List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name
The following is a List of some Légion d'honneur recipients by name. The Légion d'honneur is the highest order of France. A complete, chronological list of the members of the Legion of Honour nominated from the very first ceremony in 1803 to now does not exist. The number is estimated at one million including about 2 900 Grand Cross.[1]
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Combined list of recipients (by last name):
A
- Nils Waltersen Aasen
- Claudio Abbado
- Louise Abbéma
- Isabelle Adjani
- Alfred Agache (painter)
- Akihito, Emperor of Japan
- Ekrem Akurgal
- Hossein Alizâdeh Iranian composer
- Azzedine Alaïa
- Pierre Albaladejo
- Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- Jean Alesi French former Formula 1 driver and a racing driver
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
- Marcel Henri Allain One of 110 World War I veterans awarded the Légion d'honneur on 80th anniversary of the armistice.
- Henry Allingham
- Auguste Jean Ameil
- Dimitri Amilakhvari
- Jacques Ancel
- Władysław Anders
- Alfred Anderson
- Colonel (later Brigadier General) AT Anderson
- Alexander E Anderson USS General A. E. Anderson (AP-111)
- Constantine Andreou
- Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
- Albert Anker
- Gregory Annenberg Weingarten
- Regina Annenberg Weingarten
- 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
- Richard Attenborough
- Pierre Augereau
- Jacqueline Auriol
- Bahram Aryana (1906-1985), Grand Officier of the Légion d'Honneur, former Chief of Staff of the Shah's Armed Forces
- Charles Aznavour
- J.M.Abdul Aziz of Saigon IndoChine and South India
- Admiral Mohammad Anwar Mohammad Nor, Chief of Defence Force of Malaysia (2007)
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
- Senedu Araya-Sellassie, Founder of Vision on Africa, VoA
- Omar Soliman, (Omar Mahmoud Soliman), Egyptian Spy Chief till 2011
B
- Michel Bacos[2]
- Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna – India
- Behiç Erkin
- Victor Babes
- John Tremayne Babington
- Amitabh Bachchan – India
- Louis Bachelier
- Absalom Baird
- Josephine Baker
- Albert Ball
- Raffaello de Banfield
- François Barbé-Marbois
- John J. Barcelo III - American Law Professor
- Van T. Barfoot
- Karno Barkah - Indonesian aviation pioneer
- Michael Barker - Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics
- George Barnett
- Denis Barois
- Théophile Barrau
- Charles Barrois
- Dieudonne Bart
- Jeanne Julia Bartet
- Dame Shirley Bassey
- Maryse Bastié
- Luc-Marie Bayle
- Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (1786–1838) French Mathematician and Engineer
- Pierre-Dominique (Adolphe) Bazaine (1809–1893) French Railway Engineer
- François Achille Bazaine (1811–1888) Marshal of France
- George Albert Bazaine-Hayter (1843–1914) French General
- Paul Bazelaire
- Cecil Beaton
- Gérald Beaudoin
- Roger Beaufrand
- Thomas Beecham
- Azouz Begag
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Sir Francis Dillon Bell New Zealand Statesman
- Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Vice President At-Large of The Washington Post
- Jean-Louis Bélard
- Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Guillermo B. Belt (1906–1989), Cuban diplomat.
- Józef Bem
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
- Jean Béraud
- Henri Bergson
- Louis Bernacchi
- Claude Bernard, physiologist, founding father of modern physiology and endocrinology
- Tom Bernard - Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics
- Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour
- 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
- Íngrid Betancourt
- André Bettencourt
- Jacques Claude Beugnot
- Marthe Bibesco
- Marcel Bigeard
- Kenneth W. Bilby
- Carl Bildt
- Pierre Armand Gaston Billotte
- Maria Ilva Biolcati Italian singer and actress
- Wilfred Bion
- Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet
- George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood
- Billy Bishop
- Harry Gore Bishop
- Monique de Bissy
- George G. Blackburn
- Sergent Blandan
- Tasker H. Bliss
- Denise Bloch
- Rene Boas
- Marc Boegner
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- Claude Bolling
- Bono
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Frank Borland
- Władysław Bortnowski
- Alfred Bossom, Baron Bossom
- Lucien Bouchard
- Georges Ernest Boulanger
- Pierre Boulle
- Antoine Bourseiller
- Frank Henry Bowater
- Maurice Bowra
- Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
- Charles Boyer
- Ali Bozer
- Olga Boznańska
- Jean Branger Chevalier Captain 8th infantry regiment by Imperial order of légion d´honneur by decree on the 26th décembre 1852.
- Lloyd Samuel Breadner
- Yves Bréchet
- Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman
- Louis de Broglie
- Louis Bromfield
- Robert S. Brookings
- Romaine Brooks
- Daniel Brottier
- John Nicolas Brown II, Philanthropist
- Margaret Brown
- Josip Broz Tito, Leader of Yugoslavia
- John Bruce-Lockhart
- Angelique Brulon
- Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné
- Henri Brunier
- Charles F. Bruns
- Michael Bruxner
- Théophile Marie Brébant
- Frank Buckles, American soldier
- Jean-Eugène Buland, French painter
- Eugene Bullard, African American aviator and soldier
- Omar Bundy, American general
- Richard Burrows, Chairman of British American Tobacco
- Robert Busnel
- Stephen Butcher
- Richard E. Byrd - American admiral and explorer
- Myles Byrne
C
- Alphonse de Cailleux
- René Caillié, explorateur français.
- Italo Calvino (1923–1985), auteur italien.
- Patrick de Cambourg
- Francis Cammaerts (1916–2006), en Colombie SOE pour fonctionner Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
- Jacques Camou (1792–1868), français général.
- Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894), écrivain et photographe français.
- Gordon Campbell (1886–1953), l'amiral britannique.
- Iris Cantor
- James Brudenell, 7e comte de Cardigan
- Carl XVI Gustaf de Suède
- Erskine Nicolson, 3rd Baron Carnock
- Alexis Carrel
- Madeleine Carroll
- George Carter-Campbell
- Henry H. Carter
- Paul Daniel Cartron
- Mary Cassatt
- Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau
- Jacques Jean Félix Casties, a former airline pilot in an airline; 43 years of professional and military services.[3]
- Frédéric Walker Castle
- Clifton B. Cates
- Albertus W. Catlin
- Marcel Caux
- Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Cedric Prakash
- Ivan Ceresnjes
- Clifford Chadderton
- Edgar Chahine
- Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois
- Jean-Pierre Changeux
- Jean-Antoine Chaptal
- Jean-Martin Charcot, physician, founding father of modern neurology
- Jean Charest
- Émilie Charmy[4]
- Martin Charteris, le baron de Charteris Amisfield
- Ngô Bảo Châu[5]
- Alexander Chavchavadze
- Jean Cherqui
- Ferdinand J. Chesarek
- Louis Chevalier (1911–2001), French historian[6]
- Gabriel Chevallier
- Julia Child
- Dezydery Chlapowski
- Józef Chlopicki
- Michel Ciment
- Jean-Pierre Clamadieu
- Wesley Clark
- Eugent Clarke Jamaican British West Indies Regiment veteran of WWI
- Adolphe Clément-Bayard – industrialist – 1912
- Pierre Clostermann
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Jean Cocteau
- Colette
- Isidore Noel Cohard
- 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
- Gérard Coste
- Pierre Auguste Cot
- Georges Courteline
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Edgar William Cox
- Paul Coze
- Artisanat James
- Austen Crehore
- David Cronenberg, Canadian film director.
- Kenneth Cummins
- Andrew Cunningham, 1er vicomte Cunningham de Hyndhope
- Ève Curie
- Ivan Curkovic
- Arthur Currie
- Walerian Czuma
D
- Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810-1897) French explorer, geographer, and astronomer
- Stefan Dąb-Biernacki
- Jan Henryk Dąbrowski
- Abdelkader El Djezairi
- Salvador Dalí
- Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–) – Pakistani archaeologist
- Barney Danson
- Robert Darnton (1939–) – American cultural historian
- Raymond Daudel
- Madeleine Hamm Dautartas
- Paul Davenport
- Walter J. Davey (1897–2001) British World War I Veteran for service in France
- Athanase David
- Michel David-Weill
- Miles Davis
- Michael S. Davison
- Louis-Nicolas Davout
- Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
- Clara Longworth de Chambrun
- George W. Deckard (1896–2001) USA World War I Veteran for service in France
- Odile Decq (1955-), architect
- André Debry
- Reza Deghati (1952–), Iranian photojournalist.
- Simone Del Duca
- Cino Del Duca
- Léon Delagrange
- Sonia Delaunay
- Eugène Deloncle
- Mimi Denisi (Μιμή Ντενίση), Greek actress
- Gérard Depardieu
- William E. DePuy
- Louis Dewis
- Harry DeWolf
- Joseph T. Dickman
- Laure Diebold
- Marlene Dietrich
- Céline Dion
- Jacques Diouf
- Do Cao Tri
- Douglas Dodds-Parker
- Arnold Dolmetsch
- Kees van Dongen
- Francis Patrick Donovan
- William Joseph Donovan (1883–1959) USA World War I 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-Edmond Duponchel (1804-last mention 1860) for military service to France
- Charles François Dupuis
- Marcel Déat
- Durga Charan Rakshit – India
- Bob Dylan — U.S. recording artist
E
- Ira C. Eaker
- Clint Eastwood (1930–)
- Shirin Ebadi
- Félix Éboué
- Albert Edelfelt
- Clarence Ransom Edwards
- Frank Steven Edwards
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- William Elder (1897-2004)
- Duke Ellington
- John R. Emmert Sr.
- Gunnel Engwall, Swedish professor (chevalier 2003)
- Laurence Equilbey, choral conductor
- Birger Eriksen
- Thomas W. Evans
- Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans
- Léopold Eyharts
- Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
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
- Benjamin Eugene Fichel, artist, awarded 1870
- Eugen Filotti
- Carlos Finlay
- Alfred Finnigan
- Hicri Fişek
- Pierre Farah, Pr., Surgeon, Member of the French Academy of Medicine.
- Şadan Fişek
- Eugène Fiset
- Hamilton Fish III
- Gustave Flaubert
- Renée Fleming
- Robert John Fleming
- Maurice Floquet
- Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers
- Ferdinand Foch
- René Fonck
- Just Fontaine
- George Forbes (scientist)
- Glenn Ford
- Victor Fortune
- Tsuguharu Foujita
- Georges Fournier
- Jacques Fournier - (1924-) French industrialist and president of Dumez
- Maximilien Sebastien Foy
- Abraham Foxman
- Français of Nantes
- Auguste Franchomme
- Aleksander Fredro
- Paul L. Freeman, Jr.
- Frederick Carl Frieseke
- Varian Fry
G
- Gabby Gabreski
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela
- Aurel H. Gamache 66th Infantry Division, World War II
- 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
- Josephine de Gersdorff
- Colonel Walter Giblin World War II Deputy Director O.S.S. Paris
- Henri Giffard
- Pierre Giffard
- Gilberto Gil
- Guy Gilbert
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Françoise Gilot
- Pierre Gilliard
- Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
- Lady Feodora Gleichen
- Franck Goddio (1947-), French underwater archaeologist
- Rick Goings
- Jane Goodall
- Allan Goodman
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India
- Nadine Gordimer (1923–), South African novelist and writer
- Amédée Gordini
- Bart Gordon [7]
- Pete Goss
- Derrick Gosselin
- 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
- Michel Guérard
- 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
- Georges Guynemer
H
- Haakon VII of Norway
- Otto von Habsburg[8]
- Otto Hahn
- Oskar Halecki
- Arthur Halestrap
- Alphonse Halimi
- Józef Haller de Hallenburg
- Lionel Halsey
- Edward Hamilton (officer)
- Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (1859-1939)
- Thomas T. Handy
- Hector Hanoteau
- Moses Hardy
- Saad Hariri[9]
- David A. Harris
- Walter Burton Harris
- Arthur A. Hartman
- John F. "Jack" Hasey
- Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
- Baron Haussmann
- Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul
- Michael Heidelberger
- Paul César Helleu
- Ray Henault
- Edward Henry
- Thierry Henry
- Daniel Hernández (painter)
- H. Kent Hewitt
- René Alphonse Higonnet
- Gustave-Adolphe Hirn
- Lewis Hodges
- Frans van der Hoff
- Lucius Roy Holbrook
- Wilhelmina Holladay
- Bruce K. Holloway
- James L. Holloway III
- 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
I
- Khalil Ibrahim Pasha
- Jean Ichbiah
- René Iché
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves
- Im Kwon-taek
- Daniel Inouye, US Senator from Hawaii
- Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
J
- Jean Michel Jarre
- Jean-Paul Jauffret
- George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
- Jean Jérome
- Jin Yong
- Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Fa Ndeb Joof (King of Sine, reigned : 1898-1924)
- Joseph Joffre
- Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer)
- Leon W. Johnson
- Johnson, Percy Victor (1899–2003) for service in France during WW1
- Pierre Joliot
- Françoise-Hélène Jourda, architect
- Louis Jourdan, French actor
- Serge Joyal
- Mychal F. Judge
- Sir John Kotelawala
K
- Jan Kaczmarek
- Jean-Pierre Kahane
- Feridun Karakaya
- Juhani Kaskeala
- Bentley Kassal
- Harry B. Kates, Jr WW2 Veteran (1923–)
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Danny Kaye[10]
- Tevfik Remzi Kazancıgil, Turkish physician and Professor in Medicine, received the Légion d'honneur on September 14, 1954[11]
- Frank B. Kellogg
- Gene Kelly
- Raymond W. Kelly
- Yasar Kemal
- Raymond Kendall
- Duncan Kerr was conferred with the insignia of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur on 23 August 2011
- Mohamad Keyvan, Iranian civil engineer, poet, scholar – Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Abbas Kiarostami (1940–), Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer
- Dame Carol Kidu (1948–), Papua New Guinean politician and human rights campaigner[12][13][14]
- Philippe Kieffer
- Jean-Claude Killy
- Young-Oak Kim
- Ernest King
- Julian Klaczko
- Franciszek Kleeberg
- Matti Klinge
- Dorothea Klumpke
- Karol Kniaziewicz
- Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
- Blanche Knopf, American publisher, was made Officier of the Légion d'honneur 1960 in recognition of her work publishing French literature.
- William A. Knowlton
- John Immanuel Knudson, Professor of History and Economics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, received honor in 1935.
- Maurice Koechlin
- Wladyslaw Konopczynski
- C. Everett Koop, 1980 [15]
- 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
L
- Marcel L'Herbier
- Jean-Marc de La Sablière
- John LaFarge
- René Lacoste
- Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
- Léo Richer Laflèche
- Frank Purdy Lahm
- Johan Laidoner
- Charles Laking
- Charles Lallemand
- Gustave Lanctot
- Bernard Landry
- Claude Lanzmann
- Edgard de Larminat
- T. E. Lawrence
- Harold Lawton
- Henrik Lax
- Eusebio Leal
- 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
- Janez Lenarčič, Slovene diplomat
- Charles-Amable Lenoir
- Aimé Lepercq
- Jean-François Le Sueur, French Composer
- Victor Levasseur
- René Lévesque
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Levon Sayan
- Edward Mann Lewis
- Henry Balding Lewis
- 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
- Major-General Leonardo González García, Mexican Air Force Commander
M
- Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour, The president of Suez Canal Authority in Egypt 1965–1983
- Douglas MacArthur, American general
- Ian MacGregor (1912–1998), Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist
- Frederick William MacMonnies
- Franciszek Macharski
- Nevil Macready
- Stanisław Maczek, Polish general
- Auguste Antoine Maestracci For military and civil service – awarded in 1913
- Norman Mailer, American author
- Claude François de Malet
- Laure Manaudou
- Benoît Mandelbrot
- Édouard Manet (1832–1883), French painter awarded the Legion in 1881.
- Lata Mangeshkar, India
- Mangkra Souvannaphouma
- Charles Mangin
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland
- Alexander Mantashev
- Sir Frederick Mappin, 1st Baronet
- Marcel Marceau
- Peyton C. March
- André Marchal
- Anna Marly
- Auguste de Marmont
- Jacques Maroger
- Wynton Marsalis
- Albert Marshall
- George Marshall
- Richard Marshall (American general)
- Gregory S. Martin
- Charles Marx
- Henri Gratte Maskens (Captain in the Service of Napoleon 1) 1787–1871
- André Masséna
- William Massey (Prime Minister of New Zealand 1912–1925)
- Mateja Matevski
- Jan Matejko
- Mireille Mathieu
- Olivier Elzéar Mathieu
- Ginette Mathiot
- Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis champion
- François Mauriac
- Daniel Maximin
- Peter Mayle
- Paddy Mayne
- Paul McCartney
- John P. McConnell
- Cyrus McCormick
- James "Earthquake McGoon" McGovern Jr., American World War II and First Indochina War pilot
- Leonard William McKiel
- Beverly McLachlin
- Lesley J. McNair
- Joseph T. McNarney
- Joe Medicine Crow, last war chief of the Crow tribe
- 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
- Corinne Metzelopoulos
- André Meyer
- Joseph François Michaud
- Aníbal Milhais, Portuguese World War I hero
- Darius Milhaud
- Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud
- Madeleine Milhaud
- Niko Miljanić
- George Millar
- Syd Millar
- Franklin Miller
- Nancy Mitford
- Mizan Zainal Abidin, Sultan of Terengganu and current Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
- 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
- Roland Moreno[16]
- Michèle Morgan
- Akio Morita
- Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
- Leslie Morshead, Australian general
- John Murray (soldier)
- Ennio Morricone
- James Mortimer
- Serge Moscovici
- Paul Mounet
- Gerard Muirhead-Gould
- Axel Munthe, physician and writer
- Audie Murphy (1925–1971), American war hero, actor, songwriter
- Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French dramatist, poet, novelist
- Riccardo Muti
- Mamadou Moustapha Sall Secretary General of Cams
- Mongkut King of Thailand
N
- Zdzislaw Najder
- Ehsan Naraghi
- 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
- Richard Norton
- Pierre Notting
- Claude Nahon
- William Nutley
O
- Georges Ouégnin,directeur du protocole d'Etat ivoiriens
- Müşir (Mareşal) Ömer Fevzi Paşa
- Brian O'Connell
- 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
- Władysław Ostrowski
- Terence Otway
- Andranik Ozanian
- Seiji Ozawa
P
- John Painter (supercentenarian)
- James Pacillo one of the 100 selected D-Day veterans awarded the Légion d'Honneur on 6 June 2004
- Boris Pahor
- Euzhan Palcy
- 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
- Asha Pandey
- Paul Paray
- Jacques Parizeau
- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
- Tony Parker
- Arvo Pärt
- Earle E. Partridge
- Louis Pasteur
- Harry Patch
- George S. Patton, American general
- Gen Paul
- Luciano Pavarotti
- George Pearce
- Barthélémy Pedinielli, a appartenu au 3e régiment de tirailleurs algériens et fut élevé au rang de Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur Décoré au Péril de la Vie pour son engagement lors de la seconde guerre mondiale aux côtés des forces françaises libres.
- Malik Peiris, Hong Kong doctor/professor
- Claiborne Pell, United States Senator
- John Lysaght Pennefather
- Jacques Pépin
- Jacques Perfettini
- Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon
- Lester James Peries- Prolific Sri Lankan film director and recipient of Srilankabhimanya
- František Peřina
- Joseph-Xavier Perrault
- Jean Baptiste Perrin
- Philippe Perrin
- John J. Pershing
- Zinovy Peshkov
- Edmund S. Phelps
- Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur
- Frank Pickersgill
- François-Édouard Picot
- Abbé Pierre
- Desmond Piers
- Józef Pilsudski
- Max L. Pilliard
- Harold Pinter
- Tadeusz Piskor
- Michel Platini
- Georges René Le Peley de Pléville
- James H. Polk
- Elena Poniatowska
- Józef Antoni Poniatowski
- Lily Pons
- Elvira Popescu (1894–1993), Romanian-born French actress
- Paolo Portoghesi
- Marjorie Merriweather Post
- Stanisław Kostka Potocki
- Colin Powell
- Ignacy Pradzynski
- Alain Prost
- Gilbert Pritzel
- Denys Puech
Q
- Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, King of Persia
- Edgar Quinet
- Lt. Gen. William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" Quinn, American General
- Quino, Argentine cartoonist
R
- Edson Raff
- Maryse Rageul
- Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
- Joseph Ralston
- Fidel V. Ramos
- Charlotte Rampling
- Bertram Ramsay
- Axel Rappe (born 1838)
- 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.
- Robert Redford American actor
- William Hoey Kearney Redmond
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Major 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
- Jacqueline de Ribes
- Robert C. Richardson, Jr.
- René Riffaud (1898–2007), Tunisian veteran of World War I
- Antoine Rigaudeau
- Eric Ripert
- William Roberts (veteran)
- Thomas Bilbe Robinson
- Yves Rocard
- David Rockefeller
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- Henryk Rodakowski
- Auguste Rodin
- George Rodocanachi
- Pierre Louis Roederer
- Jacques Rogge
- Felix Rohatyn
- Paul Rohmer
- Manfred Rommel (1928–), German politician
- Maurice Rose
- Charles Rosenthal
- Marie-Thérèse Rossel
- Gioachino Rossini
- Claudia Roth
- JK Rowling
- 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-Śmigły
- Louis Renault
- Nano Ružin
S
- Anne Cécile Schmitt 1917-2011, Awarded for actions in World War Two.
- 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.
- Jérôme Savary
- Paolo Scaroni
- Ary Scheffer
- Dominique Schnapper
- Eugène Schneider
- Pierre Schneiter
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., US General
- Martin Scorsese
- Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta
- Edgar Sengier
- Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou (1941–), Iranian writer and literary figure.
- Andrzej Seweryn
- Ravi Shankar, India
- Henryk Siemiradzki
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Władysław Sikorski
- Rodrigo Augusto da Silva Brazilian foreign minister and Senator in 1889, Grand Cross.
- Kumar de Silva - Sri Lanka
- Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki
- Edward David Smout
- Jan Smuts
- Thomas D'Oyly Snow
- Nelson Socorro, Venezuelan attorney, politician
- Jacob Söderman
- Michał Sokolnicki (1760–1816), Polish general
- Jean-Pierre Sourdin, ancien directeur d'un journal français en Australie; 51 ans d'activités professionnelles, associatives et de services militaires.
- 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
- Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz, baron Strolz
- Doveton Sturdee
- Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie
- Evelyne Sullerot
- Bruce Sundlun
- Stevan Šupljikac
- Léopold Survage
- Nikolai Sverchkov
- Stefan Szlaszewski
- Shah Rukh Khan
T
- Éric Tabarly
- Tapani Erling
- Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
- François Tavenas
- Elizabeth Taylor
- 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
- Maurice Thevenet
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Harold Warris Thompson
- Joseph R. Thompson, U.S. Army World War II veteran, awarded the Legion (Insigne du Chevalier) in 2012
- Sir Henry Worth Thornton, also awarded Distinguished Service Medal and Order of Leopold (Belgium)
- Jean Thurel
- Germaine Tillion
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Jean Todt
- J. R. D. Tata
- Edward Tomkins
- Mira Trailovic
- Catherine Trautmann
- Constant Troyon
- Louis W. Truman
- Lap-Chee Tsui
- André Tulard
- Jean Turcan
- Adélard Turgeon
- John Joseph Turk, U.S. Army World War II Veteran, awarded the Medal of Knight of the Legion of Honor in December 2013
- Desmond Tutu
- Nathan Farragut Twining
- Tunali Ismail, Commendatore della Repubblica Italiana
U
- Józef Unrug
- Arturo Uslar Pietri
- Pierre Uzac
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
- Jan G.F. Veldhuis
- Violette Verdy
- Jules Verne
- Ben Verwaayen
- Jehan Georges Vibert
- Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet, Catholic Bishop and Council Father at Vatican II
- Galina Vishnevskaya
- John T. Van Rensalier, 150 US Battalion Headquarters, First World War; Also received the Medal of Millitaire.
W
- James Waddell (French Foreign Legion)
- Youssef Wahba Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt
- Mourad Wahba Pasha
- Sadek Wahba Pasha
- Magdi Wahba
- Nancy Wake
- Mark Wainberg, Leading Canadian AIDS Researcher
- 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
- Wong Kar Wai
- Jean-Pierre Wimille
- Edwin B. Winans (U.S. Army general)
- Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)
- Klaus Wowereit
- Severin Wunderman
- Reinhold Würth
X
Y
- Michelle Yeoh
- Steven C. Yevich
- Alvin York
- Mark Young (British revolutionary)
- William Young (veteran)
- Yash Chopra
Z
- Giuliano Zaccardelli
- Józef Zajączek
- Zygmunt Zaleski
- Lucjan Zeligowski
- Zinedine Zidane
- Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.
References
- ↑ WATTEL Michel et Béatrice, Les Grand'Croix de la Légion d'honneur. De 1805 à nos jours, titulaires français et étrangers, Archives et Culture, 2009
- ↑ "Entebbe Postscript", Flight International, 17 July 1976, p. 122
- ↑ "Decree of 19 April 2000 on the promotion and appointment". Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honor. 19 April 2000. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ↑ Petteys, Chris, ‘’Dictionary of Women Artists’’, G K Hill & Co. publishers, 1985
- ↑ ORDRE NATIONAL DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR
- ↑ Ratcliffe, Barrie M. (2010). Philip Daileader; Philip Whalen, ed. French historians 1900–2000. Chichester, UK; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 112–135. ISBN 978-1-4051-9867-7.
- ↑ http://www.ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article3896
- ↑ "Otto von Habsburg" (PDF) (in German). Parliamentary group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
- ↑ "Mubarak For Lebanon Compromise". Goliath.ecnext.com. March 26, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
- ↑ "French Honor Danny Kaye". The Modesto Bee. February 26, 1986. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- ↑ "Tarihte Bugün (Today in History)". Tarihtebugun.gen.tr. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
- ↑ "French honour for Dame Carol", Liama Abaijah, The National, February 13, 2009
- ↑ "Décoration de Dame Carol Kidu", French embassy to Papua New Guinea, February 12, 2009
- ↑ Dame Carol's speech upon receiving the Légion d'honneur
- ↑ http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/koop/cek/
- ↑ Schofield, Jack (2012-04-30). "Roland Moreno obituary, Smart-card inventor who missed out on global recognition but was a hero in France". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
List of Canadians awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1998, for service in World War I