List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name - P

List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name - P

The following people are recipients of the Légion d'honneur.

*Maurice Papon (1910-2007), awarded the Legion in 1961, convicted for crimes against humanity in 1998-99 for his role during Vichy and consequently dismissed from the order on November 18, 1999
*Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) Grande Croix, French chemist
*Harry Patch (1898-), Last survuiving British veteran of the trenches (WW1) Awarded in 1995
*Ronald Perelman (1942-) American businessman; awarded in 1992
*Harold Pinter (1930- ), British writer and political activist; awarded in 2007
*Lazare Ponticelli (1897-2008), Italian-born French veteran of World War I and supercentenarian
*Elvira Popescu (1894-1993), Romanian-born French actress


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