List of honorary British knights and dames
Business

List of honorary British knights and dames

Section Title: Business
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Name	Nationality	Honour	Year	Category	notes

Angela Ahrendts	United States	DBE	2013	Business	Chief executive of Burberry plc.

Auguste-Louis-Albéric, Prince d'Arenberg	France	GCSI	1909	Business	Member of the Institute of France, President of the Suez Canal Company

Ariyoshi Yoshiya	Japan	KBE	tbd	Business	Chairman of the Japanese Shipowners Association

André Bénard	France	KBE	1991	Business	Chairman, Eurotunnel, 1986–1994

Antonin Besse	France	KBE	tbd	Business

Ana Patricia Botín	Spain	DBE	2015	Business	Chairman of Santander Bank

Henri Deterding	Netherlands	KBE	1920	Business

Sierd Sint Eriks	Netherlands	KBE	1961	Business	Managing Director of Mullard Ltd for valuable services to British official interests.

Niall FitzGerald	Ireland	KBE	2002	Business

Bill Gates	United States	KBE	2004	Business	Chairman of Microsoft and Corbis and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in recognition of his business skills and for his work on poverty reduction.

Lou Gerstner	United States	KBE	tbd	Business

Paul Getty	United States	KBE	1987	Business	Became a British national in 1997 and knighthood became substantive.

Carlos Ghosn	Brazil	KBE	2006	Business

Cecil H. Green	United States	KBE	1991	Business	He lost British nationality upon becoming a US citizen before 1949.

Hermann Hauser	Austria	KBE	2015	Business

Yii Ann Hii	Philippines	KBE	Business	Became a British national on 3 July 2012.

Sam E. Jonah	Ghana	KBE	2003	Business

Kim Sang Man	South Korea	KBE	1981	Business	Publisher

Gerrit Klijnstra	Netherlands	KBE	1973	Business

Jonkheer Loudon	Netherlands	KBE	1960	Business	President of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and senior managing director of the Royal Dutch/Shell group in recognition of his important contributions to the national economy and to British interests abroad.

Akio Morita	Japan	KBE	1993	Business

Lewis Mumford	United States	KBE	1975	Business	For services to town planning in Great Britain.

Hiroaki Nakanishi	Japan	KBE	2015	Business	Chief executive of Hitachi Corporation

Martin Naughton	Ireland	KBE	2015	Business

Masaru Shinchi	tbd	KBE	2002	Business

Paul Rykens	Netherlands	KBE	1959	Business

Edgar Sengier	Belgium	KBE	1956	Business	President of the permanent committee of the Union Minière du Haut Katanga for valuable services to Britain and to Anglo-Belgian relations.

Antonio Joaquim Simoes de Almeida	Portugal	KCVO	1903	Business	President of the Commercial Association of Lisbon

Ralf Speth	Germany	KBE	2015	Business	Chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover

Chandrika Prasad Srivastava	India	KCMG	1990	Business

Peter Sutherland	Ireland	KCMG	2004	Business

Basil Zaharoff	Greece	GBE	1918	Business

Basil Zaharoff	Greece	GCB	1919	Business

Jamshed Jiji Irani	India	KBE	2007	Business	Former President of British Steel and Iron Research Association, Tata Steel

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FitzGerald became a Honorary Knight of Britain in 2002.

final_sentence: FitzGerald became a Honorary Knight of Britain in 2002.