Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name |
Degree |
Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MacIver, Robert Morrison | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1951 | |
| Alsop, Stewart | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1973 | |
| Dumas, Rhetaugh Graves | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1989 | |
| Edgerton, Franklin | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Rollins, Carl Purington | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1949 | |
| Turowicz, Jerzy | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1985 | |
| Ashby, Sir Eric | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1970 | |
| Lunt, Alfred | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1964 | |
| Chouinard, Yvon | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1995 | |
| Kaye, Danny | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1980 | |
| Porter, Cole | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1960 | |
| duPont, Henry Francis | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1953 | |
| Edelman, Marek | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1989 | |
| Ferr , M. Isolina | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1992 | |
| Dilworth, J. Richardson | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1995 | |
| Momaday, N. Scott | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1980 | |
| Keohane, Nannerl | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2004 | |
| Braudel, Fernand | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1981 | |
| Wood, Joe | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1985 | |
| Buchwald, Art | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1970 | |
| Eliade, Mercea | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1966 | |
| Maathai, Wangari | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2004 | |
| Hill, Calvin | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2016 | |
| Lang, Eugene M. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1989 | |
| Kittredge, Henry Crocker | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1954 | |
| Gilbert, Felix | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1987 | |
| Gardner, Dame H. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1973 | |
| Mays, Willie | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2004 | |
| Broder, David S. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1984 | |
| Wagner, Henry Raup | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Pepper, John | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2006 | |
| Seyrig, Henri | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 | |
| Goizueta, Roberto | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1997 | |
| Drayton, William | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2009 | |
| Bemis, Samuel F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1963 | |
| Wroth, Lawrence Counselman | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1946 | |
| Buckley, William F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2000 | |
| Levin, Richard C. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2013 | |
| Lohmann, Carl A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1953 | |
| Bernstein, Robert Louis | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2003 | |
| Smith, Frederick W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2013 | |
| Tyson, Neil deGrasse | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2018 | |
| Durrell, Gerald M. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1977 | |
| Hocking, William E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1959 | |
| Waters, Alice | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2016 | |
| Albright, Madeline K. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2022 | |
| Soedjatmoko | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1970 | |
| Clyburn, James E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2022 | |
| Lee, Sherman E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1981 | |
| Van Santvoord, George | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1961 |