List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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1910s

• 1917: The Baroness Byron
  Lucy, Lady Houston
  
  Lucy, Lady Houston, Order of British Empire , born Fanny Lucy Radmall, was an English benefactor, philanthropist, adventuress and patriot....
  , The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, Sarah Lees, Edith Lyttelton
  Edith Lyttelton
  
  Dame Edith Lyttelton, Order of the British Empire was a British novelist, World War I-era activist and spiritualist....
  , The Marchioness of Londonderry, The Baroness Pentland
  Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland
  
  Marjorie Adeline Gordon Sinclair, Baroness Pentland was the daughter of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair....
  , The Baroness Willingdon
• 1918: Eva Anstruther
  Eva Anstruther
  
  Dame Eva Anstruther, DBE was an English writer and poet.She was born as Hon. Eva Isabella Henrietta Hanbury-Tracy, the eldest child of the 4th Lord Sudeley....
  , Caroline Arnott
  Caroline Arnott
  
  Dame Caroline Sydney Williams Arnott, DBE, OStJ, Justice of the Peace was the daughter of Sir Frederick Martin Williams, 2nd Bt., of Tregullow....
  , The Duchess of Atholl
  Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl
  
  Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl Order of the British Empire , born Katharine Marjory Ramsay and known as the Marchioness of Tullibardine from 1899 to 1917, was a Scotland noblewoman and Unionist Party politician....
  , Florence Bell
  Florence Bell
  
  Florence Jane Bell was a Canada track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.From Toronto, Bell competed for Canada in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the gold medal with her teammates Fanny Rosenfeld, Ethel Smith, and Myrtle Cook....
  , Maud Bevan, Maud Burnett
  Maud Burnett
  
  Dame Annie Maud Burnett, DBE was a local English politician.Known as Maud Burnett, from 1925 to 1929 she was the first and one of the few female Mayors of Tynemouth, England....
  , Augusta Crichton-Stuart, Margaret Davidson, Anna Maria Donner, Alice Godman, Agnes Jekyll
  Agnes Jekyll
  
  Dame Agnes Graham Jekyll, DBE was a British artist, writer and philanthropist.She was educated at home by governesses, and slater attended King's College London....
  , Adelaide Livingstone
  Adelaide Livingstone
  
  Dame Adelaide Stickney Lord Livingstone, DBE was responsible for organising the Peace Ballot in 1934-35 to gauge the British public's sentiment in the winds of upcoming war with a rearming and aggressive Germany led by Adolf Hitler....
  , Ethel Locke-King
  Ethel Locke-King
  
  Dame Ethel Locke-King , DBE, was a motor-racing promoter and hospital patron.Her wealthy husband, Sir Hugh F. Locke-King, created and solely financed Brooklands House, Weybridge, Surrey, the first permanent race-track in the world....
  , Flora Lugard
  Flora Shaw
  
  Dame Flora Louisa Shaw, Lady Lugard, Order of the British Empire , the daughter of an English father, Captain George Shaw and a French mother, Marie Desfontaines....
  , Nellie Melba
  Nellie Melba
  
  Dame Nellie Melba Order of the British Empire , born Helen Porter Mitchell, legendary Australian opera soprano and one of the most famous sopranos, was the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form....
  , Margaret Pryse-Rice, Clarissa Reid, The Viscountess Ridley, The Countess Roberts, Edith Sclater
  Edith Sclater
  
  Dame Edith Harriet Barttelot Sclater, DBE was the daughter of Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Bt. and Harriet Musgrave.She married General Sir Henry Crichton Sclater, son of James Henry Sclater, on 12 June 1884....
  , Olive Smith-Dorrien, Janet Stancomb-Wills
  Janet Stancomb-Wills
  
  Dame Janet Stancomb Graham Stancomb-Wills, Order of the British Empire was the eldest daughter of George Perkins Stancomb and Catherine Janet Lobb, at Aldersgate, London, and niece of the first Baron Winterstoke ....
  , The Countess Waldegrave
  Mary Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave
  
  Mary Dorothea Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom peerage.Born Mary Dorothea Palmer, she was the daughter of Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne and his wife, Laura, a daughter of the William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave....
  , May Whitty
• 1919: Rachel Crowdy, The Countess of Darnley
  Florence Bligh, Countess of Darnley
  
  Florence Rose Bligh , Countess of Darnley, DBE was the wife of Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley, son of John Stuart Bligh, 6th Earl of Darnley and Lady Harriet Mary Pelham, on 9 February 1884....
  , Lady Blanche Gordon-Lennox, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
  Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
  
  Major-General Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE, was a prominent United Kingdom botanist and mycologist. She was educated at King's College London....
  , Henrietta Henderson, The Countess of Harrowby, Mary Monro, Gian Tufnell Stephen, Baroness Mount Stephen
  George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen
  
  George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen was a Scots-Quebecker banker and railway executive in Canada....
  , Alice Northcote, Sarah Oram, Florence Simpson, Una O'Dwyer

1920s

• 1920: Georgiana Buller
  Georgiana Buller
  
  Dame Audrey Charlotte Georgiana Buller, Order of the British Empire, Royal Red Cross , best known as Georgiana Buller, was a United Kingdom hospital administrator and the founder of the first school dedicated to occupational therapy in the United Kingdom....
  , Clara Butt
  Clara Butt
  
  File:Clara Butt & Kenerly Rumford.jpgDame Clara Ellen Butt Order of the British Empire , sometimes called Clara Butt-Rumford after her marriage, was an England contralto....
  , Alice Chisholm, The Countess of Eglinton
  Janet Montgomerie, Countess of Eglinton
  
  Janet Lucretia Montgomerie, Countess of Eglinton and Winton Order of the British Empire , n?e Janet Lucretia Cuninghame, was the wife of George Arnulph Montgomerie, 15th Earl of Eglinton....
  , The Countess of Gosford
  Louisa Acheson, Countess of Gosford
  
  Louisa Augusta Beatrice Acheson, Countess of Gosford Order of the British Empire , n?e Lady Louisa Augusta Beatrice Montagu, was the wife of the Archibald Acheson, 4th Earl of Gosford....
  , Catherine Hunt
  Catherine Hunt
  
  Dame Catherine Hunt Order of the British Empire , n?e Catherine Reeve, was a prominent figure in Colchester, Essex, England.Catherine Reeve married E....
  , The Countess of Leicester
  Alice Coke, Countess of Leicester
  
  Alice Emily Coke, Countess of Leicester Order of the British Empire , n?e Alice Emily White, was the wife of the Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester....
  , The Baroness Melchett
  Violet Mond, Baroness Melchett
  
  Violet Florence Mabel Mond, Baroness Melchett Order of the British Empire , n?e Violet Florence Mabel Goetze, was an England humanitarian and political worker....
  , Beryl Oliver
  Beryl Oliver
  
  Dame Beryl Carnegy Oliver Order of the British Empire Royal Red Cross , n?e Beryl Carnegy Joseph, was a United Kingdom Charitable organization administrator....
  , Ethel Maud Pearson, Una Pope-Hennessy
  Una Pope-Hennessy
  
  Dame Una Constance Pope-Hennessy Order of the British Empire , n?e Una Constance Birch, was a United Kingdom writer, mainly on history and biography....
  , Louise Samuel
  Louise Samuel
  
  Dame Louise Victoria Samuel Order of the British Empire , sometimes called Louise Gilbert Samuel, n?e Louise Victoria Steibel, was an England suffragist and charity worker....
  , The Viscountess Rhondda
  Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda
  
  Sybil Margaret Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda Order of the British Empire , n?e Sybil Margaret Haig, was a Wales suffragette, feminism and philanthropist....
  , Ethel Shakespear
  Ethel Shakespear
  
  Dame Ethel Mary Reader Shakespear Order of the British Empire , n?e Ethel Mary Reader Wood, was an England geologist, public servant and philanthropist....
  , The Baroness Talbot of Malahide, Meriel Lucy Talbot, Catherine Wingate
  Catherine Wingate
  
  Dame Catherine Leslie Wingate Order of the British Empire , n?e Catherine Leslie Rundle, was a United Kingdom humanitarian.She was the daughter of Royal Navy Captain Joseph Rundle and his wife Renira , and was the sister of Leslie Rundle....
  , Sophia Wintz
  Sophia Wintz
  
  Dame Sophia Gertrude Wintz Order of the British Empire was a Switzerland-born United Kingdom philanthropist who co-founded the Royal Sailors' Rests....
  
• 1921: Adelaide Anderson
  Adelaide Anderson
  
  Dame Adelaide Mary Anderson, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom civil servant and labour activist, particularly interested in child labour and conditions in China....
  , Edith Dixon
  Edith Dixon
  
  Dame Edith Stewart Dixon, Lady Dixon Order of the British Empire , n?e Edith Stewart Clark, was a Northern Ireland philanthropist.She married Belfast shipowner Sir Thomas Dixon, 2nd Baronet in 1906 and together they donated more than ?100,000 to good causes....
  
• 1922: The

• 1923: Belle Cox, Barbara Strickland
• 1924: Louisa Aldrich-Blake
  Louisa Aldrich-Blake
  
  File:Louisa Aldrich-Blake.jpgDame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake, Order of the British Empire was one of the first British women to enter the world of medicine....
  , Henrietta Barnett
  Henrietta Barnett
  
  Dame Henrietta Barnett, Order of the British Empire was a notable England social reformer and author. She and her husband, Samuel Augustus Barnett, founded the first 'University Settlement' at Toynbee Hall in 1884....
  , Caroline Bridgeman, Janet Campbell, Beatrix Lyall
  Beatrix Lyall
  
  Dame Beatrix Lyall DBE, Justice of the Peace was a British social reformer and London politician.Born as Beatrix Margaret Rostron, she was elected to the London County Council in 1919 as a Municipal Reform Party councillor for Fulham East ....
  , Shiv Kunwar Sahiba,
• 1925: Emma Albani
  Emma Albani
  
  Dame Emma Albani Order of British Empire , was a leading soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century, and the first Canadian singer to become an international star....
  , Mary Cook
  Mary Cook
  
  Mary Cook may refer to:*Dame Mary Cook, wife of Australian Prime Minister*Mary N. Cook, leader of the Young Women in the LDS Church*Mary Carey , real name Mary Ellen Cook, porn actress...
  , Louisa Lumsden
  Louisa Lumsden
  
  Dame Louisa Innes Lumsden, Order of the British Empire was a lecturer in classics at Girton College and the first Headmistress of St Leonards School, Fife....
  , The Baroness St Helier
  Francis Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier
  
  File:LordStHelier.jpgFrancis Henry Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier was an England judge.Jeune was the son of the Rt. Rev. Francis Jeune, Bishop of Peterborough and Margaret Dyne Symons....
  , Mary Wills
• 1926: Agnes Hunt
  Agnes Hunt
  
  Dame Agnes Gwendoline Hunt Order of the British Empire Royal Red Cross is generally recognized as the first Orthopaedic nursing nurse.She was born at Boreatton Park, Baschurch, a village in westShropshire, England, and was disabled from osteomyelitis of the hip that she suffered from as a child following septicaemia....
  , Madge Kendal
  Madge Kendal
  
  Dame Madge Kendal Order of the British Empire , born Margaret Shafto Robertson, was an English people actress.She was born in Grimsby, of a theatrical family, being the sister of Thomas William Robertson, a dramatist and one of 22 children of William Robertson....
  , Maude Lawrence, Jessie Phipps, Mary Scharlieb
  Mary Scharlieb
  
  Dame Mary Scharlieb, DBE was a pioneer British female physician in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
  
• 1927: The Countess of Cavan, The Countess of Stradbroke, The Viscountess Templewood, The Countess of Jersey, Emily Penrose
  Emily Penrose
  
  Dame Emily Penrose, DBE, Hon. LL.D was Principal at Somerville College, Oxford University from 1906 until 1926.Miss Penrose -- she never married -- was emblematic of "the history of women in Oxford [as] one of steady infiltration, as they gradually secured admission first to lectures, then to examinations, and finally, in 1920, to universit...
  
• 1928: The Duchess of Bedford
  Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford
  
  Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, Order of the British Empire Linnean Society of London was an England aviator and ornithologist.Born as Mary du Caurroy Tribe, the daughter of Walter Harry Tribe, Anglican Archdeacon of Lahore in 1865 at Stockbridge, Hampshire....
  , Elizabeth Wordsworth
  Elizabeth Wordsworth
  
  Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth was the great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth. She was the daughter of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, and the sister of John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury and Christopher Wordsworth , the liturgical scholar....
  , Frances Dove
  Wycombe Abbey
  
  Wycombe Abbey is one of the most famous independent girls' schools in Britain. It is situated in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is academically one of the top schools in the United Kingdom, and the top girls' boarding school ....
  
• 1929: Alida Brittain, Harriet Findlay
  Harriet Findlay
  
  Dame Harriet Jane Backhouse Findlay, DBE was the daughter of Sir Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, 1st Bt. She married Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet on 9 July 1901....
  , Gertrude Humphrys, Laura Knight
  Laura Knight
  
  Dame Laura Knight, Order of the British Empire was an England Impressionism painter. Famous for capturing the world of London's theatre district, ballet and the circus, she was a member of the Newlyn School of art and was the first woman artist to be made a Dame of the British Empire....
  , Anne McIlroy, Bertha Phillpotts
  Bertha Phillpotts
  
  Dame Bertha Surtees Phillpotts was an England scholar in North Germanic languages, Scandinavian literature, History of Scandinavia, archaeology and anthropology....
  

1930s

• 1930: Mary Bailey
• 1931: Joanna Cruickshank
  Joanna Cruickshank
  
  Dame Joanna Margaret Cruickshank, DBE founded the RAF Nursing Service in November 1918 as was appointed as Matron-in-Chief, aged 43. In November 1930 Cruickshank retired as Matron-in Chief, aged 55....
  , Sarah Mair
  Sarah Mair
  
  Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair, Order of the British Empire was a Scotland campaigner for women's education and women's suffrage, active in the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women and the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society, which she founded before she was 20....
  , Sybil Thorndike
  Sybil Thorndike
  
  Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actor. A biography of Dame Sybil by Sheridan Morley was published in 1977....
  
• 1932: Margaret Tuke
  Margaret Tuke
  
  Dame Margaret "Meta" Jansen Tuke, Order of the British Empire, M.A. , a British academic and educator, was the youngest child of James Hack Tuke....
  
• 1933: The Baroness Denman, The Viscountess Simon
• 1934: Elizabeth Cadbury
  Elizabeth Cadbury
  
  Dame Elizabeth Mary Cadbury, Order of the British Empire , was an England philanthropy and wife of George Cadbury, the chocolate manufacturer....
  , Alicia Lloyd-Still
• 1935: The Duchess of Portland, Ethel MacDonald
  Ethel MacDonald
  
  Ethel MacDonald was a Glasgow-based Scotland anarchist and activist and, in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, a propagandist on Barcelona Loyalist radio....
  , May Ogilvie-Gordon, Rosalind Paget
• 1936: Regina Evans, Lady Susan Gilmour, The Duchess of Abercorn, Christabel Pankhurst
  Christabel Pankhurst
  
  Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, Order of the British Empire was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union , she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913....
  
• 1937: Edith Anderson, Ellen Pinsent
  Ellen Pinsent
  
  Dame Ellen Frances Pinsent Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was a UK mental health worker.She was the daughter of the Rev. Richard Parker and his second wife, Elizabeth Coffin....
  , Juliet Rhys-Williams
  Juliet Rhys-Williams
  
  Dame Juliet Evangeline Rhys-Williams , Order of the British Empire , was a United Kingdom writer, and a Liberal Party politician who later joined the Conservative Party ....
  , The Baroness Strickland, Marie Tempest
  Marie Tempest
  
  Dame Marie Tempest Order of the British Empire was an English people singer and actress known as the "queen of her profession".Tempest became the most famous soprano in late Victorian era light opera and Edwardian musical comedies....
  , Violet Wills
• 1938: The Countess of Elgin, Florence Lambert, Gwendoline Trubshaw
• 1939: The Baroness Hillingdon, Ellen Musson
  Ellen Musson
  
  Dame Ellen Mary Musson, DBE, Hon. LL.D was Chair of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales.Her nursing career lasted from 1898 to 1957, most prominently at St....
  

1940s

• 1941: The Viscountess Craigavon
  James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
  
  James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Baronet, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was a prominent Unionists politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland....
  , Myra Hess
  Myra Hess
  
  Dame Myra Hess Order of the British Empire , born Julia Myra Hess, was a United Kingdom pianist.She was born in London. At the age of five she began to study the piano and two years later entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she graduated as winner of the gold medal....
  , The Marchioness of Reading, Reniera Stanley, Irene Vanbrugh
  Irene Vanbrugh
  
  Dame Irene Vanbrugh Order of the British Empire , born Irene Barnes, was an English actress.The daughter of a clergyman, she was born at Heavitree, Exeter, was educated in London and Paris, and in 1889 joined John Lawrence Toole , touring with him in Australia and New Zealand....
  
• 1942: Katharine Jones
• 1943: Emily Blair, Lilian Braithwaite
  Lilian Braithwaite
  
  File:Lilian Braithwaite & No?l Coward.jpgDame Lilian Braithwaite Order of the British Empire , born Florence Lilian Braithwaite, was an England actress....
  , Anne Loughlin
  Anne Loughlin
  
  Dame Anne Loughlin, Order of the British Empire is a labor activist and organiser.Her father, Thomas, was a boot and shoe operative of Irish descent....
  , Ethel Walker
  Ethel Walker
  
  Dame Ethel Walker, Order of the British Empire was a Scotland-born artist....
  
• 1944: Doris Beale
  Doris Beale
  
  Dame Doris Winifred Beale Order of the British Empire Royal Red Cross was a British nurse, and Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service for three years during the Second World War....
  , Katherine Trefusis-Forbes
• 1945: Joan Marsham
  Joan Marsham
  
  Dame Muriel Joan Warry Marsham, DBE was a British philanthropist and chairman of the executive committee of the Girl Guides Association from 1938 to 1948....
  , Elvira Mathews
• 1946: Edith Evans
  Edith Evans
  
  Dame Edith Mary Evans Order of the British Empire was an actress who had a long and distinguished career on the British stage. Later in her career, she appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award....
  , The Countess of Limerick, The Duchess of Richmond
  Hilda Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond
  
  Hilda Madeline Brassey Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond, DBE, CBE, Justice of the Peace was the daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey and Anna Harriet Stevenson ....
  , Ruth Welsh, Leslie Whateley
  Leslie Whateley
  
  Dame Leslie Balfour Whateley, Order of the British Empire, Territorial Decoration was a Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service during the Second World War....
  
• 1947: Gertrude Cosgrove
  Gertrude Cosgrove
  
  Dame Gertrude Ann Geappen Cosgrove, DBE was the wife of Sir Robert Cosgrove , twice elected as Premier of Tasmania. They married on 10 January 1911 at St....
  , Evelyn Fox
  Evelyn Fox
  
  Dame Evelyn Emily Marian Fox, DBE was a noted British health worker, specializing in mental health and epilepsy .The driving force for the creation of the British Epilepsy Association came from the work of three people:...
  , Caroline Haslett
  Caroline Haslett
  
  Dame Caroline Harriet Haslett, DBE, Justice of the Peace was a British electrical engineer and electricity industry administrator.She was the first secretary of the Women's Engineering Society as well as first director of the Electrical Association for Women which pioneered such wonders as the "All-Electric House" in Bristol i...
  , Emmeline Tanner, Doris Madeline Brock Turner
  Herbert Taylor (Australian politician)
  
  Herbert Taylor was an Australian political party organiser, accountant, and company director....
  , Eileen Walwyn
  Humphrey T. Walwyn
  
  Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn, Order of St Michael and St George served most of his life in the Royal Navy rising to the position of Vice-Admiral of the Royal Indian Navy retiring in 1934....
  
• 1948: Evelyn Sharpe, Louisa Wilkinson
• 1949: Harriette Chick
  Harriette Chick
  
  Dame Harriette Chick, Order of the British Empire was a notable British protein scientist and nutritionist. Educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School, She served as secretary of the League of Nations health section committee on the physiological bases of nutrition from 1934 to 1937....
  , Myra Curtis, Anne Curwen
  Anne Curwen
  
  Dame Anne May Curwen, DBE was National General Secretary, YWCA of Great Britain.Educated at Birkenhead High School and Harrogate College, attending Newnham College, Cambridge, where she gained a First in History....
  , Alix Kilroy
  Alix Kilroy
  
  Dame Alix Kilroy, Lady Meynell, DBE was one of the first two women to have entered the administrative grade of the Civil Service by examination ....
  , Dehra Parker
  Dehra Parker
  
  Dame Dehra S. Parker, Order of the British Empire, Privy Council of Northern Ireland was the longest serving woman MP in the Northern Ireland House of Commons....
  , Felicity Peake
  Felicity Peake
  
  Air Commodore Dame Felicity Hyde Peake Order of the British Empire was the founding director of the Women's Royal Air Force.She only started flying when her first husband took up the hobby in 1935, but fourteen years later would become the first director of the Women's Royal Air Force ....
  , Mary Smieton, Gladys Taylor, Mary Tyrwhitt
  Mary Tyrwhitt
  
  Brigadier Dame Mary Joan Caroline Tyrwhitt, Order of the British Empire, Territorial Decoration was a British Army officer. She was the last director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and the first director of the Women's Royal Army Corps when it was established on 1 February 1949....
  

1950s

• 1950: Marjorie Cox, Frances Farrer
  Frances Farrer
  
  Dame Frances Farrer, Order of the British Empire was appointed as General Secretary of the Women's Institutes in 1929. She was the daughter of a senior civil servant....
  , Adeline Genée
  Adeline Genée
  
  Adeline Gen?e was a Denmark/British ballet dancer....
  , Grace Kimmins
  Grace Kimmins
  
  Dame Grace Kimmins, Order of the British Empire was described in Punch as '... in her quiet practical way is probably as good a friend as London ever had', a remarkable description for the driving force behind the Guild of Play and the Guild of the Poor Brave Things....
  , Olive Wheeler, Jocelyn Woollcombe
  Jocelyn Woollcombe
  
  Dame Jocelyn May Woollcombe, Order of the British Empire was Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service from 1946 to 1950 She joined the WRNS, enrolling as Chief Officer in August 1939 and was named Supt....
  
• 1951: Ellen Acton, Annie Cardell-Oliver
  Annie Cardell-Oliver
  
  Dame Annie Boydan Cardell-Oliver, DBE was a Western Australian politician and political activist....
  , Mary Daly, Elizabeth Gilmer, Florence Hancock, Hilda Lloyd, Lillian Penson
  Lillian Penson
  
  Dame Lillian Penson, Order of the British Empire was a professor of modern history at the University of London, and the first woman to serve as vice-chancellor of the university....
  , Anne Thomson, Ninette de Valois
  Ninette de Valois
  
  Dame Ninette de Valois, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an Irish dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet....
  
• 1952: Florence Bevan, Kathleen Courtney, The Viscountess Davidson, Mary Lloyd, Marjorie Maxse
  Marjorie Maxse
  
  Sarah Algeria Marjorie Maxse, DBE, CBE, MBE, better known as Marjorie Maxse was a political organiser and the first female chief organization officer of the Conservative Party ....
  , Flora Robson
  Flora Robson
  
  Dame Flora McKenzie Robson Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-nominated English people actor, renowned as one of the great character players and one of Britain's theatrical grandes dames....
  
• 1953: The Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
  Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
  
  Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury Dame of the British Empire was a United Kingdom politician and the daughter of Liberal Party Prime Minister H....
  , Lady Cynthia Colville, Mary Coulshed
  Mary Coulshed
  
  Brigadier Dame Mary Frances Coulshed, Order of the British Empire was a British Army officer who served as Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps ....
  , Elisabeth Kelly, Flora MacLeod of MacLeod
• 1954: Lillian Bromley-Davenport, Helen Gillespie, Edith Sitwell
  Edith Sitwell
  
  Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom poet and critic....
  
• 1955: Mabel Brookes
  Mabel Brookes
  
  Dame Mabel Balcombe Brookes, n?e Emmerton, Order of the British Empire was an Australian community worker, activist, socialite, writer, memoirist and humanitarian....
  , The Countess of Rosebery
  Eva Primrose, Countess of Rosebery
  
  Eva Isabel Marion Primrose, Countess of Rosebery was the daughter of Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare and his wife, Constance....
  , Nancy Salmon
  Nancy Salmon
  
  Air Commodore Dame Nancy Marion Salmon Snagge, Order of the British Empire was a British women's air force leader during World War II ....
  , Irene Ward
  Irene Ward
  
  Irene Mary Bewick Ward, Baroness Ward of North Tyneside Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the British Empire was a British Conservative Party politician....
  , Roberta Whyte
• 1956: The Countess of Albemarle
  Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle
  
  Dame Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle, DBE , the daughter of Major John Archibald Grove and his wife, Mrs. Cicely Grove.She married Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle, son of Lt.-Col....
  , Peggy Ashcroft
  Peggy Ashcroft
  
  Dame Peggy Ashcroft Order of the British Empire was an English actress....
  , Margot Fonteyn
  Margot Fonteyn
  
  Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, Order of the British Empire, , the British prima ballerina Ballerina#Prima ballerina assoluta, was considered by many to be the greatest English ballerina, and one of the greatest dancers of the 20th Century....
  , Kathleen Lonsdale
  Kathleen Lonsdale
  
  Dame Kathleen Lonsdale was a crystallography, who established the structure of benzene by X-ray diffraction methods in 1929, and hexachlorobenzene by fourier spectral methods in 1931....
  , Mary Railton, Grace Ross, Lucile Sayers
• 1957: Anne Bryans, The Viscountess Kilmuir
  Sylvia Sackville, Countess De La Warr
  
  Sylvia Sackville, Countess De La Warr Dame Commander of the British Empire was a distinguished public servant and a former Conservative Party ....
  , Annabelle Rankin
  Annabelle Rankin
  
  Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin Order of the British Empire was the second woman member of the Australian Senate, the first woman from Queensland to sit in the Parliament of Australia, the first woman to have a federal portfolio and the first woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission....
  , Nancy Robertson
  Nancy Robertson
  
  Nancy Robertson is an actress, best known as portraying character Wanda Dollard of the Canadian television series Corner Gas....
  , Janet Vaughan
  Janet Vaughan
  
  Dame Janet Maria Vaughan Dame of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society was a United Kingdom physiologist .Born in Clifton, Bristol, Bristol she was the daughter of William Wyamar Vaughan, a cousin of Virginia Woolf and later headmaster of Rugby School....
  
• 1958: Mary Barnett, Katharine Elliot
  Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood
  
  Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, Order of the British Empire was British public servant and politician....
  , Cecilie Johnson, Mary Jones, Rose Macaulay
  Rose Macaulay
  
  Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, Order of the British Empire , affectionately known as Emilie, was an England novelist. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biographies and travel writing....
  , The Duchess of Portland
  Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
  
  Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland Order of the British Empire , born Ivy Gordon-Lennox, was Duke of Portland from 1943 to 1977 and afterwards Dowager....
  , Maggie Teyte
  Maggie Teyte
  
  Dame Maggie Teyte DBE was an English operatic soprano and interpreter of French art song....
  , Alice Williamson
• 1959: The Viscountess Brookeborough
  Cynthia Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough
  
  Dame Cynthia Mary Sergison Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough, DBE, the daughter of Captain and Mrs. Charles Warden Sergison, married Basil Stanlake Brooke , son of Brooke Baronets and Gertrude Isabella Batson, on 3 June 1919....
  , Ruth Buckley, Mary Colvin
  Mary Colvin
  
  Brigadier Dame Mary Katherine Rosamund Colvin, Order of the British Empire was a Director of the British Women's Royal Army Corps .Her personal papers are at The National Archives, along with those of other British military women, such as Dame Katharine Furse, Dame Rachel Crowdy, Brigadier Dame Mary Coulshed and others....
  , Rebecca West
  Rebecca West
  
  Cicely Isabel Fairfield , known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, Order of the British Empire was an England author, journalist, literary criticism and travel writer....
  

1960s

• 1960: Judith Anderson
  Judith Anderson
  
  Dame Judith Anderson, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire was an Australian Tony award- and Emmy-winning actress of theatre and film, who was also nominated for a Grammy and an Academy Awards....
  , Alice Berry
  Alice Berry
  
  Dame Alice Miriam Berry Order of the British Empire was an Australian activist dedicated to finding ways to improve the lives of women and children in rural areas....
  , Barbara Brooke
  Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte
  
  Barbara Muriel Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte and Baroness Brooke of Cumnor Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician....
  , Evelyn Hoyer-Miller, Elizabeth Millar, Merlyn Myer
  Merlyn Myer
  
  Dame Margery Merlyn Baillieu Myer, DBE , better known as Merlyn Myer, was an Australian philanthropist knighted in recognition of her charitable and social welfare work....
  
• 1961: Kitty Anderson, Elizabeth Couchman
  Elizabeth Couchman
  
  Dame Elizabeth Couchman Order of the British Empire , was an Australian who worked in the interests of women, and was a co-founder of the Liberal Party of Australia....
  , Helen Gardner
  Helen Gardner
  
  Professor Dame Helen Louise Gardner Order of the British Empire was an England literary critic and academic. She was best known for her work on the poets John Donne and T....
  , Margaret Patricia Hornsby-Smith
  Patricia Hornsby-Smith
  
  Margaret Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Baroness Hornsby-Smith, Order of the British Empire Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....
  , Ethel Stabb, Anne Stephens
• 1962: Beatrice Godwin, Edith Pitt
  Edith Pitt
  
  Dame Edith Maud Pitt, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.She was elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston at a by-election in 1953, and served until her death shortly before the United Kingdom general election, 1966, in which Jill Knight was elected as her successor....
  , Jean Roberts
  Jean Roberts
  
  Jean Roberts is a former Australian Olympic Games athlete who competed in the shot put and discus events.She competed for the Coburg club, alongside athletes such as Raelene Boyle and Carolyn Wright....
  , Barbara Salt, Eva Turner
  Eva Turner
  
  Dame Eva Turner Order of the British Empire was a dramatic soprano whose well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power.Born in Werneth, Oldham, England, her first formal singing lessons were with Dan Rootham, the teacher of Clara Butt....
  
• 1963: Florence Cozens, Jean Davies, Honor Fell
  Honor Fell
  
  Dame Dr. Honor Fell, DBE, Ph.D, DSc was a British scientist and zoologist. Her contributions to science included the development of the organ culture method, similar to stem cell research....
  , Alicia Markova
  Alicia Markova
  
  Dame Alicia Markova, DBE, DMus, MusD, DUniv, was an England dancer, teacher, choreographer and director. She was the first United Kingdom dancer to become the Principal Ballerina of a ballet company, the first British dancer to be bestowed the title of Prima Ballerina Assoluta and is widley considered to be one of the greatest classical b...
  , Elisabeth Murdoch
  Elisabeth Murdoch (senior)
  
  Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire , philanthropist, is the widow of Australian media proprietor Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch....
  , Jean Conan Doyle
  Jean Conan Doyle
  
  Air Commandant Dame Jean Lena Annette "Billy" Conan Doyle, Lady Bromet, Order of the British Empire, Air Efficiency Award, Women's Royal Air Force, Aide-de-Camp, most commonly known as Dame Jean Conan Doyle , was the daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
   
• 1964: Jean Rivett-Drake, Joan Vickers
  Joan Vickers
  
  Joan Helen Vickers, Baroness Vickers, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom National Liberal Party and Conservative Party politician....
  , Eileen Younghusband
  Eileen Younghusband
  
  Dame Eileen Louise Younghusband, DBE, CBE, MBE was internationally known for her research and teaching in the field of social work.She was the daughter of Sir Francis Younghusband , a British explorer and mystic famous for his discoveries in Central Asia and his leadership of the British expedition to Tibet of 1903-04....
  
• 1965: The Baroness Adrian, Florence Cayford
  Florence Cayford
  
  Dame Florence Evelyne Cayford, Order of the British Empire, Justice of the peace was a Labour Party politician in London.From 1937 until 1965 Cayford served as a member of Hampstead Borough Council, leading the Labour group 1945-58....
  , Mabel Crout, Barbara Hepworth
  Barbara Hepworth
  
  Dame Barbara Hepworth Order of the British Empire was a major United Kingdom Sculpture and artist of the twentieth century. She was a contemporary and friend of Henry Moore....
  , Joan Kelleher, Elizabeth Lane
  Elizabeth Lane
  
  Dame Elizabeth Kathleen Lane, Order of the British Empire was one of the earliest women to practise as a barrister in the United Kingdom.Born Elizabeth Kathleen Coulborn, she was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1940....
  , Catherine Scott
  Catherine Scott
  
  Catherine Scott is a retired Jamaican Athletics who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. She also competed on the successful Jamaican team in the 4 x 400 metres relay, winning an Olympic silver medal in 2000....
  , The Baroness Wakehurst
• 1966: Elsie Abbott, Edith Drummond, Felicity Hill, Elizabeth Manning, Ngaio Marsh
  Ngaio Marsh
  
  Dame Ngaio Marsh British honours system , born Edith Ngaio Marsh, was a crime writer and theatre director from New Zealand. There is some uncertainty over her birth date as her father neglected to register her birth until 1900....
  , Anne McEwen
  Anne McEwen (DBE)
  
  Dame Anne Mills McEwen Order of the British Empire , best known as Annie McEwen, was an Australian social activist, and the wife of John McEwen ....
  , Ruth Railton, Grace Tebbutt, Mabel Tylecote
  Mabel Tylecote
  
  Dame Dr. Mabel Tylecote, n?e Phythian, DBE was a British Labour Party politician, activist and adult educationist from Manchester, England.Born on 4 February 1896 to John Ernest Phythian and Ada Prichard Phythian, n?e Crompton, her father was a Manchester solicitor, local politician and a lay preacher, with a great interest in the arts an...
  
• 1967: Marjorie Pratt, Marchioness Camden, Ivy Compton-Burnett
  Ivy Compton-Burnett
  
  Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, Order of the British Empire was an Great Britain novelist, published as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son....
  , Gladys Cooper
  Gladys Cooper
  
  Dame Gladys Constance Cooper Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-nominated England actress....
  , Margery Corbett-Ashby, Helen Gardner
  Helen Gardner
  
  Professor Dame Helen Louise Gardner Order of the British Empire was an England literary critic and academic. She was best known for her work on the poets John Donne and T....
  , Pauline Giles, Mabel Miller
  Mabel Miller
  
  Dame Mabel Flora Miller, Order of the British Empire was an Australian lawyer and politician. She was the first woman elected to the City of Hobart and one of the first two women to be elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly....
  , Beryl Paston-Wood, Margaret Rutherford
  Margaret Rutherford
  
  Dame Margaret Rutherford Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-winning England character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest....
  , Ivy Wedgwood
  Ivy Wedgwood
  
  Dame Ivy Evelyn Wedgwood, Order of the British Empire was an Australian Australian Senate for Victoria .Wedgwood was the first female Senator to represent Victoria....
  , Albertine Winner, Anna Freud
  Anna Freud
  
  Anna Freud was the sixth and last child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Freud. Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis....
  
• 1968: Zara Bate
  Zara Bate
  
  Dame Zara Bate Order of the British Empire was an Australia fashion designer and wife of the Australian Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt....
  , Annis Gillie
  Annis Gillie
  
  Dame Katherine Annis Calder Gillie, DBE, ERCP , FRCGP was a British physician and medical researcher. She was President of the Royal College of General Practitioners....
  , Isabel Graham-Bryce, Mary Green
  Mary Green
  
  Mary Green is a United Kingdom television presenter who presented Thames Valley Tonight on ITV Thames Valley, covering the Central Independent Television and Meridian Broadcasting regions, until February 6 2009....
  , Muriel Powell, Kathleen Raven
  Kathleen Raven
  
  Dame Kathleen Annie Raven, DBE, FRCN was a British nurse, matron, government health official, health care engineer and university endowee....
  , Hilda Stevenson, Muriel Stewart, Dorothy Tangney
  Dorothy Tangney
  
  Dame Dorothy Margaret Tangney Order of the British Empire was an Australian politician and the first woman member of the Australian Senate....
  , Veronica Wedgwood, Ethel Wormald, Sister Mary Regis, Mary Green
• 1969: Hilda Bynoe
  Hilda Bynoe
  
  Dame Hilda Louisa Gibbs Bynoe, DBE was governor of Grenada between 1967 and 1972. A former doctor and Hospital Administrator she is so far the only woman to have been governor of one of the British Dependencies, Hilda Bynoe was the first woman Governor of a Commonwealth of Nations country, becoming Governor of Grenada....
  , Mary Cartwright
  Mary Cartwright
  
  Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE was a leading 20th-century British mathematician. She was born in Aynho, Northamptonshire where her father was the vicar and died in Cambridge, England....
  , Daphne du Maurier
  Daphne du Maurier
  
  Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning Order of the British Empire was an English author and playwright. Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca , which won the Best Picture Academy Award in 1941, Jamaica Inn , and her short stories The Birds and Don't Look Now....
  , Lady Olwen Carey Evans, Molly Gibbs
  Humphrey Gibbs
  
  Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs, Royal Victorian Order, Order of St Michael and St George, was the penultimate Governor of Southern Rhodesia of the colony of Southern Rhodesia who served through, and opposed, the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965....
  , Ella Macknight
  Ella Macknight
  
  Dame Ella Macknight, DBE, MRCOG, FRCOG, FAMA, FAGO was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who worked at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1969 for services to medicine....
  , Anna Neagle
  Anna Neagle
  
  Dame Anna Neagle, Order of the British Empire was a popular England theatre and motion picture actor and singer.Neagle proved to be a box-office sensation in British films for over 25 years....
  

1970s

• 1970: Dorothy Ackroyd, May Anderson, Te Atairangikaahu
  Te Atairangikaahu
  
  Dame Te Atairangikaahu Order of New Zealand, Order of British Empire was the Maori King Movement for 40 years, the longest reign of any Maori monarch....
  , Sara Barker, Bessie Bottomley, Margaret Cole
  Margaret Cole
  
  Dame Margaret Isabel Cole, Order of the British Empire was an England socialism politician.Daughter of John Percival Postgate and Edith Allen, Margaret was educated at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge....
  , Marion Kettlewell, Margaret Miles, Peggy van Praagh
  Peggy van Praagh
  
  Dame Margaret van Praagh, DBE had a long and distinguished career in ballet as a dancer, choreography, teacher, producer, advocate and director....
  
• 1971: Kate Isabel Campbell, Agatha Christie
  Agatha Christie
  
  Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire , commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English people crime writer of novels, short stories and Play ....
  , Mary Cramer, Adelaide Doughty
  Charles Doughty (UK politician)
  
  Charles John Joseph Addison Doughty was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.The son of Sir Charles Doughty and Lady Alison Doughty, he was Member of Parliament for East Surrey from 1951 to 1970....
  , Kathleen Ollerenshaw
  Kathleen Ollerenshaw
  
  Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Order of the British Empire is a mathematician and a politician who loved doing arithmetic problems as a child to make up for being deaf since she was eight....
  
• 1972: Nancy Buttfield
  Nancy Buttfield
  
  Dame Nancy Buttfield Order of the British Empire was an Australian Australian Senate and the first woman to serve in the Parliament of Australia as a representative for the state of South Australia....
  , Cicely Courtneidge
  Cicely Courtneidge
  
  Dame Cicely Courtneidge Order of the British Empire was an England actress and comedian....
  , Muriel Harris, Unity Lister
  Unity Lister
  
  Dame Unity Viola Webley Lister, DBE was a Tory political activist.Born in Woolwich to a doctor father and a Quaker mother, she had a facility for foreign languages, and this earned her an important post in the Military Censor's office during the Second World War....
  , The Baroness Plowden, Freya Stark
  Freya Stark
  
  Dame Freya Madeleine Stark, Order of the British Empire was a British travel writer....
  , Susan Walker
• 1973: Sister Mary Leo
  Sister Mary Leo
  
  Dame Sister Mary Leo , Order of British Empire , is well known for training some of the world's finest sopranos, including Dames Malvina Major and Kiri Te Kanawa....
  , Sylvia Crowe
  Sylvia Crowe
  
  Dame Sylvia Crowe, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom landscape architect and garden designer.Born in Sussex, and trained under Madeline Agar at Swanley College ....
  , Kathleen Kenyon
  Kathleen Kenyon
  
  Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon , was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho in 1952-1958....
  , Marjorie Williamson
  Marjorie Williamson
  
  Dame Marjorie Williamson, DBE was a British academic, educator, physicist and university administrator.Elsie Margaret Williamson attended Wakefield High School for Girls and went up to study Physics at Royal Holloway College in 1932, graduating in 1936....
  
• 1974: Josephine Barnes
  Josephine Barnes
  
  Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes, Order of the British Empire , known professionally as Josephine Barnes, was educated at Oxford High School and the University of Oxford, reading Natural Sciences at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford....
  , Emma Clode, The Baroness Denington of Stevenage
  Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington
  
  Baroness Denington of Stevenage was a British politician and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.Evelyn Joyce Bursill was educated at Blackheath High School, Blackheath, London and at Bedford College ....
  , Phyllis Frost
  Phyllis Frost
  
  Dame Phyllis Irene Frost Order of Australia Order of the British Empire was an Australian welfare worker and philanthropist, known for her commitment to unpopular causes, most notably helping women prisoners....
  , Joan Hammond
  Joan Hammond
  
  Dame Joan Hammond Order of the British Empire Order of St Michael and St George was a New Zealand-born Australian soprano, singing coach and golfer....
  , Rose Heilbron
  Rose Heilbron
  
  Dame Rose Heilbron, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Counsel, was one of the outstanding defence barristers of the post-war period in the United Kingdom, whose career included many 'firsts' for a woman - she was the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn, the first woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel, the first to lead in a mur...
  , Albertha Isaacs, The Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden
  Katharine Macmillan, Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden
  
  Katharine Macmillan, Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, Order of the British Empire is the daughter of the William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech and granddaughter of the James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury....
  , Margot Smith
• 1975: Jacobena Angliss
  Jacobena Angliss
  
  Dame Jacobena Angliss Order of the British Empire was an Australian philanthropist, arts supporter, and community worker.She was born in Epping, Victoria as Jacobena Victoria Alice Grutzner, daughter of Jacob and Frances Grutzner....
  , Helen Blaxland
  Helen Blaxland
  
  Dame Helen Frances Blaxland, Order of the British Empire was an Australian non-fiction writer. She spent much of her life working for charitable institutions, particularly the Australian Red Cross Society, for which she was named OBE in 1967....
  , Bridget D'Oyly Carte
  Bridget D'Oyly Carte
  
  Dame Bridget Cicely D'Oyly Carte DBE , was the granddaughter of impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte and the only daughter of Rupert D'Oyly Carte. She became head of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1948 until 1982....
  , Joyce Daws, Frances Gardner, Wendy Hiller
  Wendy Hiller
  
  Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller Order of the British Empire was an English people film and theatre actor. The Academy Awards-winning actress enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years....
  , Margaret Kidd
  Margaret Kidd
  
  Dame Margaret Henderson Kidd QC, married name Macdonald was a pioneering woman lawyer, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.She was the elder daughter of James Kidd, solicitor and Unionist Party member of parliament for Linlithgowshire , and Janet Gardner Turnbull, a teacher....
  , Ruth Kirk
  Norman Kirk
  
  Norman Eric Kirk was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 until his sudden death in 1974. He led the Parliamentary wing of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1965 to 1974....
  , Vera Lynn
  Vera Lynn
  
  Dame Vera Lynn Order of the British Empire is a popular United Kingdom vocalist whose career flourished during World War II, when she was nicknamed "Forces Sweetheart"....
  , Dorothy Rees
  Dorothy Rees
  
  Dame Dorothy Mary Rees Order of the British Empire was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and was briefly a Member of Parliament ....
  , Betty Ridley
  Betty Ridley
  
  Dame Mildred Betty Ridley, DBE was a leading figure in the life of the Church of England from the 1960s into the 1980s, serving as Third Church Estates Commissioner from 1972 until 1981, the first woman to hold the post....
  
• 1976: Janet Baker
  Janet Baker
  
  Dame Janet Abbott Baker Companion of Honour Dame Commander of the British Empire FRSA is an England mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer....
  , Edith Burnside, Joan Evans
  Joan Evans
  
  Joan Evans may refer to:* Joan Evans , British art historian* Joan Evans , American film actress* Joan Evans , Australian religious sister and charity activist...
  , Violet Dickson
  Violet Dickson
  
  Dame Violet Penelope Dickson, Order of the British Empire was the wife of United Kingdom colonial administrator H. R. P. Dickson. She lived in Kuwait for 61 years, half of them as a widow, and published several books on the country....
  , Monica Josephine Gallagher
  Monica Josephine Gallagher
  
  Dame Monica Josephine Gallagher, Order of the British Empire is an Australian community worker and church activist.Monica Gallagher has been associated with church and other community groups in her voluntary work....
  , Elizabeth Hill, Ada Norris
• 1977: Lady Moyra Browne
  Lady Moyra Browne
  
  Lady Moyra Blanche Madeleine Browne, Order of the British Empire is a former nurse and the only daughter of Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough and his wife, Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough....
  , Patricia Mackinnon
  Patricia Mackinnon
  
  Dame Patricia Mackinnon Order of the British Empire was Vice-President and President of the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and a national councillor for the Australian Hospitals Association....
  , Rosemary Murray, Marjorie Parker
  Marjorie Parker (DBE)
  
  Dame Marjorie Parker, Order of the British Empire, was born in Ballarat as Marjorie Alice Collett Shoppee. She attended Ballarat State School....
  , Cecil Pickerill, Winifred E. Prentice, Frances Yates
  Frances Yates
  
  Dame Frances Amelia Yates Order of the British Empire was a noted British historian. She taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London for many years....
  
• 1978: Isobel Baillie
  Isobel Baillie
  
  Dame Isobel Baillie, Order of the British Empire was a Scotland soprano, popular in opera, oratorio and lieder.She worked as an assistant in a music shop, then as a clerk in Manchester Town Hall, and made her debut with the Hall? Orchestra in 1921....
  , Mary Durack
  Mary Durack
  
  Mary Durack Order of the British Empire was an Australian author and historian. She is the author of Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country....
  , Audrey Reader
  Audrey Reader
  
  Dame Audrey Tattie Hinchcliff Reader Order of the British Empire was an Australian charity worker, who worked primarily in promoting the interests of women and of immigrants to Australia....
  , Sheila Sherlock
  Sheila Sherlock
  
  Professor Dame Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock, DBE, MD, FRCP, FRCP Ed, FRS was a United Kingdom physician, hepatologist and teacher....
  
• 1979: Mary Austin, Margaret Booth
  Margaret Booth (judge)
  
  Dame Margaret Myfanwy Wood Booth, Order of the British Empire is a retired United Kingdom judge.In January 1979, she became the third woman to be appointed as a High Court judge....
  , Sister Mary Philippa Brazill, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Elizabeth Coker, Gracie Fields
  Gracie Fields
  
  Dame Gracie Fields, Order of the British Empire , born Grace Stansfield, was an England/Italy singer and comedienne who became one of the greatest stars of both film and music hall....
  , Judith Hart
  Judith Hart
  
  Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark Order of the British Empire Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Labour Party politician....
  , Naomi James
  Naomi James
  
  Dame Naomi James Order of the British Empire, was the first woman to sail single-handed sailing around the world via Cape Horn. She finished her voyage around the globe on 8 June 1978 after 272 days, thus improving Sir Francis Chichester?s solo round-the-world sailing record by two days....
  , Doris Johnson, Daphne Purves
  Daphne Purves
  
  Dame Daphne Helen Purves, Order of the British Empire was New Zealand's oldest Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire at the time of her death....
  , Joan Sutherland
  Joan Sutherland
  
  Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, Order of Merit, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an Australian voice type soprano noted for her contribution in the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire in the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s....
  , Margaret Weston
  Margaret Weston
  
  Dame Margaret Weston, Order of the British Empire, FMA was the Director of the Science Museum, London, London, United Kingdom.Margaret Weston spent much of her life at the Science Museum in London, rising to Director at the end of her career from 1973 to 1986, succeeding Sir David Follett....
  

1980s

• 1980: Rachel Cleland
  Rachel Cleland
  
  Dame Rachel Cleland, Order of the British Empire , born Rachel Evans, was an Australian expatriate community and social welfare worker in Papua New Guinea....
  , Miriam Dell
  Miriam Dell
  
  Dame Miriam Patricia Dell, Order of New Zealand, Order of the British Empire was a founding member of the Hutt Valley Branch of the National Council of Women ....
  , Phyllis Friend
  Phyllis Friend
  
  Dame Phyllis Friend, DBE spent a great deal of her professional career at the Royal London Hospital where she received her basic nursing education and undertook Part I Midwifery Training....
  , Margaret Guilfoyle
  Margaret Guilfoyle
  
  Dame Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire was a British-born Australian Senator for the state of Victoria from 1971 to 1987....
  , Ida Mann
  Ida Mann
  
  Dame Ida Caroline Mann, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons was a distinguished English-reared ophthalmologist whose long-term association with Australia began when she moved to Perth, Western Australia, after World War II....
  , Raigh Roe
  Raigh Roe
  
  Dame Raigh Edith Roe, Order of the British Empire has been a member of the AustralianCountry Women?s Association since 1941; she became Branch President, Western Australian State President and, eventually, National President of the CWA....
  , The Baroness Soames
  Mary Soames, Baroness Soames
  
  Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, Order of the Garter, Order of the British Empire is the widow of the Christopher Soames, Baron Soames.She was born Mary Churchill, the youngest of Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine Churchill's five children....
  , Ann Springman, Cicely Saunders
  Cicely Saunders
  
  Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire was a prominent Anglicanism nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international university....
  
• 1981: Beryl Beaurepaire
  Beryl Beaurepaire
  
  Dame Beryl Beaurepaire, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an Australian feminist.She was born Beryl Edith Bedggood in Camberwell, Victoria, Victoria and educated at Fintona Girls' School....
  , Margaret Blackwood, Mary Bridges, Whina Cooper
  Whina Cooper
  
  Dame Whina Cooper Order of New Zealand Order of the British Empire , was born Hohewhina Te Wake, daughter of Heremia Te Wake of the Te Rarawa iwi, at Te Karaka, Hokianga, in northern New Zealand....
  , Pamela Hunter, Celia Johnson
  Celia Johnson
  
  Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actor famous for her role in the 1945 film Brief Encounter, opposite Trevor Howard, for which she received her only Oscar nomination....
  , Betty Paterson, The Baroness Pike
  Mervyn Pike
  
  Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, commonly known as Mervyn Pike, Order of the British Empire was a British Conservative Party politician....
  , Shelagh Roberts, Margaret Scott
  Margaret Scott (dancer)
  
  Dame Margaret Mary Scott, Order of Australia Order of the British Empire arrived in Australia in 1947 on tour with the Ballet Rambert and stayed there....
  , Ruby Litchfield
• 1982: Doris Fitton
  Doris Fitton
  
  Dame Doris Alice Fitton Mason Order of the British Empire was an Australian actress and theatrical director.She, with a number of others, established the Independent Theatre in North Sydney in 1930 and kept it going until its closure in May 1977 after 47 years....
  , Elisabeth Frink
  Elisabeth Frink
  
  File:Paternoster Square - Statue of Man driving Sheep - London - 240404.jpgDame Elisabeth Jean Frink, Order of the British Empire, Companion of Honour, Royal Academician was an English sculpture and Printmaking...
  , Catherine Hall
  Catherine Hall
  
  Catherine Hall is a feminist historian from the UK, and currently Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London....
  , Roma Mitchell
  Roma Mitchell
  
  Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire, Royal Victorian Order, Queens Counsel, was an Australian lawyer and judge....
  , Kiri Te Kanawa
  Kiri Te Kanawa
  
  Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, Order of New Zealand, Order of the British Empire, Order of Australia, is a New Zealand soprano who had a highly successful international opera career between 1968-2004....
  , Alice Wedega
  Alice Wedega
  
  Dame Alice Wedega, DBE was a Papuan politician, educator, peacemaker and conscientious objector.Alice Wedega was raised in Milne Bay in a traditional culture of violence, including "witchcraft" and headhunting....
  , Ida Yonge
• 1983: The Marchioness of Anglesey, Rosamund Holland-Martin
  Rosamund Holland-Martin
  
  Dame Rosamund Holland-Martin, OBE, DBE, DL was a long-term leader and fund-raiser for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children....
  , Leonie Kramer
  Leonie Kramer
  
  Dame Leonie Judith Kramer, Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an Australian academic, educator and professor....
  , Olga Uvarov
  Olga Uvarov
  
  Dame Olga Nikolaevna Uvarov, DBE, DSc, Hon. CBiol, FIBiol, FRCVS was the first woman president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. She was a distinguished member of the veterinary profession in every sense, spanning general practice and animal health research as well as veterinary politics and high-level contributions to enlightened...
  
• 1984: The Baroness Seccombe, Guinevere Tilney, Catherine Tizard
  Catherine Tizard
  
  Dame Catherine Anne Tizard, Order of New Zealand, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Service Order was Mayor of Auckland and the sixteenth Governor-General of New Zealand, the first woman to hold either office....
  , Mary Warnock
• 1985: Jean Herbison
  Jean Herbison
  
  Dame Jean Marjory Herbison, DBE, Order of St Michael and St George, was a New Zealand academic, educator, researcher and Chancellor of the University of Canterbury....
  , The Baroness Jenkins of Hillhead, Alison Munro, Jill Knight
  Jill Knight
  
  Joan Christabel Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, Order of the British Empire is a former Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom....
  , Joan Varley
• 1986: Vivienne Boyd
  Vivienne Boyd
  
  Dame Vivienne Myra Boyd, n?e Lowe was knighted as Order of the British Empire in 1986 for her service in New Zealand community and public affairs, included being president of the National Council of Women , a member and later chair of the Consumer Council and chair of the Abortion Supervisory Committee ....
  , Peggy Fenner
  Peggy Fenner
  
  Dame Peggy Edith Fenner, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.Fenner was elected Member of Parliament for Rochester and Chatham in United Kingdom general election, 1970, lost the seat in United Kingdom general election, October 1974 to Labour Party 's Robert Bean but regained it in United Kingdom...
  , Dorothea Horsman, Christian Howard
  Christian Howard
  
  Dame Rosemary Christian Howard, DBE was the daughter of Geoffrey William Algernon Howard and Ethel Christian Methuen. She was awarded the honorary degree of Lambeth Master of Arts by the Archbishop of Canterbury....
  , Gwyneth Jones
  Gwyneth Jones
  
  Gwyneth Jones may refer to:*Gwyneth Jones *Gwyneth Jones See also*Gwyn Jones ...
  , Merle Park
  Merle Park
  
  Dame Merle Park, Order of the British Empire Her first full-length roles were Swanhilda in Copp?lia and Lise in La Fille Mal Gard?e. She created the role of Clara, partnered by Rudolf Nureyev, in The Nutcracker for the Royal Ballet in 1963, which was her breakthrough....
  , Simone Prendergast
  Simone Prendergast
  
  Dame Simone Ruth Prendergast, DBE, Justice of the Peace, Doctor of Letters was created a DBE for her political and public service. She is a retired member of the UK's Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions' Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal which reviews cases of malfeasance and/or misconduct against British solicitors....
  , Barbara Shenfield, Rosa Tokiel
• 1987: Elizabeth Chesterton, Marie Clay
  Marie Clay
  
  Dame Marie Mildred Irwin Clay, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of New Zealand was a distinguished researcher from New Zealand known for her work in global educational literacy....
  , Dorothy Fraser, Penelope Jessel, Mary Kekedo, Elizabeth Maconchy
  Elizabeth Maconchy
  
  Dame Elizabeth Maconchy Order of British Empire was an England composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets.Biography...
  , Joan Metge
  Joan Metge
  
  Dame Dr. Joan Metge, DBE, Fellow RSNZ is a New Zealand social anthropologist, educator, lecturer and writer. She was educated at the University of Auckland and the LSE where she earned her Ph.D in 1958....
  , Iris Murdoch
  Iris Murdoch
  
  Dame Jean Iris Murdoch Order of the British Empire was an Ireland-born British people author and philosopher, best known for her stories regarding ethical and sexual themes....
  , Sheila Quinn
  Sheila Quinn
  
  Dame Sheila Margaret Imelda Quinn, DBE, Hon, Dsc, BSc , RGN, RM, RNT is a UK nurse and Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, where she was the president from 1982 to 1986....
  
• 1988: Beryl Grey, Barbara Clayton, Judi Dench
  Judi Dench
  
  Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
  , Rosalind Hurley
  Rosalind Hurley
  
  Dame Rosalind Hurley, Order of the British Empire, FRC, Royal College of Pathologists, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was knighted by the British government for her services to medicine, science and law....
  , Elaine Kellett-Bowman
  Elaine Kellett-Bowman
  
  Dame Mary Elaine Kellett-Bowman, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.Born Mary Elaine Kay, she was educated at The Mount School, York, St Anne's College, Oxford and Barnett House, Oxford, and became a barrister, called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1964....
  , Laurie Salas
• 1989: Silvia Cartwright
  Silvia Cartwright
  
  Dame Silvia Rose Cartwright, New Zealand Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Service Order is a former Governor-General of New Zealand....
  , Lydia Dunn, Audrey Emerton, Janet Fookes, Margaret Fry, Barbara Goodman
  Barbara Goodman
  
  Barbara Goodman, DBE , Queen's Service Order, Justice of the Peace is an Auckland, New Zealand politician.She was Mayoress of Auckland City as well as a former Auckland City Councillor for 12 years....
  , Rosemary Rue
  Rosemary Rue
  
  Dame Rosemary Rue, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons was a physician and the former regional general manager and regional medical officer of the Oxford Regional Health Authority....
  

1990s

• 1990: Josephine Abaijah
  Josephine Abaijah
  
  Dame Josephine Abaijah Order of Logohu, Dame Commander of the British Empire was the first woman to be elected to the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea in 1972....
  , Venetia Blaize, Joyanne Bracewell
  Joyanne Bracewell
  
  Dame Joyanne Winifred Bracewell, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Counsel, Royal Society of Arts was the most senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice at the time of her death, after the President of the Family Division....
  , Audrey Hylton-Foster, June Lloyd, Miraka Szászy
  Miraka Szászy
  
  Dame Miraka Sz?szy, DBE, Queen's Service Medal, Justice of the Peace, Bachelor of Arts, Dip SocSci, Hon. LLD was a prominent Maori leader.She was one of the outstanding Maori women leaders of the 20th Century, and the first Maori woman to graduate with a degree from the University of Auckland....
  , Maggie Smith
  Maggie Smith
  
  Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
  , Rachel Waterhouse
  Rachel Waterhouse
  
  Dame Rachel Waterhouse is a local historian of Birmingham and the West Midlands of England, and national champion of consumer affairs. She has been past chairman of Consumers' Association, and a member of the National Consumer Council and of the Health and Safety Commission....
  , Dorothy Winstone
  Dorothy Winstone
  
  Dame Dorothy Gertrude Winstone, Order of the British Empire, Order of St Michael and St George is a retired New Zealand educationist and academic....
  
• 1991: Barbara Cartland
  Barbara Cartland
  
  Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland Order of the British Empire CStJ was a successful England author, known for her numerous romance novels. She also became one of the United Kingdom's most popular media personalities, appearing often at public events and on television, dressed in her trademark pink and discoursing on love, health and social...
  , Stella Casey, Eugenia Charles
  Eugenia Charles
  
  Dame Eugenia Charles, Order of the British Empire was the Prime Minister of Dominica of Dominica from July 21 1980 until June 14 1995. She was the first female prime minister in the Caribbean, and the first woman elected in her own right as head of government in North America....
  , The Baroness Digby, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
  Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
  
  Dame Gwen Lucy Ffrangcon-Davies, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actress and centenarian.Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies was born in London of a Wales family; the name "Ffrangcon" originates from a valley in Snowdonia....
  , Jane Gow Whiteley
  Ian Gow
  
  Ian Reginald Edward Gow Territorial Decoration was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and a solicitor. While serving as Member of Parliament for Eastbourne , he was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army who exploded a car bomb at his home in Sussex....
  , Malvina Major
  Malvina Major
  
  Dame Malvina Lorraine Major, New Zealand Order of Merit, Order of British Empire was born in Hamilton, New Zealand into a large musical family....
  , Shirley Porter
  Shirley Porter
  
  Shirley, Lady Porter Order of the British Empire is a former British Conservative Party leader of City of Westminster in London and a prominent philanthropist in Israel....
  , Paddy Ridsdale
  Paddy Ridsdale
  
  Dame Victoire Evelyn Patricia "Paddy" Bennett, Lady Ridsdale Order of the British Empire was Ian Fleming's secretary during World War II and was the model for his character Miss Moneypenny, James Bond's loyal, long-suffering secretary....
  , Lucie Rie
  Lucie Rie
  
  Dame Lucie Rie, Order of the British Empire was an Austrian-born United Kingdom Studio pottery....
  , Sue Tinson
  Sue Tinson
  
  Dame Sue Tinson, Order of the British Empire, Royal Television Society is a British business executive and former television executive at ITN....
  , Margaret Turner-Warwick
• 1992: Jocelyn Barrow, Rangimarie Hetet, Moura Lympany
  Moura Lympany
  
  Dame Moura Lympany Order of the British Empire was an England concert pianist.She was born as Mary Gertrude Johnstone at Saltash, Cornwall....
  , Wendy Mitchell, Shirley Oxenbury, Anne Poole, Norma Restieaux
  Norma Restieaux
  
  Dame Norma Jean Restieaux, Order of the British Empire is a physician, medical researcher, cardiologist and author from New Zealand.She authored or co-authored the following:...
  , Angela Rumbold
  Angela Rumbold
  
  Dame Angela Rumbold, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom Conservative Party Member of Parliament until 1997....
  , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
  
  Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Order of the British Empire was a German-born Austrian/British opera singer and recitalist. She was amongst the most renowned opera singers of the 20th Century, much admired for her performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf....
  , The Baroness Serota
  Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota
  
  Beatrice Katz Serota, Baroness Serota Order of the British Empire was a British people Government minister and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords....
  , Janet Smith
  Janet Smith
  
  Dame Janet Hilary Smith, Order of the British Empire , styled The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Smith, was the judge who prepared a report on the activities of the British serial killer Harold Shipman — The Shipman Inquiry....
  
• 1993: Mary H. Arden, Reubina Ballin
  Reubina Ballin
  
  Dame Reubina Ann Ballin, Order of New Zealand, Order of the British Empire, or Ann Ballin, as she is widely known at home and abroad, was knighted for her contributions to the welfare of New Zealanders....
  , Patricia Bergquist
  Patricia Bergquist
  
  Dame Professor Patricia Rose Bergquist, DBE, Fellow RSNZ is a widely-known expert on anatomy and taxonomy from New Zealand. She is Professor Emerita of Zoology and Honorary Professor of Anatomy at the University of Auckland....
  , Catherine Cookson
  Catherine Cookson
  
  Dame Catherine Ann Cookson Order of the British Empire was an England author. Cookson became the United Kingdom's most widely read novelist, while remaining a relatively low-profile figure in the world of celebrity writers....
  , Mary Corsar, Pat Evison
  Pat Evison
  
  Dame Helen June Patricia "Pat" Evison , Order of British Empire is a New Zealand actress.She is possibly best known for her roles in Australian television, such as Jessie Windom in Prisoner and Violet Carnegie in The Flying Doctors....
  , Mary Alison Glen-Haig
  Mary Alison Glen-Haig
  
  Dame Mary Alison Glen-Haig, DBE is an List of members of the International Olympic Committee#Honorary Members of the International Olympic Committee of the IOC and was a British Olympic Games Fencing between 1948 and 1960, winning the Gold medal in foil at the 1950 British Empire Games....
  , Phyllis Guthardt
  Phyllis Guthardt
  
  Dame Rev. Phyllis Guthardt, DBE, Ph.D served for four years as the chancellor of the University of Canterbury until her tenure ended on December 31 2002....
  , Louise Henderson
  Louise Henderson
  
  Dame Louise Henderson, DBE was a New Zealand artist and painter. Born in 1902 in Paris, where she was raised and met her future husband Hubert Henderson, a New Zealander....
  , Thora Hird
  Thora Hird
  
  Dame Thora Hird Order of the British Empire was an England actor.Hird was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She was the mother of the actress Janette Scott, and thus formerly the mother-in-law of the singer Mel Torm?....
  , Dawn Lamb, Anne McLaren
  Anne McLaren
  
  Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was the daughter of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway and Christabel McNaughten....
  , Thea Flyger Muldoon
  Robert Muldoon
  
  Sir Robert David Muldoon, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Companions of Honour served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 in New Zealand to 1984 in New Zealand, as leader of the governing New Zealand National party....
  , Annette Penhaligon
  Annette Penhaligon
  
  Dame Annette Lidgey Egerton , Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom politician.She was born to Owen Bennett Lidgey and Mabel Richards Lidgey, and was educated at Truro Girls' School....
  , Margaret Price
  Margaret Price
  
  Dame Margaret Price Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people soprano....
  , Muriel Spark
  Muriel Spark
  
  Dame Muriel Spark, Order of the British Empire was an award-winning Scotland novelist....
  , Heather Steel, Augusta Wallace
• 1994: Margaret Brain, Hazel Byford, Brenda Hale, Gladys Hartman
  Gladys Hartman
  
  Dame Gladys Marea Hartman, DBE was a British athletics sports administrator. She was one of the longest servicing and influential sports administrators in the history of 20th Century British athletics....
  , Georgina Kirby, Eileen Mayo, Diana Rigg
  Diana Rigg
  
  Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg Order of the British Empire is an England actor. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Tracy Bond in the 1969 in film James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ....
  , Gillian Wagner
• 1995: Joyce Anelay, Elizabeth Anson, Josephine Barstow
  Josephine Barstow
  
  Dame Josephine Barstow Order of the British Empire is an English soprano....
  , June Clark, Margaret Clark, Sister Pauline Engel
  Pauline Engel
  
  Dame Sister Pauline Frances Engel, Order of the British Empire is a member of the Sisters of Mercy who served as the third principal of Carmel College in Auckland, New Zealand, and the first principal to be appointed by Carmel College's Board of Governors....
  , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
  Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
  
  Dame Elizabeth Anne Loosemore Esteve-Coll , DBE, Bachelor of Arts, FRSA is a museum director and academic....
  , Elizabeth Harper, Rosalyn Higgins
  Rosalyn Higgins
  
  Dame Rosalyn Higgins, Lady Higgins, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Counsel is the former President of the International Court of Justice....
  , Mary Hogg
  Mary Hogg
  
  Dame Mary Claire Hogg, DBE is a British lawyer and judge. She is the daughter of the late Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone and his wife Mary Evelyn Martin, and is the sister of Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham....
  , Anne Salmond
  Anne Salmond
  
  Dame Anne Salmond, DBE, Fellow RSNZ is a noted New Zealand historian, anthropologist and writer. She and her husband, Jeremy, live in Auckland and have three children....
  , The Baroness Thorneycroft
  Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft
  
  Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft, Order of the British Empire, Italian Order of Merit, , was the wife of Conservative Party politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft....
  
• 1996: Fiona Caldicott
  Fiona Caldicott
  
  Dame Fiona Caldicott, Order of the British Empire, Doctor of Science Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Royal College of General Practitioners, Academy of Medical Sciences, is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and Principal of Somerville College, Oxford....
  , Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth
  Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth
  
  Davina Marcia Herbert Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth, Order of the British Empire was a crossbench member of the House of Lords, continuing to sit after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 as an elected peer....
  , Jane Drew
  Jane Drew
  
  Dame Jane Drew DBE, FRIBA was an English modernism architect and town planner. She qualified at the AA School in London, and prior to World War II became one of the leading exponents of the Modern Movement in London....
  , Rennie Fritchie, Felicity Lott
  Felicity Lott
  
  Dame Felicity Lott, Order of British Empire is an English soprano, universally known as Flott.From her earliest years, she was musical, having started studying piano at five....
  , Sheila Noakes, Antoinette Sibley
  Antoinette Sibley
  
  Dame Antoinette Sibley, Order of the British Empire is an England prima ballerina. She joined the Royal Ballet in 1956 and became a soloist in 1960....
  , Gillian Weir
  Gillian Weir
  
  Dame Gillian Constance Weir Order of the British Empire is an internationally-renowned organist.She was a co-winner of the Auckland Star Piano Competition at 19, playing Mozart....
  
• 1997: Rachael Dyche, Deirdre Hine, Cleo Laine
  Cleo Laine
  
  Dame Cleo Laine Order of British Empire is a jazz singer and an actor, noted for her scat singing.She is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular music and European classical music categories....
  , Barbara Mills
  Barbara Mills
  
  Dame Barbara Jean Lyon Mills, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Counsel is the Adjudicator for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. She has held this post since it was created on April 18, 2005....
  , Bridget Ogilvie
  Bridget Ogilvie
  
  Dame Bridget Margaret Ogilvie, Order of Australia, DBE, Fellow of the Royal Society is a UK and Australian scientist.Ogilvie was born 24 March 1938, at Glen Innes, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia, to John Ogilvie and Margaret Beryl McRae....
  , Joan Sawyer
• 1998: Gillian Beer
  Gillian Beer
  
  Dame Gillian Beer, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom literary critic.Born Gillian Patricia Kempster Thomas, Beer studied English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford....
  , Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Patricia Collarbone
  Patricia Collarbone
  
  Dame Dr. Patricia "Pat" Collarbone, DBE, Ed.D, MBA, Hons Bachelor of Arts, FRSA, is the Director of the London Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London, which she founded in 1996 as well as Manager of the National Professional Qualification for Headship London Regional Assessment Centre....
  , Tamsyn Imison
  Tamsyn Imison
  
  Dame Tamsyn Imison, DBE was a prominent United Kingdom educator and 'educational strategist' whose first career was as a scientific illustrator....
  , Betty Kershaw
  Betty Kershaw
  
  Dame Betty Kershaw, Order of the British Empire, Royal College of Nursing, Order of St. John is Professor of Nursing and Dean at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield....
  , Helen Metcalf, Gillian Oliver
  Gillian Oliver
  
  Dame Gillian "Gill" Oliver, DBE, FRCN, is an expert in cancer nursing and palliative care and has been instrumental in developing cancer services, policy and strategy in the UK and beyond....
  , The Viscountess Runciman of Doxford
  Ruth Runciman
  
  Dame Ruth Runciman DBE is a former Chair of the UK Mental Health Act Commission. She is the mother of British political scientist David Runciman, and as wife of British sociologist Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford has the right to the title of Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, which she does not use....
  , Veronica Sutherland
  Veronica Sutherland
  
  Dame Veronica Evelyn Sutherland, DBE, Order of St Michael and St George, Hon LL.D is a former British career diplomat with considerable Commonwealth experience and was the President of the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge until 2008....
  , Mary Uprichard, Simone Veil
  Simone Veil
  
  Simone Veil, Order of the British Empire is a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Val?ry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France....
  
• 1999: Jill Black, Lois Browne-Evans
  Lois Browne-Evans
  
  Dame Lois Marie Browne-Evans, Order of the British Empire, Justice of Peace, led the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party ) in opposition before being appointed Bermuda's first female Attorney-General....
  , A. S. Byatt
  A. S. Byatt
  
  Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, Order of the British Empire is an England novelist and poet. She is daughter of His Honour John Frederick Drabble, QC and late Kathleen Marie Bloor and is married to Peter Duffy....
  , Diana Collins
  Diana Collins
  
  Dame Diana Clavering Collins, Order of the British Empire was the widow of Canon John Collins, the fiery Canon of St Paul's Cathedral who earned an international reputation for his leadership of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British campaign against apartheid in South Africa....
  , Pauline Fielding, Mavis Grant, Heather Hallett
  Heather Hallett
  
  Dame Heather Carol Hallett, Order of the British Empire , styled The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Hallett, is an English judge of the Court of Appeal....
  , Norma Major
  Norma Major
  
  Dame Norma Major, Lady Major, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire is the wife of John Major, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
  , Yvonne Moores
  Yvonne Moores
  
  Dame Yvonne Moores, DBE, RGN, RM, HonDCL, HonMA, HonDSc, CIMgt, FRSH is a former Chief Nursing Officer for England and Director of the National Health Service playing a key role as advisor to the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health on a range of issues related to policy and improving the quality of clinical services....
  , Helen Reeves
  Helen Reeves
  
  Dame Helen Reeves, Order of the British Empire, BA 2001, Honorary Juris Doctor from University of Warwick, is the former Chief Executive of Victim Support in the UK....
  , Margaret Seward, Helena Shovelton
  Helena Shovelton
  
  Dame Helena Richards Shovelton, DBE is former Chair of the UK Citizens Advice Bureau and former Chair of the UK National Lottery Commission. She is currently Chief Executive of the British Lung Foundation....
  , Lesley Southgate

2000s

• 2000: Julie Andrews
  Julie Andrews
  
  Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
  , Beryl Bainbridge
  Beryl Bainbridge
  
  Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE is an English novelist.A five-time nominee for the Booker Prize, Bainbridge has never won. She has nonetheless been described as "a national treasure"....
  , Shirley Bassey
  Shirley Bassey
  
  Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom singer. She performed the theme music to the James Bond films Goldfinger , Diamonds Are Forever , and Moonraker ....
  , Beulah Bewley
  Beulah Bewley
  
  Dame Beulah R. Bewley, DBE, is a retired British public health doctor and ex-President of the Medical Women's Federation on the General Medical Council....
  , Vivien Duffield
  Vivien Duffield
  
  Dame Vivien Louise Duffield, Order of the British Empire , is a United Kingdom socialite and philanthropist.The only daughter of millionaire businessman Sir Charles Clore, Duffield was educated at the Lyc?e Fran?ais, Heathfield St Mary's School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University where she read languages....
  , Anne Evans
  Anne Evans
  
  Dame Anne Evans Order of the British Empire is an internationally successful Wales soprano.Anne Evans made her debut as Countess Ceprano in La Traviata 1967 in Geneva and went on to make her debut in a leading role in 1968 as Fiordiligi in Cos? fan tutte at the then Sadler's Wells, later English National Opera in 1968 to critical a...
  , Glynne Evans, Geraldine Keegan
  Geraldine Keegan
  
  Dame Geraldine Mary Marcella Keegan, Order of the British Empire, is the head teacher of St. Mary's College , which is one of Northern Ireland's most successful schools....
  , Jill Macleod Clark
  Jill Macleod Clark
  
  Dame Jill Macleod Clark, DBE, BSc, PhD, RGN, FRCN is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Health & Biological Sciences and Head of the School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Southampton....
  , Patricia Morgan-Webb, Lorna Muirhead
  Lorna Muirhead
  
  Dame Lorna Elizabeth Fox Muirhead, DBE, DL, SRN, SCM, MTD, CStJ, is a past President of the Royal College of Midwives. She is the current Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside....
  , Mary Peters
  Mary Peters
  
  Mary Peters could refer to either:* Mary Peters * Mary Peters , the 15th United States Secretary of Transportation* Mary Peters - a bestseller in 1934...
  , Sally Powell
  Sally Powell
  
  Dame Sally Powell, Order of the British Empire is a leading local councillor in Great Britain for the Labour Party .Powell is a former dancer with the Sadler's Wells Birmingham Royal Ballet and a solicitor, became a councillor in 1986....
  , Anne Rafferty, Marlene Robottom
  Marlene Robottom
  
  Dame Marlene Robottom, DBE, BEd, MSc is a British academic and educator.The former headteacher at the Mulberry School for Girls, Tower Hamlets, London, retired in December 2005 having led Mulberry School to notable success....
  , Miriam Rothschild
  Miriam Rothschild
  
  Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society was a United Kingdom zoologist, entomologist and author....
  , Steve Shirley
  Steve Shirley
  
  Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley, Order of the British Empire, FRA, FREng, FRSA is a United Kingdom businesswoman and philanthropist. She originally arrived in UK as an unaccompanied Kindertransport....
  , Patricia Symmonds
  Patricia Symmonds
  
  Dame Olga Patricia Symmonds, Order of Barbados, Order of the British Empire , best known as Patricia Symmonds, is a Barbados politician, member of the Senate of Barbados and a former teacher....
  , Elizabeth Taylor
  Elizabeth Taylor
  
  Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
  , Dorothy Tutin
  Dorothy Tutin
  
  Dame Dorothy Tutin Order of the British Empire, was a highly-regarded England actor of stage , film, and television.Tutin was "one of the most enchanting, accomplished and intelligent leading ladies on the post-war British stage....
  
• 2001: Ingrid Allen, Eileen Atkins
  Eileen Atkins
  
  Dame Eileen June Atkins Order of British Empire is an award-winning England actress and occasional screenwriter....
  , Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, Wendy Davies
  Wendy Davies
  
  Wendy Elizabeth Davies, Order of the British Empire, British Academy, Society of Antiquaries, Royal Historical Society, is Professor of History and Pro-Provost for European Affairs at University College, London in England....
  , Karlene Davis
  Karlene Davis
  
  Dame Karlene Davis, DBE, Hon. DSc is General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Midwifery, Regional Representative for Europe in the International Confederation of Midwives, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a member of the Wellbeing Council at the Royal College of Obstetricia...
  , Jill Ellison
  Jill Ellison
  
  Dame Jill Ellison, DBE is Director of Nursing, National Health Service and also headsthe Nurse Directors Association .The NDA is an independent organisation with membership open to all Nurse Directors and Senior Nurses working in National Health Service organisations, and equivalent posts in the Armed Forces, private sector, volunta...
  , Jean Else
  Jean Else
  
  Dame Jean Else, DBE is a former United Kingdom educator and former schoolteacher. She now writes a bi-monthly column for the Manchester Evening News....
  , Julia Higgins
  Julia Higgins
  
  Dame Julia Higgins Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society Royal Academy of Engineering is Professor of Polymer science in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London....
  , Sharon Hollows
  Sharon Hollows
  
  Dame Sharon Hollows, DBE is an English schoolteacher and headmistress.When Hollows took on her first headship at Calverton Primary School in Newham in 1994, pupils' performance was very poor....
  , Thea King
  Thea King
  
  Dame Thea King Order of the British Empire Royal College of Music Guildhall School of Music and Drama was a United Kingdom clarinettist.Thea King was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire....
  , Sheila McKechnie
  Sheila McKechnie
  
  Dame Sheila Marshall McKechnie, DBE was a Scottish trade unionist, housing campaigner and consumer activist. She helped define the consumer movement in the UK....
  , Jessica Rawson
  Jessica Rawson
  
  Professor Dame Jessica Rawson, Order of the British Empire, DLitt, FBA is an English academic. She is the Warden of Merton College , Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford University....
  , Lesley Rees, Mary Richardson, Dela Smith
  Dela Smith
  
  Note: Do not confuse with British cooking master, Delia Smith----Dame Dela Smith, DBE has been Headteacher at Beaumont Hill Technology College since 1992....
  , Marilyn Strathern
  Marilyn Strathern
  
  Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, Order of the British Empire, MA, Doctor of Philosophy, Fellow of the British Academy is a British anthropologist, and currently Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge ....
  , Janet Trotter, Sheila Wallis
• 2002: Margaret Barbour
  Margaret Barbour
  
  Dame Margaret Barbour, Order of the British Empire is a British businesswoman and philanthropist who together with her daughter Helen Barbour established the Women's Fund in 1999 to encourage and support women within Tyne & Wear and Northumberland to develop their full potential....
  , Laura Cox, Ruth Deech, Catherine Elcoat, Pauline Green
  Pauline Green
  
  Dame Pauline Green DBE is a former Labour Party and Co-operative Party Member of the European Parliament and former Leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Party of European Socialists....
  , Judith Mayhew, Janet Ritterman, Marjorie Scardino
  Marjorie Scardino
  
  Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, is the CEO of Pearson PLC. She became the first female Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO of Pearson in 1997....
  , Meg Taylor
  Meg Taylor
  
  Meg Taylor DBE is a Papua New Guinean lawyer and diplomat. She is the daughter of the famous Australian explorer of the Papua New Guinea highlands Jim Taylor ....
  , Jenifer Wilson-Barnett
• 2003: Elizabeth Blackadder
  Elizabeth Blackadder
  
  Dame Elizabeth Violet Blackadder, DBE, RA is a Scotland Painting and printmaker. She is the first woman to be elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy....
  , Yvonne Buckland, Pamela Coward
  Pamela Coward
  
  Dame Pamela Coward, DBE was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003 for having transformed her school, Middleton Technology School, in Middleton, Greater Manchester, near Rochdale....
  , Louise Johnson, Helen Mirren
  Helen Mirren
  
  Dame Helen Mirren, Order of the British Empire is a multi-award winnning English actor. She has won an Academy Award, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards during her career....
  , Elizabeth Neville
  Elizabeth Neville
  
  Dame Elizabeth Neville, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Police Medal, Royal Society of Arts is the former Chief Constable of Wiltshire Constabulary....
  , Anna Pauffley, Julia Polak
  Julia Polak
  
  Dame Julia M. Polak, Order of the British Empire, Academy of Medical Sciences is a current head of the Centre for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at Imperial College London, a centre for medical research she set up with Professor Larry Hench, also from Imperial College, to develop cells and tissues for transplantation into...
  , Anita Roddick
  Anita Roddick
  
  Dame Anita Roddick, Order of the British Empire was the founder of The Body Shop, a British cosmetics company producing and retailing beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism....
  , Ruth Robins, Rita Weller
• 2004: Florence Baron
  Florence Baron
  
  Dame Florence Jacqueline Baron, Order of the British Empire , styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Baron, is a British High Court of Justice.She was educated at Jersey College for Girls and later at St Hugh's College, Oxford....
  , Enid Bibby, The Baroness Brittan of Spennithorne, Alexandra Burslem
  Alexandra Burslem
  
  Dame Alexandra "Sandra" Burslem, Order of the British Empire, Justice of the Peace, Royal Society of Arts, is a United Kingdom academia and educationalist....
  , Hilary Cropper, Sandra Dawson
  Sandra Dawson
  
  Dame Sandra J. N. Dawson Order of the British Empire is Master of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, KPMG Professor of Management Studies and former director of the Judge Business School....
  , Linda Dobbs
  Linda Dobbs
  
  Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs, Order of the British Empire , styled The Honourable Mrs Justice Dobbs, was the first non-white person to be appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales....
  , Jacqueline Docherty
  Jacqueline Docherty
  
  Dame Jacqueline Docherty, DBE, Director of Nursing at King's College Hospital, was made a DBE in recognition of her long career, during which she has nursed in Scotland, Bath and London and for her services to the NHS....
  , Jane Goodall
  Jane Goodall
  
  Dame Jane Goodall, Order of the British Empire is an England United Nations Messenger of Peace, Primatology, Ethology, and Anthropology. She is well-known for her 45-year study of chimpanzee social and family interactions in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, and for founding the Jane Goodall Institute....
  , Elizabeth Gloster
  Elizabeth Gloster
  
  Dame Elizabeth Gloster, DBE , styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Gloster, is the first appointed female judge of the Commercial Court in the United Kingdom....
  , Joan Harbison
  Joan Harbison
  
  Dame Joan Harbison, DBE, Hon. LL.D was a teacher and lecturer professionally and has extensive experience of public and voluntary service in Northern Ireland....
  , Pauline Harris, Patricia Hodgson
  Patricia Hodgson
  
  Dame Patricia Hodgson, DBE has been the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, since August 2006. She is a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Committee on Standards in Public Life, as well as a non-executive director of the Competition Commission....
  , Elisabeth Hoodless
  Elisabeth Hoodless
  
  Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, Order of the British Empire is the Executive Director of Community Service Volunteers , the UK?s largest volunteering and training charity....
  , Olwen Hufton
  Olwen Hufton
  
  Olwen Hufton DBE is one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe and a pioneer of social history and of women's history. She is an expert on Early Modern, western European comparative socio-cultural history with special emphasis on gender, poverty, social relations, religion and work....
  , Deirdre Hutton
  Deirdre Hutton
  
  Dame Deirdre Hutton, DBE, Hon. D.Sc became a Non-Executive Board member of the Financial Services Authority in December 1997, and was appointed Deputy Chair on 1 April...
  , Gillian Morgan
  Gillian Morgan
  
  Dame Gillian Morgan Dame of the British Empire . Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Assembly Government from 1 May 2008.Professional career...
  , Julia Neuberger, Denise Platt
  Denise Platt
  
  Dame Denise Platt, DBE, DSocSc. BSc.Econ. AIMSW. FRSA, is a Her Majesty's Civil Service. She is the Chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection....
  , Joan Plowright
  Joan Plowright
  
  Joan Ann Olivier, Lady Olivier, Order of the British Empire , better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is a Tony Award- winning, Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award- nominated, and Emmy Award- nominated England actor....
  , Jane Roberts, Marion Roe
  Marion Roe
  
  Dame Marion Audrey Roe DBE is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....
  
• 2005: Carol M. Black
  Carol M. Black
  
  Professor Dame Carol M. Black is Professor of Rheumatology at the UCL Medical School and is the UK Government's Director for Health and Work. Between 2002 and 2006 she was President of the Royal College of Physicians between 2002 and 2006....
  , Maureen Brennan
  Maureen Brennan
  
  Dame Maureen Brennan, DBE,known familiarly as "Mo Brennan", is the headteacher at Barr Beacon Language College in Walsall, West Midlands. She took over leadership of this school in Easter 2007 after spending several years as the Principal of The Hillcrest School in Netherton, West Midlands....
  , Tanni Grey-Thompson
  Tanni Grey-Thompson
  
  Dame Tanni Carys Davina Grey-Thompson Order of the British Empire is a Welsh athlete and TV presenter....
  , Kelly Holmes
  Kelly Holmes
  
  Dame Kelly Holmes, Order of the British Empire is a retired English Middle distance track event Athletics . She won gold medals in the 800 and 1500 metre race events respectively at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
  , Ellen MacArthur
  Ellen MacArthur
  
  Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, Order of the British Empire is an English sailor from Whatstandwell near Matlock, England in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight....
  , Mary Macdonald, Julia Macur, Sarah Mullally
  Sarah Mullally
  
  Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally, Order of the British Empire began her career in nursing in 1984, at St Thomas' Hospital, having qualified from London South Bank University....
  , Gillian Pugh
  Gillian Pugh
  
  Dame Gillian Pugh, DBE was Chief Executive of Coram Family until her retirement from Coram Family, England?s oldest children?s charity on 25 April 2005 after eight years of service....
  , Nancy Rothwell
  Nancy Rothwell
  
  Dame Nancy Rothwell, DBE, Fellow of the Royal Society obtained a first class degree in Physiology and a Doctor of Philosophy from Queen Elizabeth College London....
  , Jennifer Smith
  Jennifer M. Smith
  
  Dame Jennifer Meredith Smith, Order of the British Empire, Justice of Peace, DHumL, Member of Parliament was the List of Premiers of Bermuda of Bermuda from 1998 until 2003, the first premier who was not a member of the United Bermuda Party....
  , Caroline Swift
  Caroline Swift
  
  Dame Caroline Jane Swift, Order of the British Empire was leading counsel to the Inquiry in the Harold Shipman, which began in 2001.Swift was educated at St Aidan's College, Durham University and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple in 1977....
  , Jean Thomas
  Jean Thomas (academic)
  
  Professor Dame Jean Thomas, DBE, FRS, FMedSci, ScD, is Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. She has been at Cambridge since 1967, where she was initially at Darwin College, Cambridge from 1967 to 1969....
  , Fanny Waterman
  Fanny Waterman
  
  Dame Fanny Waterman, DBE is a piano teacher, and the founder, Chairman and Artistic Director of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition....
  
• 2006: Averil Cameron
  Averil Cameron
  
  Dame Averil Millicent Cameron, Order of the British Empire, Fellow_of_the_British_Academy is Warden of Keble College, Oxford, Professor of Late Antiquity and Byzantine History in the University of Oxford, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford....
  , Liz Forgan
  Liz Forgan
  
  Dame Elizabeth "Liz" Anne Lucy Forgan, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire is an England journalist and executive for radio and television....
  , Anna Hassan, Susan Leather, Julie Mellor
  Julie Mellor
  
  Dame Julie Th?r?se Mellor, DBE Chaired the Equal Opportunities Commission between 1999 and 2005 and was made a Dame for services to equal opportunities in 2006....
  , Janet L. Nelson
  Janet L. Nelson
  
  Dame Janet Laughland Nelson, Order of the British Empire, British Academy , is a United Kingdom historian. She is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at King's College London....
  , Daphne Sheldrick
  Daphne Sheldrick
  
  Dame Daphne Jenkins Sheldrick, Order of the British Empire is an author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry, particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the wild for over 30 years....
  , Ruth Silver
  Ruth Silver
  
  Dame Dr. Ruth Muldoon Silver, Order of the British Empire was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her "services to higher education" in 2006....
  , Vivienne Westwood
  Vivienne Westwood
  
  Dame Vivienne Westwood, Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry is a British fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern Punk fashion and New Wave music fashions into the mainstream....
  
• 2007: Yasmin Bevan
  Yasmin Bevan
  
  Dame Yasmin Bevan, DBE has been the headteacher of Denbigh High School in Luton, England, for more than 15 years. After winning a regional teaching award she was named the National Headteacher of the Year....
  , Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  
  Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Dame of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Astronomical Society is a British astrophysics who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis advisor Antony Hewish, for which he won a Nobel Prize....
  , Marcela Contreras
  Marcela Contreras
  
  Professor Dame Marcela Contreras Arriagada, DBE is a leading Chilean-British blood expert and university educator. She was awarded the DBE for her services to healthcare....
  , Mary Douglas
  Mary Douglas
  
  Dame Mary Douglas, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the British Academy was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism....
  , Ann Dowling, Evelyn Glennie
  Evelyn Glennie
  
  Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, Order of the British Empire is a Scotland virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo professional percussionist in 20th century western society....
  , Joan Higgins
  Joan Higgins
  
  Dame Joan Higgins, Order of the British Empire is an Academic.Since 2007, she is Order of the British Empire..Professor Higgins has held academic posts at the Universities of Portsmouth, Southampton and Manchester ...
  , Janet Husband, Elizabeth Keegan, Barbara Kelly
  Barbara Kelly (public servant)
  
  Dame Barbara Mary Kelly, DBE Deputy Lieutenant is the chairwoman of the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival.She was promoted from Commander of the Order of the British Empire to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the June 2007 Birthday Honours List for "public service in Scotland"....
  , Emma Kirkby
  Emma Kirkby
  
  Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby is a soprano singer and one of the world's most renowned early music specialists. She was a classics student at Somerville College, Oxford, and an English language teacher before developing a career as a soloist....
  , Ann Leslie
  Ann Leslie
  
  Dame Ann Elizabeth Mary Leslie Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom journalist who currently writes for the Daily Mail.Ann Leslie spent her early years in India and Pakistan, before being educated in India...
  , Mary Elizabeth Marsh, Mary Perkins
  Mary Perkins
  
  Order of the British Empire Mary Perkins is co-founder and a senior executive of Specsavers, a leading Brick and mortar business UK Opticians , and was made a Order of the British Empire in 2007....
  , Josephine Williams
• 2008: Joan Bakewell
  Joan Bakewell
  
  Dame Joan Dawson Bakewell Order of the British Empire is an England journalist and television presenter....
  , Christine Beasley
  Christine Beasley
  
  Dame Christine Joan Beasley Order of the British Empire began training in 1962 at the Royal London Hospital and worked as a staff nurse. In the 1980s/early 90s she took on senior roles at Ealing health authority and Riverside Health Authority, before moving into wider regional nurse director posts at North Thames regional Health Authority....
  , Hilary Blume, Lynne Brindley
  Lynne Brindley
  
  Dame Lynne Janie Brindley, Order of the British Empire is the Chief Executive of the British Library , the national library of the United Kingdom....
  , Kay Davies
  Kay Davies
  
  Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society is a United Kingdom human geneticist born on 1 April 1951. She is Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy in the University of Oxford and a fellow of Hertford College....
  , Margaret Drabble
  Margaret Drabble
  
  Dame Margaret Drabble Order of the British Empire, is an England novelist, biographer and critic....
  , Janet Finch
  Janet Finch
  
  Dame Janet Valerie Finch, Order of the British Empire, Deputy Lieutenant, Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences is a United Kingdom sociology and academic administration....
  , Clara Furse
  Clara Furse
  
  Dame Clara Hedwig Frances Furse Order of the British Empire is the Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange. She was appointed in 2001, and was the first female to occupy the position....
  , Eleanor King
  Eleanor King
  
  Eleanor Campbell King was an United States modern dancer, choreographer, and educator. She was a member of the original Humphrey-Weidman company, where she was a principal dancer in the pioneering modern dance movement in New York, then moving on to choreography and founding her own dance company in Seattle, Washington....
  , Donna Kinnair, Nuala O'Loan
  Nuala O'Loan
  
  Dame Nuala Patricia O'Loan, Order of the British Empire is a noted public figure in Northern Ireland. She was the first Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland in the country between 1999 and 2007....
  , Monica Mason
  Monica Mason
  
  Dame Monica Margaret Mason Order of the British Empire is a ballet dancer and has been the director of the Royal Ballet, London, since 2002....
  , Sonia Proudman, Fiona Reynolds
  Fiona Reynolds
  
  Dame Fiona Claire Reynolds, Order of the British Empire is the Director-General of the National Trust. She was awarded the DBE in the New Year Honours 2008 for "services to Heritage and conservation"....
  , Elisabeth Slade, Barbara Stocking, Mary Tanner
  Mary Tanner
  
  Dame Mary Elizabeth Tanner, Order of the British Empire is President of the World Council of Churches. She has been a member of the WCC Faith and Order Commission since 1974, serving as its moderator from 1991 to 1998....
  , Jacqueline Wilson
  Jacqueline Wilson
  
  Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Order of the British Empire is a multi award-winning England author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature....
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• 2009: Jenny Abramsky
  Jenny Abramsky
  
  Dame Jennifer Gita Abramsky, Order of the British Empire is chairman of the UK's National Heritage Memorial Fund . The NHMF makes grants to preserve heritage of outstanding national importance....
  , Sally Davies, Elizabeth Fradd
  Elizabeth Fradd
  
  Dame Elizabeth Fradd Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom nursing academic and fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.Between 1973 and 1983 when she held a variety of registered nurse, midwife and Health Visitor posts, she also trained as a children?s nurse who has also managed children?s units in Nottingham and worked as a nursi...
  , Wendy Hall
  Wendy Hall
  
  Dame Wendy Hall Order of the British Empire Royal Academy of Engineering is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton in England....
  , Anne Owers
  Anne Owers
  
  Dame Anne Elizabeth Owers, Order of the British Empire , n?e Anne Elizabeth Spark, current married name Anne Elizabeth Cook, is Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons....
  , Rosalind Savill, Victoria Sharp.