# List of knights bachelor appointed in 2004

Knight Bachelor is the oldest and lowest-ranking form of knighthood in the British honours system; it is the rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry. Women are not knighted; in practice, the equivalent award for a woman is appointment as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (founded in 1917).

## Knights bachelor appointed in 2004

| Date | Name | Notes |
| 27 January 2004 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Roderic Lionel James) Wood. | |
| 10 February 2004 | The Honourable Mr Justice (George Anthony) Mann. | |
| 12 June 2004 | David Charles Maurice Bell | Chair, Financial Times Group. For services to Business, the Arts and Charity in London. |
| 12 June 2004 | Trevor David Brooking, CBE | Director of Football Development, English Football Association. For services to Sport. |
| 12 June 2004 | Hugh Robert Collum | Chair, British Nuclear Fuels.For services to the Nuclear Industry. |
| 12 June 2004 | Professor Alan William Craft | President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Professor of Child Health, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. For services to Medicine. |
| 12 June 2004 | Professor Peter Robert Crane, FRS | Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For services to Horticulture and Conservation. |
| 12 June 2004 | Crispin Henry Lamert Davis | Chief Executive, Reed Elsevier. For services to the Information Industry. |
| 12 June 2004 | Thomas Joseph Duggin | HM Ambassador, Bogota |
| 12 June 2004 | Leslie Elton | Lately Chief Executive, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. For services to Local Government |
| 12 June 2004 | Frederick Anderson Goodwin (knighthood annulled) | Group Chief Executive, Royal Bank of Scotland. For services to Banking |
| 12 June 2004 | Professor Peter Stanley Harper, CBE | Lately Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, and Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Physician. For services to Medicine |
| 12 June 2004 | David George Henshaw | Chief Executive, Liverpool City Council. For services to Local Government |
| 12 June 2004 | The Right Honourable Gerald Bernard Kaufman, MP | Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton. For services to Parliament |
| 12 June 2004 | John Anthony Lewis, OBE, Principal, Dixons City Technology College, Bradford. For services to Education. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Professor John Brian Pendry, FRS, Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College, London. For services to Science. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Robert Weston Phillis, Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group. For services to the Media Industry. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Julian Michael Horn-Smith, Group Chief Operating Officer, Vodafone. For services to International Mobile Telecommunications. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Alan William Steer, Headteacher, Seven Kings High School, Redbridge, London. For services to Education. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Professor Nicholas Herbert Stern, lately Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist, World Bank and Professor of Economics, London School of Economics. For services to Economics. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Geoffrey Michael Montgomery Wakeford, OBE, Chairman, Governining Board of the Walsall City Academy (on behalf of The Mercers Company). For services to Education. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Professor David James Wallace, CBE, FRS, D.L. For services to UK Science, Technology and Engineering. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Willard Wentworth White, CBE, Singer. For services to Music. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Peter James Joseph Winship, CBE, QPM, HM Inspector of Constabulary. For services to the Police. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Dr Gregory Winter, C.B.E, FRS, Joint Head, Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. For services to Molecular Biology. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Judge Richard George May, lately Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. | |
| 12 June 2004 | Professor Isi Henao Kevau, CBE | For services to medical science and health care. (In the Papua New Guinea honours list) |
| 8 July 2004 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Ernest Nigel) Ryder, TD. | |
| 13 October 2004 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Charles Declan) Morgan. | |
| 10 November 2004 | The Honourable Mr Justice (David Michael). | |
| 30 November 2004 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Alan Fraser). | |
| 31 December 2004 | Clive John Bourne, J.P. For services to Charity and to Education. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Professor Robert Rees Davies, CBE, lately Chicele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. For services to History. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Robert Gerard Finch, lately Lord Mayor of London. For services to the City of London. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Professor Andrew Paul Haines, dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For services to Medicine. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Professor Brian Howard Harrison, lately editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Alan Jeffrey Jones, chair of Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. For services to the Automotive Industry. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Digby Marritt Jones, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry. For services to Business. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Roger Spencer Jones, OBE For services to Business and Training in Wales. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Robert Walker Kerslake, chief executive of Sheffield City Council. For services to Local Government. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Professor John Hartley Lawton, CBE, FRS, chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council. For services to Ecological Science. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Dr. Jonathan Michael, chief executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the National Health Service. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Dr. Peter James Ogden, founder of the Ogden Trust. For services to Education. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Mervyn Kay Pedelty, lately chief executive of Co-operative Financial Services. For services to Business and to Charity. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Matthew Clive Pinsent, CBE, rower. For services to Sport. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Professor Desmond Rea, OBE, chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. For services to the Police. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Richard John Staite, OBE, headteacher of Beeslack Community High School, Penicuik, Midlothian. For services to Education. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Michael John Tomlinson, CBE, chair of the A-level Standards Inquiry, Working Group on 14–19 Reform and the Learning Trust for Hackney Schools. For services to Education. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Professor James Cressee Elphinstone Underwood, Professor of the Royal College of Pathologists and Professor of Pathology at the University of Sheffield. For services to Medicine. | |
| 31 December 2004 | David Veness, CBE, QPM, Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. For services to the Police. | |
| 31 December 2004 | John Stuart Vickers, chair and chief executive of the Office of Fair Trading. For public service. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Derek Wanless. For public service. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Mark John Spurgeon Allen, CMG, counsellor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Professor Clive William John Granger. For services to Economics. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Professor Basil Spyridonos Markesinis, QC, FBA For services to international legal relations. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Professor Desmond Rea, OBE, Chair, Northern Ireland Policing Board. For services to the Police. | |
| 31 December 2004 | Lucas Joseph Waka, OBE | For services to politics. (In the Papua New Guinea honours list) |
| 31 December 2004 | Thomas Kok Chan, OBE | For services to the social and economic development of the Solomon Islands. (In the Solomon Islands honours list) |
| 31 December 2004 | Chief Justice Albert Rocky Palmer | On his appointment as Chief Justice. (In the Solomon Islands honours list) |