# List of knights bachelor appointed in 2002

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 2002

| Date | Name | Notes |
| 6 February 2002 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Mark) Hedley | |
| 6 February 2002 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Richard Alan) Field | |
| 3 May 2002 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Christopher John) Pitchers | |
| 7 May 2002 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Peter Winston) Smith | |
| 15 June 2002 | Professor Peter Robert Frank Bell. | Professor of Surgery, Leicester. For services to Surgery. |
| 15 June 2002 | Peter Thomas Blake, CBE | Artist. For services to Art. |
| 15 June 2002 | Brian Anthony Briscoe | Chief executive, Local Government Association. For services to Local Government |
| 15 June 2002 | Professor Partha Sarathi Dasgupta | Frank Ramsay Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge. For services to Economics |
| 15 June 2002 | Robert Dowling | Headteacher, George Dixon Secondary School and Sixth Form College and also of Selly Oak Special School. For services to Special Needs Education |
| 15 June 2002 | Roy Alan Gardner | Chief executive, Centrica plc. For services to the Gas and Electricity Industries |
| 15 June 2002 | Max Macdonald Hastings | Lately Editor, Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph. For services to Journalism |
| 15 June 2002 | Michael Philip Jagger (Mick Jagger) | Singer and Songwriter. For services to popular music. |
| 15 June 2002 | Professor Ian Kershaw | Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield. For services to History |
| 15 June 2002 | Professor Peter Julius Lachmann | For services to Medical Science |
| 15 June 2002 | Professor John Stuart Lilleyman | Head, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Barts and The London School of Medicine. For services to Pathology |
| 15 June 2002 | Professor Colin Renshaw Lucas | Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford. For services to Higher Education |
| 15 June 2002 | Philip John Courtney Mawer | Lately secretary General, Archbishops' Council and General Synod of the Church of England. For services to the Church of England |
| 15 June 2002 | Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop | Chief executive, AstraZeneca. For services to the Pharmaceutical Industry |
| 15 June 2002 | Graham Meldrum, CBE, QFSM | Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions |
| 15 June 2002 | Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE | Opera director. For services to music and the arts |
| 15 June 2002 | Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon, MBE | For services to Industry |
| 15 June 2002 | Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE | Director. For services to the Theatre |
| 15 June 2002 | Peter Rigby | For services to Information Technology and to Business in the West Midlands |
| 15 June 2002 | Robert William Robson, CBE | For services to Association Football |
| 15 June 2002 | David Calvert-Smith, QC | Director of Public Prosecutions |
| 15 June 2002 | Brian John Stewart, CBE | Chairman, Scottish and Newcastle plc. For services to Industry |
| 15 June 2002 | Anthony John Patrick Vineall | Lately chairman, School Teachers' Review Body. For services to Education |
| 15 June 2002 | Alfred Cecil Walker, JP | For political and public service |
| 15 June 2002 | Keith Roderick Whitson | Group chief executive, HSBC Holdings plc. For services to Banking. |
| 15 June 2002 | David Wilmot, QPM, DL | Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police. For services to the Police |
| 15 June 2002 | Nicholas Raymond Winterton, MP | Member of Parliament for Macclesfield. For services to Parliament |
| 15 June 2002 | Ronald Wayne De Witt | Chief executive, North West London Strategic Health Authority. For services to the NHS. |
| 15 June 2002 | Anthony Ian Young | Lately Senior Deputy General Secretary, Communication Workers' Union; president, TUC; Governor, BBC. For services to Employment Relations. |
| 15 June 2002 | John Maxwell Middleton | For services to agriculture and the country. (In the Papua New Guinea honours list) |
| 15 June 2002 | Cecil Albert Jacobs, CBE | For services to banking. (In the St Christopher and Nevis honours list) |
| 31 October 2002 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Peregrine Charles Hugh) Simon. | |
| 31 October 2002 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Colman Maurice) Treacy. | |
| 8 November 2002 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Roger John) Royce. | |
| 16 December 2002 | The Honourable Mr Justice (Adrian Bruce) Fulford. | |
| 31 December 2002 | Alan Arthur Bates, CBE | Actor. For services to Drama. |
| 31 December 2002 | Howard Bernstein | Chief Executive, Manchester City Council. For services to the Reconstruction of Manchester and the XVII Commonwealth Games. |
| 31 December 2002 | Professor Clive Booth | Chairman, Teacher Training Agency. For services to Higher Education. |
| 31 December 2002 | Peter Alexander Burt | Executive Deputy chairman, HBOS plc. For services to Banking. |
| 31 December 2002 | Ewen James Hanning Cameron, D.L. | Chair, Countryside Agency. For services to the Countryside. |
| 31 December 2002 | Ian James Carruthers, OBE | Chief Executive, Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Authority. For services to the NHS. |
| 31 December 2002 | William Joseph Connor | General Secretary, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. For services to Industrial Relations. |
| 31 December 2002 | Dan Crompton, CBE, QPM | Lately HM Inspector of Constabulary, Wakefield. For services to the Police. |
| 31 December 2002 | Professor Alan Roy Fersht, FRS | Herchel Smith Professor, University of Cambridge. For services to Protein Science. |
| 31 December 2002 | David Eardley Garrard | Chairman, Minerva PLC. For charitable services. |
| 31 December 2002 | Professor David Michael Baldock Hall | President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Professor of Community Paediatrics, Sheffield. For services to Medicine. |
| 31 December 2002 | Graham Joseph Hall | Chairman, Yorkshire Forward. For services to Business in the Yorkshire and Humber Region. |
| 31 December 2002 | Ewan William Harper, CBE | For services to the Church of England. |
| 31 December 2002 | John Francis Jones | Headteacher, Maghull High School, Sefton, Liverpool. For services to Education. |
| 31 December 2002 | Professor David Anthony King, FRS | Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government and Head, Office of Science and Technology, Department of Trade and Industry. |
| 31 December 2002 | Archibald Johnstone Kirkwood, MP | Member of Parliament for Roxburgh and Berwickshire. For services to Parliament. |
| 31 December 2002 | Alexander John (Sandy) Bruce-Lockhart, OBE | Leader, Kent County Council. For services to Local Government. |
| 31 December 2002 | Professor Ravinder Nath Maini | Professor of Rheumatology and lately Head, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College, London. For services to Rheumatology. |
| 31 December 2002 | Brian John McMaster, CBE | Director. For services to the Edinburgh International Festival. |
| 31 December 2002 | Peter Moores, CBE | For charitable services to the Arts. |
| 31 December 2002 | Derek James Morris | Chairman, Competition Commission. For services to Industry. |
| 31 December 2002 | Alderman James Michael Yorrick Oliver | Lately Lord Mayor of London. For services to the City of London. |
| 31 December 2002 | John Edward Victor Rose | Chief Executive, Rolls-Royce plc. For services to the Defence and Aerospace Industries. |
| 31 December 2002 | Ridley Scott | Director and Producer. For services to the British Film Industry. |
| 31 December 2002 | Peter Michael Stothard | Lately Editor, The Times. For services to the Newspaper Industry. |
| 31 December 2002 | Professor John Macqueen Ward, CBE | Chairman, Scottish Qualifications Agency. For services to Public Life in Scotland. |
| 31 December 2002 | Nicholas George Winton, MBE | For services to humanity, in saving Jewish Children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, 1938–39. |