- Michael Kirby
Michael Donald Kirby, AC, CMG, (born 1939), is a Justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. - David Brewer
Sir David Brewer CMG (born 1940) was Lord Mayor of London between 2005 and 2006. Brewer was educated at St Paul's School, London and at the University of Grenoble, France. He began his career with marine insurance company Sedgwick Collins in 1959. He has been a director or consultant for a number of insurance companies around the world, and is currently a non-executive Director of London Asia Capital PLC. He was elected an Alderman of the City of London in 1996, … - David Kelly
David Christopher Kelly CMG (May 17, 1944 – July 17, 2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with Today programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. - Charles Wheeler
Sir Charles Cornelius Wheeler CMG (born Selwyn Charles Cornelius-Wheeler on March 26 1923) is a veteran British journalist and broadcaster. Having joined the BBC in 1947, he is currently their longest serving foreign correspondent. Wheeler's long career has involved postings to Berlin, Delhi and Washington. In the later years of his career he was the American correspondent of "Newsnight". - Oleg Gordievsky
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (born 10 October 1938 in Moscow, Russia), was a Colonel of the KGB and KGB Resident-designate ("rezident") and bureau chief in London, who defected to the United Kingdom. He became the highest-ranking KGB defector ever. - John Holmes
Sir John Holmes, GCVO, KBE, CMG, was born in Preston, in the north of England, in April 1951. Following his education at Preston Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, he entered the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1973. After spending three years as a desk officer in London, including a period of temporary duty at the British Mission to the UN in New York, he was appointed to the British Embassy in Moscow as a 3rd Secretary Chancery, … - Peter Collecott
Peter Collecott CMG is the British Ambassador to Brazil. - John Douglas
John Douglas CMG (6 March 1828 - 23 July 1904) was a British Australian politician and Premier of Queensland. Douglas was born in London, the seventh son of Henry Alexander Douglas and Elizabeth Dalzell, his wife. His father was the third son of Sir William Douglas (c.1730–1783), fourth Baronet Douglas of Kelhead, who was a brother of the sixth and seventh Marquess of Queensberry. - Christopher Greenwood
Christopher Greenwood CMG QC (b. 1955) is a barrister and professor of international law at the London School of Economics. He has regularly appeared as counsel before the English courts, the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Greenwood studied law at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a BA (Law) (First Class Hons) in 1976, LLB (International Law) (First Class Hons) in 1977, and MA in 1981. - David Edward
Professor Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward, KCMG, QC, FRSE, (b 1934) is a Scottish lawyer and academic and sat as a Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities between 1992 and 2004. Sir David read Classics at Oxford and Law at Edinburgh University. After National Service in the Royal Navy he was called to the Scottish Bar in 1962 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1974. - John Ward
Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward CB CMG (21 November 1866-19 December 1934) was an English politician, trade union leader and soldier. - William Grant
William Grant, CMG, DSO and Bar, MBE (30 September 1870 – 25 May 1939) was an Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier General in World War I. - Thomas Blamey
Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED, (Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, 24 January 1884 – Heidelberg, Victoria, 27 May 1951) was an Australian General of World War II, and Australia's first (and only) Field Marshal. He commenced his soldiering as a 'citizen soldier', and served as a staff officer at Gallipoli. The pinnacle of his career was during World War II, as "Commander-in-Chief, Australian Military Forces", … - Ronald Wilson
Sir Ronald Wilson AC KBE CMG QC (23 August, 1922- 15 July, 2005) was a distinguished Australian lawyer, judge and social activist serving on the High Court of Australia between 1979 and 1989 and as the President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission between 1990 and 1997. - John Dill
Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO (25 December 1881 - 4 November 1944) was a British commander in World War I and World War II who played a significant role in the formation of the "special relationship" between the United Kingdom and the United States. - Gordon Bennett
Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett CB, CMG, DSO (April 16, 1887 - August 1, 1962), Australian soldier, served in both World War I and World War II. Despite highly decorated achievements during World War I, including at Gallipoli, Bennett is best remembered for his role in the Fall of Singapore in the Pacific War when, as commander of the 8th Division, he escaped while his men became prisoners of the Japanese. - Harry Murray
Henry William "Harry" Murray VC, CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM, (30 December 1880 - 7 January 1966) was Australia's highest decorated soldier during World War I (1914-1918), and continues to be Australia's highest decorated soldier. He was 36 years old, and a captain in the 13th Battalion (N.S.W.), Australian Imperial Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 4/5 February 1917, at Stormy Trench, north-east of Gueudecourt, … - Arthur Young
Colonel Sir Arthur Edwin Young, KBE, CMG, CVO, KPM (born 1907) was the Commissioner of the City of London Police in the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1971. - David Akers-Jones
Sir David Akers-Jones, KBE, CMG, GBM, JP (鍾逸傑爵士, born April 14, 1927) was the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1987. - Norman Myers
Norman Myers CMG (24 August, 1934-) is a British environmentalist and authority on biodiversity. He is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences - John James Cowperthwaite
Sir John James Cowperthwaite KBE CMG 郭伯偉爵士, April 251915 - January 212006) was Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971. His introduction of free market economic policies were widely credited with turning postwar Hong Kong into a thriving global financial centre. - Leslie Morshead
Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED (September 18, 1889 – September 26, 1959) was an Australian soldier with a distinguished career in both world wars. He is considered to rival John Monash for the appellation of "Australia's greatest general". He commanded the Australian troops at the Siege of Tobruk and Second Battle of El Alamein where Australian troops inflicted crushing defeats on the German "Afrika Korps". - Charles Philip Haddon-Cave
Sir (Charles) Philip Haddon-Cave (Chinese: 夏鼎基爵士, KBE, CMG (July 6, 1925 - September 28, 1999) was Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1971 to 1981. During the period when he was in charge of the economic policy of the Hong Kong government, he adopted "positive non-interventionism" as its chief principle. He was subsequently appointed Chief Secretary, in which post he served from 1981 to 1985. - Brian Fender
Sir Brian Fender (Birth unknown - ?) is a British academic administrator. He was Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England from 1995-2001. Prior to that he was Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, Associate Director and Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France and Chairman of the Science Board of the UK's Science and Engineering Research Council. He is a graduate and Fellow of Imperial College. - Roger Casement
Roger David Casement (1 September, 1864 - 3 August, 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG between 1905 and July 1916, was an Irish patriot, poet, revolutionary and nationalist by inclination. He was a British diplomat by profession and is famous for his activities against human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru, but more well known for his dealings with Germany prior to Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916. - Dominic Asquith
The Honourable Dominic Anthony Gerard Asquith, CMG, (b. 7 February 1957) is a British diplomat since 1983, and has been serving as British Ambassador to Iraq (officially Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq)<sup>;</sup> since August 2006. Asquith has served for many years in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq. He was appointed Companion, Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 2004.<sup>;</sup> - William Throsby Bridges
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG (February 18 1861 - May 18 1915) served with Australian forces during World War I, and was the first Australian to reach the rank of general. He was also the first Australian general to be killed during the war, at Gallipoli on 18 May 1915. Born in Greenock, Scotland, he was educated at Ryde on the Isle of Wight, at the Royal Naval School at New Cross, London and at Trinity College, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. - David Reddaway
David Norman Reddaway, CMG, MBE, (born 26 April 1953) is the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland. He was born in Ottawa, Canada and studied history at Cambridge University. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975. His career has included assignments to Iran (during the Iranian revolution), India, Spain, Argentina and Afghanistan. In 2002, his appointment as British ambassador to Iran was rejected by the Iranian government, … - Sue Ryder
Margaret Susan Cheshire, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire, CMG, OBE (3 July 1923 - 2 November 2000), best-known as Sue Ryder, was a British peeress who worked with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War and afterwards led many charitable organizations, notably the Sue Ryder charity named after her. She was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and educated at Benenden School. - Lindsay Thompson
Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson AO CMG (born 15 October 1923), Australian politician, was Liberal Premier of the state of Victoria from 1981 to 1982. - John Antill
John Macquarie Antill, CB, CMG (26 January 1866 – 1 March 1937) was an Australian Army Major General in World War I. Antill is best known for his rejection of a request to end the attack at The Nek during the Gallipoli Campaign. He retired from the army in 1924 as an honorary Major General. - Paul Vallely
Paul Vallely CMG is a leading British writer on Africa and development issues. He first coined, in his seminal 1990 book "Bad Samaritans: First World Ethics and Third World Debt", the expression that campaigners needed to move "from charity to justice" – a slogan that was taken up by Jubilee 2000 and Live 8. Vallely was the "The Times" correspondent in Ethiopia during the great famine of 1984/5. - Wilder Penfield
Dr Wilder Graves Penfield, OM, CC, CMG, MD, FRS (January 25/26, 1891 - April 5, 1976) was an American-born Canadian neurosurgeon. - Archibald Wavell 1st Earl Wavell
Field Marshal Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC (May 5, 1883 – May 24, 1950) was a British field marshal and the commander of British Army forces in the Middle East during World War II. He led British forces to victory over the Italians, only to be defeated by the German army. He was the penultimate Viceroy of India from 1943-47. - Samuel Hoare
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood GCSI, GBE, CMG, PC (24 February 1880 - 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a British Conservative politician who served in various capacities in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s. Hoare was educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford, and was first elected to the House of Commons at the January 1910 general election as Member of Parliament for Chelsea. - James Allan
James Nicholas Allan CMG CBE (born 22 May 1932) is a former British diplomat, High Commissioner in Mauritius (1981-1985) and ambassador to Mozambique (1986–1989). - William Holmes
Major General William Holmes, <small>CMG DSO VD</small>; (12 September 1862 – 2 July 1917) was an Australian Army Major General in World War I. He was mortally wounded by a German shellburst while surveying the ground won at the Battle of Messines. - James Cross
James Richard Cross, CMG (born September 29 1921 in Ireland) was a British diplomat in Canada who was kidnapped by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist group during the October Crisis of October 1970. Known by his friends as "Jasper,", during World War II, Cross served with the British military and fought for the liberation of France. After the war he would join the diplomatic service and eventually served as a Trade Commissioner in India, Halifax, … - George Clive
Lieutenant-General Sir George Clive, KCB GCVO, CMG, DSO was His Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 1934 to 1945. He was on war duty 1939 to 1945. - Helen Wallace
Helen Sarah Wallace, Lady Wallace of Saltaire, CMG is a British expert in European Studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, a peeress. Helen Sarah Rushworth was born on 25 June 1946. She was educated at the University of Oxford (1963-67), where she was President of the Oxford University Liberal Club. Having already met her future husband William Wallace at Oxford, she spent a year at Bruges, Belgium, …
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