List of honorary graduates of the University of Leeds
This list of Honorary Graduates of the University of Leeds is a year-by-year list of people recognized by the University of Leeds for their achievements in their given field with an honorary award.[1]
An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa (Latin: 'for the sake of the honour') is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements (such as matriculation, residence, study and the passing of examinations). The degree itself is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the academic institution.
DEng | Doctor of Engineering |
DLitt | Doctor of Letters |
DM | Doctor of Medicine |
DMus | Doctor of Music |
DSc | Doctor of Science |
LLD | Doctor of Laws |
2010s
2019[2]
- Peter Dhillon (LLD)
- Jane Featherstone (DLitt)
- Richard Henderson (DSc)
- Lubaina Himid (DLitt)
- Michael Pepper (DEng)
- Norman Williams (DSc)
2018[3]
- Kenton Cool (LLD)
- Mary Fowler (DSc)
- Peter Gibbs (LLD)
- Gabriele Hegerl (DSc)
- Alice Roberts (DSc)
- Jane Rumble (DSc)
- Clare Marx (DSc)
- Wendy Burn (DM)
- Robert Mair, Baron Mair (DEng)
- Iain Mattaj (DSc)
- David Olusoga (DLitt)
- Anne Owers (LLD)
- Christopher Senyonjo (LLD)
- Leslie Valiant (DEng)
2017[4]
- Malcolm Brown (LLD)
- Anne Chamberlain (DSc)
- Grace Clough (LLD)
- Barry Cryer (DLitt)
- Karen Darke (LLD)
- Richard Farnes (DMus)
- John Hardy (DSc)
- Colin Low (Baron Low of Dalston) (LLD)
- Nicola Mendelsohn (LLD)
- Helen Rappaport (DLitt)
- Martin Rees (Baron Rees of Ludlow) (DSc)
- Andrew Shovlin (DEng)
- Paul Workman (DSc)
2016[5]
- Athene Donald (DSc)
- John Fisher (DEng)
- Anne-Marie Hutchinson (LLD)
- Steve Jackson (DSc)
- Vivien Jones (DLitt)
- Wayne McGregor (DLitt)
- Peter Morgan (DLitt)
- Isobel Pollock-Hulf (DEng)
- Julia Slingo (DSc)
- John Stoddart-Scott (LLD)
- Andrea Sutcliffe (DSc)
2015[6]
- Nicola Adams (LLD)
- Simon Armitage (DLitt)
- David Baulcombe (DSc)
- Margaret Jull Costa (DLitt)
- Ann Dowling (DEng)
- Arthur France (LLD)
- Peter Hendy (LLD)
- Howard Morris (DSc)
- Michelle Pinggera (LLD)
- John Tooke (DSc)
2014[7]
- Michael Arthur (LLD)
- John Dyson, Lord Dyson (LLD)
- Jane Francis (DSc)
- Andras Schiff (DMus)
- Patrick Stewart (DLitt)
2013
- Alistair Brownlee (LLD)
- Jonathan Brownlee (LLD)
- Claire Cashmore (LLD)
- Stephanie Flanders (DLitt)
- Samuel Kargbo (DSc)
- Linda Pollard (LLD)
- Susan Solomon (DSc)
- Martin Wainwright (DLitt)
2012
- Onora O’Neill (LLD)
- Eliza Manningham-Buller (LLD)
- Keir Starmer QC (LLD)
- Ian Kershaw (DLitt)
2011
- David Stuart (DSc)
- Corinne Bailey Rae (DMus)
- Jonathan Wild (LLD)
- Sally Davies (DM)
- Peter Blake (DMus)
- Keith Howard (LLD)
2010[8]
- Alan Yentob (LLD)
- José Ángel Gurría (LLD)
- Elaine Surick Oran (DSc)
- Ingrid Roscoe (LLD)
- John Sentamu (LLD)
- John Simpson (LLD)
- Lesley Dixon (LLD)
- Sir Stuart Rose (LLD)
2000s
2009
- Sayyid Saud bin Ibrahim Al-Busaidi (LLD)
- Yahya bin Saud bin Mansoor Al-Sulaimi (LLD)
- Nicola Brewer (LLD)
- Malcolm Chaikin (DSc)
- Bekele Geleta (LLD)
- Simon Mason (LLD)
- Sunil Bharti Mittal (LLD)
- Richard Mantle (DMus)
- Michael Nyman (DMus)
- Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool (DSc)
- Peter Robinson (DLitt)
2008
- Mark Byford (LLD)
- Albert Fert (DSc)
- Baroness Flather (LLD)
- David Hessayon (DSc)
- Sir Christopher Rose (LLD)
- Martin Scicluna (LLD)
- Polly Toynbee (LLD)
2007
- David Ansbro (LLD)
- Dame Josephine Barstow (DMus)
- Steve Bell (DLitt)
- Dr Sydney Brenner (DM)
- Arthur Cockcroft (LLD)
- Anita Desai (DLitt)
- Ruth Errington (LLD)
- Al Garthwaite (LLD)
- Mabel Parris (LLD)
- Harold Pinter (DLitt)
- Dr Piers Sellers (DSc)
- Professor Janet Thornton (DSc)
- Fiona Wood (DM)
- Tony Wren (DEng)
2006
- Lynne Brindley (DLitt)
- Gurinder Chadha (DLitt)
- Sara Courtneidge (DSc)
- John Elderfield (DLitt)
- Alexander Markham (DSc)
- Arthur Stone (LLD)
2005
- Bill Bryson (DLitt)
- Sir David Cox (DSc)
- Andy Kershaw (DMus)
- Dame Nancy Rothwell (DSc)
- Marjorie Ziff (LLD)
2004
- Emeritus Professor Zygmunt Bauman
- Emeritus Professor Maurice Beresford
- Jack Charlton (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor Duncan Dowson (DEng)
- Tony Harrison (DLitt)
- Professor Dame Julia Higgins (DSc)
- Sir Ian McKellen (DLitt)
- Sir Kenneth Morrison (LLD)
- Baroness Usha Prashar (LLD)
- Professor David Rhodes (DEng)
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o (DLitt)
- Professor Sir Alan Wilson (LLD)
2003
- Anthony Hunt (DEng)
- Caryl Phillips (DLitt)
2002
- Dame Judi Dench (DLitt)
- Roderic Lyne (LLD)
- Paul Nurse (DSc)
2001
- Dame Betty Boothroyd (LLD)
- Susan Greenfield (DSc)
- Seamus Heaney (DLitt)
- Craig Jordan (DMed)
2000
- Melvyn Bragg (DLitt)
- Alan Bullock (DLitt)
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (DSc)
- David Hockney (Dlitt)
- Jude Kelly (DLitt)
- Robert Ogden (LLD)
- Alan Roberts (LLD)
1990s
1999
- Jeremy Paxman (LLD)
- Murray Perahia (DMus)
- The Rt. Hon. Jack Straw (LLD)
- Professor Sir John Ernest Walker (DSc)
1998
- No honors conferred in this academic year.
1997
- Harold 'Dickie' Bird (LLD)
- Ben Gill (DSc)
- Peter Gray (DSc)
- John Hougham (LLD)
- Douglas Jefferson (DLitt)
- Bill Kilgallon (LLD)
- Gerald Di Piazza (DEng)
- Derek Roberts (DSc)
- Nayantara Saghal (DLitt)
- Richard Sykes (DSc)
1996
- James Cronin (DSc)
- Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (LLD)
- Ernest Hall (LLD)
- David Jenkins (DD)
- Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller (DLitt)
- Dame Kathleen Raven (LDD)
- Ismail Zawawi (DEng)
1995
- Sir Alan Bowness (DLitt)
- Stuart Hall (DLitt)
- Sir John Houghton (DSc)
- Tom Jackson (LLD)
- Mark Knopfler (DMus)
- Professor Sir Hans Leo Kornberg (DSc)
- Lin Ma (LLD)
- Jean Muir (DLitt)
- Manmohan Singh (LLD)
- Lord Justice Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth (LLD)
- Chad Varah (LLD)
1994
- Emeka Anyaoku (LLD)
- Margaret Atwood (DLitt)
- Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn (LLD)
- Sir Sam Edwards (DSc)
- Professor Sir Gordon Higginson (LLD)
- The Honorable Raymond George Hardenbergh Seitz (LLD)
- Cecil Thompson (MA)
- Victor Watson (LLD)
1993
- The Rt Rev (Albert) Kenneth Cragg (DD)
- Maurice Godet (DEng)
- Anish Kapoor (DLitt)
- Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren (DSc)
- Sir Simon Denis Rattle (DMus)
- Edward Thompson (DLitt)
- Dr. James Walsh (LLD)
- Arnold Ziff (LLD)
1992
- Sir Frederick Charles Frank (DSc)
- Professor Stephen Jay Gould (DSc)
- Raymond Head (LLD)
- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (LLD)
- Professor Dan McKenzie (DSc)
- Cristopher Mowll (LLD)
- David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam (DLitt)
- Merlyn Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees (LLD)
- Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (DLitt)
- Dame Fanny Waterman (DMus)
1991
- The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, Baron Healey (LLD)
- Rev. Trevor Huddlestone (LLD)
- Professor Walter Kunzel (DM)
- Sir Gordon Linacre (LDD)
- Janusz Onyszkiewicz (DSc)
- Pat Solk (LLD)
- Sir Peter Thompson (LLD)
1990
- Alan Bennett (DLitt)
- Barbara Taylor Bradford (DLitt)
- Lt Cdr. Allan Crockatt (LDD)
- Ray Cullingworth (MA)
- Ralph Goodall (DEng)
- Professor Yves Jeannin (DSc)
- Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal (DM)
- Colin Sampson (LLD)
- Tōru Takemitsu (DMus)
- Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman (DSc)
1980s
1989
- Joseph Dickinson (MSc)
- Sir Joseph Gilbert (LLD)
- H Peter Jost (DEng)
- Professor Heinrich Noth (DSc)
- Tan Sri Rashdan (LLD)
- Esther Simpson (LLD)
- Caspar Weinberger (DM)
1988
- Doreen J Bayley (MA)
- Professor Richard Cobb (DLitt)
- Geoffrey Hill (DLitt)
- Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Dowager Countess of Swinton, Baroness Masham of Ilton (LLD)
- Roy McMurtry (LLD)
- Patricia Ruanne (DLitt)
- William P Thackray (LLD)
- Jean M Tyrrell (LLD)
- Professor Sir David Weatherall (DM)
1987
- Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke (LLD)
- Sir Alan Ayckbourn (DLitt)
- Sir Lawrence Byford (LLD)
- Bernard Haitink (DMus)
- Professor Stephen Hawking (DSc)
- Professor Jerzy Kroh (DSc)
- Yves Lesage (LLD)
- Anthony J Moyes (LLD)
- Dame Margaret Kate Weston (DSc)
1986
- Professor Sir Geoffrey Allen (DSc)
- The Reverend Professor William Owen Chadwick (DLitt)
- Janusz Fibras (DLitt)
- David Lloyd-Jones (DMus)
- Sir David Lean (DLitt)
- Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (LLD)[9] – revoked 2012[10]
- Noel Stockdale (LLD)
1985
- Douglas Gabb (MEng)
- Emeritus Professor Irene Manton (DSc)
- Ronald King Murray, Lord Murray (LLD)
- John Piper (DLitt)
- Professor Robert Shackleton (DLitt)
- Douglas Shortridge (LLD)
- The Rt. Rev. Gordon Wheeler (DD)
- Xie Xide (DSc)
1984
- Julian Bream (DMus)
- Professor Brian Leonard Clarkson (DSc)
- Richard Arthur Dalley (MSc)
- James Hanson, Baron Hanson (LLD)
- Sir Paul Leonard Fox (LLD)
- Sir Stanley George Hooker (DSc)
- Syed Ali Mohammed Husain Khusro (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor Owen Lattimore (DLitt)
- Sir James Lighthill (DSc)
- Sir Rex Richards (DSc)
- R. E. Rowe (DEng)
- Margaret Susan Cheshire, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor William Walsh (LLD)
- James Westoll (LLD)
1983
- Imogen Clare Holst (DMus)
- George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy of Rhondda (LLD)
- Robert Stewart Rowe (DLitt)
- Roy Colin Strong (DLitt)
1982
- Stephen Towers Anning (MPhil)
- Willy Brandt (LLD)
- Denis Parsons Burkitt
- Sir Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver (DSc)
- Jacqueline du Pré (DMus)
- Derek Ezra, Baron Ezra (LLD)
- Viscount Hailsham (LLD)
- Ronald Stanley Illingworth (DSc)
- Leo Arthur Kaprio (LLD)
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (DLitt)
- Sir Rudolph Lyons (LLD)
1981
- Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (LLD)
- Professor David Donnison (LLD)
- Sarah Gilchrist (MA)
- Robert Gittings (DLitt)
- Jean Philippe Inebnit (MA)
- Sir Alec Merrison (DSc)
- Richard Morris (DSc)
- Norah Smallwood (DLitt)
1980
- Dame Janet Abbott Baker (DMus)
- The Very Reverend Henry Chadwick (DD)
- John Cedric Goligher (DSc)
- James MacGregor (LLD)
- Sir Denis Rooke (DSc)
- Sir Tom Stoppard (DLitt)
- The Rt. Hon. Mrs Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (LLD)
1970s
1979
- S.P.S. Andrew (DSc)
- Sir Robert Bradlaw (DSc)
- Baron Diamond of Gloucester (LLD)
- Professor M.E. Howard (DLitt)
- Dennis Irvine (DSc)
- Queenie Dorothy Leavis (DLitt)
- Lord Hunt of Llanvair Waterdine (DLitt)
- Baroness Seear (LLD)
- E.J. Read (MA)
- Sydney Percy Smith (DSc)
- William Taylor (DLitt)
- Professor Sir John Walton (DSc)
1978
- Reinhard Bendix (DLitt)
- Baron Holderness of Bishop Wilton in the County (LLD)
- Sir John Charnley (DSc)
- Kristján Eldjárn, President of Iceland (DLitt)
- Professor Philip Grierson (DLitt)
- Dr Theodore Morris Sugden (DSc)
- Clement Charles Tapp (MA)
- Lord Arnold Weinstock (DLitt)
- Richard F Wood (DLitt)
1977
- Sir Kenneth Lyon Blaxter (DSc)
- Professor Sheppard Sunderland Frere (DLitt)
- Arthur Koestler (DLitt)
- Professor William Norton Medlicott (DLitt)
- Sir Claus Moser (PhD)
- Innocentina Tomasini Pearmain (MA)
- Lord Alexander of Potterhill (DLitt)
- John Collins Siddons (MSc)
- Edmund Williamson (LLD)
1976
- Claude Thomas Bissell (DLitt)
- Aaron Copland (DMus)
- Norma Franklin (DSc)
- Margaret Gowing (DLitt)
- Helena Hayward (MA)
- Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (LLD)
- Charles Rosen (DMus)
- Sir Rodney Smith (DSc)
- Lord Widgery (LLD)
1975
- Rupert Cross (LLD)
- Kenneth Fourness (MSc)
- Donald Hunt (DMus)
- Harold Macmillan (DLitt)
- Rosemary Murray (DSc)
- Charles Pannell (LLD)
- David Woodbine Parish (LLD)
- Stephen Roskill (DLitt)
- Arnold Smith (LLD)
- Professor Sir John Stallworthy (DSc)
- Humphrey Trevelyan (DLitt)
- Emeritus Professor Ronald Tunbridge (Dsc)
- Ralph C Yablon (LLD)
1974
- Pierre Boulez (DMus)
- Asa Briggs (DLitt)
- Richard Crossman (DLitt)
- Arthur Dower (LLD)
- Sir Reginald Goodall (DMus)
- David Hockney (MA)
- Sir Brynmor Jones (LLD)
- Alexander MacLennan (MEd)
- Frederick Sidney Snow (LLD)
- Andre Varga (LLD)
1973
- Kenneth John Bonser (MA)
- Sir John Francis Boyd (LLD)
- Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen (DSc)
- George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (DLitt)
- Professor Sir Frederick Sidney Dainton (DSc)
- Jean Esther Floud (DLitt)
- Arthur Gilpin (MSc)
- Professor Sydney Goldstein (DSc)
- Harold Gray (LLD)
- Bernard Lyons (LLD)
- George Frederick Sedgwick (MA)
- Wole Soyinka (DLitt)
- Professor Julius Stone (LLD)
1972
- Baroness Bacon (Alice Martha) (LLD)
- Lady Barbirolli (Evelyn Rothwell) (MA)
- Nadia Boulanger (DMus)
- Sir Colin Douglas Buchanan (DSc)
- Sir Alec Clegg (LLD)
- Professor V.L. Ginzburg (DLitt)
- Vaughan Loach (LLD)
- Arthur Stanley Maney (MA)
- Victor Sawdon Pritchett (DLitt)
- Arthur Raistrick (DLitt)
- Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (DLitt)
- Professor Helmut Zahn (DSc)
1971
- Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon(LLD)
- Sir Ronald Gould (DLitt)
- The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins (LLD)
- Sir Donald MacDougall (DLitt)
- Professor Sir George Porter (DSc)
- Georg Solti (DMus)
- Sir Roger Stevens (LLD)
- Dorothy Whitelock (DLitt)
- Professor Rudolf Wittkower (DLitt)
1970
- Lord Crowther of Headingley (DLitt)
- Clifford Curzon (DMus)
- Alexander Graeme Dickson (LLD)
- Kenneth Hargreaves (LLD)
- Sir Howard Lesley Kirkley (MA)
- Robert Lowell (DLitt)
- William Pitts (MA)
- Professor Tadeus Reichstein (DSc)
- Professor Bazaryn Shirendyb (DLitt)
- Professor Henri Talon (DLitt)
- Dame Janet Maria Vaughan (DSc)
1960s
1969
- Professor Philip Rowland Allison (DSc)
- Professor Damaso Alonso (DLitt)
- Frank Beckwith (MPhil)
- The Hon. Sir Maurice (Richard) Bridgeman, K.B.E. (LLD)
- Sir Derman (Guy) Christopherson (LLD)
- James Richard Gregson (MA)
- Donald Hopewell (LLD)
- Professor Sir Fred Hoyle (DSc)
- Sir Bernard Kenyon (LLD) Walter Pagel (LLD)
- Dowager Marchioness of Reading (LLD)
- Elizabeth Grace Watts (LLD)
1968
- Douglas Crockatt (LLD)
- Marie Hartley (MA)
- Harold Himsworth (DSc)
- Archer John Porter Martin (DSc)
- Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol (LLD)
- Nikolaus Pevsner (DLitt)
- Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (LLD)
- Eric Treacy (LLD)
- Lady Dorothy Tunbridge (MA)
- Sir Ernest George Woodroofe (LLD)
1967
- David William Currie (DSc)
- Sir Frank Francis (DLitt)
- King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (LLD)
- Lord Jackson of Burnley (LLD)
- Sir Henry Jones (LLD)
- David Henry Lewis (MSc)
- Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (LLD)
- John Primatt Redcliffe Maud (LLD)
- Robert Mayer (LLD)
- Irene McAdam (MA)
- Mary Moorman (DLitt)
- Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (LLD)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (DLitt)
- Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (DSc)
- Julius Adams Stratton (LLD)
- U. Thant (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor Henry Cherry Versey (LLD)
- Joshua Samuel Alderman Walsh (LLD)
- Sir William Arthington Worsley (LLD)
- Sir Norman Wright (LLD)
1966
- Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Hill Ambler (LLD)
- David Curie (MSc)
- Baroness Gaitskell of Egremont (LLD)
- Sir Frank Kearton (LLD)
- HRH Duchess of Kent (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell (DSc)
- Sir Alexander Oppenheim (LLD)
- Lord Stewart of Fulham (LLD)
- Mr Justice Geoffrey De Paiva Veale (LLD)
- Dame Fanny Waterman (MA)
1965
- Professor Saul Alder (DSc)
- Lord Edward Boyle (LLD)
- Lord Brock (LLD)
- Professor Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (DLitt)
- Sir Charles Illingworth (LLD)
- Frank Leavis (DLitt)
- Shrimati Hansa Mehta (LLD)
- Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (DSc)
- Professor Johannes Franciscus Nuboer (LLD)
- Frederick Oppenheim (LLD)
- Henry Platt (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor Leslie Norman Pyrah (DSc)
- Sir Michael Kent Tippett (DMus)
- Canon Rowland John Wood (MA)
1964
- Elsa M. Carroll (MA)
- Harry Dawson (MA)
- Margaretha Albertina Maria Klompe (LLD)
- Sir Hans Krebs (DSc)
- Sir Simon Marks (LLD)
- Sir Harry Melville (DSc)
- Rt. Rev. John Moorman (DLitt)
- Baron Morris of Grasmere (LLD)
- W.T. Oliver (MA)
- A.D. Waley (DLitt)
- Leslie G Wilson (LLD)
1963
- Professor Alfred Gustave Herbert Bachrach (DLitt)
- Ralph Chislett (MSc)
- Charles Henry Crabtree (LLD)
- Frank Dawtry (MA)
- Lord Denning (LLD)
- Kenneth Onwuka Dike (LLD)
- Frederick George Baxendale Hutchings (MA)
- Col. Geoffrey Kitson (LLD)
- Lord Lever (LLD)
- Lady Mary Helen Oglivie (LLD)
1962
- Professor William Beare (LLD)
- Eirikur Benedikz (MA)
- Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (DSc)
- Professor Edmund Charles Blunden (DLitt)
- Sir Christopher Cox (LLD)
- Charles William Duncombe (LLD)
- Sir Harry Hylton-Foster (LLD)
- Louis Harold Gray (DSc)
- Alexander Hollaender (DSc)
- Professor Alexander Mikhajlovich Kuzin (DSc)
- Raymond Laterjet (DSc)
- Professor Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (DSc)
- Alva Myrdal (DLitt)
- Professor Willem Jacob Verdenius (LLD)
- Very Rev. Eric Milner-White (DLitt)
1961
- Arthur Richard Baines (LLD)
- Professor Adolph Butenandt (DSc)
- Professor Richard Lester Cahn (DSc)
- James Percy Cocker (M.Ch.D)
- Sir Henry Hallett Dale (DSc)
- Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (DSc)
- Sir John Hammond (DSc)
- Barbara Hepworth (DLitt)
- William Jones (LLD)
- Professor Charles MacAfee (DSc)
- Sir Robert Menzies (LLD)
- Sir Jeremy Raisman (LLD)
- Sir James Wilson Robertson (LLD)
- Rev. Norman Snaith (DLitt)
- Martha Steinitz (MA)
- Professor Jens Waerhaug (DSc)
1960
- Ivy Compton-Burnett (DLitt)
- Barker Thomas Clegg (LLD)
- Philip Gooding (MSc)
- Sir Edwin Herbert (LLD)
- William Colley Monckton Matterson (MSc)
- Sir John Neale (DLitt)
- Sir George Sansom (DLitt)
1950s
1959
- Professor Alfred Ewert (DLitt)
- Sir Edward Hale (LLD)
- Earl of Harewood (LLD)
- Sir George Raymond Hinchcliffe (LLD)
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (DSc)
- Sir Rudolph Peters (DSc)
- Jonas Edward Salk (DSc)
- Sir Phillip Manderson Sherlock (LLD)
- Sir Harold Smith (LLD)
- Norma Sykes (DLitt)
1958
- Professor Oene Bottema (LLD)
- Mary Lucy Cartwright (DSc)
- Frederick Donald Coggan (DD)
- Professor Sir John G Edwards (DLitt)
- Professor Peter Racine Fricker (DMus)
- William Harrison (LLD)
- George Kirk (MA)
- Professor Walter Von Wartburg (DLitt)
1957
- Lord Janner (LLD) Sir Ivor Jennings (LLD)
- Margaret Mead (DSc)
- Professor Gunnar Myrdal (LLD)
- Lord Ramsey of Canterbury (DD)
- Mary Stocks (LLD)
- E.W. Taylor (DSc)
- Lord Weeks (LLD)
1956
- Alderman/Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd (LLD)
- Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (DSc)
- James Bryant Conant (LLD)
- Sir George Dyson (LLD)
- James Digby Firth (MA)
- Walter Freudenberg (DSc)
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (LLD)
- The Rt. Rev. Arthur Reeve (DD)
- Professor Sir Ian Richmond (DLitt)
- Edward Rickerby (MA)
- Sir Oliver Graham Sutton (DSc)
1955
- Sir William Linton Andrews (DSc)
- Major Philip Maurice Beachcroft (LLD)
- Sydney Clayton Fryers (MA)
- Lord Middleton (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor William Milne (LLD)
- Edwin Muir (DLitt)
- John Henry Nicholson (LLD)
- Dorothy Phillips (LLD)
- Joseph Slepian (DSc)
- Professor Bruno Snell (DLitt)
1954
- Duchess of Devonshire (widow of 10th Duke) (LLD)
- Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (LLD)
- Professor Evarts Ambrose Graham (LLD)
- The Rt. Hon. John Hindley (LLD)
- Sir David Owen (LLD)
- Professor Wilder Graves Penfield (LLD)
- Fred Rankin (LLD)
- Sir Harry Shackleton (LLD)
- Sir Arthur Trueman (LLD)
- Sir Cecil Wakeley (LLD)
1953
- Professor John Baker (DSc)
- Goodwin Batterson Beach (DLitt)
- Professor Petrus Johannes Enk (DLitt)
- Margot Fonteyn (DLitt)
- Eugene Freyssinet (DSc)
- Thomas Girtin (LLD)
- Eric Craven Gregory (LLD)
- Professor Charles Huggins (DSc)
- Professor Christopher Kelk Ingold (DSc)
- Cyril Meggitt (MA)
- Lord Milner of Leeds (LLD)
- Alfred Prior (MA)
- William Hunter Rose (MSc)
- Viscount Herbert Louis Samuel (DLitt)
- Percy Scholes (DLitt)
- Ronald Ogier Ward (DSc)
- John Wilkinson (MSc)
1952
- Albert Herman Aldridge (LLD)
- Professor Marius Adolphus Van Bouwdijk Bastiaanse (LLD)
- Ernest Green (LLD)
- Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (DSc)
- Sir Eardley Holland (LLD)
- Wyndham Lewis (DLitt)
- Arthur Ransome (DLitt)
- William Riley-Smith (LLD)
- Sir James Turner (LLD)
1951
- Alderman David Beevers (LLD)
- Viscountess Margaret Boyne (LLD)
- Kathleen Chambers (LLD)
- The Rt. Rev. George Armitage Chase (DD)
- Lady Helen Cynthia Colville (LLD)
- Dame Julia Myra Hess (LLD)
- Sir Hubert Houldsworth (LLD)
- Sir John Huggins (LLD)
- John James Ilett (MA)
- Gertrude Illingworth (MA)
- James Laybourn (MA)
- Dame Hilda Nora Lloyd (LLD)
- Thomas Lodge (DLitt)
- The Rt. Hon. Lawrence Lumley (LLD)
- Sir George Martin (LLD)
- John Morrell (LLD)
- The Rt. Hon. Angela Pery (LLD)
- Brigadier James Noel Tetley (LLD)
1950
- Sir Robert Birley (LLD)
- Lord (David) Cecil (DLitt)
- Lord (Francis Raymond) Evershed (LLD)
- Professor Barker Fairley (DLitt)
- Emeritus Professor Robert Whytlaw-Gray (DSc)
- Alexander Lindsay (LLD)
- Louis Harold Mountbatten (LLD)
- William Pickles (DSc)
- Major Walter Pothecary (LLD)
1940s
1949
- Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (DLitt)
- Professor James Couper Brash (DSc)
- Sir James Chadwick (DSc)
- General Dwight David Eisenhower (LLD)
- Arnold Trevor Green (DSc)
- Bernard Jones (LLD)
- Dame Lillian Penson (LLD)
- Emile Victor Rieu (DLitt)
1948
- Lewis William Douglas (LLD)
- Sir Percival Hartley (DSc)
- Rev. William Hughes (DD)
- Lord MacKintosh of Halifax (LLD)
- Dame Edith Sitwell (DLitt)
- Sir Bracewell Smith (LLD)
- Terry Thomas (LLD)
1947
- Charles Frederick Ratcliffe Brotherton (LLD)
- Professor Henry Buckley Charlton (DLitt)
- Andrew Browne Cunningham (LLD)
- Lt. General Sir William George Dobbie (LLD)
- Wilfred Joseph Halliday (PhD)
- Thomas Edmund Harvey (LLD)
- Lt. Col. Sir John Alexander Dunnington- Jefferson (LLD)
- Henry Mahony (PhD)
- Professor Sigurdur Nordal (DLitt)
- Michael Polanyi (DSc)
- William Goodwin Senior (PhD)
- Croydon Whittaker (DSc)
1946
- Herbert Vere Evatt (LLD)
- The Viscount Leathers (LLD)
- Sir Frederick Pile (LLD)
- Lord (William) Slim (LLD)
- Arthur Tedder (LLD)
- Lord Waverley (LLD)
1945
- Sir Robert Anthony Eden (LLD)
- Elinor G. Lupton (LLD)
- Henry Moore (DLitt)
- James Francis Tait
- George Thompson (MA)
- Sir Henry Cherry Tizard (DSc)
- Gerard Veale (LLD)
1944
- Gordon Bottomley (DLitt)
- Sir Montague Burton (LLD)
- Jessie Kitson (LLD)
- Harold Whitaker (PhD)
- Sir Percy Winfield (LLD)
1943
- Col. Hugh Delabere Bousfield (LLD)
- Sir Charles Travis Clay (DLitt)
- Edward Victor Evans (DSc)
- Rev. Cyril Forester Garbett (DD)
- Margaret Storm Jameson (DLitt)
- Henry Raper (LLD)
1942
- John Winant (LLD)
1941
- Emeritus Professor Paul Barbier (DLitt)
- Emeritus Professor John William Cobb (DSc)
- Emeritus Professor Alexander Thompson (LLD)
1930s
1939
- Stanley Baldwin (LLD)
- Sir William Lawrence Bragg (DSc)
- Edward William Cavendish (LLD)
- John Whelan Dulanty (LLD)
- Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (DSc)
- Thomas Stearns Eliot (DLitt)
- Dowager Countess of Halifax (LLD)
- Sir William Holdsworth (DLitt)
- John Edward Humphery (LLD)
- John Kirk (PhD)
- Sir John Charles Ledingham (DSc)
- Rev. Charles Lunt (DD)
- Sir Charles McGrath (LLD)
- William Morrison (LLD)
- Frank Parkinson (LLD)
- Leonard Rowden (DSc)
- Sir Frank Stenton (DLitt)
- Sir John Stopford (DSc)
- Rev. Vincent Taylor (DD)
1938
- Rupert Beckett (LLD)
- William Sawney Bisat (MSc)
- Arthur Neville Chamberlain (LLD)
- Cecil John Turrell Cronshaw (DSc)
- Professor Alfred Fowler (DSc)
- Professor Edmund Johnston Garwood (DSc)
- Giovanni Gentile (DLitt)
- Walter Parsons (PhD)
1937
- Lord George Ranken Askwith (LLD)
- Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Melbourne (LLD)
- Professor George Stuart Gordon (DLitt)
- Professor John Jamieson (LLD)
- Joseph Jones (LLD)
- Rev. Frederick Wiseman (DLitt)
1936
- Sir Edward Bairstow (DMus)
- John Jeremy Brigg (LLD)
- Raymond Wilson Chambers (DLitt)
- Sir Henry Herbert Craster (DLitt)
- Henry Drysdale Dakin (LLD)
- Richard James Gordon (MA)
- Professor Arthur Berriedale Keith (LLD)
- Professor Frederic Stanley Kipping (DSc)
- Henry Lanchester (DLitt)
- Langford Price (LLD)
- Sir Josiah Stamp (LLD)
- Norman Walker (MSc)
1935
- Professor Harvey Cushing (DSc)
- Walter Elliot (LLD)
- Rev. Canon George Garrod (PhD)
- The Earl of Harewood (Henry Lascelles) (LLD)
- Ernest Rutherford (DSc)
- Emeritus Professor William Stroud (DSc)
1934
- Sir Robert Wilfred De Yarburgh Bateson (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor Joseph Shaw Bolton (DSc)
- Professor John Harold Clapham (DLitt)
- Beryl Katherine Gott (LLD)
- Sir Henry Stuart- Jones (DLitt)
- Arthur Mann (LLD)
- Sir Robert Muir (DSc)
- Elizabeth Mary Wright (DLitt)
1933
- Francis Askew (LLD)
- Frederick Delius (DLitt)
- Frank Elgee (PhD)
- Emeritus Professor Arthur James Grant (DLitt)
- Sir Charles Peers (DLitt)
- Sir John Simon (LLD)
- Col. Charles Harold Tetley (LLD)
- Sir Joseph Thomson (DSc)
- Elizabeth Winfield (MA)
- Henry Worth (MSc)
1932
- Sir James Hinchcliffe (LLD)
- Osbert John Howarth (PhD)
- Dame Ellen Musson (LLD)
- Professor Sir Herbert Read (DLitt)
1931
- Emeritus Professor Alfred George Barrs (LLD)
- Bertrand Dawson (LLD)
- Sir Walter Morley Fletcher (DSc)
- Arthur Hawkyard (LLD)
- Sir Frederick Hopkins (DSc)
- Sir George Newman (LLD)
- Sir John Bland-Sutton (LLD)
- Jane Harriett Walker (LLD)
1930
- Henry Crowther (MSc)
- Arthur Greenwood (LLD)
- Sir William Hadow (DLitt)
- Walter Hargreaves (LLD)
- Sir Owen Richardson (DSc)
- Rev. William Temple (LLD)
- Sir Henry Walker (LLD)
1920s
1929
- William Edwards (DLitt)
- Sir Algernon Freeman Firth (LLD)
- Rt. Rev. Walter Howard Frere (DLitt)
- Emeritus Professor Thomas Griffith (DSc)
- Lucy Lowe (DLitt)
- Charles Mayo (DSc)
1928
- Sir Albert Ernest Bain (LLD)
- Alexander Campbell (LLD)
- Edwin Kitson Clark (LLD)
- Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (LLD)
- Morton Latham (LLD)
- Walter Marston (MSc)
- Charles Onions (DLitt)
- Charles Rippon (PhD)
- William Thorburn (MSc)
- The Rt. Hon. Henry Whitley (LLD)
1927
- Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl(LLD)
- Fred Barraclough (MA)
- Frederick Orpen Bower (DSc)
- Thomas Robinson Ferens (LLD)
- James Graham (PhD)
- John Scott Haldane (DSc)
- Sir Arthur Keith (LLD)
- Robert Millikan (DSc)
- Sir Charles Parsons (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor Arthur Perkin (DSc)
- Sir James Roberts (LLD)
- Professor Nevil Sidgwick (DSc)
- Philip Snowden (LLD)
1926
- Emeritus Professor Percy Kendall (DSc)
- Sir David Milne-Watson (LLD)
1925
- Dame Sidney Jane Browne (Diploma in Nursing)[11]
- Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles(LLD)
- Mary Rundle, (Diploma in Nursing)[12]
- Sir Arthur Stanley (LLD)
1924
- Edmund George Arnold (LLD)
- Arthur Balfour (LLD)[13]
- George Robinson Brench (MA)
- Col. Stephenson Robert Clarke (LLD)
- Emeritus Professor Julius Behrend Cohen (DSc)
- Emeritus Professor John Edwin Eddison (DSc)
- William Foot Husband (LLD)
- Sir Percy Jackson (LLD)
- Joseph Lowden (LLD)
- Professor Sir Berkeley Moynihan (LLD)
- Hannah Robertson (DLitt)
- Sir Michael Sadler (DLitt)
- Herbert Thompson (DLitt)
1923
- Sir Edward Allen Brotherton (LLD)
- Major John William Dent (LLD)
- Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland (DLitt)
- Frank Kidson (MA)
- William Mayo (DSc)
- Frederick Peaker (MA)
- Professor Arthur Smithells (DSc)
- Edwin Talbot (LLD)
- James Williams (LLD)
- Sir Charles Henry Wilson (LLD)
- Sir William Henry Worsley (LLD)
1922
- David Beatty (LLD)
- Henry Illingworth Bowring (LLD)
- Benjamin Broadbent (LLD)
- Maurice de Broglie, Duc de Broglie (DSc)
- Sir Dugald Clerk (DSc)
- Edith Bessie Cook (MA)
- Sir Frank Watson Dyson (DSc)
- David Lloyd George (LLD)
- Sir Richard Arman Gregory (DSc)
- Richard William Haydon (MSc)
- Rev. Bernard Horner (MA)
- Henry McLaren (LLD)
- Sir Arthur Peake (LLD)
- Carl Peterson (DSc)
- Sir Bruce Richmond (DLitt)
- Sir Charles Sherrington (DSc)
- Sir Harold Stiles (DSc)
- Rt. Rev. Thomas Strong (DLitt)
- Charles Francis Tetley (LLD)
- Professor Pierre Weiss (DSc)
- Archibald Wheeler (MA)
1920
- William Henry Barber (LLD)
- John Bickersteth (LLD)
- Rev. Canon John Neale Dalton (LLD)
- Peter Macintyre Evans (LLD)
- Sir Douglas Haig (LLD)
1910s
1919
- John Gilbert Baker (DSc)
- Sir William Henry Bragg (DSc)
- John Rawlinson Ford (LLD)
- Francis Vaughan Hall (MA)
- Sir Charles Holmes (DLitt)
- Sir Henry Jackson (DSc)
- Sir Alfred Keogh (DSc)
- Charles Lupton (LLD)
- John Mews (LLD)
- General Sir Herbert Charles Plumer (LLD)
- Sir Almroth Wright (DSc)
1917
- Herbert Austin Fricker (MA)
1915
- David Forsyth (LLD)
- Rev. Charles Hargrove (DLitt)
- Thomas Nelson (MSc)
- William Roebuck (MSc)
- Thomas Sheppard (MSc)
- John William Taylor (MSc)
- Harold Wager (DSc)
- Rev. Philip Wicksteed (DLitt)
- John Grimshaw Wilkinson (MSc)
- Thomas Woodhead (MSc)
1914
- Thomas Scales Carter (MSc)
- Emeritus Professor Henry Procter (DSc)
- Emeritus Professor Charles Vaughan (DLitt)
- Emile Verhaeren (DLitt)
1912
- Charles Carpenter (DSc)
- Arthur Cooper (LLD)
- Anna Paulina Eddison (LLD)
- Sir William Edward Garforth (LLD)
- Adolph Greiner (DSc)
- Sir Robert Hadfield (DSc)
- Rev. William Keeling (LLD)
- Thomas Newbigging (DSc)
- Sir Swire Smith (LLD)
- Kommerzienrat Friedrich Springorum (DSc)
- John Stead (DSc)
- Sir Corbert Woodall (DSc)
1910
- H. H. Asquith (LLD)
- Sir Hugh Bell (LLD)
- Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (LLD)
- Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (LLD)
- Francis John Haverfield (DLitt)
- Sir Alfred Hopkinson (LLD)
- James Lowther (LLD)
- Arthur Lupton (LLD)
- Sir Clements Markham (DSc)
- Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes (LLD)
- William Nicholson (LLD)
- Sir William Osler (DSc)
- Arthur Sidgwick (DLitt)
- John Strutt (DSc)
1900s
1909
- Sir James Crichton-Browne (DSc)
- Thomas Walter Harding (LLD)
- Baron Lang of Lambeth (Cosmo Gordon Lang) (LLD)
- Ronald Ross (DSc)
1907
- Robert Collyer (DLitt)
1906
- Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (DSc)
- Heinrich Caro (DSc)
- William Boyd Carpenter (DLitt)
- Alfred Grandidier (DSc)
- Albin Haller (DSc)
- Sir Charles Holroyd (DLitt)
- Sir Edwin Lankester (DSc)
- Beilby Lawley (LLD)
- Carl Liebermann (DSc)
- Carl Von Martius (DSc)
- Paul Pelseneer (DSc)
- Sir William Perkin (DSc)
- Sir Owen Roberts (LLD)
- Heinrich Rubens (DSc)
- Thomas Percy Sykes (MA)
- Herbert Hall Turner (DSc)
1904
- Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland (LLD)
- Tempest Anderson (DSc)
- Alfred Austin (DLitt)
- Sir John Barran (LLD)
- Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell (DSc)
- Sir William Bousfield (LLD)
- Sir William Henry Broadbent (DSc)
- Lady Frederick Cavendish (LLD)
- The Duke of Devonshire (Spencer Compton Cavendish) (LLD)
- Richard Assheton Cross (LLD)
- Rev. William Dalrymple (LLD)
- Sir Henry Walford Davies (LLD)
- Sir Edward Elgar (LLD)
- Rev. Andrew Martin Fairburn (DLitt)
- Charles George Milnes Gaskell (LLD)
- Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (DSc)
- John Hughlings Jackson (DSc)
- William Jackson (LLD)
- Sir James Kitson (DSc)
- Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood (LLD)
- Marmaduke Francis Constable-Maxwell (LLD)
- Professor Louis Miall (DSc)
- Sir Charles Parry (LLD)
- Lawrence Parsons (DSc)
- Sir Francis Powell (LLD)
- Sir Arthur Mayo-Robson (DSc)
- Sir Arthur Rollit (DLitt)
- Sir Arthur Rucker (DSc)
- Sir Charles Stanford (LLD)
- Thomas Teale (DSc)
- William Thomson (DSc)
- Sir Edward Thorpe (DSc)
- Claudius Wheelhouse (DSc)
- Charles Wood (LLD)
- Joseph Wright (DLitt)
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