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List of Foreign Legionnaires

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List of Foreign Legionnaires

Notable people who served in the French Foreign Legion. The following is a list of legionnaires who have gained fame or notoriety inside or outside of the legion.

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Officers

  • Alexandre Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski, non-marital son of Napoleon I
  • HRH Prince Aage of Denmark
  • Dimitri Amilakvari - Georgian noble, became an iconic figure of the Free French Forces.
  • Paul Arnaud de Foïard
  • Crown Prince Bảo Long (Chữ nôm 保隆) of Vietnam - head of the Nguyễn Dynasty, the now deposed Emperors of Vietnam
  • François Achille Bazaine - Marshal of France
  • Prince Louis Napoléon - Prince Imperial
  • Dominique Borella- French mercenary and anti-Communist
  • François Certain Canrobert - Marshal of France
  • Jean Danjou - Commander at the Battle of Camarón
  • Jules Gaucher - commander 13 DBLE, killed at Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
  • Georges Hamacek
  • John F. "Jack" Hasey
  • Pierre Jeanpierre
  • Aarne Juutilainen
  • Pierre Koenig
  • André Lalande
  • Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • HSH Prince Louis II of Monaco
  • Patrice MacMahon - Marshal of France
  • Raoul Magrin-Vernerey
  • Pierre Messmer
  • Peter Ortiz, (Acting Lieutenant)
  • Henri, comte de Paris
  • Zinovy Peshkov
  • Rémy Raffalli
  • Peter I of Serbia King of Serbia and SHS
  • Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud - Marshal of France
  • Hélie de Saint Marc - former resistant deported to Buchenwald, participated in the Algiers putsch.
  • Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné - Colonel dead on duty in 1948, Compagnon de la Libération
  • Pierre Segrétain
  • Sisowath Monivong, 1908-9, then prince, later King of Cambodia
  • Josef Šnejdárek- French legionnaire, officer and later Czechoslovakian general
  • Susan Travers
  • James Waddell - New Zealander in the French Foreign Legion

    • Enlisted

  • Léon Ashkenazi, also known as Manitou, Jewish philosopher
  • Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian Prime minister
  • Arthur Bluethenthal, All American football player and decorated World War I pilot
  • Giuseppe Bottai, Italian minister
  • Eugene Bullard, First African-American military pilot
  • Blaise Cendrars, Swiss novelist and poet
  • Max Deutsch, Austrian composer
  • François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist and Tour de France winner
  • Siegfried Freytag, German fighter ace
  • Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist
  • Ante Gotovina, former lieutenant general of the Croatian Army
  • Hans Hartung, German-French painter
  • Erwin James (Monahan), British journalist and murderer
  • Ernst Jünger, German writer
  • Aarne Juutilainen, Finnish army captain
  • Norman Kerry, U.S. actor
  • Moise Kisling, Polish painter
  • Arthur Koestler, Jewish-Hungarian polymath author
  • Raoul Lufbery, French-American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I
  • Rodion Malinovsky, Soviet Marshal and Defence Minister.
  • Simon Murray, British businessman, adventurer, author and the oldest man to reach the South Pole unsupported
  • Peter Julien Ortiz, American, later decorated USMC officer and OSS operative in Occupied France during WWII (Also served in the Legion as an acting Lieutenant)
  • Radomir Pavitchevitch
  • Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
  • Alex Rowe, serving British national
  • Akihiko Saito, Japanese hostage in Iraq who later died in captivity
  • Pal Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa, advertiser, father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Alan Seeger, American poet
  • Rolf Steiner, Professional Soldier of Fortune in Biafra and Southern Sudan
  • Milorad Ulemek, Serbian former militant
  • Oswald Watt, Australian aviator
  • William A. Wellman, American film director

    • Honorary

  • Dick Applegate
  • Marcel Bigeard
  • Christian de Castries
  • Geneviève de Galard – nurse at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, honorary Légionnaire de 1ère classe.
  • Ante Gotovina - Croatian General
  • Pierre Langlais
  • Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. Honorary Caporal (Corporal)

    • References

    List of Foreign Legionnaires Wikipedia
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