Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elgar,Edward, Sir | Doctor of Music | 1905 | |
| Ellington, Duke | Doctor of Music | 1967 | |
| Thomas, Theodore | Doctor of Music | 1880 | |
| Alsop, Marin | Doctor of Music | 2017 | |
| Perlman, Itzhak | Doctor of Music | 1981 | |
| King, Riley B.B. | Doctor of Music | 1977 | |
| Stoeckel, Gustave Jacob | Doctor of Music | 1864 | |
| Masur, Kurt | Doctor of Music | 1994 | |
| Goto, Midori | Doctor of Music | 2012 | |
| Fitzgerald, Ella | Doctor of Music | 1986 | |
| Schuman, William | Doctor of Music | 1988 | |
| Penderecki, Krzysztof | Doctor of Music | 2003 | |
| Solti,Georg, K.B.E., Sir | Doctor of Music | 1974 | |
| Mason, William | Doctor of Music | 1872 | |
| Polisi, Joseph W. | Doctor of Music | 2014 | |
| Koussevitzky, Serge | Doctor of Music | 1938 | |
| Foss, Lukas | Doctor of Music | 1991 | |
| Wonder, Stevie | Doctor of Music | 2017 | |
| Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich | Doctor of Music | 1980 | |
| McCartney, Paul | Doctor of Music | 2008 | |
| Stanley, Ralph | Doctor of Music | 2014 | |
| Price, Leontyne | Doctor of Music | 1979 | |
| Damrosch, Frank Heino | Doctor of Music | 1904 | |
| Kneisel, Franz | Doctor of Music | 1911 | |
| Ndour, Youssou | Doctor of Music | 2011 | |
| Paderewski, Ignace Jan | Doctor of Music | 1917 | |
| Hancock, Herbie | Doctor of Music | 2020 | |
| Fleming, Renée | Doctor of Music | 2020 | |
| Ax, Emanuel | Doctor of Music | 2007 | |
| Goodman, Benny | Doctor of Music | 1982 | |
| Rostropovich, Mstislav | Doctor of Music | 1976 | |
| Norman, Jessye | Doctor of Music | 1990 | |
| Rubinstein, Artur | Doctor of Music | 1962 | |
| Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov | Doctor of Music | 1926 | |
| Ginastera, Alberto | Doctor of Music | 1968 | |
| Moore, Douglas S. | Doctor of Music | 1955 | |
| Aldrich, Henry | Doctor of Medicine | 1854 | |
| Gold, Samuel Wadsworth | Doctor of Medicine | 1836 | |
| Austin, Caleb Hopkins | Doctor of Medicine | 1833 | |
| Miner, John Owen | Doctor of Medicine | 1816 | |
| Kilby, Charles | Doctor of Medicine | 1789 | |
| Blackman, George | Doctor of Medicine | 1845 | |
| Milne, George | Doctor of Medicine | 1785 | |
| Palmer, Joseph | Doctor of Medicine | 1816 | |
| Ticknor, Benajah | Doctor of Medicine | 1836 | |
| Farnham, Bela | Doctor of Medicine | 1829 | |
| Peters, John Samuel | Doctor of Medicine | 1818 | |
| Johnson, Peleg | Doctor of Medicine | 1842 | |
| Perry, Nathaniel | Doctor of Medicine | 1816 | |
| Ramsey, David | Doctor of Medicine | 1789 |