Order of Brilliant Star

• Name — Order of Brilliant Star • Presenter — President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) • Type — Medal with or without cordon • Eligibility — Civilian, either foreign or ROC national • Status — active • Established — 12 February 1941 • Higher — Order of Propitious Clouds

• Grades — Ribbon bar • 1st Class (Special Grand Cordon) — • 2nd Class (Grand Cordon) — • 3rd Class (Purple Grand Cordon) — • 4th Class (Special Cravat) — • 5th Class (Cravat) — • 6th Class (Special Rosette) — • 7th Class (Rosette) — • 8th Class (Special Ribbon) — • 9th Class (Ribbon) —

• Date Awarded — Recipient — Service Awarded For • 14 May 2025 — Anthony Chung-Yi Ho — Taiwanese diplomat to the Holy See • 6 February 2021 — Chow Wang — Secretary-General of The Coalition • 17 December 2015 — Pai Hsien-yung • 17 December 2015 — Yu Guangzhong • 5 October 2012 — Tseng Yung-chuan — Secretary-General of the Presidential Office • 24 February 2012 — Wu Jin-lin — Secretary-General of the Presidential Office • 17 February 2012 — Sean Chen — |Vice premier of the Republic of China • 31 January 2011 — Liao Liou-yi — Secretary-General of the Presidential Office • 9 November 2010 — Hsieh Tsai-chuan • 15 September 2009 — Paul Chiu — |Vice premier of the Republic of China • 15 September 2009 — Chan Chun-po — Secretary-General of the Presidential Office • 16 July 2009 — Chiu Hong-Da • 7 May 2008 — Mark Chen — Secretary-General of the Presidential Office • 20 May 2007 — Lee Jye — Minister of National Defence • 16 February 2006 — Paul Shan Cardinal Kuo-hsi, SJ — Roman Catholic Cardinal of Taiwan • 27 January 2006 — Wu Rong-i — |Vice premier of the Republic of China • 2 March 2005 — Su Tseng-chang — President of the Executive Yuan • 2 March 2005 — Yeh Chu-lan — Vice premier of the Republic of China • 19 May 2004 — Kang Ning-hsiang — Secretary-General of National Security Council • 19 May 2004 — Chiou I-jen — Secretary-General of the Presidential Office • 18 May 2004 — Tang Yao-ming — Minister of National Defence • 18 May 2004 — Lin Hsin-i — Vice premier of the Republic of China • 25 September 2003 — Lee Ming-liang — Head of Department of Health • 30 January 2003 — Chen Shimeng — Secretary-General of the Presidential Office • 4 February 2002 — Lai In-jaw — Vice premier of the Republic of China • 31 January 2002 — Yu Shyi-kun — Premier of the Republic of China • 6 September 2001 — Chuang Ming-yao — Secretary-General of National Security Council • 16 May 2000 — Yin Tsung-wen — Secretary-General of National Security Council • 16 May 2000 — Liu Chao-shiuan — Vice premier of the Republic of China • 2000 — Lin Rong-San • 3 August 1996 — Wu Po-hsiung — Secretary-General of the Presidential Office • 27 December 1994 — Kwoh-Ting Li — Minister of Finance & Minister of Economic Affairs • 16 April 1994 — Chiang Wei-kuo — Secretary-General of National Security Council • 2 March 1993 — Ta-You Wu — President of Academia Sinica • July 1978 — Yu Kuo-hwa — Premier of the Republic of China • 1961 — Jack C. K. Teng — Chairman of Chinese National Olympic Committee (Now Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee) • 10 October 1945 — Zhu Jiahua — Deputy President of Academia Sinica • 1944 — Chen Li-Fu — Senior Advisor of State • 1944 — Zhang Qun — Premier of the Republic of China • 1 January 1944 — Zhang Boling — President and founder of Nankai University

• Date Awarded — Recipient — Service Awarded For • 9 May 2024 — Hideo Tarumi — Japanese diplomat • 23 March 2023 — Robert O'Brien — U.S. National Security Advisor • 11 March 2022 — Edwin Laurent — St. Lucia Ambassador to the Republic of China • 3 March 2022 — Mike Pompeo — Former U.S. Secretary of State • 1 September 2015 — Ed Royce (2nd time) — Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs • 12 June 2017 — Reinaldo Pared Pérez — Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic • 8 April 2016 — Ludwig Keke — Ambassador of Nauru to Taiwan • 7 April 2016 — Paul Fitzpatrick Russell — Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of China • 15 September 2015 — Juan Afara — Vice President of Paraguay • 15 September 2015 — Hugo A. Velazquez — Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay • 31 July 2015 — Manuel Salvador dos Ramos — Minister of Foreign Affairs (São Tomé and Príncipe) • 31 July 2015 — Frederic Laplanche — head of the European Economic and Trade Office in Taipei • 26 July 2015 — Philip Kabua — Marshall Islands Ambassador to the Republic of China • 9 July 2015 — Caroline Vermeulen — Director of the Belgian Office in Taipei • 15 April 2015 — Christopher J. Marut — Director of the American Institute in Taiwan • 15 April 2015 — Calvin Eu — Head Trade Representative of the Singapore Trade Office in Taipei • 13 March 2015 — Ed Royce — Chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs • 17 July 2012 — William Stanton — Chairman of American Institute in Taiwan • 11 October 2011 — Donald Rumsfeld — Former U.S. Secretary of Defense • 3 June 2008 — Julio Guillermo González Gamarra — President of Central American Parliament • 19 May 2008 — Shintaro Ishihara — Governor of Tokyo • 15 April 2008 — Chikage Oogi — President of Japanese House of Councillors • 22 November 2006 — Yoshirō Mori — Former Prime Minister of Japan • 23 November 2004 — Václav Havel — Former President of the Czech Republic • May 2000 — Per Ahlmark — Support for democratization of Taiwan • 23 October 1969 — Mai Mai Gana — Nigerian state inspector • 23 October 1969 — Mouddou Zakara — Nigerian Minister of Telecommunications • May 1960 — Archie Lochhead — President of Universal Trading Corporation • March 1948 — Ronald Hall — Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao

• Date Awarded — Recipient — Service Awarded For • 6 May 2016 — Shen Lyu-shun — ROC Representative to the United States • 6 May 2016 — David Lin — Minister of Foreign Affairs, R.O.C. • 1 March 2016 — Bruce Cheng — Long-term and outstanding contributions to the country in terms of technology development, industrial upgrading and talent cultivation. • 14 November 2013 — Lo Chih-chiang — Deputy Secretary-General of the ROC Presidential Office • 2 May 2006 — Ang Lee — Outstanding service in film directing. The Presidential Office announced that Ang Lee will be honoured First Rank OBS in 2013. • 12 July 1975 — Fredrick Chien — Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, R.O.C. • 23 March 1966 — Yu-Tang Daniel Lew — Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, R.O.C.

• Date Awarded — Recipient — Service Awarded For • 6 May 2026 — Michael J. Fonte • 26 February 2026 — Sadaharu Oh — Japan-based baseball legend • 25 February 2026 — Andrea Clare Bowman — Vincentian diplomat to Taiwan • 23 January 2026 — Cheloy E. Velicaria-Garafil — Former Chairperson and Resident Representative of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office • 20 January 2026 — Markéta Pekarová Adamová — Former President of the Chamber of Deputies (Czech Republic) • 9 October 2025 — Candice Pitts — Belizean diplomat to Taiwan • 27 June 2025 — Ohashi Mitsuo — Former Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association Chairman • 3 June 2025 — Hilda C. Heine — President of the Marshall Islands • 2 May 2025 — Carlos José Fleitas Rodríguez — Paraguayan diplomat to Taiwan • 22 April 2025 — Roudy Stanley Penn — Haitian diplomat to Taiwan • 7 April 2025 — Ushio Shigeru • 14 January 2025 — Gabrielius Landsbergis — Lithuania Minester of Foreign Affairs • 3 January 2025 — Oscar Adolfo Padilla Lam — Guatemalan diplomat to Taiwan • 22 July 2024 — Filip Grzegorzewski — Head of the European Economic and Trade Office to Tiwan • 3 July 2024 — Sandra Oudkirk — Director of the American Institute in Taiwan • 21 December 2015 — David Alexander • 21 December 2015 — Etienne Georges Beauregard • 21 December 2015 — Andres Diaz de Rabago • 21 December 2015 — Daniel Freeman • 21 December 2015 — Theresa Kastner • 21 December 2015 — Fr. Gian Carlo Michelini • 21 December 2015 — Yves Moal • 21 December 2015 — Brendan O'Connell • 21 December 2015 — Antoine Pierrot • 21 December 2015 — Giovanni Rizz • 21 December 2015 — Juanelva Rose • 21 December 2015 — Miljenka Schnetzer • 17 September 1988 — Albert Allen Sealey • October 1980 — Pik Botha — South African Minister of Foreign Affairs • 1970 — Ta-Chung Liu — Economist • 1961 — |Tomás Gabriel Duque