List of honorary graduates of the University of Exeter
| DDiv | Doctor of Divinity | 
| DEng | Doctor of Engineering | 
| LLD | Doctor of Laws | 
| DLitt | Doctor of Letters | 
| DM | Doctor of Medicine | 
| DMus | Doctor of Music | 
| DSc | Doctor of Science | 
| MA | Master of Arts | 
| MSc | Master of Science | 
This list of Honorary Graduates of the University of Exeter is a year-by-year list of people recognized by the University of Exeter 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.
2020s
2024
- Art Rooney II (LLD)
 - General Sir Patrick Sanders (LLD)
 - Josh Widdicombe (DLitt)
 - Will Young (DLitt)
 
2023
- Melanie Eusebe (LLD)
 - Bernardine Evaristo (DLitt)
 - Leslie McLoughlin (DLitt)
 - Georgina Radford (DSc)
 - Melinda Simmons (LLD)
 - Steve Smith (LLD)
 - Nicholas Tregenza (DSc)
 
2022
- Dolly Alderton (DLitt)
 - Dina Asher-Smith (LLD)
 - Andrew Brownsword (LLD)
 - Zrinka Bralo (DLitt)
 - Nicholas Bull (LLD)
 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell (DSc)
 - Margaret Busby (DLitt)
 - John Curtice (LLD)
 - Lyse Doucet (DLitt)
 - Carrie Gracie (DLitt)
 - Krishnan Guru-Murthy (DLitt)
 - Isabel Hardman (DLitt)
 - Sue Hill (DSc)
 - André & Rosalie Hoffmann (DSc)
 - Mark Ormrod (LLD)
 - Emily Penn (DSc)
 - Shaun Sawyer (LLD)
 - Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (DSc)
 - Kamila Shamsie (DLitt)
 - Patrick Swaffer (DLitt)
 - Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Junior (Stormzy) (DLitt)
 
2021
- Mark Hannaford (DSc)
 
2020
- Anastasios Paul Leventis (LLD)
 
2010s
2019
- Chunli Bai (DSc)
 - Kate Lampard (LLD)
 - Teresa Gleadowe (DLitt)
 - Moira Marder (LLD)
 - Reni Eddo-Lodge (DLitt)
 - Richard Hughes (LLD)
 - Roderick MacSween (DLitt)
 - Karime Hassan (LLD)
 - Hugo Tagholm (DSc)
 - Sarah Mullally (DDiv)
 - Professor Joseph Sung (DSc)
 - Elena Becker-Barroso (DSc)
 - Dame Mary Beard (DLitt)
 - Gordon Marshall (LLD)
 - Howard Fillit (DSc)
 - Eliud Kipchoge (LLD)
 
2018
- Ruth Hunt (LLD)
 - John Simpson (DLitt)
 - Simon Timson (DSc)
 - Sir John Savill (DSc)
 - Sir Simon Charles Wessely (DSc)
 - Alan Johnson (LLD)
 - Felix Barrett (DLitt)
 - Sir Robin Nicholson (DSc)
 - Raymond J. St. Leger (DSc)
 - Robert Crum (DLitt)
 - Natasha Trethewey (DLitt)
 - Barbara Vann (DSc)
 - Laura Penhaul (LLD)
 - Andrew Garrad (DEng)
 - Adama Dieng (LLD)
 - Neil Woodford (LLD)
 - Jeremy Hughes (DSc)
 
2017
- Lieutenant Colonel Lucy Giles (LLD)
 - Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth (DLitt)
 - Alex Farquharson (DLitt)
 - Lindsey Hilsum (DLitt)
 - Sir Donald Cullin (DLitt)
 - Lady Studholme (DLitt)
 - Philip Collins (DLitt)
 - Tony Sewell (LLD)
 - Rob Baxter (LLD)
 - Jonathan Adams (DSc)
 - Mireille Gillings (DSc)
 - Bertil Andersson (DSc)
 - Peter Lacey (LLD)
 - Helen Brand (LLD)
 - Hilary Evans (DSc)
 - Ian L. Boyd (DSc)
 - Augustin Hadelich (DMus)
 - David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury (LLD)
 
2016
- Clare Marx (DSc)
 - Sir Robert Francis (LLD)
 - Jeremy Paxman (DLitt)
 - Camilla Hampshire (LLD)
 - John Pullinger (LLD)
 - Paul Johnson (LLD)
 - Gillian Tett (DLitt)
 - Dr Christine Loh Kung-wai (DSc)
 - Paul Polman (LLD)
 - Edward Barry Farwell (LLD)
 - Sally Gunnell (LLD)
 - Richard W. Michelmore (DSc)
 
2015
- Glynis Atherton (LLD)
 - Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (LLD)
 - Sir John Goldring (LLD)
 - Ralph Wilcox (LLD)
 - Joanne Pavey (LLD)
 - MandyBain (LLD)
 - Richard Atkins (LLD)
 - Sir Andrew Witty (LLD)
 - Alvin Roth (LLD)
 - Graham Cole (LLD)
 - Dame Alison Carnwath (LLD)
 - Trevor Phillips (DLitt)
 - Abi Morgan (DLitt)
 - Steve Field (DSc)
 - Dame Anne Glover (DSc)
 - Dame Julia King (DSc)
 - Sir John Bell (DSc)
 - Stephen T. Holgate (DSc)
 
2014
- Wol Kolade (LLD)
 - Teresa Rees (LLD)
 - Tony Rowe (LLD)
 - Roy PikeA (LLD)
 - Sigrid Kaag (LLD)
 - Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon (LLD)
 - Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria (LLD)
 - Kanya King (LLD)
 - Tim Hollingsworth (LLD)
 - Carl Gilleard (LLD)
 - Philip Bostock (LLD)
 - Mike Leigh (DLitt)
 - Thomas Trevor (DLitt)
 - Sir Mark Walport (DSc)
 - Dame Julia Slingo (DSc)
 
2013
- James Jones (DDiv)
 - Alexandra Jellicoe (DEng)
 - Elizabeth Earland (LLD)
 - Ashley Tabor (LLD)
 - Ambassador Barry Desker (LLD)
 - Sir Brian Burridge (LLD)
 - Russell Seal (LLD)
 - Steve Perryman (LLD)
 - David Allen (LLD)
 - Timothy C. Niblock (LLD)
 - Alexander Beleschenko (DLitt)
 - Leo Hickman (DLitt)
 
2012
- Iain Gray (DEng)
 - Stephen Edge (LLD)
 - Barry Bateman (LLD)
 - Judge Demetrios Hadjihambis (LLD)
 - Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (LLD)
 - Alan Milburn (LLD)
 - Bryn Parry (LLD)
 - Emma Parry (LLD)
 - Sir Michael Pownall (LLD)
 - Steve Backshall (DLitt)
 - Nik Gowing (DLitt)
 - Armando Iannucci (DLitt)
 - Cynthia Carroll (DSc)
 - Dame Athene Donald (DSc)
 - Russell Hamilton (DSc)
 - John Hirst (DSc)
 
2011
- Si-Chen Lee (DEng)
 - Steve Hindley (DEng)
 - Sir Peter Lampl (LLD)
 - Harriet Lamb (LLD)
 - Barbara Frost (LLD)
 - Les Halpin (LLD)
 - Angela Pedder (LLD)
 - Dato Ambiga Sreenevasan (LLD)
 - Jim French (LLD)
 - Dame Hilary Mantel (DLitt)
 - Neil Canning (DLitt)
 - Andrew D. Hamilton (DSc)
 - Dennis Gillings (DSc)
 - Sir Peter Rubin (DSc)
 
2010
- Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi (LLD)
 - Dame Julia Cleverdon (LLD)
 - Sir John Rose (LLD)
 - Sir Eric Dancer (LLD)
 - Sir Richard Lambert (LLD)
 - Sir Ian Botham (LLD)
 - Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone (LLD)
 - Shami Chakrabarti (LLD)
 - Deborah Meaden (LLD)
 - Jane Knight (LLD)
 - Fiona Shackleton, Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia (LLD)
 - Sharron Davies (LLD)
 - Baroness Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough (LLD)
 - Philip Pullman (DLitt)
 - Elaine Goodwin (DLitt)
 - Peter Randall-Page (DLitt)
 - Kuljit Bhamra (DMus)
 - Dame Sally Claire Davies (DSc)
 - Lady Ann Redgrave (DSc)
 - Dame Alison Richard (DSc)
 
2000s
2009
- Bill Ind (DDiv)
 - Clive Lee (DEng)
 - Christopher Mullard (LLD)
 - Clive Stafford Smith (LLD)
 - Richard Ward (LLD)
 - Sir Ian Carruthers (LLD)
 - Satish Kumar (LLD)
 - Sir Michael Barber (LLD)
 - Gerald Sturtridge (LLD)
 - Don Boyd (DLitt)
 - Karen Armstrong (DLitt)
 - Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (DSc)
 - Sir Denis Pereira Gray (DSc)
 - R. S. M. Ling (DSc)
 
2008
- Sarah Buck (DEng)
 - Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (LLD)
 - Sir Martin Harris (LLD)
 - Mark Thompson (LLD)
 - Ian Henderson (LLD)
 - Sir David Brewer (LLD)
 - Jonathan Dimbleby (LLD)
 - Dame Mary Keegan (LLD)
 - Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (LLD)
 - Ruth Hawker (LLD)
 - Olga Polizzi (LLD)
 - Jonathon Porritt (LLD)
 - Amartya Sen (LLD)
 - Ahdaf Soueif (DLitt)
 - Rik Mayall (DLitt)
 - Ken Follett (DLitt)
 - Sir David Attenborough (DSc)
 
2007
- Michael Langrish (DDiv)
 - Frank Gardner (LLD)
 - Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu (LLD)
 - Yusuf Islam (LLD)
 - Anthony Gibson (LLD)
 - Sir Robert Owen (LLD)
 - Sir Peter Job (LLD)
 - Sir Richard Dearlove (LLD)
 - Ray Dillon (LLD)
 - Sir Clive Woodward (LLD)
 - Richard Hooper (LLD)
 - Peter Lord (LLD)
 - David Sproxton (LLD)
 - Adrian Edmondson (DLitt)
 - Jennifer Saunders (DLitt)
 - David Eldridge (DLitt)
 - Beverley Naidoo (DLitt)
 - Michael Rosen (DLitt)
 - Posy Simmonds (DLitt)
 - Kurt Jackson (DLitt)
 - Brian May (DSc)
 - Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (DSc)
 - Dame Carol Black (DSc)
 - Martin Rees, Lord Rees of Ludlow (DSc)
 
2006
- Sue Barker (LLD)
 - Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (LLD)
 - Roderick Ross (LLD)
 - Sir Anthony Clarke (LLD)
 - Alan Cotton (DLitt)
 - Peter Ewins (DSc)
 - Sir John Beringer (DSc)
 - William Wakeham (DSc)
 
2005
- Jane Henderson (LLD)
 - Abdullah Gül (LLD)
 - Ben Ainslie (LLD)
 - John Allwood (LLD)
 - Sir Tom Shebbeare (LLD)
 - Admiral Sir Jonathon Band (LLD)
 - Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar (LLD)
 - Tony Robinson (LLD)
 - Stewart Purvis (LLD)
 - Jonathan Edwards (LLD)
 - Floella Benjamin (DLitt)
 - Jane Lapotaire (DLitt)
 - Benjamin Zephaniah (DLitt)
 - Sir Peter Mansfield (DSc)
 - Michael Fish (DSc)
 
2004
- Sir Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington (LLD)
 - Irene Bishop (LLD)
 - Ian Powell (LLD)
 - Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin (LLD)
 - Lord Justice Sedley (LLD)
 - Pen Hadow (LLD)
 - Michael Caines (LLD)
 - Paul Jackson (DLitt)
 - Ben Okri (DLitt)
 - Michael Morpurgo (DLitt)
 - Barbara Jefford (DLitt)
 - Dame Julia Higgins (DSc)
 - Robert Winston, Lord Winston (DSc)
 
2003
- Sir Geoffrey Holland (LLD)
 - Tanni Grey-Thompson (LLD)
 - Dame Suzi Leather (LLD)
 - Paul Myners (LLD)
 - Anthony Salz (LLD)
 - Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton (LLD)
 - Simon Jenkins (DLitt)
 - Sir Christopher Ondaatje (DLitt)
 - Sir Antony Sher (DLitt)
 - Jatinder Verma (DLitt)
 - Richard Case (DSc)
 - Sir Christopher Evans (DSc)
 - Sir John Sulston (DSc)
 
2002
- Ann Daniels (LLD)
 - Norman Hardyman(LLD)
 - Bridget Kendall (LLD)
 - Christopher Patten (LLD)
 - Marjorie Scardino (LLD)
 - Sir David Walker (LLD)
 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf (LLD)
 - Angela Yeoman (LLD)
 - Prince Waleed bin Talal Al Saud (LLD)
 - Sir Tim Rice (DLitt)
 - Rick Stein (DLitt)
 - George Gray (DSc)
 - Timothy Hunt (DSc)
 
2001
- Rowan Williams (DDiv)
 - Queen Rania Al-Abdullah (LLD)
 - Sir Peter Davis (LLD)
 - Mr Justice Elias (LLD)
 - Timothy Smit (LLD)
 - Bridget Towle (LLD)
 - Mohammed Arkoun (DLitt)
 - Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (DLitt)
 - Helen Dunmore (DLitt)
 - Susan Hampshire (DLitt)
 - Seamus Heaney (DLitt)
 - Edward Said (DLitt)
 - George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld (DLitt)
 - Christopher Bruce (DLitt)
 - Dame Gillian Weir (DMus)
 - Sir Harold Kroto (DSc)
 - Jane Plant (DSc)
 - Dame Lesley Southgate (DSc)
 
2000
- Bartholomew I (LLD)
 - Sally Greengross, Baroness Greengross (LLD)
 - Margaret Lorenz (LLD)
 - Peter Sutherland (LLD)
 - Joanne K. Rowling (DLitt)
 - Sir Nicholas Serota (DLitt)
 - Evelyn Glennie (DMus)
 - Edward W. Abel (DSc)
 - Per-Olaf Astrand (DSc)
 - Sir Ghillean Prance (DSc)
 - Sir John Taylor (DSc)
 
1990s
1999
- Cardinal Cahal Brendan Daly (DDiv)
 - Lord Eames (DDiv)
 - Baroness Brenda Dean (LLD)
 - Charles Handy (LLD)
 - Christopher Moon (LLD)
 - Sir Terry Frost (DLitt)
 - Edward Mortimer (DLitt)
 - Andrew Motion (DLitt)
 - Adrian Noble (DLitt)
 - Imogen Cooper (DMus)
 - Susan Greenfield (DSc)
 - Dame Bridget Ogilvie (DSc)
 - Helen Sharman (DSc)
 - Sir Crispin Tickell (DSc)
 - David Warren Turner (DSc)
 - Sir David Weatherall (DSc)
 
1998
- David Sheppard (DDiv)
 - Desmond Tutu (DDiv)
 - Noel Warner (DEng)
 - Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell (LLD)
 - Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing (LLD)
 - Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan (LLD)
 - Lord Justice Phillips (LLD)
 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki (LLD)
 - Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (LLD)
 - Robert Neil MacGregor (DLitt)
 - Alfred Brendel Hon. (DMus)
 - John Krebs (DSc)
 - Dato' Mohamad Idris Mansor (DSc)
 
1997
- Sir Edward George (LLD)
 - Sir David Tweedie (LLD)
 - Lady Mary Holborow (LLD)
 - Brian Rix, Lord Rix (LLD)
 - Joyce Youings (DLitt)
 - Bridget Riley (DLitt)
 - Hugh Allen (DSc)
 - Sir Donald Irvine (DSc)
 
1996
- Sir David Calcutt (LLD)
 - Peter Chalk (LLD)
 - Dame Stella Rimington (LLD)
 - Sir Stephen Tumim (LLD)
 - Sir Alan Bowness (DLitt)
 - Sir William Stubbs (DLitt)
 - T. R. P. Brighouse (DLitt)
 - Richard L. Gregory (DSc)
 - Samuel E. Jonah (DSc)
 - Sir Maurice Laing (DSc)
 - Sir Michael Peckham (DSc)
 
1995
- Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon (LLD)
 - Nigel Beale (LLD)
 - Zoltan P. Dienes (LLD)
 - Lord Morley (LLD)
 - Mary Douglas (DLitt)
 - Marina Warner (DLitt)
 - Sir David Harrison (DSc)
 - Sir John Knill (DSc)
 - Elizabeth J. Yerxa (DSc)
 
1994
- Trevor Huddleston (DDiv)
 - Ian Mercer (LLD)
 - David Owen, Lord Owen (LLD)
 - Robert Pennington (LLD)
 - Lieutenant General Sir Stewart Pringle (LLD)
 - Sir George Christie (DLitt)
 - Clive Gronow (DSc)
 - Andrew Lang (DSc)
 - John Polkinghorne (DSc)
 
1993
- Robert P. Cohan (DLitt)
 - Michael Screech (DLitt)
 - Mary Wesley (DLitt)
 - Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi (DLitt)
 - Sándor Végh (DMus)
 - Sir John Banham (DSc)
 - Sir John Cullen (DSc)
 - David Rees (DSc)
 - Robert Wilson (DSc)
 
1992
- Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss (LLD)
 - James Hetherington (LLD)
 - Christopher Pope TD (LLD)
 - R. K. L. Hill (LLD)
 - Peter Ackroyd (DLitt)
 - Sir Anthony Parsons (DLitt)
 - Frank Harary (DSc)
 - F. Gordon A. Stone (DSc)
 
1991
- Canon John Thurmer (DDiv)
 - Sir Richard Acland (LLD)
 - Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman (LLD)
 - Gerald Aylmer (DLitt)
 - Lionel Dakers (DMus)
 - Michael Berry (DSc)
 - Sheila Cassidy (DSc)
 - Aleksandr Nikolaevich Yakovlev (DSc)
 
1990
- Michael Foot (LLD)
 - Sir Brinsley Ford (LLD)
 - Eurfron Gwynne Jones (LLD)
 - Halfdan Mahler (LLD) (DLitt)
 - Jean-François Botrel (DLitt)
 - David Cornwell (DLitt)
 - Joaquin Rodrigo (DMus)
 - Peter Bradshaw (DSc)
 - Lady Anne Brewis (DSc)
 - Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick (DSc)
 
1980s
1989
- Sir Nicholas Goodison (LLD)
 - Sir John Smith (LLD)
 - Baroness Seear (LLD)
 - Sylvia Kantaris (DLitt)
 - Wayne Sleep (DLitt)
 - John Edgar Stevens (DMus)
 - Brother Adam (DSc)
 - Sir John Quicke (DSc)
 - Sir John Harvey-Jones (DSc)
 
1988
- Sir Antony Acland (LLD)
 - W. G. Daw (LLD)
 - J. L. Smeall (LLD)
 - Glenda Jackson (DLitt)
 - Dame Elisabeth Frink (DLitt)
 - F. W. Walbank (DLitt)
 - Daphne Jackson (DSc)
 - J. E. Lovelock (DSc)
 - F. J. M. Laver (DSc)
 
1987
- Frank Gillard (LLD)
 - C. D. Pike (LLD)
 - Baroness Warnock (DLitt)
 - Richard Stanton-Jones (DSc)
 - Abdus Salam (DSc)
 - D. R. Barber (MSc)
 
1986
- Sir Robin Day (LLD)
 - Kenneth Rowe (LLD)
 - John Mortimer (LLD)
 - Fred L Harris (DLitt)
 - Vivian Richards (DLitt)
 - Ewan MacColl (DLitt)
 - Jane Glover (DMus)
 - Sir David Smith (DSc)
 
1985
- Sir Gordon Slynn (LLD)
 - Sir Michael Hordern (DLitt)
 - Aileen, Lady Fox (DLitt)
 - Sir John Gray (DSc)
 - Sir Austin Pearce (DSc)
 - Harry Kay (DSc)
 
1984
- Sheila Browne (LLD)
 - Justice Park (LLD)
 - William Trevor (DLitt)
 - R. Aris (DSc)
 - K. Ellitsgaard Rasmussen (DSc)
 - Sir Alan Harris (DSc)
 - Gene Kemp (MA)
 
1983
- Sir Jean-Pierre Warner (LLD)
 - Hugh Greenwood (LLD)
 - John Fowles (DLitt)
 - F. J. Fisher (DLitt)
 - B. D. Josephson (DSc)
 
1982
- Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington (LLD)
 - Sir Alan Dalton (LLD)
 - M. G. Brock (DLitt)
 - Patrick Heron (DLitt)
 - Ted Hughes (DLitt)
 - Sir John Kendrew (DSc)
 - Sir David Phillips (DSc)
 - L. L. Iversen (DSc)
 - Jean Boxall (MA)
 
1981
- R. J. S. Hookway (LLD)
 - Sir Kelvin Spencer (LLD)
 - Frank Barlow (DLitt)
 - Jack Clemo (DLitt)
 - Robert Niklaus (DLitt)
 - P. G. Burke (DSc)
 - W. K. Hayman (DSc)
 - H. N. Rydon (DSc)
 - A. G. Crouch (MSc)
 
1980
- Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton (LLD)
 - Sir John Palmer (LLD)
 - R. W. Turner (LLD)
 - Baroness Ryder of Warsaw (LLD)
 - Benjamin Luxon (DMus)
 - Sir Edward Abraham (DSc)
 - Stella M. Turk (MSc)
 
1970s
1979
- J. C. Alderson (LLD)
 - Colonel Sir John Carew Pole, 12th Baronet (LLD)
 - Christopher Hill (DLitt)
 - John Richard Lill (DMus)
 - G. Higman (DSc)
 - Mollie Clarke (MA)
 
1978
- Lord Mackenzie Stuart (LLD)
 - Kingman Brewster (LLD)
 - Alfred K. Hamilton Jenkin (DLitt)
 - G. C. Ainsworth (DSc)
 - R. J. Keast (MA)
 
1977
- General Sir John Hackett (LLD)
 - H. B. Garland (DLitt)
 - Charles S. Causley (DLitt)
 - Robert Oxton Bolt (DLitt)
 - Antony Hewish (DSc)
 - P. D. Mitchell (DSc)
 
1976
- Tom Denning, Baron Denning (LLD)
 - R. C. Tress (LLD)
 - Sir David Willcocks (DMus)
 - Sir Eric Denton (DSc)
 - Constance R. Henson (MA)
 
1975
- Robert Lecourt (LLD)
 - P. J. V. D. Balsdon (DLitt)
 - René Marache (DLitt)
 - Michael Oakeshott (DLitt)
 - Sir Kingsley Dunham (DSc)
 - Sir Rex Richards (DSc)
 
1974
- Colonel J. E. Palmer (LLD)
 - Jeremy Thorpe (LLD)
 - David Douglas (DLitt)
 - W. G. Hoskins (DLitt)
 - Dame L. H. N. Cooper (DSc)
 - H. M. Stanley (DSc)
 - Sir Rodney Smith (DSc)
 - Vera Lloyd (MA)
 
1973
- Canon G. R. Dunstan (DDiv)
 - Marcus Knight (LLD)
 - Sir John Llewellyn (LLD)
 - C. A. Ralegh Radford (DLitt)
 - Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle (DSc)
 - Norman Lyne (MA)
 
1972
- Dr Margaret Jackson (LLD)
 - Judge Pratt (LLD)
 - L. K. Elmhirst (DLitt)
 - Sir Raymond Firth (DLitt)
 - C. T. Ingold (DSc)
 - Andrew Stratton (DSc)
 
1971
- W. A. E. Westall (DDiv)
 - Sir Jack Hayward (LLD)
 - John Widgery, Baron Widgery, TD (LLD)
 - Sir John Betjeman (DLitt)
 - Dame Frances Yates (DLitt)
 - Sir Frederick Dainton (DSc)
 - J. A. Church (MA)
 
1970
- Sir Kenneth Wheare (LLD)
 - G. E. Fussell (DLitt)
 - Canon J. B. Phillips (DLitt)
 - Malcolm Arnold (DMus)
 - P. H. Kuenen (DSc)
 - Sir Hugh Tett (DSc)
 
1960s
1969
- H. Freville (LLD)
 - Massey Lopes, 2nd Baron Roborough (LLD)
 - J. Whiteside (LLD)
 - Sir Alexander Cairncross (LLD)
 - Imogen Holst (DLitt)
 - H. L. Beales (DLitt)
 - Dame Kathleen Kenyon (DLitt)
 - B. F. Skinner (DSc)
 - Sir Eric Eastwood (DSc)
 - Sir Peter Medawar (DSc)
 
1968
- Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon (LLD)
 - A. S. Neill (LLD)
 - Sir Martin Davies (DLitt)
 - V. H. Galbraith (DLitt)
 - William Holford, Baron Holford (DLitt)
 - G. Wilson Knight (DLitt)
 - D. C. Hodgkin (DSc)
 - Sir Eric Smith (DSc)
 - E. A. Paddon (MA)
 - L. M. Tate (MSc)
 
1967
- Sir James Cook (LLD)
 
1966
- Henri Le Moal (LLD)
 - Sir Leslie Scarman (LLD)
 - Cleanth Brooks (DLitt)
 - Sir Frank Francis (DLitt)
 - Dame Barbara Hepworth (DLitt)
 - Patrick Blackett, Lord Blackett (DSc)
 - William Keble Martin (DSc)
 - Margaret Digby (MA)
 
1965
- Sir George Hayter-Hames (LLD)
 - Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull (LLD)
 - Marcel Bataillon (DLitt)
 - Herbert Dieckmann (DLitt)
 - Cecil Day-Lewis (DLitt)
 - Sir Dudley Stamp (DSc)
 - Sir Patrick Linstead (DSc)
 - Gerald Whitmarsh (MA)
 
1964
None
1963
- Dorothy Whitney Elmhirst (LLD)
 - Laurence Helsby, Baron Helsby (LLD)
 - Sir Peter Scott (LLD)
 - Sir Henry Slesser (LLD)
 - Sydney Chapman (DSc)
 - Professor A. V. Hill (DSc)
 
1962
- A. P. Steele-Perkins (LLD)
 
1961
- Theodor Heuss (LLD)
 - Sir Paul Sinker (LLD)
 - Bernard Leach (DLitt)
 - Agatha Christie (DLitt)
 - Sir William Hodge (DSc)
 
1960
- C. J. Fuller (LLD)
 - B. G. Lampard-Vachell (LLD)
 - Sir David Hughes Parry (LLD)
 - Carl Dolmetsch (DLitt)
 - Lionel Robbins, Lord Robbins (DLitt)
 - A. L. Rowse (DLitt)
 - Enid Starkie (DLitt)
 - Sir Frederick Russell (DSc)
 - Alexander Todd, Lord Todd (DSc)
 
1950s
1959
- Sayed Mekki Abbas (LLD)
 - Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory (LLD)
 - Sir Arthur Reed (LLD)
 - John Hay Whitney (LLD)
 - Colonel Sidney John Worsley TD (LLD)
 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (LLD)
 - Isaac Foot (DLitt)
 - Paul Henry (DLitt)
 - Ernest Newman (DLitt)
 - Sir Harry Melville (DSc)
 
1958
None
1957
- Sir John Daw (LLD)
 - E. Vincent Harris (LLD)
 - W. H. Lewis (LLD)
 - A. K. Woodbridge (MA)
 
1956
- Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (LLD)
 - Colonel Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue (LLD)
 - Sir Hector Hetherington (LLD)
 - J. L. Morill (LLD)
 - David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford (DLitt)
 - John Murray (DLitt)
 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury (DLitt)
 - Sir James Chadwick (DSc)
 
References
- ^ "Honorary graduates". University of Exeter. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
 
