# List of current honorary knights and dames of the Order of the British Empire

This is a list of current honorary knights and dames of the Order of the British Empire.

## Honorary knights and dames
### Grand cross (GBE)

| Name | Post-nominal | Country | Year appointed |
| Taher Masri | GBE | Jordan | 1988 |
| Zsigmond Járai | GBE | Hungary | 1999 |
| George J. Mitchell | GBE | United States | 1999 |
| Nicola Mancino | GBE | Italy | 2000 |
| Luciano Violante | GBE | Italy | 2000 |

### Commander (KBE/DBE)

Military ranks listed denotes the awarded being in the military division.
| Military rank | Name | Post-nominals | Country | Year appointed |
| | Mohamed Ennaceur | KBE | Tunisia | 1980 |
| | Daoud Hanania | KBE | Jordan | 1984 |
| | Bob Geldof | KBE | Ireland | 1986 |
| | Alfred Brendel | KBE | Austria | 1989 |
| | Anand Panyarachun | KBE | Thailand | 1996 |
| | Clóvis Carvalho | KBE | Brazil | 1997 |
| | Teotonio Vilela Filho | KBE | Brazil | 1997 |
| | Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira | KBE | Brazil | 1997 |
| | José Israel Vargas | KBE | Brazil | 1997 |
| | Jürgen Gehrels | KBE | Germany | 1997 |
| | Graça Machel | DBE | Mozambique | 1997 |
| | Jacques de Larosière | KBE | France | 1998 |
| General | Klaus Naumann | KBE | Germany | 1998 |
| | Nobuhiko Kawamoto | KBE | Japan | 1998 |
| | William J. Perry | KBE | United States | 1998 |
| Lieutenant General | Lajos Urban | KBE | Hungary | 1999 |
| | Bruno Ferrante | KBE | Italy | 2000 |
| | Francesco Rutelli | KBE | Italy | 2000 |
| | Gabriele Albertini | KBE | Italy | 2000 |
| | Giovanna Melandri | DBE | Italy | 2000 |
| | Riccardo Muti | KBE | Italy | 2000 |
| | Sergio Mattarella | KBE | Italy | 2000 |
| General | Mario Arpino | KBE | Italy | 2000 |
| | Paolo Peluffo | KBE | Italy | 2000 |
| Admiral | Sergio Biraghi | KBE | Italy | 2000 |
| General | Wesley Clark | KBE | United States | 2000 |
| General | Hugh Shelton | KBE | United States | 2001 |
| | Louis V. Gerstner Jr. | KBE | United States | 2001 |
| | Steven Spielberg | KBE | United States | 2001 |
| | Alan Greenspan | KBE | United States | 2002 |
| | Ann Murray | DBE | Ireland | 2002 |
| | James Watson | KBE | United States | 2002 |
| | Niall FitzGerald | KBE | Ireland | 2002 |
| | Plácido Domingo | KBE | Spain | 2002 |
| | Rudy Giuliani | KBE | United States | 2002 |
| | Hiroshi Kitamura | KBE | Japan | 2003 |
| | Sam E. Jonah | KBE | Ghana | 2003 |
| | Noël Forgeard | KBE | France | 2004 |
| | Bernard Kouchner | KBE | France | 2004 |
| | Philippe Douste-Blazy | KBE | France | 2004 |
| | Jean-François Lamour | KBE | France | 2004 |
| | Dominique Perben | KBE | France | 2004 |
| | Gilles de Robien | KBE | France | 2004 |
| | Yusef Abdullah Al-Awadi | KBE | Kuwait | 2004 |
| | Waldemar Dąbrowski | KBE | Poland | 2004 |
| | Han Seung-soo | KBE | South Korea | 2004 |
| | Esperanza Aguirre | DBE | Spain | 2004 |
| | Murray Perahia | KBE | United States | 2004 |
| General | Tommy Franks | KBE | United States | 2004 |
| | Lawrence Gonzi | KBE | Malta | 2004 |
| | Katsuhiko Machida | KBE | Japan | 2005 |
| | Bill Gates | KBE | United States | 2005 |
| | Donald Berwick | KBE | United States | 2005 |
| | Fujio Cho | KBE | Japan | 2006 |
| | Carlos Ghosn | KBE | Brazil | 2006 |
| | Klaus Schwab | KBE | Germany | 2006 |
| Admiral | Frank Bowman | KBE | United States | 2006 |
| | Franklin Miller | KBE | United States | 2006 |
| General | T. Michael Moseley | KBE | United States | 2006 |
| | Ben Verwaayen | KBE | Netherlands | 2007 |
| | Bono | KBE | Ireland | 2007 |
| | Jean-Pierre Garnier | KBE | France | 2008 |
| | Tiong Hiew King | KBE | Malaysia | 2009 |
| | Arun Sarin | KBE | India | 2010 |
| | Moza bint Nasser | DBE | Qatar | 2010 |
| | Daniel Barenboim | KBE | Argentina | 2011 |
| | Louis Gallois | KBE | France | 2011 |
| | Ray O'Rourke | KBE | Ireland | 2011 |
| | Bernard Arnault | KBE | France | 2012 |
| | Kotaro Ono | KBE | Japan | 2012 |
| | Mark Pigott | KBE | United States | 2012 |
| | Jean Stéphenne | KBE | Belgium | 2013 |
| | Hisashi Hieda | KBE | Japan | 2013 |
| | Choi Mun-kee | KBE | South Korea | 2013 |
| | Yoon Sang-jick | KBE | South Korea | 2013 |
| | Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi | DBE | United Arab Emirates | 2013 |
| | Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan | KBE | United Arab Emirates | 2013 |
| | Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan | KBE | United Arab Emirates | 2013 |
| | Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum | KBE | United Arab Emirates | 2013 |
| | Melinda Gates | DBE | United States | 2013 |
| Admiral | Édouard Guillaud | KBE | France | 2014 |
| | Haruo Naito | KBE | Japan | 2014 |
| | Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel | KBE | Saudi Arabia | 2014 |
| | Michael Bloomberg | KBE | United States | 2014 |
| | John Franklyn Mars | KBE | United States | 2014 |
| | Hermann Hauser | KBE | Austria | 2015 |
| | Xavier Rolet | KBE | France | 2015 |
| | Mark Getty | KBE | Ireland | 2015 |
| | Martin Naughton | KBE | Ireland | 2015 |
| | Ana Botín | DBE | Spain | 2015 |
| | Aurelio Nuño Mayer | KBE | Mexico | 2015 |
| | Claudia Ruiz Massieu | DBE | Mexico | 2015 |
| | Emilio Chuayffet | KBE | Mexico | 2015 |
| | Pedro Joaquín Coldwell | KBE | Mexico | 2015 |
| | Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal | KBE | Mexico | 2015 |
| | Juan José Guerra Abud | KBE | Mexico | 2015 |
| | Luis Videgaray Caso | KBE | Mexico | 2015 |
| General | Roberto Miranda Moreno | KBE | Mexico | 2015 |
| | Kevin Spacey | KBE | United States | 2015 |
| General | Martin Dempsey | KBE | United States | 2016 |
| | Edna O'Brien | DBE | Ireland | 2017 |
| | Paul Polman | KBE | Netherlands | 2017 |
| | Pauline Philip | DBE | Ireland | 2017 |
| | Ralph Lauren | KBE | United States | 2017 |
| | Vitit Muntarbhorn | KBE | Thailand | 2018 |
| | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | KBE | Netherlands | 2018 |
| | Francis Yeoh | KBE | Malaysia | 2019 |
| | Tumani Corrah | KBE | The Gambia | 2019 |
| General | Joseph Dunford | KBE AO | United States | 2020 |
| | Esa-Pekka Salonen | KBE | Finland | 2020 |
| | Christiana Figueres | KBE | Costa Rica | 2022 |
| | Robert Iger | KBE | United States | 2022 |
| | John Williams | KBE | United States | 2022 |
| | Jeffrey Cheah | KBE AO | Malaysia | 2023 |
| | Vladimir Jurowski | KBE | Russia | 2024 |
| | Wei Shen Lim | KBE | Singapore | 2024 |
| | Sunil Mittal | KBE | India | 2024 |
| | Stephen A. Schwarzman | KBE | United States | 2024 |
| General | Mark Milley | KBE | United States | 2024 |
| | Dagmar Dolby | DBE | United States | 2024 |
| | Eric Schmidt | KBE | United States | 2024 |
| | Pierre Joxe | KBE | France | |