Recipients of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
Recipients of the Order of the Netherlands Lion and, until 1830, its counterpart the Order of the Lion Belgium.
The Order of the Netherlands Lion is a high order of chivalry of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Order of the Netherlands Lion was until recently awarded upon eminent individuals from all walks of life, including generals, ministers of the crown, mayors of large towns, professors and leading scientists, industrialists, high ranking civil servants, presiding judges and renowned artists. Since 1980 the Order has been primarily used to recognise merit in the arts, science, sport and literature. The following are recipients within the award.
Knight Grand Cross
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Jan Jacob Rochussen | 10 October 1841 | Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1845-1851) Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1858-1860) |
Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (28/11/1840) Elevated to Commander from Knight (04/07/1829) | ||
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Johan Rudolph Thorbecke | 7 June 1863 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1849-1853, 1862-1866, 1871-1872) | Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (14/01/1851) | ||
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Admiral of the Fleet | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 1865 | |||
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Pasha | Khedive Isma'il of Egypt | 1866 | |||
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Jan Heemskerk | 1 May 1878 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1874-1877, 1883-1888) | Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (25/09/1867) | ||
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Field marshal | Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn | 23 August 1878 | Governor General of Canada (1911-1916) | ||
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Pasha | Khedive Abbas II of Egypt | 1892 | |||
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Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | 7 February 1901 | ||||
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Aeneas Mackay | 27 May 1905 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1888-1891) | Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (17/02/1890) | ||
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King Fuad I of Egypt | 1925 | ||||
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Pieter Cort van der Linden | 10 May 1926 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1913-1918) | Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (1901) | ||
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Dirk Fock | 7 September 1926 | Governor of Suriname (1908-1911) President of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (1917-1920) Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1921-1926) |
Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (10/10/1920) | ||
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Queen Juliana of the Netherlands | 31 August 1927 | Former Grand Master (04/09/1948-30/04/1980) | |||
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Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia | 1930 | ||||
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Major | Hendrikus Colijn | 6 January 1937 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1925-1926, 1933-1939) | Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (30/08/1926) | |
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Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld | 7 January 1937FF | Commander-in-chief of the Armed forces of the Netherlands (1944-1945) | Husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands | |
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General of the Army | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 6 October 1945 | President of the United States (1953-1961) | Chief of Staff of the Army (1945-1948) Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1951-1952) |
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General | Henri Winkelman | 14 April 1946 | Commander-in-chief of the Armed forces of the Netherlands (1940) | ||
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Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy | 6 May 1946 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1940-1945) | Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Knight (28/08/1930) | ||
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Lieutenant colonel | Sir Winston Churchill | 1946 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945, 1951-1955) | ||
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Field marshal | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | 16 January 1947 | Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom) (1946-1948) | ||
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Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon of the United Kingdom | 1950 | Wife of King George VI of the United Kingdom | |||
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Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom | 1950 | ||||
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Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands | 31 January 1956 | Former Grand Master (30/04/1980-30/04/2013) | |||
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Princess Irene of the Netherlands | 5 August 1957 | ||||
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | 26 March 1958 | Husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom | |||
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Willem Drees | 22 December 1958 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948-1958) | |||
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Prince Claus of the Netherlands | 10 March 1966 | Husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands | |||
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King Rama IX of Thailand | 12 May 1960 | ||||
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Queen Sirikit of Thailand | 12 May 1960 | Wife of King Rama IX of Thailand | |||
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Konrad Adenauer | 1960 | Chancellor of Germany (1949-1963) | |||
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Princess Margriet of the Netherlands | 19 January 1961 | ||||
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King Hussein of Jordan | 1964 | ||||
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Princess Christina of the Netherlands | 18 February 1965 | ||||
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Walter Hallstein | 1968 | President of the European Commission (1958-1967) | |||
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Marshal | Josip Broz Tito | 1970 | Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1944-1963) President of Yugoslavia (1953-1980) |
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Louis Beel | 28 June 1972 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946-1948, 1958-1959) Vice President of the Council of State of the Netherlands (1959-1972) |
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Sicco Mansholt | 18 December 1972 | European Commissioner for Agriculture (1958-1973) President of the European Commission (1972-1973) |
Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (7 January 1958) | ||
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Jelle Zijlstra | 18 November 1981 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1966-1967) | Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Commander (27 July 1963) | ||
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King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands | 27 April 1985 | Grand Master (30/04/2013) | |||
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Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau | 25 September 1986 | ||||
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Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands | 11 October 1987 | ||||
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Emperor Akihito of Japan | 22 October 1991 | ||||
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Empress Michiko of Japan | 22 October 1991 | Wife of Emperor Akihito of Japan | |||
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Ruud Lubbers | 8 October 1994 | Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1982-1994) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2001–2005) |
Elevated to Knight Grand Cross from Knight (11/04/1978) | ||
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Queen Máxima of the Netherlands | 2 February 2002 | Wife of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands | |||
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Pieter van Vollenhoven | 29 April 2004 | Husband of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands | |||
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King Albert II of Belgium | 20 June 2006 | ||||
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Queen Paola of Belgium | 20 June 2006 | Wife of King Albert II of Belgium | |||
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Kofi Annan | 2006 | Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2007) | |||
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Ivan Gašparovic | 21 May 2007 | President of Slovakia (1998, 2004-2014) | |||
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Valdas Adamkus | 2008 | President of Lithuania (1998-2003, 2004-2009) | |||
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves | 2008 | President of Estonia (since 2006) | |||
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Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar | 9 March 2011 | Prime Minister of Qatar (1995-1996) | |||
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Abdullah Gul | 17 April 2012 | Prime Minister of Turkey (2002-2003) President of Turkey (2007-2014) |
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Giorgio Napolitano | 23 October 2012 | President of Italy (2006-2015) | |||
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François Hollande | 20 January 2014 | President of France (since 2012) | |||
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Ban Ki-moon | 19 April 2016 | Secretary-General of the United Nations (since 2007) | |||
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King Baudouin of Belgium | Unknown | ||||
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Lieutenant admiral | Conrad Helfrich | Unknown | Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy (1945-1948) | ||
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General | Walter Bedell Smith | Unknown | Commanding General of the U.S. First Army (1949-1950) | ||
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Helmut Kohl | Unknown | Chancellor of Germany (1982-1998) | |||
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Joseph Luns | Unknown | Secretary General of NATO (1971-1984) | |||
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Martti Ahtisaari | Unknown | President of Finland (1994-2000) | |||
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Field marshal | Jan Smuts | Unknown | Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa (1919-1924, 1939-1948) | ||
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Field marshal | Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke | Unknown | Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1941-1946) | ||
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Major | Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale | Unknown | |||
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Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp | Unknown | Vice President of the Council of State of the Netherlands (1814-1816) | |||
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Cardinal Bernardus Johannes Alfrink | Unknown | ||||
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Major-general | Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | Unknown | Governor General of the Union of South Africa (1924-1930) Governor General of Canada (1940-1946) |
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King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden | Unknown | ||||
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King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden | Unknown | ||||
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Admiral of the Fleet | Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Unknown | Lord High Steward (1953) | First Sea Lord (1943–1946) | |
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Charles de Broqueville | Unknown | Prime Minister of Belgium (1911-1918, 1932-1934) | |||
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General | Porfirio Díaz | Unknown | President of Mexico (1876, 1877-1880, 1884-1911) | ||
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King George V of the United Kingdom | Unknown | ||||
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King Haakon VII of Norway | Unknown | ||||
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King Harald V of Norway | Unknown | ||||
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Prince Henry of Prussia | Unknown | ||||
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Queen Margrethe II of Denmark | Unknown | ||||
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Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark | Unknown | Husband of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark | |||
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Queen Ingrid of Sweden | Unknown | Wife of King Frederick IX of Denmark | |||
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Ban Ki-moon | 19 April 2016 | Secretary-General of the United Nations | |||
Knight
(List incomplete)
| Nationality | Military Rank | Name | Date | Political offices(s) | Military offices(s) | Comments |
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Hok Hoei Kan | 1930 | Politician and community leader of the Dutch East Indies, member of the Volksraad | Knight | ||
Order of the Lion Belgium
Vicomte Raymond de Biolley, Belgian industrialist
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