Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mays, Willie | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2004 | |
| Lang, Eugene M. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1989 | |
| Kittredge, Henry Crocker | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1954 | |
| Broder, David S. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1984 | |
| Wagner, Henry Raup | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Drayton, William | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2009 | |
| Bemis, Samuel F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1963 | |
| Wroth, Lawrence Counselman | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Buckley, William F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2000 | |
| Levin, Richard C. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2013 | |
| Lohmann, Carl A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1953 | |
| Bernstein, Robert Louis | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2003 | |
| Pepper, John | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2006 | |
| Seyrig, Henri | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Goizueta, Roberto | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1997 | |
| Durrell, Gerald M. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1977 | |
| Tyson, Neil deGrasse | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2018 | |
| Smith, Frederick W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2013 | |
| Albright, Madeline K. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2022 | |
| Soedjatmoko | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1970 | |
| Hocking, William E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1959 | |
| Waters, Alice | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2016 | |
| Clyburn, James E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2022 | |
| Franklin, John Hope | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1977 | |
| Lee, Sherman E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1981 | |
| Van Santvoord, George | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Paton, Alan S. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1954 | |
| Robinson, Eddie | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1997 | |
| Baker, Russell | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1991 | |
| Harshe, Robert Bartholow | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1934 | |
| DeVecchi, Robert | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2005 | |
| Baker, III, James A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2019 | |
| Gates, Robert M. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2012 | |
| Richard, Alison | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2009 | |
| Nicolson, Marjorie H. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1963 | |
| Sachs, Paul J. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1953 | |
| Katie Ledecky | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2026 | |
| Macdonald, Anne T. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1988 | |
| Jakobson, Roman | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1967 | |
| Cole, Johnnetta Betsch | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1991 | |
| Reston, James | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1977 | |
| Langer, William L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1956 | |
| Giamatti, A. Bartlett | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1986 | |
| Graham, Katharine | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1972 | |
| Ramphele, Mamphela | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2005 | |
| Newman, Paul | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1988 | |
| Rogers, Fred McFeely | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1974 | |
| Tantaquidgeon, Gladys Iola | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1994 | |
| Liebaers, Herman | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1979 | |
| Hein, Piet | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1972 |