Queen's New Year Honours list 2019
Recipients of The Queen's New Year Honours in Scotland
In Scotland there are more than 100 recipients in The Queen's New Year Honours, including:
A Knighthood for:
- Professor Michael Ferguson for services to science
Damehoods for:
- Louise Martin for services to sport
- Ann Gloag for services to business and philanthropy
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) include:
- Professor Iain McInnes for services to medicine
- Diana Murray for services to the cultural and historic environment in Scotland
- Professor Robert Bartlett for services to history
- Susan Douglas-Scott for services to human rights, disability and LGBT issues
- Kate Caithness for services to sport
- Nicola Benedetti for services to music
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) include:
- Sheriff Colin Mackenzie DL for services to the community in the Western and Northern Isles of Scotland
- Mrs Maureen O'Neill for services to older people and voluntary organisations
- Mr Jonathan Hart for services to Mountain Rescue in Scotland and to charity
- Paul Okroj for voluntary service
- Mr George 'Doddie' Weir for services to rugby, motor neurone disease research and the community in the Scottish Borders
- Baroness Ford for services to sport and business
- Stephen Coleman for services to technology entrepreneurship
- Anne Lavery for services to consumers
- Sandra Laurenson for services to the UK ports industry and the Scottish economy
Among those to be made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) are:
- Dr Moira Carter for services to blood transfusion
- Mr Charles Irwin for services to beekeeping and the community in Glasgow
- Mr Rajinder Bajwe for services to the hospitality industry and charity in Glasgow
- Jenni Minto for services to World War One commemoration and the community in Islay, Argyll
- John Davidson for services to people with Tourette's Syndrome
- David Oddie for services to the community in Orkney
- Belinda Roberts for services to business and entrepreneurship
Among those to become a Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) are:
- Amanda Kopel for services to people with life-limiting degenerative conditions and the implementation of Frank's Law in Scotland
- Terence O'Brien for services to orienteering
- Adam Black for services to raising awareness of stammering
- Robert McInnes for services to law and order in Falkirk