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Honoring American TroopsMedal of Honor Archive

Service

Notable recipients of the Legion of Merit

Exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements.

About this decoration

400 notable recipients

Names link to Wikipedia; ★ MoH marks people who also received the Medal of Honor (links to their profile here).

NameLifeBranchWar
Narendra Modi1950
Shinzō Abe1954–2022
Park Chung-hee1917–1979Manchukuo Imperial ArmyKorean War
Ibn Saud1876–1953Saudi Arabian Armed Forces
Scott Morrison1968
Bernard Montgomery1887–1976British ArmyWorld War I
Grace Hopper1906–1992United States NavyWorld War II
Frank Capra1897–1991United States ArmyWorld War I
Dr. Seuss1904–1991World War II
Hamad II of Bahrain1950
Constantine II of Greece1940–2023Hellenic Armed Forces
Sunita Williams1965United States Navy
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah1929–2020
David Niven1910–1983British ArmyWorld War II
Juliana of the Netherlands1909–2004
Michael I of Romania1921–2017Eastern Front
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma1900–1979Royal NavyWorld War I
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan1961United Arab Emirates Air Force
Omar Bradley1893–1981United States ArmyKorean War
Lloyd J. Austin III1953United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
David Rockefeller1915–2017World War II
Robert McNamara1916–2009World War II
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu1923–2001French ArmyVietnam War
Richard E. Byrd ★ MoH1888–1957United States NavyWorld War I
Jacobo Árbenz1913–1971Guatemalan military
David Petraeus1952United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell1883–1950British ArmyWorld War I
Kirill Meretskov1897–1968Red ArmyWinter War
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.1934–2012United States ArmyGulf War
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis1891–1969British ArmyWorld War I
William Westmoreland1914–2005United States ArmyKorean War
Strom Thurmond1902–2003United States ArmyWorld War II
Nicolae Ciucă1967Romanian Land Forces
Mark W. Clark1896–1984United States ArmyKorean War
Draža Mihailović1893–1946Royal Yugoslav ArmyWorld War I
Beau Biden1969–2015United States ArmyIraq War
Henry H. Arnold1886–1950aviationWorld War I
Scott Kelly1964United States Navy
Aleksei Antonov1896–1962Red ArmyWorld War I
Mark T. Esper1964United States ArmyGulf War
Susan J. Helms1958United States Air Force
Thanom Kittikachorn1911–2004Royal Thai ArmyKorean War
Joseph Kittinger1928–2022United States Air ForceVietnam War
Creighton Abrams1914–1974United States ArmyKorean War
Timothy Kopra1963
Barry E. Wilmore1962United States Navy
Dan Sullivan1964United States Marine Corps ReserveWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Lauri Törni1919–1965Finnish ArmyContinuation War
Mark A. Milley1958United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Steven Lindsey1960United States Air Force
Martin Dempsey1952United States ArmyGulf War
Bertram Home Ramsay1883–1945Royal NavyWorld War I
Claire Lee Chennault1893–1958aviationWorld War I
Herzi Halevi19672006 Lebanon War
Hulusi Akar1952Turkish Land ForcesKosovo War
Ralph Metcalfe1910–1978World War II
Joseph Lawton Collins1896–1987United States ArmyKorean War
Matthew Ridgway1895–1993United States ArmyKorean War
Adolf Heusinger1897–1982Imperial German ArmyWorld War I
Stanley A. McChrystal1954United States ArmyGulf War
Frank L. Culbertson1949United States Navy
Jack Bauer1966–http
H. R. McMaster1962United States ArmyGulf War
Kriangsak Chamanan1917–2003Royal Thai Army
Deborah L. Birx1956United States Army
Alphonse Juin1888–1967infantryWorld War I
Aviv Kochavi19641982 Lebanon War
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.1955United States Marine CorpsWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Lucius D. Clay1897–1978United States ArmyWorld War II
Karol J. Bobko1937–2023United States Air Force
Don Walsh1931–2023United States Navy
Dmitri Shepilov1905–1995World War II
John Shalikashvili1936–2011United States ArmyVietnam War
John Kirby1963United States Navy
Charles Cooper II1967United States NavyGulf War
George W. Casey, Jr.1948United States ArmyIraq War
Mark T. Vande Hei1966
John Abizaid1951United States ArmyGulf War
Peter Pace1945United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Gholam Reza Azhari1912–2001
Vladimir Tributs1900–1977Soviet NavyWorld War I
Walter Krueger1881–1967United States ArmyWorld War I
Chesty Puller1898–1971United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Anthony McAuliffe1898–1975United States ArmyWorld War II
Raymond T. Odierno1954–2021United States ArmyGulf War
Jack Reacher1960Military Police Corps
William H. Simpson1888–1980United States ArmyWorld War I
Filipp Oktyabrsky1899–1969Soviet NavyWorld War II
Valérie André1922–2025French Air ForceWorld War II
Guy Simonds1903–1974Canadian ArmyWorld War II
Ann E. Dunwoody1953United States ArmyGulf War
Sergei Kruglov1907–1977NKVDEastern Front
Ronny Jackson1967United States NavyIraq War
Scott D. Tingle1965United States Navy
Frederick C. Weyand1916–2010United States ArmyKorean War
Kenneth Keating1900–1975United States ArmyWorld War I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.1914–1988navyWorld War II
Robert Michael White1924–2010United States Air ForceKorean War
Georges Vanier1888–1967Canadian ArmyWorld War I
Christopher G. Cavoli1964United States ArmyGulf War
Amikam Norkin1966Israeli Air Force2006 Lebanon War
Christopher T. Donahue1969United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Curtis Scaparrotti1956United States ArmyIraq War
Vernon Sturdee1890–1966Australian and New Zealand Army CorpsWorld War I
William F. Dean ★ MoH1899–1981United States ArmyKorean War
Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz1895–1975Imperial German ArmyWorld War I
Hugh Shelton1942United States ArmyGulf War
Peter Schoomaker1946United States ArmyGulf War
Aleksey Zhadov1901–1977Red ArmyEastern Front
Bernt Balchen1899–1973United States Air ForceWorld War II
Harold Stassen1907–2001United States NavyWorld War II
Yury Baluevsky1947Russian Tank TroopsWar in Abkhazia
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach1956Royal Air Force
Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr.1957United States Marine Corps
Anna Mae Hays1920–2018United States ArmyKorean War
Oliver P. Smith1893–1977United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Movlid Visaitov1913–1986cavalryEastern Front
Ulrich de Maizière1912–2006German ArmyWorld War II
Francis Birch1903–1992
Paul M. Nakasone1963United States Army
Konstantin Koroteev1901–1953infantryWorld War I
Pyotr Sobennikov1894–1960Imperial Russian ArmyWorld War I
Carter Ham1952United States ArmyGulf War
Ido Nehoshtan1957Israeli Air Force1982 Lebanon War
William O'Dwyer1890–1964United States ArmyWorld War II
Vladimir Masorin1947Soviet Navy
Mikael Harutyunyan1946
Alexus Grynkewich1971United States Air Force
Aleksander Einseln1931–2017United States ArmyKorean War
Robert Cutler1895–1974World War I
Joseph T. McNarney1893–1972United States Air ForceWorld War I
Burton C. Andrus1892–1977World War I
David C. Jones1921–2013United States Air ForceKorean War
Paul D. Harkins1904–1984United States ArmyKorean War
William J. Crowe1925–2007United States NavyVietnam War
Ants Laaneots1948Estonian Land ForcesEthiopian Civil War
Édouard Guillaud1953French Navy
William G. Boykin1948United States Army
John M. Richardson1960United States Navy
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.1912–2002United States Air ForceKorean War
William Fechteler1896–1967United States NavyKorean War
David H. Berger1959United States Marine CorpsGulf War
C. Wade McClusky1902–1976United States NavyWorld War II
Joseph Votel1958United States ArmyIraq War
Jeremy Michael Boorda1939–1996United States NavyVietnam War
Scott Stearney1960–2018United States Navy
Maurice Rose1899–1945United States ArmyWorld War I
Oscar C. Badger II ★ MoH1890–1958United States NavyWorld War I
Ronald Forbes Adam1885–1982British ArmyWorld War I
John Hawkesworth1893–1945British ArmyWorld War I
Phillip Feodosyevich Zhmachenko1895–1966infantryWorld War I
John William Vessey1922–2016United States ArmyKorean War
Paul X. Kelley1928–2019United States Marine CorpsVietnam War
Tekin Arıburun1905–1993
Joseph Maguire1951United States Navy
Bud Day ★ MoH1925–2013United States Air ForceKorean War
Franklin C. Sibert1891–1980United States ArmyWorld War I
Oscar Griswold1886–1959United States ArmyWorld War I
Elizabeth P. Hoisington1918–2007United States ArmyKorean War
František Moravec1895–1966Czechoslovak army in exileWorld War I
Wayne A. Downing1940–2007United States ArmyGulf War
Alexander Lentsov1956Russian Ground ForcesFirst Chechen War
Pare Lorentz1905–1992United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Trevor N. Dupuy1916–1995United States ArmyWorld War II
Bryan D. Brown1948United States ArmyIraq War
Jeffrey L. Harrigian1962United States Air ForceIraq War
Eugene Vindman1975United States ArmyIraq War
Dan Kiley1912–2004United States Army
Gerald Ketchum1908–1992
Bobby Ray Inman1931United States Navy
Turki bin Nasser1948–2021
Braga Netto1957
Charles Kettles ★ MoH1930–2019United States ArmyKorean War
Daniel I. Sultan1885–1947United States ArmyWorld War I
John K. Singlaub1921–2022United States ArmyKorean War
R. Ernest Dupuy1887–1975United States ArmyWorld War I
Nikolay Biryukov1901–1980infantrySpanish Civil War
Dai Anlan1904–1942National Revolutionary ArmySecond Sino-Japanese War
Sargis Martirosyan1900–1984Red ArmyEastern Front
John F. Campbell1957United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Wayne EyreCanadian ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Johann von Kielmansegg1906–2006World War II
Raymond Albert Wheeler1885–1974United States ArmyWorld War II
Robert E. Cushman Jr.1914–1985United States Marine CorpsWorld War II
Darren W. McDew1960United States Air ForceWar on Terrorism
William Howard Arnold1901–1976World War II
Thomas D. Waldhauser1953United States Marine CorpsIraq War
Arthur Harris1890–1968United States ArmyWorld War II
James J. Lindsay1932–2023United States ArmyVietnam War
Miroslav Stojanovski1959
Hayk Kotanjian1945
Mahmoud Freihat1960Jordanian Armed Forces
Royce Williams ★ MoH1925United States NavyKorean War
Robert Miller Montague1899–1958United States ArmyWorld War I
Gary E. Luck1937–2024United States ArmyGulf War
James Hockenhull1964British ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Edward N. Hall1914–2006World War II
George H. McKee1923–2015United States Air ForceWorld War II
Carl Stiner1936–2022United States ArmyVietnam War
David G. Perkins1957United States ArmyIraq War
Douglas M. Fraser1953United States Air Force
Thomas J. Lawson1957Royal Canadian Air Force
Hennadii Vorobiov1961–2017
Nina M. Armagno1966United States Space Force
Thomas A. Bussiere1963United States Air Force
Trevor CadieuCanadian Army
Ivan Moshlyak1907–1981Red ArmyEastern Front
Gilbert Grandval1904–1981World War II
Gordon Blake1910–1997United States Air ForceWorld War II
John Amen1898–1960United States ArmyWorld War II
Geoffrey Walsh1909–1999Canadian ArmyWorld War II
James Roy Andersen1904–1945World War II
Leo Hepp1907–1987German ArmyWorld War II
Hans Christian Adamson1890–1968United States Air ForceWorld War II
Leslie Alfred Skinner1900–1978United States Army Air CorpsWorld War II
Albin F. Irzyk1917–2018United States ArmyWorld War II
Albert Stubblebine1930–2017United States ArmyCold War
Charlie Carlson1943–2015United States ArmyVietnam War
Charles Alan Pownall1887–1975United States Navy
Morris Davis1958United States Air Force
Markus Laubenthal1962German Army
Mark D. Kelly1965United States Air Force
Dean Winslow1953
Paweł Lechowicz
Danny McKnight1951United States Army
Antonio Moreno Barberá1940–2023Spanish Navy
Donald C. Bolduc1950
Catherine S. Lutz1955–2014
James C. Slife1967United States Air Force
JoAnne S. BassUnited States Air Force
Adrian SpainUnited States Air Force
Stephen T. Koehler1964United States Navy
David Hodne1969United States Army
Jay Collins1976United States Army
Amador Enseñat y Berea1960
Rapp Brush1889–1958United States ArmyWorld War I
Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy1903–1970World War I
Carl Frederick Holden1895–1953United States NavyWorld War I
George M. Jones1911–1996United States ArmyKorean War
George Hardy1925–2025United States Army Air ForcesKorean War
Leonty Shevtsov1946Soviet Ground ForcesFirst Chechen War
Raymond C. Smith1943–2022United States NavyGulf War
Michał Gutowski1910–2006cavalry of Second Polish RepublicWorld War II
Antonio Cárdenas Rodríguez1903–1969Mexican Air ForceWorld War II
Aubrey Newman1903–1994United States ArmyWorld War II
Vladimir Andreyev1904–1994navyEastern Front
Georgy Ivanov1901–2001infantryEastern Front
Walter E. Piatt1961United States ArmyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Clarence John Boettiger1900–1950World War II
J. C. King1900–1977United States Army ReserveWorld War II
John R. Kane ★ MoH1907–1996United States Air ForceWorld War II
William Evens Hall1907–1984World War II
Charles Lewis Gazin1904–1995United States Army Air ForcesWorld War II
Kristin Panzenhagen1978United States Space ForceIraq War
Harry Pröpper1906–1995Royal Netherlands NavyWorld War II
Frank Cohn1925–2026World War II
Heinrich Gaedcke1905–1992German ArmyWorld War II
Mary Louise Rasmuson1911–2012World War II
Thomas J. Barrett1947United States Coast GuardCold War
Tracy L. Garrett2000United States Marine Corps ReserveIraq War
Donald E. Edwards1937–2018United States ArmyVietnam War
Hans van der Louw1957Royal Netherlands Army
Jonathan Yuen1961United States Navy
Karl Vorse Krombein1912–2005
William L. Hendricks1904–1992
Richard P. Ross Jr.1906–1990
Nancy S. LacoreUnited States Navy
Andrea Tullos
Robert R. AllardiceUnited States Air Force
Donna W. MartinUnited States Army
Douglas Sims II1968United States Army
Kevin AdmiralUnited States Army
Van E. Chandler1925–1998United States Air Force
Frederick E. Bakutis1911–2009United States NavyKorean War
Roy Thurman1924–2004United States ArmyKorean War
James Connelly1896–1972World War I
Richard H. Jeschke1894–1957World War I
Raymond P. Coffman1899–1973World War I
Idwal H. Edwards1895–1981United States Air ForceWorld War I
Roy Alexander Gano1902–1971United States NavyKorean War
Chester R. Allen1905–1972United States Marine CorpsKorean War
Don Z. Zimmerman1903–1983United States Army Air CorpsKorean War
Roscoe Cartwright1919–1974United States ArmyKorean War
Arnold Cazenove1898–1969British ArmyWorld War I
Viktor Urbanovich1898–1977World War I
Miles Graham1895–1976British ArmyWorld War I
Harold Denny Campbell1895–1955United States Marine CorpsWorld War I
William W. Stickney1899–1980United States NavyWorld War I
Marion Eppley1883–1960World War I
Mick McGuire1965United States Air ForceGulf War
Mark Choate1971War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Earl T. Ricks1908–1954United States Air ForceWorld War II
Ralph A. Tudor1902–1963United States ArmyWorld War II
S. M. Anwar1920–1977Pakistan NavyWorld War II
William A. Brockett1914–1984United States NavyWorld War II
William Harrington Leahy1904–1986United States NavyWorld War II
Andrew J. Boyle1911–2001United States ArmyWorld War II
Marvin D. Fuller1921–2007United States ArmyWorld War II
Edward H. Forney1909–1965World War II
Fred E. Haynes Jr.1921–2010World War II
Frederick J. Harlfinger II1913–1993United States NavyWorld War II
Roger M. Ramey1905–1963World War II
Hugo van den Wall Bake1913–1981Royal Netherlands NavyWorld War II
Paul Stehlin1907–1975World War II
Delbert L. Bristol1918–1980World War II
Lawrence Heyworth Jr.1921–2003United States NavyWorld War II
John H. Hester1886–1976World War II
William P. Ennis1904–1989World War II
E. Daniel Cherry1939United States Air ForceVietnam War
Terry A. Johnson1956Ohio Army National GuardIraq War
André Jubelin1906–1986
E. Wyllys Andrews IV1916–1971United States Navy
Paul G. Gaffney II1946United States Navy
Helen Morgan Hamilton1896–1985United States Army
Leland S. Kollmorgen1927–2025United States Navy
Jerry O. Tuttle1934–2018United States Navy
William Toti1957United States Navy
Francis B. Loomis Jr.1903–1989
Scott A. Howell1965United States Air Force
Matthew Donovan1958United States Air Force
Adel Taher1922–http
Paul E. Knapp
Jon A. Jensen1963
Anthony Henderson1966United States Marine Corps
Maria GervaisUnited States Army
David Lesperance
Sean Bernabe1970United States Army
Brian Mennes1966United States Army
Dennis V. McGinn1945United States Navy
Michael F. Lohr1952
Donald J. Guter1948United States Navy
Osmund A. Leahy1915–1989United States Navy
Perry J. Dahl1923–2024
Theodore Kanamine1929–2023
Kevin A. Gilroy1936–2013
James B. Tapp1920–2014United States Air Force
Michele BredenkampUnited States Army
Andrew J. Evans Jr.1918–2001
I.B. Donalson1915–2006
Donald E. Rosenblum1929–2022Korean War
Donald M. White1915–1995United States NavyKorean War
Harold H. Dunwoody1919–2015United States ArmyKorean War
John C. McQueen1899–1985World War I
Charles Keller1868–1949United States ArmyWorld War I
Seth Williams1880–1963World War I
Matthew C. Horner1901–1972World War I
William L. McKittrick1897–1984World War I
William H. Harrison1896–1955World War I
Maurice C. Gregory1881–1949World War I
Augustus M. Gurney1895–1967United States ArmyWorld War I
Charles W. Fisher Jr.1880–1971United States NavyWorld War I
DeWitt C. Smith, Jr.1920–2005Canadian ArmyKorean War
Robert William Strong Sr.1890–1975United States ArmyWorld War I
Henry D. Linscott1894–1973World War I
Lawrence S. Churchill1890–1972United States Air ForceWorld War I
Robin Ross1939–2025Royal MarinesGulf War
Sean BarbabellaUnited States NavyWar in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Nikolay Nikitin1900–1984infantryEastern Front
Austin Kelvin Doyle1898–1970United States NavyWorld War II
Edward W. Anderson1903–1979United States Air ForceWorld War II
William H. Wood1900–1988World War II
Steven A. Hummer1952United States Marine CorpsIraq War
George R. E. Shell1908–1996World War II
George D. Webster (USMC)1919–1992World War II
James C. Dempsey1908–1979United States NavyWorld War II
Abner M. Aust1921–2020World War II
William O. Burch1904–1989United States NavyWorld War II
William R. Dunn1916–1995Royal Air ForceWorld War II
John A. B. Dillard1919–1970World War II
Steven N. Wickstrom1958Iraq War
Robert H. Scales1944–2024United States ArmyVietnam War
Leonidas Dixon Coates, Jr.1907United States NavyVietnam War
James L. WilliamsUnited States Marine CorpsIraq War
Prescott Currier1912–1995
Kendall L. Card1955United States Navy
Matthew L. Klunder1960United States Navy
Martin Barreras1965–2014
Gregory N. Todd1961
Robert I. Price1921–2019United States Coast Guard
Michael A. Calhoun1954United States Army
Gene Arden Vance Jr.1963–2002
George R. Allin1880–1956United States Army
William J. Scheyer1900–1956
Donald M. Weller1908–1985
Clarence R. Wallace1897–1988
Lyle H. Miller1889–1973
Harry K. Pickett1888–1965
George F. Good Jr.1901–1991
Steven M. Shepro1962
Francis J. Evon, Jr.1967
Albert Kurland1914–2008
S. Clinton HinoteUnited States Air Force
Willie Williams1951United States Marine Corps
Allan DayUnited States Air Force
David G. BassettUnited States Army
Patrick J. DonahoeUnited States Army
Gary W. Johnston2022United States Army
Stephen MaranianUnited States Army
Brendan McLane1968United States Navy
Robert ClaudeUnited States Air Force