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The French government gives out these awards based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France, whether they be French^[1] or foreign^[2] nationals. This award is divided into five distinct categories, i.e. three ranks: Knight, Officer, Commander, and two titles: Grand Officer and Grand Cross. Commander is the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, and requires a minimum of five years in the Officer rank. The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross are awarded only to French citizens.^[3] The awards are traditionally publised and promoted on 14 July.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of recipients of the Légion d'honneur awards, since the first ceremony in 1803. 2,550 individuals can be awarded the insignia every year.^[4] In 2021, the total number of awards was 1802,900,000, including 26,000 to women.^[5] Of the over one million recipients, there have been over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients.^[6]

Recipient	Dates (birth - death)	General Work	Legion of Honour Award Category (Year awarded)	Reason for the Award
James Waddell	1873^[7] – 1954	Highly decorated New Zealand World War I.	Knight (4 July 1915)^[8]^[9], Officer (10 June 1917)^[10], and Commander (1920)	Knight: His bravery in leading his battalion in a costly attack against Turkish trenches on 21 June 1915 (Knight), and Officer: His actions during the Battle of the Somme where his personal example helped carry an attack on the village of Belloy-en-Santerre
Youssef Wahba Pasha	1852 – 1934	Prime Minister of Egypt	TBA^{[citation needed]}
Mourad Wahba Pasha	1879 – 1972	Egyptian politician and high court judge	TBA^{[citation needed]}
Sadek Wahba Pasha	1966 – Present	American economist and investor	TBA^{[citation needed]}
Magdi Wahba	1925 – 1991	Egyptian university professor	TBA^{[citation needed]}
Mark Wainberg	1900 – 1985^[11]^[12]	Leading Canadian AIDS Researcher	Knight^[13]	HIV/AIDS research
Nancy Wake	1912 – 2011	Resistance Commander in WW2, highly decorated allied servicewoman.	Knight (1970) and Officer (1988)^[14]^[15]	Wartime Service
Malvin E. Walker		American Army Officer [[World War II]	TBA^{[citation needed]}
Sean Walsh		79th Armoured Division (Royal Merchant Navy) Cork, Ireland and Canada. D Day December 1941	TBA^{[citation needed]}
Herbert Ward	1863 – 1919	Sculptor and Red Cross officer during World War I.	Officer (1911)^[16]
Rose Warfman^[17]	1916 – 2016	French survivor of Auschwitz and member of the French Resistance.	Knight (10 February 1959) and Officer (10 April 2009)	Work in the French Resistance.
Oswald Watt^[18]^[19]	1878 - 1921	Australian aviator and businessman	TBA^{[citation needed]}	Crash-landed in no man's land and succeeded in making it back to French lines with valuable intelligence under intense fire from German positions.
John Webber	1751^[20] – 1793	Telegrapher in British Navy during D-Day Landings on Sword Beach awarded Medal	TBA (27 May 2015)^{[citation needed]}
Nicholas Fox Weber		American cultural historian and foundation director	TBA^{[citation needed]}
Herman Armour Webster	1878 - 1970	American cultural historian and foundation director, artist and French windmill preservationist^[21]	Knight (1926) -> Officer (1956)^[22]
Ben Weider	1923 – 2008^[23]^[24]	Soldier, author, historian (Napoleonic history), fitness proponent, benefactor of the arts, and entrepreneur.^[25]	Knight^[26] (12 October 2000)^[27]	His research into Napoleon's death.^[23]
Léon Weil	1896 – 2006	One of the last two surviving veterans of the battle of Val-de-Marne in the World War I
Arnold Weinstock	1924 – 2002	English industrialist and businessman (Formed the General Electric Company)
Pierre Weiss	1865 – 1940	French physicist specialized in magnetism (He developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism)
David Weisstub	1944 - Present	Philippe Pinel professor of legal psychiatry and biomedical ethics at the Université de Montréal
Wladyslaw Wejtko	1859 – 1933	Imperial Russian Army general of Poland descent (He fought on the side of the Second Polish Republic as a major-general in Józef Piłsudski's forces during the Polish-Soviet War)
Arsène Wenger	1949 - Present	Arsenal Football Club Manager (2002)
William Westmoreland	1914 – 2005	United States Army general (A commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War, subsequently serving as Chief of Staff of the United States Army).
Maxime Weygand	1867 – 1965	French military commander in World War I and World War II.
Joseph Weyland	1943 - Present	Luxemburg diplomat
Edith Wharton	1862 – 1937	American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
Earle Wheeler	1908 – 1975	United States Army general (who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army and then as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holding the latter position during the Vietnam War).
Belle Armstrong Whitney	1861 – 1922	American writer and "fashion expert", based in Paris.	Knight^[28]
Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski	1881 – 1942	Polish general, adjutant to Chief of State Józef Piłsudski, politician, freemason, diplomat, poet, artist and formally for one day the President of the Republic of Poland.
Elie Wiesel	1928 – 2016	Holocaust survivor and author and Nobel Laureate
Simon Wiesenthal	1908 – 2005	Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer.
Harvey Ladew Williams, Jr.	1900 – 1986	International businessman
Arthur Knyvet Wilson	1842 – 1921	A Royal Navy officer (He served in the Anglo-Egyptian War and then the Mahdist War being awarded the Victoria Cross during the Battle of El Teb)
Henry Hughes Wilson	1864 – 1922	One of the most senior British Army staff officers of the World War I and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.
Ronald Wilson^[29]		Member of regiment of Royal Engineers	TBA (2018)
Jean-Pierre Wimille	1908 – 1949	Grand Prix motor racing driver and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Edwin B. Winans (U.S. Army general)	1869 – 1947	United States Army officer who attained the rank of major general.
Wong Kar Wai	1958 - Present	Hong Kong film director.
Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)	1838 – 1919	British Army officer.
Klaus Wowereit	1953 - Present	German politician of the SPD (Social Democratic Party) and was the Governing Mayor of Berlin.
Orville Wright	1871 – 1948	One of the American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
Wilbur Wright	1867 – 1912	One of the American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
Katharine Wright	1874 – 1929	Younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, with whom she worked closely.
Severin Wunderman
Reinhold Würth	1935 - Present	German billionaire businessman and art collector.

References

^ Légion Code, article 16.
^ Les 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.
^ DM, Florey (29 March 2017). "Michelle Yeoh receives France's highest civilian honour". Cinema Online. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ "The Grand Chancellery is co-producing a film on women and the Legion of Honor". The Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
^ DM, Florey (29 March 2017). "Michelle Yeoh receives France's highest civilian honour". Cinema Online. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ Wattel, Michel; Wattel, Béatrice (2009). "Les Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur. De 1805 à nos jours, titulaires français et étrangers". Archives & Culture.
^ Leask, Anna (14 April 2015). "Gallipoli 100: Our Forgotten 'French' Hero". The New Zealand Herald. No. 46, 096. pp. A12f. Archived from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ E. Coppin (1957). Victory Forever: “Waddell of Gallipoli” An Amazing True Story of the New Zealand Born Hero of the Foreign Legion. Levin: E. Coppin. Order No.73 of the Dardanelles Expeditionary Corps 4 July 1915
^ Windrow, Martin. French Foreign Legionnaire 1890-1914. Osprey Publishing Ltd 2011. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-84908-422-2.
^ E. Coppin (1957). Victory Forever: "Waddell of Gallipoli" an amazing true story of the New Zealand Born Hero of the Foreign Legion. Levin: E. Coppin. Official Gazette 10 June 1917
^ Mark Wainberg; Papa Salif Sow; Susan Kippax; Marlène Bras; Kenneth H Mayer; Linda-Gail Bekker; Chris Beyrer (13 July 2017). "In memoriam: Mark Wainberg, PhD (1945–2017)". Journal of the International AIDS Society. 20 (1). Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
^ Eric J. Arts (5 November 2017). "Dr. Mark A. Wainberg (1945–2017)". AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 33 (5). doi:10.1089/aid.2017.29002.art. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
^ (1980)"Canadian HIV expert named to France's highest order". CBC News. 21 August 2008. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 16 July 2021 suggested (help)
^ Hadley, Kathryn (8 August 2011). "Death of Nancy 'White Mouse' Wake". History Today. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
^ "Nancy Wake". Sun Sign. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
^ "Ward's Légion d'Honneur award certificate". 17 July 2021.
^ "Décret du 10 avril 2009 portant promotion et nomination". LégiFrance. 10 April 2009. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
^ Cutlack, The Australian Flying Corps, pp. 41–42 Archived 10 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Colonel Watt: Drowned near Newport". Sydney Morning Herald. 23 May 1921. p. 8. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
^ "Webber before Cook: two water-colours after Sterne". The Burlington Magazine. Apr 1994. p. 237.
^ The original invitation to become an officier of the Légion d'honneur as well as a photograph of the ceremony are in the Herman A. Webster Collection, Smithsonian Archives of American Art
^ Anderson, Reed (2004). American Etchers Abroad 1880-1939. Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas. p. 160. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2021. {{cite book}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 19 July 2021 suggested (help)
^ ^a ^b Carlson, Michael (2 December 2008). "Ben Weider". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021.
^ "Ben Weider". Montreal Gazette. 19 October 2008. Archived from the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
^ Jerry D. Morelock (20 October 2008). "In Memory of Ben Weider, 1923-2008". Armchair General. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 Jul 2021.
^ Jerry D. Morelock (20 October 2008). "In Memory of Ben Weider, 1923-2008". Armchair General. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021.
^ "Bodybuilder Created an Empire". Montreal Gazette. 19 October 2008. Archived from the original on 22 October 2008. Retrieved 21 July 2021 – via Canada.com.
^ "Tribute to Belle Whitney". New York Times. 25 August 1922. p. 9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
^ "Nantwich war veteran, 95, awarded Legion d'honneur by France". Nantwich News. 2018-12-23. Retrieved 2018-12-28.

External links

Official website
Code de la légion d'honneur et de la médaille militaire, legifrance.gouv.fr (in French)
Base Léonore, recensement des récipiendaires de la Légion d’honneur (décédés avant 1977), on the website of the French Ministry of Culture (in French)

[1] Légion Code, article 16.

[2] Les 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.

[3] DM, Florey (29 March 2017). "Michelle Yeoh receives France's highest civilian honour". Cinema Online. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.

[4] "The Grand Chancellery is co-producing a film on women and the Legion of Honor". The Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.

[5] DM, Florey (29 March 2017). "Michelle Yeoh receives France's highest civilian honour". Cinema Online. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.

[6] Wattel, Michel; Wattel, Béatrice (2009). "Les Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur. De 1805 à nos jours, titulaires français et étrangers". Archives & Culture.

[7] Leask, Anna (14 April 2015). "Gallipoli 100: Our Forgotten 'French' Hero". The New Zealand Herald. No. 46, 096. pp. A12f. Archived from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.

[8] E. Coppin (1957). Victory Forever: “Waddell of Gallipoli” An Amazing True Story of the New Zealand Born Hero of the Foreign Legion. Levin: E. Coppin. Order No.73 of the Dardanelles Expeditionary Corps 4 July 1915

[9] Windrow, Martin. French Foreign Legionnaire 1890-1914. Osprey Publishing Ltd 2011. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-84908-422-2.

[10] E. Coppin (1957). Victory Forever: "Waddell of Gallipoli" an amazing true story of the New Zealand Born Hero of the Foreign Legion. Levin: E. Coppin. Official Gazette 10 June 1917

[11] Mark Wainberg; Papa Salif Sow; Susan Kippax; Marlène Bras; Kenneth H Mayer; Linda-Gail Bekker; Chris Beyrer (13 July 2017). "In memoriam: Mark Wainberg, PhD (1945–2017)". Journal of the International AIDS Society. 20 (1). Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

[12] Eric J. Arts (5 November 2017). "Dr. Mark A. Wainberg (1945–2017)". AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 33 (5). doi:10.1089/aid.2017.29002.art. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

[13] (1980)"Canadian HIV expert named to France's highest order". CBC News. 21 August 2008. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 16 July 2021 suggested (help)

[14] Hadley, Kathryn (8 August 2011). "Death of Nancy 'White Mouse' Wake". History Today. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

[15] "Nancy Wake". Sun Sign. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

[16] "Ward's Légion d'Honneur award certificate". 17 July 2021.

[17] "Décret du 10 avril 2009 portant promotion et nomination". LégiFrance. 10 April 2009. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

[Cutlack-18] Cutlack, The Australian Flying Corps, pp. 41–42 Archived 10 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine

[19] "Colonel Watt: Drowned near Newport". Sydney Morning Herald. 23 May 1921. p. 8. Retrieved 12 February 2010.

[20] "Webber before Cook: two water-colours after Sterne". The Burlington Magazine. Apr 1994. p. 237.

[21] The original invitation to become an officier of the Légion d'honneur as well as a photograph of the ceremony are in the Herman A. Webster Collection, Smithsonian Archives of American Art

[22] Anderson, Reed (2004). American Etchers Abroad 1880-1939. Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas. p. 160. Archived from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2021. {{cite book}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 19 July 2021 suggested (help)

[Guardian-23] Carlson, Michael (2 December 2008). "Ben Weider". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021.

[24] "Ben Weider". Montreal Gazette. 19 October 2008. Archived from the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

[Armchair-25] Jerry D. Morelock (20 October 2008). "In Memory of Ben Weider, 1923-2008". Armchair General. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 Jul 2021.

[26] Jerry D. Morelock (20 October 2008). "In Memory of Ben Weider, 1923-2008". Armchair General. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021.

[27] "Bodybuilder Created an Empire". Montreal Gazette. 19 October 2008. Archived from the original on 22 October 2008. Retrieved 21 July 2021 – via Canada.com.

[28] "Tribute to Belle Whitney". New York Times. 25 August 1922. p. 9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 July 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

[29] "Nantwich war veteran, 95, awarded Legion d'honneur by France". Nantwich News. 2018-12-23. Retrieved 2018-12-28.

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+The French government gives out these awards based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France, whether they be French<ref>Légion Code, article 16.</ref> or foreign<ref>''Les 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.</ref> nationals. This award is divided into five distinct categories, i.e. three ranks: [[Knight]], Officer, [[Commander (order)|Commander]], and two titles: Grand Officer and [[Grand Cross]]. Commander is the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, and requires a minimum of five years in the Officer rank.  The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross are awarded only to French citizens.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michelle Yeoh receives France's highest civilian honour|first=Florey|last=DM|website=Cinema Online|date=29 March 2017|url=http://www.cinema.com.my/articles/news_details.aspx?search=2017.n_michellereceivesfrancecivilianhonour_34756|access-date=20 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ia601403.us.archive.org/31/items/2021-07-20a-michelle-yeoh/2021-07-20a%20Michelle%20Yeoh.pdf|archive-date=20 July 2021}}</ref> The awards are traditionally publised and promoted on 14 July.
-The following is a '''list of some notable Légion d'honneur recipients''' by name. The [[Légion d'honneur]] is the highest order of France. A complete, chronological list of the members of the Legion of Honour nominated from the very first ceremony in 1803 to now does not exist.  The number is estimated at one million including about 3,000 Grand Cross.<ref>Wattel, Michel et Béatrice, ''Les Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur. De 1805 à nos jours, titulaires français et étrangers'', Archives et Culture, 2009</ref>
+The following is a non-exhaustive list of recipients of the [[Légion d'honneur]] awards, since the first ceremony in 1803. 2,550 individuals can be awarded the insignia every year.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Grand Chancellery is co-producing a film on women and the Legion of Honor|website=The Grand Chancellery of the Legion of Honour|url=https://www.legiondhonneur.fr/en/actualites/la-grande-chancellerie-co-produit-un-film-sur-les-femmes-et-la-legion/1813/6|access-date=24 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724003139/https://www.legiondhonneur.fr/en/actualites/la-grande-chancellerie-co-produit-un-film-sur-les-femmes-et-la-legion/1813/6|archive-date=24 July 2021}}</ref> In 2021, the total number of awards was 1802,900,000, including 26,000 to women.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michelle Yeoh receives France's highest civilian honour|first=Florey|last=DM|website=Cinema Online|date=29 March 2017|url=http://www.cinema.com.my/articles/news_details.aspx?search=2017.n_michellereceivesfrancecivilianhonour_34756|access-date=20 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ia601403.us.archive.org/31/items/2021-07-20a-michelle-yeoh/2021-07-20a%20Michelle%20Yeoh.pdf|archive-date=20 July 2021}}</ref> Of the over one million recipients, there have been over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Michel|last1=Wattel|first2=Béatrice|last2=Wattel|title=Les Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur. De 1805 à nos jours, titulaires français et étrangers|newspaper=Archives & Culture|date=2009}}</ref>
 {{Légion d'honneur recipients by name}}
+{{Static row numbers}}
-*[[James Waddell (French Foreign Legion)]], highly decorated New Zealander World War I.
+{| class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers"|
-* [[Youssef Wahba]] Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt
+! Recipient
-* [[Mourad Wahba]] Pasha
+! style="white-space: nowrap;"|Dates<BR>(birth - death)
-* [[Sadek Wahba]] Pasha
+! General Work
-* [[Magdi Wahba]]
+! style="white-space: nowrap"|Legion of Honour Award Category (Year awarded)
-* [[Mark Wainberg]], Leading Canadian AIDS Researcher
+! Reason for the Award
-*[[Nancy Wake]], Resistance Commander in WW2, highly decorated allied servicewoman.
+|-
-*[[Malvin E. Walker]], American Army Officer World War II
+| [[James Waddell (French Foreign Legion)|James Waddell]]
-*[[Herbert Ward (sculptor)|Herbert Ward]], sculptor and Red Cross officer during World War I.
+| 1873<ref>{{cite news|title=Gallipoli 100: Our Forgotten 'French' Hero|last1=Leask|first1=Anna|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|issue=46,096|date=14 April 2015|pages=A12f|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11432103|access-date=20 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gallipoli-100-our-forgotten-french-hero/TTDCR5ASF47C6VABDQVYWAR23E/|archive-date=20 July 2021}}</ref> – 1954
-* [[Rose Warfman]]
+| Highly decorated [[New Zealander|New Zealand]] [[World War I]].
-* [[Oswald Watt]]
+! [[Legion of Honour|Knight]] (4 July 1915)<ref>{{cite book|quote=Order No.73 of the Dardanelles Expeditionary Corps 4 July 1915|author=E. Coppin|title=Victory Forever: “Waddell of Gallipoli” An Amazing True Story of the New Zealand Born Hero of the Foreign Legion|publisher=Levin: E. Coppin|author=E. Coppin|date=1957}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=French Foreign Legionnaire 1890-1914|first=Martin|last=Windrow|page=35|publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]] Ltd 2011|isbn=978-1-84908-422-2}}</ref>, [[Legion of Honour|Officer]] (10 June 1917)<ref>{{cite book|quote=Official Gazette 10 June 1917|author=E. Coppin|title=Victory Forever: "Waddell of Gallipoli" an amazing true story of the New Zealand Born Hero of the Foreign Legion|publisher=Levin: E. Coppin|date=1957}}</ref>, and [[Legion of Honour|Commander]] (1920)
-* [[John Webber]], telegrapher in British Navy during D-Day Landings on Sword Beach awarded Medal 27 May 2015
+| <B>Knight:</B> His bravery in leading his battalion in a costly attack against Turkish trenches on 21 June 1915 (Knight), and <B>Officer:</B> His actions during the Battle of the Somme where his personal example helped carry an attack on the village of Belloy-en-Santerre
-*[[Nicholas Fox Weber]], American cultural historian and foundation director
+|-
-*[[Herman Armour Webster]], artist and French windmill preservationist<ref>The original invitation to become an ''officier of the Légion d'honneur'' as well as a photograph of the ceremony are in the Herman A. Webster Collection, Smithsonian Archives of American Art</ref>
-* [[Ben Weider]]
+| [[Youssef Wahba]] Pasha
+| 1852 – 1934
-* [[Léon Weil]]
+| Prime Minister of [[Egypt]]
-* [[Arnold Weinstock]]
+! TBA{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
-* [[Pierre Weiss]]
+|
-* [[David Weisstub]]
+|-
-* [[Wladyslaw Wejtko]]
+| [[Mourad Wahba]] Pasha
-* [[Arsène Wenger]], Arsenal Football Club Manager (2002)
+| 1879 – 1972
-* [[William Westmoreland]]
+| Egyptian politician and high court judge
-* [[Maxime Weygand]]
+! TBA{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
-*[[Joseph Weyland]], Luxembourgian diplomat
+|
-* [[Edith Wharton]]
+|-
-* [[Earle Wheeler]]
+| [[Sadek Wahba]] Pasha
-* [[Belle Armstrong Whitney]]<ref name="NYTObit">[http://search.proquest.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/98613885/E71096D0ABE462APQ/11 "Tribute to Belle Whitney"] ''New York Times'' (August 25, 1922): 9.</ref>
+| 1966 – Present
-* [[Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski]]
+| American economist and investor
-*[[Elie Wiesel]], Holocaust survivor and author, Nobel Laureate (2000)
+! TBA{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
-* [[Simon Wiesenthal]]
+|
-* [[Harvey Ladew Williams, Jr.]], international businessman
+|-
-* [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson]]
+| [[Magdi Wahba]]
-* [[Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet|Henry Hughes Wilson]]
+| 1925 – 1991
-*Ronald Wilson, member of regiment of Royal Engineers, awarded 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2018/12/23/nantwich-war-veteran-95-awarded-legion-dhonneur-by-france/|title=Nantwich war veteran, 95, awarded Legion d'honneur by France|date=2018-12-23|website=Nantwich News|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-28}}</ref>
+| Egyptian university professor
-* [[Jean-Pierre Wimille]]
+! TBA{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
-* [[Edwin B. Winans (U.S. Army general)]]
+|
-* [[Wong Kar Wai]]
+|-
-* [[Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)]]
-* [[Klaus Wowereit]]
+| [[Mark Wainberg]]
+| 1900 – 1985<ref>{{cite journal|title=In memoriam: Mark Wainberg, PhD (1945–2017)|author1=Mark Wainberg|author2=Papa Salif Sow|author3=Susan Kippax|author4=Marlène Bras|author5=Kenneth H Mayer|author6=Linda-Gail Bekker|author7=Chris Beyrer|volume=20|issue=1|date=13 July 2017|website=[[Journal of the International AIDS Society]]|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.7448/IAS.20.1.22206|access-date=21 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ia601506.us.archive.org/22/items/full_20210721/FULL.png|archive-date=21 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Dr. Mark A. Wainberg (1945–2017)|author=Eric J. Arts|volume=33|issue=5|date=5 November 2017|website=[[AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses]]|doi=10.1089/aid.2017.29002.art|url=https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/aid.2017.29002.art|access-date=21 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721064854/https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/aid.2017.29002.art|archive-date=21 July 2021}}</ref>
-* [[Orville Wright]]
+| Leading Canadian [[AIDS]] Researcher
-* [[Wilbur Wright]]
+! [[Legion of Honour|Knight]]<ref> (1980){{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canadian-hiv-expert-named-to-france-s-highest-order-1.769949|title=Canadian HIV expert named to France's highest order|newspaper=[[CBC News]]|date=21 August 2008|access-date=17 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716155757/https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/sitiveni-rabuka|archive-date=17 July 2021}}</ref>
-* [[Katharine Wright]]
+| [[HIV/AIDS]] research
-* [[Severin Wunderman]]
+|-
-* [[Reinhold Würth]]
+| [[Nancy Wake]]
+| 1912 – 2011
+| Resistance Commander in WW2, highly decorated allied servicewoman.
+! [[Legion of Honour|Knight]] (1970) and [[Legion of Honour|Officer]] (1988)<ref>{{cite web|title=Death of Nancy 'White Mouse' Wake|newspaper=[[History Today]]|date=8 August 2011|first=Kathryn|last=Hadley|url=https://www.historytoday.com/death-nancy-white-mouse-wake|access-date=17 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717053531/https://www.historytoday.com/death-nancy-white-mouse-wake|archive-date=17 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nancy Wake|newspaper=Sun Sign|url=https://www.sunsigns.org/famousbirthdays/d/profile/nancy-wake/|access-date=17 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717055301/https://www.sunsigns.org/famousbirthdays/d/profile/nancy-wake/|archive-date=17 July 2021}}</ref>
+| Wartime Service
+|-
+| Malvin E. Walker
+|
+| American Army Officer [[World War II]
+! TBA{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
+|
+|-
+| Sean Walsh
+|
+| 79th Armoured Division (Royal Merchant Navy) Cork, Ireland and Canada. D Day  December 1941
+! TBA{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
+|
+|-
+| [[Herbert Ward (sculptor)|Herbert Ward]]
+| 1863 – 1919
+| Sculptor and [[Red Cross]] officer during [[World War I]].
+! [[Legion of Honour|Officer]] (1911)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Ward_Legion_D%27Honneur_certificate_1911.JPG |title=Ward's Légion d'Honneur award certificate|date=17 July 2021}}</ref>
+|-
+| [[Rose Warfman]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Décret du 10 avril 2009 portant promotion et nomination|newspaper=LégiFrance|date=10 April 2009|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000020506686|access-date=17 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717102110/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000020506686|archive-date=17 July 2021}}</ref>
+| 1916 – 2016
+| French survivor of [[Auschwitz]] and member of the [[French Resistance]].
+! style="white-space: nowrap;"|[[Legion of Honour|Knight]] (10 February 1959) and [[Legion of Honour|Officer]] (10 April 2009)
+| Work in the [[French Resistance]].
+|-
+| [[Oswald Watt]]<ref name="Cutlack">Cutlack, [http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1069787--1-.PDF ''The Australian Flying Corps'', pp. 41–42] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110012309/http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1069787--1-.PDF |date=10 November 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15950786|title=Colonel Watt: Drowned near Newport|newspaper=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=23 May 1921|page=8|access-date=12 February 2010}}</ref>
+| 1878 - 1921
+| Australian aviator and businessman
+! TBA{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
+| Crash-landed in no man's land and succeeded in making it back to French lines with valuable intelligence under intense fire from German positions.
+|-
+| [[John Webber]]
+| 1751<ref>{{cite web|title=Webber before Cook: two water-colours after Sterne|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/886088?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents|newspaper=[[The Burlington Magazine]]|volume=136|issue=1903|date=Apr 1994|page=237}}</ref> – 1793
+| Telegrapher in British Navy during D-Day Landings on Sword Beach awarded Medal
+! TBA (27 May 2015){{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
+|
+|-
+| Nicholas Fox Weber
+|
+| American cultural historian and foundation director
+! TBA{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}}
+|
+|-
+| [[Herman Armour Webster]]
+| 1878 - 1970
+| American cultural historian and foundation director, artist and French windmill preservationist<ref>The original invitation to become an ''officier of the Légion d'honneur'' as well as a photograph of the ceremony are in the Herman A. Webster Collection, Smithsonian Archives of American Art</ref>
+! [[Legion of Honour|Knight]] (1926) -> [[Legion of Honour|Officer]] (1956)<ref>{{cite book|title=American Etchers Abroad 1880-1939|first=Reed|last=Anderson|publisher=Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas|date=2004|page=160|url=https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22644268700&searchurl=fe%3Don%26kn%3D%2522American%2BEtchers%2BAbroad%2B1880-1939%2522%252C%2BAnderson%252C%2BReed%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Damerican%2Betchers&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image1|access-date=19 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719010514/https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22644268700&searchurl=fe%3Don%26kn%3D%2522American%2BEtchers%2BAbroad%2B1880-1939%2522%252C%2BAnderson%252C%2BReed%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Damerican%2Betchers&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image1|archive-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>
+|
+|-
+| [[Ben Weider]]
+| style="white-space: nowrap;"|1923 – 2008<ref name="Guardian">{{cite web|title=Ben Weider|first=Michael|last=Carlson|date=2 December 2008|website=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/dec/02/obituary-ben-weider-bodybuilder-napoleon|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721081219/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/dec/02/obituary-ben-weider-bodybuilder-napoleon|archive-date=21 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ben Weider|date=19 October 2008|website=[[Montreal Gazette]]|url=https://montrealgazette.remembering.ca/obituary/ben-weider-1066555271|access-date=21 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723092634/https://montrealgazette.remembering.ca/obituary/ben-weider-1066555271|archive-date=23 July 2021}}</ref>
+| Soldier, author, historian ([[Napoleon I of France|Napoleonic]] history), fitness proponent, benefactor of the arts, and entrepreneur.<ref name="Armchair">{{cite web|title=In Memory of Ben Weider, 1923-2008|author=Jerry D. Morelock|date=20 October 2008|website=Armchair General|url=http://armchairgeneral.com/in-memory-of-ben-weider-1923-2008.htm|url-status=live|access-date=21 Jul 2021|archive-url=https://archive.org/details/2021-07-22a-armchair-general|archive-date=21 July 2021}}</ref>
+! [[Legion of Honour|Knight]]<ref>{{cite web|title=In Memory of Ben Weider, 1923-2008|author=Jerry D. Morelock|date=20 October 2008|website=Armchair General|url=http://armchairgeneral.com/in-memory-of-ben-weider-1923-2008.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ia801408.us.archive.org/1/items/2021-07-21a-wiki-edit-ben-weider/2021-07-21a%20%7BWIKI%20EDIT%7D%20-%20Ben%20Weider.png|archive-date=21 July 2021}}</ref> (12 October 2000)<ref>{{cite web|title=Bodybuilder Created an Empire|date=19 October 2008|newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette]]|via=[[Canada.com]]|url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=419e8383-d075-4d42-a460-6d2c2bc8536a|url-status=dead|access-date=21 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022010442/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=419e8383-d075-4d42-a460-6d2c2bc8536a|archive-date=22 October 2008}}</ref>
+| His research into Napoleon's death.<ref name="Guardian"/>
+|-
+| [[Léon Weil]]
+| 1896 – 2006
+| One of the last two surviving veterans of the battle of [[Val-de-Marne]] in the [[World War I]]
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Arnold Weinstock]]
+| 1924 – 2002
+| English industrialist and businessman (Formed the [[General Electric Company]])
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Pierre Weiss]]
+| 1865 – 1940
+| French physicist specialized in magnetism (He developed the domain theory of [[ferromagnetism]])
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[David Weisstub]]
+| 1944 - Present
+| [[Philippe Pinel]] professor of legal psychiatry and biomedical ethics at the [[Université de Montréal]]
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Wladyslaw Wejtko]]
+| 1859 – 1933
+| Imperial Russian Army general of [[Polish|Poland]] descent (He fought on the side of the [[Second Polish Republic]] as a major-general in [[Józef Piłsudski]]'s forces during the [[Polish-Soviet War]])
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Arsène Wenger]]
+| 1949 - Present
+| [[Arsenal Football Club]] Manager (2002)
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[William Westmoreland]]
+| 1914 – 2005
+| United States Army general (A commander of [[United States]] forces during the [[Vietnam War]], subsequently serving as Chief of Staff of the [[United States Army]]).
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Maxime Weygand]]
+| 1867 – 1965
+| French military commander in [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Joseph Weyland]]
+| 1943 - Present
+| [[Luxembourgian|Luxemburg]] diplomat
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Edith Wharton]]
+| 1862 – 1937
+| American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Earle Wheeler]]
+| 1908 – 1975
+| [[United States Army]] general (who served as Chief of Staff of the [[United States Army]] and then as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holding the latter position during the [[Vietnam War]]).
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Belle Armstrong Whitney]]
+| 1861 – 1922
+| American writer and "fashion expert", based in [[Paris]].
+! [[Legion of Honour|Knight]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Tribute to Belle Whitney|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|date=25 August 1922|page=9|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/25/issue.html|access-date=22 July 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ia601506.us.archive.org/2/items/2021-07-22a-belle-armstrong-whitney/2021-07-22a%20Belle%20Armstrong%20Whitney.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2021}}</ref>
+|
+|-
+| [[Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski]]
+| 1881 – 1942
+| Polish general, adjutant to [[Chief of State]] Józef Piłsudski, politician, freemason, diplomat, poet, artist and formally for one day the President of the [[Republic of Poland]].
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Elie Wiesel]]
+| 1928 – 2016
+| Holocaust survivor and author and [[Nobel Laureate]]
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Simon Wiesenthal]]
+| 1908 – 2005
+| Jewish Austrian [[Holocaust survivor]], Nazi hunter, and writer.
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Harvey Ladew Williams, Jr.]]
+| 1900 – 1986
+| International businessman
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson]]
+| 1842 – 1921
+| A Royal Navy officer (He served in the [[Anglo-Egyptian War]] and then the [[Mahdist War]] being awarded the [[Victoria Cross]] during the Battle of [[El Teb]])
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet|Henry Hughes Wilson]]
+| 1864 – 1922
+| One of the most senior British Army staff officers of the [[World War I]] and was briefly an [[Irish unionist]] politician.
+!
+|
+|-
+| Ronald Wilson<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2018/12/23/nantwich-war-veteran-95-awarded-legion-dhonneur-by-france/|title=Nantwich war veteran, 95, awarded Legion d'honneur by France|date=2018-12-23|website=Nantwich News|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-28}}</ref>
+|
+| Member of regiment of [[Royal Engineers]]
+! TBA (2018)
+|
+|-
+| [[Jean-Pierre Wimille]]
+| 1908 – 1949
+| [[Grand Prix]] motor racing driver and a member of the [[French Resistance]] during [[World War II]].
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Edwin B. Winans (U.S. Army general)]]
+| 1869 – 1947
+| [[United States Army]] officer who attained the rank of [[major general]].
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Wong Kar Wai]]
+| 1958 - Present
+| [[Hong Kong]] film director.
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)]]
+| 1838 – 1919
+| [[British Army]] officer.
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Klaus Wowereit]]
+| 1953 - Present
+| German politician of the SPD ([[Social Democratic Party]]) and was the Governing Mayor of [[Berlin]].
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Orville Wright]]
+| 1871 – 1948
+| One of the American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Wilbur Wright]]
+| 1867 – 1912
+| One of the American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Katharine Wright]]
+| 1874 – 1929
+| Younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, with whom she worked closely.
+!
+|
+|-
+| Severin Wunderman
+|
+|
+!
+|
+|-
+| [[Reinhold Würth]]
+| 1935 - Present
+| German billionaire businessman and art collector.
+!
+|
+|}
+==See also==
+{{Portal|France}}
+* [[Legion of Honour]]
+* [[Croix de Guerre|War Cross (France)]]
+* [[List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name|List of {{lang|fr|Légion d'honneur|nocat=y}} recipients by name]]
+* [[List of British recipients of the Légion d'Honneur for the Crimean War|List of British recipients of the {{lang|fr|Légion d'Honneur|nocat=y}} for the Crimean War]]
+* [[List of foreign recipients of the Légion d'Honneur|List of foreign recipients of the {{lang|fr|Légion d'Honneur|nocat=y}}]]
+* ''{{lang|fr|[[Musée de la Légion d'honneur|Musée national de la Légion d'honneur et des ordres de chevalerie]]}}''
+* [[Ribbons of the French military and civil awards]]
 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}
-{{DEFAULTSORT:List of Legion d'honneur recipients by name (W)}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:List of Legion d'honneur recipients by name (Y)}}
 [[Category:Lists of Légion d'honneur recipients| ]]
+==External links==
+{{Commons category|National Order of the Legion of Honour|Legion of Honour}}
+* [http://www.legiondhonneur.fr/en Official website]
+* [https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCode.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006071007 ''Code de la légion d'honneur et de la médaille militaire''], legifrance.gouv.fr {{in lang|fr}}
+* [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/leonore/pres.htm ''Base Léonore, recensement des récipiendaires de la Légion d’honneur (décédés avant 1977)''], on the website of the French Ministry of Culture {{in lang|fr}}