2000
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| James Dyson CBE | DEng |
| Professor Trevor Jones CBE FRSC FPS | DSc |
| Professor Joseph Rykwert | DSc |
| Dr Donald Turner* | DSc |
| Carol Vorderman MBE | MA |
2001
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| The Rt Hon The Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon KBE PC | LLD |
| David Beeton CBE | MA |
| Sir CK Chow | DEng |
| John Coles CB FREng RCNC | DEng |
| Sir Christopher Evans OBE PhD CBiol FIBiol CChem FRSE | DSc |
| Dame Rosalyn Higgins DBE JSD FBA QC | LLD |
| Bob Holman* | LLD |
| Sir Ian McKellen CBE | DArts |
| Tan Sri Kishu Tirathrai | MBA |
| Professor David VandeLinde | LLD |
2002
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| Michael Briggs* | LLD |
| The Rt Rev'd Michael Doe | LLD |
| Professor Malcolm Frazer* | EdD |
| Sir Robert Hill KBE FREng FIMechE | DEng |
| Dr DeAnne Julius CBE | LLD |
| Sir John Keegan OBE FRSL* | DLitt |
| Ken Loach | DArts |
| Sir Paul Nurse FRS | DSc |
| Dava Sobel | DLitt |
2003
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| Professor Sir Christopher Frayling | DArts |
| Professor Nigel Hitchin DPhil FRS | DSc |
| Dr Peter King | DMus |
| The Rt Rev'd the Lord Bishop of Rochester | DLitt |
| Sara Parkin OBE | LLD |
| The Rt Hon The Lord Patten of Barnes CH PC | LLD |
| Terry Pratchett OBE* | DLitt |
| Jeremy Thring DL | LLD |
| Professor George Walker OBE | EdD |
2004
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| Sir David Brown FIEE FREng | DEng |
| The Rt Hon Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss GBE PC | LLD |
| Michael Eavis | DArts |
| Dr Adam Hart-Davis | DLitt |
| Dame Louise N Johnson DBE FRS* | DSc |
| Professor Betty Johnson* | DSc |
| Professor Stephen Lillicrap | DSc |
| Edward Luttwak | LLD |
| The Rt Hon Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve CBE FMedSci FBA | DLitt |
| Luke Rittner | DArts |
| Dr Horst Schulte | DEng |
2005
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| Professor Bruno Buchberger | DSc |
| Professor Sir Martin Evans FMedSci FRS | DSc |
| Dr Brian Ford | DSc |
| Iain Gilmour Gray | DEng |
| Professor Dame Julia Higgins DBE FRS FREng | DSc |
| Professor Judith Howard CBE FRS | DSc |
| Professor Ron Johnston FBA AcSS* | DLitt |
| Sir Stuart Lipton | LLD |
| Simon Murray CBE | LLD |
| Dame Cicely Saunders* | LLD |
| Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ONZ AC DBE | DMus |
| Professor Sir David Watson* | EdD |
| Jacqueline Wilson OBE | DLitt |
2006
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| Sir John Chisholm | DEng |
| U A Fanthorpe CBE* | DLitt |
| Sir Christopher Gent | LLD |
| Sir Peter Hall* | LLD |
| The Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws QC | EdD |
| Lord Joel Joffe CBE* | LLD |
| Sir Terence Matthews | DEng |
| Dr Raymond Schinazi | DSc |
| Dame Stephanie Shirley | LLD |
| Sir David Varney | LLD |
| Philip Williamson | DBA |
2007
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| Professor Michael Dickson MBE* | DEng |
| Dr Ed Gilby | DSc |
| Sir Julian Horn-Smith | LLD |
| Dr Stephen Huckvale | DEng |
| Raymond Kelvin | DBA |
| Professor Rod Morgan | LLD |
| James Sherwin | LLD |
| Sergio Viaggio | LLD |
| Professor John Willis | DSc |
2008
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| Nicholas Barton | DHealth |
| Sir Ian Botham OBE | LLD |
| Dr Stephen J Charlton | DEng |
| Dr Stephanie Cook MBE | DM |
| Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham KBE | DEng |
| John Grimshaw CBE | DEng |
| Neil Holloway | DSc |
| Professor George Lunt OBE | DSc |
| Joanna Macgregor | DMus |
| Professor Richard Mawditt OBE | LLD |
| Sir David McMurtry CBE | DEng |
| Lord Sainsbury of Turville | DSc |
| Bob Wigley | DBA |
2009
| Honorary graduate | Degree conferred |
|---|---|
| Craigie Aitchison CBE* | DArts |
| David Bull | LLD |
| Sue Duncan | DSc |
| Justin King | DBA |
| Dr Krisana Kraisintu | DSc |
| Professor Anthony Rees | DSc |
| The Hon Mrs Mary Robinson | LLD |
| Brian Roper MBE* | DBA |
| Dame Nancy Rothwell | LLD |
| Martin Sadler | DSc |
| Ed Smith | LLD |
| Florence Muringi Wambugu | DSc |
| William (Bill) Whiteley | DEng |
An asterisk (*) appears after the name of a deceased honorary graduate.