Who's on this year's list?
On the main list, actresses Joanna Lumley and Vanessa Redgrave are made dames.
Swimmer Adam Peaty and gymnast Max Whitlock also become OBEs, while shock US Open winner Emma Raducanu is appointed MBE.Husband and wife Dame Laura Kenny and Sir Jason Kenny, Emma Raducanu MBE, and Tom Daley OBE Katie Piper is appointed OBE for her work with burns victims; Kate Garraway is made an MBE for services to broadcasting, journalism, and charity; and Spice Girl Melanie Brown is appointed MBE for her work with vulnerable women.The two highest honours go to the former Labour MP for Birkenhead, Lord Field, and Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse. They become Companions of Honour, where membership is limited to 65 people.
In total, more than 1,200 people are on the main UK New Year Honours list, which ranges from the Companion of Honour and the Order of the Bath, through knighthoods and damehoods, to CBEs, OBEs, MBEs, and the BEM -In total, 15.1% of recipients are from an ethnic minority background, which the government said made it "for the fourth time running, the most ethnically diverse honours list to date". In total, 47.9% of recipients are women.
"I love metaphors," he told the BBC in 2020. "I think they bring complex stories to life for people."The government's chief scientific adviser Prof Sir Patrick Vallance - who was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours - is given a higher honour, being made a knight commander of the Order of the Bath. Hannah Mills is appointed OBE for services to sailing and the environment, while Jonathan Brownlee - who, like Mills, won Olympic gold in Japan - is appointed MBE. His brother Alistair, who won gold in 2012 and 2016, already has the same honour.
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