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2023
Honorary Degrees
- Dr Noubar Afeyan
- Professor Sir Donaldson
- Professor Deborah F Smith
College Medals
- Professor Neil Alford MBE
- Dr Kenny Weir
- Chris Banks
- Nicholas Collett
- Lynne Cox BEM
- Jill Finney
- Professor Susan Gibson
- Jo Harlow
- Brian Lee
- Richard Martin
- Professor Emma McCoy
- Professor Mary Morrell
- Maria Piggin
- Professor John Seddon
- Bernard Taylor CVO CBE DL
- Professor Richard Thompson
- Mickie Turner-Goble
2022
Honorary Degrees
- Professor Sir John Savill
- Dame Kate Bingham
- Jonathan Flint
- Dr Malcolm Weir
College Medals
- Professor Alan Armstrong
- Terry Branch
- Professor Jan Carlstedt-Duke
- Professor Joanna Haigh
- Professor Chris Hankin
- Professor Jeff Kramer
- Philip Notley
- Iain Conn
- Dr Kleoniki Gounaris
- Professor Sian Harding
- Professor Maggie Dallman
- Professor Alison McGregor
- Joanna Thompson
- Dr Benita Cox
- Jon Hancock
- Nick Moakes
- Professor Nelson Phillips
- Kenneth Keating
- Ann Kelly
- Jon Tucker
- Professor Peter Barnes
- Professor Charles Coombes
- Professor Peter Sever
- Professor Jaspal Kooner
- Professor Sir John Kendry
- Professor Robert Spence
- Patricia Watson (posthumous)
- Professor Tom Welton
2021
Honorary Degrees
- Sir Sam Jonah (celebrated in person in 2022 ceremony)
- Ross Brawn OBE (celebrated in person in 2022 ceremony)
- Baroness Brown of Cambridge, DBE, FREng, FRS, Julia King (celebrated in person in 2022 ceremony)
- William Butler-Adams OBE CEng (celebrated in person in 2022 ceremony)
- Professor Gordon Dougan FMedSci, FRS (celebrated in person in 2022 ceremony)
- Professor Dame Georgina Mace DBE FRS (posthumous) (celebrated in person in 2022 ceremony)
- Dervilla Mitchell (celebrated in person in 2022 ceremony)
- Professor Howard R Morris FRS
- Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE
- Sarah Wilkinson
- Professor Sir John Savill
College Medals
- Dr Lorraine Craig
- Professor Anne Dell CBE
- Professor Elio Riboli
2019
Honorary Degrees
- Dr Fabiola Gianotti
- Professor David Gosman
- Dr Menelas Pangalos
- Professor Dame Linda Partridge
- Dr Ian Shott
Imperial College Medal
- Mr Malcolm Aldridge
- Professor James Best
- Eur Ing Trevor Chambers
- Professor Peter Cheung
- Emeritus Professor Samuel Eilon
- Professor David Gann
- Ms Tracy Halsey
- Ms Louise Lindsay
- Professor Jeff Magee
- Mr Jeremy Newsum
- Mr Roger Pownall
- Dr John Shemilt
2018
Honorary Degrees
- Dame Mary Archer
- Professor Dame Sally Davies
- Dr Demis Hassabis
- Professor Sir Keith O’Nions
- Professor Mary Robinson
Imperial College Medal
- Professor Peter Bearman
- Mr Richard Dickins
- Professor Dot Griffiths
- Professor Jeff Magee
- Ms Jane Neary
- Professor Morris Sloman
- Dr Alan Swann
2017
Honorary Graduates
- Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewcz
- Professor Stephen Hawking
- Professor Richard Parker
- Professor Sir Nicholas Wright
Imperial College Medal
- Mr Kevin Cope
- Mr David Featherbe
- Mrs Gail Hallissey
- Professor John Kilner
- Professor Geoff Maitland
- Professor Sara Rankin
- Ms Rosie Shaw
- Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor
- Professor Denis Wright
2016
Honorary Graduates
- Professor Jean Tirole
- Dr Patrick Vallance
- Professor Yves Levy
- The Lord Boyce
- Professor Donald Hill Perkins CBE
Imperial College Medal
- Dr Lynda White
- Bob Parish
- Professor Geoffrey Hewitt
- Professor David Miles
- Margaret Quinn
- Ezara Bird
- Baroness Manningham-Buller
- Shaun Crofton
- Doris Pappoe
- Lisa Phillips
- Professor Justin Cobb
2015
Honorary Graduates
- Sir John Armitt
- Sir Michael Dixon
- Professor Frank Kelly
- Professor Dame Julia Higgins
- Professor Liz Simpson
Imperial College Medal
- Mrs Julia Anderson
- Professor Mino Green
- Professor Lionel Lee
- Professor Stephen Richardson
- Professor Henry Rzepa
- Miss Mandy Thorpe
2014
Honorary Graduates
- Koh Boon Hwee
- Onora O’Neill, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve
- Professor Sir Keith Peters
- Professor Sir Richard Peto
- Professor Brian Spalding
Imperial College Medal
- Rodney Eastwood
- Rajive Kaul
- Her Excellency Professor Maha Barakat
- Professor Jenny Higham
2013
Honorary Graduates
- Sir John Bell
- Dr Fatih Birol
- Professor Dame Ann Dowling
- Sir Adrian Smith
- Sir John Parker
- Professor Tim Pedley
Imperial College Medal
- Professor David Begg
- Sinclair Goodlad
- Emeritus Professor Howard Thomas
- Sir Peter Knight
- Roderick Rhys Jones
2012
Fellows
- Lord Kerr of Kinlochard
- Martin Knight
- David Lloyd-Smith
Honorary Graduates
- Ray O'Rourke
Imperial College Medal
- Jonathan Spatz
2011
Fellows
- Sir Peter Gershon
- Alan Howard
Honorary Graduates
- Sir Liam Donaldson
Imperial College Medal
- Phillip Blissett
- Susan Hartman
- Bob Schroter
- Robin Smith
- Anna Thomas-Betts
2010
Fellows
- Ram Gidoomal
- Lim Chuan Poh
- Lady Wolfson of Marylebone
Honorary Graduates
- * Sir Hugh Ford
- Robert M. Nerem
- Lord Sainsbury of Turville
Associate
- * Sharine Brown
Imperial College Medal
- Reverend Brooke Kingsmill-Lunn
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2000 - 2009
2009
Fellows
- Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
- Dame Julia Higgins
- *Tom Kibble
- Tony Mitcheson
- Rees Rawlings
Honorary Graduates
- Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham
- Mohamed Ibrahim
- * Dame Louise Johnson
Associate
- Linda Jones
2008
Fellows
- * Anthony Evans
- David Phillips
Honorary Graduates
- Dame Carol Black
- Christian Brechot
- Sir William Castell
- Bernie Ecclestone
- Anne Lauvergeon
- Janez Potocnik
- Sir John Rose
- Guy Weston
- Lord Wolfson of Marylebone
Associate
- Anne Barrett
- Diana Patterson-Fox
2007
Fellows
- Trevor Phillips
- Ratan Tata
- Edmund Daukoru
Honorary Graduates
- The Rt. Hon. Lord Browne
- Lisbet Rausing
- J. Craig Venter
First Honorary Graduates to receive Imperial College London degrees
- Winston Wong
- Lily Safra
- Dame Vivien Duffield
- Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned
- HRH The Prince Philip The Duke of Edinburgh
Asia Convocation Honorary Degrees
- Sir Michael Kadoorie
- Walter Kwok
- Richard Lee
- David Li Kwok-po
- Philip Yeo
2006
Fellows
- Sir Brian Bender
- Sir John Lawton
- Frank Leppington
- Sir Christopher O'Donnell
- Mark Walport
- Victor Wynn
Honorary Graduates
- Lady Hamlyn
- Michel Kazatchkine
Associate
- Anthony Rippon
- Nigel Wheatley
2005
Fellows
- Amit Chatterjee
- Susan E. Ion
- Melvyn Myers
- Sir Colin Terry
Honorary Graduates
- Hans Rausing
- Haile Debas
2004
Fellows
- Bertil Andersson
- Sir Alec Broers
- John Burland
- Sir Alan Fersht
- Keith Miller
- Robert Williamson
Honorary Graduates
- Murray Brennan
- Sir Peter Lampl
2003
Fellows
- Lord Oxburgh
- Sir John Pattison
- Sir Gordon Conway
- Sir Colin Dollery
- Christopher Edwards
- William Wakeham
Honorary Graduates
- Colin Caro
- Charles Rees
- Sir Peter Morris
Associate
- Colin Kerr
2002
Fellows
- Magda Czigany
- Philip Ruffles
- Gary Tanaka
- Lee Ku an Yew
Honorary Graduate
- Michael Dexter
Associate
- Peter Hallworth
2001
Fellows
- Wilfred Corrigan
- Sir Peter J. Lachmann
- John H.D. Pres cott
Honorary Graduates
- Claude Allègre
- Sir John Crofton
- James Dyson
Associate
- David Goodgame
- Margaret Goodga me
- Elizabeth Moynihan
2000
Fellows
- Brigitte A. Askonas
- Steven V. Ley
- David Q. Mayne
Honorary Graduates
- Peter Doherty
- Susan Lyons
- Sir Paul Nurse
- Lord Turnberg
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1990 - 1999
1999
Fellows
- * Eric H. Brown
- Sir Robert J. Margetts
- Peter E. Mee
- Klaus F. Roth
Honorary Graduates
- Dame Bridget Ogilvie
- Lord Puttnam of Queensgate
- Sir Richard Sykes
1998
Fellows
- * John S. Archer
- Nay Htun
- Stuart A. Lipton
- David E. Potter
- Sir Evelyn de Rothschild
- J. Trevor Stuart
1997
Fellows
- Patrick J. Dowling
- Brian E.F. Fender
- Sir Robert May
- Joe Y. Pillay
- Sankar K. Sen
Honorary Graduates
- Roger M. Bonnet
- Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
- Ernest Hondros, CMG
- Lord Weinstock of Bowden
1996
Fellows
- * Bruce McA. Sayers
- Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick
- Lord Vincent of Coleshill
- Sir Peter Williams
- Lewis Wolpert
1995
Fellows
- Sir Eric Ash
- Hon-Kwan Cheng
- John P. MacArthur
- * A.K. Oppenheim
- * Kenneth E. Weale
1994
Fellows
- Sir David Cox
- Sir Ralph Robins
- Roger W.H. Sargent
- * Elsie M. Widdowson
- * Abdus Salam
1993
Fellows
- Syamal Gupta
- The Hon. Sara Morrison
- * Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz
- * Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
- * Sir Alfred Lane Beit
1992
Fellows
- Sir Roger Bannister
- Sir John Cadogan
- * Alexander King
- * John H. Smith
1991
Fellows
- Sir Alan Cottrell
- Peter A. Cox
- * The Lord Wolfson of Marylebone
- * Sir Edward Dunlop
- * Ralph Alexander Raphael
1990
Fellows
- * John F. Levy
- * Sir James Lighthill
- * Sir Frank Hartley
- * Eric R. Laithwaite
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1980 - 1989
1989
Fellows
- Walter K. Hayman
- * Sir Norman Payne
- Sir David Weatherall
- * Joseph Kestin
- * (Ian) Robert Maxwell
1988
Fellows
- Ian Butterworth
- * The Rt. Hon. Sir Frank Cooper
- Sir Peter Hirsch
- Sir Stanley Peart
- Mostafa K. Tolba
- * Soichiro Honda
1987
Fellows
- * William C. Brown
- The Hon. Rilwanu Lukman
- * Lord Porter
- David D. Raphael
- * Leonard Rotherham
1986
Fellows
- Sir Geoffrey Allen
- Bernard G. Neal
- Baroness Warnock
- * Sir Toby Weaver
- * Dorothy E.C. Wedderburn
1985
Fellows
- * John H. Argyris
- Lord Carr
- Sir John Egan
- H. Morton Neal
- Sir Randolph Quirk
- * John Sutton
1984
Fellows
- Sir Clive Sinclair
- * Sir Alec W. Skempton
- * Sir Richard Southwood
- Heinrich P.K. Ursprung
- * Sumant Moolgaokar
1983
Fellows
- * Anthony R. Barringer
- Sir Peter Baxendell
- * Sir Hugh Ford
- * William R.S. Garton
- Sir William Hawthorne
1982
Fellows
- The Hon. Shou Lum Chen
- * Marc Julia
- * John Stodart Kennedy
- * Marston Grieg Fleming
1981
Fellows
- * Sir Alan Muir Wood
- * Alfred Rene John Paul Ubbelohde
- * Sir David Huddie
- * Sir Sydney Martin
1980
Fellows
- * Alfred G. Gaydon
- * Sir Andrew Huxley
- Reimar Lüst
- * John P. Sowden
- * Sir Derek Barton
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1970 - 1979
1979
Fellows
- Jean-Jacques Baron
- Peter W. Foster
- * Percy Cyril Claude Garnham
- * Michael John Davies
- * Sir Monty Finniston
1978
Fellows
- Sven Olving
- * Sir Angus Paton
- * Sir Ernst Boris Chain
- * Sir Laurence Kirwan
- * Sir Nevill Mott
1977
Fellows
- * The Rt Hon. Lord Armstrong of Sanderstead
- * Jack Wheeler Barrett
- * Eric Francis Cutcliffe
- * B.G. Levich
- * James Dwyer McGee
- * Sir Vincent Wigglesworth
1976
Fellows
- * Kenneth G. Denbigh
- * Sir Kingsley Dunham
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
- * Sir David Woodbine-Parish
- * The Rt Hon. Lord Kearton of Whitchurch
1975
Fellows
- * The Lord Scarman
- Dame Margaret Weston
- * Alfred Spinks
- * Harry Jones
- * The Rt Hon. Lord Rothschild
1974
Fellows
- * Sir Ralf Dahrendorf
- * The Hon. Sir Henry Fisher
- * Sir John Mason
- * Bernard Paul Gregory
- * Sir Douglas Logan
- * Sir Alistair Pilkington
1973
Fellows
- * Oscar V.S. Heath
- Robert W. Sarnoff
- William D. Scott
- * Geoffrey Morse Binnie
- * Sir Robert Lang Lickley
1972
Fellows
- * Douglas William Holder
- * Sir Alan Hodgkin
- * Sir Edward Playfair
- * Alan Woodworth Johnson
- * The Lord Flowers
1971
Fellows
- * Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold
- * Miss Letitia Chitty
- * Nicholas Kemmer
- * Sir David Nicolson
- Bernard Boxall
1970
Fellows
- * R.N. Dogra
- * Dennis Gabor
- * Rudolph Glossop
- * Sir Owen Saunders
- * Sir Andrew Akiba Shonfield
An asterisk (*) appears before the name of a deceased Fellow or Honorary Graduate
1960 - 1969
1969
Fellows
- * His Excellency Mr Andre Clasen
- * William Owen James
- * The Lord Nelson of Stafford
- * Owain Westmacott Richards
- * Arthur Robert Owen Williams
1968
Fellows
- * Donald H. Hey
- Stephen W.K. Morgan
- * Geoffrey Emett Blackman
- * Sir Harold Harding
- * Sir Denning Pearson
- * David Williams
1967
Fellows
- * Sir Ewart Jones
- * The Lord Black ett of Chelsea
- * Sir Charles Goodeve
- * Sir William McCrea
- * George Hoole Mitchell
- * James Newby
1966
Fellows
- * Sir Derman Christophe rson
- * Edwin S. Hills
- * James Cecil Mitcheson
- * Helen Kemp Porter
- * Sir Hubert Shirley-Smith
- * Arnold Tustin
1965
Fellows
- * Sir Charles Cawley
- * Austen Harry Albu
- * Sir Andrew Bryan
- * Reginald John Halsey
- * Sir Gilbert Roberts
1964
Fellows
- * Sir Hugh Tett
- * John Stuart Anderson
- * The Rt Hon. Lord Beeching
- * Sir Charles Lillicrap
- * George Sail Campbell Lucas
- * Walter Frederick Whittard
1963
Fellows
- * Harry Julius Emeleus
- * Sir Arnold H al l
- * William Hume-Rothery
- * Sir Terence Morrison-Scott
- * Dudley Maurice Newitt
- * The Rt Hon. Lord Sherfield
- * Constance Fligg Tipper
1962
Fellows
- * Arthur Alfred Eldridge
- * George Ingle Finch
- * Sir Stanley George Hooker
- * Sir Owen Jones
- * Reginald Leslie Smith-Rose
- * Sir James Stubblefield
1961
Fellows
- * Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
- * Albert Charles Chibnall
- * Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane
- * Donald Thomas A lfred Townend
- * Joseph Herbert Watson
1960
Fellows
- * Cecil William Dannatt
- * Frederick Gugenheim Gregory
- * The Lord King Norton of Wotton Underw ood
- * Geoffrey Charles Lowry
- * Sir William Pugh
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1950 - 1959
1959
Fellows
- * Sir Lewis Casson
- * Sir Graham Cunningham
- * Arthur Holmes
- * Sir Christopher (Kelk) Ingold
- * Ronald McKinnon-Wood
- * Leonard Bessemer Pfeil
1958
Fellows
- * Henry Vincent Aird Briscoe
- * Charles Alfred Bristow
- * The Hon. Hugh Fletcher-Moulton
- * Vincent Charles Illing
- * Alfred John Sutton Pippard
- * Stanley Livingstone Smith
1957
Fellows
- * Sir Harold Bishop
- * Edward Hindle
- * Hyman Levy
- * Philip Rabone
- * Herbert Harold Read
- * Albert Percival Rowe
- * Charles Egbart Reynolds Sams
1956
Fellows
- * William Brown
- * Sydney Chapman
- * David Garnett
- * The Lord Jackson of Burnley
- * James Watson Munro
- * The Lord Penney of East Hendred
- * William Francis Gray Swann
1955
Fellows
- * The Lord Ashby of Brandon
- * Laurence Carr Hill
- * John Anthony Sydney Ritson
- * Sir George Paget Thomson
1954
Fellows
- * Sir David Brunt
- * Henry Francis Cronin
- * Sir Alfred Egerton
- * Arthur Montague Holbein
- * William Alfred Cyril Newman
1953
Fellows
- * Francis Howard Carr
- * Arthur Clifford Hartley
- * William Richard Jones
- * William Nowell
- * Marmaduke Tudsbery Tudsbery
- * Sir Bruce Gordon White
1952
Fellows
- * Sir Leonard Bairstow
- * Raymond George Hubert Clements
- * Sir John Theodore Hewitt
- * Robert Salmon Hutton
1951
Fellows
- * Robert Annan
- * Gordon Maskew Fair
- * Sir Frederick Handley-Page
- * Sir Ian Heilbron
- * Edward Duffield McDermott
- * Stanley Robson
1950
Fellows
- * Sir George Dyson
- * Jeremy Clarke Hunsaker
- * Sir Richard Southwell
- * Sir Henry Steward
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1940 - 1949
1949
Fellows
- * Karl Taylor Compton
- * Harold Johann Thomas Ellingham
- * Sir Henry Mc Mahon
- * Thomas Arthur Rickard
- * William Selkirk
1948
Fellows
- * Alfred Jefferson Brett
- * Rev. James Owen Hannay
- * John Johnson
- * Edward Frank Dalby Witchell
1947
Fellows
- * Warren Royal Dawson
- * Sir Arthur Hall
- * Sir James Pringle
1946
Fellows
- * Vernon Herbert Blackman
- * Alexander Gow
- * Walter T. Prideaux
- * Sir Evelyn Shaw
- * Sir John Edward Thornycroft
- * Sir Gilbert Walker
- * Martha Annie Whiteley
1945
Fellows
- * Charles Samuel Garland
- * Percy Good
- * Sir Andrew McCance
- * The Lord Rayleigh
- * Sir Pierre van Ryneveld
- * Samuel John Truscott
- * William Whitehead Watts
- * Alfred North Whitehead
- * Harry Egerton Wimperis
1944
Fellows
- * The Lord Falmouth
- * William Palmer Wynne
1943
Fellows
- * Herbert George Wells
- * Frank Twyman
- * Frederick Charles Lea
- * James Gunson Lawn
- * Frederick William Lanchester
1942
Fellows
- * Sir Henry (Thomas) Tizard
1941
Fellows
- * Sydney William Smith
An asterisk (*) appears before the name of a deceased Fellow or Honorary Graduate
1930 - 1939
1939
Fellows
- * Edward Frankland Armstrong
- * Oscar Faber
- * Thomas Turner
1937
Fellows
- * Charles Vickery Drysdale
- * Sir Albert Howard
- * Edward Thomas McCarthy
- * Sir Frank Smith
1935
Fellow
- * Alfred Fowler
1934
Fellows
- * Sir Alfred Chatterton
- * William Eccles
- * Conwy Lloyd Morgan
- * William Johnson Sollas
1933
Fellows
- * Percy Faraday Frankland
- * Henry Louis
- * Sir Basil Mott
- * Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton
1932
Fellows
- * Sir Charles Boys
- * William Frecheville
- * Sir Ralph Freeman
- * Sir Thomas Holland
- * Herbert Alfred Humphrey
- * Richard Dixon Oldham
- * Sir William (Jackson) Pope
- * James Whitehead
- * Sir Herbert Wright
An asterisk (*) appears before the name of a deceased Fellow or Honorary Graduate