The Queen's Birthday Honours 1963 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made "on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday", and were published in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 May 1963.UK list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Nigeria list: Sierra Leone list: Jamaica list: Uganda list: Rhodesia and Nyasaland list:

At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.

Recipients of honours are listed here as they were styled before their new honour.

United Kingdom

Baron The Right Honourable Charles Hill, M.D., M.P., Member of Parliament for Luton since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1951–1955; Postmaster-General, 1955–1957; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1957–1961; Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs, 1961–1962. For political and public services. Brigadier Sir Alick Drummond Buchanan-Smith, C.B.E., T.D., J.P., D.L., Deputy Chairman of the Unionist Party in Scotland, 1960–1963. For political and public services in Scotland.

Privy Counsellor Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Esq., M.P. Member of Parliament for Grantham since 1951. Assistant Government Whip, 1955–1957; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and- Food, 1957–1960; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1960–1961; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs since 1961. Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson, O.B.E., T.D., Q.C., M.P. Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington since 1957. Solicitor-General, 1962; Attorney-General since 1962. The Right Honourable Oliver Brian Sanderson, Baron Poole, C.B.E., T.D. Member of Parliament for Oswestry, 1945–1950. Joint Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party Organisation, 1952–1955;• Chairman, 1955–1957; Deputy Chairman, 1957–1959; Joint Chairman since April 1963.

Baronet Sir Eric Errington, M.P. Member of Parliament for Bootle, 1935–1945, and for Aldershot since 1954. For political and public services. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing, Esq., O.B.E., M.P. Member of Parliament for Hendon North since 1950. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air 1957–1959; Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty, 1959; Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1959–1963. For political and public services.

Knight Bachelor Arthur Capel Herbert Bell, Esq., M.B., F.R.C.S., President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Denis William Brogan, Esq., Professor of Political Science, University of Cambridge. Alderman Kenneth Alfred Leader Brown, J.P. For political and public services in Bristol. John Bruce, Esq., C.B.E., T.D., F.R.C.S., Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh. Professor William Mansfield Cooper, Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester. Andrew James Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, Esq., Chairman, Employers' Side, National Joint Council for the Port Transport Industry. Chairman, National Association of Port Employers. John Nuttall Maxwell Entwistle, Esq., Alderman, Liverpool City Council. John Nicholson Hogg, Esq., T.D., Chairman, Export Guarantees Advisory Council. Ronald Holroyd, Esq., Deputy Chairman, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Colonel John Frederick Crompton-Inglefield, T.D., D.L. For political and public services in Derbyshire. Richard Leofric Jackson, Esq., C.B.E., Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police. President, International Criminal Police Organization. Professor Ewart Ray Herbert Jones, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford. Norman Samuel Joseph, Esq., C.B.E., Director, Joseph Lyons and Company Ltd. Honorary Catering Adviser to the Home Office. Geoffrey Kitchen, Esq., T.D., Chairman, Pearl Assurance Company Ltd. Henry Brailsford Lawson, Esq., M.C., President of the Law Society. Alan Lubbock, Esq., Chairman, Hampshire County Council. Robert Edwin McAlpine, Esq., Director, Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons Ltd. Captain John MacLeod, T.D., M.P., Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty since 1945. For political and public services. Douglas Marshall, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Bodmin since 1945. For political and public services. William John Herbert de Wette Mullens, Esq., D.S.O., T.D. Lately Senior Government Broker. Kenneth Swift Peacock, Esq., Chairman and Managing Director, Guest Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd. Michael Edward Rowe, Esq., C.B.E., Q.C., Deputy Chairman, Local Government Commission for England. Harold Samuel, Esq. For public and charitable services. Alexander Samuels, Esq., C.B.E., Honorary Adviser to the Minister of Transport on London Traffic Management. Norman Sanger Tucker, Esq., O.B.E., General Secretary, National Council of the Young Men's Christian Association. Percy Frederick Ronald Venables, Esq., Principal, Birmingham College of Advanced Technology. Alderman Martin Kelso Wallace, J.P., Lord Mayor of Belfast. Norman Charles Wright, Esq., C.B. For past services as Chief Scientific Adviser (Food), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Myles Dermot Norris Wyatt, Esq., C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director, British United Airways Ltd.

State of Victoria The Reverend Clarence Irving Benson, C.B.E., Superintendent of the Wesley Church Central Mission, Melbourne, State of Victoria. Colin York Syme, Esq., President of the Walter and Eliza Institute of Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, State of Victoria.

State of Queensland Oswald Ellis Joseph Murphy, Esq., Ch.M., F.R.C.P., of Brisbane, State of Queensland. For services in the field of Medicine.

State of South Australia Ivan Bede Jose, Esq., M.C., M.B., F.R.C.S., a Consultant Surgeon, Royal Adelaide Hospital, State of South Australia. Ewen McIntyre Waterman, Esq., of Strathalbyn, State of South Australia. For services to the pastoral industry.

State of Western Australia Joseph Francis Ledger, Esq. For services to industrial development in the State of Western Australia.

Commonwealth Relations Hugh Mackay Tallack, Esq., President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India.

Overseas Territories Joshua Abraham Hassan, Esq., C.B.E., M.V.O., Q.C., J.P. For public services in Gibraltar. Francis Challenor Hutson, Esq., C.B.E. For public services in Barbados. Peter Watkin Williams, Esq., Chief Justice of the High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland. Campbell Wylie, Esq., Q.C., E.D., Chief Justice of the Joint Court of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Admiral Sir John David Luce, K.C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E. Sir Harold Simcox Kent, K.C.B., H.M. Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Lieutenant General Malcolm Cartwright Cartwright-Taylor, C.B. Vice Admiral Michael Le Fanu, C.B., D.S.C. Lieutenant-General Kenneth Thomas Darling, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., late Infantry. Acting Air Marshal Thomas Norman Coslett, C.B., O.B.E., Royal Air Force. Acting Air Marshal Christopher Harold Hartley, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. William Armstrong, Esq., C.B., M.V.O., Joint Permanent Secretary to H.M. Treasury.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Rear Admiral Frederick Dossor, C.B.E. Rear Admiral Philip David Gick, O.B.E., D.S.C. Rear Admiral Morice Gordon Greig, D.S.C. Major General Robert Dyer Houghton, O.B.E., M.C. Rear Admiral Horace Rochfort Law, O.B.E., D.S.C. Rear Admiral Hugh Colenso Martell, C.B.E. Rear Admiral Richard Arthur James Owen. Rear Admiral Erroll Norman Sinclair, D.S.C. Surgeon Rear Admiral (D) Philip Stanley Turner, Q.H.D.S., L.D.S. Major-General Richard George Fellowes Frisby, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry. Major-General Courtnay Traice David Lindsay, late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General John Edward Longworth Morris, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General William Odling, O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General David Peel Yates, D.S.O., O.B.E., late Infantry. Colonel, The South Wales Borderers. Major-General Francis James Claude Piggott, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Infantry. Major- General Alwyne Michael Webster Whistler, C.B.E., late Royal Corps of Signals. Major-General John Francis Worsley, O.B.E., M.C., late Infantry. Air Vice-Marshal William Edward Coles, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Stewart William Blacker Menaul, C.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal John Brown Wallace, O.B.E., Q.H.S., M.D., Ch.B., Royal Air Force. Air Commodore George Francis Wheaton Heycock, D.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Commodore Ralph Coburn Jackson, M.R.C.S., F.R.C.P., Royal Air Force. Air Commodore James Maitland Nicholson Pike, D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Commodore John Clifford Pope, C.B.E., Royal Air Force. Air Commodore Ian James Spencer, D.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Douglas Albert Vivian Allen, Esq., Third Secretary, H.M. Treasury. Edgar Warren Chivers, Esq., Director, Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment, War Office. Major Erlam Stanley Dobb, Director, Agricultural Land Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Harry Hill Donnelly, Esq., Deputy Secretary, Scottish Education Department. William Gordon Harris, Esq., Director-General of Works, Ministry of Public Building and Works. David Charles Beresford Holden, Esq., E.R.D., Second Secretary, Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland. Stanley Marks Krusin, Esq., Parliamentary Counsel. David William Shuckburgh Lidderdale, Esq., Clerk Assistant, House of Commons. Bertram Mitchell, Esq., Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise. Lewis Frederick Nicholson, Esq., Director-General of Scientific Research (Air), Ministry of Aviation. Arthur William Peterson, Esq., M.V.O., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Edward Alexander Keane Ridley, Esq., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor. Daniel Thomson, Esq., M.D., Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. Albert Edward Tollerfield, Esq., Assistant Comptroller, Patent Office, Board of Trade.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Patrick Henry Dean, K.C.M.G., Permanent United Kingdom Representative to the United Nations, New York.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) David Wathen Stather Hunt, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., British High Commissioner in Uganda. Charles Michael Walker, Esq., C.M.G., British High Commissioner in Ceylon. Colin Tradescant Crowe, Esq., C.M.G., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Jedda. Robert David John Scott Fox, Esq., C.M.G., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Santiago. Ivor Thomas Montague Pink, Esq., C.M.G., Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Budapest. Alan Meredith Williams, Esq., C.M.G., Her Majesty's Consul-General, New York.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Eric Coome Maynard Cullingford, Esq., Labour Attaché, British Embassy, Bonn. James Littlewood, Esq., lately Chairman, Empire Cotton Growing Corporation. John Barraclough Loynes, Esq., an Adviser, Bank of England. Eric Lawrance Phillips, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. John Haddow Riddoch, Esq., Under Secretary, Ministry of Aviation. Sydney Herbert Shaw, Esq., O.B.E., Geological Adviser, and Director of Overseas Geological Surveys. William Allan McInnes Green, Esq., Town Clerk of the City of Perth, State of Western Australia. John Charles Hooton, Esq., M.B.E., Legal Secretary, East African Common Services Organisation.