Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Names
Family filter On/Off- Alan Arthur Bates * 1934
- Alan Ayckbourn * 1939
- Alan Freeman
- Alan Howarth, 1st Baron Howarth of Newport * 1944
- Alan MacKenzie Howard * 1937
- Alan Mills
- Alan Thomas Grieve * 1928
- Alan Watson, 1st Baron Watson of Richmond
- Alastair Denniston
- Alastair Sim * 1900
- Albert Neuberger * 1908
- Alec Issigonis
- Alec Reeves
- Alex Moulton
- Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker * 1879
- Alexander McCall Smith * 1948
- Alfred Claud Hollis
- Alfred Stephen Collard * 1865
- Alison Brimelow
- Allan Gwynne-Jones
- Allen Curnow
- Amy Johnson
- Andrew Constable, Lord Constable
- Andrew Dilnot
- Andrew Grimwade
- Angela Baddeley
- Anson Chan
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th earl of Shaftesbury * 1869
- Anthony Dowell
- Anthony Epstein
- Anthony Howard
- Antony Head, 1st viscount Head * 1906
- Archibald Hill
- Arnold Horace Santo Waters
- Arthur Christopher John Soames, 1st Baron Soames * 1920
- Arthur Deakin
- Arthur Henry Cobby
- Arthur Koestler
- Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt
- Arthur Roden Cutler
- Arthur Samuel Allen
- Arthur Seaforth Blackburn
- Arthur Vere Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Prestbury
- Barbara Wilding
- Barnes Wallis
- Barry Cunliffe
- Bashir Mann
- Basil Brooke, 1st viscount Brookeborough * 1888
- Basil Lewis D'Oliveira * 1931
- Basil Weedon
- Ben Travers
- Benjamin Luxon
- Bennett Lewis
- Benno Moiseiwitsch
- Bernard Darwin
- Bernard Levin
- Bernard Miles
- Bert Hoffmeister
- Bill Barnard
- Bill Kenwright
- Bill Tilman
- Billy Connolly
- Billy Wright
- Bob Charles
- Bob Little
- Brian Burridge
- Brian Cox
- Brian May
- Brian Turner
- Bridget Riley
- Bryan Ronald Basset * 1932
- Bryn Terfel
- C. K. Stead
- C. P. Snow
- C. Thomas Elliott
- Carl Foreman
- Carl Jess
- Cathleen Nesbitt
- Cecil Day-Lewis * 1904
- Chad Varah * 1911
- Chai Patel * 1954
- Charles Causley
- Charles Drury
- Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy
- Charles Farncombe
- Charles Foulkes
- Charles Mackerras
- Charles Rees
- Charles Vere Wintour * 1917
- Chay Blyth
- Chris Brasher
- Chris J. Leaver
- Christopher Airy
- Christopher Smout
- Cliff Michelmore
- Colin Atkinson
- Colin Cowdrey
- Colin Davis
- Colin Jackson
- Colin Smith
- Constance Cummings
- Crawford W. Beveridge
- Cyril Hilsum
- Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall
- Dadie Rylands
- Dai Rees
- David Dimbleby
- David Evans
- David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th marquess of Aberdeen and Temair * 1908
- David Gilmour
- David Hand
- David James, Baron James of Blackheath
- David Keith-Lucas
- David Montgomery, 2nd viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- David Nickson, Baron Nickson
- David Pettifor
- David Plowright
- David Puttnam
- David Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham
- David Richards
- David Richards
- David Royston Bailey * 1938
- David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone
- David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury
- David Sproxton
- David Tyrrell
- David Wallace
- Deborah Warner
- Denholm Elliott
- Denis Rooke
- Derek Jacobi
- Derek Moore-Brabazon, 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara
- Dick Tiger
- Dietrich Küchemann
- Don Bennett
- Don McCullin
- Donald Davies
- Donald Gelling
- Donald Woods
- Dorothy Hill
- Douglas David Gracey
- Douglas Kendrew
- Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell * 1930
- Dudley Moore
- E. W. Swanton
- Ed Mirvish
- Edgar Archibald
- Edoardo Paolozzi
- Edward Bawden
- Edward Douglas Coke, 7th earl of Leicester * 1936
- Edward George Bowen
- Elizabeth David
- Elizabeth Jane Howard * 1923
- Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham * 1866
- Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Morgan * 1924
- Elspeth Howe, baroness Howe of Idlicote
- Elspeth Rosamund Morton Shand, Baroness Howe of Idlicote * 1932
- Emily Blatch, baroness Blatch
- Eric Newby
- Eric Sykes
- Eric Woodward
- Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse
- Ernest Clark
- Ernst Gombrich * 1909
- Esther Rantzen * 1940
- Fanny Waterman
- Felicity Kendal
- Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu’u II
- Fiona Shaw
- Florence Mary Taylor
- Florence Norman
- Frances Stevenson
- Francis Hill
- Frank Finlay
- Frank Howard Kirby
- Frank Hubert McNamara
- Frank Robert Miller
- Frankie Vaughan
- Frederick Coutts
- Frederick Ernest Osborne
- Frederick Gerard Peake
- Frederick Hayday
- Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity * 1935
- Garry Weston
- Geoffrey Baker
- Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill * 1921
- Geoffrey Walsh
- George Brumwell
- George Devine
- George Edward John Mowbray Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke * 1862
- George Edwards
- George Hubbard Makgill, 13th Viscount of Oxfuird * 1934
- George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen * 1866
- George Macaulay Trevelyan * 1876
- George Mallet
- George Martin
- George Merrick Long
- George Molesworth
- George P.S.W. Bulman
- George Radda
- George Rogers
- George Vasey
- Gerald Moore
- Gilbert Barling
- Gilbert Mitchison, Baron Mitchison
- Glenn Torpy
- Glyn Mason, 2nd Baron Blackford
- Godfrey Hounsfield
- Googie Withers
- Granville Conway
- Greer Garson
- Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston
- Guy Salisbury-Jones
- Guy Simonds
- H. E. Bates
- H. R. MacMillan
- Harnam Singh Grewal
- Harold Leslie White
- Harold Perrin
- Harold Pinter
- Harold Webbe
- Harry Butler
- Harry Secombe
- Harvey Weinstein
- Heathcote Howard Hammer
- Heather Brigstocke, baroness Brigstocke
- Helen Muir
- Henry Black
- Henry Guppy
- Henry Lipson
- Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway
- Henry Rymill
- Henry Simpson Newland
- Henry Underhill, Baron Underhill
- Herbert Bowden
- Herbert Lloyd
- Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt * 1916
- Howard Colvin
- Howard Graham
- Hugh Anthony Prince
- Hugh Michael Rose
- Hugh O'Flaherty
- Humbert Wolfe
- Humfrey Malins
- Humphrey Burton
- Husein Hasanally Abdoolcader
- Ian Bostridge
- Ian Fells
- Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale
- Ian Holm
- Ian McKellen
- Ida Haendel
- Imogen Holst * 1907
- Isobel Baillie
- Ivan Lloyd-Phillips
- J. M. Marcus Humphrey
- Jack Nixon Browne
- Jack Rosenthal
- Jacques Dextraze
- Jake Saunders
- James Anderson
- James Anderton
- James Burnell-Nugent
- James Cobban
- James Collip
- James Dunbar-Nasmith
- James Harrison
- James Henderson
- James Irvine
- James Whitehead
- James Wordie
- Jan Morris
- Jane Tewson
- Janet Finch
- Janet Frame
- Jean Batten
- Jean Victor Allard
- Joan Bakewell
- Joan Hanham, baroness Hanham
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- John Arbuthnott, 16th viscount of Arbuthnott * 1924
- John Ashford
- John Bayley
- John Berry of Tayfield
- John Besley Martin * 1906
- John Bray
- John Bryan Ward-Perkins
- John Carl Murchie
- John Carter
- John Chapple
- John Charles
- John Clements
- John Cooper
- John Cunningham
- John Dankworth * 1927
- John David Carew Graham * 1923
- John de Courcy Ling
- John Dennis Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo * 1915
- John Drummond
- John Dunwoody
- John Eliot Gardiner
- John Ferguson
- John Frederick Charles Fuller * 1878
- John French
- John Gardner
- John Hurt
- John Joseph Benedict Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth * 1919
- John Joseph Swaine
- John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne
- John Laws
- John Lawton
- John Leighfield
- John Lill
- John Matthew Mitchell
- John McCabe * 1939
- John McCallum
- John McCarthy
- John McManners
- John Michael Wallace-Hadrill * 1916
- John Mills
- John O'Sullivan
- John Pritchard
- John Raymond Broadbent
- John Raymond Broadbent
- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
- John Rothenstein
- John Sanctuary Nicholson
- John Schlesinger
- John Shirley-Quirk * 1931
- John Simpson
- John Stanley Plaskett
- John Stott
- John Summerson
- John Sydney Lethbridge
- John T. Houghton
- John Thaw
- John Tomlinson
- John Wodehouse, 3rd earl of Kimberley * 1883
- Johnnie Johnson
- Jonathan Bate
- Jonathan Edwards
- Jonathan Ive
- Jonathan Miller
- Jonathon Porritt
- Joseph Cyril Bamford
- Joseph Proudman
- Joyce Symons
- Julia King
- June Whitfield * 1925
- Karamjit Singh
- Keith Arbuthnott, 15th viscount of Arbuthnott * 1897
- Keith Hay
- Ken Morrison
- Ken Pounds
- Kenneth Adam
- Kenneth Beaumont
- Laura Davies
- Laura McLaren, baroness Aberconway
- Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie
- Len Cook
- Lena Townsend
- Lenny Henry
- Leonard Burt
- Leslie Banks
- Lionel Luckhoo
- Lloyd Geering
- Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard * 1916
- Louis MacNeice
- Louis Rasminsky
- Lowitja O'Donoghue
- Ludwig Guttmann
- Lynn Davies
- Malcolm Arnold
- Malcolm Longair
- Malcolm Wallace McCutcheon
- Malietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa
- Manolo Blahnik * 1942
- Marcia Falkender, baroness Falkender
- Margaret Lockwood
- Margaret Marshall Saunders
- Margaret Wingfield
- Maria Dickin
- Marius Goring
- Mark Norman
- Martin Davies
- Martin Gilbert
- Martin Johnson
- Martin Wood
- Mary Neal
- Mary Whitehouse
- Matt Busby
- Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting
- Matthew Pinsent
- Maureen Lipman
- Maurice Gibb
- Maurice Wilkins
- Melville MacNaghten
- Menzies Campbell * 1941
- Michael Brougham, 5th Baron Brougham and Vaux
- Michael Caine
- Michael Carver, Baron Carver
- Michael Gambon
- Michael Grade
- Michael Grant
- Michael Graydon
- Michael Hassell
- Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick
- Michael Palin
- Michael Parkinson
- Michael Turner
- Michael Walker
- Michael Wilford
- Michael William Stilwell * 1920
- Mike Fischer
- Mike Tomlinson
- Miles Francis Fitzalan-Howard, 17th duke of Norfolk * 1915
- Miles Warren
- Milton Fowler Gregg
- Moses I. Finley
- Muhammad, prince of Pahang
- Mukesh Kapila
- Muriel FitzRoy, 1st viscountess Daventry
- Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie
- Neil Mackie
- Nick Houghton
- Nigel Hawthorne
- Nikolaus Pevsner
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Norris McWhirter
- Olga Nethersole
- Oliver Leese
- Oliver Shewell Franks
- Onora O' Neill, baroness O' Neill of Bengarve * 1941
- Oonagh McDonald
- Ove Arup
- Patricia Broadfoot
- Patricia Routledge
- Patrick Caulfield
- Patrick Minford
- Patrick Moore
- Patrick Nuttgens
- Paul Daniel
- Paul Eddington
- Paul Scofield
- Paul Tyler, Baron Tyler
- Penelope Lively
- Peter Blake
- Peter Bowness
- Peter Darrell
- Peter Hall
- Peter Horsley
- Peter Karmel
- Peter Lord
- Peter Morley
- Peter Smith
- Peter Snow
- Peter Tsao
- Peter Williams
- Phil Redmond
- Philip Dowson
- Philip Jones
- Philip Langridge
- Philip Pullman
- Philip Toosey
- Phyllis Ross
- Priscilla Reyntiens
- Prunella Scales
- Quentin Blake
- R. J. Mitchell
- Rachel Whiteread
- Ralph Reader
- Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk
- Ray Cooney
- Ray Davies
- Redmond Watt
- Rees Davies
- Reginald Edmund Maghlin Russell * 1879
- Reginald Le Normand Brabazon, 13th earl of Meath * 1869
- Reginald Victor Jones
- Richard Alan Bonynge * 1930
- Richard Armstrong
- Richard Benyon * 1892
- Richard Briers
- Richard Burton * 1821
- Richard Dannatt
- Richard Davies
- Richard Deacon
- Richard Dimbleby
- Richard Eyre
- Richard Feachem
- Richard Hickox
- Richard Holmes
- Richard J. C. Atkinson
- Richard Johns
- Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn
- Richard Keynes
- Richard Leese
- Richard Lewis
- Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth
- Richard Meinertzhagen
- Robert Burchfield
- Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron * 1930
- Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig * 1926
- Robert Stopford
- Robert Wilson
- Robin Darwin
- Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran
- Robin Hodgson, Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
- Robin Knox-Johnston
- Robin Orr
- Roger Daltrey
- Roger McGough
- Roger Norrington
- Roger Wheeler
- Roger Wykeham Ellis * 1929
- Roland Beamont
- Roland Gibbs
- Rolf Harris
- Ron Dennis
- Ron Greenwood
- Ron Southern
- Ron Walker
- Ronald Harwood
- Ronald Neame
- Rosemary McKenna
- Roy Chadwick
- Rt. Rev. David Nigel de Lorentz Young, bishop of Ripon * 1931
- Ruari McLean
- Russell Coutts
- Samuel Findlay Clark
- Sherwood Lett
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Simon Callow
- Simon James Holliday Gray * 1936
- Simon Rattle
- Simon Russell Beale
- Sir Alec Victor Bedser * 1918
- Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne * 1923
- Sir Anthony David Pigott * 1944
- Sir Charles William Hayward * 1892
- Sir Christian John Storey Bonington * 1934
- Sir David Alan Chipperfield * 1953
- Sir Donald Alfred Sinden * 1923
- Sir John Betjeman * 1906
- Sir John Douglas Cockcroft * 1897
- Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith * 1923
- Sir Julian Errington Ridsdale * 1915
- sir Kingsley William Amis * 1922
- Sir Michael David Jackson * 1944
- Sir Michael Eliot Howard * 1922
- Sir Michael James Beetham * 1923
- Sir Michael John Hopkins * 1935
- Sir Miles Hunt-Davis * 1938
- Sir Peter Markham Scott * 1909
- Sir Ralph Howard Fowler * 1889
- Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister * 1929
- Sir Rogério "Roger" Hyndman Lobo * 1923
- sir Run Run Shaw * 1907
- Sir Stephen Harold Spender * 1909
- Sir Thomas Spencer Vaughan Phillips * 1888
- Sir William Dobbie * 1879
- Stanislaw Kopanski
- Stanley Matthews
- Stanley Sadie
- Stefan Terlezki
- Stephen Daldry
- Steve Redgrave
- Struther Arnott
- Stuart Piggott
- Sue MacGregor
- Susan Devoy
- Susan Greenfield
- Sydney Samuelson
- Tagge Webster
- Terence Thomas, Baron Thomas of Macclesfield
- Tessa Sanderson
- Thomas Allen
- Thomas Boswall Beach * 1866
- Thomas Brownrigg
- Thomas Griffiths
- Thomas Inskip, 1st viscount Caldecote * 1876
- Thomas Russell Fairgrieve
- Tim Razzall, Baron Razzall
- Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones
- Timothy Granville-Chapman
- Toby Austin Richard William Low, 1st baron Aldington * 1914
- Tom Clarke
- Tom Farmer
- Tom Kilburn
- Tom Lewis
- Tommy Trinder
- Trevor Brooking
- Trevor Graham Baylis * 1937
- Trevor Howard
- Trevor Nunn
- Trevor Pinnock
- Tupua Tamasese Mea'ole
- V. S. Pritchett
- Valerie Masterson
- Valerie Shawcross
- Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale
- Vidkun Quisling
- W. G. Hoskins
- Wallace Kyle
- Walter Hadlee
- Walter Walker
- Walter Winterbottom
- Wilfred Cass
- Wilfred Curtis
- Wilfred Kitching
- Will Thorne
- William Boyd
- William Coldstream
- William Dargie
- William Francis Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew
- William Gott
- William Herbert Laming, baron Laming * 1936
- William Jordan, Baron Jordan
- William Marshall Farquharson-Lang, 14th Laird of Finzean * 1908
- William Robertson
- William Thomas George Gates
- Yeung Kai Yin
- Zoë Wanamaker
- Alec Guinness * 1914
- Alex Ferguson * 1941
- Alexander Chancellor * 1940
- Alexander McQueen * 1969
- Anastasia, countess of Torby * 1892
- Angela Lansbury * 1925
- Angela Rumbold * 1932
- Anthony Hopkins * 1937
- Antonia Fraser * 1932
- Benedict Cumberbatch * 1976
- Bobby Charlton * 1937
- Bobby Robson * 1933
- Brian Close * 1931
- Brian Rix * 1924
- Bruce Forsyth * 1928
- Cecil Beaton * 1904
- Christopher Lee * 1922
- Darcey Bussell * 1969
- David Attenborough * 1926
- David Douglas-Home, 15th earl of Home * 1943
- David Ogilvy * 1911
- David Shepherd * 1931
- Deborah Kerr * 1921
- Doug Scott * 1941
- Edmund de Rothschild * 1916
- Elton John * 1947
- Eric Clapton * 1945
- Frederick Sanger * 1918
- Garry Runciman, 3rd viscount Runciman of Doxford * 1934
- Gertrude Bell * 1868
- Glenda Jackson * 1936
- Hilary Mantel * 1952
- Howard Hodgkin * 1932
- Ian William Richardson * 1934
- J. R. R. Tolkien * 1892
- Jill Paton Walsh * 1937
- Joel Joffe, baron Joffe * 1932
- John Farrow * 1904
- John Vereker, 6th viscount Gort * 1886
- Karan Bilimoria, baron Bilimoria
- Kumar Bhattacharyya, baron Bhattacharyya
- Laura Ashley * 1925
- Margaret Drabble * 1939
- Marion Stein * 1926
- Mick Jagger * 1943
- Nancy Mitford * 1904
- Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd countess Mountbatten de Burma * 1924
- Peregrine Cavendish, 12th duke of Devonshire * 1944
- Peter Brook * 1925
- Peter Sellers * 1925
- Peter T. Kirstein * 1933
- Peter Ustinov * 1921
- Petula Clark * 1932
- Raj Bagri, baron Bagri
- Richard Attenborough * 1923
- Richard Long, 4th viscount Long * 1929
- Robert G. Edwards * 1925
- Robert Hardy * 1925
- Roger Moore * 1927
- Ruth Henig, baroness Henig * 1943
- Ruth Rendell * 1930
- Sam Mendes * 1965
- Siân Phillips * 1933
- Stephen Hawking * 1942
- Sting * 1951
- Tom Finney * 1922
- Tom Stoppard * 1937
- Usha Prashar, baroness Prashar
- Vanessa Redgrave * 1937
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