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List of current honorary knights and dames of the Order of St Michael and St George

This is a list of current honorary knights and dames of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Honorary knights and dames edit

Grand cross (GCMG) edit

 
Star and collar of honorary GCMG worn by Serbian Field Marshal Živojin Mišić
Name Post-nominals Known for Year
appointed
  Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar GCMG Sultan of Zanzibar 1963[1]
    Vigdís Finnbogadóttir GCB GCMG Former President of Iceland 1982
    Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei GCB GCMG Sultan of Brunei 1984
  Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al Thani GCMG Member of the Qatari royal family 1985
  Gyanendra of Nepal GCMG Former King of Nepal 1986
    Aleksander Kwaśniewski GCB GCMG Former President of Poland 1996
    Maumoon Abdul Gayoom GCMG Former President of the Maldives 1997[2]
  Nawaz Sharif GCMG Former Prime Minister of Pakistan 1997[2]
  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani GCB GCMG Former Emir of Qatar 1997[2]
    Ernesto Zedillo GCMG Former President of Mexico 1998[2]
  Alberto Fujimori GCMG Former President of Peru 1998[2]
  János Martonyi GCMG Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary 1999[2]
    Abdullah II of Jordan GCB GCMG KCVO King of Jordan 1999[2]
  Friis Arne Petersen GCMG Former Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark 2000[2]
  Giuliano Amato GCMG Former Prime Minister of Italy 2000[2]
  Lamberto Dini GCMG Former Prime Minister of Italy 2000[2]
  Umberto Vattani GCMG Former Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy 2000[2]
    Emil Constantinescu GCMG Former President of Romania 2000[2]
  Thabo Mbeki GCB GCMG Former President of South Africa 2000[2]
    Nursultan Nazarbayev GCMG Former President of Kazakhstan 2000[2]
  Ali Abu al-Ragheb GCMG Former Prime Minister of Jordan 2001[2]
    Stjepan Mesić GCMG Former President of Croatia 2001[3]
  Anson Chan GCMG CBE JP Former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong 2002[4]
    Vicente Fox GCMG Former President of Mexico 2002[2]
  Xanana Gusmão GCMG CNZM Former Prime Minister of East Timor 2003[2]
    Hamid Karzai GCMG Former President of Afghanistan 2003[2]
    Alfred Moisiu GCMG Former President of Albania 2003[2]
  Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz GCMG Former Prime Minister of Poland 2004[2]
  Gianfranco Fini GCMG Former Deputy Prime Minister of Italy 2005[2]
  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum GCMG Ruler of Dubai, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates 2010[5]
  Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan GCMG President of the United Arab Emirates 2010[5]
  Manuel Valls GCMG Former Prime Minister of France 2014[6]
    Marie Louise Coleiro Preca GCMG Former President of Malta 2015[7]
  Haitham bin Tariq GCMG GCVO Sultan of Oman 2021[8]

Commander (KCMG/DCMG) edit

 
Knight Commander star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Name Post-nominals Known for Year
appointed
  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa KCMG King of Bahrain 1979
  Frederico Cezar de Araujo KCMG Brazilian diplomat 1997[2]
  Gelson Fonseca KCMG Brazilian diplomat 1997[2]
  Affonso Emilio de Alencastro Massot KCMG Brazilian diplomat 1997[2]
  Takekazu Kawamura KCMG Japanese diplomat 1998[2]
  Henrik Schmiegelow KCMG German diplomat 1998[2]
  Carl Bildt KCMG Former Prime Minister of Sweden & High Representative for Bosnia 1998[2]
  József Szájer KCMG Former Chairman of the European Integration Select Committee 1999[2]
  Jan Marcussen KCMG Danish diplomat 2000[2]
  Carmela Decaro Bonella DCMG Former Deputy Director General and Director of the President of Italy's Office 2000[2]
  Luigi Guidobono Cavalchini Garofoli KCMG Former Private Secretary to the Foreign Minister of Italy 2000[2]
  Francesco Olivieri KCMG Former Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Italy 2000[2]
  Javier Solana KCMG Former Secretary General of NATO 2000[2]
  Richard Armitage KCMG CNZM AC Former United States Deputy Secretary of State 2005[2]
  Klaus Schwab KCMG World Economic Forum head 2006[2][9][10]
  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer KCMG Former Secretary General of NATO 2010[11]
  Efthymios Mitropoulos KCMG Former Secretary-General of International Maritime Organization 2012[12]
  Marzuki Alie KCMG Former Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives 2012[12]
  Irman Gusman KCMG Former Speaker of the Indonesian House of Regional Representatives 2012[12]
  Marty Natalegawa KCMG Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia 2012[12]
  Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan KCMG Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UAE 2013[13]
  Yun Byung-se KCMG Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea 2013[13]
  Angelina Jolie DCMG American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian 2014[6]
  Laurent Fabius KCMG Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France 2014[6]
  Laurent Stefanini KCMG Former Ambassador, Chief of Protocol to President Hollande 2014[6]
  Grace Fu DCMG Former Second Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore 2014[6]
  Anders Fogh Rasmussen KCMG Former Prime Minister of Denmark & Secretary General of NATO 2015[7]
  José Antonio Meade Kuribreña KCMG Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico 2015[7]
  Joseph Muscat KCMG Former Prime Minister of Malta 2015[7]
  George Vella KCMG Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta now President of Malta 2018[14]
  Zeid Raad Al Hussein KCMG Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 2019[15]
  Khaled Al-Duwaisan GCVO KCMG Kuwaiti diplomat 2022[16]

References edit

  1. ^ Galloway, Peter, The Order of St. Michael and St. George. Published by Third Millennium Publishing for the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, U.K. (2000). ISBN 0953696952
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai "Honorary Knighthoods Awarded 1997-2006". data.parliament.uk. 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  3. ^ "The Court Circular - December 2001". The Royal Household. December 2001. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  4. ^ "H.K.'s ex-No. 2 leader Anson Chan honored by Queen Elizabeth". Findarticles. 11 November 2002. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  5. ^ a b "Honorary awards" (PDF). gov.uk. 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Honorary awards" (PDF). gov.uk. 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d "Honorary awards" (PDF). gov.uk. 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  8. ^ AGENCY (ONA), OMAN NEWS (2021-12-16). "Queen Elizabeth II confers on HM the Sultan honorary Knight Grand Cross". Oman Observer. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
  9. ^ "Klaus Schwab biography", World Economic Forum: "He was also knighted by Queen Elizabeth II – Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG)."
  10. ^ "WEF Professor Klaus Schwab factsheet", World Economic Forum: "2006 Knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II: Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG)"
  11. ^ "Hoge Britse ridderorde voor De Hoop Scheffer" (in Dutch). 10 February 2010.
  12. ^ a b c d "Honorary awards" (PDF). gov.uk. 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  13. ^ a b "Honorary awards" (PDF). gov.uk. 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  14. ^ "Honorary awards". gov.uk. 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  15. ^ "Honorary awards". gov.uk. 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  16. ^ "Honorary awards". gov.uk. 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
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