Ex-footballer Ian Wright has received an OBE and broadcasters Ken Bruce and Davina McCall have been made MBEs in the King’s first Birthday Honours list.
Former hostage Terry Waite is given a knighthood, alongside novelists Ben Okri, and Martin Amis, who died in May.
Also knighted is acclaimed director Stephen Frears – known for The Queen – and Exeter Labour MP Ben Bradshaw.
And Vogue’s Dame Anna Wintour and author Sir Ian McEwan join the elite Companions of Honour.
Celia Imrie – who starred in Calendar Girls and Bridget Jones – and Shine on Harvey Moon’s Kenneth Cranham have also been made CBEs, while Line of Duty’s Vicky McClure is made an MBE.
This year’s list is the first from King Charles for his official birthday in June, which is separate from his actual birthday in November.
As well as famous faces, the list recognises people involved in events following the Queen’s death last year, and also those who have helped Ukrainian refugees.
Former Arsenal and England footballer and TV pundit Wright upgrades his MBE to an OBE for services to football and charity, while television presenter McCall, who started her career in the 1990s before presenting hit show Big Brother, is made an MBE for services to broadcasting.
Bruce – who swapped his long-running BBC Radio 2 show for Greatest Hits Radio earlier this year – is also made an MBE for services to radio, charity and autism awareness. His son, Murray, has autism.
He labelled the honour a “great surprise and privilege”, while McCall said: “I can’t believe it. It’s a great honour and it really means a great deal.”
Charity work is also cited in McClure’s MBE, as well as drama, for her work helping people with dementia. She founded a choir for people with dementia and presented a TV documentary that explored music’s ability to combat its effects, after having cared for her grandmother with the disease.
Author Martin Amis was awarded the honour for services to literature, with the honour conferred on 18 May, the day before his death from oesophageal cancer at the age of 73.
As well as fashion editor Dame Anna and Sir Ian, Prof Sir John Bell has made it into the exclusive Companions of Honour, where membership is limited to 65 people. He is an immunologist who worked on the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, and said he was “delighted” to be recognised.
Author Sir Ian told the PA news agency he was “delighted” by the surprise news, adding: “I guess it amounts to a really good review”.
The new Sir Terry, 84, receives an Order of St Michael and St George – making him a knight – for exceptional services overseas after a lifetime of charity work working to free hostages.
He was a hostage negotiator who was himself kidnapped in Lebanon in 1987 and held captive for five years after going there to try and get the release of several captured Britons.
Head of MI6 Richard Moore is given the same honour, for services to national security, calling it “a proud day.”
Nigerian-born poet and author Sir Ben – who won the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road in 1991 – is also knighted, as well as Sir Martin, who accepted the honour before he died aged 73 last month. (BBC)