An index for individuals who have been honoured with a peerage, knighthood, damehood, etc. arranged in order of distinction. note
For more information about the titles, please refer to Knight Fever.
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Dukes
Earls
Viscounts
Barons
Life Peers
- Jeffrey Archer
- Richard Attenborough
- James Callaghan
- Alec Douglas-Home (disclaimed hereditary peerage, later created life peer)
- Julian Fellowes
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Peter Mandelson
- Laurence Olivier
- David Owen
- Ruth Rendell
- Margaret Thatcher
- Harold Wilson
Knights of the Garter (KG)
Knights of the Thistle (KT)
Baronets
Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
- George H. W. Bush (Honourary)
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- Douglas MacArthur (Honourary)
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Order of Merit (OM)
Knights and Dames Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG/DCMG)
- Angelina Jolie (Honourary)
- Henry Kissinger (Honourary)
- Michael Palin
Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG)
Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)
Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)
- Gustav Mannerheim (Honourary)
Knights and Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE/DBE)
- Julie Andrews
- Peggy Ashcroft
- Shirley Bassey
- Bono (Honourary)
- Jorge Luis Borges (Honourary)
- Jane Campion (of New Zealand)
- Charlie Chaplin
- Agatha Christie
- Joan Collins
- Olivia de Havilland
- Judi Dench
- Daphne du Maurier
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (Honourary)
- H. Rider Haggard
- Wendy Hiller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Bob Hope (Honourary)
- Peter Jackson (of New Zealand)
- Penelope Keith
- Angela Lansbury
- Joanna Lumley
- Vera Lynn
- Ngaio Marsh
- Spike Milligan (Honourary)
- Helen Mirren
- Roger Moore
- Sam Neill (of New Zealand)
- Olivia Newton-John
- George S. Patton (Honourary)
- Siân Phillips
- Sidney Poitier (Honourary)
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Diana Rigg
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Maggie Smith
- Kevin Spacey (Honourary)
- Steven Spielberg (Honourary)
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Emma Thompson
- Twiggy
- Harriet Walter
- Julie Walters
- June Whitfield
- May Whitty
- Jacqueline Wilson
- Penelope Wilton
- Barbara Windsor
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Terry Wogan
Knights Bachelor
- C. Aubrey Smith
- Alan Bates
- Dirk Bogarde
- John Boorman
- Kenneth Branagh
- Michael Caine
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Nick Clegg
- Sean Connery
- Billy Connolly
- Noël Coward
- Ray Davies
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Ken Dodd
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sir Francis Drake
- Bruce Forsyth
- David Frost
- Michael Gambon
- Barry Gibb
- W.S. Gilbert
- Alec Guinness
- Cedric Hardwicke
- Rex Harrison
- Nigel Hawthorne
- Lenny Henry
- Ian Holm
- Anthony Hope
- Anthony Hopkins
- John Hurt
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Derek Jacobi
- Mick Jagger
- David Jason
- Elton John
- Tom Jones
- Ben Kingsley
- David Lean
- Christopher Lee
- Brian May
- Paul McCartney
- Trevor McDonald
- Ian McKellen
- Steve McQueen
- Sam Mendes
- John Mills
- Patrick Moore
- Van Morrison (as Sir George Morrison)
- Isaac Newton
- Alan Parker
- Terry Pratchett
- Jonathan Pryce
- Philip Pullman
- Michael Redgrave
- Carol Reed
- Tim Rice
- Cliff Richard
- Ralph Richardson
- Tony Robinson
- Salman Rushdie
- Mark Rylance
- Jimmy Savile
- Ridley Scott
- Harry Secombe
- Peter Shaffer
- Ringo Starr
- Patrick Stewart
- Rod Stewart
- David Suchet
- Arthur Sullivan
- Peter Ustinov
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)/Companions of the Order
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- Adele
- Gerry Anderson
- Ian Anderson
- Dan Aykroyd (of Canada)
- John Barrowman
- Paulette Bourgeois (of Canada)
- Melanie Brown
- Rob Brydon
- Karen Bryson
- Jackie Chan (Honourary)
- Kenneth Connor
- All the members of The Corrs (Honourary)
- Jim Dale
- Barbara Gowdy (of Canada)
- Graham Greene (of Canada)
- Rachel Griffiths (of Australia)
- David Haig
- Doris Hare
- George Harrison
- PJ Harvey
- Paul Hogan (of Australia)
- Guy Gavriel Kay (of Canada)
- Lucy Lawless (of the New Zealand Order of Merit)
- John Lennon
- Jerry Lewis (of Australia; Honourary)
- Guy Maddin (of Canada, and Manitoba)
- Margaret Mahy (of New Zealand)
- Gugu Mbatha Raw
- Colin McRae
- M.I.A.
- Vicki Michelle
- Mark Millar
- Tim Minchin (of Australia)
- Grant Morrison
- Temuera Morrison (of the New Zealand Order of Merit)
- Bill Owen
- Mike Pender
- Bill Pertwee
- Mike Peters
- David Prowse
- Pauline Quirke
- Wendy Richard
- Hiroyuki Sanada (Honorary)
- Robert J. Sawyer (of Canada)
- Ed Sheeran
- Jack Thompson (of Australia)
- The Tragically Hip members Rob Baker and Gord Downie (of Canada)
- Bonnie Tyler
- Peter Weir (of Australia)
- Ruth Wilson
