General Sir James Rupert Everard, KCB, CBE (born 23 September 1962) is a retired senior British Army officer who served as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

[1] He became Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Lancers in September 2000 and deployed as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.

[1] In December 2005 he became Commander of 20th Armoured Brigade[3] in which capacity he was deployed to Basra in Iraq where he made an attempt to target corruption.

[10] In March 2017 he was appointed as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) and was promoted to the rank of general.

[1] Everard was awarded a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in November 1996,[15] appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in April 2000[16] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in June 2005,[17] and awarded a second Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in July 2007 for his work commanding 20th Armoured Brigade during Operation Telic 8 in Iraq.