French recipients •
Monique Adolphe •
Michel Alaux •
Pierre Arpaillange •
Lucie Aubrac •
Yves Coppens (In error 1904, page 4) •
Alice Saunier-Seité •
Roger Taillibert •
Pauline Thys •
Henriette Tirman •
Marie-Pier Ysser •
Pascal Divanach •
Philippe Zawieja Foreign recipients •
Aram Barlezizyan, Professor Emeritus Aram Barlézizian at the Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov. Armenia •
Guy Bennett, American writer and translator, Professor at
Otis College of Art and Design • Bruno Bernard, Belgian professor and writer on export and business ethics •
Roméo Bosetti, Italian-born silent film director and actor. •
Louis Dewis, born Isidore Louis Dewachter in Belgium. Merchant and later a post-impressionist painter, he was honoured for his civic endeavors in the early 1900s •
Edith Dumont, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario •
Ahmed H. Fahal (2017), Professor of Surgery at the
University of Khartoum, who especially in
Mycetoma. •
Allan L. Goldstein, American biochemist and co-discoverer of the Thymosins •
Mary Riter Hamilton, Canada's first female battlefield artist • Michael Hawcroft, Associate Professor of French at the University of Oxford, a specialist in Racine and Molière. Notable former students include L. Inglesfield and Geoffrey Roberts. • Ralph M. Hester, Professor of French, Stanford University, co-author of
Découverte et Création, the most widely used textbook for teaching French in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. •
A. Majeed Khan, Bangladeshi educator for education, science and culture. •
Jihane Kasshanna, Lebanese founder of the SFELK French school in Northern Nigeria, the only one of its kind in the region •
John Kneller, English-American professor and fifth President of
Brooklyn College •
Abdon Laus, Algerian-American bassoonist and saxophonist, principal bassoon of Boston Symphony Orchestra, played noted bassoon solo at the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring •
Francis L. Lawrence, American educator and scholar specializing in French literature; classical drama and baroque poetry, President of
Rutgers University 1990–2002 •
Alice Lemieux-Lévesque, Canadian-American writer •
Ahmad Kamyabi Mask, Iranian littérateur, writer, translator, publisher and Professor Emeritus of Modern Drama and Theater of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran •
Abdul Hafeez Mirza, Pakistani educationist, author, tourism worker and cultural activist. Professor of French at
University of the Punjab,
Forman Christian College ,
Aitchison College and
Alliance Francaise Lahore. Former •
Alfred Noe, Austrian historian of
Romance studies •
Marija Rus, Slovenian Romance philologist, professor of French, translator and poet •
Zeus Salazar, Filipino Historian •
Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of
Lesotho (2018) •
Léopold Sédar Senghor, •
Marek Tamm, Estonian medievalist historian at
Tallinn University •
Buddy Wentworth, Namibian deputy education minister, for his contributions to the Namibian independence struggle •
Kathryn (Katy) Sheely Wheelock, American educator of the French language, Executive Council Regional Representative & Vice President of the American Association of Teachers of French (2017-2024), founder of Vive •
Frank White, L.L.D., 8th Governor of
North Dakota and 25th
Treasurer of the United States. •
Tengku Zatashah, princess of
Selangor and the president of Alliance Française de Kuala Lumpur. •
Shi Zhengli, virologist and Director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. •
Andrea Zitolo, Italian physical-chemist and material scientist ==Insignia==