New Year Honours 2023: Brian May and Lionesses on list - BBC

Queen guitarist Brian May has been knighted successful a New Year Honours database that celebrates the Lionesses' triumph astatine Euro 2022.

England skipper Leah Williamson is made an OBE and teammates Lucy Bronze, Beth Mead and Ellen White go MBEs.

There is besides a knighthood for creator Grayson Perry and a damehood for Olympic heptathlete Denise Lewis.

Lissie Harper is made an MBE pursuing her run for tougher sentences for the killers of exigency workers.

Her husband, PC Andrew Harper, died connected work successful Berkshire successful August 2019.

Among the celebrated faces connected the lists are comedian Frank Skinner, who is made an MBE for services to entertainment. He said helium had not yet told his household due to the fact that helium thought it whitethorn person been "some benignant of administrative error".

Dame Mary Quant, 92 - the manner decorator wide credited with popularising the mini skirt successful the 1960s - joins the elite Companions of Honour.

And Virginia McKenna, the 91-year-old histrion and co-founder of the Born Free Foundation, is made a dame for services to wildlife conservation and to chaotic carnal welfare.

Senior diplomats who led the UK's effect to the Ukraine warfare are recognised, with damehoods for Melinda Simmons, ambassador successful Kyiv, and Deborah Bronnert, ambassador successful Moscow.

Louenna Hood, a nanny from Cambridgeshire who raised much than £190,000 and delivered essentials for radical fleeing Ukraine, receives a British Empire Medal.

The 2023 New Year Honours are the archetypal to beryllium signed disconnected by King Charles.

Sir Brian May - who famously played God Save The Queen connected the extortion of Buckingham Palace during the Golden Jubilee - gets his rubric conscionable months aft his set helped motorboat the precocious monarch's Platinum Jubilee performance this summer.

The musician, astrophysicist and carnal payment advocator is knighted for services to euphony and charity, aft much than 50 years successful 1 of Britain's astir fashionable stone bands.

Sir Brian was antecedently appointed a CBE successful 2005, portion Queen drummer Roger Taylor was made an OBE successful the 2020 New Year Honours.

On being recognised for his campaigning work, Sir Brian told BBC News: "This is simply a benignant of licence, a benignant of committee to transportation connected doing what I'm doing, and it gives maine a spot much powerfulness to my elbow. So I'm precise blessed astir that."

The 4 Lionesses are recognised aft the July triumph astatine Wembley that brought the archetypal portion of large silverware successful their history, and the archetypal for a elder England squad since the men's 1966 World Cup success.

Their Dutch caput manager Sarina Wiegman was made an honorary CBE successful the Foreign Office list.

England defender Lucy Bronze said her MBE was "special and beauteous amazing", adding: "It's thing for my household that volition marque them precise proud".

Sir Hugh Robertson, president of the honours sports committee, said: "What we've tried to bash is instrumentality to the rule of the honours strategy which is to recognise excellence and to recognise bonzer contributions."

He said different "you get radical who've done 5 minutes connected the pitch... get an award".

Denise Lewis, 50, who won a golden medal astatine the Sydney Games successful 2000, and is present president of Commonwealth Games England, told BBC News she was "extremely proud" of her damehood, saying it was "right up there" with her vocation achievements.

She said: "Sport has taught maine immoderate of the astir astonishing values and fixed maine the astir astonishing values. And so. those are the things I effort to impart erstwhile I'm representing my athletics and the sporting community."

Three politicians person been knighted - Conservative Alok Sharma for his publication to combatting clime alteration done his enactment astatine COP26, Tory Julian Lewis, president of the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, and Labour's Chris Bryant, who chairs the Commons Standards Committee.

There is an OBE for erstwhile athletics curate Helen Grant, the Conservative MP for Maidstone and the Weald.

Jason Knauf, a erstwhile royal adjutant who worked for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for 7 years earlier the then-Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, has been recognised for his work to the monarchy by being named a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (RVO).

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has been knighted, and is among a fistful of Jewish assemblage leaders to beryllium recognised, including the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyl, and respective Holocaust survivors.

Countdown presenter Rachel Riley is made an MBE for her efforts to rise consciousness of the Holocaust and combat antisemitism.

Noreen Riols, 96, the past surviving pistillate subordinate of the French conception of the Special Operations Executive has dedicated her MBE to the representation of her precocious "comrades".

As a subordinate of the British espionage and sabotage organisation known arsenic "Churchill's Secret Army," she trained agents up of their deployment to occupied France.

Some 60% of the recipients connected the main database are radical being recognised chiefly for having undertaken outstanding enactment successful their communities, either successful a voluntary oregon charitable capacity.

The youngest is Dara McAnulty, 18, from Annalong, Co Down, who receives a BEM for his biology enactment and assistance for radical with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The oldest is 100-year-old Peter Offord Davies from Macclesfield, who receives a BEM for his enactment arsenic a speechmaking unpaid astatine Dean Valley Community Primary School.

Marie McCourt, who campaigned to marque it harder for killers and paedophiles who clasp backmost accusation connected their victims to person parole is made an MBE. Helen's Law was brought successful pursuing the execution of Helen McCourt successful Merseyside successful 1988.

Journalist Anne Diamond, 68, who has agelong campaigned to halt cot death, described being made an OBE arsenic the "crowning achievement" for each those who helped her and dedicated the accomplishment to her precocious lad Sebastian.

In the concern world, the archetypal chairwoman of Rolls-Royce, Anita Frew, and the archetypal pistillate to tally NatWest, Alison Rose, person been fixed damehoods.

Ivan Menezes, brag of drinks steadfast Diageo has been knighted, portion Johnny Boden - laminitis of the eponymous covering institution - has been made a CBE for services to manner and retail.

Other musicians honoured see Janet Kay, who went to fig 2 successful the charts successful 1979 with her opus Silly Games. The "Queen of Lovers' Rock" becomes an MBE for services to music.

Saxophonist and CBeebies presenter YolanDa Brown has been made an OBE for services to music, euphony acquisition and broadcasting.

There are besides OBEs for John Suchet for services to journalism and charity, and illustrator David Sutherland, who has spent 60 years drafting for the Beano comic.

Football figures from crossed the UK are besides connected the list, including Pat Jennings, made a CBE for his shot and foundation work successful Northern Ireland, and Scotland's shot skipper Andy Robertson, made an MBE for his enactment for foundation and with young people.

Former Swindon Town and Brentford footballer Chris Kamara, who precocious spoke retired astir his difficulties with the code upset apraxia, has been made an MBE for services to football, anti-racism and charity.