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

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) Douglas MacArthur Donald Matheson1926-2021D-Day Landing on the 6th June 1944 - Able seaman aboard H.M.S Black Prince. Flag Semaphore - Flag communications between ships. Telegraphist. Knight (2021) 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 Recognised 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 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 Martens1806 – 1885French photographerKnight (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 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) 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 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 Lennart MeriPresident of EstoniaGrand Cross (July 28, 2001) 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 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 Seymour Miller WW2 Tank commander D-Day Invasion 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 Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India Grand Cross (14 July 2023) Robert Mondavi Mongkut King of Thailand Henri Monod 1843 - 1911 Head of the Directorate of Public Welfare, Paris. Knight (12 July 1880) Jacques Monod Molecular biologist. First cousin twice removed of Henri Monod, who was also a recipient. Luc Montagnier Prosper Montagné Jean-Pierre de Montalivet Philippe de Montebello Agénor Azéma de Montgravier Raymond Monvoisin Charles MooreCaemmerer, H. Paul. "Charles Moore and the Plan of Washington." Records of the Columbia Historical Society. Vol. 46/47 (1944/1945): 237-258 254. James Moore (cyclist) Charles Antoine Morand Justin Bonaventure Morard de Galles Charles Paul Narcisse Moreau Émilienne Moreau-Evrard Daniel Morelon Roland Moreno 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 Lamia Moubayed Bissat TBA (13 July 2015) Paul Mounet Ethel Moustacchi1933 - 2016Rersearcher in molecular biology and radiobiology, and research director at the French National Centre for Scientific ResearchKnight (1999), Officer (2013) Mamadou Moustapha Sall Secretary General of Cams Gerard Muirhead-Gould Brian Mulroney Axel Munthe, Physician and writer. Alexander Murdoch 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

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

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