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

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.^[1]

• Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810-1897) French explorer, geographer, and astronomer
• William G. Dabney American soldier
• Leon Dabo (1865–1960), American painter
• Jan Henryk Dąbrowski
• Stefan Dąb-Biernacki
• Artin Dadyan Paşa (1830–1901), Ministre of Foreign affairs of Ottoman
• Saro Dadyan Turkish Ottoman Historian
• Edouard Daladier (1884–1970), Prime Minister of France
• Salvador Dalí
• Ahmad Hasan Dani (b. 1920), Pakistani archaeologist
• Barney Danson (b. 1921), Canadian World War II veteran, former Minister of Defense
• Robert Darnton (b. 1939), American cultural historian
• Robert Darnton (1939–) – American cultural historian
• André Darrigade, cyclist
• Raymond Daudel (1920–2006), French chemist
• Madeleine Hamm Dautartas
• Paul Davenport
• Walter J. Davey (1897–2001) British World War I Veteran for service in France
• Athanase David
• Michel David-Weill
• Miles Davis
• Michael S. Davison
• Louis Nicolas Davout (1770–1823), Marshal of France
• Marcel Déat
• Francois Debat (1785-1861)
• Alma de Bretteville Spreckels
• André Debry
• Clara Longworth de Chambrun
• George W. Deckard (1896–2001), American World War I veteran
• Odile Decq (1955-), architect
• Reza Deghati (b. 1952), Iranian-French photojournalist.
• Simone Del Duca
• Cino Del Duca
• Percival Alfred Delafield (1897-1999) UK recipient. Royal Engineers.
• Léon Delagrange, (1873–1910), French aviator
• Sonia Delaunay
• Alain Delon
• Eugène Deloncle
• Mimi Denisi (Μιμή Ντενίση), Greek actress
• Gérard Depardieu
• William E. DePuy
• Georges Descrières
• Catherine Destivelle
• Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe
• Louis Dewis
• Harry DeWolf
• Douglas Dickerson, World War II 82nd Airborne Veteran
• Joseph T. Dickman
• William Didier-Pouget, (1864–1959) French artist, named Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1901, Officier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1933
• Laure Diebold
• Marlene Dietrich
• Céline Dion
• Jacques Diouf
• Walt Disney, American animator and filmmaker
• Abdelkader El Djezairi
• Do Cao Tri (1923–1971), General in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
• Douglas Dodds-Parker
• Robert Doisneau (1912–1994), Photographer
• Arnold Dolmetsch
• Arielle Dombasle (b. 1953), French actress,singer,producer
• Phạm Văn Đồng (ARVN general) (1919–2008), General of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam
• Kees van Dongen
• Francis Patrick Donovan
• William J. Donovan (1883–1959), American World War I veteran
• Gustave Doret
• Henri Lucien Doucet, French painter
• Kirk Douglas, American actor
• Henry Doulton
• Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Iranian writer
• Wayne A. Downing
• Jacques Drabier, Pilot in the Free French Air Force during the Nazi Occupation
• Alfred Dreyfus
• Louis Auguste Dubuisson^[2]
• Marcel Louis Célestin Dubuisson^[3]
• Gustave Duchesne de Bellecourt
• Gustave Duclos
• René Ducourtieux (1924-2013), French NCO Army (1944–1962)
• Francis P. Duffy
• Guy DuhouxLegion
• Alexandre Dumas, fils
• Dr. Allen B. Du Mont
• François Joseph Dumont, (1918-1997) Free French Air Force
• Jules Dumont d'Urville
• Richard Saunders Dundas
• John Dunmore (1923–) – New Zealand historian
• Anny Duperey
• Charles-Edmond Duponchel (1804-last mention 1860) for military service to France
• Charles François Dupuis
• Durga Charan Rakshit – India
• Charles Durning (1923–2012)
• Bob Dylan — U.S. recording artist

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