List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (L)
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]
- Marcel L'Herbier
- Eve Curie Labouisse (as Officier) daughter of Marie Curie[2]
- René Lacoste
- Lars Levi Laestadius - first Scandinavian to receive the Honor for his participation in the La Recherche Expedition of 1838-40.[3]
- John LaFarge
- Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
- Léo Richer Laflèche
- Antonio Lago - Italian entrepreneur who founded Talbot-Lago
- Frank Purdy Lahm
- Johan Laidoner
- Charles Laking
- Charles Lallemand
- Imants Lancmanis - Latvian painter and art historian
- Gustave Lanctot
- Bernard Landry
- Clifton John Langeard
- Claude Lanzmann
- Edgard de Larminat
- Jean-Marc de La Sablière
- Ralph Lauren
- T. E. Lawrence
- Harold Lawton
- Henrik Lax
- Eusebio Leal
- Jeff Leatham
- Maurice Leblanc - French novelist (1864–1941)
- Félix Leclerc
- Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
- Paul Legentilhomme
- James Gordon Legge
- Jacques Léglise - French Golf Champion/President French Golf Federation
- Jean-Marie Lehn
- Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
- John A. Lejeune
- Thomas Lemar, World Cup winning footballer
- Curtis LeMay
- Lyman Lemnitzer
- Janez Lenarčič - Slovene diplomat
- Charles-Amable Lenoir - French painter, Chevalier (1860–1926)
- Aimé Lepercq
- Eugène Lepoittevin
- Henry Lerolle - French painter, Chevalier, (1848–1929)[4]
- Jean-François Le Sueur - French Composer
- Victor Levasseur
- René Lévesque
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Émile Lévy - French painter (1826–1890)
- Edward Mann Lewis - American World War I General
- Henry Balding Lewis - American World War II General
- Jerry Lewis
- William Leymergie
- Sonja Licht - Serbian sociologist and political activist
- Hunter Liggett
- Odd Lindbäck-Larsen - Norwegian World War II military officer and concentration camp survivor
- Charles Lindbergh
- Paavo Lipponen
- Hugo Lloris, World Cup winning footballer
- Jack Lockett
- John Bruce Lockhart (Scotland, Great War)
- Sébastien Loeb - World Rally Championship driver and 9-times World Champion.
- William Edmond Logan
- Leonard Lomell
- Pierre Lorillard IV
- Jim Lovell
- Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat
- Cecil Lowther
- Maurice Low - WWII veteran RCAF, navigator in a Royal Airforce pathfinder squadron stationed in Britain
- Gerald Loxley, Major RAF
- Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas - Captain of Redoubtable at the Battle of Trafalgar
- David Lynch
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
- ^ Both Pierre Curie and Marie Curie turned down the offer of the Légion d'Honneur: "British Humanist Association" (history), webpage: HUK-2024 Archived 2007-04-27 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ L. Laestadius, Fragments of Lappish Mythology, Trans. Börje Vähämäki, Aspasia Books, Beaverton, Ont. Canada. (2002), p45.
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Catalogue of the Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Museum, 1902.