Honorary Graduates

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1922 Theodore Reunert, Doctor of Literature Jan Christiaan Smuts, Doctor of Laws	1924 William Cullen, Doctor of Laws
1925 Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, Doctor of Laws Charles Porter, Doctor of Laws	1926 Samuel Evans, Doctor of Laws
1927 John Carruthers Beattie, Doctor of Laws Jacob de Villiers, Doctor of Laws Wilfred Watkins Pitchford, Doctor of Laws	1928 David Draper, Doctor of Science James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Doctor of Laws
1929 Alexander Aiken, Doctor of Laws The Earl of Athlone, Doctor of Laws Arthur Stanley Eddington, Doctor of Science John Scott Haldane, Doctor of Science in Engineering Thomas Henry Holland, Doctor of Science in Engineering Gustav Adolf Frederick Molengraaff, Doctor of Science John Linton Myers, Doctor of Literature Charles Parsons, Doctor of Science in Engineering D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Doctor of Science back to index	1930 Peter Maltitz Anderson, Doctor of Science in Engineering Thomas Nicholas Leslie, Doctor of Science Sidney William Smith, Doctor of Science in Engineering Samuel John Truscott, Doctor of Science in Engineering Henry Arthur White, Doctor of Science in Engineering
1931 Francis Horatio Napier, Doctor of Laws Alexander Jeremiah Orenstein, Doctor of Laws John David Rheinallt Jones, Master of Arts George Ritchie Thomson, Doctor of Laws	1932 Nicholas E Brown, Doctor of Science Chaim Weizmann, Doctor of Laws
1933 Robert Broom, Doctor of Science James Gray, Doctor of Laws James Gunson Lawn, Doctor of Science in Engineering Illtyd Butler Pole-Evans, Doctor of Laws Diedrich Hermann Westermann, Doctor of Literature	1934 Herbert Baker, Doctor of Laws Pierre Bovet, Doctor of Literature William Dalrymple, Doctor of Laws John Dewey, Doctor of Literature John Gaspard Gubbins, Doctor of Literature Louis Leipoldt, Doctor of Literature Frank Gowyne Alfred Roberts, Doctor of Science in Engineering

1935 Bernard Price, Doctor of Science in Engineering James Stevenson-Hamilton, Doctor of Laws Arnold Theiler, Doctor of Science	1936 William Thomas Frederick Davies, Doctor of Laws Lord Hewart of Bury, Doctor of Laws Henry John Hofmeyr, Doctor of Laws John Orr, Doctor of Laws
1937 The Earl of Clarendon, Doctor of Laws The Countess of Clarendon, Doctor of Laws Harry Edwin Wood, Doctor of Science Robert Burns Young, Doctor of Laws	1938 William King Gregory, Doctor of Science Milo Hellman, Doctor of Science Ernest George Jansen, Doctor of Laws Arthur William Rogers, Doctor of Science
1939 Lawrence Crawford, Doctor of Laws John Gilbert Kotze, Doctor of Laws Robert Warden Lee, Doctor of Laws James Rose-Innes, Doctor of Laws Henry Ernst Sigerist, Doctor of Literature Maria Wilman, Doctor of Laws back to index	1942 Robert Vincent Bird, Doctor of Laws Francis Edgar Kanthack, Doctor of Science in Engineering Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Doctor of Laws
1943 Alexander Logie du Toit, Doctor of Science Sybella Margaretha Smuts, Doctor of Laws	1944 James Stratford, Doctor of Laws
1945 Neil Macvicar, Doctor of Laws	1946 Edmond Grasset, Doctor of Science Lord Hailey, Doctor of Literature Robert Nelson Kotze, Doctor of Laws George Esslemont Gordon Leith, Doctor of Architecture Douglas Laing Smit, Doctor of Laws
1947 Joseph Henry Dobson, Doctor of Science in Engineering	1948 William Heneage Ogilvie, Doctor of Laws

1949 Petrus Johann du Toit, Doctor of Science Richard Feetham, Doctor of Laws Agnes Winifred Hoernlé, Doctor of Laws Ben Lockspeiser, Doctor of Science in  Engineering Edward Mellanby, Doctor of Science in Medicine Antonio Augusto Esteves Mendes Correia, Doctor of Science Jaques Millot, Doctor of Science           Sarah Gertrude Millin, Doctor of Literature Henry Alford Moffat, Doctor of Laws Alan William Stuart Sichel, Doctor of Laws Hendrik Johannes van Eck, Doctor of Laws Eric Walker, Doctor of Literature back to index	1953 Leonard Charles Abrahams, Doctor of Laws Geoffrey Friel, Doctor of Laws Ernest Lucas Guest, Doctor of Laws Godfrey Martin Huggins, Doctor of Laws Neville Jones, Doctor of Science Douglas Orme Malcolm, Doctor of Laws Charles Frederick Leopold Nord, Doctor of Science Ernest Oppenheimer, Doctor of Laws Robert Clarkson Tredgold, Doctor of Laws
1954 Killie Campbell, Doctor of Laws Thomas Frederick Dreyer, Doctor of Science Percy James Greenway, Doctor of Science Geoffrey Eastcott Pearse, Doctor of Architecture	1955 Nicholaas Jacobus de Wet, Doctor of Laws Frederik Meyer, Doctor of Science in Engineering Humphrey Rivaz Raikes, Doctor of Science Charles Theodore te Water, Doctor of Laws
1956 Arthur William Blaxall, Doctor of Philosophy Leopold Greenberg, Doctor of Laws Henri Philippe Junod, Doctor of Philosophy	1957 Richard Bein Hagart, Doctor of Laws Reginald William James, Doctor of Science Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, Doctor of Science
1958 Alice Cox, Doctor of Laws Matthew Robertson Drennan, Doctor of Science Barend Bartholomeus Keet, Doctor of Literature back to index	1959 Stefan Meiring Naudé, Doctor of Science
1960 Henry Allen Fagan, Doctor of Laws John Primatt Redcliffe Maud, Doctor of Laws	1961 Francois Petrus Fouch, Doctor of Medicine Daniel McKinnon Malcolm, Doctor of Philosophy Calvin Stowe McLean, Doctor of Laws Oliver Deneys Schreiner, Doctor of Laws
1962 Ernst Heinrich Daniel Arndt, Doctor of Science in Economics Sir Eric Ashby, Doctor of Laws Walter Cohen, Doctor of Philosophy	1963 Harry Frederick Oppenheimer, Doctor of Laws William Godfrey Sutton, Doctor of Laws

1964 Albert van de Sandt Centlivres, Doctor of Laws Raymond Arthur Dart, Doctor of Science Ignatius Michael Kok de Villiers, Doctor of Science in Engineering Sidney Henry Haughton, Doctor of Science James Arthur Reavell, Master of Science in Engineering	1965 Robert Birley, Doctor of Laws Henry John Clayden, Doctor of Laws Leslie Farrer-Brown, Doctor of Laws Petrus Anton Hendriks, Doctor of Philosophy Sir Wilfred le Gros Clark, Doctor of Science
1966 Innes Wares Brebner, Doctor of Medicine William Hofmeyr Craib, Doctor of Medicine Christian Martin Kruger, Doctor of Engineering Brian Orpin Porter, Doctor of Laws Frederick Reines, Doctor of Science Thomas Price Stratten, Doctor of Laws	1967 William Graham Holford, Doctor of Architecture Johannes Stephanus Marais, Doctor of Literature Mary McLarty, Doctor of Laws Bertha Solomon, Doctor of Laws
1968 Bertrand Leon Bernstein, Doctor of Laws Edmund Thomas Stanley Brown, Doctor of Engineering Guy Abercrombie Elliot, Doctor of Medicine Mary Douglas Leakey, Doctor of Science Ernst Gideon Malherbe, Doctor of Laws Derrick Tilton Vail, Doctor of Medicine Yigael Yadin, Doctor of Science   back to index	1969 Richard Austen Butler, Doctor of Laws Andries Charles Cilliers, Doctor of Laws Sam Cohen, Doctor of Laws Percival Robson Kirby, Doctor of Music Ian Douglas MacCrone, Doctor of Laws Lillie Marguerite MacKenzie, Doctor of Philosophy David Ordman, Doctor of Medicine
1970 Arthur Stephen Aiken, Doctor of Laws Sally Herbert Frankel, Doctor of Science in Economics Patrick Robert Brian Lewis, Doctor of Laws William Peter van Leckwijck, Doctor of Science Quintin Alexander Whyte, Doctor of Laws	1971 Claude Harris Leon, Doctor of Laws Henry McLorinan McDowell, Doctor of Laws Jose Veiga Simao, Doctor of Science
1972 Otto Guido Backeberg, Doctor of Laws Sydney Brenner, Doctor of Science Clement Martyn Doke, Doctor of Laws Elisabeth Francoise Eybers, Doctor of Literature Percy Freer, Doctor of Laws John Edmund Kerrich, Doctor of Laws William Gordon McIntosh, Doctor of Architecture Edgar Mendelssohn, Doctor of Laws Henry Howard Paine, Doctor of Laws Mervyn Whitmore Richards, Doctor of Laws Andrew Henry Roberts, Doctor of Engineering Moses Myer Suzman, Doctor of Medicine John Mitchell Watt, Doctor of Laws John Harold Wellington, Doctor of Laws	1973 Alex Marais Conradie, Doctor of Laws Hermann Robert Hahlo, Doctor of Laws Leo Marquard, Doctor of Laws Anna Elizabeth Prinsloo Scheepers, Doctor of Laws
1974 Cyril Adler, Doctor of Laws Esther Bessie Adler, Doctor of Philosophy Margaret Becklake, Doctor of Medicine Eustace Henry Cluver, Doctor of Laws Richard Stanley Cooke, Doctor of Laws Andrew Dickson, Doctor of Commerce Cythna Lindenberg Letty Forssman, Doctor of Laws Carl Julius Fuchs, Doctor of Engineering Laurence Owen Vine Gandar, Doctor of Laws Harry Sutherland Gear, Doctor of Laws James Henderson Sutherland Gear, Doctor of Medicine Muriel Agatha Horrell, Doctor of Philosophy Desmond Hobart Houghton, Doctor of Laws Maurice McGregor, Doctor of Medicine Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, Doctor of Laws William Sage Rapson, Doctor of Science Maurice Shapiro, Doctor of Laws Anna Hester Smith, Doctor of Laws Kenneth Lamont Smith, Doctor of Commerce William Douglas Wilson, Doctor of Laws	1975 William Bleloch, Doctor of Science in Engineering John Fleming Brock, Doctor of Laws Michiel Hendrik de Kock, Doctor of Economic ScienceBotha de Meillon, Doctor of Medicine Adolph Hallis, Doctor of Music Anton Carlisle Hartman, Doctor of Music Kenneth Brown Hartshorne, Doctor of Laws Alan Stewart Paton, Doctor of Laws Christiaan van der Merwe Brink, Doctor of Science

1976 Thomas Butland Berry, Doctor of Laws Frank Rosslyn Bradlow, Doctor of Philosophy Jan Hendrik Breyer, Doctor of Laws Lyell Thomas Campbell Pitt, Doctor of Engineering Robert Allen Dyer, Doctor of Science Frederick Albert Hossack, Doctor of Laws Stanley Percival Jackson, Doctor of Laws Clark Kerr, Doctor of Laws Jacques Pierre Kriel, Doctor of Engineering Ezekiel Egbert Tefo Mahabane, Doctor of Laws Jens Jorgen Pindborg, Doctor of Science in Dentistry Abraham Johannes Andries Roux, Doctor of Engineering George Forbes Shepherd, Doctor of Laws Jean Sinclair, Doctor of Philosophy Julius Staz, Doctor of Science in Dentistry Reinhart Ludwig Straszacker, Doctor of Engineering Helen Suzman, Doctor of Laws Ieuan Glyn Thomas, Doctor of Laws	1977 Johannes Lodewyk Boshoff, Doctor of Education Emanuel Percy Bradlow, Doctor of Commerce Gerald William Gaylord Browne, Doctor of Economic Science Monte Leo Bryer, Doctor of Architecture William Montague Cobb, Doctor of Laws Frans Johannes Cornelius Cronje, Doctor of Laws Albrecht Johan de Villiers Herholdt, Doctor of Laws Tobias Herhold Louw, Doctor of Science in Quantity Surveying
1978 Hans Georg Adler, Doctor of Philosophy Boris Ivan Balinsky, Doctor of Science Simon Biesheuvel, Doctor of Science Guerino Renzo Bozzoli, Doctor of Laws René Marquard de Villiers, Doctor of Laws Ellen Hellmann, Doctor of Laws Francis George Hill, Doctor of Laws Jeremiah Edmund Bowden Jennings, Doctor of Science in Engineering Israel Aaron Maisels, Doctor of Laws John Douglas Roberts, Doctor of Engineering Cecil Thomas Wood, Doctor of Philosophy back to index	1979 Charles Sydney Barlow, Doctor of Laws Robert Craig, Doctor of Laws Francis John Hewitt, Doctor of Science Jan Hendrik Louw, Doctor of Medicine Hyman Moross, Doctor of Laws Thomas Chalmers William Robertson, Doctor of Laws Isaac Schapera, Doctor of Laws Charlotte Searle, Doctor of Laws Lawrence Herbert Wells, Doctor of Medicine
1980 Johannes Petrus Philippus Benjamin  Breytenbach, Doctor of Laws Sir Richard Edmonds Luyt, Doctor of Laws John Frederick Vicars Phillips, Doctor of Science Edna Pauline Plumstead, Doctor of Science Monica Wilson, Doctor of Literature	1981 John Hemsworth Osborne Day, Doctor of Science Henry Gluckman, Doctor of Laws Charles Skeen, Doctor of Laws Jan Hendrik Steyn, Doctor of Laws Bentley John Skelton Wimble, Doctor of Commerce
1982 David Allan Bromley, Doctor of Science Henry Brooke Dyer, Doctor of Science Walter Greiner, Doctor of Science Sidney Lionel Kark, Doctor of Science in Medicine Priscilla Sheath Kincaid Smith, Doctor of  Science in Medicine Edward Wilfrid Nassau Mallows, Doctor of Science in Town and Regional Planning Robert Strange McNamara, Doctor of Laws Charles Dexter Moak, Doctor of Science James Fairweather Murray, Doctor of Science in Medicine Cyril Lincoln Sibusiso Nyembezi, Doctor of Literature Louis Rive, Doctor of Laws Herbert Simon Sichel, Doctor of Economic Science Ernst van Heerden, Doctor of Literature	1983 Leslie Edward Wostall Codd, Doctor of Science Eric Clifford Halliday, Doctor of Laws Barend Jacobus Marais, Doctor of Laws Jabulani Mazibuko, Master of Music Samuel Mokgethi Motsuenyane, Doctor of Commerce
1984 Frederick Guy Butler, Doctor of Literature Daniel Jacob du Plessis, Doctor of Laws Nadine Gordimer, Doctor of Literature Aaron Klug, Doctor of Science Arthur Suzman, Doctor of Laws Cyril Wyndham, Doctor of Science in Medicine	1985 Andre Philippus Brink, Doctor of Literature John Desmond Clark, Doctor of Science Dennis Arthur Etheredge, Doctor of Laws Ian Stewart Haggie, Doctor of Laws Sir (Francis) Harry Hinsley, Doctor of Literature William White Howells, Doctor of Science Alun Rhun Hughes, Master of Science Cecil Stanley Margo, Doctor of Laws Herbert Cecil Nicholas, Doctor of Laws Sherwood Larned Washburn, Doctor of Science
1986 Lionel Abrahams, Doctor of Literature Jack Caister Bennett, Master of Science Traugott Wilhelm Gevers, Doctor of Science Gilbert Herbert, Doctor of Architecture Ludwig Maurits Lachmann, Doctor of Economic Science Desmond Clifford Midgley, Doctor of Science in Engineering Rene Wellek, Doctor of Literature Phyllida Mary Wentzel, Master of Arts Joseph Wolpe, Doctor of Science in Medicin	1987 Sydney Cohen, Doctor of Science Wayne Fredericks, Doctor of Laws Ellen Kuzwayo, Doctor of Laws Khabi Mngoma, Doctor of Music Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro, Doctor of Science

1988 Desmond Thorne Cole, Doctor of Literature back to index	1989 Hugh Glover Goyns, Master of Science in Medicine Ian Campbell McRae, Doctor of Engineering Gerard Sekoto, Doctor of Literature Niko Stutterheim, Doctor of Laws Karl Tober, Doctor of Laws Rex Simpson Welsh, Doctor of Laws
1990 Arthur Chaskalson, Doctor of Laws Sheena Duncan, Doctor of Laws Harold Athol Lannigan Fugard, Doctor of Literature Thomas Elliot Geary, Master of Science Ellison Kahn, Doctor of Laws Sir Mark Aubrey Weinberg, Doctor of Economic	1991 Denis Eugene Hurley, Doctor of Laws Sir Robin William Renwick, Doctor of Laws Donald Gordon, Doctor of Economic Science Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Doctor of Laws John Brereton Barlow, Doctor of Science in Medicine
1992 John Mowbray Didcott, Doctor of Laws Mervyn Shear, Doctor of Laws	1993 Edward Pavitt, Doctor of Laws Zena Athene Stein, Doctor of Science in Medicine Mervyn Wilfred Susser, Doctor of Science in Medicine Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Doctor of Laws Michael Conway O’Dowd, Doctor of Laws
1994 Richard Joseph Goldstone, Doctor of Laws Michael McGregor Corbett, Doctor of Laws Lorna Jean Marshall, Doctor of Literature Gideon Daniel Roos, Doctor of Laws Jane Beverly Drew, Doctor of Architecture Thomas Hamilton Bothwell, Doctor of Science in Medicine Phillip Vallentine Tobias, Doctor of Science	1995 Derek Lyle Keys, Doctor of Economic Science Es’kia Mphahlele, Doctor of Literature Harry Cecil Seftel, Doctor of Laws Joyce Segerman, Master of Science Gerrit van Rooyen Marais, Doctor of Science in Engineering John Eugene Brady, Master of Arts
1996 Irene Menell, Doctor of Laws Clive Menell, Doctor of Laws Bob Alexandra Hepple, Doctor of Laws Cecil Skotnes, Doctor of Literature Ismail Jacobus Mohamed, Doctor of Laws Johannes Albertus Myburgh, Doctor of Science in Medicine Sir Raymond Hoffenberg, Doctor of Science in Medicine Aanon Michael Rosholt, Doctor of Laws	1997 David Theodor Zeffert, Doctor of Laws John Edward Spence, Doctor of Laws Christopher Frederick Cresswell, Doctor of Science Desmond Aubrey Pretorius, Doctor of Science James William Kitching, Doctor of Science Jacques Pierre Friedrich Sellschop, Doctor of Science Stephen Archibald George Anderson, Doctor of Laws John Derek Lindsell Hansen, Doctor of Science in Medicine Anthony Henry Melcher, Doctor of Science in Dentistry Jack Metz, Doctor of Science in Medicine Hendrik Johannes Koornhof, Doctor of Science in Medicine Dan Jacobson, Doctor of Literature Tamsanqa Wilkinson Kambule, Doctor of Science Ismail Mahomed, Doctor of Laws
1998 Michael Mervyn Katz, Doctor of Laws Edith Hildegard Raidt, Doctor of Literature Alexander Robert Pettigrew Walker, Doctor of Science in Medicine Sir Walter Bodmer, Doctor of Science Herbert Basil Sutton Cooke, Doctor of Science Sir Andrew Huxley, Doctor of Science H E Kofi Annan, Doctor of Laws Robert William Charlton, Doctor of Laws Alan Robert Lipman, Doctor of Architecture back to index	1999 George Bizos, Doctor of Laws Charles Kimberlin Brain, Doctor of Science Nthato Harrison Motlana, Doctor of Laws Lawrence Graham Robertson, Doctor of Education Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu, Doctor of Laws Max Ulyate Walter Sisulu, Doctor of Laws Lucy Anne Wagstaff, Doctor of Science in Medicine

2000 Julian Browde, Doctor of Laws Mercy Elizabeth Makhalemele, Master of Arts Achim Richter, Doctor of Science Miklos Rebak, Master of Science Margaret Hilary Marshall, Doctor of Laws Sir Sydney Kentridge, Doctor of Laws Chinua Achebe, Doctor of Literature	2001 William Peter Venter, Doctor of Engineering Gert Johannes Gerwel, Doctor of Laws Pauline Sheila Lipson, Doctor of Laws Joel Goodman Joffe, Doctor of Laws Aaron Bacher, Doctor of Laws Arthur Harold Rubenstein, Doctor of Science in Medicine
2002 Anthony Herbert Bloom, Doctor of Laws Sheila Minnie Aronstam, Doctor of Laws Antony Maurice Honoré, Doctor of Laws Errol Clive Friedberg, Doctor of Science in Medicine Lydia Komape-Ngwenya, Master of Arts	2003 Sir Sydney Lipworth, Doctor of Laws Eric Molobi, Doctor of Laws Sir David Anthony King, Doctor of Science Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (posthumously), Doctor of Laws Costa John Rallis, Doctor of Science in Engineering Hoosen Mohammed Coovadia, Doctor of Science Selma Browde, Doctor of Science in Medicine Amancio d’Alpoim Miranda Guedes, Doctor of Architecture
2004 Christopher John Robert Dugard, Doctor of Laws Raymond Tucker, Doctor of Laws Amina Cachalia, Doctor of Laws William Kentridge, Doctor of Literature Pieter-Dirk Uys, Doctor of Literature Avroy Fanaroff, Doctor of Medicine Deanne Yates, Doctor of Laws	2005 Anthony Roy Gubbay, Doctor of Laws John Steele Chalsty, Doctor of Commerce Rory Byrne, Doctor of Engineering Mamphela Ramphela, Doctor of Laws Trefor Jenkins, Doctor of Medicine
2006 Peter Tyson, Doctor of Science James David Lewis-Williams, Doctor of Science Robert Griffiths Hodgins, Doctor of Literature Abraham Morris Rudolph, Doctor of Medicine Graham Norman Hall, Doctor of Education	2007 Amartya Sen, Doctor of Economic Science Alan Kemp, Doctor of Engineering Khotso Mokhele, Doctor of Science Teresa Heinz, Doctor of Laws Jonathan Clegg, Doctor of Music Bruce Fordyce, Doctor of Laws Wiseman Nkhulu, Doctor of Economic Science John Burland, Doctor of Science in Engineering
2008 Sir Terence English, Doctor of Medicine Chabani Manganyi, Doctor of Literature David Goldblatt, Doctor of Literature Mervyn King, Doctor of Laws Lewis Spitz, Doctor of Medicine back to index	2009 Abdullah Ibrahim, Doctor of Music Jerold Steele, Doctor of Laws Donato (Donald) Mattera, Doctor of Literature Yosuf Veriava, Doctor of Medicine