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

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.

• Satyajit Ray, film director, India
• Sakip Sabanci
• Pari Saberi (1932–), Iranian drama and theatre director, awarded this in 2004.
• Anthony Sadler, together with his friends Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos (see Stone's entry for more)
• Guy-Marie Sallier
• Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
• Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko
• Louis Santi (?–abt 1925), awarded Croix de Guerra, awarded the rank of Chevalier of the Ordre National du Mérite, and the Médaille de la
• Eran Sachs
• Karine Saporta
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Jalal Sattari, Iranian Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator.
• Jérôme Savary
• Adolphe Sax
• Levon Sayan
• Paolo Scaroni
• Ary Scheffer
• Anne Cécile Schmitt 1917–2011, awarded for 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 (1877)
• Dominique Schnapper
• Eugène Schneider
• Pierre Schneiter
• 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.
• Martin Scorsese
• Herbert Scott R. N., Coxswain of an L.C.A delivering 47 Commando to Gold Beach Normandy 1944.
• Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta
• Marc Seguin (1786–1875), French inventor and entrepreneur, invented the tubular steam engine and brought suspension bridges to continental Europe; awarded in 1836.
• Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur
• John F. R. Seitz
• Monique Sené, French, nuclear physicist.
• Edgar Sengier
• Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou (1941–), 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, Brazilian foreign minister and Senator in 1889, Grand Cross.
• 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, single-handedly captured 21 German soldiers during WWII.
• Roy D. Simmons, Jr., Chevalier on August 22, 2010 at Le Pezade, France for service during World War II
• Alek Skarlatos together with his friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler (see Stone's entry for more)
• 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).
• 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–), 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; awarded in 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 (d. 2017 aged 95), 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. He received the award 1939 before the war started.
• Barbra Streisand
• Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz, baron Strolz
• Albert Edward Stuart (2016), awarded for 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