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Honorary
Degree Recipients:
A Selected List
| 1753, Benjamin Franklin, AM |
| 1776, George Washington, LLD |
| 1781, John Adams, LLD |
| 1787, Thomas Jefferson, LLD |
| 1792, Samuel Adams, LLD |
| 1822, John Quincy Adams, LLD |
| 1832, Washington Irving, LLD |
| 1833, Andrew Jackson, LLD |
| 1852, Alexis Charles Henri de Tocqueville, LLD |
| 1859, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LLD |
| 1866, Ralph Waldo Emerson, LLD |
| 1872, Ulysses S. Grant, LLD |
| 1896, Booker T. Washington, AM |
| 1905, William Howard Taft, LLD |
| 1907, Woodrow Wilson, LLD |
| 1916, John Singer Sargent, ArtD |
| 1917, Herbert Hoover, LLD |
| 1919, Theodore Roosevelt, AM |
| 1929, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, LLD |
| 1935, Albert Einstein, SD |
| 1937, Robert Frost, LittD |
| 1938, Walt Disney, AM |
| 1940, Carl Sandburg, LittD |
| 1943, Winston Churchill, LLD |
| 1946, Dwight Eisenhower, LLD |
| 1947, George Marshall, LLD |
| 1951, Thornton Wilder, LittD |
| 1956, John F. Kennedy, LLD |
| 1961, Aaron Copland, MusD |
| 1966, Martha Graham, ArtD |
| 1967, Leonard Bernstein, MusD |
| 1968, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, LLD |
| 1972, Saul Bellow, LittD |
| 1973, Georgia O'Keeffe, ArtD |
| 1973, Robert Penn Warren, LittD |
| 1974, Mstislav L. Rostropovich, MusD |
| 1974, Beverly Sills, MusD |
| 1976, Arthur Fiedler, ArtD |
| 1977, Barbara Jordan, LLD |
| 1977, Eudora Welty, LittD |
| 1978, John Cheever, LittD |
| 1978, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, LittD |
| 1979, Desmond Tutu, LLD |
| 1980, Octavio Paz, LittD |
| 1981, Ansel Adams, ArtD |
| 1981, Leontyne Price, ArtD |
| 1982, Mother Teresa, LLD |
| 1982, Tennessee Williams, LittD |
| 1983, Carlos Fuentes, LLD |
| 1984, Juan Carlos, I, LLD |
| 1984, Benny Goodman, MusD |
| 1985, Louise Nevelson, ArtD |
| 1986, Lord Carrington, LLD |
| 1986, Itzhak Perlman, MusD |
| 1987, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., LLD |
| 1988, Jessye Norman, MusD |
| 1988, Oscar Arias Sánchez, LLD |
| 1989, Benazir Bhutto, LLD |
| 1989, Toni Morrison, LLD |
| 1990, Ella Fitzgerald, MusD |
| 1990, Stephen W. Hawking, SD |
| 1990, Helmut Kohl, LLD |
| 1991, Yo-Yo Ma, MusD |
| 1991, Eduard Shevardnadze, LLD |
| 1992, Gro Harlem Brundtland, LLD |
| 1992, Isaac Stern, MusD |
| 1993, Colin Powell, LLD |
| 1993, Ravi Shankar, ArtD |
| 1994, Albert Gore Jr., LLD |
| 1995, Václav Havel, LLD |
| 1997, Quincy Jones, MusD |
| 1997, John Rawls, LLD |
| 1998, Gertrude B. Elion, SD |
| 1999, Julia Kristeva, LLD |
| 1999, Herbert Block, ArtD |
| 2000, Seiji Ozawa, MusD |
| 2000, Nicolaas Bloembergen, SD |
| 2001, John Ashbery, LittD |
| 2001, Jürgen Habermas, LLD |
| 2001, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., LLD |
| 2002, Ruth J. Simmons, LLD |
| 2002, Katherine Dunham, ArtD |
| 2002, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, LLD |
| 2002, Neil L. Rudenstine, LLD |
| 2003, Philip Roth, LittD |
| 2003, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, LLD |
| 2004, Kofi Annan, LLD |
| 2004, Margaret Atwood, LittD |
| 2004, Shirley M. Tilghman, LLD |
| 2004, Edward O. Wilson, SD |
| 2005, D. Ronald Daniel, LLD |
| 2005, John Lithgow, ArtD |
| 2005, Charles M. Vest, LLD |
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