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)*