List of notable Foreign Legionnaires
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Notable people who served in the French Foreign Legion. The following is a list of legionnaires who have gained public notoriety inside or outside of the legion.
[edit] Officers
- Alexandre Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski, illegitimate son of Napoleon I
- HRH Prince Aage of Denmark
- Dimitri Amilakhvari
- François Achille Bazaine - Marshal of France
- Louis Jerome Victor Emmanuel Leopold Marie Bonaparte - Prince Imperial
- François Certain Canrobert - Marshal of France
- Capitaine Danjou
- Jules Gaucher - commander 13 DBLE, killed at Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
- John F. "Jack" Hasey
- Pierre Koenig
- André Lalande
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
- HSH Prince Louis II of Monaco
- Patrice MacMahon - Marshal of France
- Pierre Messmer
- Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis Philippe d'Orléans, comte de Paris
- Zinovy Peshkov
- HRH Peter I of Serbia
- Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud - Marshal of France
- Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc - former resistant deported to Buchenwald, participated in the Algiers putsch.
- Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné - Colonel dead on duty in 1948, Compagnon de la Libération
[edit] Enlisted
- Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian Prime minister
- Blaise Cendrars
- Max Deutsch, Austrian composer
- François Faber
- Ante Gotovina
- Hans Hartung
- Ernst Jünger
- Arthur Koestler
- Raoul Lufbery
- Milorad Ulemek
- Simon Murray
- Peter Julien Ortiz (American, later condecorated USMC officer and OSS operative in Occupied France during WWII)
- Cole Porter (While controversy exists regarding his enlistment, the Foreign Legion backs his claim to have served, and a portrait of Porter is hung in the Foreign Legion’s museum in Aubagne, France.)
- Akihiko Saito
- Alan Seeger
- William A. Wellman, American film director
[edit] Others
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. Honorary Private
- Susan Travers
- Genevieve de Gallard - nurse at Battle of Dien Bien Phu, honorary Légionnaire de 1ère classe.
