List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (F)
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 Fairbanks, Jr.
- Fairuz (b. 1935)
- František Fajtl
- Pierre Farah, Pr., Surgeon, Member of the French Academy of Medicine.
- Henry Farman
- Horace Farquhar, 1st Earl Farquhar
- Charles S. Farnsworth
- Faucher de Saint-Maurice
- William Fawcett (1894-1974)
- Nabil Fekir, World Cup winning footballer
- Logan Feland
- Samuel Morse Felton Jr. (1853-1930)[2]
- Carlo Feraud de Villy
- Frank Ferrington (1923-2006)
- Henri Fertet (1926-1943), French Resistance fighter
- Francis Worgan Festing
- David Feuerwerker
- Mustafa Fevzi Çakmak
- Art Fiala
- Benjamin Eugene Fichel, artist, awarded 1870
- Eugen Filotti
- Carlos Finlay (1833-1915)
- Alfred Finnigan
- Hicri Fişek
- Hicri Fişek (1918-2002)
- Şadan Fişek (1922-2002)
- Eugène Fiset
- Hamilton Fish III
- Stanislas Flache (b. 1919)
- Gustave Flaubert
- Gordon Van de Meer Fleming (b. 1921)
- Renée Fleming
- Robert John Fleming
- Joel Lafayette Fletcher, Jr. (1897-1972)
- Maurice Floquet
- Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers
- Ferdinand Foch
- René Fonck
- Just Fontaine
- George Forbes (scientist)
- Glenn Ford
- Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard
- Laurent Fortin (b. 1967)
- Victor Fortune
- Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese painter, who became a French national
- Georges Fournier
- Jacques Fournier (b. 1924), French industrialist and president of Dumez
- Maximilien Sebastien Foy
- Abraham Foxman
- Français of Nantes
- Auguste Franchomme
- Denis Francoise Boulanger (1796-1849)
- Aleksander Fredro
- Paul L. Freeman, Jr.
- Mirella Freni
- Inès de La Fressange, Roger Vivier, representative and first model to receive the medal
- Frederick Carl Frieseke
- Varian Fry
References
- 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
- "S. M. Felton, Veteran Rail Executive, Dies". Chicago Tribune. Chicago. March 12, 1930. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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