List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (K)
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]
- Jan Kaczmarek
- Jean-Pierre Kahane
- Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (b. 1953), Jewish leader, philanthropist and businessman
- Alexander II Karađorđević
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (1862-1908), Serbian prince
- Feridun Karakaya
- Juhani Kaskeala
- Bentley Kassal
- Harry B. Kates, Jr WW2 Veteran (1923–)
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Danny Kaye[2]
- Tevfik Remzi Kazancıgil, Turkish physician and Professor in Medicine, received the Légion d'honneur on September 14, 1954[3]
- Frank B. Kellogg
- Gene Kelly
- Raymond W. Kelly
- M Stephen Kellman (b. 1923)
- Yaşar Kemal (b. 1923), Turkish novelist
- Raymond Kendall
- Duncan Kerr was conferred with the insignia of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur on 23 August 2011
- Mohamed Keyvan (1912-1987), Iranian Civil and Structural Engineer
- Abbas Kiarostami (b. 1940), Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer
- Dame Carol Kidu (1948–), Papua New Guinean politician and human rights campaigner[4][5][6]
- Philippe Kieffer
- Jean-Claude Killy
- Jeong H. Kim
- Young-Oak Kim
- Ernest King
- Julian Klaczko
- Franciszek Kleeberg
- Ralph Klein (1942-2013), Canadian politician.[7]
- Matti Klinge
- Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859-1927), physician
- Dorothea Klumpke
- Karol Kniaziewicz
- Professor Roy Knight (1907-1999), Professor of French, scholar of 17th-century tragic drama
- Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948), American landscape painter
- Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
- Blanche Knopf, American publisher, was made Officier of the Légion d'honneur 1960 in recognition of her work publishing French literature.
- William A. Knowlton
- John Immanuel Knudson, Professor of History and Economics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, received honor in 1935.[8]
- Adam Koc (1891-1969), Polish politician, soldier and journalist
- Maurice Koechlin
- Wladyslaw Konopczynski
- C. Everett Koop, 1980 [9]
- Raymond Kopa (b. 1931), French footballer
- Wojciech Kossak
- Sir John Kotelawala
- Lansana Kouyaté
- Jan Kozietulski
- Jacek Kuroń (1934–2004), Polish historian
- Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Japanese film director, producer and screenwriter
- Yevhen Kushnaryov (1951-2007), Ukrainian politician
- Emir Kusturica
- Stanislaw Kutrzeba
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
- ^ "French Honor Danny Kaye". The Modesto Bee. February 26, 1986. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- ^ "Tarihte Bugün (Today in History)". Tarihtebugun.gen.tr. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
- ^ "French honour for Dame Carol", Liama Abaijah, The National, February 13, 2009
- ^ "Décoration de Dame Carol Kidu", French embassy to Papua New Guinea, February 12, 2009
- ^ Dame Carol's speech upon receiving the Légion d'honneur Archived September 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ CKUA Radio News, March 27, 2008.
- ^ Obituary, The New York Times, August 26, 1959 "John I. Knudson, Ex-Professor, 70"
- ^ http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/koop/cek/