Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2015 | |
| Maathai, Wangari | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2004 | |
| Gilder, Richard | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2007 | |
| Eliade, Mercea | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1966 | |
| Bass, Perry R. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1993 | |
| Kittredge, Henry Crocker | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1954 | |
| Mays, Willie | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2004 | |
| Lydenberg, Harry Miller | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Reid, Helen Rogers | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1950 | |
| Kramer, Larry | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2015 | |
| Metcalf, Keyes Dewitt | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Harris, Irving B. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1990 | |
| Drew, Elizabeth | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1976 | |
| Giamatti, A. Bartlett | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1986 | |
| Arendt, Hannah | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1971 | |
| Buckley, William F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2000 | |
| Seyrig, Henri | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Bernstein, Robert Louis | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2003 | |
| Bemis, Samuel F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1963 | |
| Himmelfarb, Gertrude | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1990 | |
| Feinberg, Michael & Levin, David | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2010 | |
| Goizueta, Roberto | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1997 | |
| Sullivan, Walter Seager | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1969 | |
| Tyson, Neil deGrasse | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2018 | |
| Mankiller, Wilma P. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1990 | |
| Hocking, William E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1959 | |
| Albright, Madeline K. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2022 | |
| Laney, James T. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1993 | |
| Van Santvoord, George | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Paton, Alan S. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1954 | |
| Clyburn, James E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2022 | |
| Robinson, Eddie | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1997 | |
| Canham, Erwin Dain | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1949 | |
| Trudeau, Garretson Beekman | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1976 | |
| North, Helen F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1986 | |
| Meier, Deborah W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1993 | |
| Baker, III, James A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2019 | |
| Hill, Calvin | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2016 | |
| Knox, Bernard M.W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1983 | |
| Hanks, Nancy | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1978 | |
| Nicolson, Marjorie H. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1963 | |
| Katie Ledecky | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2026 | |
| Peterson, Roger T. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1986 | |
| Wagner, Henry Raup | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Langer, William L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1956 | |
| Berlin, Sir Isaiah | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1989 | |
| Polotsky, H.J. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1986 | |
| Rampersad, Arnold | Doctor of Humanities | 2016 | |
| Darnton, Robert | Doctor of Humanities | 2012 | |
| Guha, Ramachandra | Doctor of Humanities | 2014 |