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Since 1993 Sheffield Hallam University has awarded doctorates to those who have achieved distinction in their field. Such as their contribution to education, the arts or the community.

From 1969- 1993, we awarded honorary fellowships, which were based on similar criteria as doctorates.

Below is a list of our honorary awardees (*deceased).

2022

  • Ayo Akinwolere
  • Sarah Clarke CVO OBE
  • Maddy Desforges OBE
  • Geri Halliwell-Horner
  • Carly Jones MBE
  • Anne Longfield CBE
  • Peak District Mountain Rescue
  • His Honour Judge Graham Robinson
  • Professor Judy Simons
  • Lord Simon Stevens of Birmingham KT

 

2021

  • Carol Bernard CBE
  • Millie Bright
  • Jonathan Disley
  • Greg Fell
  • Dr Carolyn Griffiths
  • Professor Sir Michael Marmot CH
  • Patricia “Pattie” Moore
  • Jacqui Oatley MBE
  • Bryony Page
  • Sunjeev Sahota

 

2020

    Unfortunately, due to a global pandemic, Sheffield Hallam did not award any honorary degrees in 2020.

 

2019

  • Matthew Bannister
  • Chris Chibnall
  • Professor Sir Paul Collier CBE FBA
  • Ken Dunn MBE
  • Daniel Gordon
  • Dame Ann Limb DBE DL
  • Dr Robert Macfarlane
  • The Hon Albert “Albie” Sachs
  • Sheffield Forgemasters Ltd
  • Kim Streets
  • Baroness Shriti Vadera PC
  • Laura Wade
  • Dr Carrie Yau

 

2018

  • Jonathan Butterell
  • Tom MacRae
  • Pete McKee
  • Dan Gillespie Sells
  • Dawn Shadforth
  • Professor Betsy Stanko OBE
  • Louis Theroux
  • Danny Willett
  • Professor Robert Winston

 

2017

  • Kathryn Allatt
  • Carl Cavers
  • Grace Clough MBE
  • Dorothy Fleming*  
  • Tunde Okewale MBE
  • Sir Michael Parkinson CBE*
  • David Richards

 

2016

  • Amanda Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
  • Professor Philip Jones
  • Sir Alan Langlands FRSE
  • Ken Loach
  • Baroness Zahida Manzoor CBE
  • Professor John Martin
  • Nick Matthew OBE
  • David Moody CVO
  • Dr Beatriz Pont
  • Clive Stafford-Smith OBE

 

2015

  • The Right Hon Baroness Valerie Amos, LG
  • Dr Louise Brooke-Smith OBE
  • Sir Andrew Cash OBE
  • Nicole Cooke MBE
  • Jerry Dammers
  • Bruce Houlder CB KC DL
  • Dame Fiona Kendrick DBE
  • Jayne Pearce-McMenamin
  • Richard Wilson OBE

 

2014

  • Professor John Brooks
  • Heather Croall
  • Dianne Jeffrey CBE
  • Baroness Helena Kennedy KC FRSA
  • Dr Chung Wai Ping
  • Martin Temple CBE
  • David Threlfall

 

2013

  • Julia Bradbury
  • Kevin Curley CBE
  • Karen Darke MBE
  • Max Fischer
  • Baroness Doreen Lawrence of Clarendon OBE
  • Corin Mellor
  • James North-Hearn
  • Dr Chai Patel CBE
  • Leon Taylor

 

2012

  • Mark Aston
  • David Baldwin*
  • Sir George Buckley
  • The Right Hon Richard Caborn
  • Lord Paul Deighton KBE
  • Daniel Evans
  • Dr Tan Chik Heok
  • Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe KPM
  • Eliot Kennedy
  • Marina Lewycka
  • Emily Maitlis
  • Maurice Marks*
  • James Newman OBE
  • Mark Ridgway OBE
  • George Shaw
  • Sarah Stevenson Jennings MBE
  • Professor Dianne Willcocks CBE DL

 

2011

  • Kal Atwal
  • Mick Elliott
  • Frank Eul*
  • Lesley Garrett CBE
  • Professor Dame Celia Hoyles DBE
  • Mo Laycock OBE
  • Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE
  • Professor Julietta Patnick CBE
  • Alex Pettifer MBE
  • Ian Sarson
  • Howard Webb MBE

 

2010

  • Christopher Bailey CBE
  • John Foster MBE
  • Professor Sir Christopher Frayling
  • Sir Michael Heller*  
  • Mark Herbert
  • Nicholas Jeffrey*  
  • Dr Ian Johnston CB FRSA
  • Kate Rusby
  • Jenny Watson CBE
  • Dominic West

 

2009

  • Simon Armitage CBE
  • Susan Bailey MBE
  • Sir David Brailsford CBE
  • Jarvis Cocker
  • Richard Dale
  • Angela Galvin FRSA
  • Dame Hilary Mantel DBE*   
  • Christopher Rea OBE
  • Professor Karol Sikora
  • John Taylor
  • James Toseland
  • Rosalind Wollen

 

2008

  • Professor Dame Christine Beasley
  • Adam Boulton
  • Professor Lord Alec Broers
  • Jonathan Crossley-Holland
  • Emma Harrison CBE
  • Richard Hawley
  • Professor Sir John Holman
  • Michael Jelly
  • Steve Peat
  • Sir Trevor Phillips OBE
  • Brian Turner CBE
  • Stephen Venables

 

2007

  • Ms Novlette Balela OBE
  • Professor Diana Green CBE
  • Dame Kelly Holmes MBE
  • Dr Christopher Jewitt DL
  • Sarwar Khan Awan*  
  • The Right Reverend Jack Nicholls
  • Ms Vicky Seddon
  • Mr John Tams
  • Mr Quentin Thompson

 

2006

  • David Burrows
  • Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE
  • The Hon Justice Dobbs DBE KC
  • Zahid Hamid
  • Sir David Henshaw
  • Professor Lisa Jardine CBE*  
  • Dame Julie Kenny DBE DL
  • Pam Liversidge OBE
  • Michael Vaughan OBE
  • Emeritus Professor Ted Wragg*

 

2005

  • Malorie Blackman OBE
  • Professor Victor Burgin Millard
  • Gurinder Chadha OBE
  • Hugh Facey OBE
  • Timothy Garton-Ash
  • Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
  • Thomas Heatherwick CBE
  • Sir Derek Jacobi CBE
  • The Right Hon Lord Digby Jones
  • Sandi Rhys Jones OBE
  • Graham Moore MBE
  • Laura Moynahan
  • Dame Jenni Murray DBE
  • Professor Gervase Phinn
  • Vivien Pike
  • Ian Stewart

 

2004

  • Brian Blessed OBE
  • Professor John Carlisle
  • Peter Charlton
  • Professor David Clutterbuck
  • Professor Bill Harrison
  • Professor Dame Julia Higgins FRS
  • Dame Elisabeth Hoodless DBE
  • Right Hon Lord Robert Kerslake*  
  • Donald Broughton Lyon
  • Sean Mahon
  • Dame Alison Nimmo DBE
  • Valerie Elizabeth Rick
  • Lord Scarbrough*
  • Joe Simpson

 

2003

  • Professor Norma Brook CBE*  
  • Ashley Carson
  • Derek Dooley MBE*
  • Richard Gregory OBE
  • Dr Adam Hart-Davis
  • Kay Mellor OBE*
  • Isabella Moore CBE
  • Sir Martin Narey
  • Ian Sharratt
  • Jane Tomlinson CBE*

 

2002

  • Professor William Alsop OBE*  
  • The Reverend Dr Inderjit Bhogal OBE
  • The Lord John Browne of Madingley
  • Baroness Jane Campbell DBE
  • Dr Debjani Chatterjee MBE
  • Sir Martin Doughty*  
  • Michael Grandage CBE
  • Brendan Ingle MBE*  
  • Dr Nancy J. Lane OBE
  • Dr Ling Liong Sik
  • Grahame Morris
  • Professor Sir Andrew Motion
  • The Lord Herman Ouseley of Peckham Rye
  • Paul Skelton
  • Julian Spalding

 

2001

  • Dr Janet Barnes CBE
  • Baroness Deborah Bull CBE
  • Roy Clarke OBE
  • Steve Cram CBE
  • Dr Tony Crowther* 
  • Audrey Hallam OBE*  
  • John Hoyland*  
  • Paul Jagger MBE
  • Fiona MacCarthy OBE*
  • Sir Robert Malpas CBE*
  • Sir Patrick Moore CBE* 
  • Rabbi The Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE
  • Sir Bryan Nicholson GBE
  • The Baroness Platt of Writtle CBE*
  • Alan Powell
  • Polly Vacher

 

2000

  • Sir Alan Borg CBE FSA
  • Professor Sir Tim Brighouse
  • Rita Britton
  • Mary Chapman
  • Sue Pearson MBE*
  • Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate CBE
  • Elizabeth Rasekoala
  • Baroness Maeve Sherlock OBE
  • Vernon Smith*
  • Dr Gabrielle Syme*
  • Howard Wilkinson

 

1999

  • Isadora Aiken OBE
  • Alan Aikin OBE*
  • Dame Josephine Barstow
  • Sir Eric Dancer KCVO CBE
  • Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE
  • Brian Lewis
  • Doug Liversidge CBE
  • Ian McMillan
  • Isadora Powell OBE DL
  • Rony Robinson
  • Kath Shelton
  • Sir Richard Sykes
  • Paddy Toomey
  • Sir Alan Tuckett OBE

 

1998

  • Paul Allen
  • Simon Beaufoy
  • Dr Cheryle Berry MBE
  • Julian Blackwell
  • Sir Christopher Bonington CBE
  • Hugh Brody
  • Peter Cattaneo MBE
  • Professor Richard Field OBE
  • Professor Graham Gibbs
  • Professor Warren Gilchrist*  
  • Jane Priestman OBE*
  • Alan Sanders
  • Derek Simpson
  • John Stoddart CBE

 

1997

  • Johnny Ball
  • Sean Bean
  • Dorothy Dixon-Barrow*
  • Nick Kemp
  • Professor Sir Harold Kroto*  
  • Matthew Parris
  • Professor Ken Pounds
  • Dr J. Mike Rodgers*
  • Graham Solley*
  • Professor John Tarn OBE

 

1996

  • Mrs Mavis Ainsworth OBE
  • Mr Harold “Dickie” Bird OBE
  • Mr John Bridgeman CBE
  • Ms Betty Codona OBE* 
  • Mrs Jasmine Harfoot
  • Mr Bruce Millan* 
  • Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE*
  • Sir William Stubbs
  • Sir Crispin Tickell*
  • Ms Anne Watts OBE

 

1995

  • Professor Chris Baines
  • Mr Rodney Bickerstaffe* 
  • Ms Marti Caine* 
  • Sir Neil Cossons OBE
  • Ms Dominique Damon- Zakovitch
  • Dr Bill Geary
  • Sir Bob Reid
  • Mrs Audrey Rose*
  • Dr Dorothy Rowe
  • Professor Marina Warner CBE
  • Dr Peter Watson OBE*

 

1994

  • Gerald Clerehugh OBE
  • Joe Cocker OBE*
  • The Very Reverend John Gladwin
  • The Right Hon Lord Roy Hattersley
  • Kenneth Hawley MBE*  
  • Pat McGarry* 
  • Brian Oakley CBE*  
  • John Sellars CBE
  • Sir Peter Shepherd CBE*
  • Harold “Bev” Stokes

 

1993

  • Lord Mason of Barnsley*  
  • Sir Anthony Gill*
  • The Reverend Dr Leslie Green*  
  • Gary Hetherington
  • Kath Hetherington
  • Brenda Hudson* 
  • Robert Jackson*  
  • Hanif Kureishi CBE
  • Diana Lamplugh*

 

Pre-1993 (Sheffield City Polytechnic)

  • Councillor Doris Askham (1992)* 
  • Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley CH DBE (1992)
  • Eric Glover (1992)*
  • Professor Frederick Jenner (1992)* 
  • Eric Wardle (1992)*
  • Sir Derek Birley (1991)* 
  • Professor Eric Bolton CBE (1991)
  • Baroness Susan Campbell of Loughborough DBE (1991)
  • Dr John “Jack” Earls (1991)
  • Nick Park CBE (1991)
  • Professor John Parnaby CBE (1991)*
  • Helen Sharman OBE (1991)
  • Sir Hugh Sykes DL(1991)
  • Bill Walton (1990)
  • Norman Adsetts OBE (1990)* 
  • Ronald Birks (1990)*
  • Peter Cropper (1990)*
  • A. M. “Tony” Davis (1990)* 
  • Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire (1990)* 
  • Professor Derek Gladwell OBE (1990)*  
  • Bernard Gregor-Smith (1990)
  • Robin Ireland (1990)
  • William Sales Hill (1990)* 
  • Eric Robinson (1990)*
  • Professor Geoffrey Sims OBE FRSA (1990)*
  • Frank Davis (1989)*
  • Dame Margaret Drabble FRSL (1989)
  • Professor Kamalini Bhansali (1989)*
  • Professor Sir David Phillips FRS (1989)*
  • Joyce Sutton (1989)
  • Tom Wood (1989)
  • David Clark CBE (1988)
  • Herol “Bomber” Graham (1988)
  • Dr Arthur Lawrence (1988)*
  • Douglas Thacker (1988)*
  • Colin Thomas CBE (1988)*
  • The Right Hon Lord David Blunkett PC (1987)
  • Emeritus Professor J.E. Emery (1987)* 
  • Jack Illingworth (1987)*  
  • Bruce Oldfield OBE (1987)
  • Sir Alistair Pilkington CBE (1987)*
  • Ron Arnold (1986)
  • Harry Dowson (1986)*
  • Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Haythornthwaite CBE (1986)*
  • Dr Edwin Kerr CBE (1986)*  
  • Dr Patrick Nuttgens (1986)*
  • Professor Eric Sainsbury OBE (1986)*
  • Dr G. Michael A. Harrison CBE (1985)
  • Barry Hines (1985)*  
  • Dr Frederick B. Pickering (1985)*
  • Professor Eric Wilkes OBE (1985)*
  • Michael Barratt-Brown (1984)* 
  • The Right Hon Lord Sebastian Coe CH KBE (1984)
  • Brian Hanson (1984)* 
  • Kenneth Jacques (1984)* 
  • Dr Richard Hoggart (1983)* 
  • Alan Prince (1983)*
  • Professor J. P. C. Roach (1983)*
  • Dame Cicely Saunders DBE (1983)*
  • Peter G. Willmore (1983)
  • Professor William Carr (1982)* 
  • Sir Kenneth Corfield (1982)* 
  • Dr Marion Jepson (1982)*  
  • James R. Roberts (1982)
  • Councillor Ronald Thwaites (1982)
  • The Reverend Dr George Tolley (1982)*
  • The Right Hon Baron Ashley of Stoke (1981)*
  • Leonard W. Ashworth (1981)*
  • Sir Geoffrey Chandler (1981)*  
  • Councillor Peter Horton (1981)*
  • Cyril Walker (1981)*
  • Bernard E. Cotton (1980)*
  • The Very Reverend Frank Curtis (1980)*  
  • J. F. Mann (1980)
  • Jack Springett CBE (1980)*
  • Professor Frank A. Benson OBE (1979)*  
  • Sir Derek Ezra MBE (1979)*  
  • Herbert Delauney Hughes (1979)* 
  • David Mellor CBE (1979)*  
  • Sir Richard O'Brien (1979)*
  • Mary Ryan (1979)*
  • Rowland Walker OBE (1979)*
  • Thomas Paul Watson (1979)*
  • Dr Winifred M. Golding (1978)* 
  • Graham Hughes (1978)*  
  • Lord Murray of Epping Forest OBE (1978)* 
  • Lieutenant Colonel James Hugh Neill KStJ KCVO (1978)*  
  • Dr Harold Parkin (1978)*  
  • Dennis Spooner OBE (1978)*
  • Sir John Michael Carlisle DL (1977)
  • Sir Robert Scholey CBE (1977)*
  • Councillor Patience Sheard (1977)*
  • Sir Alex Smith (1977)*
  • Priscilla H. F. Young (1977)*
  • Sir Misha Black OBE (1976)*
  • Sir Michael Clapham (1976)* 
  • Tom Driver (1976)*
  • Councillor Mrs Enid Anne Hattersley (1976)*  
  • Professor David Hills (1976)*  
  • Stuart MacLure (1976)*
  • Sir Eric Mensforth CBE (1976)*  
  • Councillor William Owen OBE (1976)*  
  • Dr Henry John Peake (1976)*
  • James Platt (1976)*
  • Dr John H. Chesters (1975)*
  • Dr Henry W. French CBE (1975)*  
  • Dr John Pate (1975)*
  • Professor Norbert Segard (1975)*
  • The Reverend Frank Duckworth (1974)*
  • Geoffrey Thomas Harris (1974)*
  • Sir Hugh Robson OBE (1974)*
  • John Charles William Stead (1974)*
  • Edward Barker (1973)* 
  • Henry Frank Constantine OBE (1973)*
  • George Croft (1973)*
  • Alderman Sir Ronald Ironmonger (1973)*
  • Anthony Barmore Hampton (1972)*  
  • Harold Brook Crombie (1972)* 
  • Howard Poulson Forder (1972)*
  • Alexander Ritchie Hogg (1972)* 
  • Frank Robert Hornby (1972)* 
  • Professor Kenneth Mercer Entwistle (1971)
  • Professor Robert Yorke Goodden CBE (1971)* 
  • William Gregory Ibberson (1971)*
  • George Ronald Pryor (1971)*
  • Vernon Milton Thornes (1971)*
  • John N. Hancock (1970)* 
  • William Campbell Heselwood (1970)*
  • Professor Arthur G. Quarrell (1970)*
  • Cyril Nott Taylor (1970)*
  • Dr F. Mary Green (1969)*  
  • John H Harwood (1969)*
  • Jack Hiles (1969)*
  • Dr William D. Pugh (1969)*
  • Professor Kenneth Rowntree (1969)*

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