Honorary Degrees

Doctor of Laws

23 June 2023

Dr Ollie Folayan MBE

Professor Kamlesh Khunti CBE

22 June 2023

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter OBE

Andrew Crummy MBE

20 June 2023

Professor Sir Pete Downes OBE

Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen

18 November 2022

Professor Sosten Chiotha

17 November 2022

Claire Mitchell KC

Zoe Venditozzi

Eilish McColgan

24 June 2022

Dr Tim Wells

Dr Margo Whiteford CBE

23 June 2022

Professor Andrew Hopkins

22 June 2022

Professor Jo Frencken

15 November 2019

Lesley Knox OBE

14 November 2019

Gary Clark

21 June 2019

Dr Samantha Budd Haeberlein

Dr Parag Sancheti

Professor Ronald Harden

20 June 2019

Hayley Scanlan

Dr Francis Smith

19 June 2019

Dr Justice Tettey

Professor Alastair MacLennan

16 November 2018

Christina Lamb

15 November 2018

Professor Bob Michell

Dr James Robson

22 June 2018

Dr Michel Goedert

Gary Lightbody

Dr Saleyha Ahsan

21 June 2018

Kengo Kuma

Anuja Dhir

Dr Sun Xiansheng

20 June 2018

Martin Pistorius

Dr Zipporah Ali

Margaret Grant

17 November 2017

Helen Jones

16 November 2017

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dr Frederik Paulsen

23 June 2017

David Mackenzie

David Cunningham

22 June 2017

Dame Katherine Grainger

Judge Tim Eicke,QC

Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller

21 June 2017

Alan Alda

Fatou Bensouda

Susan Philipsz

18 November 2016

Dr Niall Elliott

17 November 2016

Pamela Butchart

Joyce Cullen

24 June 2016

Professor Harindra Fernando

Dr Hilal Al-Sayer

23 June 2016

Sir William Castell

Sir William Patey

22 June 2016

Dr Charles Jencks

Amanda Kopel

20 November 2015

Cathy Warwick CBE

Mary McCluskey

26 June 2015

William David Forsyth

Dr Jung Chang

Professor Neil Robertson MacKenzie Buist

25 June 2015

Justin Fletcher

Roddy Doyle

Professor Frank Grosveld

Stuart MacBride

24 June 2015

Brian Taylor

Seamus McGarvey

David Chester Gibbons

20 November 2014

Ann Gloag

Professor Nicholas Hastie

20 June 2014

Professor WN Herbert

Professor Chris Marshall

19 June 2014

Christiaan van der Kuyl

Professor Sir David Baulcombe

Danny Wallace

18 June 2014

Professor David Sigsworth

Professor Ronald Laskey

20 June 2013

Val McDermid

Wed 19 June 2013

Deyan Sudjic

Mary Schwartz

14 November 2012

Sir Nicholas Wright

Jamie Byng

21 June 2012

Dr Bernard Pecoul

Professor Anne Marie Rafferty

Professor Iain Mattaj

Dr Malcolm Skingle

Professor Stephen O’Rahilly

Professor Peter Boyle

Professor Peter Howie

20 June 2012

Murray McLachlan

Mark Beaumont

Justice Albie Sachs

19 June 2012

Sir Mark Jones

2 February 2012

Dr Andom Ogbamariam

16 November 2011

Professor Sir John Bell

24 June 2011

Dr Kazem Behbehani

Professor Douglas Hanahan

Professor Sir David Lane

23 June 2011

Professor James Murray

John Byrne

22 June 2011

Dr Nicholas Lydon

Dr Martin Mackay

Jim McLean

16 November 2010

John Milligan CBE

25 June 2010

Nick Cave

Sir Alan Langlands

24 June 2010

Gosta Walin

23 June 2010

Bahia Hariri

Bruce Johnston

22 June 2010

Roberto Lenton

Rosamunde Pilcher OBE

26 June 2009

Wendy Houvenaghel

Sir Paul Nurse

Sir David Weatherall

25 June 2009

Professor Matthias Mann

Professor Frank Walsh

24 June 2009

Richard Holloway

8 July 2008

Professor Alastair Wood

Professor Margaret Wood

20 June 2008

Professor Edmund Fischer

Lord Foster or Thames Bank

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys

Lorraine Kelly

Dr Walter C Willett

19 June 2008

William Boyd

Alan Johnston

Dame Vivienne Westwood

18 June 2008

Nicola Benedetti

Lord Turnbull QC

10 July 2007

Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri

22 June 2007

Sir Tom Blundell

Piet Borst

Joyce Thompson

Jacqueline Wilson

21 June 2007

Carol Ann Duffy

Georges Henry Erasmus

Thomas Heatherwick

Philip Pullman

Gerald Scarfe

Ettore Sottsass

20 June 2007

Margaret Catley-Carlson

9 February 2007

Baroness Lynda Clark of Calton

Professor Sir Philip Cohen

John Letford

Bishop Vincent Logan

Michael Marra

Elizabeth McColgan

Russell Reid

Norman Robertson

11 July 2006

Catherine Hamlin

Sybill Storz

Andrew Thomson

23 June 2006

Sydney Brenner

Christopher Lipinski

Sheena Wellington

22 June 2006

Zhores Alferov

Suzanne Lacasse

Jimmy Murakami

Iain Ovens

31 May 2006

Baroness Caroline Cox

Anna Glasier

12 July 2005

Sir Alasdair Muir Breckenridge

Sir John Edward Sulston

24 June 2005

Noerine Kaleeba

Frederick MacAulay

23 June 2005

Edward de Bono

Professor Julian C R Hunt

11 May 2005

Baroness Susan Greenfield

2 July 2004

Hamish MacInnes

Andrew Marr

Lord Naren Patel

Jane Emily Tomlinson

1 July 2004

Gavin Brown

Colin Malcolm Campbell

Alison Jane Patricia Goligher

Lawrence A L Rolland

30 June 2004

Catherine Lockerbie

Duncan Macmillan

26 September 2003

Frank Owen Gehry

11 July 2003

Seamus Justin Heaney

John Bell Tuckwell

Valerie Jennifer Tuckwell

Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence

Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop

10 July 2003

Peter Baillie

Michael S Gordon

8 July 2003

Stella McCartney

5 February 2003

John Simpson

12 July 2002

Sir Bob Geldof

Dr Timothy Hunt

Professor Donald McIntyre

Professor Wilson Sibbett

Sheridan Snyder

Lady Strathmore

11 July 2002

Professor Margaret Alexander

Dr Bonnie Dunbar

Herbie Haxton

David Mach

Robert Seaton, MA, LLB

13 July 2001

Sir Robert Wilson

Xu Ya-Fen

12 July 2001

Sydney Scroggie

Ian Graham-Bryce, CBE, MA, BSc, DPhil, CChem, FRSC, FRSA, FRSE

Professor Salvador Moncada

14 July 2000

Helen Bamber

Liz Locchead

13 July 2000

Leslie Bisset

Lord Cullen

Sir Kenneth Murray

Lord George Robertson, MA (Dundee)

John Suchet, MA (St Andrews)

9 July 1999

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny

Sir Jonathon Porritt

Mrs Carole J Wood

8 July 1999

Professor Sir Hans Kornberg

Elaine C Smith

Professor David E Sugden

10 July 1998

Professor Sir David P Tweedie

Annie Jarvie

Russell A Leather

9 July 1998

James W Duncan

Ronald Stevenson, PhD, FRMCM, HonFRIAS

Euan Baird

Sir Edmund John Phillip Browne

1 May 1998

Emeritus Principal Adam Matthew Neville, CBE, MC, TD, PhD, DSc, FEng, FIStructE, FAmSocCE, FRSE

Dame Bridget Ogilvie, SCD, FIBiol. FRCPath

Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, FRS

George Henry Poste, FRS, DSc, HonLLD

Bruce Rappaport

Ruth Rappaport

Emeritus Professor Geoffrey John Fraser Dutton, BSc, PhD, DSc, HonDPhilD, Dde l'Univ, FRSE

12 July 1999

Gary Player

11 July 1997

Susan K MacGregor, OBE

John R Postage, FRS

David G Robertson, CBE, MA, MEd

10 July 1997

Sir David Carter, MBChB, MD

David S Wilson, DipM

12 July 1996

Michael John Hamlin, CBE, BSc, HonLLD, FEng, FICE, FIWEM, FRSE

Ronald Bonar

Richard Demarco, OBE, RSW, SSA

11 July 1996

Michael Rosen, CBE, MBChB, FRCA, FRCOG, FRCS

Datuk Kamal Salih, BA, MA, PhD

Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, OBE, GRSM(Hons), LRAM, ARAM, HonDMus

14 July 1995

Ibrahim Shihata, SJD

Albert Watson, DA, MA

Stephen Fry, MA

13 July 1995

Alan William Cuthbert, BPharm, BSc, MA, PhD, FRS, HonDSc

Peter Doyle, BSc, PhD, FRSE, HonDSc

Sir William Duncan Paterson Stewart, BSc, PhD, DSc, FIBiol, FRS, FRSE

15 July 1994

James Stuart Fair, MA, LLB

The Most Revd Trevor Huddleston, CR

14 July 1994

Lady Duncan of Jordanstone

Jean Muir, CBE, RDI, FCSD

The Lord Rix, CBE, DL

16 July 1993

Sir Walter Bodmer, FRS, FRCPath, CBiol, FIBiol

Sir Gordon Borrie, QC

Brian Cox

Professor Peter Hewlett, BSc, PhD, CChem, FRSC, FInstCeram, FICT, APRI

William Low, CBE, JP, CBIM

Professor Sir David Mason, CBE, BDS, FRCS, FDSRCPSG, FDSRCSE, FRCPath

Jean Morris, CBE, MA, MEd

Imre Makovecz

10 July 1992

Donald Eric Broadbent, CBE, MA, ScD, FRS, FBPsS

Roger Geoffrey Gibbs

Sir Douglas Hardie, CBE, FRSA

Rosalyn Higgins, BA, LLB, JSD, QC

Sir Robert Kilpatrick, CBE, MB, ChB, MD, FRCPE, FRCP

Ronald H Coase, BSc(Econ)

29 April 1992

Robert Campbell Garry, OBE, MB, ChB, DSc, FRCPG, FRSE

Barbara Hendricks, BSc, BMus

Jean-Pierre Changeux, DR, ES SC

12 July 1991

James Adamson, OBE, DEng

The Rt Hon Jack Ashley, CH, PC, MP

Baroness Carnegy of Lour, DL

Stuart Hood, MA, MBE

David Jack, BSe, PhD, DSc, FRSC, FlBiol, FRSPharm, FRSE

The Rt Hon Lord Ross, QC, PC

13 July 1990

Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, PC

Peter Bryan Garland, MA, MB, BChir, PhD, FRSE

Rev William Boyd Robertson MacMillan, MA, BD

Sir Alan Turner Peacock, MA, DSc, FBA

The Rt Hon. Lord Scarman, KT, PC, OBE

Elizabeth Ward, MBE

14 July 1989

William Fyffe Morrison Dorward, MB, ChB, FRCGP

Donald Blane Grant, CA, TD

The Rt Hon Lord McCluskey of Churchhill, QC

Bruce Millan, CA

Sir Laurens van der Post, CBE, FRSL, Hon DLitt DUniv

15 July 1988

Robert Baynes Horton, BSc, SM

Hans W Kosterlitz, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCPE, FRS, FRSE

Sir Malcolm Campbell MacNaughton, MD, FRCPG, FRCOG, FRSE

David Morrison Walker, DA, CertEd, Hon FRIAS

10 July 1987

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, BA, FRSL

Gene Howard Golub, MA, PhD

The Most Rev Lawrence Edward Luscombe, CA, ASAA, FSAScot

Ivar Andreas Mjor, BDS, MSD, DrOdont

Geoffrey Donald Sims, OBE, MSc, PhD, FEng, FIEE, FIERE, FCGI

Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, PhD, DIC, DSc(Eng), DipEng, FICE, FASCE, FCGI, FRS, FEng

11 July 1986

Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest, MD, FRCS, FRCSE, FRCSG, Hon DSc, Hon FACS

Norman Alexander MacCaig, OBE, MA, FRSL, Hon DUniv

James Paton McPherson

Brigadier Helen Guild Meechie, CBE, MA

Robert Gordon Wilson, BL, MP

12 July 1985

Sir Kenneth John Wilson Alexander, BSc(Econ), Hon LLD, Hon DUniv, FRSE

Sir Herbert Vernon Bonar, CBE, BA, Hon LLD

The Rt Hon Lord Flowers, CBE, MA, MSc, DSc, Hon DSc, FlnstP, Hon FIEE, Hon FCGI, FRS

Lady Naomi Margaret Mitchison, CBE, QC, Hon LLD, Hon DUniv

Sir Alan Marshall Muir Wood, MA, FICE, FRS

John James Andrew Reid, CB, TD, BSc, MD, Hon DSc, FRCP, FRCPE, DPH,FFCM, FRCPS

13 July 1984

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, MA, PRS

Jessie Kesson

Sir Fitzroy Hew MacLean of Dunconnel, Bt, CBE

Virindar Mohan Malhotra, PEng, BSc, BE

Lech Walesa

15 July 1983

Hew Martin Lorimer, RSA, FRBS

Lord Mackay of Clashfern, PC, QC, BA, MA, LLB

George Ross Mathewson, BSc, PhD, MBA

John Angus Macbeth Mitchell, CB, CVO, MC, BA

William Nicoll, CMG, MA

lain Crichton Smith, OBE, MA, FRSL

16 July 1982

John Harrison Burnett, MA, DPhil, FRSE, FlBiol

David Carnegy-Arbuthnott, CA, DL

Laszlo Gombos, Dr rer jur, Barrister

Dame Margaret Kidd, QC

Joan Macintosh, CBE, MA

5 May 1982

Professor Christopher Charles Booth, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, HonFACP, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite

Charles Dargie Brown, BSc, FFE

Geoffrey Kemp Caston, MA, MPA

Professor Walter Joseph Kamba, BA, LLB, LLM

Professor Malcolm Sim Longair, BSc, MA, PhD

Lord Mackie of Benshie, CBE, DSO, DFC

Dame Kiri Ti Kanawa, OBE

10 July 1981

Professor John Russell Anderson, BSc, MD, MRCP, FRCPG, FRCPath, FRSE

Sir Neil Cameron, GCB, CBE, DSO, DFC, AE

William Knight Fitzgerald, CBE, JP, DL

Emeritus Professor Hubert Horace Lamb, MA, FRMetS, FRGS

Dorothea, Countess of Mansfield and Mansefield

The Very Rev Principal James Aitken Whyte, MA

11 July 1980

James Whyte Black, MB, ChB, Hon DSc, Hon DTech, FRS, FRCP

The Rt Hon The Lord Boyle of Handsworth, PC, MA, Hon LLD, Hon DLitt, Hon DSc, Hon FRCS

Mark James Walter Cameron, Hon DLitt

Edward Edmund Kemp, MBE, VMH, DPH

Albert Morrocco, RSA

13 July 1979

Emeritus Principal James Drever, MA, FRSE

Hamish Scott Henderson, MA

Andrew Short, MSc

Sir Leonard Gordon Wolfson, Hon FRCP, Hon PhD, Hon DCL, Hon LLD, Hon DSc

14 July 1978

The Hon Mark Raymond Bonham Carter, MA

Professor Donald Johan Kuenen, PhD, DSc

David Fleming McCurrach, OBE, BL

Professor Patrick Dunbar Ritchie, BSc, PhD, FRIC, FPI, MlChemE, FRSE

15 July 1977

George Mackay Brown, OBE, MA

John Belford Wilson Christie, BA, LLB

The Rt Hon The Earl of Elgin, DL, JP, MA

Sir Basil Henry David Montgomery, Bt, DL, JP

Mrs Sybil Douglas Murray, MBE, BA, Hon FEIS

Sir Rex Edwards Richards, MA, DSc, FRS

The Very Rev David Steel, MA, BD, Hon DD

9 July 1976

Sir William Melville Arnott, TD, BSc, MD, Hon DSc, Hon LLD, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPath, FRSE, Hon FRCPC, Hon FACP

Sir Charles Gibson Connell, BL, WS, JP

Robert Kemsley Orr, CBE, MA, MusD, FRCM, Hon RAM

Lewis Guy Melville Thorpe, BA, LesL, PhD, D de l'U, FRHistS, FIAL, FRSA

18 July 1975

Sir William Hardie Kininmonth, PRSA, FRIBA, FRIAS, RA, RSW

Douglas Moul Mclntosh, CBE, MA, BSc, PhD, FRSE, FEIS

Sir Walter Laing Macdonald Perry, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCPE, FRSE

12 July 1974

The Hon James Alexander Charles Auld

Professor Lothar Gollatz

Professor Gordon Elliot Fogg, PhD, ScD, FRS, CBE

Sir Dingle Macintosh Foot, PC, QC, MA

Colonel Charles Newbigging Thomson, CBE, DSO, TD, DL, CA

George Waterston, OBE, FRSE

12 July 1973

Brigadier The Rt Hon Lord Ballantrae, GCMG, GCVO. DSO, OBE, DCL, LLD

The Rt Hon Lord Guest, PC, QC, MA, LLB

The Rt Hon Roy Harris Jenkins, PC, MP, BA, DCL

James Mclntosh Patrick, RSA

14 July 1972

Professor William Fisher Cassie, CBE, BSc, PhD, FRSE, FICE, MlStructE, FlnstHE, AMTPI

Sorley Maclean

Sir Robert Heatlie Scott, GCMG, CBE

Sir George Taylor, DSc, FRS, FRSE, FLS

12 July 1971

Professor Lars Goran Borg

The Very Rev Hugh Osborne Douglas, CBE, MA, DD

Lewis Findlay Robertson, CBE

John Kenneth Sinclair St Joseph, MA, PhD

Eliot Trevor Oakeshott Slater, CBE, MA, MD

6 July 1970

Professor Gerald Jean Antoine, DesL

John Berry, CBE, PhD

Angus Anderson Fulton, CBE, BSc, FICE, FIME, FIEE, FRSE

The Very Rev Alastair lan Macdonald Haggart, MA

James Roy Lindsay Halley, OBE

Emeritus Professor Sir lan George Wilson Hill, CBE, TD, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPE, FRSE

1 July 1969

Cedric Thorpe Davie, OBE, FRAM, ARCM

Miss Ursula Katherine Duncan, MA, FLS

Robert Brockie Hunter, MBE, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPE, FACP

Councillor Maurice McManus, CBE, JP, DL

Jiri Mucha

Peter Ustinov, FRSA

21 August 1968

The Rt Hon Lord Jackson of Burnley, FRS

Professor Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS

Sir Peter Brian Medawar, CBE, FRS

2 July 1968

Mrs Agnes Watson Dow, MA, MB, ChB

The Rt Hon Lord Fulton of Falmer, MA, LLD, DLitt

Professor William James Millar Mackenzie, CBE, MA, LLB

Sir William Stuart Murrie, GCB, KBE, MA

19 October 1967

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Nelson Thomas Carne, OBE, JP

The Rt Hon The Earl of Dalhousie, KT, GBE. MC, LLD

Sir Malcolm Knox, MA, LLD, DLitt, FRSE

Ronald Buchanan McCallum, MA

Brigadier James Alexander Oliver, CB, CBE, DSO, TD, DL

The Rt Hon George Morgan Thomsoll, PC, MP

Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley, CB, DSO, MC, DL, LLD

Doctor of Science

22 June 2018

Lord Naren Patel

12 July 2005

Sir James Whyte Black

Master of Arts

15 July 1994

Jenny Wood Allen, JP

12 July 1985

Jimmy Shand, MBE

9 July 1976

Harry Russell Halkerston Woolford, OBE, FMA, FIIC

Master of Medical Science

14 July 1978

Judy Peden Greig, MA

18 July 1975

Douglas Swan Fraser

Master of Science

13 July 1979

Colin Hutcheon Gibson, DA

12 July 1971

George Hendry, BEM