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 |