Honours
Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society (March, 1957)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1968)
- Bakerian Lecture (1968)
- Bruce Medal (1970)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1971)
- Knighthood (1972)
- President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1971–1973)
- Royal Medal (1974)
- Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1977)
- Balzan Prize for Astrophysics: evolution of stars (1994, with Martin Schwarzschild)
- Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, with Edwin Salpeter (1997)
Named after him
- Asteroid 8077 Hoyle
- Janibacter hoylei, species of bacteria discovered by ISRO scientists
- Sir Fred Hoyle Way, a dual carrigeway in Bingley.
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