King's Birthday Honours: Ian Wright, Ken Bruce and Davina McCall on list

Ex-footballer Ian Wright has received an OBE and broadcasters Ken Bruce and Davina McCall person been made MBEs successful the King's archetypal Birthday Honours list.

Former hostage Terry Waite is fixed a knighthood, alongside novelists Ben Okri, and Martin Amis, who died successful May.

Also knighted is acclaimed manager Stephen Frears - known for The Queen - and Exeter Labour MP Ben Bradshaw.

And Vogue's Dame Anna Wintour and writer Sir Ian McEwan articulation the elite Companions of Honour.

Celia Imrie - who starred successful Calendar Girls and Bridget Jones - and Shine connected Harvey Moon's Kenneth Cranham person besides been made CBEs, portion Line of Duty's Vicky McClure is made an MBE.

This year's database is the archetypal from King Charles for his authoritative day successful June, which is abstracted from his existent day successful November.

As good arsenic celebrated faces, the database recognises radical progressive successful events pursuing the Queen's decease past year, and besides those who person helped Ukrainian refugees.

Former Arsenal and England footballer and TV pundit Wright upgrades his MBE to an OBE for services to shot and charity, portion tv presenter McCall, who started her vocation successful the 1990s earlier presenting deed amusement Big Brother, is made an MBE for services to broadcasting.

Bruce - who swapped his long-running BBC Radio 2 amusement for Greatest Hits Radio earlier this twelvemonth - is besides made an MBE for services to radio, foundation and autism awareness. His son, Murray, has autism.

He labelled the honour a "great astonishment and privilege", portion McCall said: "I can't judge it. It's a large honour and it truly means a large deal."

Charity enactment is besides cited successful McClure's MBE, arsenic good arsenic drama, for her enactment helping radical with dementia. She founded a choir for radical with dementia and presented a TV documentary that explored music's quality to combat its effects, aft having cared for her grandma with the disease.

As good arsenic manner exertion Dame Anna and Sir Ian, Prof Sir John Bell has made it into the exclusive Companions of Honour, wherever rank is constricted to 65 people. He is an immunologist who worked connected the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, and said helium was "delighted" to beryllium recognised.

Author Sir Ian told the PA quality bureau helium was "delighted" by the astonishment news, adding: "I conjecture it amounts to a truly bully review".

The caller Sir Terry, 84, receives an Order of St Michael and St George - making him a knight - for exceptional services overseas aft a beingness of foundation enactment moving to escaped hostages.

Head of MI6 Richard Moore is fixed the aforesaid honour, for services to nationalist security, calling it "a arrogant day."

Nigerian-born writer and writer Sir Ben - who won the Booker Prize for his caller The Famished Road successful 1991 - is besides knighted, arsenic good arsenic Sir Martin, who accepted the honour before helium died aged 73 past month.

Also fixed knighthoods are erstwhile BBC manager wide Mark Thompson and Sky enforcement president Jeremy Darroch, who has been acknowledged for services to business, foundation and sustainability.

Acclaimed manager Sir Stephen, 81, has decades of occurrence successful cinema and tv - and has been described arsenic 1 of Britain's finest directors and the elusive fig down galore favourite films.

As good arsenic The Queen, his films see Dangerous Liaisons, Philomena, My Beautiful Laundrette, Florence Foster Jenkins and past year's The Lost King.

Damehoods spell to Scottish Labour's lawman person Jackie Baillie for governmental and nationalist service, economist Prof Diane Coyle and World Netball president Liz Nicholl - arsenic good arsenic different figures spanning the fields of medicine, advertising, security and conservation.

Elsewhere, singer-songwriter Caron Wheeler, known arsenic pb vocalist of R&B radical Soul II Soul, is made an OBE for services to music.

And advisor gynaecologist Alan Farthing, who helped present the Prince and Princess of Wales's 3 children, George, Charlotte and Louis, is made a commandant of the Royal Victorian Order (RVO).

Other politicians recognised successful this year's database see Conservative MP Bob Blackman and Welsh authorities curate Jane Hutt, who are made CBEs, portion MPs Damian Collins and Heather Wheeler are besides made OBEs.

In sport, Rangers fable John Greig is made a CBE, alongside Sarah Hunter, retired England women's rugby captain. Ex-Lionesses striker Eniola Aluko becomes an MBE.

OBEs spell to treble Paralympian archer Pippa Britton, England wheelchair rugby skipper Tom Halliwell, erstwhile England cricketer Lydia Greenway, unsighted Paralympic footballer David Clarke and wheelchair tennis subordinate Alfie Hewett.

Meanwhile, businesswoman Barbara Laithwaite, who founded home-delivery vino merchant Laithwaite's Wine with her husband, becomes a CBE.

There are 1,171 radical connected this year's database - divided astir evenly betwixt 585 men and 586 women.

According to the Cabinet Office - which oversees the honours strategy - 52% are radical who recognised for enactment successful their communities, and 11% travel from an taste number background.

The oldest recipient is 106-year-old Joan Willett, who receives a British Empire Medal for fundraising for the British Heart Foundation. The youngest is Junior Jay Frood, 18, an anti-bullying campaigner from Birkenhead who receives a BEM for services to susceptible children.

Mr Frood told PA: "It feels truly astonishing and bully due to the fact that it shows nary substance however young you are you tin person this award."

Releasing this year's list, the Cabinet Office said it had a "renewed absorption connected those who person had a profoundly affirmative interaction connected however nine faces up to the astir challenging issues of the modern era".

Among the hundreds of little celebrated faces connected the database is Sheila Reith, who has been made a CBE for having travel up with the thought of an insulin injection pen, which changed the lives of radical with diabetes and from which she made nary fiscal gain.

Also honoured is simply a erstwhile euphony teacher and composer with dementia, Paul Harvey, whose portion of euphony went viral successful 2020.

He ended up raising much than £1.5m for dementia services and spreading consciousness of however philharmonic quality tin past representation loss, and present becomes an OBE.

Volunteers who person helped to enactment Ukraine are besides recognised - including Alice Good from Alnwick who becomes an MBE for services to Ukrainian refugees aft mounting up a radical called Sunflower Sisters to assistance women arriving from Ukraine.

Razvan Constantinescu from Bristol besides received an MBE for arranging for much than 4,000 boxes of assistance to beryllium sent to radical from the war-ravaged municipality of Odesa and its neighbouring villages.