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List of current honorary knights and dames of the Order of the British Empire

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This is a list of current honorary knights and dames of the Order of the British Empire.

Grand Cross Star of the Order of the British Empire

Honorary knights and dames edit

Grand cross (GBE) edit

Name Post-nominal Country Year appointed
  Taher Masri GBE Jordan 1988
  Zsigmond Járai GBE Hungary 1999[1]
  George J. Mitchell GBE United States 1999[1]
  Nicola Mancino GBE Italy 2000[1]
  Luciano Violante GBE Italy 2000[1]
  Ratan Tata GBE AO India 2014[2]

Commander (KBE/DBE) edit

 
Knight/Dame Commander Star of the Order of the British Empire

Military ranks listed denotes the awarded being in the military division.

Military rank Name Post-nominals Country Year appointed
  Mohamed Ennaceur KBE Tunisia 1980[3]
  Daoud Hanania KBE Jordan 1984
  Bob Geldof KBE Ireland 1986
  Alfred Brendel KBE Austria 1989
  Anand Panyarachun KBE Thailand 1996
  Clóvis Carvalho KBE Brazil 1997[1]
  Teotonio Vilela Filho KBE Brazil 1997[1]
  Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira KBE Brazil 1997[1]
  José Israel Vargas KBE Brazil 1997[1]
  Jürgen Gehrels KBE Germany 1997[1]
  Graça Machel DBE Mozambique 1997[4]
  Jacques de Larosière KBE France 1998[1]
General   Klaus Naumann KBE Germany 1998
  Nobuhiko Kawamoto KBE Japan 1998[1]
  William J. Perry KBE United States 1998[1]
Lieutenant General   Lajos Urban KBE Hungary 1999[1]
  Bruno Ferrante KBE Italy 2000[1]
  Francesco Rutelli KBE Italy 2000[1]
  Gabriele Albertini KBE Italy 2000[1]
  Giovanna Melandri DBE Italy 2000[1]
  Riccardo Muti KBE Italy 2000[1]
  Sergio Mattarella KBE Italy 2000[1]
General   Mario Arpino KBE Italy 2000[1]
  Paolo Peluffo KBE Italy 2000[1]
Admiral   Sergio Biraghi KBE Italy 2000[1]
General   Wesley Clark KBE United States 2000[1]
General   Hugh Shelton KBE United States 2001[1]
  Louis V. Gerstner Jr. KBE United States 2001[1]
  Steven Spielberg KBE United States 2001[1]
  Alan Greenspan KBE United States 2002[1]
  Ann Murray DBE Ireland 2002[1]
  James Watson KBE United States 2002[5]
  Niall FitzGerald KBE Ireland 2002[1]
  Plácido Domingo KBE Spain 2002[1]
  Rudy Giuliani KBE United States 2002[1]
  Hiroshi Kitamura KBE Japan 2003[1]
  Sam E. Jonah KBE Ghana 2003[1]
  Noël Forgeard KBE France 2004[1]
  Bernard Kouchner KBE France 2004[1]
  Philippe Douste-Blazy KBE France 2004[1]
  Jean-François Lamour KBE France 2004[1]
  Dominique Perben KBE France 2004[1]
  Gilles de Robien KBE France 2004[1]
  Yusef Abdullah Al-Awadi KBE Kuwait 2004[1]
  Waldemar Dąbrowski KBE Poland 2004[1]
  Han Seung-soo KBE South Korea 2004[1]
  Esperanza Aguirre DBE Spain 2004[1]
  Murray Perahia KBE United States 2004[1]
General   Tommy Franks KBE United States 2004[1]
  Lawrence Gonzi KBE Malta 2004[1]
  Katsuhiko Machida KBE Japan 2005[1]
  Bill Gates KBE United States 2005[1]
  Donald Berwick KBE United States 2005[1]
  Fujio Cho KBE Japan 2006[1]
  Carlos Ghosn KBE Brazil 2006[1]
  Klaus Schwab KBE Germany 2006[1]
Admiral   Frank Bowman KBE United States 2006[1]
  Franklin Miller KBE United States 2006[1]
General   T. Michael Moseley KBE United States 2006[1]
  Ben Verwaayen KBE Netherlands 2007[6]
  Bono KBE Ireland 2007[7]
  Jean-Pierre Garnier KBE France 2008[8]
  Tiong Hiew King KBE Malaysia 2009[9]
  Arun Sarin KBE India 2010[10]
  Moza bint Nasser DBE Qatar 2010[10]
  Daniel Barenboim KBE Argentina 2011[11]
  Louis Gallois KBE France 2011[12]
  Ray O'Rourke KBE Ireland 2011[12]
  Bernard Arnault KBE France 2012[13]
  Kotaro Ono KBE Japan 2012[13]
  Mark Pigott KBE United States 2012[13]
  Jean Stéphenne KBE Belgium 2013[14]
  Hisashi Hieda KBE Japan 2013[14]
  Choi Mun-kee KBE South Korea 2013[14]
  Yoon Sang-jick KBE South Korea 2013[14]
  Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi DBE United Arab Emirates 2013[14]
  Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan KBE United Arab Emirates 2013[14]
  Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan KBE United Arab Emirates 2013[14]
  Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum KBE United Arab Emirates 2013[14]
  Melinda Gates DBE United States 2013[14]
Admiral   Édouard Guillaud KBE France 2014[2]
  Haruo Naito KBE Japan 2014[2]
  Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel KBE Saudi Arabia 2014[2]
  Michael Bloomberg KBE United States 2014[2]
  John Franklyn Mars KBE United States 2014[2]
  Hermann Hauser KBE Austria 2015[15]
  Xavier Rolet KBE France 2015[15]
  Mark Getty KBE Ireland 2015[15]
  Martin Naughton KBE Ireland 2015[15]
  Ana Botín DBE Spain 2015[15]
  Aurelio Nuño Mayer KBE Mexico 2015[15]
  Claudia Ruiz Massieu DBE Mexico 2015[15]
  Emilio Chuayffet KBE Mexico 2015[15]
  Pedro Joaquín Coldwell KBE Mexico 2015[15]
  Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal KBE Mexico 2015[15]
  Juan José Guerra Abud KBE Mexico 2015[15]
  Luis Videgaray Caso KBE Mexico 2015[15]
General   Roberto Miranda Moreno KBE Mexico 2015[15]
  Kevin Spacey KBE United States 2015[15]
General   Martin Dempsey KBE United States 2016[16]
  Edna O'Brien DBE Ireland 2017[17]
  Paul Polman KBE Netherlands 2017[17]
  Pauline Philip DBE Ireland 2017[17]
  Ralph Lauren KBE United States 2017[17]
  Vitit Muntarbhorn KBE Thailand 2018[18]
  Alexander Rinnooy Kan KBE Netherlands 2018[18]
  Francis Yeoh KBE Malaysia 2019[19]
  Tumani Corrah KBE The Gambia 2019[19]
General   Joseph Dunford KBE AO United States 2020[20]
  Esa-Pekka Salonen KBE Finland 2020[20]
  Philip Bobbitt KBE United States 2021[21]
  Christiana Figueres KBE Costa Rica 2022[22]
  Robert Iger KBE United States 2022[22]
  John Williams KBE United States 2022[22]
  Jeffrey Cheah KBE AO Malaysia 2023[23]
  Vladimir Jurowski KBE Russia 2024[24]
  Wei Shen Lim KBE Singapore 2024[24]
  Sunil Mittal KBE India 2024[24]
  Stephen A. Schwarzman KBE United States 2024[24]
General   Mark Milley KBE United States 2024[24]
  Pierre Joxe KBE France

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