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

The French government gives out the Legion of Honour awards, to both FrenchLégion Code, article 16. and foreignLes 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. 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), 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 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. Alt URL The awards are traditionally published and promoted on 14 July.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of recipients of the Legion of Honour awards, since the first ceremony in May 1803. 2,550 individuals can be awarded the insignia every year. The total number of awards is close to 1 million (estimated at 900,000 in 2021, including over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients), with some 92,000 recipients alive today. 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.

RecipientDates(birth – death) General work & reason for the recognitionAward category (date) Gabby Gabreski Jean Louis Gaillot 1919 – 2003 French Resistance member during World War II Akseli Gallen-Kallela Aurele H. Gamache 66th Infantry Division, World War II Jeanne Gang Valentino Garavani 1932 – present Italian fashion design Gabriel García Márquez Gael García Bernal 1978 – present Mexican actor Officer (2026) Timothy Garden, Baron Garden Éveline Garnier1904 - 1989French Resistance member during World War II, librarian Jean-Claude Gaudin Charles Gauthier 1831 – 1891 French sculptor James M. Gavin Hobart R. Gay George Reginald Geary Jacob Casson Geiger Erol Gelenbe Computer Scientist and Engineer Étienne Maurice Gérard Alain Gerbault François Géré 1950 – present French historian Paul Gérin-Lajoie Claire M. Germain 1951 – TBA Professor of law and law librarian. Leonard T. Gerow Josephine de Gersdorff Ferdinand Gueldry 1858 – 1945 Knight (1900) Colonel Walter Giblin World War II Deputy Director O.S.S. Paris Jerzy Giedroyc 1906 – 2000 Polish writer and activist John Gielgud 1904 – 2000 English actor and director Chevalier Knight — 1960 Henri Giffard 1825 – 1882 French engineer. Invented the steam injector and the powered airship. Pierre Giffard 1853 – 1922 French journalist, newspaper publisher and sports organiser. Gilberto Gil 1942 – present Brazilian musician and politician Guy Gilbert Virginia Gildersleeve Pierre Gilliard 1879 – 1962 French tutor to the children of Nicholas II of Russia Françoise Gilot Jean Giraudoux 1882 – 1944 French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright Olivier Giroud World Cup winning footballer Paul Giroud 1898 – 1989 French physician and biologist Hubert de Givenchy 1927 French fashion designer Gladwyn Jebb 1st Baron Gladwyn Lady Feodora Gleichen Graham Russell "Russ" Godden 1920 – TBA Stirling pilot RAF Squadron 196 (1944–45) Franck Goddio 1947 – present French underwater archaeologist Pierre Godeau Rick Goings Hermann Goldschmidt French - German astronomer and painter Major-General Leonardo González García Mexican Air Force Commander Jane Goodall Allan Goodman Lawrence Seymour Goodman 1920 – 2021 British Pilot Adoor Gopalakrishnan 1941 – present Indian filmmaker Nadine Gordimer 1923 – present South African novelist and writer Amédée Gordini Bart Gordon Pete Goss Derrick Gosselin Théodore Gosselin Henri Gouhier Georges Goursat 1863 – 1934 French caricaturist Bill Graham Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard David E. Grange, Jr. Ulysses S. Grant III Jules Gravereaux Cary Travers Grayson John Campbell Greenway Henri Grégoire Joseph-Ernest Grégoire Earle Davis Gregory Robert Gregory John Greig 1923 – 2021 Telegraphist, Forward Observation Unit (3rd Division D-Day landings, World War II) Jean Grelaud Brigitte Grésy James Grierson British Army Officer Antoine Griezmann World Cup winning footballer Jean-Pierre Grünfeld A French nephrologist Stanislaw Grzmot-Skotnicki Jean-Marie Guéhenno Michel Guérard 1933 – present French chef Henry Guerlac 1922 – 1981 American historian Jean Aimé Pierre Guerrier 1925 – 1949 Lieutenant at the 13e Demi-Brigade de Légion Étrangère Jose Gustavo Guerrero 1876 – 1958 Salvadoran lawyer, First President of The International Court of Justice in the Netherlands Gordon Guggisberg Sylvie Guillem 1965 – present Étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet Officer (31 December 2008) Sacha Guitry Ara Güler Björn Gunnlaugsson 1788 – 1876 Icelandic cartographer Ruchria Gupta Donald Bilmont Gustafson 1923 – 2017 103rd Infantry Division, 409th Battalion, World War II Georges Guynemer Reginald Gilbert 1925-2018 HMS Ajax, D day landings World War II

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

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