Supermodel Twiggy, Python Michael Palin and England manager Gareth Southgate are among more than 1,000 people awarded in the New Year Honours 2019.
The list celebrates heroes – from 43 responders to terror attacks, to the divers who stunned the world in the Thai cave rescue.
But there are also awards for Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter and authors Philip Pullman and Margaret Atwood.
And a cronyism row is set to brew after Theresa May rewarded big business chiefs who just happen to back her Brexit deal.
There are plenty of famous faces in the honours list – but far more people who quietly work away at doing good for their communities.
So to honour them all, we’ve reproduced the list in full – and highlights – below.
Overall, 1,148 recipients are named in the 2019 New Year list.
That includes the 43 people recognised for their acts responding to the terror attacks in Manchester and London in 2017.
The oldest is 100-year-old World War Two veteran Robert Lingwood, who gets a BEM for services to the community in County Tyrone.
43 people who responded to the Manchester and London terror attacks have been named in the New Year Honours.
Among them is Special Sergeant Jared Simpson, one of the first officers on the scene at the Manchester Arena on the night of 22 May last year.
Suicide bomber Salman Abedi had just detonated a homemade device laden with shrapnel in the lobby of the Arena at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people, the youngest just eight years old.
“My first thought is always for the victim or victims that have been affected by whatever I am dealing with, and they will always be my first priority,” Sgt Simpson said, after learning of his British Empire Medal for services to policing.
Other honours include an OBE for Paul Woodrow, Director of Operations at the London Ambulance Service; an OBE for Joy Ongcachuy, a theatre nurse at Barts Hospital; and a BEM for Theresa Lam, the Family Liaison Lead for Greater Manchester Police.
British divers who helped save a youth football team trapped inside a flooded cave in Thailand are also honoured.
Vernon Unsworth, the ex-pat suing Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk for labelling him a “pedo guy”, is among those getting MBEs for their roles in the dramatic Thai cave rescue, which gripped the world during the summer.
Divers Joshua Bratchley and Lance Corporal Connor Roe both get MBEs, while four more British cave divers are receiving civilian gallantry awards.
Seven firefighters who saved elderly residents from a serious blaze at a care home in Cheshunt in 2017 are also honoured.
An OBE also goes to Mark Prince for tackling knife and gang crime in London after the heart-rending experience of losing his son aged 15.
But fans could be angered by an OBE for outgoing Premier League chief Richard Scudamore – topping up his £5m departure bonus.
Motor neurone disease sufferer and former Scottish rugby player George “Doddie” Weir gets an OBE for services to rugby, motor neurone disease research, and the community in the Scottish Borders.
Theresa May was embroiled in a cronyism row last night after she announced that a prominent Brexiteer had been made a privy counsellor ahead of her meaningful vote on Brexit.
Sir Edward Leigh, who has yet to announce how he will vote on the deal, said earlier this month that the Prime Minister’s efforts to secure concessions from Brussels could yet pay off.
Two other Tory MPs who have both said they will back the Prime Minister’s plans were also appointed to the secretive official body – Philip Dunne and Sir Roger Gale.
It came after hardline Brexiteer John Redwood – one of the Eurosceptic Cabinet ministers branded “bastards” by John Major – was knighted in the New Year’s Honours list.
With the crunch vote due next month, speculation has been swirling at Westminster honours may be deployed as a means of luring MPs to back the Prime Minister.
In an apparent bid to reassure supporters that he will not be swayed by his gong, Mr Redwood published a blog just days ahead of the announcement outlining “Eight things wrong with the withdrawal agreement”.
Tory MP Gary Streeter, who backed Remain in the 2016 referendum and has already made clear that he will support the PM, also received a knighthood.
Tory donor John H J Lewis, who has given thousands of pounds to the party, was awarded an OBE for philanthropt and supporting the arts.
Airbus UK chief Katherine Bennett, whose company had warned it might reconsider its investment in the UK in light of Brexit, but has now offered cautious support for the PM’s plan, gets an OBE.
German-born Siemens UK chief Jürgen Maier, who has also backed Mrs May’s deal over crashing out without a deal, receives a CBE.
Whitehall honours include a knighthood for HMRC chief executive Jon Thompson who received death threats after disclosing that a customs option preferred by Brexiteers would cost up to £20bn.
Knighthoods also go to Richard Heaton, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Laurie Bristow, the UK ambassador to Moscow who dealt with the fall-out from the Salisbury poisoning and Roy Stone, who has served under seven PMs, latterly as an aide to the chief whip.
Mrs May’s deputy principal private secretary, William Macfarlane, gets a CBE for public service.
The model, born Lesley Hornby and dubbed the world’s first supermodel, has been awarded the title in the Queen’s New Year Honours list for her services to fashion, the arts and charity.
The 69-year-old told the Press Association: “It’s wonderful, but it makes me giggle.
“When we wake up every morning we turn to each other, my husband (Leigh Lawson) and I, and we just giggle. So it’s a very nice, warm feeling, and obviously I am very honoured.
“The hardest thing has been keeping it a secret, because we’ve known for about three-and-a-half weeks”.
His work on the Dark Knight trilogy as well as movies including The Prestige, Inception and Dunkirk brought him blockbuster success as well as an Oscar nomination.
Now, the 48-year-old can add a CBE to his already illustrious CV after being recognised for services to film in the New Year Honours.
In a 2005 interview with The Guardian, Nolan, who holds dual UK and US nationality, lamented the lack of support he received in the country of his birth while trying to break through in the film industry, reflecting: “But there’s a very limited pool of finance in the UK. To be honest, it’s a very clubby kind of place. In Hollywood there’s a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people.
The former Monty Python star, who gets a knighthood in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas list for his international contributions to travel, culture and geography, said news of the accolade had not sunk in yet.
She is alone this time round in receiving the highest honour it is possible to bestow in the New Year list.
The creator of the hugely successful His Dark Materials trilogy said he was “very surprised and honoured” to receive a knighthood for services to literature.
Carter, who played Mr Carson in the hit British period drama Downton Abbey, said he was “delighted” his OBE for services to drama came in time to be seen by his 99-year-old mother, who “lit up at the good news”.
Broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham said “our wildlife needs a voice to shout above the noise” after being awarded a CBE for services to nature conservation.
Stagecoach co-founder Ann Gloag is to be made a dame for services to business and philanthropy, and former CEO of Virgin Money Jayne-Anne Gadhia also gets a damehood for services to the financial industry and to women in the industry.
Daphne Self, the world’s oldest working professional model at 90, gets a BEM for services to women and fashion, while the editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar Glenda Bailey becomes a dame in the overseas list for services to the GREAT Britain Campaign and UK prosperity, charity, fashion and journalism.
Consultant plastic surgeon professor Simon Peter Jabir Kay, of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, will get an OBE for services to complex reconstructive hand surgery, including hand transplantation.
Maj James Thompson. VR. Intelligence Corps Army Reserve.
Capt James Anthony Wadsworth. C.G.C. The Royal Logistic Corps.
OVERSEAS – Chief Superintendent Richard Alfred Mifsud. Royal Gibraltar Police.
Julia Elizabeth Kett. For services to British Nationals in France.
Albert Langston. For services to banking and Lay Magistracy in Gibraltar.
Brian Lionel Pile. For services to charity and to the community in Moldova.
Parul Pinky Ram. For services to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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