Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thacher, Thomas Day | Doctor of Laws | 1930 | |
| Hoover, Herbert Clark | Doctor of Laws | 1918 | |
| Goethals,George Washington, Col. | Doctor of Laws | 1912 | |
| Bissell, Wilson Shannon | Doctor of Laws | 1893 | |
| Hoar, George Frisbie | Doctor of Laws | 1885 | |
| Selden, Henry Rogers | Doctor of Laws | 1857 | |
| Esten, James Christie | Doctor of Laws | 1825 | |
| Gardner, John W. | Doctor of Laws | 1974 | |
| Hopkins, Ernest Martin | Doctor of Laws | 1925 | |
| Root,Elihu, Honorable | Doctor of Laws | 1900 | |
| Atwater, Lyman Hotchkiss | Doctor of Laws | 1873 | |
| Griswold, Matthew | Doctor of Laws | 1779 | |
| Opel, John R. | Doctor of Laws | 1984 | |
| Adenauer, Konrad | Doctor of Laws | 1956 | |
| Moynihan, Daniel Patrick | Doctor of Laws | 2000 | |
| Wing, Yung | Doctor of Laws | 1876 | |
| Sturges, Jonathan | Doctor of Laws | 1806 | |
| Wheeler, George Wakeman | Doctor of Laws | ||
| Motley, Constance Baker | Doctor of Laws | 1987 | |
| Bradley, Tom | Doctor of Laws | 1979 | |
| Bowen, William G. | Doctor of Laws | 1972 | |
| Pusey, Nathan M. | Doctor of Laws | 1953 | |
| Swan, Thomas Walter | Doctor of Laws | 1947 | |
| Hull, Cordell | Doctor of Laws | 1937 | |
| Jacobi, Abraham | Doctor of Laws | 1905 | |
| Andrews, Charles | Doctor of Laws | 1898 | |
| Livingston, William | Doctor of Laws | 1788 | |
| Ball, Robert M. | Doctor of Laws | 1988 | |
| Wright, James Skelly | Doctor of Laws | 1961 | |
| Eisenhower, General Dwight David | Doctor of Laws | 1948 | |
| Robinson, Mary | Doctor of Laws | 1997 | |
| Hawley, Joseph Roswell | Doctor of Laws | 1886 | |
| Pearson, Eliphalet | Doctor of Laws | 1802 | |
| Thomas, Franklin A. | Doctor of Laws | 1970 | |
| Lloyd, Robert McAllister | Doctor of Laws | 1963 | |
| Edgerton, Henry White | Doctor of Laws | 1956 | |
| Sargent, John Singer | Doctor of Laws | 1916 | |
| Price, Hugh B. | Doctor of Laws | 2000 | |
| Thacher, Thomas | Doctor of Laws | 1903 | |
| Brown, Charles Francis | Doctor of Laws | 1896 | |
| Martinez, Marcial | Doctor of Laws | 1882 | |
| Thompson, Myron H. | Doctor of Laws | 2022 | |
| Beinecke, William S. | Doctor of Laws | 1986 | |
| Ford II, Henry | Doctor of Laws | 1972 | |
| Schweitzer, Pierre-Paul | Doctor of Laws | 1966 | |
| Loomis, James L. | Doctor of Laws | 1959 | |
| Pusey, Nathan Marsh | Doctor of Laws | 1953 | |
| K'Ung, H.H. | Doctor of Laws | 1937 | |
| Carmalt, William Henry | Doctor of Laws | 1929 | |
| Ginsburg, Ruth Bader | Doctor of Laws | 2003 |