Sir Nicholas Peter Bayne, KCMG (born 15 February 1937) is a retired British diplomat.
[1] He joined HM Diplomatic Service in 1961, and was posted at the British Embassy in Manilla (1963–66) and Bonn (1969–72).
Bayne was appointed British Ambassador to Zaire in 1983, with concurrent accreditation to the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi from 1984.
He was British Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the OECD in Paris from 1985 to 1988, Deputy Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1988 to 1992.
In retirement, Bayne was chairman of the Liberalisation of Trade in Services Committee of the British Invisibles from 1996 to 2000.