List of recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta
The List of recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta includes notable recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta sorted by their profession.
Where possible it also lists their country of origin and order grade. People highly distinguished in more than one field have duplicate entries.
Art
Business and Economics
Education
Film
Literature
Military
- Franciszek Alter — Polish general
- Władysław Anders — commander of the Polish Armed Forces in the West (Commander's Cross)
- Tasker H. Bliss — American Chief of Staff of the US Army
- O.L Bodenhamer — National Commander of The American Legion
- Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko — Polish general (Officer's Cross)
- Władysław Bortnowski — Polish general (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Omar Bradley — American General of the Army
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz — Polish military intelligence officer
- Antoni Chruściel — commander of all Polsih armed forces of the Warsaw Uprising (Grand Cross)
- Victor Crutchley — British admiral
- Hieronim Dekutowski — one of commanders of Wolnosc i Niezawislosc (Grand Cross)
- John Dill — British Field Marshal
- Bolesław Bronisław Duch — Polish general (Officer's Cross)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — President of the United States of America, Supreme Allied Commander
- Wanda Gertz — Polish resistance fighter
- Józef Haller de Hallenburg — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
- William Holmes — British general (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Wilm Hosenfeld — German officer (Commander's Cross)
- Norman Hulbert — British officer
- Ludwik Idzikowski — Polish aviator and pioneer (Officer's Cross)
- Wacław Jędrzejewicz — Polish soldier and diplomat (Grand Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski — Polish general and resistance fighter (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Jan Karcz — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
- Adam Koc — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
- Stanisław Kopański — Polish general (Grand Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Józef Kowalski — Polish supercentenarian and last veteran from the Polish-Soviet war 1919-1921
- Władysław Kozaczuk — Polish officer and historian (Knight's Cross)
- Roman Krzyżelewski — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross, Knight's Cross)
- Tadeusz Kutrzeba — Polish general (Commander's Cross, Knight's Cross)
- Witold Łokuciewski — Polish fighter ace (Commander's Cross, Knight's Cross)
- Douglas MacArthur — American Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces
- Peyton C. March — US Army Chief of Staff
- Wacław Micuta — participant in the Warsaw Uprising, UN diplomat (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Joseph T. McNarney — American general (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Martin Dunbar-Nasmith — British officer
- Adam Nieniewski — Polish officer (Officer's Cross)
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski — Polish officer
- Earle E. Partridge — American general
- Hubert Perring — British officer, for services to 303 Squadron
- Sławomir Petelicki — Polish commander of GROM (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Witold Pilecki — Polish resistance fighter
- Stanley George Culliford — New Zealand Pilot, for services during Operation Motyl.
- Jadwiga Piłsudska — Polish aviator, daughter of Józef Piłsudski
- Józef Piłsudski — Prime Minister of Poland, First Marshal, Chief of State
- Stanisław Popławski — Polish general (Grand Cross, Commander's Cross with Star, Commander's Cross)
- Arthur John Power — British admiral
- Wacław Przeździecki — Polish officer (Commander's Cross)
- Władysław Raginis — Polish officer (Grand Cross)
- Stefan Rowecki — Polish general (Knight's Cross)
- Wilhelm Orlik-Rueckemann — Polish general and military pioneer (Commander's Cross)
- Edward Rydz-Śmigły — Marshal of Poland
- Jan Rządkowski — Polish general
- Danuta Siedzikówna — Polish nurse
- Władysław Sikorski — general, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
- Jan Sobczyński — Polish painter and soldier
- Stanisław Sosabowski — Polish general
- Włodzimierz Steyer — Polish admiral (Commander's Cross, Officer's Cross)
- Zygmunt Szendzielarz — Polish commander of the 5th Vilnian Home Army Brigade (Grand Cross)
- Stefan Sznuk — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
- Antoni Szylling — Polish general
- Władysław Wejtko — Polish general (Commander's Cross)
- Józef Zając — Polish general
- Mariusz Zaruski — Polish general (Grand Cross)
- Włodzimierz Kubala - Polish colonel, military attorney. (Commander's Cross)
Music
Politics
- Władysław Bartoszewski — Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (Commander's Cross with Star)
- Andrzej Butkiewicz — Political activist and co-founder of the Student Solidarity Committee (Knight's Cross)
- Adam Bromke — Professor of International Affairs— Statesman (Grand Cross)
- Andrzej Czuma — Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — President of the United States of America, Supreme Allied Commander
- Henryk Józewski — Polish artist and politician
- Mariusz Kamiński — Polish politician, head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau (Commander's Cross)
- Jan Kułakowski — Polish politician, member of the European Parliament (Commander's Cross with Star)
- János Esterházy — most prominent ethnic Hungarian politician in former Czechoslovakia.
- John Lesinski, Sr. — American congressman
- Léon Noël (1888-1987), French ambassador and politician (Grand Cross).
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański — Polish resistance fighter and activist, Radio Free Europe
- Piotr Nowina-Konopka — Polish politician (Officer's Cross)
- Alvin M. Owsley — American politician
- Józef Piłsudski — Prime Minister of Poland, First Marshal, Chief of State
- Adam Piłsudski — Polish senator
- Marek Rocki — Polish economometrist and politician (Knight's Cross)
- Jan Rulewski — Polish politician, activist of Solidarity; a Member of the Polish Sejm (1991-2001) and a Senator. (Commander's Cross)
- Michał Seweryński — Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education (Knight's Cross)
- Władysław Sikorski — general, Prime Minister of Poland, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile
- Mário Soares — Prime Minister and President of Portugal
- Edward Szczepanik — Polish economist and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile (Knight's Cross)
- Lech Wałęsa — President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner (Knight's Cross)
Religion
Royalty
Science and Engineering
- Ryszard Bartel — Polish aviation pioneer (Knight's Cross)
- Gerard Ciołek — Polish architect and historian of parks and gardens (Knight's Cross)
- Jan Chodorowski — Polish materials science engineer (Officer's Cross)
- Tadeusz Chyliński — Polish airplane constructor (Knight's Cross)
- Zbigniew Kabata — Polish parasitologist (Grand Cross)
- Stanisław Mrozowski — Polish-American physicist
- Jan Nagórski — Polish aviation pioneer
- Marian Rejewski — Polish mathematician, breaker of the Enigma cipher (Grand Cross)
- Tadeusz Sendzimir — Polish-American inventor (Officer's Cross)
- Czesław Strumiłło — Professor of Chemical and Process Engineering (Commander's Cross)
- Mirosław Vitali — Polish prosthetics pioneer
- Kazimierz Żorawski — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross)
- Halina Leszczynska— Professor of Chemistry (Officer's Cross)
- Czeslaw Olech — Polish mathematician (Commander's Cross)
Sport
Other