List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (G)

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The French government gives out the Legion of Honour awards, to both French [1] and foreign [2] nationals, based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France. This award is divided into five distinct categories (in ascending order [3] ), i.e. three ranks: Knight, Officer, Commander, and two titles: Grand Officer and Grand Cross. Knight is the most common and is awarded for either at least 20 years of public service or acts of military or civil bravery. [3] The rest of the categories have a quota for the number of years of service in the category below before they can be awarded. The Officer rank requires a minimum of eight years as a Knight, and the Commander, the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, requires a minimum of five years as an Officer. The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross are awarded only to French citizens, and each requires three years' service in their respective immediately lower rank. [4] The awards are traditionally published and promoted on 14 July. [5]

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The following is a non-exhaustive list of recipients of the Legion of Honour awards, since the first ceremony in May 1803. [3] 2,550 individuals can be awarded the insignia every year. [5] The total number of awards is close to 1 million [6] (estimated at 900,000 in 2021, [5] including over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients [7] ), with some 92,000 recipients alive today. [8] Only until 2008 was gender parity achieved amongst the yearly list of recipients, with the total number of women recipients since the award's establishment being only 59 at the end of the second French empire and only 26,000 in 2021. [5]

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RecipientDates
(birth death)
General work & reason for the recognitionAward category (date)
Gabby Gabreski
Jean Louis Gaillot1919 2003 French Resistance member during World War II
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Aurele H. Gamache66th Infantry Division, World War II
Jeanne Gang [9]
Valentino Garavani 1932 presentItalian fashion design
Gabriel García Márquez
Timothy Garden, Baron Garden
Éveline Garnier 1904 - 1989 French Resistance member during World War II, librarian
Jean-Claude Gaudin
Charles Gauthier [10] 1831 1891French sculptor
James M. Gavin
Hobart R. Gay
George Reginald Geary
Jacob Casson Geiger
Erol Gelenbe Computer Scientist and Engineer
Étienne Maurice Gérard
Alain Gerbault
François Géré 1950 presentFrench historian
Paul Gérin-Lajoie
Claire M. Germain [11] 1951 TBAProfessor of law and law librarian. [12]
Leonard T. Gerow
Josephine de Gersdorff
Ferdinand Gueldry [13] 1858 1945Knight (1900)
Colonel Walter GiblinWorld War II Deputy Director O.S.S. Paris
Jerzy Giedroyc 1906 2000Polish writer and activist
Henri Giffard 1825 1882French engineer. Invented the steam injector and the powered airship.
Pierre Giffard 1853 1922French journalist, newspaper publisher and sports organiser.
Gilberto Gil 1942 presentBrazilian musician and politician
Guy Gilbert
Virginia Gildersleeve
Pierre Gilliard 1879 1962French tutor to the children of Nicholas II of Russia
Françoise Gilot
Jean Giraudoux 1882 1944French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright
Olivier Giroud World Cup winning footballer
Paul Giroud 1898 1989French physician and biologist
Hubert de Givenchy 1927French fashion designer
Gladwyn Jebb 1st Baron Gladwyn
Lady Feodora Gleichen
Graham Russell "Russ" Godden1920 TBAStirling pilot RAF Squadron 196 (1944–45)
Franck Goddio 1947 presentFrench underwater archaeologist
Pierre Godeau
Rick Goings
Hermann Goldschmidt French - German astronomer and painter
Major-General Leonardo González GarcíaMexican Air Force Commander
Jane Goodall
Allan Goodman
Lawrence Seymour Goodman 1920 2021British Pilot
Adoor Gopalakrishnan 1941 presentIndian filmmaker
Nadine Gordimer 1923 presentSouth African novelist and writer
Amédée Gordini
Bart Gordon [14]
Pete Goss
Derrick Gosselin
Théodore Gosselin
Henri Gouhier
Georges Goursat 1863 1934French 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 [15] 1923 2021Telegraphist, Forward Observation Unit (3rd Division D-Day landings, World War II)
Jean Grelaud
Brigitte Grésy
James Grierson British Army Officer
Antoine Griezmann
Jean-Pierre Grünfeld A French nephrologist
Stanislaw Grzmot-Skotnicki
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Michel Guérard 1933 presentFrench chef
Henry Guerlac 1922 1981American historian
Jean Aimé Pierre Guerrier1925 1949Lieutenant at the 13e Demi-Brigade de Légion Étrangère
Jose Gustavo Guerrero1876 1958Salvadoran lawyer, First President of The International Court of Justice in the Netherlands
Gordon Guggisberg
Sacha Guitry
Ara Güler
Björn Gunnlaugsson 1788 1876Icelandic cartographer
Ruchria Gupta
Donald Bilmont Gustafson 1923 2017103rd Infantry Division, 409th Battalion, World War II [16]
Georges Guynemer
Gautier Capucon
Reginald Gilbert 1925-2018HMS Ajax, D day landings World War II [17]

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The French government gives out the Legion of Honour awards, to both French and foreign nationals, based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France. This award is divided into five distinct categories, i.e. three ranks: Knight, Officer, Commander, and two titles: Grand Officer and Grand Cross. Knight is the most common and is awarded for either at least 20 years of public service or acts of military or civil bravery. The rest of the categories have a quota for the number of years of service in the category below before they can be awarded. The Office rank requires a minimum of eight years as a Knight, and the Commander, the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, requires a minimum of five years as an Officer. The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross each require three years' service in their respective immediately lower rank. The awards are traditionally published and promoted on 14 July.

References

  1. Légion Code, article 16.
  2. Les étrangers qui se seront signalés par les services qu’ils ont rendus à la France ou aux causes qu’elle soutient, Légion Code, art. 128.
  3. 1 2 3 "France train attack: Chris Norman awarded Legion d'honneur". BBC News . 24 August 2015. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  4. DM, Florey (29 March 2017). "Michelle Yeoh receives France's highest civilian honour". Cinema Online. Archived from the original on 19 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021. Alt URL
  5. 1 2 3 4 "The Grand Chancellery is co-producing a film on women and the Legion of Honor". The Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  6. "Legion of Honour". Australian Government Department of Veteran's Affairs. 31 January 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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  8. Benoist, Chloé (18 December 2020). "Explained: Sisi, Macron and the dubious history of France's Legion of Honour". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  9. "Studio Gang – Jeanne Gang Awarded Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur".
  10. Gauthier, Charles. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press.
  11. "Bio". www.lawschool.cornell.edu.
  12. "Claire M. Germain legion d'honneur 17 July 2007 - YouTube". Archived from the original on 15 December 2021.
  13. "Bonhams : Ferdinand Joseph Gueldry (French, 1858 1945) The boat race". www.bonhams.com. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  14. "Barton Gordon Made Officer of the Legion of Honor". France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.
  15. "John (Ian) GREIG 12.11.1923".
  16. "Saratoga: French consul general presents Donald Gustafson her country's highest decoration". 29 April 2015.
  17. "D-Day Navy veteran awarded French Legion d'honneur medal". 26 February 2016.