List of honorary British knights and dames

This is an incomplete list of people who have been created honorary Knights or Dames by the British crown, as well as those who have been raised to the two comparable Orders of Chivalry (Order of Merit and Order of the Companions of Honour) and the Royal Victorian Chain, which do not carry pre-nominal styles.

Use of pre-nominal styles and post-nominal initials. An honorary award is one made to a person who is not a citizen of a Commonwealth realm. He or she cannot use the pre-nominal style of 'Sir' or 'Dame', but can use the post-nominal letters (after their names), subject to the prevailing conventions in his or her own country. If such a person later acquires citizenship of a Commonwealth realm, then any honorary awards usually become substantive, and in the case of knights and dames they can begin to use the pre-nominal styles. However this is not automatic. The person must be dubbed by the Queen or Her Majesty's delegate in order to be entitled to use the pre-nominal style. If the knighthood is in an order which has a special class for honorary knighthoods, a change to a regular class of knighthoods is also required.

Loss of citizenship of a British realm. Citizens of a country which was a full part of the British Empire or Commonwealth when they received the honour (i.e. who were British subjects at the time), were substantive knights or dames, not honorary. This included the Indian Princely States. The knighthood does not become honorary, and the person may choose to use his or her title(s), after their country becomes a republic. Citizens of British protectorates and mandated territories usually received honorary awards.

Annulment and restoration. In certain circumstances, an honorary award may be annulled (i.e. revoked). The effect is that, officially, the person is considered never to have been given the award, their name is erased from the order's register, and they are required to return all insignia. This happens when the Sovereign issues a signed and sealed ordinance cancelling and annulling the appointment. This is not common and in practice only occurs where the recipient has engaged in serious detrimental activities, e.g. following a conviction for serious crimes, or for hostile acts against the United Kingdom. In rare circumstances, an annulled award may later be restored by the Sovereign. Details of known annulments and restorations are annotated in the table below.

Order of the Garter terminology. The Order of the Garter uses terminology different from that of most other British orders. 'Extra Knights Companion of the Garter' and 'Extra Ladies of the Order of the Garter' are the equivalent of 'Honorary Knights' and 'Honorary Dames' in other orders. As with other orders, the pre-nominal styles 'Sir' and 'Lady' are not used by Extra Knights and Extra Ladies. Revoked appointments are said to be 'degraded' rather than 'annulled'; the effect, however, is the same.

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Arts and entertainment

List of honorary British Knights and Dames

Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	Notes
Daniel Barenboim	Argentina / Israel	KBE	2011	Arts/Entertainment	Pianist and conductor[1]
Jorge Luis Borges	Argentina	KBE	tbd	Arts/Entertainment	Poet and writer
Alfred Brendel	Austria	KBE	1989	Arts/Entertainment	Pianist
Julien Cain	France	KBE	1952	Arts/Entertainment	Administrator-general of the Bibliothèque nationale de France for services to British cultural issues.[2] see also fr:Julien Cain
Ralf Dahrendorf	Germany	KBE	1982	Arts/Entertainment	Became a British national in 1988
Christian Conrad, Count Danneskjold-Samsöe	Denmark	KCVO	1904	Arts/Entertainment	[3]
Anna Morpurgo Davies	Italy[N 1]	DBE	2000	Arts/Entertainment
Plácido Domingo	Spain	KBE	2002	Arts/Entertainment	Opera singer; awarded for contributions to music and charity work[4]
Antal Doráti	Hungary	KBE	1983	Arts/Entertainment
Maurice Druon	France	KBE	1999	Arts/Entertainment	Previously appointed Honorary CBE in 1988.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.	United States	KBE	1949	Arts/Entertainment	In recognition of his work on behalf of Anglo-American amity, particularly as chairman in the United States of the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe.[5]
Naum Gabo	Soviet Union	KBE	1973	Arts/Entertainment
Bernard Haitink	Netherlands	CH	2002	Arts/Entertainment	Musical director of the Royal Opera House[6]
Bernard Haitink	Netherlands	KBE	1977	Arts/Entertainment	Principal Conductor, London Philarmonic Orchestra for his enormous contribution to the artistic life of this country[7]
Bob Hope	United States	KBE	1998	Arts/Entertainment	Entertainer, for contribution to Anglo-American friendship[8] He had lost British nationality in 1920.[N 2]
Magnus Magnusson	Iceland	KBE	1989	Arts/Entertainment
Ferdinand Meldahl	Denmark	GCVO	1904	Arts/Entertainment	Chamberlain to the King of Denmark and Vice President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen.[3]
Yehudi Menuhin	United States/ Switzerland	KBE	1965	Arts/Entertainment	Became a British national in 1985. Appointed a substantive Member of the Order of Merit in 1987.
Spike Milligan	Ireland	KBE	2001	Arts/Entertainment	Comedian, awarded for services to entertainment[9]
Ettore Modigliani	Italy	KBE	1930	Arts/Entertainment
Arnaldo Momigliano	Italy	KBE	1974	Arts/Entertainment
Ann Murray	Ireland	DBE	2002	Arts/Entertainment	For services to music.[N 3]
Riccardo Muti	Italy	KBE	2000	Arts/Entertainment
Eugene Ormandy	United States	KBE	1976	Arts/Entertainment	Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, for contribution to Anglo-American friendship[8]
Ignacy Jan Paderewski	Poland	GBE	1925	Politics/Government Arts/Entertainment
Roberto Paribeni	Italy	KBE	1930	Arts/Entertainment
Murray Perahia	United States	KBE	2004	Arts/Entertainment	Pianist, awarded for his services to music[10]
Libor Pešek	Czech Republic	KBE	1996	Arts/Entertainment
Mario Praz	Italy	KBE	1962	Arts/Entertainment
André Previn	United States	KBE	1996	Arts/Entertainment
Mstislav Rostropovich	United States	KBE	1987	Arts/Entertainment	In 1990 he regained Russian citizenship, and held dual US/Russian citizenship.
Arthur Rubinstein	United States	KBE	1977	Arts/Entertainment
Ravi Shankar	India	KBE	2001	Arts/Entertainment
Georg Solti	Germany	KBE	1971	Arts/Entertainment	Musical Director, Covent Garden Opera Company[11] Became a British national in 1972 and knighthood became substantive.[12]
Kevin Spacey	United States	KBE	2015	Arts/Entertainment	Previously appointed Honorary CBE in 2010.
Steven Spielberg	United States	KBE	2001	Arts/Entertainment	Award-winning director credited with "doubling of cinema admission in the UK since the early 1980s"[13]
William Trevor	Ireland	KBE	2002	Arts/Entertainment
Terry Wogan	Ireland	KBE	2005	Arts/Entertainment	Took British nationality in 2005 and knighthood became substantive. Held dual British/Irish citizenship.
James Wolfensohn	United States/Australia	KBE	1995	Arts/Entertainment	Born an Australian citizen, but relinquished this when he became an American citizen in 1980.[N 4] In 2010, he regained his Australian citizenship.[14]
Franco Zeffirelli	Italy	KBE	2004	Arts/Entertainment	Stage and screen director; awarded for his "valuable services to British performing arts"[15]

Politics and government

List of honorary British Knights and Dames

Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes
Prince Bola Ajibola	Nigeria	KBE	1989	Politics/Government	Attorney-General and Minister of Justice of Nigeria, 1985–1991
Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji	Nigeria	KBE	1989	Politics/Government	Minister of Budget and Planning of Nigeria, 1988–1990
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Falcó, 17th Duke of Alba de Tormes	Spain	GCVO	1902	Politics/Government	[16]
Emeka Anyaoku	Nigeria	GCVO	2000	Politics/Government
Count d'Arnoso	Portugal	KCVO	tbd	Politics/Government	Private Secretary to the King of Portugal. Subsequently promoted GCVO in 1903.[17][18]
Count d'Arnoso	Portugal	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Private Secretary to the King of Portugal.[17][18]
Franz Joseph von Auersperg	Austria	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Privy Councillor and Chamberlain to The Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary.[19]
Joseph Avenol	France	KBE	1921	Politics/Government
Antonio Jose d'Avila	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Lord Mayor of Lisbon [17]
Ayub Khan	Pakistan	RVC	tbd	Politics/Government
Ayub Khan	Pakistan	GCMG	1960	Politics/Government	(Field Marshal) President of Pakistan
August Graf Bellegarde	Austria-Hungary	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Master of the Household to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary.[20][21]
Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt	German Empire	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	On the occasion of royal wedding of Prince Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice of Albany[22]
Hermann Baron von Bilfinger	Württemberg	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	General Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King of Württemberg [23] On the occasion of royal wedding of Prince Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice of Albany[22]
Anatol, Count Biogot de Saint-Quentin	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Major General Anatol was Comptroller to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary.
Robert, Count de Bourboulon	Bulgaria	GCVO	1905	Politics/Government	Lord Chamberlain to the Prince of Bulgaria[24]
Henri, Marquis de Breteuil	France	KCVO	1904	Politics/Government
George H. W. Bush	United States	GCB	1993	Politics/Government	President of the United States
Felipe Calderón	Mexico	GCB	2009	Politics/Government
Nicolae Ceauşescu	Romania	GCB	1978	Politics/Government	Annulled 1989
Anson Chan	China	GCMG	2002	Politics/Government	[N 5]
Chentung Liang-Cheng	China	KCMG	1897	Politics/Government	[25]
Chentung Liang-Cheng	China	KCVO	1909	Politics/Government	[26]
Cherif Pasha	Egypt	GCSI	1878	Politics/Government
Eduard Graf Choloniewski Myszka	Austria	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Master of the Ceremonies to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary[21][23]
Prospero Colonna (politician)	Italy	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	(Prince of Sonnino) Syndic of Rome[18]
Abel Combarieu	France	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Secretary General and Chief of the Household of the President of France[27]
Émile Combes	France	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	President of the Council[18]
Charles, Count Coudenhove	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Governor of Bohemia[28]
Philippe Crozier	France	KCVO	1898	Politics/Government	[29]
Christian Frederik, Count Danneskjold-Samsöe	Denmark	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	[3]
Théophile Delcassé	France	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Minister of Foreign Affairs[18]
Johan Deuntzer	Denmark	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	[3]
Alphonse Deville	France	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	President of the Municipal Council[18]
António Ramalho Eanes	Portugal	RVC	1985	Politics/Government
Gustavus Ernest of Erbach-Schönberg	Württemberg	KCVO	1898	Politics/Government	[30]
Gustavus Ernest of Erbach-Schönberg	Württemberg	GCVO	1900	Politics/Government	[31]
Walter Asmus Charles Frederick Eberhard, Baron von Esebeck	German Empire	KCVO	1909	Politics/Government	Deputy Master of the Horse to the German Emperor, King of Prussia.[32]
Luiz Coutinho Borges de Medeiros, Marquis of Fayal	Portugal	GCVO	1909	Politics/Government	Lord in Waiting[33]
Tassilo, Count Festétics de Tolna	tbd	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	[28]
Antonio, Count of Figueiro	tbd	GCVO	1905	Politics/Government
Tom Foley	United States	KBE	1995	Politics/Government	Speaker of the House of Representatives[34][35]
Arturo Frondizi	Argentina	GCMG	1960	Politics/Government	President of the Argentine Republic
Eduardo Galhardo	Portugal	KCIE	1901	Politics/Government	Governor-General of Portuguese India [36]
Count Romeo Gallenga-Stuart	Italy	KBE	tbd	Politics/Government	Under-Secretary for Press and Propaganda, for fostering good relations between Italy and Great Britain.
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom	Maldives	GCMG	2000	Politics/Government	[37]
Count Cesare Gianotti	Italy	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Master of the Household to the King of Italy[18]
Rudolph W. Giuliani	United States	KBE	2002	Politics/Government	Federal prosecutor; two-term Mayor of New York City.
Balbino Giuliano	Italy	GBE	1930	Politics/Government	Minister of Public Education
Agenor Graf Goluchowski von Goluchowo	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Minister of the Imperial and Royal House and Minister for Foreign Affairs[21]
Alan Greenspan	United States	KBE	2002	Politics/Government	Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Leopold Baron von Gudenus	Austria-Hungary	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	[23] Oberjagermeister to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary[21]
John Ritter von Habrda	Austria-Hungary	KCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Commissioner of Police, Vienna[28]
Han Seung-soo	South Korea	KBE	2004	Politics/Government
Václav Havel	Czech Republic	GCB	1996	Politics/Government
Gustav Heinemann	West Germany	GCB	1972	Politics/Government	President of West Germany
Count Basil Hendrikov	tbd	GCVO	1909	Politics/Government
Sassoon Effendi Heskail	Iraq	KBE	tbd	Politics/Government	Minister of Finance[38]
Harri Holkeri	Finland	KBE	1999	Politics/Government
Mohammed Ikramullah	Pakistan	KCMG	1961	Politics/Government
Ito Yukichi	Japan	KCVO	1905	Politics/Government
Dato Onn Bin Ja'Afar	Malaya	KBE	1953	Politics/Government	Member for Home Affairs, Federation of Malaya[39]
Muhammad Hasan Jan	tbd	GCVO	tbd	Politics/Government
Martin Baron von Jenisch	tbd	GCVO	1908	Politics/Government
Bhim Shumshere Jung	Nepal	KCVO	tbd	Politics/Government
Bhim Shumshere Jung	Nepal	KCSI	1917	Politics/Government	Subsequently promoted GCSI in 1931.
Bhim Shumshere Jung	Nepal	GCSI	1931	Politics/Government
Judha Shumshere Jung	Nepal	KCIE	1917	Politics/Government	Subsequently promoted GCIE.
Judha Shumshere Jung	Nepal	GCIE	tbd	Politics/Government
Judha Shumshere Jung	Nepal	GCSI	1935	Politics/Government
Kang Young-Hoon	South Korea	KBE	1995	Politics/Government
Kajetan von Kapos-Mére	Austria-Hungary	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Second Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Vienna[21][23]
Hamid Karzai	Afghanistan	GCMG	2003	Politics/Government
Abera Kassa (Dejazmatch)	Ethiopia	KBE	1932	Politics/Government	Son of Ras Kassa, handed over to the Italians (by Ras Hailu of Gojjam)who shot him & his brother dead immediately after capture.[40]
Edward Kennedy	United States	KBE	2009	Politics/Government	U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
Erich Graf Kielmansegg	Austria-Hungary	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Governor of Lower Austria. Subsequently promoted GCVO in 1904.[21]
Erich Graf Kielmansegg	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Governor of Lower Austria[23]
Kim Dae-jung	South Korea	GCB	1999	Politics/Government	President of South Korea on the occasion of a royal visit to South Korea.[41]
Kim Dae-jung	South Korea	GCMG	tbd	Politics/Government
Helmut Kohl	Germany	GCMG	tbd	Politics/Government
Martin Charles Augustus Kirschner	German Empire	KCVO	1909	Politics/Government	Chief Burgomaster of Berlin[32]
Julius Benedictus, Count Krag Juel Vind Frijs	Denmark	KCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Promoted from CVO.[3]
Magens Christian, Count Krag Juel Vind Frijs	Denmark	KCVO	1904	Politics/Government	[3]
John Kufuor	Ghana	GCB	2007	Politics/Government
Husein Kuli Khan	tbd	KCIE	1902	Politics/Government
Pier Francesco, Marchese di Lajatico	Italy	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Crown Equerry to the King of Italy[18]
Pierre-Olivier Lapie	France	KBE	tbd	Politics/Government
Alfred, Marquis de Lau d'Allemand	tbd	KCVO	1904	Politics/Government
Jose d'Almeida Correa de Sa, Marquis of Lavradio	Portugal	GCVO	1909	Politics/Government	Private Secretary[33]
Lee Kuan Yew	Singapore	CH	1970	Politics/Government	Prime Minister of Singapore[42]
Lee Kuan Yew	Singapore	GCMG	1972	Politics/Government	Prime Minister of Singapore
Hans Ritter von Lex	West Germany	KBE	1961	Politics/Government	Former state secretary in the west German Interior Ministry, for services to Anglo-German relations.[43]
Wenceslau de Lima	Portugal	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Minister of Foreign Affairs[17][18]
Richard Lugar	United States	KBE	2013	Politics/Government	Former U.S. Senator from Indiana
Joseph Luns	Netherlands	CH	1971	Politics/Government
Heinrich Graf Lützow zu Drey Lützow	Austria	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	First Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Vienna.[21][23]
Ferenc Mádl	Hungary	GCMG	2002	Politics/Government
Sayyed Abdelrahman el-Mahdi	tbd	KBE	1926	Politics/Government
Mohammed Pasha Mahmud	tbd	GCMG	1929	Politics/Government
Nelson Mandela	South Africa	OM	1995	Politics/Government
Ferdinand Meldahl	Denmark	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government
Paul Metternich	German Empire	GCVO	1901	Politics/Government
Andreas Michalakopoulos	Greece	KBE	tbd	Politics/Government
Mirza Hussein Khan	Iran	GCSI	1873	Politics/Government
George J. Mitchell	United States	GBE	1999	Politics/Government	Former U.S. Senator from Maine, Majority Leader, Deputy President pro tempore
François Mitterrand	France	GCB	tbd	Politics/Government	[44]
François Mitterrand	France	RVC	1992	Politics/Government
Joachim Moltke	Denmark	GCVO	1896	Politics/Government
Felipe, Duke of Montellano	Spain	GCVO	1905	Politics/Government
Alfred, 2nd Prince of Montenuovo	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Second Lord Steward to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary.[21]
Kengo Mori	Japan	KBE	1927	Politics/Government	Financial Commissioner to the Imperial Japanese Government in London, Paris and New York.
Robert Mugabe	Zimbabwe	GCB	1994	Politics/Government	Annulled 2008
Benito Mussolini	Italy	GCB	1923	Politics/Government	Annulled 1940
Muhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha	Egypt	GCMG	1920	Politics/Government
Ameer Ibrahim Nasir	Maldives	KBE	1972	Politics/Government	President of the Republic of Maldives
Constantin Freiherr von Neurath	Germany	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Lord Chamberlain to His Majesty The King of Württemberg[19]
Sadako Ogata	Japan	DCMG	2011	Politics/Government	Served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as the Chairman of the UNICEF Executive Board and as the President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
Waldemar Oldenburg	Denmark	KCVO	1904	Politics/Government	[3]
Hussein Fakhry Pasha	Egypt	KCMG	1902	Politics/Government	Minister of Public Works for service in connection with the building of the Aswan Dam[45]
Nubar Pasha	Egypt	GCSI	1896	Politics/Government
Saba Pasha	Egypt	KCMG	1907	Politics/Government	Upon his retirement from the post of Postmaster-General in Egypt [46]
Safvet Pasha	tbd	GCSI	1878	Politics/Government
Manuel Augusto Pereira da Cunha	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Civil Governor of Lisbon[17]
Hassan Pirnia	Iran	GCMG	1907	Politics/Government
Byron Price	United States	KBE	1948	Politics/Government	Director of the Office of Censorship
Husain Khan Qazvini	tbd	GCSI	1873	Politics/Government
Mahdi Quli Khan-e Qajar Quyunlu	tbd	KCMG	1889	Politics/Government
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	India	OM	1963	Politics/Government
Tunku Abdul Rahman	Malaysia	CH	1961	Politics/Government
Fidel V. Ramos	Philippines	GCMG	1995	Politics/Government
Tun Abdul Razak	Malaysia	GCMG	1972	Politics/Government
Ronald Reagan	United States	GCB	1989	Politics/Government	President of the United States
Carl Baron von der Recke	tbd	KCVO	1905	Politics/Government
Eck Baron von Reischach	Württemberg	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Lord Chamberlain to the Queen of Wurtemberg[19] On the occasion of royal wedding of Prince Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice of Albany[22]
Hugo Freiherr von Reischach	tbd	KCVO	1897	Politics/Government
Oswald Baron von Richthofen	German Empire	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Minister of Foreign Affairs[47]
Charles de Rocca-Serra	tbd	KCMG	1917	Politics/Government
Ernst von Röder	tbd	KCVO	1902	Politics/Government
Roh Moo-hyun	South Korea	GCB	2004	Politics/Government
Carlos Roma du Bocage	Portugal	GCVO	1909	Politics/Government	Minister for Foreign Affairs[33]
F. W. F. Rosenstand	Denmark	KCVO	1901	Politics/Government	Chamberlain and Secretary to the King of Denmark[48]
Friedrich von Ruexleben	tbd	KCVO	1905	Politics/Government
Dean Rusk	United States	KBE	1976	Politics/Government	Former Secretary of State for contribution to Anglo-American friendship[8]
Antonio Vasco de Mello Silva Cezar e Menezes, Count of Sabugosa	Portugal	GCVO	1909	Politics/Government	Lord Steward[33]
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun	Iraq	KCMG	1926	Politics/Government
Mohammed Said Pasha	tbd	GCMG	1912	Politics/Government
Saito Momotaro	tbd	GCVO	1905	Politics/Government
Mariano, Duke of Santo Mauro	Spain	GCVO	1905	Politics/Government	Lord in Waiting to the King of Spain[49]
Justin de Selves	France	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Prefect of Seine[18]
Fernando Eduardo de Serpa Pimentel	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Politics/Government	[17] (Captain) Aide-de-Camp[33]
Eduard Shevardnadze	Georgia	GCMG	2000	Politics/Government
Said Shoucair Pasha	tbd	KBE	1924	Politics/Government
Ismail Sirry Pasha	tbd	KCMG	1913	Politics/Government
Duke of Sotomayor	Spain	GCVO	1902	Politics/Government	Great Chamberlain to the King of Spain[16]
Georges de Staal	tbd	GCVO	1902	Politics/Government
Dirk Stikker	Netherlands	GBE	1951	Politics/Government
Dirk Stikker	Netherlands	GCVO	1958	Politics/Government
Karl Friedrich von Strenge	tbd	KCVO	1899	Politics/Government
Suharto	Indonesia	GCB	1974	Politics/Government
Cevdet Sunay	Turkey	KCB	1967	Politics/Government
Count Tarouca	Portugal	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	Chamberlain to the King of Portugal. Attached to King Edward VII.[17][18]
Clément Thomas	tbd	GCIE	1893	Politics/Government
Nicholas Thon	tbd	KCVO	tbd	Politics/Government	Subsequently promoted GCVO in 1905.
Nicholas Thon	tbd	GCVO	1905	Politics/Government
Josip Broz Tito	Yugoslavia	GCB	1972	Politics/Government
Tommaso Tittoni	Italy	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government
Ali El Tom	tbd	KBE	1926	Politics/Government
Karl Prince Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg	tbd	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government
Alexander Trepoff	Russian Empire	KCMG	1916	Politics/Government	Minister of Transport later Prime Minister of Russian Empire awarded in recognition of the construction of the Murman Coast Railway.[50]
Danilo Türk	Slovenia	GCB	2008	Politics/Government
Simone Veil	France	DBE	1998	Politics/Government	Holocaust survivor; lawyer and politician who served as France's Minister of Health.
Antonio Villaça	tbd	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government
Wenceslau Ramirez de Villa-Urrutia	Spain	GCVO	1905	Politics/Government	Minister of Foreign Affairs[49]
Count Carl Wachtmeister	tbd	KCVO	1908	Politics/Government
John Warner	United States	KBE	2009	Politics/Government	U.S. Senator from Virginia
Rudolf de Weede	Netherlands	KCVO	1904	Politics/Government	Lord Chamberlian to Her Majesty the Queen Mother of the Netherlands, on the occasion of the royal wedding of Prince Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice of Albany[22]
Caspar Weinberger	United States	GBE	1988	Politics/Government	U.S. Secretary of Defence
Richard von Weizsäcker	Germany	RVC	1992	Politics/Government
John Gilbert Winant	United States	OM	1947	Politics/Government	U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
August von Wöllwarth-Lauterburg	Württemberg	GCVO[31]	1900	Politics/Government
Robert Worcester	United States	KBE	2004	Politics/Government	Became a British national in 2005 and his knighthood became substantive.
Ketema Yifru	Ethiopia	KCMG	1965	Politics/Government
Giuseppe Zanardelli	Italy	GCVO	1903	Politics/Government	President of the Council[18]
Jose Zarco de Camara, Count of Ribeira Grande	tbd	GCVO	1904	Politics/Government
Zulfikar Pasha	Egypt	KBE	1920	Politics/Government
Mallam Yahaya	Nigeria	KBE	1953	Politics/Government	Emir of Gwandu[39]
Raja Uda Raja Muhammad	Malaya	KBE	1953	Politics/Government	Menteri Besar of the State of Selangor[39]

Diplomatic

List of honorary British Knights and Dames

Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes
Abderrahman bin Abdelsadok	Morocco	KCVO	1903	Diplomatic	[17] Governor of Fez, Special Envoy from the Sultan of Morocco.
Princess Lalla Aicha	Morocco	DCVO	1980	Diplomatic	Ambassador of Morocco to the United Kingdom from 1965 to 1969, for her contributions to Anglo-Moroccan relations.[51]
Henry Angst	Switzerland	KCMG	1906	Diplomatic	British Consul-General in Zurich.[52]
Walter Annenberg	United States	KBE	1976	Diplomatic	United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1969–1974, for contribution to Anglo-American friendship.[8]
Jacques Arnavon	France	KBE	1938	Diplomatic
Frants Ernst Bille	Denmark	GCVO	1904	Diplomatic	Danish Minister in London[3]
Antonio Chiaramonte Bordonaro	tbd	GBE	1930	Diplomatic
Hugh Bullock	United States	KBE	1957	Diplomatic	President, Pilgrims of the United States, 1955–1996; previously appointed Honorary OBE in 1946
Hugh Bullock	United States	GBE	1976	Diplomatic
Paul Cambon	France	GCVO	1903	Diplomatic	French Ambassador in London.[18]
André Clasen	Luxembourg	GCVO	1968	Diplomatic	Luxembourg Ambassador[53]
Timoor al-Daghistani	tbd	GCVO	2001	Diplomatic
John W. Davis	United States	GBE	1953	Diplomatic	Former Ambassador to the Court of Saint James and President of the Pilgrims of the United States.[54]
Hermann von Eckhardtstein	tbd	KCVO	1902	Diplomatic
Aimé-Joseph de Fleuriau	France	GCVO	1921	Diplomatic	French Ambassador to the Court of Saint James.[55]
Léon Geoffray	France	GCVO	1908	Diplomatic
Lloyd Carpenter Griscom	United States	KCMG	1919	Diplomatic
Slavko Grouitch	tbd	KBE	tbd	Diplomatic
Gunnar Hägglöf	Sweden	GCVO	tbd	Diplomatic
Hayashi Tadasu	Japan	GCVO	1905	Diplomatic
Pedro Felipe Iñiguez	Chile	KCVO	1919	Diplomatic	Chilean Special Mission[56]
Louis Joxe	France	KBE	1952	Diplomatic	Head of the cultural relations department of the Foreign Ministry for services to British cultural issues.[2]
Count de Lalaing	Belgium	GCVO	1915	Diplomatic	Belgium Minister in London.[57]
Ferdinand de Lesseps	France	GCSI	1870	Diplomatic
Li Ching Fong	tbd	KCVO	1896	Diplomatic	Subsequently promoted GCVO in 1909.
Li Ching Fong	tbd	GCVO	1909	Diplomatic
Li Hung Chang	China	GCVO	1896	Diplomatic
Dimitry Metaxas	tbd	GCVO	1905	Diplomatic
Armand Mollard	France	KCVO	1903	Diplomatic	Director of Protocole[18]
Nazir ul Mulk	Persia	GCMG	1897	Diplomatic
Willem J. Oudendyk	Netherlands	KCMG	tbd	Diplomatic	Netherlands Minister in Russia and China[58]
Alberto Pansa	Italy	GCVO	1903	Diplomatic	Italian Ambassador to London[18]
Wilfried Platzer	Austria	GCVO	tbd	Diplomatic
Luis Polo de Bernabé	Spain	GCVO	1905	Diplomatic	Spanish Ambassador to the Court of Saint James.[49]
Muhsin Rais	Iran	GCVO	1948	Diplomatic	Iranian Ambassador
Rodrigo Saavedra y Vinent, 2nd Marques de Villalobar	Spain	KCVO	tbd	Diplomatic	Spanish minister in Brussels 1913-1921
Sergey Sazonov	Russia	GCB	1916	Diplomatic
Comte de Serionne	tbd	KCMG	1917	Diplomatic
Marquis de Soveral	Portugal	GCMG	1897	Diplomatic	[59]
Marquis de Soveral	Portugal	GCVO	1902	Diplomatic	[60]
Ismael Tocornal	Chile	GCVO	1919	Diplomatic	Head of the Chilean Special Mission[56]
Dimitri Tzokoff	Bulgaria	KCVO	1905	Diplomatic

Military

List of honorary British Knights and Dames

Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial	France	KCB	1940	Military	(Admiral) Commandant-en-Chef des Forces Maritimes du Nord, for his services in connexion with the withdrawal of the Allied forces from Dunkirk[61]
Alfredo Acton	Italy	KCB	tbd	Military	Admiral[62]
Christian Henrik Arendrup	Denmark	GCVO	1904	Military	Major General [3]
Gustav Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Emil von Arnim	German Empire	GCVO	1900	Military	General [63]
Henry H. Arnold	United States	GCB	1945	Military	(General of the Army) Chief of Staff, United States Army Air Force[64]
Felice Avogadro dei Conti di Quinto	Italy	GCVO	1904	Military	(Lieutenant-General) Inspector of Cavalry, Italian Army[65]
Viktor Balck	Sweden	KCMG	tbd	Military
Edouard Barrera	France	KCVO	1897	Military	(Vice-Admiral) Commander-in-Chief and Maritime Prefect of Brest[66]
José de Bascaran y Federico	Spain	GCVO	1905	Military	(General) Chief of the Military Household[49]
Friedrich Count von Baudissin	German Empire	KCVO	1904	Military	(Rear-Admiral, Imperial German Navy) Aide-de-Camp to the German Emperor, attached to King Edward VII[47]
Anton Baron von Bechtolsheim	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1903	Military	(General of Cavalry) Captain of the Tranbenten and Infantry Companies of the Life Guards, attached to King Edward VII[21]
Walter Bedell Smith	United States	KCB	1944	Military	(Lieutenant-General) Chief of Staff of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
Walter Bedell Smith	United States	GBE	1945	Military	(Lieutenant-General) Chief of Staff of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force[67]
Prince Konstantin Belosselsky-Belozersky	Russia	GCVO	1909	Military
John Biddle	United States	KCB	1918	Military	(Major-General) Commanding United States troops in the United Kingdom[68]
Georges Blanchard	France	KCB	1940	Military	(General) in recognition of distinguished service in operations in Belgium and Northern France[61]
Tasker H. Bliss	United States	GCMG	1918	Military	(General) United States representative at Versailles
Leopoldo Boado y Montes	tbd	KCVO	1905	Military
Friedrich von Bock und Polack	German Empire	GCVO	1904	Military	(Lieutenant-General) Commander 9th Army Corps[47]
Petar Bojović	Serbia	GCMG	1918	Military
Augustin Boué de Lapeyrère	France	KCB	1915	Military
Omar Bradley	United States	KCB	tbd	Military
Guilherme Augusto de Brito Capello	Portugal	KCVO	1902	Military
Hermenegildo de Brito Capello	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Military	(Rear-Admiral) Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King of Portugal. Attached to His Majesty King Edward VII. Subsequently promoted GCVO in 1904.[17][18]
Hermenegildo de Brito Capello	Portugal	GCVO	1904	Military	(Rear-Admiral) Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King of Portugal.
Herrmann von Broizem	German Empire	GCVO	1904	Military	(General) Commander of XIIth Army Corps, German Army[65]
Karl Baron von Bronn	Austria-Hungary	KCVO	1909	Military	(Colonel) Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary
Charles George, Baron von Bronn	Austria-Hungary	KCVO	1909	Military	(Lieutenant-Colonel) Equerry to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary[69]
Ugo Brusati	Italy	GCVO	1903	Military	(General) First Aide-de-Camp to the King of Italy[18]
Wilhelm Büchsel	German Empire	GCVO	1904	Military	(Vice-Admiral) Chief of Staff Imperial German Navy[47]
Karl von Bülow	German Empire	GCVO	1909	Military	(General) Commander 3rd Army Corps[32]
Luigi Cadorna	Italy	GCB	1915	Military
François Certain Canrobert	France	GCB	tbd	Military
Ivan Chaghin	tbd	KCVO	1909	Military
Chiang Kai-shek	China	GCB	1942	Military
Mark W. Clark	United States	KBE	1944	Military	Lieutenant-General United States Army, Commander 5th Army[70]
Wesley Clark	United States	KBE	2000	Military
Henri de la Croix	France	GCVO	1903	Military	(General) Attached to King Edward VII[18]
Alphons, Count zu Dohna	German Empire	KCVO	1909	Military	(Major-General) Commander of the Cavalry Division of the Guards.[32]
William Joseph Donovan	United States	KBE	tbd	Military	Head of the OSS, precursor to the CIA
James Doolittle	United States	KCB	1944	Military	(Lieutenant-General) Commander 8th US Army Air Force[71]
A. M. J. Dor de Lastours	tbd	KCMG	1915	Military
Antonio Duartt e Silva	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Military	[17] (Colonel) Commanding Portuguese Cavalry Regiment No. 3[18]
Émile Dubois	France	GCVO	1903	Military	Chief of the Military Household of the President of France [27]
Charles John George von Eisendecher	German Empire	GCVO	1904	Military	Vice-Admiral, Imperial German Navy[47]
Dwight D. Eisenhower	United States	GCB	1945	Military	(General of the Army) Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force.
Dwight D. Eisenhower	United States	OM	1945	Military	(General of the Army) Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force.[67]
Maximilian von Engelbrechten	German Empire	KCVO	1904	Military	(Colonel) Commander 36th Infantry Brigade[47]
François Ernest Fournier	France	GCVO	1903	Military	(Admiral) Attached to King Edward VII[18]
Prince Louis Esterházy	Spain	GCVO	1902	Military	Lieutenant-General[16]
Marie-Pierre de Fauque de Jonquières	France	KCMG	1915	Military
Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Military	(Rear-Admiral) President of the Royal Geographical Society, Lisbon[17][18]
Max Fischel	German Empire	KCVO	1904	Military	(Rear-Admiral, Imperial German Navy) Admiral Superintendent of the Dockyard, Kiel[47]
Ferdinand Foch	France	GCB	1914	Military
Ferdinand Foch	France	OM	1918	Military
Benoit de Formel de la Laurencie	France	KBE	1940	Military	(General) in recognition of distinguished service in operations in Belgium and Northern France.[61]
Tommy Franks	United States	KBE	2004	Military
Giovanni Frigerio	Italy	GCVO	1903	Military	(Vice-Admiral) Commander-in-Chief of the Italian Mediterranean Squadron, Naples[18]
Fukushima Yasumasa	Japan	KCB	tbd	Military
Luis Gomez Carreño	Chile	KCVO	1919	Military	(Admiral) Chilean Special Mission[56]
William C. Gorgas	United States	KCMG	1920	Military
Emile Guépratte	tbd	KCB	1916	Military
Albert Guérisse	Belgium	KBE	tbd	Military
Alexis Hagron	tbd	KCVO	1898	Military
William F. Halsey, Jr.	United States	KBE	tbd	Military	United States Navy Fleet Admiral[72]
Olaf M. Hustvedt	United States	tbd	tbd	Military	United States Navy Vice Admiral [73]
Leopold Ritter von Jedina	tbd	KCVO	1903	Military	(Rear-Admiral) attached to King Edward VII.[21]
Joseph Joffre	France	GCB	tbd	Military
Joseph Joffre	France	GCVO	1914	Military	(General) Chief of the French General Staff[74]
Joseph Joffre	France	OM	1919	Military
Kamio Mitsuomi	Japan	GCMG	1915	Military
Kato Sadakichi	tbd	GCMG	1915	Military
Gustav von Kessel	tbd	GCVO	1901	Military
Alan Goodrich Kirk	United States	KCB	1943	Military
Hans von Koester	German Empire	GCVO	1904	Military	(Admiral) Commander-in-Chief and Inspector General of the Imperial German Navy[47]
Wenzel Freiherr Kotz von Dobrz	Austria	GCVO	1904	Military	[19] Privy Councillor and Chamberlain to His Imperial Majesty The Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary
Marian Kukiel	Poland	KCB	tbd	Military
Johan Laidoner	Estonia	KCMG	tbd	Military
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny	France	GCB	1952	Military
J. M. E. G. Lefevre	tbd	KCMG	1915	Military
André Lemonnier	tbd	KCB	tbd	Military
Waldemar Edward Lemvigh	Denmark	KCVO	1904	Military	Colonel[3]
Milans del Bosch y Carrio Joaquin Mario Leon	Spain	KCVO	1905	Military	(Colonel) Aide-de-Camp to the King of Spain[49]
Edward Mann Lewis	United States	KCMG	1919	Military	(Major General) Commanded 30th Infantry Division in WWI [75]
Rudolf Prince von und zu Liechtenstein	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1903	Military	First Lord Steward and Acting Master of the Horse to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary.[21]
Alfred von Loewenfeld	tbd	KCVO	1902	Military	Subsequently promoted GCVO in 1905.
Alfred von Loewenfeld	tbd	GCVO	1905	Military
Douglas MacArthur	United States	GCB	1943	Military
Comte de Maigret	tbd	KCVO	1899	Military
Pio Carlo di Majo	Italy	KCVO	1903	Military	(Major-General) Aide-de-Camp to King of Italy, attached to King Edward VII.[18]
Mikhail Malinin	tbd	KBE	1945	Military
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim	Finland	GBE	1938	Military
Peyton March	United States	GCMG	1918	Military	(General) Chief of the General Staff, United States Army[76]
Peter Markoff	tbd	GCVO	1905	Military
Wolf, Baron Marschall	German Empire	KCVO	1909	Military	(Major-General) Attached to King George VII[32]
George Marshall	United States	GCB	1945	Military	(General of the Army) Chief of Staff, United States Army[64]
Levering Smith	United States	KBE	1962	Military	(Vice Admiral) Led the Polaris Missile effort to win the Cold War
Rodolphe Maton	Belgium	KBE	1955	Military
Hugo Graf Mensdorff-Pouilly	tbd	KCVO	1904	Military
Živojin Mišić	Serbia	KCB	1915	Military
Živojin Mišić	Serbia	GCMG	1916	Military
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger	German Empire	KCVO	1901	Military
Anne de Montmorency	France	KG	1532	Military
François, Duke of Montmorency	France	KG	1572	Military
Enrico Morin	Italy	GCVO	1903	Military	(Vice-Admiral) Minister for Foreign Affairs[18]
Edward von Müller	tbd	GCVO	1897	Military
François de Négrier	tbd	GCVO	1898	Military
Chester W. Nimitz	United States	GCB	tbd	Military
Nogi Maresuke	Japan	GCB	1911	Military
Hély d'Oissel	tbd	KCB	1915	Military
Kuwashi Okazawa	tbd	GCVO	tbd	Military
Oyama Iwao	Japan	OM	1906	Military
Eduard Graf Paar	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1903	Military	(General of Cavalry) Senior Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary[21]
Adolf Palander	tbd	GCVO	1908	Military
Alexander Papagos	Greece	GBE	1941	Military	(General) Commander-in-chief allied forces in Greece during the Albanian campaign[77]
George S. Patton	United States	KBE	tbd	Military
George S. Patton	United States	GCB	tbd	Military
Ettore Pedotti	Italy	GCVO	1903	Military	(General) Commander Xth Army Corps, attached to King Edward VII[18]
John J. Pershing	United States	GCB	1918	Military	(General) Commander-in-Chief United States Expeditionary Force in France[76]
Philippe Pétain	France	GCMG	tbd	Military
Johan Pitka	Estonia	KCMG	1920	Military
Nobile Porro	tbd	GCMG	1915	Military
Colin Powell	United States	KCB	1993	Military
Karl Freiherr von Röder	tbd	KCVO	1904	Military
Hugh Rodman	United States	KCB	1918	Military
Konstantin Rokossovsky	Soviet Union	KCB	1945	Military
Tomás António Garcia Rosado	Portugal	KCMG	tbd	Military
Sa Zhenbing	Qing Dynasty	KCMG	1909	Military
Dedo Charles Henry von Schenck	German Empire	GCVO	1909	Military	(Lieutenant-General) Commander 2nd Division of the Guards[32]
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.	United States	KCB	1993	Military
Brent Scowcroft	United States	KBE	1993	Military
Baron von Seckendorff	German Empire	GCVO	1904	Military	(Vice-Admiral) Master of the Household to Prince Henry of Prussia[47]
Fernando de Serpa Pimentel	Portugal	KCVO	1909	Military	(Captain) [33]
William Hood Simpson	United States	KBE	1945	Military	(Lieutenant-General) Commanding General, 9th United States Army[67]
William S. Sims	United States	GCMG	1918	Military	Vice-Admiral United States Navy
Rudolf Carl von Slatin	Austria-Hungary	KCMG	1900	Military	Lieutenant-General (Egyptian Army)
Rudolf Carl von Slatin	Austria-Hungary	KCVO	1909	Military	Inspector-General of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan[69]
Leighton W. Smith, Jr.	United States	KBE	1997	Military
Carl Spaatz	United States	KBE	1944	Military	Promoted to GBE in 1945.
Carl Spaatz	United States	GBE	1945	Military
George Owen Squier	United States	KCMG	1919	Military	Major-General, Signal Corps, United States Army[78]
Stepa Stepanović	Serbia	GCMG	1918	Military
Joseph Strauss	United States	KCMG	1918	Military
Tamemoto Kuroki	Japan	GCMG	tbd	Military
Tanaka Giichi	Japan	KCMG	tbd	Military
Tanaka Giichi	Japan	GBE	tbd	Military
William L. Timlin	tbd	KBE	1990	Military
Alfred von Tirpitz	German Empire	GCVO	1904	Military	(Admiral) Minister of Marine[47]
Togo Heihachiro	Japan	GCVO	tbd	Military	Admiral
Togo Heihachiro	Japan	OM	1906	Military	Admiral
Guido von Usedom	German Empire	KCMG	1906	Military	Imperial German Navy
Guido von Usedom	German Empire	GCVO	1909	Military	Vice-Admiral, Imperial German Navy[32]
Emilio Vaglia	Italy	GCVO	1903	Military	(General) Lord Steward to the King of Italy[18]
Frederick Otto Wahle	Saxony	KCVO	1904	Military	(Major-General) Commanding Royal Saxon Field Engineers[65]
Yamagata Aritomo	Japan	OM	1906	Military
Nikolai Yermoloff	Russia	KCVO	1905	Military	(Major-General) Military Attache to the Imperial Russian Embassy, London[79]
George Zachariae	Denmark	KCVO	1901	Military	(Rear-Admiral) Royal Danish Navy[48]
Georgy Zhukov	Soviet Union	GCB	1945	Military

Business

List of honorary British Knights and Dames

Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes
Auguste-Louis-Albéric, Prince d'Arenberg	France	GCSI	1909	Business	Member of the Institute of France, President of the Suez Canal Company[80]
Ariyoshi Yoshiya	Japan	KBE	tbd	Business	Chairman of the Japanese Shipowners Association
André Bénard	France	KBE	1991	Business	Chairman, Eurotunnel, 1986–1994
Antonin Besse	France	KBE	tbd	Business	[81]
Henri Deterding	Netherlands	KBE	1920	Business	[82]
Sierd Sint Eriks	Netherlands	KBE	1961	Business	Managing Director of Mullard Ltd for valuable services to British official interests.[83]
Niall FitzGerald	Ireland	KBE	2002	Business
Bill Gates	United States	KBE	2004	Business	Chairman of Microsoft and Corbis and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in recognition of his business skills and for his work on poverty reduction.[84]
Lou Gerstner	United States	KBE	tbd	Business
Paul Getty	United States	KBE	1987	Business	Became a British national in 1997 and knighthood became substantive.
Carlos Ghosn	Brazil	KBE	2006	Business
Cecil H. Green	United States	KBE	1991	Business	He lost British nationality upon becoming a US citizen before 1949.[N 2]
Yii Ann Hii	Philippines	KBE		Business	Became a British national on 3 July 2012.[85]
Sam E. Jonah	Ghana	KBE	2003	Business
Kim Sang Man	South Korea	KBE	1981	Business	Publisher [86]
Gerrit Klijnstra	Netherlands	KBE	1973	Business	[87]
Jonkheer Loudon	Netherlands	KBE	1960	Business	President of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and senior managing director of the Royal Dutch/Shell group in recognition of his important contributions to the national economy and to British interests abroad.[88]
Akio Morita	Japan	KBE	1993	Business
Lewis Mumford	United States	KBE	1975	Business	For services to town planning in Great Britain.[89]
Masaru Shinchi	tbd	KBE	2002	Business
Paul Rykens	Netherlands	KBE	1959	Business
Edgar Sengier	Belgium	KBE	1956	Business	President of the permanent committee of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga for valuable services to Britain and to Anglo-Belgian relations.[90]
Antonio Joaquim Simoes de Almeida	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Business	[17] President of the Commercial Association of Lisbon[18]
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava	India	KCMG	1990	Business
Peter Sutherland	Ireland	KCMG	2004	Business
Basil Zaharoff	Greece	GBE	1918	Business
Basil Zaharoff	Greece	GCB	1919	Business
Jamshed Jiji Irani	India	KBE	2007	Business	Former President of British Steel and Iron Research Association, Tata Steel[91]

Religion

List of honorary British Knights and Dames

Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes
Zaki Badawi	Egypt	KBE	2004	Religion
Billy Graham	United States	KBE	2001	Religion
Gilbert John Helmer	Bohemia	KCVO	1909	Religion	Abbot of Tepl on occasion of the King's visit to Marienbad, Helmer did not receive the honour of Knighthood.[92]
Sheikh Ali bin Salim	Kenya	KBE	1929	Religion	Leader of the Arab community and member of the legislature
Turian Torkom Koushagian	Palestine	KBE	1930	Religion	Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem[93]

Royalty Part 1

List of honorary British Knights and Dames

Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes
Amir Abdur Rahman Khan	Afghanistan	GCSI	1885	Royalty	[94]
Amir Abdur Rahman Khan	Afghanistan	GCB	1893	Royalty	[94]
Prince Nasrullah Khan	Afghanistan	GCMG	1896	Royalty	[94]
King Habibullah Khan	Afghanistan	GCMG	1896	Royalty	[95]
King Habibullah Khan	Afghanistan	GCB	1907	Royalty	[95]
King Amanullah Khan	Afghanistan	RVC	1928	Royalty	[96]
Queen Soraya Tarzi	Afghanistan	GBE	1928	Royalty	[96]
Prince Muhammad Hasan	Afghanistan	GCVO	1928	Royalty	[94]
Princess Razia Begum	Afghanistan	DBE	1928	Royalty	[94]
Princess Bibi Khurd	Afghanistan	DBE	1928	Royalty	[95]
King Mohammed Zahir Shah	Afghanistan	RVC	1971	Royalty	[97]
Prince Zalmai Mahmud Khan Ghazi	Afghanistan	GCVO	1971	Royalty
Prince 'Abdu'l Wali Khan	Afghanistan	GCVO	1971	Royalty	[97]
Prince Wilhelm I	Albania	GCVO	1914	Royalty
King Essad Pasha	Albania	KCMG	1916	Royalty
King Alfonso V	Aragon	KG	1450	Royalty
King Ferdinand II	Aragon	KG	1480	Royalty
Emperor Francis I	Austria-Hungary	KG	1814	Royalty
Emperor Franz Joseph I	Austria-Hungary	KG	1867	Royalty	Degraded 1915
Emperor Franz Joseph I	Austria-Hungary	RVC	1904	Royalty	Annulled 1915
Emperor Franz Joseph I	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1904	Royalty	Annulled 1915
Archduke Franz Ferdinand	Austria-Hungary	KG	1902	Royalty
Archduke Ludwig Victor	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1903	Royalty	[20][21]
Archduke Leopold Salvator	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1903	Royalty	[20][21]
Archduke Franz Salvator	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1903	Royalty	[20][21]
Archduke Rainer Ferdinand	Austria-Hungary	GCVO	1903	Royalty	[20][21]
Sheikh Isa I ibn Ali al-Khalifa	Bahrain	KCIE	1919	Royalty
Sheikh Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah	Bahrain	KCIE	1935	Royalty
Sheikh Salman ibn Hamad Al-Khalifa	Bahrain	KCIE	1943	Royalty
Sheikh Salman ibn Hamad Al-Khalifa	Bahrain	KCMG	1952	Royalty
Emir Isa ibn Salman al-Khalifa	Bahrain	KCMG	1964	Royalty	Promoted GCMG in 1979.
Emir Isa ibn Salman al-Khalifa	Bahrain	GCMG	1979	Royalty
Emir Isa ibn Salman al-Khalifa	Bahrain	GCB	1984	Royalty
King Hamad ibn Isa al-Khalifah	Bahrain	KCMG	1979	Royalty
Sheikh Muhammad ibn Mubarak al-Khalifa	Bahrain	GCMG	1984	Royalty
Sheikh Muhammad ibn Khalifa ibn Hamad al-Khalifa	Bahrain	GBE	1984	Royalty
King Léopold I	Belgium	KG	1816	Royalty
King Léopold II	Belgium	KG	1866	Royalty
King Albert I	Belgium	KG	1914	Royalty
King Albert I	Belgium	GCB	tbd	Royalty
King Léopold III	Belgium	KG	1935	Royalty
King Léopold III	Belgium	RVC	1937	Royalty
King Baudouin I	Belgium	KG	1963	Royalty
King Albert II	Belgium	GCVO[98]		Royalty
Maharaja Ugyen Wangchuk	Bhutan	KCIE	1905	Royalty
Maharaja Ugyen Wangchuk	Bhutan	KCSI	1911	Royalty
Maharaja Ugyen Wangchuk	Bhutan	GCIE	1921	Royalty
Maharaja Jigme Wangchuk	Bhutan	KCIE	1930	Royalty
Emperor Pedro II	Brazil	KG	1871	Royalty
Duke John V	Brittany	KG	1375	Royalty
Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Alam II	Brunei	KCMG	1920	Royalty
Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin	Brunei	KBE	1949	Royalty
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III	Brunei	KCMG	1953	Royalty
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III	Brunei	GCVO	1972	Royalty
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah	Brunei	GCMG	1972	Royalty
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah	Brunei	GCB	1992	Royalty
Prince Idris	Brunei	KCVO	1992	Royalty
Prince Jefri Bolkiah	Brunei	GCVO	1992	Royalty
Prince Muhammad Bolkiah	Brunei	GCMG	1998	Royalty
Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah	Brunei	GCVO	1998	Royalty
King Ferdinand I	Bulgaria	GCVO	1904	Royalty
Duke Charles the Bold	Burgundy	KG	1468	Royalty
King Philip I	Castile	KG	1503	Royalty
Prince Tsai Hsun	China	GCB	1909	Royalty	Chief Administrator of the Chinese Admiralty on the visit of the Chinese Naval Commission to the United Kingdom[99]
King Eric VII	Denmark	KG	1404	Royalty
King John	Denmark	KG	1493	Royalty
King Frederick II	Denmark	KG	1578	Royalty
King Christian IV	Denmark	KG	1603	Royalty
King Christian V	Denmark	KG	1662	Royalty
King Frederick VI	Denmark	KG	1822	Royalty
King Christian IX	Denmark	KG	1865	Royalty
King Frederick VIII	Denmark	KG	1896	Royalty
King Frederick VIII	Denmark	GCVO	1901	Royalty
King Frederick VIII	Denmark	RVC	1902	Royalty
King Frederick VIII	Denmark	GCB	tbd	Royalty
King Christian X	Denmark	KG	1914	Royalty
King Frederick IX	Denmark	KG	1951	Royalty
Queen Margrethe II	Denmark	RVC	1974	Royalty
Queen Margrethe II	Denmark	LG	1979	Royalty
Queen Margrethe II	Denmark	GCVO	tbd	Royalty
Khedive Isma'il	Egypt	GCB	1866	Royalty
Khedive Isma'il	Egypt	GCSI	1868	Royalty
Khedive Tawfiq	Egypt	GCSI	1875	Royalty
Khedive Tawfiq	Egypt	GCB	1887	Royalty
Khedive Abbas II	Egypt	GCMG	1891	Royalty
Khedive Abbas II	Egypt	GCB	1892	Royalty
Khedive Abbas II	Egypt	GCVO	1900	Royalty	[100]
Khedive Abbas II	Egypt	RVC	1905	Royalty
Prince Muhammad Ali	Egypt	GCMG	1900	Royalty	[100]
Prince Muhammad Ali	Egypt	GCB	1937	Royalty
Sultan Hussein Kamel	Egypt	GCB	1914	Royalty
King Fuad I	Egypt	GCB	1917	Royalty
King Fuad I	Egypt	RVC	1927	Royalty
Emperor Menelek II	Ethiopia	GCMG	1897	Royalty
Emperor Menelek II	Ethiopia	GCB	1902	Royalty
Prince Makonnen Wolde Mikael	Ethiopia	KCMG	1902	Royalty
Emperor Iyasu V	Ethiopia	GCVO	1911	Royalty
Prince Kassa Hailu ze-Darge	Ethiopia	GCVO	1911	Royalty
Prince Kassa Hailu ze-Darge	Ethiopia	GBE	1930	Royalty
Emperor Haile Selassie	Ethiopia	GCMG	1917	Royalty
Emperor Haile Selassie	Ethiopia	GCB	1924	Royalty
Emperor Haile Selassie	Ethiopia	GCVO	1930	Royalty
Emperor Haile Selassie	Ethiopia	RVC	1930	Royalty
Emperor Haile Selassie	Ethiopia	KG	1954	Royalty
Emperor Amha Selassie	Ethiopia	GCVO	1930	Royalty
Emperor Amha Selassie	Ethiopia	GBE	1932	Royalty
Emperor Amha Selassie	Ethiopia	GCMG	1958	Royalty
Emperor Amha Selassie	Ethiopia	RVC	1965	Royalty
Princess Tenagne Worq	Ethiopia	DBE	1932	Royalty
Prince Makonnen Haile Selassie	Ethiopia	GCVO	1954	Royalty
Princess Sebla-Wangel Desta	Ethiopia	DCVO	1965	Royalty
Prince Asserate Kassa	Ethiopia	GCVO	1965	Royalty
Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici	Florence	KG	1514	Royalty
King Francis I	France	KG	1527	Royalty
King Henry II	France	KG	1551	Royalty
King Charles IX	France	KG	1564	Royalty
King Henry III	France	KG	1575	Royalty
King Henry IV	France	KG	1590	Royalty
King Louis XVIII	France	KG	1814	Royalty
King Charles X	France	KG	1825	Royalty
King Louis-Philippe	France	KG	1844	Royalty
Emperor Napoleon III	France	KG	1855	Royalty
Empress Eugénie	France	GBE	1919	Royalty
Prince Aribert	Anhalt[N 6]	GCB	1891	Royalty
Grand Duke Friedrich I	Baden[N 6]	GCVO	1905	Royalty
Grand Duke Friedrich I	Baden[N 6]	KG	1906	Royalty
Prince Francis Joseph	Battenberg[N 6]	GCVO	1897	Royalty	[66]
Prince Francis Joseph	Battenberg[N 6]	KCB	tbd	Royalty
Elector Frederick William	Brandenburg[N 6]	KG	1654	Royalty
Duke William the Victorious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg	Brunswick or Hanover[N 6]	KG	1450	Royalty
Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick-Bevern	Brunswick or Hanover[N 6]	KG	1759	Royalty
Duke George William of Brunswick-Lüneburg	Brunswick or Hanover[N 6]	KG	1690	Royalty
Elector George Louis	Brunswick or Hanover[N 6]	KG	1701	Royalty	Later King George I of Great Britain
Prince George Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg	Brunswick or Hanover[N 6]	KG	1706	Royalty	Later King George II of Great Britain
Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lüneburg	Brunswick or Hanover[N 6]	KG	1765	Royalty
Duke William of Brunswick-Lüneburg	Brunswick or Hanover[N 6]	KG	1831	Royalty
Duke Christian of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel	Brunswick or Hanover[N 6]	KG	1624	Royalty
Emperor Friedrich III	German Empire[N 7]	KG	1858	Royalty	Upon becoming a son-in-law of Queen Victoria whilst a Prince of Prussia.
Emperor Wilhelm I	German Empire[N 7]	KG	1861	Royalty	Upon becoming King of Prussia.
Emperor Wilhelm II	German Empire[N 7]	KG	1879	Royalty	Degraded 1915
Emperor Wilhelm II	German Empire[N 7]	GCVO	1899	Royalty	Annulled 1915
Emperor Wilhelm II	German Empire[N 7]	RVC	1902	Royalty	Annulled 1915
Crown Prince Wilhelm	German Empire[N 7]	KG	1901	Royalty	Degraded 1915
Prince Heinrich	German Empire[N 7]	KG	1889	Royalty	Degraded 1915
Prince Heinrich	German Empire[N 7]	RVC	1902	Royalty	Annulled 1915
Prince Friedrich Leopold	German Empire[N 7]	GCVO	1899	Royalty
Prince Eitel Friederich	German Empire[N 7]	GCVO	1904	Royalty	[47]
Prince August Wilhelm	German Empire[N 7]	GCVO	1904	Royalty	[47]
Prince Oskar	German Empire[N 7]	GCVO	1904	Royalty	[47]
Prince Joachim	German Empire[N 7]	GCVO	1904	Royalty	[47]
Prince William Adolphus Maximilian Charles, Hereditary Prince of Weid	German Empire[N 7]	GCVO	1904	Royalty	On the occasion of royal wedding of Prince Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice of Albany[22]
Grand Duke Ludwig III of Hesse and by Rhine	Hesse[N 6]	KG	1865	Royalty
Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse and by Rhine	Hesse[N 6]	KG	1862	Royalty
Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine	Hesse[N 6]	KG	1892	Royalty	Degraded 1915
Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine	Hesse[N 6]	RVC	1902	Royalty	Annulled 1915
Landgrave Wilhelm IX of Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel	Hesse[N 6]	KG	1786	Royalty
Karl, Prince Kinsky von Wchynitz und Tettau	Kinsky[N 6]	GCVO	1905	Royalty
Prince Charles	Leiningen[N 6]	KG	1837	Royalty
Elector Frederick V	The Palatinate[N 6]	KG	1612	Royalty
Elector Karl II	The Palatinate[N 6]	KG	1680	Royalty
King Frederick I	Prussia[N 8]	KG	1690	Royalty
King Frederick William III	Prussia[N 8]	KG	1814	Royalty
King Frederick William IV	Prussia[N 8]	KG	1842	Royalty
Prince Adalbert of Prussia	Prussia[N 6]	GCVO	1909	Royalty	[32]
Henry XXX, Prince Reuss	Reuss[N 6]	GCVO	1900	Royalty
Duke Ernst I	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[N 6]	KG	1838	Royalty
Duke Carl Eduard	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[N 6]	GCVO	1901	Royalty	Annulled 1915
Duke Carl Eduard	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[N 6]	KG	1902	Royalty	Degraded 1915
Duke Friderich III	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[N 6]	KG	1741	Royalty
Duke Ernst Ludwig	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[N 6]	KG	1790	Royalty
Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[N 6]	KCVO	1906	Royalty	[52]
Duke Bernard	Saxe-Meiningen[N 6]	KG	1830	Royalty
Duke John Adolphus	Saxe-Weissenfels[N 6]	KG	1745	Royalty
Elector John George II	Saxony[N 6]	KG	1668	Royalty
Elector John George IV	Saxony[N 6]	KG	1692	Royalty
King Frederick Augustus II	Saxony[N 6]	KG	1842	Royalty
King Albert	Saxony[N 6]	KG	1882	Royalty
Friedrich, Duke	Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg[N 6]	GCVO	1905	Royalty
Prince Albert Christian Adolphus Eugene	Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg[N 6]	GCVO	1904	Royalty	[3]
Prince Wilhelm	Wied also the Royal House of Albania[N 6]	GCVO	1904	Royalty
Frederick I, Duke	Württemberg[N 6]	KG	1597	Royalty
King William I	Württemberg[N 6]	KG	1830	Royalty
King Karl I	Württemberg[N 6]	KG	1890	Royalty
King William II	Württemberg[N 6]	KG	1904	Royalty	Degraded 1915
Prince Hailu Takla-Haymaynot	Gojjam	KBE	1924	Royalty
King George I	Greece	KG	1876	Royalty
King George I	Greece	GCVO	1901	Royalty
King George I	Greece	RVC	1905	Royalty
King George II	Greece	GCVO	1909	Royalty	Appointed when Prince George of Greece visited[101]
King George II	Greece	KG	1938	Royalty
Prince Andrew	Greece	GCVO	1902	Royalty
Prince Christopher	Greece	GCVO	1909	Royalty	[102]
King Paul	Greece	KG	1963	Royalty
Prince Nicholas	Greece	GCVO	1901	Royalty
King Hussein	Hejaz	GCB	1920	Royalty
King Ali	Hejaz	GBE	1920	Royalty
Count William VI	Holland	KG	1390	Royalty
Emperor Sigismund	Holy Roman Empire	KG	1415	Royalty
Emperor Albert II	Holy Roman Empire	KG	1438	Royalty
Emperor Frederick III	Holy Roman Empire	KG	1457	Royalty
Emperor Maximilian I	Holy Roman Empire	KG	1489	Royalty
Emperor Charles V	Holy Roman Empire	KG	1508	Royalty
Emperor Ferdinand I	Holy Roman Empire	KG	1522	Royalty
Emperor Maximilian II	Holy Roman Empire	KG	1567	Royalty
Emperor Rudolf II	Holy Roman Empire	KG	1578	Royalty
Shah Nasser-al-Din	Iran (Persia)	KG	1873	Royalty
Prince Sultan Masud	Iran (Persia)	GCSI	1887	Royalty
Prince Vajihullah	Iran (Persia)	GCMG	1897	Royalty
Shah Mozaffar-al-Din	Iran (Persia)	KG	1903	Royalty
Prince Abul Fath	Iran (Persia)	GCMG	1903	Royalty
Prince Abul Husain	Iran (Persia)	GCMG	1916	Royalty
Prince Ismail	Iran (Persia)	KCSI	1916	Royalty
Prince Firuz	Iran (Persia)	GCMG	1919	Royalty
Prince Husain Quli	Iran (Persia)	GCVO	1919	Royalty
Prince Asadullah	Iran (Persia)	KCVO	1919	Royalty
Prince Muhammad Husain	Iran (Persia)	KCVO	1919	Royalty
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Iran (Persia)	GCB	1942	Royalty
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	Iran (Persia)	RVC	1948	Royalty
Prince Yadullah	Iran (Persia)	GCMG	1961	Royalty
Prince Faisal	Hejaz	RVC	1918	Royalty	[103] Later King Faisal of Iraq
King Faisal I	Iraq	GCMG	1927	Royalty
King Faisal I	Iraq	GCB	1933	Royalty
Prince Zeid	Iraq	GBE	1920	Royalty
Prince Zeid	Iraq	GCVO	1956	Royalty
Crown Prince Abdul Illah	Iraq	GCMG	1942	Royalty
Crown Prince Abdul Illah	Iraq	GCVO	1943	Royalty
Crown Prince Abdul Illah	Iraq	GCB	1956	Royalty
King Faisal II	Iraq	GCVO	1952	Royalty
King Faisal II	Iraq	RVC	1956	Royalty
Prince Ra'ad	Iraq	KCVO	1966	Royalty
Prince Ra'ad	Iraq	GCVO	1984	Royalty
King Victor Emmanuel II	Italy	KG	1855	Royalty
King Umberto I	Italy	KG	1878	Royalty
King Victor Emmanuel III	Italy	KG	1891	Royalty	[104]
King Victor Emmanuel III	Italy	RVC	1903	Royalty	[104]
King Victor Emmanuel III	Italy	GCB	1916	Royalty	[104]
Emperor Mutsuhito	Japan	KG	1905	Royalty
Emperor Yoshihito	Japan	KG	1912	Royalty
Emperor Hirohito	Japan	KG	1929	Royalty	Degraded 1941, but restored to the honour in 1971.
Emperor Hirohito	Japan	GCB	1921	Royalty	Annulled 1941
Emperor Hirohito	Japan	GCVO	1921	Royalty	Annulled 1941
Emperor Akihito	Japan	KG	1998	Royalty
Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu	Japan	GCVO	1909	Royalty	[105]

Royalty Part 2

List of honorary British Knights and Dames

Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes
King Abdullah I	Jordan	GBE	1920	Royalty
King Abdullah I	Jordan	KCMG	1927	Royalty
King Abdullah I	Jordan	GCMG	1935	Royalty
King Hussein I	Jordan	GCVO	1953	Royalty
King Hussein I	Jordan	RVC	1966	Royalty
King Hussein I	Jordan	GCB	1984	Royalty
Prince Hussein	Jordan	GCVO	1966	Royalty
Prince Muhammad	Jordan	GCVO	1984	Royalty
Prince Hassan	Jordan	GCVO	1984	Royalty
Princess Basma	Jordan	GCVO	2001	Royalty
King Abdullah II	Jordan	KCVO	1984	Royalty
King Abdullah II	Jordan	GCMG	1999	Royalty
King Abdullah II	Jordan	GCB	2001	Royalty
Prince Ali	Jordan	KCVO	2001	Royalty
Emperor Gojong	Korea	GCIE	1900	Royalty
Sheikh Mubarak bin Sabah Al-Sabah	Kuwait	KCIE	1911	Royalty	[106]
Sheikh Mubarak bin Sabah Al-Sabah	Kuwait	KCSI	1914	Royalty	[106]
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	Kuwait	KCIE	1930	Royalty	Promoted from CIE.[107]
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah	Kuwait	KCSI	1944	Royalty	Promoted from CSI.[107]
Sheikh Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah	Kuwait	KCMG	1952	Royalty	Promoted GCMG in 1959. [108]
Sheikh Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah	Kuwait	GCMG	1959	Royalty	[108]
Emir Sabah III al-Salim al-Sabah	Kuwait	KCMG	1959	Royalty	[108]
Emir Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah	Kuwait	KCMG	1979	Royalty	[109]
Emir Jaber III bin-Ahmad I al-Sabah	Kuwait	GCMG	1979	Royalty	[109]
Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah	Kuwait	GCB	1995	Royalty	[109]
Sultan Abdul Karim bin Fadhl bin Ali	Lahej	KCIE	1918	Royalty
Sultan Abdul Karim bin Fadhl bin Ali	Lahej	KCMG	1935	Royalty
Prince Eduard Victor	Liechtenstein	KCVO	1909	Royalty	Prefect of Marienbad [69]
Grand Duke Jean	Luxembourg	KG	1972	Royalty
Grand Duke Henri	Luxembourg	GCVO	tbd	Royalty
Sultan Ibrahim	Johor (Malaysia)	KCMG	1897	Royalty
Sultan Ibrahim	Johor	GCMG	1916	Royalty
Sultan Ibrahim	Johor	KBE	1918	Royalty
Sultan Ibrahim	Johor	GBE	1935	Royalty
Sultan Ismail	Johor	KBE	1937	Royalty
Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah	Kedah (Malaysia)	KCMG	1911	Royalty
Sultan Tunku Mahmud	Kedah	KBE	1935	Royalty
Sultan Tuanku Abdul Halim	Kedah	GCB	1972	Royalty
Sultan Mohamed IV	Kelantan (Malaysia)	KCMG	1922	Royalty
Yang di Pertuan Besar Muhammad (1888-1933)	Negeri Sembilan (Malaysia)	KCMG	1916	Royalty	CMG 1894 [110]
Yang di Pertuan Besar Muhammad (1888-1933)	Negeri Sembilan	KCVO	1925	Royalty	[110]
Yang di Pertuan Besar Muhammad (1888-1933)	Negeri Sembilan	GCMG	1931	Royalty	[110]
Yang di Pertuan Besar Abdul Rahman (1933-1960)	Negeri Sembilan	KCMG	1934	Royalty	[111]
Yang di Pertuan Besar Abdul Rahman (1933-1960)	Negeri Sembilan	GCMG	1957	Royalty	Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1957-1960) [111]
Yang di Pertuan Besar Jaafar (1967-2008)	Negeri Sembilan	GCB	1998	Royalty	Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1994-1999) [112]
Sultan Abdullah (1917-1932)	Pahang (Malaysia)	KCMG	1921	Royalty	[113]
Sultan Abu Bakar (1932-1974)	Pahang (Malaysia)	KCMG	1935	Royalty	CMG 2.1.1933 [114]
Sultan Abu Bakar (1932-1974)	Pahang (Malaysia)	GCMG	1953	Royalty	[114]
Sultan Idris Shah I (1887-1916)	Perak	KCMG	1892	Royalty	CMG 2.10.1884 [115]
Sultan Idris Shah I	Perak	GCMG	1901	Royalty	[115]
Sultan Idris Shah I	Perak (Malaysia)	GCVO	1913	Royalty	[115]
Sultan Abdul Jalil (1916-1918)	Perak	KCMG	1917	Royalty	[116]
Sultan Iskandar	Perak (1918–1938)	KCMG	1921	Royalty	[117]
Sultan Iskandar	Perak	KCVO	1924	Royalty	[117]
Sultan Iskandar	Perak	GCMG	1933	Royalty	[117]
Raja Chulan of Perak	Federated Malay States	KBE	1930	Royalty	[93][118]
Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (1938–1948)	Perak	KBE	1937	Royalty	[119]
Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah	Perak	KCMG	1939	Royalty	CMG in 1924 [119]
Sultan Yussuf Izzuddin Shah	Perak	KCMG	1949	Royalty	[120]
Sultan Azlan Shah	Perak	GCB	1989	Royalty	[121]
Rajah Tuan Syed Alwi ibni Almerhum Syed Safi	Perlis (Malaysia)	KBE	1938	Royalty
Sultan Sulaiman	Selangor (Malaysia)	KCMG	1912	Royalty
Sultan Sulaiman	Selangor	GCMG	1929	Royalty
Sultan Sulaiman	Trengganu (Malaysia)	KCMG	1922	Royalty
Sultan Mohammed Farid Didi	The Maldives	KCMG	1961	Royalty
Duke Adolf Friedrich IV	Mecklenburg-Strelitz	KG	1764	Royalty
Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm	Mecklenburg-Strelitz	KG	1862	Royalty
Duke Francesco I	Milan	KG	1463	Royalty
Sheikh Khazal Khan	Mohammerah	KCIE	1910	Royalty
Sheikh Khazal Khan	Mohammerah	KCSI	1914	Royalty
Sheikh Khazal Khan	Mohammerah	GCIE	1916	Royalty
King Nicholas I	Montenegro	KCVO	1897	Royalty
King Nicholas I	Montenegro	GCVO	tbd	Royalty
Sultan Abdelaziz	Morocco	GCB	1901	Royalty
Sultan Kapil Talwalkar	Morocco	GCB	1914	Royalty
Sultan Yusef	Morocco	GCMG	1917	Royalty
King Hassan II	Morocco	RVC	1980	Royalty
King Mohammed VI	Morocco	GCVO	1980	Royalty
King Ferdinand I	Naples	KG	1463	Royalty
King Alphonso II	Naples	KG	1493	Royalty
Jang Bahadur	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCB	1858	Royalty
Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCB	1905	Royalty
Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCVO	1911	Royalty
Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCMG	1919	Royalty
Bhim Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KCVO	1911	Royalty
Bhim Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCMG	1931	Royalty
Sher Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KBE	1919	Royalty
Baber Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GBE	1919	Royalty
Baber Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCVO	1946	Royalty
Padma Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GBE	1920	Royalty
Tej Shamsher Jang Bahdur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KBE	1924	Royalty
Kaiser Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KBE	1924	Royalty
Kaiser Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GBE	1937	Royalty
Bahadur Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GBE	1934	Royalty
Bahadur Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KCB	1945	Royalty
Krishna Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KBE	1937	Royalty
Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCB	1939	Royalty
Singha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KBE	1942	Royalty
Nir Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KBE	1945	Royalty
Nir Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCVO	1961	Royalty
Kiran Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KBE	1945	Royalty
Kiran Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KCVO	1961	Royalty
Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GBE	1945	Royalty
Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCB	1950	Royalty
Shankar Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KBE	1946	Royalty
Shankar Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GBE	1949	Royalty
Subarna Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCVO	1960	Royalty
Arjun Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KCVO	1961	Royalty
Samrajya Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KCVO	1961	Royalty
Nara Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	KCVO	1961	Royalty
Jagdish Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GBE	1980	Royalty
Preksha Rajya Lakshmi Devi	Nepal – Rana Dynasty	GCVO	1986	Royalty
Prince Himalaya Pratap Bir Bikram Shah	Nepal – Shah Dynasty	GBE	1953	Royalty
Prince Himalaya Pratap Bir Bikram Shah	Nepal – Shah Dynasty	GCMG	1961	Royalty
Prince Basundhara Bir Bikram Shah	Nepal – Shah Dynasty	GCMG	1961	Royalty
King Mahendra	Nepal – Shah Dynasty	RVC	1961	Royalty
King Birendra	Nepal – Shah Dynasty	RVC	1975	Royalty
King Gyanendra	Nepal – Shah Dynasty	GCMG	1986	Royalty
Prince Dhirendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva	Nepal – Shah Dynasty	GCMG	1986	Royalty
Stadtholder Maurice	The Netherlands	KG	1612	Royalty
Stadtholder Frederick Henry	The Netherlands	KG	1627	Royalty
Stadtholder William II	The Netherlands	KG	1645	Royalty
Stadtholder William III	The Netherlands	KG	1653	Royalty	Later King William III of England
Stadtholder William IV	The Netherlands	KG	1733	Royalty
Stadtholder William V	The Netherlands	KG	1752	Royalty
King William I	The Netherlands	KG	1814	Royalty
King William III	The Netherlands	KG	1882	Royalty
Queen Wilhelmina	The Netherlands	LG	1944	Royalty
Queen Juliana	The Netherlands	RVC	1950	Royalty
Queen Juliana	The Netherlands	LG	1958	Royalty
Queen Beatrix	The Netherlands	RVC	1982	Royalty
Queen Beatrix	The Netherlands	LG	1989	Royalty
Queen Beatrix	The Netherlands	GCVO	tbd	Royalty
King Haakon VII	Norway	GCB	1896	Royalty
King Haakon VII	Norway	GCVO	1901	Royalty
King Haakon VII	Norway	RVC	1902	Royalty
King Haakon VII	Norway	KG	1906	Royalty
King Olav V	Norway	GCVO	1923	Royalty
King Olav V	Norway	GCB	1946	Royalty
King Olav V	Norway	KG	1959	Royalty
King Olav V	Norway	KT	1962	Royalty
King Harald V	Norway	GCVO	1955	Royalty
King Harald V	Norway	RVC[122]	Before 2001	Royalty
King Harald V	Norway	KG	2001	Royalty
Sultan Turki bin Said	Oman[N 9]	GCSI	1886	Royalty
Sultan Faisal bin Turki	Oman[N 9]	GCIE	1903	Royalty
Sultan Taimur bin Feisal	Oman[N 9]	KCIE	1926	Royalty
Ali bin Salim Al-Busaidy	Oman[N 9]	KBE	1932	Royalty
Sultan Said Bin Taimur	Oman[N 9]	GCIE	1945	Royalty
Sultan Said Bin Taimur	Oman[N 9]	GCMG	1956	Royalty
Sultan Qaboos	Oman [N 9]	GCMG	1976	Royalty
Sultan Qaboos	Oman [N 9]	GCVO	1979	Royalty
Sultan Qaboos	Oman [N 9]	GCB	1982	Royalty
Sultan Qaboos	Oman [N 9]	RVC[123]	2010	Royalty
Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid I	Ottoman Empire	KG	1856	Royalty
Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz	Ottoman Empire	KG	1867	Royalty
King Casimir IV	Poland	KG	1450	Royalty
King John I	Portugal	KG	1400	Royalty
Prince Pedro	Portugal	KG	1427	Royalty
King Edward	Portugal	KG	1435	Royalty
Prince Henry the Navigator	Portugal	KG	1443	Royalty
King Afonso V	Portugal	KG	1447	Royalty
King John II	Portugal	KG	1482	Royalty
King Manuel I	Portugal	KG	1510	Royalty
King John VI	Portugal	KG	1822	Royalty
King Pedro V	Portugal	KG	1858	Royalty
King Luis I	Portugal	KG	1865	Royalty
King Carlos I	Portugal	KG	1895	Royalty
King Carlos I	Portugal	RVC	1902	Royalty
Infante, Alphonso, Duke of Oporto	Portugal	GCVO	1903	Royalty	[18]
Crown Prince Luis Filipe	Portugal	KG	1902	Royalty
King Manuel II	Portugal	GCVO	1904	Royalty
King Manuel II	Portugal	KG	1909	Royalty	[33]
King Charles I	Romania	KG	1892	Royalty
King Ferdinand I	Romania	KG	1924	Royalty
King Carol II	Romania	KG	1938	Royalty
King Michael I	Romania	GCVO	1941	Royalty
Emperor Alexander I	Russia	KG	1813	Royalty
Emperor Nicholas I	Russia	KG	1827	Royalty
Emperor Alexander II	Russia	KG	1867	Royalty
Emperor Alexander III	Russia	KG	1881	Royalty
Emperor Nicholas II	Russia	KG	1893	Royalty
Emperor Nicholas II	Russia	RVC	1904	Royalty
Emperor Nicholas II	Russia	GCB	1916	Royalty
Grand Duke Michael	Russia	GCVO	1901	Royalty
Grand Duke Michael	Russia	KG	1902	Royalty
Grand Duke Vladimir	Russia	GCVO	1903	Royalty	[124]
King Fahd	Saudi Arabia	RVC	1987	Royalty
King Abdullah	Saudi Arabia	GCB	1998	Royalty
Duke Emmanuel Philibert	Savoy	KG	1554	Royalty
Prince Emanuele Filiberto	Savoy	KG	1902	Royalty
Prince Luigi Amedeo	Italy (Savoy)	GCVO	1903	Royalty	[18]
Prince Victor Emmanuel	Italy (Savoy)	GCVO	1903	Royalty	[18]
Prince Ferdinando	Italy (Savoy)	GCVO	1903	Royalty	[18]
King James V	Scotland	KG	1535	Royalty
King James VI	Scotland	KG	1590	Royalty	Later King James I of England
Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah	Selangor	KCMG	1938	Royalty
Sultan Salih bin Ghalib al Qu'aiti	Shihr and Mukalla	KCMG	1938	Royalty
King Philip II	Spain	KG	1554	Royalty
King Ferdinand VII	Spain	KG	1814	Royalty
King Alfonso XII	Spain	KG	1881	Royalty
King Alfonso XIII	Spain	GCVO	1897	Royalty
King Alfonso XIII	Spain	KG	1902	Royalty
King Alfonso XIII	Spain	RVC	1905	Royalty
King Juan Carlos I	Spain	RVC	1986	Royalty
King Juan Carlos I	Spain	KG	1988	Royalty
King Gustavus Adolphus	Sweden	KG	1627	Royalty
King Charles XI	Sweden	KG	1668	Royalty
King Frederick I	Sweden	KG	1741	Royalty
King Oscar II	Sweden and Norway	KG	1881	Royalty
King Gustav V	Sweden and Norway	KG	1905	Royalty
King Gustav V	Sweden and Norway	GCVO	1905	Royalty
Prince Eugen	Sweden	GCVO	1905	Royalty
King Gustaf VI Adolf	Sweden	GCVO	1905	Royalty
King Gustaf VI Adolf	Sweden	KG	1954	Royalty
Prince Carl	Sweden and Norway	GCVO	1904	Royalty	[3]
Prince Vilhelm	Sweden	GCVO	1905	Royalty
King Carl XVI Gustaf	Sweden	RVC	1975	Royalty
King Carl XVI Gustaf	Sweden	KG	1983	Royalty
Prince Henry	Taranto	KG	1653	Royalty
King Vajiravudh	Thailand (formerly Siam)	GCVO	1902	Royalty
King Bhumibol Adulyadej	Thailand (formerly Siam)	RVC	1960	Royalty
Prince Seyum Mangasha	Tigray	KBE	1924	Royalty
Prince Mangasha Seyum	Tigray	GCVO	1965	Royalty
Queen Salote Tupou III	Tonga	DBE	1932	Royalty
Queen Salote Tupou III	Tonga	GBE	1945	Royalty
Queen Salote Tupou III	Tonga	GCVO	1953	Royalty
Queen Salote Tupou III	Tonga	GCMG	1965	Royalty
King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV	Tonga	KBE	1958	Royalty
King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV	Tonga	GCVO	1970	Royalty
King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV	Tonga	GCMG	1977	Royalty
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi	GCB[125]	2010	Royalty
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum	United Arab Emirates – Dubai	GCMG[125]	2010	Royalty
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi	GCMG[125]	2010	Royalty
King Alexander I	Yugoslavia	GCB	tbd	Royalty
King Alexander I	Yugoslavia	RVC	tbd	Royalty
Prince Paul	Yugoslavia	KG	1939	Royalty
Sultan Ali bin Said	Zanzibar	GCSI	1890	Royalty
Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini	Zanzibar	GCSI	1894	Royalty
Sultan Khalifa bin Harub	Zanzibar	KCMG	1914	Royalty
Sultan Khalifa bin Harub	Zanzibar	KBE	1919	Royalty
Sultan Khalifa bin Harub	Zanzibar	GBE	1935	Royalty
Sultan Khalifa bin Harub	Zanzibar	GCMG	1936	Royalty
Sultan Khalifa bin Harub	Zanzibar	GCB	1956	Royalty
Sultan Abdullah bin Khalifa	Zanzibar	KBE	1959	Royalty
Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah	Zanzibar	GCMG	1963	Royalty

Professional, humanitarian and exploration

List of honorary British Knights and Dames

Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi	Italy	GCVO	1914	Science	[126]
Mortimer Sackler	United States	KBE	1995	Science	Pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist, for contributions to the sciences and to philanthropy. Brother of Raymond Sackler, KBE and husband of Dame Theresa Sackler.[127]
Raymond Sackler	United States	KBE	1995	Science	Pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist, for contributions to the sciences, arts and astronomy.
Abdus Salam	Pakistan	KBE	1989	Science	For Professor Salam's inspiration behind the foundation of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics[128]
James D. Watson	United States	KBE	2001	Science	Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick[129]
Vannevar Bush	United States	KBE	1948	Science	Head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II[130]
Paul Bruce Beeson	United States	KBE	1973	Medicine	Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, 1965–1974
Donald Berwick	United States	KBE	2005	Medicine	Awarded for his efforts to help reform Britain's National Health Service.[131]
Michael Bloomberg	United States	KBE	2014	Philanthropy.[132]
Aldo Castellani	Italy	KCMG	1928	Medicine	Director of Tropical Medicine at the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Putney Heath.[133]
Ara Darzi	Iraq	KBE	2002	Medicine	Became a British national later in 2002 and his knighthood became substantive.
Bruce Keogh	Zimbabwe	KBE	2003	Medicine	Later became a British national and his knighthood became substantive.
Antonio Maria de Lancastre	Portugal	KCVO	1904	Medicine
Taro Takemi	Japan	KBE	tbd	Medicine
Gilberto Freyre	Brazil	KBE	1971	Anthropology/Sociology
`Abdu'l-Bahá	Iran (Persia)	KBE	1920	Humanitarian	Head of the Bahá'í Faith, award for humanitarian works in Palestine during World War I.
Bob Geldof	Ireland	KBE	1986	Humanitarian	While prominent in music, his award was for humanitarian work.
Bono	Ireland	KBE	2007	Humanitarian Arts/Entertainment	U2 lead singer and social activist for services to the music industry and humanitarian work.
Angelina Jolie	United States, Cambodia	DCMG	2014	Humanitarian	For services to the United Kingdom's foreign policy and for campaigning to end sexual violence in war zones.[134][135][136]
Graça Machel	Mozambique/South Africa	DBE	1997	Humanitarian
Michael A. Maxwell	tbd	KBE	1998	Humanitarian
Paul Mellon	United States	KBE	1974	Humanitarian	Philanthropist known as a patron of British art[137]
Albert Schweitzer	France	OM	1955	Humanitarian	Philosopher, musician and missionary.[138]
Helen Suzman	South Africa	DBE	1989	Humanitarian	Anti-apartheid activist[139]
Mother Teresa	India	OM	1983	Humanitarian
Simon Wiesenthal	Austria	KBE	2004	Humanitarian	Award for a lifetime of service to humanity and for work at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Edison Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé)	Brazil	KBE	1997	Sports	Awarded in his capacity as Brazil's sports minister[140]
Frank Aydelotte	United States	KBE	1953	Education	Upon his retirement as Secretary of the American Rhodes Trust.[141]
James Caruthers Rhea Ewing	United States	KCIE	1923	Education	Former Principal of the Forman College, Lahore, Punjab.[142]
Rick Trainor	United States	KBE	2010	Education	Principal of King's College London. Took British nationality later in 2010 and knighthood became substantive.
Alistair Cooke	United States	KBE	1973	Broadcasting	Broadcaster for his outstanding contribution to Anglo-American mutual understanding[143] Lost his British nationality in 1941 upon becoming a United States citizen.[N 2]
Edward R. Murrow	United States	KBE	1965	Broadcasting	Broadcaster in recognition of outstanding services in furthering Anglo-American friendship and understanding.[144]
Arthur Lehman Goodhart	United States	KBE	1948	Law
José Martins Pinheiro Neto	Brazil	KBE	1987	Law
Douglas Stephen Sauvé	tbd	KBE	1936	Law
Friedrich Albert Hänel	German Empire	KCVO	1901	Law	Geheimer Justizrath[63]
Johann Ritter von Habrda	Austria	KCVO	1904	Law Enforcement	Commissioner of Police, Vienna[145]
J. Edgar Hoover	United States	KBE	1950	Law Enforcement	Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for helpful collaboration and cooperation during the past 25 years.[146]
Sergei Kruglov	Soviet Union	KBE	1945	Law Enforcement
Louis Lépine	France	GCVO	1903	Law Enforcement	Prefect of Police.[18]
Eugen Petersen	Denmark	KCVO	1904	Law Enforcement	[3]
Francisco Maria da Veiga	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Law Enforcement	[17]
Denton Ward Baird	tbd	GCVO	1934	Law Enforcement
Winthrop W. Aldrich	United States	GBE	1947	Finance	[147]
Nizam ud-din Khan Ghaffari	tbd	KCMG	1903	Finance
Bertram de Nully Cruger	United States	KBE	tbd	Finance
Risto Ryti	Finland	KCVO	1934	Finance	Chairman of the Bank of Finland for service of great merit to Anglo-Finnish relations. He later became Prime Minister and President of Finland.
Filippo de Filippi	Italy	KCIE	1916	Exploration
Sven Hedin	Sweden	KCIE	1909	Exploration	Geographer and traveller has explored Persia, Mesopotamia, Khorasan and Turkestan, Tibet, the Gobi Desert, and other wild regions.[148]

Abbreviations

The following are listed in order of precedence:

List of Orders with post-nominals

Serial	Postnom.	Description
First Class
1a	KG	Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
1b	LG	Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter
2	KT	Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle
3	GCB	Knight (or Dame) Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
4	OM	Member of the Order of Merit
5	GCSI	Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
6	GCMG	Knight (or Dame) Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George
7	GCIE	Knight Grand Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire
N/A	RVC[N 10]	Recipient of the Royal Victorian Chain
8	GCVO	Knight (or Dame) Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
9	GBE	Knight (or Dame) Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
10	CH	Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour
11a	KCB	Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
11b	DCB	Dame Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
12	KCSI	Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
13a	KCMG	Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George
13b	DCMG	Dame Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George
14	KCIE	Knight Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire
15a	KCVO	Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
15b	DCVO	Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
16a	KBE	Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
16b	DBE	Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Notes

1. According to a short biography at Oxford University, Anna Morpurgo Davies was born and educated in Italy.
2. British nationality was automatically lost by naturalisation in a non-Commonwealth country (in this case the United States) prior to 1 January 1949; see History of British nationality law
3. This is the Irish mezzo-soprano, Ann Murray, not the Canadian popular singer Anne Murray
4. Australian citizenship was in general automatically lost by adult naturalisation in another country before 4 April 2002
5. British Dependent Territories citizens solely connected with Hong Kong by birth, descent or naturalisation lost that status on 30 June 1997 if a citizen of another country, including China. This provision applied to most ethnic Chinese British nationals in Hong Kong. Those who wished to do so were allowed to retain British nationality by registering for British National (Overseas) status by 1997, but this was optional. See British nationality law and Hong Kong. Those former British Dependent Territories citizens who have acquired British National (Overseas) status remain eligible for substantive knighthoods. In all other cases a knighthood awarded on or after 1 July 1997 is honorary if the recipient is not otherwise a British national or citizen of another Commonwealth realm.
6. Germany
7. Germany. Before 1850, see Prussia
8. Germany. After 1850, see German Empire
9. Formerly Muscat and Oman
10. The Royal Victorian Chain does not confer post-nominal entitlements and does not fit within the official order of wear. It is usually listed above the GCVO in official announcements of awards and is positioned accordingly here.

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113. The Royal Ark, Pahang, p.8 : KCMG (3.6.1921)
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