Birthday Honours 2026

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Mrs Jennifer Agnes Bell

Lately crown solicitor for Northern Ireland.  For services to the administration of justice.

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Mr Joseph O’Neill

Chief executive officer, Belfast Harbour.  For services to business and to the community in Belfast.

Professor Ian Stuart Young

Consultant chemical pathologist, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and chief scientific advisor to Department of Health. For services to health services research and development and to health education.

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Mr Paul Vincent Finnegan

Chief executive, Lighthouse. For services to charity.

The Very Reverend Dean Kenneth Robert James Hall

For services to reconciliation and peace building in Enniskillen and County Fermanagh.

Mr John Paul Harkin

Director and founder, Alchemy Technology Services. For services to economic development and to entrepreneurship.

Mrs Arlene Kee

Director youth service, Education Authority. For services to young people

Dr Helen Kirkpatrick

Lately chair QUBIS board, Queen’s University Belfast. For services to economic development and innovation.

Mr Paul Joseph McBride

For services to education.

Ms Eileen Murphy

Chief executive, Women’s Aid Armagh-Down. For services to charity.

Rt Revd Monsignor Peter O’Reilly

For services to reconciliation and peace building in Enniskillen and County Fermanagh.

Mr Mukesh Sharma

Deputy chair and trustee, The National Lottery Heritage Fund and chair, Northern Ireland committee, National Lottery Heritage Fund. For services to heritage.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Mr Geoffrey William Agnew

Joint executive group chair, Henderson group. For services to business and to the community in Northern Ireland.

Mr Martin John Agnew

Joint executive group chair, Henderson group. For services to business and to the community in Northern Ireland.

Dr Rosemary Elizabeth Agnew

Lately director of agricultural policy, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs. For services to agriculture.

Professor John Stanley Alan Anderson

For voluntary services to education and to the community in Northern Ireland

Mr Trevor Annon

Managing director and chair, Mount Charles. For services to business, to sport and to charity in Northern Ireland.

Mr Wesley David Aston

Lately Chief Executive, Ulster Farmers’ Union. For services to agriculture.

Mr John Law Bamford 

For services to amateur golf.

Mrs Pauline Frances Bothwell 

Charity secretary, Crossfire Trust. For services to the people of South Armagh.

Mr Thomas Malcolm Calvert

Senior professional technical officer, rivers directorate, Department for Infrastructure, Northern Ireland Civil Service. For services to flood risk management and digital transformation.

Mr Ian Campbell

For services to women in the Philippines.

Mrs Kathleen Elizabeth Courtenay

Lately head of children and disability services, Southern Health and Social Care Trust. For services to people with disabilities.

Mr Alan William Crooks

Disability manager, Irish Football Association. For services to disability football.

Mr Brian Duff

Lately Principal, Carnmoney Primary School, Newtownabbey. For services to education in Newtownabbey.

Mr Ivor William McKee Dunne

Prison officer, Northern Ireland Prison Service. For services to criminal justice and the rehabilitation of offenders in Northern Ireland.

Ms Ursula Fay

For services to the community in County Antrim.

Mr George Alexander Fleming

Chair, Fleming agri products. For services to business, to employment and to apprenticeships.

Mr Maurice Henry Geddis 

Co-founder and co-chair, Avondale Foods Ltd and ENE Ltd. For services to innovation and entrepreneurship in Northern Ireland.

Mr Ian William John Glendinning

Managing director, Irish Grouse Conservation Trust. For services to country sports and conservation.

Mr David Francis Heggarty

Principal, Cregagh Primary School and deaf unit. For services to education in Northern Ireland.

Mr John Irwin Dickey Johnston JP

For services to local history in Northern Ireland and the adjoining border counties.

Mr Gordon John Kane

Curriculum area manager, advanced technologies, Northern Regional College. For services to further and higher education in Northern Ireland.

Dr Susan Lagdon

Senior lecturer in psychology, Ulster University. For services to ending violence against women and girls.

Mr Richard Lyttle

For services to the horse racing industry.

Dr Michael McBrien

Consultant anaesthetist, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. For voluntary service.

Mrs Agnes Jane McCullough

For services to the art of lacemaking and needlecraft in Northern Ireland.

Mr Paul Robert Millar

For services to architecture and the arts in Northern Ireland.

Mr William Robert Lyon Moore DL

For services to the agriculture sector in Northern Ireland.

Mr Brian O’Hagan

For services to health and social care in Northern Ireland.

Mr Martin Howard Pitt

Chair, Radius Housing Association. For services to social housing.

Dr Patricia Podmore

Consultant, Western Health and Social Care Trust. For services to dermatology in the northwest of Northern Ireland.

Mr David Andrew Radcliffe

For services to education and to the community in Coleraine, County Londonderry.

Professor Peter Kenneth John Robertson

Professor of energy and environmental engineering, School of chemistry and chemical engineering, Queen’s University Belfast.  For services to research and innovation in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Evelyn Elizabeth Jean Smyth

Medicines management specialist nurse, Southern Health and Social Care Trust. For services to health and social care.

Mr Frederick Michael Stewart

For services to military history in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Sarah Marina Sweeney

For services to counselling and psychotherapy, to community education and to peace building through restorative dialogue.

Mrs Brenda Lydia Tighe

Chair, Northern Ireland Counselling Forum. For services to counselling in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Claire Vincent

Deputy director marine and fisheries division, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs. For services to marine science and to women in science

Mr Brian Walsh

For services to cricket.

Mr Stephen Watson

Broadcaster. For services to broadcasting and to kidney transplant awareness and to fundraising in Northern Ireland.

Ms Rose Neill

For services to broadcasting and to charity.

Medallists of the Order of the British Empire (BEM)

Mrs Valerie Alexander

For services to disadvantaged young people in India.

Mrs Janet Beck

Sign language interpreter. For services to interpreting and to the deaf community.

Mr Roger Frederick Bell

For services to local cricket.

Mr Campbell Best

For services to the community in Portadown, County Armagh.

Dr Nichola Booth

For services to the autistic community and their families in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Maxine Chambers

Senior youth support worker, Goal Line Youth Trust and co-founder, Bluebell Trust. For services to young people in Portadown, County Armagh.

Mr David Coffey

For charitable service.

Mr Robert Edward Cullinan

For services to community relations and to Brazilian juJitsu.

Mrs Patricia Feeney

Leader, Caledon playgroup. For services to young children in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Claire Margaret Anne Flowers 

Chief executive officer, Girlguiding Ulster. For services to girls and young women.

Ms Tanya Evelyn Mary Hughes

For services to the community of Ballybeen, Belfast.

Dr Stephen Jess

Lately senior scientific officer, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute. For services to agriculture in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Henrietta June Kirk 

For services to the community in Groomsport, County Down.

Mr Lloyd Wallace Magee

For services to the community in County Londonderry.

Mrs Angela Jane Manson

For services to youth musical theatre.

Ms Erica Sarah Maxwell

For services to the economy and to the community in Northern Ireland.

Miss Jenny Ann McBrien

Patient advocate. For services to women living with breast cancer.

Ms Clare McCawley

Victorian garden manager, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust. For services to health and social care and to the community and voluntary sector.

Mr Gregory Walter Thompson McKinley

Operations director, The Gallaher Trust. For services to the economy in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Joyce Montgomery

For services to the community in County Tyrone.

Mrs Audrey Moore

Chair, friends of Rossmar school. For voluntary services to special education.

Mr Maurice Neely

For services to health and social care in Northern Ireland.

Mr Peter Scobie

Head chef, Queen’s University Belfast. For services to higher education.

Mr John Gordon Scott

Serious crime exhibits and property manager, Police Service of Northern Ireland. For services to policing.

Mr David Stewart Smallwoods

For services to local football.

Miss Jennifer Elizabeth Smyth

For services to disability sport.

Mr Samuel Todd

Service delivery manager, bus service operations, Translink. For services to public transport.

Mrs Ruth Verner

For services to the community in County Antrim.

Mr David Thomas Crowe Workman

For services to rugby and to community relations in Ballynahinch.

King’s Police Medal (KPM)

Sergeant Elaine McCabe

Sergeant, Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Inspector Jonathan Anthony McToal

Inspector, Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Sergeant Ronald Dwayne Stewart

Sergeant, Police Service of Northern Ireland.

King’s Fire Service Medal (KFSM)

Mr Patrick Bernard Quinn

Station commander, Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.

King’s Ambulance Medal (KAM)

Mr William Mark Cochrane

Assistant director of operations, Northern Ireland Ambulance Service.