List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (S)
The French government gives out the Legion of Honour awards, to both French[1] and foreign[2] nationals, based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France. This award is divided into five distinct categories (in ascending order[3]), i.e. three ranks: Knight, Officer, Commander, and two titles: Grand Officer and Grand Cross. Knight is the most common and is awarded for either at least 20 years of public service or acts of military or civil bravery.[3] The rest of the categories have a quota for the number of years of service in the category below before they can be awarded.[3] Commander is the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, and requires a minimum of five years in the Officer rank. The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross are awarded only to French citizens.[4] The awards are traditionally published and promoted on 14 July.[5]
The following is a non-exhaustive list of recipients of the Légion d'honneur awards, since the first ceremony in May 1803.[6] 2,550 individuals can be awarded the insignia every year.[5] the total number of awards was is close to 1 million[7] (estimated at 900,000 in 2021,[5] including over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients[8]), with some 92,000 recipients alive today.[9] Only until 2008 was gender parity achieved amongst the yearly list of recipients, with the total number of women recipients since the award's establishment being only 59 at the end of the second French empire and only 26,000 in 2021.[5]
Recipient | Dates (birth - death) |
General Work | Award Category (Year awarded) | Reason for the Award |
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Satyajit Ray | 1921 — 1992 | Indian film director, scriptwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. | TBA (1987)[10] | |
Sakip Sabanci | 1933 — 2004 | Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist | TBA (2001)[citation needed] | Contributions to the Franco-Turkish relationships in culture and business. |
Pari Saberi | 1932 — Present | Iranian drama and theatre director | TBA (2004)[citation needed] | |
Anthony Sadler | 1992 — Present | American author and television personality | Knight (24 August 2015)[11][12] | Along with Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, stopped a gunman on a Paris-bound train travelling from Amsterdam via Brussels (August 2015). |
Guy-Marie Sallier | TBA[citation needed] | |||
Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo | 1942 — Present | Argentine Catholic bishop | TBA (2000)[citation needed] | |
Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko | 1768 — 1844 | Polish nobleman, general, military commander, diplomat and politician. | Knight[citation needed] | |
Louis Santi | ? — ~1925 | Knight Grand Cross[citation needed] |
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Eran Sachs | TBA[citation needed] | |||
Karine Saporta | French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film director. | Knight[citation needed] | ||
Nicolas Sarkozy | 1955 — Present | French politician (President of France and 'ex officio' Co-Prince of Andorra) | Knight (February 2005)[citation needed] | |
Jalal Sattari | Iranian Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator. | TBA[13] | Dedication to cause of the culture during his 50-year career as cultural activist. | |
Jérôme Savary | 1942 — 2013 | Argentinian-French theater director and actor[14] | Knight[citation needed] | |
Adolphe Sax | 1814 — 1894 | Belgian inventor and musician | Knight (1849)[citation needed] | Known for creating the saxophone. |
Levon Sayan | 1934 — Present | French-Armenian impresario and producer, as well as an operatic tenor. | Officer[15] | |
Paolo Scaroni | 1946 — Present | Italian businessman (A.C. Milan / formerly Italian energy company Eni) | TBA (November 2007) [16][17] | |
Ary Scheffer | TBA[citation needed] | |||
Anne Cécile Schmitt | 1917 — 2011 | TBA[citation needed] | Actions in World War Two. | |
Guillaume Schnaebelé | 1831 — 1900 | awarded 1870/1 for his service in the Franco-Prussian War, he is better known for the Schnaebelé incident | TBA (1877)[citation needed] | |
Dominique Schnapper | TBA[citation needed] | |||
Eugène Schneider | TBA[citation needed] | |||
Pierre Schneiter | TBA[citation needed] | |||
Arnold Schwarzenegger | 1947 — Present | Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, retired bodybuilder, and former politician (38th governor of California) | Cavalier (2011) Commander (28 April 2017)[18][19][20] |
A strong legacy of environmental achievements. |
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. | 1934 — 2012 | Retired United States Army General who, while he served as Commander-in-Chief (now known as "Combatant Commander") of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991. | TBA[citation needed] | |
Martin Scorsese | TBA[citation needed] | |||
Herbert Scott R. N. | Coxswain of an L.C.A delivering 47 Commando to Gold Beach Normandy 1944. | TBA[citation needed] | ||
Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta | TBA[citation needed] | |||
Marc Seguin | 1786 — 1875 | French inventor and entrepreneur, invented the tubular steam engine and brought suspension bridges to continental Europe | TBA (1836)[citation needed] | |
Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur | TBA[citation needed] | |||
John F. R. Seitz | ||||
Monique Sené | French, nuclear physicist. | |||
Dominique Senequier | Leading private equity investor. | |||
Edgar Sengier | ||||
Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou | 1941 — Present | Iranian writer and literary figure. | ||
Andrzej Seweryn | ||||
Shah Rukh Khan | ||||
Ravi Shankar, India | ||||
Ali-Akbar Siassi | Iranian intellectual, psychologist and politician during the 1930s and 1960s, serving as the country's Foreign Minister, Minister of Education, Chancellor of University of Tehran, and Minister of State without portfolio. | |||
Djibril Sidibé | World Cup winning footballer | |||
Henryk Siemiradzki | ||||
Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||||
Władysław Sikorski | ||||
Rodrigo Augusto da Silva | 1833 — 1889 | Brazilian politician (foreign minister and Senator, 1889), diplomat, lawyer, monarchist and journalist. | Grand Cross[21][22][23] | |
Kumar de Silva | Sri Lanka | |||
Franklin Simon | 1865 — 1934 | Honored for doing more to put American women in French styles. | ||
Paul-Louis Simond | 1858 — 1947 | French biologist who discovered the transmission of the bubonic plague through rat fleas. | ||
Jules Herman Sitrick[24] | Single-handedly captured 21 German soldiers during WWII. | |||
Roy D. Simmons, Jr. | Knight (August 22, 2010) | Service during World War II | ||
Alek Skarlatos | Together with his friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler. | |||
Albert Skorupa | 1919 — Present | World War II veteran who served as an engineer. | Honored alongside 99 other World War II veterans, as part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of D-Day(Battle of Normandy). | |
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 | ||
Prak Sokhonn | ||||
Omar Soliman, (Omar Mahmoud Soliman) | Egyptian Spy Chief till 2011 | |||
Jean-François André Sordet | 1852 — 1923 | |||
Jean-Pierre Sourdin | Ancien directeur d'un journal français en Australie; 51 ans d'activités professionnelles, associatives et de services militaires. | |||
Prince Mangkra Souvannaphouma | 1938 — Present | Lao Prince living in exile in France. | ||
Józef Sowinski | ||||
Carl Andrew Spaatz | ||||
Edmund Charles Spencer | World War I veteran | Awarded the Légion d'Honneur on the 80th anniversary of the armistice. | ||
John Strange Spencer-Churchill | ||||
Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill | ||||
Steven Spielberg | American film director/producer | |||
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels | 1881 — 1926 | American philanthropist who raised large amounts of money for France during World War I | TBA (1924) | |
Waclaw Stachiewicz | ||||
Milan Rastislav Štefánik | ||||
Johannes Steinhoff | ||||
Stepa Stepanović | ||||
Ninian Stephen | ||||
Anthony Coningham Sterling | ||||
John Mills Sterling | Brig. General, USAF Air Attache US Embassy in Paris, France WW2. | Honored for certain "classified reasons". | ||
Major A.J.A. Stewart | ? — 2017 | Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders | Honoured for his part in the D-Day Landings. | |
Joseph Stilwell | ||||
Yates Stirling, Jr. | American Navy Rear Admiral | |||
Bill Stone | ||||
Spencer Stone | 1992 — Present | Awarded for assisting in the prevention of an Islamic terrorist attack on French soil. | ||
Julius Streicher | German National Socialist publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer. | 1939 (before the war started). | ||
Barbra Streisand | ||||
Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz, baron Strolz | ||||
Albert Edward Stuart | TBA (2016) | Actions on D Day during liberation of France. | ||
Doveton Sturdee | ||||
Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie | ||||
Evelyne Sullerot | ||||
Bruce Sundlun | ||||
Stevan Šupljikac | ||||
Léopold Survage | ||||
Nikolai Sverchkov | ||||
Greggory Swarz | U.S. Airman | Pulled three French airmen from the burning wreckage of a Greek F-16 jet on January 26, 2015. | ||
Stefan Szlaszewski |
See also[]
- Legion of Honour
- War Cross (France)
- List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name
- List of British recipients of the Légion d'Honneur for the Crimean War
- List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur
- Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie
- Ribbons of the French military and civil awards
References[]
- ^ Légion Code, article 16.
- ^ Les étrangers qui se seront signalés par les services qu’ils ont rendus à la France ou aux causes qu’elle soutient, Légion Code, art. 128.
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- ^ Chrisafis, Angelique; Kassam, Ashifa (24 August 2015). "French train attack men receive Légion d'honneur for 'preventing massacre'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ "American train attack heroes awarded France's highest honor". Fox News. 24 August 2015. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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- ^ Staff (based on AFP report) (5 March 2013). "Le metteur en scène et comédien Jérôme Savary est mort". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- ^ "Жан Рено стал офицером Ордена Почетного легиона - Росбалт.ру". 17 April 2013. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013.
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Mr. Schwarzenegger received the French Legion of Honour on April 28th 2017 for his strong legacy of environmental achievements.
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- ^ "Arnold Schwarzenegger Receives France's Highest Honor for his Environmental Work". PEOPLE.com. Archived from the original on March 31, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ^ "Portal Senadores - Rodrigo Augusto da Silva". Senado Federal (Senate of Brazil). Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
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External links[]
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- Official website
- Code de la légion d'honneur et de la médaille militaire, legifrance.gouv.fr (in French)
- Base Léonore, recensement des récipiendaires de la Légion d’honneur (décédés avant 1977), on the website of the French Ministry of Culture (in French)
- Lists of Légion d'honneur recipients