Weeks after being voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Atherton-born athlete Keely Hodgkinson, who won the 800 metres gold medal at the Paris Olympics, has now been made an MBE too.
Fellow Olympic gold medalists Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane, who are both based in Greater Manchester, have also been awarded MBE honours, alongside local paracycling champions Jaco van Gass, Finlay Graham, Jenny Holl and Sophie Unwin.
The list also includes lesserknown figures at the grassroots end of sport such as Altrincham Football Club Coach and volunteer Rachel Davies.
More than 30 people with who live, work or grew up in Greater Manchester are also on the honours list, including Bolton author Matt Cain and former Manchester Evening News managing editor Eamonn O’Neal.
Manchester council employee Joan Todd has been awarded a BEM for services to refugee resettlement alongside Joanne Taylor from Saddleworth for services to breast cancer patients.
The King’s 2025 New Years Honours list also includes Greater Manchester NHS boss Sanjay Arya, Ashton Sixth Form College governor Christine Lyness and Friends of Didsbury Park chair Brian Johnson. Bury-based storyteller author Richard O’Neill, who is grew up in a Romani Gypsy family, and Philip Rose, who set up science summer school SciTech in Wythenshawe, have also been given MBEs.
Here is the full list of everyone who lives, works or grew up in Greater Manchester named in the New Year Honours list for 2025.
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Sarah-Jane Abigail Lancashire OBE. Actor. For services to drama. (London, Greater London)
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
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