Order of the Nile

Order of the Nile
The Order of the Nile (Kiladat El Nil) was established in 1915 and was one of the Kingdom of Egypt's principal orders until the monarchy was abolished in 1953. It was then reconstituted as the Republic of Egypt's highest state honor.
Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt
The Order was established in 1915 by Sultan Hussein Kamel of Egypt for award to persons who had rendered useful service to the country. It ranked beneath the Order of Ismail and was frequently awarded to British officers and officials serving in Egypt, as well as distinguished Egyptian citizens.The order comprised five classes:
Grand Cordon: Badge worn from a sash over the right shoulder, with a star on the left chest.
Grand Officer: Badge worn around the neck, with a smaller star on the left chest.
Commander: Badge worn around the neck.
Officer: Badge worn on the left chest from a ribbon bearing a rosette.
Knight: Badge worn on the left chest from a plain ribbon.
Republic of Egypt
After Egypt became a republic in 1953 the Order of the Nile was reconstituted to serve as Egypt's highest state honor. It now consists of:
Collar: worn by the President of the Republic and may be granted to other Heads of State.
Grand Cordon: awarded for exceptional services to the nation. Regarding this class, the badge of the order is worn from a sash and the star of the order worn on the left chest.
Although the five class structure of the original 1915 order was mentioned when the order was restructured in 1953, the four more junior grades (i.e. Grand Officer, Commander, Officer and Knight) are no longer awarded.
Some appointees to the order
Sultanate and Kingdom of Egypt (1915–1953)
Brigadier Peter Acland (4th class), 1936
Sir Pratap Singh of Idar (Grand Cordon), 1918
Judge Sir Maurice Amos (Grand Cordon)
Maharaja Jagatjit Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala (Grand Cordon), 1924
Major Henry Beaumont (4th Class), 1916
Rear Admiral Richard Bevan (4th Class), 1919
Field Marshall Lord Birdwood
Lieutenant General Louis Bols
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Borton VC, DSO (3rd Class)
Howard Carter, British archaeologist and Egyptologist (3rd Class), 1926
Jovan Dučić
Major Aubrey Faulkner
Major General Harold Franklyn, Commandant Sudan Defence Force, 1939
Major Harry Gardner (4th Class), 1922
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Kearsey (3rd Class)
Harold Knox-Shaw, British astronomer
Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale, 1920
Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, obstetrician and gynecologist, 1919
Lieutenant Colonel Cecil L'Estrange Malone
Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (fourth class), 1922
Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, 1915
General Sir William Peyton (2nd Class), 1916
General Hussein Refki Pasha (Grand Cordon)
Admiral Francis Mitchell (Royal Navy officer)
Rear Admiral Eric Gascoigne Robinson
Captain George Francis Scott Elliot
Dr. Hassan Omar Shaheen - Professor of ENT Kasr El-Aini Hospital, Cairo. Circa 1920
Major-General Sir Charlton Watson Spinks, last Sirdar of Egypt (Grand Cordon), 1931
Dr. Oskar Stross, Austrian Consul General
Mervyn Whitfield, Political Branch, Public Security, Alexandria, 1917
General Sir Reginald Wingate, 1915
Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha (Grand Cordon)
Oswald Longstaff Prowde, English civil engineer
Republic of Egypt (from 1953)
King Hussein of Jordan (1955)
Marshal Josip Broz Tito, President of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (1956)
Prof. Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister and ad-interim Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Italy (1959)
President Jimmy Carter, President of the United States (1979)
Emperor Akihito of Japan
Emperor Amha Selassie of Ethiopia
Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohra (1978)
King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand
Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Queen Elizabeth II, November 1975
Birendra Bir Bikram shah Dev, King of Nepal, 1974
Hassaballah El Kafrawy, Egyptian former Minister of Development, Reconstruction, Housing, New Communities, Public Utilities and Land Reclamation
Pengiran Anak Haji Mohamed Yusof, prince consort and cheteria of Brunei, 1984
King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, 1989
Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut
Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Lebanese Phalange
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, 2016
King Idris of Libya (Grand Cordon)
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Turkish academic, diplomat and former Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
Émile Lahoud, President of Lebanon, 2000
Makarios III, former President of Cyprus
Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa
Adly Mansour, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court and acting President of Egypt following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat
King Mohammed VI of Morocco
Muhammad Naguib, First President of Egypt
Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
Antonín Novotný, President of Czechoslovakia
Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said of Oman, 1976
Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh
Heinrich Rau, East German politician (Grand Cordon), 1961
King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, 1954
King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
William E. Simon, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Suharto, President of Indonesia
Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, former Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt, August 2012
Marshal Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia, (Grand Cordon with Collar), December 1955
Walter Ulbricht, President of East Germany, 1965
George Vasiliou, former President of Cyprus
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Professor Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American scientist
Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President of Greece, 2020
Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of South Sudan, 2020
Haitham bin Tariq, Sultan of Oman, 2023
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, 2023
Mufaddal Saifuddin, 53rd Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras, 2023
See also
Orders, decorations, and medals of Egypt
References
External links
Nile, Order of the
Nile, Order of the
Awards established in 1915
1915 establishments in Egypt