Factsheet
Honorary Degrees awarded
The University has conferred the following Honorary Degrees at Academic Ceremonies on the dates shown.
Updated on 25 March 2026
Honorary degrees are awarded by the University of Dundee to recognise people who have made an outstanding contribution to society, achieved distinction in their profession, or provided exceptional service in areas connected to the University’s mission and values.
They celebrate individuals whose achievements inspire our community and reflect the impact of education, research, creativity, and public service.
Nominations
Staff and students of the University can nominate someone for an Honorary Degree at any point in the year.
| Award | Date | Honorand |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Laws | 26 June 2025 | Claudia Samayoa |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 November 2024 | Professor Mary Renfrew |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 November 2024 | Dr Joe Morrow |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 November 2024 | Professor Lee Parker |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2024 | Dr Arun Verma |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2024 | Professor Andrew Morris |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2024 | Professor Jim Skea CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2024 | Dr Sabir Zazai |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 June 2024 | Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 June 2024 | Professor Sharon Peacock CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 17 November 2023 | Fiona Edwards |
| Doctor of Laws | 17 November 2023 | Dr Jonas Nguh |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2023 | Dr Ollie Folayan MBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2023 | Professor Kamlesh Khunti CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2023 | Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter OBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2023 | Andrew Crummy MBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2023 | Professor Sir Pete Downes OBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2023 | Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 November 2022 | Professor Sosten Chiotha |
| Doctor of Laws | 17 November 2022 | Claire Mitchell KC |
| Doctor of Laws | 17 November 2022 | Zoe Venditozzi |
| Doctor of Laws | 17 November 2022 | Eilish McColgan |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2022 | Dr Tim Wells |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2022 | Dr Margo Whiteford CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2022 | Professor Andrew Hopkins |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2022 | Professor Jo Frencken |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 November 2019 | Lesley Knox OBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 November 2019 | Gary Clark |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2019 | Dr Samantha Budd Haeberlein |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2019 | Dr Parag Sancheti |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2019 | Professor Ronald Harden |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2019 | Hayley Scanlan |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2019 | Dr Francis Smith |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2019 | Dr Justice Tettey |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2019 | Professor Alastair MacLennan |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 November 2018 | Christina Lamb |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 November 2018 | Professor Bob Michell |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 November 2018 | Dr James Robson |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2018 | Dr Michel Goedert |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2018 | Gary Lightbody |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2018 | Dr Saleyha Ahsan |
| Doctor of Science | 22 June 2018 | Lord Naren Patel |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2018 | Kengo Kuma |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2018 | Anuja Dhir |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2018 | Dr Sun Xiansheng |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2018 | Martin Pistorius |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2018 | Dr Zipporah Ali |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2018 | Margaret Grant |
| Doctor of Laws | 17 November 2017 | Helen Jones |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 November 2017 | Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 November 2017 | Dr Frederik Paulsen |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2017 | David Mackenzie |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2017 | David Cunningham |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2017 | Dame Katherine Grainger |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2017 | Judge Tim Eicke, QC |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2017 | Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2017 | Alan Alda |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2017 | Fatou Bensouda |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2017 | Susan Philipsz |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 November 2016 | Dr Niall Elliott |
| Doctor of Laws | 17 November 2016 | Pamela Butchart |
| Doctor of Laws | 17 November 2016 | Joyce Cullen |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2016 | Professor Harindra Fernando |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2016 | Dr Hilal Al-Sayer |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2016 | Sir William Castell |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2016 | Sir William Patey |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2016 | Dr Charles Jencks |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2016 | Amanda Kopel |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 November 2015 | Cathy Warwick CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 November 2015 | Mary McCluskey |
| Doctor of Laws | 26 June 2015 | William David Forsyth |
| Doctor of Laws | 26 June 2015 | Dr Jung Chang |
| Doctor of Laws | 26 June 2015 | Professor Neil Robertson MacKenzie Buist |
| Doctor of Laws | 25 June 2015 | Justin Fletcher |
| Doctor of Laws | 25 June 2015 | Roddy Doyle |
| Doctor of Laws | 25 June 2015 | Professor Frank Grosveld |
| Doctor of Laws | 25 June 2015 | Stuart MacBride |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2015 | Brian Taylor |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2015 | Seamus McGarvey |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2015 | David Chester Gibbons |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 November 2014 | Ann Gloag |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 November 2014 | Professor Nicholas Hastie |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2014 | Professor WN Herbert |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2014 | Professor Chris Marshall |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2014 | Christiaan van der Kuyl |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2014 | Professor Sir David Baulcombe |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2014 | Danny Wallace |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 June 2014 | Professor David Sigsworth |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 June 2014 | Professor Ronald Laskey |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2013 | Val McDermid |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2013 | Deyan Sudjic |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2013 | Mary Schwartz |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 November 2012 | Sir Nicholas Wright |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 November 2012 | Jamie Byng |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2012 | Dr Bernard Pecoul |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2012 | Professor Anne Marie Rafferty |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2012 | Professor Iain Mattaj |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2012 | Dr Malcolm Skingle |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2012 | Professor Stephen O’Rahilly |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2012 | Professor Peter Boyle |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2012 | Professor Peter Howie |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2012 | Murray McLachlan |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2012 | Mark Beaumont |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2012 | Justice Albie Sachs |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2012 | Sir Mark Jones |
| Doctor of Laws | 2 February 2012 | Dr Andom Ogbamariam |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 November 2011 | Professor Sir John Bell |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2011 | Dr Kazem Behbehani |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2011 | Professor Douglas Hanahan |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2011 | Professor Sir David Lane |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2011 | Professor James Murray |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2011 | John Byrne |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2011 | Dr Nicholas Lydon |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2011 | Dr Martin Mackay |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2011 | Jim McLean |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 November 2010 | John Milligan CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 25 June 2010 | Nick Cave |
| Doctor of Laws | 25 June 2010 | Sir Alan Langlands |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2010 | Gosta Walin |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2010 | Bahia Hariri |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2010 | Bruce Johnston |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2010 | Roberto Lenton |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2010 | Rosamunde Pilcher OBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 26 June 2009 | Wendy Houvenaghel |
| Doctor of Laws | 26 June 2009 | Sir Paul Nurse |
| Doctor of Laws | 26 June 2009 | Sir David Weatherall |
| Doctor of Laws | 25 June 2009 | Professor Matthias Mann |
| Doctor of Laws | 25 June 2009 | Professor Frank Walsh |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2009 | Richard Holloway |
| Doctor of Laws | 8 July 2008 | Professor Alastair Wood |
| Doctor of Laws | 8 July 2008 | Professor Margaret Wood |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2008 | Professor Edmund Fischer |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2008 | Lord Foster of Thames Bank |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2008 | Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2008 | Lorraine Kelly |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2008 | Dr Walter C Willett |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2008 | William Boyd |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2008 | Alan Johnston |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 June 2008 | Dame Vivienne Westwood |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 June 2008 | Nicola Benedetti |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 June 2008 | Lord Turnbull QC |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 2007 | Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2007 | Sir Tom Blundell |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2007 | Piet Borst |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2007 | Joyce Thompson |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2007 | Jacqueline Wilson |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2007 | Carol Ann Duffy |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2007 | Georges Henry Erasmus |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2007 | Thomas Heatherwick |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2007 | Philip Pullman |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2007 | Gerald Scarfe |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 June 2007 | Ettore Sottsass |
| Doctor of Laws | 20 June 2007 | Margaret Catley-Carlson |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 February 2007 | Baroness Lynda Clark of Calton |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 February 2007 | Professor Sir Philip Cohen |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 February 2007 | John Letford |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 February 2007 | Bishop Vincent Logan |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 February 2007 | Michael Marra |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 February 2007 | Elizabeth McColgan |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 February 2007 | Russell Reid |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 February 2007 | Norman Robertson |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2006 | Catherine Hamlin |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2006 | Sybill Storz |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2006 | Andrew Thomson |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2006 | Sydney Brenner |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2006 | Christopher Lipinski |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2006 | Sheena Wellington |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2006 | Zhores Alferov |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2006 | Suzanne Lacasse |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2006 | Jimmy Murakami |
| Doctor of Laws | 22 June 2006 | Iain Ovens |
| Doctor of Laws | 31 May 2006 | Baroness Caroline Cox |
| Doctor of Laws | 31 May 2006 | Anna Glasier |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2005 | Sir Alasdair Muir Breckenridge |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2005 | Sir John Edward Sulston |
| Doctor of Science | 12 July 2005 | Sir James Whyte Black |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2005 | Noerine Kaleeba |
| Doctor of Laws | 24 June 2005 | Frederick MacAulay |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2005 | Edward de Bono |
| Doctor of Laws | 23 June 2005 | Professor Julian C R Hunt |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 May 2005 | Baroness Susan Greenfield |
| Doctor of Laws | 2 July 2004 | Hamish MacInnes |
| Doctor of Laws | 2 July 2004 | Andrew Marr |
| Doctor of Laws | 2 July 2004 | Lord Naren Patel |
| Doctor of Laws | 2 July 2004 | Jane Emily Tomlinson |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 2004 | Gavin Brown |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 2004 | Colin Malcolm Campbell |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 2004 | Alison Jane Patricia Goligher |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 2004 | Lawrence A L Rolland |
| Doctor of Laws | 30 June 2004 | Catherine Lockerbie |
| Doctor of Laws | 30 June 2004 | Duncan Macmillan |
| Doctor of Laws | 26 September 2003 | Frank Owen Gehry |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2003 | Seamus Justin Heaney |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2003 | John Bell Tuckwell |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2003 | Valerie Jennifer Tuckwell |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2003 | Vanessa Vivienne Lawrence |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2003 | Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 2003 | Peter Baillie |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 2003 | Michael S Gordon |
| Doctor of Laws | 8 July 2003 | Stella McCartney |
| Doctor of Laws | 5 February 2003 | John Simpson |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2002 | Sir Bob Geldof |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2002 | Dr Timothy Hunt |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2002 | Professor Donald McIntyre |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2002 | Professor Wilson Sibbett |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2002 | Sheridan Snyder |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2002 | Lady Strathmore |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2002 | Professor Margaret Alexander |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2002 | Dr Bonnie Dunbar |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2002 | Herbie Haxton |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2002 | David Mach |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 2002 | Robert Seaton, MA, LLB |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 2001 | Sir Robert Wilson |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 2001 | Xu Ya-Fen |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2001 | Sydney Scroggie |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2001 | Ian Graham-Bryce, CBE, MA, BSc, DPhil, CChem, FRSC, FRSA, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 2001 | Professor Salvador Moncada |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 2000 | Helen Bamber |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 2000 | Liz Locchead |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 2000 | Leslie Bisset |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 2000 | Lord Cullen |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 2000 | Sir Kenneth Murray |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 2000 | Lord George Robertson, MA (Dundee) |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 2000 | John Suchet, MA (St Andrews) |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1999 | Sir William Macpherson of Cluny |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1999 | Sir Jonathon Porritt |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1999 | Mrs Carole J Wood |
| Doctor of Laws | 8 July 1999 | Professor Sir Hans Kornberg |
| Doctor of Laws | 8 July 1999 | Elaine C Smith |
| Doctor of Laws | 8 July 1999 | Professor David E Sugden |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1998 | Professor Sir David P Tweedie |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1998 | Annie Jarvie |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1998 | Russell A Leather |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1998 | James W Duncan |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1998 | Ronald Stevenson, PhD, FRMCM, HonFRIAS |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1998 | Euan Baird |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1998 | Sir Edmund John Phillip Browne |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 May 1998 | Emeritus Principal Adam Matthew Neville, CBE, MC, TD, PhD, DSc, FEng, FIStructE, FAmSocCE, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 May 1998 | Dame Bridget Ogilvie, SCD, FIBiol. FRCPath |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 May 1998 | Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, FRS |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 May 1998 | George Henry Poste, FRS, DSc, HonLLD |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 May 1998 | Bruce Rappaport |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 May 1998 | Ruth Rappaport |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 May 1998 | Emeritus Professor Geoffrey John Fraser Dutton, BSc, PhD, DSc, HonDPhilD, Dde l'Univ, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1997 | Gary Player |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1997 | Susan K MacGregor, OBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1997 | John R Postage, FRS |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1997 | David G Robertson, CBE, MA, MEd |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1997 | Sir David Carter, MBChB, MD |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1997 | David S Wilson, DipM |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1996 | Michael John Hamlin, CBE, BSc, HonLLD, FEng, FICE, FIWEM, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1996 | Ronald Bonar |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1996 | Richard Demarco, OBE, RSW, SSA |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1996 | Michael Rosen, CBE, MBChB, FRCA, FRCOG, FRCS |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1996 | Datuk Kamal Salih, BA, MA, PhD |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1996 | Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, OBE, GRSM(Hons), LRAM, ARAM, HonDMus |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1995 | Ibrahim Shihata, SJD |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1995 | Albert Watson, DA, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1995 | Stephen Fry, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1995 | Alan William Cuthbert, BPharm, BSc, MA, PhD, FRS, HonDSc |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1995 | Peter Doyle, BSc, PhD, FRSE, HonDSc |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1995 | Sir William Duncan Paterson Stewart, BSc, PhD, DSc, FIBiol, FRS, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1994 | James Stuart Fair, MA, LLB |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1994 | The Most Revd Trevor Huddleston, CR |
| Master of Arts | 15 July 1994 | Jenny Wood Allen, JP |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1994 | Lady Duncan of Jordanstone |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1994 | Jean Muir, CBE, RDI, FCSD |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1994 | The Lord Rix, CBE, DL |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1993 | Sir Walter Bodmer, FRS, FRCPath, CBiol, FIBiol |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1993 | Sir Gordon Borrie, QC |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1993 | Brian Cox |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1993 | Professor Peter Hewlett, BSc, PhD, CChem, FRSC, FInstCeram, FICT, APRI |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1993 | William Low, CBE, JP, CBIM |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1993 | Professor Sir David Mason, CBE, BDS, FRCS, FDSRCPSG, FDSRCSE, FRCPath |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1993 | Jean Morris, CBE, MA, MEd |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1993 | Imre Makovecz |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1992 | Donald Eric Broadbent, CBE, MA, ScD, FRS, FBPsS |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1992 | Roger Geoffrey Gibbs |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1992 | Sir Douglas Hardie, CBE, FRSA |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1992 | Rosalyn Higgins, BA, LLB, JSD, QC |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1992 | Sir Robert Kilpatrick, CBE, MB, ChB, MD, FRCPE, FRCP |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1992 | Ronald H Coase, BSc(Econ) |
| Doctor of Laws | 29 April 1992 | Robert Campbell Garry, OBE, MB, ChB, DSc, FRCPG, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 29 April 1992 | Barbara Hendricks, BSc, BMus |
| Doctor of Laws | 29 April 1992 | Jean-Pierre Changeux, DR, ES SC |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1991 | James Adamson, OBE, DEng |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1991 | The Rt Hon Jack Ashley, CH, PC, MP |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1991 | Baroness Carnegy of Lour, DL |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1991 | Stuart Hood, MA, MBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1991 | David Jack, BSe, PhD, DSc, FRSC, FlBiol, FRSPharm, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1991 | The Rt Hon Lord Ross, QC, PC |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1990 | Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, PC |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1990 | Peter Bryan Garland, MA, MB, BChir, PhD, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1990 | Rev William Boyd Robertson MacMillan, MA, BD |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1990 | Sir Alan Turner Peacock, MA, DSc, FBA |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1990 | The Rt Hon. Lord Scarman, KT, PC, OBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1990 | Elizabeth Ward, MBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1989 | William Fyffe Morrison Dorward, MB, ChB, FRCGP |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1989 | Donald Blane Grant, CA, TD |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1989 | The Rt Hon Lord McCluskey of Churchhill, QC |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1989 | Bruce Millan, CA |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1989 | Sir Laurens van der Post, CBE, FRSL, Hon DLitt DUniv |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1988 | Robert Baynes Horton, BSc, SM |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1988 | Hans W Kosterlitz, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCPE, FRS, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1988 | Sir Malcolm Campbell MacNaughton, MD, FRCPG, FRCOG, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1988 | David Morrison Walker, DA, CertEd, Hon FRIAS |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1987 | Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, BA, FRSL |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1987 | Gene Howard Golub, MA, PhD |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1987 | The Most Rev Lawrence Edward Luscombe, CA, ASAA, FSAScot |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1987 | Ivar Andreas Mjor, BDS, MSD, DrOdont |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1987 | Geoffrey Donald Sims, OBE, MSc, PhD, FEng, FIEE, FIERE, FCGI |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1987 | Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, PhD, DIC, DSc(Eng), DipEng, FICE, FASCE, FCGI, FRS, FEng |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1986 | Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest, MD, FRCS, FRCSE, FRCSG, Hon DSc, Hon FACS |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1986 | Norman Alexander MacCaig, OBE, MA, FRSL, Hon DUniv |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1986 | James Paton McPherson |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1986 | Brigadier Helen Guild Meechie, CBE, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1986 | Robert Gordon Wilson, BL, MP |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1985 | Sir Kenneth John Wilson Alexander, BSc(Econ), Hon LLD, Hon DUniv, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1985 | Sir Herbert Vernon Bonar, CBE, BA, Hon LLD |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1985 | The Rt Hon Lord Flowers, CBE, MA, MSc, DSc, Hon DSc, FlnstP, Hon FIEE, Hon FCGI, FRS |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1985 | Lady Naomi Margaret Mitchison, CBE, QC, Hon LLD, Hon DUniv |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1985 | Sir Alan Marshall Muir Wood, MA, FICE, FRS |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1985 | John James Andrew Reid, CB, TD, BSc, MD, Hon DSc, FRCP, FRCPE, DPH, FFCM, FRCPS |
| Master of Arts | 12 July 1985 | Jimmy Shand, MBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1984 | Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, MA, PRS |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1984 | Jessie Kesson |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1984 | Sir Fitzroy Hew MacLean of Dunconnel, Bt, CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1984 | Virindar Mohan Malhotra, PEng, BSc, BE |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1984 | Lech Walesa |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1983 | Hew Martin Lorimer, RSA, FRBS |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1983 | Lord Mackay of Clashfern, PC, QC, BA, MA, LLB |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1983 | George Ross Mathewson, BSc, PhD, MBA |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1983 | John Angus Macbeth Mitchell, CB, CVO, MC, BA |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1983 | William Nicoll, CMG, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1983 | lain Crichton Smith, OBE, MA, FRSL |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1982 | John Harrison Burnett, MA, DPhil, FRSE, FlBiol |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1982 | David Carnegy-Arbuthnott, CA, DL |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1982 | Laszlo Gombos, Dr rer jur, Barrister |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1982 | Dame Margaret Kidd, QC |
| Doctor of Laws | 16 July 1982 | Joan Macintosh, CBE, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 5 May 1982 | Professor Christopher Charles Booth, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, HonFACP, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite |
| Doctor of Laws | 5 May 1982 | Charles Dargie Brown, BSc, FFE |
| Doctor of Laws | 5 May 1982 | Geoffrey Kemp Caston, MA, MPA |
| Doctor of Laws | 5 May 1982 | Professor Walter Joseph Kamba, BA, LLB, LLM |
| Doctor of Laws | 5 May 1982 | Professor Malcolm Sim Longair, BSc, MA, PhD |
| Doctor of Laws | 5 May 1982 | Lord Mackie of Benshie, CBE, DSO, DFC |
| Doctor of Laws | 5 May 1982 | Dame Kiri Ti Kanawa, OBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1981 | Professor John Russell Anderson, BSc, MD, MRCP, FRCPG, FRCPath, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1981 | Sir Neil Cameron, GCB, CBE, DSO, DFC, AE |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1981 | William Knight Fitzgerald, CBE, JP, DL |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1981 | Emeritus Professor Hubert Horace Lamb, MA, FRMetS, FRGS |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1981 | Dorothea, Countess of Mansfield and Mansefield |
| Doctor of Laws | 10 July 1981 | The Very Rev Principal James Aitken Whyte, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1980 | James Whyte Black, MB, ChB, Hon DSc, Hon DTech, FRS, FRCP |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1980 | The Rt Hon The Lord Boyle of Handsworth, PC, MA, Hon LLD, Hon DLitt, Hon DSc, Hon FRCS |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1980 | Mark James Walter Cameron, Hon DLitt |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1980 | Edward Edmund Kemp, MBE, VMH, DPH |
| Doctor of Laws | 11 July 1980 | Albert Morrocco, RSA |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1979 | Emeritus Principal James Drever, MA, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1979 | Hamish Scott Henderson, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1979 | Andrew Short, MSc |
| Doctor of Laws | 13 July 1979 | Sir Leonard Gordon Wolfson, Hon FRCP, Hon PhD, Hon DCL, Hon LLD, Hon DSc |
| Master of Science | 13 July 1979 | Colin Hutcheon Gibson, DA |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1978 | The Hon Mark Raymond Bonham Carter, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1978 | Professor Donald Johan Kuenen, PhD, DSc |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1978 | David Fleming McCurrach, OBE, BL |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1978 | Professor Patrick Dunbar Ritchie, BSc, PhD, FRIC, FPI, MlChemE, FRSE |
| Master of Medical Science | 14 July 1978 | Judy Peden Greig, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1977 | George Mackay Brown, OBE, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1977 | John Belford Wilson Christie, BA, LLB |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1977 | The Rt Hon The Earl of Elgin, DL, JP, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1977 | Sir Basil Henry David Montgomery, Bt, DL, JP |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1977 | Mrs Sybil Douglas Murray, MBE, BA, Hon FEIS |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1977 | Sir Rex Edwards Richards, MA, DSc, FRS |
| Doctor of Laws | 15 July 1977 | The Very Rev David Steel, MA, BD, Hon DD |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1976 | Sir William Melville Arnott, TD, BSc, MD, Hon DSc, Hon LLD, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPath, FRSE, Hon FRCPC, Hon FACP |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1976 | Sir Charles Gibson Connell, BL, WS, JP |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1976 | Robert Kemsley Orr, CBE, MA, MusD, FRCM, Hon RAM |
| Doctor of Laws | 9 July 1976 | Lewis Guy Melville Thorpe, BA, LesL, PhD, D de l'U, FRHistS, FIAL, FRSA |
| Master of Arts | 9 July 1976 | Harry Russell Halkerston Woolford, OBE, FMA, FIIC |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 July 1975 | Sir William Hardie Kininmonth, PRSA, FRIBA, FRIAS, RA, RSW |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 July 1975 | Douglas Moul Mclntosh, CBE, MA, BSc, PhD, FRSE, FEIS |
| Doctor of Laws | 18 July 1975 | Sir Walter Laing Macdonald Perry, OBE, MD, DSc, FRCPE, FRSE |
| Master of Medical Science | 18 July 1975 | Douglas Swan Fraser |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1974 | The Hon James Alexander Charles Auld |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1974 | Professor Lothar Gollatz |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1974 | Professor Gordon Elliot Fogg, PhD, ScD, FRS, CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1974 | Sir Dingle Macintosh Foot, PC, QC, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1974 | Colonel Charles Newbigging Thomson, CBE, DSO, TD, DL, CA |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1974 | George Waterston, OBE, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1973 | Brigadier The Rt Hon Lord Ballantrae, GCMG, GCVO. DSO, OBE, DCL, LLD |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1973 | The Rt Hon Lord Guest, PC, QC, MA, LLB |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1973 | The Rt Hon Roy Harris Jenkins, PC, MP, BA, DCL |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1973 | James Mclntosh Patrick, RSA |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1972 | Professor William Fisher Cassie, CBE, BSc, PhD, FRSE, FICE, MlStructE, FlnstHE, AMTPI |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1972 | Sorley Maclean |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1972 | Sir Robert Heatlie Scott, GCMG, CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 14 July 1972 | Sir George Taylor, DSc, FRS, FRSE, FLS |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1971 | Professor Lars Goran Borg |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1971 | The Very Rev Hugh Osborne Douglas, CBE, MA, DD |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1971 | Lewis Findlay Robertson, CBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1971 | John Kenneth Sinclair St Joseph, MA, PhD |
| Doctor of Laws | 12 July 1971 | Eliot Trevor Oakeshott Slater, CBE, MA, MD |
| Master of Science | 12 July 1971 | George Hendry, BEM |
| Doctor of Laws | 6 July 1970 | Professor Gerald Jean Antoine, DesL |
| Doctor of Laws | 6 July 1970 | John Berry, CBE, PhD |
| Doctor of Laws | 6 July 1970 | Angus Anderson Fulton, CBE, BSc, FICE, FIME, FIEE, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 6 July 1970 | The Very Rev Alastair lan Macdonald Haggart, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 6 July 1970 | James Roy Lindsay Halley, OBE |
| Doctor of Laws | 6 July 1970 | Emeritus Professor Sir lan George Wilson Hill, CBE, TD, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPE, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 1969 | Cedric Thorpe Davie, OBE, FRAM, ARCM |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 1969 | Miss Ursula Katherine Duncan, MA, FLS |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 1969 | Robert Brockie Hunter, MBE, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPE, FACP |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 1969 | Councillor Maurice McManus, CBE, JP, DL |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 1969 | Jiri Mucha |
| Doctor of Laws | 1 July 1969 | Peter Ustinov, FRSA |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 August 1968 | The Rt Hon Lord Jackson of Burnley, FRS |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 August 1968 | Professor Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS |
| Doctor of Laws | 21 August 1968 | Sir Peter Brian Medawar, CBE, FRS |
| Doctor of Laws | 2 July 1968 | Mrs Agnes Watson Dow, MA, MB, ChB |
| Doctor of Laws | 2 July 1968 | The Rt Hon Lord Fulton of Falmer, MA, LLD, DLitt |
| Doctor of Laws | 2 July 1968 | Professor William James Millar Mackenzie, CBE, MA, LLB |
| Doctor of Laws | 2 July 1968 | Sir William Stuart Murrie, GCB, KBE, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 October 1967 | Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 October 1967 | Nelson Thomas Carne, OBE, JP |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 October 1967 | The Rt Hon The Earl of Dalhousie, KT, GBE. MC, LLD |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 October 1967 | Sir Malcolm Knox, MA, LLD, DLitt, FRSE |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 October 1967 | Ronald Buchanan McCallum, MA |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 October 1967 | Brigadier James Alexander Oliver, CB, CBE, DSO, TD, DL |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 October 1967 | The Rt Hon George Morgan Thomsoll, PC, MP |
| Doctor of Laws | 19 October 1967 | Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley, CB, DSO, MC, DL, LLD |