Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour

The list Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour includes Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Albert of Monaco, Vladimir Putin, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands and François Pinault. The list consists of 815 members and 1 sublist.

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Queen Elizabeth II

British, Royalty

Overview: Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She had been ...

Date of birth: 21 April 1926

Date of death: 8 September 2022

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Heirs presumptive to the British throne 10T

Mothers of British monarchs 8T

21st-century queens regnant 3T
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Prince Albert of Monaco

Monacan, Royalty

Overview: Albert II (Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi; born 14 March 1958) is Prince of Monaco, reigning since 2005.

Date of birth: 14 March 1958

Age: 67

Nationality: Monacan

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Princess Charlene of Monaco (Married)

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Recipients of Supreme Order of the Renaissance (Jordan) 78T

Monegasque International Olympic Committee members 3T

Recipients of the Order pro Merito Melitensi 91T
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Vladimir Putin

President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)

Overview: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008 ...

Date of birth: 7 October 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

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Recipients of the Order of Outstanding Merit 71T

Pro-Russian people of the Russian invasion of Ukraine 26T

Secretaries of the Security Council (Russia) 13T
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Queen Máxima of the Netherlands

Queen of the Netherlands since 2013

Overview: Máxima (born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti; 17 May 1971) is Queen of the Netherlands as the wife of King Willem-Alexander.

Date of birth: 17 May 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: Argentinean

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: King Willem-Alexander (Married)

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Grand Crosses in special issue of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 20T

Princesses of Orange-Nassau 23T

Argentine emigrants to the Netherlands 2T
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Tsar Nicholas II

Russian, Royalty

Overview: Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer, was the last Emperor ...

Date of birth: 18 May 1868

Date of death: 17 July 1918

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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World War I political leaders 12T

Politicians assassinated in the 1910s 43T

Children of Alexander III of Russia 6T
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François Pinault

Founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment company Artémis

Overview: François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a French billionaire businessman, founder of the luxury group Kering and the investment holding company Artémis.

Date of birth: 21 August 1936

Age: 88

Nationality: French

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Businesspeople from Brittany 5T

French businesspeople in retailing 3T

Pinault family 9T
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Prince Rainier of Monaco

Prince of Monaco

Overview: Rainier III (Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi; 31 May 1923 – 6 April 2005) was Prince of Monaco from 1949 to his death in 2005. Rainier ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years ...

Date of birth: 31 May 1923

Date of death: 6 April 2005

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Monacan

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

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21st-century Princes of Monaco 2T

20th-century Princes of Monaco 3T

Burials at the Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate 26T
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Prince Philip

Consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021

Overview: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021) was a member of the British royal family as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II.

Date of birth: 10 June 1921

Date of death: 9 April 2021

Age: 99 (age at death)

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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National Council of Social Service presidents 9T

Deified men 78T

Exiled royalty 167T
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Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

Overview: Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( born 28 January 1955) is a retired French politician who served as President of France and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012 ...

Date of birth: 28 January 1955

Age: 70

Nationality: French

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Carla Bruni (Married)

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Paris Nanterre University alumni 46T

Presidents of the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine 4T

French politicians convicted of corruption 13T
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Queen Victoria

British, Royalty

Overview: Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. Parliament voted her the additional title ...

Date of birth: 24 May 1819

Date of death: 22 January 1901

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

Height: 5' (152 cm)

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20th-century British diarists 9T

19th-century British letter writers 23T

19th-century British diarists 5T
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King Edward VII

King of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910

Overview: Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

Date of birth: 9 November 1841

Date of death: 6 May 1910

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Recipients of the Order of the Tower and Sword 80T

Residents of White Lodge, Richmond Park 14T

Children of Queen Victoria 9T
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King Faroukh

Egyptian King

Overview: Farouk I (Arabic: فاروق الأول‎ Fārūq al-Awwal; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding ...

Date of birth: 11 February 1920

Date of death: 18 March 1965

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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20th-century Egyptian monarchs 5T

Recipients of the Order of Karađorđe's Star 95T

Egyptian people of French descent 14T
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Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov

Last heir apparent of the Russian Empire (1904–1918)

Overview: Alexei Nikolaevich (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич) (12 August 1904 [O.S. 30 July] – 17 July 1918) of the House of Romanov, was the last Tsesarevich and heir apparent to the throne of the Russian Empire ...

Date of birth: 12 August 1904

Date of death: 17 July 1918

Age: 13 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Sons of Russian emperors 23T

Russian royalty and nobility with disabilities 7T

Royalty who died as children 206T
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Giuseppe Verdi

Italian composer

Overview: Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the province of Parma, to a family ...

Date of birth: 10 October 1813

Date of death: 27 January 1901

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Italian classical composers of church music 40T

Italian male opera composers 400T

Stroke-related deaths in Lombardy 5T
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Queen-Empress

Overview: Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. She was Queen consort ...

Date of birth: 4 August 1900

Date of death: 30 March 2002

Age: 101 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Residents of White Lodge, Richmond Park 14T

Women centenarians 1,059T

Honorary Companions of the Order of Canada 3T
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H.M. Queen Margrethe of Denmark

Queen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024

Overview: Margrethe II (Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is Queen of Denmark and commander-in-chief of the Danish Defence. Since the death of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on ...

Date of birth: 16 April 1940

Age: 85

Nationality: Danish

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Margrethe II 6T

21st-century queens regnant 3T

20th-century queens regnant 7T
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King Hussein

King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999

Overview: Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: الحسين بن طلال‎, Al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalāl; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. As a member of the Hashemite ...

Date of birth: 14 November 1935

Date of death: 7 February 1999

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: Jordanian

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Jordanian anti-communists 1T

Recipients of the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award 12T

Foreign recipients of the Nishan-e-Pakistan 13T
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King George VI

King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952

Overview: George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952 ...

Date of birth: 14 December 1895

Date of death: 6 February 1952

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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British royalty and nobility with disabilities 70T

Earls of Inverness 5T

Military personnel from Norfolk 111T
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Farah Pahlavi

Emperess of Iran

Overview: Farah Pahlavi (Persian: فرح پهلوی‎; born 14 October 1938), née Farah Diba (فرح دیبا‎), is the widow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was the Shahbanu of Iran from 1961 to ...

Date of birth: 14 October 1938

Age: 86

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

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Iranian queens 4T

Wives of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 3T

Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in the Bahamas 5T
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Dwight D. Eisenhower

United States general and President

Overview: Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower ( EYE-zən-how-ər; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), GCB, OM was an American army general who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During ...

Date of birth: 14 October 1890

Date of death: 28 March 1969

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Recipients of the Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 29T

20th-century American farmers 144T

Recipients of the Order pro Merito Melitensi 91T