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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):
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- Alfred Agache (painter)
- Akihito, Emperor of Japan
- Ekrem Akurgal
- Pierre Albaladejo
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
- Henry Allingham
- Auguste Jean Ameil
- Dimitri Amilakhvari
- Jacques Ancel
- Władysław Anders
- Alfred Anderson
- Colonel (later Brigadier General) AT Anderson
- Constantine Andreou
- Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
- Albert Anker
- 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
- Charles Aznavour
- J.M.Abdul Aziz, (1905-1958) Director Generale of JM Abdul Aziz et Fils, also awarded the French Red Cross, Nichan Iftikhar, Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar, Royal Order of Sahametrei of Cambodia and Extreme Orient.
B
- Behic Erkin
- 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
- Denis Barois
- Théophile Barrau
- Charles Barrois
- Dieudonne Bart
- Jeanne Julia Bartet
- Maryse Bastié
- Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (1786-1838) French Mathematician and Engineer
- Pierre-Dominique (Adolphe) Bazaine (1809-1893) French Railway Engineer
- Francois Achille Bazaine (1811-1888) Marshal of France
- George Albert Bazaine-Hayter (1843-1914) French General
- Paul Bazelaire
- Gérald Beaudoin
- Roger Beaufrand
- Thomas Beecham
- Azouz Begag
- Alexander Graham Bell
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Maurice Bowra
- Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
- Charles Boyer
- Ali Bozer
- Olga Boznańska
- 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
C
- Alphonse de Cailleux
- René Caillié, explorateur français.
- Italo Calvino (1923-1985), italien auteur.
- 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.
- James Brudenell, 7e comte de Cardigan
- Carl XVI Gustaf de Suède
- Erskine Nicolson, 3e Baron Carnock
- Alexis Carrel
- Madeleine Carroll
- Henry H. Carter
- Mary Cassatt
- Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau
- Frédéric Walker Castle
- Clifton B. Cates
- Albertus W. Catlin
- Marcel Caux
- Nicolae Ceausescu
- Cedric Prakash
- Ceresnjes Ivica
- Clifford Chadderton
- Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois
- Jean-Antoine Chaptal
- Jean Charest
- Martin Charteris, le baron de Charteris Amisfield
- Alexander Chavchavadze
- Jean Cherqui
- Ferdinand J. Chesarek
- Gabriel Chevallier
- Julia Child
- Dezydery Chlapowski
- Józef Chlopicki
- Michel Ciment
- Wesley Clark
- 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
- Kenneth Cummins
- Andrew Cunningham, 1er vicomte Cunningham de Hyndhope
- Ivan Curkovic
- Arthur Currie
- Walerian Czuma
D
- Stefan Dąb-Biernacki
- Jan Henryk Dąbrowski
- 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 World War I Veteran for service in France
- 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
- Céline Dion
- Jacques Diouf
- Do Cao Tri
- Douglas Dodds-Parker
- Arnold Dolmetsch
- Kees van Dongen
- 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 François Dupuis
- Marcel Déat
- Durga Charan Rakshit - India
E
- Ira C. Eaker
- Clint Eastwood (1930-)
- Shirin Ebadi
- Félix Éboué
- Albert Edelfelt
- Clarence Ransom Edwards
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Duke Ellington
- Birger Eriksen
- Thomas W. Evans
- Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans
- Léopold Eyharts
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- 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
- Eugen Filotti
- Alfred Finnigan
- Hicri Fişek
- Şadan Fişek
- Eugène Fiset
- Hamilton Fish III
- Renee 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
- Maximilien Sebastien Foy
- Abraham Foxman
- Français of Nantes
- Auguste Franchomme
- Aleksander Fredro
- Paul L. Freeman, Jr.
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- 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
- Josephine deGersdorff
- Colonel Walter Giblin WWII Deputy Director O.S.S. Paris
- Henri Giffard
- Pierre Giffard
- 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
- 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
H
- Haakon VII of Norway
- 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
- 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
I
Thierry Henry, Received his award in 1998 for scoring three goals for France in the 1998 Fifa World Cup Final, aiding France to Victory
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
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
K
- Jean-Pierre Kahane
- Feridun Karakaya
- Juhani Kaskeala
- Bentley Kassal
- Harry B. Kates, Jr WW2 Veteran (1923- )
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Tevfik Remzi Kazancıgil, Turkish physician and Professor in Medicine, received the Légion d'honneur on September 14, 1954[1]
- Frank B. Kellogg
- Gene Kelly
- Raymond W. Kelly
- Yasar Kemal
- Raymond Kendall
- 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[2] [3] [4]
- Philippe Kieffer
- Jean-Claude Killy
- Ernest King
- Julian Klaczko
- Franciszek Kleeberg
- Matti Klinge
- Dorothea Klumpke
- Karol Kniaziewicz
- Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
- Blanche Knopf, American publisher, was made Officier of the Legion d'Honneur 1960 in recognition of her work publishing French literature.
- 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
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
- Janez Lenarčič, Slovene diplomat
- Aimé Lepercq
- Victor Levasseur
- 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
M
- Aníbal Milhais Portuguese soilder in Battle of La Lys
- 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
- 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.
- Leonard William McKiel
- 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
- 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
- Michèle Morgan
- Akio Morita
- Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
- Leslie Morshead
- John Murray (soldier)
- Ennio Morricone
- 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
- Mamadou Moustapha Sall Secretary General of Cams
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
- Pierre Notting
- Claude Nahon
- William Nutley
O
- 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
- Seiji Ozawa
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
- Asha Pandey
- Jacques Parizeau
- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
- Earle E. Partridge
- Louis Pasteur
- Harry Patch
- George S. Patton
- 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
- John Lysaght Pennefather
- Jacques Perfettini
- 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
- 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
- Denys Puech
Q
- Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, King of Persia
- Edgar Quinet
- Lt. Gen. William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" Quinn, American General
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-Śmigły
- Louis Renault
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
- Władysław Sikorski
- Rodrigo Augusto da Silva Brazilian foreign minister and Senator in 1889, Grand Cross.
- 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
- Bruce Sundlun
- Stevan Šupljikac
- Léopold Survage
- Nikolai Sverchkov
- Stefan Szlaszewski
- Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood actor.
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
- Maurice Thevenet
- 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
U
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
- Violette Verdy
- Jules Verne
- Ben Verwaayen
- Jehan Georges Vibert
- Galina Vishnevskaya
W
- 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
- Jean-Pierre Wimille
- Edwin B. Winans (U.S. Army general)
- Evelyn Wood (British army officer)
- Klaus Wowereit
- Reinhold Würth
X
- (none listed)
Y
- Michelle Yeoh
- 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
- ^ Tarihte Bugün (Today in History)
- ^ "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
List of Canadians awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1998, for service in World War I
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