Home | News | King Charles 2025 New Year Fete Honour List Has Over 30 Indian Origin Professionals King Charles’ 2025 New Year fete honour list has over 30 Indian-origin professionals More than 1,200 recipients are named on the list across all sectors, with particular commendation to role models in sport, healthcare, academia and voluntary service By PTI Published Date - 31 December 2024, 09:00 AM Representative image. London: Community leaders, campaigners, academics, and medics are among over 30 Indian-origin professionals to be recognised in King Charles’ 2025 New Year Honours List. Ranil Malcolm Jayawardena, a Conservative member of Parliament of Sri Lankan and Indian heritage, has been conferred a Knighthood for political and public service along with recently resigned England men’s football team manager Gareth Southgate, for services to the game.
More than 1,200 recipients are named on the 2025 honours list across all sectors, with particular commendation to role models in sport, healthcare, academia and voluntary service. “Every day, ordinary people go out and do extraordinary things for their communities,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. “They represent the very best of the UK and that core value of service which I put at the centre of everything this government does.
The New Year Honours List celebrates more of these unsung heroes, and I thank them for their incredible contribution,” he said. The list, released annually by the Cabinet Office in the .