Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bidwell, Marshall Spring | Doctor of Laws | 1858 | |
| Trumbull, Jonathan | Doctor of Laws | 1779 | |
| Cabot, Paul Codman | Doctor of Laws | 1965 | |
| Phelps, William Lyon | Doctor of Laws | 1934 | |
| Cram, Ralph Adams | Doctor of Laws | 1915 | |
| Clark, Josiah | Doctor of Laws | 1875 | |
| Choate, Rufus | Doctor of Laws | 1844 | |
| Foot, Samuel Augustus | Doctor of Laws | 1834 | |
| Stone, Harlan Fiske | Doctor of Laws | 1924 | |
| Riddell, William Renwick | Doctor of Laws | 1918 | |
| Van Buren, William Holme | Doctor of Laws | 1879 | |
| Marshall, Margaret Hilary | Doctor of Laws | 2012 | |
| Wolcott, Oliver | Doctor of Laws | 1819 | |
| Dyer, Eliphalet | Doctor of Laws | 1787 | |
| Jackson, Richard | Doctor of Laws | 1773 | |
| Sawyer, John E. | Doctor of Laws | 1974 | |
| Alexander, K.G. | Doctor of Laws | 1947 | |
| Volcker, Paul A. | Doctor of Laws | 1984 | |
| Shapiro, Irving S. | Doctor of Laws | 1977 | |
| Hoffman, Paul Gray | Doctor of Laws | 1950 | |
| Pinchot, Gifford | Doctor of Laws | 1925 | |
| Mercier, Cardinal | Doctor of Laws | 1919 | |
| Hibben, John Grier | Doctor of Laws | 1913 | |
| Liang-Cheng,Chentung, Sir | Doctor of Laws | 1906 | |
| Kerry, John | Doctor of Laws | 2017 | |
| Hincks, Carroll C. | Doctor of Laws | 1952 | |
| Morrow, Dwight Whitney | Doctor of Laws | 1927 | |
| Beach, John Sheldon | Doctor of Laws | 1887 | |
| Eliot, Charles William | Doctor of Laws | 1870 | |
| Calhoun, John Caldwell | Doctor of Laws | 1822 | |
| MacVeagh, Franklin | Doctor of Laws | 1912 | |
| Saint Gaudens, Augustus | Doctor of Laws | 1905 | |
| Schuyler, Eugene | Doctor of Laws | 1885 | |
| Hungerford, William | Doctor of Laws | 1856 | |
| Baldwin, Henry | Doctor of Laws | 1830 | |
| Huntington, Samuel | Doctor of Laws | 1787 | |
| Deming, W. Edwards | Doctor of Laws | 1991 | |
| Williams, Betty | Doctor of Laws | 1977 | |
| Foster, William C. | Doctor of Laws | 1969 | |
| Olds, Irving Sands | Doctor of Laws | 1956 | |
| Soong, Ts Vung | Doctor of Laws | 1942 | |
| Houston, David Franklin | Doctor of Laws | 1913 | |
| Magruder, Benjamin Drake | Doctor of Laws | 1906 | |
| Stevenson, Bryan A. | Doctor of Laws | 2005 | |
| Lewis, John R. | Doctor of Laws | 2017 | |
| Green, Edith Starrett | Doctor of Laws | 1965 | |
| Stewart, Potter | Doctor of Laws | 1959 | |
| Lovett, Robert A. | Doctor of Laws | 1952 | |
| Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan | Doctor of Laws | 1921 | |
| Loomis, Dwight | Doctor of Laws | 1896 |