List of current honorary Knights and Dames of the Order of the British Empire

This is a list of current honorary Knights and Dames of the Order of the British Empire.

Grand Cross Star of the Order of the British Empire

Honorary Knights and Dames Grand Cross[]

Name	Post-nominal	Country	Year appointed
Taher Masri	GBE	Jordan	1988
Zsigmond Járai	GBE	Hungary	1999[1]
George J. Mitchell	GBE	United States	1999[1]
Nicola Mancino	GBE	Italy	2000[1]
Luciano Violante	GBE	Italy	2000[1]
Ratan Tata	GBE	India	2014[2]

Honorary Knights and Dames Commander[]

Knight/Dame Commander Star of the Order of the British Empire

Military ranks listed denotes the awarded being in the military division.

Military rank	Name	Post-nominals	Country	Year appointed
	Mohamed Ennaceur	KBE	Tunisia	1980[3]
	Daoud Hanania	KBE	Jordan	1984
	Bob Geldof	KBE	Ireland	1986
	Alfred Brendel	KBE	Austria	1989
	Shoichiro Toyoda	KBE	Japan	1995[4]
	Anand Panyarachun	KBE	Thailand	1996
	Libor Pešek	KBE	Czech Republic	1996
	Pelé	KBE	Brazil	1997[1]
	Sergio Silva Amaral	KBE	Brazil	1997[1]
	Clóvis Carvalho	KBE	Brazil	1997[1]
	Teotonio Vilela Filho	KBE	Brazil	1997[1]
	Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira	KBE	Brazil	1997[1]
	José Israel Vargas	KBE	Brazil	1997[1]
	Jürgen Gehrels	KBE	Germany	1997[1]
	Jamshed Jiji Irani	KBE	India	1997[1]
	Graça Machel	DBE	Mozambique	1997[5]
Admiral	Leighton W. Smith Jr.	KBE	United States	1997[1]
	Jacques de Larosière	KBE	France	1998[1]
General	Klaus Naumann	KBE	Germany	1998
	Nobuhiko Kawamoto	KBE	Japan	1998[1]
	William J. Perry	KBE	United States	1998[1]
Lieutenant General	Lajos Urban	KBE	Hungary	1999[1]
	Bruno Ferrante	KBE	Italy	2000[1]
	Francesco Rutelli	KBE	Italy	2000[1]
	Gabriele Albertini	KBE	Italy	2000[1]
	Giovanna Melandri	DBE	Italy	2000[1]
	Riccardo Muti	KBE	Italy	2000[1]
	Sergio Mattarella	KBE	Italy	2000[1]
General	Mario Arpino	KBE	Italy	2000[1]
	Paolo Peluffo	KBE	Italy	2000[1]
Admiral	Sergio Biraghi	KBE	Italy	2000[1]
General	Wesley Clark	KBE	United States	2000[1]
General	Hugh Shelton	KBE	United States	2001[1]
	Louis V. Gerstner Jr.	KBE	United States	2001[1]
	Steven Spielberg	KBE	United States	2001[1]
	Alan Greenspan	KBE	United States	2002[1]
	James Watson	KBE	United States	2002[6]
	Niall FitzGerald	KBE	Ireland	2002[1]
	Plácido Domingo	KBE	Spain	2002[1]
	Rudy Giuliani	KBE	United States	2002[1]
	Hiroshi Kitamura	KBE	Japan	2003[1]
	Sam E. Jonah	KBE	Ghana	2003[1]
	Noël Forgeard	KBE	France	2004[1]
	Bernard Kouchner	KBE	France	2004[1]
	Philippe Douste-Blazy	KBE	France	2004[1]
	Jean-François Lamour	KBE	France	2004[1]
	Dominique Perben	KBE	France	2004[1]
	Gilles de Robien	KBE	France	2004[1]
	Yusef Abdullah Al-Awadi	KBE	Kuwait	2004[1]
	Waldemar Dąbrowski	KBE	Poland	2004[1]
	Han Seung-soo	KBE	South Korea	2004[1]
	Esperanza Aguirre	DBE	Spain	2004[1]
	Murray Perahia	KBE	United States	2004[1]
General	Tommy Franks	KBE	United States	2004[1]
	Lawrence Gonzi	KBE	Malta	2004[1]
	Katsuhiko Machida	KBE	Japan	2005[1]
	Bill Gates	KBE	United States	2005[1]
	Donald Berwick	KBE	United States	2005[1]
	Fujio Cho	KBE	Japan	2006[1]
	Carlos Ghosn	KBE	Brazil	2006[1]
	Klaus Schwab	KBE	Germany	2006[1]
Admiral	Frank Bowman	KBE	United States	2006[1]
	Franklin Miller	KBE	United States	2006[1]
General	T. Michael Moseley	KBE	United States	2006[1]
	Ben Verwaayen	KBE	Netherlands	2007[7]
	Bono	KBE	Ireland	2007[8]
	Jean-Pierre Garnier	KBE	France	2008[9]
	Tiong Hiew King	KBE	Malaysia	2009[10]
	Arun Sarin	KBE	India	2010[11]
	Moza bint Nasser	DBE	Qatar	2010[11]
	Daniel Barenboim	KBE	Argentina	2011[12]
	Louis Gallois	KBE	France	2011[13]
	Ray O'Rourke	KBE	Ireland	2011[13]
	Bernard Arnault	KBE	France	2012[14]
	Ann Murray	DBE	Ireland	2012[14]
	Kotaro Ono	KBE	Japan	2012[14]
	Mark Pigott	KBE	United States	2012[14]
	Jean Stéphenne	KBE	Belgium	2013[15]
	Hisashi Hieda	KBE	Japan	2013[15]
	Choi Mun-kee	KBE	South Korea	2013[15]
	Yoon Sang-jick	KBE	South Korea	2013[15]
	Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi	DBE	United Arab Emirates	2013[15]
	Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan	KBE	United Arab Emirates	2013[15]
	Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	KBE	United Arab Emirates	2013[15]
	Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum	KBE	United Arab Emirates	2013[15]
	Angela Ahrendts	DBE	United States	2013[15]
	Melinda Gates	DBE	United States	2013[15]
Admiral	Édouard Guillaud	KBE	France	2014[2]
General	Jean-Louis Georgelin	KBE	France	2014[2]
	Haruo Naito	KBE	Japan	2014[2]
	Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel	KBE	Saudi Arabia	2014[2]
	Michael Bloomberg	KBE	United States	2014[2]
	John Franklyn Mars	KBE	United States	2014[2]
	Hermann Hauser	KBE	Austria	2015[16]
	Xavier Rolet	KBE	France	2015[16]
	Mark Getty	KBE	Ireland	2015[16]
	Martin Naughton	KBE	Ireland	2015[16]
	Hiroaki Nakanishi	KBE	Japan	2015[16]
	Ana Botín	DBE	Spain	2015[16]
	Aurelio Nuño Mayer	KBE	Mexico	2015[16]
	Claudia Ruiz Massieu	DBE	Mexico	2015[16]
	Emilio Chuayffet	KBE	Mexico	2015[16]
	Miguel Barbosa Huerta	KBE	Mexico	2015[16]
	Pedro Joaquín Coldwell	KBE	Mexico	2015[16]
	Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal	KBE	Mexico	2015[16]
	Juan José Guerra Abud	KBE	Mexico	2015[16]
	Luis Videgaray Caso	KBE	Mexico	2015[16]
General	Roberto Miranda Moreno	KBE	Mexico	2015[16]
	Kevin Spacey	KBE	United States	2015[16]
General	Martin Dempsey	KBE	United States	2016[17]
	Edna O'Brien	DBE	Ireland	2017[18]
	Paul Polman	KBE	Netherlands	2017[18]
	Pauline Philip	DBE	Ireland	2017[18]
	Ralph Lauren	KBE	United States	2017[18]
	Vitit Muntarbhorn	KBE	Thailand	2018[19]
	Alexander Rinnooy Kan	KBE	Netherlands	2018[19]
	Kazuo Inamori	KBE	Japan	2019[20]
	Francis Yeoh	KBE	Malaysia	2019[20]
	Tumani Corrah	KBE	The Gambia	2019[20]
General	Joseph Dunford	KBE AO	United States	2020[21]
	Esa-Pekka Salonen	KBE	Finland	2020[21]
	Philip Bobbitt	KBE	United States	2021[22]
	Adrian V. S. Hill	KBE	Ireland	2021[22]
	Pierre Joxe	KBE	France

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