Honorary Graduates

Each year, following careful consideration, the University recognises the outstanding achievements of a number of distinguished individuals in a field or activity consonant with the mission of the University, with the award of an honorary degree.

Those recognised receive their degrees during our graduation ceremonies.

2020s

Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Laws

2020 Gulnar Francis-Dehqani
2020 Baroness Sandip Verma
2020 Bob Woods
2022 Wasim Khan
2022 Ian Mattioli MBE
2022 Jimmy Mayer
2022 Bridget Towle
2023 Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan
2023 Glynis Wright MBE
2023 David Moore
2023 Simon Woolley, Baron Woolley of Woodford
2024 Karen-Mae Hill OBE
2024 Sir Will Adderley

Doctor of Science

2021 David Baker
2021 Professor Margaret Kivelson
2022 Professor Sebsebe Demissew
2023 Dr Nik Kotecha OBE DL
2023 Sam Barnett
2024 Helen Sharman CMG OBE
2024 Professor Alice Roberts

Doctor of Music

2023 David Cousins

2010s

Doctor of Letters

2010 Ken Ford
2010 Michael Parkin
2010 Peter Wilby
2011 Michael David Wood
2011 The Most Reverend Dr Desmond Tutu
2012 Rex Bloomstein
2012 Margaret Lovell
2012 Philip Dodd
2012 Michael Shattock, OBE
2013 Eric Dunning
2013 Dame Olwen Hufton, FBA
2013 Almuth Tebbenhoff (text of oration)
2013 Sir Peter Scott
2013 Peter Welton
2013 Stephen Ball, FBA
2014 Rosemary Deem, OBE
2014 Michael Antony Aston (posthumous award)
2014 Jan Wilkinson
2015 John Simpson, OBE (text of oration)
2015 Greg Hicks (text of oration)
2016 Edward Rolland McLachlan
2016 Lars Broholm Tharp
2017 Jean (Binta) Breeze, MBE
2017 Anne Fine, OBE
2017 Gordon Roy Campbell, FBA
2018 Nina Stibbe
2018 Jonathan Philip Agnew, MBE, DL
2018 Fiona Stafford
2018 Sandra Birgitte (Sandi) Toksvig, OBE
2019 David Adetayo Olusoga, OBE
2019 Professor Sir David Cannadine
2019 Professor Graeme Barker
2019 Mr Tony Heaton**

Doctor of Science

2010 Jonathan Castleman
2011 Ray Fairbend
2011 Michael Wilford, CBE
2012 Nigel Henbest
2012 Sir Mark Walport
2013 Sir John Edward Tooke
2013 M Qasim Jan
2014 David Phillips, CBE
2014 Jennifer Clack, FRS
2014 Richard Fortey, FRS
2014 Dame Sally Claire Davies, DBE
2014 Nilesh Jayantilal Samani
2015 Douglas Thomas Fearon, FRS
2015 Keith Mortimer Waddell, CBE
2015 Alfred Rodney Adams, FRS
2015 Robert Joyce
2016 Dame Ann Patricia Dowling, DBE
2016 Sir Godfrey Henry Oliver Palmer
2016 John Henry Sandford-Smith
2016 Timothy Nigel Peake, CMG
2017 Harry Eugene Stanley
2018 Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock, MBE
2018 Sir John Stewart Savill, FRS
2019 Richard Henderson

Doctor of Laws

2010 William Stephen Goulden Bach, the Lord Bach of Lutterworth
2010 Hazel Osborne Byford, the Baroness Byford of Rothley, DBE
2010 Hilary Devey
2010 John Holloway, OBE
2010 Martin Osborne Johnson, CBE
2010 John Brian Sinnott
2010 Peter Williams, CBE
2010 Sir Michael Terence (Terry) Wogan, KBE
2011 The Rt Hon. Bruce Joseph Grocott, the Lord Grocott of Telford (text of oration)
2011 Katherine Elizabeth Williams
2011 Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton
2012 Joan Maureen Baxter, MBE
2012 Sir David Samworth
2012 John Florance
2012 Dame Janet Paraskeva, DBE
2012 Julie Etchingham
2012 Frances Patterson, QC
2012 Lord Justice Goldring
2013 Diana Garnham
2013 Danielle Brown
2014 Roger Bettles
2014 Laurence Howard, OBE
2014 Jonathan Peter Culshaw
2014 Richard Brucciani, OBE, DL
2014 Vijay Sharma
2014 Paul Bateman
2014 HH Judge Howard Morrison, CBE
2014 Aaron Ross Porter
2014 Rob Ward
2015 Atifeti Jahjaga
2015 Micheal Batty, FRS
2015 Anita Linsell
2015 Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith
2015 Jyrki Tapani Katainen
2015 Sir Robert Burgess, DL
2016 Mohammad Shahid Raza
2016 Michael John Smith
2016 Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha
2016 Anthony Allcock, MBE
2016 Graham John Beale, CBE
2016 The Very Revd David Robert Malvern Monteith
2016 Sarah Dilys Outen, MBE
2016 Christopher Nicholas Parsons, CBE
2016 The Rt Hon. David Linsay Willetts, the Lord Willetts of Havant
2017 Charles St Hill Bishop
2017 The Hon Sir Nicholas Nigel Green
2017 Surinder Mohan Sharma, DL
2018 Andrew John Bailey
2018 Patrick Harris
2018 Peter William Gregory Tom, CBE
2018 Dorothy Elaine Francis, MBE
2019 Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, Hon. GCMG
2019 Susan Valerie Whelan
2019 Ms Christine Keates
2019 Mr Bernard Greaves*
2019 Mr George Davies
2019 Mr Nazir Afzal

Doctor of Music

2011 Jon Lord
2013 Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy
2013 Nicola Benedetti, MBE
2015 Alison Louise Balsom

Master of Laws

2011 Carole Blackburn
2011 Alan Birchenall
2011 Harvey Watson

2000s

Doctor of Letters

2000 Brian Simon
2000 Susan Campbell, MBE
2000 Reginald Carr
2000 Anthony Giddens
2001 Richard Pearson
2001 John Edward (Jack) Spence
2002 Maurice Beresford
2002 Helaine Blumenfeld
2002 Lynne Brindley
2002 Stephen Arthur Frears
2002 Chris d’Lacey
2002 Sir Howard Newby, CBE
2002 Timothy Peter Piggott-Smith
2003 Margaret Gelling, OBE
2003 The Rt Rev Timothy John Stevens
2003 Anthony Howard, CBE
2003 Peter Preston
2003 Patricia Ann Hodge
2003 Siobhan Davies, CBE
2003 Sir Martin Harris, CBE
2003 John Matthews, FRHistS, FSA, FBA
2004 Riccardo Nencini
2004 Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah
2004 Eileen Baker
2004 Rev James McEvoy
2004 Bernard Ashley
2004 Rosemary Cramp
2004 Sir William Taylor, CBE
2004 Sir Martin Gilbert
2005 Richard Deacon, CBE
2005 Bryan Magee
2005 Anna Pavord
2005 Vikram Seth, CBE
2005 Sir Donald Sinden, CBE
2006 Patricia Barker, CBE
2006 David Campton
2006 Richard Holmes, CBE
2006 Norman Rosenthal
2006 Laurence John (Laurie) Taylor
2006 Sir Michael John Tomlinson, CBE
2006 Marina Sarah Warner, FBA
2007 David Graham Blanchflower
2007 Deirdre Hubbard, FRBS
2007 Parminder Kaur Nagra
2007 Sir Sigmund Sternberg
2007 Edward Conrad (Ted) Wragg (posthumous award)
2008 William McGuire (Bill) Bryson
2008 John Carter
2008 Rigby Graham
2008 Archbishop Vincent Gerard Nichols
2009 Michael Attenborough
2009 David Weston

Doctor of Science

2000 Mario Illien
2000 Gautam Bodiwala, CBE
2000 Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop
2000 Dame Bridget Ogilvie
2001 Susan Greenfield, CBE
2001 Bruce Smith, CBE
2001 Colin Humphreys FREng
2001 John Taylor, OBE, FRS, FEng
2001 Sir Liam Donaldson
2001 Sir Brian Follett, FRS
2002 Peter Briggs
2002 Hazel Thornton
2002 David Western
2002 Dame Julia Higgins, CBE, FRS
2002 Peter Atkins
2002 David King, FRS
2003 June Scobee Rodgers
2003 Adam Hart-Davis
2003 Sir Paul Nurse, FRS
2003 Sir Peter Bell, FRCS
2004 David Bradley
2004 Sir Alec Jeffreys, FRS
2005 Sir Peter Lachmann
2005 Sir Peter Mansfield
2005 Jane Plant, CBE
2005 Kenneth Alwyne Pounds, CBE, FRS
2005 Sir David Wallace, CBE
2006 Dame Carol Black, DBE (text of oration)
2006 Sir John Enderby, FRS
2006 Sir George Radda, CBE
2006 Martin Taylor, FRS
2007 Frances Ashcroft, FRS (text of oration)
2007 Sir Charles George, FRCP
2008 Antony Chapman
2009 Dame Nancy Rothwell, FRS
2009 Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
2009 Paul Workman

Doctor of Laws

2000 Gerald Bernbaum
2000 Jules LaPidus
2000 Sir Herman Ouseley
2000 Sir John Stevens
2001 Sir John Robertson Young, KCMG
2001 Hugh Greenwood, OBE
2001 Gerald Cinderby
2002 Timothy Gerald Martin Brooks
2003 Sir Derek Thomas
2003 The Hon Lady Brooks
2004 Indarjit Singh
2004 Rita Patel
2004 David William Wilson
2005 John Ashworth
2005 Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, OBE
2005 Mark Haysom
2005 The Very Reverend Derek Hole
2005 Yasmin Jetha
2005 Margaret Nkrumah
2005 Dame Stephanie Shirley, DBE
2006 The Rt Hon. The Baroness Amos
2006 John Bloor, OBE
2006 Alan Race
2007 Sir Michael Bishop, CBE
2007 Damon Buffini
2007 Dame Hazel Genn, CBE
2007 Linda Jones, CBE
2007 Keith John Julian
2007 Dame Suzi Leather, MBE
2007 Angela Sarkis, CBE
2008 Nicholas Corah, OBE
2008 John Foster, OBE
2008 Tarique Ghaffur, CBE, QPM
2008 Philip Hammersley, CBE
2008 Freda Hussain, MBE
2008 Lord Janner of Braunstone, QC
2008 Manjula Sood (text of oration)
2009 George William Bolsover
2009 Guy Canivet
2009 Richard Everard
2009 Sir Arthur James Rose
2009 Wendi Stevens
2009 Adrian Robert Weston

Doctor of Music

2000 Dame Felicity Lott
2002 Tasmin Little
2003 Andrew Constantine
2003 Dame Gillian Weir, DBE
2004 Peter Donohoe
2004 Jane Glover
2005 John Rutter
2006 Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold George Dorsey)
2007 Karl Jenkins, OBE
2009 Martyn Hill

Master of Arts

2001 Jean Humphreys
2002 Dean Richards, MBE
2004 Charles Palmer, CBE

Master of Laws

2001 Elvy Morton
2004 Robert Price
2004 Bob Collins

1990s

Doctor of Letters

1990 Eric Ogilvie, OBE
1990 Elaine Feinstein
1990 William Weaver
1990 Sir David Wilson, FBA
1991 Zdenek Stribrny
1992 Janet Suzman
1992 Max MacDonald Hastings
1992 Bronislaw Geremek
1992 Marilyn Spiers Butler
1993 Clare Hollingworth, OBE
1993 Frank Horace Hahn
1993 David John Murray Wright
1994 Donald English
1995 Albert Halsey
1995 Herman Frans Anna Van Der Wee
1995 Sir Angus Duncan Aeneas Stirling
1996 Sir Keith Vivian Thomas
1996 Christopher Hibbert
1996 John Edward Christopher Hill
1997 Sue Cook (Susan Lorraine Cook)
1997 Michael Saunders Watson, CBE
1997 Robert Neil MacGregor
1998 Amartya Sen
1998 John Sutherland
1999 Barry Supple, FBA
1999 Dame Gillian Beer
1999 Sir Anthony Wrigley

Doctor of Science

1990 Federico Mayor
1990 Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, FRS
1990 Roald Sagdeev
1991 Sir David John Weatherall
1991 Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, FRS
1992 Sir John Ivan George Cadogan, FRS
1992 Harry Smith, FRS
1993 Anne Laura MacLaren, DBE, FRS
1993 Sir Martin John Rees, FRS
1993 Malcolm John Frazer
1994 Sir Robert Kilpatrick, CBE
1994 Charles Wayne Rees, FRS
1995 Sir Neil Cossons, OBE
1995 Stephen Jay Gould
1995 Peter Michael Williams, CBE
1995 Raoul Bott
1995 Jeremy Bray
1995 The Rev John Polkinghorne
1996 Lewis Wolpert
1996 Patrick Caldwell Moore, CBE
1996 Sir Michael Richard Bond
1997 Raymond Baker
1997 Heather Anita Couper
1997 Jeff Hoffman
1997 Sir Dai Rees
1998 Dame Margaret Warwick, DBE
1998 David Hempleman-Adams, OBE
1998 Sir Donald Irvine
1998 Håkan Mogren
1998 Sir Harold Kroto, FRS
1999 Philip Campbell
1999 Sir Keith Peters
1999 Frederick Leckie
1999 Sir Richard Brook Sykes

Doctor of Laws

1990 The Rt Hon Lord Donoughue of Ashton
1991 The Rt Rev William John Westwood
1991 The Rt Hon the Lord St John of Fawsley, PC
1991 Baroness Turner of Camden (Muriel Winifred Turner)
1991 Robert Badinter
1991 Sir Edwin Ronald Nixon
1992 Anthony O'Reilly
1992 Frank Ephraim May
1993 Betty Boothroyd
1993 Michael Aubrey Chamberlain
1994 Lady Penelope Mary Braye
1994 Peter Ellwood
1994 David Arthur Walmsley
1994 Mario Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares
1994 Catherine Trautmann
1994 Stephen Tumim
1995 Sir Roy Harding, CBE
1995 The Rt Rev. Leo McCartie
1995 The Rt Rev. Thomas Frederick Butler
1995 Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings
1996 Lord MacKay of Clashfern
1996 Tan Sri Dato' Seri Jeffrey Cheah
1996 William Alsop
1996 Laxmi Mall Singhvi
1997 Carol Galley
1997 Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE
1997 The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Brown
1997 Patrick Coldstream, CBE
1997 Sir Richard George
1998 Sir John Lowther, CBE, JP
1998 Martin Gaskell
1998 Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws
1998 David Jones
1998 Justice A M Ahmadi
1998 Wendy Elizabeth Hickling
1999 The Honorable Raymond Seitz
1999 Kenneth John Richard Edwards

Doctor of Music

1993 Jeffrey Philip Tate, CBE
1997 Evelyn Glennie, OBE
1998 The Lindsays

Master of Arts

1990 William Henry Hare, MBE
1991 Susan Lillian Townsend
1992 Gary Winston Lineker, OBE
1992 Terence Garfield
1994 Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE
1995 Charlotte Mary Stott, OBE
1995 Michael Thomas Nicholson, OBE
1995 Josette Simon
1996 Norman Colin Dexter
1996 Derek Robert Nimmo
1996 James William Anscomb
1997 Jack Birkenshaw
1999 Rachel Sullivan

Master of Science

1999 Tim Appleton

Master of Laws

1996 Sara Elkes
1996 The Rev Margaret Jane Morris
1997 Anita Tasker, OBE
1999 Christopher Moon, MBE

1980s

Doctor of Letters

1981 Jonathan Wolfe Miller
1981 Stanley John Sadie
1981 Alan Arthur Walters
1982 Mark Girouard
1982 Jean Iris Murdoch (Mrs J O Bayley, CBE)
1982 Margaret Mary Gowing
1983 Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FBA, FSA
1983 Sir Lawrence Burnett Gowing, CBE
1984 Lord Bullock, FBA
1985 Harold Bryan Organ
1985 Sir William Arthur Shapland
1985 Irene Joan Thirsk, FBA
1986 Kenneth Ellison Horne
1986 Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
1986 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
1986 David Terence Puttnam, CBE
1988 Herbert Richard Hoggart
1989 Francois Crouzet, OBE

Doctor of Science

1980 Sir Douglas Andrew Kilgour Black
1980 Kenneth Fowler Wood
1980 Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes, DBE
1980 Sir Nicholas John Walton
1981 Sir William John Granville Beynon, CBE
1982 Sir Edward Anthony John Alment
1982 Silvio Weidmann, FRS
1982 Stephen William Hawking, FRS
1983 Sydney Brenner, FRS, FRSE
1984 Sir George Malcolm Brown, FRS, FRSE
1984 Sir Edward Walter Parkes
1985 Raymond Hide, FRS
1985 Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, PRCP
1985 Robert Joseph Paton Williams, FRS
1986 Sir John Henry Harvey-Jones, MBE
1987 Eric Albert Ash, CBE, FRS
1987 The Hon Miriam Louisa Rothschild, CBE, FRS
1988 Norman Curtis
1988 Jack Lewis, FRS, FRSC
1989 Franklyn Perring
1989 Hugh Huxley, MBE, FRS
1989 Sir Alexander Turnbull, CBE
1989 Montague Goldberg

Doctor of Laws

1980 Sir Patrick Dalmahoy Nairne, KCB, MC
1980 Rene David
1980 Sir Sydney Percy King, OBE
1982 David Bethell
1982 Christian, Lady Hesketh, OBE
1982 Charles Randolph Quirk, CBE
1982 Sir Henry Albert Skinner
1983 Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders, DBE
1983 Kenneth William Bowder, OBE
1984 John Patrick Lowry, CBE
1984 Col Robert Andrew St George Martin, OBE
1984 The Hon Sir Jean-Pierre Frank Eugene Warner, QC
1985 Sydney Kentridge
1986 The Rev Gordon Reginald Dunstan
1986 Sir Alexander Johnston, GCB, KBE
1987 Maurice Shock
1987 Robert Ribblesdale Thornton, CBE
1988 Lord Sieff of Brimpton, OBE
1989 Ward Jack Timken
1989 Helen Scott, OBE

Doctor of Music

1982 William Alwyn, CBE
1984 Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE

Master of Arts

1981 Christopher Adolph, MBE
1982 Michael Turner
1982 James Lloyd Carr
1982 Derrick William Dunn
1984 Dora Phylis Oxenham, (Mrs D R Harper, CBE)
1984 Margaret Harrison
1985 Brenda Bruce, OBE
1985 Peter John Wheeler, MBE
1986 Denys James Watkins-Pitchford
1987 Leslie Cooper Skelton
1988 Joan Hickson, OBE
1988 Herald Goddard
1988 Joan Goddard
1988 Neville Stack

Master of Science

1982 Molly Badham, MBE
1986 Geoffrey Perry, MBE
1987 William Coates, MBE

Master of Music

1983 Ian William Edward Imlay

Master of Laws

1982 Harold Gibson
1982 Leslie Milliard

1970s

Doctor of Letters

1970 Philip Arthur Larkin
1970 Thomas Humphrey Marshall, CMG
1970 Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse, CBE, FBA
1970 David Frederick Attenborough
1970 Richard Samuel Attenborough, CBE
1971 Eric Birley, MBE, FBA
1971 Edward John Mostyn Bowlby
1971 Henry Spencer Moore, OM, CH
1971 Maurice Herbert Dobb
1972 Moses Finley
1973 Marcus Felix Brundenell Fitch
1973 Marie Jahoda
1973 Lionel Trilling
1974 Basil Bernstein
1974 Kathleen Jessie Raine
1974 Arnold Roger Manvell
1974 Sir (James William) Francis Hill, CBE
1975 Carlo Dionisotti-Casalone, FBA
1975 Sir Harry Garner, KBE, CBE
1975 Doris May Lessing
1976 Dorothy Mary Emmett
1976 Anthony Dymoke Powell
1976 Sylvere Monod
1976 Charles Ray Richeson
1977 Sir Peter Hall, CBE
1977 Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE
1978 Astrid Lindgren
1978 Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, CMG, FBA
1979 John Innes Mackintosh Stewart

Doctor of Science

1970 Sir George Edward Raven Deacon, CBE, FRS, FRSE
1972 Eleanor Margaret Burbidge, FRS
1970 Sir Henry Frank Harding Jones, KBE
1971 Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, KBE, OM, FRS
1971 Cyril Astley Clarke, CBE, FRS
1972 Sir George Porter, FRS
1972 Sir Percy Edward Kent, FRS
1972 Richard E Reason, FRS
1972 Sir Kingley Charles Dunham, OBE, FRS
1972 Sir Vivian Fuchs
1972 Kenneth Mellanby, CBE
1973 Sir Brian Flowers, FRS
1973 Wilhelmina Iwanowska
1973 Sir Andrew Kay
1974 David Chilton Philips, FRS
1974 Nikolaas Tinbergen, FRS
1975 Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer
1976 Antony Hewish, FRS
1977 Sir Frederick Stewart, FRS
1978 Sir Rex Richards, FRS
1978 Nicholas Saul Mair
1979 Arthur Hafford Cooke, MBE
1979 Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS

Doctor of Laws

1970 Edward Moss Hutchinson
1971 Mac Goldsmith
1972 Elfed Thomas
1973 Harold Bernard Martin
1973 Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, FBA
1975 Sir Kenneth Berrill, KCB
1975 Jacob Festus Ade Ajayi
1976 The Rt Rev Ronald Ralph Williams
1976 Nigel David Walker
1976 Sir Fraser Noble, MBE
1977 Sir Mark Henig
1978 The Rt Hon Sir Roger Ormrod, PC
1979 Frederick Alfred Thorpe, OBE
1979 The Rev Prebendary Edward Chad Varah, OBE

Doctor of Music

1970 Beryl Grey (Mrs S G Svenson, CBE)
1972 Paul Tortelier
1974 Janet Abbott Baker (Mrs J K Shelley, CBE)
1977 Sir David Willcocks, CBE
1978 Alfred Deller, OBE

Master of Arts

1974 Geoffrey Burton
1975 John Henry Hopkins
1978 John Robin Midgley

Master of Science

1977 Jack Otter
1979 Ronald Arthur Overton Hickling

Master of Music

1975 Kenneth Douglas Page
1975 James Walker

1960s

Doctor of Letters

1960 John Piper
1961 Sir Frank Adcock, OBE, FBA
1962 Michael Clive Knowles, OSB, FBA, FSA
1963 Sir Basil Spence, OM, RA
1964 Dame Peggy Ashcroft, DBE
1965 Graham Vivian Sutherland, OM
1965 Edmund Charles Blunden, CBE, MC
1965 Louis Booker Wright
1966 Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, CBE, FBA, FSA
1967 Joan Violet Robinson, FBA
1968 The Rt Hon The Earl Spencer
1968 John Harold Plumb
1968 Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, CBE
1969 Sir John Richard Hicks, FBA
1969 Sir Charles Tennyson, CMG

Doctor of Science

1960 The Rt Hon Lord Todd, FRS
1960 Sir Frank Whittle, KBE, CB, FRS
1961 Sir Bernard Lovell, OBE, FRS
1962 Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS
1963 Sir Hans Krebs, FRS
1964 Sir Harrie Massey, FRS
1965 Sir Michael James Lighthill, FRS
1966 William Hayes, FRS
1967 Alexander Romanovich Luria
1967 Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell, CBE, FRS
1967 Andrew Fielding Huxley, FRS
1968 Sir John Baker, OBE, FRS
1968 Thomas Archibald Bennet-Clark, CBE, FRS
1968 Sir Lindor Brown, CBE, FRS
1968 Guido Pontecorvo, FRS, FRSE
1968 Frederick Sanger, CBE, FRS
1968 Sir Michael Meredith Swann, FRS, FRSE
1969 Charles Alfred Coulson, FRS
1969 Warner Tjardus Koiter

Doctor of Laws

1960 The Rt Hon The Lord Morrison of Lambeth, CH, PC
1961 The Rt Hon The Lord Robbins of Clare Market, CB, FBA
1961 Sir David Alexander Cecil Low
1961 Sir Charles Haynes Wilson
1962 The Rt Hon The Lord Bridges, GCB, GCVO, MC, PC, FRS
1962 Horace James Oram, OBE
1963 Sir Charles Robert Keene, CBE
1963 Sir Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, CIE
1964 David Daube, FBA
1964 Sir William Arthur Lewis
1965 Sir Thomas Percival Creed, KBE, MC, QC
1964 The Rt Hon Lord Murray of Newhaven, KCB
1965 Sir (John) Leslie Martin
1965 Sir Leon Radzinowiez, FBA
1966 The Rt Hon Lord Devlin of Westwick, PC, FBA
1966 The Rt Hon Lord Robens of Woldingham, PC
1967 John Newton Frears, CBE
1968 Sir Robert Aitken
1968 Lady Plowden
1968 John William Gardner
1969 Sir Anthony Reay Mackay Geddes, KBE

Doctor of Music

1964 Sir John Barbirolli, CH
1965 Benjamin Britten, OM, CH
1965 Yehudi Menuhin, Hon KBE
1966 Dame Alicia Markova, DBE
1968 Joan Sutherland, CBE
1968 Sir Michael Tippett, OBE
1969 Colin Rex Davis, CBE
1969 Sir Geraint Llewellyn Evans, CBE

Master of Arts

1965 Richard Lester Ager
1965 Gerald Benney
1965 Norah Waddington
1967 Hugh Collinson
1967 George Edmund Dearing, MBE
1967 Clive Perry
1969 Francis Kelly, OBE
1969 Edgar Tyler

Master of Science

1965 Trevor Alfred Walden

Master of Music

1965 George Charles Gray

Master of Laws

1967 Sir Robert Mark

1950s

Doctor of Letters

1958 Edward Morgan Forster, OM, CH
1959 Sir John Newenham Summerson, CBE
1959 John Dover Wilson, CH

Doctor of Science

1958 The Rt Hon The Lord Adrian, OM, FRS
1958 Sir John Cockcroft, KCB, OM, CBE, FRS
1959 Sir William Vallance Douglas Hodge, FRS

Doctor of Laws

1958 The Rt Hon The Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO
1958 Harry Percy Gee, CBE
1958 Sir John Francis Lockwood
1959 Sir Robert Edmund Martin, CMG
1959 Edmund Rubbra, CBE
1959 The Rt Hon Lord Snow, CBE
1959 Joan Wake, CBE

Distinguished Honorary Fellows

Distinguished Honorary Fellowships are awarded only to persons who have a substantial record of personal service to the University and who already hold an honorary degree of the University. There are a maximum of 24 Distinguished Honorary Fellows at any one time. (* indicates deceased)

2005 Frank Ephraim May, MBE
2005 Helen Scott, OBE *
2006 Sir David Frederick Attenborough, CH
2006 Richard Samuel Attenborough, CBE, Lord Attenborough of Richmond upon Thames *
2007 Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE *
2008 Wendy Elizabeth Hickling, OBE *
2008 Jean Humphreys *
2008 Sir Patrick Moore, Hon FRS *
2008 Sue Townsend, FRSL *
2009 Michael Chamberlain, OBE
2009 John Foster, OBE
2009 Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, CH, FRS
2013 Ian Imlay *
2013 Kenneth Alwyne Pounds, CBE, FRS
2014 Adrian Weston *
2015 Roger Bettles
2017 Michael John Attenborough, CBE
2019 Professor Sir Peter Bell