LONDON: London Mayor Sadiq Khan, England football boss Gareth Southgate and Paris Olympics gold medalist Keely Hodgkinson were among the hundreds named in King Charles’s New Year honors list published on Monday. The full list includes more than 1,200 people in politics, sport, the arts or community service to be awarded honors ranging from Member, Commander or Officer of the Order of the British Empire (MBE, CBE or OBE) up to knighthoods and damehoods.

Southgate, who led England to two straight European Championship finals before stepping down as the national side’s manager in July, receives a knighthood.

Another knighthood goes to Khan, a member of Britain’s governing Labour Party. Khan, one Britain’s most high-profile Asian-origin politicians, was honored for political and public service. The 54-year-old has led the UK capital since 2016 and earlier this year became the first London mayor to win a third term.

MI5’s Ken McCallum, who has served as the domestic intelligence service’s director general since 2020, was also set to receive a knighthood. Among business executives, ex-Rolls-Royce boss Warren East and former HSBC chief executive Noel Quinn will be knighted, while Ruth Cairnie, chair of defense group Babcock, receives a damehood. Andy Street, a former boss of retailer John Lewis who failed to win re-election as a regional mayor this year, will also receive a knighthood.

Among those receiving a CBE are actors Sarah Lancashire and Carey Mulligan and TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh. The New Year honors, which have been awarded since at least 1890, aim to recognize not just well-known figures but people who have contributed to national life through often unsung work over many years.

Children’s author Jacqueline Wilson was awarded a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, while Nobel laureate novelist Kazuo Ishiguro was given a Companion of Honour, of which there are only 65 recipients at any time. In sport, Paris 800 m gold medalist Hodgkinson receives an MBE while Olympic champion rower Helen Glover is recognized with an OBE. For his work on mental health awareness, actor Stephen Fry will receive a knighthood.

Four victims of the Horizon IT scandal, in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly convicted of fraud, theft and false accounting because of faulty software, were also honored. Lee Castleton, Jo Hamilton, Christopher Head and Seema Misra were recognized with an OBE for their work campaigning for justice. The previous Conservative government unveiled legislation in March to exonerate those wrongly prosecuted and compensate them after a TV drama renewed focus on their plight. – Agencies