The 2001 New Year Honours List is one of the annual New Year Honours, a part of the British honours system, where New Year's Day, 1 January, is marked in several Commonwealth countries by appointing new members of orders of chivalry and recipients of other official honours. Awards for 2001, announced on 30 December 2000, included the United Kingdom,[1] New Zealand,[2] the Cook Islands,[3] Barbados,[4] Grenada,[5] Papua New Guinea,[6] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,[7] Belize[8] and Saint Christopher and Nevis.[9]