This is a partial list of members of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.
Name | Rank | Year |
---|---|---|
T. S. Eliot | Commandeur | 1960 |
Jorge Luis Borges | Commandeur | 1962 [1] |
Victoria Ocampo | Commandeur | 1962 [2] |
Elisabeth Söderström | Commandeur | 1973 |
Marcel Marceau | Commandeur | 1978 |
Stevie Wonder | Commandeur | 1981 [3] |
Jerry Lewis | Commandeur | 1984 [4] |
Zoran Mušič | Commandeur | 1984 |
Akira Kurosawa | Commandeur | 1985 [5] |
Yasuo Mizui | Commandeur | 1985 [6] |
Mrinal Sen | Commandeur | 1985 [7] |
Josef Tal | Commandeur | 1985 [8] |
Moritz de Hadeln | Commandeur | 1986 |
Sean Connery | Commandeur | 1987 |
Audrey Hepburn | Commandeur | 1987 |
Fairuz | Commandeur | 1988 |
Peter O'Toole | Commandeur | 1988 |
Mercedes Sosa | Commandeur | 1989 [9] |
Dirk Bogarde | Commandeur | 1990 [10] |
Bob Dylan | Commandeur | 1990 |
Nadine Gordimer | Commandeur | 1991 |
Tarek Ali Hassan | Commandeur | 1991 [11] |
Clint Eastwood | Commandeur | 1994 |
Mortimer Zuckerman | Commandeur | 1994 [12] : 89 [13] |
Lauren Bacall | Commandeur | 1995 |
Dustin Hoffman | Commandeur | 1995 |
Marilyn Horne | Commandeur | 1995 [12] : 82 |
María Félix | Commandeur | 1996 [14] |
Seamus Heaney | Commandeur | 1996 [15] |
Lester James Peries | Commandeur | 1997 [16] |
Paul Mauriat | Commandeur | 1997 |
David Bowie | Commandeur | 1999 [17] |
Sharmila Tagore | Commandeur | 1999 [18] |
Soumitra Chatterjee | Commandeur | 1999 [18] |
Salman Rushdie | Commandeur | 1999 |
Rustam Ibragimbekov | Commandeur | 2000 (renounced in 2012) [19] |
Václav Havel | Commandeur | 2001 |
Maryse Condé | Commandeur | 2001 [20] |
David Stratton | Commandeur | 2001 [21] |
Barbara Wright | Commandeur | 2002 [22] |
Siddiq Barmak | Commandeur | 2003 |
Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Commandeur | 2003 [23] |
Alexis Rosenberg-Redé | Commandeur | 2003 |
Meryl Streep | Commandeur | 2003 [24] |
Julian Barnes | Commandeur | 2004 [25] |
Jin Yong | Commandeur | 2004 |
Leonardo DiCaprio | Commandeur | 2005 [26] |
Patti Smith | Commandeur | 2005 |
Max Roach | Commandeur | 1989 |
Christoph Eschenbach | Commandeur | 2006 |
Nan Goldin | Commandeur | 2006 |
Paul Auster | Commandeur | 2007 [27] |
Ray Bradbury | Commandeur | 2007 |
Lucien Clergue | Commandeur | 2007 |
Emir Kusturica | Commandeur | 2007 [28] |
June Anderson | Commandeur | 2008 [29] |
Roger Moore | Commandeur | 2008 [30] |
Richard Serra | Commandeur | 2008 [31] |
Nikos Papatakis | Commandeur | 2009 [32] |
Thom Mayne | Commandeur | 2009 [33] |
Michael Haneke | Commandeur | 2010 [34] |
Takeshi Kitano | Commandeur | 2010 [35] |
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg | Commandeur | 2010 |
Michael Caine | Commandeur | 2011 [36] |
Myung-Whun Chung | Commandeur | 2011 [37] |
Anish Kapoor | Commandeur | 2011 [38] |
Christopher Lee | Commandeur | 2011 [39] |
Jean van Hamme | Commandeur | 2011 [40] |
Anne Sofie von Otter | Commandeur | 2011 [41] |
Douglas Gordon | Commandeur | 2012 |
Israel Horovitz | Commandeur | 2012 [42] |
Donald Sutherland | Commandeur | 2012 [43] |
Bono | Commandeur | 2013 [44] |
David Cairns | Commandeur | 2013 [45] |
William Kentridge | Commandeur | 2013 [46] |
Ringo Starr | Commandeur | 2013 [47] |
Bruce Willis | Commandeur | 2013 [48] |
Kar-Wai Wong | Commandeur | 2013 [49] |
Isabelle Adjani | Commandeur | 2014 [50] |
Charles Berling | Commandeur | 2014 [50] |
Catherine Breillat | Commandeur | 2014 [50] |
Xavier Darcos | Commandeur | 2014 [50] |
Brigitte Fontaine | Commandeur | 2014 [50] |
Jacques Higelin | Commandeur | 2014 [50] |
Marlène Jobert | Commandeur | 2014 [50] |
Quincy Jones | Commandeur | 2014 [50] |
Pierre Perret | Commandeur | 2014 [50] |
Juliette Gréco | Commandeur | 2016 [50] |
Eric Clapton | Commandeur | 2017 [51] |
Iggy Pop | Commandeur | 2017 [52] |
Vangelis Papathanassiou | Commandeur | 2017 [53] |
John Mordler | Commandeur | 2017 |
Fujiko Nakaya | Commandeur | 2017 [54] |
Roger Corman | Commandeur | 2017 [55] |
Leo Brouwer | Commandeur | 2018 [56] |
Alejandro G. Iñarritu | Commandeur | 2019 |
Catherine Jacob | Commandeur | 2019 [57] |
Nathalie Stutzmann | Commandeur | 2020 [58] |
Jennifer Flay | Commandeur | 2020 [59] |
Emma Lavigne | Commandeur | 2020 [60] [61] |
Jean Paul Gaultier | Commandeur | 2024 [62] |
Joann Sfar | Commandeur | 2024 [62] |
Oliver Stone | Commandeur | 2024[ citation needed ] |
The Order of Arts and Letters is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the Ordre national du Mérite was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the propagation of these fields.
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