stevieG a été fait MBE ,c'est à dire membre du british empire,l'équivallent de notre légion d'honneur.
note de 319:ça devrait pas être donné à un footeux,ce genre de récompense,mais à des gens qui font des sacrifices pour aider les autres.
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Rod Stewart, Liverpool's Gerrard win UK honours
(RELEASE AT 0001 GMT, SATURDAY DEC 30)
By Adrian Croft
LONDON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth bestowed awards on Saturday on singer Rod Stewart, soccer star Steven Gerrard and her own granddaughter -- world equestrian champion Zara Phillips.
The queen also granted medals to filmmaker Peter Greenaway, actors Hugh Laurie and Penelope Keith and authors Alexander McCall Smith and Colin Thubron in her New Year's honours list.
Entrepreneur James Dyson, whose pioneering vacuum cleaner design was an international success, received a knighthood.
John Scarlett, who as head of Britain's MI6 spy agency has been deeply involved in countering threats from Islamic militants, was also elevated to a knighthood.
As chairman of the government's Joint Intelligence Committee, Scarlett was responsible for the pre-war dossier on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction that helped Prime Minister Tony Blair garner support for the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
The dossier triggered one of the most perilous periods of Blair's premiership following a BBC report that alleged the government had hyped the threat from Iraq to justify war.
The gravel-voiced Stewart, 61, is in the fifth decade of a musical career that saw him earn fame with the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces before striking out on a successful solo career.
Stewart, famous for hits such as "Maggie May", "Sailing" and "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy", was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
LIVERPOOL STAR
Liverpool captain and England midfielder Steven Gerrard was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), a lower-ranking award.
He helped inspire Liverpool's remarkable comeback from 3-0 down against AC Milan to win the Champions League final on penalties in 2005. This year, he scored two blistering goals to lead Liverpool to a dramatic FA Cup final win over West Ham.Phillips, who won the individual gold on her horse Toytown at this year's World Equestrian Games in Germany and helped Britain win a team silver, was also made an MBE.
Other sports figures honoured included Ian Woosnam, who captained Europe to victory over the United States at the Ryder Cup in September, and Welsh rugby great Gareth Edwards.
In the arts and media world, there were knighthoods for Michael Holroyd, biographer of writers George Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey; and for pioneering jazz pianist George Shearing, who has been blind since birth.
The queen awarded CBEs to avant-garde filmmaker Greenaway, who made his name with arthouse movies such as "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"; McCall Smith, author of best-selling novels about a woman who starts a detective agency in Botswana; and to travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron.
There were also awards for Keith, best-known for British television sitcom "The Good Life"; Laurie, star of U.S. medical television drama "House"; and Johnny Briggs, a former star of long-running British TV soap opera "Coronation Street".
The twice-yearly honours ritual -- designed to recognise outstanding achievement -- is part of an ancient and complex British honours system that has been beset by scandal this year, damaging Blair and his Labour Party.
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