List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Below is a List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Substantive) from the order's creation in 1917 until the present day. Honorary Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire can be found at Category:Honorary Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

1910s[]

1917: The Baroness Byron, The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, Sarah Lees, The Marchioness of Londonderry, Edith Balfour Lyttelton, The Baroness Pentland, The Marchioness of Willingdon
1918: Eva Anstruther, Caroline Arnott, The Duchess of Atholl, Lady Bell of Rounton Grange, Maud Bevan, Maud Burnett, The Marchioness of Bute, Margaret Davidson, Lady Donner of Oak Mount, Alice Godman, Agnes Jekyll, Adelaide Livingstone, Ethel Locke King, The Baroness Lugard, Nellie Melba, , , The Viscountess Ridley, The Countess Roberts, Edith Sclater, Olive Smith-Dorrien, Janet Stancomb-Wills, The Countess Waldegrave, Mary Webster
1919: Rachel Crowdy, The Countess of Darnley, Blanche Gordon-Lennox, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, The Countess of Harrowby, Henrietta Henderson, , The Baroness Mount Stephen, The Baroness Northcote, Una O'Dwyer, Sarah Oram, Florence Simpson

1920s[]

1920: Georgiana Buller, Clara Butt, Alice Chisholm, The Countess of Eglinton, The Countess of Gosford, Catherine Hunt, The Countess of Leicester, The Baroness Melchett, Beryl Oliver, Ethel Pearson, Una Pope-Hennessy, The Viscountess Rhondda, Louise Samuel, Ethel Shakespear, The Baroness Talbot of Malahide, Meriel Talbot, Catherine Wingate, Sophia Wintz
1921: Adelaide Anderson, Edith Dixon
1922: The Viscountess Greenwood,^[1] Ethel Smyth,^[1] Margaret Greville
1923: Belle Cox, Barbara Strickland
1924: Louisa Aldrich-Blake, Henrietta Barnett, The Viscountess Bridgeman, Janet Campbell, Beatrix Lyall
1925: Emma Albani, Mary Cook, Louisa Lumsden, The Baroness St Helier, , Mary Wills
1926: Agnes Hunt, Madge Kendal, , Jessie Phipps, Mary Scharlieb
1927: , The Countess of Cavan, The Countess of Jersey, Emily Penrose, The Countess of Stradbroke, The Viscountess Templewood
1928: The Duchess of Bedford, Frances Dove, Eadith Walker, Elizabeth Wordsworth
1929: Alida Brittain, Harriet Findlay, , Laura Knight, Anne McIlroy, Bertha Phillpotts

1930s[]

1930: Mary Bailey
1931: Joanna Cruickshank, , Sarah Mair, Sybil Thorndike
1932: Margaret Tuke, Edith Brown
1933: The Baroness Denman, The Viscountess Simon
1934: Elizabeth Cadbury, Alicia Lloyd Still
1935: Constance D'Arcy, Maria Ogilvie Gordon, Ethel MacDonald, Jean Macnamara, Rosalind Paget, The Duchess of Portland
1936: The Duchess of Abercorn, , The Baroness Gilmour, Christabel Pankhurst
1937: Edith M. Anderson, Geraldine Cadbury, Mary Gilmore, Ellen Pinsent, Juliet Rhys-Williams, The Baroness Strickland, Marie Tempest,
1938: The Countess of Elgin, Florence Lambert, Gwendoline Trubshaw
1939: , Ellen Musson

1940s[]

1941: The Viscountess Craigavon, Myra Hess, The Marchioness of Reading, Reniera Stanley, Irene Vanbrugh
1942: Katharine Jones
1943: Emily Blair, Lilian Braithwaite, Anne Loughlin, Ethel Walker
1944: Lilian Barker, Doris Beale, Jane Trefusis Forbes
1945: Joan Marsham, Vera Laughton Mathews, Katherine Watt
1946: Edith Evans, The Countess of Limerick, The Duchess of Richmond, Mary Welsh, Leslie Whateley
1947: Madeline Brock, Gertrude Cosgrove, Evelyn Fox, , Caroline Haslett, Emmeline Tanner, Eileen Walwyn
1948: The Baroness Sharp, Louisa Wilkinson
1949: Harriette Chick, Myra Curtis, Anne Curwen, Alix Kilroy, Dehra Parker, Felicity Peake, Mary Smieton, Gladys Taylor, Mary Tyrwhitt

1950s[]

1950: Helen Cargill, , Frances Farrer, Adeline Genée, Grace Kimmins, Olive Wheeler, Jocelyn Woollcombe
1951: , Florence Cardell-Oliver, Mary Daly, Elizabeth Gilmer, Florence Hancock, Hilda Lloyd, Lillian Penson, Anne Thomson, Ninette de Valois
1952: Florence Bevin, Kathleen Courtney, The Viscountess Davidson, Mary Lloyd, Marjorie Maxse
1953: The Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, Cynthia Colville, Mary Coulshed, Catherine Fulford, , Flora MacLeod of MacLeod, Enid Russell-Smith
1954: Lilian Bromley-Davenport, Helen Gillespie, Edith Sitwell
1955: Mabel Brookes, Elizabeth Cockayne, The Countess of Rosebery, Nancy Salmon, Irene Ward,
1956: The Countess of Albemarle, Peggy Ashcroft, Margot Fonteyn, Kathleen Lonsdale, Mary Railton, Hilda Ross, Lucile Sayers
1957: Anne Bryans, The Countess De La Warr, Annabelle Rankin, Nancy Robertson, Janet Vaughan
1958: Mary Henrietta Barnett, The Baroness Elliot of Harwood, Monica Golding, Mary Kingsmill Jones, Rose Macaulay, The Duchess of Portland, Maggie Teyte,
1959: The Viscountess Brookeborough, , Mary Colvin, Rebecca West

1960s[]

1960: Judith Anderson, Alice Berry, The Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, Mary Herring, Elizabeth Hoyer-Millar, , Merlyn Myer, Flora Robson
1961: Kitty Anderson, Elizabeth Couchman, The Baroness Hornsby-Smith, Anne Stephens
1962: Anne Godwin, Edith Pitt, Marie Rambert, Jean Roberts, Barbara Salt, Eva Turner
1963: Jean Conan Doyle, Barbara Cozens, Jean Davies, Honor Fell, Alicia Markova, Elisabeth Murdoch
1964: Veronica Ashworth, , , The Baroness Vickers, The Baroness Wakehurst, Eileen Younghusband
1965: The Baroness Adrian, Florence Cayford, Mabel Crout, Sibyl Hathaway, Joan Henderson, Barbara Hepworth, Elizabeth Lane, , Margot Turner
1966: , Margaret Drummond, Felicity Hill, Leah Manning, Ngaio Marsh, Anne McEwen, Ruth Railton, Grace Tebbutt, Mabel Tylecote
1967: Margery Corbett Ashby, The Countess of Brecknock, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Gladys Cooper, Helen Gardner, , Mabel Miller, Beryl Paston Brown, Margaret Rutherford, Ivy Wedgwood, Albertine Winner
1968: Zara Bate, Annis Gillie, , , Muriel Powell, Kathleen Raven, Hilda Stevenson, , Dorothy Tangney, Veronica Wedgwood, Ethel Wormald
1969: Rita Buxton, Hilda Bynoe, , Mary Cartwright, Daphne du Maurier, Molly Gibbs, Ella Macknight, Anna Neagle, , Lucy Stuart Sutherland,

1970s[]

1970: , Mary Anderson, Te Atairangikaahu, Sara Barker, Bessie Bottomley, Margaret Cole, Marion Kettlewell, Margaret Miles, Peggy van Praagh
1971: Kate Campbell, Agatha Christie, , Mary Cramer, Adelaide Doughty, Kathleen Ollerenshaw
1972: Nancy Buttfield, Cicely Courtneidge, Diana Reader Harris, Unity Lister, The Baroness Plowden, Freya Stark,
1973: , Sylvia Crowe, Kathleen Kenyon, Sister Mary Leo, Marjorie Williamson
1974: Josephine Barnes, , The Baroness Denington of Stevenage, Phyllis Frost, Joan Hammond, Rose Heilbron, Albertha Isaacs, The Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden,
1975: Jacobena Angliss, Helen Blaxland, Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Joyce Daws, Frances Gardner, Wendy Hiller, Margaret Kidd, Ruth Kirk, Vera Lynn, Dorothy Rees, Betty Ridley
1976: Janet Baker, , Joan Evans, Violet Dickson, Monica Gallagher, Elizabeth Hill, Ada Norris
1977: Geraldine Aves, Moyra Browne, Patricia Mackinnon, Rosemary Murray, Iris Origo, Marjorie Parker, Cecily Pickerill, Winifred Prentice, Frances Yates
1978: Isobel Baillie, Mary Durack, Audrey Reader, , Sheila Sherlock,
1979: Mary Austin, Margaret Booth, Sister Philippa Brazill, The Baroness Butler-Sloss, , Gracie Fields, Judith Hart, Naomi James, , Daphne Purves, Joan Sutherland, Margaret Weston

1980s[]

1980: Rachel Cleland, Miriam Dell, Phyllis Friend, Margaret Guilfoyle, Ida Mann, Raigh Roe, Cicely Saunders, The Baroness Soames,
1981: Beryl Beaurepaire, Margaret Blackwood, , Whina Cooper, , Celia Johnson, Ruby Litchfield, , The Baroness Pike, Shelagh Roberts, Margaret Scott
1982: Doris Fitton, Elisabeth Frink, Catherine Hall, Roma Mitchell, Kiri Te Kanawa, Alice Wedega,
1983: The Marchioness of Anglesey, Rosamund Holland-Martin, Leonie Kramer, Olga Uvarov
1984: The Baroness Seccombe, Guinevere Tilney, Catherine Tizard, The Baroness Warnock
1985: Jean Herbison, , The Baroness Knight of Collingtree, Alison Munro,
1986: Vivienne Boyd, Peggy Fenner, , Christian Howard, Gwyneth Jones, Merle Park, Simone Prendergast, Barbara Shenfield,
1987: Elizabeth Chesterton, Marie Clay, Dorothy Fraser, Penelope Jessel, Mary Kekedo, Elizabeth Maconchy, Joan Metge, Iris Murdoch, Sheila Quinn
1988: Barbara Clayton, Judi Dench, Beryl Grey, Rosalinde Hurley, Elaine Kellett-Bowman, Laurie Salas
1989: Silvia Cartwright, The Baroness Dunn, The Baroness Emerton, The Baroness Fookes, , Barbara Goodman, Rosemary Rue

1990s[]

1990: Josephine Abaijah, Venetia Blaize, Joyanne Bracewell, The Baroness Hylton-Foster, The Baroness Lloyd of Highbury, Maggie Smith, Miraka Szászy, Rachel Waterhouse, Dorothy Winstone
1991: Barbara Cartland, Stella Casey, Eugenia Charles, The Baroness Digby, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Jane Gow, Malvina Major, Shirley Porter, Paddy Ridsdale, Lucie Rie, Sue Tinson, Margaret Turner-Warwick
1992: Jocelyn Barrow, Ann Ebsworth, Rangimarie Hetet, , Moura Lympany, , , Anne Poole, Norma Restieaux, Angela Rumbold, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, The Baroness Serota, Janet Smith
1993: Reubina Ballin, Patricia Bergquist, Catherine Cookson, Mary Corsar, Pat Evison, Mary Glen-Haig, Phyllis Guthardt, Louise Henderson, Thora Hird, Dawn Lamb, The Baroness Mance, Anne McLaren, Thea Muldoon, Annette Penhaligon, Margaret Price, Muriel Spark, , Augusta Wallace
1994: , The Baroness Byford, The Baroness Hale of Richmond, Marea Hartman, Georgina Kirby, Eileen Mayo, Diana Rigg, Gillian Wagner
1995: The Baroness Anelay of St. Johns, , Josephine Barstow, Marjorie Bean, June Clark, Sister Pauline Engel, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, , The Baroness Higgins, Mary Hogg, Rose Kekedo, Anne Salmond, The Baroness Thorneycroft
1996: Fiona Caldicott, The 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth, Jane Drew, The Baroness Fritchie, Felicity Lott, The Baroness Noakes, Antoinette Sibley, Gillian Weir
1997: , Deirdre Hine, Cleo Laine, Barbara Mills, Bridget Ogilvie, Joan Sawyer, Rosanna Wong Yick-ming
1998: Gillian Beer, Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Patricia Collarbone, Tamsyn Imison, Betty Kershaw, Helen Metcalf, Gillian Oliver, The Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, Veronica Sutherland, Mary Uprichard
1999: Lady Black of Derwent, Lois Browne-Evans, A. S. Byatt, Diana Collins, , Mavis Grant, The Baroness Hallett, Norma Major, Yvonne Moores, Helen Reeves, , Helena Shovelton, Lesley Southgate,

2000s[]

2000: Julie Andrews, Beryl Bainbridge, Shirley Bassey, Beulah Bewley, Marie Descartes, Vivien Duffield, Anne Evans, Glynne Evans, , Judith Kilpatrick, Jill Macleod Clark, Patricia Morgan-Webb, Lorna Muirhead, Mary Peters, Anne Rafferty, Marlene Robottom, Miriam Rothschild, Steve Shirley, Patricia Symmonds, Elizabeth Taylor, Dorothy Tutin
2001: Ingrid Allen, Eileen Atkins, The Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, , Karlene Davis, Jill Ellison, ~~Jean Else~~,^[2] Julia Higgins, Sharon Hollows, Thea King, Sheila McKechnie, Sally Powell, Lesley Rees, Mary Richardson, Dela Smith, Marilyn Strathern, Janet Trotter
2002: Margaret Barbour, Laura Cox, The Baroness Deech, , Judith Mayhew Jonas, Jessica Rawson, Janet Ritterman, Marjorie Scardino, Meg Taylor,
2003: Elizabeth Blackadder, Yve Buckland, Pamela Coward, Pauline Green, Louise Johnson, Helen Mirren, Elizabeth Neville, Anna Pauffley, Julia Polak, Ruth Robins, Anita Roddick, ,
2004: Florence Baron, Enid Bibby, The Baroness Brittan of Spennithorne, Alexandra Burslem, Hilary Cropper, Sandra Dawson, Jacqueline Docherty, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gloster, Joan Harbison, The Baroness Harris of Peckham, Patricia Hodgson, Elisabeth Hoodless, Olwen Hufton, Deirdre Hutton, Gillian Morgan, The Baroness Neuberger, The Baroness Olivier of Brighton, Denise Platt, Jane Roberts, Marion Roe, Gail Ronson
2005: Carol M. Black, Maureen Brennan, Linda Dobbs, The Baroness Grey-Thompson, Kelly Holmes, Carol Kidu, Ellen MacArthur, Mary Macdonald, Julia Macur, Sarah Mullally, Gillian Pugh, Nancy Rothwell, Jennifer Smith, Caroline Swift, Jean Thomas, Fanny Waterman
2006: Averil Cameron, Liz Forgan, Anna Hassan, Carole Jordan, Susan Leather, Julie Mellor, Janet Nelson, Daphne Sheldrick, Ruth Silver, Vivienne Westwood
2007: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Yasmin Bevan, Marcela Contreras, Mary Douglas, Ann Dowling, Evelyn Glennie, Joan Higgins, Janet Husband, Mary Keegan, Barbara Kelly, Emma Kirkby, Ann Leslie, Mary Marsh, Mary Perkins, Josephine Williams
2008: The Baroness Bakewell, Christine Beasley, , Lynne Brindley, Kay Davies, Margaret Drabble, Janet Finch, Clara Furse, Eleanor King, Donna Kinnair, Monica Mason, The Baroness O'Loan, Judith Parker, Sonia Proudman, Fiona Reynolds, Elizabeth Slade, Barbara Stocking, Mary Tanner, Jacqueline Wilson
2009: Jenny Abramsky, Sally Davies, Elizabeth Fradd, The Baroness Gould of Brookwood, Barbara Hakin, Wendy Hall, Anne Owers, Linda Partridge, Philippa Russell, Rosalind Savill, Victoria Sharp, Joan Stringer, Mitsuko Uchida

2010s[]

2010: Val Beral, Claire Bertschinger, Monica Dacon, Nicola Velfor Davies, Athene Donald, The Baroness Eaton, Amelia Fawcett, , Janet Gaymer, Julia Goodfellow, Susan Ion, Barbara Monroe, Janet Paraskeva, Paula Rego, Alison Richard, Kathryn Thirlwall, Clare Tickell, ,
2011: Helen Alexander, Elish Angiolini, , Anne Begg, Ruth Carnall, Rosemary Cramp, Antonia Fraser, Susan John, , Sally Macintyre, Beverley Lang, Jenni Murray, Felicity Palmer, Indira Patel, Anne Rafferty, The Baroness Rees of Ludlow, Janet Suzman, Lucy Theis, The Baroness Wallace of Saltaire, Harriet Walter
2012: Mary Archer, Margaret Makea Karika Ariki, Glynis Breakwell, Moira Gibb, Zaha Hadid, , Tessa Jowell, The Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Tina Lavender, Penelope Lively, Julie Moore, , The Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Joan Ruddock, Theresa Sackler, Janet Thornton
2013: Sarah Asplin, Margaret Beckett, Janet Wolfson de Botton, , Christine Braddock, , Sarah Cowley, Nicky Cullum, Diana Ellis, , , Anne Mandall Johnson, , Hermione Lee, Joan McVittie, , Vicki Paterson, Janice Pereira, Judith Rees, Carol Robinson, Vivien Rose, , , Sarah Storey, Angela Watkinson
2014: Geraldine Andrews, , Susan Bailey, Kate Barker, , Mary Colette Bowe, Rosemary Butler, Alison Carnwath, Sue Carr, Jessica Corner, Laura Davies, Celia Hoyles, Penelope Keith, Asha Khemka, Frances Kirwan, Elisabeth Laing, Angela Lansbury, Gillian Lynne, Louise Makin, Hilary Mantel, Maura McGowan, , Frances Patterson, Alison Peacock, Shirley Pearce, Erica Pienaar, Dawn Primarolo, Seona Reid, Zandra Rhodes, Jennifer Roberts, Alison Russell, Pamela Shaw, Ingrid Simler, Julia Slingo, Rachel de Souza
2015: Frances Ashcroft, Annette Brooke, , Victoria Bruce, Frances Cairncross, Bobbie Cheema-Grubb, Joan Collins, Kate Dethridge, Carol Ann Duffy, Oremi Evans, Anne Glover, Pippa Harris, Margaret Hodge, Siobhan Keegan, Fiona Kendrick, Zarine Kharas, Juliet May, Denise McBride, Anne McGuire, , Mary Quant, Esther Rantzen, Teresa Rees, Nemat Shafik, Eileen Sills, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dianne Thompson, Marina Warner, Philippa Whipple, Glenis Willmott, Fiona Woolf
2016: Anita Allen, Sue Black, Louise Casey, Denise Coia, Polly Courtice, Caroline Dean, Anna Dominiczak, Lesley Fallowfield, Judith Hackitt, , Nerys Jefford, , Rotha Johnston, Frances Lannon, , Georgina Mace, Natalie Massenet, Carolyn McCall, Henrietta Moore, Finola O'Farrell, Julia Peyton-Jones, Siân Phillips, Heather Rabbatts, , Caroline Spelman, Glenys Stacey, , Margaret Whitehead, Penelope Wilton, Barbara Windsor, Rosie Winterton, Til Wykes
2017: Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu, Vera Baird, Inga Beale, Hilary Boulding, Carmen Callil, Sarah Connolly, Olivia De Havilland, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Amanda Fisher, Helen Fraser, Barbara Frost, Katherine Grainger, Carolyn Hamilton, Jane Jiang, Parveen Kumar, , Ottoline Leyser, Theresa Marteau, Helena Morrissey, , Patricia Routledge, Cilla Snowball, Angela Strank, Julie Walters, Caroline Leigh Watkins, June Whitfield, Anna Wintour, Amanda Yip
2018: Mary Beard, Janet Beer, Darcey Bussell, Hilary Chapman, Jane Dacre, Jacqueline Daniel, Louise Ellman, Pratibha Gai, Cheryl Gillan, Moya Greene, Sue Hill, Vivian Hunt, Eleanor Laing, Stella Manzie, Clare Marx, Angela McLean, Angela Pedder, Susan I. Rice, Christine Ryan, Frances Saunders, Rosemary Squire, Emma Thompson, Janet Vitmayer, Cathy Warwick
2019: Madeleine Atkins, Glenda Bailey, Janet Bostwick, , Elizabeth Corley, , Cressida Dick, , Carolyn Fairbairn, Sarah Falk, , Alison Foster, Jacqueline Foster, Uta Frith, Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Ann Gloag, , , Julie Kenny, , , Lesley Lawson, , Nathalie Lieven, Louise Martin, Constance Mitcham, Mary Ney, Alison Nimmo, , Elan Closs Stephens, , Justine Thornton, , , Rachel Whiteread

2020s[]

2020: , The Baroness Benjamin, Mary Berry, Muffy Calder, The Baroness Campbell of Loughborough, Siobhan Davies, Clare Gerada, Lynn Gladden, , Gillian Guy, , Susan Hill, Elaine Inglesby-Burke, Diana Johnson, Donna Langley, Maureen Lipman, Olivia Newton-John, Magdalene Odundo, , , Anne Marie Rafferty, Lesley Regan, Rose Tremain, Julia Unwin, Emma Walmsley, Sarah Whatmore, Sharon White, Sarah Worthington
2021: Helen Atkinson, Karin Barber, Phyllida Barlow, Catherine Bingham, Imogen Cooper, Angela Eagle, Sarah Gilbert, Jane Glover, Rachel Griffith, Sheila Hancock, Meg Hillier, , Jean Kekedo, Andrea Leadsom, Prue Leith, , Irene Lucas-Hays, Caroline MacEwen, Caroline Mason, Pat McGrath, Carol Propper, Arlene Phillips, , Anne Richards, Jo da Silva, Alwen Williams
2022: Vivienne Cox, Flora Duffy, Jenny Harries, Sylvia Heal, Laura Kenny, Sara Khan, Emily Lawson, Diane Lees, Joanna Lumley, , June Raine, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Springman, Helen Stokes-Lampard

References[]

^ ^a ^b "No. 32563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1921. p. 10716.
^ "Manchester 'super head' Dame has honour revoked". BBC News. 9 February 2011.

[:0-1] "No. 32563". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1921. p. 10716.

[2] "Manchester 'super head' Dame has honour revoked". BBC News. 9 February 2011.

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