Former England supervisor Gareth Southgate, London mayor Sadiq Khan and actor Stephen Fry have been knighted within the New Yr Honours.
Others who’ve obtained honours embody a bunch of Crew GB athletes – amongst them gold medal-winning runner Keely Hodgkinson – in addition to writer Jacqueline Wilson and tv presenter Alan Titchmarsh.
Honours have additionally been awarded to among the wrongfully convicted sub-postmasters following the Horizon scandal.
Sir Gareth, who has been knighted for providers to affiliation soccer, led the England group to the finals of the Euros in 2020 and 2024, in addition to the semi-final of the 2018 World Cup.
Nevertheless, the Three Lions didn’t handle to win any tournaments below his management, and he resigned following their 2-1 closing defeat to Spain in July.
His knighthood matches that earned by Sir Bobby Robson, the final England supervisor to take a group to the World Cup semis. Fifty-four-year-old Southgate declined to touch upon the honour.
Sir Stephen, greatest identified for showing in Blackadder and internet hosting quiz present QI, has been recognised for providers to psychological well being consciousness, the surroundings and charity.
The actor has been president of psychological well being charity Thoughts since 2011 and likewise supported the conservation group Fauna and Flora Worldwide.
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Stephen Fry has been knighted for providers to psychological well being consciousness, the surroundings and charity
He mentioned he was “startled and enchanted” after receiving a letter informing him of the knighthood, including: “When you’re recognised it does make you’re feeling a bit ‘crikey’, however I feel essentially the most emotional factor is that after I consider my childhood, and my dreadful unhappiness and distress and stupidity, and all the pieces that led to so many failures as a baby.
“And for my parents, really, what a disaster. I mean every time the phone rang, they thought, ‘Oh, God, what has Stephen done now’. It was a sort of joke in the family.”
London mayor Sir Sadiq has been honoured for political and public service, having held his position since 2016.
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London mayor Sadiq Khan mentioned he was ‘humbled’. Pic: PA
He mentioned he was “humbled” to have obtained a knighthood and “couldn’t have dreamed when growing up on a council estate in south London that I would one day be mayor of London”.
“It’s the honour of my life to serve the city I love and I will continue to build the fairer, safer, greener and more prosperous London that all of the capital’s communities deserve,” he mentioned.
Conservative London councillor Matthew Goodwin-Freeman launched a petition to “stop” the knighthood which surpassed 200,000 signatures earlier this month.
Beloved writer Jacqueline Wilson, who created the Tracy Beaker collection, has been made a Dame Grand Cross (GBE) for providers to literature.
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Jacqueline Wilson has been made a dame. Pic: PA
Actress Carey Mulligan and tv presenter Alan Titchmarsh have change into Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is made a Companion of Honour for providers to literature, actor Eddie Marsan is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Myleene Klass turns into a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Various gongs additionally went to athletes following this 12 months’s Paris Olympics, the place Crew GB received 65 medals, and the Paralympics, the place Crew ParalympicsGB completed in second place with 49 gold medals.
Twenty-two-year-old Keely Hodgkinson earned an MBE after claiming gold within the 800m on the Olympics, setting a brand new British document of 1 minute 54.61 seconds, making her the sixth quickest girl on the distance in historical past.
Two-time Olympic champion Tom Pidcock, 25, has been made an OBE after successful gold in mountain biking, whereas Paralympian Hannah Cockroft turns into a CBE after coming first within the T34 100m and 800m.
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Tom Pidcock crosses the road to win gold through the males’s cross-country mountain biking. Pic: PA
Different honoured gold-medallists embody swimmer Duncan Scott (OBE), sailor Ellie Aldridge (MBE) and rowers Lola Anderson, Hannah Scott, Lauren Henry and Georgie Brayshaw (all MBEs).
Former F1 driver and broadcaster Martin Brundle has change into an OBE and former Scotland and Liverpool footballer and BBC pundit Alan Hansen is an MBE.
Horizon IT scandal victims Lee Castleton, Jo Hamilton, Christopher Head and Seema Misra have been made OBEs for providers to justice.
Politicians who obtained honours embody Labour MP Emily Thornberry, who has change into a dame, and former West Midlands mayor Andy Road, who has been knighted.
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Labour MP Emily Thornberry
The oldest particular person on the checklist is 103-year-old World Warfare Two Mosquito pilot Colin Bell, who was given a British Empire Medal (BEM) for charitable fundraising and public talking.
The youngest to obtain honours are 18-year-olds Mikayla Beames, given a BEM for her fundraising efforts supporting kids with most cancers, and para-swimmer William Ellard, made an MBE after successful gold within the S14 200m freestyle on the Paris Paralympics.
Greater than 1,200 folks from throughout the UK obtained honours within the newest checklist.
