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 | Director | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | ||
| December 1976 | Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland | / | Princess of Sweden | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | |
| 1981 | Valeriu Munteanu | Lecturer | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | ||
| 1982 | Tellervo Koivisto | Spouse of the President of Finland | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||
| 2 November 1983 | Greta Garbo | Actress | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) | ||
| 9 February 1987 | Aníbal Cavaco Silva | President of Portugal | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||
| 6 October 1987 | Lars-Eric Lindblad | / | Entrepreneur and Explorer | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | |
| 1988 | Henry Segerstrom | Entrepreneur | Commander (KNO) | ||
| Ann-Margret | / | Actress, Singer and Dancer | |||
| 1994 | Eeva Ahtisaari | Spouse of the President of Finland | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||
| 1996 | Göran Wide | Mayor | Commander (KNO) | ||
| 17 February 2005 | Thamnoon Wanglee | Director | |||
| 22 May 2006 | Waldemar Schmidt | Director | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | ||
| 10 April 2007 | Mohammed Al-Amoudi | / | Businessman and Sheikh | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) | |
| Mrs. Alice Cheng | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||||
| 9 May 2008 | Maria Cavaco Silva | First Lady of Portugal | |||
| 25 November 2008 | Jaakko Smolander | Vice Admiral | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) | ||
| 16 May 2009 | Dan Ekholm | Editor-in-chief | Commander (KNO) | ||
| 20 October 2009 | Marc de Gouvenain | Translator | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | ||
| 1 February 2010 | Jussi Helminen | 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 | Producer | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | ||
| 17 March 2010 | Tomaz Jervell | Honorary Consul | Commander (KNO) | ||
| 21 April 2010 | Carlos de Vasconcelos | ||||
| 4 May 2010 | Michael M. Wood | Ambassador | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||
| 1 June 2010 | Yohei Sasakawa | Director | Commander (KNO) | ||
| 23 July 2010 | Choe Chong-pil | professor | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | ||
| Choe Chong-dae | Chairman | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | |||
| 21 October 2010 | Jennifer Granholm | Governor | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) | ||
| 18 January 2011 | Evelin Ilves | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | |||
| 4 May 2011 | Anna Komorowska | ||||
| 17 April 2012 | Jenni Haukio | Spouse of the President of Finland | |||
| 30 May 2012 | Kim Yoon-Ok | First Lady of South Korea | |||
| 24 October 2012 | Estela de Carlotto | Human rights activist | |||
| 6 June 2013 | Christopher O'Neill | / | Consort to Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, as well as a Businessman | Commander (KNO) | |
| 27 June 2013 | Colin Carlile | / | |||
| 26 September 2013 | Michael M. Kaiser | Chief of the Kennedy Center | |||
| 13 May 2014 | Peter Sutherland | UN Special Envoy for Migration and Development | |||
| 9 July 2014 | Antoine Cohen-Potin | Knight 1st Class (RNO1kl) | |||
| 4 March 2015 | Carl Haglund | Finlands Minister of Defence | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||
| 12 March 2015;recalled 7 May 2019 | Theatre director and photographer | ||||
| 10 April 2015 | Else Marie Friis | professor | Member 1st Class (LNO1kl) | ||
| 3 November 2016 | Laura Codruţa Kövesi | Chief Prosecutor of the Romanian Anti-Corruption Agency | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) | ||
| 14 June 2019 | Kim Jung-sook | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | |||
| 10 December 2019 | Nivaldo Luis Rossato | Chief of the Brazilian Air Force | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) | ||
| 17 September 2021 | Timo Kivinen | Finnish Army General | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||
| 6 July 2022 | Andrii Plakhotniuk | Ambassador | Commander 1st Class (KNO1kl) | ||
| 1 September 2022 | Tan Peng Yam | Head Researcher of the Singaporean Ministry of Defence | |||
| 29 September 2023[1] | -- auto-translated from Swedish by Module:CS1 translator --> | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | |||
| 30 January 2024[2] | |||||
| 21 March 2024[3] | -- auto-translated from Swedish by Module:CS1 translator --> (in Swedish) Kungl. Maj:ts Orden | ||||
| / | professor | ||||
| Knight (RNO) | |||||
| 23 April 2024[4] | Commander Grand Cross (KmstkNO) | ||||