Previous honorary graduates
| The Rt Revd W A E Westall | 1971 |
| Professor The Revd Canon G R Dunstan, CBE | 1973 |
| Revd Canon John Thurmer | 1991 |
| The Most Revd Trevor Huddleston, CR | 1994 |
| Rt Revd David Sheppard | 1998 |
| Most Revd Desmond Tutu | 1998 |
| His Eminence Cardinal Cahal Brendan Daly | 1999 |
| Lord Eames | 1999 |
| The Right Revd Rowan Williams | 2001 |
| The Right Revd Michael Langrish | 2007 |
| The Right Revd Bill Ind | 2009 |
| The Right Revd James Jones | 2013 |
| The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE | 2019 |
| Professor Noel Warner | 1998 |
| Sarah Buck | 2008 |
| Dr Clive Lee | 2009 |
| Professor Si-Chen Lee | 2011 |
| Steve Hindley CBE, DL | 2011 |
| Iain Gray, CBE, CEng, FREng, FRAes, FRDE | 2012 |
| Dr Alexandra Jellicoe | 2013 |
| Dr Andrew Garrad CBE | 2018 |
| The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, GCVO CBE | 1956 |
| Colonel The Earl Fortescue, KG MC | 1956 |
| Principal Sir Hector Hetherington, GBE DL | 1956 |
| President J L Morill | 1956 |
| Sir John Daw, JP | 1957 |
| E Vincent Harris, OBE | 1957 |
| Emeritus Professor W H Lewis | 1957 |
| Sayed Mekki Abbas | 1959 |
| The Rt Hon. The Viscount Amory, KG PC GCMG TD DL | 1959 |
| Sir Arthur Reed, Kt JP | 1959 |
| John Hay Whitney, CBE | 1959 |
| Colonel Sidney John Worsley, DSO MC TD | 1959 |
| Nancy Viscountess Astor, CH | 1959 |
| Dr C J Fuller | 1960 |
| B G Lampard-Vachell, CBE JP | 1960 |
| Sir David Hughes Parry, Kt QC | 1960 |
| Professor Theodor Heuss | 1961 |
| Sir Paul Sinker, KCMG CB | 1961 |
| A P Steele-Perkins, MC | 1962 |
| Mrs Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst | 1963 |
| The Rt Hon. The Lord Helsby, GCB KBE DCL | 1963 |
| Sir Peter Scott, Kt CH CBE DSC | 1963 |
| The Rt Hon. Sir Henry Slesser, Kt PC JP | 1963 |
| Sir George Hayter-Hames, Kt CBE JP | 1965 |
| Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, GCB DSO | 1965 |
| Dr Henri Le Moal | 1966 |
| The Hon. Sir Leslie Scarman, Kt OBE | 1966 |
| Sir James Cook | 1967 |
| The Rt Hon. The Lord Caradon, PC GCMG KCVO OBE | 1968 |
| A S Neill | 1968 |
| Professor H Freville | 1969 |
| The Rt Hon. The Lord Roborough, JP | 1969 |
| J Whiteside, OBE | 1969 |
| Sir Alexander Cairncross, KCMG | 1969 |
| Sir Kenneth Wheare, CMG | 1970 |
| Sir Jack Hayward | 1971 |
| The Rt Hon. Lord Widgery, PC Kt OBE TD | 1971 |
| Dr Margaret Jackson, JP | 1972 |
| His Honour Judge Pratt | 1972 |
| The Very Revd Marcus Knight | 1973 |
| Sir John Llewellyn, KCMG | 1973 |
| Colonel J E Palmer, CBE TD DL | 1974 |
| The Rt Hon. Jeremy Thorpe | 1974 |
| M Robert Lecourt | 1975 |
| The Rt Hon. Lord Denning | 1976 |
| Dr R C Tress, CBE | 1976 |
| General Sir John Hackett, GCB CBE DSO MC | 1977 |
| The Hon. Lord Mackenzie Stuart | 1978 |
| Dr Kingman Brewster | 1978 |
| J C Alderson, CBE QPM | 1979 |
| Colonel Sir John Carew Pole, DSO TD JP | 1979 |
| The Rt Hon. The Viscount Boyd of Merton, PC CH DL | 1980 |
| Sir John Palmer | 1980 |
| R W Turner | 1980 |
| Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, CMG OBE | 1980 |
| R J S Hookway | 1981 |
| Sir Kelvin Spencer, CBE MC | 1981 |
| Lord Young of Dartington | 1982 |
| Sir Alan Dalton, CBE | 1982 |
| The Hon. Sir Jean-Pierre Warner | 1983 |
| Hugh Greenwood, OBE | 1983 |
| Miss Sheila Browne | 1984 |
| The Hon. Mr Justice Park | 1984 |
| The Hon. Sir Gordon Slynn | 1985 |
| Sir Robin Day, OBE | 1986 |
| Kenneth Rowe, MBE | 1986 |
| John Mortimer, QC CBE | 1986 |
| Frank Gillard, CBE | 1987 |
| C D Pike, OBE | 1987 |
| Sir Antony Acland | 1988 |
| W G Daw, OBE | 1988 |
| J L Smeall | 1988 |
| Sir Nicholas Goodison | 1989 |
| Sir John Smith, CBE | 1989 |
| Baroness Seear | 1989 |
| The Rt Hon. Michael Foot, MP | 1990 |
| Sir Brinsley Ford, Kt CBE | 1990 |
| Dr Eurfron Gwynne Jones | 1990 |
| Dr Halfdan Mahler | 1990 |
| Sir Richard Acland | 1991 |
| Lord Templeman, MBE | 1991 |
| The Rt Hon. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, DBE PC | 1992 |
| James Hetherington, CBE | 1992 |
| Christopher Pope, TD JP DL | 1992 |
| R K L Hill | 1992 |
| Professor Ian Mercer | 1994 |
| The Rt Hon. The Lord Owen | 1994 |
| Professor Robert Pennington | 1994 |
| Lieutenant General Sir Stewart Pringle | 1994 |
| Lord Alexander of Weedon, QC FRSA | 1995 |
| Nigel Beale | 1995 |
| Dr Zoltan P Dienes | 1995 |
| Lord Morley | 1995 |
| Sir David Calcutt, QC | 1996 |
| Peter Chalk | 1996 |
| Dame Stella Rimington | 1996 |
| Judge Sir Stephen Tumin | 1996 |
| Sir Edward George | 1997 |
| Professor Sir David Tweedie | 1997 |
| Lady Mary Holborow, JP | 1997 |
| Lord Rix | 1997 |
| The Rt Hon. Lord Butler, KCB GCB | 1998 |
| The Rt Hon. Lord Dearing, KCB | 1998 |
| The Rt Hon. Lord Nolan | 1998 |
| The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Phillips | 1998 |
| Tadeusz Mazowiecki | 1998 |
| Lord Rothschild | 1998 |
| Baroness Brenda Dean | 1999 |
| Professor Charles Handy | 1999 |
| Christopher Moon | 1999 |
| His All Holiness Bartholomew I, The Ecumenical Patriarch | 2000 |
| Lady Sally Greengross | 2000 |
| Margaret Lorenz | 2000 |
| Peter Sutherland | 2000 |
| Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah | 2001 |
| Sir Peter Davis | 2001 |
| The Hon. Mr Justice Elias | 2001 |
| Timothy Smit | 2001 |
| Bridget Towle, CBE | 2001 |
| Ann Daniels | 2002 |
| Norman Hardyman, CB | 2002 |
| Bridget Kendall | 2002 |
| The Rt Hon Christopher Patten, CH PC | 2002 |
| Marjorie Scardino, DJur | 2002 |
| Sir David Walker, Kt | 2002 |
| The Rt Hon. The Lord Woolf of Barnes, Kt PC | 2002 |
| Angela Yeoman, OBE DL | 2002 |
| Prince Waleed bin Talal Al Saud | 2002 |
| Sir Geoffrey Holland | 2003 |
| Tanni Grey-Thompson | 2003 |
| Dame Suzi Leather | 2003 |
| Paul Myners, CBE | 2003 |
| Anthony Salz | 2003 |
| Lord Wilson of Dinton | 2003 |
| Sir Ewen Cameron, KB DL FRICS | 2004 |
| Irene Bishop | 2004 |
| Ian Powell | 2004 |
| Baroness Uddin | 2004 |
| Lord Justice Sedley | 2004 |
| Pen Hadow | 2004 |
| Michael Caines | 2004 |
| Jane Henderson | 2005 |
| Abdullah Gül | 2005 |
| Ben Ainslie | 2005 |
| John Allwood | 2005 |
| Sir Tom Shebbeare | 2005 |
| Admiral Sir Jonathon Band | 2005 |
| Baroness Prashar | 2005 |
| Tony Robinson | 2005 |
| Stewart Purvis | 2005 |
| Jonathan Edwards | 2005 |
| Sue Barker | 2006 |
| Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn | 2006 |
| Roderick Ross | 2006 |
| Sir Anthony Clarke | 2006 |
| Frank Gardner, OBE | 2007 |
| Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu | 2007 |
| Yusuf Islam | 2007 |
| Anthony Gibson, OBE | 2007 |
| Sir Robert Owen | 2007 |
| Sir Peter Job | 2007 |
| Sir Richard Dearlove, KCMG, OBE | 2007 |
| Ray Dillon | 2007 |
| Sir Clive Woodward, OBE | 2007 |
| Richard Hooper, CBE | 2007 |
| Peter Lord, CBE | 2007 |
| David Sproxton, CBE | 2007 |
| His Excellency Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani | 2008 |
| Professor Sir Martin Harris, CBE, DL | 2008 |
| Mark Thompson | 2008 |
| Ian Henderson | 2008 |
| Sir David Brewer, CMG, JP | 2008 |
| Jonathan Dimbleby | 2008 |
| Dame Mary Keegan, DBE | 2008 |
| Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD | 2008 |
| Professor Ruth Hawker, OBE | 2008 |
| Olga Polizzi, CBE | 2008 |
| Jonathon Porritt, CBE | 2008 |
| Professor Amartya Sen | 2008 |
| Professor Christopher Mullard, CBE, DL | 2009 |
| Clive Stafford Smith, OBE | 2009 |
| Dr Richard Ward, PhD FRSA | 2009 |
| Sir Ian Carruthers, OBE | 2009 |
| Satish Kumar | 2009 |
| Professor Sir Michael Barber | 2009 |
| Gerald Sturtridge, OBE | 2009 |
| Her Excellency Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi | 2010 |
| Dame Julia Cleverdon, DCVO, CBE | 2010 |
| Sir John Rose | 2010 |
| Sir Eric Dancer, KCVO, CBE, JP | 2010 |
| Sir Richard Lambert | 2010 |
| Sir Ian Botham, OBE | 2010 |
| The Rt Hon Baroness Young of Old Scone | 2010 |
| Shami Chakrabarti, CBE | 2010 |
| Deborah Meaden | 2010 |
| Professor Jane Knight | 2010 |
| Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia, LVO | 2010 |
| Sharron Davies, MBE | 2010 |
| Baroness Sue Campbell, CBE | 2010 |
| Sir Peter Lampl, OBE | 2011 |
| Ms Harriet Lamb, CBE | 2011 |
| Barbara Frost | 2011 |
| Les Halpin | 2011 |
| Angela Pedder, OBE | 2011 |
| Dato Ambiga Sreenevasan | 2011 |
| Jim French, CBE | 2011 |
| Stephen Edge | 2012 |
| Barry Bateman | 2012 |
| Judge Demetrios Hadjihambis | 2012 |
| Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, FRSA | 2012 |
| The Rt Hon Alan Milburn | 2012 |
| Bryn Parry, OBE | 2012 |
| Emma Parry, OBE | 2012 |
| Sir Michael Pownall, KCB | 2012 |
| Dr Elizabeth Earland | 2013 |
| Ashley Tabor | 2013 |
| Ambassador Barry Desker | 2013 |
| Sir Brian Burridge, KCB, CBE | 2013 |
| Russell Seal, OBE | 2013 |
| Steve Perryman, MBE | 2013 |
| David Allen, OBE | 2013 |
| Professor Timothy C Niblock | 2013 |
| Wol Kolade | 2014 |
| Professor Teresa Rees, CBE, AcSS, FRSA | 2014 |
| Tony Rowe, OBE | 2014 |
| Roy Pike, FRSA | 2014 |
| Sigrid Kaag | 2014 |
| Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE | 2014 |
| Lord Bilimoria, CBE, DL | 2014 |
| Kanya King, MBE | 2014 |
| Tim Hollingsworth | 2014 |
| Carl Gilleard, OBE | 2014 |
| Philip Bostock, OBE, DL | 2014 |
| Glynis Atherton | 2015 |
| The Rt Hon the Lord Adonis | 2015 |
| The Rt Hon Sir John Goldring | 2015 |
| Professor Ralph Wilcox | 2015 |
| Joanne Pavey MBE | 2015 |
| Mandy McBain MBE | 2015 |
| Richard Atkins | 2015 |
| Sir Andrew Witty | 2015 |
| Professor Alvin Roth | 2015 |
| Graham Cole CBE FRAeS | 2015 |
| Dame Alison Carnwath DBE | 2015 |
| Edward Barry Farwell MBE | 2016 |
| Sally Gunnell OBE | 2016 |
| Sir Robert Francis QC | 2016 |
| Camilla Hampshire | 2016 |
| John Pullinger CB | 2016 |
| Paul Johnson | 2016 |
| Paul Polman | 2016 |
| Lieutenant Colonel Lucy Giles | 2017 |
| Dr Tony Sewell CBE | 2017 |
| Rob Baxter | 2017 |
| Peter Lacey | 2017 |
| Helen Brand OBE | 2017 |
| The Rt. Hon. The Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury | 2017 |
| Ruth Hunt | 2018 |
| The Rt. Hon. Alan Johnson | 2018 |
| Laura Penhaul | 2018 |
| Adama Dieng | 2018 |
| Neil Woodford CBE | 2018 |
| Kate Lampard CBE | 2019 |
| Moira Marder | 2019 |
| Richard Hughes MA (Oxon) FCA | 2019 |
| Karime Hassan | 2019 |
| Professor Gordon Marshall, CBE | 2019 |
| Eliud Kipchoge | 2019 |
| Anastasios Paul Leventis | 2020 |
| The Rt Hon. The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, KT, GBE | 1956 |
| Principal John Murray | 1956 |
| The Most Hon. The Marquess of Salisbury, KG | 1956 |
| The Rt Hon. Isaac Foot, JP | 1959 |
| M Paul Henry | 1959 |
| Ernest Newman | 1959 |
| Carl Dolmetsch, CBE | 1960 |
| The Rt Hon. The Lord Robbins, CH, CB | 1960 |
| Dr A L Rowse | 1960 |
| Dr Enid Starkie, CBE | 1960 |
| Bernard Leach, CBE | 1961 |
| Lady Mallowan (Agatha Christie), DBE | 1961 |
| Professor Marcel Bataillon | 1965 |
| Professor Herbert Dieckmann | 1965 |
| Cecil Day Lewis, CBE | 1965 |
| Professor Cleanth Brooks, MA | 1966 |
| Sir Frank Francis, KCB | 1966 |
| Dame Barbara Hepworth, DBE | 1966 |
| Sir Martin Davies, Kt CBE | 1968 |
| Emeritus Professor V H Galbraith | 1968 |
| Professor The Lord Holford, DCL | 1968 |
| Emeritus Professor G Wilson Knight, CBE | 1968 |
| Miss Imogen Holst, CBE | 1969 |
| H L Beales | 1969 |
| Dr Kathleen Kenyon, DBE | 1969 |
| G E Fussell | 1970 |
| Revd Canon J B Phillips | 1970 |
| Sir John Betjeman, Kt, CBE | 1971 |
| Dr Frances Yates, DBE | 1971 |
| Dr L K Elmhirst | 1972 |
| Emeritus Professor Sir Raymond Firth, Kt | 1972 |
| Dr C A Ralegh Radford | 1973 |
| Emeritus Professor David Douglas | 1974 |
| Emeritus Professor W G Hoskins, CBE | 1974 |
| Dr P J V D Balsdon | 1975 |
| Professor René Marache | 1975 |
| Emeritus Professor Michael Oakeshott | 1975 |
| Emeritus Professor H B Garland, JP | 1977 |
| Charles S Causley, CBE | 1977 |
| Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE | 1977 |
| Alfred K Hamilton Jenkin | 1978 |
| Professor Christopher Hill | 1979 |
| Emeritus Professor Frank Barlow, CBE | 1981 |
| Jack Clemo | 1981 |
| Emeritus Professor Robert Niklaus | 1981 |
| M G Brock, CBE | 1982 |
| Patrick Heron, CBE | 1982 |
| Ted Hughes, OBE OM | 1982 |
| John Fowles | 1983 |
| Emeritus Professor F J Fisher | 1983 |
| William Trevor, CBE | 1984 |
| Sir Michael Hordern, CBE | 1985 |
| Lady (Aileen) Fox | 1985 |
| Fred L Harris, OBE | 1986 |
| Vivian Richards | 1986 |
| Ewan MacColl | 1986 |
| Baroness Warnock, OBE | 1987 |
| Glenda Jackson, CBE | 1988 |
| Dame Elisabeth Frink | 1988 |
| Professor F W Walbank, CBE | 1988 |
| Dr Sylvia Kantaris | 1989 |
| Wayne Sleep | 1989 |
| Professor Jean-François Botrel | 1990 |
| David Cornwell | 1990 |
| Dr Halfdan Mahler | 1990 |
| Dr Gerald Aylmer | 1991 |
| Peter Ackroyd | 1992 |
| Sir Anthony Parsons, GCMG, MVO, MC | 1992 |
| Robert P Cohan, CBE | 1993 |
| Dr Michael Screech | 1993 |
| Mary Wesley | 1993 |
| His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, PhD | 1993 |
| Sir George Christie | 1994 |
| Professor Mary Douglas, DBE FBA | 1995 |
| Marina Warner, FRSL | 1995 |
| Sir Alan Bowness | 1996 |
| Sir William Stubbs | 1996 |
| Professor T R P Brighouse | 1996 |
| Professor Joyce Youings | 1997 |
| Bridget Riley, CBE | 1997 |
| Robert Neil MacGregor | 1998 |
| Sir Terry Frost | 1999 |
| Edward Mortimer | 1999 |
| Professor Andrew Motion | 1999 |
| Adrian Noble | 1999 |
| Joanne K Rowling, OBE | 2000 |
| Sir Nicholas Serota | 2000 |
| Professor Mohammed Arkoun | 2001 |
| Wilhelmina Barns-Graham | 2001 |
| Helen Dunmore | 2001 |
| Susan Hampshire | 2001 |
| Seamus Heaney | 2001 |
| Professor Edward Said | 2001 |
| Lord Weidenfeld | 2001 |
| Christopher Bruce, CBE | 2001 |
| Sir Tim Rice, Kt | 2002 |
| Rick Stein | 2002 |
| Simon Jenkins | 2003 |
| Sir Christopher Ondaatje | 2003 |
| Sir Antony Sher | 2003 |
| Jatinder Verma | 2003 |
| Paul Jackson | 2004 |
| Ben Okri | 2004 |
| Michael Morpurgo | 2004 |
| Barbara Jefford | 2004 |
| Floella Benjamin | 2005 |
| Jane Lapotaire | 2005 |
| Benjamin Zephaniah | 2005 |
| Alan Cotton | 2006 |
| Adrian Edmondson | 2007 |
| Jennifer Saunders | 2007 |
| David Eldridge | 2007 |
| Dr Beverley Naidoo | 2007 |
| Michael Rosen | 2007 |
| Posy Simmonds, MBE | 2007 |
| Kurt Jackson | 2007 |
| Ahdaf Soueif | 2008 |
| Rik Mayall | 2008 |
| Ken Follett | 2008 |
| Don Boyd | 2009 |
| Karen Armstrong, FRSL | 2009 |
| Philip Pullman, CBE, FRSL | 2010 |
| Elaine Goodwin | 2010 |
| Peter Randall-Page | 2010 |
| Dame Hilary Mantel, DBE, FRSL | 2011 |
| Neil Canning | 2011 |
| Steve Backshall | 2012 |
| Nik Gowing | 2012 |
| Armando Iannucci | 2012 |
| Alexander Beleschenko | 2013 |
| Leo Hickman | 2013 |
| Mike Leigh, OBE | 2014 |
| Thomas Trevor | 2014 |
| Trevor Phillips OBE | 2015 |
| Abi Morgan | 2015 |
| Jeremy Paxman | 2016 |
| Gillian Tett | 2016 |
| Alex Farquharson | 2017 |
| Jeremy ‘Jez’ Butterworth | 2017 |
| Lindsey Hilsum | 2017 |
| Sir Don McCullin CBE, Hon FRPS | 2017 |
| Lady Studholme | 2017 |
| Philip Collins | 2017 |
| John Simpson CBE | 2018 |
| Felix Barrett MBE | 2018 |
| Robert McCrum | 2018 |
| Professor Natasha Trethewey | 2018 |
| Teresa Gleadowe | 2019 |
| Reni Eddo-Lodge | 2019 |
| Roderick MacSween | 2019 |
| Professor Dame Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA | 2019 |
| Malcolm Arnold, CBE | 1970 |
| Sir David Willcocks, CBE, MC | 1976 |
| John Richard Lill | 1979 |
| Benjamin Luxon, CBE | 1980 |
| Dr Jane Glover | 1986 |
| Professor John Edgar Stevens, CBE | 1989 |
| Snr Joaquin Rodrigo | 1990 |
| Dr Lionel Dakers, CBE | 1991 |
| Sándor Végh, HonCBE | 1993 |
| Alfred Brendel, HonKBE | 1998 |
| Imogen Cooper | 1999 |
| Evelyn Glennie, DBE | 2000 |
| Dame Gillian Weir | 2001 |
| Kuljit Bhamra, MBE | 2010 |
| Augustin Hadelich | 2017 |
| Sir James Chadwick, Kt | 1956 |
| Sir Harry Melville, KCB | 1959 |
| Sir Frederick Russell, Kt CBE | 1960 |
| The Rt Hon. The Lord Todd | 1960 |
| Professor Sir William Hodge, Kt | 1961 |
| Professor Sydney Chapman | 1963 |
| Professor A V Hill, CH, OBE | 1963 |
| Professor Sir Dudley Stamp, Kt CBE | 1965 |
| Sir Patrick Linstead, Kt CBE | 1965 |
| Professor The Lord Blackett, CH | 1966 |
| The Revd William Keble Martin | 1966 |
| Professor Mrs D C Hodgkin, OM | 1968 |
| Sir Eric Smith, CBE | 1968 |
| Professor B F Skinner | 1969 |
| Sir Eric Eastwood, Kt CBE | 1969 |
| Sir Peter Medawar, CH KBE | 1969 |
| Professor P H Kuenen | 1970 |
| Sir Hugh Tett, Kt | 1970 |
| Professor Sir Frederick Dainton, Kt | 1971 |
| Professor C T Ingold, CMG | 1972 |
| Andrew Stratton | 1972 |
| Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, KBE, OM, CB | 1973 |
| Dr L H N Cooper, DBE | 1974 |
| Dr H M Stanley | 1974 |
| Sir Rodney Smith, Kt | 1974 |
| Sir Kingsley Dunham, Kt | 1975 |
| Sir Rex Richards | 1975 |
| Professor Sir Eric Denton, CBE | 1976 |
| Professor Antony Hewish | 1977 |
| Dr P D Mitchell | 1977 |
| Dr G C Ainsworth | 1978 |
| Professor G Higman | 1979 |
| Professor Sir Edward Abraham, CBE | 1980 |
| Professor P G Burke | 1981 |
| Professor W K Hayman | 1981 |
| Emeritus Professor H N Rydon | 1981 |
| Sir John Kendrew, CBE | 1982 |
| Professor Sir David Phillips | 1982 |
| Dr L L Iversen | 1982 |
| Professor B D Josephson | 1983 |
| Professor R Aris | 1984 |
| K Ellitsgaard Rasmussen | 1984 |
| Professor Sir Alan Harris | 1984 |
| Sir John Gray | 1985 |
| Sir Austin Pearce, CBE | 1985 |
| Professor Harry Kay, CBE | 1985 |
| Professor Sir David Smith | 1986 |
| Richard Stanton-Jones | 1987 |
| Professor Abdus Salam | 1987 |
| Professor Daphne Jackson | 1988 |
| Professor J E Lovelock | 1988 |
| F J M Laver, CBE | 1988 |
| Brother Adam, OBE | 1989 |
| Sir John Quicke, CBE | 1989 |
| Sir John Harvey-Jones, MBE | 1989 |
| Professor Peter Bradshaw | 1990 |
| Lady Anne Palmer | 1990 |
| Professor Margaret Turner-Warwick, DBE | 1990 |
| Professor Michael Berry | 1991 |
| Dr Sheila Cassidy | 1991 |
| Dr Aleksandr Nikolaevich Yakovlev | 1991 |
| Professor Frank Harary | 1992 |
| Professor F Gordon A Stone, CBE, FRS | 1992 |
| Sir John Banham | 1993 |
| Sir John Cullen | 1993 |
| Professor David Rees, FRS | 1993 |
| Robert Wilson | 1993 |
| Dr Clive Gronow | 1994 |
| Professor Andrew Lang, FRS | 1994 |
| Revd Professor John Polkinghorne | 1994 |
| Sir David Harrison, CBE | 1995 |
| Professor Sir John Knill | 1995 |
| Professor Elizabeth J Yerxa | 1995 |
| Professor Richard L Gregory | 1996 |
| Samuel E Jonah | 1996 |
| Sir Maurice Laing | 1996 |
| Professor Sir Michael Peckham | 1996 |
| Hugh Allen | 1997 |
| Sir Donald Irvine, CBE | 1997 |
| Professor John Krebs, FRS | 1998 |
| Dato' Mohamad Idris Mansor | 1998 |
| Professor Susan Greenfield | 1999 |
| Dame Bridget Ogilvie | 1999 |
| Helen Sharman | 1999 |
| Sir Crispin Tickell | 1999 |
| Professor David Warren Turner | 1999 |
| Professor Sir David Weatherall | 1999 |
| Professor Edward W Abel, CBE | 2000 |
| Professor Per-Olaf Astrand | 2000 |
| Professor Sir Ghillean Prance | 2000 |
| Dr Sir John Taylor | 2000 |
| Professor Sir Harold Kroto, FRS | 2001 |
| Professor Jane Plant, CBE | 2001 |
| Professor Dame Lesley Southgate | 2001 |
| Professor George Gray, CBE, FRS | 2002 |
| Dr Timothy Hunt | 2002 |
| Richard Case | 2003 |
| Sir Christopher Evans, OBE | 2003 |
| Sir John Sulston | 2003 |
| Professor Dame Julia Higgins | 2004 |
| Professor Lord Robert Winston | 2004 |
| Sir Peter Mansfield | 2005 |
| Michael Fish | 2005 |
| Peter Ewins | 2006 |
| Sir John Beringer | 2006 |
| Professor William Wakeham | 2006 |
| Dr Brian May, CBE | 2007 |
| Lord Stern of Brentford | 2007 |
| Professor Dame Carol Black, DBE, PRCP | 2007 |
| Lord Rees of Ludlow | 2007 |
| Sir David Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS | 2008 |
| Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, DL | 2009 |
| Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray, OBE | 2009 |
| Professor R S M Ling, OBE, FRCS | 2009 |
| Professor Dame Sally Claire Davies, DBE | 2010 |
| Dr Lady Ann Redgrave | 2010 |
| Professor Dame Alison Richard, DBE, DL | 2010 |
| Professor A D Hamilton, FRS | 2011 |
| Dr Dennis Gillings, CBE | 2011 |
| Professor Sir Peter Rubin | 2011 |
| Cynthia Carroll | 2012 |
| Professor Dame A Donald, DBE FRS | 2012 |
| Dr Russell Hamilton, CBE | 2012 |
| John Hirst, CBE | 2012 |
| Sir Mark Walport, FRS | 2014 |
| Professor Dame Julia Slingo, DBE | 2014 |
| Professor Steve Field CBE FRCP FFPHM FRCGP | 2015 |
| Professor Dame Anne Glover DBE | 2015 |
| Professor Dame Julia King DBE, FREng | 2015 |
| Professor Sir John Bell GBE, FRS | 2015 |
| Professor Stephen T Holgate CBE | 2015 |
| Professor Richard W Michelmore | 2016 |
| Clare Marx CBE, DL, PRCS | 2016 |
| Dr Christine Loh Kung-wai OBE, JP | 2016 |
| Dr Jonathan Adams | 2017 |
| Dr Mireille Gillings PhD | 2017 |
| Professor Bertil Andersson | 2017 |
| Hilary Evans | 2017 |
| Professor Ian Boyd, BSc PhD DSc FSB FSRE | 2017 |
| Dr Simon Timson | 2018 |
| Professor Sir John Savill FRSE, FMedSci, FRS | 2018 |
| Professor Sir Simon Charles Wessely FMedSci | 2018 |
| Sir Robin Nicholson FRS | 2018 |
| Professor Raymond J. St. Leger | 2018 |
| Dr Barbara Vann DL | 2018 |
| Jeremy Hughes CBE | 2018 |
| Professor Chunli Bai | 2019 |
| Hugo Tagholm | 2019 |
| Professor Joseph Sung | 2019 |
| Dr Elena Becker-Barroso | 2019 |
| Dr Howard Fillit MD | 2019 |
| A K Woodbridge | 1957 |
| Gerald Whitmarsh, CBE | 1965 |
| Miss Margaret Digby, OBE | 1966 |
| Mrs E A Paddon | 1968 |
| J A Church | 1971 |
| Norman Lyne | 1973 |
| Mrs Vera Lloyd | 1974 |
| Miss Constance R Henson, MBE | 1976 |
| R J Keast | 1978 |
| Miss Mollie Clarke, OBE | 1979 |
| Miss Jean Boxall | 1982 |
| Mrs Gene Kemp | 1984 |
| L M Tate, OBE | 1968 |
| Mrs Stella M Turk | 1980 |
| A G Crouch | 1981 |
| D R Barber | 1987 |