Notable Recipients
- Iceland national handball team (Silver medalists in handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics)
- Guðni Ágústson (Former Minister of Agriculture)
- David Architzel (Vice Admiral, US Navy)
- Knut O.H.A Hammarskjöld (Swedish Foreign Service)
- His Excellency Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (Current President of Iceland)
- Charles Cobb, U.S. Ambassador to Iceland
- Helgi Hallvarðsson (Captain, Icelandic Coast Guard)
- Guðmundur Kjærnested (Commander, Icelandic Coast Guard)
- George P.L. Walker (Vulcanologist)
- Michael D. Haskins (Vice Admiral, US Navy)
- Her Majesty Elizabeth II (queen of 16 states)
- Erling Blöndal Bengtsson (Cellist)
- Orri Vigfússon (Chairman of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund)
- Warren W. Rosenthal, awarded 1983
- His Majesty Carl XVI Gustav (King of Sweden)
- Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden
- Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
- Her Majesty Queen Sofía (Queen of Spain)
- Her Majesty Margrethe II (Queen of Denmark)
- His Majesty Harald V King of Norway
- Her Majesty Sonja Queen of Norway
- Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttir (violinist), awarded 1988
- Helgi Tomasson (New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet) awarded 1990
- Evelyn Stefansson Nef, awarded 2001
- Baldur Stefansson, awarded 2002
- Philip Cronenwett, awarded 2003
- Brad Leithauser (writer, poet, scholar), awarded 2005.
- Thorbergur Thorvaldson, cement chemist, awarded 1939.
- Rory McTurk, Professor of Icelandic Studies, University of Leeds, awarded 2007
- Her Excellency Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (former president of Iceland)
- William Paton Cleland (Surgeon)
- Anders Grubb, Professor of Clinical Chemistry, University of Lund, awarded 2007 for research on Icelandic hereditary diseases
- Helga Bachmann (actress)
- Jack T. Weir (Captain, US Navy) Awarded 1978
- Arthur Young (police officer)
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