Queen's New Year Honours list 2021

31 Dec 2020 10:11 AM

Recipients of The Queen's New Year Honours in Scotland include:

A Knighthood for:

• Professor Francis McCormac for services to education and to the economy

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) include:

• Caroline Gardner for services to the Scottish public sector
• Peter Dawson for services to golf
• Maureen McGinn for services to civil society
• Professor Ian Finlay for services to medical education and training
• Professor Sheila Rowan MBE for services to science
• Professor Bashabi Fraser for services to education, culture and integration in Scotland
• Professor Petra Wend for services to higher education

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) include:

• Michael Bullock for services to the safety and welfare of seafarers
• Philip Archer for services to art and education
• Dr Beverly Bergman for services to veterans in Scotland
• Donalda Bradbury for services to Rugby Union
• Dr Hermione Cockburn for services to public engagement in science
• Richard Paterson for services to the Scotch Whisky industry
• Ann McVie for public service

Among those to be made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) are:

• Paul Miller for services to retail customers during the COVID-19 response
• Colleen Blair for services to swimming
• Rosemary Brewster for services to end of life care  
• Professor Geoffrey Codd for services to water quality
• Robert Dick for services to disability sport
• Ronald Loveland and Joyce Loveland for services to foster care in Moray
• Kenneth MacKay for services to the community in Rhenigidale, Western Isles
• Robert Rankin for services to civil engineering and to innovation
• Vinaykant Ruparelia for services to local enterprise, tourism and to the community in Portsoy, Banffshire
• Alexander Watt for services to young people with additional needs and disabilities and to community cohesion in Glasgow

Among those to become a Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) are:

• Charandeep Singh for services to charity during the COVID-19 response
• Maxine Allan for services to young people with cancer and NHS front line workers in Ayr during the COVID-19 response
• Jacqueline Campbell for charitable services to the Children's Hospital Association Scotland, particularly during the COVID-19 response
• Margaret Cook for services to Ayrshire Hospice  
• Richard Foxley for voluntary service to the NHS during the COVID-19 response
• William Henderson for voluntary service in the Shetland Islands
• Jamie Kinlochan for services to the vulnerable during the COVID-19 response through Who Cares Scotland
• Paula Morag Lloyd for services to the vulnerable in Inverness during the COVID-19 response
• Mary Nelson for services to Homeless People in Moray
• Charlotte Park for services to the Armed Forces
• Mohammed Usman Rakq for services to education and to students with hearing impairments
• Keith Rutherford for services to the community in Colonsay and Oronsay
• Jackie Stuart for services to law and order and cultural heritage