The King's Birthday Honours for 2026 have been officially released, recognising nearly 1,200 individuals from across the United Kingdom. Among the most notable recipients are rugby legend Kevin Sinfield, make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury, and six members of the European Championship-winning Lionesses football team. The list was published on Friday, June 12, 2026, at 22:30.
Key Recipients
Kevin Sinfield, who has raised millions for motor neurone disease (MND) charities following the diagnosis of his former teammate Rob Burrow, receives a knighthood. Charlotte Tilbury, founder of the global beauty brand, is awarded a CBE. Six Lionesses players, including rising star Michelle Agyemang, are made MBEs. At just 20 years old, Agyemang is the youngest recipient on the list.
Understanding the Honours
The honours system recognises outstanding contributions across various fields. Companion of Honour is granted for major contributions to arts, science, medicine, or government. Knight or Dame signifies a major contribution at national level. CBE recognises prominent contributions at national level. OBE is for making a major local contribution. MBE is for outstanding achievement or service to the community. BEM honours hands-on service through long-term charity activity. RVO is awarded by the monarch for personal service.
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Full List of Honours
Order of the Companions of Honour
- Sir Donald McCullin CBE - Photojournalist, for services to Photojournalism (Shepton Mallet, Somerset)
- Dame Helen Lydia Mirren DBE - Actor, for services to Drama (London, Greater London)
Members of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
- Stuart Clive Allen - lately Head of Royal & VIP Operations, Jaguar Land Rover
- Hannah Louise Belcher - Senior Exhibition Project Manager, Royal Collection Trust
- Alexandra Frances Campbell-Ricketts - Art Storage Manager, Royal Collection Trust
- Jason Peter Cannon - Fire Surveillance Officer, Royal Household
- Katrina Anne Farquhar - Personal Secretary (Scotland) to The King and Queen & Birkhall Manager, Balmoral Estate
- Jacqueline Mary Fergusson - Royal Florist, Royal Household
- Sally Barbara Goodsir - Curator of Decorative Arts, Royal Collection Trust
- Branislav Grac - Systems Engineer, Digital Services, Royal Household
- Sarah-Ann Maureen Healy - Deputy Head of Security Liaison, Royal Household
- Callan Robert Kendal - Travel & Logistics Manager, Royal Household
- Jagjivan Singh Khangura - Inspector, Metropolitan Police Service
- Joseph Oswald Maurice Paul Leblanc MMM MSM CD - Senior Ceremonial and Protocol Adviser, Department of Canadian Heritage
- Lara Chantal Marsden - Head of Commercial Finance, The Crown Estate, Windsor
- Lieutenant Commander (Rtd) Christopher David Roger Morgan RN - Trustee, The Princess Anne Charitable Trust
- Lucy Anne Peter - Curator of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust
- Darren John Randall - Constable, Metropolitan Police Service
- Matthew John Shipton - Solutions Architect, Digital Services, Royal Household
- David Martin Taylor - Royalty and VIP Protection, Project and Operational Support Manager, Norfolk Constabulary
- Sally Jennifer Joan Tennant O.B.E. - Trustee, The Princess Anne Charitable Trust
- Iain Philip Terry - Head of Commercial Development, Royal Collection Trust
- Dr Richard Lindsey Williams - Learning Curator, Royal Collection Trust
Order of the British Empire - Knights Grand Cross (GBE)
- Sir Jonathan Stephen Cunliffe CB - Chair, Independent Water Commission, for Public Service (London, Greater London)
- Professor Dame Parveen June Kumar DBE - Professor Emerita of Medicine and Education, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, for services to Global Medical Education and Health (London, Greater London)
Order of the Bath - Knights Commander (KCB)
- Simon Peter Burton - Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords, for services to Parliament (London, Greater London)
Dames Commander of the Order of the Bath (DCB)
- Susanna Justine McGibbon KC - lately HM Procurator General, Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary, Government Legal Department, for Public Service (London, Greater London)
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)
- Jennifer Agnes Bell - lately Crown Solicitor for Northern Ireland, for services to the Administration of Justice (Bangor, County Down)
- Amanda Melanie Brooks (Amanda Kendall) CBE - Director General, Trade Group, Department for Business and Trade, for services to Economic Growth and International Trade (London, Greater London)
- Janette Anita Durbin CBE - Director, Senior Talent and Resourcing, Cabinet Office, for Public Service (London, Greater London)
- Ashley James Ibbett - lately Director General for Energy Infrastructure, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, for services to Energy and Net Zero (London, Greater London)
- Glynne David Jones CBE - lately Director, Wales Office, for Public Service (London, Greater London)
- Angela MacDonald CBE - Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Second Permanent Secretary, HM Revenue and Customs, for Public Service (York, North Yorkshire)
- Sarah Ann Munby - lately Permanent Secretary, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Public Service (London, Greater London)
- Dr Rebecca Weston FREng - Managing Director Warhead, Defence Nuclear Organisation, for services to Defence (Cockermouth, Cumbria)
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- Professor Sheila Macdonald Bird OBE FMedSci FRSE - for services to Statistics (Kettering, Northamptonshire)
- Malorie Blackman OBE - Writer, for services to Literature (London, Greater London)
- Professor Carol Elspeth Goodeve Brayne CBE - Professor Emeritus and Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, for services to Medicine, Medical Research and Public Health (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
- Professor Melanie Jane Davies CBE - Professor of Diabetes Medicine, University of Leicester, for services to Global Diabetes, Research, Policy and Care Management (Leicester, Leicestershire)
- Julia Catherine Donaldson CBE - Writer, for services to Literature (Horsham, West Sussex)
- Jane Fraser - Chief Executive Officer and Chair, Citigroup, for services to the Financial Sector
- Helen Christine Gordon - Chief Executive Officer, Grainger plc, for services to the Property Industry (London, Greater London)
- Professor Sarah Lucina Hackman - Chair of Forensic Anthropology and Head of Discipline, Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification, University of Dundee, for services to Forensic Anthropology and Disaster Victim Identification (Dundee, Dundee)
- Serena Margaret Kennedy KPM DL - lately Chief Constable, Merseyside Police, for services to Policing (Wigan, Greater Manchester)
- Shelagh Jane Legrave CBE DL - Further Education Commissioner, for services to Education (Chichester, West Sussex)
- Dr Beverly Isadore Lindsay OBE DL - Chair, Association of Jamaican Nationals UK, for services to the West Midlands and to Charity (Birmingham, West Midlands)
- Jessica Elizabeth Morden MP - Member of Parliament for Newport East and lately General Secretary, Welsh Labour, for Political and Public Service (Newport, Gwent)
- Dr Crystal Elizabeth Oldman CBE - lately Chief Executive, The Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing, for services to Nursing (Crowborough, East Sussex)
- Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE - lately Chief Executive Officer, Royal Academy of Engineering, for services to Engineering (London, Greater London)
- Professor Heather Vivienne Stevens CBE - for services to the Environment, to Young People and to Philanthropy in Wales (Vale of Glamorgan, South Glamorgan)
- Anna Kim Taylor OBE - Executive Director, The Food Foundation, for services to Reforming the Food System (Canterbury, Kent)
- Sumeshni Tranka - Chief Nursing Officer, Welsh Government, for services to Nursing (Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire)
Knights Bachelor
- Professor Glen Warren Burley - Chief Executive, The Foundation Group and Deputy Chief Executive, NHS England, for services to the NHS (Warwick, Warwickshire)
- Professor Carlos Silvestre Frenk CBE FRS - Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham University, for services to Astrophysics and Cosmology (Durham, County Durham)
- The Right Honourable David Michael Gauke - Chair of the Independent Sentencing Review, for services to the Justice System (Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire)
- The Right Honourable Gregory William Hands - lately Member of Parliament for Chelsea and Fulham, for Parliamentary and Political Service (London, Greater London)
- Alastair John Naisbitt King DL - lately Lord Mayor, City of London Corporation, for services to Pensions Reform, to the Promotion of International Business and Voluntary and Charitable Service (London, Greater London)
- Peter Duncan Fraser Lord CBE - Co-Founder and Trustee, Aardman Animations, for services to the Animation Industry, the Creative Industries and to Charity (Bristol, Bristol)
- Professor Richard Brabazon Macrory CBE KC (Hon) - lately Board Member, The Office for Environmental Protection, for services to Environmental Law (Kidlington, Oxfordshire)
- Andrew Harold Mitchell CBE FREng - Chief Executive Officer, Tideway, for services to the Construction Industry (Saffron Walden, Essex)
- Professor Andrew David Morris CBE FRSE FMedSci - Director of Health Data Research UK and Vice-Principal, University of Edinburgh, for services to Medical Sciences, to Public Health and to Patient Care (Perth, Perth and Kinross)
- Christopher John Mullin - for Political and Public Service (Alnwick, Northumberland)
- Professor Stephen Thurston Munby CBE - Visiting Professor, University College London, for services to Education (Kendal, Cumbria)
- Kevin Sinfield CBE - Coach, England National Rugby Union Team and Fundraiser, for services to Rugby League, Rugby Union and the MND Community (Oldham, Greater Manchester)
- David Alan Sproxton CBE - Co-Founder and Trustee, Aardman Animations, for services to the Animation Industry, the Creative Industries and to Charity (Bristol, Bristol)
- Professor Patrick Philip Vernon OBE - Campaigner for Racial Equality and Social Justice, for services to Racial Equality (London, Greater London)
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- Professor Ian David Abrahams - Professor, University of Cambridge, for services to Mathematical Sciences (Nantwich, Cheshire)
- Dr Damitha Adikaari - Director, Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy, Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, for services to Research and Innovation to Tackle Climate Change (Guildford, Surrey)
- Samantha Jane Allen - Chief Executive, NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, for services to the NHS (Morpeth, Northumberland)
- Professor Ron Arad - Industrial Designer, Artist, and Architectural Designer, for services to Art and Design (London, Greater London)
- Thomas Roger Attwood - Chair of Trustees, Attwood Academy Trust, for services to Education (Cranbrook, Kent)
- Gary Anthony Badley - Senior Responsible Owner – Property Transformation Programme and Director of Property Services, Ministry of Justice, for Public Service (Telford, Shropshire)
- Sarah Frances Barclay - Founder and Director, Medical Mediation Foundation, for services to Families and Health Professionals in Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution (London, Greater London)
- Wendy Mira Becker - for services to Business and to Charitable Causes (Oxford, Oxfordshire)
- Hannah Kate Bernard OBE - Group Director, Business Banking, Nationwide, and Co-Chair, Invest in Women Taskforce, for services to Female Entrepreneurship and Access to Finance for Women (Brighton, East Sussex)
- Alan John Bishop - Chair, The Place, for services to Leadership in the Creative Industries (London, Greater London)
- Caroline Botwood - Director, Nuclear Projects Delivery, for services to the Nuclear Industry (London, Greater London)
- Diana Sarah Brightmore-Armour - Chief Executive Officer, C. Hoare & Co, for services to Women and Diversity in Financial Services (London, Greater London)
- Martin Dafydd Brown - Director of Retirement Services, Department for Work and Pensions, for Public Service (Newport, Gwent)
- Dr Josephine Bunch - Fellow of the National Physical Laboratory, for services to Cancer Research and Mass Spectrometry Imaging (London, Greater London)
- Dr Meryl Anne Bushell - Crown Representative, Cabinet Office, for services to Public Procurement and to Women’s Empowerment in the Commercial Profession (London, Greater London)
- Mark Jonathan Byers - Chief Operating Officer, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, for Public Service (Kettering, Northamptonshire)
- Professor Joanna Cannon - Professor Emerita, The Courtauld Institute of Art, for services to Art Curation and Research (Amersham, Buckinghamshire)
- Steven Carlier - lately President, Rolls Royce Submarines, for services to Defence (Belper, Derbyshire)
- Clare Moira Chapman - Chair, Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, for services to Industrial Relations (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
- Craig Andrew Wyn Crowley MBE - Chief Executive Officer, Action Deafness and Inaugural Co-Chair, The British Sign Language Advisory Board, for services to Deaf and Deafblind People (Corby, Northamptonshire)
- David John Raphael Currie - Chair, Proserv, for services to International Trade, Energy Transition and Economic Growth (St Andrews, Fife)
- Professor Taraneh Dean - Provost and Executive Director of Higher Education, London South Bank University Group, for services to Higher Education (Brighton, East Sussex)
- Dominic Dodd - lately Chair, UCLPartners, for services to the NHS (London, Greater London)
- Charles Hunter Donald - lately Chief Executive Officer, UK Government Investments, for services to Public Finance (Maidenhead, Berkshire)
- Patrick Doyle - Film Composer, for services to Film (London, Greater London)
- Anne Eden - Regional Director for South East, NHS England, for services to the NHS (Amersham, Buckinghamshire)
- Sian Elliott - Director of Organising, Public Services and Skills, Trade Union Congress, for services to the Trade Union Movement (London, Greater London)
- Rebecca Evernden - Director, UK Space Agency, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, for services to Space (Tonbridge, Kent)
- Neil Fox MBE - for services to Rugby League and to the community in West Yorkshire (Wakefield, West Yorkshire)
- Allison Gardner - Chief Executive Officer, Glasgow Film, for services to Film and Cinema in Scotland (Edinburgh, Edinburgh)
- Thomas Goldman - Deputy Director, Strategic Finance, Department for Education, for services to Education (Lewes, East Sussex)
- Henry Cyril Grunwald OBE KC - lately, Chair of the National Holocaust Centre and Museum, Newark, for services to Holocaust Remembrance and Education (London, Greater London)
- Professor David John Gunnell FMedSci - Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, Bristol Medical School, for services to Public Health and Suicide Prevention (Portishead, Somerset)
- Lisa Marie Harker - Director, Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, for services to Children and Young People (Oxford, Oxfordshire)
- Patrick Iain Heath-Lay - Chief Executive Officer, People’s Partnership, for services to the Pensions Industry (Haywards Heath, West Sussex)
- Neil Heslop OBE - Chief Executive, Charities Aid Foundation, for services to Philanthropy and Charity (Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)
- Rhiannon Jane Hiles - Chief Executive, Beamish Museum, for services to Museums and to the Culture and Heritage of North East England (Durham, County Durham)
- Jane Elisabeth Hill - Legal Director, Department for Business and Trade Legal Advisers, Government Legal Department, for services to the Law (Brighton, East Sussex)
- Justin Andrew Cardale Holliday - Chief Finance Officer and Tax Assurance Commissioner, HM Revenue and Customs, for Public Service (Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex)
- Professor Simon John Hollingsworth FMedSci - Vice-President and Global Franchise Head of Immune Oncology Bispecifics, AstraZeneca, for services to Biomedical Research and Medicine Development (Sudbury, Suffolk)
- Dr Sarah Joan Hughes - Chief Executive Officer, Mind, for services to Mental Health and to Civil Society (St. Neots, Cambridgeshire)
- Christopher Robert Hulatt - Co-Founder, Octopus Group, for services to Entrepreneurship (London, Greater London)
- Neil Anthony Johnson - Director, Materials, Department for Business and Trade, for services to Industry (London, Greater London)
- Christopher Neil Jones - Director, Home Office, for Public Service (St Albans, Hertfordshire)
- Katie Jones - Chair, Pension Protection Fund, for services to Pensions and Financial Education (Virginia Water, Surrey)
- Melanie Keen - lately Director, Wellcome Collection, for services to Museums (London, Greater London)
- Yasmin Akhtar Khan - Chief Executive Officer, Halo Project, for services to Ending Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women (Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire)
- Vikki Joanne Knight - Director for Fraud, Error and Debt Policy and Strategy, Department for Work and Pensions, for Public Service (Tadley, Hampshire)
- Professor David Michael Knowles FREng - Chief Executive Officer, Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials, for services to Academia and to Industry (Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire)
- Elaine Christina Lorimer - lately Chief Executive, Revenue Scotland, for Public Service (Isle of Arran, Ayrshire and Arran)
- Professor Rosemary Helen Luckin - Professor of Learner Centred Design, University College London Knowledge Lab, for services to Education (Hassocks, West Sussex)
- Fiona Jane MacGregor OBE - lately, Chief Executive, Regulator of Social Housing, for services to Social Housing (London, Greater London)
- Ashley John Machin - lately Lead Non-Executive Director, Department for Work and Pensions, for Public Service (Ripon, North Yorkshire)
- Dr William Mackie - Chair, CentreStage, Kilmarnock, for services to Education and the Economy (Ayr, Ayrshire and Arran)
- Vishal Kumar Marria - for services to Technology, Economic Crime Prevention and to the Data and AI Sector (London, Greater London)
- Dr Ann Matheson OBE - lately Keeper, National Library of Scotland, for services to Literature and Culture (Edinburgh, Edinburgh)
- Paul Dominic McCreesh - Conductor, for services to Music and Music Education (Oakham, Leicestershire)
- Ian Jeffrey McDermott - Chief Executive Officer, Peabody Trust, for services to Social Housing (London, Greater London)
- Annabel Ruth McKeon (Annabel Burns) - Director of Strategy, Development and Change, HM Courts and Tribunals Service, for services to the Administration of Justice (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire)
- Bernard Amponsah Mensah - President of International, Bank of America and lately Chief Executive Officer, Merrill Lynch International, for services to Finance and the Economy (London, Greater London)
- Merope Mills - Patient Safety Campaigner, for services to Patient Safety (London, Greater London)
- Natalie Moore - Director, Ministry of Defence, for services to Defence (London, Greater London)
- Anthony Richard Negus - Musical Director, Longborough Festival Opera, for services to Opera, particularly Mozart and Wagner, and to Young Artists (Penarth, Mid Glamorgan)
- Paul David Nisbet - Director of Communication Access Literacy and Learning Scotland, School of Education and Sport, Edinburgh University, for services to Education and the Development of Assistive Technology (Edinburgh, Edinburgh)
- Joseph O’Neill - Chief Executive Officer, Belfast Harbour, for services to Business and to the community in Belfast (Newtownards, County Down)
- Professor Timothy Robin Orchard - Chief Executive, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Professor of Gastroenterology, Imperial College London, for services to the NHS and Healthcare Research and Innovation (London, Greater London)
- Helen Jane Palmer - People Director, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, for services to the Public and Charity Sectors (St Albans, Hertfordshire)
- Kunal Patel - lately Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, for Public Service (London, Greater London)
- Ian David Piper - Chief Executive Officer, Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, for services to Housing and Regeneration (Honiton, Devon)
- Julia Natasha Pyke - Joint Managing Director, Sizewell C Ltd, for services to the UK Nuclear Energy Industry and other Clean Energy Technologies (Hitchin, Hertfordshire)
- Professor Monder Ram OBE DL - Founder and Director, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship, for services to Ethnic Minority Business and Entrepreneurship (Birmingham, West Midlands)
- Professor Hilary Ranson - Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, for services to Global Health and to Equity in Science (Liverpool, Merseyside)
- Dr Eva Kirsten Elisabet Rausing DL - Founder, Alborada Trust, for services to Charity, to Animal Welfare, to Horseracing and Bloodstock (Newmarket, Suffolk)
- Dr David Charles Rees FMedSci - lately Chief Scientific Officer, Astex Pharmaceuticals, for services to Chemistry and Innovation (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)
- Julia Ross - Chair, British Association of Social Workers, for services to Children and Families (London, Greater London)
- Professor Robert Stephen Rubin OBE - Chair, Pentland Capital Limited and Pentland Group Limited, for services to Inter-Faith Relations and to Charity (London, Greater London)
- Sukriti Prova Sen - Director of Children and Education Services, Coventry City Council, for services to Children Social Care (London, Greater London)
- Jonathan Isaac Sherman - Director, Business Assets and International, HM Customs and Revenue, for Public Service (London, Greater London)
- Peter Rowland Tudor St John - Founder and Director, Caruso St John Architects, for services to Architecture (London, Greater London)
- Andrew Philip Start - lately Chief Executive Officer, Defence Equipment and Support and Interim National Armaments Director, for services to Defence (Longfield, Kent)
- Professor Sarah Joanna Tabrizi FMedSci FRS - Professor of Clinical Neurology, University College London, for services to People with Huntington’s Disease (London, Greater London)
- Professor Paul Jonathon Taylor - Police Chief Scientific Adviser, National Police Chiefs’ Council, for services to Science in Policing (Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire)
- Nigel Terrington - Chief Executive Officer, Paragon Banking Group, for services to the Financial Services Industry (Leatherhead, Surrey)
- Charlotte Tilbury MBE - President, Chair, Chief Creative Officer and Sole Founder, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty Ltd, for services to the Beauty and Cosmetics Industry (London, Greater London)
- Dr Richard Mark Vautrey - lately President, Royal College of General Practitioners and GP Partner, Meanwood Group Practice, for services to General Practice (Leeds, West Yorkshire)
- Dr Victoria Louise Winckler - lately Director, Bevan Foundation, for Public Service (Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan)
- Terence Woods QPM - Deputy Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police, for services to Policing (Darwen, Lancashire)
- Deborah Jane Wosskow OBE - Entrepreneur and Co-Chair, Invest in Women Taskforce, for services to Female Entrepreneurship and to Access to Finance for Women (London, Greater London)
- Jonathan Yates - Executive Director, Youth Endowment Fund, London, for services to Education (Epsom, Surrey)
- Professor Ian Stuart Young - Consultant Chemical Pathologist, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Health, for services to Health Services Research and Development and to Health Education (Newtownabbey, County Antrim)
