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Below is a list of members of the Order of the Companions of Honour from the order's creation in 1917 until the present day.

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Blue denotes honorary members.

Yellow denotes living (ordinary) members.

Pink denotes royal companions.

Date	Name	Birth–Death	Area of achievement
4 June 1917	Jan Smuts	1870–1950	Statesman
4 June 1917	Harry Gosling	1861–1930	Politician and trade unionist
4 June 1917	The Marchioness of Lansdowne	1850–1932	Courtier and humanitarian
4 June 1917	Elizabeth Haldane	1862–1937	Suffragist, writer
4 June 1917	K. B. Quinan	1878–1948	Chemical engineer
4 June 1917	Sir Henry Smith	1863–1923	Civil servant
4 June 1917	The Lord Burnham	1862–1933	Newspaper proprietor and politician
4 June 1917	Sir Frank Swettenham	1850–1946	Colonial administrator
4 June 1917	Edward Strutt	1854–1930	Agriculturalist
4 June 1917	The Lord Faringdon	1850–1934	Financier and politician
4 June 1917	The Viscount Chetwynd	1863–1936	Industrialist
4 June 1917	William Ripper	1853–1937	Educationalist
4 June 1917	May Tennant	1869–1946	Civil servant and social reformer
4 June 1917	Violet Markham	1872–1959	Social reformer
4 June 1917	William John Davis	1848–1934	Trade unionist
4 June 1917	George Wardle	1865–1947	Politician
4 June 1917	Alexander Wilkie	1850–1928	Politician
1 January 1918	Sir John Furley	1836–1919	Humanitarian
1 January 1918	James Andrew Seddon	1868–1939	Politician and trade unionist
1 January 1918	James Parker	1863–1948	Politician
25 February 1918	Sir Alfred Keogh	1857–1936	Doctor, head of Army Medical Service
3 June 1918	Sir Herbert Perrott, Bt	1849–1922	Humanitarian
3 June 1918	Sir Samuel Provis	1845–1926	Civil servant
29 April 1919	Walter Layton	1884–1966	Economist and newspaper proprietor
29 April 1919	Sir Thomas Royden, Bt	1871–1950	Businessman and politician
1 January 1920	George Nicoll Barnes	1859–1940	Politician
1 January 1920	Philip Kerr	1882–1940	Diplomat
1 January 1921	Sir John Ellerman, Bt	1862–1933	Entrepreneur and shipping magnate
1 January 1921	John Clifford	1836–1923	Nonconformist minister
4 June 1921	The Viscount Dillon	1844–1932	Antiquary and heraldist
4 June 1921	Arthur Headlam	1862–1947	Bishop of Gloucester
4 June 1921	Sir William Robertson Nicoll	1851–1923	Church minister and journalist
2 January 1922	Sir Henry Jones	1852–1922	Philosopher
2 January 1922	Sir Henry Newbolt	1862–1938	Poet
2 January 1922	Joseph Havelock Wilson	1859–1929	Trade unionist
19 October 1922	Sir Hall Caine	1853–1931	Novelist
19 October 1922	Winston Churchill	1874–1965	Statesman
19 October 1922	Sir Evan Vincent Evans	1851–1934	Journalist and promoter of the Welsh national revival^[1]
19 October 1922	John Henry Jowett	1863–1923	Congregationalist minister^[2]
25 May 1923	J. C. C. Davidson	1889–1970	Conservative politician
1 January 1926	Wilson Carlile	1847–1942	Church Army founder
5 June 1926	Herbert Armitage James	1844–1931	Cleric and school administrator
1 January 1927	Hugh Sheppard	1880–1937	Anglican priest
9 May 1927	Stanley Bruce	1883–1967	Prime Minister of Australia
3 June 1927	John Jones	1865–1942	Congregational minister
4 June 1928	John Scott Haldane	1860–1936	Physiologist
1 March 1929	Florence, Lady Barrett	1867–1945	Gynaecologist
1 March 1929	John Carlile	1862–1941	Baptist minister, social reformer
1 March 1929	Lilian Baylis	1874–1937	Theatre producer
1 March 1929	Frederick Delius	1862–1934	Composer
30 April 1929	Bramwell Booth	1856–1929	Leader of The Salvation Army
3 June 1929	Thomas Jones	1870–1955	Civil servant and educationalist
1 January 1930	Maude Royden	1876–1956	Suffragist
1 January 1930	V. S. Srinivasa Sastri	1869–1946	Indian politician
1 January 1930	Gertrude Tuckwell	1861–1951	Trade unionist and social worker
3 June 1930	Margaret McMillan	1860–1931	Trade unionist
1 January 1931	Helena Swanwick	1864–1939	Feminist and pacifist
1 January 1931	Jane Harriett Walker	1859–1938	Medical doctor
3 June 1931	Albert Mansbridge	1876–1952	Educator
3 June 1931	Seebohm Rowntree	1871–1954	Industrialist and philanthropist
1 January 1932	John Buchan	1875–1940	Scottish author and Governor General of Canada
3 June 1932	E. V. Lucas	1868–1938	Writer
3 June 1932	Laurence Binyon	1869–1943	Poet
2 January 1933	Tubby Clayton	1885–1972	Priest and philanthropist
2 January 1933	John Scott Lidgett	1854–1953	Methodist priest and educationist
3 June 1933	Annie Horniman	1860–1937	Theatre manager
1 January 1934	Thomas Page	1850–1936	Classicist
3 June 1935	William Bruce	1858–1936	Lawyer, politician, educationalist
3 June 1935	John White	1867–1951	Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
1 January 1936	J. Dover Wilson	1881–1969	Shakespeare scholar
23 June 1936	Joseph Lyons	1879–1939	Prime Minister of Australia
23 June 1936	Janet Trevelyan	1879–1956	Writer
23 June 1936	Hugh MacDowell Pollock	1852–1937	Businessman and Ulster Unionist politician
23 June 1936	George Adams	1874–1966	Political scientist and academic
11 May 1937	Melbourn Aubrey	1885–1957	Baptist Union of Great Britain General Secretary
11 May 1937	John Alfred Spender	1862–1942	Journalist and editor
11 May 1937	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson	1869–1959	Physicist
11 May 1937	The Viscountess Astor	1879–1964	Pioneering woman politician
11 May 1937	Gwendoline Davies	1882–1951	Philanthropist and patron of the arts
1 January 1938	Howell Arthur Gwynne	1865–1950	Newspaper editor and author
8 June 1939	James Mallon	1875–1961	Social reformer
8 June 1939	George Peabody Gooch	1873–1968	Historian
1 January 1941	James Louis Garvin	1868–1947	Journalist and author
1 January 1941	Arthur Henry Mann	1876–1972	Journalist
1 January 1941	Billy Hughes	1862–1952	Prime Minister of Australia
12 June 1941	A. V. Alexander	1885–1965	Labour politician
11 June 1942	The Lord Woolton	1883–1964	Businessman turned-politician
23 June 1942	Sir Earle Page	1880–1961	Prime Minister of Australia
1 January 1943	Joseph Hertz	1872–1946	Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth
1 January 1943	The Lord Leathers	1883–1965	Industrialist turned-politician
21 May 1943	J. M. Andrews	1871–1956	Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
2 June 1943	Ernest Hives	1886–1965	Industrialist
2 June 1943	The Lord Snell	1865–1944	Labour politician
9 August 1943	The Viscount Swinton	1884–1972	Conservative politician
24 September 1943	Essington Lewis	1881–1961	Industrialist
1 January 1944	Richard Casey	1890–1976	Australian politician and British colonial administrator
1 January 1944	Edmund Fellowes	1870–1951	Theologian and musicologist
1 January 1944	Robert Hudson	1886–1957	Conservative politician
8 June 1944	Sir Henry Wood	1869–1944	Conductor, founded the Proms
4 August 1944	Sir Godfrey Huggins	1883–1971	Prime Minister of Rhodesia
1 January 1945	The Earl of Selborne	1887–1971	Conservative politician
8 June 1945	Clement Attlee	1883–1967	Labour politician
8 June 1945	Arthur Greenwood	1880–1954	Labour politician
14 June 1945	Henry Williams	1872–1961	Bishop of Carlisle
5 July 1945	Harry Crerar	1888–1965	Canadian general
17 August 1945	Leo Amery	1873–1955	Conservative politician
17 August 1945	Ernest Brown	1881–1962	Liberal politician
17 August 1945	Hastings Ismay	1887–1965	Soldier
1 January 1946	Archibald Hill	1886–1977	Physiologist
4 January 1946	Peter Fraser	1884–1950	Prime Minister of New Zealand
22 May 1946	Vincent Massey	1887–1967	Governor General of Canada
13 June 1946	George Gibson	1885–1953	Trade unionist
13 June 1946	Andrew McNaughton	1887–1966	Canadian general and diplomat
12 June 1947	James Bone	1872–1962	Journalist
12 June 1947	J. W. Robertson Scott	1866–1962	Writer, campaigner on rural issues
1 January 1948	Margaret Bondfield	1873–1953	Pioneering woman politician
1 January 1948	Vita Sackville-West	1892–1962	Writer
10 June 1948	Walter de la Mare	1873–1956	Writer
10 June 1948	Howell Elvet Lewis	1860–1953	Bard, Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
10 June 1948	William Whiteley	1882–1955	Labour politician
1 January 1949	Lord David Cecil	1902–1986	Biographer, historian and academic
1 January 1949	Arthur Deakin	1890–1955	Trade unionist
9 June 1949	Lionel George Curtis	1872–1955	Soldier and author
1 January 1951	Sir Stafford Cripps	1889–1952	Politician
1 January 1951	Robert Menzies	1894–1978	Prime Minister of Australia
7 June 1951	Sidney Holland	1893–1961	Prime Minister of New Zealand
30 November 1951	Herbert Morrison	1888–1965	Politician
5 June 1952	Walter Elliot	1888–1958	Scottish Unionist politician
1 January 1953	E. M. Forster	1879–1970	Novelist
1 June 1953	Benjamin Britten	1913–1976	Composer
1 June 1953	James Chuter Ede	1882–1965	Labour politician
1 June 1953	Ian Fraser	1897–1974	Conservative politician
1 June 1953	Tom Johnston	1881–1965	Labour politician
10 November 1953	The Lord Cherwell	1886–1957	Physicist
1 January 1954	John Christie	1882–1962	Founder of Glyndebourne Festival Opera
8 January 1954	Rab Butler	1902–1982	Politician
10 June 1954	W. Somerset Maugham	1874–1965	Writer
21 December 1954	René Massigli	1888–1988	French diplomat
1 January 1955	Harry Crookshank	1893–1961	Conservative politician
1 January 1955	Hugh Martin	1890–1964	Christian activist
9 June 1955	Henry Moore	1898–1986	Sculptor
2 January 1956	The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood	1864–1958	Conservative politician
2 January 1956	Sir John Kotelawala	1897–1980	Prime Minister of Ceylon
2 January 1956	Arthur Waley	1889–1966	Orientalist and sinologist
31 May 1956	Edward Gordon Craig	1872–1966	Theatre practitioner
31 May 1956	Arnold J. Toynbee	1889–1975	Historian
16 July 1956	Nuri al-Said	1888–1958	Prime Minister of Iraq
1 January 1957	John Baillie	1886–1960	Theologian
14 January 1957	James Stuart	1897–1971	Scottish Unionist politician
13 June 1957	Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt	1879–1961	Conductor and musical impresario
13 June 1957	John Gregg	1873–1961	Clergyman, theologian
1 January 1958	The Viscount Nuffield	1877–1963	Industrialist
12 June 1958	Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bt	1892–1969	Writer
1 January 1959	Sir John Beazley	1885–1970	Archaeologist and art historian
1 January 1959	Sir Kenneth Clark	1903–1983	Art historian
13 June 1959	Walter Nash	1882–1968	Prime Minister of New Zealand
1 January 1960	Alan Lennox-Boyd	1904–1983	Politician
31 December 1960	The Earl of Limerick	1888–1967	Soldier
31 December 1960	Tunku Abdul Rahman	1903–1990	Prime Minister of Malaysia
10 June 1961	C. H. Dodd	1884–1973	Theologian
1 January 1962	Walter Matthews	1881–1973	Church of England priest
2 June 1962	The Lord Hailes	1901–1974	Politician
20 July 1962	Selwyn Lloyd	1904–1978	Politician
20 July 1962	John Maclay	1905–1992	Politician
20 July 1962	Harold Watkinson	1910–1995	Politician
1 January 1963	Keith Holyoake	1904–1983	Prime Minister of New Zealand
14 May 1963	Paul-Henri Spaak	1899–1972	Belgian politician and statesman
1 January 1964	I. A. Richards	1893–1979	Literary critic
1 December 1964	Henry Brooke	1903–1984	Politician
1 January 1965	The Lord Silkin	1889–1972	Politician
12 June 1965	Patrick Blackett	1897–1974	Physicist
12 June 1965	Manny Shinwell	1884–1986	Politician
1 January 1966	Graham Greene	1904–1991	Writer
1 January 1966	The Baroness Summerskill	1901–1980	Physician, politician, writer
19 May 1966	Jim Griffiths	1890–1975	Politician
19 May 1966	Lady Megan Lloyd George	1902–1966	Politician
1 January 1967	Sir William Lawrence Bragg	1890–1971	Physicist
1 January 1967	Sir Mortimer Wheeler	1890–1976	Archaeologist
5 January 1967	Douglas Houghton	1898–1996	Politician
10 June 1967	Sir Arthur Bryant	1899–1985	Historian and writer
10 June 1967	Sir Harold Hartley	1878–1972	Chemist
10 June 1967	The Lord Reid	1890–1975	Judge and politician
14 June 1967	Harold Holt	1908–1967	Prime Minister of Australia
1 January 1968	The Lord Boyd-Orr	1880–1971	Biologist, head of FAO
1 January 1968	Ernest Alexander Payne	1902–1980	Baptist administrator
1 January 1968	The Lord Robbins	1898–1994	Economist, academic
8 June 1968	Patrick Gordon Walker	1907–1980	Politician
1 January 1969	Sir Adrian Boult	1889–1983	Conductor
1 January 1969	Sir John McEwen	1900–1980	Prime Minister of Australia
1 January 1969	Michael Stewart	1906–1990	Politician
14 June 1969	Sir John Barbirolli	1899–1970	Conductor
14 June 1969	Sir Allen Lane	1902–1970	Publisher
14 June 1969	Eric Williams	1911–1981	Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
1 January 1970	Sir James Chadwick	1891–1974	Physicist, discovered the neutron
1 January 1970	Sir A. P. Herbert	1890–1971	Writer and advocate of law reform
1 January 1970	Lee Kuan Yew	1923–2015	Singaporean politician
14 June 1970	Sir Frederick Ashton	1904–1988	Dancer and choreographer
14 June 1970	Dame Sybil Thorndike	1882–1976	Actress
1 January 1971	Sir Maurice Bowra	1898–1971	Classicist
12 June 1971	Charles Best	1899–1978	Medical researcher
12 June 1971	Sir Arthur Bliss	1891–1975	Composer
12 June 1971	John Gorton	1911–2002	Prime Minister of Australia
14 June 1971	Joseph Luns	1911–2002	Dutch politician
1 January 1972	William McMahon	1908–1988	Prime Minister of Australia
1 January 1972	Sir Peter Medawar	1915–1987	Biologist
22 January 1972	Jean Monnet	1888–1979	French economist and diplomat
3 June 1972	The Lord Goodman	1915–1995	Lawyer, administrator
3 June 1972	Herbert Howells	1892–1983	Composer
3 June 1972	John Piper	1903–1992	Artist
1 January 1973	Jack Marshall	1912–1988	New Zealand politician
1 January 1973	Sir Robert Mayer	1879–1985	Businessman and philanthropist
1 January 1973	Duncan Sandys	1908–1987	Politician
2 June 1973	Bernard Leach	1887–1979	Potter
2 June 1973	Irene Ward	1895–1980	Politician
1 January 1974	The Lord Cohen of Birkenhead	1900–1977	Physician
1 January 1974	The Countess of Limerick	1897–1981	Humanitarian, prominent in Red Cross
1 January 1974	William Whitelaw	1918–1999	Politician
5 April 1974	The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone	1907–2001	Politician
15 June 1974	David Jones	1895–1974	Poet
15 June 1974	Nathaniel Micklem	1888–1976	Theologian
1 January 1975	Jack Ashley	1922–2012	Politician
1 January 1975	The Lord Gardiner	1900–1990	Politician
1 January 1975	Max Perutz	1914–2002	Molecular biologist
29 April 1975	Arnold Smith	1915–1994	Canadian diplomat
14 June 1975	The Lord Aylestone	1905–1994	Politician
14 June 1975	The Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest	1896–1979	Judge
1 January 1976	John Diefenbaker	1895–1979	Prime Minister of Canada
27 May 1976	The Lord Elwyn-Jones	1909–1989	Politician
27 May 1976	Edward Short	1912–2012	Politician
31 December 1976	Cledwyn Hughes	1916–2001	Politician
31 December 1976	Jack Jones	1913–2009	Trade unionist
31 December 1976	F. R. Leavis	1895–1978	Academic, literary critic
26 January 1977	Malcolm Fraser	1930–2015	Prime Minister of Australia
11 June 1977	Sir John Gielgud	1904–2000	Actor
11 June 1977	Robert Muldoon	1921–1992	Prime Minister of New Zealand
11 June 1977	The Baroness Wootton of Abinger	1897–1988	Sociologist, criminologist
3 June 1978	Michael Somare	1936-2021	Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
12 June 1979	Denis Healey	1917–2015	Politician
16 June 1979	Sir Michael Tippett	1905–1998	Composer
31 December 1979	The Lord Thorneycroft	1909–1994	Politician
14 June 1980	The Lord Soames	1920–1987	Politician
31 December 1980	Victor Pasmore	1908–1998	Artist
30 April 1981	Brian Talboys	1921–2012	New Zealand politician
13 June 1981	The Lord Boyle of Handsworth	1923–1981	Politician
13 June 1981	Frederick Sanger	1918–2013	Biochemist
31 December 1981	Doug Anthony	1929–2020	Australian politician
31 December 1981	Dame Ninette de Valois	1898–2001	Dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director of ballet
12 June 1982	Sir Karl Popper	1902–1994	Philosopher
11 June 1983	The Lord Carrington	1919–2018	Politician
11 June 1983	Lucian Freud	1922–2011	Artist
31 December 1983	Sir Steven Runciman	1903–2000	Historian
31 December 1983	Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt	1897–1988	Art critic and writer
16 June 1984	The Viscount Eccles	1904–1999	Politician
16 June 1984	Friedrich Hayek	1899–1992	Economist and philosopher
16 June 1984	Sir Philip Powell	1921–2003	Architect
4 July 1984	Pierre Trudeau	1919–2000	Prime Minister of Canada
31 December 1984	Sir Hugh Casson	1910–1999	Architect and broadcaster
15 June 1985	Philip Larkin	1922–1985	Poet
15 June 1985	Rodney Robert Porter	1917–1985	Biochemist
21 May 1986	Sir Keith Joseph, Bt	1918–1994	Politician
31 December 1986	Sydney Brenner	1927–2019	Biologist
31 December 1986	Sir John Summerson	1904–1992	Architectural historian
13 June 1987	Dadie Rylands	1902–1999	Academic and theatre director
13 June 1987	Sir Peter Scott	1909–1989	Naturalist and conservationist
31 July 1987	Norman Tebbit	b. 1931	Politician
31 December 1987	Anthony Powell	1905–2000	Author
17 June 1989	Stephen Hawking	1942–2018	Physicist
30 December 1989	David Lange	1942–2005	Prime Minister of New Zealand
13 April 1992	Kenneth Baker	b. 1934	Politician
13 April 1992	Peter Brooke	1934–2023	Politician
13 April 1992	Tom King	b. 1933	Politician
13 June 1992	Dame Elisabeth Frink	1930–1993	Artist
13 June 1992	Joseph Needham	1900–1995	Biochemist and sinologist
31 December 1992	Sir Victor Pritchett	1900–1997	Writer
12 June 1993	C. H. Sisson	1914–2003	Writer
12 June 1993	Elsie Widdowson	1906–2000	Nutritionist
31 December 1993	David Astor	1912–2001	Newspaper publisher
31 December 1993	Dame Janet Baker	b. 1933	Opera singer
31 December 1993	Sir John Smith	1923–2007	Politician
11 June 1994	Sir Alec Guinness	1914–2000	Actor
11 June 1994	Reginald Victor Jones	1911–1997	Physicist, scientific military intelligence expert
11 June 1994	The Lord Owen	b. 1938	Politician
31 December 1994	César Milstein	1927–2002	Biochemist
31 December 1994	Carel Weight	1908–1997	Artist
17 June 1995	Sir Denys Lasdun	1914–2001	Architect
17 June 1995	Sir Nevill Francis Mott	1905–1996	Physicist
30 December 1995	Sir David Attenborough	b. 1926	Broadcaster and naturalist
30 December 1995	Sir Richard Doll	1912–2005	Epidemiologist
30 December 1995	Douglas Hurd	b. 1930	Politician
30 December 1995	Derek Worlock	1920–1996	Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool
15 June 1996	The Lord Howe of Aberavon	1926–2015	Politician
31 December 1996	A. L. Rowse	1903–1997	Historian
14 June 1997	David Hockney	b. 1937	Artist
2 August 1997	Michael Heseltine	b. 1933	Politician
31 December 1997	Eric Hobsbawm	1917–2012	Historian
31 December 1997	Chris Patten	b. 1944	Politician and governor of Hong Kong
13 June 1998	Peter Brook	1925–2022	Theatre director
31 December 1998	John Major	b. 1943	Politician
31 December 1998	Bridget Riley	b. 1931	Artist
31 December 1998	John de Chastelain	b. 1937	Canadian general and diplomat
31 December 1999	Richard Hamilton	1922–2011	Artist
31 December 1999	Doris Lessing	1919–2013	Writer
31 December 1999	Chad Varah	1911–2007	Founder of The Samaritans
11 May 2000	Amartya Sen	b. 1933	Indian economist
30 December 2000	Sir Harrison Birtwistle	1934-2022	Composer
30 December 2000	Paul Scofield	1922–2008	Actor
16 June 2001	Sir Colin Davis	1927–2013	Conductor
31 December 2001	Sir George Christie	1934–2014	Opera manager
12 June 2002	Bernard Haitink	1929–2021	Dutch conductor
15 June 2002	Harold Pinter	1930–2008	Playwright
15 June 2002	Sir Michael Howard	1922–2019	Historian
31 December 2002	Sir Howard Hodgkin	1932–2017	Artist
31 December 2002	James Lovelock	1919–2022	Scientist and environmentalist
31 December 2002	Sir Denis Mahon	1910–2011	Art historian
14 June 2003	Sir Charles Mackerras	1925–2010	Conductor
14 June 2003	Dan McKenzie	b. 1942	Geophysicist
14 June 2003	The Lord Hannay of Chiswick	b. 1935	Diplomat
11 June 2005	Dame Judi Dench	b. 1934	Actress
2006	Anthony Pawson	1952–2013	Microbiologist
31 December 2007	Sir Ian McKellen	b. 1939	Actor
14 June 2008	The Lord Rogers of Riverside	1933–2021	Architect
11 June 2011	The Lord Howard of Lympne	b. 1941	Politician
20 September 2012	Sir George Young, Bt	b. 1941	Politician
29 December 2012	The Lord Coe	b. 1956	Athlete, politician, organiser of 2012 Olympics
29 December 2012	Peter Higgs	1929–2024	Physicist
7 January 2013	The Lord Strathclyde	b. 1960	Politician
15 June 2013	Sir Menzies Campbell	b. 1941	Politician
15 June 2013	Sir Nicholas Serota	b. 1946	Museum curator
31 December 2013	Peter Maxwell Davies	1934–2016	Composer and conductor
31 December 2013	The Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve	b. 1941	Philosopher
14 June 2014	Dame Maggie Smith	b. 1934	Actress
22 July 2014	Kenneth Clarke	b. 1940	Politician
1 January 2015	The Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon	1941–2018	Politician
1 January 2015	Sir Adrian Cadbury	1929–2015	Businessman
1 January 2015	Dame Mary Peters	b. 1939	Athlete
1 January 2015	The Lord Young of Graffham	1932–2022	Politician
13 June 2015	Sir Neville Marriner	1924–2016	Conductor
13 June 2015	The Lord Woolf	b. 1933	Judge
30 November 2015	Desmond Tutu	1931–2021	Clergyman and activist
31 December 2015	Sir Roy Strong	b. 1935	Art historian
11 June 2016	Dame Vera Lynn	1917–2020	Singer
11 June 2016	The Lord Smith of Kelvin	b. 1944	Businessman
11 June 2016	The Baroness Amos	b. 1954	Politician and diplomat
4 August 2016	George Osborne	b. 1971	Politician
31 December 2016	Sir Roger Bannister	1929–2018	Athlete
31 December 2016	Sir Richard Eyre	b. 1943	Director and playwright
31 December 2016	Dame Evelyn Glennie	b. 1965	Percussionist
31 December 2016	Sir Alec Jeffreys	b. 1950	Geneticist
31 December 2016	The Baroness Warnock	1924–2019	Philosopher
31 December 2016	The Baroness Williams of Crosby	1930–2021	Politician
16 June 2017	Sir Terence Conran	1931–2020	Designer
16 June 2017	Sir Mark Elder	b. 1947	Conductor
16 June 2017	Dame Beryl Grey	1927–2022	Ballet dancer
16 June 2017	Sir Paul McCartney	b. 1942	Musician
16 June 2017	J. K. Rowling	b. 1965	Author
16 June 2017	Dame Stephanie Shirley	b. 1933	Entrepreneur and philanthropist
16 June 2017	Delia Smith	b. 1941	Cook and writer
16 June 2017	The Lord Stern of Brentford	b. 1946	Economist
16 June 2017	Sir John Sulston	1942–2018	Biologist
30 December 2017	The Lord Bragg	b. 1939	Broadcaster
30 December 2017	Lady Antonia Fraser	b. 1932	Author
30 December 2017	Margaret MacMillan	b. 1943	Historian
9 June 2018	Richard Henderson	b. 1945	Biologist
9 June 2018	Dame Kiri Te Kanawa	b. 1944	Opera singer
29 December 2018	Margaret Atwood	b. 1939	Author
10 September 2019	Sir Patrick McLoughlin	b. 1957	Politician
28 December 2019	Sir Elton John	b. 1947	Musician
28 December 2019	Sir Keith Thomas	b. 1933	Historian
10 October 2020	Sir Paul Smith	b. 1946	Fashion designer
31 December 2020	Sir David Chipperfield	b. 1953	Architect
1 January 2022	Sir Paul Nurse	b. 1949	Geneticist
1 January 2022	The Lord Field of Birkenhead	1942–2024	Politician
1 June 2022	Sir Quentin Blake	b. 1932	Illustrator
1 June 2022	Sir Salman Rushdie	b. 1947	Writer
1 June 2022	Dame Marina Warner	b. 1946	Academic
30 December 2022	Sir Michael Marmot	b. 1945	Academic
30 December 2022	Dame Mary Quant	1930–2023	Fashion designer
9 June 2023	Sir Bill Cash	b. 1940	Politician
16 June 2023	Sir John Bell	b. 1952	Physician
16 June 2023	Ian McEwan	b. 1948	Writer
16 June 2023	Dame Anna Wintour	b. 1949	Media executive
29 December 2023	Dame Shirley Bassey	b. 1937	Singer
23 April 2024	The Princess of Wales	b. 1982	Royal family

References edit

^ James, H. E. (2004). "Evans, Sir (Evan) Vincent (1851–1934)". In Roberts, Brynley F. (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33037.
^ Watts, Michael (2004). "Jowett, John Henry (1863–1923)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58298.

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