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.

Entertainment and Arts

• Alfred Brendel - KBE (1989)
• Anna Davies - DBE (2000)
• Plácido Domingo - KBE (2002)
• Antal Doráti - KBE (1983)
• Maurice Druon - KBE
• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - KBE (1949)
• Naum Gabo - KBE (1973)
• Bernard Haitink - CH (2002), KBE (1977)
• Bob Hope - KBE (1998)
• Magnus Magnusson - KBE (1989)
• Yehudi Menuhin - KBE (1965; later became a British subject)
• Spike Milligan - KBE (2001)
• Ettore Modigliani - KBE
• Arnaldo Momigliano - KBE (1974)
• Iris Origo - DBE (1977)
• Eugene Ormandy - KBE (1976)
• Murray Perahia - KBE (2004)
• Mario Praz - KBE (1962)
• Andre Previn - KBE
• Arthur Rubinstein - KBE (1977)
• Georg Solti - KBE (1971; later became a British subject)
• Steven Spielberg - KBE (2001)
• William Trevor - KBE (2002)
• Terry Wogan - KBE (2005)
• Franco Zeffirelli - KBE (2004)