Honorary Fellows
Biography
2006
Mr Peter Ackroyd CBE MA FRSL Hon DLitt
Novelist, biographer and poet
2012
Professor Susan Alcock MA PhD FBA FSA
Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement; Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan
2023
Sir Alex Allan KCB MA MSC
British civil servant who served as chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of Intelligence Assessment for HMG between 2007 and 2011.
2015
Professor K. Anthony Appiah MA PhD Hon LittD FBA FRS
Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University, novelist and cultural theorist
1980
Sir David Attenborough OM GCMG CH CVO CBE MA FRS
Broadcaster and Naturalist
1992
Sir Nicholas Barrington KCMG CVO
High Commissioner to Pakistan, 1989-94
1989
Sir Walter Bodmer MA PhD FRS FRCPath
Human Geneticist. Head of Cancer & Immunogenetics Laboratory, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford; Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, 1996-2005
2012
Professor Sir David Cannadine DPhil LittD FBA FSA
British author and historian specialising in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy; Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University; visiting professor of history at t Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2012
The Right Reverend Vivienne Faull MA
Bishop of Bristol
2023
Professor Margaret Faultless MA Hon Ram
Music educator; Director of Performance at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge; co-leader of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
1998
H.E. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, LLD
President of the Federative Republic of Brazil 1995-2002
2019
Professor Henry Louis ‘Skip’ Gates Jr BA MA PhD Hon LittD
American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker; Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University
2023
Ms Anne Glover CBE MA FREng FRSE
CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners; Non-Executive Director in the Court of Directors of the Bank of England.
2017
Professor Sir Malcom Grant, CBE MA LLM LLD Hon LLD
Barrister, academic lawyer, and former law professor; Chancellor of the University of York 2015-2022; Chairman of NHS England 2011-2018; President and Provost of UCL 2003-2013
2002
Professor Sir (Richard) Tim Hunt MA PhD FRS
Biochemist and Molecular Physiologist; Nobel Laureate 2001
2004
Professor Dame Frances Kirwan DBE MA DPhil FRS
British mathematician; Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford
2023
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton KCB ADC MA FREng
Chief of the Air Staff.
2017
Lord Robert Mair, CBE MA PhD Hon DSC FREng FRS
Emeritus Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Research at the University of Cambridge; Head of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC); Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, 2001-2011
1990
Sir Roger Norrington, CBE
English conductor
2006
Mr Matthew Parris MA
Author, political commentator, broadcaster and journalist
2001
Dr John Milford Rutter CBE MA DMus Hon FGCM
Composer and conductor
2012
Sir Mark Walport PhD FRCP FRCPath FMedSci FRS
Medical Scientist. Chief Executive, UK Research and Innovation 2017-2020; UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2013-2017; Director of the Wellcome Trust, 2003-2013
1967
Professor James Dewey Watson KBE ScD FRS
Molecular Biologist and geneticist; Nobel Laureate 1962
1997
Professor Sir Andrew Wiles KBE MA PhD FRS
Mathematician and number theorist. Royal Society Research Professor; Regius Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford.
1994
Lord Williams of Oystermouth MA DPhil DD PC FBA
Theologian, Poet, Chancellor of the University of South Wales; Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2013-2020; Archbishop of Canterbury 2002-2012
1998
Lord Wilson of Dinton GCB MA LLM
Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 2002-2012; Cabinet Secretary & Head of the Home Civil Service, 1998-2002.
