The release of the New Year Honours provides an opportunity to celebrate individual outstanding achievements and contributions to British society. This year Actor Stephen Fry , former England manager Gareth Southgate and London mayor Sadiq Khan have been knighted in list. Honours have gone to a host of Team GB athletes, including runner Keely Hodgkinson, who was named the 2024 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and mountain biker Tom Pidcock, after the Paris Olympics.
There are also honours for those who campaigned on behalf of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters, after the Horizon IT scandal. ORDER OF THE COMPANIONS OF HONOUR Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE. Author and Screenwriter.
For services to Literature. (London, Greater London) ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Professor Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz FRS FRCP FMedSci. Lately Chair, Cancer Research UK.
For services to Cancer Research, to Clinical Research, to Medicine and to Charities. (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Dame Jacqueline Wilson DBE. Author.
For services to Literature. (Polegate, East Sussex) ORDER OF THE BATH Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Ken McCallum. Director General, MI5.
For Public Service. (London) Dames Commander of the Order of the Bath (DCB) Tamara Margaret Finkelstein CB. Permanent Secretary, Department for the Environment,.
