Dame Billie Antoinette Miller, DA ( born 8 January 1944 ), is a Barbadian politician.

The household of Charles was presided over by his châtelaine Antoinette de Polignac, Dame de Combronde, by whom he had two illegitimate daughters, Jeanne of Angoulême and Madeleine.

* Dame Antoinette Sibley, DBE

Today, the Association is known as the Royal Academy of Dance ( RAD ), with Dame Antoinette Sibley as President.

Two girls, Jeanne of Angoulême and Madeleine, were born of her father's long relationship with his châtelaine, Antoinette de Polignac, Dame de Combronde, who later became Louise's lady-in-waiting and confidante.

In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1968, Holt's widow Zara Holt was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, becoming Dame Zara Holt DBE.

Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, DBE ( 5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978 ), was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent.

Similarly, actress Judi Dench DBE may be addressed as Dame Judi or Dame Judi Dench, but never Dame Dench.

In 1966, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ).

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE ( 11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972 ) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Rutherford was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1961 and was raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1967.

* Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE

Dame Flora McKenzie Robson, DBE ( 28 March 19027 July 1984 ) was an English actress, renowned as a character actress, who played roles ranging from queens to villainesses.

She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1952, and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1960, an award which was partly for her charity work, largely unnoticed, which she carried on until her death, often for small and rather obscure charities rather than the grand ones which would have given her more publicity.

Dame Mary Claire Hogg, DBE ( b. 15 January 1947 )

Dame Judith Olivia " Judi " Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA ( born 9 December 1934 ) is an English film, stage and television actress.

Dench was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1970 and advanced as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) of the order in 1988.

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE ( 15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003 ) was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years.

Regarded as one of Britain's great dramatic talents, she was created an Officer of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1971 and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1975.

Dame Dorothy Tutin DBE ( 8 April 19306 August 2001 ) was an English actress of stage, film and television.

Tutin was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1967, and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 2000.

* Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE ( 10 March 2000 )

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS, the British astrophysicist known for first discovering radio pulsars, is currently a visiting professor.

* Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE – Anglican nurse, physician, writer, and pioneer of the hospice movement

Dame Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE ( born 27 August 1932 ), née Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction, best known as Lady Antonia Fraser.

A Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ), she was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to literature.

In 1971 Agatha Christie was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

* 1878 – Dame Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina ( d. 1970 )

Outside the British honours system it is usually considered improper to address a knighted person as ' Sir ' or ' Dame '.

* 1882 – Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress ( d. 1976 )

British examples are At Risk ( 2004 ), Secret Asset ( 2006 ), Illegal Action ( 2007 ), and Dead Line ( 2008 ), by Dame Stella Rimington ( formerly the Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996 ) and The Code Snatch ( 2001 ) by Alan Stripp, formerly a cryptographer at Bletchley Park.

* July 26 – Dame Helen Mirren, British actress

** Dame Eileen Atkins, British actress

Dame Jane Morris Goodall, ( born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934 ) is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.

A series of distinguished British actresses have portrayed Queen Mary on stage and screen, including Dame Wendy Hiller ( on the London stage in Crown Matrimonial ), Dame Flora Robson ( in A King's Story ), Dame Peggy Ashcroft ( in Edward & Mrs Simpson ), Phyllis Calvert ( in The Woman He Loved ), Gaye Brown ( in All the King's Men ), Dame Eileen Atkins ( in Bertie and Elizabeth ), Miranda Richardson ( in The Lost Prince ), Margaret Tyzack ( in Wallis & Edward ), and Claire Bloom ( in The King's Speech ).

Law professor Charles E. Rice of Notre Dame as well as International Law professor at the University of Illinois Francis A. Boyle have argued that the British government committed genocide by pursuing a policy of starvation in Ireland.

Other actors associated with British comedy films include Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips.

Dame Clara Butt ( 1872 – 1936 ) Prima Voce NI 7912.

Among her pupils were two prima ballerinas assolute, Dame Alicia Markova ( the first British dancer to hold the rank of Prima Ballerina ) and Dame Margot Fonteyn, and the future founder of Cambridge Ballet Workshop, Mari Bicknell.

For many years, the school's President was the renowned Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Dame Alicia Markova.

* Dame Margot Fonteyn, English Prima Ballerina Assoluta of The Royal Ballet