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.

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.

2020s
2023
 * Anita Rani (DLitt)
 * Ondrej Krivanek (DSc)

2022
 * Nina Gualinga (LLD)
 * Mark Tucker (LLD)
 * Brenda Hale (LLD)
 * David Grey (LLD)
 * Eleanor Dodson (DSc)
 * Alison Lowe (LLD)
 * Rachel Skinner (LLD)
 * Gillian Leng (DSc)

No honorary degrees were awarded in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2010s
2019
 * Peter Dhillon (LLD)
 * Jane Featherstone (DLitt)
 * Richard Henderson (DSc)
 * Lubaina Himid (DLitt)
 * Michael Pepper (DEng)
 * Norman Williams (DSc)

2018
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Zygmunt Bauman (Emeritus Professor)
 * Maurice Beresford (Emeritus Professor)
 * Jack Charlton (LLD)
 * Duncan Dowson (Emeritus Professor)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Raymond George Hardenbergh Seitz (LLD)
 * Cecil Thompson (MA)
 * Victor Watson (LLD)

1993
 * 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
 * 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)
 * Reverend Professor William Owen Chadwick (DLitt)
 * Janusz Fibras (DLitt)
 * David Lloyd-Jones (DMus)
 * Sir David Lean (DLitt)
 * Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (LLD) – revoked 2012
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (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)
 * Reverend Henry Chadwick (DD)
 * John Cedric Goligher (DSc)
 * James MacGregor (LLD)
 * Sir Denis Rooke (DSc)
 * Sir Tom Stoppard (DLitt)
 * 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)
 * Richard Wood, Baron Holderness (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)
 * 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
 * Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther (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)
 * Sir Maurice (Richard) Bridgeman (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 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)
 * 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)
 * Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (LLD)
 * Professor Evarts Ambrose Graham (LLD)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Lawrence Lumley (LLD)
 * Sir George Martin (LLD)
 * John Morrell (LLD)
 * 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 Sigurður 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 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)
 * 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)
 * Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles(LLD)
 * Mary Rundle, (Diploma in Nursing)
 * Sir Arthur Stanley (LLD)

1924
 * Edmund George Arnold (LLD)
 * Arthur Balfour (LLD)
 * 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 (Lord Rayleigh) (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)
 * Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (LLD)
 * Richard Assheton Cross (LLD)
 * William Dalrymple Maclagan (Archbishop of York) (LLD)
 * Sir Henry Walford Davies (LLD)
 * Sir Edward Elgar (LLD)
 * Rev. Andrew Martin Fairbairn (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 Hubert Parry (LLD)
 * Lawrence Parsons (DSc)
 * Sir Francis Powell (LLD)
 * Sir Arthur Mayo-Robson (DSc)
 * Sir Arthur Rollit (DLitt)
 * Sir Arthur Rucker (DSc)
 * Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (LLD)
 * Thomas Teale (DSc)
 * William Thomson (DSc)
 * Sir Edward Thorpe (DSc)
 * Claudius Wheelhouse (DSc)
 * Charles Wood (LLD)
 * Joseph Wright (DLitt)