List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur by country

The following is a list of notable foreign members of the Legion of Honor by their country of origin.

Foreign nationals who live in France are submitted to the same requirements as Frenchmen.

Foreign nationals who live abroad may be awarded a distinction of any rank or dignity in the Légion.

[citation needed] A complete, chronological list of the members of the Legion of Honor nominated from the very first ceremony in 1804 to now does not exist.

Some of the most notable recipients include: Officer The Légion d'Honneur was awarded to 746 members of the British Armed Forces during the Crimean War, 1854–1856.

Ismail Kadare
Abdelkader El Djezairi wearing the sash of the Légion d'honneur in 1860
General Andranik Ozanian, Armenian military commander and statesman
Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston wearing his Légion d'honneur and other insignia in 2009.
Lieutenant-General Baron Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude
Baron Descamps is wearing the medal on his chest.
Count de Smet de Naeyer, knight Grand Cross
José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco . Wearing the sash of the Légion d'honneur and other orders in 1875.
Janab JM Abdul Aziz of Saigon born in Koothanallur wears the Legion on his left among other Orders [ citation needed ]
Amos Oz
Giustino Fortunato , prime minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Lulwah Al-Qatami
1901 – Caballero – Légion d'honneur – Fernando Ferrari Pérez
Thami El Glaoui , Pasha of Marrakech
Chandra Shamsher
Comm. Pres. Manuel Quezon wearing the Legion of Honor during his inauguration in 1935.
Painting of Józef Poniatowski on horse
The Bride of Death by Thomas Jones Barker , commissioned by Louis Philippe I in 1839 for his daughter, Princess Marie; now in the Victoria Art Gallery .
James Baldwin
Kirk Douglas
Alan Greenspan
Jerry Lewis
George S Patton
Eleanor Roosevelt
Steven Spielberg
Buchenwald concentration camp , photo taken 16 April 1945, five days after liberation of the camp. Wiesel is in the second row from the bottom, seventh from the left, next to the bunk post. [ 652 ]