List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (M)
The following is a list of some notable 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 3,000 Grand Cross.[1]
- Douglas MacArthur
- Ian MacGregor (1912–1998), Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist
- Frederick William MacMonnies
- Franciszek Macharski
- Nevil Macready
- Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina
- Stanisław Maczek, Polish general
- , For military and civil service – awarded in 1913
- Norman Mailer
- Jean-Christophe Maillot
- Jacques Maisonrouge
- Claude François de Malet
- Laure Manaudou
- Steve Mandanda, World Cup winning footballer
- Benoît Mandelbrot
- Édouard Manet (1832–1883), French painter awarded the Legion in 1881
- Lata Mangeshkar, India
- Charles Mangin
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
- Alexander Mantashev
- Frederick Mappin
- Sir Frederick Mappin, 1st Baronet
- Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot, French general
- Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot, French general
- Marcel Marceau
- Peyton C. March
- André Marchal
- Stanley Marcus[2]
- Maria of Yugoslavia, Consort of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia
- Anna Marly
- Lara Marlowe, American journalist
- Auguste Marmont
- Jacques Maroger
- Paule Marrot (1902–1987), Parisian textile designer
- Wynton Marsalis
- Albert Marshall
- George Marshall
- Richard Marshall (American general)
- Gregory S. Martin
- Henri Martre
- Charles Marx
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour, President of Suez Canal Authority in Egypt 1965–1983
- , Captain in the Service of Napoleon 1, 1787–1871
- André Masséna
- William Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1912–1925
- Isabelle Massieu (1844-1932), French traveler, photographer and writer[3]
- Jan Matejko
- Mateja Matevski
- Mireille Mathieu
- Olivier Elzéar Mathieu
- Ginette Mathiot
- Blaise Matuidi, World Cup winning footballer
- Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis champion
- François Mauriac
- Daniel Maximin
- Peter Mayle
- Paddy Mayne
- Robert Blair Mayne
- Kylian Mbappé, World Cup winning footballer
- Paul McCartney
- John P. McConnell
- Cyrus McCormick
- James "Earthquake McGoon" McGovern Jr., American World War II and First Indochina War pilot
- Beverly McLachlin
- Lesley J. McNair
- Joseph T. McNarney
- Merrill A. McPeak
- Joe Medicine Crow, Last war chief of the Crow tribe
- Zubin Mehta
- Étienne Méhul
- Georges Méliès
- Antoine Brutus Menier
- Benjamin Mendy, World Cup winning footballer
- Henri Menier
- Emile-Justin Menier
- Honoré Mercier
- Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
- Yves Mersch
- Luc-Olivier Merson
- Olivier Messiaen
- Paul Métivier
- Corinne Metzelopoulos
- André Meyer
- Gerald C. Meyers[4]
- Joseph François Michaud
- Aníbal Milhais, Portuguese World War I hero
- Darius Milhaud
- Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud (removed from the Légion after the second restoration of Louis XVIII)
- Madeleine Milhaud
- Niko Miljanić
- George Millar
- Syd Millar
- Franklin Miller
- Charles Joseph Minard
- Živojin Mišić
- Francis Mitchell (Royal Navy officer)
- Nancy Mitford
- Mizan Zainal Abidin, Sultan of Terengganu and current Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
- Robert Mondavi
- Mongkut, King of Thailand
- Jacques Monod, Molecular biologist
- Luc Montagnier
- Prosper Montagné
- Jean-Pierre de Montalivet
- Philippe de Montebello
- Agénor Azéma de Montgravier
- Raymond Monvoisin
- Charles Moore[5]
- James Moore (cyclist)
- Charles Antoine Morand
- Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles
- Charles Paul Narcisse Moreau
- Émilienne Moreau-Evrard
- Daniel Morelon
- Roland Moreno[6]
- Michèle Morgan
- Eugène Moret, Officier
- Akio Morita
- Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
- Ennio Morricone
- Leslie Morshead
- James Mortimer
- Serge Moscovici
- Lamia Moubayed Bissat (July 13, 2015)
- Paul Mounet
- , Secretary General of Cams
- Gerard Muirhead-Gould
- Brian Mulroney
- Axel Munthe, Physician and writer
- ,[7] World War II veteran (2019)
- Audie Murphy (1925–1971), U.S. Army soldier, actor, songwriter
- John Murray (soldier)
- Leonard W. Murray
- Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French dramatist, poet, novelist
- Riccardo Muti
Notes[]
- ^ 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
- ^ "The furrowed brow," Archived 2011-05-29 at the Wayback Machine TIME Magazine, April 4, 1949. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
- ^ "Isabelle MASSIEU fut la première occidentale à se rendre, non seulement au Laos, en 1897, mais dans bon nombre de contrées lointaines de l'Inde, de l'Asie, de la Chine…". Lao Mag (in French). 2016-05-12. Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 2018-12-26.
- ^ "Photograph caption". Ward's Auto World. 17: 29. 1981. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ^ Caemmerer, H. Paul. "Charles Moore and the Plan of Washington." Records of the Columbia Historical Society. Vol. 46/47 (1944/1945): 237-258 254.
- ^ 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 2013-06-21.
- ^ Mortimer, Luke (3 May 2019). "Veteran awarded Legion of Honour decades after service in WWII". Daily telegraph. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
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