Honorary Degrees
Recipients' names are arranged alphabetically.
Jump to last names beginning with:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| A | ||
|
Agnew, Spiro Theodore |
LL.D. | 1967 |
| Ahlfors, Lars V. | D.Sc. | 1986 |
| Alberts, Alfred W. | D.Sc. | 1994 |
| Albright, Madeleine Korbel | D.P.S. | 1998 |
| Allen, Herschel Heathcote | D. Engr. | 1940 |
| Anderson, George McCullough | D. Sc. | 1956 |
| Andrews, Julie | D.F.A. | 1970 |
| Annan, Kofi | D.P.S. | 2002 |
| Anslinger, Henry Jacob | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Armstrong, Alexander | LL.D. | 1923 |
| Asimov, Isaac | D.Sc. | 1977 |
| Augustine, Norman R. | D.Engr. | 1992 |
| B | ||
| Babcock, William Wayne | D.Sc. | 1948 |
| Bailey, Stephen Kemp | LL.D. | 1974 |
| Baker, Melvin H. | D.Sc.B.Ad. | 1953 |
| Baker, James A., III | D.P.S. | 2005 |
| Barth, John Simmons | Litt.D. | 1969 |
| Benjamin, Harold R. W. | Litt.D. | 1967 |
| Bennett, George Eli | D. Sc. | 1941 |
| Benson, Lucy Wilson | LL.D. | 1972 |
| Bentley, Helen Delich | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Berman, Ronald | D.H.L. | 1975 |
| Bernstein, Carl | D.P.S | 2008 |
| Blake, Eubie | D.F.A. | 1978 |
| Block, Herbert L. | D.H.L. | 1977 |
| Bloomberg, Michael R. | D.P.S | 2019 |
| Boorstin, Daniel Joseph | Litt.D. | 1980 |
| Boston, Charles A. | LL.D. | 1931 |
| Bowers, John Zimmerman | D. Sc. | 1959 |
| Boyer, Ernest L. | Litt.D. | 1978 |
| Bradley, Bill | D.P.S. | 1997 |
| Brimmer, Andrew F. | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Bronk, Detlev Wulf | D. Sc. | 1962 |
| Broome, Edwin Warfield | Litt.D. | 1945 |
| Brower, David R. | D.H.L. | 1973 |
| Brown, J. Carter | Litt.D. | 1990 |
| Brown, Lester R. | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Bruce, Howard | D.Sc. | 1941 |
| Brune, Frederick W. | LL.D. | 1965 |
| Bunting, John James | Divinity | 1933 |
| Burkhart, Harvey J. | D.Sc. | 1940 |
| C | ||
| Cairns, Huntington | L.H.D. | 1963 |
| Caldwell, John Tyler | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Carson, Fred Pierce | Litt.D. | 1936 |
| Carter, Jimmy | D.P.S. | 1998 |
| Catton, Bruce | Litt.D. | 1955 |
| Chandler, Robert Flint, Jr. | D.Sc. | 1975 |
| Chestnut, William Calvin | LL.D. | 1945 |
| Civiletti, Benjamin R. | D.P.S. | 1983 |
| Clark, A. James | D.Engr. | 1992 |
| Clinton, Hillary Rodham | D.P.S. | 1996 |
| Coates, Elaine Johnson | D.P.S. | 2020 |
| Coleman, Mary Stallings | LL.D. | 1978 |
| Collins, Lt. Richard, III | B.H.L | 2017 |
| Comissiona, Sergiu | D.F.A. | 1981 |
| Compton, Lillian Cleveland | LL.D. | 1954 |
| Conarroe, Joel | Litt.D. | 1989 |
| Cook, Albert Samuel | Litt.D. | 1924 |
| Corbally, John E., Jr. | LL.D. | 1971 |
| Cornwell, John Jacob | LL.D. | 1923 |
| Corson, Fred Pierce | Litt.D. | 1936 |
| Creel, Cecil Willis | D.Agr. | 1939 |
| Crom, Theodore R. | D.Engr. | 1993 |
| Cummings, Elijah E. | D.P.S | 2017 |
| D | ||
| Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) | D.H.L. | 2013 |
| D'Alesandro, Thomas, Jr. | D.Sc.B.Ad. | 1951 |
| Dantzig, George B. | D.Sc. | 1976 |
| Darling, Samuel Taylor | D.Sc. | 1923 |
| Davis, Charles Henry | D.Engr. | 1936 |
| Davis, Edwin Asbury | D.Sc.B.Ad. | 1951 |
| DiBiaggio, John A. | LL.D. | 1985 |
| Dingman, James E. | D.Engr. | 1960 |
| Dingman, Michael D. | D.B.M. | 1989 |
| Dorati, Antal | D.H.L. | 1976 |
| Downs, Hugh | D.H.L. | 1988 |
| Drake, Harley D. | M.S. | 1917 |
| Duckett, Thomas Howard | LL.D. | 1952 |
| Dunning, Henry Armit Brown | D.Sc. | 1941 |
| E | ||
| Earle, Swepson | Litt.D. | 1925 |
| Ebadi, Shirin | D.P.S. | 2004 |
| Eban, Abba | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Edelman, Marian Wright | D.P.S. | 1989 |
| Eisenhower, Milton Stover | LL.D. | 1958 |
| Ellison, Ralph Waldo | D.H.L. | 1974 |
| Ensor, Lowell Skinner | L.H.D. | 1950 |
| Ezekiel, Mordecai J. B. | D.Sc. | 1963 |
| F | ||
| Fefferman, Charles L. | D.Sc. | 1979 |
| Feinstein, Martin | D.F.A. | 1995 |
| Fell, Thomas | Litt.D. | 1923 |
| Fernos-Isern, Antonio | LL.D. | 1961 |
| Fischell, Robert E. | D.Sc. | 1996 |
| Flack, Horace Edgar | LL.D. | 1942 |
| Flugge-Lotz, Irmgard | D.Sc. | 1973 |
| Foch, Marshal Ferdinand | LL.D. | 1921 |
| Frailey, Carson Peter | D.Sc. | 1946 |
| Franklin, John Hope | Litt.D. | 1970 |
| Friedenwald, Harry | D.Sc. | 1932 |
| Funston, George Keith | LL.D. | 1957 |
| G | ||
| Galloway, Beverly Thomas | D.Agr. | 1923 |
| Gardner, John William | LL.D. | 1956 |
| Gershwin, Ira | D.F.A. | 1966 |
| Getty, Gordon P. | D.F.A. | 1987 |
| Gies, William John | D.Sc. | 1940 |
| Gildenhorn, Alma | D.H.L. | 2022 |
| Gildenhorn, Joseph | D.P.S. | 2022 |
| Giles, Malcolm Rigby | D.S.Sc. | 1951 |
| Gnecco, Armando Samper | D.Sc. | 1995 |
| Goldman, Richard Franko | D.F.A. | 1971 |
| Goldstein, Albert Elias | D.Sc. | 1957 |
| Goldstein, Louis L. | D.P.S. | 1989 |
| Gordon, Douglas Huntley | Litt.D. | 1932 |
| Gordon, Lincoln | LL.D. | 1968 |
| Gordy, William Sidney | D.Sc.B.Ad. | 1944 |
| Gore, Al | D.P.S. | 2018 |
| Gossett, Barry P. | D.P.S. | 2022 |
| Gott, Edwin Hays | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Graham, Albert Daniel | D.Sc.B.Ad. | 1951 |
| Graham, James Jesse Thomas | M.S. | 1917 |
| Graham, Katharine | Litt.D. | 1980 |
| Greenstein, Harry | D.S.Sc. | 1950 |
| Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey | Litt.D. | 1938 |
| Guillen, Michael | D.P.S. | 1996 |
| Gutheim, Frederick | D.P.S. | 1989 |
| Guanhua, Xu | D.P.S. | 2009 |
| H | ||
| Handler, Philip | D.Sc. | 1979 |
| Hannah, John Alfred | L.H.D. | 1966 |
| Harrington, Emerson Columbus | LL.D. | 1944 |
| Hartke, Gilbert V. | D.A. | 1981 |
| Hauptman, Herbert A. | D.Sc. | 1985 |
| Hawkins, Augustus F. | LL.D. | 1985 |
| Hazen, Melvin C. | LL.D. | 1939 |
| Healy, Reverand Timothy S., S.J. | D.H.L. | 1987 |
| Heard, Alexander | LL.D. | 1972 |
| Height, Dorothy Irene | D.P.S. | 2002 |
| Henson, Jim | D.F.A. | 1978 |
| Herzfeld, Karl Ferdinand | D.Sc. | 1956 |
| Heyman, Ira Michael | LL.D. | 1986 |
| Hilleman, Maurice R. | D.Sc. | 1968 |
| Hirst, Arthur Roscoe | D.Engr. | 1922 |
| Hodges, Luther Hartwell | LL.D. | 1961 |
| Hoffmann, Roald | D.Sc. | 1990 |
| Hornig, Donald Frederick | D.Sc. | 1965 |
| Houghton, Arthur Amory, Jr. | L.H.D. | 1963 |
| Howard, Dowell Jennings | D.Sc.B.Ad. | 1950 |
| Hoyer, Steny H. | D.P.S. | 1988 |
| Hughes, Harry R. | D.P.S. | 1987 |
| Humphrey, Hubert Horatio, Jr. | LL.D. | 1965 |
| Hunt, Reid | D.Sc. | 1925 |
| J | ||
| Jacobs, Emma S. | M.S. | 1917 |
| Jacobson, Hugh Newell | D.F.A. | 1993 |
| Johnson, Arthur Newhall | D.Engr. | 1924 |
| Johnson, Lyndon Baines | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Johnston, Eric Allan | LL.D. | 1950 |
| Juddl, Edward Starr | D.Sc. | 1934 |
| K | ||
| Kahn, Louis I. | D.H.L. | 1973 |
| Kang, Minister He | D.Sc. | 1986 |
| Kaplan, Louis | D.H.L. | 1980 |
| Karle, Isabella | D.Sc. | 1986 |
| Kent, Raymond Asa | LL.D. | 1940 |
| Kissinger, Henry | D.P.S. | 2000 |
| Knott, James Owen | LL.D. | 1946 |
| Krowe, Allen J. | D.B.M. | 1994 |
| L | ||
| Lane, William Preston, Jr. | LL.D. | 1947 |
| Lee, E. Brooke | Litt.D. | 1979 |
| Lee, Yuan Tseh | D.Sc. | 1996 |
| LeFrak, Samuel J. | D.P.S. | 1990 |
| Li, Wan | D.P.S. | 1994 |
| Lippard, Vernon William | D. Sc. | 1955 |
| Littlewood, William | D.Engr. | 1959 |
| Locher, Charles Hunter | D. Engr. | 1938 |
| Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken | Litt. D. | 1957 |
| Lowndes, Tasker Gantt | L.H.D. | 1945 |
| M | ||
| MacArthur, Douglas | LL.D. | 1928 |
| Macht, David I. | Pharmacy | 1924 |
| Mackall, John Nathaniel | D.Engr. | 1922 |
| Malcolm, Wilbur George | LL.D. | 1958 |
| Mandel, Marvin | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Mandela, Nelson | D.P.S. | 2001 |
| Marker, Russell E. | D.Sc. | 1987 |
| Marshall, Ray | LL.D. | 1980 |
| Martin, Glenn L. | D. Engr. | 1939 |
| Martin, Lynn | D.P.S. | 1992 |
| Mather, John C. | D.Sc. | 2008 |
| Mayo, Edmund Cooper | D. Engr. | 1956 |
| McAllister, Charles E. | Divinity | 1930 |
| McCabe, Thomas Bayard, Jr. | LL.D. | 1962 |
| McCartney, Frank Leslie | D. Sc. | 1946 |
| McGowan, George V. | D.P.S. | 1997 |
| McKeldin, Theodore Roosevelt | LL.D. | 1951 |
| McKinney, Robert Sentman | Pharmacy | 1941 |
| McNutt, Paul Vories | LL.D. | 1941 |
| Merritt, Arthur Hastings | D.Sc. | 1940 |
| Merton, Robert K. | LL.D. | 1982 |
| Meyerhoff, Joseph | D.H.L. | 1981 |
| Mfume, Kweisi | D.P.S. | 2000 |
| Miller, Thomas V. "Mike," Jr. | D.P.S. | 2019 |
| Mitchell, Clarence, Jr. | Litt.D. | 1979 |
| Moe, Richard | D.H.L. | 1998 |
| Mohler, John R. | D.Sc. | 1928 |
| Morton, Rogers C. B. | LL.D. | 1971 |
| Moss, Robert | LL.D. | 1923 |
| Moulinier, Charles | LL.D. | 1929 |
| Muller, Steven | LL.D. | 1972 |
| Muskie, Edmund Sixtus | LL.D. | 1969 |
| N | ||
| Newman, John A. | D.Sc. | 1990 |
| Nice, Harry Whinna | LL.D. | 1935 |
| Nierenberg, William A. | D.Sc. | 1981 |
| Niles, Emory Hamilton | LL.D. | 1964 |
| Norton, John Bitting Smith | D.Sc. | 1923 |
| Noyes, Frank Brett | Litt.D. | 1938 |
| O | ||
| O'Conor, Herbert Romulus | LL.D. | 1939 |
| O'Donnell, Emmett | D.Mil.Sc. | 1954 |
| O'Malley, Peter Francis | D.P.S. | 1985 |
| Orem, Nicholas | Litt.D. | 1945 |
| P | ||
| Parran, Thomas, Jr. | D.Sc. | 1940 |
| Paterson, Katherine Womeldorf | Litt.D. | 1982 |
| Perlman, Philip B. | LL.D. | 1948 |
| Pershing, John Joseph | LL.D. | 1922 |
| Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill | Litt.D. | 1979 |
| Plaza, Galo | LL.D. | 1946 |
| Ponselle, Rosa | D.A. | 1980 |
| Porter, Katherine Anne | L.H.D. | 1966 |
| Press, Frank | D.Sc. | 1980 |
| Pullen, Thomas Granville, Jr. | L.H.D. | 1950 |
| Q | ||
| Quarles, Benjamin Arthur | L.H.D. | 1971 |
| R | ||
| Radcliffe, George L. | LL.D. | 1943 |
| Raines, Franklin Delano | D.P.S. | 2003 |
| Ramsbotham, Sir Peter | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Rankin, Fred Wharton | D.Sc. | 1939 |
| Raspberry, William J. | Litt.D. | 1984 |
| Ray, Gordon Norton | Litt.D. | 1982 |
| Rayburn, Sam | LL.D. | 1945 |
| Reckord, Milton A. | LL.D. | 1944 |
| Reich, Robert B. | D.P.S. | 1995 |
| Reston, James Barrett | Litt.D. | 1968 |
| Richardson, Anna Euretta | D.Sc. | 1930 |
| Ricketts, Forrest Eugene | D. Engr. | 1942 |
| Ripken, Calvin E., Jr. | D.P.S. | 2013 |
| Ripley, Sidney Dillon | D.Sc. | 1970 |
| Rivlin, Alice Mitchell | D.P.A. | 1982 |
| Robbins, Chandler S. | D.Sc. | 1995 |
| Roberts, Eugene L., Jr. | D.H.L. | 2011 |
| Robinson, Ella Pippin | L.H.D. | 1945 |
| Rodgers, Richard | D. Mus. | 1962 |
| Rogers, Lore Alford | D.Sc. | 1923 |
| Rowan, Carl T. | Litt.D. | 1995 |
| Rudd, Wortley Fuller | D.Sc. | 1941 |
| Russell, John | D.Sc. | 1927 |
| S | ||
| Sadat, Jehan | D.P.S. | 1994 |
| Sanford, Terry | LL.D. | 1984 |
| Sarbanes, Paul S. | LL.D. | 1981 |
| Saunders, Stuart Thomas | LL.D. | 1964 |
| Schaefer, William Donald | LL.D. | 1981 |
| Schmidt, William Sheppard | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Schwarz, Eugene Amandus | D.Sc. | 1922 |
| Seaborg, Glenn Theodore | D.Sc. | 1961 |
| Seaton, Frederick Andrew | LL.D. | 1960 |
| Sebald, William Joseph | LL.D. | 1949 |
| Semmes, John Edward | LL.D. | 1948 |
| Sensenbaugh, James Alvin | LL.D. | 1965 |
| Sevareid, Eric Arnold | L.H.D. | 1965 |
| Shannon, James A. | D.Sc. | 1965 |
| Sheen, Msgr. Fulton John | Litt.D. | 1942 |
| Sheets, Earl Woodell | D.Agr. | 1933 |
| Sheff, Alexander Leon | D.Com.Sc. | 1952 |
| Shirley, H.G. | D.Sc. | 1917 |
| Shouse, Catherine Filene | D.F.A. | 1979 |
| Skinner, William W. | D.Sc. | 1917 |
| Slatkin, Leonard | D.H.L. | 2003 |
| Slaughter, John Brooks | D.Sc. | 1982 |
| Smith, Howard K. | LL.D. | 1973 |
| Snodgrass, Robert Evans | D.Sc. | 1960 |
| Snowden, Frank Martin, Jr. | D.H.L. | 1993 |
| Sobeloff, Simon Ernest | LL.D. | 1954 |
| Soong, James C. Y. | D.P.S. | 2000 |
| Soper, Morris Ames | LL.D. | 1958 |
| Spilhaus, Athelstan | D.Sc. | 1978 |
| Steele, Samuel Tagart, Jr. | Divinity | 1927 |
| Still, Clyfford | D.F.A. | 1980 |
| St. John, Edward A. | D.P.S. | 2012 |
| Straight, Michael W. | D.H.L. | 1977 |
| Studebaker, John Ward | LL.D. | 1945 |
| Swain, Robert Lee | D.Sc. | 1958 |
| Swanson, Neil Harper | Litt.D. | 1953 |
| Sylvester, Charles Wesley | D.Sc. | 1948 |
| Symons, Thomas Baddeley | D.Agr. | 1918 |
| T | ||
| Tawes, John Millard | LL.D. | 1959 |
| Toll, John S. | D.Sc. | 1973 |
| Townes, Charles H. | D.Sc. | 2001 |
| Train, Russell E. | LL.D. | 1975 |
| Turner, Thomas Bourne | D.Sc. | 1966 |
| Tydings, Millard Evelyn | LL.D. | 1933 |
| U | ||
| Ueberroth, Peter V. | D.P.S. | 1987 |
| V | ||
| Valenstein, Suzanne G. | D.F.A. | 2012 |
| Van Bibber, Lena Chew | L.H.D. | 1945 |
| W | ||
| Walker, Right Reverand John T. | D.H.L. | 1986 |
| Walker, Stanton | D.Sc. | 1964 |
| Wellek, Rene | Litt.D. | 1964 |
| Welles, Sumner | LL.D. | 1943 |
| Wheeler, John Archibald | D.Sc. | 1977 |
| Wheeler, Joseph Lewis | Litt.D. | 1934 |
| White, Charles McElroy | D.Engr. | 1949 |
| White, Robert M. | D.Sc. | 1983 |
| Whittle, Hiram | D.P.S. | 2020 |
| Wilbur, Ray Lyman | LL.D. | 1930 |
| Wilson, Linda S. | Litt.D. | 1993 |
| Wilson, Logan | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Winslow, Randolf | LL.D. | 1924 |
| Woods, Hiram | LL.D. | 1924 |
| Worrilow, George Melville | D.Agr. | 1954 |
| Wright, St. Clair | D.P.S. | 1985 |
| Wyeth, Andrew | D.F.A. | 1964 |
Bachelor of Humane Letters - B.H.L
Master of Science - M.S.
Doctor of Arts - D.A.
Doctor of Public Service - D.P.S.
Doctor of Humane Letters - D.H.L.
Doctor of Public Administration - D.P.A.
Doctor of Business Administration - D.B.A.
Doctor of Business Management - D.B.M.
Doctor of Fine Arts - D.F.A.
Doctor of Science - D.Sc.
Doctor of Humanities - L.H.D.
Doctor of Agriculture - D.Agr.
Doctor of Engineering - D.Engr.
Doctor of Letters/Literature - Litt.D.
Doctor of Laws - LL.D.