List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (B)
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]
- Victor Babeș, Romanian physician and scientist[2]
- John Tremayne Babington
- Andre Bach
- Amitabh Bachchan (2007), Indian actor[3]
- Louis Bachelier
- Michel Bacos, French pilot of Air France Flight 139[4]
- Absalom Baird
- Josephine Baker (Chevalier), American-born French actress and Resistance agent[5]
- Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna – India
- James Arthur Baldwin[6] (1924–1987), African-American writer & defender of human rights
- Albert Ball
- Benjamin Ball (physician)
- Basile Baltus de Pouilly, (1766–1845) General, French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
- Raffaello de Banfield
- François Barbé-Marbois
- Jean-François Barbier (1754–1828) General, French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
- John J. Barceló III[7] - American Law Professor
- Van T. Barfoot
- Karno Barkah - Indonesian aviation pioneer
- Michael Barker[8] Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics
- Myron G. Barlow[9] (1873–1937) American painter. Awarded Légion d'honneur 1932 in recognition of his achievement as a painter.
- George Barnett
- Denis Gabriel Barois[10] (1922–) Délégué au Conseil supérieur des Français de l'étranger (Mexique)
- Théophile Barrau
- Charles Barrois
- Jeanne Julia Bartet
- Marcus "Stub" Bartusek - USA, World War II, 106th Infantry Division (United States), 424th Regiment [11]
- Dame Shirley Bassey (b. 1937) U.K. Singer
- Maryse Bastié
- Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière, (1759–1812), General, French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars
- Jean Baubérot (b. 1941), French historian and sociologist
- Luc-Marie Bayle
- Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (1786–1838) French Mathematician and Engineer
- Pierre-Dominique (Adolphe) Bazaine (1809–1893) French Railway Engineer
- François Achille Bazaine (1811–1888) Marshal of France
- George Albert Bazaine-Hayter (1843–1914) French General
- Paul Bazelaire
- Cecil Beaton
- Gérald Beaudoin
- Roger Beaufrand
- Thomas Beecham
- Azouz Begag
- Reginald R. Belknap (1871–1959), United States Navy rear admiral
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Sir Francis Dillon Bell New Zealand Statesman
- Jean-Louis Bélard[12][13]
- Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Guillermo B. Belt[14] (1906–1989), Cuban diplomat
- Arnaud Beltrame (2018), Gendarme Colonel, Gendarmerie National (Award and promotion both Posthumous).
- Charles Bequignon
- Józef Bem
- Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
- François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo
- Jean Béraud
- Henri Bergson
- Jean Berlie
- Louis Bernacchi
- Claude Bernard, physiologist, founding father of modern physiology and endocrinology
- Tom Bernard - Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics
- Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
- Pier Luigi Bersani
- Louis-Alexandre Berthier
- Pierre Berthier
- Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough
- Jean-Baptiste Bessières
- Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827–1898), Puerto Rican medical doctor, political leader and diplomat
- Íngrid Betancourt
- André Bettencourt
- Jacques Claude Beugnot
- Bhumibol Adulyadej, king of Thailand.
- Marthe Bibesco
- Marcel Bigeard
- Kenneth W. Bilby, American businessman and author
- Carl Bildt
- Pierre Billotte
- Émile Bin
- Maria Ilva Biolcati Italian singer and actress
- Wilfred Bion
- Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet
- George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood
- Billy Bishop
- Harry Gore Bishop
- Monique de Bissy
- Henri Biva (1848–1929) French painter. Awarded Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, 1900
- George G. Blackburn
- Alice Guy-Blaché, cinema pioneer
- Sergent Blandan
- Tasker H. Bliss
- Denise Bloch
- Marc Bloch
- Marc Boegner
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- Albina du Boisrouvray
- Petar Bojović
- Claude Bolling
- Kathryne Bomberger
- Marie-Claude Bomsel
- Bono
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Frank Borland
- Władysław Bortnowski
- Alfred Bossom
- Lucien Bouchard
- Georges Ernest Boulanger
- Pierre Boulle
- Jean-Gustave Bourbouze
- Antoine Bourseiller
- Paul-Émile Boutigny, painter of military subjects
- Frank Henry Bowater
- Maurice Bowra
- Charles Boyer
- Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
- Ali Bozer
- Olga Boznańska
- Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Vice President At-Large of The Washington Post
- Jean Branger[15] Captain, 8th infantry regiment; by Imperial order: Chevalier of légion d´honneur by decree on 26 December 1852.
- Lloyd Samuel Breadner
- Théophile Marie Brébant
- Yves Bréchet
- Annie Brewer
- Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman
- Francis Charles Bridgeman Bridgeman
- Louis Brière de l'Isle General, Troupes de marine
- Donald F. Breitenberg[16] USA World War II, 101st Airborne
- Louis de Broglie
- Louis Bromfield
- Robert S. Brookings
- Romaine Brooks
- Albert Bros, Escaped pow and member of the Resistance
- Daniel Brottier
- John Nicholas Brown II, Philanthropist
- Margaret Brown
- Josip Broz Tito, Leader of Yugoslavia
- John Bruce Lockhart (Scotland, Great War)
- Angélique Brûlon
- Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné
- Charles F. Bruns[17]
- Michael Bruxner
- Frank Buckles
- Jean-Eugène Buland, French painter
- Eugene Bullard
- Omar Bundy, American general
- Joseph Richard Burke, WO2 (ret'd), Canadian Army, WWII veteran, dispatch rider with the Toronto Scottish Regiment. Received award in the rank of Chevalier, 8 August 2015 at Royal Canadian Legion Grandona Branch 124 Iona, Nova Scotia[18]
- Richard Burrows, Chairman of British American Tobacco
- Robert Busnel
- Stephen Butcher
- Richard E. Byrd - American admiral and explorer
- Myles Byrne
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