List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (C)
The following is a list of some notable Légion d'honneur recipients by name. The Légion d'honneur is the highest order of France. A complete, chronological list of the members of the Legion of Honour nominated from the very first ceremony in 1803 to now does not exist. The number is estimated at one million including about 3,000 Grand Cross.[1]
- Alphonse de Cailleux
- Frédéric Cailliaud (1787–1869), French Egyptologist and explorer.
- René Caillié, French explorer.
- Roger Caillois (1913–1978), French writer, member of the Académie Française
- Italo Calvino (1923–1985), Italian author.
- Patrick de Cambourg
- Francis Cammaerts (1916–2006), en Colombie SOE pour fonctionner Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
- Jacques Camou (1792–1868), French general.
- Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894), French writer and photographer.
- Gordon Campbell (1886–1953), British Admiral.
- Iris Cantor
- James Brudenell, 7e comte de Cardigan
- Carl XVI Gustaf de Suède
- Erskine Nicolson, 3rd Baron Carnock
- Alexis Carrel
- Madeleine Carroll
- Henry H. Carter
- George Carter-Campbell
- Paul Daniel Cartron
- Mary Cassatt
- Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau
- Raoul Castex, (1878–1968), French admiral
- Jacques Jean Félix Casties, a former airline pilot in an airline; 43 years of professional and military services.[2]
- Giuseppe Castiglione (1829–1908), Italian artist
- Frédéric Walker Castle
- Clifton B. Cates
- Albertus W. Catlin
- Marcel Caux
- Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Ivan Ceresnjes
- Clifford Chadderton
- Edgar Chahine
- Cecile Chaminade (1857–1944), French Composer, noted female recipient
- Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois
- Jean-Pierre Changeux
- André Chapelon (1892–1978), French Engineer
- Jean-Antoine Chaptal
- Jean-Martin Charcot, physician, founding father of modern neurology
- Jean Charest
- Émilie Charmy[3]
- Martin Charteris, le baron de Charteris Amisfield
- Ngô Bảo Châu[4]
- Alexander Chavchavadze
- Jean Cherqui
- Ferdinand J. Chesarek
- Louis Chevalier (1911–2001), French historian[5]
- Gabriel Chevallier
- Julia Child
- Dezydery Chlapowski
- Józef Chlopicki
- Choong Hoon Cho (1920-2002) Founding Chairman, Hanjin Group, South Korea
- Yang Ho Cho (1949) Chairman, Hanjin Group, South Korea
- Yash Chopra
- Charles-Joseph Christiani (1772–1840), French maréchal de camp
- Michel Ciment
- Dusan Ckrebic, Grand Officier, former President of Serbian Presidency
- Jean-Pierre Clamadieu
- Wesley Clark, 4-star General (ret.) U.S. Army.
- Eugent Clarke Jamaican British West Indies Regiment veteran of WWI
- Adolphe Clément-Bayard – industrialist – 1912
- Laura Clifford Barney (1879–1974), American Bahá'í teacher and philanthropist.
- Pierre Clostermann
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Jean Cocteau
- William Anderson Coffin, painter
- Isidore Noel Cohard
- Daniel Cohen, French economist
- Colette
- Jean-Philippe Collard
- Eileen Collins
- J. Lawton Collins
- Charles Combes, Engineer
- Yves Congar (1904–1995), French priest and theologian
- Sean Connery
- Cyril Connolly
- Jacinto Convit, Venezuela physician
- James T. Conway, U.S. 4-star General, 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Charles H. Coolidge
- Julian Coolidge
- Corneliu Coposu
- William Corbet
- Charles H. Corlett
- Doina Cornea, Romanian human rights activist.
- Peter Cosgrove, Australian General, former Chief of the Defence Force
- Gérard Coste
- Pierre Auguste Cot
- Jean Cottier (1912–2003), French civil servant, diplomat in Washington D.C. and in London, Chairman of the BFCE (Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur),
- Henri du Couëdic de Kerérant (1868-1947), Amiral, Commandeur
- Michel du Couëdic de Kerérant (1931-2006), Capitaine de Vaisseau, Officier
- Georges Courteline
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Léon Couturier, Peintre de la Marine
- Edgar William Cox, (1882–1918) British general and intelligence officer.
- Paul Coze, (1903–1974) French-American anthropologist and artist.
- Austen Crehore
- David Cronenberg, Canadian film director.
- Carlos Cruz-Diez, (1923) venezuelan painter.
- Kenneth Cummins
- Andrew Cunningham, 1er vicomte Cunningham de Hyndhope
- Ève Curie
- Ivan Curkovic
- Arthur Currie
- Walerian Czuma
- Marion Cotillard
References
- ↑ Wattel, Michel et Béatrice, Les Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur. De 1805 à nos jours, titulaires français et étrangers, Archives et Culture, 2009
- ↑ "Decree of 19 April 2000 on the promotion and appointment". Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honor. 19 April 2000. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ↑ Petteys, Chris, ‘’Dictionary of Women Artists’’, G K Hill & Co. publishers, 1985
- ↑ ORDRE NATIONAL DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR
- ↑ Ratcliffe, Barrie M. (2010). Philip Daileader; Philip Whalen, ed. French historians 1900–2000. Chichester, UK; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 112–135. ISBN 978-1-4051-9867-7.
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