Honorary graduates: 1904 to present  1981 to 2000

Lord 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)

Stephen Towers Anning (MPhil)
Willy Brandt (LLD)
Denis Parsons Burkitt
Sir Henry Chilver (DSc)
Jacqueline Du Pre (DMus)
Lord Derek Ezra (LLD)
Lord Hailsham (LLD)
Ronald Stanley Illingworth (DSc)
Leo Arthur Kaprio (LLD)
Emmanuel Le Roy LaDurie (DLitt)
Sir Rudolph Lyons (LLD)

Imogen Clare Holst (DMus)
Viscount Tonypandy of Rhondda (LLD)
Robert Stewart Rowe (DLitt)
Roy Colin Strong (DLitt)

Julian Bream (DMus)
Professor Brian Leonard Clarkson (DSc)
Richard Arthur Dalley (MSc)
Lord Hanson of Edgerton (LLD)
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)
Baroness Ryder (LLD)
Emeritus Professor William Walsh (LLD)
James Westoll (LLD)

Douglas Gabb (MEng)
Emeritus Professor Irene Manton (DSc)
Lord Murray (LLD)
John Piper (DLitt)
Professor Robert Shackleton (DLitt)
Douglas Shortridge (LLD)
The Rt. Rev. Gordon Wheeler (DD)
Xie Xide (DSc)

Professor Sir Geoffrey Allen (DSc)
The Reverend Professor William Owen Chadwick (DLitt)
Janusz Fibras (DLitt)
David Lloyd-Jones (DMus)
Sir David Lean (DLitt)
Jimmy Savile (LLD) – revoked 2012
Noel Stockdale (LLD)

Jack Ashley (LLD)
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)
Margaret Weston (DSc)

Doreen J Bayley (MA)
Professor Richard Cobb (DLitt)
Geoffrey Hill (DLitt)
Baroness Masham of Ilton (LLD)
R. Roy McMurtry (LLD)
Patricia Ruanne (DLitt)
William P. Thackray (LLD)
Jean M. Tyrrell (LLD)
Professor Sir David Weatherall (DM)

Joseph Dickinson (MSc)
Sir Joseph Gilbert (LLD)
H. Peter Jost (DEng)
Professor Heinrich Noth (DSc)
Tan Sri Rashdan(LLD)
Esther Simpson (LLD)
Casper Weinberger (DM)

Alan Bennett (DLitt)
Barbara Taylor Bradford (DLitt)
Lt Cdr. Allan Crockatt (LDD)
Ray Cullingworth (MA)
Ralph Goodall (DEng)
Professor Yves Jeannin (DSc)
Sir Gustav Nossal (DM)
Colin Sampson (LLD)
Toru Takemitsu (DMus)
E. C. Zeeman (DSc)

The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey (LLD)
Rev. Trevor Huddlestone (LLD)
Professor Walter Kunzel (DM)
Sir Gordon Linacre (LDD)
Janusz Onyszkiewicz (DSc)
Pat Solk (LLD)
Sir Peter Thompson (LLD)

Sir Charles Frank (DSc)
Professor Stephen Jay Gould (DSc)
Raymond Head (LLD)
Sadruddin Aga-Khan (LLD)
Professor Dan McKenzie (DSc)
Cristopher Mowll (LLD)
Lord Putnam (DLitt)
Lord Merlyn Rees (LLD)
Diana Rigg (DLitt)
Fanny Waterman (DMus)

Kenneth Cragg (DD)
Maurice Godet (DEng)
Anish Kapoor (DLitt)
Anne McLaren (DSc)
Simon Rattle (DMus)
Edward Thompson (DLitt)
James Walsh (LLD)
Arnold Ziff (LLD)

Emeka Anyaoaku (LLD)
Margaret Atwood (DLitt)
Baroness Dunn (LLD)
Sam Edwards (DSc)
Gordon Higginson (LLD)
Raymond Seitz (LLD)
Cecil Thompson (MA)
Victor Watson (LLD)

Alan Bowness (DLitt)
Stuart Hall (DLitt)
John Houghton (DSc)
Tom Jackson (LLD)
Mark Knopfler (DMus)
Hans Kornberg (DSc)
Lin Ma (LLD)
Jean Muir (DLitt)
Manmohan Singh (LLD)
Lord Justice Taylor (LLD)
Chad Varah (LLD)

James Cronin (DSc)
Vigdis Finnbogadottir (LLD)
Ernest Hall (LLD)
David Jenkins (DD)
Jonathan Miller (DLitt)
Kathleen Raven (LDD)
Ismail Zawawi (DEng)

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)

Jeremy Paxman (LLD)
Murray Perahia (DMus)
The Rt. Hon. Jack Straw (LLD)
John Walker (DSc)

Melvyn Bragg (DLitt)
Alan Bullock (DLitt)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (DSc)
David Hockney (Dlitt)
Jude Kelly (DLitt)
Robert Ogden (LLD)
Alan Roberts (LLD)