Honoris Causa Degrees
(Where recipients have degrees from other universities this is indicated in brackets after their names.)
1868 |
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh (Edinburgh) | LLD |
1901 |
His Royal Highness Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of York (afterwards King George V) (Cambridge) | LLD |
1920 |
His Royal Highness Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward VIII) (Oxford) | LLD |
1927 |
His Royal Highness Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York (afterwards King George VI) (Cambridge) | LLD |
1934 |
His Royal Highness Price Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester (Cambridge) | LLD |
1958 |
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (Oxford) | LLD |
| Year/Date | Name | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Charles Greely Abbot (Massachusetts) | DSc |
| Henry Edward Armstrong (Leipzig) | DSc | |
| William Bateson (Cambridge) | DSc | |
| William Morris Davis (Harvard) | DSc | |
| Frank Watson Dyson (Cambridge) | DSc | |
| Sir Thomas Henry Holland (Calcutta) | DSc | |
| Luigi Antonio Ettore Luiggi (Genoa) | DSc | |
| William Jackson Pope (Cambridge) | DSc | |
| Alfred William Porter (London) | DSc | |
| Sir Ernest Rutherford (Cambridge and New Zealand) | DSc | |
| Sir Edward Albert Schafer (London) | DSc | |
| Johannes Walther (Jena) | DSc | |
| 1915 | Robert Randolph Garren (Sydney) | MA |
| Albert Bathurst Piddington (Sydney) | MA | |
| William Ralph Boyce Gibson (Oxford) | MA | |
| William Kerry (Cambridge) | MA | |
| Thomas Howell Laby (Cambridge) | MA | |
| David Kennedy Picken (Glasgow and Cambridge) | MA | |
| William Harrison Moore (Cambridge, London and St. Andrews) | LLD | |
| 1916 | Richard Penrose Franklin (Cambridge) | MA |
| Robert Strachan Wallace (Aberdeen and Oxford) | MA | |
| 1918 | André Siegfried (Paris) | LittD |
| 1920 | Sir William Riddell Birdwood (Cambridge) | LLD |
| Sir John Monash (Oxford and Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Albert Power (Royal Univ., Ireland) | MA | |
| 1921 | Robert Leslie Blackwood (Tasmania) | MA |
| 1922 | Wilfred Eade Agar (Glasgow F.R.S.) | DSc |
| 1923 | Frank Longstaff Apperly (Oxford) | MD |
| William John Young (London) | DSc | |
| 1924 | John Alexander Gunn (Liverpool) | MA |
| 1925 | Jeremiah Mathias Murphy (Royal Univ., Ireland) | MA |
| Cecil Allison Scutt (Cambridge) | MA | |
| 1927 | Stanley Melbourne Bruce (Cambridge) | LLD |
| John Neil Greenwood (Manchester) | DSc | |
| 1929 | Frank Clare Wilkinson (Liverpool) | DDSc |
| 1931 | Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (Oxford) | LittD |
| 1932 | Charles Herbett Fagge (London) | MD |
| Samuel MacMahon Wadham (Cambridge) | MA | |
| George Herbert Cowling (Leeds) | MA | |
| 1934 | Sir John Cadman (Birmingham) | DEng |
| John Masefield (Oxford) | LittD | |
| Frederic Wood Jones (London) | DSc | |
| George Stephenson Browne (Oxford) | MA | |
| 1935 | Edwin Bramwell (Edinburgh) | MD |
| John Shields Fairbairn (Oxford) | MD | |
| Sir Henry Lindo Ferguson (Dublin) | MD | |
| James Ralph Darling (Oxford) | MA | |
| Eric Wilfred Fish (Manchester and London) | DDSc | |
| Sir Henry John Gauvain (Cambridge) | MD | |
| Thomas, Baron Horder (London) | MD | |
| Robert Hutchison (Edinburgh) | MD | |
| Frederick Paul Keppel (Michigan and Toronto) | LLD | |
| Ernest Kaye Le Flemming (Dublin) | MD | |
| Sir Ewen John Maclean (Edinburgh) | MD | |
| Sir William Henry Wilcox (London) | MD | |
| Raymond Edward Priestley (Cambridge) | DSc | |
| 1936 | Raynor Carey Johnson (Oxford and London) | DSc |
| 1937 | Sir Robert Randolph Garran (Sydney) | LLD |
| Frederick Crossfield Happold (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Frank William Hart (Columbia) | LLD | |
| Colin Macdonald Gilray (New Zealand and Oxford) | MA | |
| William Philip Hackett (Nat. Univ., Ireland) | MA | |
| Raymond Maxwell Crawford (Oxford) | MA | |
| William Davies (Manchester and Oxford) | DSc | |
| Aubrey Frederic Burstall (Cambridge and Birmingham) | DSc | |
| Isaac Leon Kandel (Manchester and Columbia) | LittD | |
| Yusuke Tsurmumi (Tokio) | LLD | |
| Sir Geoffrey Granville Whiskard (Oxford) | LLD | |
| Harry Egerton Wimperis (Cambridge) | DEn | |
| Laurin Zilliacus (Massachusetts) | LLD | |
| 1938 | Norman Bentwich (Cambridge) | LLD |
| Percy Ellwood Corbett (Oxford) | LLD | |
| Lionel Curtis (Oxford) | LittD | |
| Phillip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian (Oxford) | LittD | |
| Joseph Aloysius Lyons (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (Oxford and McGill) | LittD | |
| 1939 | Robert Andrews Millikan (Harvard and Columbia) | DSc |
| 1940 | Charles Jost Burchell (Dalhousie) | LLD |
| 1942 | Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant (Adelaide, Cambridge and Birmingham) | DSc |
| Sir Campbell Stuart (Virginia) | LLD | |
| 1943 | Hsu Mo (Peiyang and George Washington) | LLD |
| Robert Gordon Menzies (Bristol and Belfast) | LLD | |
| Sir Walter Layton (London, Cambridge and Columbia) | LLD | |
| Sir James Barrett (Manitoba) | LLD | |
| 1947 | Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor (Aberdeen, London and Toronto) | LLD |
| 1948 | Douglas Veale (Oxford) | LLD |
| Beveridge, Baron (Oxford and London) | LLD | |
| Sir Patrick Abercrombie (Liverpool) | LLD | |
| 1949 | William Morris, Viscount Nuffield (Oxford, Sydney and Birmingham) | LLD |
| Myron Melvin Cowen (Drake, Iowa and Salem) | LLD | |
| 1950 | Robert Vivian Bradlaw (Durham) | DDSc |
| Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Professor Sir Peter MacCallum (New Zealand and Edinburgh) | MD | |
| 1951 | Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley (Adelaide and London) | LLD |
| Sir John Dudley Gibbs Medley (Oxford) | LLD | |
| Professor Matthew Stewart (Leeds) | MD | |
| James Bryant Conant (Harvard) | LLD | |
| Erwin Nathanial Griswold (Harvard) | LLD | |
| Albert van de Sandt Centlivres (Oxford and Cape Town) | LLD | |
| Sir Francis Raymond Evershed (Oxford) | LLD | |
| Sir Edward Mellanby (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| 1952 | Pete Jarman (Alabama) | LLD |
| Sir Henry Simpson Newland (Adelaide) | LLD | |
| Professor Charles Herbert Best (Toronto) | LLD | |
| Professor Wilfred Edward LeGros Clark (London) | MD | |
| Francis Avery Jones (London) | MD | |
| Professor Lambert Charles Rogers (Wales) | MD | |
| Norman McAlister Gregg (Sydney) | MD | |
| Algernon Beverly Reese (Harvard) | MD | |
| John Foster (Cambridge) | MD | |
| Edward Charles Dodds (London) | MD | |
| Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| 1954 | Professor Evan James Williams | DSc |
| Very Reverend Jeremiah Matthias Murphy (Oxford) | LLD | |
| 1955 | Sir John Sheppard (Cambridge) | LittD |
| Professor Richard Henry Tawney (Oxford, Manchester and Paris) | LittD | |
| Clarence Decatur Howe (Oxford and M.I.T.) | LLD | |
| Walter Adams (London) | LLD | |
| Ernst Gideon Malherbe (Cape) | LLD | |
| Ram Prasad Tripathy (London) | LLD | |
| Walter Allen Jenkins (Sheffield) | LLD | |
| Andrew Stewart (Manitoba) | LLD | |
| George Alexander Currie (Aberdeen) | LLD | |
| Douglas William Logan (Oxford) | LLD | |
| Henry Urmiston Willink (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Robert Stevenson Aitken (New Zealand) | LLD | |
| Albert Percival Rowe (London) | LLD | |
| Professor Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Herbert Cole Coombs (London) | LLD | |
| Sir Ian Clunies Ross (Sydney) | LLD | |
| Professor Richard van der Riet Woolley (Cape) | LLD | |
| 1956 | The Honourable Sir Charles Lowe (Adelaide) | LLD |
| Professor James Arthur Prescott (Manchester) | DAgrSc | |
| John Gurner Burnell (Sydney) | DEng | |
| Professor Frank Reginald Beasley (Oxford and Sydney) | LLD | |
| Professor Andrew Moynihan Claye (Leeds) | MD | |
| Professor Arthur Dale Trendall (New Zealand and Cambridge) | LittD | |
| Sir William George Penney (London and Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Professor Arnold Joseph Toynbee (Oxford, Birmingham, Columbia, Cambridge and Princeton) | LLD | |
| Lindsay Tasman Ride (Oxford and Toronto) | LLD | |
| Alexander James Reid (Western Australia) | LLD | |
| Otto Sadler Hirschfeld (Queensland) | LLD | |
| John Mellis Napier (Adelaide) | LLD | |
| Essington Lewis (Sydney) | LLD | |
| Charles Bickerton Blackburn (Adelaide, Sydney and New South Wales University of Technology) | LLD | |
| Professor Samuel MacMahon Wadham (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase (Oxford and St. Andrews) | LLD | |
| Professor Ernest Basil Verney (Cambridge) | DSc | |
| Colin Macdonald Gilray (New Zealand and Oxford) | LLD | |
| 1957 | Sir William Joseph Slim (Leeds, Birmingham, Cambridge, Sydney and Oxford) | LLD |
| William Keith Chambers Guthrie (Cambridge) | LittD | |
| 1959 | Sir Owen Dixon (Oxford and Harvard) | LLD |
| Dr. Arthur Lehmann Goodhart (Cambridge and Oxford) | LLD | |
| Sir John Greig Latham | LLD | |
| Professor Ernst Mayer (Berlin and Yale) | DSc | |
| Sir Leslie Harold Martin (Cambridge) | DSc | |
| Arthur Ernest Howard Nickson | MusDoc | |
| James Alexander Steele | MusDoc | |
| 1960 | His Excellency General Sir Dallas Brooks | LLD |
| Professor Sir Alexander Todd (Cambridge, London, Oxford) | LLD | |
| Professor Vasant Raniji Khanolkar (London) | LLD | |
| 1961 | Professor James Aitchison (Edinburgh) | DSc |
| Sir William Neil McKie (Oxford) | DMus | |
| Sir Albert Axon (Queensland) | DEng | |
| Edward Byam Brown | DEng | |
| Gordon Colvin Lindesay Clark (Tasmania) | DEng | |
| 1962 | Wilder Graves Penfield (Johns Hopkins, Oxford) | LLD |
| Sir Vincent de Ferranti (Manchester) | DEng | |
| Franz Holzinger (Vienna) | DEng | |
| His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (Peshawar, Saigon, Gadya Mada, Bangkok) | LLD | |
| Sir Roy Cameron (Edinburgh) | LLD | |
| Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet (London, Cambridge, Western Australia) | LLD | |
| Emeritus Professor William Alexander Osborne (Belfast, Tübingen) | MD | |
| Sir William George Dismore Upjohn | LLD | |
| Sir William Johnston | LLD | |
| Sir Albert Coates | LLD | |
| Sir Rowden White | LLD | |
| Philip Garth Law | DAppSc | |
| Robert Henry Mathews | LittD | |
| 1963 | Charles Frederick Leopold Nord (Witwatersrand) | DDSc |
| Terence George Ward (Edinburgh) | DDSc | |
| Sir Howard Walter Florey (Adelaide, Oxford, Canterbury, Sheffield, Birmingham, Nottingham, London, Edinburgh) | LLD | |
| Emeritus Professor Sir Douglas Berry Copland (New Zealand, McGill, Carleton, Clark, British Columbia, Adelaide, Tasmania, Bishop's, Queensland, Harvard) | LLD | |
| Sir Arthur Dean | LLD | |
| James Monahan Lewis | LLD | |
| William John Tuckfield | LLD | |
| Professor John Bishop | DMus | |
| 1964 | Professor Linus Carl Pauling (Calif. Tech., Chicago, Princeton, Yale, Cambridge, London, Oxford) | DSc |
| 1965 | Professor Sir John Eccles (Oxford) | LLD |
| Professor Sir John McMichael (Edinburgh) | MD | |
| Sir Henry Edward Bolte | LLD | |
| Roy Thomas Simmons | DSc | |
| 1966 | Dr Kate Isobel Campbell | LLD |
| Dame Jean Macnamara | LLD | |
| 1967 | Lionel Batley Bull | LLD |
| Professor Ira James Cunningham (New Zealand, Aberdeen, Sydney) | DVSc | |
| Sir Rohan Delacombe | LLD | |
| 1968 | Sir Keith Hancock (Oxford, Rhodes, Birmingham, Cambridge) | LittD |
| Sir Ian McLennan | DEng | |
| William John Gibbs (Sydney, M.I.T.) | DSc | |
| John Neill Greenwood | DAppSc | |
| 1969 | Margaret Sutherland | DMus |
| 1970 | Keith Valentine Leighton Kesteven (Sydney, Queensland) | DAgrSc |
| Sir Leslie Martin (Cambridge, A.N.U., Sydney, Queensland, Western Australia) | LLD | |
| Arthur Augustus Calwell | LLD | |
| 1971 | Professor Sir George Paton (Oxford, Glasgow, Sydney, Queensland, Tasmania, London, Monash, WOntario) | LLD |
| Gilbert Howard Vasey | MPhil | |
| Frank Horace Johnston | MPhil | |
| Kenneth Baillieu Myer | LLD | |
| Professor Sir Bernard Katz (London) | DSc | |
| 1972 | Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (Yale, Brown, Rochester, Delaware, Cambridge, Hartford, Bucknell, NUI) | LittD |
| Alan Marshall | LLD | |
| Professor Emeritus Sir Kenneth Hamilton Bailey (Oxford, ANU, Dalhousie) | LLD | |
| 1973 | Tun Dr Ismail Alhaj Bin Datuk Haji Abdul Rahman | LLD |
| Rae Edwin Featherstone | MPhill | |
| Sir James Ralph Darling (Oxford) | LLD | |
| Professor Emeritus F J Willett (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Dame Hilda Stevenson | LLD | |
| Professor Zelman Cowen (Oxford, Hong Kong) | LLD | |
| The Hon Sir Richard Eggleston | LLD | |
| The Hon Mr Justice T W Smith | LLD | |
| The Hon The Lord Gardiner (Oxford, Southhampton, London, Manitoba, York) | LLD | |
| Charles Pearce Mountford (Adelaide, Cambridge) | LittD | |
| Alice, Lady Paton | LLD | |
| Sir Ian Potter (Sydney) | LLD | |
| Professor Sir Alexander Robertson (Aberdeen) | DVSc | |
| Professor Eric John Underwood (Western Australia, Cambridge, New England) | DAgr | |
| 1974 | Professor J. L. Wright (New Zealand) | MGO |
| Flora Marjorie, Lady Bassett (Monash) | LittD | |
| Sir Walter Bassett (Monash) | LLD | |
| Walter Boas (Berlin | DAppSc | |
| Robert William Kerr Honeycombe (Cambridge) | DAppSc | |
| Sir Harrie Massey (Belfast, Cambridge, Hull, Leicester, Glasgow) | DSc | |
| Professor Manning Clark | LittD | |
| Victor Leslie Gole | MBA | |
| 1975 | Alfred Leyster Tisdall | DAgrSc |
| Professor Emeritus P. H. Karmel (Cambridge, Flinders, Papua and New Guinea) | LLD | |
| Orwell de Ruyter Foenander | MCom | |
| Angell Arthur Phillips (Oxford) | LittD | |
| John Frederick Foster (Laval, Oxford, Salford, Western Ontario) | LLD | |
| George Frederick Gibberd (London) | MD | |
| Harrison Chapman | ME | |
| James Adam Louis Matheson (Birmingham, Hong Kong, Manchester, Monash) | LLD | |
| Professor Sir Sydney Sunderland (Queensland, Tasmania) | LLD | |
| 1976 | Leonard William Weickhardt | LLD |
| Professor Bernard William Smith (Sydney, ANU) | LittD | |
| Professor Alec Derwent Hope (Sydney, Oxford, ANU, New England, Monash) | LittD | |
| Edward Herbert Farmer | DArch | |
| Leslie Raymond Barklamb | MMus | |
| 1977 | Edmund Finn | MPhill |
| Archibald James Vasey | DAgrSc | |
| Sir William John Kilpatrick | LLD | |
| Sir John Thyne Reid | LLD | |
| Professor Sydney Arthur Prentice | DEng | |
| John Orde Poynton (Cambridge, Adelaide) | LLD | |
| Edwin James Semmens | DForSc | |
| Sir Bernard Heinze (Western Australia, British Columbia) | DMus | |
| Sir Ian William Wark (London) | DAppSc | |
| 1978 | The Hon. Sir Henry Arthur Winneke | LLD |
| Professor Emeritus David Edmund Caro (Birmingham) | LLD | |
| 1979 | Professor Archibald Keverall McIntyre | MD |
| Professor Emeritus Maurice Rossie Ewing (Edinburgh) | MD | |
| Sir Ernest William Coates | LLD | |
| 1980 | Professor Emeritus Roy Douglas Wright (ANU) | LLD |
| Barbara Falk | DEd | |
| Judith Proctor Wiseman | MPhil | |
| Eric Lancelot French (Adelaide, Hannover) | DVSc | |
| Dame Ada May Norris | LLD | |
| The Hon John Gerald Norris | LLD | |
| 1981 | Alfred Thomas Jakins Bell (Sydney) | MPhil |
| Albert Tonkin Pugsley (Adelaide) | DAgrSc | |
| Lewis Ronald East | DE | |
| Bruce Rodda Williams (Adelaide, Manchester, Keele, Queensland) | LLD | |
| Ian Paull Fiddian | MPhil | |
| Dame Mary Philippa Brazill | LLD | |
| Alan John Villiers | LittD | |
| Dame Peggy Van Pragh (New England) | LLD | |
| 1982 | Donald Oscar Banks | DMus |
| Sir George Russell Drysdale | LLD | |
| Professor Emeritus Sir David Plumley Derham (Monash) | LLD | |
| Frank Adams Callaway | DMus | |
| Eileen Joyce | DMus | |
| Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson | DMus | |
| Elisabeth Joy Murdoch | LLD | |
| Ethel Irene McLennan | LLD | |
| Sir John Vincent Dillon | LLD | |
| Sir Rupert James Hamer | LLD | |
| John Davis McCaughey (Cambridge, Edinburgh) | LLD | |
| Professor Emeritus Sir Sydney Lance Townsend | LLD | |
| 1983 | Herbert Burton (Queensland, Oxford) | DCom |
| Professor Emeritus Wilfred Prest (Leeds, Manchester) | DCom | |
| Sir Walter Paul Osborn McCutcheon (Monash) | DArch | |
| Wilbur Norman Christiansen | DEng | |
| Ronald William Cumming (Sydney, Michigan) | DEng | |
| Professor Emeritus Arthur James Francis (Birmingham) | DEng | |
| John Robert Philip | DEng | |
| Howard Knox Worner (Newcastle) | DEng | |
| Dame Margaret Blackwood (Canterbury) | LLD | |
| Kathleen Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Oxford) | LLD | |
| Ursula Hoff (Hamburg, Monash) | LLD | |
| Dame Leonie Judith Kramer (Oxford) | LLD | |
| Elizabeth Kathleen Turner | LLD | |
| Sir Laurence John Hartnett | LLD | |
| 1984 | Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (Cambridge, Dublin, Leeds, Oxford, Warwick) | DMus |
| Alistair Samuel Knox | DArch | |
| Gordon Stephenson (Western Australia, Liverpool) | DArch | |
| Stephen Harton Sheffield | MPhil | |
| John Hackman Sumner | LLD | |
| Daniel Mannix Flynn (Sydney) | DVSc | |
| Eric Cunningham Dax (London) | MD | |
| 1985 | Peter Neville Fredrick Porter | LittD |
| Ilma Lovell Kelson | MMus | |
| Patrick John Hillery (National University of Ireland, Dublin) | LLD | |
| Robert David Fitzgerald | LittD | |
| Betty Eudora Laby | MSc | |
| Professor Douglas Charles Blood (Sydney, Saskatchewan) | DVSc | |
| Professor Omar Bin Abdul Rahman (Sydney, Cambridge) | DVSc | |
| Francis Kevin Heathcote Maher | LLD | |
| His Excellency Sir Ninian Martin Stephen | LLD | |
| 1986 | Eva Gizella Eden | LLD |
| Joseph Brown (Monash) | LLD | |
| Dame Helen Mary, Baroness Warnock (Essex, Open) | LittD | |
| Alfred Dunbavin Butcher | DSc | |
| 1987 | Jack Stanley Smith | LLD |
| Sir Bernard James Callinan (Monash) | LLD | |
| David Michael Cockburn | DSc | |
| Percy Jones (Rome) | DMus | |
| Professor Emeritus David Edmund Caro (Birmingham, Tas.) | DSc | |
| Professor Emeritus Harold Arthur John Ford | LLD | |
| Sir Joseph Terence Burke (Monash) | LLD | |
| John Stewart Turner | LLD | |
| 1988 | Sinclair Imrie Miller | LLD |
| Jean Middlemas McCaughey | LLD | |
| Sir Ian Munro McLennan (Wollongong, Newcastle NSW) | LLD | |
| Eric Paul Willmot (Newcastle NSW) | LLD | |
| Sir Ernest Edward Dunlop (Punjab) | LLD | |
| Alan McLeod McCulloch | LLD | |
| Thomas Carrick Chambers (Sydney, New Zealand) | LLD | |
| Jean Edna Blackburn | DEd | |
| His Excellency, Francesco Cossiga | LLD | |
| Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd | LittD | |
| Raymond Maxwell Crawford (Sydney, Oxford) | LittD | |
| Judith Arundell Wright McKinney (Queensland, Sydney, Monash, New England, ANU) | LittD | |
| John Henry Arundel (Sydney) | DVSc | |
| Raymond David Marginson | LLD | |
| Harold Bryce Mortlock (Sydney) | DArch | |
| 1989 | Elsie Margaret Stones (Louisiana Baton Rouge) | DSc |
| Catherine Margaret Mary Scott | LLD | |
| Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (Sussex, Tasmania) | DMus | |
| John McIntosh Young (Oxford) | LLD | |
| Paul Ivan Korner (New South Wales, Sydney) | MD | |
| 1990 | The Right Rev Dr Peter John Hollingworth (Lambeth, Monash, Griff., QUT, UCQ, Sthn Qld) | LLD |
| Richard Elgin McGarvie (Monash, LaTrobe) | LLD | |
| James Patrick Quirk (London, Sydney, Louvain, WA, Syd) | DAgrSc | |
| John Bernard Gough | LLD | |
| Kenneth Vincent Finlayson Jubb (Sydney, Cornell, Murdoch, Agric U of Malaysia) | DVSc | |
| 1991 | Robert Alan Johnston | DCom |
| Charles Angas Hurst (Camb) | DSc | |
| Richard Henry Dalitz | DSc | |
| Priscilla Sheath Kincaid-Smith (Witwatersrand, London) | LLD | |
| 1992 | Concetta Benn (RMIT) | LLD |
| Eric Russell Love (Cambridge) | DSc | |
| Heather Isabel Lyon (Columbia) | DEd | |
| His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet | LLD | |
| John Theodore Ralph (Qld.) | LLD | |
| William Albert Snowdon (Sydney) | DVSc | |
| Anthony Frank Mason (ANU, Syd, Monash, Griff., Deakin, UNSW, Oxon) | LLD | |
| Nigel John Gray (Monash) | LLD | |
| Her Excellency Mary Robinson (Dublin, Harvard) | LLD | |
| 1993 | Sidney Baillieu Myer (Cambridge) | LLD |
| Sophie Charlotte Ducker | LLD | |
| Robert Peter McIntyre | DArch | |
| Margarita Maria Josepha Hanson | DMus | |
| Nancy Fannie Millis (Bristol) | DSc | |
| Mechai Samak Viravaidya | LLD | |
| Washington SyCip (Philippines) | LLD | |
| 1994 | Raymond Eden Holmes | DSurv |
| John Harding Chinner (Oxford) | DForSc | |
| Eric Louis Ellwood (Yale) | DForSc | |
| Alfred John Leslie | DForSc | |
| George Keith Batchelor (Cambridge) | DSc | |
| John Law Farrands (London) | DSc | |
| David Ogilvie White (Sydney, ANU) | MD | |
| Lee Kuan Yew (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Chin Hoong Fong | DAgrSc | |
| Elsie May Webster | LittD | |
| 1995 | Alice Marshall Moyle (Sydney, Monash) | DMus |
| The Hon. Mr Justice Raymond Moyle Northrop | LLD | |
| Barrett Reid | LLD | |
| Jonathan Nathan | DSc | |
| Professor Emeritus James Frederick Ward (London) | DSc | |
| Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Cairo, Sorbonne) | LLD | |
| His Excellency Fidel Victor Ramos (Illinois, Ateneo de Manila) | LLD | |
| The Hon. Mr Justice William Charles Crockett (Monash) | LLD | |
| Warner Max Corden (London, Oxon) | DCom | |
| Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (UNY) | LittD | |
| Anton Moedardo Moeliono (Cornell, Universitas Indonesia) | LittD | |
| David Geoffrey Penington (Oxford) | LLD | |
| 1996 | Kenneth Stanley Inglis (Oxford) | LittD |
| Ian Francis McLaren (Monash) | LittD | |
| Ismail Serageldin (Cairo, Harvard) | DAgrSc | |
| Raymond Leslie Martin (Cambridge, ANU, Monash) | DSc | |
| James Dewey Watson (Chicago, Indiana, Cambridge) | DSc | |
| 1997 | Brian David Outram Anderson (Sydney, Stanford, Louvain, UNSW, Swiss Fed.Inst.Tech.) | DEng |
| Allan James Risely White (Adelaide, London) | DSc | |
| William John Mitchell | DArch | |
| Dato' Haji Mustapa Mohamed (Boston) | DCom | |
| Wang Gungwu (Nanking, University of Malaya, London) | LLD | |
| John Christopher Williams (Siena, London) | DMus | |
| Professor Emeritus Sir Gustav Nossal (Sydney, Monash, Mainz, Newcastle NSW, Leeds, UWA, Qld., ANU, UNSW, LaTrobe, McMaster) | LLD | |
| Gordon James Aitkin Clunie (Edinburgh) | MD | |
| 1998 | Sir (Francis) Gerard Brennan (Queensland, Dublin, Qld, ANU, UTS, Central Qld, Griff) | LLD |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | LLD | |
| 1999 | Professor Emeritus Peter Clarence Reade (Adelaide) | DDSc |
| John Francis Lovering (Sydney, Melbourne, Cal.Tech, Flinders) | DSc | |
| James Baildon Potter (Melbourne) | LLD | |
| Peter Fearnley Dale (Cambridge, NE, LondPoly) | DSurv | |
| William Alexander Robertson (Wellington) | DSurv | |
| Giancarlo Elia Valori | LLD | |
| Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (Chulalongkorn, Silapakorn, Srinakharinwirot) | LLD | |
| Professor Emeritus James Pittard (Yale) | MD | |
| Lord Ronald Ernest Dearing, (Hull) | LLD | |
| Thomas William Healy (Columbia) | DSc | |
| 2000 | Charles Barrington Goode (Columbia) | LLD |
| Sir Alec Nigel Broers (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Sir James Augustine Gobbo (Oxford, Monash, ACU) | LLD | |
| Maureen Brunt (Harvard, Monash) | DCom | |
| Pierre Patrick Gorman (Cambridge) | LLD | |
| Colin Ivor Johnsto (Sydney) | MD | |
| 2001 | Professor Joseph Ezra Isaac (Lond, Monash) | DCom |
| Professor Emeritus Kamafusa Shoda (Sendai) | DSc | |
| Ray Parkin | LittD | |
| Hilma Dymphna Clark (awarded posthumously) | LittD | |
| Professor Carl Boris Schedvin (Sydney) | DCom | |
| Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger (Sorbonne) | LLD | |
| The Hon Sir (Albert) Edward Woodward (UNSW, Ballarat) | LLD | |
| Jakob Malmo (Sydney) | DVSc | |
| Virginia Perryman Studdert (Calif) | DVSc | |
| Hugh John Wirth (Qld) | DVSc | |
| John Iremonger | LittD | |
| Professor Emeritus William Wallace Stewart Charters (Leeds, Princeton) | DEng | |
| 2002 | Professor Emeritus Leonard Kelman Stevens (Camb) | DEng |
| Ruth Bright | DMus | |
| The Hon Gareth John Evans (Oxf) | LLD | |
| The Hon Barry Owen Jones (UTS, W'gong, Macquarie, SthnCross) | LLD | |
| (Colin) David Finch (Lond.) (awarded posthumously) | DCom | |
| The Hon Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson | LLD | |
| Felix Werder | DMus | |
| Links on our Honoris Causa Degrees site are to the citation presented in connection with the degree at the same time it was conferred | ||
| 2003 | Erik Jens Jensen | LittD |
| Geoffrey Colin Harcourt (Camb, DeMontfort, UK) | DCom | |
| Benn Atherton Selby (Syd) | MSc | |
| Alastair John McKenzie (Camb) (awarded posthumously) | DEng | |
| Helen Garner | LLD | |
| Dato' Seri Diraja Tajol Rosli Ghazali | LLD | |
| Germaine Greer (Syd, Camb, Griff., York, Toronto, UMIST) | LLD | |
| Nancy Fannie Millis (Bristol) | LLD | |
| Arthur Richard Newton (Berkeley) | LLD | |
| Lowitja O'Donoghue (ANU, NotreDame, Murd, Flinders, ANU, SA, QUT) | LLD | |
| Berthold Friedrich Peter Sakmann (Tübingen, Munich, Göttingen) | LLD | |
| Robin Lorimer Sharwood (Berkeley, Harvard) | LLD | |
| John Michael Landy (Vic.[BC], UNE) | LLD | |
| (John) Barry Humphries (Griff) | LLD | |
| Zoe Caldwell | LLD | |
| (Edgar) Roger Banks | DEng | |
| Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras (Hull, Nottingham) | DMus | |
| Lu Yongxiang (Zhejiang, AachenUT) | LLD | |
| Roger Edward Clarke (Qld) | DVSc | |
| Martha Piper (Mich, Conn, McGill, Dal, Tor) | LLD | |
| Xu Zhihong (Peking, DeMont, Nott) | LLD | |
| Alan David Gilbert (ANU, Oxf, Tas, McG) | LLD | |
| Peter George Thorne | DEng | |
| 2004 | Donald Morrison Grant (RMIT, SAIT, Adel, CSturt, UNSW) | DSurv |
| Robin Batterham | LLD | |
| Sir William Patrick Deane (Syd, Dublin) | LLD | |
| Richard Pratt (Swinburne, Monash) | LLD | |
| Anne Krueger (Wisc, Oberlin) | DBus | |
| (Philip) John Barnes Rose (NZ, Camb) | DBus | |
| Rev Dr Norman George Curry (Lond, MCD) | LLD | |
| Richard Graeme Larkins (Lond) | LLD | |
| Kwong Chiu Lee Dow | LLD | |
| 2005 | Helen Quinn (Stanford) | DSc |
| Fay Surtees Marles | LLD | |
| Professor Emeritus Peter numa Joubert (Syd) | DEng | |
| (Derek) John Mulvaney (Camb.) | LittD | |
| Gregory Burgess | DArch | |
| Robert George Gregory (Lond) | DCom | |
| Professor Emeritus Patrick Nicol Troy (WAust, NSW) | DArch | |
| Ronald William Farren-Price | DMus | |
| David Solomon | DAppSc | |
| 2006 | Chris Wallace-Crabbe | LittD |
| Fred Schepisi | DVPA | |
| Ian Macfarlane (Monash) | DCom | |
| Professor Kenneth Gilbert | DMus | |
| Professor Derek Denton | LLD | |
| Professor Mary Barton (Syd, Melb, Manc, Deakin) | DVSc | |
| Keith Murray (Glas) | DVSc | |
| Patrick Dodson | LLD | |
| Donald Hossack | MD | |
| Alan Hampson | MD | |
| 2007 | ||
| 14 Mar | Israel Kipen | LittD |
| 21 Mar | Bernard Hendrik Lochtenberg | LLD |
| 31 Mar | Professor Emeritus Margaret Manion | LittD |
| 31 Mar | Professor Peter Steele | LittD |
| 10 May | Professor Shirley McKechnie | DVPA |
| 11 Aug | Professor Ronald de Leeuw | LittD |
| 11 Aug | Professor Graeme Davison | LittD |
| 20 Aug | Professor John Hopkins | DMus |
| 25 Aug | Professor Murray Chilvers Kemp | DCom |
| 8 Dec | Professor Geoff Blainey | LLD |
| 8 Dec | Dr Nag Rao | MD |
| 2008 | ||
| 15 May | Ms Cheryl Barker | DVPA |
| 15 May | Mr Peter Coleman-Wright | DVPA |
| 9 August | Mr George Tibbits (posthumously) |
DArch |
| 27 August | Dr Samuel Pisar, AO | LLD |
| 6 December | Professor Harold Messer | DDSc |
| 6 December | Dr Clive Collins Gay | DVSc |
| 6 December | Mr Garry Anderson | MVSc |
| 6 December | Dr Fiona Stanley, AC | MD |
| 6 December | Dr Henry Crock | DSc |
| 17 December | Mr Hijjas bin Kasturi | DArch |
| 18 December | Mr Hugh Anderson | LittD |
| 18 December | Hon Daryl Dawson | LLD |
| 2009 | ||
| 21 March | Mr Ian Renard | LLD |
| 23 May | The Hon Justice Michael Kirby | LLD |
| 8 August | Professor John McKenzie | LLD |
| 26 August | Dr Frank Leahy | DE |
| 27 August | Mr Neil Clerehan | DArch |
| 5 December | Professor Ruth Bishop | DMedSc |
| 5 December | Dr David Galloway | DVM |
| 15 December | Professor Peter McPhee | LLD |
| 19 December | Professor Frank Larkins | LLD |
| 21 December | Dr Peter Seligman | DEng |
| 22 December | Professor Hon Evan Walker | DArch |
| 2010 | ||
| 18 March | Dr J Craig Venter | DSc |
| 19 March | Mr Ravi Shankar | LLD |
| 20 March | Chief Justice Michael Black | LLD |
| 29 March | Professor Martin Rees | DSc |
| 28 August | Professor Hedley Beare | DEd |
| 4 December | Professor Graeme Sloman | DMedSc |
| 4 December | Professor Kevin Whithear | DVSc |
| 2011 | ||
| 10 August | Mr Amos Oz | LittD |
| 9 November | Professor Dame Julia Higgins | DSc |
| 3 December | Professor Simon Turner | DVSc |
| 6 December | Professor Alexander Smits | DE |
| 16 December | Associate Professor James Patrick | DE |
| 16 December | Professor David Boger | DE |
| 16 December | Professor Peter Poole | DE |
| 22 December | The Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser | LLD |
| 2012 | ||
| 17 March | Mr Allan James Myers AO QC | LLD |
| 17 March | Mr Richard Arthur Woolcott | LLD |
| 18 April | Dr Patrick McCaughey | LLD |
| 24 May | Mr Simon Phillips | DVPA |
| 5 July | Professor David Morritz de Kretser AC | LLD |
| 5 July | Professor Fiona Juliet Stanley AC | LLD |
| 5 July | Professor Hugh Ringland Taylor AC | LLD |
| 5 July | Professor Judith Ann Whitworth AC | LLD |
| 5 July | Professor Peter Charles Doherty AC | LLD |
| 5 July | Professor Sir Peter John Morris AC | LLD |
| 5 July | Professor Thomas John (Jack) Martin AO | LLD |
| 6 July | Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer | LLD |
| 1 August | Professor Sir Marc Feldmann | DMedSc |
| 14 August | His Excellency The Honourable Alex Chernov AC QC | LLD |
| 11 September | Professor Ian Philip Smith Anderson | DMedSc |
| 11 September | Professor Lorraine Dennerstein AO | DMedSc |
| 11 September | Dr Joanna Mary Flynn AM | DMedSc |
| 11 September | Mr James Stuart Guest AM | DMedSc |
| 11 September | Dr Sandra Michelle Hacker AO | DMedSc |
| 11 September | Dr Margaret Mary Henderson OBE | DMedSc |
| 11 September | Professor John Duncan Mathews AM | DMedSc |
| 11 September | Dr Hugh David Niall | DMedSc |
| 11 September | Professor Emeritus Richard Alan Smallwood AO | DMedSc |
| 15 December | Professor Emeritus Robert G. Meyer | DEng |
| 17 December | Professor David Yencken AO | DArch |
| 2013 | ||
| 16 March | Her Excellency Quentin Bryce | LLD |
| 16 March | Professor George Michell | DArch |
| 16 March | Professor Peter Rowe | DArch |