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

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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, and reason for the awardAward Category (Date)
Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf 1738 – 1815French naturalized German industrialistTBA (20 June 1806)
Victoria Ocampo 1890 – 1979Argentine intellectual, publisher, writer and critic.TBA [ citation needed ]
Michel Ocelot [9] 1943 – PresentFrench writer, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association.Knight (23 October 2009) [10]
Brian O'ConnellTBA [ citation needed ]
Richard O'Connor 1889 – 1981Senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World WarsTBA [ citation needed ]
François-Joseph Offenstein 1760 – 1837 French general and military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.TBA [ citation needed ]
Henri O'Kelly 1859 – 1938 Franco-Irish composer, pianist, organist and choir director, based in Paris.Knight (1931) [11]
Joseph O'Kelly 1828 – 1885Franco-Irish composer, pianist and choral conductor. Known as the most prominent member of a family of Irish musicians in 19th- and early 20th-century France.Knight (1881) [12] [13]
Olav V of Norway 1903 – 1991King of NorwayGrand Cross[ citation needed ]
Laurence Olivier 1907 – 1989 English actor and directorTBA [ citation needed ]
Joseph Francis Olliffe 1808 – 1869Irish-born British physician.Knight (1846)
Officer (1855)[ citation needed ]
John O'Neill 1897 – 1942Sergeant, World War I, V.C., M.M. Soldier in the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)TBA [ citation needed ]
Terence O'ReillyIrish Rebel who fought in the 1798 Rebellion in Wicklow, Wexford and Dublin and under Napoleon at Austerlitz.TBA [ citation needed ]
Mathieu Orfila 1787 – 1853Spanish toxicologist and chemist. Known as the founder of the science of toxicology.TBA [ citation needed ]
Philippe Antoine d'Ornano 1784 – 1863French soldier and political figure (Marshal of France)Grand Cross [ citation needed ]
Sherard Osborn 1822 – 1875Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorerTBA [14]
Władysław Ostrowski 1790 – 1869Polish nobleman (szlachcic). Recognised for Napoleon's Russian Campaign (1812 – 1813).TBA (1813) [ citation needed ]
Terence Otway 1914 – 2006 British Army officer. Known for his role as commander of the paratroop assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day.TBA (2001) [ citation needed ]
Georges Ouégnin, directeur du protocole d'Etat ivoirienTBA [ citation needed ]
William "Bill" Bruce Overstreet, Jr.World War II P-51 "Mustang" Fighter pilot. 357th FG, 363rd FS, "Yoxford Boys"Knight (8 December 2009)
Amos Oz 1939 – 2018 Israeli people writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual.TBA (1997) [15]
Andranik Ozanian 1865 – 1927Armenian military commander and statesman. Known fedayi and a key figure of the Armenian national liberation movement.Officer (1919) [16] [17] [18]
Seiji Ozawa 1935 – 2024Japanese conductor. Promotion of French composers. Known for his advocacy of modern composers and for his work with the San Francisco Symphony.Knight (1998) [ citation needed ]

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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.
  7. ↑ Wattel, Michel; Wattel, Béatrice (2009). "Les Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur. De 1805 à nos jours, titulaires français et étrangers". Archives & Culture.
  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. ↑ Brane, Edouard (26 October 2009). "Le papa de "Kirikou" reçoit la Légion d'Honneur" (in French). AlloCiné . Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  10. ↑ Brane, Edouard (26 October 2009). "Le papa de "Kirikou" reçoit la Légion d'Honneur" (in French). AlloCiné. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  11. ↑ "National Archives - File:LH/2012/60". Minister of Culture . Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  12. ↑ Gil Blas : 4. 12 January 1881.{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ↑ Le Ménestrel : 54. 16 January 1881.{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ↑ "London Gazette". No. 21909. 4 August 1856. p. 2699.
  15. ↑ "Amos Oz". The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  16. ↑ Wheeler, Edward Jewitt; Funk, Isaac Kaufman; Woods, William Seaver; Draper, Arthur Stimson; Funk, Wilfred John (17 January 1920). "General Andranik, the Armenian Washington". The Literary Digest . Vol. 64. pp. 90–92. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021.
  17. ↑ The Armenian Review. Hairenik Association. 1976. p. 239. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  18. ↑ Macler, Frédéric (1920). "Frédéric Macler". Journal of Armenian Studies (in French). Paris, France: Imprimerie nationale: 158.
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