INCREDIBLE people across the area have been recognised in the New Year Honours list.
The annual awards mark the achievements and service of exceptional people across the country.
More than 1,227 people have been awarded honours this year - including three people from South Gloucestershire.
A beekeeper from Little Stoke, a political volunteer from Chipping Sodbury and a councillor from South Gloucestershire Council are among the recipients.
This year, 90 people in the South West received honours, which is just over seven per cent of the total number of recipients.
Here are those who made the list - from Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire and Bristol.
Order of the British Empire
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Jilly Cooper CBE - Stroud, Gloucestershire
Author - for services to literature and to charity
Order of the Bath
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Polly Payne - Lechlade, Gloucestershire
For public service - Director General of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Professor Ronald Hutton FBA - Bristol
For services to history - Professor of history at the University of Bristol
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Dr Ruth Cromie - Bristol
For services to wetland and waterbird conservation - research fellow at the WWT
Dr Kathryn Marks - Bristol / Gloucestershire
For services to flood risk management and to equality, diversity and inclusion - Deputy Director, Environment Agency
Dr Teame Mebrahtu - Bristol
For services to education, to refugees and to the community in Bristol
Dr Jane Monckton-Smith - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
For services to criminal justice - Professor of Public Protection, University of Gloucestershire
Amy Perrin - Bristol
For services to older people - founder of The Marmalade Trust
Marvin Rees - Bristol
For services to local government - mayor of Bristol City Council
Steven Savory - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
For services to education - Chief Executive Officer, Gloucestershire Learning Alliance
Zehra Zaidi - Longhope, Gloucestershire
For services to international development, to humanitarian action and to community cohesion.
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Valda Jackson - Bristol
Artist - for services to art
Philip Haughton - Bristol
For services to sustainable food initiatives and to the Bristol community - founder of Better Food
Peter Mountford - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
For voluntary services to armed forces personnel - lately executive chairman of Heropreneurs.
Carys Parry - Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire
For political service - voluntary party manager, Conservative Party
Ruth Pitter - Bristol
For services to equality, to charity and to the Bristol community - member of the Anchor Society and member of Stand Against Racism and Inequality
Dr Gordon Richardson - Bristol
For services to disability access - treasurer of the Walking Alliance.
Dr Andrew Stott - Lydney, Gloucestershire
For services to nature and climate - lately science adviser for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Alexandra Vincent - Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
For services to research funding - lately Chief Operating Officer, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Bar to the Medal of the Order of the British Empire (BEM)
Isobel Clink - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
For services to Golf
Jill Crook - Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
For services to transforming care, learning disability and autism - Director of Nursing, Professional and System Development for NHS England (South West)
Janet Dyer - Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
For services to the Moreton-in-Marsh community - catering manager, National Fire Service College
Timothy Hewer - Little Stoke, South Gloucestershire
For services to beekeeping in Little Stoke, South Gloucestershire
Michael Jaynes - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
For services to young people and to the Cheltenham community - 1st Hatherley Scouts, Cheltenham.
Patricia Jones from Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
For services to the community in Nailsworth
Norman Mitchell - Bristol
For services to sport in Bristol - Chair of trustees, Lockleaze Sports Centre
Pamela Wingfield - Bristol
For services to dance and to the Bristol community - Founder and Principal of the Wingfield School of Ballet and Dance
Sanjay Shambhu - Patchway, South Gloucestershire
For political service - councillor at South Gloucestershire Council and chair of BAME Conservatives
King's Police Medal (KPM)
Superintendent Paul Keasey - Gloucestershire Constabulary
King's Fire Service Medal (KFSM)
Samuel Allison - Station Manager, Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service - Wiltshire
King's Ambulance Service Medal (KAM)
Vicki Brown - Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Critical Care, South Western Ambulance Service
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