Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Edgerton, Henry White Doctor of Laws 1956
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Doctor of Laws 2003
Beinecke, William S. Doctor of Laws 1986
Ford II, Henry Doctor of Laws 1972
Schweitzer, Pierre-Paul Doctor of Laws 1966
Loomis, James L. Doctor of Laws 1959
Pusey, Nathan Marsh Doctor of Laws 1953
Wilson, Hugh Robert Doctor of Laws 1939
Gibson, Hugh Doctor of Laws 1931
Adams, Frederic Doctor of Laws 1899
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Doctor of Laws 1886
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin Doctor of Laws 1841
Smith, John Cotton Doctor of Laws 1815
McCoy, General Frank Ross Doctor of Laws 1942
Foster, John Watson Doctor of Laws 1896
White, Andrew Dickson Doctor of Laws 1888
Runyon, Theodore Doctor of Laws 1882
Urquhart, Brian Doctor of Laws 1981
Ohira, Masayoshi Doctor of Laws 1974
Black, Eugene R. Doctor of Laws 1960
Shepley, Ethan A. Hitchcock Doctor of Laws 1954
O'Brian, John Lord Doctor of Laws 1948
Dawes, Henry Laurens Doctor of Laws 1889
Kip, William Ingraham Doctor of Laws 1872
Taft, Alphonso Doctor of Laws 1867
Bush, George H. Doctor of Laws 1991
Rustin, Bayard Doctor of Laws 1984
Ramsbotham, Sir Peter GCVO, KCMG Doctor of Laws 1977
Babbidge, Homer D. Doctor of Laws 1969
Freund, Paul Doctor of Laws 1972
Hand, Learned Doctor of Laws 1931
Keen, William Williams Doctor of Laws 1906
Judd, Albert Francis Doctor of Laws 1894
Billings, Edward Coke Doctor of Laws 1890
Bidwell, Marshall Spring Doctor of Laws 1858
Trumbull, Jonathan Doctor of Laws 1779
Angell, James Rowland Doctor of Laws 1921
Butler, Nicholas Murray Doctor of Laws 1902
Whitney, William Collins Doctor of Laws 1888
Hill, Thomas Doctor of Laws 1863
Hopkins, Samuel Miles Doctor of Laws 1828
Kappel, Frederick R. Doctor of Laws 1967
Spruance, Raymond A. Doctor of Laws 1954
Webster, Noah Doctor of Laws 1823
Warren, Charles Hyde Doctor of Laws 1947
Reading,Rufus Daniel Isaacs Viscount, Right Honorable Doctor of Laws 1918
Day, Thomas Doctor of Laws 1847
Baldwin, Roger Nash Doctor of Laws 1969
Norstad, Lauris Doctor of Laws 1963
Mansfield, Jared Doctor of Laws 1825