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 (GBE)

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]

Commander (KBE/DBE)

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[2]
	Daoud Hanania	KBE	Jordan	1984
	Bob Geldof	KBE	Ireland	1986
	Alfred Brendel	KBE	Austria	1989
	Anand Panyarachun	KBE	Thailand	1996
	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]
	Graça Machel	DBE	Mozambique	1997[3]
	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	GCB 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]
	Ann Murray	DBE	Ireland	2002[1]
	James Watson	KBE	United States	2002[4]
	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[5]
	Bono	KBE	Ireland	2007[6]
	Jean-Pierre Garnier	KBE	France	2008[7]
	Tiong Hiew King	KBE	Malaysia	2009[8]
	Arun Sarin	KBE	India	2010[9]
	Moza bint Nasser	DBE	Qatar	2010[9]
	Daniel Barenboim	KBE	Argentina	2011[10]
	Louis Gallois	KBE	France	2011[11]
	Ray O'Rourke	KBE	Ireland	2011[11]
	Bernard Arnault	KBE	France	2012[12]
	Kotaro Ono	KBE	Japan	2012[12]
	Mark Pigott	KBE	United States	2012[12]
	Jean Stéphenne	KBE	Belgium	2013[13]
	Hisashi Hieda	KBE	Japan	2013[13]
	Choi Mun-kee	KBE	South Korea	2013[13]
	Yoon Sang-jick	KBE	South Korea	2013[13]
	Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi	DBE	United Arab Emirates	2013[13]
	Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan	KBE	United Arab Emirates	2013[13]
	Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	KBE	United Arab Emirates	2013[13]
	Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum	KBE	United Arab Emirates	2013[13]
	Melinda Gates	DBE	United States	2013[13]
Admiral	Édouard Guillaud	KBE	France	2014[14]
	Haruo Naito	KBE	Japan	2014[14]
	Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel	KBE	Saudi Arabia	2014[14]
	Michael Bloomberg	KBE	United States	2014[14]
	John Franklyn Mars	KBE	United States	2014[14]
	Hermann Hauser	KBE	Austria	2015[15]
	Xavier Rolet	KBE	France	2015[15]
	Mark Getty	KBE	Ireland	2015[15]
	Martin Naughton	KBE	Ireland	2015[15]
	Ana Botín	DBE	Spain	2015[15]
	Aurelio Nuño Mayer	KBE	Mexico	2015[15]
	Claudia Ruiz Massieu	DBE	Mexico	2015[15]
	Emilio Chuayffet	KBE	Mexico	2015[15]
	Pedro Joaquín Coldwell	KBE	Mexico	2015[15]
	Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal	KBE	Mexico	2015[15]
	Juan José Guerra Abud	KBE	Mexico	2015[15]
	Luis Videgaray Caso	KBE	Mexico	2015[15]
General	Roberto Miranda Moreno	KBE	Mexico	2015[15]
	Kevin Spacey	KBE	United States	2015[15]
General	Martin Dempsey	KBE	United States	2016[16]
	Edna O'Brien	DBE	Ireland	2017[17]
	Paul Polman	KBE	Netherlands	2017[17]
	Pauline Philip	DBE	Ireland	2017[17]
	Ralph Lauren	KBE	United States	2017[17]
	Vitit Muntarbhorn	KBE	Thailand	2018[18]
	Alexander Rinnooy Kan	KBE	Netherlands	2018[18]
	Francis Yeoh	KBE	Malaysia	2019[19]
	Tumani Corrah	KBE	The Gambia	2019[19]
General	Joseph Dunford	KBE AO	United States	2020[20]
	Esa-Pekka Salonen	KBE	Finland	2020[20]
	Christiana Figueres	KBE	Costa Rica	2022[21]
	Robert Iger	KBE	United States	2022[21]
	John Williams	KBE	United States	2022[21]
	Jeffrey Cheah	KBE AO	Malaysia	2023[22]
	Vladimir Jurowski	KBE	Russia	2024[23]
	Wei Shen Lim	KBE	Singapore	2024[23]
	Sunil Mittal	KBE	India	2024[23]
	Stephen A. Schwarzman	KBE	United States	2024[23]
General	Mark Milley	KBE	United States	2024[23]
	Dagmar Dolby	DBE	United States	2024[23]
	Eric Schmidt	KBE	United States	2024[23]
	Pierre Joxe	KBE	France