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4.5 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
Michael Billington, DLitt 2009
Jennie Bond, BA, DLitt 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 Clarke OBE, DLitt 2007
*Malcolm William Clarkson, BA, PGCE, AcadDip 1997
*Professor Hugh Armstrong Clegg, MA 1987
Patrick Collinson CBE, BA, PhD, FBA, FRHistS, FAHA, DLitt 2003
*Fleur Cowles, DLitt 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, DLitt 2004
Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, PhD, DLitt 2006
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, DLitt 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 OBE, BA, DLitt 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, DLitt 2007
Dr Eva Hoffman, PhD, DLitt 2008
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, DLitt 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
Mr Neil MacGregor, DLitt 2009
*Professor Michael Mallett OBE, DLitt 2007
Professor Nicholas Mann, MA, PhD, DLitt 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, DLitt 2005
*Sir Yehudi Menuhin, OM, KBE, 1968
Professor James Alexander Mirrlees, BA, PhD, FBA 1982
Rt Hon Estelle Morris, TCert, BEd, MP, LLD, DLitt 2003
*Henry Moore, OM, CH, FBA 1969
Geoffrey Moorhouse, FRSC, DLitt 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, DLitt 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, DLitt 2007
Dr Yesu Persaud, DLitt 2008
*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
Professor Joseph Roach, PhD, MA, DLitt 2009
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, DLitt2004
*Sir Edward Lionel Russell CBE, MA, DLitt 1974
Simon Russell Beale CBE, BA, 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, DLitt 2007
*Ignazio Silone, 1972
*Professor Brian Simon, MA, 1998
Professor Peter Sloterdijk, Dlitt 2009
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, DLitt 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, DLitt 2002
*Sir Michael Tippett, OM, CH, CBE, 1974
*Professor Martin Trow, ME, HonDLitt, PhD 1997
Mario Vargas Llosa, BA, PhD, DLitt 2004
*Sándor Vègh, 1988
Derek Alton Walcott, BA, 1998
Professor Dorothy Enid Cole Wedderburn, MA, 1984
Professor Stanley Wells CBE, BA, PhD, Hon DLitt, Hon DPhil, DLitt 2008
*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

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, DSc 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 Victor Berry, BSc, PhD, FRS, 1998
Professor Donald Berwick, BA, MD, DSc 2008
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, DSc 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, DSc 2002
Robert A. Dover, BSc, FREng, FRSA, DSc 2002
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin, MS, PhD, DPhysandMaths, FIMS, FAAAS, DSc 2003
Kenneth John Richard Edwards, BSc, PhD, Hon MA, Hon LLD, Hon DSc 2000
Professor William James Feast, BSc, PhD, FRS, DSc 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, DSc 2005
*Sir Frederick Charles Frank OBE, BA, BSc, DPhil, FRS, 1981
Sir Anthony Gill, BScEng, FREng, FIMechE, FIProdE, 1992
Michael Goldstein CBE, DSc 2003
*Sir Matthew Alistair Grant, 1997
Professor Erwin L Hahn, BSc, PhD, DSc 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 Leroy Hood MD, PhD, DSc 2009
Professor Lord Hunt of Chesterton, CB, PhD, Hon DSc, FRS, 2000
Sir Donald Irvine CBE, MD, FRCGP, FMedSci, DSc 2009
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, PhD, FRS, DSc 2007
John Howel Jones, MA, MD, FRCP, DSc 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, DSc 2006
Dr James Martin, DSc 2009
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 Stephen Nickell CBE, BA, MSc, FBA, 2008
Professor Denis Noble CBE, BSc, BA, PhD, FMedSci, FRS, DSc 2008
Sir Peter Ogden, DSc 2009
Professor Stephen O'Rahilly FRS, FMed Sci, DSc 2009
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, DSc 2009
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, DSc 2003
*Professor Sir Richard Southwood, BSc, MA, PhD, DSc, FRS, FIBiol, DL, FMedSci, 1989
Venu Srinivasan, BEng, MBA, DSc 2004
Sir Nicholas Stern, BA, DPhil, FBA, DSc 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, DSc 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, DSc 2005
Martin Wolf CBE, DSc 2009
Dr Tadataka Yamada KBE, DSc 2008
*Sir Richard Dilworth Young, BSc, FIMechE, CBIM, 1987
Professor Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman, FRS, MA, PhD, HonD, HonDSc, 1988

Doctors of Laws

*Lord Alexander of Weedon, BA, MA, QC, LLD 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, LLD 2003
Rodney Bickerstaffe, LLD 2009
Rev. Dr Allan Boesak, BTh, DTh, 1989
*Willy Brandt, 1990
Clark Brundin, BS, MA, PhD, LLD 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, LLD 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, LLD 2007
John Edwards, LLD 2008
William John Emmott, BA, 1999
Frank Field, BSc, 1996
Paolo Galli, 1999
Sir Paul Girolami, FCA, FREConS, FIMC, FIMgt, FRSA, 1996
Valerie Gooding CBE, LLD 2009
*Lawrence Cecil Barlett Gower, LLM, FBA, 1978
John Hearth CBE, 1999
*The Hon. Dame Rose Heilbron DBE, RBE, LLM, 1978
John Humphrys, LLD 2003
Sir Digby Jones, LLB, DUniv, DLitt, DL, CIMgt, FRI, LLD 2006
DeAnne Julius, PhD, 2000
Hon. Dr Justice George W. Kanyeihamba, PhD, LLD 2008
*Clark Kerr, AB, MA, PhD, 1987
Philip Lader, BA, MA, JD, LLD 2002
Richard Peter Lambert, BA, LLD 2004
Pascal Lamy, LLD 2009
Professor Bruno Latour, LLD 2009
The Honourable Martin Chu Ming Lee, BA, LLB, LLD 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, LLD 2006
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Hon OM, 1996
William Morris, LLD 2002
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Nolan, MA, PC, DL, 1998
Humphrey Nicholas Nolan, BA, LLD 2004
Gus O’Donnell, CB, BA, MPhil, LLD 2004
Sir Herman Ouseley, 1998
Baron Bikhu Parekh of Kingston upon Hull, BA, MA, PhD, 2001
Brian Pearce OBE, LLD 2009
The Hon. Pierre Pettigrew PC, BA, MPhil, LLD 2008
Alan Phillips BSc, CMG, LLD 2005
Trevor Phillips OBE, BSc, FRSA, Hon MA, Hon DLitt, LLD 2004
The Rt. Hon. Lord Plumb, DL, MEP, 1990
Sir Jonathon Porritt, BA, LLD 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
Lord Sainsbury of Turville BA, MBA, Hon FREng, LLD 2008
*The Rt. Hon. Lord Scarman OBE, MA, 1974
The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley BA, 1999
Michael Lewis Shattock OBE, MA, 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, LLD 2007
Nazmudin Gulamhusein Virani, 1990
Baroness Warnock DBE, FRCP, FRSM, 1991
Sheila Whitaker, BA, LLD 2005
Dr Eric Wood, LLD 2007
Professor Muhammad Yunus, 1996

Master of Arts

Kathleen Adams, 1992
Camila Batmanghelidjh, MA 2008
*Joseph Besserman, 1991
Colin Brummitt, IPFA, 1993
Lady Butterworth, 1986
Marlon Devonish, MA 2006
Melanie Easter, MA 2009
*Hugh Harrington Cazalet Douty CBE, 1977
Peter Harry Gayward, 1977
The Rev. Clive Malcolm Gregory BA, MA, 1999
Simon Halsey, MA 2007
Lenworth George Henry, 1992
*George Edward Hodgkinson OBE, 1975
Joseph Homan, 1988
Brenda King MBE, MA 2009
*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
David Richards CBE, MA 2009
*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 OBE, FREng, 2006

*Deceased