# List of Légion d'honneur recipients by name (S)

The French government gives out the Legion of Honour awards, to both French and foreign nationals, based on a recipient's exemplary services rendered to France, or to the causes supported by France. This award is divided into five distinct categories (in ascending order), i.e. three ranks: Knight, Officer, Commander, and two titles: Grand Officer and Grand Cross. Knight is the most common and is awarded for either at least 20 years of public service or acts of military or civil bravery. The rest of the categories have a quota for the number of years of service in the category below before they can be awarded. The Officer rank requires a minimum of eight years as a Knight, and the Commander, the highest civilian category for a non-French citizen, requires a minimum of five years as an Officer. The Grand Officer and the Grand Cross are awarded only to French citizens, and each requires three years' service in their respective immediately lower rank. The awards are traditionally published and promoted on 14 July.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of recipients of the Legion of Honour awards, since the first ceremony in May 1803. 2,550 individuals can be awarded the insignia every year. The total number of awards is close to 1 million (estimated at 900,000 in 2021, including over 3,000 Grand Cross recipients), with some 92,000 recipients alive today. Only until 2008 was gender parity achieved amongst the yearly list of recipients, with the total number of women recipients since the award's establishment being only 59 at the end of the second French empire and only 26,000 in 2021.

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| Recipient | Dates (birth – death) | General Work, and reason for the recognition | Award Category (Date) |
| Satyajit Ray | 1921 – 1992 | Indian film director, scriptwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. | TBA (1987) |
| Sakip Sabanci | 1933 – 2004 | Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist Recognised for his contributions to the Franco-Turkish relationships in culture and business. | TBA (2001) |
| Pari Saberi | 1932 – present | Iranian drama and theatre director. | TBA (2004) |
| Anthony Sadler | 1992 – present | American author and television personality. Recognised along with Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, stopped a gunman on a Paris-bound train travelling from Amsterdam via Brussels (August 2015). | Knight (24 August 2015) |
| Guy-Marie Sallier | | | TBA |
| Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo | 1942 – present | Argentine Catholic bishop | TBA (2000) |
| Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko | 1768 – 1844 | Polish nobleman, general, military commander, diplomat and politician. | Knight |
| Louis Santi | ? – ~1925 | | Knight Grand Cross |
| Eran Sachs | | | TBA |
| Karine Saporta | | French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film Film director. | Knight |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | 1955 – present | French politician (President of France and 'ex officio' Co-Prince of Andorra) | Knight (February 2005) |
| Jalal Sattari | | Iranian Iranologist, mythologist, writer and translator. Recognised for his dedication to cause of the culture during his 50-year career as cultural activist. | TBA |
| Jérôme Savary | 1942 – 2013 | Argentinian-French theater director and actor | Knight |
| Adolphe Sax | 1814 – 1894 | Belgian inventor and musician. Known for creating the saxophone. | Knight (1849) |
| Levon Sayan | 1934 – present | French–Armenian impresario and producer, as well as an operatic tenor. | Officer |
| Paolo Scaroni | 1946 – present | Italian businessman (A.C. Milan / formerly Italian energy company Eni) | TBA (November 2007) |
| Ary Scheffer | | | TBA |
| Anne Cécile Schmitt | 1917 – 2011. | Recogniosed for her actions in World War II. | TBA |
| Guillaume Schnaebelé | 1831 – 1900 | Awarded 1870/1 for his service in the Franco-Prussian War, he is better known for the Schnaebelé incident | TBA (1877) |
| Dominique Schnapper | | | TBA |
| Eugène Schneider | | | TBA |
| Pierre Schneiter | | | TBA |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | 1947 – present | Austrian-American actor, producer, businessman, retired bodybuilder, and former politician (38th governor of California). Recognised for his strong legacy of environmental achievements. | Knight (2011) Commander (28 April 2017) |
| Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. | 1934 – 2012 | Retired United States Army General who, while he served as Commander-in-Chief (now known as "Combatant Commander") of U.S. Central Command, was commander of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991. | TBA |
| Martin Scorsese | | | TBA |
| Papa Abdoulaye Seck | | | Knight 2013 |
| Herbert Scott R. N. | | Coxswain of an L.C.A delivering 47 Commando to Gold Beach, Normandy (1944). | TBA |
| Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta | | | TBA |
| Marc Seguin | 1786 – 1875 | French inventor and entrepreneur, invented the tubular steam engine and brought suspension bridge to continental Europe | TBA (1836) |
| Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur | | | TBA |
| John F. R. Seitz | | | |
| Monique Sené | | French, nuclear physicist. | |
| Dominique Senequier | | Leading private equity investor. | |
| Edgar Sengier | | | |
| Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou | 1941 – present | Iranian writer and literary figure. | |
| Andrzej Seweryn | | | |
| Shah Rukh Khan | | | |
| Ravi Shankar, India | | | |
| Ali-Akbar Siassi | | Iranian intellectual, psychologist and politician during the 1930s and 1960s, serving as the country's Foreign Minister, Minister of Education, Chancellor of University of Tehran, and Minister of State without portfolio. | |
| Djibril Sidibé | | World Cup winning footballer | |
| Henryk Siemiradzki | | | |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz | | | |
| Władysław Sikorski | | | |
| Rodrigo Augusto da Silva | 1833 – 1889 | Brazilian politician (foreign minister and Senator, 1889), diplomat, lawyer, monarchist and journalist. | Grand Cross |
| Kumar de Silva | | Sri Lanka | |
| Franklin Simon | 1865 – 1934 | Honored for doing more to put American women in French styles. | |
| Paul-Louis Simond | 1858 – 1947 | French biologist who discovered the transmission of the bubonic plague through rat fleas. | |
| Jules Herman Sitrick | | Single-handedly captured 21 German soldiers during World War II. | |
| Roy D. Simmons Jr. | | Recognised for his service during World War II | Knight (August 22, 2010) |
| Alek Skarlatos | | Together with his friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler. | |
| Albert Skorupa | 1919 – present | World War II veteran who served as an engineer. Honored alongside 99 other World War II veterans, as part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of D-Day. | |
| Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki | | | |
| Edward David Smout | | | |
| Jan Smuts | | | |
| Thomas D'Oyly Snow | | | |
| Nelson Socorro, Venezuelan attorney, politician | | | |
| Jacob Söderman | | | |
| Michał Sokolnicki | 1760 – 1816 | Polish general | |
| Prak Sokhonn | | | |
| Omar Soliman, (Omar Mahmoud Soliman) | | Egyptian Spy Chief till 2011 | |
| Jean-François André Sordet | 1852 – 1923 | | |
| Jean-Pierre Sourdin | | Ancien directeur d'un journal français en Australie; 51 ans d'activités professionnelles, associatives et de services militaires. | |
| Prince Mangkra Souvannaphouma | 1938 – present | Lao Prince living in exile in France. | |
| Józef Sowinski | | | |
| Carl Andrew Spaatz | | | |
| Edmund Charles Spencer | | World War I veteran. Awarded the Légion d'honneur on the 80th anniversary of the armistice. | |
| John Strange Spencer-Churchill | | | |
| Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill | | | |
| Steven Spielberg | | American film director/producer. | |
| Alma de Bretteville Spreckels | 1881 – 1926 | American philanthropist who raised large amounts of money for France during World War I. | TBA (1924) |
| Wacław Stachiewicz | | | |
| Milan Rastislav Štefánik | | | |
| Johannes Steinhoff | | | |
| Stepa Stepanović | | | |
| Ninian Stephen | | | |
| Anthony Coningham Sterling | | | |
| John Mills Sterling | | Brig. General, USAF Air Attaché US Embassy in Paris, France (World War II). Honored for certain "classified reasons". | |
| Major A.J.A. Stewart | ? – 2017 | Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Honoured for his part in the Normandy landings Landings. | |
| Joseph Stilwell | | | |
| Yates Stirling Jr. | | American Navy Rear Admiral | |
| Bill Stone | | | |
| Spencer Stone | 1992 – present | Awarded for assisting in the prevention of an Islamic terrorist attack on French soil. | |
| Julius Streicher | | German National Socialist publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer. | 1939 (before the war started). |
| Barbra Streisand | | | |
| Jean Baptiste Alexandre Strolz, baron Strolz | | | |
| Albert Edward Stuart | | Actions on D-Day during liberation of France. | TBA (2016) |
| Doveton Sturdee | | | |
| Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie | | | |
| Evelyne Sullerot | | | |
| Bruce Sundlun | | | |
| Stevan Šupljikac | | | |
| Léopold Survage | | | |
| Nikolai Sverchkov | | | |
| Greggory Swarz | | U.S. Airman. Recognised for pulling three French airmen from the burning wreckage of a Greek F-16 jet (26 January 2015). | |
| Stefan Szlaszewski | | | |