List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (F)

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. The Officer rank requires a minimum of eight years as a Knight, and the Commander, the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, requires a minimum of five years as an Officer. The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross are awarded only to French citizens, and each requires three years' service in their respective immediately lower rank.[4] The awards are traditionally published and promoted on 14 July.[5]

The following is a non-exhaustive list of recipients of the Legion of Honour awards, since the first ceremony in May 1803.[3] 2,550 individuals can be awarded the insignia every year.[5] The total number of awards is close to 1 million[6] (estimated at 900,000 in 2021,[5] including over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients[7]), with some 92,000 recipients alive today.[8] 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 & reason for the recognition Award category (date)
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Fairuz 1935 – Present
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.[9] 1853 – 1930
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 TBA (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 1919 – Present
Gustave Flaubert
Gordon Van de Meer Fleming 1921 – Present
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 1967 – Present
Victor Fortune
Tsuguharu Foujita Japanese painter, who became a French national
Georges Fournier
Jacques Fournier 1924 – Present 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 1907 – 1967 Operated a refugee network from Marseille; helped over 2,000 people escape the Holocaust in 1940-41. 1967. Chevalier.

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References

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  1. ^ Légion Code, article 16.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c "France train attack: Chris Norman awarded Legion d'honneur". BBC News. 24 August 2015. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  4. ^ DM, Florey (29 March 2017). "Michelle Yeoh receives France's highest civilian honour". Cinema Online. Archived from the original on 19 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021. Alt URL
  5. ^ a b c d "The Grand Chancellery is co-producing a film on women and the Legion of Honor". The Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Legion of Honour". Australian Government – Department of Veteran's Affairs. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  7. ^ Wattel, Michel; Wattel, Béatrice (2009). "Les Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur. De 1805 à nos jours, titulaires français et étrangers". Archives & Culture.
  8. ^ Benoist, Chloé (18 December 2020). "Explained: Sisi, Macron and the dubious history of France's Legion of Honour". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  9. ^ "S. M. Felton, Veteran Rail Executive, Dies". Chicago Tribune. Chicago. 12 March 1930. p. 1. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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