• 1957 Professor
Frederic Calland Williams OBE DSc MIEE FRS, professor of electrical engineering at the
University of Manchester • 1958
Peter Ustinov, actor, producer, director, playwright • 1959
George Horatio Nelson MA MICE MIMechE MIEE, managing director of The English Electric Company Limited • 1960
Robert Nicholson, FSIA exhibition and interior designer • 1961
Alick Dick, chairman and managing director of Standard-Triumph International Limited • 1962
The Lord Rootes GBE, joint founder of the
Rootes Group • 1963
John Hay Whitney, American diplomatist and publisher • 1964 Sir
Evelyn Wrench KCMG, founder of the
English-Speaking Union and of the Overseas League • 1965
Paul Mellon, American business and foundation executive • 1966 Sir
Denis Brogan D-es Lettres LLD, writer on United States affairs • 1967 Dr.
Detlev Bronk, president of the
Rockefeller University • 1968
Peter Wilson, chairman of
Sotheby's • 1969 Dr.
Louis Booker Wright PhD Dlitt LHD, director of the
Folger Shakespeare Library,
Washington, DC • 1970 Sir
Denning Pearson, chief executive and chairman of
Rolls-Royce Limited • 1971
David Bruce, diplomat • 1972 Sir
William Walton OM, composer • 1973
Alistair Cooke, writer and journalist • 1974 Dame
Margot Fonteyn DBE, prima ballerina • 1975
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, English scholar • 1976 Rt Hon
Harold Macmillan, statesman and publisher • 1977
J. William Fulbright, former United States Senator for Arkansas • 1978 Dr.
Ivor Armstrong Richards, professor emeritus of
Harvard University • 1979 Professor
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, writer and lecturer on architectural history • 1980 Sir
Bernard Lovell OBE FRS, professor of radio astronomy,
University of Manchester and then-director of
Jodrell Bank Observatory • 1981
Lincoln Kirstein, director,
School of American Ballet,
New York City Ballet Company • 1982
The Lord Sherfield GCB GCMG Diplomat • 1983 Dr.
Lewis Mumford, writer and teacher on town and country planning • 1984 The Lord
Gordon Richardson of Duntisbourne, retired
Governor of the Bank of England • 1985
Harry L. Hansen, professor at the
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration • 1986 Sir David Wills CBE TD DL, former chairman of the
Ditchley Foundation • 1987
Kingman Brewster, diplomat • 1988 Professor
Esmond Wright, English scholar • 1989
Sam Wanamaker, actor, director and founder of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre • 1990 Sir
David Attenborough, naturalist and broadcaster • 1991
Edward Streator, diplomat • 1993
Robert Venturi and
Denise Scott Brown, architects • 1994 Sir
John Templeton, financial analyst and philanthropist • 1995 The Honorable
Raymond G. H. Seitz, diplomat • 1996 Sir
David Puttnam, film producer • 1997
William R. Hewlett, co-founder and director emeritus of
Hewlett-Packard Company • 1998 Sir
Alex Trotman, chairman and chief executive officer of
Ford Motor Company • 1999 Senator
George J. Mitchell, special counsel and chairman of the peace negotiations in
Northern Ireland • 2000 Dame
Judi Dench, actress • 2001 Ambassador
Philip Lader, former
US Ambassador to the Court of St James's • 2002 Dame
Marjorie Scardino, chief executive officer of
Pearson PLC • 2003 General
Colin Powell, former
US Secretary of State • 2004
Jonathan Ive, vice-president of design,
Apple Computer • 2005 Dr.
Amory Lovins, chief executive officer of
Rocky Mountain Institute • 2008 Sir
Ken Robinson, author, educator • 2009 Professor
Elizabeth Gould, psychologist,
UCLA • 2010 Professor
Jonathan Israel, School of Historical Studies,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. • 2011 Professor
Lawrence W. Sherman, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. • 2013
Walter Isaacson, thought leader and author, CEO of the
Aspen Institute • 2015
Chris Anderson, entrepreneur and the curator of
TED • 2016
Wendy Kopp, CEO and co-founder of
Teach For All • 2018
Herbie Hancock, musician/composer ==References==