As ever, the New Year's Honours List 2023 features a number of famous faces, including Liverpool-born actor Stephen Graham.
The 49-year-old has received an OBE for services to drama, having won awards for playing Irish, English and American criminals and police officers in various blockbuster Hollywood films and hit TV dramas across his thirty year career. He starred in the 2000 crime comedy film Snatch alongside Brad Pitt and Jason Statham, as well as 2019's gangster epic The Irishman, where he played real-life mobster Anthony Provenzano alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
More recently, he starred in Help alongside fellow Scouser Jodie Comer. The landmark drama based in a Liverpool care-home premiered on Channel 4 in September 2021, with its 1.1 million streams in just four days making it the biggest ever launch of a new drama on the broadcaster.
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Elsewhere on the New Year's Honours list are Lionesses Captain Leah Williamson of England's Euro 2022-winning side being made an OBE while her teammates Lucy Bronze, Beth Mead and Ellen White are all made MBEs. Queen guitarist Brian May and artist Grayson Perry are to be knighted.
Musician and animal welfare campaigner Sir Brian, who famously played God Save The Queen on the roof of Buckingham Palace during the Golden Jubilee, before performing again at the Platinum Jubilee two decades later, has been appointed a knight bachelor for services to music and charity.
Sir Grayson, the 62-year-old artist, writer and broadcaster, who is known for his tapestries, ceramic works and cross-dressing, is knighted for services to the arts while fashion designer Dame Mary Quant is made a Companion of Honour.
Others to receive knighthoods include politicians who proved to be thorns in the side of Boris Johnson, including Conservative Julian Lewis, chairman of the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), and Labour's Chris Bryant, who chairs the Commons Standards Committee.
There is also a prestigious honour for former Treasury permanent secretary Sir Tom Scholar, who becomes a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath having been summarily sacked by short-lived prime minister Liz Truss on her first day in office. Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Denise Lewis, now the president of Commonwealth Games England, is made a dame, while Frank Skinner is being made an MBE.
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