Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brundtland, Gro Harlem | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2011 | |
| Steinem, Gloria | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2019 | |
| Knox, Bernard M.W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1983 | |
| Peterson, Roger T. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1986 | |
| Pachauri, Rajendra | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2008 | |
| Reid, Helen Rogers | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1950 | |
| Swensen, David F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2014 | |
| Evans, Luther Harris | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Polotsky, H.J. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1986 | |
| Arendt, Hannah | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1971 | |
| Harris, Irving B. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1990 | |
| Drew, Elizabeth | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1976 | |
| Horchow, Samuel Roger | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1999 | |
| Spielberg, Stephen | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2002 | |
| Spock, Benjamin | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1965 | |
| Knopf, Alfred A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1958 | |
| Milles, Carl | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1936 | |
| Himmelfarb, Gertrude | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1990 | |
| Abed, Fazle | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2007 | |
| Sullivan, Walter Seager | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1969 | |
| Mankiller, Wilma P. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1990 | |
| Laney, James T. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1993 | |
| Boyd, Julian P. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1964 | |
| Figueres, Christiana | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2020 | |
| Trudeau, Garretson Beekman | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1976 | |
| Meier, Deborah W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1993 | |
| Gipson, Lawrence Henry | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1955 | |
| Canham, Erwin Dain | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1949 | |
| Clarke, Gilmore David | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1940 | |
| Momigliano, Arnaldo | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1985 | |
| Hanks, Nancy | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1978 | |
| Gilder, Richard | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2007 | |
| Horne, Lena | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1998 | |
| Franke, Richard J. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2001 | |
| Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2015 | |
| Fontanne, Lynn | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1964 | |
| Lydenberg, Harry Miller | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Futter, Ellen V. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2001 | |
| Metcalf, Keyes Dewitt | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Berlin, Sir Isaiah | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1989 | |
| Laughlin, James | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1982 | |
| Kramer, Larry | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2015 | |
| Hortense J. Spillers | Doctor of Humanities | 2024 | |
| Thompson, Robert Farris | Doctor of Humanities | 2021 | |
| Brown, Peter | Doctor of Humanities | 2006 | |
| Davis, Natalie Zemon | Doctor of Humanities | 2013 | |
| Mulvey, Laura | Doctor of Humanities | 2018 | |
| Rampersad, Arnold | Doctor of Humanities | 2016 | |
| Darnton, Robert | Doctor of Humanities | 2012 | |
| Lepore, Jill | Doctor of Humanities | 2022 |