The King’s Birthday 2025 Honours List-Full List of Awardees
Monday 09 June,2025
The King’s Birthday 2025 Honours List. It recognises 830 Australians, including awards in the Order of Australia (General and Military Divisions), meritorious awards and recognition for distinguished and conspicuous service. This represents an increase of awardees of almost 30% since the Australia Day 2025 List.
Overview
The Australian Honours and Awards system recognises the outstanding service and contributions of Australians.
Recipients come from right across the country and from all walks of life. While some are well-known, the majority are unsung heroes.
While typically they haven’t sought thanks or recognition, they deserve both. The Honours and Awards system gives the nation a chance to celebrate and acknowledge those who work tirelessly to improve local communities and to make Australia a better place.
Any Australian can nominate someone for an award. Nominations are assessed by the Honours and Awards Secretariat, considered by the Council of the Order of Australia before recommendations are made to the Governor-General.
The General Division of the Order of Australia
The 581 recipients of awards in the General Division of the Order of Australia (all recipients names and citations), include:
- 14 appointments as Companions of the Order of Australia
- 31 appointments as Officers of the Order of Australia
- 123 appointments as Members of the Order of Australia; and
- 413 people awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia
Meritorious Awards
The 149 Meritorious awards include recipients of the Public Service Medal, the Australian Police Medal, the Australian Fire Service Medal, the Ambulance Service Medal, the Emergency Services Medal, the Australian Corrections Medal and the Australian Intelligence Medal.
Military awards
There were 36 recipients of awards in the Military Division of the Order of Australia (3 AO, 10 AM and 23 OAM), and 64 distinguished and conspicuous awards.
