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

 * 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)