Politician and Manchester MP Gerald Kaufman and Liverpool City Council chief executive David Henshaw received knighthoods.
Honours awarded to those from the world of education include five knighthoods and two DBEs.
With revenues from subscriptions falling, the Conservatives exchanged donations for knighthoods in the 1980s and 1990s.
The general rule is that knighthoods go with first names and that peerages (Lords, Barons, Dukes etc) go with surnames.
The list of Scotland's knighthoods includes Ian Good, head of the Edrington drinks group and chairman of the Scotch Whisky Association.
Knighthoods are also conferred on Professor Timothy O'Shea and Professor John Savill, both of Edinburgh University, for services to higher education and clinical science respectively.
Sorry, but knighthoods are not meant to work that way.
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For anyone in the right time at the right place can make money and there are far too many knighthoods handed out to retired politicians for that to actually be an exclusive award.
The material, so thin it effectively has just two dimensions, was first isolated by two Russian-born scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, at the University of Manchester, work that earned them a Nobel Prize and knighthoods.
Three of the knighthoods have been given to head teachers - Alan Davies, of Copland Community School and Technology Centre in Brent, west London, Bruce Liddington, of Northampton School for Boys, and Michael Wilshaw, of St Bonaventure's School in Newham, east London.
Millions of Britons who grew up watching Savile on TV's "Top of the Pops" and "Jim'll Fix It" were shocked by the fall from grace of an entertainer who'd been awarded knighthoods by Queen Elizabeth II and the late Pope John Paul II for his charitable work.
Exceptional is the fact that he has Knighthoods from two Popes: His Holiness the late Pope John Paul II honoured him as Knight of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St Sylvester (KSS), and His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has further elevated him to Knight Commander of the said order (KCSS), in recognition of his pursuit of peace and culture amongst nations.
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