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

The French government gives out the Legion of Honour awards, to both FrenchLégion Code, article 16. and foreignLes 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. nationals, based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France. This award is divided into five distinct categories (in ascending order), i.e. three ranks: Knight, Officer, Commander, and two titles: Grand Officer and Grand Cross. Knight is the most common and is awarded for either at least 20 years of public service or acts of military or civil bravery. The rest of the categories have a quota for the number of years of service in the category below before they can be awarded. The Officer rank requires a minimum of eight years as a Knight, and the Commander, the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, requires a minimum of five years as an Officer. The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross are awarded only to French citizens, and each requires three years' service in their respective immediately lower rank. Alt URL The awards are traditionally published and promoted on 14 July.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of recipients of the Legion of Honour awards, since the first ceremony in May 1803. 2,550 individuals can be awarded the insignia every year. The total number of awards is close to 1 million (estimated at 900,000 in 2021, including over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients), with some 92,000 recipients alive today. Only until 2008 was gender parity achieved amongst the yearly list of recipients, with the total number of women recipients since the award's establishment being only 59 at the end of the second French empire and only 26,000 in 2021.

RecipientDates(birth – death) General Work, and reason for the recognitionAward category (date) Jan Kaczmarek Jean-Pierre Kahane Jules Kananura 1936-1999 Rwandan Ambassador Commander (June 8,1977) N'Golo Kanté World Cup winning footballer Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor 1953 Jewish leader, philanthropist and businessman Crown Prince Alexander II Karađorđević Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch 1862 – 1908 Serbian prince Feridun Karakaya Juhani Kaskeala Bentley Kassal Harry B. Kates, Jr 1923 – present WW2 Veteran Aki Kaurismäki Danny Kaye Tevfik Remzi Kazancıgil Turkish physician and Professor in Medicine TBA (September 14, 1954) Frank B. Kellogg Gene Kelly Raymond W. Kelly M Stephen Kellman 1923 – present Yaşar Kemal 1923 – present Turkish novelist Raymond Kendall Duncan Kerr Knight (23 August 2011) Mohamad Keyvan 1909 – 1987 Iranian Civil and Structural Engineer Abbas Kiarostami 1940 – present Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer Dame Carol Kidu"French honour for Dame Carol", Liama Abaijah, The National, February 13, 2009"Décoration de Dame Carol Kidu" , French embassy to Papua New Guinea, February 12, 2009Dame Carol's speech upon receiving the Légion d'honneur 1948 - present Papua New Guinean politician and human rights campaigner Philippe Kieffer Jean-Claude Killy Jeong H. Kim Young-Oak Kim Presnel Kimpembe World Cup winning footballer Ernest King Julian Klaczko Franciszek Kleeberg Jacques Paul Klein 1939-Present Special Representative of the Secretary General 15 May 2000 Ralph KleinCKUA Radio News, March 27, 2008. 1942 – 2013 Canadian politician. Matti Klinge Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke 1859 – 1927 Physician Dorothea Klumpke Karol Kniaziewicz Professor Roy Knight 1907 – 1999 Professor of French, scholar of 17th-century tragic drama Louis Aston Knight 1873 – 1948 American landscape painter Edmund Knoll-Kownacki Blanche Knopf American publisher. Recognised for his Work publishing French literature. Officer (1960) William A. Knowlton John Immanuel Knudson Professor of History and Economics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn TBA (1935) Adam Koc 1891 – 1969 Polish politician, soldier and journalist Maurice Koechlin Ossip Komissarov A Russian hat master (Kostroma province). Recognised for unwittingly foiling an assassination attempt on the Russian Emperor Alexander II. Knight (TBA) Wladyslaw Konopczynski C. Everett Koop TBA (1980) Raymond Kopa 1931 – present French footballer Lina Kostenko 1930 – present Ukrainian poet and literaturer Knight (2022) Wojciech Kossak Sir John Kotelawala Lansana Kouyaté Jan Kozietulski Jacek Kuroń 1934 – 2004 Polish historian Akira Kurosawa 1910 – 1998 Japanese film director, producer and screenwriter Yevhen Kushnaryov 1951 – 2007 Ukrainian politician Emir Kusturica Stanislaw Kutrzeba

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

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