List of honorary British Knights

This is an incomplete list of people who have been created Honorary Knights (or Dames) by the British crown, as well as those who have been raised to the two comparable Orders of Chivalry (Order of Merit and Order of the Companions of Honour) and the Royal Victorian Chain, which do not carry titles.

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• Henri Deterding - KBE (1920)
• Niall FitzGerald - KBE (2002)
• Bill Gates - KBE (2004)
• Lou Gerstner
• Paul Getty - KBE (1987; later became a British subject)
• Cecil H. Green
• Akio Morita - KBE (1993)