Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fontanne, Lynn | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1964 | |
| Lydenberg, Harry Miller | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Futter, Ellen V. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2001 | |
| Berlin, Sir Isaiah | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1989 | |
| Kramer, Larry | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2015 | |
| Laughlin, James | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1982 | |
| Metcalf, Keyes Dewitt | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Caro, Sir Anthony | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1989 | |
| Milliken, William Mathewson | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1946 | |
| Mitchell, Arthur | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2001 | |
| Adams, Ansel | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1973 | |
| Bassett, Angela Evelyn | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2018 | |
| Friedlander, Lee | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2004 | |
| Kehinde Wiley | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2024 | |
| Debbie Allen | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2025 | |
| Waterston, Samuel A. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2001 | |
| Graves, Nancy Stevenson | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1992 | |
| Hadid, Zaha | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2006 | |
| Zhang, Yimou | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2010 | |
| Bourgeois, Louise | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1977 | |
| Foster, Jodie | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1997 | |
| Kentridge, William | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2013 | |
| Lin, Maya Ying | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1987 | |
| Frankenthaler, Helen | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1981 | |
| DuVernay, Ava | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2021 | |
| Moore, Henry | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1966 | |
| Roche, Kevin | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1995 | |
| Jamison, Judith | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1997 | |
| Barr, Jr., Alfred H. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1967 | |
| Baryshnikov, Mikhail | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1979 | |
| Gehry, Frank O. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2000 | |
| Steinberg, Saul | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1989 | |
| Wolfe, George C. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2016 | |
| Foster, Lord Norman (of Thames Bank OM) | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2003 | |
| Jones, Bill T. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2009 | |
| Farrell, Suzanne | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1988 | |
| Hockney, David | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2005 | |
| Puryear, Martin | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1994 | |
| Tallchief, Maria | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1984 | |
| Close, Charles T. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1996 | |
| de Lavallade, Carmen | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2019 | |
| Serra, Richard | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2009 | |
| Hicks, Sheila | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2019 | |
| Crosby, John | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1991 | |
| Lawrence, Jacob | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1986 | |
| Chase, Lucia | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1980 | |
| Wright, Frank Lloyd | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1954 | |
| Fugard, Athol | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1983 | |
| Albers, Josef | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1962 | |
| Kahn, Louis I. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1965 |