List of freemen of the City of Birmingham

Below is a list of Honorary Freemen of the City of Birmingham.

List The City of Birmingham, England has granted Honorary Freedom to individuals and military organisations since 1888. Designation as a Freeman of the City is an honorary title and, subject to a two-thirds majority of the Council, is granted to persons of distinction and those who have rendered eminent services to the City. The following have received this honour (up to 1998):

PictureNameReceivedJoseph Chamberlain20 March 1888Philip Henry Muntz23 October 1888 Thomas Avery4 October 1892George Dixon4 January 1898 John Thackray Bunce7 March 1899Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts1 January 1901 Edward Lawley Parker 31 October 1904Jesse Collings13 June 1911William Kenrick13 June 1911 Frances Corder Clayton 2 July 1912 Charles Gabriel Beale 2 July 1912 Sir William Henry Bowater 4 January 1916William Moris Hughes22 May 1916David Lloyd George5 February 1921Earl Balfour22 June 1922 Sir George Hamilton Kenrick25 September 1923 Sir David Brooks25 September 1923Sir Austen Chamberlain22 February 1926 Barrow Cadbury 6 May 1932Neville Chamberlain6 May 1932 John Henry Lloyd 6 May 1932 Ernest Martineau 11 July 1938William Adlington Cadbury11 July 1938 Wilfred Byng Kenrick11 July 1938Henry James Sayer 11 July 1938Jan Christiaan Smuts19 May 1944Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill31 October 1946 The Royal Warwickshire Regiment1946Clement Attlee18 October 1947Sir William J. Slim18 October 1947 Sir Frank Henry Cufaude Wiltshire18 October 1947 Harrison Barrow12 April 1949Ann Marie Howes16 April 1955Sir Barry V. Jackson16 April 1955 Sir Sydney Vernon16 April 1955 Sir T. B. Pritchett7 May 1960 Sir Albert Frederick Bradbeer7 May 1960 268 Regiment, Royal Artillery TA4 June 1966 Sir Francis. F. Griffin2 May 1970 Harry Watton2 May 1970 35th Signal Regiment12 September 1970 Ernest Walter Horton15 September 1973 Eric Edward Mole15 September 1973 Royal Regiment of Fusiliers7 May 1975 HMS Birmingham11 May 1978 Sir Neville Bruce Alfred Bosworth 4 December 1982 Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury4 December 1982 Julius Silverman4 December 1982 Queen's Own Hussars4 October 1983 Marjorie Alice Brown25 October 1986 Freda Mary Cocks25 October 1986 Sir Reginald E. Eyre23 February 1991 Denis Howell, Baron Howell of Aston Manor23 February 1991Sir Simon D. Rattle1 October 1996 Lisa Clayton1 October 1996 Royal British Legion (Birmingham County Branch)2 October 2010 Peter Hollingworth 14 June 2011 RAF Cosford19 May 2018Terence "Geezer" Butler30 June 2025Tony Iommi30 June 2025Ozzy Osbourne30 June 2025Bill Ward30 June 2025 Notes

References Birmingham Post and Mail Yearbook and Who's Who, 1998, Kinslea Press, 1998. . History of Birmingham – Volume II, Asa Briggs, Oxford University Press, 1952.