The Queens Birthday Honours List – Sports
The Queen’s Birthday Honours list for 2021 are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen’s Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June.
Covid Honours List
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Jordan Henderson (Liverpool and England footballer), for services to football and charity, particularly during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Dr Jerry Hill (British Horseracing Authority chief medical adviser), who devised the detailed coronavirus protocols which enabled horse racing to be the first major sport to resume and without any transmission of the virus.
Jane Nickerson (Swim England chief executive), for services to swimming during the pandemic, with her focus being on children’s mental health and life skills.
Non-Covid Honours List
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Sue Barker (sports presenter), for services to sport, broadcasting and charity.
Roy Hodgson (former Crystal Palace manager), for services to football.
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Rimla Akhtar MBE (Co-founder, Muslim Women in Sport Network), for services to equality and diversity in sport.
Alan Coppin (former chair, Sports Grounds Safety Authority), for services to safety in sport.
Luol Deng, for services to basketball.
Brian Ewing (former director, Institute of Sport and Exercise, University of Dundee), for services to sport and Higher Education.
Christopher Grant (board member, Sport England), for services to sport.
Kelly Simmons MBE (Football Association director of the women’s professional game), for services to women’s football.
Kevin Sinfield MBE (Leeds Rhinos director of rugby), for services to rugby league and charitable fundraising.
John Steele (former English Institute of Sport chair), for services to sport.
Nigel Wood (former Rugby League International Federation chief executive), for services to rugby league football.
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Stephen Ball, for services to rugby league charities.
Nigel Carr, for services to sport and community relations.
David Faulkner (Football Association women’s professional game and para, head of performance), for services to sport.
Jayne Haines (Women in Sport chair), for services to women’s sport.
Giles Hilton (Canterbury Rugby Club chairman and commercial manager), for services to rugby union in Kent.
David Jeffrey (Ballymena United manager), for services to football and community relations in Northern Ireland.
Ryan Jones (former Wales rugby union captain), for services to rugby union and charitable fundraising in Wales.
Jeanette Kwakye (former British sprinter and broadcaster), for services to sports and sports broadcasting.
Alison Hughes (tennis umpire), for services to tennis.
Melanie Marshall (swimming coach), for services to swimming and charity.
Leon Mann (Black Collective of Media in Sport founder), for services to diversity in sport.
Simon Middleton (England rugby union coach), for services to rugby.
Tove Okunniwa (London Sport chief executive), for services to sport.
Bertram Phillips, for services to sport and the community in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.
Martyn Phillips (former Welsh Rugby Union chief executive), for services to rugby in Wales.
Ebony Rainford-Brent, for services to cricket and charity.
Emily Scarratt (England vice-captain), for services to rugby union.
John Shiels (Manchester United Foundation chief executive officer), for services to young people through football.
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City and England footballer), for services to racial equality in sport.
Lisa Wainwright, for services to sport.
Medallists of the Order of the British Empire
Robert Angria (Hutchison Ports UK senior manager and Essex Rebels Junior Basketball Club director), for services to underprivileged children in Essex through sport.
Tracy Baker (former administrative officer, HM Courts and Tribunals Service Wales), for services to organ donation and to disability sport.
Lyndsey Barrett (Sport for Confidence founder), for services to disability sport, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kiera Byland, for services to sport.
Jane Cepok, for services to the Riding for the Disabled Association, Pony Club and equestrian sport.
Nathan Clarke (South Cheshire Amateur Boxing Club founder), for services to sport and the community in South Cheshire.
Andrew Cochrane, for services to disability sport and mental health awareness.
William Craig, for services to cricket and the community in Eglinton.
Bashir Kara, for services to tennis.
Adam McEvoy, for services to disabled and young people through sport.
Graham Moran, for services to football and the community in Nottingham.
Iain Nairn, for services to physical disabilities cricket.
Julie Nelson, for services to women’s football.
Henry Palton-Gaspard (Tottenham Black Arrows Badminton Club founder), for services to community sport.
Reha Ullah (Muslimah Sports Association trustee), for services to sport.