# 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.
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.
Key :
| DEng | Doctor of Engineering |
| DLitt | Doctor of Letters |
| DM | Doctor of Medicine |
| DMus | Doctor of Music |
| DSc | Doctor of Science |
| LLD | Doctor of Laws |

## 2020s

2024
* Peter Buckley (LLD)
* Alan Langlands (LLD)
* Kevin Sinfield (LLD)
* Mark Gatiss (LLD)
2023
* Anita Rani (DLitt)
* Ondrej Krivanek (DSc)
2022
* Nina Gualinga (LLD)
* Mark Tucker (LLD)
* Brenda Hale (LLD)
* David Grey (LLD)
* Eleanor Dodson (DSc)
* Alison Lowe (LLD)
* Rachel Skinner (LLD)
* Gillian Leng (DSc)
No honorary degrees were awarded in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

## 2010s

2019
* Peter Dhillon (LLD)
* Jane Featherstone (DLitt)
* Richard Henderson (DSc)
* Lubaina Himid (DLitt)
* Michael Pepper (DEng)
* Norman Williams (DSc)
2018
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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

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
* 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)
* Gurinder 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
* Zygmunt Bauman (Emeritus Professor)
* Maurice Beresford (Emeritus Professor)
* Jack Charlton (LLD)
* Duncan Dowson (Emeritus Professor)
* 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
* 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

1999
* Jeremy Paxman (LLD)
* Murray Perahia (DMus)
* Jack Straw (LLD)
* Professor Sir John Ernest Walker (DSc)
1998
* No honors conferred in this academic year.
1997
* 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
* 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
* 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
* Emeka Anyaoku (LLD)
* Margaret Atwood (DLitt)
* Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn (LLD)
* Sir Sam Edwards (DSc)
* Professor Sir Gordon Higginson (LLD)
* Raymond George Hardenbergh Seitz (LLD)
* Cecil Thompson (MA)
* Victor Watson (LLD)
1993
* 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 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
* 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

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
* 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
* 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)
* Reverend Professor William Owen Chadwick (DLitt)
* Janusz Fibras (DLitt)
* David Lloyd-Jones (DMus)
* Sir David Lean (DLitt)
* Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (LLD) – revoked 2012
* 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)
* Rev. Gordon Wheeler (DD)
* Xie Xide (DSc)
1984
* 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
* Imogen Clare Holst (DMus)
* George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy of Rhondda (LLD)
* Robert Stewart Rowe (DLitt)
* Roy Colin Strong (DLitt)
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)
* Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (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)
* Reverend Henry Chadwick (DD)
* John Cedric Goligher (DSc)
* James MacGregor (LLD)
* Sir Denis Rooke (DSc)
* Sir Tom Stoppard (DLitt)
* 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)
* Richard Wood, Baron Holderness (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)
* 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
* Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther (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)
* Sir Maurice (Richard) Bridgeman (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 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)
* 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)
* Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (LLD)
* Professor Evarts Ambrose Graham (LLD)
* 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)
* 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)
* Lawrence Lumley (LLD)
* Sir George Martin (LLD)
* John Morrell (LLD)
* 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 Sigurður 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 G. Lupton (LLD)
* Henry Moore (DLitt)
* James Francis Tait
* George Thompson (MA)
* Sir Henry 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)
* 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)
* Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles(LLD)
* Mary Rundle, (Diploma in Nursing)
* Sir Arthur Stanley (LLD)
1924
* Edmund George Arnold (LLD)
* Arthur Balfour (LLD)
* 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 (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
* H. H. Asquith (LLD)
* Sir Hugh Bell (LLD)
* Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (LLD)
* Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (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)
* William Nicholson (LLD)
* Sir William Osler (DSc)
* Arthur Sidgwick (DLitt)
* John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (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)
* Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (LLD)
* Richard Assheton Cross (LLD)
* William Dalrymple Maclagan (Archbishop of York) (LLD)
* Sir Henry Walford Davies (LLD)
* Sir Edward Elgar (LLD)
* Rev. Andrew Martin Fairbairn (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 Hubert Parry (LLD)
* Lawrence Parsons (DSc)
* Sir Francis Powell (LLD)
* Sir Arthur Mayo-Robson (DSc)
* Sir Arthur Rollit (DLitt)
* Sir Arthur Rucker (DSc)
* Sir Charles Villiers 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 to present". University of Leeds.