List of people who have either received Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) or The Commonwealth equivalent: Officer of the Order of the [a Commonwealth country] (O[letter of country; OC for Canada, for example]). Unless bracketed otherwise, honourees are OBEs by default.
- Both Ant and Dec
- Bryan Adams (of Canada, and British Columbia)
- Jenny Agutter
- Brian W. Aldiss
- Gillian Anderson (Honourary)
- Wilbert Awdry
- Ralph Bagnold
- Ronnie Barker
- John Barry
- David Beckham
- Victoria Beckham
- Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Jane Birkin
- Malorie Blackman
- BRIAN BLESSED
- Brenda Blethyn
- Lionel Blue
- Pierce Brosnan (Honourary)
- Dora Bryan
- Frank Capra (Honourary)
- Len Cariou (of Canada)
- Robert Carlyle
- Jasper Carrott
- Roy Castle
- Ann Cleeves
- Martin Clunes
- Bruce Cockburn (of Canada)
- Joe Cocker
- Jackie Collins
- Robbie Coltrane
- Harry H. Corbett
- James Corden
- Bernard Cornwell
- Elvis Costello
- Douglas Coupland (of Canada, and British Columbia)
- Stuart Craig
- Bernard Cribbins
- Hume Cronyn (of Canada)
- Annette Crosbie
- Alan Cumming (formerly, returned his honour in 2023)
- Peter Cushing
- Charles Dance
- Jim Davidson
- Hunter Davies
- Russell T Davies
- Colin Dexter
- Peter Dickinson
- Clive Dunn
- Gerald Durrell
- Idris Elba
- Fenella Fielding
- Timothy Findley (of Canada)
- George Formby
- Edward Fox
- Michael J. Fox (of Canada)
- Victor Garber (of Canada)
- Alan Garner
- Mel Gibson (of Australia; Honourary)
- Stephen Graham
- Lorne Greene (of Canada)
- Richard Griffiths
- Monty Hall (of Canada)
- David Harewood
- Naomie Harris
- Patricia Hayes
- James Herbert
- James Herriot
- Joan Hickson
- Arthur Hiller (of Canada)
- Stanley Holloway
- Rachel House (of the New Zealand Order of Merit)
- Frankie Howerd
- Armando Iannucci
- Martin Jarvis
- Katherine Jenkins
- Toby Jones
- Cush Jumbo
- Judith Kerr
- Dick King-Smith
- W.P. Kinsella (of Canada)
- Keira Knightley
- Mark Knopfler
- Burt Kwouk
- Verity Lambert
- Mike Leigh
- Annie Lennox
- Gary Lightbody
- Jimmy Logan
- Des Lynam
- Miriam Margolyes
- Jean Marsh
- Helen McCrory
- Ewan McGregor
- Virginia McKenna
- Sarah McLachlan (of Canada)
- Michael Medwin
- George Miller (of Australia)
- Kylie Minogue
- Steven Moffat
- Peter Molyneux
- Bob Monkhouse
- L. M. Montgomery (of Canada)
- Mike Myers (of Canada)
- Sam Neill (Also a Knight Companion of the Order of New Zealand)
- James Nesbitt
- John Neville
- Sydney Newman (of Canada)
- Thandie Newton
- Leslie Nielsen (of Canada)
- Catherine O'Hara (of Canada)
- David Oyelowo
- Jimmy Page
- Geoffrey Palmer
- Ellis Peters
- Donald Pleasence
- Sarah Polley (of Canada)
- Pete Postlethwaite
- Charlotte Rampling
- Gordon Ramsay
- Eddie Redmayne
- Beryl Reid
- Ivan Reitman (of Canada)
- Arnold Ridley
- Jonathan Ross
- Talbot Rothwell
- J. K. Rowling
- The members of Rush (of Canada)note
- Peter Sallis
- Jane Seymour (Actress)
- William Shatner (of Canada)
- Michael Sheen (formerly, returned his honour in 2017)
- Howard Shore (of Canada)
- Martin Short (of Canada)
- Jean Simmons
- Josette Simon
- Sheridan Smith
- Timothy Spall
- Dusty Springfield
- Roger Taylor
- Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Sigrid Thornton (of Australia)
- Alex Trebek (of Canada)
- Alan Turing
- Shania Twain (of Canada)
- Taika Waititi (of the New Zealand Order of Merit)
- David Walliams
- Emily Watson
- Ruby Wax (Honourary)
- Hugo Weaving (of Australia; Honourary)
- Tom Wilkinson
- Richard Wilson
- Henry Winkler (Honourary)
- Edward Woodward
- Lucy Worsley
- Michael York
- Neil Young (of Canada)
