# List of knights bachelor appointed in 2008

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 2008

| Date gazetted | Name | Notes |
| 12 February 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Nicholas Felix) Stadlen | |
| 15 February 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Robert) Akenhead | |
| 5 March 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (David Robert) Foskett | |
| 5 March 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Alastair Hubert) Norris | |
| 20 May 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Nicholas John Gorrod) Blake | |
| 21 May 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Gerald Edward) Barling | |
| 21 May 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (David George) Maddison | |
| 29 May 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Peter David William) Coulson | |
| 6 June 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Ross Frederick) Cranston | |
| 13 June 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (William James Lynton) Blair | |
| 14 June 2008 | Dr. James Iain Walker Anderson, CBE | For public and voluntary service. |
| 14 June 2008 | William Samuel Atkinson | Headteacher, Phoenix High School, Hammersmith and Fulham, London. For services to Education and to Community Relations. |
| 14 June 2008 | The Right Honourable Alan James Beith, MP | Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed. For services to Parliament. |
| 14 June 2008 | Professor James Drummond Bone, FRSE | Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool. For services to Higher Education and to Regeneration in the North West. |
| 14 June 2008 | Professor Christopher Richard Watkin Edwards | For services to Higher Education, Medical Science and to Regeneration in the North East. |
| 14 June 2008 | Mark Philip Elder, CBE | Conductor and music director, Halle´ Orchestra. For services to Music. |
| 14 June 2008 | Leonard Raymond Fenwick, CBE | Chief Executive, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Healthcare and to the community in Tyne and Wear. |
| 14 June 2008 | Dr. Philip John Hunter, CBE | Chief Schools Adjudicator. For services to Education. |
| 14 June 2008 | Moir Lockhead, OBE | Chief Executive, First Group. For services to Transport. |
| 14 June 2008 | Professor Andrew James McMichael, FRS | Professor of Molecular Medicine and Director, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. For services to Medical Science. |
| 14 June 2008 | William Moorcroft | Principal, Trafford College. For services to local and national Further Education. |
| 14 June 2008 | William Desmond Sargent, CBE | Executive Chair, Better Regulation Executive, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. For services to Business. |
| 14 June 2008 | Michael John Snyder | For services to Business and to the City of London Corporation. |
| 14 June 2008 | Paul Robert Stephenson, MBE | Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service. For services to the Police. |
| 14 June 2008 | Professor Anthony John Newman Taylor, CBE | Lately Chair, Industrial Injuries Advisory Council. For public service. |
| 14 June 2008 | Peter John Viggers, MP | Member of Parliament for Gosport. For services to Parliament. |
| 14 June 2008 | Professor Nicholas John Wald | Professor of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London. For services to Preventive Medicine. |
| 14 June 2008 | Dr. Richard John Roberts | For services to molecular biology and UK science, USA. |
| 14 June 2008 | Koitaga Mano, MBE | For services to Western Highlands, particularly the Mount Giluwe community. (In the Papua New Guinea honours list) |
| 9 July 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Christopher David) Floyd. | |
| 24 July 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Richard Owen) Plender. | |
| 28 October 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Ian Duncan) Burnett. | |
| 19 November 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Alistair Geoffrey) MacDuff. | |
| 25 November 2008 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Nigel Hamilton) Sweeney. | |
| 31 December 2008 | Professor Timothy Robert Peter Brighouse | For services to Education. |
| 31 December 2008 | Professor David Nicholas Cannadine | Lately of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Professor, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. For services to Scholarship. |
| 31 December 2008 | Alexander Crombie | Group Chief Executive, Standard Life. For services to the Insurance Industry in Scotland. |
| 31 December 2008 | Dr. Andrew Cubie, CBE | Lately Chair of the Court, Napier University. For public service in Scotland. |
| 31 December 2008 | Peter John Bellett Dixon | Lately Chairman, Housing Corporation. For services to the Housing Sector. |
| 31 December 2008 | Professor Neil James Douglas, President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. | For services to Medicine. |
| 31 December 2008 | Robert Paul Edwards, Headteacher, Garforth Community College, Leeds. | For services to local and national Education. |
| 31 December 2008 | Christopher Andrew Hoy, MBE, Cyclist. | For services to Sport. |
| 31 December 2008 | David Charles Jones, CBE | For services to Business and to Charity. |
| 31 December 2008 | Kenneth Lloyd Jones, MBE, Chief Constable and President, Association of Chief Police Officers. | For services to the Police. |
| 31 December 2008 | Nigel Graham Knowles, Chief Executive and Managing Partner for Europe and Asia, DLA Piper International LLP. | For services to the Legal Profession. |
| 31 December 2008 | David Thomas Rowell Lewis. | For services to the Legal Profession and to the City of London Corporation. |
| 31 December 2008 | John Robert Madejski, OBE | For charitable services. |
| 31 December 2008 | Neil Stuart McKay, C.B., Chief Executive, East of England Strategic Health Authority. | For services to the NHS. |
| 31 December 2008 | His Honour Judge Goolam Hoosen Kader Meeran, lately President, Employment Tribunal (England and Wales). | For services to the Administration of Justice. |
| 31 December 2008 | Nicholas Wyndham Partridge, OBE, Chief Executive, Terrence Higgins Trust. | For services to Healthcare. |
| 31 December 2008 | John Christopher Powell, chairman, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. | For services to the Advertising Industry. |
| 31 December 2008 | Terence David John Pratchett, OBE, Author. | For services to Literature. |
| 31 December 2008 | Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, CBE, lately President, Royal College of Surgeons. | For services to Medicine. |
| 31 December 2008 | Professor Martin John Taylor, FRS, Professor in Pure Mathematics, University of Manchester. | For services to Science. |
| 31 December 2008 | Dr. Mark Jeremy Walport, Director, Wellcome Trust. | For services to Medical Research. |
| 31 December 2008 | Professor Christopher John Greenwood, C.M.G., Professor of International Law, London School of Economics. | For services to public International Law. |