James Bond actor Roger Moore heads another glittering roll-call of showbusiness stars and sporting icons in the Queen's Birthday Honours by becoming a knight.

Scots comedian Billy Connolly is made a CBE and Prime Suspect superstar Helen Mirren becomes a dame in a list which also includes captains of industry and top scientists alongside office cleaners, chauffeurs and lollipop ladies.

Pop star Sting CBE and Naked Chef Jamie Oliver MBE will also be visiting Buckingham Palace soon to pick up their awards.

David Beckham, whose future at Manchester United now hangs in the balance, becomes a much-heralded OBE, while the same award goes to England's long-serving batsman and wicketkeeper Alec Stewart.

Philanthropist Christopher Ondaatje, 69, becomes a knight.

Actress Kristin Scott Thomas, Oscar-nominated for her role in The English Patient, becomes an OBE while actor Ian Carmichael, who will be 83 next week, also becomes an OBE.

Veteran actor Richard Briers becomes a CBE as well as actor Simon Russell Beale, regarded as one of the finest Shakespearean actors of his generation.

Musician Jools Holland becomes an OBE and Gerry Marsden, famous in the Sixties with his group Gerry and the Pacemakers and in particular their song You'll Never Walk Alone, becomes an MBE.

Bill Oddie, a member of the Seventies comedy act The Goodies and now an energetic environmental campaigner, becomes an OBE.

Award-winning designer Alexander McQueen becomes a CBE and Loyd Grossman, former presenter of the TV Masterchef programme, becomes an OBE.

Gary Brooker, who formed Procol Harum in 1967, becomes an MBE, as does Errol Brown, lead singer with the Seventies band Hot Chocolate.

In sport, Bermuda-born Shaun Goater, a free-scoring striker who played a big part in restoring Manchester City to the Premiership, becomes an MBE in the Diplomatic List for services to sport and young people in Bermuda.

David Hemery, who was Olympic champion in the 400m hurdles in 1968, winning by a huge margin to smash the world record, becomes a CBE.

Cardiff-born athlete Colin Jackson, who dominated sprint hurdling during his spectacular career, becomes a CBE.

David Tanner, who was for many years coach with the Great Britain rowing team, achieving successes in the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney, becomes an OBE.

Carol Isherwood, the performance director for the Rugby Football Union for Women, becomes an OBE for services to women's rugby.

Hermione Lee, biographer, critic and broadcaster, and a leading expert on English literature, becomes a CBE.

Jim Moir, controller of BBC Radio 2, becomes a CBE for services to broadcasting.

Philippa Kennedy, consultant editor of Press Gazette, becomes an OBE for services to journalism.

There is a knighthood for Bill Morris, the outgoing general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, and for Ben Gill, president of the National Farmers' Union.

Colin Pillinger, the head scientist of Beagle 2, the UK-led project designed to land on Mars, becomes a CBE.