Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freund, Paul | Doctor of Laws | 1972 | |
| Smith, John Cotton | Doctor of Laws | 1815 | |
| Bonner, Elena | Doctor of Laws | 1993 | |
| Abbott, Ezra | Doctor of Laws | 1869 | |
| Williams, Frank O.H. | Doctor of Laws | 1962 | |
| Sterling, John William | Doctor of Laws | 1893 | |
| Graves, Henry Solon | Doctor of Laws | 1940 | |
| Kappel, Frederick R. | Doctor of Laws | 1967 | |
| Grimke, Thomas Smith | Doctor of Laws | 1830 | |
| Whitney, William Collins | Doctor of Laws | 1888 | |
| Fanning, Edmund | Doctor of Laws | 1803 | |
| Morgan, John Pierpont | Doctor of Laws | 1908 | |
| Baldwin, Roger Nash | Doctor of Laws | 1969 | |
| Jones, Reginald H. | Doctor of Laws | 1979 | |
| Tardieu, Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee | Doctor of Laws | 1917 | |
| Hendrickson, George L. | Doctor of Laws | 1953 | |
| Tweedsmuir, Lord | Doctor of Laws | 1938 | |
| Jackson, Richard | Doctor of Laws | 1773 | |
| Hitchcock, Henry | Doctor of Laws | 1874 | |
| Smith, Walter Bedell | Doctor of Laws | 1955 | |
| Sawyer, John E. | Doctor of Laws | 1974 | |
| Harriman, William A. | Doctor of Laws | 1964 | |
| Clayton, John Middleton | Doctor of Laws | 1846 | |
| Ruggles, Samuel Bulkley | Doctor of Laws | 1859 | |
| Wolcott, Oliver | Doctor of Laws | 1819 | |
| Mason, Max | Doctor of Laws | 1926 | |
| Cuyler, Thomas Dewitt | Doctor of Laws | 1920 | |
| Shapiro, Irving S. | Doctor of Laws | 1977 | |
| Kerry, John | Doctor of Laws | 2017 | |
| Barnard, John Gross | Doctor of Laws | 1864 | |
| Welch, William Henry | Doctor of Laws | 1896 | |
| Sproul, Robert Gordon | Doctor of Laws | 1935 | |
| Woolley, Mary Emma | Doctor of Laws | 1923 | |
| Vann, Irving Goodwin | Doctor of Laws | 1898 | |
| Hungerford, William | Doctor of Laws | 1856 | |
| Chauncey, Charles | Doctor of Laws | 1827 | |
| LaGuardia, Fiorello | Doctor of Laws | 1940 | |
| Hubbard, Richard Dudley | Doctor of Laws | 1877 | |
| Foster, Dwight | Doctor of Laws | 1871 | |
| Jessup, Philip C. | Doctor of Laws | 1964 | |
| Mellon, Andrew William | Doctor of Laws | 1926 | |
| dalVerme, Francesco | Doctor of Laws | 1783 | |
| Meyer, Eugene | Doctor of Laws | 1932 | |
| Beach, John Sheldon | Doctor of Laws | 1887 | |
| Seymour, Origen Storrs | Doctor of Laws | 1873 | |
| Williams, Betty | Doctor of Laws | 1977 | |
| Lewis, John R. | Doctor of Laws | 2017 | |
| Harriman, Edward R. | Doctor of Laws | 1960 | |
| Foster, William C. | Doctor of Laws | 1969 | |
| Mitchell, George J. | Doctor of Laws | 2011 |