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.
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
References List at www.smofinfo.com
External links Worldcon official website - LongListNotes page