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.

Politics and Government

• Emeka Anyaoku - GCVO (2000)
• Joseph Avenol - KBE (1921)
• Ayub Khan - GCMG, RVC
• George H. W. Bush - GCB (1993)
• Nicolae Ceau?escu - GCB (1978; removed 1989)
• António Ramalho Eanes - RVC (1985)
• Romeo Gallenga-Stuart - KBE
• Rudy Giuliani - KBE (2002)
• Alan Greenspan - KBE (2002)
• Václav Havel - GCB (1996)
• Gustav Heinemann - GCB (1972)
• Sassoon Effendi Heskail - KBE
• Harri Holkeri - KBE (1999)
• Mohammed Ikramullah - KCMG (1961)
• Dato Onn Bin Ja'Afar - KBE (1953)
• Muhammad Hasan Jan - GCVO
• Hamid Karzai - GCMG (2003)
• Abera Kassa - KBE (1932)
• Helmut Kohl - GCMG
• Pierre-Olivier Lapie - KBE
• Lee Kuan Yew - GCMG (1972), CH (1970)
• Hans Ritter von Lex - KBE (1961)
• Joseph Luns - CH (1971)
• Nelson Mandela - OM (1995)
• Andreas Michalakopoulos - KBE
• George J. Mitchell - GBE (1999)
• François Mitterrand - GCB, RVC (1992)
• Kengo Mori - KBE (1927)
• Robert Mugabe - KCB (1994)
• Benito Mussolini - GCB (1923; removed 1940)
• Hasan Khan Pirnia - GCMG (1907)
• Husain Khan Qazvini - GCSI (1873)
• Mahdi Quli Khan-e Qajar Quyunlu - KCMG (1889)
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - OM (1963)
• Ronald Reagan - GCB (1989)
• Charles de Rocca-Serra - KCMG (1917)
• Roh Moo-hyun - GCB (2004)
• Mohammed Said Pasha - GCMG (1912)
• Eduard Shevardnadze - GCMG (2000)
• Joodha Shumshere Jung - GCSI (1935), GCIE
• Ismail Sirry Pasha - KCMG (1913)
• Suharto - GCB (1974)
• Ali El Tom - KBE (1926)
• Caspar Weinberger - GBE
• Richard von Weizsäcker - RVC (1992)
• John Winant - OM (1947)
• Robert Worcester - KBE (2004; later became a British subject)
• Ketema Yifru - KCMG (1965)
• Zulfikar Pasha - KBE (1920)