List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (G)
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]
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- Gabby Gabreski
- Jean Louis Gaillot (1919–2003), French Resistance member during World War II
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela
- Aurel H. Gamache 66th Infantry Division, World War II
- Valentino Garavani (born 1932), Italian fashion design
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Timothy Garden, Baron Garden
- Jean-Claude Gaudin
- Charles Gauthier (1831–1891), French sculptor[2]
- James M. Gavin
- Hobart R. Gay
- George Reginald Geary
- Jacob Casson Geiger
- Étienne Maurice Gérard
- Alain Gerbault
- François Géré (born 1950), French historian
- Paul Gérin-Lajoie
- Claire M. Germain (born 1951), professor of law and law librarian
- Leonard T. Gerow
- Josephine de Gersdorff
- Colonel Walter Giblin World War II Deputy Director O.S.S. Paris
- Jerzy Giedroyc (1906–2000), Polish writer and activist
- Henri Giffard (1825–1882), French engineer. Invented the steam injector and the powered airship.
- Pierre Giffard (1853–1922) French journalist, newspaper publisher and sports organiser.
- Gilberto Gil (born 1942), Brazilian musician and politician
- Guy Gilbert
- Virginia Gildersleeve
- Pierre Gilliard (1879–1962), French tutor to the children of Nicholas II of Russia
- Françoise Gilot
- Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944), French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright
- Hubert de Givenchy (born 1927), French fashion designer
- Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn
- Lady Feodora Gleichen
- Franck Goddio (1947-), French underwater archaeologist
- Pierre Godeau
- Rick Goings
- Major-General Leonardo González García, Mexican Air Force Commander
- Jane Goodall
- Allan Goodman
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan (born 1941), Indian filmmaker
- Nadine Gordimer (1923–), South African novelist and writer
- Amédée Gordini
- Bart Gordon [3]
- Pete Goss
- Derrick Gosselin
- Théodore Gosselin
- Henri Gouhier
- Georges Goursat (1863–1934), French caricaturist
- Bill Graham
- Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard
- David E. Grange, Jr.
- Ulysses S. Grant III
- Jules Gravereaux
- Cary Travers Grayson
- John Campbell Greenway
- Henri Grégoire
- Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
- Earle Davis Gregory
- Robert Gregory
- John Greig (born Glasgow 1923), Telegraphist, Forward Observation Unit (3rd Division D-Day landings, World War II). Resides in Dumfries with his wife Elspeth.
- Jean Grelaud
- James Grierson
- Stanislaw Grzmot-Skotnicki
- Jean-Marie Guéhenno
- Michel Guérard (born 1933), French chef
- Henry Guerlac (1922–1981), American historian
- Jose Gustavo Guerrero (1876–1958), Salvadoran lawyer, First President of The International Court of Justice in the Netherlands
- Gordon Guggisberg
- Sacha Guitry
- Ara Güler
- Björn Gunnlaugsson (1788–1876), Icelandic cartographer.
- Georges Guynemer
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
- ↑ " GAUTHIER, Charles." Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
- ↑ http://www.ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article3896
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