2015 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
The 2015 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by Elizabeth II in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 2014 and the beginning of 2015. They were announced on 31 December 2014.
Sir Murray Brennan
Dame Tariana Turia
Sir Ian Athfield
Sir Neville Jordan
Sir Murray Frederick Brennan is a New Zealand surgeon, oncologist, cancer researcher, and academic. From 1985 to 2006, he was chairman of the surgery department of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, United States.
Brennan (left) in 2015, after his investiture as a Knight Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Sir Jerry Mateparae