Honorary graduates
A list of honorary degree recipients from 2016 to present.
| Name | Degree | Year | 
|---|---|---|
| Charles John Partridge (BSc) | Doctor of Engineering (DEng) | 2016 | 
| Alfred Brendel (KBE) | Doctor of Music (DMus) | 2016 | 
| James Hillier Blount (Capt [Retd], BSc) | Doctor of Music (DMus) | 2016 | 
| Simon King (OBE, Hon FRPS, Hon FBNA) | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2016 | 
| Professor Dame Teresa Rees (DBE, FAcSS, FLSW) | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2016 | 
| Dr Gerald Avison (PhD) | Doctor of Engineering (DEng) | 2016 | 
| Anne Burrell | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2016 | 
| Jane Anne Camlin | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2016 | 
| Dr Timothy Lachlan Chambers (OBE, JP, DL, FRCP) | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2016 | 
| Dr Jennifer Dixon (MBChB PhD FRCP FFPH CBE) | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2016 | 
| Dr Wendy Ewart (PhD, MBE) | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2016 | 
| Ben Kane (MVB) | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2016 | 
| Dr Martin Edmund Kiszko (PGCert. RFT, BA) | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2016 | 
| Fahma Mohamed | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2016 | 
| David Nicholls | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2016 | 
| Professor Timothy Noel Palmer (CBE, FRS) | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2016 | 
| The Rt. Hon Dawn Primarolo (DBE, PC) | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2016 | 
| IEG Ray (BSC) | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2016 | 
| Daniel Schaffer (LLB, BCL) | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2016 | 
| Dr Lew Watts | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2016 | 
| Lesley. J Yellowlees (CBE FRSC FInstP FRSE) | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2016 | 
| Chrissie Wellington, OBE | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2017 | 
| Chris Jolly | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2017 | 
| Charlotte Moore | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2017 | 
| Matt Lucas | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2017 | 
| Donald Cameron | Doctor of Engineering (DEng) | 2017 | 
| Katya Adler | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2017 | 
| David Barford | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2017 | 
| John Beddington | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2017 | 
| Richard Blundell | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2017 | 
| Gillian Camm | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2017 | 
| Simon Cook | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2017 | 
| Stephen Frankel | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2017 | 
| Russell Hamilton | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2017 | 
| Richard Pound | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2017 | 
| Alice Mary Prior | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2017 | 
| Emma Stenning and Tom Morris | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2017 | 
| Bernard Silverman | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2017 | 
| Sir David Tanner | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2017 | 
| Julia Unwin | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2017 | 
| Keith Warner | Doctor of Music (DMus) | 2017 | 
| Timothy West | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2017 | 
| Andrew Langdon | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Col Needham | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2018 | 
| Mark Watkins | Doctor of Engineering (DEng) | 2018 | 
| Sherry Coutu | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Professor Virginijus Šikšnys | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2018 | 
| Jonathan Benjamin, MBE and Neil Laybourn | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Valerie Jeal, MBE | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Proefssor Marcus Pembrey, FMedSci | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2018 | 
| Bryan A Stevenson | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Lois Patricia Golding, OBE | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Dominic Wood | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Alastair Fothergill | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2018 | 
| Dame Mary Perkins | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Professor Sarah Glennie | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2018 | 
| Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes, BT, OBE | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Baroness Amos, CH | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Katie Alcott | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2018 | 
| Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2018 | |
| Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2018 | |
| Dr Gavin Schmidt | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2018 | 
| Professor Edward Stolper | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2018 | 
| John Deer | Doctor of Engineering (DEng) | 2018 | 
| Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, HonFBSA, FRSA, Hon DSc | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2019 | 
| Fiona Fox OBE, FMedSci | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2019 | 
| Professor Magaret Snowling CBE, FBA, FMedSci | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2019 | 
| Simon Pugh-Jones MBE | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2019 | 
| Paul Lindley OBE, Hon LLD | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Colin Skellett OBE | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Stephen. J. Toope OC, LLD | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Andy Sheppard | Doctor of Music (DMus) | 2019 | 
| Professor Howard Wheater FRSC, FREng | Doctor of Engineering (DEng) | 2019 | 
| Gary V Mabbutt MBE | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Gillian Guy CB | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Professor Peter Landrock | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2019 | 
| Lisa Johnson | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, PhD(Wits), MASSAf, GCOB, FAAS | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2019 | 
| Sam Smith | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Dr C Cindy Fan | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Dame Clare Marx DBE DL FRCS | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2019 | 
| Professor Alan Baddeley | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2019 | 
| Dr Julie Maxton | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Professor Diane Coyle CBE FAcSS | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Christiana Figueres | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2019 | 
| Kalpna Woolf | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2019 | 
| Emma Stibbon RA | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2019 | 
| Emeritus Professor John Scott FAHA | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2019 | 
| Michael de Giorgio BSc, FCA | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2020 | 
| Ineke Sluiter FBA | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2020 | 
| Lesley Silvester | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2020 | 
| Peter Estlin KSTJ, BSC, FCA | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2020 | 
| Mya-Rose Craig | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2020 | 
| Hurbert Thompson | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2020 | 
| Luke Jerram FRAS | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2020 | 
| Tony Macdonald | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2022 | 
| Gordon Richardson | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2022 | 
| Dr Sarah Fane, OBE | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2022 | 
| Sheila Rowbotham | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2022 | 
| Richard Stanton MBE and Mr John Volanthen | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2022 | 
| Professor the Lord Parekh FBA | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2022 | 
| Professor Claude Jaupart | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2022 | 
| Professor Chorh Chuan Tan | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2022 | 
| Joanna Batstone | Doctor of Engineering (DEng) | 2022 | 
| Es Devlin, CBE | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2022 | 
| Alan Riding | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2022 | 
| Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2022 | 
| David Allen OBE | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2022 | 
| Sir Alan Wilson | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2022 | 
| Dr Purna Sen | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2022 | 
| Professor Brian Nosek | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2022 | 
| Lawrence Hoo | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2022 | 
| Polly Neate | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2022 | 
| Ben Shorrock | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2023 | 
| Alex Raikes | Doctor Laws (LLD) | 2023 | 
| Latif Ismail | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2023 | 
| Nigel Toon | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2023 | 
| Jonathan de Pass | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2023 | 
| Colonel Anne McClain | Doctor of Engineering (DEng) | 2023 | 
| Councillor Helen Holland | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2023 | 
| Jaya Chakrabarti | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2023 | 
| Michele Curtis | Doctor Arts (DA) | 2023 | 
| Professor John Wright | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2023 | 
| Linda Glennie | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2024 | 
| Laura Trevelyan | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2024 | 
| Barbara Dettering | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2024 | 
| Sir Nicholas Mostyn | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2024 | 
| Joanna Holmes | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2024 | 
| Rosemary Fowler | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2024 | 
| Nish Chaturvedi | Doctor of Science (DSc) | 2025 | 
| Rachel Carr OBE | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2025 | 
| Luke Gamble FRCVS | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2025 | 
| Michael Gunton | Doctor of Letters (DLitt) | 2025 | 
| Luke Ellis | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2025 | 
| David Olusoga | Doctor of Laws (LLD) | 2025 |