Golfer and actor Lee among honoured

Awards also go to Royle Family actress Sue Johnston, Hollywood star Alan Cumming, celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon and Delia Smith, the TV chef hailed for teaching Britain how to cook.

Poetry is recognised in the list, with knighthoods for former poet laureate Andrew Motion and Christopher Ricks, who is about to step down as Oxford University professor of poetry.

Faldo, 51, who lives in Berkshire, often described as Britain's most successful golfer, adds the title to his tally of six major championship wins.

Lee, 87, made his name terrifying cinema-goers in blood-curdling roles opposite Peter Cushing in the Hammer Horror movies. As well as appearing in horror films such as 1958's Dracula and 1959's The Mummy, London-born Lee also played Scaramanga in 1974 James Bond classic The Man With The Golden Gun.

Johnston, 65, will meet a member of the real Royal Family when she collects her OBE. She spent eight years playing Sheila Grant in Brookside before taking the part of long-suffering mother Barbara Royle in the BBC sitcom about a working-class family in Manchester. While Scottish-born Cumming, 44, receives an OBE in the Diplomatic List for services to film, theatre and the arts and for his work as a gay rights campaigner.

A CBE in the Diplomatic List goes to Sassoon, 81, who styled the hair of royalty, models and film stars during a career which revolutionised hairdressing. While Smith, 67, whose cookery books have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, is also awarded a CBE for services to the food industry.

Fashion designer Jeff Banks receives a CBE and Natalie Massenet, the founder of hugely successful online designer clothes retailer Net-a-Porter, gets an MBE.

Sporting stars receiving honours include motorcyclist Maria Costello, 31, who holds the women's record for the fastest lap of the Isle of Man TT circuit, and former England cricketer Graeme Hick, 43. They get MBEs, as does Charlotte Edwards, 29, the captain of the England women's cricket team that won the World Cup in Australia earlier this year.

Frances Lawrence, the widow of murdered London headmaster Philip Lawrence, receives an MBE for services to charity and Michael Burgess, coroner for Surrey and the Queen's Household who was initially in charge of the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is given an OBE.