A Boroughbridge police officer and an army officer based at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate are amongst the local residents recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
In this jubilee year, the Queen has recognised the service of four Harrogate district residents.
Knighthood
Martyn Oliver, chief executive of Outwood Grange Academies Trust, has been knighted for services to education.
The trust sponsors 40 schools in northern England, including Outwood Primary Academy Greystone and Outwood Academy in Ripon.
MBE
Barry Appleton, at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, has been made an MBE for his military service.
The warrant officer's role at the college is to take care of the welfare of the 300 military staff and their families.
The college provides basic training to 1,300 under 18s. The honours list describes how he uses his imagination to "engage with and support his community, providing constant oversight and support in excess of what seemed possible".
He has worked at the college for more than a decade and in that time looked after hundreds of military and civilian families.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Ellen Hughes, from Harrogate, has been made an MBE for services to sport during covid.
Ms Hughes is currently director of special projects at Sport England after starting her career in grassroots sport as a project manager at North Yorkshire County Sports Partnership.
She has been responsible for delivering the government's £600million sports survival package to support spectator sports during covid when fans weren't allowed in venues.
She has given funding to more than 1,200 organisations through this scheme and was also responsible for giving £32.7million worth of covid funding to rugby league teams.
Colin William Rodham, from Knaresborough, has been made an MBE for services to flood risk management in the Yorkshire region.
Mr Rodham currently works as a senior officer in the Environment Agency.
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BEM
Sharron Moverley-Homes, from Boroughbridge, has been made an BEM for services to policing.
Ms Moverley-Holmes is a special chief officer in the North Yorkshire Police Special Constabulary. Since joining the police in 1984 she has remained in the North Yorkshire force calling it "the family I could never leave".
Over the three decades, she said she has worked in a number of departments but being out in the community remains the most rewarding part:
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