Queen's Birthday Honours - former Wolves goalkeeper joins the celebrity recipients
Oscar-winning Welsh beauty Catherine Zeta Jones said she was "absolutely thrilled" after receiving a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List today.
Awards also go to ex-Formula One driver David Coulthard, former Velvet Underground musician John Cale, Help for Heroes founders Bryn and Emma Parry, and Winter Olympics gold medallist Amy Williams.
And as Fabio Capello's footballers prepare for their opening World Cup match against the USA tonight, those honoured include 90-year-old Bert Williams, goalkeeper in England's shock 1-0 defeat by the Americans in 1950.
The former Wolverhampton Wanderers player, from Shifnal, Shropshire, said his MBE was the "icing on the cake" of a wonderful life which saw him win both the FA Cup and the League Championship.
Coronation Street actresses past and present are recognised in the soap's 50th year, with MBEs for Eileen Derbyshire, Barbara Knox and Anne Reid.
Derbyshire, 78, who has played well-meaning charity volunteer Emily Bishop for nearly half a century, described her gong as a thank-you to her colleagues on both sides of the camera.
Knox, 76, best known as Corrie's glamorous shopkeeper Rita Sullivan, said she was "absolutely shocked and delighted".
Reid, 75, who appeared as Ken Barlow's doomed first wife Valerie in the soap from 1961 to 1971, said she "never dreamt in a million years" that she would get the honour.
There are also MBEs for Dr Frank Duckworth and Dr Tony Lewis, the statisticians who came up with the arcane Duckworth-Lewis Method used to calculate run targets in one-day cricket matches affected by rain.
Leading footballing figures recognised include Gary Speed, the long-serving former Premier League midfielder and Wales captain, who gets an MBE, and ex-Sunderland chairman Bob Murray, who is knighted.
An MBE goes to Mike Ingham, chief football correspondent for BBC Radio 5 Live, and a CBE to Hope Powell, coach of the England women's football team.
Among other sports stars honoured is jockey Tony McCoy, winner of this year's Grand National, who receives an OBE.
McCoy, 36, originally from Moneyglass, County Antrim, rode his 3,000th winner in February 2009 and won the Grand National on his 15th attempt in April this year.
He said: "It's nice to get recognition from someone like the Queen as it doesn't come from much higher than that."
In the acting world, OBEs go to John Nettles, star of TV's Midsomer Murders and Bergerac, and Sophie Okonedo, who was nominated for an Oscar for the film Hotel Rwanda.
Two women who helped teach generations of Britons to cook, Prue Leith and Marguerite Patten, are awarded CBEs.
South African-born Leith, 70, said she was looking forward to wearing her honour to dinner parties.
Oldham-born Professor Brian Cox, 42, the pop star-turned-physicist and BBC presenter, said he was "surprised and chuffed" to receive an OBE.
Other OBEs go to Tamara Mellon, founder and creative director of designer shoe brand Jimmy Choo, and writer and broadcaster Bonnie Greer, who put BNP leader Nick Griffin on the spot during his controversial BBC Question Time appearance last October.
Mellon said: "While our brand has global reach, the roots and heritage of Jimmy Choo are uniquely British so I am especially pleased and proud of this honour."
Actress Jones, 40, was born in Swansea in 1969 and rose to fame after playing fresh-faced Mariette Larkin in ITV's popular adaptation of HE Bates's The Darling Buds Of May in 1991/93.
She went on to star in gritty drugs trade drama Traffic (2000) alongside Michael Douglas, whom she married in New York in November that year.
Her greatest success to date was her performance in 2002's Chicago as vampish killer Velma Kelly, for which she won the best supporting actress Oscar.
She said: "I am absolutely thrilled with this honour. As a British subject, I feel incredibly proud, at the same time it is overwhelming and humbling. And my mum and dad are delighted beyond belief. Thank you."
Athlete Williams, from Bath, struck gold in Vancouver in February when she won the skeleton bob on her trusty sled, affectionately named Arthur.
