List of Foreign Legionnaires
The Croix de guerres of officers, NCO's and legionnaires in the Foreign Legion Notable people who served in the Foreign Legion . The following is a list of legionnaires who have gained fame or notoriety inside or outside of the legion.
Alexandre Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski , non-marital son of Napoleon I Prince Aage of Denmark Dimitri Amilakvari - Georgian noble, became an iconic figure of the Free French Forces .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 FrancePrince Louis Napoléon - Prince Imperial Dominique Borella - French mercenary and anti-CommunistAugustus Buchel François Certain Canrobert - Marshal of FranceJean Danjou - Commander at the Battle of Camarón Jules Gaucher - commander 13 DBLE , killed at Battle of Dien Bien Phu .Georges Hamacek John F. "Jack" Hasey Pierre Jeanpierre Aarne Juutilainen Pierre Koenig André Lalande Jean-Marie Le Pen Prince Louis II of Monaco Patrice MacMahon - Marshal of FranceRaoul Magrin-Vernerey Pierre Messmer Peter Ortiz , (Acting Lieutenant)Henri, comte de Paris Zinovy Peshkov Rémy Raffalli Peter I of Serbia King of Serbia and SHSJacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud - Marshal of FranceHélie 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 LibérationPierre Segrétain Sisowath Monivong , 1908-9, then prince, later King of Cambodia Josef Šnejdárek - French legionnaire, officer and later Czechoslovakian generalSusan Travers James Waddell - New Zealander in the French Foreign LegionLéon Ashkenazi , also known as Manitou , Jewish philosopherArthur Bluethenthal , All American football player and decorated World War I pilotGiuseppe Bottai , Italian ministerEugene Bullard , First African-American military pilotBlaise Cendrars , Swiss novelist and poetMax Deutsch , Austrian composerFrançois Faber , Luxembourgian cyclist and Tour de France winnerSiegfried Freytag , German fighter aceJean Genet , French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activistAnte Gotovina , former lieutenant general of the Croatian ArmyHans Hartung , German-French painterErwin James (Monahan) , British journalist and murdererErnst Jünger , German writerAarne Juutilainen , Finnish army captainNorman Kerry , U.S. actorMoise Kisling , Polish painterBilly Meier , Swiss ufologist, photographerArthur Koestler , Jewish-Hungarian polymath authorRaoul Lufbery , French-American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War IRodion Malinovsky , Soviet Marshal and Defence Minister.Simon Murray , British businessman, adventurer, author and the oldest man to reach the South Pole unsupportedPeter Julien Ortiz , American, later decorated USMC officer and OSS operative in Occupied France during WWII (Also served in the Legion as an acting Lieutenant)Radomir Pavitchevitch Cole Porter ,[ 1] Alex Rowe , serving British nationalAkihiko Saito , Japanese hostage in Iraq who later died in captivityPal Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa, advertiser, father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy
Alan Seeger , American poetRolf Steiner , Professional Soldier of Fortune in Biafra and Southern SudanMilorad Ulemek , Serbian former militantOswald Watt , Australian aviatorWilliam A. Wellman , American film directorMamady Doumbouya , Guinean Colonel
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Notes
^ While controversy exists regarding his enlistment, the Foreign Legion backs his claim to have served, and a portrait of Porter hangs in the Foreign Legion’s museum at Aubagne , France.
