Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Names
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- Akio Morita
- Alan Greenspan * 1926
- Albert Guérisse
- Alfred Brendel * 1931
- Alfred Dudley Ward * 1905
- Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, emir of the State of Qatar * 1895
- Alistair Cooke * 1908
- Andreas Michalakopoulos
- Andrew Caldecott * 1884
- Antal Doráti
- Anthony Cecil Capel Miers * 1906
- Anthony James Leggett * 1938
- Anthony Mason * 1925
- Antony Sher * 1949
- Archibald Edward Nye * 1895
- Archibald James Halkett Cassels * 1907
- Arnaldo Momigliano
- Arthur Coningham * 1895
- Arthur Edwin Young * 1907
- Arthur Henry Rostron * 1869
- Arthur Lehman Goodhart * 1891
- Arthur Whitten Brown * 1886
- Asher Alexander Joel * 1912
- Augustus Daniel
- Badlishah, Sultan of Kedah * 1894
- Barry Domvile
- Basil Embry
- Bernard Haitink
- Billy Graham
- Bob Hope
- Brent Scowcroft
- Brian Barratt-Boyes
- Brian Horrocks
- Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape
- Bruce Keogh
- Bruce White
- Byron Price
- Carlos Ghosn
- Cecil Howard Green
- Cecil Wakeley
- Charles Alfred Payton
- Charles Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay
- Charles Bathurst, 1st viscount Bledisloe * 1867
- Charles Close
- Charles Cotton
- Charles Cutler
- Charles Galton Darwin * 1887
- Charles Maclean, Baron Maclean
- Charles Royds
- Christopher Hinton
- Christopher Ondaatje
- Clement Anderson Montague-Barlow, 1st baronet Montague-Barlow * 1868
- Colin Archibald Sinclair
- Cyril Jackson
- Cyril Walsh
- Daniel Stewart Thomas Bingham Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran * 1912
- Daryl Dawson
- David Brunt
- David Chilton Phillips
- David Hallifax
- David Hand
- David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood
- David Nickson, Baron Nickson
- David Orme Masson
- Dean Rusk
- Dermot Boyle
- Dick White
- Donald Dunstan
- Donald Tsang
- Dudley Williams
- Dugald Clark
- Edgar Sengier * 1879
- Edgeworth David
- Edmund Castell Bacon
- Edric Bastyan * 1903
- Edward Cadogan
- Edward Hamilton Seymour, 16th duke of Somerset * 1853
- Edward McTiernan
- Edward R. Murrow
- Ernest Dunlop Swinton
- Ernest Gaunt
- Ernest Pollock, 1st viscount Hanworth
- Eugene Ormandy * 1899
- Fabian Ware
- Francis Festing
- Frank Aydelotte
- Frank Bowman
- Frank Kitto
- Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- Frank Messervy
- Franklin Charles Gimson
- Freddie de Guingand
- Frederick Browning
- Geoffrey Scoones
- Georg Solti
- George Adlington Syme
- George Gordon-Lennox
- George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe * 1918
- Gerald Templer
- Gerard Brennan
- Giffard LeQuesne Martel
- Godfrey Collins
- Guy Green
- Guy Standing
- Hall Caine
- Hans Rausing * 1926
- Harold Kroto
- Harold Scott
- Harold Spencer Jones
- Harri Holkeri * 1937
- Harry Gibbs
- Harry Legge-Bourke
- Hedley Atkins
- Henry Royds Pownall
- Henry Thornton
- Herbert Austin
- Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th duke of Bedford * 1858
- Horace Robertson
- Howard Kippenberger
- Hubert Ashton
- Hugh Beaver
- Hugh Saunders
- Ira Clarence Eaker
- Ismail, Sultan of Johor * 1894
- Iven Giffard Mackay
- Iven Mackay
- Ivor Jennings
- Jack Baldwin
- Jack Cater
- James Cardinal Freeman
- James Harford
- James Molyneaux
- James Olive
- James Pitman
- James Rowland
- James Somerville
- James Weatherall
- James Whiteside McCay
- John Adams
- John Alcock
- John Campbell Boot, 2nd Baron Trent * 1889
- John Cheshire
- John Collins
- John Crichton-Stuart, 6th marquess of Bute * 1933
- John Crocker
- John Cunningham McLennan
- John Edgar Hoover * 1895
- John Grandy
- John Guise
- John Henry Bremridge
- John Holmes
- John James Cowperthwaite
- John Latham
- John Polkinghorne
- John Roundell Palmer, 4th earl of Selborne * 1940
- John Smith Flett
- John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey
- Joseph Louis Anne Avenol
- Joseph Petavel
- Julius Chan
- Kamisese Mara
- Keith Aickin
- Keith Park
- Kenneth Alexander Keith, baron Keith of Castleacre * 1916
- Kyffin Williams
- Lala Sukuna
- Lancelot Royle
- Leonard Huxley * 1860
- Leonard Lord
- Leonard Monk Isitt
- Leslie Martin
- Leslie Morshead
- Lewis Heath
- Lewis Mumford
- Louis Joxe * 1901
- Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
- Louis W. Tordella
- Mahmud, Crown Prince of Kedah * 1876
- Mario Praz
- Mark Oliphant
- Mark Wayne Clark
- Maurice Bridgeman
- Maurice Druon * 1918
- Max Page
- Michael Gonzi
- Miles Warren
- Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare
- Murray Perahia
- Neil Hamilton Fairley
- Niall FitzGerald
- Noel Beresford-Peirse
- Noel Power
- Norman Cardinal Gilroy
- Owen Chadwick
- Owen Dixon
- Owen Wansbrough-Jones
- Patrick Palmer
- Patrick Pery, 6th earl of Limerick
- Paul Mellon * 1907
- Penaia Ganilau * 1918
- Percy Hobart
- Percy Mills, 1st viscount Mills
- Percy Sillitoe
- Percy Spender
- Pete Musser
- Peter Blake
- Peter Crill
- Peter de la Billière
- Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken
- Peter Parker
- Philip Neame
- Philip Vian
- Phillip Bennett
- Piers Jacobs
- Raleigh Grey
- Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, 1st baron Dahrendorf * 1929
- Richard Nelson Gale
- Richard Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 10th duke of Buccleuch and 12th of Queensberry * 1954
- Richard Williams
- Robert Boothby
- Robert George
- Robert Thompson
- Robert Worcester
- Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon
- Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire
- Roderick Carr
- Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st viscount Novar
- Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
- Ronald Scobie
- Ronald Wilson
- Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Martin Macnaghten * 1869
- Sam E. Jonah
- Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg * 1889
- Sir Charles Patrick Amyatt Hull * 1865
- Sir Christopher Brooke Quentin Wallace * 1943
- Sir David Akers-Jones * 1927
- Sir David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles * 1904
- Sir David Robert Ford * 1935
- Sir Denis Blundell * 1907
- Sir Errol Manners * 1883
- sir Jacob Epstein
- Sir John Frederick Rossiter * 1913
- Sir John George Melvin Compton * 1925
- Sir Ninian Martin Stephen * 1923
- Sir Ormonde de l'Epee Winter * 1875
- Sir Oswald Nigel Amherst Cecil * 1925
- Sir Peter William Beckwith Ashmore * 1921
- Sir Raymond Hoffenberg * 1923
- Sir Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne * 1865
- Sir Richard Hull Swinburn * 1937
- Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st baronet McAlpine * 1847
- Sir Thomas Chalmers Hetherington * 1926
- Sir William Deane * 1931
- Spike Milligan
- Stanley Argyle
- Stanley Burbury
- Stanley Reed
- Steve Bocaranda
- Sultan Ismail
- Tam Galbraith
- Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, king of Tonga * 1918
- Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins
- Terry Wogan
- Thaddeus McCarthy
- Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh * 1950
- Thomas Bennett
- Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan * 1895
- Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow * 1883
- Thomas Francis Wade
- Thomas Ralph Merton
- Thomas Sopwith
- Thomas William Moffett
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Tom Foley
- Tommy Franks
- Tony O'Reilly
- Trevor Bigham
- Victor Windeyer
- Vijay R. Singh
- Vincent Raven
- W. D. Ross
- Walter Hubert Annenberg * 1908
- Walter James Young
- Wesley Clark
- Wilfred Fullagar
- Wilfred Thesiger
- William Alec Coryton * 1895
- William Coaker
- William Dickson
- William Elliot * 1896
- William Gentry
- William George Penney
- William Hayward Pickering
- William Henry Davison, lord Broughshane * 1872
- William Lee Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket * 1864
- William Mabane, 1st Baron Mabane
- William Owen
- William Rooke Creswell
- William Trevor
- William Webb
- Yang Ti-liang
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Zaki Badawi
- Abdullah bin Khalifa, Sultan of Zanzibar * 1910
- Adrian Carton de Wiart * 1880
- Aga Khan IV * 1936
- Ailwyn Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn * 1855
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin * 1914
- Alfred Hitchcock * 1899
- Alfred Sherman * 1919
- André Previn * 1929
- Arthur Rubinstein * 1887
- Bill Deedes * 1913
- Bill Gates * 1955
- Bob Geldof * 1951
- Charlie Chaplin * 1889
- David Renton, baron Renton * 1908
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. * 1909
- Franco Zeffirelli * 1923
- Frank Whittle * 1907
- Frederick Banting * 1891
- George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th earl of Harewood * 1923
- Harold Acton * 1904
- Henri Deterding * 1866
- Henry Morton Stanley * 1841
- Jamshid bin Abdullah, Sultan of Zanzibar * 1929
- Jean Paul Getty II * 1932
- Magnus Magnusson * 1929
- P. G. Wodehouse * 1881
- Paddy Ashdown * 1941
- Pelé * 1940
- Plácido Domingo * 1941
- Roger Moore * 1927
- Rudy Giuliani * 1944
- Sadruddhin, prince Aga Khan * 1933
- Sidney Poitier * 1927
- Sir Edmund Hillary * 1919
- Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland * 1899
- Steven Spielberg * 1946
- Sumair Singhji, maharaja of Jodhpur * 1898
- William Onslow, 6th earl of Onslow * 1913
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