Award Knight Bachelor

Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1998)

The Bookseller Services to Bookselling Award (2000)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Warwick (1999)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Portsmouth (2001)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Bath (2003)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Bristol (2004)

Guest of Honor, World Science Fiction Convention (2004)

Honorary Brownie (2008)

Margaret A. Edwards Award (2011)

World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2010)

Skylark Award (2009)

Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award (2016)

Knight of the Order of St. John (1903)

Queen's South Africa Medal (1901)

Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy (1895)

Order of the Medjidie, 2nd class [Ottoman Empire] (1907)

Archie Goodwin Award (2005)

Carnegie Medal (1995)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 2001)

May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (2002)

Eleanor Farjeon Award (2002)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 2004)

Eastercon, UK (guest of honour | 2004)

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2005)

Freedom of the City of Oxford (2007)

Action for Children's Arts (J. M. Barrie Award | 2019)

Sri Lankabhimanya (2005)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1989)

Royal Astronomical Society (Fellow, 1950)

National Academy of Engineering (1986)

Stuart Ballantine Medal (1963)

Marconi Prize (1982)

Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science (1961)

SFWA Grand Master (1985)

SF Hall Of Fame (1997)

Nobel Prize (1983)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1955)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1965)

Royal Society of Literature (Companion of Literature, 1983)

Nobel Prize (Literature ∙ 2001)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1962)

Royal Society of Literature (Companion of Literature, 1994)

David Cohen British Literature Prize (1993)

T. S. Eliot Award (1986)

Trinity Cross (1989)

Phoenix Trust Award (1963)

Bennett Award (1980)

Jerusalem Prize (1983)

John Whiting Award (1967)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1972)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1978)

Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay, 1998)

Golden Globe (Best Screenplay, 1998)

American Theater Hall of Fame (1999)

BAFTA (Best Original Screenplay, 1999)

Order of Merit (2000)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (2000)

Honorary doctorate, Yale University (2000)

Honorary degree, Cambridge University (2000)

The London Library (2002)

Dan David Prize (2008)

PEN Pinter prize (2013)

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (2013)

PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award (2015)

British Academy (Honorary Fellow, , 2017)

David Cohen Prize (2017)

America Award in Literature (2017)

Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award (2017)

Laurence Olivier Award (1994, 2006, 2020)

Tony Award for Best Play (1968, 1976, 1984, 2007, 2023)

Honorary Patronage, University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize (1996)

Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1991)

BBC Reith Lecturer (1998)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1986)

Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1961)

Order of the British Empire (Commander) (1981)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1992)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 2001)

Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2011)

Norton Medlicott Medal (2002)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 2017)

British Academy (Correspondent Fellow, 2015)

Feltrinelli Prize (2015)

Leo Gershoy Award (1977)

Wolfson History Prize (1977)

Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire (1919)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1990)

Norton Medlicott Medal (2005)

Privy Council (2009)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1977)

Guardian of Zion Award (2000)

Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize (2003)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1986)

Queen's Counsel (1966)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)

Royal Historical Society (Fellow)

British Academy (fellow | 1960)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1966)

Erasmus Prize (1975)

Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (1st class | 1975)

Hegel Prize (1976)

Pour le mérite für Wissenschaft und Künste (1977)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1985)

Balzan Prize for History of Western Art (1985)

City of Vienna (Prize for Humanities | 1986 | gold medal | 1994)

Order of Merit (1988)

Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize (1988)

Goethe Prize (1994)

Leverhulme Medal (2002)

Royal Society of Literature

Society of Antiquaries of London (Fellow)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964)

American Philosophical Society (1968)

Pour le Mérite (1977)

Order of the Companions of Honour (1996)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1974)

Royal Victorian Order (Commander, 1991)

Royal Society (Fellow, 1983)

Order of Merit (2005)

Order of St Michael and St George (Knight Grand Cross, 2020)

Society of Antiquaries of London (Honorary Fellow, 2007)

American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Foreign Honorary Member, 1991)

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Commander, 2023)

Australian Academy of Science (Corresponding Member, 2012)

Royal Academy of Arts (Honorary Fellow, 1992)

Linnean Society (Honorary Fellow, 1999)

Prince of Asturias Award (2009)

Moscow Society of Naturalists (Honorary Member, 2017)

Royal Canadian Geographical Society Gold Medal (2017)

The Culture Show British Icon Award (2006)

British Naturalists' Association Peter Scott Memorial Award (2007)

Nierenburg Prize (2005)

International Cosmos Prize (2000)

Zoological Society of London (Honorary Fellow, 1998)

Descartes Prize (2004)

Kew International Medal (1996)

Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Narrator (2018, 2019)

Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality – Non-Daily (2025)

Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication (2024)

Cherry Kearton Medal and Award (1972)

Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science (1981)

Michael Faraday Prize (2003)

Royal Society of the Protection of Birds Medal (2000)

Caird Medal (2004)

José Vasconcelos World Award of Education (2004)

Royal Photographic Society Progress medal and Honorary Fellowship (2008)

Fonseca Prize (2010)

Queensland Museum Medal (2010)

Society for the History of Natural History Founders' Medal (2011)

Association for International Broadcasting International TV Personality of the year (2011)

IUCN Phillips Memorial Medal (2012)

Peabody Award (2015)

Britain-Australia Society Award (2017)

National Television Awards (2006)

BAFTA Fellowship (1979)

The Perfect World Foundation Award (2018)

Landscape Institute Medal for Lifetime Achievement (2019)

Landscape Institute (Honorary Fellow, 2019)

World Economic Forum Crystal Award (2019)

Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (2019)

Chatham House Prize (2019)

Champions of the Earth Lifetime Achievement Award (2021)

United Nations Environment Programme Champion of the Earth (2022)

43rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award (2022)

BAFTA Desmond Davis Award (1970)

Gold Blue Peter Badge (2016)

Green Blue Peter Badge (2019)

Nobel Prize for Literature (1931)

Order of Merit (1929)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (1929)

Science Fiction Hall Of Fame (Living Inductee, 2007)

BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema (1995)

BAFTA Fellowship (2018)

Fellow, British Academy (1991)

Bundesverdienstkreuz (1994)

Fellow, Royal Historical Society (1980)

Wolfson History Prize (2000)

British Academy Book Prize (2001)

Norton Medlicott Medal (2004)

Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography (2005)

Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (2012)

Charlemagne Medal (2018)

American Philosophical Society (international member; 1895)

Richard M. Weaver Award (2004)

Medal of Merit (First Class | 1998)

British Academy (Fellow, 2008)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 2003)

Order of Merit (2000)

Royal Society (Fellow, 1972)

Nobel Prize (Physics, 2020)

Copley Medal (2008)

De Morgan Medal (2004)

Royal Society Royal Medal (1985)

Albert Einstein Medal (1990)

Naylor Prize (1991)

Wolf Prize (1988)

Dannie Heineman Prize (1971)

Fonseca Prize (2011)

Richard R. Ernst Medal (2012)

Institute of Physics (Honorary Fellow, 1989)

Eddington Medal (1975)

Paul Dirac Medal and Prize (1989)

Polish Academy of Sciences (1994)

United States National Academy of Sciences (Foreign Associate, 1998)

Australian Institute of Physics Dirac Medal (2005)

American Philosophical Society (International Member, 2011)

Commandino Medal (2017)

James Scott Prize Lectureship (1997-2000)

Distinguished Service Order

Order of the Phoenix, Greece (Commander)

Royal Society of Literature (Companion of Literature)

Order of the British Empire (Officer)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)

Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge

Jerusalem Prize (1979)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1946)

Order of Merit (1971)

British Academy (Fellow, 1957)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1959)

Erasmus Prize (1983)

Agnelli Prize (1987)

John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy (1931)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1966)

American Philosophical Society (1975)

Royal Historical Society (Fellow, 1982)

British Academy (Fellow, 2001)

Society of Antiquaries of London (Fellow, 1978)

National Book Circle Critics Award (2004)

Wolfson History Prize (2004)

Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2010)

Cundill Prize (2010)

Peerage (Baron: 1618, Viscount:1621)

Queen's Counsel (1597)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1953)

BBC Reith Lecturer (1955)

British Academy (Fellow, 1965)

Royal Institute of British Architects (gold medal | 1967)

Thomas Jefferson Medal (1976)

Society of Antiquaries of London (Fellow, 1950)

A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts (1970)

Cromer Greek Prize (1959)

Fellow, British Academy (1969)

Kenyon Medal (1995)

Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford University

Onassis Prize for Humanities (2009)

foreign member, Academi dei Lincei (1999)

Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London (1957)

foreign member, American Philosophical Society (1999)

British Academy (1957)

American Philosophical Society (1965)

Companion of Honour (1984)

Royal Society of Literature (Companion of Literature)

Fellow of the Royal Society (1957)

Bruce Medal (1970)

Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1971)

Klumpke-Roberts Award (1977)

Balzan Prize (Astrophysics ∙ 1994)

Crafoord Prize (1997)

Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science (1967)

Life Peerage (1965)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1961)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1943)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1992)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1968)

Légion d'Honneur (Chevalier, 1993)

Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford University

Wolfson Prize (1978)

Commander, Order of the British Empire (1991)

Pipe Smoker of the Year (1997)

Honorary Academy Award (1943)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)

Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (1970)

Songwriters Hall of Fame (1988)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1997)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1978)

Tony Award for Best Play (1975, 1981)

Academy Award (Best Adapted Screenplay, 1984)

Golden Globe for Best Screenplay (1984)

Evening Standard Theatre Award (1958, 1979, 1988)

Shakespeare Prize (1989)

American Theater Hall of Fame (2007)

Tony Award for Best Foreign Play (1960)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (1960, 1975)

Evening Standard Drama Award (1958)

William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre (1992)

Order of the British Empire (Commander)

Wolfson History Prize (2002)

Fellow, British Academy (1952)

British Academy (Fellow, 1971)

Order of the British Empire (Commander)

Royal Danish Academy (1975)

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1982)

Order of the British Empire (Commander | 1994)

Kennedy Center Honors (2004)

Polar Music Prize (1995)

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1994)

Wolfson History Prize (2007)

Officer's Cross, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2010)

Deutscher Historikerpreis (2010)

Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (2019)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2013)

Preis des Historischen Kollegs

Laura Shannon Prize (2015)

European Prize for Political Culture (2018)

Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (2007)

H-Soz-u-Kult prize (2007)

Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge University (1991)

Life Peerage (Baron Lloyd-Weber, 1997)

Kennedy Center Honors (2006)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999)

British Academy (Fellow, 1973)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1958)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Honorary Foreign Member, 1976)

Ordre des Arts et des Sciences (Officier)

Military Cross (1917)

Distinguished Service Order (1918)

Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1966)

Life Peerage (2009)

Jerusalem Prize (1995)

American National Jewish Book (2000, 2009, 2013, 2015)

The Grawemeyer Prize for Religion (2004)

The Norman Lamm Prize (2010)

The Abraham Kuyper Prize (2010)

Keter Torah Award (2011

Ladislaus Laszt Ecumenical and Social Concern Award (2011)

The Sanford St Martin's Trust Personal Award for Excellence in Religious Broadcasting (2013)

Templeton Prize (2016)

Genesis Prize Lifetime Achievement Award (2021)

BBC Reith Lecturer (1990)

Bard of the Cornish Gorseth (1928)

Commodore, Royal Fowey Yacht Club (1911)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1947)

Royal Society of Literature (Companion of Literature)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1960)

Poet Laureate of England (1972)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1943)

Order of the Companions of Honour (2016)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1999)

Society of Antiquaries of London (Fellow, 1965)

Shakespeare Prize (1980)

Royal Photographic Society's President's Medal (2003)

Royal Photographic Society (Honorary Fellow, 2003)

Gresham College Special Lecture (2007)

British Academy (Fellow, 1977)

Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford (1981)

Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (1981)

Serena Medal (1986)

Socio straniero, Ateneo Veneto (1987)

Socio, Accademia dei Lincei (1998)

Dannie Heineman Prize (1984)

Royal Astronomical Society (gold medal | 1987)

Balzan Prize (1989)

Bruce Medal (1993)

Bruno Rossi Prize (2000)

Gruber Prize (2001)

Oskar Klein Medal (2002)

Michael Faraday Prize (2004)

Life Peerage (2005)

Crafoord Prize (2005)

Royal Society (president | 2005 | incumbent)

Order of Merit (2007)

Caird Medal (2007)

Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2009)

BBC Reith Lecturer (2010)

Templeton Prize (2011)

Royal Society (fellow)

Asteroid Namesake (4587)

Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, Cambridge

Fellow of the Royal Society

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1993)

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

What the Papers Say (journalist of the year | 1998)

Learned Society of Wales (fellow | 2022)

Royal Society of Literature (fellow)

Royal Society of Literature (Companion of Literature, 1987)

Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1968)

Companion of Honour (1993)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, 1958)

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary member, 1971)

PEN Award (1974)

Heinemann Award for Literature (1969)

Golden PEN Award (1994)

International Balzan Prize (1987)

British Academy (Fellow, 1960)

Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences (International Honorary Member, 1972)

Alexander Prize (1933)

Medieval Academy of America (Corresponding Fellow, 1965)

Royal Historical Society (Fellow, president 1968-72)

Royal Society of Literature Prize (1970)

Monumenta Germaniae Historica (1982)