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Below is a list of dames commander of the Order of the British Empire from the order's creation in 1917 until the present day. Honorary dames commander of the Order of the British Empire can be found at Category:Honorary Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

1910s

1920s

1920: Georgiana Buller; Clara Butt; Alice Chisholm; The Dowager Countess of Eglinton; The Countess of Gosford; Catherine Hunt; The Countess of Leicester; The Lady Melchett; Beryl Oliver, Ethel Pearson; Una Pope-Hennessy; The Dowager Viscountess Rhondda; Louise Samuel; Ethel Shakespear; The Lady Talbot of Malahide; Meriel Talbot; Catherine Wingate; Sophia Wintz
1921: Adelaide Anderson; Edith Dixon
1922: The Viscountess Greenwood; Ethel Smyth; Margaret Greville
1923: Belle, Lady Cox; Barbara, Lady Strickland
1924: Henrietta Barnett; The Viscountess Bridgeman; Janet Campbell; Beatrix Lyall; Rani Shiv Kunwar Sahiba of Narsinghgarh
1925: Emma Albani; Louisa Aldrich-Blake; Mary Cook; Louisa Lumsden; The Lady St Helier; Anne Smith; Mary Wills
1926: Agnes Hunt; Madge Kendal; Maude Lawrence; Jessie Phipps; Mary Scharlieb
1927: Edith Antrobus; The Countess of Cavan; The Dowager Countess of Jersey; Emily Penrose; The Countess of Stradbroke; The Viscountess Templewood
1928: The Duchess of Bedford; Frances Dove; Eadith Walker; Elizabeth Wordsworth
1929: Alida Brittain; Harriet Findlay; Gertrude Humphrys; Laura Knight; Anne McIlroy; Bertha Phillpotts

1930s

1930: Mary Bailey
1931: Joanna Cruickshank; Maharani Lakshmi Devi of Dhar; Sarah Mair; Sybil Thorndike
1932: Margaret Tuke; Edith Brown
1933: The Lady Denman; The Viscountess Simon
1934: Elizabeth Cadbury; Alicia Lloyd Still
1935: Annie Jean Connor; Constance D'Arcy; Maria Ogilvie Gordon; Ethel MacDonald; Rosalind Paget; The Duchess of Portland
1936: The Duchess of Abercorn; Regina Evans; Lady Susan Gilmour; Christabel Pankhurst
1937: Edith Muriel Anderson; Geraldine Cadbury; Mary Gilmore; Ellen Pinsent; Juliet Rhys-Williams; The Lady Strickland; Marie Tempest; Violet Wills
1938: The Countess of Elgin; Florence Lambert; Gwendoline Trubshaw
1939: The Lady Hillingdon; Ellen Musson

1940s

1941: The Viscountess Craigavon; Myra Hess; The Marchioness of Reading; Reniera Stanley; Irene Vanbrugh
1942: Katharine Jones
1943: Emily Blair; Lilian Braithwaite; Anne Loughlin; Ethel Walker
1944: Lilian Barker; Doris Beale; Jane Trefusis Forbes
1945: Joan Marsham; Vera Laughton Mathews; Katherine Watt
1946: Edith Evans; The Countess of Limerick; The Duchess of Richmond; Mary Welsh; Leslie Whateley
1947: Madeline Brock; Gertrude Cosgrove; Evelyn Fox; Matilda Goodrich; Caroline Haslett; Emmeline Tanner; Eileen Walwyn
1948: The Baroness Sharp; Louisa Wilkinson
1949: Harriette Chick; Myra Curtis; Anne Curwen; Alix Kilroy; Dehra Parker; Felicity Peake; Mary Smieton; Gladys Taylor; Mary Tyrwhitt

1950s

1950: Marjorie Cox; Frances Farrer; Adeline Genée, Grace Kimmins; Olive Wheeler; Jocelyn Woollcombe
1951: Ellen Acton; Florence Cardell-Oliver; Helen Cargill; Mary Daly; Elizabeth Gilmer; Florence Hancock; Hilda Lloyd; Lillian Penson; Anne Thomson; Ninette de Valois
1952: Florence Bevin; Kathleen Courtney; The Viscountess Davidson; Mary Lloyd; Marjorie Maxse
1953: The Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury; Cynthia Colville; Mary Coulshed; Catherine Fulford; Elisabeth Kelly; Flora MacLeod of MacLeod; Enid Russell-Smith
1954: Lilian Bromley-Davenport; Helen Gillespie; Edith Sitwell
1955: Mabel Brookes; Elizabeth Cockayne; The Countess of Rosebery; Nancy Salmon; Irene Ward; Roberta Whyte
1956: The Countess of Albemarle; Peggy Ashcroft; Margot Fonteyn; Kathleen Lonsdale; Mary Railton; Hilda Ross; Lucile Sayers
1957: Anne Bryans; The Countess De La Warr; Annabelle Rankin; Nancy Robertson; Janet Vaughan
1958: Mary Henrietta Barnett; The Baroness Elliot of Harwood; Monica Golding; Mary Latchford Kingsmill Jones; Rose Macaulay; The Duchess of Portland; Maggie Teyte, Alice Mary Williamson
1959: The Viscountess Brookeborough; Ruth Buckley; Mary Colvin; Rebecca West

1960s

1960: Judith Anderson; Alice Berry; The Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte; Mary Herring; Elizabeth Hoyer-Millar; Alice Lowrey, Merlyn Myer; Flora Robson
1961: Kitty Anderson; Elizabeth Couchman; The Baroness Hornsby-Smith; Anne Stephens
1962: Anne Godwin; Edith Pitt; Marie Rambert; Jean Roberts; Barbara Salt; Eva Turner
1963: Joyce Bishop; Jean Conan Doyle; Barbara Cozens; Jean Davies; Honor Fell; Alicia Markova; Elisabeth Murdoch
1964: Veronica Ashworth; Jean Rivett-Drake; Margaret Shepherd; The Baroness Vickers; The Baroness Wakehurst; Eileen Younghusband
1965: The Lady Adrian; Florence Cayford; Mabel Crout; Sibyl Hathaway; Joan Henderson; Barbara Hepworth; Elizabeth Lane; Catherine Scott; Margot Turner
1966: Elsie Abbot; Margaret Drummond; Felicity Hill; Leah Manning; Ngaio Marsh; Annie, Lady McEwen; Ruth Railton; Grace Tebbutt; Mabel Tylecote
1967: Margery Corbett Ashby; The Countess of Brecknock; Ivy Compton-Burnett; Gladys Cooper; Helen Gardner; Pauline Giles; Mabel Miller; Beryl Paston Brown; Margaret Rutherford; Ivy Wedgwood; Albertine Winner
1968: Zara Bate; Annis Gillie; Isabel Graham-Bryce; Mary Green; Muriel Powell; Kathleen Raven; Hilda Stevenson; Muriel Stewart; Dorothy Tangney; Veronica Wedgwood; Ethel Wormald
1969: Rita Buxton; Hilda Bynoe; Olwen, Lady Carey Evans; Mary Cartwright; Molly Gibbs; Ella Macknight; Daphne du Maurier; Anna Neagle; Sister Mary Regis; Lucy Stuart Sutherland; Elizabeth Yarwood

1970s

1970: Dorothy Ackroyd; Mary Anderson; Te Atairangikaahu; Sara Barker; Bessie Bottomley; Margaret Cole; Marion Kettlewell; Margaret Miles; Peggy van Praagh
1971: Kate Campbell; Agatha Christie; Mabel Coles; Mary Cramer; Adelaide Doughty; Kathleen Ollerenshaw
1972: Nancy Buttfield; Cicely Courtneidge; Diana Reader Harris; Unity Lister; The Lady Plowden; Freya Stark; Susan Walker
1973: Jill Bolte; Sylvia Crowe; Kathleen Kenyon; Sister Mary Leo; Marjorie Williamson
1974: Josephine Barnes; Emma Clode; The Baroness Denington; Phyllis Frost; Joan Hammond; Rose Heilbron; Albertha Isaacs; The Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden; Margot Smith
1975: Jacobena Angliss; Helen Blaxland; Bridget D'Oyly Carte; Joyce Daws; Frances Gardner; Wendy Hiller; Margaret Kidd; Ruth Kirk; Vera Lynn; Dorothy Rees; Betty Ridley
1976: Janet Baker; Edith Burnside; Violet Dickson; Joan Evans; Monica Gallagher; Elizabeth Hill; Ada Norris
1977: Geraldine Aves; Moyra Browne; Patricia Mackinnon; Rosemary Murray; Iris Origo; Marjorie Parker; Cecily Pickerill; Winifred Prentice; Frances Yates
1978: Isobel Baillie; Mary Durack; Audrey Reader; Joan Howard Roberts; Sheila Sherlock; Meere Uatioa
1979: Mary Austin; Margaret Booth; Sister Philippa Brazill; The Baroness Butler-Sloss; Elizabeth Coker; Gracie Fields; Judith Hart; Naomi James; Doris Johnson; Daphne Purves; Joan Sutherland; Margaret Weston

1980s

1980: Rachel Cleland; Miriam Dell; Phyllis Friend; Margaret Guilfoyle; Ida Mann; Raigh Roe; Cicely Saunders; The Lady Soames; Ann Springman
1981: Beryl Beaurepaire; Margaret Blackwood; Mary Bridges; Whina Cooper; Pamela Hunter; Celia Johnson; Ruby Litchfield; Betty Paterson; The Baroness Pike; Shelagh Roberts; Margaret Scott
1982: Doris Fitton; Elisabeth Frink; Catherine Hall; Roma Mitchell; Kiri Te Kanawa; Alice Wedega; Ida Yonge
1983: The Marchioness of Anglesey; Rosamund Holland-Martin; Leonie Kramer; Olga Uvarov
1984: The Baroness Seccombe; Guinevere Tilney; Catherine Tizard; The Baroness Warnock
1985: Jean Herbison; The Baroness Jenkins of Hillhead; The Baroness Knight of Collingtree; Alison Munro; Joan Varley
1986: Vivienne Boyd; Peggy Fenner; Dorothea Horsman; Christian Howard; Gwyneth Jones; Merle Park; Simone Prendergast; Barbara Shenfield; Rosa Tokiel
1987: Elizabeth Chesterton; Marie Clay; Dorothy Fraser; Penelope Jessel; Mary Kekedo; Elizabeth Maconchy; Joan Metge; Iris Murdoch; Sheila Quinn
1988: Barbara Clayton; Judi Dench; Beryl Grey; Rosalinde Hurley; Elaine Kellett-Bowman; Laurie Salas
1989: Silvia Cartwright; The Baroness Dunn; The Baroness Emerton; The Baroness Fookes; Margaret Fry; Barbara Goodman; Rosemary Rue

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

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"No. 40498". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 9 June 1955. p. 3298.
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"No. 40497". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 June 1955. p. 3267.
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"No. 40787". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 May 1956. p. 3109.
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