| Nationality |
Military Rank |
Name |
Date |
Political offices(s) |
Military offices(s) |
Comments |
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General |
Godert van der Capellen |
14 February 1821 |
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
(1816–1826) |
Commander-in-chief of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
(1819) |
Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (17/11/1817) |
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Jan Jacob Rochussen |
10 October 1841 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1858–1860)
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
(1845–1851) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (28/11/1840)
Elevated to Commander from Knight (04/07/1829) |
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Floris Adriaan van Hall |
2 April 1844 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1853–1856, 1860–1861) |
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Schelto van Heemstra |
18 August 1860 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1861–1862) |
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Johan Rudolph Thorbecke |
7 June 1863 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1849–1853, 1862–1866, 1871–1872) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (14/01/1851) |
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Jan Heemskerk |
1 May 1878 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1874–1877, 1883–1888) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (25/09/1867) |
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Aeneas Mackay |
27 May 1905 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1888–1891)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
(1884–1885, 1901–1905) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (17/02/1890) |
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Pieter Cort van der Linden |
10 May 1926 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1913–1918) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (1901) |
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Dirk Fock |
7 September 1926 |
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
(1921–1926)
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
(1917–1920)
Governor of Suriname
(1908–1911) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (10/10/1920) |
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Major |
Hendrikus Colijn |
6 January 1937 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1925–1926, 1933–1939) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (30/08/1926) |
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Willem Lodewijk de
Vos van Steenwijk |
30 August 1938 |
President of the Senate of the Netherlands
(1929–1946) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (30/08/1933) |
 |
General of the Army |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
6 October 1945 |
President of the United States
(1953–1961) |
Supreme Allied Commander Europe
(1951–1952)
Chief of Staff of the United States Army
(1945–1948) |
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General |
Henri Winkelman |
14 April 1946 |
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Commander-in-chief of the Armed
forces of the Netherlands
(1940) |
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Captain |
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy |
6 May 1946 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1940–1945) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Knight (28/08/1930) |
 |
Lieutenant colonel |
Sir Winston Churchill |
1946 |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(1940–1945, 1951–1955) |
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Field marshal |
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount
Montgomery of Alamein |
16 January 1947 |
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Chief of the Imperial General Staff
(1946–1948) |
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|
Roelof Kranenburg |
4 September 1948 |
President of the Senate of the Netherlands
(1946–1951) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Knight (30/08/1939) |
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Willem Drees |
22 December 1958 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1948–1958) |
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Konrad Adenauer |
1960 |
Chancellor of Germany
(1949–1963) |
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Walter Hallstein |
1968 |
President of the European Commission
(1958–1967) |
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|
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Marshal |
Josip Broz Tito |
1970 |
President of Yugoslavia
(1953–1980)
Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
(1944–1963) |
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Louis Beel |
28 June 1972 |
Vice President of the Council of State of the Netherlands
(1959–1972)
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1946–1948, 1958–1959) |
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Sicco Mansholt |
18 December 1972 |
President of the European Commission
(1972–1973)
European Commissioner for Agriculture
(1958–1972) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (7 January 1958) |
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Lieutenant |
Jelle Zijlstra |
18 November 1981 |
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1966–1967) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (27 July 1963) |
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Richard von Weizsäcker |
1987 |
President of Germany
(1984–1994) |
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Second lieutenant |
Ruud Lubbers |
8 October 1994 |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(2001–2005)
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
(1982–1994) |
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Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Knight (11/04/1978) |
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Kofi Annan |
2006 |
Secretary-General of the United Nations
(1997–2006) |
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Ivan Gašparovic |
21 May 2007 |
President of Slovakia
(1998, 2004–2014)
Speaker of the National Council of Slovakia
(1992–1998) |
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Valdas Adamkus |
2008 |
President of Lithuania
(1998–2003, 2004–2009) |
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves |
2008 |
President of Estonia
(2006–2016) |
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Lech Wałęsa |
2008 |
President of Poland
(1990–1995) |
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Abdullah Gül |
17 April 2012 |
President of Turkey
(2007–2014)
Prime Minister of Turkey
(2002–2003) |
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Giorgio Napolitano |
23 October 2012 |
President of Italy
(2006–2015)
President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
(1992–1994) |
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François Hollande |
20 January 2014 |
President of France
(2012–2017) |
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Ban Ki-moon |
19 April 2016 |
Secretary-General of the United Nations
(2007–2016) |
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Lieutenant admiral |
Conrad Helfrich |
Unknown |
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Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy
(1945–1948)
Commander of the ABDACOM Naval Forces
(1942) |
|
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General |
Walter Bedell Smith |
Unknown |
United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
(1946–1948) |
Commander of the First United States Army
(1949–1950) |
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Helmut Kohl |
Unknown |
Chancellor of Germany
(1982–1998) |
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Seaman |
Joseph Luns |
Unknown |
Secretary General of NATO
(1971–1984) |
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Cardinal Johannes de Jong |
Unknown |
Archbishop of Utrecht
(1936–1955) |
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Martti Ahtisaari |
Unknown |
President of Finland
(1994–2000) |
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Field marshal |
Jan Smuts |
Unknown |
Prime Minister of South Africa
(1919–1924, 1939–1948) |
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Field marshal |
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke |
Unknown |
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Chief of the Imperial General Staff
(1941–1946)
Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces
(1940–1941)
Commander-in-Chief, Southern Command
(1939, 1940) |
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Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp |
Unknown |
Vice President of the Council of State of the Netherlands
(1814–1816) |
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Cardinal Bernardus Johannes Alfrink |
Unknown |
Archbishop of Utrecht
(1955–1975) |
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Major-general |
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone |
Unknown |
Governor General of Canada
(1940–1946)
Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
(1924–1930) |
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Admiral of the Fleet |
Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount
Cunningham of Hyndhop |
Unknown |
Lord High Steward
(1953) |
First Sea Lord
(1943–1946) |
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Charles de Broqueville |
Unknown |
Prime Minister of Belgium
(1911–1918, 1932–1934) |
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General |
Porfirio Díaz |
Unknown |
President of Mexico
(1876, 1877–1880, 1884–1911) |
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