Lord Sainsbury was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters of South Bank University in 1992.
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd OM, PC, Hon. FSLL (born 8 October 1929) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. From 1992 to 2000, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons. She is the only woman to have served as Speaker.
Betty Boothroyd was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 1992.
Sir Graham Day was made an Honorary Doctor of Laws in 1993.
Allen John George Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, KCVO was a British industrialist and Conservative member of the House of Lords.
Lord Sheppard was made an Honorary Doctor of Laws in October 1994.
Zoë Wanamaker was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters in October 1995.
Dame Diana Rigg was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters in October 1996.
Professor Christopher Jennings was made an Honorary Fellow of the University in 1999.
Professor Anthony Giddens is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters in October 1997.
Giddens was appointed to a life peerage on 16 June 2004 as Baron Giddens, of Southgate in the London Borough of Enfield.
Sir Michael Heron was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 1997.
Sir Cyril Chantler GBE FRCP FRCPCH FMedSci is a British paediatric nephrologist. Chantler was notable for devising a method with Norman Veale of measuring glomerular function in children and later researched diet and growth failure in children with renal impairment. Chantler was most notable for holding an independent review of public health evidence for standardised tobacco packaging that later became known as the Chantler Review that led to standardised packaging for tobacco and cigarette packets.
Sir Cyril Chantler was made an Honorary Doctor of Science of the University in November 1999.
Jessica Huntley was made an Honorary Doctors of Letters of the University in November 2000. She was a Guyanese-born British publisher, and a women's and community rights activist, notable as the founder in 1969 of Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications in London. Among other activism, Huntley was a co-founder with Margaret Busby and others of Greater Access to Publishing (GAP), a voluntary group campaigning for greater diversity within the mainstream publishing industry.
Esther Rantzen was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters of the University in November 2000.
Miles Peter Richmond attended art classes at the Borough Polytechnic Institute following the Second World War and was taught by David Bomberg. He was a founder member of the Borough Group of artists. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the University in 2000.
Sarah Mullally, a former student, was made an Honorary Fellow of the University in June 2000.
In 1980 she began a nursing degree at South Bank Polytechnic, with clinical placements at St Thomas' Hospital, and was awarded joint Registered General Nurse (RGN) status and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1984. In 1992 she completed a Master of Science (MSc) degree in inter-professional health and welfare studies at London South Bank University. From 1999 to 2004, she was the England's Chief Nursing Officer and the National Health Service's director of patient experience for England; from July 2015 until 2018, she was Bishop of Crediton, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Exeter. In 2018 she became Bishop of London. Mullally was also an independent governor for London South Bank University between 2005 and 2015.
Christopher McLaren was the University Chancellor from 1992 until 1999. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the University in June 2000.
Mark Trevor Phillips OBE ARCS FIC a British writer, broadcaster and former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Trevor Phillips was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters of the University in 2001.
Dame DeAnne Shirley Julius, DCMG, CBE is a former Assistant Director and economic analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). An American-British economist, Julius is noted as a founder member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.
Dr DeAnne Julius was made an Honorary Doctor of Laws in 2001.
Professor David Cannadine was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters in November 2001.
Sir John Bond was made an Honorary Doctor of Laws in November 2001.
Terence Driscoll, an engineer, opened Driscoll House Hotel on New Kent Road in 1965 and continued to be active in the running of Driscoll House until his final weeks. He was a constant presence in the hostel's office and at the front desk. A regular feature of his week was the speech delivered at Sunday lunch. Much preparation went into this address which included news from past residents, letters received that week and mention of interesting events in the capital. The 200-bed Driscoll House offered London's cheapest hotel accommodation and it was claimed that more than 50,000 guests from 210 different countries had stayed there.
Terence Driscoll was made an Honorary Fellow of the University in 2001.