List of recipients of the Order of the Polar Star
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This is an incomplete list of the recipients of the Royal Order of the Polar Star:
| Year | Name | Citizenship | Main occupation | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1976 | Johann Beer |  Austria |
Director | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) |
| December 1976 | Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland |  United Kingdom/ Sweden |
Princess of Sweden | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 1981 | Valeriu Munteanu |  Romania |
Lecturer | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) |
| 1982 | Tellervo Koivisto |  Finland |
Spouse of the President of Finland | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 3 May 1983 | Greta Garbo | Sweden |
Actress | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) |
| 9 February 1987 | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |  Portugal |
President of Portugal | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 6 October 1987 | Lars-Eric Lindblad |  United States/ Sweden |
Entrepreneur and Explorer | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) |
| 1988 | Henry Segerstrom | United States |
Entrepreneur | Commander (KNO) |
| Ann-Margret | United States/ Sweden |
Actress, Singer and Dancer | ||
| Linda Wallenberg | United States |
Swedish Language Teacher[1] | ||
| 1994 | Eeva Ahtisaari | Finland |
Spouse of the President of Finland | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 1996 | Göran Wide | Mayor | Commander (KNO) | |
| 17 February 2005 | Thamnoon Wanglee |  Thailand |
Director | |
| 22 May 2006 | Waldemar Schmidt |  Denmark |
Director | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) |
| 10 April 2007 | Mohammed Al-Amoudi |  Ethiopia/ Saudi Arabia |
Businessman and Sheikh | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) |
| Mrs. Alice Cheng |  China |
Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||
| 9 May 2008 | Maria Cavaco Silva | Portugal |
First Lady of Portugal | |
| 25 November 2008 | Jaakko Smolander | Finland |
Vice Admiral | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) |
| 16 May 2009 | Dan Ekholm | Editor-in-chief | Commander (KNO) | |
| 20 October 2009 | Marc de Gouvenain |  France |
Translator | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) |
| 1 February 2010 | Jussi Helminen | Finland |
Theater manager | |
| Mauno Järvelä | Fiddler, Violinist and Music pedagogue. | |||
| Helena Edgren | Chief Director | Commander (KNO) | ||
| Henry Wiklund | Statesman | |||
| Risto Volanen | State Secretary | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||
| 8 March 2010 | Siggi Loch |  Germany |
Producer | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) |
| 17 March 2010 | Tomaz Jervell | Portugal |
Honorary Consul | Commander (KNO) |
| 21 April 2010 | Carlos de Vasconcelos | |||
| 4 May 2010 | Michael M. Wood | United States |
Ambassador | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 1 June 2010 | Yohei Sasakawa |  Japan |
Director | Commander (KNO) |
| 23 July 2010 | Choe Chong-pil |  South Korea |
professor | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) |
| Choe Chong-dae | Chairman | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | ||
| 21 October 2010 | Jennifer Granholm | United States |
Governor | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) |
| 18 January 2011 | Evelin Ilves |  Estonia |
First Lady of Estonia | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 4 May 2011 | Anna Komorowska |  Poland |
First Lady of Poland | |
| 17 April 2012 | Jenni Haukio | Finland |
Spouse of the President of Finland | |
| 30 May 2012 | Kim Yoon-Ok | South Korea |
First Lady of South Korea | |
| 24 October 2012 | Estela de Carlotto |  Argentina |
Human rights activist | |
| 6 June 2013 | Christopher O'Neill | United Kingdom/ United States |
Consort to Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, as well as a Businessman | Commander (KNO) |
| 27 June 2013 | Colin Carlile | United Kingdom/ Sweden |
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| 26 September 2013 | Michael M. Kaiser | United States |
Chief of the Kennedy Center | |
| 13 May 2014 | Peter Sutherland |  Ireland |
UN Special Envoy for Migration and Development | |
| 9 July 2014 | Antoine Cohen-Potin | France |
Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | |
| 4 March 2015 | Carl Haglund | Finland |
Finlands Minister of Defence | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 12 March 2015;
recalled 7 May 2019 |
France |
Theatre director and photographer | ||
| 10 April 2015 | Else Marie Friis | Denmark |
professor | Member 1st Class (LNO1kl) |
| 3 November 2016 | Laura Codruţa Kövesi | Romania |
Chief Prosecutor of the Romanian Anti-Corruption Agency | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) |
| 14 June 2019 | Kim Jung-sook | South Korea |
First Lady of South Korea | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 10 December 2019 | Nivaldo Luis Rossato |  Brazil |
Chief of the Brazilian Air Force | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) |
| 17 September 2021 | Timo Kivinen | Finland |
Finnish Army General | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 6 July 2022 | Andrii Plakhotniuk |  Ukraine |
Ambassador | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) |
| 1 September 2022 | Tan Peng Yam |  Singapore |
Head Researcher of the Singaporean Ministry of Defence | |
| 29 September 2023[2] | Sirje Karis | Estonia | First Lady of Estonia | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| 30 January 2024[3] | Brigitte Macron | France | Spouse of the French President | |
| 21 March 2024[4] | Svante Pääbo | Sweden | professor and Geneticist | |
| Anne L'Huillier | Sweden/ France | professor | ||
| Catarina Wingren | Sweden | Diplomat/Third Embassy Secretary | Knight (RNO) | |
| 23 April 2024[5] | Suzanne Innes-Stubb | Finland | First Lady of Finland | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| Elina Valtonen | Minister for Foreign Affairs | |||
| Anna-Maja Henriksson | Minister for Education | |||
| Olli Rehn | Governor of the Bank of Finland | |||
| 22 October 2024[6] | Sanna Marin | Former Prime Minister of Finland | ||
| Pekka Haavisto | Former Minister for Foreign Affairs | |||
| Jens Stoltenberg |  Norway | Former Secretary-General of NATO | ||
| Antony Blinken | United States | 71st United States Secretary of State | ||
| Jacob Sullivan | 28th United States National Security Advisor | |||
| Petri Hakkarainen | Finland | Director General at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) | |
| Stian Jenssen | Norway | Former Chief of Staff to the Secretary-General of NATO | ||
| Julianne Smith | United States | 25th United States Ambassador to NATO | ||
| Jeffry Flake | Former United States Ambassador to Turkey | |||
| Amanda Sloat | Former senior director, United States National Security Council | |||
| 30 April 2025[7] | Bertil Bengtsson | Sweden | Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Sweden | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
| Erik Norberg | Former National Archivist of the National Archives of Sweden | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) | ||
| Agneta Wikman | Associate Professor, Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital[8] | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | ||
| Majvor Östergren | Former County Antiquarian at Gotland County Administrative Board | |||
| Sara Ålbrink | Strategic buyer at the Swedish Armed Forces | Knight (RNO) | ||
| 6 May 2025[9] | Björn Skúlason |  Iceland | First Gentleman of Iceland | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) |
See also
References
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- ↑ "Statsbesök till Estland". Kungl. Hovstaterna. 2023-05-02. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ↑ "Statsbesök från Frankrike". Kungahuset (in Swedish). 2024-01-31. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
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- ↑ "Ruotsalainen tyyliasiantuntija HS:lle: "Suzanne Innes-Stubbin puku korkeaa Hollywood-tasoa"". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 2024-04-23. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
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- ↑ Hansson, Agneta Wikman, Beatrice Aspevall Diedrich, Denise Bäckström, Rut Norda, Andreas Wladis, Patrik Nimberger (16 March 2021). "Blodförsörjning vid katastrofer – en nationell beredskap behövs". Läkartidningen (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 May 2025.
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