# List of knights bachelor appointed in 2005

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 2005

| Date gazetted | Name | Notes |
| 8 February 2005 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Donnell Justin Patrick) Deeny. | |
| 11 February 2005 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Paul James) Walker. | |
| 15 February 2005 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Christopher Simon Courtenay Stephenson) Clarke. | |
| 15 February 2005 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Anthony Ronald) Hart. | |
| 24 February 2005 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Henry Egar Garfield). | |
| 7 June 2005 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Nicholas Roger) Warren. | |
| 7 June 2005 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Andrew Ewart) McFarlane. | |
| 11 June 2005 | Thomas David Guy Arculus | Chair, Better Regulation Task Force. For public service. |
| 11 June 2005 | Professor Michael Blaydon Barber | Prime Minister's Chief Advisor on delivery and Head of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit. |
| 11 June 2005 | Christopher James Clarke, OBE | Leader, Liberal Democrat Group, Local Government Association. For services to Local Government |
| 11 June 2005 | George Edwin Cox | For services to Business. |
| 11 June 2005 | Philip Lee Craven, MBE | President, International Paralympic Committee. For services to Paralympic Sport. |
| 11 June 2005 | Roderick Ian Eddington | Chief Executive, British Airways plc. For services to Civil Aviation. |
| 11 June 2005 | Professor Roderick Castle Floud | President, London Metropolitan University. For services to Higher Education. |
| 11 June 2005 | Professor Richard Lavenham Gardner | Royal Society Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford. For services to Biological Sciences. |
| 11 June 2005 | Clive Daniel Gillinson, CBE | Managing Director, London Symphony Orchestra. For services to Music |
| 11 June 2005 | Professor John Rankine Goody | Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, St. John's College, University of Cambridge. For services to Social Anthropology. |
| 11 June 2005 | Donald Gordon | For services to the Arts and to Business. |
| 11 June 2005 | Dr. John Armstrong Muir Gray, CBE | NHS Director of Knowledge Management and Programmes Director, UK National Screening Committee. For services to the NHS. |
| 11 June 2005 | Thomas Blane Hunter | Founding Partner, West Coast Capital. For services to Philanthropy and to Entrepreneurship in Scotland. |
| 11 June 2005 | David Jason, OBE | Actor. For services to Drama. |
| 11 June 2005 | Professor Peter Knight, Head of Department of Physics, Imperial College, London. For services to Optical Physics. | |
| 11 June 2005 | Callum McCarthy, Chair, Financial Services Authority. For services to the Finance Sector. | |
| 11 June 2005 | Hugh Stephen Roden Orde, OBE, Chief Constable Police Service of Northern Ireland. For services to Northern Ireland. | |
| 11 June 2005 | Michael Edward Pitt, Chief Executive, Kent County Council. For services to Local Government. | |
| 11 June 2005 | David John Prosser, Group Chief Executive and Director, Legal and General Group plc. For services to the Insurance Industry. | |
| 11 June 2005 | William Rae, QPM, Chief Constable, Strathclyde Police. For services to the Police. | |
| 11 June 2005 | The Chief Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks. For services to the Community and to Inter-faith Relations. | |
| 11 June 2005 | Iqbal Abdul Karim Mussa Sacranie, OBE. For services to the Muslim community, to Charities and to Community Relations. | |
| 11 June 2005 | Pritpal Singh, Headteacher, Drayton Manor High School, Ealing, London. For services to Education. | |
| 11 June 2005 | John Rowland Tomlinson, CBE, Opera Singer. For services to Music. | |
| 11 June 2005 | The Honourable Michael David Kadoorie. For charitable services in the UK and overseas. | |
| 11 June 2005 | Dr. David Li Kwok-po, OBE. For services to education in the UK. | |
| 11 June 2005 | Hugh Stephen Roden ORDE, O.B.E., Chief Constable Police Service of Northern Ireland. For services to Northern Ireland. | |
| 11 June 2005 | Justice Salamo Injia. For services to the Judiciary. | |
| 4 November 2005 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Brian Frederick James) Langstaff. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Professor John Macleod Ball, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Oxford. For services to Science. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Professor Ivor Martin Crewe, DL, Vice-Chancellor, University of Essex and Lately President, Universities UK. For services to Higher Education. | |
| 31 December 2005 | John Dankworth, CBE, Jazz Musician. For services to Music. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Christopher Fox, QPM, President, Association of Chief Police Officers. For services to the Police. | |
| 31 December 2005 | William Benjamin Bowring Gammell, Chief Executive, Cairn Energy plc. For services to Industry in Scotland. | |
| 31 December 2005 | David Michael Hart, OBE, lately General-Secretary, National Association of Head Teachers. For services to Education. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Ian Bernard Vaughan Magee, CB, Second Permanent Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Dr. Allen James McClay, CBE, Chairman, ALMAC and chairman, Queen's University of Belfast Foundation. For services to Business and to Charity in Northern Ireland. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Keith Mills, Chief Executive, London 2012. For services to Sport. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Simon Milton, leader, Westminster City Council. For services to Local Government. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Adrian Alastair Montague, CBE, Chairman, British Energy. For services to the Nuclear and Electricity Industries. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Stephen Alan Moss, lately Director of Nursing and Patient Services, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham. For services to the NHS. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Professor Michael Pepper, Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge. For services to Physics. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Craig Collins Reedie, CBE, lately chairman, British Olympic Association. For services to Sport. | |
| 31 December 2005 | John Henry Ritblat, Chairman, The British Land Company and Chairman of the Trustees, Wallace Collection. For services to the Arts. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Michael Berry Savory, lately Lord Mayor of the City of London. For services to the City of London. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Stephen Ashley Sherbourne, CBE, lately Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Roger Singleton, CBE, lately Chief Executive, Barnardo's. For services to Children. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Professor Graham Michael Teasdale, President, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. For services to Neurosurgery and victims of head injuries. | |
| 31 December 2005 | David Robert Varney, Permanent Secretary, HM Revenue and Customs. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Arnold Wesker, Playwright/Director. For services to Drama. | |
| 31 December 2005 | Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE | Singer. For services to Music. |
| 31 December 2005 | Professor Nicholas Alcwyn Wright | Warden, Barts and the London, Queen Mary School of Medicine. For services to Medicine. |