List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (P)
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]
- James Pacillo one of the 100 selected D-Day veterans awarded the Légion d'Honneur on 6 June 2004
- Boris Pahor
- Louis Alexandre Pajot - 22 October 1959 Chevalier
- John Painter (supercentenarian)
- Euzhan Palcy
- Orhan Pamuk Turkish writer[2]
- Maurice Papon (1910–2007), awarded the Legion in 1961, convicted for crimes against humanity in 1998-99 for his role during Vichy and consequently dismissed from the order on November 18, 1999
- Asha Pandey
- Paul Paray
- Jacques Parizeau
- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
- Tony Parker
- Jack Parrot, D-Day veteran, awarded 2018[3]
- Arvo Pärt (b. 1935), Estonian composer, Chevalier in 2011[4]
- Earle E. Partridge
- Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) Grande Croix, French chemist
- Harry Patch (1898–2009), last surviving British veteran of the trenches (World War I). Awarded in 1995
- George S. Patton, American general
- Samuel Paty (1973-2020), French middle-school teacher who was murdered on 16/10/2020 and posthumously awarded the Légion d'honneur
- Gen Paul
- Benjamin Pavard, World Cup winning footballer
- Luciano Pavarotti
- George Pearce
- Ernest Peddell (1899–2000), Australian Private, 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force; awarded 1998
- Barthélémy Pedinielli, a appartenu au 3e régiment de tirailleurs algériens et fut élevé au rang de Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur Décoré au Péril de la Vie pour son engagement lors de la seconde guerre mondiale aux côtés des forces françaises libres.
- Malik Peiris, Hong Kong doctor/professor
- Ernest Peixotto (1869–1940), American illustrator and travel writer
- Claiborne Pell, United States Senator
- John Lysaght Pennefather
- Jacques Pépin
- Ronald Perelman (b. 1942), American businessman; awarded in 1992
- Jacques Perfettini
- Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon
- Lester James Peries, Prolific Sri Lankan film director and recipient of Srilankabhimanya
- František Peřina
- Eva Perón (1919–1952), First Lady of Argentina (1946-1952) and Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina (1952–Present Day). Awarded in 1947, during a trip to France (part of her Rainbow Tour of Europe).
- Joseph-Xavier Perrault
- Jean Baptiste Perrin
- Philippe Perrin
- John J. Pershing
- Peter I of Serbia
- Peter II of Yugoslavia
- Pedro II of Brazil
- Zinovy Peshkov
- Edmund Phelps, Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society, 2006 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- Edmund S. Phelps
- Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (1815–1884), painter[5]
- Sir Eric Phipps (1875–1945), British ambassador to Berlin (1933–36) and Paris (1936–39).
- Frank Pickersgill
- François-Édouard Picot
- Abbé Pierre
- Desmond Piers
- Wallace Pike (1899–1999), Canadian WWI veteran of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Awarded in 1998, by French Ambassador Denis Bauchard.
- Józef Pilsudski
- Max L. Pilliard
- Honoré Le Pimpec
- Harold Pinter (1930–2008), British writer and political activist; awarded in 2007
- Robert Pires (b. 1973), French world cup winning football player
- Tadeusz Piskor
- Pedro José Amadeo Pissis, French geologist
- Michel Platini
- Georges René Le Peley de Pléville
- Paul Pogba
- James H. Polk
- Elena Poniatowska
- Józef Antoni Poniatowski
- Lily Pons
- Lazare Ponticelli (1897–2008), Italian-born French veteran of World War I and supercentenarian
- Elvira Popescu (1894–1993), Romanian-born French actress
- Paolo Portoghesi
- Marjorie Merriweather Post
- Stanisław Kostka Potocki
- William Didier-Pouget (1864–1959), French artist, Officer of the Legion of Honor[6]
- Colin Powell
- William C. Powers (1946–2019), President of the University of Texas at Austin
- Ignacy Pradzynski
- Cedric Prakash
- Alain Prost, four-time Formula One champion
- Gilbert Pritzel
- Moshe Prywes (1914–1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Denys Puech
- Radomir Putnik
- Daniel Pauly, marine biologist
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
- ^ "Orhan Pamuk Awarded Officier De l'Ordre National De La Legion D'Honneur". GettyImages. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "D-Day veteran awarded Legion d'Honneur". BBC News. 2018-12-19. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
- ^ "Le compositeur Arvo Pärt décoré de l'ordre de la Légion d'Honneur". Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "Death of a French Painter" (PDF). The New York Times. November 10, 1884.
- ^ William Didier-Pouget, Archives nationales, Ministère de la Culture