Overview
- Roy Clarke, creator of Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances and Open All Hours, receives a knighthood for services to entertainment.
- Actor and writer Meera Syal is awarded a damehood, reflecting her pioneering role in British Asian representation on television.
- Richard Osman is made an OBE for services to literature and broadcasting after topping 2025 book charts with The Impossible Fortune.
- Sports presenter Gabby Logan receives an OBE for broadcasting and charity work; other honourees include Paul Elliott (MBE), Clive Tyldesley (OBE), Phil Spencer (MBE), Sally Lindsay (MBE), Matt Lucas (OBE) and Bill Bailey (MBE).
- OBEs go to Charlotte Moore and Alex Mahon, both cited as possible successors to outgoing BBC director general Tim Davie.