Dame Helen Mirren, make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury, and The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson are among the prominent London figures honoured in this year's King's Birthday Honours list.
Companions of Honour
Dame Helen Mirren received the Order of the Companions of Honour, a prestigious award instituted by King George V in 1917, recognising long-standing national service or major contributions to arts, science, medicine, or government. Membership is limited to 65 living ordinary members.
Sports Honours
England women's goalkeeper Hannah Hampton was awarded an OBE for services to Association Football.
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Film and Music
Scottish composer Patrick Doyle, known for Disney's Brave and Cinderella, was recognised for services to film.
Full List of London Recipients
Companions of Honour (CH)
- Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE – Actor, for services to Drama
Knights Grand Cross (GBE)
- Sir Jonathan Stephen Cunliffe CB – Chair, Independent Water Commission, for Public Service
- Professor Dame Parveen June Kumar DBE – Professor Emerita of Medicine and Education, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, for services to Global Medical Education and Health
Knights Commander of the Bath (KCB)
- Simon Peter Burton – Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords, for services to Parliament
Dames Commander of the Bath (DCB)
- Susanna Justine McGibbon KC – Lately HM Procurator General, Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary, Government Legal Department, for Public Service
Dames Commander of the British Empire (DBE)
- Malorie Blackman OBE – Writer, for services to Literature
- Helen Christine Gordon – CEO, Grainger plc, for services to the Property Industry
- Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE – Lately CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering, for services to Engineering
Knights Bachelor
- The Rt Hon Gregory William Hands – Lately MP for Chelsea and Fulham, for Parliamentary and Political Service
- Alastair John Naisbitt King DL – Lately Lord Mayor, City of London Corporation, for services to Pensions Reform, International Business and Voluntary Service
- Professor Patrick Philip Vernon OBE – Campaigner for Racial Equality and Social Justice, for services to Racial Equality
Companions of the Bath (CB)
- Amanda Melanie Brooks (Amanda Kendall) CBE – Director General, Trade Group, Department for Business and Trade
- Janette Anita Durbin CBE – Director, Senior Talent and Resourcing, Cabinet Office
- Ashley James Ibbett – Lately Director General for Energy Infrastructure, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Glynne David Jones CBE – Lately Director, Wales Office
- Sarah Ann Munby – Lately Permanent Secretary, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Commanders of the British Empire (CBE)
- Professor Ron Arad – Industrial Designer, Artist, and Architectural Designer
- Sarah Frances Barclay – Founder and Director, Medical Mediation Foundation
- Alan John Bishop – Chair, The Place
- Caroline Botwood – Director, Nuclear Projects Delivery
- Diana Sarah Brightmore-Armour – CEO, C. Hoare & Co.
- Dr Josephine Bunch – Fellow, National Physical Laboratory
- Dr Meryl Anne Bushell – Crown Representative, Cabinet Office
- Dominic Dodd – Lately Chair, UCLPartners
- Patrick Doyle – Film Composer
- Sian Elliott – Director of Organising, Public Services and Skills, Trade Union Congress
- Henry Cyril Grunwald OBE KC – Lately Chair, National Holocaust Centre and Museum
- Christopher Robert Hulatt – Co-Founder, Octopus Group
- Neil Anthony Johnson – Director, Materials, Department for Business and Trade
- Melanie Keen – Lately Director, Wellcome Collection
- Fiona Jane MacGregor OBE – Lately CEO, Regulator of Social Housing
- Vishal Kumar Marria – for services to Technology, Economic Crime Prevention and Data and AI
- Ian Jeffrey McDermott – CEO, Peabody Trust
- Bernard Amponsah Mensah – President of International, Bank of America
- Merope Mills – Patient Safety Campaigner
- Natalie Moore – Director, Ministry of Defence
- Professor Timothy Robin Orchard – CEO, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Kunal Patel – Lately Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
- Julia Ross – Chair, British Association of Social Workers
- Professor Robert Stephen Rubin OBE – Chair, Pentland Capital Limited
- Sukriti Prova Sen – Director of Children and Education Services, Coventry City Council
- Jonathan Isaac Sherman – Director, Business Assets and International, HM Customs and Revenue
- Peter Rowland Tudor St John – Founder and Director, Caruso St John Architects
- Professor Sarah Joanna Tabrizi – Professor of Clinical Neurology, University College London
- Charlotte Tilbury MBE – President, Chair, Chief Creative Officer, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Ltd
- Deborah Jane Wosskow OBE – Entrepreneur and Co-Chair, Invest in Women Taskforce
Officers of the British Empire (OBE)
- Stephen Olumbunmi Akinsanya – Barrister, for services to Prevention of Knife Crime and Youth Violence
- Siobhan Alloway – Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
- Chenelle Ansah – CEO, Nell Consulting Ltd
- Kwadwo Asomani Adjepong – Solicitor, for services to Sport and Sports Law
- Kate Maggie Aubrey-Johnson – Barrister, for services to Children and Youth Justice
- Christopher Bailey – Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
- Dr David Christopher Sturgess Bonnett – Architect and Access Consultant
- Alison Brooks – Founder, Alison Brooks Architects
- Paul Butler – Chair of Governors, Waltham Forest College
- Javid Soli Canteenwala – Trustee, Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe
- Peter Alan Chambre – Chair, Cancer Research Horizons
- Sandra Choi – Designer and Creative Director, Jimmy Choo
- Neil Charles Clifford – CEO, Kurt Geiger
- Aletta Rachel Collins – Director and Choreographer
- Dr Camilla Darling – Director of Research Development, King's College London
- Estelle Alexandra Michelle Dehon KC – Barrister, Cornerstone Barristers
- David Barry Dein MBE – Founder, The Twinning Project
- Berhane Dory – Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University
- Andrew Elliott – Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
- Dexter Fletcher – Actor and Director
- Paul Jason Franklin – Visual Effects Designer
- Professor Anthony Fretton – Architect
- Emma Johanna Frost – Lately Assistant Chief of Staff, Permanent Joint Headquarters
- Robin William Gisby – Lately CEO, DFT Operator Limited
- Julian Toby Gray Gravatt – Deputy Chief Executive, Association of Colleges
- Dr Clare June Halsted – Lately Athlete, Administrator and Volunteer, for services to Fencing
- Sarah Hamilton-Fairley – CEO, UK Sepsis Trust
- Mina Hasman – Sustainability Director, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
- Katherine Jane Herrick – Lately Head of Elections, Northern Ireland Office
- Professor Iain Louis Hutchison – Founder and CEO, Saving Faces
- Emma Victoria Kane – Deputy Chair, Elton John AIDS Foundation
- Dr Niall Gerald James Keenan – Divisional Director, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- David Richard Lloyd – Deputy Principal Clerk, House of Commons
- Rohan Malik – UK and Ireland Government and Public Sector Managing Partner, EY
- Michael May – Inclusion Consultant
- Ifty Nasir – Founder and CEO, Vestd
- Roxanna Anna Panufnik – Composer
- Tricia Anesther Pereira – National Leader in Workforce Race Equity
- Charlotte Potter – Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
- Celia Richardson – Director of Communications, The National Trust
- June Elizabeth Ross MBE – Founder and CEO, Esther Community Enterprise
- Sophie Ross – Founder and Creative Director, Trotters Childrenswear
- Fleur Ruda – Deputy Director, Department of Business and Trade Legal Advisers
- Aline Santos Farhat – Chief Brand Officer, Unilever
- Jeffrey Bradley Shear – Fundraiser and Founder, Solid Management
- Terry Stacy MBE JP – Chair, Tonic Housing
- Dr Mark Campbell Stuart – for services to Pharmacy Profession in Sport
- Ruth Sunderland – Business Ambassador, Royal Osteoporosis Society
- Muhammed Fazan Tahir – Managing Director, Tahir Group
- Sharon Elizabeth Todd – CEO, The Society of Chemical Industries
- James Walter Tugendhat – Lately CEO, HC-One
- Susanna Tugwell – Deputy Director, National Crime Agency
- Professor Kaye Wellings – Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Dr Adrian West – Officer, National Crime Agency
- Gillian Wright – Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
Members of the British Empire (MBE)
- Louise Alder – Lyric Soprano
- Diana Ambache – Musician, Broadcaster and Writer
- Mark Richard Beattie JP – Lately Chair, Magistrates' Association
- Margaret Ann Betts – Front of House Assistant, 10 Downing Street
- Hiren Bhimjiyani – Programme Director, Department for Business and Trade
- Dr John Blakeley – Team Leader, Department for Education
- Dr Margaret Andrea Boanas – Chair, International Meat Trade Association
- Professor Stephen James Brett – Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Tania Bright – CEO, Home for Good and Safe Families
- Sonia Patricia Browne – Founder, Steve Browne Foundation
- Nathalie Bull – Chief Executive Headteacher, The BeDifferent Federation
- Dr John Richard Buscombe – Lately Consultant in Nuclear Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals
- Theresa Cameron – Parenting Support Co-Ordinator, London Borough of Sutton
- Aditya Chakrabortty – Senior Economics Commentator, The Guardian
- Barbara Rowton Chandler – Design Journalist and Photographer
- Dean Simon Benjamin Cohen – Councillor, London Borough of Barnet
- Daniel Connolly – Officer, National Crime Agency
- Matthew Davenport – Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
- Shevelle Lloyd Richard Dynott – Dancer
- Neil Andrew Eastwood – Founder and CEO, Care Friends
- Hannah Faulkner – Head of Pan-London Rough Sleeping Services, St Mungo's
- Jane Figueiredo – Diving Coach
- Alloysius Jonathan Frederick – Chair of Trustees, All Saints' Multi-Academy Trust
- Esperanza Gomez-Martinez – Offensive Weapons Policy Manager, Home Office
- Caterina Goodhart – Founder, London School of Picture and Frame Conservation
- Professor Sunil Gupta – Photographer, Activist and Writer
- Hannah Alice Hampton – for services to Association Football
- Jennie Harrington – Artistic Scheduling Manager, English National Ballet
- Dr Carolyn Michelle Heitmeyer – Head of Social Sciences, Government Office for Science
- Jonathan Mark Hindle – President EMEA, Krueger International Europe
- Anne Lynette Holland – Front of House Assistant, 10 Downing Street
- Naomi Michelle Hulston – CEO, Catch22
- Pamela Ann Margaret Hussain – National Caseworker, British Red Cross
- Dorothy Ind – Founder, Chelsea Ballet Schools
- Paul Michael Jackson – Founder and Global Chair, Astus Group
- Lauren Elizabeth James – for services to Association Football
- Dr Samuel John Jenkins – Deputy Head, Public Records and Archives, Cabinet Office
- Elaine Jill Kelman – Lately Head, Michael Palin Centre for Stammering
- Marian Kennedy – Lately Headteacher, Crampton Primary School
- Nadia Zunobia Khan – Founder and CEO, Women in CTRL
- Mark Beverley King – Fellow, Institute of Tourist Guiding
- Chadwick Clive Lake – County Chair, Greater London Middlesex West Scouts
- Max Lamb – Product and Furniture Designer
- Alison Lawson BEM – Deputy STRAP Security Officer
- Dr Becki Lawson – Senior Research Fellow, Zoological Society of London
- Kirsty Helena McKenzie Leighton – CEO, Milk & Honey PR
- Shuvo Loha – for Parliamentary and Political Service
- Duncan MacDonald – Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
- Sanjiv Mahajan – Supporting Editor, 2025 United Nations System of National Accounts
- Ian Brian Marson – Lately Digital Product Manager, Home Office
- Paul Emerson Martenstyn – Vice-President, Save the Children UK
- Colin James Mason – Volunteer Organiser, Volunteering Matters
- Jean-Paul Edouard Maunick – Musician, Composer and Producer
- Alex Maws – Head of Education and Heritage, Association of Jewish Refugees
- Maria Angela McNicholl – Development Manager, St Giles
- Hazel Margaret Moody – Director of Childcare, Advantage Day Nursery
- Michael Paul Murray – Armed Forces Champion, Department for Work and Pensions
- Julius O'Riordan (Judge Jules) – DJ and Broadcaster
- Claire Oxlade – Lately Private Secretary to UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance
- Alexandria Page – Engagement Staff Officer, HQ London District
- Merrill Powell – Volunteer, Women2Win
- Helen Ralph – Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
- Pandora Reilly – Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
- Anneka Rice – Broadcaster
- Simon Paul Richardson – Lately Ceremonials Project Manager, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Professor Mykaell Riley – Director, Black Music Research Unit, University of Westminster
- Kay Salter – Volunteer, The Falcon Spartak Gymnastics Club
- Mark Anthony Santos – Executive Director, Positive East
- Raymond Andre Simonson – CEO, JW3
- Anne Margaret Slade – Chief Operational Officer, The Pioneer Academy
- Rabbi Dr Norman Solomon – for services to Jewish Community and Interfaith Relations
- Paul Stacey – Founder and Artistic Director, Reading Rep Theatre
- Paul Stanley Daniel Trevatt – Nursing Leader
- Jennie Louise Truman – Project Co-Ordinator, London Borough of Ealing
- Amy Lauren Wagner – Director, Tackling Antisemitism in Education Programme
- Dawn Waterman – Education and Heritage Adviser, Board of Deputies of British Jews
- Ann Watson – CEO, Enginuity
- Brian Phillip Whitaker – Police Staff, Metropolitan Police Service
Medallists of the British Empire (BEM)
- Evren Altinok – for services to Young People
- Neil Barclay – Civilian Librarian, HM Prison Thameside
- Gary Antony Beckford – President, London Volleyball Association
- Sharifa Begum – Employment Adviser, Department for Work and Pensions
- Caroline Joanna Bird – Lately Diary and Logistics Manager, Cabinet Office
- Charlotte Elizabeth Bradford – Lately Road Safety Policy Advisor, Department for Transport
- Stephen John Davis – Lately Custodian, Prime Minister's Office
- Jennifer Jane Dudley – County Commissioner, Girlguiding
- Jack Joseph Emsley – Councillor, London Borough of Hounslow
- Dr Tyrrell George John Robert Evans – Vice-President, St Christopher's Hospice
- Lorraine Fergus – People and Culture Team, Department for Work and Pensions
- Susan Jane Garner – Volunteer Facilitator, Carers in Mind
- Eleanor Sarah Guedalla – for services to Football for Women and Marginalised Communities
- Paul Hammerton – Special Wreath Maker, The Poppy Factory
- Lynn Diane Hay – Administrator, Old Streetonians Rugby Football Club
- Deborah Haythorne – Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive, Roundabout Dramatherapy
- The Reverend Christopher Charles Henley – Voluntary Railway Chaplain
- Anne Elizabeth Hook – Lately Police Constable and Founder, BLAST
- Jeanette Winifred Judge – for services to the community in Sidcup
- Kabir Kaul – Conservationist, Urban Nature Campaigner
- Eleanor Keeley – School Cook and Catering Manager, Linden Lodge School
- Iraklis Kolokotronis – Head of Early Years, Westminster City Council
- Robin Lockhart – Director and Co-Founder, Catalyst in Communities
- William Luckhurst – Senior Technical Manager, King's College London
- James Isaac McDonald – Volunteer Athletics Coach
- Susan Jennifer Mary Price – Chair, Friends of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
- Alpa Raja – Member, Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committee
- Lena Smith – Library Programme Manager, Pen to Print
- Barbara Celia Sved – for services to Disabled and Learning Disabled Adults
- Judy Senta Tayler-Smith – for services to the Civic City of London and Charity
- Steven Thake – Train Manager Mentor, East Midlands Railway
- Jennifer Jaculin Thomas – for Charitable Service
- Alan Christopher Thurlow – for services to Swimming
- Alison Jane Turner – Chair, Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation UK
- Patricia Marie Wells – Early Years Expert, Tower Hamlets Council
- Peter Wills – Special Wreath Maker, The Poppy Factory
