List of members of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and confirmed as part of the Ordre national du Mérite by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963...
of France
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Members of the order
| Name | Rank | Year |
|---|---|---|
| T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his... |
Commandeur | 1960 |
| Elisabeth Söderström Elisabeth Söderström Elisabeth Anna Söderström CBE was a Swedish soprano, who performed both opera and song. She was particularly well known for her recordings of the lead soprano roles in the three Janáček operas Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, and The Makropoulos Affair, all of which received Gramophone Awards... |
Commandeur | 1973 |
| Marcel Marceau Marcel Marceau Marcel Marceau was an internationally acclaimed French actor and mime most famous for his persona as Bip the Clown.-Early years:... |
Commandeur | 1978 |
| Lillian Gish Lillian Gish Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987.... |
Commandeur | 1983 |
| Zoran Mušič Zoran Mušic Zoran Mušič was a Slovenian painter. He spent half of his life living and working in Italy.-Life:Zoran Mušič was born in a Slovene-speaking family in Bukovica, a village in the Vipava Valley near Gorizia, in what was then the Austrian County of Gorizia and Gradisca... |
Commandeur | 1984 |
| Mrinal Sen Mrinal Sen Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the... |
Commandeur | 1985 |
| Moritz de Hadeln Moritz de Hadeln Moritz de Hadeln is a Swiss documentary Film director and photographer, who became a Film Festival director... |
Commandeur | 1986 |
| Fairuz Fairuz Nouhad Wadi Haddad , famously known as Fairuz is a Lebanese singer who is widely considered to be the most famous living singer in the Arab world and one of the best known of all time... |
Commandeur | 1988 |
| Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly... |
Commandeur | 1990 |
| Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt... |
Commandeur | 1991 |
| Tarek Ali Hassan Tarek Ali Hassan Dr. Tarek Ali Hassan , is a professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He is also a composer, musician, writer, painter, and philosopher. His music, in a modern polyphonic style, has been performed in Egypt and in many countries.Hassan has published major... |
Commandeur | 1991 |
| Josef Tal | Commandeur | 1985 |
| David Shahar | Commandeur | 1985 |
| Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide... |
Commandeur | 1994 |
| María Félix María Félix María Félix was a Mexican film actress and one of the icons of the golden era of the Cinema of Mexico and also one of the myths of the Spanish language Cinema for her life style and personality... |
Commandeur | 1996 |
| Václav Havel Václav Havel Václav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally... |
Commandeur | 2001 |
| David Stratton David Stratton David James Stratton is an English- Australian film critic and television personality.-Life and career:Born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England in 1939, Stratton was sent to Hampshire to see out the war years with his grandmother, an avid filmgoer, where he was taken to the local cinemas regularly... |
Commandeur | 2001 |
| Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé | Commandeur | 2003 |
| Patti Smith Patti Smith Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.... |
Commandeur | 2005 |
| Christoph Eschenbach Christoph Eschenbach Christoph Eschenbach , born February 20, 1940, Breslau, Germany is a German-born pianist and conductor. He currently holds positions in Washington, D.C. as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra and music director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.-Early... |
Commandeur | 2006 |
| Nan Goldin Nan Goldin Nancy "Nan" Goldin is an American photographer.-Life and work:Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest... |
Commandeur | 2006 |
| Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th... |
Commandeur | 2007 |
| Emir Kusturica Emir Kusturica Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films... |
Commandeur | 2007 |
| June Anderson June Anderson June Anderson is a Grammy Award-winning American coloratura soprano. Originally known for bel canto performances of Rossini, Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini, she was the first non-Italian ever to win the prestigious Bellini d'Oro prize... |
Commandeur | 2008 |
| Adoor Gopalakrishnan Adoor Gopalakrishnan Moutatthu "Adoor" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema and is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of India.. Adoor's first film Swayamvaram pioneered the new wave cinema... |
Commandeur | 2003 |
| Roger Moore Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London... |
Commandeur | 2008 |
| Elina Salo Elina Salo Elina Salo is a Finnish film, theatre and television actress who has also done work in radio as a voice actor in children’s programming. In her career that began in 1956, Salo has appeared in over 50 films and television shows but she is best known for her work in Aki Kaurismäki’s films. She has... |
Commandeur | 2009 |
| Takeshi Kitano Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic... |
Commandeur | 2010 |
| Mortimer Zuckerman Mortimer Zuckerman Mortimer Benjamin "Mort" Zuckerman is a Canadian-born American business magnate with interests primarily in magazines, publishing, and real estate. He is now a naturalized citizen of the United States.... |
Commandeur | unknown |
| Michael Caine Michael Caine Sir Michael Caine, CBE is an English actor. He won Academy Awards for best supporting actor in both Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules .... |
Commandeur | 2011 |
| Jean Van Hamme Jean Van Hamme Jean Van Hamme is a Belgian novelist and comic book writer. He has written scripts for a number of Belgian/French comic series, including Histoire sans héros, Thorgal, XIII and Largo Winch.-Early years:... |
Commandeur | 2011 |
| Myung-whun Chung Myung-Whun Chung Myung-whun Chung is a South Korean pianist and conductor.His sisters, violinist Kyung-wha Chung, and cellist Myung-wha Chung, and he at one time performed together as the Chung Trio. He was a joined second-prize winner in the 1974 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Chung studied conducting at... |
Commandeur | 2011 |
| Rouben Melik Rouben Melik Rouben Melik was a French-Armenian poet and a member of French Resistance. Officer of Ordre des Arts et Lettres .... |
Officier | 1963 |
| Lynn Chadwick Lynn Chadwick Lynn Russell Chadwick CBE was an English artist and sculptor trained as an architectural draughtsman,but began producing metal mobile sculpture during the 1940s. Chadwick was born in London and went to Merchant Taylor's School.Chadwick was commissioned to produce 3 works for the 1951 Festival of... |
Officier | 1985 |
| Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française... |
Officier | 1988 |
| Leonard Jacobson Leonard Jacobson Leonard Jacobson FAIA was an America museum architect. He worked with I. M. Pei on some of the major museum projects in the 20th century.... |
Officier | 1989 |
| Susannah York Susannah York Susannah York was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival... |
Officier | 1991 |
| Mark Podwal Mark Podwal Mark Podwal is an artist, author and physician. He may be best known for his drawings on The New York Times OP-ED page. In addition, he is the author and illustrator of books for children as well as for adults. Most of these works — Podwal's own as well as those he has illustrated for... |
Officier | 1995 |
| Milva Milva Maria Ilva Biolcati , known as Milva, is an Italian singer, actress and television personality. She is also known as 'La Rossa', , due to the colour of her hair, and additionally as the 'Panther of Goro', which stems from the Italian press having nicknamed the three most popular Italian female... (Maria Ilva Biocalti) |
Officier | 1995 |
| Neil Jordan Neil Jordan Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :... |
Officier | 1996 |
| Van Morrison Van Morrison Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely... |
Officier | 1996 |
| Frederica von Stade Frederica von Stade Frederica von Stade is an American mezzo-soprano. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she acquired the nickname "Flicka" in her childhood. Von Stade attended the Mannes College of Music in New York City. She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1970 and in 1971 appeared as Cherubino in The... |
Officier | 1998 |
| Ted Nelson Ted Nelson Theodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and published it in 1965... |
Officier | 2001 |
| Bruno Campanella Bruno Campanella Bruno Campanella is an Italian conductor and a distinguished interpreter of the Italian Opera.He studied composition under Nino Rota and Luigi Dallapiccola. He had Hans Swarowsky and Thomas Schippers as instructors in conducting.... |
Officier | 2002 |
| W. D. Amaradeva | Officier | 2003 |
| Richard Foreman Richard Foreman Richard Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.-Life :... |
Officier | 2004 |
| Constantine Andreou Constantine Andreou Constantine Andreou , was a painter and sculptor of Greek origin with a highly successful career that spanned six decades... |
Officier | 2005 |
| Daria Galateria Daria Galateria -Biography:Daria Galateria was born in Rome, Italy, in 1950. She graduated in Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on monologue in Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry.... |
Officier | 2005 |
| Shahrukh Khan Shahrukh Khan Shahrukh Khan , often credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor, as well as a film producer and television host. Often referred to as "the King of Bollywood", Khan has acted in over 70 Hindi films.... |
Officier | 2007 |
| Ambeth Ocampo Ambeth Ocampo Ambeth R. Ocampo is a multi-awarded Filipino historian, academic, journalist, and author best known for his writings about Philippines' national hero José Rizal and for "Looking Back", his bi-weekly editorial page column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer... |
Officier | 2008 |
| Bill Cunningham Bill Cunningham (photographer) William J. Cunningham is a fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candid and street photography.-Life and career:... |
Officier | 2008 |
| Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian film actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won the Miss World pageant in 1994... |
Officier | 2009 |
| Peter Garrett Peter Garrett Peter Robert Garrett, AM, MP , is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.Garrett was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002... |
Officier | 2009 |
| Johnnie To Johnnie To Johnnie To Kei-Fung, born 22 April 1955, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas... |
Officier | 2009 |
| Fawzi Ziadin (Zayadine) | Officier | 2010 |
| Stanley William Hayter Stanley William Hayter Stanley William Hayter , CBE was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, in 1927 Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris... |
Chevalier | 1967 |
| Brian Ferneyhough Brian Ferneyhough Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works... |
Chevalier | 1984 |
| David Niles (director) David Niles (director) David Niles is a director, director of photography and designer. He was one of the first to pioneer the commercial applications of High Definition television. He is cofounder of Colossalvision, a production and post-production facility.... |
Chevalier | 1984 |
| Dado Dado (painter) Dado , was a Yugoslavian-born artist who spent most of his life and creative career in France. He is particularly known as a painter but was also active as an engraver, drawer, book illustrator and sculptor.... |
Chevalier | 1984 |
| William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th... |
Chevalier | 1984 |
| Paul Goma Paul Goma Paul Goma is a Romanian writer, also known for his activities as a dissident and leading opponent of the communist regime before 1989. Forced into exile by the communist authorities, he became a political refugee and currently resides in France as a stateless person... |
Chevalier | 1986 |
| Max Mathews Max Mathews Max Vernon Mathews was a pioneer in the world of computer music.-Biography:... |
Chevalier | 1989 |
| Wahbi al-Hariri Wahbi Al-Hariri Mohamed Wahbi Al-Hariri Rifai , OAL, was an Arab-American artist, architect, and author.-Biography:Wahbi Al-Hariri was born in 1914 in Aleppo, Syria. He also lived in France, Italy, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United States of America.... |
Chevalier | 1990 |
| Guruh Sukarnoputra Guruh Sukarnoputra Muhammad Guruh Irianto Sukarnoputra is a member of Indonesia's People's Representative Council and an artist. He is the youngest son of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno with his third wife, Fatmawati.... |
Chevalier | 1991 |
| Howard Buten Howard Buten Howard Buten is an American author living in France. He is also a psychologist, clown, and violin player. He is the author of five novels, the first of which, entitled When I Was Five I Killed Myself, was published in 1981.... |
Chevalier | 1991 |
| Gabriel Liiceanu Gabriel Liiceanu Gabriel Liiceanu is a Romanian philosopher.He graduated from University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy in 1965, and from Faculty of Classical Languages in 1973. He earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Bucharest in 1976.... |
Chevalier | 1992 |
| Jean Roba Jean Roba Jean Roba was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.-Biography:... |
Chevalier | 1992 |
| Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Russian dancer, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women.In 1961 he... |
Chevalier | 1992 |
| Akiko Ebi Akiko Ebi -Biography:Akiko Ebi was born in Osaka. She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, and won the piano prize of the 41st Music Competition of Japan. Her international career began with her winning second prize in the 1975 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris. She continued her... |
Chevalier | 1993 |
| Dương Thu Hương Duong Thu Huong Dương Thu Hương is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Formerly a member of Vietnam's Communist party, she was expelled from the party in 1989, and has been denied the right to travel abroad, and was temporarily imprisoned for her writings and outspoken criticism of corruption in the... |
Chevalier | 1994 |
| Yohji Yamamoto Yohji Yamamoto Yōji Yamamoto , is an award winning Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Yohji is considered to be among the master tailors whose work is thought to be of fashion genius and he has been described by Julie Gilhart, fashion director for Barney's New York as probably the only designer... |
Chevalier | 1994 |
| Philip Glass Philip Glass Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with... |
Chevalier | 1995 |
| Alexandru Zub Alexandru Zub Alexandru Zub is a Romanian historian, biographer, essayist, political activist and academic. A former Professor at the University of Iaşi, noted for his contribution to the study of cultural history and Romanian history, he is currently head of the A. D. Xenopol Institute of History and Archeology... |
Chevalier | 1995 |
| Sivaji Ganesan Sivaji Ganesan Viluppuram Chinnaiahpillai Ganesan Manrayar , commonly known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan , was an Indian stage and film actor active during the latter half of the 20th century. He is one of the most respected film actors in India. He is well known for his versatility and acting skills with... |
Chevalier | 1995 |
| John Ralston Saul John Ralston Saul John Ralston Saul, CC is a Canadian author, essayist, and President of International PEN.As an essayist, Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more precisely technocrat-, led societies; the... |
Chevalier | 1996 |
| Kuo Pao Kun Kuo Pao Kun Kuo Pao Kun was a playwright, theatre director, and arts activist in Singapore who wrote and directed both Mandarin and English plays. He founded three arts and drama centres in Singapore, conducted and organised a number of drama seminars and workshops, and mentored Singaporean and foreign... |
Chevalier | 1996 |
| Sherrill Milnes Sherrill Milnes Sherrill Milnes is an American operatic baritone most famous for his Verdi roles. From 1965 until 1997 he was associated with the Metropolitan Opera.... |
Chevalier | 1996 |
| Ion Caramitru Ion Caramitru Ion Caramitru is a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, as well as a political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention cabinets of Victor Ciorbea, Gavril Dejeu, Radu Vasile, Alexandru Athanasiu, and Mugur Isărescu.-Early life and... |
Chevalier | 1997 |
| David Bradby David Bradby Professor David Bradby was a drama and theatre academic with particular research interests in French theatre, Modernist / Postmodernist theatre, the role of the director and the Theatre of the Absurd. He wrote extensively on the theatre of Samuel Beckett, Roger Planchon, Jacques Lecoq, Arthur... |
Chevalier | 1997 |
| M. Mukundan M. Mukundan M. Mukundan is one of the pioneers of modernity in Malayalam literature, belonging to Mahe, part of Pondicherry Union Territory in South India. He was born on 10 September 1942 at Mayyazhi , a one-time French territory in India... |
Chevalier | 1998 |
| Shaji N. Karun Shaji N. Karun Shaji Neelakantan Karun is a National Award-winning Indian film director and cinematographer. His debut film Piravi won the Caméra d'Or - Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival... |
Chevalier | 1998 |
| Theo Hirsbrunner | Chevalier | 1998 |
| Jean-Charles Ablitzer Jean-Charles Ablitzer Jean-Charles Ablitzer is a French organist and organ teacher, whose main interest is in music and organs of the renaissance and baroque periods.-Biography:... |
Chevalier | 2000 |
| John Hsu John Hsu John Hsu is a former Cornell University music professor. Hsu worked with Cornell for 50 years, from 1955 until his retirement in 2005.-Music career:... |
Chevalier | 2000 |
| Michiyasu Itsutsuji | Chevalier | 2000 |
| Giuseppe Scaraffia Giuseppe Scaraffia -Biography:Giuseppe Scaraffia was born in Turin, Italy, in 1950. He graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan with a thesis on the idea of happiness in Diderot. He has taught French Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome since 1976... |
Chevalier | 2000 |
| James Welch | Chevalier | 2000 |
| Cyprien Katsaris Cyprien Katsaris Cyprien Katsaris is a French-Cypriot pianist, teacher and composer. He was born on 5 May 1951, in Marseilles, France.-Biography:Katsaris first began to play the piano when he was four, in Cameroon where he grew up... |
Chevalier | 2000 |
| Robyn Archer Robyn Archer Robyn Archer AO CdOAL is an Australian singer, writer, stage and director, artistic director, and public advocate of the arts, in Australia and internationally.-Life:Archer was born Robyn Smith in Prospect, South Australia... |
Chevalier | 2001 |
| Patrick Delcroix Patrick Delcroix Patrick Delcroix, born February 8, 1963, in Pau/France, dancer and choreographer, was educated at the Centre International de Danse Rosella Hightower in Cannes and the Ecole de danse Colette Soriano in Orthez, France.... |
Chevalier | 2001 |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Elfi von Dassanowsky Elfriede "Elfi" von Dassanowsky was an Austrian-American singer, pianist, film producer and humanitarian.- Early life :... |
Chevalier | 2001 |
| A. Craig Copetas A. Craig Copetas A. Craig Copetas is a Greek author, and an international correspondent currently based in Paris. Copetas joined the London bureau of Rolling Stone magazine in 1973 before moving to Esquire magazine... |
Chevalier | 2001 |
| Arno Hintjens Arno Hintjens Arno Hintjens , usually referred to as Arno, is a Belgian artist born in Ostend. He was the frontman of the group TC Matic. After the band split in 1986 he went solo.... |
Chevalier | 2002 |
| Leo Schofield Leo Schofield Leo Schofield AM is an Australian restaurant critic, advertising professional and arts festival director.... |
Chevalier | 2002 |
| Andrea Stretton Andrea Stretton Andrea Stretton was an Australian arts journalist and television presenter. She was known as a major advocate for the arts in Australia.-Career:... |
Chevalier | 2002 |
| Deborah Voigt Deborah Voigt Deborah Voigt is an American operatic soprano. Voigt regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide.- Early life and education :... |
Chevalier | 2002 |
| Kiki Sørum Kiki Sørum Anne Christine "Kiki" Sørum was a Norwegian fashion journalist, -editor and -author. She worked as a fashion editor for the weekly magazine Hjemmet from 1973 to 1977 and general editor of the magazine Nicole from 1979 to 1981... |
Chevalier | 2003 |
| Li Ang | Chevalier | 2004 |
| Bruce Goldstein Bruce Goldstein Bruce Goldstein is a New York Repertory film programmer, producer, archivist, and historian.Goldstein became the director of repertory programming for New York's Film Forum in 1986. At Film Forum he presented series on Film noir, silent comedy, classic 3-D, Pre-Code movies, science fiction and... |
Chevalier | 2004 |
| Lyudmila Ulitskaya Lyudmila Ulitskaya Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria on February 21, 1943... |
Chevalier | 2004 |
| Roger Woodward Roger Woodward Roger Woodward AC OBE is an Australian classical concert pianist.-Biography:Roger Woodward was born in 1942 in Chatswood, a suburb of Sydney, the youngest of four children to Gladys and Frank Woodward... |
Chevalier | 2004 |
| Julian Barnes Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending... |
Chevalier | 2004 |
| Quentin Blake Quentin Blake Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well-known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.-Education:... |
Chevalier | 2004 |
| Declan Donnellan Declan Donnellan Declan Donnellan is a British theatre director and writer. He is co-founder of Cheek by Jowl theatre company. In 1992 he received an honoris causa degree from the University of Warwick and in 2004 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his work in France... |
Chevalier | 2004 |
| Alessandro Barbero Alessandro Barbero Alessandro Barbero is an Italian historian, novelist and essayist. He attended the University of Turin where he studied literature and Medieval history. He won the 1996 Strega Prize, Italy's most distinguished literary award, for Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle gentiluomo. His second novel,... |
Chevalier | 2005 |
| Jean-Luc Darbellay Jean-Luc Darbellay Jean-Luc Darbellay is a Swiss composer, conductor, clarinetist and physician. He was chairman of the Swiss Society for New Music and board member of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Darbellay is a member of the composers group: Groupe Lacroix. He has published about 150 works... |
Chevalier | 2005 |
| Serge Sorokko Serge Sorokko Serge Sorokko is an American art dealer, publisher and owner of the Serge Sorokko Gallery in San Francisco. He played a major role in establishing the first cultural exchanges in the field of visual arts between the United States and the Soviet Union during the period of perestroika... |
Chevalier | 2005 |
| M. Balamuralikrishna | Chevalier | 2005 |
| Susan Graham Susan Graham Susan Graham is an American mezzo-soprano.Raised in Midland, Texas, she is a graduate of Texas Tech University and the Manhattan School of Music. She studied the piano for 13 years... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Frédérick Raynal Frédérick Raynal Frédérick Raynal is a French video game designer and programmer, notable for his game developments in Infogrames, Adeline Software International and No Cliché. He is married to Yaël Barroz, a fellow game designer, with whom he has two children.... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Phil Comeau Phil Comeau Phil Comeau, CM is a Canadian film and television director, born in Digby, Nova Scotia and living in Montreal, Quebec.- Biography :Phil Comeau, based in Montreal since 1983, is a film and television director and scriptwriter... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Gad Elmaleh Gad Elmaleh Gad Elmaleh is a French-Moroccan stand-up comedian and actor. His latest show is called Papa est en haut . He has starred in several feature films, including Coco, Hors de prix, La Doublure and Midnight in Paris.- Early years :Elmaleh was born in Casablanca, Morocco... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Shigeru Miyamoto Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer and producer. Miyamoto was born and raised in Kyoto Prefecture; the natural surroundings of Kyoto inspired much of Miyamoto's later work.... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Ernesto Neto Ernesto Neto Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto is a contemporary visual artist.Ernesto Neto began exhibiting in Brazil in 1988 and has had solo exhibitions abroad since 1995... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Arthur Papadimitriou Arthur Papadimitriou Arthur Papadimitriou received the highest French award, Chevalier De Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, on the 20th April 2006 by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Minister of Culture and Communication, for his contribution to French and Australian culture.... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Amanda Lear Amanda Lear Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist.... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Ralph Regenvanu Ralph Regenvanu Ralph John Regenvanu is a ni-Vanuatu anthropologist, artist and politician. He has been a Member of Parliament since September 2008, a member of Cabinet for most of the period since December 2010, and was the Director of the Vanuatu National Cultural Council from 1995 until December 2010.He has... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Ned Rorem Ned Rorem Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Nikolay Tsiskaridze Nikolay Tsiskaridze Nikolay Tsiskaridze , also spelled Ziskaridze, is a premier dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ethnically Georgian, he was born in Tbilisi on 31 December 1973. He joined the Moscow Ballet School in 1987 and was admitted into the Bolshoi Ballet in 1991... |
Chevalier | 2006 |
| Marusya Klimova | Chevalier | 2006 |
| George Clooney George Clooney George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award... |
Chevalier | 2007 |
| Jude Law Jude Law David Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989... |
Chevalier | 2007 |
| Allan Massie Allan Massie Allan Massie is a well-known Scottish journalist, sports writer and novelist.-Early life:Born in 1938 in Singapore, where his father was a rubber planter for Sime Darby, Massie spent his childhood in Aberdeenshire... |
Chevalier | 2007 |
| Vanessa Paradis Vanessa Paradis Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a French singer, model and actress. She became a child star at 14 with the worldwide success of her single "Joe le taxi"... |
Chevalier | 2007 |
| Peter Molyneux Peter Molyneux Peter Douglas Molyneux OBE is an English computer game designer and game programmer. He created the God games Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and Black & White, among others, as well as business simulation games such as Theme Park and more recently, the RPG series Fable.Despite the success of his games,... |
Chevalier | 2007 |
| Michael Matthes Michael Matthes -Education:Matthes received his first organ tuition from Marie-Claire Alain. In 1985, after three years of studies at the Paris Conservatory with Odile Pierre, he won first prize. Only one year later he won a first price of excellence. During the same time he studied Analysis, Harmony, Counterpoint... |
Chevalier | 2007 |
| Malcolm Rogers Malcolm Rogers (curator) Malcolm Rogers CBE is a British-born art curator who has served as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since 1994. In this role he has brought both extensive popularity and controversy to the museum.... |
Chevalier | 2007 |
| Shahram Nazeri Shahram Nazeri Shahram Nazeri is a contemporary Iranian tenor of Kurdish ancestry who sings classical Persian music from Kermanshah. He is one of Iran's most respected vocalists... |
Chevalier | 2007 |
| Yip Wing-sie Yip Wing-sie Yip Wing-sie is a well known conductor in Hong Kong.She is the music director of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Two decades after winning the First Prize and "LYRE d'OR" of the prestigious Concours International des Jeune Chefs d'Orchestre de Besonçon, Yip has become an icon for classical music in the... |
Chevalier | 2007 |
| Michael Rosen Michael Rosen Michael Wayne Rosen is a broadcaster, children's novelist and poet and the author of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and held this honour until 2009.... |
Chevalier | 2008 |
| China Zorrilla China Zorrilla China Zorrilla is an award-winning Uruguayan theater, film and television actress.... |
Chevalier | 2008 |
| Nandita Das Nandita Das Nandita Das is an award-winning Indian film actress and director. As an actress, she is known for her performances in Fire , Earth , Bawandar , Kannathil Muthamittal and Aamaar Bhuvan . As a director, she is known for her directorial debut Firaaq , which has won a number of national and... |
Chevalier | 2008 |
| Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing... |
Chevalier | 2008 |
| André Rieu André Rieu André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist, conductor, and composer best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.- Early life and studies :... |
Chevalier | 2009 |
| Shan Sa Shan Sa Shan Sa is the pseudonym of Yan Ni , a French author and painter. The Girl Who Played Go was the first of her novels to be published outside of France, and won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens . Her second novel to appear in English translation was Empress... |
Chevalier | 2009 |
| Raphael Nadjari Raphael Nadjari Raphaël Nadjari is a French born writer and director for film and television.In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television as a writer and director... |
Chevalier | 2010 |
| Yossi Tal-Gan | Chevalier | 2010 |
| James Snyder | Chevalier | 2010 |
| Dubi Lenz | Chevalier | 2010 |
| Mika Penniman Mika (singer) Mika is a British singer-songwriter.After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday EP, Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007. Life in Cartoon Motion sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit... |
Chevalier | 2010 |
| Ron Burnett Ron Burnett Ron Burnett is the author of Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary, and How Images Think. He is the editor of Explorations in Film Theory. Burnett is the President of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He is the author of over 150 published articles and book chapters... |
Chevalier | 2010 |
| Tim Burton Tim Burton Timothy William "Tim" Burton is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet... |
Chevalier | 2010 |
| Thomas Bangalter Thomas Bangalter Thomas Bangalter is a French electronic musician best known as a member of the French house music duo Daft Punk. He has also recorded and released music as a member of the trio Stardust, the duo Together, and as a solo artist including compositions for the film Irréversible.Thomas Bangalter owns a... |
Chevalier | 2010 |
| Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Guillaume Emmanuel "Guy-Manuel" de Homem-Christo; is a founding member of the French house music duo Daft Punk, along with Thomas Bangalter. He has also produced several works from his record label Crydamoure with label co-owner Éric Chedeville. He and Chedeville formed the musical duo Le Knight... |
Chevalier | 2010 |
| Jaz Coleman Jaz Coleman Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman is a musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is notable for his vocal contributions to rock band Killing Joke... |
Chevalier | 2010 |
| Linden Tsai-Chueh Lin Linden Tsai-Chueh Lin Linden Tsai-Chueh Lin is a renowned Taiwanese publisher. He is the publisher and editorial director of Linking Publishing Company and former chairman of the Taipei International Book Exhibition... |
Chevalier | 2011 |
| Benjamin Koppel | Chevalier | 2011 |
| Maxwell L. Anderson Maxwell L. Anderson Maxwell L. Anderson is the Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. On January 9, 2012, Anderson will assume the role of the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, following a five-and-a-half-year tenure at the... |
Chevalier | 2011 |
| Erika Schneider | Chevalier | 2011 |