In addition to his acting career, James Nesbitt is chancellor of Ulster University and a patron of the WAVE Trauma Centre in Belfast, which supports victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Other OBE recipients include Anne Marie Connolly, the chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board and Anne O’Reilly, the former manager of the Women’s Aid Federation.
Carl ‘The Jackal’ Frampton, a 28-year-old world champion boxer from Belfast, began his career in the Tiger’s Bay area of his native city.
He is the current International Boxing Federation (IBF) world super bantam weight champion.
Paddy Hopkirk is one of Northern Ireland’s best known sportsmen, having raced to victory in the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally.
His success at the race in an iconic red Mini Cooper was considered one of the most significant events in British motorsport history.
That, along with his charitable work with the motor skills charity Skidz have earned him his accolade in the honours list.