Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn Doctor of Letters 1956
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch Doctor of Letters 1902
Kingsley, William Lathrop Doctor of Letters 1892
Ashbery, John Doctor of Letters 2008
Root, Robert Kilburn Doctor of Letters 1937
Vendler, Helen Doctor of Letters 2000
Vargas Llosa, Mario Doctor of Letters 1994
Neilson, William Allan Doctor of Letters 1927
Wilder, Thornton Niven Doctor of Letters 1947
Johnson, Charles Frederick Doctor of Letters 1898
Wilbur, Richard Doctor of Letters 2012
Repplier, Agnes Doctor of Letters 1925
Ngugi, wa Thiong’o Doctor of Letters 2017
Noyes, Alfred Doctor of Letters 1913
Torrey, Charles Cutler Doctor of Letters 1934
Moore, George Foot Doctor of Letters 1915
Caro, Robert Allan Doctor of Letters 2023
Marquand, John Phillips Doctor of Letters 1950
Grinnell, George Bird Doctor of Letters 1921
Lewis, Sinclair Doctor of Letters 1936
Fagles, Robert Doctor of Letters 2002
Didion, Joan Doctor of Letters 2011
Vogel, Paula Doctor of Letters 2020
Cooke, Alfred Alistair Doctor of Letters 1993
Sherwood, Robert Emmet Doctor of Letters 1941
Thayer, William Roscoe Doctor of Letters 1915
Albright, William Foxwell Doctor of Letters 1951
Heaney, Seamus Justin Doctor of Letters 1999
de Romilly, Jacqueline Doctor of Letters 1993
Brodsky, Joseph Doctor of Letters 1978
Stoll, Elmer Edgar Doctor of Letters 1941
Freeman, Douglas Southall Doctor of Letters 1946
Marshall, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1921
Clark, John Maurice Doctor of Letters 1951
Claudel, Paul Doctor of Letters 1928
Muir, John Doctor of Letters 1911
Lerner, Gerda Doctor of Letters 1998
Morrison, Toni Doctor of Letters 1985
Moody, William Vaughn Doctor of Letters 1908
Dewey, John Doctor of Letters 1951
Trevelyan, George Macaulay Doctor of Letters 1936
McCullough, David Doctor of Letters 1998
Berberova, Nina Doctor of Letters 1992
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish Doctor of Letters 1957
Godel, Kurt Doctor of Letters 1951
Andrews, Charles McLean Doctor of Letters 1935
Wharton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1923
Fisher, Bernard Doctor of Medical Sciences 2004
Hopkins, Donald R. Doctor of Medical Sciences 2021
Elders, M. Joycelyn Doctor of Medical Sciences 1992