Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name | Degree |
Year |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotchkiss, Rollin D. | Doctor of Science | 1962 | |
| Kennedy, John F. | Doctor of Laws | 1962 | |
| Rubinstein, Artur | Doctor of Music | 1962 | |
| Ryerson, Edward L. | Doctor of Laws | 1962 | |
| Weigel, Gustave, S.J. | Doctor of Divinity | 1962 | |
| Williams, Frank O.H. | Doctor of Laws | 1962 | |
| Bundy, McGeorge | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Burrows, Millar | Doctor of Divinity | 1961 | |
| Coons, Albert H. | Doctor of Science | 1961 | |
| Edgerton, Franklin | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Frankfurter, Felix | Doctor of Laws | 1961 | |
| Gates, Thomas S. | Doctor of Laws | 1961 | |
| Lee, Richard C. | Master of Arts | 1961 | |
| Monnet, Jean | Doctor of Laws | 1961 | |
| Seyrig, Henri | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Sherk, F. Allen | Master of Arts | 1961 | |
| Todd, Sir Alexander | Doctor of Science | 1961 | |
| Van Santvoord, George | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Wright, James Skelly | Doctor of Laws | 1961 | |
| Harriman, Edward R. | Doctor of Laws | 1960 | |
| Lederberg, Joshua | Doctor of Science | 1960 | |
| Porter, Cole | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1960 | |
| Rubey, William W. | Doctor of Science | 1960 | |
| Sherrill, Henry Knox | Doctor of Laws | 1960 | |
| Warren, Robert Penn | Doctor of Letters | 1960 | |
| Beltran, Don Pedro | Doctor of Laws | 1960 | |
| Black, Eugene R. | Doctor of Laws | 1960 | |
| Bunnell, Walls W. | Master of Arts | 1960 | |
| Mu, Ch'ien | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1960 | |
| Fry, Franklin C. | Doctor of Divinity | 1960 | |
| Fulton, William S. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1960 | |
| Hall, Edward Tuck | Master of Arts | 1960 | |
| Bunker, Ellsworth | Doctor of Laws | 1959 | |
| Gell-Mann, Murray | Doctor of Science | 1959 | |
| Hamilton, Edith | Doctor of Letters | 1959 | |
| Hocking, William E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1959 | |
| Kazan, Elia | Master of Arts | 1959 | |
| Leger, Alexis | Doctor of Letters | 1959 | |
| Loomis, James L. | Doctor of Laws | 1959 | |
| Mayr, Ernest | Doctor of Science | 1959 | |
| Myrdal, Gunnar K. | Doctor of Laws | 1959 | |
| Phillips, Duncan | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1959 | |
| Read, David H.C. | Doctor of Divinity | 1959 | |
| Stewart, Potter | Doctor of Laws | 1959 | |
| Furniss, Edgar S. | Doctor of Laws | 1958 | |
| Haskins, Caryl P. | Doctor of Science | 1958 | |
| Hough, Henry B. | Master of Arts | 1958 | |
| Howe II, Harold | Master of Arts | 1958 | |
| Josephs, Devereux C. | Doctor of Laws | 1958 | |
| Knopf, Alfred A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1958 |