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

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 & reason for the recognition | Award category (date) |
| James Pacillo | | One of the 100 selected D-Day veterans | TBA (6 June 2004) |
| Boris Pahor | | | TBA |
| Louis Alexandre Pajot | | | Knight (22 October 1959) |
| John Painter (supercentenarian) | | | TBA |
| Euzhan Palcy | | style="white-space: nowrap; text-align:left"| TBA |
| Arthur Philippe | TBA |
| Orhan Pamuk | | Turkish writer | TBA |
| Maurice Papon | 1910–2007 | After being convicted for crimes against humanity in 1998-99 for his role during Vichy was dismissed from the order. on | TBA (Awarded:1961 Dismissed: 18 November 1999) |
| Asha Pandey | | | TBA |
| Paul Paray | | | TBA |
| Jacques Parisot | 1882-1967 | social medicine | Grand Cross |
| Jacques Parizeau | | | TBA |
| Robert M. Parker, Jr. | | | TBA |
| Tony Parker | | | TBA |
| Jack Parrot | | D-Day veteran | TBA (2018) |
| Arvo Pärt | 1935 - Present | Estonian composer | Knight (2011) |
| Earle E. Partridge | | | TBA |
| Louis Pasteur | 1822–1895 | French chemist | Grande Croix |
| Harry Patch | 1898–2009 | Last surviving British veteran of the trenches (World War I) | TBA (1995) |
| George S. Patton | | American general | TBA |
| Samuel Paty | 1973-2020 | French middle-school teacher who was murdered on 16/10/2020 and posthumously given the award. | TBA |
| Gen Paul | | | TBA |
| Benjamin Pavard | | World Cup winning footballer | TBA |
| Luciano Pavarotti | | | TBA |
| George Pearce | | | TBA |
| Ernest Peddell | 1899–2000 | Australian Private, 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force; | TBA (1998) |
| Barthélémy Pedinielli | | Belonged to the 3rd Algerian Tirailleurs Regiment. Recognised for his commitment during the Second World War alongside the Free French forces. | Knight |
| Malik Peiris | | Hong Kong doctor/professor | TBA |
| Ernest Peixotto | 1869–1940 | American illustrator and travel writer | TBA |
| Claiborne Pell | | United States Senator | TBA |
| Alphonse Frédéric Pellerin | 1833–1912 | French civil engineer | Knight (25 July 1905) |
| John Lysaght Pennefather | | | TBA |
| Jacques Pépin | 1935 - Present | Chef | Knight |
| Ronald Perelman | 1942 - Present | American businessman | TBA (1992) |
| Jacques Perfettini | | | TBA |
| Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon | | | TBA |
| Lester James Peries | | Prolific Sri Lankan film director and recipient of Srilankabhimanya | TBA |
| František Peřina | | | TBA |
| Eva Perón | 1919–1952 | First Lady of Argentina (1946-1952) and Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina (1952–Present Day). | TBA (1947) |
| Joseph-Xavier Perrault | | | TBA |
| Jean Baptiste Perrin | | | TBA |
| Philippe Perrin | | | TBA |
| John J. Pershing | | | TBA |
| Peter I of Serbia | | | TBA |
| Peter II of Yugoslavia | | | TBA |
| Pedro II of Brazil | | | TBA |
| Zinovy Peshkov | | | TBA |
| Edmund Phelps | | Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society. | TBA |
| Edmund S. Phelps | | | TBA |
| Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux | 1815–1884 | painter | TBA |
| Sir Eric Phipps | 1875–1945 | British ambassador to Berlin (1933–36) and Paris (1936–39). | TBA |
| Frank Pickersgill | | | TBA |
| François-Édouard Picot | | | TBA |
| Abbé Pierre | | | TBA |
| Desmond Piers | | | TBA |
| Wallace Pike | 1899–1999 | Canadian WWI veteran of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. | TBA (1998) |
| Józef Pilsudski | | | TBA |
| Max L. Pilliard | | | TBA |
| Honoré Le Pimpec | | | TBA |
| Harold Pinter | 1930–2008 | British writer and political activist. | TBA (2007) |
| Robert Pires | 1973 - Present | French world cup winning football player | TBA |
| Tadeusz Piskor | | | TBA |
| Pedro José Amadeo Pissis | | French geologist | TBA |
| Michel Platini | | | TBA |
| Georges René Le Peley de Pléville | | | TBA |
| Henri Poincaré | 1854–1912 | | Officer in 1894, then Commander in 1903 |
| Paul Pogba | | | TBA |
| James H. Polk | | | TBA |
| Elena Poniatowska | | | TBA |
| Józef Antoni Poniatowski | | | TBA |
| Lily Pons | | | TBA |
| Lazare Ponticelli | 1897–2008 | Italian-born French veteran of World War I and supercentenarian. | TBA |
| Elvira Popescu | 1894–1993 | Romanian-born French actress. | TBA |
| Paolo Portoghesi | | | TBA |
| Marjorie Merriweather Post | | | TBA |
| Stanisław Kostka Potocki | | | TBA |
| William Didier-Pouget | 1864–1959 | French artist | Officer |
| Colin Powell | | | TBA |
| William C. Powers | 1946–2019 | President of the University of Texas at Austin. | TBA |
| Ignacy Pradzynski | | | TBA |
| Cedric Prakash | | | TBA |
| Alain Prost | | Four-time Formula One champion | TBA |
| Gilbert Pritzel | | | TBA |
| Moshe Prywes | 1914–1998 | Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. | TBA |
| Denys Puech | | | TBA |
| Bill Purple | | World War II Airforce Pilot | Knight (13 September 2013) |
| Radomir Putnik | | | TBA |
| Daniel Pauly | 2017 | Marine biologist | Chevalier de la Légion D’Honneur |