Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch Doctor of Letters 1902
Kingsley, William Lathrop Doctor of Letters 1892
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981
Vendler, Helen Doctor of Letters 2000
Root, Robert Kilburn Doctor of Letters 1937
Ashbery, John Doctor of Letters 2008
Johnson, Charles Frederick Doctor of Letters 1898
Wilbur, Richard Doctor of Letters 2012
Vargas Llosa, Mario Doctor of Letters 1994
Wilder, Thornton Niven Doctor of Letters 1947
Repplier, Agnes Doctor of Letters 1925
Neilson, William Allan Doctor of Letters 1927
Ngugi, wa Thiong’o Doctor of Letters 2017
Noyes, Alfred Doctor of Letters 1913
Caro, Robert Allan Doctor of Letters 2023
Torrey, Charles Cutler Doctor of Letters 1934
Moore, George Foot Doctor of Letters 1915
Marquand, John Phillips Doctor of Letters 1950
Grinnell, George Bird Doctor of Letters 1921
Lewis, Sinclair Doctor of Letters 1936
Didion, Joan Doctor of Letters 2011
Fagles, Robert Doctor of Letters 2002
Vogel, Paula Doctor of Letters 2020
Heaney, Seamus Justin Doctor of Letters 1999
Sherwood, Robert Emmet Doctor of Letters 1941
Cooke, Alfred Alistair Doctor of Letters 1993
Albright, William Foxwell Doctor of Letters 1951
Thayer, William Roscoe Doctor of Letters 1915
de Romilly, Jacqueline Doctor of Letters 1993
Stoll, Elmer Edgar Doctor of Letters 1941
Freeman, Douglas Southall Doctor of Letters 1946
Brodsky, Joseph Doctor of Letters 1978
Marshall, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1921
Claudel, Paul Doctor of Letters 1928
Clark, John Maurice Doctor of Letters 1951
Muir, John Doctor of Letters 1911
Trevelyan, George Macaulay Doctor of Letters 1936
Lerner, Gerda Doctor of Letters 1998
Dewey, John Doctor of Letters 1951
Morrison, Toni Doctor of Letters 1985
Moody, William Vaughn Doctor of Letters 1908
Andrews, Charles McLean Doctor of Letters 1935
Wharton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1923
McCullough, David Doctor of Letters 1998
Berberova, Nina Doctor of Letters 1992
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish Doctor of Letters 1957
Godel, Kurt Doctor of Letters 1951
Fisher, Bernard Doctor of Medical Sciences 2004
Rutter, Sir Michael Doctor of Medical Sciences 2010
Elders, M. Joycelyn Doctor of Medical Sciences 1992