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Below is a List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire from the Order's creation in 1917 until the present day:

Contents 1 1910s 2 1920s 3 1930s 4 1940s 5 1950s 6 1960s 7 1970s 8 1980s 9 1990s 10 2000s 10.1 References

• 1917: The Baroness Pentland, The Baroness Byron, The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, The Marchioness of Londonderry, The Baroness Willingdon, Edith Lyttelton, Sarah Lees
• 1918: Florence Bell, Caroline Arnott, Edith Sclater, Ethel Locke-King, Nellie Melba, The Viscountess Ridley, The Countess Waldegrave, Agnes Jekyll, Eva Anstruther, Margaret Davidson, The Duchess of Atholl, Maud Burnett, Alice Godman, Adelaide Livingstone, Margaret Pryse-Rice, Olive Smith-Dorrien, Janet Stancomb-Wills, May Whitty, Augusta Crichton-Stuart, The Countess Roberts, Clarissa Reid, Flora Lugard, Maud Bevan, Anna Maria Donner
• 1919: Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, The Countess of Harrowby, Mary Monro, The Countess of Darnley, Gian Tufnell Stephen, Baroness Mount Stephen, Henrietta Henderson, Lady Blanche Gordon-Lennox, Florence Simpson, Sarah Oram, Rachel Crowdy, Alice Northcote, Una O'Dwyer

• 1920: The Countess of Leicester, Louise Samuel, The Countess of Gosford, The Viscountess Rhondda, Georgiana Buller, The Baroness Talbot of Malahide, The Countess of Eglinton, Meriel Lucy Talbot, Clara Butt, Catherine Wingate, Alice Chisholm, Una Pope-Hennessy, Catherine Hunt, Beryl Oliver, Louise Samuel, Ethel Shakespear, Sophia Wentz, Ethel Maud Pearson, Violet Mond
• 1921: Edith Dixon, Adelaide Anderson
• 1922: Margery Greenwood, Margaret Greville
• 1923: Barbara Strickland, Belle Cox
• 1924: Caroline Bridgeman, Shiv Kunwar Sahiba, Beatrix Lyall, Henrietta Barnett, Janet Campbell, Louisa Aldrich-Blake
• 1925: Mary Wills, Louisa Lumsden, Emma Albani, Susan Jeune, Baroness St Helier, Mary Cook
• 1926: Maude Lawrence, Agnes Hunt, Madge Kendal, Jessie Phipps, Mary Scharlieb
• 1927: The Countess of Cavan, The Countess of Stradbroke, Maud, Lady Hoare, Emily Penrose, The Countess of Jersey
• 1928: The Duchess of Bedford, Elizabeth Wordsworth, Jane Dove
• 1929: Alida Brittain, Harriet Findlay, Gertrude Humphrys, Laura Knight, Anne McIlroy, Bertha Phillpotts

• 1930: Mary Bailey
• 1931: Joanna Cruickshank, Sarah Mair, Sybil Thorndike
• 1932: Margaret Tuke
• 1933: Kathleen Simon, The Baroness Denman
• 1934: Elizabeth Cadbury, Alicia Still
• 1935: The Duchess of Portland, Ethel MacDonald, May Ogilvie-Gordon, Rosalind Paget
• 1936: The Duchess of Abercorn, Christabel Pankhurst, Regina Evans, Lady Susan Gilmour
• 1937: Violet Wills, Edith Anderson, The Baroness Strickland, Marie Tempest, Ellen Pinsent, Juliet Rhys-Williams
• 1938: The Countess of Elgin, Florence Lambert, Gwendoline Trubshaw
• 1939: The Baroness Hillingdon, Ellen Musson

• 1940: None
• 1941: The Viscountess Craigavon, Myra Hess, Reniera Stanley, Irene Vanbrugh, The Marchioness of Reading
• 1942: Katharine Jones
• 1943: Ethel Walker, Emily Blair, Lilian Braithwaite, Anne Loughlin
• 1944: Katherine Watson-Watt, Doris Beale, Katherine Trefusis-Forbes
• 1945: Joan Marsham, Elvira Mathews, Katherine Watt
• 1946: The Duchess of Richmond, Leslie Whateley, The Countess of Limerick, Ruth Welsh, Edith Evans
• 1947: Eileen Walwyn, Doris Madeline Brock Turner, Gertrude Cosgrove, Evelyn Fox, Caroline Haslett, Emmeline Tanner
• 1948: Evelyn Sharpe, Louisa Wilkinson
• 1949: Mary Smieton, Felicity Peake, Mary Tyrwhitt, Dehra Parker, Myra Curtis, Anne Curwen, Alix Kilroy, Harriette Chick, Gladys Taylor

• 1950: Grace Kimmins, Jocelyn Woollcombe, Adeline Genée, Olive Wheeler, Marjorie Cox, Frances Farrer
• 1951: Elizabeth Gilmer, Mary Daly, Annie Cardell-Oliver, Anne Thomson, Ellen Acton, Ninette de Valois. Florence Hancock, Hilda Lloyd, Lillian Penson
• 1952: Marjorie Maxse, The Viscountess Davidson, Mary Lloyd, Florence Bevan, Kathleen Courtney
• 1953: Flora MacLeod of MacLeod, Lady Cynthia Colville, Violet Bonham Carter, Mary Coulshed, Elisabeth Kelly
• 1954: Edith Sitwell, Lillian Bromley-Davenport, Helen Gillespie
• 1955: The Countess of Rosebery, Mabel Brookes, Irene Ward, Roberta Whyte, Nancy Salmon
• 1956: The Countess of Albemarle, Peggy Ashcroft, Mary Railton, Grace Ross, Margot Fonteyn, Kathleen Lonsdale, Lucile Sayers
• 1957: Anne Bryans, Viscountess Kilmuir, Annabelle Rankin, Nancy Robertson, Janet Vaughan
• 1958: Mary Barnett, The Baroness Elliot of Harwood, The Duchess of Portland, Cecilie Johnson, Mary Jones, Rose Macaulay, Alice Williamson
• 1959: Mary Colvin, Ruth Buckley, The Viscountess Brookeborough, Rebecca West

• 1960: Barbara Brooke, Elizabeth Millar, Merlyn Myer, Judith Anderson, Evelyn Hoyer-Miller
• 1961: Helen Gardner, Ethel Stabb, Margaret Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Anne Stephens, Elizabeth Couchman, Kitty Anderson
• 1962: Barbara Salt, Edith Pitt, Beatrice Godwin, Jean Roberts, Eva Turner
• 1963: Alicia Markova, Elisabeth Murdoch, Honor Fell, Jean Davies, Florence Cozens
• 1964: Eileen Younghusband, Joan Vickers, Jean Rivett-Drake
• 1965: Joan Kelleher, The Baroness Wakehurst, Barbara Hepworth, Elizabeth Lane, The Baroness Adrian, Florence Cayford, Mabel Crout, Catherine Scott
• 1966: Felicity Hill, Ngaio Marsh, Anne McEwen, Edith Drummond, Elsie Abbott, Elizabeth Manning, Ruth Railton, Grace Tebbutt, Mabel Tylecote
• 1967: Pauline Giles, Margaret Rutherford, Marjorie Pratt, Marchioness Camden, Ivy Wedgwood, Mabel Miller, Albertine Winner, Margery Corbett-Ashby, Beryl Paston-Wood, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Gladys Cooper, Helen Gardner
• 1968: Mary Green, Veronica Wedgwood, Hilda Stevenson, Annis Gillie, Muriel Powell, Isabel Graham-Bryce, Kathleen Raven, Muriel Stewart, Ethel Wormald, Zara Bate, Dorothy Tangney, Sister Mary Regis
• 1969: Hilda Bynoe, Daphne du Maurier, Lady Olwen Carey Evans, Molly Gibbs, Ella Macknight, Mary Cartwright, Anna Neagle

• 1970: Marion Kettlewell, Te Atairangikaahu, May Anderson, Peggy van Praagh, Sara Barker, Bessie Bottomley, Margaret Miles, Dorothy Ackroyd, Margaret Cole
• 1971: Agatha Christie, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Kate Isabel Campbell, Mary Cramer, Adelaide Doughty
• 1972: Nancy Buttfield, The Baroness Plowden, Cicely Courtneidge, Muriel Harris, Freya Stark, Susan Walker, Unity Lister
• 1973: Sister Mary Leo, Kathleen Kenyon, Sylvia Crowe, Elsie Williamson
• 1974: Phyllis Frost, Margot Smith, Rose Heilbron, Evelyn Denington, Katharine Macmillan, Albertha Isaacs, Josephine Barnes, Emma Clode
• 1975: Joyce Daws, Betty Ridley, Vera Lynn, Helen Blaxland, Ruth Kirk, Dorothy Rees, Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Frances Gardner, Wendy Hiller, Margaret Kidd, Jacobena Angliss
• 1976: Janet Baker, Monica Josephine Gallagher, Ada Norris, Elizabeth Hill, Edith Burnside, Joan Evans, Violet Dickson
• 1977: Lady Moyra Browne, Patricia Mackinnon, Winifred E. Prentice, Rosemary Murray, Cecil Pickerill, Marjorie Parker, Frances Yates
• 1978: Sheila Sherlock, Isobel Baillie, Mary Durack, Audrey Reader
• 1979: Margaret Booth, Naomi James, Daphne Purves, Joan Sutherland, Margaret Weston, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Doris Johnson, Judith Hart, Elizabeth Coker, Gracie Fields, Mary Austin, Sister Mary Philippa Brazill

• 1980: Miriam Dell, Phyllis Friend, Margaret Guilfoyle, Raigh Roe, Cicely Saunders, The Baroness Soames, Ida Mann, Rachel Cleland, Ann Springman
• 1981: Beryl Beaurepaire, Mary Bridges, Betty Paterson, Margaret Scott, The Baroness Pike, Whina Cooper, Margaret Blackwood, Shelagh Roberts, Pamela Hunter, Celia Johnson
• 1982: Kiri Te Kanawa, Doris Fitton, Roma Mitchell, Alice Wedega, Elisabeth Frink, Catherine Hall, Ida Yonge
• 1983: Leonie Kramer, Shirley Paget, Rosamund Holland-Martin, Olga Uvarov
• 1984: Catherine Tizard, Joan Owen, Mary Warnock, Guinevere Tilney
• 1985: Jean Herbison, Alison Munro, Joan Varley, Jill Knight, The Baroness Jenkins of Hillhead
• 1986: Vivienne Boyd, Gwyneth Jones, Merle Park, Simone Prendergast, Peggy Fenner, Barbara Shenfield, Christian Howard, Dorothea Horsman, Rosa Tokiel
• 1987: Dorothy Fraser, Joan Metge, Sheila Quinn, Marie Clay, Mary Kekedo, Penelope Jessel, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Chesterton, Elizabeth Maconchy
• 1988: Judi Dench, Barbara Clayton, Beryl Grey, Rosalind Hurley, Elaine Kellett-Bowman, Laurie Salas
• 1989: Margaret Fry, Barbara Goodman, Rosemary Rue, Lydia Dunn, Audrey Emerton, Janet Fookes, Silvia Cartwright

• 1990: Joyanne Bracewell, Maggie Smith, Susan Tinson, Rachel Waterhouse, Dorothy Winstone, June Lloyd, Audrey Hylton-Foster, Miraka Szászy, Venetia Blaize, Josephine Abaijah
• 1991: Eugenia Charles, The Baroness Digby, Paddy Ridsdale, Margaret Turner-Warwick, Malvina Major, Shirley Porter, Barbara Cartland, Stella Casey, Jane Gow, Sue Tinson, Lucie Rie, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
• 1992: Jocelyn Barrow, Moura Lympany, Anne Poole, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Janet Smith, Shirley Oxenbury, Angela Rumbold, Beatrice Serota, Wendy Mitchell, Rangimarie Hetet, Norma Restieaux
• 1993: Mary Howarth Arden, Mary Corsar, Pat Evison, Mary Glen-Haig, Phyllis Guthardt, Anne McLaren, Annette Penhaligon, Margaret Price, Muriel Spark, Heather Steel, Thea Flyger Muldoon, Catherine Cookson, Reubina Ballin, Thora Hird, Louise Henderson, Dawn Lamb, Augusta Wallace, Patricia Bergquist
• 1994: Margaret Brain, Brenda Hale, Georgina Kirby, Diana Rigg, Gillian Wagner, Hazel Byford, Gladys Hartman, Eileen Mayo
• 1995: Elizabeth Anson, Josephine Barstow, June Clark, Sister Pauline Engel, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, Elizabeth Harper, Mary Hogg, Anne Salmond, Carla Thorneycroft, Joyce Anelay, Rosalyn Higgins, Margaret Clark
• 1996: Fiona Caldicott, Rennie Fritchie, Felicity Lott, Antoinette Sibley, Gillian Weir, Sheila Noakes, The Baroness Darcy de Knayth, Jane Drew
• 1997: Rachael Dyche, Deirdre Hine, Cleo Laine, Barbara Mills, Bridget Ogilvie, Joan Sawyer
• 1998: Gillian Beer, Lorna Boreland-Kelly, Patricia Collarbone, Tamsyn Imison, Betty Kershaw, Helen Metcalf, Gillian Oliver, The Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, Veronica Sutherland, Simone Veil, Mary Uprichard
• 1999: Gill Black, Lois Browne-Evans, Diana Collins, Mavis Grant, Heather Hallett, Yvonne Moores, Helen Reeves, Margaret Seward, Helena Shovelton, Lesley Southgate, Norma Major, A. S. Byatt, Pauline Fielding

• 2000: Sally Powell, Beryl Bainbridge, Beulah Bewley, Vivien Duffield, Anne Evans, Geraldine Keegan, Jill Macleod Clark, Mary Peters, Anne Rafferty, Marlene Rabottom, Miriam Rothschild, Steve Shirley, Patricia Symmonds, Elizabeth Taylor, Julie Andrews, Shirley Bassey, Glynne Evans, Lorna Muirhead
• 2001: Ingrid Allen, Wendy Davies, Karlene Davis, Jill Ellison, Jean Else, Julia Higgins, Sharon Hollows, Thea King, Sheila McKechnie, Jessica Rawson, Lesley Rees, Mary Richardson, Dela Smith, Marilyn Strathern, Janet Trotter, Sheila Wallis, Eileen Atkins
• 2002: Margaret Barbour, Laura Cox, Pauline Green, Judith Mayhew, Janet Ritterman, Marjorie Scardino, Ruth Deech, Catherine Elcoat, Meg Taylor, Jenifer Wilson-Barnett
• 2003: Elizabeth Neville, Louise Johnson, Rita Weller, Elizabeth Blackadder, Yvonne Buckland, Pamela Coward, Helen Mirren, Julia Polak, Ruth Robins, Anita Roddick
• 2004: Enid Bibby, Florence Baron, The Baroness Brittan of Spennithorne, Hilary Cropper, Sandra Dawson, Jacqueline Docherty, Gillian Morgan, Julia Neuberger, Olwen Hufton, Deirdre Hutton, Denise Platt, Marion Roe, Alexandra Burslem, Joan Harbison, Pauline Harris, Patricia Hodgson, Elisabeth Hoodless, Joan Plowright, Jane Roberts
• 2005: Carol M. Black, Maureen Brennan, Nancy Rothwell, Kelly Holmes, Mary Macdonald, Sarah Mullally, Gillian Pugh, Jean Thomas, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Fanny Waterman
• 2006: Averil Cameron, Liz Forgan, Anna Hassan, Susan Leather, Julie Mellor, Vivienne Westwood, Daphne Sheldrick
• 2007: Yasmin Bevan, Mary Douglas, Ann Dowling, Evelyn Glennie, Joan Higgins, Ann Leslie, Mary Elizabeth Marsh, Josephine Williams

• The London Gazette
• Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 107th edition