Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone and rugby legend Ian McGeechan are among the Scots to have been recognised by the Queen in the New Year Honours list.
The 38-year-old businesswoman and mother-of three, who created the Ultimo underwear brand, will receive an OBE for services to business.
She told STV news: "I'm absolutely over the moon, I can't believe it!
"For me, I think it just shows you, you can be just a normal girl from the East End of Glasgow who left school at 15. I would have never, ever have thought I'd be getting an award from the Queen, an OBE. So it just shows that if you work the hardest you can work, the world is your oyster.
"We've had some incredible things happening with Ultimo over the years but this has got to be the best and my family are absolutely over the moon."
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Former Scotland and British Lions coach Ian McGeechan is to be knighted for his glittering career in rugby.
The Leeds-born coach captained Scotland in the 1970s and led the national team to a Grand Slam triumph in 1990.
He said: "This honour couldn't have been achieved without the backing of my wife, Judy, and my children Heather and Rob.
"It is their constant support that has provided such an inspiration to me and this honour would not have been possible without them.
"I am very proud of my family and I want to dedicate this honour to them."
The pair are among a group of Scots from all walks of life who are honoured in the list for 2009.
North Berwick golfer Catriona Matthew, who won the Women's British Open weeks after giving birth to her second daughter last summer, receives an MBE.
She said: "Having had Sophie in May I never envisaged winning a major golf championship this year.
"The reaction to it and the recognition I have had has been amazing and I'm very grateful to everyone for their support.
"The MBE really is the icing on the cake."
Veteran Scottish Football Association doctor Professor Stewart Hillis gets an OBE for services to sport and medicine. And from the world of music, classical conductor James Loughran is given a CBE and film soundtrack composer Craig Armstrong gets an OBE.
Graham Taylor, the music director of the City of Glasgow Chorus choir receives an MBE.
In business, Deirdre Anderson, the director of Edinburgh-based Royal kiltmakers Kinloch Anderson is given an OBE for services to the textile industry.
The former chairman of the Crown Estate, Ian Grant, from Blairgowrie in Perthshire, will be knighted, after already receiving a CBE.
The Queen's list features a host of familiar names and faces, however, it also recognises unsung heroes from across Scotland.
Mountain rescue leader Gerry Akroyd, from the Isle of Skye, gets an MBE along with Fife-based rescue volunteer Rod Stoddart.
Mary George, catering supervisor at Crossroads Primary School, Keith, and Peter McFall, the janitor at St Peter's Primary School, Dumbarton, also receive MBEs for services to education.
Terry McLernon, who runs a hugely successful table tennis club in Glasgow's Drumchapel housing scheme, gets an MBE.
Former Lockerbie councillor Marjory McQueen, who has regularly spoken on behalf of the town in the aftermath of the 1988 airliner bombing, is given the same award for her services to the community.
Craftsman Sandy Orr, from Alloa, is also awarded an MBE after dedicating more than three decades of his life to caring for the graves of the UK's war dead.
