List of Honorary Graduates of the University of Leeds

This list of Honorary Graduates of the University of Leeds is a year-by-year list of people recognized by the University of Leeds for their achievements in their given field with an honorary award.^[1]

An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa (Latin: 'for the sake of the honour') is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements (such as matriculation, residence, study and the passing of examinations). The degree itself is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the academic institution.

2010s

2018^[2]

• Kenton Cool (LLD)
• Mary Fowler (DSc)
• Peter Gibbs (LLD)
• Gabriele Hegerl (DSc)
• Alice Roberts (DSc)
• Jane Rumble (DSc)
• Clare Marx (DSc)
• Wendy Burn (DM)
• Robert Mair, Baron Mair (DEng)
• Iain Mattaj (DSc)
• David Olusoga (DLitt)
• Anne Owers (LLD)
• Christopher Senyonjo (LLD)
• Leslie Valiant (DEng)

2017^[3]

• Malcolm Brown (LLD)
• Anne Chamberlain (DSc)
• Grace Clough (LLD)
• Barry Cryer (DLitt)
• Karen Darke (LLD)
• Richard Farnes (DMus)
• John Hardy (DSc)
• Colin Low (Baron Low of Dalston) (LLD)
• Nicola Mendelsohn (LLD)
• Helen Rappaport (DLitt)
• Martin Rees (Baron Rees of Ludlow) (DSc)
• Andrew Shovlin (DEng)
• Paul Workman (DSc)

2016^[4]

• Athene Donald (DSc)
• John Fisher (DEng)
• Anne-Marie Hutchinson (LLD)
• Steve Jackson (DSc)
• Vivien Jones (DLitt)
• Wayne McGregor (DLitt)
• Peter Morgan (DLitt)
• Isobel Pollock-Hulf (DEng)
• Julia Slingo (DSc)
• John Stoddart-Scott (LLD)
• Andrea Sutcliffe (DSc)

2015^[5]

• Nicola Adams (LLD)
• Simon Armitage (DLitt)
• David Baulcombe (DSc)
• Margaret Jull Costa (DLitt)
• Ann Dowling (DEng)
• Arthur France (LLD)
• Peter Hendy (LLD)
• Howard Morris (DSc)
• Michelle Pinggera (LLD)
• John Tooke (DSc)

2014^[6]

• Michael Arthur (LLD)
• John Dyson, Lord Dyson (LLD)
• Jane Francis (DSc)
• Andras Schiff (DMus)
• Patrick Stewart (DLitt)

2013

• Alistair Brownlee (LLD)
• Jonathan Brownlee (LLD)
• Claire Cashmore (LLD)
• Stephanie Flanders (DLitt)
• Samuel Kargbo (DSc)
• Linda Pollard (LLD)
• Susan Solomon (DSc)
• Martin Wainwright (DLitt)

2012

• Onora O’Neill (LLD)
• Eliza Manningham-Buller (LLD)
• Keir Starmer QC (LLD)
• Ian Kershaw (DLitt)

2011

• David Stuart (DSc)
• Corinne Bailey Rae (DMus)
• Jonathan Wild (LLD)
• Sally Davies (DM)
• Peter Blake (DMus)
• Keith Howard (LLD)

2010^[7]

• Alan Yentob (LLD)
• José Ángel Gurría (LLD)
• Elaine Surick Oran (DSc)
• Ingrid Roscoe (LLD)
• John Sentamu (LLD)
• John Simpson (LLD)
• Lesley Dixon (LLD)
• Sir Stuart Rose (LLD)

2000s

Sunil Mittal, honoured in 2009

2009

• Sayyid Saud bin Ibrahim Al-Busaidi (LLD)
• Yahya bin Saud bin Mansoor Al-Sulaimi (LLD)
• Nicola Brewer (LLD)
• Malcolm Chaikin (DSc)
• Bekele Geleta (LLD)
• Simon Mason (LLD)
• Sunil Bharti Mittal (LLD)
• Richard Mantle (DMus)
• Michael Nyman (DMus)
• Lord Oxburgh of Liverpool (DSc)
• Peter Robinson (DLitt)

2008

Albert Fert, honoured in 2008

• Mark Byford (LLD)
• Albert Fert (DSc)
• Baroness Flather (LLD)
• David Hessayon (DSc)
• Sir Christopher Rose (LLD)
• Martin Scicluna (LLD)
• Polly Toynbee (LLD)

2007

Dr. Piers Sellers, honoured in 2007

Lynne Brindley DBE, FRSA, honoured in 2006

• 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

Sir David Cox, honoured in 2005

• Lynne Brindley (DLitt)
• Gurinder Chadha (DLitt)
• Sara Courtneidge (DSc)
• John Elderfield (DLitt)
• Alexander Markham (DSc)
• Arthur Stone (LLD)

2005

Sir Ian McKellen CH, CBE, honoured in 2004

• Bill Bryson (DLitt)
• Sir David Cox (DSc)
• Andy Kershaw (DMus)
• Dame Nancy Rothwell (DSc)
• Marjorie Ziff (LLD)

2004

Dame Judi Dench CH, DBE, FRSA, honoured in 2002

• Emeritus Professor Zygmunt Bauman
• Emeritus Professor Maurice Beresford
• Jack Charlton (LLD)
• Emeritus Professor Duncan Dowson (DEng)
• 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)
• Professor Sir Alan Wilson (LLD)

2003

The Right Honourable, The Lord Melvyn Bragg FRSL, FRTS, FRS, honoured in 2000

• 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)

2000

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

1990s

Jeremy Paxman, honoured in 1999

1999

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

1998

• No honors conferred in this academic year.

1997

The Rt. Hon. Jack Straw, honoured in 1999

• 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)

1996

Harold 'Dickie' Bird, honoured in 1997

• James Cronin (DSc)
• Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (LLD)
• Ernest Hall (LLD)
• David Jenkins (DD)
• Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller (DLitt)
• Dame Kathleen Raven (LDD)
• Ismail Zawawi (DEng)

1995

Manmohan Singh, honoured in 1995

• Sir Alan Bowness (DLitt)
• Stuart Hall (DLitt)
• Sir John Houghton (DSc)
• Tom Jackson (LLD)
• Mark Knopfler (DMus)
• Professor Sir Hans Leo Kornberg (DSc)
• Lin Ma (LLD)
• Jean Muir (DLitt)
• Manmohan Singh (LLD)
• Lord Justice Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth (LLD)
• Chad Varah (LLD)

1994

Anish Kapoor, honoured in 1993

• Emeka Anyaoku (LLD)
• Margaret Atwood (DLitt)
• Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn (LLD)
• Sir Sam Edwards (DSc)
• Professor Sir Gordon Higginson (LLD)
• The Honorable Raymond George Hardenbergh Seitz (LLD)
• Cecil Thompson (MA)
• Victor Watson (LLD)

1993

• The Rt Rev (Albert) Kenneth Cragg (DD)
• Maurice Godet (DEng)
• Anish Kapoor (DLitt)
• Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren (DSc)
• Sir Simon Denis Rattle (DMus)
• Edward Thompson (DLitt)
• Dr. James Walsh (LLD)
• Arnold Ziff (LLD)

1992

Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman, honoured in 1990

• Sir Frederick Charles Frank (DSc)
• Professor Stephen Jay Gould (DSc)
• Raymond Head (LLD)
• Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (LLD)
• Professor Dan McKenzie (DSc)
• Cristopher Mowll (LLD)
• David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam (DLitt)
• Merlyn Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees (LLD)
• Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (DLitt)
• Dame Fanny Waterman (DMus)

1991

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

1990

• Alan Bennett (DLitt)
• Barbara Taylor Bradford (DLitt)
• Lt Cdr. Allan Crockatt (LDD)
• Ray Cullingworth (MA)
• Ralph Goodall (DEng)
• Professor Yves Jeannin (DSc)
• Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal (DM)
• Colin Sampson (LLD)
• Tōru Takemitsu (DMus)
• Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman (DSc)

1980s

Caspar Weinberger, honoured in 1989

1989

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

1988

Roy McMurtry, honoured in 1988

• Doreen J Bayley (MA)
• Professor Richard Cobb (DLitt)
• Geoffrey Hill (DLitt)
• Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Dowager Countess of Swinton, Baroness Masham of Ilton (LLD)
• Roy McMurtry (LLD)
• Patricia Ruanne (DLitt)
• William P Thackray (LLD)
• Jean M Tyrrell (LLD)
• Professor Sir David Weatherall (DM)

1987

Professor Stephen Hawking, honoured in 1987

• Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke (LLD)
• Sir 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)
• Dame Margaret Kate Weston (DSc)

1986

• Professor Sir Geoffrey Allen (DSc)
• The Reverend Professor William Owen Chadwick (DLitt)
• Janusz Fibras (DLitt)
• David Lloyd-Jones (DMus)
• Sir David Lean (DLitt)
• Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (LLD)^[8] – revoked 2012^[9]
• Noel Stockdale (LLD)

1985

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

1984

Roy Colin Strong, honoured in 1983

• Julian Bream (DMus)
• Professor Brian Leonard Clarkson (DSc)
• Richard Arthur Dalley (MSc)
• James Hanson, Baron Hanson (LLD)
• Sir 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)
• Margaret Susan Cheshire, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire (LLD)
• Emeritus Professor William Walsh (LLD)
• James Westoll (LLD)

1983

Willy Brandt, honoured in 1982

• Imogen Clare Holst (DMus)
• George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy of Rhondda (LLD)
• Robert Stewart Rowe (DLitt)
• Roy Colin Strong (DLitt)

1982

Viscount Hailsham, honoured in 1982

• Stephen Towers Anning (MPhil)
• Willy Brandt (LLD)
• Denis Parsons Burkitt
• Sir Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver (DSc)
• Jacqueline du Pré (DMus)
• Derek Ezra, Baron Ezra (LLD)
• Viscount Hailsham (LLD)
• Ronald Stanley Illingworth (DSc)
• Leo Arthur Kaprio (LLD)
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (DLitt)
• Sir Rudolph Lyons (LLD)

1981

• Peter Carington, 6th Baron 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)

1980

• Dame Janet Abbott Baker (DMus)
• The Very Reverend Henry Chadwick (DD)
• John Cedric Goligher (DSc)
• James MacGregor (LLD)
• Sir Denis Rooke (DSc)
• Sir Tom Stoppard (DLitt)
• The Rt. Hon. Mrs Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (LLD)

1970s

1979

• S.P.S. Andrew (DSc)
• Sir Robert Bradlaw (DSc)
• Baron Diamond of Gloucester (LLD)
• Professor M.E. Howard (DLitt)
• Dennis Irvine (DSc)
• Queenie Dorothy Leavis (DLitt)
• Lord Hunt of Llanvair Waterdine (DLitt)
• Baroness Seear (LLD)
• E.J. Read (MA)
• Sydney Percy Smith (DSc)
• William Taylor (DLitt)
• Professor Sir John Walton (DSc)

1978

• Reinhard Bendix (DLitt)
• Baron Holderness of Bishop Wilton in the County (LLD)
• Sir John Charnley (DSc)
• Kristján Eldjárn, President of Iceland (DLitt)
• Professor Philip Grierson (DLitt)
• Dr Theodore Morris Sugden (DSc)
• Clement Charles Tapp (MA)
• Lord Arnold Weinstock (DLitt)
• Richard F Wood (DLitt)

1977

• Sir Kenneth Lyon Blaxter (DSc)
• Professor Sheppard Sunderland Frere (DLitt)
• Arthur Koestler (DLitt)
• Professor William Norton Medlicott (DLitt)
• Sir Claus Moser (PhD)
• Innocentina Tomasini Pearmain (MA)
• Lord Alexander of Potterhill (DLitt)
• John Collins Siddons (MSc)
• Edmund Williamson (LLD)

1976

• Claude Thomas Bissell (DLitt)
• Aaron Copland (DMus)
• Norma Franklin (DSc)
• Margaret Gowing (DLitt)
• Helena Hayward (MA)
• Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (LLD)
• Charles Rosen (DMus)
• Sir Rodney Smith (DSc)
• Lord Widgery (LLD)

1975

• Rupert Cross (LLD)
• Kenneth Fourness (MSc)
• Donald Hunt (DMus)
• Harold MacMillan (DLitt)
• Rosemary Murray (DSc)
• Charles Pannell (LLD)
• David Woodbine Parish (LLD)
• Stephen Roskill (DLitt)
• Arnold Smith (LLD)
• Professor Sir John Stallworthy (DSc)
• Humphrey Trevelyan (DLitt)
• Emeritus Professor Ronald Tunbridge (Dsc)
• Ralph C Yablon (LLD)

1974

• Pierre Boulez (DMus)
• Asa Briggs (DLitt)
• Richard Crossman (DLitt)
• Arthur Dower (LLD)
• Sir Reginald Goodall (DMus)
• David Hockney (MA)
• Sir Brynmor Jones (LLD)
• Alexander MacLennan (MEd)
• Frederick Sidney Snow (LLD)
• Andre Varga (LLD)

1973

• Kenneth John Bonser (MA)
• Sir John Francis Boyd (LLD)
• Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen (DSc)
• George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (DLitt)
• Professor Sir Frederick Sidney Dainton (DSc)
• Jean Esther Floud (DLitt)
• Arthur Gilpin (MSc)
• Professor Sydney Goldstein (DSc)
• Harold Gray (LLD)
• Bernard Lyons (LLD)
• George Frederick Sedgwick (MA)
• Wole Soyinka (DLitt)
• Professor Julius Stone (LLD)

1972

• Baroness Bacon (Alice Martha) (LLD)
• Lady Barbirolli (Evelyn Rothwell) (MA)
• Nadia Boulanger (DMus)
• Sir Colin Douglas Buchanan (DSc)
• Sir Alec Clegg (LLD)
• Professor V.L. Ginzburg (DLitt)
• Vaughan Loach (LLD)
• Arthur Stanley Maney (MA)
• Victor Sawdon Pritchett (DLitt)
• Arthur Raistrick (DLitt)
• Baron Butler of Saffron Walden (DLitt)
• Professor Helmut Zahn (DSc)

1971

• Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon(LLD)
• Sir Ronald Gould (DLitt)
• The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins (LLD)
• Sir Donald MacDougall (DLitt)
• Professor Sir George Porter (DSc)
• Georg Solti (DMus)
• Sir Roger Stevens (LLD)
• Dorothy Whitelock (DLitt)
• Professor Rudolf Wittkower (DLitt)

1970

• Lord Crowther of Headingley (DLitt)
• Clifford Curzon (DMus)
• Alexander Graeme Dickson (LLD)
• Kenneth Hargreaves (LLD)
• Sir Howard Lesley Kirkley (MA)
• Robert Lowell (DLitt)
• William Pitts (MA)
• Professor Tadeus Reichstein (DSc)
• Professor Bazaryn Shirendyb (DLitt)
• Professor Henri Talon (DLitt)
• Dame Janet Maria Vaughan (DSc)

1960s

1969

• Professor Philip Rowland Allison (DSc)
• Professor Damaso Alonso (DLitt)
• Frank Beckwith (MPhil)
• The Hon. Sir Maurice (Richard) Bridgeman, K.B.E. (LLD)
• Sir Derman (Guy) Christopherson (LLD)
• James Richard Gregson (MA)
• Donald Hopewell (LLD)
• Professor Sir Fred Hoyle (DSc)
• Sir Bernard Kenyon (LLD) Walter Pagel (LLD)
• Dowager Marchioness of Reading (LLD)
• Elizabeth Grace Watts (LLD)

1968

• Douglas Crockatt (LLD)
• Marie Hartley (MA)
• Harold Himsworth (DSc)
• Archer John Porter Martin (DSc)
• Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol (LLD)
• Nikolaus Pevsner (DLitt)
• Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (LLD)
• Eric Treacy (LLD)
• Lady Dorothy Tunbridge (MA)
• Sir Ernest George Woodroofe (LLD)

1967

• David William Currie (DSc)
• Sir Frank Francis (DLitt)
• King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (LLD)
• Lord Jackson of Burnley (LLD)
• Sir Henry Jones (LLD)
• David Henry Lewis (MSc)
• Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (LLD)
• John Primatt Redcliffe Maud (LLD)
• Robert Mayer (LLD)
• Irene McAdam (MA)
• Mary Moorman (DLitt)
• Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (LLD)
• Jean-Paul Sartre (DLitt)
• Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (DSc)
• Julius Adams Stratton (LLD)
• U. Thant (LLD)
• Emeritus Professor Henry Cherry Versey (LLD)
• Joshua Samuel Alderman Walsh (LLD)
• Sir William Arthington Worsley (LLD)
• Sir Norman Wright (LLD)

1966

• Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Hill Ambler (LLD)
• David Curie (MSc)
• Baroness Gaitskell of Egremont (LLD)
• Sir Frank Kearton (LLD)
• HRH Duchess of Kent (LLD)
• Emeritus Professor Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell (DSc)
• Sir Alexander Oppenheim (LLD)
• Lord Stewart of Fulham (LLD)
• Mr Justice Geoffrey De Paiva Veale (LLD)
• Dame Fanny Waterman (MA)

1965

• Professor Saul Alder (DSc)
• Lord Edward Boyle (LLD)
• Lord Brock (LLD)
• Professor Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (DLitt)
• Sir Charles Illingworth (LLD)
• Frank Leavis (DLitt)
• Shrimati Hansa Mehta (LLD)
• Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (DSc)
• Professor Johannes Franciscus Nuboer (LLD)
• Frederick Oppenheim (LLD)
• Henry Platt (LLD)
• Emeritus Professor Leslie Norman Pyrah (DSc)
• Sir Michael Kent Tippett (DMus)
• Canon Rowland John Wood (MA)

1964

• Elsa M. Carroll (MA)
• Harry Dawson (MA)
• Margaretha Albertina Maria Klompe (LLD)
• Sir Hans Krebs (DSc)
• Sir Simon Marks (LLD)
• Sir Harry Melville (DSc)
• Rt. Rev. John Moorman (DLitt)
• Baron Morris of Grasmere (LLD)
• W.T. Oliver (MA)
• A.D. Waley (DLitt)
• Leslie G Wilson (LLD)

1963

• Professor Alfred Gustave Herbert Bachrach (DLitt)
• Ralph Chislett (MSc)
• Charles Henry Crabtree (LLD)
• Frank Dawtry (MA)
• Lord Denning (LLD)
• Kenneth Onwuka Dike (LLD)
• Frederick George Baxendale Hutchings (MA)
• Col. Geoffrey Kitson (LLD)
• Lord Lever (LLD)
• Lady Mary Helen Oglivie (LLD)

1962

• Professor William Beare (LLD)
• Eirikur Benedikz (MA)
• Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (DSc)
• Professor Edmund Charles Blunden (DLitt)
• Sir Christopher Cox (LLD)
• Charles William Duncombe (LLD)
• Sir Harry Hylton-Foster (LLD)
• Louis Harold Gray (DSc)
• Alexander Hollaender (DSc)
• Professor Alexander Mikhajlovich Kuzin (DSc)
• Raymond Laterjet (DSc)
• Professor Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (DSc)
• Alva Myrdal (DLitt)
• Professor Willem Jacob Verdenius (LLD)
• Very Rev. Eric Milner-White (DLitt)

1961

• Arthur Richard Baines (LLD)
• Professor Adolph Butenandt (DSc)
• Professor Richard Lester Cahn (DSc)
• James Percy Cocker (M.Ch.D)
• Sir Henry Hallett Dale (DSc)
• Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (DSc)
• Sir John Hammond (DSc)
• Barbara Hepworth (DLitt)
• William Jones (LLD)
• Professor Charles MacAfee (DSc)
• Sir Robert Menzies (LLD)
• Sir Jeremy Raisman (LLD)
• Sir James Wilson Robertson (LLD)
• Rev. Norman Snaith (DLitt)
• Martha Steinitz (MA)
• Professor Jens Waerhaug (DSc)

1960

• Ivy Compton-Burnett (DLitt)
• Barker Thomas Clegg (LLD)
• Philip Gooding (MSc)
• Sir Edwin Herbert (LLD)
• William Colley Monckton Matterson (MSc)
• Sir John Neale (DLitt)
• Sir George Sansom (DLitt)

1950s

1959

• Professor Alfred Ewert (DLitt)
• Sir Edward Hale (LLD)
• Earl of Harewood (LLD)
• Sir George Raymond Hinchcliffe (LLD)
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (DSc)
• Sir Rudolph Peters (DSc)
• Jonas Edward Salk (DSc)
• Sir Phillip Manderson Sherlock (LLD)
• Sir Harold Smith (LLD)
• Norma Sykes (DLitt)

1958

• Professor Oene Bottema (LLD)
• Mary Lucy Cartwright (DSc)
• Frederick Donald Coggan (DD)
• Professor Sir John G Edwards (DLitt)
• Professor Peter Racine Fricker (DMus)
• William Harrison (LLD)
• George Kirk (MA)
• Professor Walter Von Wartburg (DLitt)

1957

• Lord Janner (LLD) Sir Ivor Jennings (LLD)
• Margaret Mead (DSc)
• Professor Gunnar Myrdal (LLD)
• Lord Ramsey of Canterbury (DD)
• Mary Stocks (LLD)
• E.W. Taylor (DSc)
• Lord Weeks (LLD)

1956

• Alderman/Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd (LLD)
• Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (DSc)
• James Bryant Conant (LLD)
• Sir George Dyson (LLD)
• James Digby Firth (MA)
• Walter Freudenberg (DSc)
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (LLD)
• The Rt. Rev. Arthur Reeve (DD)
• Professor Sir Ian Richmond (DLitt)
• Edward Rickerby (MA)
• Sir Oliver Graham Sutton (DSc)

1955

• Sir William Linton Andrews (DSc)
• Major Philip Maurice Beachcroft (LLD)
• Sydney Clayton Fryers (MA)
• Lord Middleton (LLD)
• Emeritus Professor William Milne (LLD)
• Edwin Muir (DLitt)
• John Henry Nicholson (LLD)
• Dorothy Phillips (LLD)
• Joseph Slepian (DSc)
• Professor Bruno Snell (DLitt)

1954

• Duchess of Devonshire (widow of 10th Duke) (LLD)
• Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (LLD)
• Professor Evarts Ambrose Graham (LLD)
• The Rt. Hon. John Hindley (LLD)
• Sir David Owen (LLD)
• Professor Wilder Graves Penfield (LLD)
• Fred Rankin (LLD)
• Sir Harry Shackleton (LLD)
• Sir Arthur Trueman (LLD)
• Sir Cecil Wakeley (LLD)

1953

• Professor John Baker (DSc)
• Goodwin Batterson Beach (DLitt)
• Professor Petrus Johannes Enk (DLitt)
• Margot Fonteyn (DLitt)
• Eugene Freyssinet (DSc)
• Thomas Girtin (LLD)
• Eric Craven Gregory (LLD)
• Professor Charles Huggins (DSc)
• Professor Christopher Kelk Ingold (DSc)
• Cyril Meggitt (MA)
• Lord Milner of Leeds (LLD)
• Alfred Prior (MA)
• William Hunter Rose (MSc)
• Viscount Herbert Louis Samuel (DLitt)
• Percy Scholes (DLitt)
• Ronald Ogier Ward (DSc)
• John Wilkinson (MSc)

1952

• Albert Herman Aldridge (LLD)
• Professor Marius Adolphus Van Bouwdijk Bastiaanse (LLD)
• Ernest Green (LLD)
• Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (DSc)
• Sir Eardley Holland (LLD)
• Wyndham Lewis (DLitt)
• Arthur Ransome (DLitt)
• William Riley-Smith (LLD)
• Sir James Turner (LLD)

1951

• Alderman David Beevers (LLD)
• Viscountess Margaret Boyne (LLD)
• Kathleen Chambers (LLD)
• The Rt. Rev. George Armitage Chase (DD)
• Lady Helen Cynthia Colville (LLD)
• Dame Julia Myra Hess (LLD)
• Sir Hubert Houldsworth (LLD)
• Sir John Huggins (LLD)
• John James Ilett (MA)
• Gertrude Illingworth (MA)
• James Laybourn (MA)
• Dame Hilda Nora Lloyd (LLD)
• Thomas Lodge (DLitt)
• The Rt. Hon. Lawrence Lumley (LLD)
• Sir George Martin (LLD)
• John Morrell (LLD)
• The Rt. Hon. Angela Pery (LLD)
• Brigadier James Noel Tetley (LLD)

1950

• Sir Robert Birley (LLD)
• Lord (David) Cecil (DLitt)
• Lord (Francis Raymond) Evershed (LLD)
• Professor Barker Fairley (DLitt)
• Emeritus Professor Robert Whytlaw-Gray (DSc)
• Alexander Lindsay (LLD)
• Louis Harold Mountbatten (LLD)
• William Pickles (DSc)
• Major Walter Pothecary (LLD)

1940s

1949

• Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (DLitt)
• Professor James Couper Brash (DSc)
• Sir James Chadwick (DSc)
• General Dwight David Eisenhower (LLD)
• Arnold Trevor Green (DSc)
• Bernard Jones (LLD)
• Dame Lillian Penson (LLD)
• Emile Victor Rieu (DLitt)

1948

• Lewis William Douglas (LLD)
• Sir Percival Hartley (DSc)
• Rev. William Hughes (DD)
• Lord MacKintosh of Halifax (LLD)
• Dame Edith Sitwell (DLitt)
• Sir Bracewell Smith (LLD)
• Terry Thomas (LLD)

1947

• Charles Frederick Ratcliffe Brotherton (LLD)
• Professor Henry Buckley Charlton (DLitt)
• Andrew Browne Cunningham (LLD)
• Lt. General Sir William George Dobbie (LLD)
• Wilfred Joseph Halliday (PhD)
• Thomas Edmund Harvey (LLD)
• Lt. Col. Sir John Alexander Dunnington- Jefferson (LLD)
• Henry Mahony (PhD)
• Professor Sigurdur Nordal (DLitt)
• Michael Polanyi (DSc)
• William Goodwin Senior (PhD)
• Croydon Whittaker (DSc)

1946

• Herbert Vere Evatt (LLD)
• The Viscount Leathers (LLD)
• Sir Frederick Pile (LLD)
• Lord (William) Slim (LLD)
• Arthur Tedder (LLD)
• Lord Waverley (LLD)

1945

• Sir Robert Anthony Eden (LLD)
• Elinor Lupton (LLD)
• Henry Moore (DLitt)
• James Francis Tait
• George Thompson (MA)
• Sir Henry Cherry Tizard (DSc)
• Gerard Veale (LLD)

1944

• Gordon Bottomley (DLitt)
• Sir Montague Burton (LLD)
• Jessie Kitson (LLD)
• Harold Whitaker (PhD)
• Sir Percy Winfield (LLD)

1943

• Col. Hugh Delabere Bousfield (LLD)
• Sir Charles Travis Clay (DLitt)
• Edward Victor Evans (DSc)
• Rev. Cyril Forester Garbett (DD)
• Margaret Storm Jameson (DLitt)
• Henry Raper (LLD)

1942

• John Winant (LLD)

1941

• Emeritus Professor Paul Barbier (DLitt)
• Emeritus Professor John William Cobb (DSc)
• Emeritus Professor Alexander Thompson (LLD)

1930s

1939

• Stanley Baldwin (LLD)
• Sir William Lawrence Bragg (DSc)
• Edward William Cavendish (LLD)
• John Whelan Dulanty (LLD)
• Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (DSc)
• Thomas Stearns Eliot (DLitt)
• Dowager Countess of Halifax (LLD)
• Sir William Holdsworth (DLitt)
• John Edward Humphery (LLD)
• John Kirk (PhD)
• Sir John Charles Ledingham (DSc)
• Rev. Charles Lunt (DD)
• Sir Charles McGrath (LLD)
• William Morrison (LLD)
• Frank Parkinson (LLD)
• Leonard Rowden (DSc)
• Sir Frank Stenton (DLitt)
• Sir John Stopford (DSc)
• Rev. Vincent Taylor (DD)

1938

• Rupert Beckett (LLD)
• William Sawney Bisat (MSc)
• Arthur Neville Chamberlain (LLD)
• Cecil John Turrell Cronshaw (DSc)
• Professor Alfred Fowler (DSc)
• Professor Edmund Johnston Garwood (DSc)
• Giovanni Gentile (DLitt)
• Walter Parsons (PhD)

1937

• Lord George Ranken Askwith (LLD)
• Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Melbourne (LLD)
• Professor George Stuart Gordon (DLitt)
• Professor John Jamieson (LLD)
• Joseph Jones (LLD)
• Rev. Frederick Wiseman (DLitt)

1936

• Sir Edward Bairstow (DMus)
• John Jeremy Brigg (LLD)
• Raymond Wilson Chambers (DLitt)
• Sir Henry Herbert Craster (DLitt)
• Henry Drysdale Dakin (LLD)
• Richard James Gordon (MA)
• Professor Arthur Berriedale Keith (LLD)
• Professor Frederic Stanley Kipping (DSc)
• Henry Lanchester (DLitt)
• Langford Price (LLD)
• Sir Josiah Stamp (LLD)
• Norman Walker (MSc)

1935

• Professor Harvey Cushing (DSc)
• Walter Elliot (LLD)
• Rev. Canon George Garrod (PhD)
• The Earl of Harewood (Henry Lascelles) (LLD)
• Ernest Rutherford (DSc)
• Emeritus Professor William Stroud (DSc)

1934

• Sir Robert Wilfred De Yarburgh Bateson (LLD)
• Emeritus Professor Joseph Shaw Bolton (DSc)
• Professor John Harold Clapham (DLitt)
• Beryl Katherine Gott (LLD)
• Sir Henry Stuart- Jones (DLitt)
• Arthur Mann (LLD)
• Sir Robert Muir (DSc)
• Elizabeth Mary Wright (DLitt)

1933

• Francis Askew (LLD)
• Frederick Delius (DLitt)
• Frank Elgee (PhD)
• Emeritus Professor Arthur James Grant (DLitt)
• Sir Charles Peers (DLitt)
• Sir John Simon (LLD)
• Col. Charles Harold Tetley (LLD)
• Sir Joseph Thomson (DSc)
• Elizabeth Winfield (MA)
• Henry Worth (MSc)

1932

• Sir James Hinchcliffe (LLD)
• Osbert John Howarth (PhD)
• Dame Ellen Musson (LLD)
• Professor Sir Herbert Read (DLitt)

1931

• Emeritus Professor Alfred George Barrs (LLD)
• Bertrand Dawson (LLD)
• Sir Walter Morley Fletcher (DSc)
• Arthur Hawkyard (LLD)
• Sir Frederick Hopkins (DSc)
• Sir George Newman (LLD)
• Sir John Bland-Sutton (LLD)
• Jane Harriett Walker (LLD)

1930

• Henry Crowther (MSc)
• Arthur Greenwood (LLD)
• Sir William Hadow (DLitt)
• Walter Hargreaves (LLD)
• Sir Owen Richardson (DSc)
• Rev. William Temple (LLD)
• Sir Henry Walker (LLD)

1920s

1929

• William Edwards (DLitt)
• Sir Algernon Freeman Firth (LLD)
• Rt. Rev. Walter Howard Frere (DLitt)
• Emeritus Professor Thomas Griffith (DSc)
• Lucy Lowe (DLitt)
• Charles Mayo (DSc)

1928

• Sir Albert Ernest Bain (LLD)
• Alexander Campbell (LLD)
• Edwin Kitson Clark (LLD)
• Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (LLD)
• Morton Latham (LLD)
• Walter Marston (MSc)
• Charles Onions (DLitt)
• Charles Rippon (PhD)
• William Thorburn (MSc)
• The Rt. Hon. Henry Whitley (LLD)

1927

• Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl(LLD)
• Fred Barraclough (MA)
• Frederick Orpen Bower (DSc)
• Thomas Robinson Ferens (LLD)
• James Graham (PhD)
• John Scott Haldane (DSc)
• Sir Arthur Keith (LLD)
• Robert Millikan (DSc)
• Sir Charles Parsons (LLD)
• Emeritus Professor Arthur Perkin (DSc)
• Sir James Roberts (LLD)
• Professor Nevil Sidgwick (DSc)
• Philip Snowden (LLD)

1926

• Emeritus Professor Percy Kendall (DSc)
• Sir David Milne-Watson (LLD)

1925

• Dame Sidney Jane Browne (Diploma in Nursing)^[10]
• Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles(LLD)
• Mary Rundle, (Diploma in Nursing)^[11]
• Sir Arthur Stanley (LLD)

1924

• Edmund George Arnold (LLD)
• Arthur Balfour (LLD)^[12]
• George Robinson Brench (MA)
• Col. Stephenson Robert Clarke (LLD)
• Emeritus Professor Julius Behrend Cohen (DSc)
• Emeritus Professor John Edwin Eddison (DSc)
• William Foot Husband (LLD)
• Sir Percy Jackson (LLD)
• Joseph Lowden (LLD)
• Professor Sir Berkeley Moynihan (LLD)
• Hannah Robertson (DLitt)
• Sir Michael Sadler (DLitt)
• Herbert Thompson (DLitt)

1923

• Sir Edward Allen Brotherton (LLD)
• Major John William Dent (LLD)
• Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland (DLitt)
• Frank Kidson (MA)
• William Mayo (DSc)
• Frederick Peaker (MA)
• Professor Arthur Smithells (DSc)
• Edwin Talbot (LLD)
• James Williams (LLD)
• Sir Charles Henry Wilson (LLD)
• Sir William Henry Worsley (LLD)

1922

• David Beatty (LLD)
• Henry Illingworth Bowring (LLD)
• Benjamin Broadbent (LLD)
• Maurice de Broglie, Duc de Broglie (DSc)
• Sir Dugald Clerk (DSc)
• Edith Bessie Cook (MA)
• Sir Frank Watson Dyson (DSc)
• David Lloyd George (LLD)
• Sir Richard Arman Gregory (DSc)
• Richard William Haydon (MSc)
• Rev. Bernard Horner (MA)
• Henry McLaren (LLD)
• Sir Arthur Peake (LLD)
• Carl Peterson (DSc)
• Sir Bruce Richmond (DLitt)
• Sir Charles Sherrington (DSc)
• Sir Harold Stiles (DSc)
• Rt. Rev. Thomas Strong (DLitt)
• Charles Francis Tetley (LLD)
• Professor Pierre Weiss (DSc)
• Archibald Wheeler (MA)

1920

• William Henry Barber (LLD)
• John Bickersteth (LLD)
• Rev. Canon John Neale Dalton (LLD)
• Peter Macintyre Evans (LLD)
• Sir Douglas Haig (LLD)

1910s

1919

• John Gilbert Baker (DSc)
• Sir William Henry Bragg (DSc)
• John Rawlinson Ford (LLD)
• Francis Vaughan Hall (MA)
• Sir Charles Holmes (DLitt)
• Sir Henry Jackson (DSc)
• Sir Alfred Keogh (DSc)
• Charles Lupton (LLD)
• John Mews (LLD)
• General Sir Herbert Charles Plumer (LLD)
• Sir Almroth Wright (DSc)

1917

Herbert Austin Fricker

• Herbert Austin Fricker (MA)

1915

• David Forsyth (LLD)
• Rev. Charles Hargrove (DLitt)
• Thomas Nelson (MSc)
• William Roebuck (MSc)
• Thomas Sheppard (MSc)
• John William Taylor (MSc)
• Harold Wager (DSc)
• Rev. Philip Wicksteed (DLitt)
• John Grimshaw Wilkinson (MSc)
• Thomas Woodhead (MSc)

1914

• Thomas Scales Carter (MSc)
• Emeritus Professor Henry Procter (DSc)
• Emeritus Professor Charles Vaughan (DLitt)
• Emile Verhaeren (DLitt)

1912

• Charles Carpenter (DSc)
• Arthur Cooper (LLD)
• Anna Paulina Eddison (LLD)
• Sir William Edward Garforth (LLD)
• Adolph Greiner (DSc)
• Sir Robert Hadfield (DSc)
• Rev. William Keeling (LLD)
• Thomas Newbigging (DSc)
• Sir Swire Smith (LLD)
• Kommerzienrat Friedrich Springorum (DSc)
• John Stead (DSc)
• Sir Corbert Woodall (DSc)

1910

• Herbert Henry Asquith (LLD)
• Sir Hugh Bell (LLD)
• Victor Christian William Cavendish (LLD)
• Henry Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice (LLD)
• Francis John Haverfield (DLitt)
• Sir Alfred Hopkinson (LLD)
• James Lowther (LLD)
• Arthur Lupton (LLD)
• Sir Clements Markham (DSc)
• Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes (LLD)
• Lord (William Gustavus) Nicholson (LLD)
• Sir William Osler (DSc)
• Arthur Sidgwick (DLitt)
• John Strutt (DSc)

1900s

1909

• Sir James Crichton-Browne (DSc)
• Thomas Walter Harding (LLD)
• Baron Lang of Lambeth (Cosmo Gordon Lang) (LLD)
• Ronald Ross (DSc)

1907

• Robert Collyer (DLitt)

1906

• Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (DSc)
• Heinrich Caro (DSc)
• William Boyd Carpenter (DLitt)
• Alfred Grandidier (DSc)
• Albin Haller (DSc)
• Sir Charles Holroyd (DLitt)
• Sir Edwin Lankester (DSc)
• Beilby Lawley (LLD)
• Carl Liebermann (DSc)
• Carl Von Martius (DSc)
• Paul Pelseneer (DSc)
• Sir William Perkin (DSc)
• Sir Owen Roberts (LLD)
• Heinrich Rubens (DSc)
• Thomas Percy Sykes (MA)
• Herbert Hall Turner (DSc)

1904

• Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland (LLD)
• Tempest Anderson (DSc)
• Alfred Austin (DLitt)
• Sir John Barran (LLD)
• Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell (DSc)
• Sir William Bousfield (LLD)
• Sir William Henry Broadbent (DSc)
• Lady Frederick Cavendish (LLD)
• The Duke of Devonshire (Spencer Compton Cavendish) (LLD)
• Richard Assheton Cross (LLD)
• Rev. William Dalrymple (LLD)
• Sir Henry Walford Davies (LLD)
• Sir Edward Elgar (LLD)
• Rev. Andrew Martin Fairburn (DLitt)
• Charles George Milnes Gaskell (LLD)
• Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (DSc)
• John Hughlings Jackson (DSc)
• William Jackson (LLD)
• Sir James Kitson (DSc)
• Henry Lascelles, 5th Earl of Harewood (LLD)
• Marmaduke Francis Constable-Maxwell (LLD)
• Professor Louis Miall (DSc)
• Sir Charles Parry (LLD)
• Lawrence Parsons (DSc)
• Sir Francis Powell (LLD)
• Sir Arthur Mayo-Robson (DSc)
• Sir Arthur Rollit (DLitt)
• Sir Arthur Rucker (DSc)
• Sir Charles Stanford (LLD)
• Thomas Teale (DSc)
• William Thomson (DSc)
• Sir Edward Thorpe (DSc)
• Claudius Wheelhouse (DSc)
• Charles Wood (LLD)
• Joseph Wright (DLitt)

Sources

• "Honorary graduates 1904 - 2016". University of Leeds.

References