Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green, Jacob | Doctor of Medicine | 1827 | |
| Brendel, Alfred | Doctor of Music | 1992 | |
| Kidjo, Angélique | Doctor of Music | 2015 | |
| Adams, John | Doctor of Music | 2013 | |
| Franklin, Aretha | Doctor of Music | 2010 | |
| Upshaw, Dawn K. | Doctor of Music | 2001 | |
| Simon, Paul F. | Doctor of Music | 1996 | |
| Cruz, Celia | Doctor of Music | 1989 | |
| Shaw, Robert L. | Doctor of Music | 1998 | |
| von Stade, Frederica | Doctor of Music | 1985 | |
| Bernstein, Leonard | Doctor of Music | 1966 | |
| Barnett, James George | Doctor of Music | 1867 | |
| McDonald, Audra | Doctor of Music | 2016 | |
| Stern, Isaac | Doctor of Music | 1975 | |
| Carter, Jr., Elliott Cook | Doctor of Music | 1970 | |
| Sibelius,Jean, Dr. | Doctor of Music | 1914 | |
| Paine, John Knowles | Doctor of Music | 1890 | |
| Marsalis, Wynton | Doctor of Music | 1995 | |
| Shaw, Caroline | Doctor of Music | 2022 | |
| Ruff, Willie | Doctor of Music | 2018 | |
| Ma, Yo-yo | Doctor of Music | 1987 | |
| Gubaidulina, Sofia | Doctor of Music | 2009 | |
| Elgar,Edward, Sir | Doctor of Music | 1905 | |
| Watts, Andre | Doctor of Music | 1973 | |
| Ellington, Duke | Doctor of Music | 1967 | |
| Thomas, Theodore | Doctor of Music | 1880 | |
| Alsop, Marin | Doctor of Music | 2017 | |
| Perlman, Itzhak | Doctor of Music | 1981 | |
| Stoeckel, Gustave Jacob | Doctor of Music | 1864 | |
| King, Riley B.B. | Doctor of Music | 1977 | |
| Masur, Kurt | Doctor of Music | 1994 | |
| Goto, Midori | Doctor of Music | 2012 | |
| Fitzgerald, Ella | Doctor of Music | 1986 | |
| Schuman, William | Doctor of Music | 1988 | |
| Penderecki, Krzysztof | Doctor of Music | 2003 | |
| Solti,Georg, K.B.E., Sir | Doctor of Music | 1974 | |
| Mason, William | Doctor of Music | 1872 | |
| Koussevitzky, Serge | Doctor of Music | 1938 | |
| Polisi, Joseph W. | Doctor of Music | 2014 | |
| Foss, Lukas | Doctor of Music | 1991 | |
| Wonder, Stevie | Doctor of Music | 2017 | |
| Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich | Doctor of Music | 1980 | |
| McCartney, Paul | Doctor of Music | 2008 | |
| Stanley, Ralph | Doctor of Music | 2014 | |
| Damrosch, Frank Heino | Doctor of Music | 1904 | |
| Price, Leontyne | Doctor of Music | 1979 | |
| Kneisel, Franz | Doctor of Music | 1911 | |
| Ndour, Youssou | Doctor of Music | 2011 | |
| Paderewski, Ignace Jan | Doctor of Music | 1917 | |
| Hancock, Herbie | Doctor of Music | 2020 |