List of honorary British knights
This is an incomplete list of people who have been created Honorary Knights (or Dames) by the British crown. In recent years, the following numbers of Honorary Knights and Dames have been created (other than RVOs, which are the Queen's personal prerogative)
Entertainment and Arts Alfred Brendel - KBE (1989) Plácido Domingo - KBE (2002) Antal Doráti - KBE (1983) Maurice Druon - KBE Douglas Fairbanks, Jr - KBE (1949) Bob Geldof - KBE (1986) Bernard Haitink - KBE (1977) Bob Hope - KBE (1998) Yehudi Menuhin - KBE (1965; later became a British citizen) Spike Milligan - KBE (2001) Arnaldo Momigliano - KBE (1974) Iris Origo - DBE (1977) Eugene Ormandy - KBE (1976) Mario Praz - KBE (1962) Andre Previn - KBE Arthur Rubinstein - KBE (1977) Georg Solti - KBE (1971; later became a British citizen) Steven Spielberg - KBE (2001)
Politics and Government Emeka Anyaoku - (2000) George H. W. Bush - GCB Rudy Giuliani - KBE (February 13, 2002) Alan Greenspan - KBE (2002) Hamid Karzai - GCMG (2003) Ronald Reagan - GCB Donald Tsang - KBE Caspar Weinberger - GBE Chung Sze Yuen - GBE Zulfikar Pasha - KBE (1920)
Military Wesley Clark - KBE (2000) Tommy Franks Colin Powell - KCB (1993) Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr - KCB (1993) Brent Scowcroft - KBE (1993) Leighton W. Smith, Jr - KBE (1997)
Business Niall FitzGerald - KBE (2002) Bill Gates - KBE (2004) Lou Gerstner Paul Getty - KBE (1987; later became a British citizen) Cecil H. Green
Religious Billy Graham - KBE (2001)
Science Ara Darzi Guglielmo Marconi - GCVO (1914) Abdus Salam James Watson
Humanitarian Simon Wiesenthal
Sports Pelé - KBE (1998)
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