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Honorary graduates

The University has conferred honorary awards on a host of individuals from the worlds of science, art, academia, industry, politics, medicine, entertainment and many other fields.

Use the links on the right to navigate through the decades.

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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)
Gurinda 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
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)
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)

 

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