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Honorary Graduates of the University

Doctors of Letters

*Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft DBE 1974
Professor Ungku Abdul Aziz, BA, DEcons 1985
*The Rt. Rev. Cuthbert Killick Norman Bardsley CBE, MA, DD 1976
The Rt. Rev. Simon Barrington-Ward KCMG, MA, DD 1998
*Leonard Bernstein, AB 1974
Jennie Bond, BA 2004
Alfred Brendel, Hon KBE 1991
David Brierley CBE 1996
Professor Timothy Robert Peter Brighouse, MA, Dip Ed
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Britten of Aldeburgh, OM, CH 1975
Sheila Jeanne Browne, CB, MA 1981
*Lord Bullock, FBA, MA, DLitt 1993
Professor Marilyn Speers Butler, MA, DPhil 1997
*Professor Sir Herbert Butterfield, MA, FBA 1967
Professor Averil Millicent Cameron CBE, MA, PhD, FBA, FSA 1996
Jung Chang, PhD 1997
Julie Christie, 1994
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Clark, OM, CH, KCB, MA, CLit, FBA 1970
Lady Frances Clark, OBE 2007
Malcolm William Clarkson, BA, PGCE, AcadDip 1997
*Professor Hugh Armstrong Clegg, MA 1987
Patrick Collinson, CBE, BA, PhD, FBA, FRHistS, FAHA 2003
Fleur Cowles, 2004
*Malcolm Cowley, AB 1975
*The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, GBE, MA, RSA, FRIBA, FSA, FSAScot, DL 1967
Paul Daniel CBE 2001
Professor Robert Darnton, BA, BPhil, DPhil 2001
Andrew Wynford Davies, BA, DLitt, DArts 2004
Dame Judith Olivia Dench DBE 1979
Declan Michael Martin Donnellan, MA 2002
Peter Howard Donohoe, BMus, GRNCM, ARCM, Hon FRNCM 1996
Professor Mary Douglas, FBA, OBE, MA, DPhil 1993
Carol Ann Duffy CBE, OBE, BA, FRSL 2002
*Archbishop George Dwyer, MA, DD, PhD 1980
*Professor Sir Ronald Stanley Edwards KBE, BCom, DSc 1973
Professor Sir John Huxtable Elliott, FBA, MA, PhD 1995
*Dennis Joseph Enright OBE, MA, DLitt 1982
*Professor Leon Epstein, MA, PhD 1980
*The Rt. Hon. Baroness Faithfull of Wolvercote OBE 1978
*Eric William Fenby OBE 1978
Patrick Leigh Fermor OBE, DSO, CLit 1996
Anne Fine BA, OBE 2005
Professor Alec George Ford, MA, DPhil 1990
*Dame Elisabeth Frink DBE, CBE, RA 1983
*Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost, Hon LLD, RA 2000
Professor Carlos Fuentes 1992
*Dame Helen Louise Gardner DBE, MA, DLitt, FBA, FRSL 1976
Evelyn Glennie OBE, FRAM, FRCM, GRSM, LRAM, ARAM 1993
*William Gerald Golding CBE, CLit 1981
Professor Albert Henry Halsey, BSc, MA, PhD, FBA 1995
*Baron Hamlyn of Edgeworth, CBE 1991
*Professor Wilfrid Harrison, MA 1979
*Sir Roy Forbes Harrod, MA, FBA 1968
*Jacquetta Hawkes OBE 1986
John Henry Hemming CMG, DLitt 1989
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Heyworth of Oxton 1967
*Professor Sir John Richard Hicks, MA, BLitt, FBA 1972
Professor Geoffrey Hill, BA, Hon DLitt 2007
Michael Holroyd CBE, FRSL, FRHistS, FRSA 1993
*Sir Michael Murray Hordern CBE 1987
*The Most Rev. Trevor Huddleston, MA, DD, CR 1988
*Rita Hunter CBE 1978
*Eugène Ionesco, LèsL 1974
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, PC, MA, FBA 1978
Alex Jennings BA 1999
*Professor James Joll, MA, FBA 1988
James Larkin Jones MBE, CH, FCIT 1978
Jackie Kay, BA 2005
Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny, FBA, STL, DPhil, DLitt 1995
Professor Ernst Kitzinger, DPhil 1989
*Lionel Charles Knights, MA, PhD 1979
Alexander Adum Kwapong, MA, PhD 1971
Jane Lapotaire, 2000
*Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, MA, FRSL 1973
Doris M. Lessing, 1994
Liliane Lijn 2005
Penelope Lively CBE, OBE, BA, OBG, FRSL 1998
Kenneth Loach, 1998
Professor David John Lodge CBE, BA, MA, PhD, FRSL 1997
Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton 1987
Professor Michael Mallett, OBE 2007
Professor Nicholas Mann, MA, PhD 2006
Professor Josè Marià Maravall, BA, PhD 1985
*Professor William James Millar MacKenzie CBE, MA, LLB, FBA 1972
Peter Mathias CBE, FBA, MA, DLitt 1995
*Professor Denis James Matthews CBE, DMus 1982
Professor Robert Charles Oliver Matthews CBE, MA, FBA 1980
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CBE 1986
Simon Mayo BA 2005
*Sir Yehudi Menuhin, OM, KBE 1968
Professor James Alexander Mirrlees, BA, PhD, FBA 1982
Rt Hon Estelle Morris, TCert, BEd, MP, LLD 2003
*Henry Moore, OM, CH, FBA 1969
Geoffrey Moorhouse, FRSC 2006
*Dame Anne Elisabeth Mueller, DCB, MA 1985
*Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE, MA 1979
Riccardo Muti, Hon KBE 1983
Adrian Noble, BA 2001
*Sir Sidney Nolan, OM, AC, CBE, ARA 1991
Trevor Robert Nunn CBE, BA 1982
Michael Nyman 2007
Sir Richard O’Brien, DSO, MC 1983
*Roy Pascal, MA, DLitt, FBA 1977
*Edwin John Victor Pasmore, CH, CBE 1985
Professor Christopher Peacocke, BA, MA, PPE, BPhil, DPhil, FBA 2007
*Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner CBE, MA, PhD, FBA, FSA 1974
Professor Sir Cyril Henry Philips, MA, PhD 1967
*Professor Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, MA, PhD, DLitt, FRS, FBA 1971
Terence David John Pratchett OBE 1999
*The Rt. Hon. Viscount Radcliffe GBE, PC, MA, FBA 1967
Willy Ronis 1998
Lord Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, OM, GBE, BA, FKC, Hon FBA, Hon FRIBA, Hon Fram, Hon PhD, Hon DLitt, Hon LLD, Hon DCL 2004
*Sir Edward Lionel Russell CBE, MA 1974
Simon Russell Beale BA, CBE 2005
*Gilbert Ryle, MA 1969
Michael Saunders Watson CBE, DL 1991
*Professor Richard Sidney Sayers, MA, FBA 1967
*Samuel Selvon, 1989
Sir Antony Sher, KBE 2007
*Ignazio Silone 1972
*Professor Brian Simon, MA 1998
Professor Robert Merton Solow, MA, PhD 1976
*Sir Richard William Southern, MA, FBA, FRSL, FRHistS 1978
*John Hanbury Angus Sparrow OBE, MA 1967
*Sir Hugh Worrell Springer, GCMG, GCVO, KA, CBE, MA, 1974
Max Stafford-Clark 2006
*Professor Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone CBE, MA, ScD, FBA 1975
Tom Stoppard CBE, OM, FRSL 1981
Professor Barry Emmanuel Supple CBE, BSc Econ, PhD, LittD, Hon Dlitt, FRHistS, FBA 2000
Janet Suzman, BA 1990
*Alan John Percivale Taylor, BA 1981
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa DBE 1989
Sir Keith Thomas, BA, FBA 1998
Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron 2002
*Sir Michael Tippett OM, CH, CBE 1974
*Professor Martin Trow, ME, HonDLitt, PhD 1997
Mario Vargas Llosa, BA, PhD 2004
*Sándor Vègh 1988
Derek Alton Walcott BA 1998
Professor Dorothy Enid Cole Wedderburn, MA 1984
*Sir Edgar Trevor Williams, CB, CBE, DSO, MA, FRHistS, DL 1967
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Wolfenden of Westcott CBE, MA 1977
*The Rt. Hon. Baroness Wootton of Abinger, CH, MA 1972
*Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE, OBE, MA, DLitt, FBA 1981
Professor George Zarnecki CBE, MA, PhD, FSA, FBA 1978
Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, PhD 2006

Doctors of Science

*Professor Cyril Clifford Addison, PhD, DSc, FInstP, FRSC, FRS 1979
*Povl Ahm CBE 1994
Professor Sir George Alberti MA, DPhil, BM, BCh, FRCP, FRCPath, FRCPE, HonFRCPGlas, HonFRCPI, HonMD, HonDM 2005
Professor Vladimir Igorevic Arnold 1988
Professor Sir Eric Ash CBE, BSc (Eng), PhD, DSc, FRS, FEng 1998
Professor Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, MA, PhD, FRS, FRSE, OM 1969
Professor Jack Edward Baldwin, PhD, FRS 1988
*Joseph Bamford CBE 1998
Professor Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell CBE, BSc, PhD, FRAS, FInstP 1995
Professor Sir Michael Berry, BSc, PhD, FRS 1998
Professor David Blackwell 1990
Professor Thomas Leon Blundell, FRS, BA, DPhil 1995
Professor Alec Nigel Broers, BSc, PhD, ScD, FRS, FREng, FIEE, FInstP 1997
Lord Browne of Madingley, MA, MS, FIMM, FInstP, FREng 2001
*Ivor Bulmer-Thomas CBE, MA, FSA 1979
John Boscawen Burland, MSc(Eng), PhD, DSc(Eng), FICE, MIStructE, MSA/CE, FGS, FEng, FRS 2003
Dame Fiona Caldicott DBE, MA, BM, BCh, DPM, FRCPsych, FRCP, ARCPI 1997
Professor Sir John Warcup Cornforth CBE, MSc, DPhil, FRS 1976
Sir Alan Howard Cottrell, BSc, PhD, FRS, FREng 1971
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Dainton, BSc, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS 1970
Tarun Das 1996
Sir David Evan Naughton Davies CBE, PhD, DSc, FEng, FRS 1997
Sir Graham Day, LLB 1991
Nicholas M Donofrio, BS, MS 2002
Robert A. Dover, BSc, FREng, FRSA 2002
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin, MS, PhD, DPhysandMaths, FIMS, FAAAS 2003
Kenneth John Richard Edwards, BSc, PhD, Hon MA, Hon LLD, Hon DSc 2000
Professor William James Feast, BSc, PhD, FRS 2004
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Florey, OM, MA, PhD, MD, FRS 1967
Professor Sir Brian Keith Follett, FRS, BSc, PhD, DSc 2002
Professor John Forty BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSE, FRSA, HonLLD 2005
*Sir Frederick Charles Frank OBE, BA, BSc, DPhil, FRS 1981
Sir Anthony Gill, BScEng, FREng, FIMechE, FIProdE 1992
Michael Goldstein CBE, 2003
*Sir Matthew Alistair Grant, 1997
Professor Erwin L Hahn, BSc, PhD 2007
*Professor Philip Hall, MA, FRS 1977
*Sir Stanley Jaffa Harley, DL, BSc, CEng, FIMechE, FIProdE 1978
*Sir Frank Hartley CBE, BSc, PhD, CChem, FRSC, FPS, HonFRCP, HonFRCS, Hon FRSC 1978
Professor Friedrich Hirzebruch, Dr Rer Nat. 1980
Professor Charles Antony Richard Hoare, MA, Cert Stats, FRS, HonDSc 1985
*Professor Dorothy Hodgkin, OM, MA, PhD, FRS 1979
Professor Lord Hunt of Chesterton, CB, PhD, Hon DSc, FRS 2000
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, PhD, DSc, Hon DSc, FRS 2007
John Howel Jones, MA, MD, FRCP 2002
Professor Kiyoshi Ito 1992
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Kings Norton, PhD, DIC 1986
Sir Aaron Klug OM, PhD, FRS 1994
Professor Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, MA, PhD, DSc, ScD, Hon DSc, PRS, FRS, FIBiol 1975
Professor Sir John Richard Krebs, MA, DPhil, FRS 2000
*Professor John Wilfrid Linnett, MA, DPhil, FRS 1973
Professor Yuri I Manin, PhD 2006
Professor Sir Robert McCredie May, BSc, PhD, FRS 1997
Sir Brian Moffat OBE, FCA 1998
*Sir Alistair Morton, MA 1994
*Sir Nevill Francis Mott, MA, FRS 1968
Professor David Mumford, BSc, PhD 1983
Professor Noreen Murray, CBE, BSc, PhD, FRS 2001
Professor Jacob Palis, PhD 2000
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Phillips, BSc, PhD, FRS, FlnstP 1982
Bernd Pischetsrieder Dip-Ing 1999
David Edwin Potter CBE, MA, PhD 1999
Professor Kenneth Pounds CBE, BSc, PhD, FRS 2001
Professor Raj Reddy, BE, MTech, PhD, FIEEE, FAAII 2001
Sir Rex Richards DSc, FRS, FRSC 1999
Professor Sir Michael Rutter CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych, FRS 1999
*Professor Abdus Salam, Hon. KBE, BA, MA, PhD, FRS 1991
Sir Nicholas Vernon Scheele KCMG, BA 1999
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton of Burley, KG, OBE, PC, MA, FBIM 1978
Lord Simpson of Dunkeld, FCCA, FIMI, FCIT 1995
Sir Clive M. Sinclair CBE 1983
Professor Stephen Smale, MS, PhD 1974
Timothy Bartel Smit, BA 2003
*Professor Sir Richard Southwood, BSc, MA, PhD, DSc, FRS, FIBiol, DL, FMedSci 1989
Venu Srinivasan, BEng, MBA 2004
Sir Nicholas Stern, BA, DPhil, FBA 2006
Professor Dennis Parnell Sullivan, PhD 1984
Professor Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer KBE, FRS, CBE 1993
Sir Richard Sykes BSc, PhD, DSc, FRS 1999
Ratan Tata BSc 2005
*Professor René Thom, DEtat 1970
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Todd of Trumpington, OM, MA, DPhil, Dr Phil nat, DSc, FRS, FRSC 1979
The Rt. Hon. Lord Tombs, BSc(Econ), FIMechE, FlEE, FInstE, FREng 1990
*Sir Ronald Ernest Tunbridge OBE, JP, BSc, MSc, MB, ChB, MD, FRCP 1979
*Sir Arthur Vick OBE, PhD, FIEE, FInstP, MRIA 1993
*Professor William Alexander Waters, MA, PhD, ScD, FRS 1977
Professor Roger Whittenbury CBE, BSc, MSc, PhD 1999
*Sir Frank Whittle, OM, FEng, KBE, CB, FRS, MA 1968
Professor Andrew Wiles, MA, PhD, FRS 1998
Sir Peter Williams CBE, MA, PhD, FREng, FRS 1999
Rhys Williams 2005
Sir Richard Dilworth Young, BSc, FIMechE, CBIM 1987
Professor Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman, FRS, MA, PhD, HonD, HonDSc 1988

Doctor of Laws

*Lord Alexander of Weedon, BA, MA, QC 2003
Baroness Amos of Brondesbury, BA, MA 2000
Dame Mary Arden DBE, MA, LLM 1999
Professor Chris Argyris 1996
Professor Patrick Atiyah, MA, RCL, QC, FBA 1989
Professor Sir George Bain, BA, MA, DPhil 2003
Rev. Dr Allan Boesak, BTh, DTh 1989
*Willy Brandt 1990
Clark Brundin, BS, MA, PhD 2005
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Butterworth CBE, JP, DL, MA, Hon DCL 1986
The Rt. Hon. Baroness Chalker of Wallasey 1996
Julia Cleverdon CBE, BA 2002
*Massimo Aldo Coen CBE 1997
*Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Constantine, KBE, CB, DSO 1978
William G. Demas, MA, MLitt 1989
Professor Avinash Dixit, DSc, BA, PhD, Dr. Econ 2007
William John Emmott BA 1999
Frank Field, BSc 1996
Paolo Galli 1999
Sir Paul Girolami, FCA, FREConS, FIMC, FIMgt, FRSA 1996
*Lawrence Cecil Barlett Gower, LLM, FBA 1978
John Hearth CBE 1999
The Hon. Dame Rose Heilbron DBE, RBE, LLM 1978
John Humphrys 2003
Sir Digby Jones, LLB, DUniv, DLitt, DL, CIMgt, FRI 2006
DeAnne Julius, PhD 2000
Clark Kerr, AB, MA, PhD 1987
Philip Lader, BA, MA, JD 2002
Richard Peter Lambert, BA 2004
The Honourable Martin Lee Chu Ming, BA, LLB 2006
Dr The Hon. David K. P. Li OBE, MA, FCIB, FCA, 1994
*Sir Edmund Liggins, TD 1988
*Lt. Col. J.E. Little 1996
Sir Colin Lucas, DPhil, FRHistS 2006
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Hon OM 1996
William Morris 2002
The Rt. Hon. Lord Nolan, MA, PC, DL 1998
Humphrey Nicholas Nolan, BA 2004
Gus O’Donnell, CB, BA, MPhil 2004
Sir Herman Ouseley 1998
Baron Bikhu Parekh of Kingston upon Hull, BA, MA, PhD 2001
Alan Phillips BSc, CMG 2005
Trevor Phillips, OBE, BSc, FRSA, Hon MA, Hon DLitt, 2004
The Rt. Hon. Lord Plumb, DL, MEP 1990
Sir Jonathon Porritt, BA 2003
Oliver Prenn 2001
The Hon. Sir Shridath S. Ramphal, OE, GCMG, AC, QC, FKC 1988
Dame Helen Reeves DBE, OBE, BA 2001
Anthony Rudge, MA, FIB 1991
*Professor Edward Said, AB, AM, PhD 2001
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Scarman OBE, MA 1974
The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley BA 1999
Michael Lewis Shattock, OBE, MA, Hon LLD 2000
Helen Suzman, Hon.DBE, BComm 1990
Lord Taylor of Warwick BA 1999
*The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Tonypandy, PC 1984
Sir Brian Urquhart, KCMG, MBE 1989
Professor David VandeLinde, BA, MA, PhD, Hon DEd 2007
Nazmudin Gulamhusein Virani 1990
Baroness Warnock, DBE, FRCP, FRSM 1991
Sheila Whitaker BA 2005
Dr Eric Wood 2007
Professor Muhammad Yunus 1996

Master of Arts

Kathleen Adams 1992
*Joseph Besserman 1991
Colin Brummitt, IPFA 1993
Lady Butterworth 1986
Marlon Devonish 2006
*Hugh Harrington Cazalet Douty CBE 1977
Peter Harry Gayward 1977
The Rev. Clive Malcolm Gregory BA, MA 1999
Simon Halsey 2007
Lenworth George Henry 1992
*George Edward Hodgkinson OBE 1975
Joseph Homan 1988
*Winifred Lakin 1988
Norman Peter Lister OBE, JP 1985
Robert Matthews MBE 2001
David Moorcroft MBE, OBE, BEd 1991
Harry Noble 1993
Betty Pattison 1999
*Gilbert Stanley Nowell Richards CBE, LLB 1979
Gordon Roberts 1991
Philip Robinson, JP 1991
Margaret Rylatt 1989
*Albert Richard Rose 1977
*Arthur James Waugh 1977
Rees Williams, BEd 1992
William Yardley 1997

Master of Science

Collin Ferguson, MA, FRICS 1997
Robert Ian Meakin 1999

Chancellor’s Medal

Ian Caufield 2005
John Cunnington 2006
Dr Ian Nussey 2006, OBE, FREng

*Deceased