This is a list of people who have been official Guests of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention, since the first Worldcon in 1939.
Each Worldcon committee selects the Guests of Honor (often just "GoH" in publications) for the convention.
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| Year |
Name |
| 1964 |
Forrest J Ackerman |
| 1965, 1979 |
Brian Aldiss |
| 2007 |
Yoshitaka Amano |
| 1995 |
Gerry Anderson |
| 1959 |
Poul Anderson |
| 2011 |
Ellen Asher |
| 1955 |
Isaac Asimov |
| 1993 |
Alicia Austin |
| 2000 |
Jim Baen |
| 1989 |
Betty Ballantine |
| 1989 |
Ian Ballantine |
| 2014 |
Iain Banks |
| 1976, 1994 |
George Barr |
| 2001 |
Greg Bear |
| 1999 |
Gregory Benford |
| 1987 |
Alfred Bester |
| 1960 |
James Blish |
| 1948, 1973 |
Robert Bloch |
| 1950 |
Anthony Boucher |
| 2000 |
Ben Bova |
| 1964 |
Leigh Brackett |
| 1986 |
Ray Bradbury |
| 2007 |
David Brin |
| 2020 |
Greg Broadmore |
| 2011 |
Charles N. Brown |
| 1983 |
John Brunner |
| 2019 |
Ginjer Buchanan |
| 1997 |
Algis Budrys |
| 2008 |
Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 2019 |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
| 2019 |
Bill Burns |
| 1987 |
Jim Burns |
| 2019 |
Mary Burns |
| 1947, 1954, 1957 |
John W. Campbell |
| 1949 |
John Carnell |
| 1986 |
Terry Carr |
| 1982 |
A. Bertram Chandler |
| 2002 |
David A. Cherry |
| 1998 |
C. J. Cherryh |
| 1956 |
Arthur C. Clarke |
| 1995 |
Vin¢ Clarke |
| 1991 |
Hal Clement |
| 2014 |
John Clute |
| 1996 |
Roger Corman |
| 1972 |
Buck Coulson |
| 1972 |
Juanita Coulson |
| 2016 |
Kinuko Y. Craft |
| 2013 |
Ellen Datlow |
| 1966 |
L. Sprague de Camp |
| 1967 |
Lester del Rey |
| 1995 |
Samuel R. Delany |
| 2022 |
Charles de Lint |
| 2006 |
Howard DeVore |
| 1992 |
Vincent Di Fate |
| 1984 |
Gordon R. Dickson |
| 2020 |
Larry Dixon |
| 2009 |
Tom Doherty |
| 2001 |
Gardner Dozois |
| 2019 |
Diane Duane |
| 1995 |
Les Edwards |
| 2014 |
Malcolm Edwards |
| 2000 |
Bob Eggleton |
| 1978 |
Harlan Ellison |
| 1949 |
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach |
| 1968 |
Philip José Farmer |
| 1993 |
Jan Howard Finder |
| 2014 |
Chris Foss |
| 2015 |
Brad Foster |
| 1970 |
Herbert W. Franke |
| 1982, 2003 |
Frank Kelly Freas |
| 2009 |
Neil Gaiman |
| 1969 |
Jack Gaughan |
| 1952 |
Hugo Gernsback |
| 2015 |
David Gerrold |
| 1999 |
Bruce Gillespie |
| 1975 |
Mike Glicksohn |
| 2003 |
Mike Glyer |
| 2014 |
Jeanne Gomoll |
| 1991 |
Martin H. Greenberg |
| 2013 |
James Gunn |
| 2006 |
James Gurney |
| 1990 |
Joe Haldeman |
| 1964 |
Edmond Hamilton |
| 2021 |
John Harris |
| 1990 |
Harry Harrison |
| 1987 |
Ray Harryhausen |
| 2009 |
David G. Hartwell |
| 2018 |
Frank Hayes |
| 1941, 1961, 1976 |
Robert A. Heinlein |
| 1981 |
Rusty Hevelin |
| 2014 |
Robin Hobb |
| 1982 |
Lee Hoffman |
| 2017 |
John-Henri Holmberg |
| 2017 |
Nalo Hopkinson |
| 1946 |
Edna Mayne Hull |
| 2019 |
Steve Jackson |
| 1990 |
Wolfgang Jeschke |
| 1969 |
Eddie Jones |
| 1980 |
Damon Knight |
| 2007 |
Sakyo Komatsu |
| 2022 |
Erle Korshak |
| 2021 |
Nancy Kress |
| 1983 |
David Kyle |
| 2020 |
Mercedes Lackey |
| 1987 |
David Langford |
| 1975 |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1951, 1979 |
Fritz Leiber |
| 1963 |
Murray Leinster |
| 1987 |
Doris Lessing |
| 1953 |
Willy Ley |
| 2023 |
Liu Cixin |
| 1997 |
Don Maitz |
| 2003 |
George R. R. Martin |
| 1958 |
Richard Matheson |
| 1994 |
Anne McCaffrey |
| 2019 |
Ian McDonald |
| 2015 |
Vonda N. McIntyre |
| 2020 |
Rose Mitchell |
| 1997 |
Michael Moorcock |
| 1981 |
C. L. Moore |
| 2012 |
Rowena Morrill |
| 1955 |
Sam Moskowitz |
| 2012 |
Story Musgrave |
| 2016 |
Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
| 2016 |
Teresa Nielsen Hayden |
| 1993 |
Larry Niven |
| 2022 |
Floyd Norman |
| 1989 |
Andre Norton |
| 2018 |
Edgar Pangborn |
| 2000 |
Anne Passovoy |
| 2000 |
Bob Passovoy |
| 1939 |
Frank R. Paul |
| 1980 |
Bruce Pelz |
| 2018 |
Pierre Pettinger |
| 2018 |
Sandy Pettinger |
| 2018 |
John Picacio |
| 2005 |
Greg Pickersgill |
| 2016 |
Tamora Pierce |
| 1972 |
Frederik Pohl |
| 1990 |
Andrew I. Porter |
| 1991 |
Richard M. Powers |
| 2011 |
Tim Powers |
| 2004 |
Terry Pratchett |
| 2005 |
Christopher Priest |
| 2012 |
Mike Resnick |
| 2010 |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
| 2018 |
Spider Robinson |
| 1998 |
Milton A. Rothman |
| 2023 |
Robert J. Sawyer |
| 1998 |
Stanley Schmidt |
| 2001 |
George H. Scithers |
| 2005 |
Robert Sheckley |
| 1996, 2007 |
Takumi Shibano |
| 2022 |
Joe Siclari |
| 1970 |
Robert Silverberg |
| 1971, 1981 |
Clifford D. Simak |
| 2017 |
Johanna Sinisalo |
| 1987 |
Ken & Joyce Slater |
| 1940 |
E. E. Smith |
| 2015 |
Tom Smith |
| 2004 |
Jack Speer |
| 2013 |
Norman Spinrad |
| 2022 |
Edie Stern |
| 2008 |
Rick Sternbach |
| 1998 |
J. Michael Straczynski |
| 1987 |
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky |
| 1962 |
Theodore Sturgeon |
| 2016 |
Michael Swanwick |
| 2013 |
Darrell K. Sweet |
| 1997 |
Roy Tackett |
| 2014 |
Bryan Talbot |
| 2010 |
Shaun Tan |
| 2004 |
William Tenn |
| 2002 |
Bjo Trimble |
| 1970 |
Edwin Charles Tubb |
| 1975 |
Donald H. Tuck |
| 1948, 1967 |
Wilson Tucker |
| 1999 |
George Turner |
| 2011 |
Boris Vallejo |
| 1946 |
A. E. van Vogt |
| 1992 |
Jack Vance |
| 2002 |
Vernor Vinge |
| 2009 |
Élisabeth Vonarburg |
| 1971 |
Harry Warner, Jr. |
| 2009 |
Taral Wayne |
| 2017 |
Claire Wendling |
| 2004 |
Peter Weston |
| 1998, 2007 |
Michael Whelan |
| 1996 |
James White |
| 1985 |
Ted White |
| 1980 |
Kate Wilhelm |
| 2018 |
Bob Wilkins |
| 2017 |
Walter Jon Williams |
| 1977 |
Jack Williamson |
| 2006 |
Connie Willis |
| 1992 |
Walt Willis |
| 1985 |
Gene Wolfe |
| 1988 |
Donald A. Wollheim |
| 1975 |
Susan Wood |
| 2021 |
Ben Yalow |
| 2018 |
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
| 2005 |
Jane Yolen |
| 2001 |
Stephen Youll |
| 1974 |
Roger Zelazny |
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