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Honorary Graduates 1994-2023
Honorary degrees are conferred on individuals who have made an outstanding contribution within their chosen field at a local, national, or international level.
Abertay University has been awarding honorary doctorates since gaining status as a university in 1994.
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2022
2019
2018
Professor Lynn Boddy
Mr Craig Mathieson
Professor Jean Venables
Mr Peter Tatchell
Doctor of Liberal Arts
2017
2016
2015
2014
The Rt. Hon. Lord Hope of Craighead
Doctor of Laws
Mr Ricky Ross
Mr Tony Banks
Doctor of Business Administration
Mr Stephen Wordsworth
Doctor of Liberal Arts
2013
2012
Mr Patrick Nevin
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen
Doctor of Science
Ms Lesley Knox
Professor Carlton Cooke
Doctor of Science
Ms Catriona Matthew
Mr Iain Flett
2011
2010
Professor John Dawson FRSE
Doctor of Administration
Mr Richard (Dick) Balharry MBE*
Doctor of Science
Mr Brian Taylor
Mr Richard (Dick) McTaggart MBE
Doctor of Arts
Professor David Harrison
Mr Alastair C S Macphie
Professor Gavin Reid
2009
Mr Philip Carmichael
Doctor of Business Administration
Professor Geoff Palmer
Doctor of Science
Sir Bill Gammell
Doctor of Education
The Right Honourable the Earl of Airlie KT GCVO
Doctor of the University
Mr Mark Jones
Doctor of Arts
Mr William Morton Sword*
Doctor of Business Administration
Mr John Vine CBE QPM
Doctor of Business Administration
Professor Sue M Black
Doctor of Science
Mr John Lowrie Morrison
Doctor of Arts
2008
Lady Claire Macdonald
Doctor of Arts
Mr Tony Roper
Mr Oliver Davies
Doctor of Technology
Mr Eddie Mair
Doctor of Letters
Lord Brian Gill
Doctor of Law
2007
Dr Chris Masters, CBE
Doctor of Education
Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE
Doctor of Science
Professor Dave Ulrich
Doctor of Business Administration
Mrs Kiran Masumdar-Shaw
Doctor of Technology
Professor Sir Keith O’Nions
Doctor of Science
Ms Louise L Martin CBE
Doctor of Arts
Yang Amat Berbahagia Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik
Doctor of Education
2006
Mr Ian S Callum
Doctor of Arts
Dr David Corner
Doctor of Letters
Professor Jim Fraser
Doctor of Science
Mr Geoff Heath
Mr Alan Cumming
Doctor of Arts
Ms Muriel Gray
Doctor of Letters
2005
Professor John Coggins
Doctor of Science
Professor C K Prahalad*
Doctor of Business Administration
Dr Jacqui Wood*
Doctor of Science
Dr Carol Craig
Doctor of Business Administration
Mr James ‘Midge’ Ure
Doctor of Arts
Mr Tom Abraham
Doctor of Business Administration
Mr John Stewart
Doctor of Business Administration
2004
Sir James Cayzer*
Doctor of Letters
Professor Myra Nimmo
Doctor of Science
Professor Peter Cochrane
Doctor of Technology
Professor Mantz Yorke
Doctor of Education
Dr James L MacMillan
Doctor of Music
Professor Brenda Gourley
Doctor of Education
2003
Mrs Elizabeth McColgan MBE
Doctor of Arts
Mr Alastair Ross
Doctor of Arts
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE
Doctor of Arts
Mr Frank Pignatelli
Doctor of Education
Professor Grahame Bulfield
Doctor of Science
Professor Zhou Wenbin
Doctor of Technology
Mr Derek Douglas
Doctor of Business Administration
Mr Peter Molyneux
2002
His Highness Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Doctor of Letters
Professor Ian Ritchie
Doctor of Business Administration
Professor Gordon Hewitt
Doctor of Business Administration
Mr Brian Thomson*
Doctor of Letters
Mr John Sizer*
Doctor of Laws
Mr Stuart Cosgrove
Doctor of Arts
Mr Patrick Teoh
Doctor of Business Administration
Professor Sheila McLean
Doctor of Laws
Professor Stefan Barudov
Doctor of Technology
2001
Dr Bob Hawley
Doctor of Technology
Ms Liz Lochhead
Doctor of Letters
Professor Tom Devine
Doctor of Letters
Mr Donald Maxwell
Doctor of Music
Mr Craig Brown
Doctor of Arts
Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri
Doctor of Technology
2000
Mr Harry S Ford
Doctor of Science
Mr Ian Livingstone
Doctor of Technology
Mr James L Millar
Doctor of Business Admin
Mr Sharom Ahmat
Doctor of Education
Sir Michael Bonallack
Doctor of Laws
Mr Alf Young
Doctor of Letters
Dr Prodromos Emfietzoglou
Doctor of Business Administration
1999
Mr James R G Wright
Doctor of Laws
Mr Brian Souter CA
Doctor of Business Administration
Professor David P Lane FRS
Doctor of Science
Professor Jozef Mayer
Doctor of Science
Professor Sir Graham J Hills
Doctor of Education
Mr Ian J Rankin
Doctor of Letters
1998
Professor Dr Leszek Balcerowicz
Doctor of Laws
Professor Sir Philip Cohen FRS
Doctor of Science
Dr D A Kennedy
Doctor of Education
Professor Diana Laurillard
Doctor of Technology
Professor Alistair G J McFarlane CBE
Doctor of Science
Lord Watson of Invergowrie
Doctor of Laws
Professor Sir J Shaw CBE
Doctor of Laws
Dr D Simpson FRSC
Doctor of Technology
1997
Ms Helena Kennedy QC
Doctor of Laws
Dr Duncan Michael
Doctor of Engineering
Dr T John Parker
Doctor of Engineering
Sir Brian Richards
Doctor of Science
Lord Simpson of Dunkeld
Doctor of Business Administration
Mr Hugh F Smith*
Doctor of Education
Sheikh Hasina Wazed
Doctor of Liberal Arts
1996
Professor Gajaraj Dhanarajan
Doctor of Education
Professor Philip Noel Love
Doctor of Laws
Mr Maurice Daniel Robert Malpas
Doctor of Arts
Professor Robert Charles Oliver Matthews CBE*
Doctor of Letters
Professor John Richard Hillman
Doctor of Science
Mr David Scott Jones
Master of Technology
Professor J Gordon McVie
Doctor of Science
1995
Robert Kerr Fulton*
Doctor of Arts
John Desmond Humphrys
Doctor of Letters
James McIntosh Patrick*
Doctor of Arts
Professor David J Tedford*
Doctor of Technology
1994
The Rt. Hon. Bruce Millan
Doctor of Laws
Professor Sir William D P Stewart
Doctor of Science
Lord Wilson of Tillyorn
Doctor of Letters
Sir David Cox
Doctor of Science
Eugenie Fraser*
Doctor of Letters
Barboura Patricia Grant
Doctor of Business Administration
The Rt. Hon. Lord Ross
Doctor of Laws
Kirsty Wark
Doctor of Letters
