List of honorary British knights and dames
Professional, humanitarian and exploration

List of honorary British knights and dames

Section Title: Professional, humanitarian and exploration
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Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes

`Abdu'l-Bahá	Iran (Persia)	KBE	1920	Humanitarian	Head of the Bahá'í Faith, award for humanitarian works in Palestine during World War I.

Winthrop W. Aldrich	United States	GBE	1947	Finance

Frank Aydelotte	United States	KBE	1953	Education	Upon his retirement as Secretary of the American Rhodes Trust.

Denton Ward Baird	tbd	GCVO	1934	Law Enforcement

Paul Bruce Beeson	United States	KBE	1973	Medicine	Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, 1965–1974

Donald Berwick	United States	KBE	2005	Medicine	Awarded for his efforts to help reform Britain's National Health Service.

Michael Bloomberg	United States	KBE	2014	Philanthropy.

Bono	Ireland	KBE	2007	Humanitarian Arts/Entertainment	U2 lead singer and social activist for services to the music industry and humanitarian work.

Vannevar Bush	United States	KBE	1948	Science	Head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II

Aldo Castellani	Italy	KCMG	1928	Medicine	Director of Tropical Medicine at the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Putney Heath.

Alistair Cooke	United States	KBE	1973	Broadcasting	Broadcaster for his outstanding contribution to Anglo-American mutual understanding Lost his British nationality in 1941 upon becoming a United States citizen.

Francisco Maria da Veiga	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Law Enforcement

Ara Darzi	Iraq	KBE	2002	Medicine	Became a British national later in 2002 and his knighthood became substantive.

Filippo de Filippi	Italy	KCIE	1916	Exploration

Bertram de Nully Cruger	United States	KBE	tbd	Finance

James Caruthers Rhea Ewing	United States	KCIE	1923	Education	Former Principal of the Forman College, Lahore, Punjab.

Gilberto Freyre	Brazil	KBE	1971	Anthropology/Sociology

Melinda Gates	United States	DBE	2013	Humanitarian

Bob Geldof	Ireland	KBE	1986	Humanitarian	While prominent in music, his award was for humanitarian work.

Nizam ud-din Khan Ghaffari	tbd	KCMG	1903	Finance

Arthur Lehman Goodhart	United States	KBE	1948	Law

Johann Ritter von Habrda	Austria	KCVO	1904	Law Enforcement	Commissioner of Police, Vienna

Martin Hairer	Austria	KBE	2016	Science

Friedrich Albert Hänel	German Empire	KCVO	1901	Law	Geheimer Justizrath

Sven Hedin	Sweden	KCIE	1909	Exploration	Geographer and traveller has explored Persia, Mesopotamia, Khorasan and Turkestan, Tibet, the Gobi Desert, and other wild regions.

J. Edgar Hoover	United States	KBE	1950	Law Enforcement	Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for helpful collaboration and cooperation during the past 25 years.

Angelina Jolie	United States, Cambodia	DCMG	2014	Humanitarian	For services to the United Kingdom's foreign policy and for campaigning to end sexual violence in war zones.

Bruce Keogh	Zimbabwe	KBE	2003	Medicine	Later became a British national and his knighthood became substantive.

Sergei Kruglov	Soviet Union	KBE	1945	Law Enforcement

Antonio Maria de Lancastre	Portugal	KCVO	1904	Medicine

Louis Lépine	France	GCVO	1903	Law Enforcement	Prefect of Police.

Graça Machel	Mozambique/South Africa	DBE	1997	Humanitarian

Marchese Guglielmo Marconi	Italy	GCVO	1914	Science

Paul Mellon	United States	KBE	1974	Humanitarian	Philanthropist known as a patron of British art

Edward R. Murrow	United States	KBE	1965	Broadcasting	Broadcaster in recognition of outstanding services in furthering Anglo-American friendship and understanding.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé)	Brazil	KBE	1997	Sports	Awarded in his capacity as Brazil's sports minister

Eugen Petersen	Denmark	KCVO	1904	Law Enforcement

José Martins Pinheiro Neto	Brazil	KBE	1987	Law

Peter Piot	Belgium	KCMG	2016	Medicine

Xavier Rolet	France	KBE	2015	Finance	Chief executive of the London Stock Exchange

Risto Ryti	Finland	KCVO	1934	Finance	Chairman of the Bank of Finland for service of great merit to Anglo-Finnish relations. He later became Prime Minister and President of Finland.

Mortimer Sackler	United States	KBE	1995	Science	Pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist, for contributions to the sciences and to philanthropy. Brother of Raymond Sackler, KBE and husband of Dame Theresa Sackler.

Raymond Sackler	United States	KBE	1995	Science	Pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist, for contributions to the sciences, arts and astronomy.

Abdus Salam	Pakistan	KBE	1989	Science	For Professor Salam's inspiration behind the foundation of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Douglas Stephen Sauvé	tbd	KBE	1936	Law

Albert Schweitzer	France	OM	1955	Humanitarian	Philosopher, musician and missionary.

Helen Suzman	South Africa	DBE	1989	Humanitarian	Anti-apartheid activist

Taro Takemi	Japan	KBE	tbd	Medicine

Mother Teresa	India	OM	1983	Humanitarian

Rick Trainor	United States	KBE	2010	Education	Principal of King's College London. Took British nationality later in 2010 and knighthood became substantive.

James D. Watson	United States	KBE	2001	Science	Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick

Elie Wiesel	United States	KBE	2006	Humanitarian

Simon Wiesenthal	Austria	KBE	2004	Humanitarian	Award for a lifetime of service to humanity and for work at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

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