1996 New Year Honours


The New Year Honours 1996 were appointments by most of the sixteen Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. They were announced on 29–30 December 1995 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1996 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Cook Islands, The Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, and Antigua and Barbuda.

United Kingdom

Life Peer

;Barons
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

;Military Division
;Civil Division
;Civil Division
;Military Division
;Civil Division
;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
;Civil Division

Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG)

;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

;In Silver
;Bar to the RVM in Silver

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

;Civil Division
;Military Division
;Civil Division
;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
;Civil Division
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
;Civil Division
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army
;;Overseas Award
;;Royal Air Force
;Civil Division
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
;England and Wales
;Scotland
;Northern Ireland
;Hong Kong
;England and Wales
;Scotland
;Hong Kong

Cook Islands

Order of the British Empire

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Civil Division
;Civil Division

Order of the British Empire

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Civil Division
;Civil Division
;Civil Division

Knight Bachelor

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Civil Division
;Civil Division
;Civil Division

Knight Bachelor

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Civil Division
;Military Division
;Civil Division
;Military Division
;Civil Division
;Civil Division

Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Civil Division
;Civil Division
;Civil Division

Order of the British Empire

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Civil Division

Order of the British Empire

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Civil Division

Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Civil Division
;Civil Division
;Civil Division

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Civil Division