List of 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.
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[edit] Officers
- Alexandre Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski, illegitimate son of Napoleon I
- HRH Prince Aage of Denmark
- Dimitri Amilakhvari
- Paul Arnaud de Foïard
- Crown Prince Bảo Long (Chữ nôm 保隆) of Vietnam - head of the Nguyễn Dynasty, the now deposed Emperors of Vietnam
- François Achille Bazaine - Marshal of France
- Prince Louis Napoléon - Prince Imperial
- François Certain Canrobert - Marshal of France
- Jean Danjou
- Jules Gaucher - commander 13 DBLE, killed at Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
- John F. "Jack" Hasey
- Pierre Koenig
- Pierre Jeanpierre
- 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
- Aarne Juutilainen
- Rémy Raffalli
- HRH Peter I of Serbia
- Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud - Marshal of France
- Hélie de Saint Marc - former resistant deported to Buchenwald, participated in the Algiers putsch.
- Gabriel Brunet de Sairigné - Colonel dead on duty in 1948, Compagnon de la Libération
[edit] Enlisted
- Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian Prime minister
- Giuseppe Bottai Italian minister
- Eugene Bullard
- Blaise Cendrars
- Max Deutsch, Austrian composer
- François Faber
- Siegfried Freytag, German figher ace
- Ante Gotovina
- Hans Hartung
- Ernst Jünger
- Norman Kerry
- Arthur Koestler
- Raoul Lufbery
- Simon Murray
- Peter Julien Ortiz (American, later condecorated USMC officer and OSS operative in Occupied France during WWII)
- Cole Porter[1]
- Akihiko Saito
- Alan Seeger
- Milorad Ulemek
- William A. Wellman, American film director
- Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg
[edit] Others
- Geneviève de Galard - nurse at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, honorary Légionnaire de 1ère classe.
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. Honorary Caporal (Corporal)
- Susan Travers