The Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo is a South African honour. It was instituted on 6 December 2002, and is granted by the President of South Africa to foreign citizens who have promoted South African interests and aspirations through co-operation, solidarity, and support.
The order is named after the late Oliver Tambo, who was the African National Congress's president-in-exile for many years.
thumb|Walking stick awarded with Order
Current classes
The three classes of appointment to the Order are, in descending order of precedence:
- Supreme Companion of OR Tambo in gold, for heads of state and, in special cases, heads of government (SCOT)
- Grand Companion of OR Tambo in silver, for heads of government, ministers of state, supreme court judges, presidents of legislatures, secretaries of state, ambassadors, commanders-in-chief (GCOT)
- Companion of OR Tambo in bronze, for legislators, envoys, senior military officers (COT)
Symbolism
The badge of the order is oval, and depicts a symbol similar to that of the Taijitu between two arrowheads, framed by two mole snakes.
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| data-sort-value="Kenneth Kaunda" style="text-align:left" | Kenneth David Kaunda
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 10 December 2002
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| data-sort-value="Mahatma Gandhi" style="text-align:left" | Mahatma Gandhi<br>(posthumous)
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 10 December 2002
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| data-sort-value="Eduardo Mondlane" style="text-align:left" | Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Agostinho Neto" style="text-align:left" | Agostinho Neto
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Kwame Nkrumah" style="text-align:left" | Kwame Nkrumah
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Julius Nyerere" style="text-align:left" | Julius Nyerere
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Amílcar Cabral" style="text-align:left" | Amílcar Cabral
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Salim Ahmed Salim" style="text-align:left" | Salim Ahmed Salim
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Kofi Annan" style="text-align:left" | Kofi Annan
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Salvador Allende" style="text-align:left" | Salvador Allende<br>(posthumous)
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Martti Ahtisaari" style="text-align:left" | Martti Ahtisaari
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Michael Manley" style="text-align:left" | Michael Manley
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Martin Luther King" style="text-align:left" | Martin Luther King Jr.
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Patrice Lumumba" style="text-align:left" | Patrice Lumumba
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Ahmed Ben Bella" style="text-align:left" | Ahmed Ben Bella
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Ernst Michanek" style="text-align:left" |
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Ramesh Chandra" style="text-align:left" | Romesh Chandra
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Barbara Castle" style="text-align:left" | Barbara Castle
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Reiulf Steen" style="text-align:left" | Reiulf Steen
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Thorvald Stoltenberg" style="text-align:left" | Thorvald Stoltenberg
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Maxine Waters" style="text-align:left" | Maxine Waters
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Vasily Grigoryevich Solodovnikov" style="text-align:left" | Vasily Grigoryevich Solodovnikov
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Robert Hughes" style="text-align:left" | Robert Hughes
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="Boudewijn Sjollema" style="text-align:left" | Boudewijn Sjollema
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 16 June 2004
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| data-sort-value="FIFA" style="text-align:left" | FIFA
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 29 October 2004
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| data-sort-value="Lennart Johansson" style="text-align:left" | Lennart Johansson
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 29 October 2004
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| data-sort-value="Trevor Richards" style="text-align:left" | Trevor Richards
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 29 October 2004
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| data-sort-value="Ahmed Sékou Touré" style="text-align:left" | Ahmed Sékou Touré
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 29 October 2004
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| data-sort-value="Gamal Abdel Nasser" style="text-align:left" | Gamal Abdel Nasser
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 29 October 2004
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| data-sort-value="Cheddi Jagan" style="text-align:left" | Dr. Cheddi Jagan
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 26 April 2005
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| data-sort-value="Ahmed Sukarno" style="text-align:left" | Ahmed Sukarno
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 26 April 2005
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| data-sort-value="Diallo Telli" style="text-align:left" | Diallo Telli
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 26 April 2005
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| data-sort-value="Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho" style="text-align:left" | Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 26 April 2005
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| data-sort-value="Jawaharlal Nehru" style="text-align:left" | Jawaharlal Nehru<br>(posthumous)
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 26 April 2005
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| data-sort-value="Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin" style="text-align:left" | Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 26 April 2005
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| data-sort-value="Sheikh Yusuf" style="text-align:left" | Sheikh Yusuf
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 September 2005
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| data-sort-value="Modibo Keita" style="text-align:left" | Modibo Keita
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 20 April 2006
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| data-sort-value="Seretse Khama" style="text-align:left" | Seretse Khama
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 20 April 2006
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| data-sort-value="Sobhuza" style="text-align:left" | King Sobhuza II
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 20 April 2006
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| data-sort-value="Moshoeshoe" style="text-align:left" | King Moshoeshoe II
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 20 April 2006
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| data-sort-value="Sotiris Mousouris" style="text-align:left" | Sotiris Mousouris
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 20 April 2006
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| data-sort-value="Anthony Sampson" style="text-align:left" | Anthony Sampson
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 20 April 2006
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| data-sort-value="Joseph Leabua Jonathan" style="text-align:left" | Chief Joseph Leabua Jonathan
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 24 April 2007
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| data-sort-value="Eric Eustace Williams" style="text-align:left" | Dr. Eric Eustace Williams
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 24 April 2007
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| data-sort-value="Shridath Ramphal" style="text-align:left" | Shridath Ramphal
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 24 April 2007
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| data-sort-value="Ali Al'amin Mazrui" style="text-align:left" | Dr. Ali Al'amin Mazrui
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 24 April 2007
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| data-sort-value="Michael Kitso Dingake" style="text-align:left" | Michael Kitso Dingake
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 24 April 2007
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| data-sort-value="John Collins" style="text-align:left" | Canon John Collins
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 24 April 2007
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| data-sort-value="Harry Belafonte" style="text-align:left" | Harry Belafonte
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 24 April 2007
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| data-sort-value="Mandlenkosi Zwane" style="text-align:left" | Mandlenkosi Aloysius Isaac Zwane
| data-sort-value="3" style="background-color:#B9722D" | COT
| 24 April 2007
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| data-sort-value="Salman El-Herfi" style="text-align:left" | Salman El-Herfi
| data-sort-value="3" style="background-color:#B9722D" | COT
| 24 April 2007
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| data-sort-value="Emeka Anyaoku" style="text-align:left" | Chief Emeka Anyaoku
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 22 April 2008
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| data-sort-value="Harry Belafonte" style="text-align:left" | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon<br>(posthumous)
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 22 April 2008
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| data-sort-value="Philip Potter" style="text-align:left" | Philip Potter
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 22 April 2008
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| data-sort-value="Per Wästberg" style="text-align:left" | Per Wästberg
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 22 April 2008
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| data-sort-value="Ron Dellums" style="text-align:left" | Ron Dellums
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 22 April 2008
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| data-sort-value="Harry Belafonte" style="text-align:left" | Harry Belafonte
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 22 April 2008
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| data-sort-value="Jerry Dunfey" style="text-align:left" | Jerry Dunfey
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 22 April 2008
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| data-sort-value="Linda Biehl" style="text-align:left" | Linda Biehl
| data-sort-value="3" style="background-color:#B9722D" | COT
| 22 April 2008
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| data-sort-value="Fidel Castro" style="text-align:left" | Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 March 2009
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| data-sort-value="Christian Krause" style="text-align:left" |
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 March 2009
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| data-sort-value="Sadako Ogata" style="text-align:left" | Sadako Ogata
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 March 2009
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| data-sort-value="Marcelino dos Santos" style="text-align:left" | Marcelino dos Santos
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 March 2009
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| data-sort-value="Bengt Säve-Söderbergh" style="text-align:left" |
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 March 2009
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| data-sort-value="Andimba Toivo ya Toivo" style="text-align:left" | Andimba Toivo ya Toivo
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 March 2009
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| data-sort-value="Jennifer Davis" style="text-align:left" | Jennifer Davis
| data-sort-value="3" style="background-color:#B9722D" | COT
| 27 March 2009
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| data-sort-value="Anna Abdallah" style="text-align:left" | Anna Abdallah
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 2 December 2009
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| data-sort-value="William Cullen Wilcox" style="text-align:left" | Rev. William Cullen Wilcox
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 2 December 2009
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| data-sort-value="Ida Belle Wilcox" style="text-align:left" | Ida Belle Wilcox
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 2 December 2009
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| data-sort-value="Queen Elizabeth II" style="text-align:left" | Elizabeth II
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 3 March 2010
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| data-sort-value="José Eduardo dos Santos" style="text-align:left" | José Eduardo dos Santos
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 April 2010
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| data-sort-value="Joseph Blatter" style="text-align:left" | Joseph Blatter
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 April 2010
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| data-sort-value="Jacques Rogge" style="text-align:left" | Jacques Rogge
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2010
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| data-sort-value="Issa Hayatou" style="text-align:left" | Issa Hayatou
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2010
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| data-sort-value="Herbert Kaiser" style="text-align:left" | Herbert Kaiser
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2010
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| data-sort-value="Joy Kaiser" style="text-align:left" | Joy Kaiser
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2010
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| data-sort-value="Vernon Berrangé" style="text-align:left" | Vernon Berrangé
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2010
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| data-sort-value="George Houser" style="text-align:left" | George Houser
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2010
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| data-sort-value="Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva" style="text-align:left" | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 April 2011
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| data-sort-value="Hélène Pastoors" style="text-align:left" | Hélène Pastoors
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2011
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| data-sort-value="Viacheslav Shiryaev" style="text-align:left" | Viacheslav Shiryaev
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2011
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| data-sort-value="Edward Kennedy" style="text-align:left" | Edward M. Kennedy
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 April 2012
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| data-sort-value="Apollon Davidson" style="text-align:left" | Prof. Apollon B Davidson
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2012
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| data-sort-value="Randall Robinson" style="text-align:left" | Randall Robinson
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2012
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| data-sort-value="Forbes Burnham" style="text-align:left" | Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 April 2013
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| data-sort-value="Percival Patterson" style="text-align:left" | Percival Noel James Patterson
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 April 2013
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| data-sort-value="Enuga Reddy" style="text-align:left" | Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2013
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| data-sort-value="Jesse Jackson" style="text-align:left" | Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2013
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| data-sort-value="Dina Forti" style="text-align:left" | Dina Forti
| data-sort-value="3" style="background-color:#B9722D" | COT
| 27 April 2013
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| data-sort-value="Giuseppe Soncini" style="text-align:left" | Giuseppe Soncini
| data-sort-value="3" style="background-color:#B9722D" | COT
| 27 April 2013
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| data-sort-value="Richard Attenborough" style="text-align:left" | Lord Attenborough
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Gwendolen Carter" style="text-align:left" | Prof. Gwendolen Margaret Carter
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Jeanne Martin Cissé" style="text-align:left" | Jeanne-Martin Cissé
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Jerry David Dammers" style="text-align:left" | Jerry David Dammers
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Danny Glover" style="text-align:left" | Danny Glover
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Quincy Jones" style="text-align:left" | Quincy Delight Jones
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Thomas Karis" style="text-align:left" | Thomas Karis
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Neil Kinnock" style="text-align:left" | Lord Kinnock
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Alexander Moumbaris" style="text-align:left" | Alexander Moumbaris
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Ruth Neto" style="text-align:left" | Ruth Neto
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Alfre Woodard" style="text-align:left" | Alfre Woodard
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2014
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| data-sort-value="Brian Mulroney" style="text-align:left" | Brian Mulroney
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 April 2015
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| data-sort-value="Hashim Mbita" style="text-align:left" | Hashim Mbita
| data-sort-value="1" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 April 2015
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| data-sort-value="Gareth Evans" style="text-align:left" | Gareth Evans
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2015
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| data-sort-value="Peter Hain" style="text-align:left" | Lord Hain
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2015
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| data-sort-value="Vladimir Kazimirov" style="text-align:left" | Vladimir Kazimirov
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2015
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| data-sort-value="Gay McDougall" style="text-align:left" | Gay McDougall
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2015
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| data-sort-value="Lars Nordbo" style="text-align:left" | Lars Nordbo
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2015
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| data-sort-value="Andrey Urnov" style="text-align:left" | Andrey Urnov
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2015
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| data-sort-value="Lim Kok Wing" style="text-align:left" | Dr. Lim Kok Wing
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 27 April 2015
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| data-sort-value="Sam Nujoma" style="text-align:left" | Sam Nujoma
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#D4AF37" | SCOT
| 27 April 2018
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| data-sort-value="Walter Khotso Makhulu" style="text-align:left" | Walter Khotso Makhulu
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 25 April 2019
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| data-sort-value="Didier Ratsiraka" style="text-align:left" | Didier Ratsiraka
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 25 April 2019
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| data-sort-value="Tracy Chapman" style="text-align:left" | Tracy Chapman
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
| 1 May 2023
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| data-sort-value="Christabel Gurney" style="text-align:left" | Christabel Gurney
| data-sort-value="2" style="background-color:#C0C0C0" | GCOT
|23 April 2024
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|style="text-align:left" | Donna Katzens
See also
- South African civil honours