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

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Recipient Dates
(birth – death)
General work & reason for the recognition Award category (date)
Douglas MacArthur
Ian MacGregor 1912 – 1998 Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist
Frederick William MacMonnies
Franciszek Macharski
Nevil Macready
Mauricio Macri President of Argentina
Stanisław Maczek Polish general
Auguste Antoine Maestracci Reconised for his military and civil service. TBA (1913)
Norman Mailer
Jean-Christophe Maillot
Jacques Maisonrouge
Claude François de Malet
Laure Manaudou
Steve Mandanda World Cup winning footballer
Benoît Mandelbrot
Édouard Manet 1832 – 1883 French painter TBA (1881)
Lata Mangeshkar India
Charles Mangin
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim 1867 – 1951
Alexander Mantashev 1842 – 1911 Oil magnate, financier and philanthropist. Made a donation to build Armenian Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paris
Frederick Mappin
Sir Frederick Mappin, 1st Baronet
Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot French general
Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot French general
Marcel Marceau
Peyton C. March
André Marchal
Stanley Marcus[1]
Maria of Yugoslavia Consort of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Anna Marly
Lara Marlowe American journalist
Auguste Marmont
Jacques Maroger
Paule Marrot 1902 – 1987 Parisian textile designer
Wynton Marsalis
Albert Marshall
George Marshall
Richard Marshall (American general)
Frédéric Martens 1806 – 1885 French photographer Knight (10/29/1855)
Gregory S. Martin
Henri Martre
Charles Marx
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour President of Suez Canal Authority in Egypt 1965 – 1983
Henri Gratte Maskens Captain in the Service of Napoleon 1, 1787 – 1871
André Masséna
William Massey Prime Minister of New Zealand 1912 – 1925
Isabelle Massieu[2] 1844 – 1932 French traveler, photographer and writer
Jan Matejko
Mateja Matevski
Mireille Mathieu
Olivier Elzéar Mathieu
Ginette Mathiot
Mimie Mathy French actress and comedian Knight (4 May 2015)[3]
Blaise Matuidi World Cup winning footballer
Amélie Mauresmo French tennis champion
François Mauriac
Daniel Maximin
Peter Mayle
Paddy Mayne
Robert Blair Mayne
Kylian Mbappé World Cup winning footballer
Paul McCartney
John P. McConnell|
Cyrus McCormick
James "Earthquake McGoon" McGovern Jr. American World War II and First Indochina War pilot
Leonard William McKiel
Beverly McLachlin
Lesley J. McNair
Joseph T. McNarney
Merrill A. McPeak
Joe Medicine Crow Last war chief of the Crow tribe
Zubin Mehta
Étienne Méhul
Georges Méliès
Antoine Brutus Menier
Benjamin Mendy World Cup winning footballer
Henri Menier
Emile-Justin Menier
Honoré Mercier
Angela Merkel
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
Yves Mersch
Luc-Olivier Merson
Olivier Messiaen Composer, organist, and pianist.
Paul Métivier
Corinne Mentzelopoulos
André Meyer
Gerald C. Meyers[4]
Joseph François Michaud
Aníbal Milhais Portuguese World War I hero
Darius Milhaud
Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud Removed from the Légion after the second restoration of Louis XVIII
Madeleine Milhaud
Niko Miljanić
George Millar
Syd Millar
Franklin Miller
Charles Joseph Minard
Alfred Peter Mischo
Živojin Mišić
Francis Mitchell (Royal Navy officer)
Nancy Mitford
Mizan Zainal Abidin Sultan of Terengganu and current Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
Robert Mondavi
Mongkut King of Thailand
Jacques Monod Molecular biologist
Luc Montagnier
Prosper Montagné
Jean-Pierre de Montalivet
Philippe de Montebello
Agénor Azéma de Montgravier
Raymond Monvoisin
Charles Moore[5]
James Moore (cyclist)
Charles Antoine Morand
Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles
Charles Paul Narcisse Moreau
Émilienne Moreau-Evrard
Daniel Morelon
Roland Moreno[6]
Michèle Morgan
Eugène Moret, Officier
Thomas Alfred Morgan
Akio Morita
Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
Ennio Morricone
Leslie Morshead
James Mortimer
Serge Moscovici 1925 – 2014 Social psychologist
Otakar Motejl 1932 – 2010 2000[7]
Lamia Moubayed Bissat TBA (13 July 2015)
Paul Mounet
Mamadou Moustapha Sall Secretary General of Cams
Gerard Muirhead-Gould
Brian Mulroney Axel Munthe, Physician and writer.
Alexander Murdoch[8] World War II veteran 2019
Audie Murphy 1925 – 1971 U.S. Army soldier, actor, songwriter
John Murray (soldier)
Leonard W. Murray
Alfred de Musset 1810 – 1857 French dramatist, poet, novelist
Riccardo Muti

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "The furrowed brow". time magazine. 4 April 1949. Archived from the original on 29 May 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Isabelle MASSIEU fut la première occidentale à se rendre, non seulement au Laos, en 1897, mais dans bon nombre de contrées lointaines de l'Inde, de l'Asie, de la Chine…". Lao Mag (in French). 12 May 2016. Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  3. ^ Yalioua, Zahia (11 May 2015). "Mimie Mathy décorée de la Légion d'honneur par Line Renaud" (in French). TF1. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Photograph caption". Ward's Auto World. 17: 29. 1981. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  5. ^ Caemmerer, H. Paul. "Charles Moore and the Plan of Washington." Records of the Columbia Historical Society. Vol. 46/47 (1944/1945): 237-258 254.
  6. ^ Schofield, Jack (30 April 2012). "Roland Moreno obituary, Smart-card inventor who missed out on global recognition but was a hero in France". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  7. ^ "Nouvelles Vendredi, 23. JUIN, 2000". 23 June 2000. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  8. ^ Mortimer, Luke (3 May 2019). "Veteran awarded Legion of Honour decades after service in WWII". Daily telegraph. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

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