicki
- Jean-Marie Guéhenno
- Jose Gustavo Guerrero (1876-1958), Salvadoran lawyer, First President of The International Court of Justice in Holland
- Gordon Guggisberg
- Sacha Guitry
- Ara Güler
- Björn Gunnlaugsson
[edit] H
- Haakon VII of Norway
- Oskar Halecki
- Arthur Halestrap
- Alphonse Halimi
- Józef Haller de Hallenburg
- User:Justyna M./Sandbox
- Lionel Halsey
- Edward Hamilton (officer)
- Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (1859-1939)
- Thomas T. Handy
- Hector Hanoteau
- Moses Hardy
- David A. Harris
- Arthur A. Hartman
- John F. "Jack" Hasey
- Ahmad Y Hassan
- Baron Haussmann
- Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul
- Michael Heidelberger
- Paul César Helleu
- Ray Henault
- Edward Henry
- Daniel Hernández (painter)
- Mahmoud Hesabi (1903-1992), Iranian scientist awarded the Legion in 1957 for his achievements.
- H. Kent Hewitt
- Gustave-Adolphe Hirn
- Lewis Hodges
- Frans van der Hoff
- Lucius Roy Holbrook
- Wilhelmina Holladay
- Bruce K. Holloway
- James L. Holloway III
- Robert R Holmes (1916-) for service in France during WW II
- Hans Reidar Holtermann
- Angus Houston
- Clark Howell
- Clarence R. Huebner
- Tom Hughes
- Victor Hugo
- Husain Bey, Crown Prince of Tunisia
- James Hutchison (British politician)
- Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
[edit] I
[edit] J
- Jean Michel Jarre
- George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
- Jean Jérome
- Jin Yong
- Joseph Joffre
- Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer)
- Leon W. Johnson
- Johnson, Percy Victor (1899 - 2003) for service in France during WW1
- Pierre Joliot
- Serge Joyal
- Mychal F. Judge
[edit] K
- Jean-Pierre Kahane
- Feridun Karakaya
- Juhani Kaskeala
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Frank B. Kellogg
- Gene Kelly
- Raymond W. Kelly
- Yasar Kemal
- Raymond Kendall
- Abbas Kiarostami (1940-), Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
- Philippe Kieffer
- Jean-Claude Killy
- Ernest King
- Julian Klaczko
- Franciszek Kleeberg
- Matti Klinge
- Dorothea Klumpke
- Karol Kniaziewicz
- Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
- William A. Knowlton
- Maurice Koechlin
- Wladyslaw Konopczynski
- Raymond Kopa
- Wojciech Kossak
- Lansana Kouyaté
- Jan Kozietulski
- Jacek Kuroń (1934-2004), Polish historian
- Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) Japanese film director, producer & screenwriter
- Yevhen Kushnaryov
- Stanislaw Kutrzeba
[edit] L
- Marcel L'Herbier
- John LaFarge
- René Lacoste
- Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
- Léo Richer Laflèche
- Frank Purdy Lahm
- Charles Laking
- Charles Lallemand
- Gustave Lanctot
- Bernard Landry
- Edgard de Larminat
- T. E. Lawrence
- Harold Lawton
- Henrik Lax
- Félix Leclerc
- Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
- Paul Legentilhomme
- James Gordon Legge
- Jean-Marie Lehn
- Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
- John A. Lejeune
- Curtis LeMay
- Lyman Lemnitzer
- Aimé Lepercq
- Victor Levasseur (général)
- René Lévesque
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Levon Sayan
- Jerry Lewis
- William Leymergie
- Hunter Liggett
- Charles Lindbergh
- Paavo Lipponen
- Jack Lockett
- William Edmond Logan
- Leonard Lomell
- Pierre Lorillard IV
- Jim Lovell
- Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat
- Cecil Lowther
- David Lynch
- Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard
[edit] M
- Douglas MacArthur, American general
- Ian MacGregor (1912-1998), Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist
- Frederick William MacMonnies
- Franciszek Macharski
- Nevil Macready
- Stanislaw Maczek
- Norman Mailer, American author
- Claude François de Malet
- Laure Manaudou
- Benoît Mandelbrot
- Édouard Manet (1832-1883), French painter awarded the Legion in 1881.
- Mangkra Souvannaphouma
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
- Alexander Mantashev
- Sir Frederick Mappin, 1st Baronet
- Marcel Marceau
- Peyton C. March
- André Marchal
- Anna Marly
- Auguste de Marmont
- Jacques Maroger
- Albert Marshall
- George Marshall
- Richard Marshall (American general)
- Gregory S. Martin
- Charles Marx
- André Masséna
- Mateja Matevski
- Jan Matejko
- Olivier Elzéar Mathieu
- Ginette Mathiot
- Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis champion
- François Mauriac
- Daniel Maximin
- Peter Mayle
- Paddy Mayne
- John P. McConnell
- Cyrus McCormick
- James "Earthquake McGoon" McGovern Jr.
- Lesley J. McNair
- Joseph T. McNarney
- Étienne Méhul
- Georges Méliès
- Antoine Brutus Menier
- Henri Menier
- Emile-Justin Menier
- Honoré Mercier
- Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
- Luc-Olivier Merson
- Olivier Messiaen
- Paul Métivier
- André Meyer
- Joseph François Michaud
- Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud
- Niko Miljanić
- George Millar
- Franklin Miller
- Nancy Mitford
- Luc Montagnier
- Prosper Montagné
- Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet
- Philippe de Montebello
- Raymond Monvoisin
- James Moore (cyclist)
- Charles Antoine Morand
- Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles
- Émilienne Moreau-Evrard
- Daniel Morelon
- Michèle Morgan
- Akio Morita
- Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
- Leslie Morshead
- John Murray (soldier)
- James Mortimer
- Serge Moscovici
- Paul Mounet
- Gerard Muirhead-Gould
- Audie Murphy (1925-1971), American war hero, actor, songwriter
- Alfred de Musset (1810-1857), French dramatist, poet, novelist
[edit] N
- Zdzislaw Najder
- Juan-David Nasio
- Martin Dunbar-Nasmith
- Klaus Naumann
- Shahram Nazeri (1950-), Iranian musician and singer awarded the Legion in 2007.
- Philip Neame
- Wendell Cushing Neville
- Simon Newcomb
- Michel Ney
- Prince Nicholas of Romania
- Anna de Noailles
- Philippe Noiret
- Lauris Norstad
[edit] O
- Richard O'Connor
- Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf
- François-Joseph d'Offenstein
- Olav V of Norway
- Joseph Francis Olliffe
- Mathieu Orfila
- Philippe Antoine d'Ornano
- Sherard Osborn
- Wladyslaw Ostrowski
- Terence Otway
[edit] P
- John Painter
- Boris Pahor
- Maurice Papon (1910-2007), awarded the Legion in 1961, convicted for crimes against humanity in 1998-99 for his role during Vichy and consequently dismissed from the order on November 18, 1999
- Jacques Parizeau
- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
- Earle E. Partridge
- Louis Pasteur
- Harry Patch
- George S. Patton
- Luciano Pavarotti
- George Pearce
- Malik Peiris, Hong Kong doctor/professor
- John Lysaght Pennefather
- Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon
- František Peřina
- Joseph-Xavier Perrault
- Jean Baptiste Perrin
- Philippe Perrin
- John J. Pershing
- Zinovy Peshkov
- Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur
- Frank Pickersgill
- François-Édouard Picot
- Abbé Pierre
- Desmond Piers
- Józef Pilsudski
- Harold Pinter
- Tadeusz Piskor
- Michel Platini
- Georges René Le Peley de Pléville
- James H. Polk
- Józef Antoni Poniatowski
- Lily Pons
- Elvira Popescu (1894-1993), Romanian-born French actress
- Paolo Portoghesi
- Marjorie Merriweather Post
- Stanislaw Kostka Potocki
- Colin Powell
- Ignacy Pradzynski
- Alain Prost
- Denys Puech
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Edson Raff
- Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
- Joseph Ralston
- Fidel V. Ramos
- Bertram Ramsay
- Axel Rappe (born 1838)
- Satyajit Ray
- William Hoey Kearney Redmond
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Gordon Michael Reeves
- William Edward Moyses Reilly
- Jean Rémy
- Ernest Renan
- Rosalie Rendu
- Géraud Réveilhac (1851-1937), Général de division of World War I, Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur
- Robert C. Richardson, Jr.
- René Riffaud (1898-2007), Tunisian veteran of World War I
- Antoine Rigaudeau
- William Roberts (veteran)
- Thomas B. Robinson
- Yves Rocard
- David Rockefeller
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- Henryk Rodakowski
- Auguste Rodin
- George Rodocanachi
- Pierre Louis Roederer
- Felix Rohatyn
- Paul Rohmer
- Manfred Rommel (1928-), German politician
- Maurice Rose
- Charles Rosenthal
- Marie-Thérèse Rossel
- Gioachino Rossini
- Claudia Roth
- Alphonse James de Rothschild
- Alfred de Rothschild
- James Mayer de Rothschild
- Marie-Hélène de Rothschild
- Joseph Rovan
- Stefan Rowecki
- James Earl Rudder
- Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet
- Bruce Ruxton
- Edward Rydz-Smigly
- Louis Renault
[edit] S
- Sakip Sabanci
- Pari Saberi (1932-), Iranian drama and theatre director, awarded this in 2004.
- Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
- Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko
- Pura Santillan-Castrence
- Karine Saporta
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Jalal Sattari (?-), Iranian Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator.
- Satyajit Ray, prominent film maker and artist from India. Mr. Ray was also awarded the Oscar as a Life Time Achievement Award by the Academy of Motion Pictures, USA.
- Jérôme Savary
- Paolo Scaroni
- Ary Scheffer
- Dominique Schnapper
- Eugène Schneider
- Pierre Schneiter
- Martin Scorsese
- Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta
- Edgar Sengier
- Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou (1941-), Iranian writer and literary figure.
- Andrzej Seweryn
- Henryk Siemiradzki
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Wladyslaw Sikorski
- Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
- Edward David Smout
- Jan Smuts
- Thomas D'Oyly Snow
- Jacob Söderman
- Michał Sokolnicki (1760-1816), Polish general
- Józef Sowinski
- Carl Andrew Spaatz
- John Strange Spencer-Churchill
- Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill
- Steven Spielberg, American film director/producer
- Waclaw Stachiewicz
- Milan Rastislav Štefánik
- Johannes Steinhoff
- Ninian Stephen
- Anthony Coningham Sterling
- Joseph Stilwell
- Sharon Stone, American actress
- Bill Stone
- Julius Streicher, German National Socialist, publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer. He received the award 1939 before the war started.
- Barbra Streisand
- Doveton Sturdee
- Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie
- Evelyne Sullerot
- Stevan Šupljikac
- Léopold Survage
- Nikolai Sverchkov
- Stefan Szlaszewski
[edit] T
- Éric Tabarly
- Tapani Erling
- Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- François Tavenas
- Maxwell D. Taylor
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Nüvit Tekül, Prof. Dr. (1921-2005), Turkish Professor of Medicine, awarded the Legion (Insigne du Chevalier) in 1982
- Charles Tellier
- Iran Teymourtash
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Harold Warris Thompson
- Sir Henry Worth Thornton, also awarded Distinguished Service Medal and Order of Leopold (Belgium)
- Germaine Tillion
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Jean Todt
- Edward Tomkins
- Mira Trailovic
- Catherine Trautmann
- Constant Troyon
- Louis W. Truman
- Lap-Chee Tsui
- Adélard Turgeon
- Desmond Tutu
- Nathan Farragut Twining
[edit] U
[edit] V
- Tony Vaccaro, U.S. war photographer, in 1994.
- Rose Valland
- Alexander Vallaury
- Ninette de Valois
- Joost van Vollenhoven
- Hoyt Vandenberg
- Cornelius Vanderbilt III
- George Vari
- Vincent-Marie Viénot, comte de Vaublanc
- Jules Verne
- Ben Verwaayen
- Jehan Georges Vibert
- Galina Vishnevskaya
[edit] W
- Nancy Wake
- Rose Warfman
- Oswald Watt
- Ben Weider
- Léon Weil
- Arnold Weinstock
- David Weisstub
- Wladyslaw Wejtko
- Arsène Wenger, Arsenal Football Club Manager (2002)
- William Westmoreland
- Maxime Weygand
- Joseph Weyland
- Edith Wharton
- Earle Wheeler
- Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski
- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, Nobel Laureate (2000)
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Arthur Knyvet Wilson
- Henry Hughes Wilson
- Jean-Pierre Wimille
- Edwin B. Winans (U.S. Army general)
- Evelyn Wood (British army officer)
- Klaus Wowereit
- Reinhold Würth
[edit] X
- (none listed)
[edit] Y
- Michelle Yeoh
- Alvin York
- Mark Young (British revolutionary)
- William Young (veteran)