Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Cross, Wilbur Lucius Doctor of Letters 1930
Garrison, Fielding Hudson Doctor of Letters 1932
Bond, Edward Doctor of Letters 1977
McIlwain, Charles Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
McCabe, William Gordon Doctor of Letters 1897
Brown, Sterling Allen Doctor of Letters 1981
Merriam, Charles Edward Doctor of Letters 1951
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster Doctor of Letters 1946
Williams, Bernard A.O. Doctor of Letters 2001
Warren, Robert Penn Doctor of Letters 1960
Frost, Robert Doctor of Letters 1924
Kermode, Frank Doctor of Letters 1995
Murakami, Haruki Doctor of Letters 2016
Chapman, John Jay Doctor of Letters 1916
Soyinka, Wole Doctor of Letters 1980
Robinson, Marilynne Doctor of Letters 2018
Wolfe, Thomas Doctor of Letters 2004
Welty, Eudora Doctor of Letters 1975
Morey, Charles Rufus Doctor of Letters 1951
Annette Gordon-Reed Doctor of Letters 2025
Hersey, John Doctor of Letters 1984
Notestein, Wallace Doctor of Letters 1951
Hamilton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1959
Benet, Stephen Vincent Doctor of Letters 1937
Adichie, Chimamanda Doctor of Letters 2019
Fuess, Claude Moore Doctor of Letters 1934
Robinson, Edwin Arlington Doctor of Letters 1922
Shils, Edward Doctor of Letters 1992
Bellow, Saul Doctor of Letters 1972
Kittredge, George Lyman Doctor of Letters 1924
Leger, Alexis Doctor of Letters 1959
Masefield, John Doctor of Letters 1918
Hellman, Lillian Doctor of Letters 1974
MacLeish, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1939
Manly, John Matthews Doctor of Letters 1925
Horgan, Paul Doctor of Letters 1977
Sturtevant, Edgar Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart Doctor of Letters 1979
McPhee, John Doctor of Letters 2009
Sendak, Maurice Doctor of Letters 1997
Silone, Ignazio Doctor of Letters 1966
Cather, Willa Doctor of Letters 1929
Dove, Rita Doctor of Letters 2014
Stoppard, Tom Doctor of Letters 2000
Thurber, James Grover Doctor of Letters 1953
Painter, Nell Irvin Doctor of Letters 2003
White, Elwyn Brooks Doctor of Letters 1948
Merz, Charles Doctor of Letters 1942
Gordimer, Nadine Doctor of Letters 1986
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981