David Bowie

Albert Finney

David Hockney

John Cleese

Jon Snow

Ken Loach

Roald Dahl

Graham Greene

John le Carré

Robert Graves

Francis Bacon

Aldous Huxley

Evelyn Waugh

J B Priestley

Anthony Powell

Philip Larkin

Trevor Howard

Alastair Sim

Benjamin Zephaniah

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

J.G. Ballard

Claire Tomalin

Nigella Lawson

Doris Lessing

Alan Bennett

Kenneth Branagh

Helen Mirren

Michael Frayn

John Cole

Neil MacGregor

Richard Lambert

Jim Broadbent

Honor Blackman

Vanessa Redgrave

Dawn French

Jennifer Saunders

George Melly

Lucian Freud

Bernie Ecclestone

Humphrey Lyttleton

have ALL demonstrated their opposition to the honours system by turning down knighthoods, CBEs and other “gongs”,