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

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, and reason for the recognitionAward Category (Date) Satyajit Ray 1921 – 1992 Indian film director, scriptwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. TBA (1987) Sakip Sabanci 1933 – 2004 Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist Recognised for his contributions to the Franco-Turkish relationships in culture and business. TBA (2001) Pari Saberi 1932 – present Iranian drama and theatre director. TBA (2004) Anthony Sadler 1992 – present American author and television personality. Recognised along with Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, stopped a gunman on a Paris-bound train travelling from Amsterdam via Brussels (August 2015). Knight (24 August 2015) Louis-Vincent-Joseph Le Blond de Saint-Hilaire 1766 – 1809 French general Grand Officer (June 1804)Grand Cross (December 1805) Louis Santi ? – ~1925 KnightGrand Cross Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo 1942 – present Argentine Catholic bishop TBA (2000) Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko 1768 – 1844 Polish nobleman, general, military commander, diplomat and politician. Knight Louis Santi ? – ~1925 KnightGrand Cross Eran Sachs TBA Karine Saporta French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film Film director. Knight Nicolas Sarkozy 1955 – present French politician (President of France and 'ex officio' Co-Prince of Andorra) Knight (February 2005) José Sarukhán Kermez 1940 – present Mexican biologist Knight (June 2025) Jalal Sattari Iranian Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator. Recognised for his dedication to cause of the culture during his 50-year career as cultural activist. TBA Jérôme Savary 1942 – 2013 Argentinian-French theater director and actor Knight Adolphe Sax 1814 – 1894 Belgian inventor and musician. Known for creating the saxophone. Knight (1849) Levon Sayan 1934 – present French–Armenian impresario and producer, as well as an operatic tenor. Officer Paolo Scaroni 1946 – present Italian businessman (A.C. Milan / formerly Italian energy company Eni) TBA (November 2007) Ary Scheffer TBA Anne Cécile Schmitt 1917 – 2011. Recogniosed for her actions in World War II. TBA Guillaume Schnaebelé 1831 – 1900 Awarded 1870/1 for his service in the Franco-Prussian War, he is better known for the Schnaebelé incident TBA (1877) Dominique Schnapper TBA Eugène Schneider TBA Pierre Schneiter TBA Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947 – present Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, retired bodybuilder, and former politician (38th governor of California). Recognised for his strong legacy of environmental achievements.Knight (2011)Commander (28 April 2017) Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. 1934 – 2012 Retired United States Army General who, while he served as Commander-in-Chief (now known as "Combatant Commander") of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991. TBA Martin Scorsese TBAPapa Abdoulaye SeckKnight 2013 Herbert Scott R. N. Coxswain of an L.C.A delivering 47 Commando to Gold Beach, Normandy (1944). TBA Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta TBA Marc Seguin 1786 – 1875 French inventor and entrepreneur, invented the tubular steam engine and brought suspension bridge to continental EuropeTBA (1836) Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur TBA John F. R. Seitz Monique Sené French, nuclear physicist. Dominique Senequier Leading private equity investor. Edgar Sengier Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou 1941 – present Iranian writer and literary figure. Andrzej Seweryn Shah Rukh Khan Ravi Shankar, India Ali-Akbar Siassi Iranian intellectual, psychologist and politician during the 1930s and 1960s, serving as the country's Foreign Minister, Minister of Education, Chancellor of University of Tehran, and Minister of State without portfolio. Djibril Sidibé World Cup winning footballer Henryk Siemiradzki Henryk Sienkiewicz Władysław Sikorski Rodrigo Augusto da Silva 1833 – 1889 Brazilian politician (foreign minister and Senator, 1889), diplomat, lawyer, monarchist and journalist. Grand Cross Kumar de Silva Sri Lanka Franklin Simon 1865 – 1934 Honored for doing more to put American women in French styles. Paul-Louis Simond 1858 – 1947 French biologist who discovered the transmission of the bubonic plague through rat fleas. Jules Herman Sitrick Single-handedly captured 21 German soldiers during World War II. Roy D. Simmons Jr. Recognised for his service during World War IIKnight (August 22, 2010) Alek Skarlatos Together with his friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler. Albert Skorupa 1919 – present World War II veteran who served as an engineer. Honored alongside 99 other World War II veterans, as part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of D-Day. Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki Edward David Smout Jan Smuts Thomas D'Oyly Snow Nelson Socorro, Venezuelan attorney, politician Jacob Söderman Michał Sokolnicki 1760 – 1816 Polish general Prak Sokhonn Omar Soliman, (Omar Mahmoud Soliman) Egyptian Spy Chief till 2011 Jean-François André Sordet 1852 – 1923 Jean-Pierre Sourdin Ancien directeur d'un journal français en Australie; 51 ans d'activités professionnelles, associatives et de services militaires. Prince Mangkra Souvannaphouma 1938 – 2025 Lao Prince living in exile in France. Józef Sowinski Carl Andrew Spaatz Edmund Charles Spencer World War I veteran. Awarded the Légion d'honneur on the 80th anniversary of the armistice. John Strange Spencer-Churchill Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill Steven Spielberg American film director/producer. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels 1881 – 1926 American philanthropist who raised large amounts of money for France during World War I.TBA (1924) Wacław Stachiewicz Keir Starmer 1962 – presentPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (2024-2026) Grand Officer (2026) Milan Rastislav Štefánik Johannes Steinhoff Stepa Stepanović Ninian Stephen Anthony Coningham Sterling John Mills Sterling Brig. General, USAF Air Attaché US Embassy in Paris, France (World War II). Honored for certain "classified reasons". Major A.J.A. Stewart ? – 2017 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Honoured for his part in the Normandy landings Landings. Joseph Stilwell Yates Stirling Jr. American Navy Rear Admiral Bill Stone Spencer Stone 1992 – present Awarded for assisting in the prevention of an Islamic terrorist attack on French soil. Julius Streicher German National Socialist publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer. 1939 (before the war started). Barbra Streisand Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz, baron Strolz Albert Edward Stuart Actions on D-Day during liberation of France. TBA (2016) Doveton Sturdee Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie Evelyne Sullerot Bruce Sundlun Stevan Šupljikac Léopold Survage Nikolai Sverchkov Greggory Swarz U.S. Airman. Recognised for pulling three French airmen from the burning wreckage of a Greek F-16 jet (26 January 2015). Stefan Szlaszewski Prabowo Subianto 1951-present President of Indonesia Grand Cross (2025) Stefan Szlaszewski Samuel Williams 2003-present Founder of Bird Foundation TBA (2025)

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

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