The Queen's Birthday Honours 1975 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were published on 6 June 1975 for the United Kingdom,United Kingdom list: Australia (for Papua New Guinea),Papua New Guinea list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Mauritius,Mauritius list: Fiji,Fiji list: the Bahamas,Bahamas list: and Grenada.Grenada list: These were the last Birthday Honours on the advice of Australian Ministers for Papua New Guinea, as the nation gained independence from Australia on 16 September 1975.

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

At this time honours for Australians were still being awarded in the UK honours on the advice of the premiers of Australian states. The Australian honours system began with the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia), but these first awards were only for the Order of Australia.

United Kingdom

Life peers Sir William Denholm Barnetson, Chairman, United Newspapers Ltd. John Gregson, Managing Director, Fairey Engineering Ltd, Stockport. Sydney Jacobson, M.C., lately Editorial Director and Deputy Chairman, International Publishing Corporation Newspapers. Sir Leslie Maurice Lever, Member of Parliament for the Ardwick Division of Manchester 1950–70. Sir Sydney Thomas Franklin (Don) Ryder, Industrial Adviser to H.M. Government. John Farquharson Smith, lately Lord Provost of Aberdeen.

Privy Counsellor The Right Honourable Patricia, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, Captain of Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. Bruce Millan, M.P., Minister of State, Scottish Office. Member of Parliament for the Craigton Division of Glasgow. William Thomas Rodgers, M.P., Minister of State, Ministry of Defence. Member of Parliament for the Stockton Division of Teesside.

Knight Bachelor Brigadier John Anstey, C.B.E., T.D., D.L., President and Chairman, National Savings Committee. Colonel Richard Dawnay Martin-Bird, C.B.E., T.D., D.L., Vice-Chairman of the Council of Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Associations. George Sidney Bishop, C.B., O.B.E, Chairman, Booker McConnell, Ltd. Ernest Ashley Bramall, Leader, Inner London Education Authority. Gordon Frank Claringbull, Director, British Museum (Natural History). John Halliday Croom, T.D., Chairman, Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical Education. Professor Samuel Frederick Edwards, F.R.S., Chairman, Science Research Council. Robert Duncan Fairbairn. For services to development in Scotland. James Bernard Flanagan, C.B.E., Chief Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. Peter Bernhard Hirsch, F.R.S., Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy, University of Oxford. Henry Charles Husband, C.B.E., Senior Partner, Husband and Company, Consulting Engineers. Sydney Percy King, O.B.E., Chairman, Trent Regional Health Authority. Arthur William Knight, Deputy Chairman, Courtaulds Ltd. Osbert Lancaster, C.B.E., Artist, Writer and Cartoonist. Professor Edmund Ronald Leach, F.B.A., Provost of King's College, University of Cambridge. Colonel William Allison Lee, O.B.E., T.D., Chairman, Northern Regional Health Authority. Anthony Baruh Lousada. For services to the Arts. John Henry Loveridge, C.B.E., Bailiff of Guernsey. Peter Alec Matthews, Managing Director, Vickers Ltd. For services to Export. David Lancaster Nicolson, Chairman, British Airways Board. Alfred Brian Pippard, F.R.S., Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge. Victor Sawdon Pritchett, C.B.E., Author and Critic. Edward Henry Sibbald Singleton, President, The Law Society. Rodney Geoffrey Swiss, O.B.E., President, General Dental Council. Daniel Thomson, C.B., Civil Service Medical Adviser. Charles Hyde Villiers, M.C., Chairman, Guinness Mahon and Company Ltd. For services to Industry. Ronald Wallace Wates. For charitable and philanthropic services. Jack Alfred Wellings, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director, The George Cohen 600 Group Ltd. For services to Export. Stanley Graham Yapp, Leader, West Midlands County Council. William Young, C.B.E. For services to agriculture in Scotland.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Maurice Herbert Davis, O.B.E., Chief Justice of the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court. Michael Alexander Robert Young-Herries, O.B.E, M.C. For services to the community and to commerce in Hong Kong. John Farley Spry, lately Acting President of the East African Court of Appeal.

Australian States State of New South Wales Harold Herbert Dickinson, Chairman of the New South Wales Public Service Board.

State of Queensland Arnold Lucas Bennett, Q.C, of Auchenflower. For services as an outstanding legal advocate. Neville Vicars Henderson, C.B.E., of Hamilton. For services to the legal profession.

State of Western Australia The Honourable Leslie Charles Diver, J.P. For services in parliament, in local government and to the community.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Sir Philip Rogers, K.C.B., C.M.G., Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Vice Admiral Ian Easton, D.S.C. Vice Admiral John Devereux Treacher. Major-General David George House, C.B.E., M.C., late Infantry, Colonel Commandant The Light Division, Colonel Commandant Small Arms School Corps. Major-General Horace Rollo Squarey Pain, C.B., M.C., late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel Commandant Military Provost Staff Corps. Major-General William Norman Roy Scotter, O.B.E., M.C., late Infantry, Colonel The King's Own Royal Border Regiment. Air Marshal Ivor Gordon Broom, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Peter Gordon Henderson, Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords. Fred Matthias Kearns, C.B., M.C., Second Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Patrick Dalmahoy Nairne, C.B., M.C., Second Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office. Norman Charles Price, C.B, Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue. Henry Yellowlees, C.B., Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Security.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Rear Admiral Brian Byrne Mungo. Rear Admiral Stanley Lawrence McArdle, M.V.O., G.M. Major General Edgar George Derek Pounds, Royal Marines. Surgeon Rear Admiral George Augustus Binns, Q.H.S. Major-General Victor Harry John Carpenter, M.B.E., late Royal Corps of Transport, Colonel Commandant Royal Corps of Transport. Major-General Geoffrey de Egglesfield Collin, M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Archibald Rae Cornock, O.B.E., late Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major-General Timothy May Creasey, O.B.E., late Infantry. Major-General Peter John Hall Leng, M.B.E., M.C., late Infantry. Air Vice-Marshal Roy David Austen-Smith, D.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Colin Weall Coulthard, A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal John Chegwyn Thomas Downey, D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal John Thornett Lawrence, C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force (Retired).

Civil Division Francis Russell Barratt, Deputy Secretary, H.M. Treasury. David Ernest Belham, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Department of Employment. Augustus Fitzhardinge Maurice Berkeley, lately Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court. John Outhit Harold Burrough, C.B.E., Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alun Sylvester-Evans, Deputy Chief Executive, Property Services Agency, Department of the Environment. Tony Richard Hillier Godden, Secretary, Scottish Economic Planning Department. David Cuthbert Lyall Holland, Librarian, House of Commons. Edward Alexander Johnston, Government Actuary. David le Brun Jones, Deputy Secretary, Department of Industry. Victor Harry Burton Macklen, Deputy Chief Adviser (Projects and Nuclear), Ministry of Defence. Wulf Rudoe, Under Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Frank William Glaves-Smith, Deputy Director General, Office of Fair Trading. Derek Ronald James Stephen, Deputy Under-secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. Kenneth Taylor, Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department. Leonard Williams, Deputy Secretary, Department of Energy. Henry Woodhouse, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Department of the Environment. John Moss Woolf, Deputy Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise. Eric David Wright, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Edward Tomkins, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., H.M. Ambassador, Paris.

Australian States State of New South Wales Sir Robert William Askin, K.C.M.G., lately Premier of New South Wales.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) David Lee Cole, C.M.G., M.C., H.M. Ambassador, Bangkok. Derek Sherborne Lindsell Dodson, C.M.G., M.C., H.M. Ambassador, Brasilia. Donald Claude Tebbit, C.M.G., Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Paul Hervé Giraud Wright, C.M.G., O.B.E., lately H.M. Ambassador, Beirut.

Australian States State of Victoria The Honourable Mr Justice John Mclntosh Young, Q.C., Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Joseph Dunthorne Briggs Fowells, D.S.C., Assistant Director General (Regional), The British Council. Michael Lawrence McCaul, Senior Technical Adviser, Ministry of Defence. John Malcolm Mackintosh, Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Office. Professor Dudley Seers, For services to overseas development. Graeme McDonald Wilson, British Civil Aviation Representative in the Far East. Henry Francis Bartlett, O.B.E., H.M., Ambassador, Asuncion. Julian Leonard Bullard, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Roger William Houssemayne du Boulay, C.V.O, British Resident Commissioner, Vila, New Hebrides. Eleanor Jean Emery, British High Commissioner, Gaborone. Robert Alexander Farquharson, H.M. Consul-General, San Francisco. Robert Louis Fitt, lately President of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers. Peter Martin Foster, United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. Major John Emsley Fretwell, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. David George Holland, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. David Harold Jordan, M.B.E., Director of Commerce and Industry, Hong Kong. Desmond Frederick Parkinson, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. James Granville William Ramage, lately H.M. Ambassador, Aden. Charles Stuart Roberts, British High Commissioner, Bridgetown. David Arthur Roberts, H.M. Ambassador, Damascus. Albert Edward Saunders, O.B.E., lately H.M. Consul-General, Dubai. Brian Francis Slevin, O.B.E., Q.P.M, C.P.M., Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong.

Australian States State of Victoria The Honourable Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson. For services as a Minister of the Crown.

State of Queensland Frederick Tivoli Hooper, of East Ipswich. For services to the community.

State of Western Australia George Henry Chessell. For services to the community.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Andrew Hunter Carnwath. John Pendrill Charles, M.C. Rear-Admiral Ronald Stephen Forrest. Deputy Commissioner James Starritt, C.V.O., Metropolitan Police. Robert Christopher Mackworth Mackworth-Young, C.V.O.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Robert Temple Armstrong, C.B. John Arkwright Bonham-Carter, D.S.O., O.B.E., E.R.D. Lieutenant-Colonel William Scott Lonnie, C.B.E., M.V.O., M.C. Kenneth William Stewart Mackenzie, C.M.G. William Reginald James Pullen, M.V.O.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) Fourth Class Commander John Burgess, Royal Navy. John Pilkington Clayton. Victoria Mary Blanche, Mrs Lonsdale. John William McNelly, M.V.O. Chief Superintendent Albert John Pilcher, Metropolitan Police. Commander Patrick Barton Rowe, Royal Navy. Fifth Class