Member number[lower-alpha 1] Portrait Name Known for Date of appointment Present age 1 (169) The Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM RA HonFREng Architect and Pritzker laureate 25 November 1997[16] 86 2 (175) Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS Mathematical physicist and Nobel laureate 9 May 2000[16] 90 3 (176) Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL HonFBA Playwright 9 May 2000[16] 84 4 (177) Charles, Prince of Wales KG KT GCB OM AK CC QSO CD PC PC (Can) ADC Heir apparent to Elizabeth II 27 June 2002[16] 73 5 (179) The Lord Rothschild OM GBE CVO FRCA FBA FKC Philanthropist 28 October 2002[16] 85 6 (180) Sir David Attenborough OM GCMG CH CVO CBE FRS FSA FRSA FLS FZS FRSGS FRSB Broadcaster and naturalist 10 June 2005[16] 95 7 (181) The Baroness Boothroyd OM PC HonFSLL Former Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom 10 June 2005[16] 92 8 (183) The Lord Eames OM Former primate of All Ireland and former archbishop of Armagh 13 June 2007[16] 84 9 (184) Sir Tim Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS Inventor of the World Wide Web, Founder of the World Wide Web Foundation and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium 13 June 2007[16] 66 10 (185) The Lord Rees of Ludlow Kt OM FRS FREng FMedSci FRAS Astronomer Royal and former President of the Royal Society 13 June 2007[16] 79 11 (186) Jean Chrétien PC OM CC QC Former Prime Minister of Canada (1993–2003) 13 July 2009[17] 87 12 (187) Neil MacGregor OM AO FSA Art historian and former Director of the British Museum 4 November 2010[18] 75 13 (188) David Hockney OM CH RA Artist 1 January 2012[19] 84 14 (189) John Howard OM AC former Prime Minister of Australia (1996–2007) 1 January 2012[19] 82 15 (190) Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE Conductor 1 January 2014 [20] 66 16 (192) Sir Magdi Yacoub OM FRS Cardiothoracic surgeon 1 January 2014[20] 86 17 (193) The Lord Darzi of Denham OM KBE PC FRS FMedSci FRCSI FRCS FRCSE FRCPGlas FACS FRCP FREng Surgeon 1 January 2016[21] 61 18 (194) Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng Mechanical engineer 1 January 2016[21] 69 19 (195) Sir James Dyson OM CBE RDI FRS FREng FCSD FIEE Inventor and industrial designer 1 January 2016[21] 74 20 (-) vacant since the death of Sir Aaron Klug 21 (-) vacant since the death of Sir Michael Atiyah 22 (-) vacant since the death of Sir Michael Howard 23 (-) vacant since the death of Lord May of Oxford 24 (-) vacant since the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ↑ The number shown in parentheses is the individual's place in the wider order of appointment since the Order of Merit's inception.