Date
|
Recipient
|
Grade
|
8 June 1947
|
Spain
? Caudillo
Francisco Franco
(1936?1975)
|
Collar
|
16 August 1947
|
Brazil
? President
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
(1946?1951)
|
Collar
|
20 December 1948
|
Chile
? Former president
Arturo Alessandri
(1920?1925; 1932-1938)
|
Grand Cross
|
1950
|
Peru
? President
Manuel Arturo Odria
(1948?1950; 1950-1956)
|
Collar
|
12 May 1950
|
United States
? General
Dwight Eisenhower
(1953?1961)
|
Grand Cross
|
4 April 1951
|
Netherlands
? Prince
Bernhard
(1948?1980)
|
Grand Cross
|
18 July 1952
|
Argentina
? First Lady
Eva Duarte de Peron
(1946?1952)
|
Extraordinary
|
19 February 1953
|
Chile
? President
Carlos Ibanez del Campo
(1927?1931; 1952?1958)
|
Collar
|
15 August 1954
|
Paraguay
? President
Alfredo Stroessner
(1954?1989)
|
Collar
|
2 February 1959
|
Italy
? Prime Minister
Antonio Segni
(1955?1957; 1959?1960)
|
Grand Cross
|
1960
|
Belgium
? King
Baudouin
(1951?1993)
|
Collar
|
8 May 1960
|
France
? President
Charles De Gaulle
(1959?1969)
|
Collar
|
June 1960
|
Germany
? Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer
(1949?1963)
|
Grand Cross
|
1 July 1960
|
Netherlands
? Queen
Juliana
(1948?1980)
|
Collar
|
4 July 1960
|
United Kingdom
? Queen
Elizabeth II
(1952?2022)
|
Collar
|
October 1960
|
Taiwan
? President
Chiang Kai-shek
(1950?1975)
|
Collar
|
9 April 1961
|
Italy
? President
Giovanni Gronchi
(1955?1962)
|
Collar
|
8 July 1961
|
Bolivia
? President
Victor Paz Estenssoro
(1952?1956; 1960?1964; 1985?1989)
|
Collar
|
8 December 1961
|
Thailand
? King
Bhumibol Adulyadej
(1946?2016)
[2]
|
Collar
|
Thailand
? Queen
Sirikit
(1950?2016)
|
Grand Cross
|
Thailand
? Prime Minister
Sarit Thanarat
(1959?1963)
[3]
|
Grand Cross
|
22 March 1962
|
United Kingdom
? Prince
Philip
(1952?2021)
|
Grand Cross
|
10 May 1965
|
Iran
? Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
(1941?1979)
|
Collar
|
Iran
? Shahbanu
Farah Pahlavi
(1961?1979)
|
Grand Cross
|
15 September 1965
|
Italy
? President
Giuseppe Saragat
(1964?1971)
|
Collar
|
29 October 1965
|
Chile
? President
Eduardo Frei Montalva
(1964?1970)
|
Collar
|
1966
|
Cambodia
? King
Norodom Sihanouk
(1941?1970, 1993-2004)
|
Collar
|
25 March 1966
|
Denmark
? Princess
Margrethe
(1940?1972;
Queen
: 1972?
incumbent
)
|
Grand Cross
|
18 September 1967
|
Norway
? King
Olav V
(1957?1991)
|
Collar
|
1970
|
Ethiopia
? Emperor
Haile Selassie
(1930?1974)
|
Collar
|
18 April 1971
|
Costa Rica
? President
Jose Figueres Ferrer
(1948?1949; 1953?1958; 1970?1974)
|
Collar
|
13 October 1971
|
Peru
? President
Juan Velasco Alvaro
(1968?1975)
|
Collar
|
1972
|
South Korea
? President
Park Chung-hee
(1962-1979)
|
Collar
|
Indonesia
? President
Suharto
(1968-1998)
|
Collar
|
Indonesia
? First Lady
Siti Hartinah
(1968-1998)
|
Grand Cross
|
16 June 1973
|
Spain
? President
Luis Carrero Blanco
(1973)
|
Grand Cross
|
5 March 1974
|
Romania
? President
Nicolae Ceausescu
(1967?1989)
|
Collar
|
Romania
? First Lady
Elena Ceausescu
(1974?1989)
|
Grand Cross
|
1976
|
Chile
? President
Augusto Pinochet
(1973-1990)
[4]
|
Grand Cross
|
4 March 1978
|
Peru
? President
Francisco Morales Bermudez
(1975?1980)
|
Collar
|
1 December 1978
|
Spain
? King
Juan Carlos I
(1975?2014)
|
Collar
|
Spain
? Queen
Sofia
(1975?2014)
|
Grand Cross
|
8 October 1979
|
Japan
? Emperor
Hirohito
(1926?1989)
|
Collar
|
7 June 1985
|
Peru
? President
Fernando Belaunde Terry
(1963?1968; 1980?1985)
|
Collar
|
17 July 1986
|
Philippines
? President
Corazon Aquino
(1986?1992)
|
Collar
|
19 July 1986
|
Saudi Arabia
? King
Fahd
(1982?2005)
|
Collar
|
28 July 1986
|
Brazil
? President
Jose Sarney
(1985?1990)
|
Collar
|
5 July 1990
|
Brazil
? President
Fernando Collor de Mello
(1990?1992)
|
Collar
|
27 August 1990
|
Chile
? President
Patricio Aylwin
(1990?1994)
[5]
|
Collar
|
1991
|
Malaysia
? Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohamad
(1981?2003, 2018-2020)
[6]
[
better source needed
]
|
Grand Cross
|
1992
|
Morocco
? King
Hassan II
(1961?1999)
|
Collar
|
Jordan
? King
Hussein
(1952?1999)
|
Collar
|
11 May 1992
|
Egypt
? President
Hosni Moubarak
(1981?2011)
|
Collar
|
27 March 1994
|
Spain
? Infanta
Elena
(1963?1995)
|
Grand Cross
|
Spain
? Infanta
Cristina
(1965?1997)
|
Grand Cross
|
6 May 1994
|
Belgium
? Prince
Philippe
(1993?2013)
|
Grand Cross
|
1 December 1994
|
Croatia
? President
Franjo Tuđman
(1990?1999)
|
Collar
|
21 February 1995
|
Poland
? President
Lech Wał?sa
(1990?1995)
|
Collar
|
24 February 1995
|
South Africa
? President
Nelson Mandela
(1994?1999)
|
Collar
|
31 May 1995
|
Austria
? President
Thomas Klestil
(1992?2004)
[7]
|
Collar
|
14 March 1996
|
Lithuania
? President
Algirdas Brazauskas
(1992?1998)
|
Collar
|
8 April 1996
|
Brazil
? President
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
(1995?2002)
|
Collar
|
16 July 1996
|
Laos
? President
Nouhak Phoumsavanh
(1992?1998)
|
Collar
|
27 September 1996
|
Czech Republic
? President
Vaclav Havel
(1993?2003)
|
Collar
|
12 November 1996
|
Mexico
? President
Ernesto Zedillo
(1994?2000)
|
Collar
|
3 March 1997
|
Finland
? President
Martti Ahtisaari
(1994?2000)
|
Collar
|
7 April 1997
|
Hungary
? President
Arpad Goncz
(1990?2000)
|
Collar
|
9 April 1997
|
Thailand
? Prime Minister
Chavalit Yongchaiyudh
(1996?1997)
[8]
|
Grand Cross
|
21 April 1997
|
Spain
? President
Jose Maria Aznar
(1996?2004)
|
Grand Cross
|
28 April 1997
|
Haiti
? President
Rene Preval
(1996?2001; 2006-2011)
|
Collar
|
26 May 1998
|
Sweden
? King
Carl XVI Gustav
(1973?
incumbent
)
|
Collar
|
Sweden
? Queen
Silvia
(1976?
incumbent
)
|
Grand Cross
|
Sweden
? Princess
Lilian
(1976?2013)
|
Grand Cross
|
16 July 1998
|
United Nations
? Secretary-General
Kofi Annan
(1997?2006)
[9]
[
better source needed
]
|
Grand Cross
|
10 August 1998
|
Nicaragua
? President
Arnoldo Aleman
(1997?2002)
|
Collar
|
29 September 1998
|
Japan
? Prince
Akishino
(1990?
Incumbent
)
|
Grand Cross
|
2 December 1998
|
Japan
? Emperor
Akihito
(1989?2019)
|
Collar
|
Japan
? Empress
Michiko
(1989?2019)
|
Grand Cross
|
20 September 1999
|
Philippines
? President
Joseph Estrada
(1998?2001)
[10]
[
better source needed
]
|
Collar
|
15 May 2000
|
Paraguay
? President
Luis Gonzalez Macchi
(1999?2003)
[11]
[
better source needed
]
|
Collar
|
18 May 2000
|
Chile
? President
Ricardo Lagos
(2000?2006)
|
Collar
|
25 September 2000
|
Saudi Arabia
? Prince
Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz al Saud
(1982?2005)
|
Grand Cross
|
12 October 2000
|
Colombia
? President
Andres Pastrana Arango
(1998?2002)
|
Collar
|
14 March 2001
|
Italy
? President
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
(1999?2006)
|
Collar
|
21 August 2001
|
Dominican Republic
? President
Hipolito Mejia
(2000?2004)
|
Collar
|
15 November 2001
|
Portugal
? President
Jorge Sampaio
(1996?2006)
|
Collar
|
7 April 2003
|
Sovereign Order of Malta
? Prince and Grand Master
Fra' Andrew Bertie
(1988?2008)
|
Grand Cross
|
29 April 2003
|
Uruguay
? President
Jorge Batlle
(2000?2005)
|
Collar
|
7 December 2004
|
Morocco
? King
Mohammed VI
(1999?
incumbent
)
|
Collar
|
21 April 2008
|
Ecuador
? President
Rafael Correa
(2007?2017)
|
Collar
|
24 November 2008
|
Mexico
? President
Felipe Calderon
(2006?2012)
|
Collar
|
9 February 2009
|
Spain
? Princess
Letizia
(2004?2014)
|
Grand Cross
|
16 January 2011
|
Kuwait
? Emir
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
(2006?2020)
|
Collar
|
Kuwait
? Prince
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
(2006?2020)
|
Grand Cross
|
28 November 2012
|
Peru
? President
Ollanta Humala
(2011?2016)
|
Collar
|
8 May 2013
|
Venezuela
? President
Nicolas Maduro
(2013?
Incumbent
) / Revoked by President
Mauricio Macri
.
[12]
|
Collar
|
2016
|
Japan
? Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe
(2006?2007, 2012?2020)
[13]
|
Grand Cross
|
25 February 2016
|
France
? President
Francois Hollande
(2012?2017)
|
Collar
|
29 July 2016
|
Mexico
? President
Enrique Pena Nieto
(2012?2018)
|
Collar
|
8 August 2016
|
United Nations
? Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon
(2007?2016)
|
Grand Cross
|
9 August 2016
|
Australia
? Governor-General
Peter Cosgrove
(2014?2019)
|
Collar
|
22 February 2017
|
Spain
? King
Felipe VI
(2014?
Incumbent
)
|
Collar
|
27 March 2017
|
Netherlands
? King
Willem-Alexander
(2013?
incumbent
)
|
Collar
|
13 November 2017
|
United States
? Former president
Jimmy Carter
(1977?1981)
|
Grand Cross
|
8 May 2017
|
Italy
? President
Sergio Mattarella
(2015?
Incumbent
)
|
Collar
|
6 March 2018
|
Norway
? King
Harald V
(1991?
incumbent
)
|
Collar
|
2 December 2018
|
China
? President
Xi Jinping
(2013?
Incumbent
)
[14]
|
Collar
|
25 January 2021
|
Uruguay
? Former president
Jose Mujica
(2010?2015)
[15]
|
Collar
|