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

The following people are recipients of the Légion d'honneur.

• Mohamad Ali Sepanlou (1941-), Iranian writer and literary figure.
• Marc Seguin (1786-), French inventor and entrepreneur, invented the tubular steam engine and brought suspension bridges to continental Europe; awarded in 1836.
• Pari Saberi (1932-), Iranian drama and theatre director, awarded this in 2004.
• Pura Santillan-Castrence (1905–2007), Filipino writer and diplomat
• Jalal Sattari (?-), Iranian Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator.
• Guillaume Schnaebelé (1831–1900), awarded 1870/1 for his service in the Franco-Prussian War, he is better known for the Schnaebelé incident (1877)
• Monique Sené, French nuclear physicist.
• Ravi Shankar (1920 -), Indian, sitar player and composer.
• Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. (1934-), 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.
• Mario Silva (1966-), Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Davenport.
• Robert B. Silvers (1929-), editor of the New York Review of Books.
• Sydney Vincent Sippe, British World War I pilot and aircraft designer
• Albert Skorupa (1919)-), 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).
• Prince Mangkra Souvannaphouma (1938-), Lao Prince living in exile in France.
• Steven Spielberg (1946-), American film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1926), American philanthropist who raised large amounts of money for France during World War I; awarded in 1924.
• Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880–1919), Slovak politician, diplomat, pilot and astronomer.
• Johannes Steinhoff
• Barbra Streisand
• Sakıp Sabancı (1933–2004) Turkish Businessman
• Franklin Simon (1865–1934) Honored for doing more to put American women in French styles

John Mills Sterling, Brig. General, USAF Air Attache US Embassy in Paris, France WW2. Honored for certain classified reasons.