A Python, an Olympic rower and the former President of Ireland are among those to be honoured by St Andrews University this week.
Terry Jones, Katherine Grainger and Mary McAleese will all be awarded honorary degrees by the university during its summer graduation ceremonies.
The household names will be honoured alongside a host of distinguished individuals from the worlds of academia, art, music and science.
Joining them will be director of the Edinburgh International Festival Jonathan Mills and Glasgow photographer Harry Benson, famous for his black and white photographs of children in the Gorbals.
Benson, whose work was published by Life, Vanity Fair and People magazine, has also photographed celebrities including Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and the Beatles and every American president since Eisenhower.
Others on the honours list are Dr Christopher Brown (director, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford University), Professor Richard Schrock (Frederick G Keyes Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Dr Ian Johnston (neurosurgeon, writer and translator).
The eight recipients will be honoured over eight ceremonies to be held at the Younger Hall.
The university will also honour one of its own by awarding the University Medal to medieval historian and former warden of University Hall, Lorna Walker.
Meanwhile, graduates of St Andrews University are among those who have the highest chance of securing graduate level jobs, according to a new report.
The 2013 High Fliers report says students at leading universities such as St Andrews had the highest success rate when applying for positions.
St Andrews the only Scottish university to feature in the list is joined by other top institutions the London School of Economics, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Oxford, King’s College London, Bath, Durham, Warwick and University College London in the new ranking.
Other High Fliers’ data shows St Andrews features in the top five of UK universities for producing self-made millionaires.