A PENSIONER who has dedicated his life to disability sport and a community champion are among those from Glasgow to be recognised in the New Year Honours list. 

Scotland's first Asian paramedic and the founder of a pioneering hearing loss clinic join them as heroes from across the city are honoured for their dedication to others. 

The Glasgow Times is today (Thursday) sharing some of their stories and singing the praises of our community champions. 

Here is the full list of those from Greater Glasgow given recognition in the New Year Honours list

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  • Nicola Black: MBE for services to pre-school education and to the community in Glasgow

Read more about her story here 

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  • Alexander 'Alec' Watt: MBE for services to young people with additional needs and disabilities and to community cohesion in Glasgow. 

Read Alec's story here 

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  • Araf Saddiq: Queen's Ambulance Service Medal (QAM) for exception devotion to duty, merit, and conduct 

Read all about Araf, Scotland's first Asian paramedic, here 

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  • Usman Rafiq: BEM for services to education and to students with hearing impairments 

Read more about the Glasgow Caledonian University scheme here 

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  • Professor Sheila Rowan: Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for her work on the project to confirm Albert Einstein’s prediction of the existence of gravitational waves

Read more about Sheila here 

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  • Charandeep Singh: BEM for his charitable work

Read about his Sikh foodbank here 

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  • Tom Clarke: Former Coatbridge MP has been knighted for his services to politics 
  • William Paterson: OBE for services to the economy and the community 
  • Michael Tobias: OBE for his services to the Jewish community
  • Professor Allister Ian Ferguson: CBE for his services to science and industry in his role as a professor of photonics at Strathclyde University
  • Professor Ian Gardner Findlay: CBE for his services to medical education and training
  • Lorraine Canavan: OBE for her services to leadership and service delivery
  • Abdul Majid: MBE for his services to integration in Glasgow and to charity in the city and abroad
  • Paul Malcolm Miller: MBE for his services to customers during the pandemic
  • Robert Kilpatrick Rankin: MBE for his services to civil engineering and innovation
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  • Swaran Chowdhary: BEM for her services to Kidney Research UK, organ donation and South Asian communities in Scotland
  • Jamie Kinlochan: BEM for caring for the vulnerable through his work with Who Cares? Scotland
  • Elspeth Millen: BEM for her services to social housing and the community
  • Jean Shirley Smith: BEM for her services to pre-school education and charity