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List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur

Index List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur

The Order of Légion d'Honneur is the highest decoration in France and is divided into five degrees: Chevalier (Knight), Officier (Officer), Commandeur (Commander), Grand Officier (Grand Officer) and Grand Croix (Grand Cross). [1]

26 relations: Bahram Aryana, Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero, Charles Hellier Davies Evans, Eddy Merckx, Edmund Charles Spencer, Edmund Phelps, Franklin Simon, H. M. Cassime, John Dunmore, Legion of Honour, List of awards and nominations received by Celine Dion, List of British recipients of the Légion d'Honneur for the Crimean War, Madeleine Herman de Blic, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Marianna Vardinogiannis, Metre Convention, Milva, Norman Frederick Hastings, Paul Bernard Malone, Philip Habib, Philosophers Legacy (Heirloom), Robert Young (soldier), Sándor Csernus, Spyridon Flogaitis, Stanley Fields, Townsend Harris High School.

Bahram Aryana

Timsar Bahram Aryana (born Hossein Manouchehri; 17 March 1906 – 21 July 1985) was a top Iranian military commander during the reign of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as well as a philosopher of Zoroastrianism, Persian nationalist and humanist.

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Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero

Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero, 1st Marquis of Mulhacén, (April 14, 1825 - January 28 or 29, 1891) was a Spanish divisional general and geographer.

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Charles Hellier Davies Evans

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hellier Davis Evans, DSO, served as Commanding Officer of the New Zealand Cyclist Corps.

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Eddy Merckx

Édouard Louis Joseph, baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional road and track bicycle racer who is widely seen as the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling.

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Edmund Charles Spencer

Edmund (Ted) Charles Spencer was an Australian World War I veteran, born Adelaide, South Australia September 25, 1896 and died in Gnowangerup, near Albany, Western Australia, January 26, 1999, aged 102.

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Edmund Phelps

Edmund Strother Phelps, (born July 26, 1933) is an American economist and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Franklin Simon

Franklin Simon (February 7, 1865 – October 4, 1934), was the owner of Franklin Simon & Co., a department store in Manhattan, New York City.

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H. M. Cassime

H.M.Cassime (born Mohamed Cassime also spelt as Mouhamad Cassime, H.M.Kassim) (்.எம்.காசிம்) (1900–1986) was a Tamil-born businessman and mayor of Pondicherry.

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John Dunmore

John Dunmore CNZM (born 1923) is a prominent New Zealand academic, historian, author, playwright, and publisher.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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List of awards and nominations received by Celine Dion

Over the course of her long career, Celine Dion has received numerous awards in recognition of her music and success.

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List of British recipients of the Légion d'Honneur for the Crimean War

The Légion d'Honneur was awarded to 746 members of the British Armed Forces during the Crimean War (also known as the Russian War) which lasted from 1854 to 1856.

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Madeleine Herman de Blic

Madeleine Herman de Blic is a Belgium-born naturalized Indian social worker and humanist, known for her humanitarian services in the south Indian state of Puducherry.

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Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (born 8 September 1942) is an Argentine Catholic bishop and the current Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

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Marianna Vardinogiannis

Marianna Vardinogiannis (Μαριάννα Βαρδινογιάννη, née Μπουρνάκη Bournaki) married to Greek shipping magnate Vardis Vardinogiannis, is an UNESCO ambassador and an active personality in both regional and international level that fights for the rights of children and the family, and she is known for her combats against the sexual abuse of children, via the Foundation for the Child and the Family which was created by her.

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Metre Convention

The Metre Convention (Convention du Mètre), also known as the Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations (Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, United States of America, and Venezuela).

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Milva

Maria Ilva Biolcati, (born 17 July 1939), known as Milva, is an Italian singer, stage and film actress, and television personality.

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Norman Frederick Hastings

Major Norman Frederick Hastings, DSO (14 July 1879 – 9 August 1915) served as Officer Commanding New Zealand's 6th (Manawatu) Squadron, Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment.

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Paul Bernard Malone

Paul Bernard Malone (May 8, 1872 - October 16, 1960) was a United States Army general.

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Philip Habib

Philip Charles Habib (February 25, 1920 – May 25, 1992) was an American career diplomat.

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Philosophers Legacy (Heirloom)

The Philosophers Legacy, also known as the phylosophers legacy, is an heirloom in the form of a digital painting created by multidisciplinary designer, Ade Olufeko, known for his contributions to the African Renaissance.

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Robert Young (soldier)

Major General Robert Young, (5 January 1877 – 25 February 1953) was a dentist, volunteer soldier, World War I brigade commander and professional soldier in the New Zealand Military Forces.

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Sándor Csernus

Sándor Csernus (born 21 March 1950) is a Hungarian historian, associate professor (docent, reader), diplomat, former dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged and director of the Hungarian Institute of Paris.

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Spyridon Flogaitis

Spyridon Flogaitis (Σπυρίδων Φλογαΐτης; born 22 July 1950), is a Greek lawyer, jurist and academic who is currently a professor of public law at the University of Athens.

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Stanley Fields

Stanley Fields may refer to.

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Townsend Harris High School

Townsend Harris High School is a public magnet high school for the humanities in the borough of Queens in New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_recipients_of_the_Légion_d'Honneur

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