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Sir Peter Abeles RW5 Img Austrian-born Australian founder of TNT Corp, Ansett Airlines, 1991 TNT Corp
Sidney Baillieu son of Sir Sidney Myer (Jewish father) 1990
Peter Baume RWC Img Liberal Cabinet Minister 1980-83 2008
David Bennett Img British-born Australian barrister, Soliciter-General of Australia, 2008
Dame Valerie Beral RWC Img Australian-born  British epidemiologist,
Samuel Berkovic RW5 Img Australian neurologist,  2014
Max Corden RWF Img German/Polish-born Australian economist,
Sir Zelman Cowen RWF HW Img Governor-general of Australia 1977-82
Paul Culle RWC Img Australian military, major general,
Leo Radom Img Chinise-born Australian computational chemist,
Sir Marc Feldmann RWF Img Polish/Ukrainian-born Australian British immunologist,rheumatologist, rheumatoid arthritis, 
Malcolm Fraser RWC Img Australian prime minister 1975-82 (Jewish maternal grandmother)
David Gonski RW5 Img South African-born Australian public figure, businessman, 2007
Peter Karmel Img Australian economist, administrator, 1976
John Key RW5 HW Img Prime Minister of New Zealand 2008-, (Jewish mother)
Frank Lowy RW5 Img Slovak-born Australian businessman, The Westfield Group, 2000
Ken Myer Img American-born Australian patron of arts, diplomat, administrator, businessman, (Jewish father) 1976
Lady  Marigold Myer daughter of Sir Sidney Myer (Jewish father) 1976
Bernhard Neumann RW5 Img German-born British mathematician, 1994
Maurice Newman chairman of Australian Broadcastiungt Corporation, 2002
Sir Gustav Nossal RWF Img Austrian-born Australian biologist, (Jewish father) 1989
Richard Pratt RW5 Img Australian founder & owner of Visy Industries, 2002
Graeme Samuel Img Commissioner of Australian Football Leage, 2010
Gordon Samuels RWC Img British-born Australian governor of New South Wales 1996-2001, Supreme Court Judge of New South Wales, 1987
Harry Seidler RW5 Img Austrian-born Australian architect,    1987
James Spigelman Img Polish-born Australian Chief Justice of Supreme Court of New South Wales 2000
Tom Uren RWC Img Australian politician, Minister of Internal Affairs, (Jewish paternal grandmother) 2013
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H.G. Adler Img Czech-born German poet, novelist, Holocaust survivor, 1985 Cross of Honour
Soshana Afroyim HW Img Austrian-born American British painter, 2010 Cross of Honour
Franz Alt RWF Img Austrian-born American founder, president 1950-52 of ACM, 2010 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Leon Askin RW5 Img Austrian American film/television actor, 1988 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Alphons Barb Austrian-born British academic archaeologist, numismatist, museum director, Cross of Honour, 1st class
Herbert Bayer RWF Img Austrian American graphic designer, painter, photographer,sculptor, architect, 1977 Cross of Honour
Leonard Bernstein RWF HW Img American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, pianist, Decoration
Theodore Bikel RWF HW Img Austrian-born American actor, singer, 2009 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Sir Rudolf Bing RW5 Img Austrian-born British opera impresario, 1973 Decoration of Honour
Sir Hermann Bondi RWF HW Img Austrian-born British cosmologist,
Norbert Brainin RWF Img Austrian-born British violinist, 1974 Cross of Honour
Arik Brauer RW5 Img Austrian painter, architect, dancer, singer, stage designer, 2002 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Felix Braun RWF Img Austrian art historian, playwright, literary critic, journalist,   1966 Cross of Honour
Gerhard Bronner RW5 Img Austrian cabaret artist, composer, writer, 1978 Cross of Honour
Josef Burg RWF Img Ukrainian-born Yiddish writer, author, publisher, journalist, 2007 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Elias Canetti RWF HW Img Bulgarian-born British Austrian author, Nobel prize (1981) in literature, 1972 Decoration
Erwin Chargaff RWF Img Austrian-born American biochemist,
Otto Erich Deutsch RWF Img Austrian musicologist, 1959 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Alberto Dines RW5 Img Brazilian journalist, 2009 Cross of Honour, 
Carl Djerassi RWF Img Austrian-born American organic chemist, oral contraceptive, novelist, playwright, 1999 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Peter Drucker RWF HW Img Austrian-born American management expert, 1999 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Richard Erdoes Img Austrian-born  journalist, editor, illustrator, author, (Jewish father) 1999 Cross of Honour
Georg Eisler RW5 Img Austrian painter, 1993 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Fritz Feigl RW5 HW Img Austrian-born Brazilian chemist, analitical chemistry, 1961 Cross of Honour
Kurt Rudolf Fischer Img Austrian-born Czech Chinese philosopher, 2001 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Viktor Frankl RWF HW Img Austrian neurologist, psychoanalyst, logotherapy, 1981 Decoration
1969 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Karl von Frisch RWF HW Img Austrian ethologist, (1973), Nobel Prize (1973) (Jewish maternal grandmother) 1960 Decoration
Ernst Fuchs RWF Img Austrian artist, (Jewish father), 2004 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Hans Gal RWF HW Img Austrian-born British composer, teacher, pianist, 1971 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Kenneth Gilbert RWF Img Canadian harpsicordist, ??? 1999 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Eduard Goldstucker RWF Img Slovak-born ambassador to Israel 1950-51, literary scholar,
Sir Ernst Gombrich RWF HW Img Austrian-born British art historian, 1975 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Fritz Grossmann Ukrainian-born British art historian, Cross of Honour
Erich Gruen RWB Img Austrian-born American classisist, ancient historian,   1998 Cross of Honour
Henry Grunwald Img Austrian-born journalist, diplomat, Editor-in-chief of Time, Inc 2001 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Paul Hamburger Img Austraian-born British pianist, accompanist, chamber musician, ??? 2000 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Walter Homolka RW5 Img German rabbi, 2001 Cross of Honour
Ivan Ivanji RW5 Img Serbian author, 2011 Cross for Science and Art
Mariss Jansons RW5 HW Img Latvian conductor, (Jewish mother) 2008 Cross of Honour
Robert Jungk RWF Img German-born Austrian writer, journalist, futurologist, 1993 Cross of Honour
Eric Kandel RWF HW Img Austrian-born American neuroscientist, Nobel Prize (2000), 2005 Decoration
Hans Kann RW5 Img Austrian pianist, composer, 1987 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Hans Keller RW5 Img Austrian-born British musiocologist, Cross of Honour, 1st class
Hans Kelsen RWF Img Czech-born Austrian Swiss American jurist, legal philosopher, 1961 Decoration
Ernst Kitzinger RWF HW Img German-born American art historian, 1991 Decoration
Klemens von Klemperer RW5 Img German-born American historian, 1997 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Walter Kohn RWF HW Img Austrian-born Canadian American chemist, Nobel Prize (1980), 1999 Decoration
Yakov Kreizberg RWF Img Russian-born American conductor, 2007 Cross of Honour
Gyorgy Kurtag RWF HW Img Romanian-born Hungarian contemporary music composer, 1997 Decoration
George Leitmann RW5 Img Austrian-born American engineering scientist, educator,
Paul Lendvai RWF Img Hungarian-born Austrian journalist, television presenter, 1994 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Gerda Lerner RW5 Img Austrian-born American historian, author, teacher,
Elliott Lieb RWF Img American mathematical physicist, 2002 Decoration
Gyorgy Ligeti RWF HW Img Romanian-born Hungarian composer, 1987 Decoration
Otto Loewi RWF HW Img German-born Austrian American biochemist, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1936), 1959 Decoration
Ernst Lothar RW5 Img Czech-born Austrian writer, theater director, producer, 1964 Decoration
1961 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Norman Mailer RWF HW Img American novelist, social critic, 2002 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Oleg Maisenberg RW5 Img Urainian-born Austrian pionist, pedagoge, 2005
Ernest Manheim RWB Img Hungarian-born American sociologist, anthropologist, composer, 1997 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Herman Mark RWF HW Img Austrian-born German American chemist, father of polymer science, (Jewish father) 1965 Decoration
Lise Meitner RWF HW Img Austrian German Swedish physicist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission, 1967 Decoration
Nathan Milstein RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born American violinist,
Ludwig von Mises RWF Img Polish/Ukrainian-born Austrian economist, philosopher, 1962 Decoration
Samy Molcho RWF HW Img Israeli-born Austrian mime, dancer, 1996 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Frederic Morton Img Austrian writer, 2003 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Otto Neugebauer RWF Img Austrian-born American mathematician, historian of science, 1973 Decoration
Oscar Niemeyer RWF HW Img Brazilian architect, 2005 Decoration
Sir Max Perutz RWF HW Img Austrian-born British chemist, Nobel Prize (1962), Decoration
Sir Karl Popper RWF HW Img Austrian-born British philosopher of science, 1980 Decoration
Jacqueline de Romilly RWF Img French philologist, scholar, writer, 1982 Decoration
Ronny Reich Img Israeli archaeologist, 2012 Cross of Honour, 1st class
John Ross RW5 Img Austrian-born American physical chemist, 2002 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Mstislav Rostropovich RWF HW Img Azebarjani-born Soviet American cellist, conductor, (Jewish mother) 2001 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Marcel Rubin Img Austrian composer, conductor, music critic, 1980 Decoration
1974 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Harry Schachter Img Austrian-born Canadian biochemist,  Cross of Honour,
Neil Schicoff RWF Img American opera singer, cantor, 2003 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Peter Schidlof RWB HW Img Austrian-born British violinist, co-founder of Amadeus Quartet, Cross of Honour
Harry Seidler RW5 Img Austrian-born Australian architect,    1996 Decoration
Johannes Simmel HW Img Austrian author, 1992 Cross of Honour, 1st class
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Manes Sperber RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born Austrian novelist, essayist, psychologist, 1971 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Otto Tausig HW Img Austrian writer, film/stage/television actor, director, 2007 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Olga Taussky-Todd RWC HW Img Czech-born German American mathematician, 1978 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Friedrich Torberg RWN Img Austrian translator, writer, journalist, 1976 Decoration
1968 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Baron George Weidenfeld RW5 Img Austrian-born British publisher,  2002 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Hans Weigel RWB Img Austrian writer, theater critic, Cross of Honour, 1st class
Victor Weisskopf RWF Img Austrian-born American physicist, director of CERN 1982 Decoration
Egon Wellesz RWF HW Img Austrian-born British composer, musicologist, 1971 Decoration
Franz Werfel RWF HW Img Czech-born Austrian novelist, playwright, poet, librettist, 1937 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Simon Wiesenthal RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born American Nazi-hunter, Cross of Honour
Adolfo Winternitz Img Austrian-born Peruvian painter, 1966 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Milton Wolf Img Zehnan-Wolf Construction Company, ambassador to Austria1977-80,  1997 Cross of Honour, 1st class
Hilde Zadek RW5 HW Img Polish-born German opera singer, 1965 Cross of Honour
Carl Zuckmayer RWF Img German author, poet, playwright, (Jewish mother) 1968 Decoration
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Jean Gol RWC Img British-born Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Liberal Party Leader Minister of Justice 1984,
Lazare Richtenberger German-born Belgian banker, knight
Jorge Sampaio RWC Img President of Portugal 1996-2006 (Jewish maternal grandmother) 
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji RWF HW Img Algerian-born French physicist, Nobel Prize (1997)
Luiz Davidovich Img Brazilian physicist,  ???
Jose Goldemberg RWC Img Brazilian physicist,
Daniel Goldin RWC Img NASA Administrator 1992-2001 9th
Otto Gottlieb Img Czech-born Brazilian chemist,  ExLink
Ernst Hamburger RW5 Img German-born Brazilian physicist, populizser of science,
Celso Lafer RWC Img Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister 1992 2001-02 / Cardoso
Leon Lederman RWF HW Img American physicist, Nobel Prize (1988),
Rita Levi-Montalcini RWF HW Img Italian-born American scientist, Nobel Prize (1986) in medicine,
Claude Levi-Strauss RWF HW Img Belgian-born French anthropologist, philosopher, sociologist,
Jose Mindlin Img Brazilian Secretary of Science Culture and Technology / State of San Paulo
Nat Neujean Img Belgian sculptor, Grand Officer
Oscar Niemeyer RWF HW Img Brazilian architect,
Herch Moyses Nussenzveig Img Brazilian physicist, 
Victor Nussenzweig Img Austrian-born Brazilian American biomedical scientist,
Michel Rabinovitch Img biology,  ???
Harold Rosenberg RWF Img American writer, educator, art critic,
Simon Schwartzman RW5 Img Brazilian sociologist,
Aron Simis RW5 Img Brazilian mathematician,   
Yakov Sinai RWF HW Img Russian-born American mathematician,
Jayme Tiomno RW5 Img Brazilian experemental/theoretical nuclear physicist,
Mayana Zatz RWC Img Img Israeli-born Brazilian molecular biologist, geneticist,
David Zylbersztajn General director of Brazilian National Oil Agency,
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Gerald Abraham RWF Img British musicologist,     CBE
Harold Abrahams RWN HW Img British athlete, 100-meter sprint CBE
Jenny Abramsky RW5 Img director of Radio BBC 2009 DBE
Sir Kenneth Adam RWF Img German-born British journalist, broadcasting executive,  1962 CBE
Baron David Alliance RW5 HW Img Iranian-born British politician, N Brown Group plc, 1989 GBE
Baroness Ros Altmann RWC Img British politician, Minister of State for pensions 2015-16, CBE
Annie Altschul Img Austrian-born British nurse scholar, researcher, educator, 1983 CBE
Ephraim Anderson RWB Img British microbiologist, 1976 CBE
Walter Annenberg RWC HW Img American publisher, art patron, 1976 KBE
Sir Eric Ash RWF Img German-born British electric engineer, CBE
Dame Peggy Ashcroft RW5 Img British actress, (Jewish mother) DBE
Vera Atkins Img Romanian-born British intelligence officer, CBE
Alfred Bader RWF Img Austrian-born Canadian American chemist, (Jewish father) 1998 CBE
Vernon Bagdanor Img British political scientist, CBE
Sir Michael Balcon RWF Img British film producer, 1948 KBE
Sir Leonard Bairstow British mathematician, ??? CBE
Daniel Barenboim RWF HW Img Argentine-born Israeli pianist, conductor, KBE
Richard Barnett RW5 British archaeologist, curator, 1974 CBE
Polina Bayvel RWC Img Ukrainian-born British engineering scholar, CBE
George Benjamin RWF Img British composer, conductor, pianist, teacher, 2010 CBE
Maurice Bennett co-founder of Oasis retail chain 2007 CBE ExLink
Helen Bentwich British social worker, politician, CBE
Dame Valerie Beral RWC Img Australian-born  British epidemiologist, DBE
Sir Rudolf Bing RW5 Img Austrian-born British opera impresario,
Martin Bobrow Img South African-born British geneticist, 1995 CBE
Vernon Bogdanor RWF Img British political scientist, CBE
Helena Bonham Carter RWF HW Img British actress, (3/4 Jewish mother) CBE
Walter Bor RWB Img Austrian-born British town planner, architect, 1975 CBE
Georgina Born RW5 Img British anthropologist, musician, 2016 OBE
Dame Janet de Botton RW5 Img British art collector, philanthropist, 2006 CBE
Sydney Brenner RWF HW Img South African-born British American biologist, Nobel Prize (2002), 1987 CBE
Sir Israel Brodie Img Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth KBE
Sir Peter Brook RWF HW Img British theater/film director, 1965 CBE
Anita Brookner RWF HW Img British novelist, art historian, CBE
Sir Stanford Cade RWC Img British oncologist, surgeon, KBE
Brian Cantor RWB HW Img British Vice-Cnancellor of the University of York 2002-13, 2013 CBE
Baron Alex Carlile RW5 Img Liberal MP 1983-87 CBE
Wilfred Cass Img German-born British art collector, 2006 CBE
Judy Cassab RW5 Img Austrian-born Australian painter, 1969 CBE
Mark Clark RWC Img American military commander, general of army, (Jewish mother) KBE
Wesley Clark RWF Img American supreme allied commander of NATO, general of army, (Jewish father) 2000 KBE
Enrico Coen RWF Img British plant biologist,  ??? 2003 CBE
Anthony Cohen British social anthropologist,  2008 CBE ExLink
Harriet Cohen RWF Img British pianist, CBE
Sydney Cohen RWC Img South African-born British pathologist, 1978 CBE
Dame Joan Collins RWF HW Img British actress, author, (Jewish father), DBE
Sir Cary Cooper Img American-born British psychologist, 2001 CBE
Lady Hazel Cosgrove RW5 Img Queen's Counsel, sheriff, judge CBE
Paul Cullen RWC Img Australian military, major general, CBE
Solomon Cutner RWF Img British pianist, 1946 CBE
Lady Alexandra Curzon Img British aristocrat, (Jewish maternal grandfather), CBE
Baroness Mary Irene Curzon Img British life peer, (Jewish maternal grandfather), CBE
Mark Damazer RW5 Img BBC Controller CBE
Philip D'Arcy Hart RW5 Img British medical researcher,   CBE
Baroness Ruth Deech Img British educator, 2002 DBE
Baron Bill Deedes RWC Img British politician, Minister KBE
Peter Diamand Img German-born Dutch arts administrator,[1] 1972 CBE
Sir Harry Djanogly Img British textile manufactorer, CBE
Antal Dorati RWF HW Img Hungarian-born British American conductor, composer, (Jewish mother) 1983 KBE
Lloyd Dorfman RW5 Img founder 1976 of Travelers Group CBE
Maurice Druon RWF Img French novelist, KBE
Dame Vivien Duffield RW5 Img British socialite, philanthropist, 2000 DBE
Raymond Dwek RW5 Img British biochemist, CBE
Sir John Edelsten RWC Img British military, admiral, CBE
Sir Thomas Eichelbaum RW5 Img German-born Chief Justice of New Zealand 1989 GBE
Harold Ellis British surgeon, CBE
Sir Anthony Epstein RWF Img British biologist, Epstein-Barr virus, 1985 CBE
Sir Jacob Epstein RWF HW Img American-born British sculptor, KBE
Sir Sassoon Eskell RWC HW Img Iraqi Minister of Finance 1920-25 KBE
Lady Nicole Farhi RW5 Img French-born Algerian British fashion designer, 2007 CBE
Wilhelm Feldberg RW5 Img German-born British physiologist, biologist,  1963 CBE
Eric Fellner RWC Img British film producer, CBE
Anthony Finkelstein RW5 Img British software engineer, CBE
Sir Moses Finley RWF HW Img American-born British historian,  CBE
Carl Foreman RWF HW Img American film director, producer, screenwriter, 1970 CBE
Barnett Freedman RW5 Img British artist, 1946 CBE
Sir Lawrence Freedman Img British historian, CBE
Anna Freud RWF HW Img Austrian-born British psychoanalyst,
Lucian Freud RW5 HW Img German-born Britiah painter, 1983 CBE
Sonia Friedman RWB Img British theatrical producer, (Jewish father) OBE
Wilem Frischmann RW5 Img Hungarian-born British structural engineer, CBE
Naum Gabo RWF Img Belarusian-born British sculptor, 1973 KBE
Dennis Gabor RWF HW Img Hungarian-born German British physicist, Nobel Prize (1971), hollogram, 1970 CBE
Baron Robert Gavron RW5 British publisher,  CBE
Michael Gelfand Img South African physician, CBE
Dame Hazel Genn RW5 Img British legal scholar, 2006 DBE
Sir Peter Gershon Img British businessman, civil servant, 2004 KBE
Lewis Gilbert RWF Img British director, producer, screenwriter, CBE
Sir Martin Gilbert RW5 HW Img British historian, author, 1990 CBE
Sir Louis Gluckstein RW5 Img British lawyer, politician, MP 1931-45, 1964 GBE
Sir Arthur Gold Img British president of European Track and Field Association, CBE
Sir Abraham Goldberg RW5 Img British physician,           KBE
Sir Samuel Goldman RW5 Img British senior official of Treasury, international banker, 1969 KCB
Harvey Goldsmith Img British rock impresario, manager of Elton John CBE
Anthony Goldstone Img British haemopotologist, 2008 CBE
Sir Ernst Gombrich RWF HW Img Austrian-born British art historian, 1966 CBE
Arthur Lehman Goodhart RW5 Img American-born British jurist, lawyer, 1948 KBE
Dame Barbara Goodman Img New Zealand mayor of Auckland (Jewish mother) 1989 DBE
Geoffrey Goodman RWB Img British journalist, broadcaster, writer, 1998 CBE
Sir Sidney Gordon British-born Hong Kong businessman, ??? CBE
Viscount George Joachim Goschen Img CBE
Viscount John Goschen KBE
Baron Michael Grade RW5 Img British chairman of BBC  2004- , 1998 CBE
Sir Lucian Grainge RWC Img British-born Chairman/CEO of Universal Music Group, CBE
Sir Harry Graumann Img South African mayor of Yohannesburg 1909-10, 1923 KBE
Baroness Susan Greenfield RWF Img British biologist, broadcaster, writer, (Jewish father) 2000 CBE
Alan Greenspan RWF HW Img American economist, Chairman of Federal Reserve Board 1988-2005 2002 KBE
Anthony Gross RW5 Img British printmaker, artist, film director, war artist, (Jewish father) CBE
Sir Ludwig Guttmann RWF HW Img German-born British neurologist,  1962 KBE
Ida Haendel RWF HW Img Polish-born British violinist, 1991 CBE
Ida Halpern RW5 Img Canadian ethnomusicologist, 1957 CBE
Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro RW5 Img British merchant banker, intelligence officer, KBE
Baron Paul Hamlyn Img German-born British publisher, philantropist, 1993 CBE
Sir Ronald Harwood RWF HW Img South African-born British American playwright, author, screenwriter, producer, CBE
Sir Joshua Hassan RWC HW Img Prime Minister of Gibraltar 1964-69 1972-87, GBE
Michael Hassell RW5 Img Israeli-born British biologist, entomologist, 2002 CBE
Stephen Hearst Img Austrian-born British television/radio executive, CBE
Baroness Helene Hayman HW Img Labour MP 1974-79 2012 GBE
Dame Rose Heilbron  Img British High Court judge DBE
Baroness Ruth Henig Img British historian, politician,    2000 CBE
Simon Henig British politician, CBE
Sir Basil Henriques RW5 Img British philantropist, CBE
Lady Rose Henriques RW5 Img British artist, CBE
Myra Hess RWF HW Img British pianist, 1941 DBE
Baroness Rosalyn Higgins RWF HW Img British president 2006-09 of Internatonal Court of Justice, 1995 DBE
Eric Hobsbawm RWF HW Img Egyptian-born British marxist historian, author, 1998 CBE
Dame Margaret Hodge RWC Img British politician, MP 1994- , Minister of Trade and Industry, DBE
Kelly Hoppen RW5 Img South African-born British interior designer, CBE
Sir Raymond Hoffenberg Img president of Royal College of Physicians 1983-89 1984 KBE
Dame Grace Hollander Img New Zealand community leader, CBE
Sir Robert Hotung RWC Img Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist, (Jewish father) KBE
Alan Howard RW5 Img British stage/film/television actor, (Jewish father) 1998 CBE
Emanuel Hurwitz RW5 HW Img British violinist, 1978 CBE
Marchioness Alice Isaacs Img British philanthropist,   1920 GBE
Marquess Gerald Isaacs RWC Img British lawyer, politician, CBE
Susan Isaacs RW5 Img British psychologist, 1948 CBE jinfo
Marquess Rufus Isaacs RWC HW Img Governor-General of India 1921-26 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1931 GCB
Steven Isserlis RWF HW Img British cellist, 1998 CBE
David Jacobs RW5 Img British radio broadcaster, actor, CBE
June Jacobs Img British peace activist,   2009 CBE
Sir Piers Jacobs Img Financial Secretary of Hong Kong KBE ExLink
Baron Sydney Jacobson RW5 Img South African-born British journalist, political commentator,
Baron Immanuel Jakobovits RW5 Img German-born Chief Rabbi of United Kingdom and Commonwealth 1967-91 KBE
William Janeway Img American economist, venture capitalist, CBE
Lisa Jardine RWC Img British historian, CBE
Jerusha Jhirad Img Indian physician,  MBE
Baron Edward Jessel RW5 Img British politician, 1963 CBE
Sir Asher Joel Img Lopes 1974 KBE
Baron Joel Joffe RW5 Img South African-born British lawyer, 1999 CBE
Peter Jones HW Img British entrepreneur, businessman, CBE
Roger Jowell RW5 Img South African-born British soicial statistician, 2001 CBE
Annely Juda Img German-born British art dealer, 1998 CBE
Sir Ellis Kadoorie RW5 HW Iraqi-born Indian Chinaese businessman, philantropist, CBE
Sir Elly Kadoorie RW5 Iraqi-born Indian Chinaese businessman, philantropist, CBE
Sir Horace Kadoorie RW5 Img Hong Kong industrialist, hotelier, philanthropist, CBE
Baron Lawrence Kadoorie RW5 HW Img Hong Kong industrialist, hotelier, philanthropist, 1981 CBE
Baron Richard Kahn RWF Img British economist, 1946 CBE
Baron Stanley Kalms RW5 Img chairman, president, founder 1998 KBE Freeserve 
George Kalmus RWB Img Yugoslavian-born British particle physicist, 2000 CBE
Sir Anish Kapoor RWF HW Img Indian-born British sculptor, (Jewish mother) CBE
Miriam Karlin RW5 Img British stage/film/television actress, 1975 OBE
Peter Karmel Img Australian economist, administrator, 1976 CBE
Colin Kay RWC Img New Zealand politician, mayor of Auckland, 1990 CBE
Elie Kedourie RW5 HW Img Iraqi-born British historian, orientalist, CBE
Simon Keenlyside RWF Img British opera singer, bariton 2003 CBE ExLink
Ray Kelvin RW5 Img British fashion designer, Ted Baker, 2011 CBE
Felicity Kendal RW5 Img British actress, (convert to Judaism) 1995 CBE
David Khayat Img French oncologist, CBE
Sir Richard Kingsland Img Australian aviator, public cervant, 1967 CBE
Sir Ben Kingsley RWF HW Img British actor, (Jewish maternal grandfather)
David Kirch RW5 Img British real estate developer, KBE
Peter Kirstein RWC Img German-born British computer scientist, CBE
Frederick Kisch RWC Img Indian-born British officer,
Henry Kissinger RWF HW Img German-born American Secretary of State (1973-77), Nobel Prize (1973) for Peace 1995 KBE
Arthur Koestler RWC HW Img Hungarian-born British novelist, critic, CBE
Ludwig Karl Koch RW5 Img German-born British broadcaster, sound recordist, ornithologist, MBE
Edith Korner RW5 Img British magistrate, reformer of National Health Service CBE
Hans Kronberger RWB Img Austrian-born British nuclear physicist, 1966 CBE
Sir Harold Kroto RWF HW Img British chemist, Nobel Prize (1996), (Jewish father) KBE
Nicholas Kurti RWF Img Hungarian-born British physicist, low-temperature, CBE
Ralph Land 1996 CBE ExLink
Philip Larkin RWF Img British poet, novelist, jazz critic, ??? CBE
Peter Lasko RWB Img German-born American art historian, CBE
David Latchman RWB Img British geneticist, administrator, 2010 CBE
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht Img British legal scholar, 1989 CBE
Ian Lawrence RWC Img New Zealand lawyer, mayor of Wellington 1983-86,  1992 CBE
Emily Lawson Img British management consultant, DBE
Arthur Lehman Goodhart RW5 Img American-born British jurist & lawyer, KBE
Hermann Lehmann German-born British physician, biochemist, 1980 CBE
Isi Leibler Img Belgian-born Australian Jewish leader, human rights activist, 1977 CBE
Baron Peter Levene RWF Img Lord Mayor of London 1998-99 KBE
Bernard Levin RW5 Img British journalist, author, television presenter,  CBE
Sir Cecil Levita Img British officer, public service worker, CBE
Sir Aubrey Lewis Img Austalian-born British psychiatrist, KBE
Damian Lewis RWF Img British actor, producer, (jewish great great maternal grandfather) CBE
Ottoline Leyser RWF Img British plant biologist, (Jewish father) 2009 CBE
Maureen Lipman RW5 HW Img British actress, comedian, columnist, 1999 CBE
Henry Lipson RW5 HW Img British physicist, 1976 CBE
Marcus Lipton Img Labour MP 1945-78 1949 CBE
Peter Liss RW5 Img British enviromental chemist, CBE
Ian Luder British Lord Mayor of London 2008-09, 2010 CBE
Sir Jack Lyons RW5 Img British financier, philanthropist, UDS Group 1967 CBE
Sir Charles Mackerras RWF HW Img Australian conductor, (Jewish descent) CBE
Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft RW5 Img British historian, biographer,  CBE
David Marcus RWF Img American-born first Israeli brigadier general,
Miriam Margolyes RWF HW Img British-born Australian  character actress, 2002 OBE
Dame Alicia Markova Img British prima balerina, DBE
Sir Alan Marre RW5 Img Parlamentary Commisioner of Administration 1971-76 KCB
Sir Neville Marriner RWF Img British conductor, violinist, 1979 CBE
Jacob Meir Img Palestinian-born Sephardic Chief Rabbi, CBE
Sir Sam Mendes RWF HW Img British stage/film director, producer, (Jewish mother) 2000 CBE
Susan Mendus RW5 Img British political philosopher, CBE
Baron Yehudi Menuhin RWF HW Img American-British violinist, conductor, educator 1965 KBE
Sir Jonathan Miller RW5 Img British theater/opera director, television presenter, author, medical doctor, 1983 CBE
Ed Mirvish RW5 Img Canadian founder owner of Honest Ed's CBE
Edward Mirzoeff RW5 Img British television producer, documentary filmmaker, 1997 CBE
Ettore Modigliani Img Italian functionary, 1930 KBE
Benno Moiseiwitsch RWF Img Ukrainian-born British pianist, 1946 CBE
Arnaldo Momigliano RWF HW Img Italian-born British historian, 1974 KBE
Ewen Montagu RWF Img British judge, writer, intelligence officer, CBE
Jennifer Montagu RW5 Img British art historian,
Lily Montagu Img British rabbi, CBE
Baron Michael Montague British bisinessman, politician,   CBE
Peter Morgan RWC Img British screenwriter, playwright, (Jewish father) CBE
Sir Michael Moritz RWC Img British-born American venture capitalist, 2013 KBE
Anna Morpurgo Davies RW5 Img Italian-born British  philologist, 2001 DBE
Baron Claus Moser RW5 Img German-born British statistician, CBE
Countess Edwina Mountbatten RW5 Img British sociality, Vicereine of India, (Jewish maternal grandfather), GBE
Lewis Mumford RWF Img American historian of technology & science, (Jewish father) 1975 KBE  
Charles Myers RWC Img British psychologist, 1919 CBE
Sir Douglas Myers Img New Zealand businessman, (Jewish father) CBE
Baron Paul Myners Img British chairman of Guardian Media Group, chairman of Mark & Spencers, 2001 CBE
Albert Neuberger RW5 Img German-born British biochemist, CBE
Baroness Julia Neuberger RWF Img British Reform rabbi, 2004 CBE
Olivia Newton-John RWF Img British born Australian actress, singer, (Jewish mother 37.5%) 1979 OBE
Denis Norden RW5 Img British television presenter, writer, playwright, CBE
Michael Nyman RWF Img British composer, 2008 CBE
Des O'Connor RWF Img British radio personality, comedian, singer, (Jewish mother) CBE
Sammy Ofer RWC HW Img Romanian-born Israeli billionaire, 2008 KBE
Eugene Ormandy RWF HW Img Hungarian-born American composer, 1976 KBE
Martin Paisner British lawer, 2004 CBE
David Paterson Img British scholar, CBE
Mark Pears RW5 Img British businessman, William Pears Group, property, 2014 CBE
Sir Rudolf Peierls RWF Img German-born American British physicist, 1945 CBE
Murray Perahia RWF HW Img American British pianist, conductor, 2004 KBE
Shimon Peres RWF HW Img Polish/Belarusian-born Prime Minister of Israel  1986-88 1995-96 President 2007-14 KBE
Sir Max Perutz RWF HW Img Austrian-born British chemist, Nobel Prize (1962), CBE
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner RWF Img German-born British art historian, 1953 CBE
Hella Pick RW5 HW Img Austrian-born British journalist,   CBE
Harold Pinter RWF HW Img British American playwright, theater director, actor, Nobel Prize (2005) CBE
Michael Podro RWB Img British art historian, CBE
Dame Julia Polak Img Argentine-born British pathologist, biologist, 2003 DBE
Baron Stuart Polak Img British Conservative politician, CBE
Sir Martyn Poliakoff RWF HW Img British chemist,    2008 CBE
Stephen Poliakoff RWF Img British playwright, screenwriter, director, 2007 CBE
Dame Shirley Porter RWC Img Lord Mayor of  Westminster 1991-92 1991 DBE
Richard Portes Img British economist, CBE
Dame Peggy van Praagh British ballet dancer, choreographer, producer, director, 1970 DBE
Countess Marjorie Pratt  (Jewish mother) DBE
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala RWF HW Img German-born British screenwriter, CBE
Dame Simone Prendergast Img British lawyer, DBE
Andre Previn RWF HW Img German-born American pianist, conductor, composer, 1996 KBE
Joseph Proudman RW5 Img British oceanographer, mathematician, ??? CBE
Jonathan Pryce RWF Img British actor, writer, ??? 2009 CBE
Baron David Puttnam RW5 Img British film producer, chairman CEO of Columbia Pictures, (Jewish mother) CBE Columbia Pictures
Dame Esther Rantzen RW5 Img British television presenter, journalist, 2006 DBE
Ralph Raphael RW5 Img British organic chemist, 1982 CBE
Louis Rasminsky RW5 Img Governor of the Bank of Canada 1961-73, CBE
John Rayner Img German-born British rabbi, writer, theologian, 1993 CBE
Baroness Gail Rebuck RW5 Img British Labour politician,  2009 DBE
Zandra Rhodes RW5 Img British fashion designer, (Jewish mother) 1997 CBE
Sir Harry Ricardo RW5 Img British engineer, engine designer, (Jewish paternal grandfather) CBE
Hyman Rickover RWF HW Img Polish-born American admiral, nuclear submarine,
Dame Lucie Rie RWF Img Austrian-born British studio potter, 1991 DBE
Irvin Rockman RWB Img Australian businessman, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1977-79, CBE
Dame Anita Roddick Img British businesswoman, founder of Body Shop 2003 DBE ExLink
Sir Nigel Rodley Img British legal scholar, Commisioner of International Commision of Jurists, KBE ExLink
Israel Rokach RWF HW Img mayor of Tel-aviv-Jaffa 1936-53 CBE
Dame Gail Ronson Img British philanthropist, 2004 DBE
Gerald Ronson RW5 Img British property tycoon,   CBE
Kenneth Rose Img British writer, biographer, CBE
David Rosen Img Irish Chief Rabbi of Ireland 1979-85, CBE
Michael Rosen British anaesthetist, 1990 CBE
Eugene Rosenberg Img Slovak-born British architect, 1971 CBE
Louis Rosenhead RW5 Img British applied mathematician, 1954 CBE
Baron Max Rosenheim Img British physician, administrator, 1967 KBE
Jack Rosenthal RW5 Img British TV playwright, novelist, CBE
Jonathan Ross Img British television/radio presenter, film critic, 2005 OBE
Max Rostal RWF Img Austrian-born British violinist, violist, 1977 CBE
Mstislav Rostropovich RWF HW Img Azebarjani-born Soviet American cellist, conductor, (Jewish mother) 1987 KBE ExLink1 ExLink2
Sir Joseph Rotblat RWF HW Img Polish-born British physicist, Nobel Prize (1995) for Peace, CBE
Sir John Rothenstein RWF Img British art historian, CBE
Baron Jacob Rothschild RWF Img British banker, philantropist,  GBE
Edmund Leopold de Rothschild Img British banker, CBE
Leopold David de Rothschild Img British financier, musician, son of Lionel Nathan CBE
Dame Miriam Rothschild RWF Img British entomologist, zoologist, 2000 DBE
Baron Victor Rothschild RWF Img British biologist, GBE
Arthur Rubinstein RWF HW Img Polish-born American pianist, composer, 1977 KBE
Mortimer Sackler RW5 Img American physician, entrepreneur, 1995 KBE
Raymond Sackler RW5 Img co-founder of Perdue Pharma 1995 KBE
Oliver Sacks RWF HW Img British-American neurologist, author, 2008 CBE
Sir Isidore Salmon RW5 Img British buesinessman, politician, CBE
Samuel Isidore Salmon Img British politician, executive, CBE
Viscount Herbert Samuel RWF HW Img High Commisioner of Palestine 1920-25, Liberal cabinet minister 1910- GBE
Dame Louise Samuel British suffragist, charity worker, 1920 DBE
Baron Stormont Mancroft Samuel RW5 Img Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1954-57 KBE
Sir Alexander Samuels CBE ExLink
Sir Sydney Samuelson RW5 Img British Film Commisioner 1991-98 CBE
Kurt Sanderling RWF HW Img German conductor, CBE
Jeremy Sanders RWC Img British chemist, 2014 CBE
Ron Sandler Img British businessman, chairman of Northern Rock,
Louise (Perugia) Sassoon Img wife of Arthur Sassoon CBE
Sir Philip Sassoon RWC Img British politician, collector, social host, MP 1912-39 GBE
Siegfried Sassoon RW5 Img British war poet, author, (Jewish father) CBE
Marchioness Sybil Sassoon RW5 Img British Royal Navy service officer, 1946 CBE
Sir Victor Sassoon RW5 Img British businessman, hotelier, GBE
Vidal Sassoon RWF HW Img British hairdresser, 2009 CBE
Simon Schama RW5 Img British American historian, television presenter, 2001 CBE
John Schlesinger RWF HW Img British film/stage director, actor, CBE
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Sir George Schuster Img Britiah politician, financier, colonial administrator, CBE
Rudolf Schwarz RW5 HW Img Austrian-born British conductor, CBE
Arthur Seldon RWF Img British economist, CBE
Madron Seligman Img British politician, (Jewish father) 1994 CBE
Peter Sellers RWF HW Img British actor, comedian, (Jewish mother) CBE
Gitta Sereny Img Austrian-born British biographer, historian, journalist, (Jewish mother) 2004 CBE
Abraham Serfaty Img Gibraltarian architect, politician, mayor 1979-88, 1980 CBE
Baroness Beatrice Serota RW5 Img British Minister for Health, 1992 DBE
Jane Seymour RWF HW Img British American actress, (Jewish father) 1999 OBE
Sir Peter Shaffer RWF HW Img British American playwright, screenwriter, CBE
Michael Shepherd Img British psichiatrist, 1989 CBE
Sir Antony Sher RW5 HW Img South African-born British stage actor, novelist, painter, 2000 KBE
Sir Alfred Sherman Img British adviser to Margaret Thatcher, writer, journalist,
Dame Stephanie Shirley RWC Img German-born British computer scientist, founder of Xansa plc (Jewish father) 2000 DBE
Oscar Shumsky HW Img American violinist, violist, conductor,
Emily Siedeberg Img New Zealand-born medical doctor, (Jewish father) 1949 CBE
Dame Ruth Silver Img British educator, Principal of Lewisham College 1993-2009 DBE
Baron David Simon Img Minister for European Trade & Competition, CEO of British Petroleum, 1991 CBE
Sir Francis Simon RWF Img German-born British physical chemist, physicist, 1946 CBE
Walter Simon RW5 Img German-born British sinologist, librarian, 1961 CBE
Anthony Smith 1987 CBE
Sir Georg Solti RWF HW Img Hungarian-born American British conductor, pianist, 1971 KBE
Dame Muriel Spark RWC Img British novelist, (Jewish father) 1993 DBE
Sir Edward Spears RWC Img British politician MP 1922-45, major general, KBE
Steven Spielberg RWE HW Img American film director, producer, movies mogul, 2001 KBE
Countess Marion Stein RW5 Img Austrian-born British concert pianist,  CBE
Baron Jeffrey Sterling RWC Img British businessman, chairman of P & O, 1983- CBE
Sir Albert Stern RWC Img British banker, military,  1918 KBE
Baroness Vivien Stern Img British academic, 1992 CBE
Sir Tom Stoppard RWF HW Img Czech-born British screenwriter, playwright, 1978 CBE
Sir Henry Strakosch Img Austrian-born British banker, philanthropist, 1927 GBE
Sir Barnett Stross Img British politician,    KBE
David Suchet RWF Img British actor, (not Jewish maternal grandfather) CBE
Dame Janet Suzman RWF HW Img South African-born British stage/film/television actress, film director, 2011 DBE
Sir Oliver Swann RWC Img British military, vice-marshall  aviation, (Jewish father) CBE
Dame Elizabeth Taylor RWF HW Img British-born American actress, (convert to Judaism) 2000 DBE
Sir John Terry British film financier, lawyer, KBE
Lionel Tertis RWF HW Img British violist, 1950 CBE
Ivor Tiefenbrun British chairman, CEO of Linn Products, 1992 MBE
Harold Tillman Img British owner of fashion chain Jaeger, CBE
Sir Michael Tippett RW5 Img British composer, conductor, ??? 1959
Lady Marina Vaizey Img American British art critic, author, 1938 CBE
Dame Simone Veil RWF Img Social Affairth and Health Minister 1974-79  President of European Parlament 1979-82 DBE
Leslie Wagner Img Chancellor of Derby University 2003-08 2000 CBE
Maurice Wahl British businessman, philanthropist,  1992 CBE
Arthur Waley RWF Img British orientalist, sinologist, poet, translator,   1952 CBE
Sir Robert Waley-Cohen RW5 Img British industrialist,   1920 KBE
Hal Wallis RWC Img American film producer, CBE
Sir Charles Waldstein RWC Img American-born British archaeologist,    KBE
Diana Walford Img British Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, 2002-11, CBE
Zoe Wanamaker RWF HW Img American-born British actress, 2001 CBE ExLink
Dame Fanny Waterman Img British piano teacher, music educator, 2005 DBE
Baron George Weidenfeld RW5 Img Austrian-born British publisher, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2011 GBE
Caspar Weinberger RWF HW Img American Secretary of Defense Reagan  81-87 (Jewish father) GBE
Harvey Weinstein RWF Img American producer, executive, 2004 CBE
Egon Wellesz RWF HW Img Austrian-born British composer, musicologist, 1957 CBE
Elie Wiesel RWF HW Img Romanian-born American writer, Nobel Prize (1986) for Peace, KBE
Simon Wiesenthal RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born American Nazi-hunter, 2004 KBE
Dame Albertine Winner British medical administrator, 1967 DBE
Maurice Wohl Img British businessman, philanthropist, 1992 CBE
Martin Wolf RWF Img British journalist, editor, 2000 CBE
Humbert Wolfe RW5 Img Italian-born British poet, translator, CBE
James Wolfensohn RWF HW Img Australian-born American President of World Bank 1995 KBE
Lewis Wolpert RWF Img South African-born British developmental biologist, broadcaster, author, 1990 CBE
Derek Wood Img British barrister, principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford 1991-2002 CBE
Basil Yamey RWF Img South African-born British economist, CBE
George Zarnecki RWB Img Ukrainian-born British art historian, (Jewish father) 1970 CBE
Sir David Zeidler Australian chemist, industrialist, ??? 1971 CBE
Theodore Zeldin RW5 Img Israeli-born British philosopher, historian, sociologist, writer, CBE
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Companions of the Order of Canada
Louis Applebaum RWF Img Canadian composer, conductor, 1995
Avie Bennett RW5 Img Chancellor of York University 1998-2004 2003
Charles Bronfman RWF HW Img co-owner of Seagram Co. 1992
Samuel Bronfman RWF Img Moldovan-born Canadian founder/CEO of Seagram Co.
Leonard Cohen RWF HW Img Canadian poet, novelist, singer/songwriter,
Reuben Cohen RW5 Img chancellor of Dalhousie University (third) Canada 2001
George Cohon RW5 Img founder of McDonalds Canada 2019
David Cronenberg RWF HW Img Canadian film director, screenwriter, actor,
Barney Danson RWC Img Canadian Minister of National Defence 1976-79, 2007
Jack Diamond Chancellor of Simon Fraser University 1975-78
Natalie Zemon Davis RWF HW Img American historian of France, 2012
Maureen Forrester RWF HW Img Canadian opera singer, (convert to Judaism) 1967
Celia Franca RW5 Img British-born Canadian dancer, choreographer, ballet teacher, 1985
Ruth Frankel RW5 Img American-born Canadian 1969
Ursula Franklin RW5 Img German-born Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, (Jewish mother) 1992
Martin Friedland RW5 Img Canadian lawyer, academic, author, 2003
Frank Gehry RWF HW Img Canadian-American architect, art museum designer
Arthur Gelber Img Canadian philanthropist,    1994
Reva Gerstein RWF Img Chancellor of University of Western Ontario 1992-96 1997
Phil Gold RW5 Img Canadian physician, carceoembrionic gen, 1985
Victor Goldbloom RWC Img Minister of Enviroment Quebeck 2000
Nicholas Goldschmidt RWF HW Img Czech-born Canadian conductor, (Jewish father) 1989
Allan Gotlieb RW5 Img Canadian ambassador to United States 1981-89 1987
Herb Gray RWC Img Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Liberal Party 2003
Raymond Klibansky RW5 Img French-born Canadian philosopher, historian, 2000
Walter Koerner RW5 Img Canadian businessman, philanthropist,   1967 ExLink
Phyllis Lambert RWF Img Canadian architect, 2001
Bora Laskin RW5 HW Img Chief Justice in Supreme Court of Canada 1984
David Lewis RW5 Img Belarusian-born Canadian politician, NDP leader, 1976
Stephen Lewis RW5 Img Canadian politician, Ontario NDP leader 2002
John Meisel RW5 Img Austrian-born Canadian political scientist, 1999
Peter Munk RWC HW Img Hungarian-born Canadian founder, chairman of Barrick Gold, 2008
Nathan Nemetz RW5 Img Chief Justice in British Columbia 1989
Peter Newman RW5 Img Austrian-born Canadian journalist, author, 1990
Bernard Ostry RW5 Img Canadian author, CEO of TVOntario, 2006
Sylvia Ostry RWC Img Canadian economist, chairman of Economic Council of Canada 1978-79 1990
Gunther Plaut RW5 Img German-born president of Canadian Jewish Congress 1977-80,
John Polanyi RWF HW Img German-born British Canadian chemist Nobel Prize (1986), (Jewish father) 1979
Judah Quastel RW5 Img British-born Canadian biochemist, 1970
Robert Rae RWC Img Prime Minister of Ontario 1990-95 (Jewish patrenal grandfather)
Louis Rasminsky RW5 Img Governor of the Bank of Canada 1961-73, 1968
Mordecai Richler RWF HW Img Canadian author, director, screenwriter, essayist, 2001
Moshe Safdie RWF HW Img Canadian-Israeli architect, urban designer,
Hans Selye Img Austrian-born Canadian endocrinologist, physician,
Louis Siminovitch Img Canadian molecular biologist, 1988
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Order of the White Rose of Finland
Victor Borge RWF HW Img Danish-born American comedian, conductor, pianist, actor,
Edvard Hambro RWF Img Norwegian legal scholar, diplomat, politician, president of UN General Assembly (1970-71) (Jewish descent)
Shaul Tchernichovsky RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born Israeli poet, translator,
Order of the Lion of Finland
Eri Klas RW5 Img Estonian conductor,
Hilary Koprowski RWF Img Polish-born American virologist, immunologist, Commandor
Maya Plisetskaya RWF HW Img Russian/Soviet prima balerina, Bolshoi theater, Knight
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Julian Aberbach Img Austrian-born American music publisher, 2003
Jose Aboulker RWC Img Algerian resistance fighter, Commander
Anatole Abragam RWF HW Img Latvian-born French physicist, NMR, Commander
Artur Abragamson RWC Ukrainian-born Russian raiwail figure, Knight
Benjamin Abram Img French politician mayor of Aix-en-Provence, Knight
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon RW5 Img French sculptor, photographer, 1870 Knight
Alexandre Adler RWB Img French historian, journalist, Knight
Gaby Aghion RWB Img Egyptian-born French fashion designer, 2013 Knight
Marquis Alejandro Aguado RWC Img Spain-born banker, Grand Cross
Felix Alcan RW5 Img French publisher, 1895 Knight
Pierre Alechinsky RW5 Img Belgian artist, Knight
Georges-Rene Alexander RWC French general, lieutenant general, Commander
Zhores Alferov RWF HW Img Belarusian-born Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2000), (Jewish mother) Officer
Napoleon Alkan Img French composer, music teacher, 1895 Knight
Binyamin Amira HW Img Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician,   1966 Knight
Walter Annenberg RWC HW Img American publisher, art patron, Officer
Philippe Anspach Img French lawyer, radicals 1830 Fr.Rev. Officer
Mark Antokolsky RWF HW Img Lithuanian born Russian sculptor 'Ivan the Terrible" Knight Order
Leo Apotheker Img German-born American CEO 2010- of Hewlett Packard company, co-CEO 2008-10 SAP AG,
Pierre Arditi RWF Img French film/stage actor, (Jewish father) 2002 Knight
Ruth Arnon RWF HW Img Israel biochemist, Copaxone, 1994 Orden
Henry Aron RW5 Img French journalist, political essayist, 1878 Knight
Robert Aron French historian, writer, Officer
Naoum Aronson RWC Img Latvian-born French sculptor, Knight Order
Gabi Ashkenazi RWF HW Img Israeli Chief of Staff 2006-11, Grand Officer
Szymon Askenazy RWF Img Polish historian, educator, statesman, diplomat, Knight
Vera Atkins Img Romanian-born British intelligence officer, Commander
Henri Atlan RWC HW Img Algerian-born French philosopher, biophysicist, Knight
Bernard Attali Img Algerian-born French executive, CEO of Air France 1998 Officer
Charley Attali RWC HW Img Algerian-born French Israeli designer, Orden
Raymond Aubrac Img French engineer, resistance member, 2010 Grand Cross
Jean-Pierre Aumont RW5 Img French actor,
Claude Aveline Img French writer, poet, painter, resistance member, Knight
Colette Avital RWC HW Img Romanian-born Israeli politician, Officer
Josephine Baker RWF Img American-born French  dancer, actress, singer, (Jewish father) Knight
Leon Bakst RWC HW Img Belarusian-born Russian painter, RWN Knight
Steven Ballmer RWF HW Img American businessman, CEO of Microsoft, (Jewish mother) Knight
Zoltan Balint Img Hungarian architect,
Ernst Hirsch Ballin RWC Img Dutch minister of Justice/Interior, (Jewish father) Officer
Ehud Barak RWF HW Img prime minister of Israel 1999-2001 Commander
Daniel Barenboim RWF HW Img Argentine-born Israeli pianist, conductor, 2011 Grand Officer
Anri-Sharl-August Baron RWC French-born painter, 1859 Knight
Henri Baruk RWF Img French neuropsychiatrist, Knight
Michele Barzach RWC Img Moroccan-born French politician, Minister of Health 1986-88, gynecologist, psychoanalyst, 2008 Officer
Yuri Bashmet RWF HW Img Russian violist, conductor,   Officer
Giorgio Bassani RWF HW Img Italian novelist, poet, essayist, 1971 Knight
Etienne-Emile Baulieu RW5 Img French endocrinologist, biochemist, inventor, 1990 Grand Officer
Yvette Baumann RWC Img French resistance member,   Grand Cross
Emmanuelle Beart RWF HW Img French film/television actress, (Jewish father) 2015 Knight
Guy Beart RWF HW Img Egyptian-born French singer/songwriter, poet, Knight
Moses Beckelman American social worker, Knight
Gustav Bedarrid French jurist, 1879 Commander
Jassuda Bedarrides Img French politician, mayor of Aix-en-Provence 1848-49, 1880 Officer
Salomon Bedarrides Img French politician, mayor of Aix-en-Provence 1877-84 1880 Knight
Yossi Beilin RWF HW Img Israeli politician, Leader of Meretz Party, Minister of Justice/Religious Services, Orden
Saul Bellow RWF HW Img Canadian-born American writer, Nobel Prize (1976), Knight
Albert Bender Img Irish-born American patron of arts,    Knight
Carlo de Benedetti RW5 Img Italian businessman, CEO of Olivetti, La Republica, Sogefi, 1987
Jacques Benichou RWC Img Algerian-born French aueronautical engineer, Commander
Pierre Benichou Img Algerian-born French journalist, 2016 Commander
Emile Benveniste RWF HW Img Syrian-born French structural linguist,
Joseph Bercowicz Polish military, Officer
Henri Berestycki Img French mathematician, 2010
Eleonora Bergman Polish historian of architecture, 2012 Knight
Henri Bergson RWF HW Img French philosopher, Nobel Prize (1927) in Literature, Grand Cross
Sarah Bernhardt RWF Img French film/stage actress, (Jewish mother) 1914
Antoine Bernheim Img French-born chairman of Generali 1995-99 2002- 2007 Grand Cross
Gilles Bernheim Img French philosopher, rabbi, 2009 Knight
Leonard Bernstein RWF HW Img American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, pianist, Commander
Leopold Bernstamm RWF Russian-born French Russian sculptor, Knight
Emile Berr RWC French journalist, 1900
Pierre Besnainou Tunisian-born French president of European Jewish Congress 2005- 2007 Knight
Xavier Bettel RWC Img Prme Minister of Luxembourg 2013- , (Jewish grandfather) Commander
Louis Gustave Binger RWC Img French officer, explorer, Commander
Avraham Biran RWC HW Img Israeli archaeologist, diplomat, Officer
Louis-Raphael Bischoffsheim RWC Img German-born French banker, philantropist, 1800-73 1868 Knight
Raphael-Louis Bischoffsheim Img Dutch-born French businessman, astronomy patron, 1823-1906 Grand Cross
Aristide Blank Img Romanian economist, busnessman, Officer
Arbit Blatas RW5 Img Lithuanian-born painter, scanic designer, 1994 Officer
Sir Leonard Blavatnik RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born American businessman, TNT-BP Sual, Access/Renova, 2013 Knight
Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet RW5 Img founder, owner of Publicis Groupe Grand Officer
Denise Bloch RW5 Img French-born special operations agent against Germany, Knight
Gustave Bloch RWC Img French historian, Officer
Marc Bloch RWC HW Img French historian of medieval France, economic historian,    Orden
Rene Bloch RWC German-born French military, admiral, Commander
Henri Blowitz RW5 Img Czech-born French journalist, Officer
Emerik Blum RWC HW Img Yugoslav businessman, philanthropist, politician, mayor of Sarajevo, 1974 Knight
Julius Blum RWC Img Hungarian-born Egyptian Finance Minister 1879-90, Commander
Leon Blum RWF HW Img French prime minister of France 1936-1937 1938 1946-47 Order
Florence Meyer Blumenthal RW5 Img American philanthropist, 1929 Knight
George Blumenthal RWB Img German-born American banker, 1929 Knight
Vernon Bogdanor RWF Img British political scientist, Knight
Dany Boon RWF Img French comedian, actor, (convert to Judaism) Orden
Grigory Bongard-Levin RWF Img Russian historian, Knight
Michael Boorda Img American admiral, Officer
Leon Bourgeois RWF HW Img Prime Minister of France 1895-96, Nobel Prize of Peace 1920, Officer
Moritz Pollack von Borkenau Austrian financier, Grand Cross
Elisabeth Borne RWC Img French politician, Prime Minister 1922- , (Jewish father) Knight
Philippe Bouvard RW5 Img French journalist, television presenter, Knight
Michel Breal RWF Img German-born French philologist,  founder of modern semantics,    1890 Commander
Edouard Brezin RW5 Img French physicist, 1989 Officer
Pierre Brisac RWC Img French military, colonel general, Grand Officer
Eli Broad RW5 HW Img American businessman, American International Group, Kaufman & Broad Home Corporation, Knight
Joseph Brodsky RWF HW Img Russian-born Soviet poet, essayist, Nobel Prize (1987) Orden
Lazar Brodsky RWE HW Img Ukrainian-born businessman, sugar magnate, 1900 Knight
Lev Brodsky 1900 Knight
Victor Brombert RW5 Img German-born American literary critic, Knight
Edgar Bronfman, Sr RW5 HW Img American businessman, Seagram Co.,Time-Warner,MCA,Universal Studios 1986 Knight
Sir Peter Brook RWF HW Img British theater/film director, 1995 Officer
Baron Jacques Brotchi Img Belgian neurologist, politician, MP 2007- 1992 Knight
Samuel Briskin RWF Img American film producer,
Henry Bulawko Lithuanian/Belarusian-born French journalist, historian, translator, writer, 2005 Grand Officer
Richard Burgin RWF Img Polish-born American violinist, conductor, Officer
Agnes Buzyn RWC Img French Minister of Health 2017- , Orden
Samuel Cahen French hebraist, journalist, 1849 Knight
Julien Cain RW5 Img French general administrator of National Library, 1938 Grand Officer
Alexander Calder RW5 Img American sculptor, 1974 Commander
Alain Calmat RWF HW Img French politician, Minister of Youth Affairs and sports 1984-86 Knight
David Cameron RWF Img Prime Minister of United Kingdom 2010- , (Jewish great great grandfather 3/32) Officer
Iris Cantor RWB Img American philanthropist, model, Knight
Mortimer Caplin Img American lawyer, educator, Knight
Aaron Cardoza British consul for Tunis/Algiers at Giblartar 1805- , Knight
Aaron Cardozo British-born Gibrartarian politician, Knight
Sir Ernest Cassel RWN Img German-born British banker, merchant, Commander
Rene Cassin RWF HW Img French jurist, Nobel Prize (1968) for Peace, Grand Officer
Elsa Cayat RWC Img Tunisian-born French psychoanalyst, Orden
David Cazes Tunisian educator, 1889 Knight
Ivan Ceresnjes RW5 Img Bosnian-born Israeli architect researcher, 1994 Knight
Vinton Cerf RWF HW Img American internet pioneer, (3/4 Jewish father) 2014 Officer
Martin Cerfbeer French military,, colonel,
Max-Theodore Cerfbeer Img French politician,  MP 1842-48, Commander
Catherine Cesarsky RWC Img French-born astronomer, 2004 Commander
Marc Chagall RWF HW Img Belarusian-born Russian-French painter and stained glass artist, Grand Cross
Georges Charpak RWF HW Img Polish/Ukrainian-born French physicist, Nobel Prize (1992), Officer
Tsilla Chelton RWF Img Israeli-born French film/stage actress, Knight
Andre Chouraqui RWC Img Algerian-born French Israeli jurist, historian, thinker, 1994 Commander
Joseph Ciechanover RWC Img Israeli businessman, Orden
Andre Citroen RWF Img French founder 1919 of Citroen, Grand Officer
Mark Clark RWC Img American military commander, general of army, (Jewish mother) Grand Cross
Wesley Clark RWF Img American supreme allied commander of NATO, general of army, (Jewish father) Commander
Daniel Cohen Img Tunisian-born French economist, 2001 Knight
Samuel Cohen French hebraist, jounalist, 1849 Knight
Max Cohen-Reuss Img German politician, journalist,  Knight
Annie Cohen-Solal Img Algerian-born French historian, biographer,   2009 Knight
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji RWF HW Img Algerian-born French physicist, Nobel Prize (1997) Grand Officer
Adolphe Cohn French-born American educator, 1900 Officer
Albert Cohn Img Hungarian-born French philanthropist, scholar,
Marthe Cohn French author, nurse, spy, 2002 Knight
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi Img French writer, lawyer, 2009 Knight
Umberto Colombo RWC Img Italian minister of universities, science, technolody, 1993-94, Commander
Fernand Cremieux French lawyer, politician,
Jean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac French resistance member,   Grand Cross
David Cronenberg RWF HW Img Canadian film director, screenwriter, actor, Orden
Elias von Cyon RWF Img Lithuanian-born Russian French physiologist, avanturist, journalist, 1880 Knight
Boris Cyrulnik RW5 Img French doctor, ethologist, neurologist, psychiatrist, Officer
Pierre Dac RW5 HW Img French humorist,
Barney Danson RWC Img Canadian Minister of National Defence 1976-79, 2007 Knight
Darius Dassault RWF Img French's Fifth Army Corps Commander  1946 Grand Cross Grand Chanceliers
Marcel Dassault RWF Img French aitcraft industrialist, founder/owner of Dassault Aviation SA Grand Officer Grand Cross
Olivier Dassault RWF Img French politician, businessman, Knight
Serge Dassault RWF Img French entrpreneur, Grand Officer
David David-Weill RW5 Img French chairman of Lazard Freres, Grand Officer
Michel David-Weill RW5 Img French-born American chairman of Lazard Freres, Grand Officer
Sir Ernest Davis Img New Zealand businessman, mayor of Auckland 1935-41, Knight
Moshe Dayan RWF HW Img Israeli military leader, politician, Defence  Minister 1967-  , Foreign Minister 1977-79, Grand Officer
Bernard Debre RWC Img French politician, urologist, Knight
Michel Debre RWF HW Img prime minister 1959-62 Minister of Defence Foreign Minister (Jewish father) Commander
Sonia Delaunay RWF Img Ukrainian-born French abstract painter, fashion designer, 1964 Officer
Joseph Derenbourg RW5 Img French-born German orientalist,   Knight
Natalie Dessay RWF Img French opera singer, (convert to Judaism) Knight
Alexander Deutsch de la Meurthe 1885 Knight
Emile Deutsch de la Meurthe French businessman, Commander
Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe Img French petroleum businessman, 1912 Commander
Suzanne Deutsch de la Meurthe French philanthropist,                 Officer
Louis Dewis Belgian-born French painter, ??? Knight
Porfirio Diaz RWC Img President of Mexico 1876-80 1884-1911, (Jewish descent) Grand Cross
Sacha Distel RWC HW Img French singer, guitarist, (Jewish mother) Knight
Angelo Donati RW5 Img Italian banker, philanthropist, 1936 Commander
Kirk Douglas RWF HW Img American actor, film producer, Orden
Pierre Drai Img Algerian-born French president of High Court of Appeals, 2000 Grand Officer
Alfred Dreyfus RWN HW Img French army officer, falsely convicted of treason, Officer
Camille Dreyfus RW5 Img Swiss-born co-founder of Celanese Corporation, Officer
Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus Img French journalist, politician,   
Michel Drucker RW5 HW Img French journalist, TV host, Officer
Maurice Druon RWF Img French novelist, Grand Cross
Paul Dukas RWF HW Img French composer, Officer
Bob Dylan RWF HW Img American singer/songwriter, guitarist, Nobel Prize (2016) in Literature, Officer
Marek Edelman RWF HW Img Polish Warshaw Ghetto uprising leader, MP 1989-93 Commander
Ilya Ehrenburg  RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born Soviet writer, public figure, translator, Officer
Alber Elbaz RWC HW Img Moroccan-born Israeli fashion designer,   2007 Officer
Alain Elkann RW5 Img Italian novelist, journalist, Knight
Jean-Paul Elkann RW5 Img French banker, 1988 Commander
Stuart Eizenstat RWC Img American ambassador to European Union 1993-96 Orden
Lotte Eisner RWF Img German-born French film critic,  historian, writer, poet, 1982
Ronit Elkabetz RWF HW Img Israeli actress, director, screenwriter, Orden
Ruth Elkrief RW5 Img Moroccan-born French television journalist,
Jehiel Elyachar Img Israeli engineer, real estate developer, philanthropist,
Charles Enderlin HW Img French-born French Israeli journalist, author, 2009
Marchand Ennery Img Chief Rabbi of Consistory 1846- 1846 Knight
Gerard Errera Img French ambassador to United Kingdom 2002-07, Officer
Miriam Ezratty Commander
Jane Engelhard RW5 Img Chinese-born American philanthropist, (Jewish father) Knight
Myriam Ezratti Commander
Laurent Fabius RWF HW Img prime minister of France 1984 President Of National Assembly  Grand Officer
Daniel Fahri Img French rabbi, Officer
Vaclav Faience Polish economist, banker, Commander
Yevette Farnoux RWC Img French resistance member, Grand Cross
Leon Faucher RWF Img French economist, polititian, French Prime Minister 1851, Commander
Ferenc Fejto RWF Img Hungarian-born French historian, critic, journalist, political scientist, 2006 Officer
David Feurerwerker RW5 Img Swiss-born French history scholar, rabbi, Officer
Alain Finkielkraut RWF HW Img French essayist, philosopher,
Jean Finot Polish-born French traveler, journalist, social activict, 1906 Officer
Alain Fischer RW5 Img French pediatric immunologist, gene therapy, 2010 Officer
Heinz Fischer RWF Img federal president of Austria 2004-16, (Jewish paternal grandfather) Grand Cross
Maurice Fischer RWC HW Img Israeli ambassador to France 1949-50, Turkey 1953-57 , Italy 1961-65, Orden
Grzegorz Fitelberg RWF Img Polish composer, conductor, violinist, Knight
Jean-Paul Fitoussi RWC HW Img Tunisian-born French economist, Orden
Julian Flegenheimer RWF Img Swiss architect, designer, 1924 Knight
Joel Fletcher American 
Milos Forman RWF Img Czech-born American director, (Jewish father) Knight
Achille Fould RWF Img Minister of Finance 1849-51, 1851-52 1861-67 Minister of Culture 1852-61 Grand Cross
Abraham Foxman RWF Img Polish/Belarusian-born American director of the Anti-Defamation League, 2006 Knight
Adolphe Franck RWF Img French lawyer, philosopher, Kabbalah, 1869 Commander
Henry Freydenberg RWC Img French military commander, lieutenant general, 1934 Grand Officer
Jean Frydman Img French busnessman, resistance fighter, Knight
Gisele Freund RW5 Img German-born French photographer, 1983 Knight
Andre Frossard RWF Img French journalist, essayist, (Jewish paternal grandmother) Officer
Massimiliano Fuksas RWC Img Italian architect, (Jewish father) 2010 Knight
Diane von Furstenberg RWF HW Img Belgian-born fashion designer, Knight
Yossi Gal RWC Img Israeli diplomat, Orden
Romain Gary RWF HW Img Lithuanian-born French film director, novelist, 1945 Knight
Patrick Gaubert Img French politician,  MEP Knight
Gideon Geismar RWC Img French military, brigadier general, Commander
Leon Geismar RWC Img French general-gubernator of French West Africa, Knight
Bronislaw Geremek RWF HW Img Polish politician, Foreign Affairs Minister 1997-2000 Officer
Jean Ginsberg Polish-born French architect, Knight
Francoise Giroud RWC Img Swiss-born Minister of Culture 1976-77, journalist, screenwriter, writer, Commander
Benjamin Godard RW5 Img French violinist, composer, 1889 Knight Wiki
Jean Gol RWC Img British-born Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Liberal Party Leader Minister of Justice 1984, Grand Officer
Daniel Goldin RWC Img NASA Administrator 1992-2001 9th Officer
Alter Mojze Goldman RW5 Img Polish-born French resistance fighter, 1988
Peter Goldmark, Jr Img American government official,   Knight
Hermann Goldschmidt RWF Img German astronomer, painter, Knight
Edward Goldsmith Img British French enviromentalist, writer, philosopher, (Jewish father) 1991 Knight
Max von Gomperz Austrian industrialist, banker, Officer
Nadine Gordimer RWF HW Img South-African writer Nobel Prize (1991) in literature, 2007 Officer
Louis Gottschalk RWF Img American historian, academic administrator, 1953 Knight
Leon Gozlan RWF Img French novelist, playwright, 1859 Officer
Gaston Gradis Img French businessman, explorer, Knight
Baroness Susan Greenfield RWF Img British biologist, broadcaster, writer, (Jewish father) 2003 Knight
Alan Greenspan RWF HW Img American economist, Chairman of Federal Reserve Board 1988-2005 Commander
Helene Grimaud RW5 HW Img French pianist, Knight
Miron Grindea RW5 HW Img Romanian-born journalist, editor, 1974 Knight
Mikhael Gromov RWF Img Russian-born French American mathematician, differential geometry, (Jewish mother) Commander
Ludwik Gross RW5 Img Polish-born American cancer researcher, 1977
Alfred Grosser Img German-born French writer, sociologist, political scientist, Grand Officer
David Gruby HW Img Hungarian-born physician, dermatologist, Knight
Nicole Guedj RWC Img Minister of State for victims rights Justice Ministry Property program Orden
Max Guedj RWC HW Img Tunisian-born French lawyer, pilot, Commander
Vladimir Gusinsky RWC HW Img Russian-born Israeli president of Russian Jewish Congress 1996-01, Media-Most, Orden
Rene Gutman Img French chief rabbi of Strasbourg, 2008 Officer
Albert Gyergyai Img Hungary literary historian, writer, translator, 1937
Pehr Gyllenhammar Img Swedish businessman, (Jewish mother) 1987 Commander ExLink
Claude Hagege RW5 Img Tunisian-born French linguist, Knight
Emmanuelle Haim RW5 Img French hapsicordist, conductor, (Jewish father) Knight
Reynaldo Hahn RWF HW Img Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, diarist, (Jewish father) 1947 Commander
Joseph Halevy RWC HW Img Turkish-born French archaeologist, orientalist, traveler,   Orden
Ludovic Halevy RWF Img French author, opera librettist, Commander
Alphonse Halimi RWC HW Img Algerian-born French boxer,
Gisele Halimi RWC Img Tunisian-born French politician, MP 1981-84 (Jewish mother) Officer
Sigi Fredj Halimi Img Algerian rabbi, Chief rabbi of Constantine, Knight
Gustave Halphen Img French diplomat, Officer
Marek Halter RWF Img Polish-born French novelist, Officer
Jean Hamburger RWF Img French physician, surgeon. essayist,  Grand Officer
Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon RWC Img Brirish military, general leutenant, Orden
Armand Hammer RWF Img American industrialist, arts patron,
Marceli Handelsman RWF Img Polish-born historian, Commander
Emmanuel Hannaux French sculptor, 1900 Knight
Serge Haroche RWF HW Img Moroccan-born French theoretical physicist, quantum engineering, Nobel Prize (2012), Commander
David Harris Img Executive Director of American Jewish Committee
Mireille Hartuch RW5 Img French singer/songwriter, actress, Knight
Henri Hauser RW5 Img Algerian-born French ancient/medieval historian, economist, geographer, 1919 Officer
Michael Heidelberger RWC Img American immunochemist, Officer
Jeno Heltai Img Hungarian writer, poet, producer, story editor,
Ferdinand Heilbuth RWC German-born French painter, 1881 Knight
Judith Hemmendinger Img German-born French social worker, 2003 Officer
Lucien Herve RW5 Img Hungarian photographer, 1990
Cornelius Herz RWF Img French founder of Paris Electric-Light Company, 1880 Grand Officer expunged
Herbert Herz Img French resistance fighter, 1996
Maurice Herzog RW5 Img French sports administrator, Minister of Youth and Sports 1958-63 Grand Officer
Stephane Hessel RWF HW Img German-born French diplomat, resistance fighter, (Jewish father) 2006 Grand Officer
Andrew Hevesi Hungarian writer, essayist, journalist,
Sandor Hevesi Img Hungarian director, playwright, critic, writer, tanslator,
Boris Holban RWC Img Moldovan-born French resistance fighter, 1994 Knight
Walter Homolka RW5 Img German rabbi, Knight
Jules Horowitz French physicist, ??? Commander
Robert Hormats Img Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs 2009-
Robert Hossein RWF Img French actor, director, writer, (Jewish mother) Commander
Isabelle Huppert RWF HW Img French stage/film/television actress, singer, (Jewish father) 2009 Officer
Francis Huster RW5 HW Img French stage/film/television actor, film director, screenwriter, (Jewish mother) 2006 Officer
Paul Hymans RWC Img Foreign Minister of Belgium 1918, first President Of League of Nations 1920-21 1932-33 (Jewish father) Grand Cross
Jean Ichbiah RWF Img French-born computer scientist,  chief designer of Ada 1979 Knight
Eva Illouz RWF Img Moroccan-born Israeli sociologist, 2018 Knight
Shlomo Inbar RWC Img Israeli military commander, major general, 1980 Knight
Eugene Ionesco RWF HW Img Romanian-born French playwright, (Jewish mother), Officer
Eugene Istomin RWF HW Img American pianist, (Jewish mother) 2001
Emil Jellinek RWF Img Austrian-born entrepreneur, Mercedes-Benz, 1913 Officer
Nikolay Ivanov RWC Img Russian military, lieutenant general, Commander
Edmond Jabes RWF Img Egyptian-born French poet, writer, 1986 Officer
Francois Jacob RWF HW Img French microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965), Grand Cross
Gilles Jacob HW Img French filmmaker, screenwriter, essayist, critic,  Commander
Max Jacob RWF Img French poet, painter, writer, critic, 1932 Knight
Maurice Jacob RW5 Img French physicist, ??? 1994 Knight
Marc Jacobs RWF Img American fashion designer,
Roman Jakobson RWF HW Img Russian-born American linquist, literary critic, 1960 Orden
Byron Janis RWF Img American pianist, Commander
Jean-Michel Jarre RWF Img French composer, performer, record producer, (Jewish mother)  Officer
Emile Javal RWF Img French ophtalmologist,  Officer
Jacques Javal Younger 1828 Knight
Leopold Javal RWF Img French politician, banker, afronomist, MP 1857- , 1862 Officer
Jean Jerome Polish-born French communist activist, resistance member,
Samuel Jesi RWC Img Italian engraver, Knight
Berek Joselewicz RWC HW Img Lithuanian-born Polish colonel, Kosciuszko Uprizing,
Caspar Junghof
Sir Horace Kadoorie RW5 Img Hong Kong industrialist, hotelier, philanthropist, Knight
Pierre Kaan Img French philosopher, Knight
Baron Lawrence Kadoorie RW5 HW Img Hong Kong industrialist, hotelier, philanthropist, Knight
Sir Michael Kadoorie RWC HW Img Chinese-born chairman of CLP Holdings Ltd, Officer
Henri Kagan Img French chemist, Knight
Jean-Pierre Kahane RW5 Img French mathematician, 2002 Commander
Axel Kahn RW5 Img French geneticist, (Jewish father) Officer
Jean Kahn Img French president of European Jewish Congress 1991 Grand Officer
Louis-Lazare Kahn RWC Img French admiral, engineer, Grand Cross
Zadoc Kahn Img French chief rabbi 1990-  , 1879 Knight
Emmerich Kalman RWF Img Hungarian American composer, Knight
Paul Kaminski RWF Img American technologist, chairman of Defense Science Board 2009- , ???
Patrick Kanner RWC Img French Minister of Sport 2014-17, Knight
Bernard Kanovitch Officer
Vyacheslav Kantor RWF HW Img president of European Jewish Congress 2007- 2014 Officer
Thomas Kaplan RW5 Img American chairman/CEO of Tigris Financal Group Ltd., 2014 Knight
Zvi Kaplan RWC Img Israeli physicist, Orden
Wilhelm Karczag Img Hungarian writer, journalist, theater director,
Andre Kaspi French historian,   Knight
Naim Kattan RW5 HW Img Iraqi-born Canadian novelist, critic, Knight
Danny Kaye RWF HW Img American actor, dancer, singer, comedian, Knight
Adolphe Kegresse RWF Img French military engineer, inventor, Knight
Jacqueline Keller Knight
Sir Max Kennedy Horton RWC Img British Admiral, (Jewish mother) Grand Officer
Joseph Kessel RWF Img Argentine-born French novelist, journalist, Grand Officer
David Khayat Img French oncologist, Knight
Georges Kiejman RWC Img French lawyer, politician, Grand Officer
Peter Kirstein RWC Img German-born British computer scientist, Officer
Frederick Kisch RWC Img Indian-born British officer, Officer
Baron Harry Kissin Img German-born British businessman, financier, Knight
Julian Klaczko RWF Img Polish/Lithuanian-born Polish politician, author, MP 1870-71, Knight
Robert Klapisch Img French-born engineer, physicist, 2007 Knight
Serge Klarsfeld RW5 Img Romanian-born anti-Nazi activist, Commander
Joseph Klatzmann geographer Officer
Theo Klein French rsistance member, Officer
Liliane Klein-Lieber Img French rsistance member, Knight
Ruth Kluger Aliav Img Ukrainian-born Romanian Israeli zionist activist,
Blanche Knopf RW5 Img American book publisher, editor, 1960 Officer
Alice Koenigswarter French philanthropist, art collector, Officer
Baron Maximilien von Koenigswarter Img Dutch-born French banker, politician,  1851-63 Officer
Henri Konic Polish lawyer, journalist, politician,
Georgy Konrad RWF Img Hungarian writer, essayist, sociologist, 1996 Officer
Marcuise Esther Koplowitz Img Spanish businesswoman, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas  Knight
Hilary Koprowski RWF Img Polish-born American virologist, immunologist,
Dezso Korda Img Hungarian-born engineer, constructor, inventor, 1907
Janos Kornai RWF Img Hungarian economist, 1997
Joseph Korosy Hungarian statistician, Knight
Haim Korsia RWC Img French rabbi, military, Officer
Andre Kostolany Img Hungarian-born stock market expert, Knight
Lew Kowarski RWF Img Russian-born French physicist, (Jewish father) 1953 Officer
Noah Krieger Img French-born Israeli journalist, sports administrator, 2012 Knight
Maurice Krishaber Hungarian-born French otorhinolarygologist, 1878 Knight
Leon Kroll RW5 Img American painter, lithographer, critic, art teacher, 1950 Knight
Patrick Kron RWC Img French chairman/CEO of Alstom, 2004 Knight
Stanislaw Kronenberg RW5 Img Polish financier, Bank of Commerce,
James Krzemienski RWC Img Polish lawyer, Brigadier General, president of Supreme Military Court, Officer
Lajos Kunffy Img Hungarian painter, lawyer, 1905 Knight
Aime Lambert RWC French military commander, lieutenant general, Officer
Roger Landes Img British radio operator in Special Operations Executive (Jewish father) 1992 Officer
Jack Lang RWC HW Img French Minister of Culture 1981-86 1988-92 Minister of Education 1992-93 1997-2000 (Jewish father) Officer
Claude Lanzmann RWF HW Img French journalist, documentary filmmaker, Commander
Estee Lauder RWF HW Img founder of  Estee Lauder Companies, cosmetics, Knight
Ralph Lauren RWF HW Img American fashion  designer, Knight
Lia van Leer RWF HW Img Romanian/Moldovan-born Israeli director of Jerusalem Film Festival,   Knight
Leonce Lehmann Img Secretary General  of Ministry of Justice Cremieux Knight
Jacques Leibowitch Img French clinical researcher, Knight
Henry Leir Img German-born American industrialist, financier, philanthropist,
George Leitmann RW5 Img Austrian-born American engineering scientist, educator, Knight
Claude Lelouch RWF HW Img French director, producer, writer, Officer
Francis Lemarque Img French singer, lyricist, 1992 Knight
Lyman Lemnitzer RWC Img American Supreme Allied Commander of Nato 1963-69, lieutenant general, Grand Cross
Wassily Leontief RWF HW Img German-born American economist, Nobel Prize (1973) (Jewish mother) 1968 Officer
Stepan Lisovsky RWC Img French-born Russian admiral, (Jewish descent) Commander
Camille Baruch Levi RWC French general, Commander
Sylvain Levi RWC Img French historian, indologist, linguist, Officer
Rita Levi-Montalcini RWF HW Img Italian-born American neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986), Grand Officer
Evariste Levi-Provencal RWF Img Algerian-born French orientalist, historian, Officer
Claude Levi-Strauss RWF HW Img Belgian-born French anthropologist, philosopher, sociologist, Grand Cross
Felix Levitan French sports journalist, ??? 2003 Commander
Abraham Levy French military, (captain)
Alfred Levy Img French-born Chief Rabbi of France, Knight
Benoit Levy French military,
Elie Levy Img French doctor, resistance member, Knight
Jean-Bernard Levy Img French businessman, chairman/CEO of IDF, Knight
Maurice Levy RWF French engineer, mathematician, Grand Officer
Michel Levy RWC Img French doctor, general. Grand Officer
Paul Levy  RWF HW Img French mathematician, 1964 Commander
Raphael-Georges Levy RWB Img French banker, economist, politician, Officer
Raymond Levy Img French honorary president of Renault, Commander
Yevette Levy Img French educator,           Officer
Jakub Lewinski RWC Img Polish-born brigadier general, Knight
Flora Lewis RW5 Img American columnist, Knight
Jerry Lewis RWF HW Img American actor, singer, comedian, producer, director, screenwriter, Commander
Charles Liche Commander
Sonja Licht RW5 Img Serbian sociologist, political activist, Knight
Rolf Liebermann RW5 Img Swiss composer, music administrator, Commander
Adolf Lieben RWF Img Austrian chemist, Commander
Oskar Liebreich RWF Img German physician, pharmacologist, Officer
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak RWF HW Img Israeli politician, general, Minister of Transportsation/Tourism, Commander
Gabriel Lippmann RWF HW Img Luxembourgian-born French physicist, Nobel Ptize (1908) Orden
Gilles Lipovetsky Img French philosopher, sociologist, Knight
Martin Lipton RWB Img American leading business lawer, corporate merges
George Lithuania Hungarian historian, 1997 Knight
Zeev Livne RWC Img Israeli military commander, major general, Commander
Alfred Loewenstein RW5 Img Belgian financier, Knight
Charles Louis-Dretfus French banker, Officer
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus Img French businessman,  Grand Officer
Andre Lwoff RWF HW Img French microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965), Orden
Pavel Lungin RWF Img Russian/Soviet film director, screenwriter, Officer
Lucie Faure RW5 Img French novelist, wife of French Prime Minister, Commander
Norman Mailer RWF HW Img American novelist, social critic,
Enrico Macias RWC HW Img Algerian-born French singer, 2007 Officer
Norman Mailer RWF HW Img American novelist, social critic, Knight
Salomon Maimon RWF HW Img Lithuanian/Belarusian-born German philosopher,
Rodion Malinovsky RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born Russian Minister for Defense, Marshall of the Soviet Union, (karaite father) Grand Officer
James Malvano RWC Img Italian politician, diplomat,   1882 Grand Officer
Benoit Mandelbrot RWF HW Img Polish-born French American mathematician, 1990 Officer
Norman Manea RWF HW Img Romanian American writer, intellectual, 2009 Commander
Moisey Mangubi RWC Img Ukrainian-born engineer, karate, Orden
Fritz Mannheimer RW5 Img German-banker, art collector, Grand Officer
Max Mannheimer Img Czech-born German auhor, painter, Knight
Johanna Marau Ta'aroa RW5 Img Tahitian queen,  (Jewish father) Officer
Marcel Marceau RWF HW Img French actor, mime, Officer
Alexandre Marcquefoy French military, (captain)
Stanley Marcus RW5 Img American president of Neiman Marcus, 1949 Knight
Alexander Marmorek
Marshal Andre Massena RWF Img Commander-in-Chief of Italian Army, Napoleon Grand Cross
Irving Mathews RW5 Img American speciality retail executive, Frost Bros., chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Knight
Ignacy Matuszeski RWC Img Polish minister of Finance 1929-31, (half-Jewish) Grand Officer
Consant Mayer French-born American painter, Knight
Rene Mayer RWF HW Img prime minister of France 1953 Minister of Finance 1947-48, Justice 1949-51, Defense 1948, Commander
Leon Meiss 1953 Officer
Albert Memmi RWF HW Img Tunisian-born French novelist, sociologist, Knight
Marie-Claire Mendes France Img French journalist, Officer
Suzy Menkes RW5 Img British-born American fashion reporter, (Jewish father, convert to Judaism)
Baron Yehudi Menuhin RWF HW Img American-British violinist, conductor, educator Grand Officer
Theodor Meron Img Polish-born president of International Criminal Tribunal for the Yugoslavia, Officer
Joel Mergui Img Moroccan-born French physician, Knight
Andre Meyer RW5 Img French-born American investment banker,  
Jean Meyer Officer
Karl Meyer RW5 Img German-born American biochemist,
Giacomo Meyerbeer RWF HW Img German opera composer, Commander
Adam Michnik RWF Img Solidarity in Poland founder of Gazeta Wyborcza, Knight
Darius Milhaud RWF HW Img French American composer, conductor,
Alexandre Millerand RWC Img French politician, Prime Minister 1920, President 1020-24, (Jewish mother) Grand Cross
Oscar Milosz Img Belarusian-born Lithuanian French poet, playwright, (Jewish mother) Knight
Nathan Milstein RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born American violinist, 1968 Officer
Alain Minc Img French businessman, political advicer, author,
Paul Misraki RWF HW Img Turkish-born French composer, Knight
Patrick Modiano RWF HW Img French writer, (Jewish father), Nobel Prize (2014) , Officer
Henri Moissan RWF HW Img French chemist, Nobel Prize (1906), artificle diamond, (Jewish mother), Commander
Sir John Monash RWC Img Australian military, lieutenant general,  Grand Officer
Sir Robert Mond RW5 Img British chemist, archaeologist, Commander
Jennifer Montagu RW5 Img British art historian, Knight
Pierre Monteux RWF Img French composer, conductor, Knight
Roland Moreno RWF Img Egyptian-born French inventor, engineer, humorist, author, 2009 Officer
Edgar Morin HW Img French philosopher, sociologist, author, Commander
Edgardo Morpurgo Img Italian president of Generali, Grand Cross
Nelson Morris Img American founder of Nelson Morris & Co., Grand Cross
Edith Moscovic Img[2] French holocaust surviver, activist, 2009 Knight
Serge Moscovici RWF Img Romanian-born French psychologist, Officer
Francoise Mouly RWC Img French-born American publisher of Row Books & Graphics, (convert to Judaism) 2011 Knight
Anatol Muhlstein Img Polish diplomat, busonessman, journalist, Commander
Yosef Nachmias RWC Img Israeli general inspector of police, Orden
Gerard Nahon French historian, Knight
Jean-Charles Naouri Img Algerian-born French founder/chairman of Casino Group, 2013 Grand Officer
Laurent Naouri RWF Img French opera singer, bass-baritone, Knight
Uzi Narkiss RWC Img Israeli military, major general, Knight
Joseph Navon Img Israeli businessman, Jaffa-Jerusalem railway,
Count Karl Nesselrode RWC RWC Portugese-born Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1814-56, (Jewish mother) Field Marshall Grand Cross
Walter Newman American philanthropist,   Knight
Oscar Niemeyer RWF HW Img Brazilian architect, Commander
Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer RWC Img Polish Minister of Public Works 1930-32, major-general, Officer
George Oakes American journalist, politician,
Julius Ochs Adler RWC Img publisher, journalist 1935-55 The New York Times Knight
Jacques Offenbach RWF HW Img German-born French composer, cellist, Oredn
Maurice Ohana RWC Img Moroccan-born French composer,    Knight
Francois Olivennes Img French obsterican, gunaecologist, Knight
Robert Oppenheimer RWF HW Img American physicist, administrator, atomic bomb, Officer
Julius Oppert RWF HW Img German-born French orientalist, assyriologist, Officer
Chana Orloff RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born Israeli figurative sculptor, 1925 Knight
Yuri Osipyan RWF Img Russian physicist, (Jewish mother) Orden
Micheline Ostermeyer HW Img French athlete, consert pianist, Knight
Gerard Oury RWC HW Img French actor, screenwriter, producer, director, Commander
Amos Oz RWF HW Img Israeli writer, journalist, intellectual, Knight
Gaston Palewski RWC Img Minister for Research and Technology 1957-62  under Pompidu Grand Cross
Jean-Paul Palewski Img French Deputy in the National Assembly, 1958 Commander
Issakiy Pastak RWC Ukrainian-born Russian French chemist, karaite, Orden
Colin Powell RWC Img Secretary of Defense 2001-05, (Jewish paternal descent) Orden
Avi Pazner RWC HW Img Polish-born Israeli ambassador to France 1995-98, Italy 1998 Commander
Leonid Pechatnikov RWC Img Russian politician, deputy Mayor of Moskva 2012-18, Orden
Ernest Peixotto RWB Img American artist, illustrator, author, Knight
Franz Perhorovich RWC Img Belrusian-born Soviet military commander, lieutenant general, ??? Commander
Zinovy Peshkov RWC Img Russian-born French ambassador to China, 1943-46 1917 Grand Cross
Alfred Pereire French historian, bibliographer, Knight
Ronald Perelman RW5 Img American businessman,   1992
Shimon Peres RWF HW Img Prime Minister of Israel  1986-88 1995-96, President 2007-14, 2008 Knight
Vlado Perlemuter RWF Img Lithuanian-born French pianist, Grand Officer
Maurice Pertchuk French-born Special Operations Executive, Knight
Jean Pierre-Bloch Img French resistance member, politician, Grand Officer
Harold Pinter RWF HW Img British American playwright, theater director, actor, Nobel Prize (2005) 2007 Orden
Samuel Pisar Img Polish-born American author, lawyer,  Grand Officer
Maya Plisetskaya RWF HW Img Russian/Soviet prima balerina, Bolshoi theater, Knight
Stanley Plotkin RW5 Img American physician, vaccinologist,
Michael Polak HW Img Belarusian-born Israeli industrialist, Knight
Leon Poliakov RWF HW Img Russian-born French historian of anti-semitism. Knight
Moriz Pollack von Borkenau Austrian financier, 1878 Grand Cross
Georges de Porto-Riche RWF Img French dramatist, novelist, Grand Officer
Patrick Pouyanne RWC Img French busnessman, president, CEO of Total, Orden
Richard Prasquier RW5 Img Polish-born French cardiologist,   2001 Knight
Moshe Prywes RW5 HW Img Polish-born Israeli physician,   
Boris Pregel RWF Img Ukrainian-born entrepreneur, metzenat, engineer, physicist,
Mikhail Prokhorov RWF Img Russian busnessman, Polyus Gold, (Jewish maternal grandmother) Orden
Piero Priests Italian businessman, 1954 Knight
Isidor Rabi RWF HW Img Polish-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1944), nuclear magnetic resonance, Officer
Lazare Rachline Img Russian-born French industrielist, Officer
Arthur Raffalovich RWC Img Ukrainian-born French financier, economist, Grand Officer
Dame Marie Rambert RW5 Img Polish-born British dancer, dance pedagogue, Knight
Louis Rapkine RW5 Img Belarusian-born French biologist, Knight
Baron Max Rayne Img chairman of National theater 1971-88 1973 Officer
Bernard Redmont Img American journalist, 2011 Officer
Joseph Reinach RWF Img French author, politician, Secretary of Gambetta, MP 1888-89 1886 Knight
Salomon Reinach RWF Img French archaeologist, 1903 Officer
Theodore Reinach RWC Img French archaeologist, mathematician, lawyer, politician, historian, Knight
Kazimierz Reychman Polish diplomat,    Knight
Leon Rheims RWC French military, brigadier general, Officer
Maurice Rheims RW5 Img French novelist, art historian, Grand Cross
Claude Roger-Marx RWB HW Img French writer, playwright, art critic/historian, 1956 Commander
Felix Rohatyn RWB Img Austrian-born American investment banker, Commander
Leone Romanin Jacur Img Italian politician, senator 1920- Officer
Jacqueline de Romilly RWF Img French philologist, scholar, writer, 2007 Grand Cross
Maurice Rose RWC Img American Commander of 3rd Armored Division, major general, Knight
David Rosenblum RWC Belarusian-born Soviet physician, 1944 Orden
Robert Rosenblum RWB Img American art historian, curator, Knight
Michel Rosenfeld Img American legal scholar,   2004 Knight
Meir Rosenne RWC HW Img Romanian-born Israeli ambassador to United States 1983-87,  France 1979-83, Commander
Manuel Rosenthal RW5 HW Img French composer, conductor, 1991 Commander
Leonid Roshal RWF Img Soviet/Russian engineer, designer, Orden
Walt Whitman Rostow RWF HW Img American economist, political theorist,
Mstislav Rostropovich RWF HW Img Azebarjani-born Soviet American cellist, conductor, (Jewish mother) Grand Officer ExLink1 ExLink2
Adam Rotfeld RWC Img Polish/Ukrainian-born Foreign Minister of Poland 2003-05, 2011 Officer
Leon Roth RWE HW British-born Israeli philosopher, translator,
Alain de Rothschild Img Frenchbanker, philanthropist, Officer
Alfred Charles de Rothschild Img British businessman,   Knight
Baron Alphonse James de Rothschild RWF Img French banker, Grand Cross
Germaine de Rothschild French philanthropist, Knight
James Mayer de Rothschild RWF HW Img German-born French banker, Grand Officer
Baroness Marie-Helene de Rothschild Img French sociality, (Jewish paternal grandmother)
Baroness Nadine de Rothschild RWC Img French film actress, author, (convert to Judaism) Knight
Baroness Philippine de Rothschild HW Img French-born wine grower, daughter of Baron Philippe de Rothchild (Jewish father) 2007 Officer
Henri Rottembourg RWC Img French military, major general, Grand Cross
Joseph Roubache Img French lawyer, Officer
Joseph Rovan Img German-born French philosopher, politician,   
Isidor Rubin HW Img German-born American gynecologist, Officer
Arthur Rubinstein RWF HW Img Polish-born American pianist, composer, Grand Officer
Ida Rubinstein RWC HW Img Ukrainian-born French dancer, actress, 1939 Grand Cross
Jack Rudin RW5 Img American chairman of Rudin Management Company, Knight
Eldar Ryazanov RWF HW Img Russian film director, screenwriter, actor, poet, (Jewish mother) Knight
Piero Sacerdoti Img Italian legal scholar, businessman, Knight
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch RWF Img Polish/Ukrainian-born Austrian writer, journalist, (Jewish mother) Orden
Camille Saint-Saens RWF HW Img French composer, organist, conductor, pianist, (Jewish mother ???) Grand Cross ExLink
Jonas Salk RWF HW Img American physician, medical researcher, dead virus vaccine for polio,
Nicolas Sarkozy RWF Img President of France 2007- , (Jewish maternal grandfather),  Grand Cross
Alexei Sapsai RWC Russian military commander, vice admiral, Orden
Sir Philip Sassoon RWC Img British politician, collector, social host, MP 1912-39 Knight
Andre Shiffrin French-born American author, publisher, socialist, Knight
Michelle Schatzmann RWC Img French mathematician, Knight
Dominique Schnapper RWF Img French sociologist, Knight
Isaac Schneersohn Img Ukrainian-born French rabbi, industrialist, 1958 Knight
Maurice Schumann RWF Img French politician, Foreign Minister 1969-73  (Jewish father) Orden
Leon Schwab French politician, mayor of Epinal, Commander
Bertrand Schwartz Img French educator, pedagogue, 2013 Grand Cross
Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg RWC Img French politician, MP, Minister 1983-86 2000-02, Orden
Jozsef Schweitzer Img Hungarian scientist, rabbi,
Georges Schwob d'Hericourt French businessman, 1908 Officer
Leonid Sedov RWF Img Russian Soviet physicist, mathematician, (Jewish mother) Commander
Leopold See RWC French military, lieutenant general, Grand Officer
Albert Seedman RW5 Img American police officer/detective, actor, Knight
Elkhanan Sela RWC Img German-born Israeli brigadier general, Knight
Michael Sela RWF HW Img Polish-born Israeli immunologist, Officer
Germain Seligman Img American art dealer/collector, art historian,
Herbert Spencer Seligman RWC Img British military, general, Commander
Gustave Seligmann-Louis RWC French civil servant, Officer
Shelomo Selinger RW5 HW Img Polish-born French sculptor,   Officer
Monique Serf RWC Img French singer, actress, Orden Barbara
Fabienne Servan-Schreiber HW Img French film/television producer, (Jewish paternal descent) Knight
Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber RWB Img French politician, newspaper editor, Commander
Joann Sfar RWC Img French cartoonist, film director, actor, screenwriter, 2016 Knight
Joshua Shani RWC HW Img Israeli military, general, Commander
Avner Shalev RWC Img Israeli military, chairman of Yad Vashem, Knight
Daniel Shek RWC HW Img Israeli ambassador to France 2006-10,  Monaco, Orden
Eliezer Shkedi RWF Img Israeli 15th Air Force Commander, 2004-08, CEO of El Al, Knight
Mikhail Shvydkoy RWF Img Kyrgisian-born Soviet/Russian theater critic, minister of Culture 2000-04, 2011 Knight
Robert Silvers RWF Img American publisher, editor, The New York Review of Books, Knight
Baron Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy RWF HW Img French libnguist, orientalist, Grand Officer
Shimon Sirkin RWC Img Ukrainian-born Israeli military, Orden
Joseph Sitruk RWC Img Tunisian-born Chief Rabbi of France 2007 Commander
Piotr Slonimski RWF Img Polish French geneticist, administrator, Orden
Nahum Slouschz RWF Img Russian-born Israeli writer, translator, archaeologist, 1955
Aleksander Smolar Img Polish journalist,
George Somlyo Hungariao poet, writer, essayist, translator,
Rick Sopher Img British financier, 2007 Knight
Guy Sorman RW5 Img French journalist, economist, philosopher, author,
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa RWC Img President of Portugal 2016- (Jewish maternal descent) Grand Cross
Abram Spanel Img Ukrainian-born American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, Commander
Sir Stephen Spender HW Img British poet, novelist, essayist, (Jewish maternal grandmother, Jewish father) 1962 Commander
Steven Spielberg RWF HW Img American film director, producer, movies mogul, 2008 Officer
Vladimir Spivakov RWF Img Russian violinist, conductor, 2000 Officer
Ady Steg Czech-born French  Grand Officer
Baron Adolphe de Stein Grand Officer
George Steiner RWF HW Img French-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, educator, 1984 Knight
Ernesta Stern Img Italian-born French author, 1920 Knight
Jacques Stern RW5 Img French cryptographer, Officer
Louis Stern Img Moroccan-born American French art dealer, 2007 Knight
Bernard Stirn Officer
Olivier Stirn RWC Img French politician, MP , Minister of Tourism, 1993 Knight
Lionel Stoleru RWC Img minister of Planning 1988-91 of Labor 1976-81 Commander
Benjamin Stora RWC Img Algerian-born French historian,    Knight
Johann Strauss II RWF HW Img Austrian composer, "The waltz king" (Jewish paternal great-grandfather) Orden
Oscar Straus RWF Img Austrian composer of operettas, conductor, 1939 Knight
Barbara Streisand RWF HW Img American singer, film/television actress, composer, director, producer, Officer
Bruce Sundlun RWC Img American governor of Rhode Island 1991-95, Knight
Theodor Szanto RWF Img Austrian-born Hungarian pianist, composer,
Henryk Szeryng RWF HW Img Polish-born Mexican violinist, Knight
Baron Joseph Szterenyi RWC Img Hungarian politician, Minister of Commerce and Industry 1918-19,
Boris Taslitzky Img French painter, Knight
Sidney Taurel Moroccan-born American chairman of Eli Lilly and Company, Officer
Dimitri Tiomkin RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born American film composer, conductor, songwriter, Officer
Orly Terquem RW5 HW Img French mathematician, publicist, 1852 Officer
Pavel Tigrid RWC Img Czech-born publicist, publisher, author, Minister of Culture 1994-96 1992
Jean Todt Img French CEO of Ferrari Knight
Ralph Toledano Img Moroccon-born French businessman, 2003 Knight
Sidney Toledano Img Moroccan-born French CEO/president of Christian Dior, 2005 Knight
Dan Tolkovsky RWC HW Img Israeli 5th Air Force Commander, 1953-58, Commander
Marian Turski Img Lithuanian-born Polish historian, journalist, 2012 Officer
Georges Tzipine RWF Img French violinist, conductor, composer, Knight
Lyudmila Ulitskaya RWF Img Russian novelist, short-story author, Officer
Benjamin Ulmann RWB Img French painter, Knight
Jules Valabregue RWC Img French military, lieutenant general, Grand Officer
Miklos Vasarhelyi Img Hungaian journalist,
Sylvie Vartan RWF Img Bulgarian-born French singer, actress, (Jewish mother) 2009 Officer
Francis Veber RWC HW Img French film director, screenwriter, producer, playwright, (Jewish father) 2008 Officer
Dame Simone Veil RWF Img Social Affairs and Health Minister 1974-79  President of European Parlament 1979-82 Grand Officer
Alexei Venediktov RWF Img Russian journalist, television presenter, president of Ekho TV, (Jewish mother) Knight
Jean-Baptiste Ventura RWC Img Italian general, 1843 Grand Officer
Paul-Emile Victor Img Swiss-born French ethnologist, explorer, Grand Cross
Claude Vigee HW Img French-born Israeli poet, translator, essayist, Officer
Francois Villiers RW5 Img French film director, Knight
Eugene Vinaver RWF Img Russian-born British literary scholar, Knight
M. Vormess French military, (captain)
Mark Wainberg RWF Img Canadian AIDS researcher, Knight
Selman Waksman RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1952), streptomycin, Orden
Rose Warfman Img Swiss-born French resistance member,   Officer
Frida Wattenberg French resistance member, Knight
Ben Weider RW5 HW Img Canadian-born co-founder of International Frderation of Bodybuilders, 2000
Lazare Weiller RWF Img French industrialist, inventor, politician,    1883 Knight
George Wein RW5 Img American jazz promoter, jazz producer,
Michael Weinberg RWC Img Ukrainian-born French biologist, 1932 Officer
Rolf Weinberg Img German-born British officer, Knight
Serge Weinberg Img French businessman, 2007 Officer
Sheldon Weinig Img materials engineering, ??? Material Research Corporation, 1988 Knight
Jack Weinstein RWC Img American military commander, lieutenant general, air force, Knight
Harvey Weinstein RWF Img American producer, executive, Orden
Baron Arnold Weinstock RWC Img chairman of GEC Officer GEC
Louise Weiss RWF Img French politician, journalist, author, 1976 Grand Officer
David Weisstub Img Canadian biomedical ethisist, Knight
Baron Daniel de Weisweiller Img German-born banker        Officer
Richard Weisberg Img American legal scholar, ???
Maxime Weygound RWC Img French military, army general, (Jewish biological father) ??? Grand Officer Grand Cross
Geordes-Fernand Widal RWC Img French physician, bacteriologist, Grand Officer
Elie Wiesel RWF HW Img Romanian-born American writer, Nobel Prize (1986) for Peace,
Simon Wiesenthal RWF Img Ukrainian-born American Nazi-hunter, Knight
Annette Wieviorka HW Img French historian, Officer
Sylvie Wieviorka Img French psychiatrist, Knight
Count Sergei Witte RWF Img Georgian-born 1st Prime Minister of Imperial Russia (Jewish discent) Grand Cross
Rikard Wolff RW5 Img Swedish stage/film actor, singer, (Jewish descent)
Georges Wolinski RWF HW Img Tunisian-born French cartoonist, comics writer, Knight
Elie Wollman RW5 Img French bacterial geneticist, Knight
Louis Wolowski Img Polish-born French economist, diplomat, politician, 1851 Officer
Rene Worms RWF Img French social scientist,   1905 Knight
George Wormser French politician, banker, historian, Officer
Yona Yahav RWC HW Img Israeli mayor of Haifa, 2003-
Alexander Yevreinov RWC Russian military commander, lieutenant general, Commander
Valentin Yudashkin RWF Img Russian fashion designer, Knight
Haim Zafrani RWC Img Moroccan scholar, writer, Officer
Ludwig Zamenhof RWF HW Img Polish ophthamologist, linguist, inventor of Esperanto, 
Felix Zandman RWF HW Img Belarusian-born founder of Vishey Intertechnology, Inc 1962
Regine Zylberberg RWF Img Belgian-born French actress, inventor of discotheque, nightclub impresario, Officer
Leon Zitrone RW5 Img Russian-born French journalist, television presenter, Knight
Elmo Zumwalt, Jr RWF Img American military, Admiral, (Jewish mother) Commander
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Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
H.G. Adler Img Czech-born German poet, novelist, Holocaust survivor, 1985 Cross of the Order of Merit
Jakob Altaras RWB Img Croatian-born German physician, Order of Merit
Thea Altaras RWB Img Croatian-born German architect,
Uriel Aran RWC Israeli ambassador to Austria 1990-93, Grand Crosses
Rose Auslander RWF HW Img Moldovan-born German American writer, poet, Commanders Crosses
Konstantin Azadovsky RWF Img Soviet/Russian literary scholar, 2011 Officers Crosses
Leo Baeck RWF HW Img 20th century Reform rabbi Knight Commanders
Egon Bahr RWF Img German politician, minister 1972-90, (Jewish grandmother) Grand Crosses with Star and Sash
Daniel Barenboim RWF HW Img Argentine-born Israeli pianist, conductor, Commanders Crosses Officers Crosses
Jurek Becker RWF Img Polish-born German writer, Officers Crosses
Maria Becker Img German Swiss film/stage actress, (Jewish mother) Officers Crosses
Esther Bejarano Img German concentraion camps survivor, Officers Crosses
Shalom Ben-Chorin RWF Img German-born 1983 Commanders Crosses
Menachem Ben-Sasson RWF HW Img Israeli politician, historian, administrator, Commanders Crosses
Ernst Benda RWC Img German politician, legal scholar, Minister of Interior 1968-69, (Jewish paternal grandfather) Grand Crosses Officers Crosses
Iris Berben RWF HW Img German film actress,  Officers Crosses
Ludwig Berger RW5 Img German film director,  screenwriter, cinematographer, Knight Commanders
Herman Berlinski RW5 Img German-born American composer, choir conductor, musicologist, Commanders Crosses
Gottfried Bermann Img German publisher, Commanders Crosses
Leonard Bernstein RWF HW Img American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, pianist, Commanders Crosses
Wolf Biermann RWF HW Img German singer/songwriter, (Jewish father) Commanders Crosses
Leo Blech RWF HW Img German opera composer, conductor, Commanders Crosses
Michael Blumenthal RWF Img German-born American Secretary of Treasury 1977-79 Carter Knight Commanders Officers Crosses
Curt Bois Img German-born American actor,  Commanders Crosses
Moritz Julius Bonn Img German economist, Grand Crosses with Star and Sash
Max Born RWF HW Img German-born British physicist, Nobel prize (1954) Grand Crosses with Star and Sash
Arbit Blatas RW5 Img Lithuanian-born painter, scanic designer, 2008 Commanders Crosses
Norbert Brainin RWF Img Austrian-born British violinist, Commanders Crosses
Artur Brauner RW5 Img Polish-born German film producer, entrepreneur,   Officers Crosses
Ignatz Bubis HW Img president of Central Council of Jews 1992-99 Commanders Crosses
Josef Burg RWF Img Ukrainian-born Yiddish writer, author, publisher, journalist, Commanders Crosses
Arthur Burns RWF Img Ukrainian-born American economist, Chairman of Federal Reserve 1970-78 Grand Crosses with Star and Sash
Elias Canetti RWF HW Img Bulgarian-born British Austrian author, Nobel prize (1981) in literature, Commanders Crosses
Ruth Cohn Img German-born American psychotherapist, educator, poet, 1992 Commanders Crosses
Richard Courant RWF Img Polish-born German American mathematcian, Officers Crosses
Peter Demetz Czech-born American literary scholar, translator, Grand Crosses
Friedrich Dessauer RW5 Img German physicist, philosopher, journalist,  Grand Crosses with Star and Sash
Carl Djerassi RWF Img Austrian-born American organic chemist, oral contraceptive, novelist, playwright, Commanders Crosses
Hilde Domin RW5 Img German poet, writer, Commanders Crosses
George Dreyfus RW5 Img German-born Australian composer, Officers Crosses
Ida Ehre RWB Img Czech-born German actress, theater director, Commanders Crosses
Ernst Ehrlich Img German-born Swiss religious philosopher,    Officers Crosses
Stuart Eizenstat RWC Img American ambassador to European Union 1993-96 Knight Commanders Officers Crosses
Norbert Elias RWF HW Img Polish/German-born British sociologist, Knight Commanders
Hans Feibusch RWB Img German-born British  painter, sculptor, Commanders Crosses
Giora Feidman RWF HW Img Argentine-born clarinetist, Commanders Crosses
Wilhelm Feldberg RW5 Img German-born British physiologist, biologist,  Commanders Crosses
Benjamin Ferencz Img Romanian-born American lawyer, Knight Commanders
Noah Flug Img Polish-born Israeli economist, diplomat, human rights activist, Grand Crosses
Andor Foldes RWF Img Hungarian-born American  pianist, Commanders Crosses
Viktor Frankl RWF HW Img Austrian neurologist, psychoanalyst, logotherapy, Knight Commanders
Ferenc Fricsay RW5