King’s Birthday Honours list 2025

Those receiving Knighthoods and Damehoods in the King’s Birthday Honours list 2025.

ORDER OF THE COMPANIONS OF HONOUR

Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Professor Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE. Visiting Professor, University of Oxford. For services to Astronomy and Physics and to Diversity. (Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire)

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley OBE. Sculptor. For services to Art. (London, Greater London)

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

Professor Sir Simon Charles Wessely FRS FMedSci. Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King‘s College London. For services to Mental Health. (London, Greater London)

ORDER OF THE BATH

Dames Commander of the Order of the Bath (DCB)

Madeleine Kay Alessandri CMG. Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee. For Public Service. (London, Greater London)

Sarah Elizabeth Healey CB CVO. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. For Public Service. (London, Greater London)

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

Clare Louise Barclay. Lately Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft UK. For services to Business, Technology and Leadership. (London, Greater London)

Patricia Margaret Barker CBE. Author. For services to Literature. (Durham, County Durham)

Professor Julia Mary Black CBE FBA. President, The British Academy. For services to Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. (London, Greater London)

Emma Mary Bridgewater CBE. Founder, Emma Bridgewater Pottery. For services to Ceramics. (London, Greater London)

Caroline Clarke. London Regional Director, NHS England. For services to the NHS. (London, Greater London)

Deborah Anne Crosbie. Chief Executive Officer, Nationwide Building Society. For services to the Financial Sector. (London, Greater London)

Anne Margaret Glover CBE FREng (Hon) FRSE. Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners. For services to Engineering and Science Business. (London, Greater London)

Annie Hudson. Chair, Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, England. For services to Child Safeguarding and Child Protection. (Bristol, Bristol)

Celia Louise Ingham Clark MBE. Lately Medical Director for Professional Leadership and Professional Standards, NHS England. For services to the NHS. (Buckingham, Buckinghamshire)

Professor Jane Frances Lovely (Jane Cummings) CBE. Chair, Royal College of Nursing Foundation. For voluntary services to Nursing and to Health and Social Care. (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire)

Professor Ursula Hilda Mary Martin CBE FREng FRSE. Emeritus Professor in the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. For services to Science and Education. (Oxford, Oxfordshire)

The Rt Hon Penelope Mary Mordaunt. Lately Lord President of the Privy Council, Leader of the House of Commons and Member of Parliament for Portsmouth North. For Political and Public Service. (Portsmouth, Hampshire)

Chi Onwurah MP. Member of Parliament for Newcastle Upon Tyne Central and West, and Chair of the Science, Technology and Innovation Select Committee. For Political and Public Service. (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)

Elaine Paige OBE. Singer and Actress. For services to Music and to Charity. (London, Greater London)

Lesley Anne Powell CBE. Chief Executive Officer, North East Learning Trust. For services to Education. (Chester le Street, County Durham)

Dr Anna Lisbet Kristina Rausing. Philanthropist and Co-Founder, Arcadia. For services to the Arts. (Wadhurst, East Sussex)

KNIGHTS BACHELOR

Alexander Charles Beard CBE. Chief Executive, Royal Ballet and Opera. For services to the Arts. (London, Greater London)

David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE. For services to Sport and to Charity. (London, Greater London)

William John Boston MBE. For services to Rugby League Football (to be dated June 10 2025). (Wigan, Greater Manchester)

Andrew George Christie CBE. Lately Children’s Commissioner, North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council, and lately Chair, Birmingham Children’s Trust. For services to Children’s Services. (Crowthorne, Berkshire)

Roger Harry Daltrey CBE. Patron, Teenage Cancer Trust. For services to Charity and to Music. (London, Greater London)

Professor Vernon Charles Gibson CB FRS. Visiting Professor, Department of Materials, Imperial College London. For services to Science and to Defence. (Ambleside, Cumbria)

Peter Rene Lauener CB. Lately Chief Executive, Education and Skills Funding Agency, and lately Board Member, Department for Education. For services to Education. (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Rufus John Norris. Director and Chief Executive Officer, The National Theatre. For services to Theatre. (London, Greater London)

Gary Leonard Oldman. Actor. For services to Drama. (Abroad)

Hans Kristian Anders Ruben Rausing. Philanthropist. For services to the Arts. (London, Greater London)

Thomas Gordon Roddick. Founder, The Roddick Foundation. For services to Charity and Philanthropy. (Emsworth, Hampshire)

The Rt Hon Mark Richard Tami MP. Member of Parliament for Alyn and Deeside. For Political and Public Service. (Wrexham, Clwyd)

Paul Terence Tarn. Chief Executive Officer, Delta Academies Trust, West Yorkshire. For services to Education. (Barnsley, South Yorkshire)

Stephen Watson QPM. Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police. For services to Policing. (Lancaster, Lancashire)

ORDER OF THE BATH

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Richard Chettleburgh. Director, Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence. (London, Greater London)

Philip Douglas. Director General, Border Force, Home Office. For services to Border Security and Public Service. (London, Greater London)

Katie Ruth Farrington. Lately Director General for Social Security Disability and Pensions, Department for Work and Pensions. For Public Service. (Bushey, Hertfordshire)

Alison Mary Giles. Director of Security for Parliament, Houses of Parliament. For Parliamentary and Public Service. (London, Greater London)

Jerome Alexander Pierre Glass. Director General, Courts and Access to Justice, International Justice and Legal, Ministry of Justice. For Public Service. (London, Greater London)

Sarah Harrison MBE. Chief Operating Officer, Cabinet Office. For services to Government Productivity and Regulatory Excellence. (London, Greater London)

Peter William May. Lately Permanent Secretary, Department of Health, Northern Ireland Civil Service. For Public Service. (Ballynahinch, County Down)

Matthew Thurstan. Chief Finance Officer and Director General, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. For Public Service. (Harrogate, North Yorkshire)

Published: 13/06/2025 by Radio NewsHub