Selected Honorary Degrees
- Bill Bryson - Travel writer
- Pierluigi Collina - Football referee
- Sir Liam Donaldson - Government medical advisor
- Kelly Holmes - athlete
- David Hope - Archbishop of York 1995 - 2005
- Basil Hume - Cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster
- John Hurt - Actor
- Digby Jones, Lord Jones of Birmingham - ex-CBI boss
- Muhtar Kent, the CEO of The Coca-Cola Company
- Sir Ben Kingsley - Actor
- Tom Kirkwood - Biologist/Gerontologist
- Anthony Minghella - Director, actor, playwright
- Bill Morris, Lord Morris of Handsworth - Union Leader
- Trevor Phillips OBE - labour politician
- Alan Plater - Playwright
- Ian Rankin - Author
- Lord Rees of Ludlow - Astronomer Royal
- John Sentamu - Archbishop of York 2005 -
- Geoffrey Shovelton - former principal tenor with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
- Dame Tanni Grey Thompson - Paralympic athlete
- Jane Tomlinson - Charity fundraiser
- Desmond Tutu - Archbishop of Cape Town
- Nicholas Liverpool - High court judge in Antigua and Montserrat and President of Dominica
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