Knight Bachelor
- John Michael Ashworth, public service
- John Irving Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford and president, Academy of Medical Sciences, services to medicine
- John James Griffin Good, chairman, Edrington Group, services to industry in Scotland
- Patrick Hugh Haren, deputy chairman, Viridian Group Ltd, services to the electricity industry in Northern Ireland
- Michael Frank Harris, lately president, social security and child support appeals tribunal and circuit judge, public service
- Roger Mark Jowell, co-founder and director, European social survey and research professor, City University, services to social science
- Nicholas Roger Kenyon, managing director, Barbican Centre and lately director, BBC Proms, services to classical music
- Alasdair Uist Macdonald, headteacher, Morpeth School, Tower Hamlets, London, services to education
- Professor Alexander Fred Markham, lately chief executive, Cancer Research UK, services to medicine
- Ian Gerald McAllister, chairman, Network Rail, services to transport
- Robert Naylor, chief executive, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, services to healthcare
- Professor Timothy Michael Martin O'Shea, principal and vice-chancellor, University of Edinburgh, services to higher education
- Michael Parkinson, television and radio presenter, services to broadcasting
- Bruce Anthony John Ponder, head, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge and Li Ka Shing Professor and director, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, services to medicine
- Stuart Alan Ransom Rose, chief executive, Marks & Spencer plc, services to the retail industry and to corporate social responsibility
- James Meyer Sassoon, services to the finance industry and to public service
- Professor John Stewart Savill, Department of experimental medicine, head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, and vice-principal, University of Edinburgh, services to clinical science
- John William Sorrell, chairman, the Sorrell Foundation and the London Design Festival, services to the creative industries
- John Boothman Stuttard, lately Lord Mayor of the City of London, public service
- Professor Brian William Vickers, senior fellow, School of Advanced Study, University of London, services to literary scholarship
- Professor Ian Wilmut, director, Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, services to science
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