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Emma Thompson has been made a dame in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
The 59-year-old star of such movies as Howards End, Love Actually and Sense and Sensibility is recognised for her providers to drama.
Historian and broadcaster Mary Beard additionally turns into a dame, for providers to the research of classical civilisation.
The Cambridge professor mentioned it was "a smashing honour" that she supposed to treat as "a bit of a tribute to the Greeks and Romans themselves".
Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, historian Simon Schama and Waterstones founder Tim Waterstone obtain knighthoods, as does the Royal Academy of Arts' chief government Charles Saumarez Smith.
Ishiguro, who was born in Japan and moved to England when he was 5, mentioned he was "deeply touched to receive this honour from the nation that welcomed me as a small foreign boy".
The 63-year-old writer of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go received the Nobel Prize for Literature final 12 months.
Other figures from the leisure world to be honoured embrace actors Tom Hardy and Keira Knightley, who change into a CBE and an OBE respectively.
Journalist Kate Adie and University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne are additionally made CBEs, as are authors Ken Follett and Jeanette Winterson.
Cardiff-born Follett, 69, mentioned he was "very pleased and proud to receive this honour for doing something I lovemaking books and stories as entertaining and accessible as possible".
"Reading is a hugely important part of my life and I am glad to have helped others to enjoy it too," continued the spy thriller and historic fiction author, finest recognized for his Century and Kingsbridge collection.
Winterson, writer of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, mentioned she hoped her honour would assist enhance "the visibility of women's contribution to the arts".
"I am so happy about the CBE, for myself of course, but because the arts are so important in our world," she mentioned in an assertion. "They are a means of connection and a way of reducing chaos."
Another lady recognised for her contribution to literature is Liz Calder, co-founder of Bloomsbury.
Calder, who turns into a CBE, mentioned she was "astonished and delighted", including: "It's wonderful to have this affirmation."
Abi Morgan, author of current BBC drama The Split, turns into an OBE, as does theatre director Marianne Elliott, animation producer Brian Cosgrove and veteran actress Fenella Fielding.
TV gardener Monty Don can also be made an OBE, for providers to horticulture, broadcasting and charity.
Actor Gary Wilmot, The Archers' Timothy Bentinck and TV presenter Stacey Dooley are amongst these from the leisure world to be made MBEs.
Bentinck, who voices David Archer in the BBC Radio four drama, mentioned he was "astonished and humbled", describing his MBE as "not something I ever expected".
"I can only thank profusely those unknown people who proposed me, [and] also my family and friends who have supported me through the ups and downs of surviving as an actor," he continued.
Rapper Ms Dynamiteactual identify Niomi McLean-Daleyadditionally turns into an MBE, as does jazz trombonist Dennis Rollins and Scottish author Kate Clanchy.
"I have worked in all sorts of literary fields over the yearspoetry, memoir, fiction, reviewingbut the most consistent thread has been my work in schools," mentioned Clanchy.
"I like to think this award honours that, and the importance of literature and creativity in the classroom."
Born in London in 1959**,** Thompson started her profession as a member of the Cambridge Footlights alongside the likes of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
She went on to win Oscars for her appearing in 1992's Howards End and for writing the script for the 1995 Jane Austen adaptation Sense and Sensibility.
She appeared as Professor Sybil Trelawney in three of the Harry Potter movies and not too long ago starred with Sir Anthony Hopkinsher co-star in 1993's The Remains of the Dayin a BBC model of King Lear.
The daughter of Magic Roundabout narrator Eric Thompson and actress Phyllida Law, she was married to Kenneth Branaghnow a sirfrom 1989 to 1995.
The couple steadily appeared collectively in such TV dramas as Fortunes of War and in such movies as Peter's Friends and Much Ado About Nothing.
Thompson has two youngsters, a daughter named Gaia and an adopted son known as Tindy, together with her second husband, fellow actor Greg Wise.
In addition to her appearing, she is understood for her human rights activism and for writing two sequels to Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books.
She will shortly be seen in UK cinemas taking part in a choose with marital issues in The Children Act, primarily based on the Ian McEwan novel.