Order of Merit

	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Death	Notes
1.	Field Marshal The Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.D., P.C.	26 June 1902	14 November 1914	army officer
2.	Field Marshal The Viscount Wolseley, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., P.C.	26 June 1902	25 March 1913	army officer
3.	Field Marshal The Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.	26 June 1902	5 June 1916	army officer
4.	The Lord Rayleigh	26 June 1902	30 June 1919	physicist
5.	The Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O.	26 June 1902	17 December 1907	physicist
6.	The Lord Lister	26 June 1902	10 February 1912	surgeon
7.	Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Keppel, G.C.B.	26 June 1902	17 January 1904	naval officer
8.	The Rt. Hon. John Morley	26 June 1902	23 September 1923	writer and politician
9.	William Edward Hartpole Lecky	26 June 1902	22 October 1903	historian
10.	Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, G.C.B.	26 June 1902	2 March 1929	naval officer
11.	Sir William Huggins, K.C.B.	26 June 1902	12 May 1910	astronomer
12.	George Frederic Watts	26 June 1902	1 July 1904	painter and sculptor
13.	Field Marshal Sir George Stuart White, V.C., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O.	30 June 1905	24 June 1912	army officer
14.	Admiral Sir John Fisher, G.C.B.	30 June 1905	10 July 1920	naval officer
15.	Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb	3 June 1905	9 December 1905	classicist and politician
16.	Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema	30 June 1905	25 June 1912	painter
17.	George Meredith	30 June 1905	18 May 1909	novelist and poet
18.	William Holman Hunt	30 June 1905	7 September 1910	painter
19.	Field Marshal Prince Yamagata Aritomo	21 February 1906	1 February 1922	honorary member; Japanese army officer and statesman
20.	Field Marshal Prince Oyama Iwao	21 February 1906	10 December 1916	honorary member; Japanese army officer
21.	Marshal-Admiral Marquess Togo Heihachiro	21 February 1906	30 May 1934	honorary member; Japanese naval officer
22.	The Earl of Cromer, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I.	29 June 1906	29 January 1917	British ruler of Egypt
23.	The Rt. Hon. James Bryce	11 February 1907	22 January 1922	historian and politician
24.	Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, G.C.S.I.	30 June 1907	10 December 1911	botanist
25.	Florence Nightingale	12 May 1907	13 August 1910	nurse
26.	Henry Jackson	26 June 1908	25 September 1921	classicist
27.	Alfred Russel Wallace	26 June 1908	25 September 1921	biologist
28.	Sir William Crookes	8 July 1910	4 April 1919	chemist and physicist
29.	Thomas Hardy	8 July 1910	11 January 1928	novelist and poet
30.	The Rt. Hon. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bt.	19 June 1911	17 August 1928	historian and politician
31.	Edward Elgar	19 June 1911	23 February 1934	composer
32.	Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, G.C.B., G.C.V.O.	8 March 1912	25 May 1921	naval officer
33.	Sir J. J. Thompson	15 March 1912	30 August 1940	physicist
34.	Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B.	1 January 1914	10 November 1924	geologist
35.	Field Marshal Sir John French, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.	3 December 1914	22 May 1925	army officer
36.	The Viscount Haldane, K.T., P.C., K.C.	26 May 1915	19 August 1928	politician, lawyer, and philosopher
37.	Henry James	1 January 1916	28 February 1916	novelist and critic
38.	Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, G.C.B., K.C.V.O.	31 May 1916	20 November 1935	naval officer
39.	The Rt. Hon. Arthur Balfour	3 June 1916	19 March 1930	prime minister and philosopher
40.	Marshal Ferdinand Foch	29 November 1918	20 March 1929	honorary member; French army officer
41.	Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, G.C.B., G.C.V.O.	3 June 1919	11 March 1936	naval officer
42.	Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, K.T., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E.	3 June 1919	29 January 1928	army officer
43.	Marshal Joseph Joffre	26 June 1919	3 January 1931	honorary member; French army officer
44.	The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George	5 August 1919	26 March 1945	prime minister
45.	Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bart.	2 January 1922	19 June 1937	playwright and novelist
46.	Francis Herbert Bradley	3 June 1924	18 September 1924	philosopher
47.	Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, G.B.E.	3 June 1924	4 March 1952	pathologist
48.	Sir James George Frazer	1 January 1925	7 May 1941	anthropologist
49.	Ernest Rutherford	1 January 1925	19 October 1937	physicist
50.	Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, K.C.B.	3 June 1927	11 February 1931	engineer
51.	Sir George Abraham Grierson, K.C.I.E.	4 June 1928	9 March 1941	linguist
52.	Robert Seymour Bridges	3 June 1929	21 April 1930	poet
53.	John Galsworthy	3 June 1929	31 January 1933	novelist
54.	Samuel Alexander	3 June 1930	13 September 1938	philosopher
55.	M. R. James	3 June 1930	12 June 1936	medievalist and short story writer
56.	George Macaulay Trevelyan	3 June 1930	21 July 1962	historian
57.	Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.	1 January 1931	5 June 1935	naval officer
58.	Philip Wilson Steer	1 January 1931	18 March 1942	painter
59.	Sir William Henry Bragg, K.B.E.	3 June 1931	10 March 1942	physicist and chemist
60.	John William Mackail	1 January 1935	13 December 1945	literary scholar
61.	John Edward Masefield	3 June 1935	12 May 1967	poet
62.	Ralph Vaughan Williams	3 June 1935	26 August 1958	composer
63.	Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins	3 June 1935	16 May 1947	biochemist
64.	Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., K.C.M.G., D.S.O.	1 January 1936	6 July 1950	army officer
65.	The Rt. Hon. Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher	1 February 1937	18 April 1940	educator, historian, and politician
66.	The Lord Baden-Powell, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.B.	11 May 1937	8 January 1941	army officer and founder of the Scouting movement
67.	Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington	9 June 1938	22 November 1944	astrophysicist
68.	Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Chatfield, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O.	2 January 1939	15 November 1967	naval officer
69.	Sir James Hopwood Jeans	2 January 1939	16 September 1946	astrophysicist
70.	Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Cyril Newall, G.C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E.	29 October 1940	30 November 1963	R.A.F. officer
71.	Gilbert Murray	1 January 1941	20 May 1957	classicist
72.	Sir Edwin Lutyens	1 January 1942	1 January 1944	architect
73.	Augustus John	11 June 1942	31 October 1961	painter
74.	Edgar Adrian	11 June 1942	4 August 1977	physiologist
75.	Sir William Searle Holdsworth	1 January 1943	2 January 1944	legal historian
76.	Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound	3 September 1943	21 October 1943	naval officer
77.	The Lord Passfield	8 June 1944	13 October 1947	economist and politician
78.	Sir Henry Hallett Dale	8 June 1944	23 July 1968	physiologist
79.	Sir Giles Gilbert Scott	8 June 1944	8 February 1960	architect
80.	Alfred North Whitehead	1 January 1945	30 December 1947	mathematician and philosopher
81.	General of the Army Dwight David Eisenhower	12 June 1945	28 March 1969	honorary member; American army officer
82.	The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill	1 January 1946	24 January 1965	prime minister and historian
83.	Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Viscount Portal of Hungerford	1 January 1946	22 April 1971	R.A.F. officer
84.	Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke	13 June 1946	22 April 1971	army officer
85.	Admiral of the Fleet The Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope	13 June 1946	12 June 1963	naval officer
86.	The Earl of Halifax	13 June 1946	23 December 1959	politician and diplomatist
87.	Field Marshal The Rt. Hon. Jan Smuts	1 January 1947	11 September 1950	army officer and Prime Minister of South Africa
88.	John Gilbert Winant	1 January 1947	3 November 1947	honorary member; American diplomatist
89.	The Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King	17 November 1947	22 July 1950	Prime Minister of Canada
90.	T. S. Eliot	1 January 1948	4 January 1965	poet and dramatist
91.	Sir Robert Robinson	9 June 1949	8 February 1975	chemist
92.	The Earl Russell	9 June 1949	2 February 1970	philosopher
93.	The Rt. Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan	1 January 1951	9 July 1968	diplomat and civil servant
94.	Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Viscount Trenchard	1 January 1951	10 February 1956	R.A.F. officer
95.	G. E. Moore	7 June 1951	24 October 1958	philosopher
96.	The Rt. Hon. Clement Attlee	5 November 1951	8 October 1967	prime minister
97.	Wilder Penfield	1 January 1953	5 April 1976	Canadian neurosurgeon
98.	Walter de la Mare	1 June 1953	22 June 1956	poet
99.	Albert Schweitzer	25 February 1955	4 September 1965	theologiain, physician, and missionary
100.	The Lord Hailey	31 May 1956	1 June 1969	colonial administrator
101.	Sir John Cockcroft	1 January 1957	18 September 1967	physicist
102.	The Viscount Waverley	8 December 1957	4 January 1958	civil servant and politician
103.	Sir Macfarlane Burnet	12 June 1958	31 August 1958	Australian virologist
104.	The Viscount Samuel	21 November 1958	2 February 1963	politician and diplomat
105.	Field Marshal The Earl Alexander of Tunis	23 April 1960	16 June 1969	army officer
106.	Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood	23 April 1960	9 October 1967	chemist
107.	Graham Sutherland	23 April 1960	17 February 1980	painter
108.	Sir Geoffrey de Havilland	23 November 1962	21 May 1965	aviator
109.	Sir Basil Spence	23 November 1962	19 November 1976	architect
110.	Sir Owen Dixon	29 May 1963	7 July 1972	Australian jurist
111.	Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	12 June 1963	17 April 1975	Indian philosopher and politician
112.	G. P. Gooch	16 August 1963	31 August 1968	journalist and historian
113.	Henry Moore	16 August 1963	31 August 1986	sculptor
114.	Benjamin Britten	23 March 1965	4 December 1976	composer
115.	Dorothy Hodgkin	23 March 1965	29 July 1994	chemist
116.	Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma	15 July 1965	27 August 1979	naval officer and last Viceroy of India
117.	The Lord Florey	15 July 1965	21 February 1968	Australian pathologist
118.	Patrick Blackett	20 November 1967	13 July 1974	physicist
119.	Sir William Walton	20 November 1967	8 March 1983	composer
120.	Ben Nicholson	23 April 1968	6 February 1982	painter
121.	Sir Solly Zuckerman	23 April 1968	1 April 1993	zoologist
122.	H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh	10 June 1968		royal consort
123.	E. M. Forster	1 January 1969	7 June 1970	novelist and literary critic
124.	The Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald	14 July 1969	11 January 1981	politician, diplomat, and colonial administrator
125.	The Lord Penney	14 July 1969	3 March 1991	mathematician
126.	Sir G. I. Taylor	14 July 1969	27 June 1975	physicist and mathematician
127.	Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood	14 July 1969	9 March 1997	historian
128.	John Cawte Beaglehole	21 March 1970	10 October 1971	New Zealand historian
129.	The Rt. Hon. Lester Bowles Pearson	20 May 1971	27 December 1972	Prime Minister of Canada
130.	Sir Isaiah Berlin	20 May 1971	5 November 1997	philosopher and historian
131.	Sir George Edwards	20 May 1971	2 March 2003	aircraft designer and industrialist
132.	Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin	17 April 1973	20 December 1998	physiologist
133.	Paul Dirac	17 April 1973	20 October 1984	physicist
134.	The Rt. Hon. Harold Macmillan	2 April 1976	29 December 1986	prime minister
135.	The Lord Hinton of Bankside	2 April 1976	22 June 1983	nuclear engineer
136.	The Lord Clark	2 April 1976	21 May 1983	art historian
137.	Sir Ronald Syme	2 April 1976	4 September 1989	historian
138.	The Lord Todd	24 October 1977	10 January 1997	biochemist
139.	The Lord Franks	24 October 1977	15 October 1992	civil servant and philosopher
140.	Sir Frederick Ashton	24 October 1977	18 October 1988	dancer and choreographer
141.	J. B. Priestley	24 October 1977	14 August 1984	novelist and playwright
142.	The Lord Olivier	6 February 1981	11 July 1989	actor and director
143.	Sir Peter Medawar	6 February 1981	2 October 1987	biologist
144.	Leonard Cheshire	6 February 1981	31 July 1992	pilot and philanthropist
145.	The Rev. Owen Chadwick	11 November 1983		theological historian
146.	Sir Andrew Huxley	11 November 1983	30 May 2012	biophysicist
147.	Sir Sidney Nolan	11 November 1983	28 November 1992	Australian painter
148.	Sir Michael Tippett	11 November 1983	8 January 1998	composer
149.	Mother Teresa	18 November 1983	5 September 1997	honorary member, missionary and philanthropist
150.	Graham Greene	11 February 1986	3 April 1991	novelist
151.	Frederick Sanger	11 February 1986		biochemist
152.	Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle	11 February 1986	9 August 1996	engineer
153.	Yehudi menuhin	25 February 1987	12 March 1999	violinist
154.	Sir Ernest Gombrich	15 February 1988	3 November 2001	art historian
155.	Max Perutz	15 February 1988	6 February 2002	molecular biologist
156.	Dame Cicely Saunders	30 November 1989	14 July 2005	nurse and social worker
157.	Sir George Porter	30 November 1989	31 August2002	chemist
158.	The Baroness Thatcher	7 December 1990		prime minister
159.	Dame Joan Sutherland	29 November 1991	10 October 2010	soprano
160.	Francis Crick	27 November 1991	28 July 2004	molecular biologist
161.	Dame Ninette de Valois	17 November 1992	8 March 2001	dancer and choreographer
162.	Sir Michael Atiyah	17 November 1992		mathematician
163.	The Lord Jenkins of Hillhead	6 December 1993	5 January 2003	politician and historian
164.	Lucian Freud	6 December 1993	20 July 2011	painter
165.	Nelson Mandela	21 March 1995		honorary member; President of South Africa
166.	Sir Aaron Klug	23 October 1995		biophysicist
167.	Sir John Gielgud	9 December 1996	21 May 2000	actor and director
168.	The Lord Denning	25 November 1997	5 March 1999	jurist
169.	The Lord Foster of Thames Bank	25 November 1997		architect
170.	Sir Denis Rooke	25 November 1997	2 September 2008	industrialist and engineer
171.	Ted Hughes	10 August 1998	28 October 1998	poet
172.	His Eminence Basil Cardinal Hume	25 May 1999	17 June 1999	Roman Catholic prelate
173.	Sir James Black	9 May 2000	22 March 2010	pharmacologist
174.	Sir Anthony Caro	9 May 2000		sculptor
175.	Sir Roger Penrose	9 May 2000		mathematical physicist
176.	Sir Tom Stoppard	9 May 2000		playwright
177.	H.R.H. The Prince of Wales	27 June 2002		heir to the throne
178.	The Lord May of Oxford	28 October 2002		ecologist
179.	The Lord Rothschild	28 October 2002		philanthropist
180.	Sir David Attenborough	10 June 2005		broadcaster and naturalist
181.	The Lady Boothroyd	10 June 2005		Speaker of the House of Commons
182.	Sir Michael Howard	10 June 2005		historian
183.	The Lord Eames	13 June 2007		Anglican prelate
184.	Sir Tim Berners-Lee	13 June 2007		inventor of the World Wide Web
185.	The Lord Rees of Ludlow	13 June 2007		astronomer
186.	The Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien	13 July 2009		Prime Minister of Canada
187.	Neil MacGregor	4 November 2010		art historian
188.	David Hockney	1 January 2012		artist
189.	The Hon. John Howard	1 January 2012		Prime Minister of Australia
190.	Sir Simon Rattle, C.B.E.	1 January 2014		orchestra conductor
191.	Martin Litchfield West	1 January 2014	1	classicist
192.	Sir Magdi Yacoub	1 January 2014		cardiothoracic surgeon
193.	The Lord Darzi of Denham, K.B.E., P.C.	31 December 2015		laparoscopic surgeon
194.	Dame Anne Dowling, D.B.E.	31 December 2015		mechanical engineer
195.	Sir James Dyson, C.B.E.	31 December 2015		industrial designer