Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi are awarded OBEs for their hugely successful musical career, including more than 118 million record sales worldwide and a record-breaking 64 British hit singles.

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Honours also go to 2009 Formula One world champion Jenson Button and the man who made his victory possible, Brawn GP team owner Ross Brawn.
Knighthoods are awarded to Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart and Scottish rugby international-turned-Lions coach Ian McGeechan.

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Elsewhere in the sporting world, Beth Tweddle, Britain's most successful gymnast, receives an MBE and former England football captain Jimmy Armfield is given a CBE for his community work in Lancashire.

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MBEs go to Claire Taylor, the first woman to be named one of Wisden's cricketers of the year, and Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts.

Dr Claire Bertschinger, whose appearance in Michael Buerk's famous 1984 reports on the Ethiopian famine inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, is made a dame for services to nursing and to international humanitarian aid.

In drama, National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner is knighted and Phyllida Lloyd, director of the hit film Mamma Mia!, receives a CBE.
OBEs are awarded to children's author Dick King-Smith, who wrote the book that became the 1995 film Babe, and health writer and broadcaster Dr Miriam Stoppard.

TV wildlife presenter and cameraman Simon King, who appears on the BBC's Springwatch and Autumnwatch series, also gets an OBE.
The co-founders and chefs of the Michelin-starred River Cafe restaurant in west London, Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, receive MBEs for services to the hospitality industry.

An MBE also goes to Rebecca Hosking, who spearheaded the successful campaign to make Modbury in Devon the first town in Britain to ban plastic bags.

Status Quo have become one of the UK's best-loved rock bands since releasing their first hit single, Pictures Of Matchstick Men, in 1968.

Singer-guitarist Parfitt, 61, and lead singer Rossi, 60, have gone on to chalk up 22 British top 10 singles, including Down Down in 1974, Rockin' All Over The World in 1977 and Whatever You Want in 1979.

The group has spent nearly eight years in the UK singles chart as well as scoring 32 hit albums, more than any other band apart from the Rolling Stones.

Parfitt, originally from Woking, Surrey, and Rossi, from Forest Hill, south London, have also raised millions of pounds for charity over the years.

Status Quo launched the first Prince's Trust concert in 1982 and three years later they opened the original Live Aid concert with Rockin' All Over The World.

The band's status as a national treasure was confirmed in 2005 when they appeared on Coronation Street and were chosen as a specialist subject on BBC quiz show Mastermind.

The rock'n'roll lifestyle has taken its toll over the years, with Parfitt needing an emergency quadruple heart by-pass in 1997 and suffering a cancer scare in 2005.

But even after four decades, Status Quo remain Britain's hardest-working band - they notched up more major concerts than any other group in 2009, including their first Glastonbury Festival appearance.

Button, 29, receives an MBE after becoming the second consecutive British Formula One champion this year.

Born in Frome, Somerset, he became one of the youngest ever F1 drivers in 2000 but struggled for several years with under-performing cars until Brawn bought out the Honda team and renamed it Brawn GP in March.

In the coming season Button is moving to the McLaren team, where he will drive alongside fellow British racer and 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton.

Brawn, 55, originally from Manchester, who recently persuaded seven-times F1 champion Michael Schumacher to come out of retirement and drive for him in 2010, is awarded an OBE for more than 30 years of service to motorsport.

The knighthood for Stewart, 69, is in recognition of a long acting career that ranges from classic Shakespearean roles to the hit X-Men films.

Born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, he trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966.

He is best known for playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The
Next Generation from 1987 to 1994, but has also recently appeared in
acclaimed theatre productions of Hamlet and The Tempest.

Dr Bertschinger, who was born to Anglo-Swiss parents in Sheering, Essex, was a young International Red Cross nurse in Ethiopia at the time of the horrific 1984 famine.

Her heartbreaking account in Buerk's BBC broadcasts of having to choose which starving children to feed helped galvanise the world into responding to the tragedy.

She now teaches tropical nursing at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine and is an ambassador for the African Children's Educational Trust.

Erich Reich, 74, a tour operator from Highgate, north London, is knighted for his charity work, including his role as chairman of the Kindertransport Group of the Association of Jewish Refugees.

Himself a refugee who came to the UK in 1939 aged four, he organised events last year to mark the 70th anniversary of Parliament's decision to allow children into Britain from Nazi-occupied Europe.
Sporting stars past and present receive awards in the New Year Honours List.

Tweddle, 24, from Bunbury, Cheshire, sealed her position as the most successful ever British gymnast by winning her second World Championships title in London this year.

Leeds-born McGeechan, 63, played rugby for Scotland from 1972 to 1979 before becoming national coach and winning a Grand Slam and Five Nations Championship title in 1990.

As Lions coach, he led victorious tours of Australia in 1989 and South Africa in 1997, as well as this year's nailbiting Lions series in South Africa which ended in a narrow defeat for the tourists.

Armfield, 74, who was born in Denton, Manchester, made a club record of 627 appearances for Blackpool as well as winning 43 England caps - 15 as captain - between 1959 and 1966.

He went on to have a short but successful career as a manager, taking Leeds United to the European Cup Final in 1975, before becoming a journalist and BBC commentator.

It was announced this year that Armfield would finally receive a World Cup winner's medal for his part in England's 1966 triumph over West Germany, in which he was a reserve.

The prolific run-scoring of Taylor, 34, originally from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, helped the England women's cricket team to victory in the World Cup and World Twenty20 competitions this year.

Roberts, 31, who receives an MBE in the list for his native Grenada, has combined a successful footballing career with charity work to encourage young people in the UK and the Caribbean to play sport.

An OBE goes to the hugely successful former manager of Arsenal Ladies' Football Club, Vic Akers, 63, who was born in Islington, north London.
There are also MBEs for former England cricketer John Jameson, 68, six-times world champion marathon canoeist Anna Hemmings, 33, Scottish golfer Catriona Matthew, 40, and Derby County Football Club stalwart Gordon Guthrie.

In the world of arts and entertainment, Mark Jones, 58, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2001, is knighted.

CBEs go to London-born actress Margaret Tyzack, 78, who appeared in the classic TV adaptations of The Forsyte Saga and I, Claudius, Suffolk-born painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling, 64, and Channel 4 controller of film and drama Tessa Ross, 48, who helped make Slumdog Millionaire an Oscar-winning smash hit.

Children's author and illustrator Lauren Child, creator of the Charlie and Lola series, is awarded an MBE and Anthea Bell, co-translator of the Asterix comic books, gets an OBE.

An OBE is given to Glasgow-born composer Craig Armstrong, 50, who created the scores to films including Romeo+Juliet in 1996, Moulin Rouge! in 2001 and Love Actually in 2003.

There is also an MBE for musician Jet Harris, 70, originally from Kingsbury, north London, who played bass in The Shadows, and an OBE in the diplomatic and overseas list for film producer Graham King, whose movies include 2006's Oscar-winning The Departed.

Angling writer and historian Fred Buller, described as one of the founders of modern pike fishing, receives an MBE.

Britain's fashion industry is recognised with OBEs for Glasgow-born Michelle Mone, founder of lingerie brand Ultimo, and designers Amanda Wakeley, who grew up in Cheshire, and flamboyant milliner Stephen Jones, who counts Boy George among his customers.

MBEs are awarded to designers Luella Bartley and Cath Kidston, and to London-based tailors Timothy Everest and Imtaz Khaliq.

There is also an OBE for Debbie Moore, originally from Manchester, who founded the Pineapple Dance Studios in an old pineapple warehouse in Covent Garden, central London, in 1979.

But the majority of awards go to unsung local heroes, including MBEs for Sister Lynda Dearlove, founder of a charity that helps women escape prostitution, and Zippos Circus entertainer Norman Barrett, who becomes the first circus ringmaster to receive an honour.