# List of Foreign Legionnaires

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.

## Officers

* 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 France
* Prince Louis Napoléon - Prince Imperial
* Dominique Borella- French mercenary and anti-Communist
* Augustus Buchel
* François Certain Canrobert - Marshal of France
* Jean 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 France
* Raoul Magrin-Vernerey
* Pierre Messmer
* Peter Ortiz, (Acting Lieutenant)
* Henri, comte de Paris
* Zinovy Peshkov
* Rémy Raffalli
* Peter I of Serbia King of Serbia and SHS
* 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
* Pierre Segrétain
* Sisowath Monivong, 1908-9, then prince, later King of Cambodia
* Josef Šnejdárek- French legionnaire, officer and later Czechoslovakian general
* Susan Travers
* James Waddell - New Zealander in the French Foreign Legion

## Enlisted

* Avraham Golan, Jewish businessman
* Léon Ashkenazi, also known as Manitou, Jewish philosopher
* Arthur Bluethenthal, All-American football player and decorated World War I pilot
* Giuseppe Bottai, Italian minister
* Eugene Bullard, First African-American military pilot
* Blaise Cendrars, Swiss novelist and poet
* Max Deutsch, Austrian composer
* François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist and Tour de France winner
* Siegfried Freytag, German fighter ace
* Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist
* Ante Gotovina, former lieutenant general of the Croatian Army
* Hans Hartung, German-French painter
* Erwin James (Monahan), British journalist and murderer
* Ernst Jünger, German writer
* Aarne Juutilainen, Finnish army captain
* Norman Kerry, U.S. actor
* Moise Kisling, Polish painter
* Billy Meier, Swiss ufologist, photographer
* Arthur Koestler, Jewish-Hungarian polymath author
* Raoul Lufbery, French-American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I
* Rodion Malinovsky, Soviet Marshal and Defence Minister.
* Simon Murray, British businessman, adventurer, author and the oldest man to reach the South Pole unsupported
* Peter 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, American composer and songwriter
* Alex Rowe, serving British national
* Akihiko Saito, Japanese hostage in Iraq who later died in captivity
* Pal Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa, advertiser, father of French President Nicolas Sarkozy
* Alan Seeger, American poet
* Rolf Steiner, Professional Soldier of Fortune in Biafra and Southern Sudan
* Milorad Ulemek, Serbian former militant
* Oswald Watt, Australian aviator
* William A. Wellman, American film director
* Mamady Doumbouya, Guinean Colonel

## Honorary

* Dick Applegate
* Marcel Bigeard
* Christian de Castries
* Geneviève de Galard – nurse at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, honorary Légionnaire de 1ère classe.
* Ante Gotovina - Croatian General
* Pierre Langlais
* Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. Honorary Caporal (Corporal)