The Bavarian Order of Merit (german: Bayerischer Verdienstorden) is the

Order of Merit The Order of Merit (french: link=no, Ordre du Mérite) is an order of merit for the Commonwealth realms, recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture. Established in 1902 by K ...

of the

Free State of Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

. It is awarded by the Minister-President of Bavaria as a "recognition of outstanding contributions to the Free State of Bavaria and the Bavarian people". The order was instituted by law on 11 June 1957. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet can nominate awardees.

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* Princess Christa of Thurn and Taxis *

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* Brigitte Fassbaender * Hans-Josef Fell * Ludwig Fellermaier * Markus Ferber * Wolfgang Fikentscher * Ernst Otto Fischer * Max Fischer (politician) * Friedrich Flick * Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis * Ludwig Franz * Joseph von Fraunhofer * Gottlob Frick * Ingo Friedrich * Karl von Frisch * Cornelia Froboess * Karl Fuchs (politician) * Joachim Fuchsberger * Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött * Maria Furtwängler * John Galvin (general) * Georg Gänswein * Charles de Gaulle * Peter Gauweiler * Martina Gedeck * Rudolf Geiger * Willi Geiger (painter) * Uschi Glas * Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis * Peter Glotz * Nora-Eugenie Gomringer * Alfons Goppel * Josef Göppel * Silvia Görres * Eveline Gottzein * Franz Götz (politician) * Hugo Grau * Ulrich Grigull * Monika Gruber * Max Grundig * Enoch zu Guttenberg * Wolfgang Haber * Peter Häberle * Otto von Habsburg * Dietmar Hahlweg * Ingeborg Hallstein * Bernhard Häring * Anja Harteros * Gerda Hasselfeldt * Johannes Heesters * Robert Heger * Werner Heisenberg * Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck * Josef Henselmann * Wolfgang A. 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Rosenmüller * Philip Rosenthal (industrialist) * Claudia Roth * Joseph Rovan * Sep Ruf * Ivo Sanader * Carl Sattler * Dieter Sattler * Robert Sauer (mathematician) * Wolfgang Sawallisch * Lotte Schädle * Georg Schäfer (industrialist), Georg Schäfer * Anna Schaffelhuber * Fritz Schäffer * Franz Schausberger * Marianne Schech * Volker Schlöndorff * Michael Schmaus * Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden * Christian Schmidt (politician) * Horst R. Schmidt * Heinz Schmidtke * Franz Schnabel * Gabriele Schnaut * Peter Schneider (conductor) * Hanns-Martin Schneidt * Jürgen E. Schrempp * Theobald Schrems * Wolfgang Schüssel * Ernst Schwarz (philologist) * Bastian Schweinsteiger * Roland Schwing * Hanna Schygulla * Hans-Christoph Seebohm * Horst Seehofer * Alwin Seifert * Kurt Semm * Hans Joachim Sewering * Ralph Siegel * Queen Silvia of Sweden * Erika Simon * Elke Sommer * Jutta Speidel * Friede Springer * Franz Stadler * Josef Stangl * Heinz Starke * Franz-Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg * Francesco Stefani (film director) * Gisela Stein * Erika Steinbach * Udo Steiner * Josef Stingl * Edmund Stoiber * Franz Josef Strauss * Florian Streibl * Max Streibl * Kurt Suttner * Peter Tamm * Jack Terry * Hans Thamm * Pierre-Marie Théas * Heinz Hermann Thiele * Hertha Töpper * Luis Trenker * Konstantinos Tsatsos * Christian Ude * Erich Valentin * Astrid Varnay * Günter Verheugen * Michael Verhoeven * Konstanze Vernon * Oskar Vierling * Joseph Vilsmaier * Rudolf Voderholzer * Hans-Jochen Vogel * Kurt Vogel (historian) * Miriam Vogt * Karl Vötterle * Franz Vranitzky * Hermann Wagner * Wolfgang Wagner * Theo Waigel * Luggi Waldleitner * Ulrich Walter * Herbert Walther * Felix Wankel * Markus Wasmeier * Friedrich Weber (general) * Bernd Weikl * Grete Weil * Joseph Wendel * Friedrich Wetter * Egon Wiberg * Bernhard Wicki * Georg Wieter * Wolfgang Wild (physicist) * Ulrich Wilhelm * Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker * Fritz Winter * Notker Wolf * Hanns Egon Wörlen * Carl Wurster * Hans F. 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