List of dames commander of the Order of the British Empire

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. Honorary dames commander of the Order of the British Empire can be found at :Category:Honorary Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

1910s 1917:The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava; The Lady Houston; Sarah Lees; The Marchioness of Londonderry; Edith Balfour Lyttelton; The Lady Pentland; The Marchioness of Willingdon 1918: Eva Anstruther; The Lady Arnott; The Duchess of Atholl; The Lady Bell of Rounton Grange; Maud Bevan; Maud Burnett; The Marchioness of Bute; The Lady Davidson; The Lady Donner; Alice Godman; The Lady Jekyll; Adelaide Livingstone; Ethel Locke King; The Lady Lugard; Nellie Melba; Margaret Pryse-Rice; Clarissa Reid; The Viscountess Ridley; The Countess Roberts; The Lady Sclater; The Lady Smith-Dorrien; Janet Stancomb-Wills; The Countess Waldegrave; Mary Webster 1919: Rachel Crowdy; The Countess of Darnley; Blanche Gordon Lennox; Helen Gwynne-Vaughan; The Countess of Harrowby; The Lady Henderson; The Lady Monro; The Lady Mount Stephen; The Lady Northcote; The Lady O'Dwyer; Sarah Oram; Florence Simpson

1920s 1920: Georgiana Buller; Clara Butt; Alice Chisholm; The Dowager Countess of Eglinton; The Countess of Gosford; Catherine Hunt; The Countess of Leicester; The Lady Melchett; The Lady Oliver, Ethel Pearson; Una Pope-Hennessy; The Dowager Viscountess Rhondda; Louise Samuel; Ethel Shakespear; The Lady Talbot of Malahide; Meriel Talbot; Catherine Wingate; Sophia Wintz 1921: Adelaide Anderson; The Lady Dixon 1922: The Viscountess Greenwood; Ethel Smyth; Margaret Greville 1923: The Lady Cox; The Lady (Barbara) Strickland 1924: Henrietta Rowland Barnett; The Viscountess Bridgeman; Janet Campbell; Beatrix Lyall; Rani Shiv Kunwar Sahiba, Senior Rani and Rani-Regent of Narsinghgarh 1925: Emma Albani; Louisa Aldrich-Blake; The Lady Cook; Louisa Lumsden; The Lady St Helier; Anne Smith; Mary Wills 1926: Agnes Hunt; Madge Kendal; Maude Lawrence; Jessie Phipps; Mary Scharlieb 1927: Edith Antrobus; The Countess of Cavan; The Dowager Countess of Jersey; Emily Penrose; The Countess of Stradbroke; The Viscountess Templewood 1928: The Duchess of Bedford; Frances Dove; Eadith Walker; Elizabeth Wordsworth 1929: The Lady Brittain; The Lady Findlay; The Lady Humphrys; Laura Knight; Louise McIlroy; Bertha Phillpotts

1930s 1930: The Lady Bailey 1931: Joanna Cruickshank; Maharani Lakshmi Devi of Dhar; Sarah Mair; Sybil Thorndike 1932: Margaret Tuke; Edith Brown 1933: The Lady Denman; The Viscountess Simon 1934: Elizabeth Cadbury; Alicia Lloyd Still 1935: Annie Jean Connor; Constance D'Arcy; Maria Ogilvie Gordon; The Lady MacDonald; Rosalind Paget; The Duchess of Portland 1936: The Duchess of Abercorn; Regina Evans; The Lady Gilmour; Christabel Pankhurst 1937: The Lady Anderson; Geraldine Cadbury; Mary Gilmore; Ellen Pinsent; The Lady Rhys-Williams; The Lady (Margaret) Strickland; Marie Tempest; Violet Wills 1938: The Countess of Elgin; Florence Lambert; Gwendoline Trubshaw 1939: The Lady Hillingdon; Ellen Musson

1940s 1941: The Viscountess Craigavon; Myra Hess; The Marchioness of Reading; The Lady Stanley; Irene Vanbrugh 1942: Katharine Jones 1943: Emily Blair; Lilian Braithwaite; Anne Loughlin; Ethel Walker 1944: Lilian Barker; Doris Beale; Jane Trefusis Forbes 1945: Joan Marsham; Vera Laughton Mathews; Katherine Watt 1946: Edith Evans; The Countess of Limerick; The Duchess of Richmond; Mary Welsh; Leslie Whateley 1947: Madeline Brock; Gertrude Cosgrove; Evelyn Fox; Matilda Goodrich; Caroline Haslett; Emmeline Tanner; The Lady Walwyn 1948: The Baroness Sharp; Louisa Wilkinson 1949: Harriette Chick; Myra Curtis; Anne Curwen; The Lady Meynell; Dehra Parker; Felicity Peake; Mary Smieton; Gladys Taylor; Mary Tyrwhitt

1950s 1950: Marjorie Cox; Frances Farrer; Adeline Genée, Grace Kimmins; Olive Wheeler; Jocelyn Woollcombe 1951: Ellen Acton; Florence Cardell-Oliver; Helen Cargill; Mary Daly; Elizabeth Gilmer; Florence Hancock; Hilda Lloyd; Lillian Penson; Anne Thomson; Ninette de Valois 1952: Florence Bevin; Kathleen Courtney; The Viscountess Davidson; Mary Lloyd; Marjorie Maxse 1953: The Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; Cynthia Colville; Mary Coulshed; Catherine Fulford; Elisabeth Kelly; Flora MacLeod of MacLeod; Enid Russell-Smith 1954: Lilian Bromley-Davenport; Helen Gillespie; Edith Sitwell 1955: Mabel Brookes; Elizabeth Cockayne; The Countess of Rosebery; Nancy Salmon; The Baroness Ward of North Tyneside; Roberta Whyte 1956: The Countess of Albemarle; Peggy Ashcroft; Margot Fonteyn; Kathleen Lonsdale; Mary Railton; Hilda Ross; Lucile Sayers 1957: Anne Bryans; The Countess De La Warr; Annabelle Rankin; Nancy Robertson; Janet Vaughan 1958: Mary Henrietta Barnett; The Baroness Elliot of Harwood; Monica Golding; Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones; Rose Macaulay; The Duchess of Portland; Maggie Teyte, Alice Mary Williamson 1959: The Viscountess Brookeborough; Ruth Buckley; Mary Colvin; Rebecca West

1960s 1960: Judith Anderson; Alice Berry; The Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte; The Lady Herring; Elizabeth Hoyer-Millar; Alice Lowrey, Merlyn Myer; Flora Robson 1961: Kitty Anderson; Elizabeth Couchman; The Baroness Hornsby-Smith; Anne Stephens 1962: Anne Godwin; Edith Pitt; Marie Rambert; Jean Roberts; Barbara Salt; Eva Turner 1963: Joyce Bishop; The Lady Bromet; Barbara Cozens; Jean Davies; Honor Fell; Alicia Markova; The Lady Murdoch 1964: Veronica Ashworth; Jean Rivett-Drake; Margaret Shepherd; The Baroness Vickers; Eileen Younghusband 1965: The Lady Adrian; Florence Cayford; Mabel Crout; Sibyl Hathaway; Joan Henderson; Barbara Hepworth; Elizabeth Lane; Catherine Scott; Margot Turner; The Lady Wakehurst 1966: Elsie Abbot; Margaret Drummond; Felicity Hill; Leah Manning; Ngaio Marsh; Annie McEwen; Ruth Railton; Grace Tebbutt; Mabel Tylecote 1967: Margery Corbett Ashby; The Countess of Brecknock; Ivy Compton-Burnett; Gladys Cooper; Helen Gardner; Pauline Giles; Mabel Miller; Beryl Paston Brown; Margaret Rutherford; Ivy Wedgwood; Albertine Winner 1968: Zara Bate; Annis Gillie; Isabel Graham Bryce; Mary Green; Muriel Powell; Kathleen Raven; Hilda Stevenson; Muriel Stewart; Dorothy Tangney; Veronica Wedgwood; Ethel Wormald 1969: Rita Buxton; Hilda Bynoe; The Lady Carey Evans; Mary Cartwright; The Lady Gibbs; Ella Macknight; Daphne du Maurier; Anna Neagle; Sister Mary Regis; Lucy Sutherland; Elizabeth Yarwood

1970s 1970: Elizabeth Ackroyd; Mary Anderson; Te Atairangikaahu; Sara Barker; The Lady Bottomley; Margaret Cole; Marion Kettlewell; Margaret Miles; Peggy van Praagh 1971: Kate Campbell; Agatha Christie; Mabel Coles; The Lady Cramer; Adelaide Doughty; Kathleen Ollerenshaw 1972: Nancy Buttfield; Cicely Courtneidge; Unity Lister; The Lady Plowden; Diana Reader Harris; Freya Stark; Susan Walker 1973: The Lady Bolte; Sylvia Crowe; Kathleen Kenyon; Sister Mary Leo; Marjorie Williamson 1974: Josephine Barnes; Emma Clode; The Baroness Denington; Phyllis Frost; Joan Hammond; Rose Heilbron; Albertha Isaacs; The Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth; The Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden; Margot Smith 1975: The Lady Angliss; Helen Blaxland; Bridget D'Oyly Carte; Joyce Daws; Frances Gardner; Wendy Hiller; Margaret Kidd; Ruth Kirk; Vera Lynn; Dorothy Rees; Betty Ridley 1976: Janet Baker; Edith Burnside; Violet Dickson; Joan Evans; Monica Gallagher; Elizabeth Hill; Ada Norris 1977: Geraldine Aves; The Lady Browne; Patricia Mackinnon; Rosemary Murray; Iris Origo; Marjorie Parker; Cecily Pickerill; Winifred Prentice; Frances Yates 1978: Isobel Baillie; Mary Durack; Audrey Reader; Joan Howard Roberts; Sheila Sherlock; Meere Uatioa 1979: Mary Austin; Margaret Booth; Sister Philippa Brazill; The Baroness Butler-Sloss; Elizabeth Coker; Gracie Fields; The Baroness Hart of South Lanark; Naomi James; Doris Johnson; Daphne Purves; Joan Sutherland; Margaret Weston

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

1990s 1990: Josephine Abaijah; Venetia Blaize; Joyanne Bracewell; The Baroness Hylton-Foster; The Baroness Lloyd of Highbury; Maggie Smith; Miraka Szászy; Rachel Waterhouse; Dorothy Winstone 1991: Barbara Cartland; Stella Casey; Eugenia Charles; The Lady Digby; Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies; Jane Gow; Malvina Major; The Lady Porter; The Lady Ridsdale; Lucie Rie; Sue Tinson; Margaret Turner-Warwick 1992: Jocelyn Barrow; Ann Ebsworth; Rangimārie Hetet; Edna Lewis; Moura Lympany; Wendy Mitchell; Shirley Oxenbury; Anne Poole; Norma Restieaux; Angela Rumbold; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; The Baroness Serota; Janet Smith 1993: The Lady Arden of Heswall; Ann Ballin; Patricia Bergquist; Catherine Cookson; Mary Corsar; Pat Evison; Mary Glen-Haig; Phyllis Guthardt, Louise Henderson; Thora Hird; Dawn Lamb; Anne McLaren; The Lady Muldoon; Annette Penhaligon; Margaret Price; Muriel Spark; Heather Steel; Augusta Wallace 1994: Margaret Brain; The Baroness Byford; The Baroness Hale of Richmond; Marea Hartman; Georgina Kirby; Eileen Mayo; Diana Rigg; Gillian Wagner 1995: The Baroness Anelay of St. Johns; Elizabeth Clarke Anson; Josephine Barstow; Marjorie Bean; June Clark; Sister Pauline Engel; Elizabeth Esteve-Coll; Elizabeth Harper; The Lady Higgins; Mary Hogg; Rose Kekedo; Anne Salmond; The Lady Thorneycroft 1996: Fiona Caldicott; The 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth; Jane Drew; The Baroness Fritchie; Felicity Lott; The Baroness Noakes; Antoinette Sibley; Gillian Weir 1997: Rachael Dyche; Deirdre Hine; Cleo Laine; Barbara Mills; Bridget Ogilvie; Joan Sawyer; Rosanna Wong 1998: Gillian Beer; Lorna Boreland-Kelly; Patricia Collarbone; Tamsyn Imison; Betty Kershaw; Helen Metcalf; Gillian Oliver; The Viscountess Runciman of Doxford; Veronica Sutherland; Mary Uprichard 1999: The Lady Black of Derwent; Lois Browne-Evans; A. S. Byatt; Diana Collins; Pauline Fielding; Mavis Grant; The Baroness Hallett; Norma Major; Yvonne Moores; Helen Reeves; Margaret Seward; Helena Shovelton; Lesley Southgate; Maureen Thomas

2000s 2000: Julie Andrews; Beryl Bainbridge; Shirley Bassey; Beulah Bewley; Jill Macleod Clark; Marie Descartes; Vivien Duffield; Anne Evans; Glynne Evans; Geraldine Keegan; Judith Kilpatrick; Patricia Morgan-Webb; Lorna Muirhead; Mary Peters; Anne Rafferty; Marlene Robottom; Miriam Rothschild; Steve Shirley; Patricia Symmonds; Elizabeth Taylor; Dorothy Tutin 2001: Ingrid Allen; Eileen Atkins; The Baroness Campbell of Surbiton; Wendy Davies; Karlene Davis; Jill Ellison; Jean Else; Julia Higgins; Sharon Hollows; Thea King; Sheila McKechnie; Sally Powell; Lesley Rees; Mary Richardson; Dela Smith; Marilyn Strathern; Janet Trotter 2002: Margaret Barbour; Laura Cox; The Baroness Deech; Catherine Elcoat; Judith Mayhew Jonas; Jessica Rawson; Janet Ritterman; Marjorie Scardino; Meg Taylor; Sheila Wallis