Arise, Sir Billy!

In Scotland there are more than 100 recipients in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, including:

 There is a Companion of Honour (CH) for: 

• JK Rowling OBE for services to literature and philanthropy

There are Knighthoods for:

• Billy Connolly CBE for services to entertainment and charity
• Professor Anton Muscatelli for services to economics and higher education

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) include:

• Alasdair Hay QFSM for services to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
• Nora Senior for services to the Scottish and UK business community
• Professor Graham Watt for services to healthcare
• Rose Fitzpatrick QPM for services to law and order
• Robert Keiller for services to business and entrepreneurship
• Professor Charles Skene OBE for services to enterprise and business promotion

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) include:

• Judy Murray for services to tennis, women in sport and charity
• Polly Purvis for services to the digital economy in Scotland
• Laura Ann Pender Smith for services to disability sports
• Adrian Turpin for services to literature and the economy in Wigtownshire

Among those to be made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) are:

• Sharon Aitken for services to children with special needs and the community in Buckie, Banffshire
• John Delaney for services to the Teenage Cancer Trust
• John Dunn for services to the promotion of marine science and education
• Carolyn Little for services to mental healthcare
• Angela Malone for services to wheelchair curling
• Tommy Miah for services to the hospitality industry and charity
• Eunice Olumide for services to broadcasting, the arts and charity
• Emeli Sande for services to music

Among those to become a Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) are:

• Paul Breen for charitable services to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Therapeutic Roof Garden
• Ian Brown for services to badminton
• Eileen Gardner for services to adult education and the arts in Fife
• Elizabeth Hendry for services to Clydebank Golden Jubilee Hospital
• Alice Rankin for services to the community in Newarthill, North Lanarkshire .

Full list of UK recipients:

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