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 di Caprio | 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[ citation needed ] |
Donald Sutherland | Commandeur | 2012 [42] |
Bono | Commandeur | 2013 [43] |
David Cairns | Commandeur | 2013 [44] |
William Kentridge | Commandeur | 2013 [45] |
Ringo Starr | Commandeur | 2013 [46] |
Bruce Willis | Commandeur | 2013 [47] |
Kar-Wai Wong | Commandeur | 2013 [48] |
Isabelle Adjani | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Charles Berling | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Catherine Breillat | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Xavier Darcos | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Brigitte Fontaine | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Jacques Higelin | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Marlène Jobert | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Quincy Jones | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Pierre Perret | Commandeur | 2014 [49] |
Juliette Gréco | Commandeur | 2016 [49] |
Eric Clapton | Commandeur | 2017 [50] |
Iggy Pop | Commandeur | 2017 [51] |
Vangelis Papathanassiou | Commandeur | 2017 [52] |
John Mordler | Commandeur | 2017 |
Fujiko Nakaya | Commandeur | 2017 [53] |
Roger Corman | Commandeur | 2017 [54] |
Leo Brouwer | Commandeur | 2018 [55] |
Alejandro G. Iñarritu | Commandeur | 2019 |
Catherine Jacob | Commandeur | 2019 [56] |
Jennifer Flay | Commandeur | 2020 [57] |
Emma Lavigne | Commandeur | 2020 [58] [59] |
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