Discover recipients of Honorary Degrees and Awards made by the University between 1949 and 2023.
2007 - Adams, Richard John
2008 - Al-Misnad, Sheikha Abdulla
2007 - Alagiah, George
2013 - Amos, Valerie Ann
1996 - Arata, Toshio
2007 - Ariyaratne, Vinya Shanthidas
1987 - Atkinson, Frank
2022 - Barton, Mike
2022 - Black, Jill
2005 - Bridge, John
2013 - Brindley, Dame Lynne
1992 - Brittan, The Right Hon Sir Leon
2004 - Bryson, Bill
2016 - Burgess, Robert
2010 - Croisdale-Appleby, David
1996 - Danby, Susan
2009 - Dannatt, General Sir Francis Richard
1992 - Davico, Léon
1993 - de la Billière, Sir Peter (Edgar de la Cour)
1992 - Dearing of Kingston upon Hull, Lord
1995 - Eccles of Moulton, The Lady
1951 - Edinburgh, His Royal Highness The Duke of
2009 - Edwards, Jonathan David
1990 - El-Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, His Royal Highness Crown Prince
1998 - Evans, Harold Matthew
2006 - Foster of Bishop Auckland, Lord
2002 - Foster of Thames Bank, Lord
1997 - Fujii, Hiroaki
1994 - Fujimoto, Shiro
1993 - Genscher, Hans-Dietrich
2019 - Gillespie, Robert
1995 - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
2006 - Greenwood, William John Heaton
1957 - Hall, Alexander Hislop
1995 - Hall, Sir John
2000 - Hall, Stuart McPhail
2000 - Handy, Charles Brian
2009 - Hann, Judith
1961 - Hare, Arthur
2013 - Hassan, Hussein Hamed Sayed
2001 - Hayward, John Charles Frederick
2006 - Heesom, Alan John
1995 - Higgins, Rosalyn
2005 - Holtam, Nicholas Roderick
2019 - Hughes, Anthony
2011 - Hussain, Amjad Mazhar
2013 - Jahjaga, Atifete
1997 - Jarab, Josef (jointly with the University of Teesside)
1998 - Kang, Jin Ku
2019 - Kelly, Chris
1961 - Kent, His Royal Highness The Duke of
2014 - Laithwaite, Barbara
2014 - Laithwaite, Tony
1995 - Lalumière, Catherine
2013 - Lampl, Sir Peter
2001 - Lester, Anthony Paul, Lord Lester of Herne Hill
2015 - Logan, Gabrielle Nicole
1985 - McClelland, William Grigor
2018 - McFarlane, Lord Andrew
2003 - Mimpriss, Peter
2009 - Monk, Richard
2002 - Ogden, Sir Peter (James)
2007 - Pillay, Navanethem
2001 - Pinsent, Sir Matthew (Clive)
1985 - Ramphal, Sir Shridath (Surendranath)
1996 - Redgrave, Sir Steven
2006 - Rittner, Luke Philip Hardwick
2021 - Rose, Alison
2021 - Russell, Alderman William Anthony Bowater
1997 - Russell, Sir George
2013 - Schomburg, Wolfgang
2001 - Sedley, The Rt Hon Sir Stephen (John)
1994 - Seitz, Raymond George Hardenbergh
2002 - Sen, Amartya Kumar
2007 - Senaratne, Ranjith
2022 - Senior, Robert
2015 - Shaw, Peter Alan
2018 - Shepherd, Wendy
1989 - Slynn, The Hon Sir Gordon
2003 - Smit, Timothy Bartiel
1996 - Sterling of Plaistow, Lord
1999 - Stewart, Ian Macfarlane
2005 - Stiglitz, Joseph
2011 - Strauss, Andrew John
1995 - Theis, Adolf
1963 - Thompson, William
2022 - Thornton, Sara
1996 - Tu, The Hon Mrs Elsie
1988 - Vernon, David Harvey
2012 - Vine, Jeremy Guy
1992 - Waite, Terence Hardy
1998 - Wales, His Royal Highness The Prince of
2022 - Waller, Mark
2005 - Wanless, Sir Derek
2012 - Wilson, Charles
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2002 - Arnold, John Robert
1998 - Brümmer, Vincent
1993 - Carey, The Most Rev and Right Hon George Leonard
2009 - Dudley-Smith, Timothy
2013 - Duffy, Eamon
1975 - Habgood, The Most Rev and Right Hon John Stapylton
1967 - Käsemann, Ernst
2006 - Kasper, Cardinal Walter
2011 - Lash, Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne
1994 - Paul, The Rev Toomas
1999 - Polkinghorne, The Rev Canon John Charlton
2019 - Sentamu, The Most Rev and Right Hon John
2003 - Turnbull, The Rt Rev Michael
1990 - Vermes, Geza
2015 - Welby, Justin
2008 - Williams, The Most Rev and Right Hon Rowan Douglas
2007 - Wright, Nicholas Thomas
2010 - Amin, Hamidullah
2012 - Barker, Joanna
1998 - Barker, Pat (jointly with the University of Teesside)
2012 - Baxter, Biddy
2013 - Beynon, Huw
1971 - Blondel, Jacques
2012 - Bokova, Irina Georgieva
1991 - Byatt, Dame Antonia (Susan)
1996 - Caro, Sir Anthony
2018 - Childs, David
2019 - Collins, Sir Kevan
2009 - Constantine, David
1984 - Dover, Sir Kenneth (James)
2010 - Eagleton, Terry
2016 - Garlick, George
2022 - Goodison, Lorna
2022 - Hall, Edith
1997 - Hardy, (Timothy Sydney) Robert
2016 - Hollins, Sheila
2012 - Inshaw, David
1992 - Jackson, Glenda May
1998 - James, P D (Baroness James of Holland Park)
1996 - Kitaj, R B
2008 - Lawson, Fenwick Justin John
2008 - Lendrum, Christopher John
1987 - Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel Bernard
1990 - Lessing, Doris May
2023 - Malcolm, Claire
1995 - Midgley, Mary
1999 - Miller, Jonathan Wolfe
2018 - Morrill, John
2017 - Motion, Sir Andrew
2012 - Pullman, Philip
1986 - Quirk, Sir (Charles) Randolph
1995 - Reynolds, Barbara
2022 - Riley, Charlotte
2018 - Ruffer, Jonathan
2014 - Sharratt, Michael
1983 - Shirley, John William
1969 - Southern, Sir Richard (William)
2008 - Sproxton, David
1995 - Steiner, George
2005 - Stevenson, Anne
2009 - Stewart, Lady Mary Florence Elinor
2022 - Tennant, Neil
2022 - Timms, Henry
2005 - Wells, Stanley William
1988 - Wiseman, Timothy Peter
2011 - Wrightston, Keith Edwin
1988 - Allen, Sir Thomas
1991 - Armstrong, Sheila Ann
2006 - Barber, Donald Christopher
2019 - Boden, Jon
2005 - Carter, Peter
1994 - Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell
1998 - Glennie, Evelyn Elizabeth Ann
1982 - Hye-Ku, Lee
2013 - Johnson, Graham Rhodes
1991 - Joubert, John Herman Pierre
2014 - Lancelot, James Bennett
1995 - LeFanu, Nicola
1983 - Lutoslawski, Witold
2007 - MacMillan, James Loy
2007 - Manning, Jane Marian
2007 - Payne, Anthony Edward
2003 - Pärt, Arvo
1980 - Rosen, Charles
2012 - Rutter, John Milford
1982 - Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri
2013 - Weir, Dame Gillian Constance
1984 - Allen, Sir Geoffrey
1998 - Anderson, Robert Geoffrey William
2007 - Arbuthnott, Sir John (Peebles)
1976 - Atiyah, Sir Michael (Francis)
1982 - Attenborough, Sir David (Frederick)
2008 - Barrow, John
2015 - Bawa, Ahmed Cassim
2007 - Bell Burnell, Dame Jocelyn
1986 - Blashford-Snell, John Nicholas
1981 - Blume, Helmut
2022 - Bosanquet, Maggie
2007 - Broers, Lord Alec
1963 - Bucher, Walter Hermann
2014 - Buikstra, Jane Ellen
1996 - Burns, Sir Terence
1992 - Cadogan, Sir John (Ivan George)
2008 - Calman, Sir Kenneth (Charles)
2012 - Cheshire, Brent
2008 - Church, Michael Anthony
2000 - Cowey, Alan
1995 - Cramp, Dame Rosemary Jean
2022 - Croft, Simon
2018 - Das, Veena
2005 - Dawkins, Richard
2016 - Doré, Anthony George
2002 - Ellis, Richard Salisbury
1963 - Ewing, William Maurice
2007 - Fothergill, Alastair
1998 - Freeman, Raymond
2019 - Garman, Elspeth
1955 - Gebbie, John Ramsay
2005 - Goodfellow, Julia
2007 - Greenwood, Philippa Gwyneth
1989 - Haggett, Peter
2006 - Harrison, Geoffrey Ainsworth
1996 - Harrison, Sir Terence
1996 - Hawley, Robert
1974 - Heilbronner, Edgar
1991 - Higginson, Sir Gordon (Robert)
2013 - Higgs, Peter Ware
2000 - Hoffmann, Roald
1991 - Holdgate, Sir Martin (Wyatt)
2019 - Hunt, Neil
2016 - Hunter, Carl Stephen Patrick
2002 - Irvine, Sir Donald
1989 - Joachain, Charles Jean
2002 - Kouchner, Bernard
1963 - Kräusel, Richard
1999 - Laming of Tewin, Lord
1996 - Lewis, Jack, Baron Lewis of Newnham
2011 - Liao, Donald Poon-huai
2013 - Lucas, Adetokunbo Oluwole
1997 - Malpas, Robert
1970 - Mason, Sir (Basil) John
2003 - Nurse, Sir Paul
1998 - Ogilvie, Dame Bridget Margaret
1988 - Olah, George Andrew
2009 - Ormerod, Paul
2014 - Oyawoye, Mosobalaje Olaloye
2005 - Pattison, Sir John
2013 - Phillips, David
1999 - Rees, Sir Martin
2001 - Rhind, David William
1995 - Rhodes, Frank Harold Trevor
1983 - Rosenfeld, Arthur Hinton
1974 - Rossi, Bruno
2000 - Serre, Jean-Pierre
1972 - Siegbahn, Kai Manne Börje
2019 - Simmons, Michelle
1951 - Simpson, George Gaylord
1968 - Skempton, Alec Westley
2006 - Sternberg, Robert
1993 - Stone, Francis Gordon Albert
2000 - Stoppard, Miriam
2007 - Strathern, Dame Marilyn
2010 - Swan, Robert Charles
2022 - Sykes, Benj
2017 - Taylor, John C
2018 - Terrill, Chris
2007 - Tomlinson, Michael John
2019 - Vest, Barbara
2002 - Walton of Detchant, Lord
2007 - White, Simon
2008 - Wright, Sir Nicholas
1979 - Yang, Chen Ning
1990 - Zeeman, Sir (Erik) Christopher
1963 - Lundstrom, Anders
2008 - Anson, Dorothy Ann
1955 - Atkinson, John
2019 - Bacon, Gordon
1985 - Christie, Cyril
1999 - Connolly, Cynthia Ann
1961 - Crawley, James
1960 - Donkin, Winifred Cotterill
1981 - Eschbach, Franz
1994 - Guy, Hilda
1995 - Halpin, Joseph
1977 - Henderson, Robert
1957 - Hope, James Kenneth
1959 - Medsforth, Samuel
1985 - Ogden, David Edgar Foster
1955 - Patterson, Edwin Frederick
1992 - Robson, Councillor J Donald
2004 - Rolling, Malcolm G
1987 - Tait, Ruth Mary
1971 - Watson, Ronald
2013 - West, Kenneth
1962 - Withers, Monica Mary
1997 - Wood, Edward Ralph
2014 - Young, Robert
1957 - Hossack, Frederic Albert
1958 - Archbold, John
1954 - Bäckström, David Johannes
1951 - Bertie, Sophie Christie
2011 - Carr, Carol Ann
1968 - Hocking, Charles
1963 - Hoyos, Fabriciano Alexander
1967 - Whitfield, Oliver
2005 - Crookes, David
1993 - Dodd, Gordon John
2017 - Tickell, Kathryn
1961 - Barrett, Stanley George
2017 - Catty, Rob
1995 - Cooper, Angela (jointly with the University of Teesside)
1978 - Dunn, Thomas Cecil
2012 - Fildes, Gary
2004 - Harris, G W (Bill)
1949 - Hill, Barton Parkinson
1952 - Houstoun, Robert Henry Follett
2008 - Hudspeth, Derek
1992 - Hutchinson, John Fenwick
1998 - Jobling, Dennis
2009 - Lancaster, Rev Ronald
2019 - Lazslo, Damon de
1976 - Spencer, Robert
1952 - Temperley, George William
1999 - Warner, Audrey
2006 - Ablett, Peter
2001 - Blakey, David
2000 - Marchant, Eddie
2013 - Bott, Martin
2016 - Chambers, Richard
2011 - Cramp, Rosemary Jean
2010 - Doyle, A Ian
2014 - Emeleus, Henry
2010 - Etchells, Ruth
2018 - Harvey, Margaret
2018 - Howard, Judith
2014 - Knight, David M
2019 - Layton, Robert
2015 - Martin, Alan Douglas
2013 - Moss, Ann
2012 - Prestwich, Michael
2015 - Rhodes, Peter J
2016 - Simmons, Ian
2017 - Thomas, David
2018 - Unsworth, Anthony
2017 - Watson, John Richard
2022 - Banks, Robert
2010 - Barker, Graham
2020 - Barker, Joanna
2012 - Dyson, Henry
2019 - Ellison-Taylor, Ian
2013 - Gregory, Stephen
2016 - Groves, Lilian
2018 - Hillery, Mark
2021 - Hunter, Carl Stephen Patrick
2010 - Klein, Robert Dale
2021 - Kumar, Smiti
2020 - Misra, Rashmi
2018 - Ogden, Peter
2021 - Roberts, Richard
2019 - Robertson, Chuck
2016 - Salaun, Patrick
2022 - Shearer, Michael
2016 - Wang, Ocean
2021 - Wilson, Charles
2022 - Yan, Ziqing
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