War reporter Kate Adie and the former head of MI5 Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller are among those who will receive honorary degrees from St Andrews University this week.
Ms Adie is best known as BBC foreign correspondent throughout the 80s and 90s, often reporting from the world’s most dangerous war zones.
She holds honorary degrees from a number of universities and is honorary professor of journalism at Sunderland University.
Baroness Manningham-Buller headed MI5 from 2002 to 2007, during which time she was credited with making the agency more open under her tenure the organisation made terror risk assessments public for the first time.
She will be awarded a doctor of science degree, while Ms Adie is to be made a doctor of laws.
Other notable figures to be awarded honorary doctorates include Olympic gold medallist Dame Mary Peters, Estonian composer Arvo Part, bipolar disorder expert Professor Kay Redfield Jamison, and the inventor of magnetic resonance imaging Professor John Mallard.
Mr Part was due to be honoured last year but was unable to travel to Scotland because of ill-health.
All will collect their honours during a series of degree ceremonies to be held in the Younger Hall, starting tomorrow for four days, to be presided over by university chancellor Sir Menzies Campbell.
Previous recipients of honorary degrees from St Andrews include Bob Dylan, Michael Douglas, Denis Law, Dame Judi Dench, and J. K. Rowling.