Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Thurber, James Grover Doctor of Letters 1953
Painter, Nell Irvin Doctor of Letters 2003
Lynn Nottage Doctor of Letters 2026
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch Doctor of Letters 1902
Kingsley, William Lathrop Doctor of Letters 1892
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn Doctor of Letters 1956
Gordimer, Nadine Doctor of Letters 1986
Ashbery, John Doctor of Letters 2008
Vendler, Helen Doctor of Letters 2000
Root, Robert Kilburn Doctor of Letters 1937
Repplier, Agnes Doctor of Letters 1925
Ngugi, wa Thiong’o Doctor of Letters 2017
Wilbur, Richard Doctor of Letters 2012
Neilson, William Allan Doctor of Letters 1927
Wilder, Thornton Niven Doctor of Letters 1947
Johnson, Charles Frederick Doctor of Letters 1898
Vargas Llosa, Mario Doctor of Letters 1994
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
Grinnell, George Bird Doctor of Letters 1921
Marquand, John Phillips Doctor of Letters 1950
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
Albright, William Foxwell Doctor of Letters 1951
Sherwood, Robert Emmet Doctor of Letters 1941
Thayer, William Roscoe Doctor of Letters 1915
Heaney, Seamus Justin Doctor of Letters 1999
de Romilly, Jacqueline Doctor of Letters 1993
Freeman, Douglas Southall Doctor of Letters 1946
Brodsky, Joseph Doctor of Letters 1978
Stoll, Elmer Edgar Doctor of Letters 1941
Marshall, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1921
Claudel, Paul Doctor of Letters 1928
Clark, John Maurice Doctor of Letters 1951
Muir, John Doctor of Letters 1911
Lerner, Gerda Doctor of Letters 1998
Trevelyan, George Macaulay Doctor of Letters 1936
Morrison, Toni Doctor of Letters 1985
Dewey, John Doctor of Letters 1951
Moody, William Vaughn Doctor of Letters 1908
McCullough, David Doctor of Letters 1998
Andrews, Charles McLean Doctor of Letters 1935
Wharton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1923
Berberova, Nina Doctor of Letters 1992