Most of those present received the Queen's Scout Award, the highest honour a scout can achieve.
Out of the Northern Ireland-based recipients in this year's list, Professor Desmond Rea's knighthood was the highest honour.
In 1999 she was given a Congressional Gold Medal of Honour, the highest honour possible for an American civilian.
In 2003 she received Poland's highest honour, the order of the White Eagle.
Lisburn City Council has conferred its highest honour - the freedom of the city - on the Royal Irish Regiment.
The Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus then presented Mr Bush with the Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great, Lithuania's highest honour.
However, Wallace was given the Order of Merit, the highest honour that could be given by the British monarch to a civilian.
Cronenberg, known for films including The Fly, Crash and Eastern Promises, will be the first Canadian to receive the BFI's highest honour.
Their number includes four previous recipients of the festival's highest honour - Jane Campion, Britain's Ken Loach, Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier.
The actor, 69, who has starred in films including Alien, The Elephant Man and Midnight Express, said it was "the highest honour possible".
Achebe told the BBC's Network Africa programme that he hoped that rejecting the Commander of the Federal Republic - Nigeria's second highest honour - would serve as a "wake-up call".
Willis said Palin's "amiable on-screen manner belies the seriousness of his craft", adding there were "few individuals more worthy" of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' highest honour.
The award is the highest honour awarded to those that have influenced American culture through the arts, with actress Meryl Streep, singer Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfrey among past recipients.
Helena Bonham Carter, star of A Room with a View, Sweeney Todd and the Harry Potter films, will receive the Circle's highest honour, the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence, at this year's event.
In February, Mr Picknett was given the RNLI's highest honour, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum, for his part in the rescue of an angler from the sea off Redcar's South Gare.
Recently Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded George Koval an American-born Soviet spy with the highest honour of the Russian state for successfully providing critical information on the U.S. Manhattan project during the Second World War.
Recently Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded George Koval -- an American-born Soviet spy -- with the highest honour of the Russian state for successfully providing critical information on the U.S. Manhattan project during the Second World War.
At just 25 and while serving as a lieutenant, he became the first Welshman in World War II to be awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest honour for gallantry, for an assault on a German machine-gun post in northern France.
Sweden's highest musical honour is awarded annually to both a pop performer and classical artist.
Sweden's highest music honour is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician.
BBC: Patti Smith and Kronos Quartet accept Polar music prize
Earlier this year the 71-year-old received the Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, from President Obama.
President Barack Obama has bestowed the nation's highest civilian honour on political and cultural figures in a ceremony at the White House.
She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996, and the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian honour, three years later.
Mrs Parks was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996, and the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian honour, three years later.
Last year, Mr Farmer, then 84, was awarded Germany's highest civilian honour, the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit, for his work in getting the paintings returned.
Official figures show that an average of 25 women die every year in so-called honour killings, one of the highest per capita rates in the world, in this country of 4.8 million.
But in 2012 the honour must surely go to the Jungfraubahn railway, which has been trundling up to Europe's highest train station, Jungfraujoch (3, 454m), since its inauguration on 1 August 1912. (The railway is celebrating its 100th anniversary in true Swiss style this August).
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