This is a list of current honorary knights and dames of the Order of the British Empire.
Honorary knights and dames Grand cross (GBE)
NamePost-nominalCountryYear appointed Taher MasriJordan1988 Zsigmond JáraiHungary1999 George J. MitchellUnited States1999 Nicola MancinoItaly2000 Luciano ViolanteItaly2000
Commander (KBE/DBE)
Military ranks listed denotes the awarded being in the military division.
Military rankNamePost-nominalsCountryYear appointed Mohamed EnnaceurTunisia1980 Daoud HananiaJordan1984 Bob GeldofIreland1986 Anand PanyarachunThailand1996 Clóvis CarvalhoBrazil1997 Teotonio Vilela FilhoBrazil1997 Luiz Carlos Bresser-PereiraBrazil1997 Jürgen GehrelsGermany1997 Graça MachelMozambique1997 Jacques de LarosièreFrance1998General Klaus NaumannGermany1998 Nobuhiko KawamotoJapan1998 William J. PerryUnited States1998Lieutenant General Lajos UrbanHungary1999 Bruno FerranteItaly2000 Francesco RutelliItaly2000 Gabriele AlbertiniItaly2000 Giovanna MelandriItaly2000 Riccardo MutiItaly2000 Sergio MattarellaItaly2000General Mario ArpinoItaly2000 Paolo PeluffoItaly2000Admiral Sergio BiraghiItaly2000General Wesley ClarkUnited States2000General Hugh SheltonUnited States2001 Steven SpielbergUnited States2001 Ann MurrayIreland2002 Niall FitzGeraldIreland2002 Plácido DomingoSpain2002 Rudy GiulianiUnited States2002 Hiroshi KitamuraJapan2003 Sam E. JonahGhana2003 Noël ForgeardFrance2004 Bernard KouchnerFrance2004 Philippe Douste-BlazyFrance2004 Jean-François LamourFrance2004 Dominique PerbenFrance2004 Gilles de RobienFrance2004 Yusef Abdullah Al-AwadiKuwait2004 Waldemar DąbrowskiPoland2004 Han Seung-sooSouth Korea2004 Esperanza AguirreSpain2004 Murray PerahiaUnited States2004General Tommy FranksUnited States2004 Lawrence GonziMalta2004 Katsuhiko MachidaJapan2005 Bill GatesUnited States2005 Donald BerwickUnited States2005 Fujio ChoJapan2006 Carlos GhosnBrazil2006 Klaus SchwabGermany2006Admiral Frank BowmanUnited States2006 Franklin MillerUnited States2006General T. Michael MoseleyUnited States2006 Ben VerwaayenNetherlands2007 BonoIreland2007"Honorary knighthood for U2's Bono". BBC News. (23 December 2006). Retrieved 14 January 2007 Jean-Pierre GarnierFrance2008 Arun SarinIndia2010 Moza bint NasserQatar2010 Daniel BarenboimArgentina2011 Louis GalloisFrance2011 Ray O'RourkeIreland2011 Bernard ArnaultFrance2012 Mark PigottUnited States2012 Jean StéphenneBelgium2013 Hisashi HiedaJapan2013 Choi Mun-keeSouth Korea2013 Yoon Sang-jickSouth Korea2013 Lubna Khalid Al QasimiUnited Arab Emirates2013 Mansour bin Zayed Al NahyanUnited Arab Emirates2013 Hamed bin Zayed Al NahyanUnited Arab Emirates2013 Ahmed bin Saeed Al MaktoumUnited Arab Emirates2013 Melinda GatesUnited States2013Admiral Édouard GuillaudFrance2014 Haruo NaitoJapan2014 Mohammed Abdul Latif JameelSaudi Arabia2014 Michael BloombergUnited States2014 John Franklyn MarsUnited States2014 Hermann HauserAustria2015 Xavier RoletFrance2015 Mark GettyIreland2015 Martin NaughtonIreland2015 Ana BotínSpain2015 Aurelio Nuño MayerMexico2015 Claudia Ruiz MassieuMexico2015 Emilio ChuayffetMexico2015 Pedro Joaquín ColdwellMexico2015 Ildefonso Guajardo VillarrealMexico2015 Juan José Guerra AbudMexico2015 Luis Videgaray CasoMexico2015General Roberto Miranda MorenoMexico2015 Kevin SpaceyUnited States2015General Martin DempseyUnited States2016 Paul PolmanNetherlands2017 Pauline PhilipIreland2017 Ralph LaurenUnited States2017 Vitit MuntarbhornThailand2018 Alexander Rinnooy KanNetherlands2018 Francis YeohMalaysia2019 Tumani CorrahThe Gambia2019General Joseph DunfordUnited States2020 Esa-Pekka SalonenFinland2020 Christiana FigueresCosta Rica2022 Robert IgerUnited States2022 John WilliamsUnited States2022 Jeffrey CheahMalaysia2023 Vladimir JurowskiRussia2024 Wei Shen LimSingapore2024 Sunil MittalIndia2024 Stephen A. SchwarzmanUnited States2024General Mark MilleyUnited States2024 Dagmar DolbyUnited States2024 Eric SchmidtUnited States2024 Sarina WiegmanNetherlands2025 Pierre JoxeFrance?
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