Honorary Degrees
Honorary Degree Nomination Process
The Honorary Degree committee welcomes members of the community to nominate worthy individuals. We are currently soliciting nominations which can be submitted in the form below.
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- Honorary Degree Nomination Letter (Letter of September 24, 2024 from Lisbeth Tarlow, Chair, Honorary Degree Committee)
- Honorary Degree Nomination Form
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Honorary Degree Recipients
List of Honorary Degree Recipients (PDF)
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| Name | Degree | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Whittemore | D.D. | 1858 |
| William Riley French | A.M. | 1859 |
| John Stetson Barry | A.M. | 1861 |
| Ebenezer Fisher | A.M. | 1861 |
| Alonzo Ames Miner | A.M. | 1861 |
| Lucius Robinson Paige | A.M. | 1861 |
| Sylvanus Cobb | D.D. | 1863 |
| Massena Goodrich | A.M. | 1863 |
| Dolphus Skinner | D.D. | 1863 |
| Day Kellogg Lee | A.M. | 1864 |
| James Wellington Putnam | A.M. | 1864 |
| James Partelow Weston | D.D. | 1864 |
| Benjamin Graves Brown | A.M. | 1865 |
| Thomas Baldwin Thayer | D.D. | 1865 |
| Thomas Austin Goddard | A.M. | 1866 |
| Eldridge Gerry Brooks | D.D. | 1867 |
| Moses True Brown | A.M. | 1867 |
| Asa Saxe | D.D. | 1867 |
| Timothy Gerrish Senter | A.M. | 1867 |
| Benjamin Ballou Whittemore | D.D. | 1867 |
| Orren Perkins | A.M. | 1868 |
| Richmond Fisk | D.D. | 1869 |
| Charles Hall Leonard | A.M. | 1869 |
| Richard Frothingham | LL.D. | 1872 |
| Israel Washburn | LL.D. | 1872 |
| Absalom Graves Getner | D.D. | 1874 |
| Stephen Southwick Hebbard | A.M. | 1874 |
| Alonzo Ames Miner | LL.D. | 1875 |
| Albert St.John Chambre | D.D. | 1876 |
| Selden Connor | LL.D. | 1876 |
| Edward Chapin | LL.D. | 1878 |
| Isaac Morgan Atwood | D.D. | 1879 |
| Hiram Alfred Philbrook | A.M. | 1879 |
| Edwin Cortlandt Bolles | D.D. | 1880 |
| William Henry Finney | A.M. | 1880 |
| Alpheus Baker Hervey | A.M. | 1880 |
| Arthur Michael | A.M. | 1882 |
| Orlando Dana Miller | D.D. | 1882 |
| Eugene Charles Skinner | A.M. | 1882 |
| John Leavitt Stevens | LL.D. | 1882 |
| Edwin Chapin Sweetser | D.D. | 1882 |
| Jarvis Sherman Wight | A.M. | 1882 |
| Edwin Amenzo Davis | A.M. | 1883 |
| Richard Eddy | D.D. | 1883 |
| Eli Fay | D.D. | 1883 |
| Hosea Washington Parker | A.M. | 1883 |
| Caroll Davidson Wright | A.M. | 1883 |
| Charles Robinson | LL.D. | 1884 |
| Jacob Straub | A.M. | 1884 |
| William Riley French | D.D. | 1885 |
| Charles Follen Lee | A.M. | 1885 |
| Charles Wesley Biddle | D.D. | 1886 |
| John Lyon | A.M. | 1886 |
| Henry Brewer Metcalf | A.M. | 1886 |
| Latimer Whipple Ballou | LL.D. | 1887 |
| Elbridge Streeter Brooks | A.M. | 1887 |
| Henry Irving Cushman | D.D. | 1887 |
| Charles Henry Eaton | D.D. | 1887 |
| John Milton Hall | A.M. | 1887 |
| Alphonso Everett White | A.M. | 1887 |
| Edward James Young | D.D. | 1887 |
| John Coleman Adams | S.T.D. | 1888 |
| Henry Warren Rugg | D.D. | 1888 |
| Gardner Chace Anthony | A.M. | 1889 |
| Melvin Porter Frank | A.M. | 1889 |
| Isaac Case Knowlton | D.D. | 1889 |
| Nehemiah White | D.D. | 1889 |
| Henry Blanchard | D.D. | 1890 |
| Edwin Motley Fuller | A.M. | 1890 |
| Arthur Michael | Ph.D. | 1890 |
| Artemas Bowers Muzzey | D.D. | 1890 |
| John Davis Billings | A.M. | 1891 |
| Caleb Davis Bradlee | D.D. | 1891 |
| William Evans Darby | LL.D. | 1891 |
| John Wilkes Hammond | LL.D. | 1891 |
| Charles Elwood Nash | D.D. | 1891 |
| Arthur Guiness Rogers | A.M. | 1891 |
| Joseph Henry Walker | LL.D. | 1891 |
| Joseph Smith Dodge | D.D. | 1892 |
| Charles Morrison Jordan | Ph.D. | 1892 |
| Sanford Perry Record | A.M. | 1892 |
| Arthur Guiness Rogers | D.D. | 1893 |
| Charles Jeptha Hill Woodbury | A.M. | 1893 |
| Thomas Allen | D.D. | 1894 |
| William Erastus Gibbs | D.D. | 1894 |
| Elihu Thompson | Ph.D. | 1894 |
| Jarvis Sherman Wight | LL.D. | 1894 |
| Lorin Low Dame | Sc.D. | 1895 |
| Thomas Goddard Frothingham | A.M. | 1895 |
| Charles Winfield Parmenter | Ph.D. | 1895 |
| Stephen Hardy Powell | A.M. | 1895 |
| Thomas Jefferson Sawyer | LL.D. | 1895 |
| Otis Skinner | A.M. | 1895 |
| Walter Parker Beckwith | Ph.D. | 1896 |
| John Clarence Lee | D.D. | 1896 |
| Mary Ashton Livermore | LL.D. | 1896 |
| Fred Adelbert Bisbee | D.D. | 1897 |
| Frederick Frothingham Burgin | A.M. | 1897 |
| Arthur John Flynn | A.M. | 1897 |
| Fred Gowing | Ph.D. | 1897 |
| Samuel Greeley Hilborn | LL.D. | 1897 |
| Hosea Morrill Knowlton | LL.D. | 1897 |
| Ernest Watson Cushing | LL.D. | 1898 |
| William Leslie Hooper | Ph.D. | 1898 |
| Myron Jay Michael | A.M. | 1898 |
| Ira Allen Priest | D.D. | 1898 |
| Austin Barclay Fletcher | LL.D. | 1899 |
| Frederick William Hamilton | D.D. | 1899 |
| Elbert Hubbard | A.M. | 1899 |
| William Cary Joslin | Litt.D. | 1899 |
| Lee Sullivan McCollester | D.D. | 1899 |
| Arthur Winslow Peirce | Litt.D. | 1899 |
| John Fred Ridlon | A.M. | 1899 |
| William Rollin Shipman | LL.D. | 1899 |
| Minton Warren | LL.D. | 1899 |
| Charles James White | D.D. | 1899 |
| Harrison Spofford Whitman | Litt.D. | 1899 |
| Walter Channing | LL.D. | 1900 |
| Charles Ernest Fay | Litt.D. | 1900 |
| George Milford Harmon | D.D. | 1900 |
| John Lewis Hildreth | LL.D. | 1900 |
| Godfrey Morse | A.M. | 1900 |
| Fred Stark Pearson | Sc.D. | 1900 |
| A. Le Grand Powers | Litt.D. | 1900 |
| Anna Boynton Thompson | Litt.D. | 1900 |
| William George Tousey | S.T.D. | 1900 |
| George Curtis Waldo | Litt.D. | 1900 |
| Stephen Moulton Babcock | LL.D. | 1901 |
| Edwin Hurd Conger | LL.D. | 1901 |
| Charles Lawrence Hutchinson | A.M. | 1901 |
| John Stebbins Lee | LL.D. | 1901 |
| James Edwin Odgers | D.D. | 1901 |
| James Franklin Powers | S.T.D. | 1901 |
| Charles Montgomery Skinner | Litt.D. | 1901 |
| Charles Rufus Skinner | Litt.D. | 1901 |
| Newton Talbot | A.M. | 1901 |
| Sarah Louise Arnold | A.M. | 1902 |
| George Sewall Boutwell | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Theodore Elmer Busfield | D.D. | 1902 |
| Henry Nehemiah Dodge | Litt.D. | 1902 |
| Amos Emerson Dolbear | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Edwin Ginn | Litt.D. | 1902 |
| Byron Groce | Litt.D. | 1902 |
| Edwin Ruthven Holden | A.M. | 1902 |
| John Davis Long | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Albert Metcalf | A.M. | 1902 |
| Walter Edward Parker | A.M. | 1902 |
| William Henry Rider | Sc.D. | 1902 |
| John Philip Swasey | A.M. | 1902 |
| James Francis Albion | Sc.D. | 1903 |
| Edward Hall Cole | A.M. | 1903 |
| William Oscar Cornell | A.M. | 1903 |
| David Cummings | A.M. | 1903 |
| Charles Hial Darling | LL.D. | 1903 |
| Henry Clay Ide | LL.D. | 1903 |
| Winthrop Lippitt Marvin | Litt.D. | 1903 |
| James D. Perkins | A.M. | 1903 |
| Charles Hunnicutt Puffer | D.D. | 1903 |
| Timothy Thompson Sawyer | Litt.D. | 1903 |
| James Shrigley | D.D. | 1903 |
| Payson Smith | A.M. | 1903 |
| Vincent Eaton Tomlinson | Sc.D. | 1903 |
| Benjamin Whittemore | A.M. | 1903 |
| Henry Herman Williams | A.M. | 1903 |
| Carroll Davidson Wright | LL.D. | 1903 |
| John Estlin Carpenter | D.D. | 1904 |
| Edward Henry Clement | Litt.D. | 1904 |
| George Henry Conly | Litt.D. | 1904 |
| William Hooper Dearborn | Sc.D. | 1904 |
| Julia Ward Howe | LL.D. | 1904 |
| Arthur Ellery Mason | A.M. | 1904 |
| William Henry Moody | LL.D. | 1904 |
| Charles Ewell Morrison | A.M. | 1904 |
| Charles Augustus Skinner | D.D. | 1904 |
| John Vannevar | D.D. | 1904 |
| J. Frank Wellington | A.M. | 1904 |
| Rufus Austin White | Sc.D. | 1904 |
| Gardner Chace Anthony | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Thomas Henry Barnes | A.M. | 1905 |
| George Lewis Baxter | Litt.D. | 1905 |
| Henry Willard Bragg | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Edward Walter Branigan | A.M. | 1905 |
| Hermon Carey Bumpus | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Luther Burbank | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Richard Perry Bush | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Isaac Wallace Cate | D.D. | 1905 |
| George Whitefield Chadwick | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Adna Romanza Chaffee | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Augustus Byington Church | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Edward Isaachar Comins | A.M. | 1905 |
| Thomas Cunningham | A.M. | 1905 |
| Fred Augustine Dillingham | D.D. | 1905 |
| William Lewis Douglas | LL.D. | 1905 |
| James Drummond | D.D. | 1905 |
| George Simonds Eveleth | A.M. | 1905 |
| John Ripley Freeman | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Almon Gunnison | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Frank Oliver Hall | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Albert Bushnell Hart | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Carolyn Hazard | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Dwight Munson Hodge | D.D. | 1905 |
| Joshua Bennett Holden | A.M. | 1905 |
| Orlando Knapp Hollister | Litt.D. | 1905 |
| William Edwards Huntington | LL.D. | 1905 |
| James Arthur Jacobs | A.M. | 1905 |
| Henry Lefavour | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Charles Hall Leonard | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Flavel Sweetser Luther | LL.D. | 1905 |
| George Henry Martin | Litt.D. | 1905 |
| Robert Comfort Metcalf | Litt.D. | 1905 |
| Henry Smith Noble | LL.D. | 1905 |
| William Blake Odgers | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Herbert Parker | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Adoniram Judson Patterson | Litt.D. | 1905 |
| Jane Lippitt Patterson | Litt.D. | 1905 |
| Levi Moore Powers | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Henry Smith Pritchett | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Clarence Edgar Rice | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| John Shepard | A.M. | 1905 |
| Abraham Shuman | A.M. | 1905 |
| Milton Mandeville Starrett | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Kogora Takahira | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Caleb Benjamin Tillinghast | Litt.D. | 1905 |
| Horace Greeley Wadlin | Litt.D. | 1905 |
| Arthur Gordon Webster | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Sarah Frances Whitting | Sc.D. | 1905 |
| Harold Williams | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Louis N. Wilson | Litt.D. | 1905 |
| Warren Samuel Woodbridge | S.T.D. | 1905 |
| Henry Detrich Yerxa | A.M. | 1905 |
| Timothy Leary | A.M. | 1907 |
| William Waldemar Spaulding | A.M. | 1907 |
| Arthur Elmer Denison | A.M. | 1908 |
| Joseph Devine Flynn | A.M. | 1908 |
| Arthur Wilder Grose | D.D. | 1908 |
| Rosewell Bigelow Lawrence | A.M. | 1908 |
| Frank Everett Peabody | A.M. | 1908 |
| Frederic Williams Perkins | D.D. | 1908 |
| William Davis Thayer Trefry | A.M. | 1908 |
| Charles Neal Barney | A.M. | 1909 |
| Mabel Irene Emerson | A.M. | 1909 |
| Henry Fay Fister | A.M. | 1909 |
| Frank Shipley Collins | A.M. | 1910 |
| Eben Sumner Draper | LL.D. | 1910 |
| Isaac Dudley Fletcher | A.M. | 1910 |
| John Hunter | Sc.D. | 1910 |
| Arthur Michael | LL.D. | 1910 |
| Horace Field Parshal | Sc.D. | 1910 |
| Morton Prince | LL.D. | 1910 |
| Marion LeRoy Burton | LL.D. | 1911 |
| Conrad John Rueter | A.M. | 1911 |
| Albert Potter Wills | Sc.D. | 1911 |
| William Hollis Godfrey | Sc.D. | 1912 |
| Frederic Aldin Hall | L.H.D. | 1912 |
| John Garibaldi Sargent | A.M. | 1912 |
| Geroge Alec Harwood | Sc.D. | 1913 |
| Alfred Church Lane | Sc.D. | 1913 |
| Hosea Washington Parker | LL.D. | 1913 |
| Robert Edwin Peary | LL.D. | 1913 |
| Frank Dawson Adams | Sc.D. | 1914 |
| Winston Churchill | Litt.D. | 1914 |
| Samuel Walker McCall | LL.D. | 1914 |
| William Harrison Morrison | D.D. | 1914 |
| Jaber Thomas Sunderland | D.D. | 1914 |
| Mary Stone Bruce | A.M. | 1915 |
| William Leslie Hooper | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Douglas Adams Ephraim | Litt.D. | 1918 |
| Ralph Davenport Mershon | Sc.D. | 1918 |
| Joseph Fort Newton | D.D. | 1918 |
| Robert Calthorp Brown | A.M. | 1919 |
| John Joseph Carty | Sc.D. | 1919 |
| Calvin Coolidge | LL.D. | 1919 |
| Charles Rice Gow | Sc.D. | 1919 |
| Edward Augustus Horton | D.D. | 1919 |
| George Edward Leighton | D.D. | 1919 |
| William Sewden Sims | LL.D. | 1919 |
| Margaret Deland | Litt.D. | 1920 |
| Herbert Clark Hoover | Sc.D. | 1920 |
| Charles Lawrence Hutchinson | LL.D. | 1920 |
| Alfred LeRoy Johnson | Sc.D. | 1920 |
| Arthur Beckett Lamb | Sc.D. | 1920 |
| John Russell Macomber | A.M. | 1920 |
| Harold Marshall | D.D. | 1920 |
| George Lander Perin | D.D. | 1920 |
| Ellery Sedgwick | Litt.D. | 1920 |
| Joseph Lyman Sweet | A.M. | 1920 |
| Evangeline Cory Booth | A.M. | 1921 |
| Samuel Capen | L.H.D. | 1921 |
| Waldo Lincoln Cook | A.M. | 1921 |
| Joseph Rodefer DeCamp | A.M. | 1921 |
| Samuel Orace Dunn | A.M. | 1921 |
| Frank Williams Durkee | Sc.D. | 1921 |
| Frank Pierrepont Graves | L.H.D. | 1921 |
| William Henry Nichols | Sc.D. | 1921 |
| Clarence Guy Robbins | D.D. | 1921 |
| John Wingate Weeks | LL.D. | 1921 |
| Taber Ashton | A.M. | 1922 |
| Henry King Braley | LL.D. | 1922 |
| Alphonso Holland Carvill | A.M. | 1922 |
| Heloise Edwina Hersey | A.M. | 1922 |
| John Murray Hollister | A.M. | 1922 |
| Louise Beatty Homer | A.M. | 1922 |
| Leo Rich Lewis | Litt.D. | 1922 |
| Reignold Kent Marvin | D.D. | 1922 |
| William Wallace McClench * | LL.D. | 1922 |
| Edward Sylvester Morse | L.H.D. | 1922 |
| Charles Rockwell Tenney | D.D. | 1922 |
| Daniel Gould Wing | LL.D. | 1922 |
| Edward William Bok | L.H.D. | 1923 |
| Channing Harris Cox * | L.H.D. | 1923 |
| Cyrus Edwin Dallin | A.M. | 1923 |
| Isaac Russell Edmands | E.E. | 1923 |
| Anna Coleman Ladd | A.M. | 1923 |
| Myron Jay Michael | Ped.D. | 1923 |
| Everett Morss | A.M. | 1923 |
| John Edgar Park | D.D. | 1923 |
| Angelo Patri | L.H.D. | 1923 |
| George Wallace Penniman | D.D. | 1923 |
| Hugh Walpole | Litt.D. | 1923 |
| Herbert Elmon Benton | D.D. | 1924 |
| Carl French Henry | D.D. | 1924 |
| Henry Wyman Holmes | L.H.D. | 1924 |
| Edward Osgood Otis | Sc.D. | 1924 |
| Arthur Everett Peterson | Litt.D. | 1924 |
| James Harvey Robinson * | L.H.D. | 1924 |
| Edward Ray Weidlein | Sc.D. | 1924 |
| Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney | A.M. | 1924 |
| Norman Perkins Wood | A.M. | 1924 |
| Owen D. Young | LL.D. | 1924 |
| Fred Emery Beane | LL.D. | 1925 |
| George Howland Cox | A.M. | 1925 |
| Henry Hadley | Mus.D. | 1925 |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | L.H.D. | 1925 |
| John Garibaldi Sargent * | LL.D. | 1925 |
| Lowell Herbert Smith | M.S. | 1925 |
| Harold Edwin Balme Speight | D.D. | 1925 |
| James Strong Stevens | A.M. | 1925 |
| Henry Butterfield Taylor | D.D. | 1925 |
| Charles Melvill Upham | M.S. | 1925 |
| Leigh Wade | M.S. | 1925 |
| Francis Carter Wood | Sc.D. | 1925 |
| Jane Addams | L.H.D. | 1926 |
| Arthur Lynn Andrews | L.H.D. | 1926 |
| Louise DeKoven Bowen | L.H.D. | 1926 |
| Claude Gernade Bowers | A.M. | 1926 |
| Alvan Tufts Fuller * | LL.D. | 1926 |
| Arial Wellington George | Sc.D. | 1926 |
| George Inness, Jr. | A.M. | 1926 |
| James Morgan | A.M. | 1926 |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | A.M. | 1926 |
| John Fred Ridlon | Sc.D. | 1926 |
| William John Taylor | D.D. | 1926 |
| Herbert Adams | A.M. | 1927 |
| Flint Mandrin Bissell | D.D. | 1927 |
| Richard Evelyn Byrd | M.S. | 1927 |
| Everett Allen Davis | A.M. | 1927 |
| Charles Leavitt Edgar | LL.D. | 1927 |
| Charles Morrison Jordan | Ed.D. | 1927 |
| Arthur Atwater Kent | Sc.D. | 1927 |
| Frank Howard Lahey | Sc.D. | 1927 |
| Charles Winfield Parmenter | Ed.D. | 1927 |
| Edith Nourse Rogers * | A.M. | 1927 |
| John VanSchaick, Jr. | Litt.D. | 1927 |
| William Beebe | Sc.D. | 1928 |
| Olive Dame Campbell | M.A. | 1928 |
| James Francis Coupal | M.S. | 1928 |
| Curtis Hoyt Dickins | D.D. | 1928 |
| Charles Ernest Fay | LL.D. | 1928 |
| Charles Lanier Lawrence | Sc.D. | 1928 |
| Eva LeGalliene * | A.M. | 1928 |
| John Livingston Lowes | L.H.D. | 1928 |
| Frank Burr Mallory | Sc.D. | 1928 |
| Frank Gilman Allen * | LL.D. | 1929 |
| Asa White Kenney Billings | E.E. | 1929 |
| Augusta Gertrude Earle | D.D. | 1929 |
| Leonard Lord Elden | Sc.D. | 1929 |
| Roger Frederick Etz | D.D. | 1929 |
| Benjamin Newhall Johnson | A.M. | 1929 |
| Herbert Mayhew Lord | LL.D. | 1929 |
| Daniel Gregory Mason | Litt.D. | 1929 |
| Frank Merritt | M.S. | 1929 |
| William Rice | Sc.D. | 1929 |
| Frank Weston Benson | A.M. | 1930 |
| Thomas Goddard Frothingham | A.M. | 1930 |
| Elizabeth Eaton Hepburn | L.H.D. | 1930 |
| Arthur Dehon Little | Sc.D. | 1930 |
| Edson Russell Miles | D.D. | 1930 |
| Elbridge Ward Newton | D.D. | 1930 |
| Arthur Grinnell Rotch | A.M. | 1930 |
| Margaret Ayer Barnes | A.M. | 1931 |
| Harry Lee Canfield | D.D. | 1931 |
| Henry Turner Claus | A.M. | 1931 |
| Arthur Fiedler | A.M. | 1931 |
| Joseph Stevens Kadesch | Ed.D. | 1931 |
| Marion Edwards Park | L.H.D. | 1931 |
| Stanley Calef Wilson * | LL.D. | 1931 |
| Alfred Worcester | Sc.D. | 1931 |
| Arthur Linden Agnew | D.D. | 1932 |
| George Grey Barnard | A.M. | 1932 |
| Vannevar Bush | Sc.D. | 1932 |
| Louis Hayward Carter | M.S. | 1932 |
| Lou Henry Hoover | A.M. | 1932 |
| Archibald MacLeish | A.M. | 1932 |
| James Grover McDonald | LL.D. | 1932 |
| Vivian Towse Pomeroy * | D.D. | 1932 |
| Hiram Austin Tuttle | L.H.D. | 1932 |
| Mabel Wheeler Daniels | A.M. | 1933 |
| Fenwick Lassell Leavitt | D.D. | 1933 |
| Abbott Lawrence Lowell * | LL.D. | 1933 |
| Donald Ross MacJannet | A.M. | 1933 |
| Marie Danforth Page | A.M. | 1933 |
| Louis Eusebe Phaneuf | Sc.D. | 1933 |
| Frederic Edward Town | A.M. | 1933 |
| Asa Mayyo Bradley | D.D. | 1934 |
| James Bryant Conant | Sc.D. | 1934 |
| Gordon Maskew Fair | M.S. | 1934 |
| Karel Rudolph Gallas | Litt.D. | 1934 |
| Harold L. Ickes * | LL.D. | 1934 |
| Carrie Bullard Lewis | A.M. | 1934 |
| Adelbert Harland Morrison | Ed.M. | 1934 |
| Harry Fay Fister | D.D. | 1935 |
| Carter Glass * | LL.D. | 1935 |
| Francis Russell Hart | A.M. | 1935 |
| Harry Miller Lydenberg | Litt.D. | 1935 |
| Theodore White Norcross | M.S. | 1935 |
| Henry Reuben Rose | D.D. | 1935 |
| Cornelia Otis Skinner | A.M. | 1935 |
| Sarah Wambaugh | L.H.D. | 1935 |
| David Francis Dillon | A.M. | 1936 |
| Robert Ernest Doherty * | LL.D. | 1936 |
| Austin Foster Hawes | M.S. | 1936 |
| Alpheus Augustus Keen | A.M. | 1936 |
| Dorothy Thompson Lewis | Litt.D. | 1936 |
| Walter Henry MacPherson | D.D. | 1936 |
| John Calvin Packard | Sc.D. | 1936 |
| Dorothy Thompson | Litt.D. | 1936 |
| Van Wyck Brooks * | LL.D. | 1937 |
| Leonard Carmichael | Sc.D. | 1937 |
| Thomas Edmund Dewey | LL.D. | 1937 |
| Helen Jerome | A.M. | 1937 |
| Sylvanus Griswold Morley | Litt.D. | 1937 |
| Charles Huntington Pennoyer | D.D. | 1937 |
| Fred Morse Randlett | M.S. | 1937 |
| Everett Moore Baker | D.D. | 1938 |
| Robert Gray Dodge | LL.D. | 1938 |
| Miller McClintock | Sc.D. | 1938 |
| Wilfred Harvey Ringer | A.M. | 1938 |
| Frances Stern | A.M. | 1938 |
| Henry Merritt Wriston * | LL.D. | 1938 |
| Arthur Adolphus Blair | D.D. | 1939 |
| Leo Otis Colbert | Sc.D. | 1939 |
| John Foster Dulles | LL.D. | 1939 |
| George Horace Gallup * | Sc.D. | 1939 |
| Roland Hammond | A.M. | 1939 |
| Katharine Lord | A.M. | 1939 |
| Frank George Wren | L.H.D. | 1939 |
| Henry Way Burritt | A.M. | 1940 |
| Harry Adams Hersey | D.D. | 1940 |
| Alexander Loudon * | LL.D. | 1940 |
| Dave H. Morris | LL.D. | 1940 |
| Francis Parkman | Litt.D. | 1940 |
| Thomas Parran | Sc.D. | 1940 |
| William Blaine Richardson | A.M. | 1940 |
| Ellen Eddy Shaw | A.M. | 1940 |
| Francis Henry Taylor | L.H.D. | 1940 |
| Leason Heberling Adams | Sc.D. | 1941 |
| George Goodwin Averill | Litt.D. | 1941 |
| William C. Couden | D.D. | 1941 |
| Charles Haskell Danforth | Sc.D. | 1941 |
| Lillian Hellman | A.M. | 1941 |
| Bertram Dyer Hulen | Litt.D. | 1941 |
| George Stewart Miller | Litt.D. | 1941 |
| Jean-Marie Missud | A.M. | 1941 |
| Jay Pierrepont Moffat * | LL.D. | 1941 |
| Michael Joseph Ahern | Sc.D. | 1942 |
| Edith Linwood Bush | Litt.D. | 1942 |
| Victor Alasko Friend | A.M. | 1942 |
| Chester H. Keppler | A.M. | 1942 |
| Howard Mitchell Marjerison | Sc.D. | 1942 |
| Katherine Elizabeth McBride | L.H.D. | 1942 |
| Walter Nash * | LL.D. | 1942 |
| Carl Harold Olson | D.D. | 1942 |
| Stanley Hart Osborn | Sc.D. | 1942 |
| Leverett Saltonstall | D.CL | 1942 |
| Harlan Fiske Stone | LL.D. | 1942 |
| Arthur Julius Anderson | A.M. | 1943 |
| Raymond Whitcomb Bliss | Sc.D. | 1943 |
| Karl Taylor Compton | LL.D. | 1943 |
| Wilson Lincoln Fairbanks | A.M. | 1943 |
| Claud Moore Fuess * | LL.D. | 1943 |
| Joseph Clark Grew | LL.D. | 1943 |
| Donald Ferguson Hoyt | D.D. | 1943 |
| Sara Murray Jordan | Sc.D. | 1943 |
| Emory William Morris | Sc.D. | 1943 |
| Frank Roberts Ober | Sc.D. | 1943 |
| Eleanor Saltonstall | A.M. | 1943 |
| Albert Warren Stearns | Sc.D. | 1943 |
| Lewis Hill Weed | LL.D. | 1943 |
| Cora Alma Polk Dewick | A.M. | 1944 |
| Harold Clifford Haskell | A.M. | 1944 |
| Benjamin Butler Hersey | D.D. | 1944 |
| Newton Lord Nichols | M.S. | 1944 |
| Joseph Hersey Pratt | Sc.D. | 1944 |
| Beardsley Rumi * | LL.D. | 1944 |
| Charles Ingram Stanton | Sc.D. | 1944 |
| Martin Charles Tracy | D.M.D. | 1944 |
| Arthur William Coolidge | A.M. | 1945 |
| John Sloan Dickey | LL.D. | 1945 |
| Preston Bennett Haines | M.S. | 1945 |
| Theresa Helburn | A.M. | 1945 |
| Eric Allen Johnston | LL.D. | 1945 |
| Emerson Hugh Lalone | Litt.D. | 1945 |
| Charles Donagh Magannis | L.H.D. | 1945 |
| Edward Lester Marshall * | Sc.D. | 1945 |
| Wilburn Beach Miller | D.D. | 1945 |
| Thomas Willoughby Nason | A.M. | 1945 |
| Walter Francis Rockwell | M.S. | 1945 |
| Paul Herman Buck | LL.D. | 1946 |
| Luis deFiorez * | Sc.D. | 1946 |
| Emmart LaCrosse | D.Eng | 1946 |
| Laurence Kerr Olivier | A.M. | 1946 |
| John Queen Parkhurst | D.D. | 1946 |
| Guy Clifford Pierce | A.M. | 1946 |
| Grace Elizabeth Rochford | M.S. | 1946 |
| Harold Melvin Turner | M.S. | 1946 |
| Norbert Wiener | Sc.D. | 1946 |
| Frank Learoyd Boyden | Litt.D. | 1947 |
| Robert Fiske Bradford | L.H.D. | 1947 |
| William J. Halligan | B.S. (extra ordinem)1 | 1947 |
| Messmore Kendall | Litt.D. | 1947 |
| Edwin Land | Sc.D. | 1947 |
| Joseph William Martin, Jr. | LL.D. | 1947 |
| Alonzo Kingman Paine | Sc.D. | 1947 |
| Alfred M. Pride | Sc.D. | 1947 |
| Wallace W. Robbins | D.D. | 1947 |
| Kenneth Charles Morton Sills * | LL.D. | 1947 |
| Priscilla White | Sc.D. | 1947 |
| Lawrence W. Abbott | D.D. | 1948 |
| John Nichols Brown * | LL.D. | 1948 |
| David Frank Edwards | Sc.D. | 1948 |
| Carl Stephens Ell | LL.D. | 1948 |
| Philip Meserve Hayden | L.H.D. | 1948 |
| Michael Thomas Kelleher | M.A. | 1948 |
| Joel Warren Reynolds, Jr. | M.S. | 1948 |
| Marion Luse Chenery | A.M. | 1949 |
| Esther Forbes | Litt.D. | 1949 |
| Bradford Eugene Gale | D.D. | 1949 |
| Erwin Nathaniel Griswold | L.H.D. | 1949 |
| Charles Francis Hall | D.D. | 1949 |
| Melvin Maynard Johnson | LL.D. | 1949 |
| Ralph Lowell | L.H.D. | 1949 |
| Ralph Collins Mahar | A.M. | 1949 |
| Wilhelm Munthe Morgenstierne * | LL.D. | 1949 |
| William Frank Uhl | D.Eng | 1949 |
| Frank Everett Wing | A.M. | 1949 |
| Samuel Tomlinson Arnold * | LL.D. | 1950 |
| Robert Ira Blakesley | D.D. | 1950 |
| Charles Sturgis Chadwick | A.M. | 1950 |
| James Gardner Geddes | B.A. | 1950 |
| Charles Wilson Hubon | B.A. | 1950 |
| Fred Hamilton Miller | D.D. | 1950 |
| William Gurdon Saltonstall | L.H.D. | 1950 |
| Albert Whittier Vanderhoof | A.M. | 1950 |
| Williams Webster | Sc.D. | 1950 |
| Thomas Whittemore2 | Litt.D. | 1950 |
| Detley W. Bronk | Litt.D. | 1951 |
| Thomas D. Cabot * | L.H.D. | 1951 |
| Robert T. Capeless | B.A. | 1951 |
| Edward Cochrane | Sc.D. | 1951 |
| Caryl P. Haskins | Sc.D. | 1951 |
| John W. McCormack | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Arthur B. Porter | B.S. | 1951 |
| William Brooks Rice | D.D. | 1951 |
| Anna M. Rosenberg | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Seymour St. John | L.H.D. | 1951 |
| George Packer Berry | Litt.D. | 1952 |
| Erik Boheman | LL.D. | 1952 |
| J. N. Douglas Bush | Litt.D. | 1952 |
| Henry Chauncey * | Sc.D. | 1952 |
| Edward Elias Cohen | D.C.S. | 1952 |
| Sidney W. Davidson | LL.D. | 1952 |
| Cora Polk Dewick | L.H.D. | 1952 |
| Alexander Forbes | Sc.D. | 1952 |
| Brainard Frederick Gibbons | D.D. | 1952 |
| Sir Hector Hetherington | LL.D. | 1952 |
| Clarence Preston Houston | L.H.D. | 1952 |
| John Mason Kemper | Litt.D. | 1952 |
| Edwin Albert Link | D.Eng | 1952 |
| Robert H. Montgomery | LL.D. | 1952 |
| Harry Posner | D.Com.Sc. | 1952 |
| Samuel H. Proger | D.Sc. | 1952 |
| Kenneth D. Roeder | D.Sc. | 1952 |
| Rev. William Wallace Rose | D.D. | 1952 |
| Robert Rounseville | A.B. | 1952 |
| Elizabeth Gray Vining | Litt.D. | 1952 |
| Alan Tower Waterman | Sc.D. | 1952 |
| Col. Bernt Balchen | Sc.D. | 1953 |
| Harry Poole Burden | D.Eng | 1953 |
| Robert Cutler | LL.D. | 1953 |
| William Clyde DeVane * | Litt.D. | 1953 |
| Arland Augustus Dirlam | L.H.D. | 1953 |
| George Symonds Eveleth, Jr. | Sc.D. | 1953 |
| Philip Woodbury Johnson | B.S. | 1953 |
| Rev. John Nichol Mark | D.D. | 1953 |
| Clarence Elmore Watkins | L.H.D. | 1953 |
| Sinclair Weeks | LL.D. | 1953 |
| Byron T. Atwood | B.S. | 1954 |
| Samuel Miller Brownell * | D.Ed | 1954 |
| Brig. Gen. George R. Callender | Sc.D. | 1954 |
| Henry T. Claus | L.H.D. | 1954 |
| Francis C. Gray | L.H.D. | 1954 |
| Christian Archibald Herter | LL.D. | 1954 |
| Senator John F. Kennedy | LL.D. | 1954 |
| Rev. Palfrey Perkins | D.D. | 1954 |
| Joseph P. Spang, Jr. | L.H.D. | 1954 |
| Judge Charles E. Wyzanski | LL.D. | 1954 |
| Harvey Eastman Averill | M.B.A. | 1955 |
| Alvin James Bennett | B.S. | 1955 |
| Harold C. Case | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Hollis L. Caswell | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Dana Meserve Cotton | D.Ed | 1955 |
| George Roy Elliot | L.H.D. | 1955 |
| Marion B. Folsom | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Joseph Garland | Sc.D. | 1955 |
| Wilfred McGregor Hall | D.Eng | 1955 |
| Edward Benno Hanify | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Bartholomew W. Hogan | Sc.D. | 1955 |
| Barnaby C. Keeney | LL.D. | 1955 |
| James R. Killian, Jr. | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Roy E. Larsen | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Angus H. MacLean | D.D. | 1955 |
| Rev. Joseph R.N. Maxwell | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Laurance Irving Neale | D.D. | 1955 |
| Nathan M. Pusey | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Nellie Wright Reynolds | B.S. | 1955 |
| Abram L. Sachar | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Carl Sandburg | Litt.D. | 1955 |
| Margaret Chase Smith * | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Harold Edward Sweet | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Mary Elizabeth Switzer | L.H.D. | 1955 |
| James W. Wickenden | D.Ed | 1955 |
| Ernest H. Wilkins | Litt.D. | 1955 |
| Henry Aldrich | Sc.D. | 1956 |
| Nelson W. Aldrich | L.H.D. | 1956 |
| Dr. John T. Blake | Sc.D. | 1956 |
| John Moors Cabot * | Sc.D. | 1956 |
| Clarence S. Cassidy | M.B.A. | 1956 |
| Arthur S. Fleming | L.H.D. | 1956 |
| Theodore W. Hodges | B.S. | 1956 |
| Weston Howland | L.H.D. | 1956 |
| Nancy Duke Lewis | L.H.D. | 1956 |
| Joseph W. Morton | M.A. | 1956 |
| Dr. Charles Munch | L.H.D. | 1956 |
| Rear Adm. Lewis L. Strauss | Sc.D. | 1956 |
| Dr. Max Tishler | Sc.D. | 1956 |
| Rev. Arthur W. Webster | D.D. | 1956 |
| Hanson W. Baldwin | Litt.D. | 1957 |
| S. Bruce Black | L.H.D. | 1957 |
| Frederic Church | L.H.D. | 1957 |
| Julius Haller | M.B.A. | 1957 |
| Rev. John P. Robertson | D.D. | 1957 |
| George E. Rogers | D.Ed | 1957 |
| Deane W. True | B.S. | 1957 |
| Earl Warren | LL.D. | 1957 |
| Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. * | Sc.D. | 1957 |
| John G. Bowker | L.H.D. | 1958 |
| Erwin Dain Canham * | LL.D. | 1958 |
| Philip R. Giles | D.D. | 1958 |
| Myra L. Herrick | Ed.D. | 1958 |
| Robert F. Kennedy | LL.D. | 1958 |
| Gen. Curtis LeMay | Sc.D. | 1958 |
| Richard Soderberg | D.Eng | 1958 |
| Ruth Page Sweet | Ed.D. | 1958 |
| John Walker | D.F.A. | 1958 |
| Robert Frost | Litt.D. | 1959 |
| John Joseph Mahoney | L.H.D. | 1959 |
| John Roy McLane | LL.D. | 1959 |
| Mary G. Mueller | B.S. | 1959 |
| Edwin Williams Rawlings | D.B.A. | 1959 |
| Francis Henry Russell | LL.D. | 1959 |
| Henry H. Schooley | D.D. | 1959 |
| Robert Chapman Sprague * | LL.D. | 1959 |
| Eugene R. Black | LL.D. | 1960 |
| David Brickman | L.H.D. | 1960 |
| Arleigh Burke | LL.D. | 1960 |
| John Anthony Ciardi | Litt.D. | 1960 |
| John Franklin Enders | Sc.D. | 1960 |
| Joseph A. Erickson | D.B.A. | 1960 |
| Hiram Leong Fong * | LL.D. | 1960 |
| Dana McLean Greeley | D.D. | 1960 |
| Alexis S. Liatis | LL.D. | 1960 |
| Paul-Henri Spaak | LL.D. | 1960 |
| Raymond Sanger Wilkins | LL.D. | 1960 |
| Roy Eugene Wood | B.S. | 1960 |
| John A. Boyd | B.S. (extra ordinem)1 | 1961 |
| Paul G. Bratenas | B.S. (extra ordinem)1 | 1961 |
| Mary I. Bunting | LL.D. | 1961 |
| Marjorie Belle Greene | Ed.M. | 1961 |
| F. Ray Keyser, Jr. | LL.D. | 1961 |
| Laurence K. Marshall | D.Sc. | 1961 |
| Henri Peyre * | L.H.D. | 1961 |
| Sidney R. Rabb | LL.D. | 1961 |
| Robert A. Storer | D.D. | 1961 |
| Richard Tousey | D.Sc. | 1961 |
| Joseph N. Barth | D.D. | 1962 |
| Frank C. Doble | D.Sc. | 1962 |
| Walter Hallstein | LL.D. | 1962 |
| John Holmes | Litt.D. | 1962 |
| Mildred H. Mahoney | L.H.D. | 1962 |
| Andrew C. Paton | B.S. (extra ordinem)1 | 1962 |
| William R. Ransom | D.Sc. | 1962 |
| William Schwartz | B.S. (extra ordinem)1 | 1962 |
| David M. Shoup | LL.D. | 1962 |
| Catherine F. Shouse | L.H.D. | 1962 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson * | LL.D. | 1962 |
| Mason E. Bennett | B.S. | 1963 |
| William H. Curtis | D.Ed | 1963 |
| James W. Fulbright | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson * | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Francis Keppel | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Thomas H. Kuchel | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Joseph A. McCarthy | B.S. (extra ordinem)1 | 1963 |
| Henry A. Peck | L.H.D. | 1963 |
| George J. W. Pennington | D.D. | 1963 |
| David Rapport | D.Sc. | 1963 |
| Paul C. Reardon | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Cameron S. Thompson | D.B.A. | 1963 |
| Walter B. Wriston | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Andrew N. Wyeth | L.H.D. | 1963 |
| Sylvia P. Collins | L.H.D. | 1964 |
| Charles A. Dana | L.H.D. | 1964 |
| James A. Gavel | L.H.D. | 1964 |
| Robert W. Hill | L.H.D. | 1964 |
| William Martin, Jr. | LL.D. | 1964 |
| Louis Perini, Jr. | B.S. (extra ordinem)1 | 1964 |
| Arthur Rubinstein | L.H.D. | 1964 |
| Jerrold Reinach Zacharias * | L.H.D. | 1964 |
| Louis Berger | D.Sc. | 1965 |
| Carl A. Elliot | LL.D. | 1965 |
| Jeremy Ingalls | Litt.D. | 1965 |
| Nicholas deBelleville Katzenback * | LL.D. | 1965 |
| Henry W. Littlefield | Litt.D. | 1965 |
| Ralph E. McGill | L.H.D. | 1965 |
| Sidney R. Michaels | Litt.D. | 1965 |
| James H. Robinson | L.H.D. | 1965 |
| Willard F. Rockwell, Jr. | D.Eng | 1965 |
| John W. Spellman | L.H.D. | 1965 |
| Lawrence G. Brooks | L.H.D. | 1966 |
| William V. Consolazio | D.Sc. | 1966 |
| Frederick Johnson | D.Sc. | 1966 |
| Kenneth F. Leach | B.S. (extra ordinem)1 | 1966 |
| Mary Pillsbury Lord | L.H.D. | 1966 |
| Robert J. Manning | Litt.D. | 1966 |
| William Warren Scranton * | LL.D. | 1966 |
| Nils Y. Wessell | LL.D. | 1966 |
| Henry B. Cabot | L.H.D. | 1967 |
| John F. Collins | LL.D. | 1967 |
| Abigail A. Eliot | L.H.D. | 1967 |
| Raymond J. Fay | D.Ed | 1967 |
| Joseph Hayman, Jr. | L.H.D. | 1967 |
| Howard Wesley Johnson * | D.Sc. | 1967 |
| Leonard C. Mead | L.H.D. | 1967 |
| Ralph M. Paiewonsky | L.H.D. | 1967 |
| John R. Quarles | L.H.D. | 1967 |
| Charles L. Weltner | LL.D. | 1967 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith * | L.H.D. | 1968 |
| Peter Noel Knost | D.D. | 1968 |
| Daniel P. Moynihan | LL.D. | 1968 |
| Carl B. Stokes | LL.D. | 1968 |
| William Styron | Litt.D. | 1968 |
| Kenneth B. Clark | L.H.D. | 1969 |
| Lee A. DuBridge | Sc.D. | 1969 |
| Paul A. Freund * | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Howard Nemerov | Litt.D. | 1969 |
| Joseph Silverstein | D.Mus. | 1969 |
| Andrew F. Brimmer | D.J.S. | 1970 |
| Paul McDonald Fye | Sc.D. | 1970 |
| Patricia Roberts Harris * | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Anne Sexton | Litt.D. | 1970 |
| Harris Llewellyn Wofford, Jr. * | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Arthur Fiedler | D.Mus. | 1971 |
| Jester Hairston | Mus.D. | 1972 |
| Theodore M. Hesburgh * | LL.D. | 1974 |
| Shirley Mount Hufstedler | LL.D. | 1974 |
| Barbara Jordan | LL.D. | 1974 |
| Eddison J.M. Zvobgo | B.A. | 1974 |
| Ruhl J. Bartlett | LL.D. | 1975 |
| Michell I. Ginsberg | L.H.D. | 1975 |
| Philip Hauge Abelson * | Sc.D. | 1976 |
| John Brademas | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Helen H. Gilbert | L.H.D. | 1976 |
| William J. Halligan | Sc.D. | 1976 |
| Matina Horner | L.H.D. | 1976 |
| Virginia Knauer | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Etta P. MacPhie | L.H.D. | 1976 |
| Jean Roche | Sc.D. | 1976 |
| Cameron Biewend | L.H.D. | 1977 |
| Russell LeGrand Carpenter | Sc.D. | 1977 |
| Philip J. McNiff | Litt.D. | 1977 |
| Gumersindo Rodriquez | LL.D. | 1977 |
| Irving John Selikoff | Sc.D. | 1977 |
| B.F. Skinner * | Litt.D. | 1977 |
| Malcolm Toon | LL.D. | 1977 |
| Elmer C. Bartels | L.H.D. | 1978 |
| Kaye MacKinnon dePacheco | L.H.D. | 1978 |
| Victor A. McKusick | Sc.D. | 1978 |
| David Nachmansohn | Sc.D. | 1978 |
| Robert L. Nichols | Sc.D. | 1978 |
| Percy Qoboza * | L.H.D. | 1978 |
| Frank H. Westheimer | Sc.D. | 1978 |
| Francis X. Bellotti * | LL.D. | 1979 |
| Elizabeth De Blois | Sc.D. | 1979 |
| Collette Flesch | LL.D. | 1979 |
| Henry J. Leir | Sc.D. | 1979 |
| Salvador E. Luria | Sc.D. | 1979 |
| Charlotte B. MacJannet | A.M. | 1979 |
| Donald R. MacJannet | L.H.D. | 1979 |
| Charles Merieux | Sc.D. | 1979 |
| Robert Williams Meserve | LL.D. | 1979 |
| Stephen P. Mugar | L.H.D. | 1979 |
| John Edward Reinhardt | LL.D. | 1979 |
| Silvio O. Conte | LL.D. | 1980 |
| Allan M. Cormack | Sc.D. | 1980 |
| Carl J. Gilbert | L.H.D. | 1980 |
| John B. (“Dizzie”) Gillespie | D.Mus. | 1980 |
| Sumner I. Kalman | B.A. (extra ordinem)1 | 1980 |
| Alexander N. McFarlane | D.B.A. | 1980 |
| Queen Sirikit | L.H.D. | 1980 |
| Carlos Pena Romulo | LL.D. | 1980 |
| Paul Theroux | Litt.D. | 1980 |
| Emily D. T. Vermeule | Litt.D. | 1980 |
| Irene Worth * | ArtsD | 1980 |
| William O. Baker | Sc.D. | 1981 |
| Sarah Caldwell * | D.Mus. | 1981 |
| Leo Gross | LL.D. | 1981 |
| Albert M. Imlah | Litt.D. | 1981 |
| Yousuf Karsh | D.F.A. | 1981 |
| Amelia Peabody | D.F.A. | 1981 |
| Edmund D. Pellegrino | Sc.D. | 1981 |
| Robert Shira | Sc.D. | 1981 |
| Norman E. Borlaug | D.Agr. | 1982 |
| C. Douglas Dillon | ArtsD | 1982 |
| Virginia A. D. Dwyer | D.B.Ec | 1982 |
| George A. Farral | Sc.D. | 1982 |
| Eugene Ionesco | Litt.D. | 1982 |
| John G. Kemeny * | LL.D. | 1982 |
| Betty Bao Lord | Litt.D. | 1982 |
| David E. Rogers | Sc.D. | 1982 |
| Alexander R. Todd | Sc.D. | 1982 |
| An Wang | D.B.Ec | 1982 |
| Leonard Florence | D.C.S. | 1983 |
| James P. Grant | L.H.D. | 1983 |
| Edward M. Kennedy * | LL.D. | 1983 |
| Russell E. Miller | Litt.D. | 1983 |
| Sandra Day O’Connor | LL.D. | 1983 |
| Frederick C. Robbins | Sc.D. | 1983 |
| William P. Rogers | LL.D. | 1983 |
| Floyd W. Schmoe | L.H.D. | 1983 |
| Liv Ullman | L.H.D. | 1983 |
| Charles F. Adams | LL.D. | 1984 |
| Bhuminol Adulyadej | LL.D. | 1984 |
| Carlos Chagas | Sc.D. | 1984 |
| Joaquin Cravioto | Sc.D. | 1984 |
| Eleanor Holmes Norton | LL.D. | 1984 |
| Chester M. Pierce | Sc.D. | 1984 |
| John Roche | L.H.D. | 1984 |
| Dean Rusk | LL.D. | 1984 |
| Arthur M. Sackler | L.H.D. | 1984 |
| Arthur Ochs Sulzberger | L.H.D. | 1984 |
| John Williams | D.Mus. | 1984 |
| Maya Angelou | D.F.A. | 1985 |
| Lester R. Brown | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Finn Brudevold | Sc.D. | 1985 |
| Wang Daohan | D.P.A. | 1985 |
| Joshua Lederberg | M.D. | 1985 |
| Shigeyoshi Matsumae | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Donald F. McHenry | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Louise Nevelson | D.F.A. | 1985 |
| Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. * | LL.D. | 1985 |
| David Riesman | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Harrison E. Salisbury | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Carl Scovel | D.D. | 1985 |
| John Updike | Litt.D. | 1985 |
| Brian E. Urquhart | LL.D. | 1985 |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | Litt.D. | 1986 |
| James Morse Dunning | Sc.D. | 1986 |
| James M. Gavin | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Jane Goodall | Sc.D. | 1986 |
| Richard D. Hill | D.B.A. | 1986 |
| Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan | LL.D. | 1986 |
| Bernard Lown | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Itzhak Perlman | D.Mus. | 1986 |
| Frank Press | D.P.P. | 1986 |
| Julius B. Richmond | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Bayard Rustin | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Elie Wiesel * | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Jerome Bert Wiesner | Sc.D. | 1986 |
| Bruce N. Ames | Sc.D. | 1987 |
| Harry N. Blackmun | LL.D. | 1987 |
| Allan D. Callow | Sc.D. | 1987 |
| Natalie Zemon Davis | Litt.D. | 1987 |
| Katherine Dunham | ArtsD | 1987 |
| Danny Kaye2 | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| C.S. Loh | D.B.A. | 1987 |
| Winston Lord | LL.D. | 1987 |
| David McCord | Litt.D. | 1987 |
| Claude E. Shannon | Sc.D. | 1987 |
| Gloria Steinem * | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Peggy Charren | L.H.D. | 1988 |
| Gardner Cox2 | D.F.A. | 1988 |
| John King Fairbank | Litt.D. | 1988 |
| Charles A. McCallum | Sc.D. | 1988 |
| Esther Eggertsen Peterson | L.H.D. | 1988 |
| William R. Pritchard | Sc.D. | 1988 |
| Paul A. Samuelson | Sc.D. | 1988 |
| Samuel O. Thier | Sc.D. | 1988 |
| Paul A. Volcker | D.P.A. | 1988 |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. * | LL.D. | 1988 |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | ArtsD | 1989 |
| Dante Caputo | LL.D. | 1989 |
| Javier Perez de Cuellar * | LL.D. | 1989 |
| Marian Wright Edelman | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Peter Gay | Litt.D. | 1989 |
| Stephen William Hawking | Sc.D. | 1989 |
| Harold C. Hodge | Sc.D. | 1989 |
| Daniel K. Inouye | LL.D. | 1989 |
| Frederick Torgbor Sai | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Michael Sela | Sc.D. | 1989 |
| Robert D. Ballard | Sc.D. | 1990 |
| Prince Don Juan Carlos I | LL.D. | 1990 |
| Robert Coles * | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Shelby Cullom Davis | LL.D. | 1990 |
| Weston Howland, Jr. | D.P.A. | 1990 |
| Elma Ina Lewis | ArtsD | 1990 |
| Thomas R. Pickering | LL.D. | 1990 |
| Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov | Sc.D. | 1990 |
| H. Dudley Wright | Sc.D. | 1990 |
| Etienne-Emile Baulieu | Sc.D. | 1991 |
| Harry Belafonte | ArtsD | 1991 |
| Dick Francis | L.H.D. | 1991 |
| Richard Hunt | D.F.A. | 1991 |
| Yo-Yo Ma | D.Mus. | 1991 |
| Katsushiga Mita | D.B.A. | 1991 |
| Mamphela Ramphele | Sc.D. | 1991 |
| Moonis Raza | L.H.D. | 1991 |
| Oliver Sacks | Sc.D. | 1991 |
| Ted Turner * | L.H.D. | 1991 |
| Doris Howes Calloway | Sc.D. | 1992 |
| Jill Kerr Conway | Litt.D. | 1992 |
| Henry L. Foster | L.H.D. | 1992 |
| Bernard Marshall Gordon * | Sc.D. | 1992 |
| Robert M. Greenstein | D.P.S. | 1992 |
| Joseph J. Lambert | M.A.PA. | 1992 |
| Penelope Lively | Litt.D. | 1992 |
| Geraldine T. Morrow | Sc.D. | 1992 |
| Sadako Ogata | L.H.D. | 1992 |
| Frank P. Stella | D.F.A. | 1992 |
| Louis Wade Sullivan | D.P.P. | 1992 |
| John Archibald Wheeler | Sc.D. | 1992 |
| Carlos Fuentes * | Litt.D. | 1993 |
| Hans-Dietrich Genscher | LL.D. | 1993 |
| John W. Hein | Sc.D. | 1993 |
| Walter N. Masiga | Sc.D. | 1993 |
| Jean Mayer2 | Sc.D. | 1993 |
| Vivian W. Pinn | Sc.D. | 1993 |
| Maurice F. Strong | LL.D. | 1993 |
| Edward Becker | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| T. Berry Brazelton | Sc.D. | 1994 |
| John Hope Franklin | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| Vartan Gregorian | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| Vaclav Klaus | LL.D. | 1994 |
| Ted Koppel * | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| Adele Simmons | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| A. Raymond Tye | B.A. | 1994 |
| Murray Gell-Mann | Sc.D. | 1995 |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Richard N. Goodwin * | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Audrey Hale | B.A. | 1995 |
| Henry E. Hampton | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Anna Faith Jones | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Adolf Theis | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Anson Chan | L.H.D. | 1996 |
| Nelson S. Gifford | D.B.A. | 1996 |
| Edmund Gullion | LL.D. | 1996 |
| Seamus J. Heaney | L.H.D. | 1996 |
| Preston Robert Tisch | L.H.D. | 1996 |
| John Baronian | D.Com.Sc. | 1997 |
| Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I | LL.D. | 1997 |
| Peter Charles Doherty | D.S. | 1997 |
| Richard C. Holbrook | LL.D. | 1997 |
| John Joseph Moakley | LL.D. | 1997 |
| John Edward Porter | LL.D. | 1997 |
| William B. Richardson | LL.D. | 1997 |
| Helen Frankenthaler | D.F.A. | 1998 |
| Bernard Warren Harleston | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Jerome P. Kassirer | D.Sc. | 1998 |
| Djibril Tamsir Niane | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Garry Trudeau * | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Rosario Green | LL.D. | 1999 |
| David Halberstam * | L.H.D. | 1999 |
| Marion L. Heard | D.P.P. | 1999 |
| David Da-I Ho | Sc.D. | 1999 |
| Thomas Schmidheiny | D.B.A. | 1999 |
| Henry L. “Hank” Aaron | D.P.S. | 2000 |
| Issam Fares | D.I.P.A. | 2000 |
| Betty Friedan | L.H.D. | 2000 |
| Merrill M. Goldstein | B.S. | 2000 |
| Robert D. Hormats | D.P.S. | 2000 |
| Ismar Schorsch | D.R.E. | 2000 |
| James Charles Lehrer * | L.H.D. | 2001 |
| David McCullough | L.H.D. | 2001 |
| George S. McGovern | D.P.S. | 2001 |
| Helen Hennessy Vendler | L.H.D. | 2001 |
| John DiBiaggio | LL.D. | 2002 |
| Eugene F. Fama | Sc.D. | 2002 |
| Roderick MacKinnon | Sc.D. | 2002 |
| Viktor Orban | LL.D. | 2002 |
| Rev. William G. Sinkford | L.H.D. | 2002 |
| Katherine Haley Will | L.H.D. | 2002 |
| Daniel J. Doherty III | B.S. | 2003 |
| Margaret Hilary Marshall * | LL.D. | 2003 |
| Arthur Mitchell | D.F.A. | 2003 |
| Mario J. Molina | Sc.D. | 2003 |
| Agnes Varis | D.P.S. | 2003 |
| Neil A. Armstrong | D.Eng | 2004 |
| Tracy L. Chapman | D.F.A. | 2004 |
| Nathan Gantcher | D.B.A. | 2004 |
| Walter Isaacson * | L.H.D. | 2004 |
| Richard G. Lugar | LL.D. | 2004 |
| Walter E. Massey | Sc.D. | 2004 |
| Tadatoshi Akiba | L.H.D. | 2005 |
| James O. Freedman | L.H.D. | 2005 |
| Ann Martin Graybiel | Sc.D. | 2005 |
| William McChord Hurt | D.F.A. | 2005 |
| Kostas Karamanlis * | LL.D. | 2005 |
| William S. Cummings | D.P.S. | 2006 |
| Joseph P. Hoar | D.P.S. | 2006 |
| Lynn Margulis | Sc.D. | 2006 |
| Gloria E. White-Hammond, M.D. | L.H.D. | 2006 |
| T.J. Anderson | D.Mus. | 2007 |
| Michael R. Bloomberg * | D.P.S. | 2007 |
| Alec Broers | D.Sc. | 2007 |
| Frederick H. Hauck | D.P.S. | 2007 |
| Denise Jefferson | D.F.A. | 2007 |
| Thomas C. Schelling | L.H.D. | 2007 |
| Meredith Vieira * | L.H.D. | 2008 |
| Steven S. Manos | D.B.A. | 2008 |
| Mary Oliver | L.H.D. | 2008 |
| Susan Rodgerson | D.P.S. | 2008 |
| Robert S. Schwartz, M.D. | D.S. | 2008 |
| Donald E. Wilson, M.D., M.A.C.P. | D.S. | 2008 |
| Deval Patrick * | LL.D. | 2009 |
| David W. Burke | L.H.D. | 2009 |
| Leslie H. Gelb | LL.D. | 2009 |
| Sister Margaret A. Leonard, L.S.A. | D.P.S. | 2009 |
| Patricia Q. Stonesifer | D.P.S. | 2009 |
| C. Megan Urry | D.S. | 2009 |
| Robert A. Weinberg | D.S. | 2009 |
| Richard Dorsay | D.P.S. | 2010 |
| Sol Gittleman * | L.H.D. | 2010 |
| Kristina M. Johnson | D.S. | 2010 |
| Ann Hobson Pilot | D.Mus. | 2010 |
| Gordon S. Wood | L.H.D. | 2010 |
| Geoffrey Canada | L.H.D. | 2011 |
| Thomas R. Frieden | D.P.S. | 2011 |
| Jamaica Kincaid | L.H.D. | 2011 |
| Pamela Omidyar | D.P.S. | 2011 |
| Pierre M. Omidyar | D.P.S. | 2011 |
| Robert M. Solow | D.S. | 2011 |
| Charles M. Vest * | D.S. | 2011 |
| Lawrence S. Bacow | L.H.D. | 2012 |
| Bonnie Bassler | D.S. | 2012 |
| Eric Greitens * | L.H.D. | 2012 |
| Cecilia Ibeabuchi | D.P.S. | 2012 |
| Farooq Kathwari | D.P.S. | 2012 |
| Lois Gibbs | D.P.S. | 2013 |
| Philip Lampi | L.H.D. | 2013 |
| Raymond R. Sackler | L.H.D. | 2013 |
| Ram Shrestha | D.S. | 2013 |
| Claude M. Steele * | L.H.D. | 2013 |
| Aso Tavitian | D.P.S. | 2013 |
| James M. Lawson, Jr. | D.P.S. | 2014 |
| Jill M. Lepore | L.H.D. | 2014 |
| Haruki Murakami | Litt.D. | 2014 |
| Anne-Marie Slaughter * | LL.D. | 2014 |
| James A. Stern | D.B.A. | 2014 |
| Madeleine Albright * | LL.D. | 2015 |
| Suzin Bartley | D.P.S. | 2015 |
| Joichi “Joi” Ito | L.H.D. | 2015 |
| Michael Jaharis, Jr. | D.P.S. | 2015 |
| Joseph E. Neubauer | D.P.S. | 2015 |
| Navanethem “Navi” Pillay | LL.D. | 2015 |
| Jawole Willa Jo Zollar | D.F.A. | 2015 |
| Hank Azaria * | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Janet Echelman | D.F.A. | 2016 |
| H. Jack Geiger | D.P.S. | 2016 |
| Martin J. Granoff | D.P.S. | 2016 |
| Sonia Manzano | D.F.A. | 2016 |
| Margot Stern Strom | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Kenya Barris * | L.H.D. | 2017 |
| Bruce J. Baum, DMD, Ph.D. | D.S. | 2017 |
| Sean B. Carroll, Ph.D. | D.S. | 2017 |
| Maria Contreras-Sweet | D.P.S. | 2017 |
| Joyce Cummings | D.P.S. | 2017 |
| Jean McGuire | D.P.S. | 2017 |
| Joseph W. Polisi, DMA | D.F.A. | 2017 |
| José Andrés | D.P.S. | 2018 |
| Ashton “Ash” Carter | LL.D. | 2018 |
| Ellen J. Kullman, E78, A12P | D.S. | 2018 |
| Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | L.H.D. | 2018 |
| Arturo O’Farrill | D.Mus. | 2018 |
| Farah Pandith, F95 | LL.D. | 2018 |
| Marie Cassidy | D.P.S. | 2019 |
| Edward J. Markey | LL.D. | 2019 |
| Eva Moskowitz | L.H.D. | 2019 |
| Ellen Ochoa | D.Eng | 2019 |
| Alfre Woodard * | D.F.A. | 2019 |
| Neil Blumenthal, A02 * 3 | D.B.A. | 2020 |
| Lisa D. Cook3 | Sc.D. | 2020 |
| Sandra Cotterell3 | D.P.S. | 2020 |
| Ruth Moy3 | D.P.S. | 2020 |
| James Stavridis, F83, F843 | D.P.S. | 2020 |
| Jonathan M. Tisch, A763 | D.P.S. | 2020 |
| Maria B. Barrett | D.P.S. | 2021 |
| William Bazeyo | Sc.D. | 2021 |
| Stacey B. Gabriel | Sc.D. | 2021 |
| Bryan Stevenson * | LL.D. | 2021 |
| Hamdi Ulukaya | L.H.D. | 2021 |
| Ofelia Zepeda | Litt.D. | 2021 |
| Callie Crossley | L.H.D. | 2022 |
| Pablo Eduardo, A94 | D.F.A. | 2022 |
| Jane Frommer, J76 | Sc.D. | 2022 |
| Lonnie King | Sc.D. | 2022 |
| Erica Lee, J91 * | Sc.D. | 2022 |
| Asad Madni | D.Eng. | 2022 |
| Fiore, Louis A. D62 | D.P.S. | 2023 |
| Amina J. Mohammed* | LL.D. | 2023 |
| Mary Chin | D.P.S. | 2023 |
| Carla Hayden | Litt.D. | 2023 |
| James McGovern | LL.D. | 2023 |
| Alan Solomont | D.P.S. | 2023 |
| Fiona Hill* | L.H.D. | 2024 |
| Kathryn Bostic | D.Mus. | 2024 |
| Kathleen O’Loughlin | D.P.S. | 2024 |
| Jeremy Ruskin | D.Sc. | 2024 |
Count = 1,143
May 28, 2024
1Extra Ordinem. By vote of May 14, 1980, the Educational Policy Committee (currently Academic Affairs Committee) approved the following guidelines statement for degrees extra ordinem: “Degrees normally given in course by the University may occasionally be conferred extra ordinem upon individuals who, while not having completed the normal degree requirement, have given evidence of comparable accomplishment and of extraordinary service to the University and the larger community. The Board of Trustees shall vote upon degrees extra ordinem in the manner prescribed for honorary degrees in the bylaws.”
2Awarded posthumously
3Awarded May 27, 2022