Yale Honorary Degree Recipients
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| Name | Year | Degree |
| Ashbery, John | 2008 | Doctor of Letters |
| Faust, Drew | 2008 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Hills, Carla | 2008 | Doctor of Laws |
| McCartney, Paul | 2008 | Doctor of Music |
| Oduyoye, Mercy | 2008 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Pachauri, Rajendra | 2008 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Pelli, Cesar | 2008 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Rees, Martin | 2008 | Doctor of Science |
| Abed, Fazle | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Abrams, M.H. | 2007 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Ax, Emanuel | 2007 | Doctor of Music |
| Ferejohn, John | 2007 | Social Science |
| Gilder, Richard | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Harris, Julie | 2007 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| King, Mary-Claire | 2007 | Medical Sciences |
| Langa, Pius | 2007 | Doctor of Laws |
| Langer, Robert | 2007 | Doctor of Science |
| Matthiessen, Peter | 2007 | Doctor of Letters |
| Albee, Edward | 2006 | Doctor of Letters |
| Brown, Peter | 2006 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Hadid, Zaha | 2006 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Idel, Moshe | 2006 | Doctor of Divinity |
| O'Connor, Sandra Day | 2006 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pepper, John | 2006 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Raven, Peter | 2006 | Doctor of Science |
| Wexler, Nancy Sabin | 2006 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Barton, Jacqueline K. | 2005 | Doctor of Science |
| DeVecchi, Robert | 2005 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Foege, William | 2005 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Hockney, David | 2005 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Ramphele, Mamphela | 2005 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Samuelson, Paul | 2005 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Stevenson, Bryan A. | 2005 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wiles, Andrew | 2005 | Doctor of Science |
| Assmann, Jan | 2004 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Baltimore, David | 2004 | Doctor of Science |
| Fisher, Bernard | 2004 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Friedlander, Lee | 2004 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Keohane, Nannerl | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Maathai, Wangari | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Mays, Willie | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Wolfe, Thomas | 2004 | Doctor of Letters |
| Bernstein, Robert Louis | 2003 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Brenner, Sydney | 2003 | Doctor of Science |
| Cosby, Jr., William H. | 2003 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Ely, John Hart | 2003 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fauci, Anthony Stephen | 2003 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Foster, Lord Norman (of Thames Bank OM) | 2003 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Ginsburg, Ruth Bader | 2003 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hartman, David L. | 2003 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Painter, Nell Irvin | 2003 | Doctor of Letters |
| Penderecki, Krzysztof | 2003 | Doctor of Music |
| Sen, Amartya K. | 2003 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Benoliel, Jeanne Quinit | 2002 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Bhatt, Ela Ramesh | 2002 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Carter, Robert L. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coffin, William Sloane | 2002 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Fagles, Robert | 2002 | Doctor of Letters |
| Moore, Gordon | 2002 | Doctor of Science |
| Spielberg, Stephen | 2002 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Steele, Claude M. | 2002 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Summers, Lawrence | 2002 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Tilghman, Shirley | 2002 | Doctor of Science |
| Bush, George W. | 2001 | Doctor of Laws |
| Franke, Richard J. | 2001 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Futter, Ellen V. | 2001 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Granville, Evelyn Boyd | 2001 | Doctor of Science |
| Mitchell, Arthur | 2001 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Rubin, Robert E. | 2001 | Doctor of Laws |
| Upshaw, Dawn K. | 2001 | Doctor of Music |
| Varmus, Dr. Harold E. | 2001 | Doctor of Science |
| Wald, Patricia M. | 2001 | Doctor of Laws |
| Waterston, Samuel A. | 2001 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Williams, Bernard A.O. | 2001 | Doctor of Letters |
| Zedillo, Ernesto | 2001 | Doctor of Laws |
| Buckley, William F. | 2000 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Casper, Gerhard | 2000 | Doctor of Laws |
| de la Soudiere, Marie | 2000 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Gehry, Frank O. | 2000 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Moynihan, Daniel Patrick | 2000 | Doctor of Laws |
| Price, Hugh B. | 2000 | Doctor of Laws |
| Stoppard, Tom | 2000 | Doctor of Letters |
| Thier, Dr. Samuel Osiah | 2000 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Tutu, Desmond M. | 2000 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Vendler, Helen | 2000 | Doctor of Letters |
| Alberts, Bruce | 1999 | Doctor of Science |
| Andrews, Julie | 1999 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Barak, Aharon | 1999 | Doctor of Laws |
| Greenspan, Alan | 1999 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Harris, Barbara | 1999 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Heaney, Seamus Justin | 1999 | Doctor of Letters |
| Horchow, Samuel Roger | 1999 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Kao, Charles Kuen | 1999 | Doctor of Science |
| Richmond, Dr. Julius Benjamin | 1999 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Suzman, Helen | 1999 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bartholomew I, His All Holiness | 1998 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Horne, Lena | 1998 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lerner, Gerda | 1998 | Doctor of Letters |
| McCullough, David | 1998 | Doctor of Letters |
| Ogata, Sadako | 1998 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Rose, Frederick P. | 1998 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Shaw, Robert L. | 1998 | Doctor of Music |
| Wilson, Edward O. | 1998 | Doctor of Science |
| Yunus, Muhammad | 1998 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Belo, Carlos Filipe Ximenes, Bishop | 1997 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Foster, Jodie | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Gilman, Dr. Alfred G. | 1997 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Goizueta, Roberto | 1997 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Jamison, Judith | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Molina, Mario J. | 1997 | Doctor of Science |
| Robinson, Eddie | 1997 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Robinson, Mary | 1997 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sendak, Maurice | 1997 | Doctor of Letters |
| Carson Sr., Benjamin Solomon | 1996 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Close, Charles T. | 1996 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Gibson, Eleanor Jack | 1996 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Kilby, Jack St. Clair | 1996 | Doctor of Science |
| Posner, Richard A. | 1996 | Doctor of Laws |
| Schmidheiny, Stephan Ernst | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Shriver, Eunice Kennedy | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Simon, Paul F. | 1996 | Doctor of Music |
| Chouinard, Yvon | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Dilworth, J. Richardson | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Heagerty, Margaret C. | 1995 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Kermode, Frank | 1995 | Doctor of Letters |
| Marsalis, Wynton | 1995 | Doctor of Music |
| Marty, Martin E. | 1995 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Roche, Kevin | 1995 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Wald, Florence Schorske | 1995 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Weicker, Lowell Jr. | 1995 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cooke, Robert E., M.D. | 1994 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Masur, Kurt | 1994 | Doctor of Music |
| Puryear, Martin | 1994 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Singer, Maxine | 1994 | Doctor of Science |
| Tantaquidgeon, Gladys Iola | 1994 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Tversky, Amos | 1994 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Vargas Llosa, Mario | 1994 | Doctor of Letters |
| Weinstein, Jack B. | 1994 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ashe, Arthur R. | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Bass, Perry R. | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Bonner, Elena | 1993 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cooke, Alfred Alistair | 1993 | Doctor of Letters |
| de Romilly, Jacqueline | 1993 | Doctor of Letters |
| Lamar, Howard Roberts | 1993 | Doctor of Laws |
| Laney, James T. | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| May, Robert McCredie | 1993 | Doctor of Science |
| Meier, Deborah W. | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Weakland, Rembert G. | 1993 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Wildavsky, Aaron | 1993 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Berberova, Nina | 1992 | Doctor of Letters |
| Brendel, Alfred | 1992 | Doctor of Music |
| Collins, Francis S. | 1992 | Doctor of Science |
| Dayton, Kenneth N. | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Elders, M. Joycelyn | 1992 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Ferré, M. Isolina | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Graves, Nancy Stevenson | 1992 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Kollek, Teddy | 1992 | Doctor of Laws |
| Landsbergis, Vytautas | 1992 | Doctor of Laws |
| Massey, Walter E. | 1992 | Doctor of Science |
| Osborn, June E. | 1992 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Rudenstein, Neil L. | 1992 | Doctor of Laws |
| Shils, Edward | 1992 | Doctor of Letters |
| Baker, Russell | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Blackburn, Elizabeth H. | 1991 | Doctor of Science |
| Bush, George H. | 1991 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cole, Johnnetta Betsch | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Crosby, John | 1991 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Deming, W. Edwards | 1991 | Doctor of Laws |
| Foss, Lukas | 1991 | Doctor of Music |
| Soros, George | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Wechsler, Herbert | 1991 | Doctor of Laws |
| Blackwell, David | 1990 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Buechner, Frederick | 1990 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Harris, Irving B. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Himmelfarb, Gertrude | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Hirschman, Albert O. | 1990 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Mankiller, Wilma P. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Norman, Jessye | 1990 | Doctor of Music |
| Nusslein-Volhard, Christiane | 1990 | Doctor of Science |
| Rhoads, Jonathan E. | 1990 | Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Rubin, Vera C. | 1990 | Doctor of Science |
| Berlin, Sir Isaiah | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Caro, Sir Anthony | 1989 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Coase, Ronald H. | 1989 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Cruz, Celia | 1989 | Doctor of Music |
| Dumas, Rhetaugh Graves | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Edelman, Marek | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Hawking, Stephen W. | 1989 | Doctor of Science |
| Lang, Eugene M. | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Naudé, Rev. C.F. Beyers | 1989 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Powell, Jr.,Lewis F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws |
| Press, Frank | 1989 | Doctor of Science |
| Runcie, The Most Rev. Robert A.K. | 1989 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Steinberg, Saul | 1989 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Ball, Robert M. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws |
| Farrell, Suzanne | 1988 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Macdonald, Anne T. | 1988 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Newman, Paul | 1988 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Schuman, William | 1988 | Doctor of Music |
| Seldin, Donald W. | 1988 | Doctor of Science |
| Shapiro, Harold Tafler | 1988 | Doctor of Laws |
| Townes, Charles H. | 1988 | Doctor of Science |
| Wilson, August | 1988 | Doctor of Letters |
| Brennan, Jr., William J. | 1987 | Doctor of Laws |
| Debreu, Gerard | 1987 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Fisher, Michael E. | 1987 | Doctor of Science |
| Geertz, Clifford | 1987 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Gilbert, Felix | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lin, Maya Ying | 1987 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Ma, Yo-yo | 1987 | Doctor of Music |
| Mathias, Jr., Charles McC. | 1987 | Doctor of Laws |
| McCord, James I. | 1987 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Meselson, Matthew | 1987 | Doctor of Science |
| Motley, Constance Baker | 1987 | Doctor of Laws |
| Beinecke, William S. | 1986 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fitzgerald, Ella | 1986 | Doctor of Music |
| Giamatti, A. Bartlett | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Gordimer, Nadine | 1986 | Doctor of Letters |
| Henderson, Donald Ainslie | 1986 | Doctor of Science |
| Lawrence, Jacob | 1986 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Nathans, Daniel | 1986 | Doctor of Science |
| North, Helen F. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Oduber, Daniel | 1986 | Doctor of Laws |
| Peterson, Roger T. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Polotsky, H.J. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Sin, Cardinal Jaime L. | 1986 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Solow, Robert M. | 1986 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Baker, Jr., Howard H. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws |
| Edelman, Marian Wright | 1985 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kasemann, Ernest | 1985 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Momigliano, Arnaldo | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Morrison, Toni | 1985 | Doctor of Letters |
| Panofsky, Wolfgang K.H. | 1985 | Doctor of Science |
| Peters, Ellen Ash | 1985 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ramphal, Shridath S. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ranney, Austin | 1985 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Turowicz, Jerzy | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| von Stade, Frederica | 1985 | Doctor of Music |
| Wood, Joe | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Boesak, Allan A. | 1984 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Broder, David S. | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Cohen, Gerson D. | 1984 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Hersey, John | 1984 | Doctor of Letters |
| Koh, Tommy T.B. | 1984 | Doctor of Laws |
| Leder, Philip | 1984 | Doctor of Science |
| Opel, John R. | 1984 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rivlin, Alice M. | 1984 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Rustin, Bayard | 1984 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tallchief, Maria | 1984 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Volcker, Paul A. | 1984 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bernardin, Joseph, Cardinal | 1983 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Cutler, Lloyd N. | 1983 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fugard, Athol | 1983 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Higginbotham, A. Leon | 1983 | Doctor of Laws |
| Knox, Bernard M.W. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lewis, Sir W. Arthur | 1983 | Doctor of Social Science |
| MacCready, Paul B. | 1983 | Doctor of Science |
| Sherlock, Dame Shella | 1983 | Doctor of Science |
| Streep, Meryl | 1983 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Boiteux, Marcel P. | 1982 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Goodman, Benny | 1982 | Doctor of Music |
| Habib, Philip C. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws |
| Henderson, Virginia | 1982 | Doctor of Science |
| Jones, James Earl | 1982 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Laughlin, James | 1982 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| McClintock, Barbara | 1982 | Doctor of Science |
| Merrill, James | 1982 | Doctor of Letters |
| O'Donnell, Maureen V. | 1982 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Verity, Jr.,C. William | 1982 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wilson, J. Tuzo | 1982 | Doctor of Science |
| Braudel, Fernand | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Brown, Sterling Allen | 1981 | Doctor of Letters |
| Frankenthaler, Helen | 1981 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Harish-Chandra, | 1981 | Doctor of Science |
| Hufstefler, Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws |
| Keith, Damon J. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lee, Sherman E. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Mosteller, Frederick | 1981 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Perlman, Itzhak | 1981 | Doctor of Music |
| Urquhart, Brian | 1981 | Doctor of Laws |
| Webber, George W. | 1981 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Wiesel, Elie | 1981 | Doctor of Letters |
| Yanofsky, Charles | 1981 | Doctor of Science |
| Chase, Lucia | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich | 1980 | Doctor of Music |
| Hoffmann, Roald | 1980 | Doctor of Science |
| Johnson, Jr., Frank Minis | 1980 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kaye, Danny | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Momaday, N. Scott | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Musser, John M. | 1980 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ribicoff, Abraham A. | 1980 | Doctor of Laws |
| Soyinka, Wole | 1980 | Doctor of Letters |
| Suenens,Cardinal L.J. | 1980 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Thompson, John Griggs | 1980 | Doctor of Science |
| Veil, Simone | 1980 | Doctor of Laws |
| Baryshnikov, Mikhail | 1979 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Bradley, Tom | 1979 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart | 1979 | Doctor of Letters |
| Ingelfinger, Franz J. | 1979 | Doctor of Science |
| Jones, Reginald H. | 1979 | Doctor of Laws |
| Liebaers, Herman | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Miller, George A. | 1979 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Miller, J. Irwin | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Murray, Pauli | 1979 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Polier, Justine Wise | 1979 | Doctor of Laws |
| Price, Leontyne | 1979 | Doctor of Music |
| Venturi, Robert | 1979 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Weinberg, Steven | 1979 | Doctor of Science |
| Berg, Paul | 1978 | Doctor of Science |
| Brodsky, Joseph | 1978 | Doctor of Letters |
| Dantzig, George B. | 1978 | Doctor of Science |
| Evans, John Roberts | 1978 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gray, Hanna Holborn | 1978 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hanks, Nancy | 1978 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Hauge, Gabriel | 1978 | Doctor of Laws |
| Johnson, Philip | 1978 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Morgan, William W. | 1978 | Doctor of Science |
| Schapiro, Meyer | 1978 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Scholem, Gershom | 1978 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Silva Henriquez,Cardinal Raul | 1978 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Benzer, Seymour | 1977 | Doctor of Science |
| Bond, Edward | 1977 | Doctor of Letters |
| Bourgeois, Louise | 1977 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Brewster, Jr., Kingman | 1977 | Doctor of Laws |
| Corrigan, Mairead | 1977 | Doctor of Laws |
| Durrell, Gerald M. | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Ford, Gerald R. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws |
| Franklin, John Hope | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Horgan, Paul | 1977 | Doctor of Letters |
| King, Riley B.B. | 1977 | Doctor of Music |
| Ramsbotham, Sir Peter GCVO, KCMG | 1977 | Doctor of Laws |
| Reston, James | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Shapiro, Irving S. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws |
| Williams, Betty | 1977 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bailey, Jr., Herbert S. | 1976 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Bailyn, Bernard | 1976 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Beams, Jesse Wakefield | 1976 | Doctor of Science |
| Coleman, Jr., William T. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cooper, Franklin Seaney | 1976 | Doctor of Science |
| Drew, Elizabeth | 1976 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Hewlett, William R. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws |
| Leakey, Mary Douglas Nicol | 1976 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Milliken, William G. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rostropovich, Mstislav | 1976 | Doctor of Music |
| Trudeau, Garretson Beekman | 1976 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Alfrink, Bernardus J., Cardinal | 1975 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Beeson, Paul B. | 1975 | Doctor of Science |
| Bruner, Jerome S. | 1975 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Doar, John | 1975 | Doctor of Laws |
| Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. | 1975 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lettick, Amy Ladin | 1975 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lyman, Richard Wall | 1975 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ripley II, Sidney D. | 1975 | Doctor of Laws |
| Scranton, William W. | 1975 | not noted |
| Stern, Isaac | 1975 | Doctor of Music |
| Watson, Jr.,Thomas J. | 1975 | Doctor of Laws |
| Welty, Eudora | 1975 | Doctor of Letters |
| Arrow, Kenneth J. | 1974 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Donnelley, Gaylord | 1974 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gardner, John W. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hellman, Lillian | 1974 | Doctor of Letters |
| Hines, Rev. John E. | 1974 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Ohira, Masayoshi | 1974 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rogers, Fred McFeely | 1974 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Sawyer, John E. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws |
| Solti,Georg, K.B.E., Sir | 1974 | Doctor of Music |
| Trilling, Lionel | 1974 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Wheeler, John Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Science |
| Adams, Ansel | 1973 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Alsop, Stewart | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Berliner, Robert W. | 1973 | Doctor of Science |
| Ebert, James David | 1973 | Doctor of Science |
| Florovsky, Rev. Georges | 1973 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Gardner, Dame H. | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Levi, Edward Hirsch | 1973 | Doctor of Laws |
| Strong, Maurice F. | 1973 | Doctor of Laws |
| Watts, Andre | 1973 | Doctor of Music |
| Young, Jr., Andrew J. | 1973 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bellow, Saul | 1972 | Doctor of Letters |
| Bowen, William G. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ford II, Henry | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Freund, Paul | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Graham, Katharine | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Hein, Piet | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Huxtable, Ada L. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Kuffler, Stephen W. | 1972 | Doctor of Science |
| Pfaffmann, Carl | 1972 | Doctor of Science |
| Plimpton, Francis T.P. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Smith, Gerard Coad | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sullivan, Leon Howard | 1972 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Arendt, Hannah | 1971 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Bok, Derek C. | 1971 | Doctor of Laws |
| Brandt, The Right Hon. Willy | 1971 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dilworth, Ricardson | 1971 | Doctor of Laws |
| Erikson, Erik H. | 1971 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Glueck, Rabbi Nelson | 1971 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Graham, Martha | 1971 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Hambro, Edvard | 1971 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hesburgh, Rev. Theodore M., C.S.C. | 1971 | Doctor of Laws |
| Holden, Reuben A. | 1971 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Merrifield, Robert B. | 1971 | Doctor of Science |
| Stead, Jr., Eugene A. | 1971 | Doctor of Science |
| Ashby, Sir Eric | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Baumgartner, Dr. Leona | 1970 | Doctor of Laws |
| Buchwald, Art | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Carter, Jr., Elliott Cook | 1970 | Doctor of Music |
| Chadwick, Henry | 1970 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Harnwell, Gaylord Probasco | 1970 | Doctor of Laws |
| Piaget, Jean | 1970 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Soedjatmoko, | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Stommel, Henry Melson | 1970 | Doctor of Science |
| Sutherland, Jr., Earl W. | 1970 | Doctor of Science |
| Thomas, Franklin A. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws |
| Babbidge, Homer D. | 1969 | Doctor of Laws |
| Baldwin, Roger Nash | 1969 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fauntroy, Walter E. | 1969 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Foster, William C. | 1969 | Doctor of Laws |
| Greenewalt, Crawford H. | 1969 | Doctor of Science |
| Hart, Jr.,Henry M. | 1969 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hess, Harry H. | 1969 | Doctor of Science |
| MacLane, Saunders | 1969 | Doctor of Science |
| Rahner, Karl, S.J. | 1969 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Rothko, Mark | 1969 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Saunders, Dr. Cicely | 1969 | Doctor of Science |
| Sullivan, Walter Seager | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Thompson, Llewellyn E. | 1969 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bowles, Chester | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
| Colwell, David G. | 1968 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Dulbecco, Renato | 1968 | Doctor of Science |
| Freud, Anna | 1968 | Doctor of Science |
| Ginastera, Alberto | 1968 | Doctor of Music |
| Hutchison, W. Bruce | 1968 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lehman, Robert | 1968 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lowell, Robert | 1968 | Doctor of Letters |
| Merton, Robert K. | 1968 | Doctor of Science |
| Perkins, James A. | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
| Shannon, James A. | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tukey, John W. | 1968 | Doctor of Science |
| Vance, Cyrus R. | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
| Weinberg, Sidney J. | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
| Altschul, Frank | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Barr, Jr., Alfred H. | 1967 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Ellington, Duke | 1967 | Doctor of Music |
| Finkelstein, Louis | 1967 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Fulton of Flamer, The Right Hon. Lord | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Jakobson, Roman | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Kappel, Frederick R. | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lorenz, Konrad | 1967 | Doctor of Science |
| Mellon, Paul | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Palade, George E. | 1967 | Doctor of Science |
| Reischauer, Edwin O. | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tuchman, Barbara W. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Wu, Chien-Shiung | 1967 | Doctor of Science |
| Allen, Jr.,James E. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bernstein, Leonard | 1966 | Doctor of Music |
| Eliade, Mercea | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Gowans, James L. | 1966 | Doctor of Science |
| Land, Edwin H. | 1966 | Doctor of Science |
| Luce, Henry R. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws |
| Moore, Henry | 1966 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Murray, John Courtney, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Sandage, Allan | 1966 | Doctor of Science |
| Schmidt, Maarten | 1966 | Doctor of Science |
| Schweitzer, Pierre-Paul | 1966 | Doctor of Laws |
| Silone, Ignazio | 1966 | Doctor of Letters |
| Bennett, John C. | 1965 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Cabot, Paul Codman | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| de Vaux,Roland P.O.P., Rev. | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Green, Edith Starrett | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kahn, Louis I. | 1965 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Levi-Strauss, Claude | 1965 | Doctor of Science |
| Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| Marjolin, Robert E. | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| Nirenberg, Marshall | 1965 | Doctor of Science |
| Spock, Benjamin | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Thant, U | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wilson, Owen Meredith | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| Abelson, Philip H. | 1964 | Doctor of Science |
| Boyd, Julian P. | 1964 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Cooper, John S. | 1964 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fontanne, Lynn | 1964 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Garrison, Winfred E. | 1964 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Harriman, William A. | 1964 | Doctor of Laws |
| Jessup, Philip C. | 1964 | Doctor of Laws |
| King, Jr., Rev. Martin Luther | 1964 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lunt, Alfred | 1964 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Mason, Edward Sagendorph | 1964 | Doctor of Laws |
| Shriver, Robert Sargent | 1964 | Doctor of Laws |
| Stackpole, Edouard Alexandre | 1964 | Master of Arts |
| Weisskopf, Victor Frederick | 1964 | Doctor of Science |
| Bemis, Samuel F. | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Dickey, Charles D. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hadley, Morris | 1963 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hall, Cameron P. | 1963 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Hugo, Harold | 1963 | Master of Arts |
| Lloyd, Robert McAllister | 1963 | Doctor of Laws |
| Nicolson, Marjorie H. | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Norstad, Lauris | 1963 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pierce, John R. | 1963 | Doctor of Science |
| Simon, Herbert A. | 1963 | Doctor of Science |
| Acheson, Dean G. | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
| Albers, Josef | 1962 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Blake, Eugene | 1962 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Brooks, Harvey | 1962 | Doctor of Science |
| Buck, Norman S. | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bush, Prescott | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
| Clark, Charles E. | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hochschild, Harold K. | 1962 | Master of Arts |
| Hotchkiss, Rollin D. | 1962 | Doctor of Science |
| Kennedy, John F. | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rubinstein, Artur | 1962 | Doctor of Music |
| Ryerson, Edward L. | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
| Weigel, Gustave, S.J. | 1962 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Williams, Frank O.H. | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bundy, McGeorge | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Burrows, Millar | 1961 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Coons, Albert H. | 1961 | Doctor of Science |
| Edgerton, Franklin | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Frankfurter, Felix | 1961 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gates, Thomas S. | 1961 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lee, Richard C. | 1961 | Master of Arts |
| Monnet, Jean | 1961 | Doctor of Laws |
| Seyrig, Henri | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Sherk, F. Allen | 1961 | Master of Arts |
| Todd, Sir Alexander | 1961 | Doctor of Science |
| Van Santvoord, George | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Wright, James Skelly | 1961 | Doctor of Laws |
| Beltran, Don Pedro | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Black, Eugene R. | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bunnell, Walls W. | 1960 | Master of Arts |
| Ch'ien ,Mu | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Fry, Franklin C. | 1960 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Fulton, William S. | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Hall, Edward Tuck | 1960 | Master of Arts |
| Harriman, Edward R. | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lederberg, Joshua | 1960 | Doctor of Science |
| Porter, Cole | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Rubey, William W. | 1960 | Doctor of Science |
| Sherrill, Henry Knox | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Warren, Robert Penn | 1960 | Doctor of Letters |
| Bunker, Ellsworth | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gell-Mann, Murray | 1959 | Doctor of Science |
| Hamilton, Edith | 1959 | Doctor of Letters |
| Hocking, William E. | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Kazan, Elia | 1959 | Master of Arts |
| Leger, Alexis | 1959 | Doctor of Letters |
| Loomis, James L. | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mayr, Ernest | 1959 | Doctor of Science |
| Myrdal, Gunnar K. | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
| Phillips, Duncan | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Read, David H.C. | 1959 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Stewart, Potter | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
| Furniss, Edgar S. | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Haskins, Caryl P. | 1958 | Doctor of Science |
| Hough, Henry B. | 1958 | Master of Arts |
| Howe II, Harold | 1958 | Master of Arts |
| Josephs, Devereux C. | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Knopf, Alfred A. | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lovett, Sidney | 1958 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Martin, William McChesney | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Park, Rosemary | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Reading, The Dowager Marchioness of | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Spitzer, Jr., Lyman | 1958 | Doctor of Science |
| Wald, George | 1958 | Doctor of Science |
| Armstrong, Hamilton Fish | 1957 | Doctor of Letters |
| Burn, Joshua H. | 1957 | Doctor of Science |
| Carmichael, Omer | 1957 | Master of Arts |
| Clark, Stephen Carlton | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Goheen, Robert F. | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gruenther, Alfred M. | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hammarskjold, Dag | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hastie, William H. | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| Latourette, Kenneth S. | 1957 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Luccock, Halford E. | 1957 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Quarles, Donald A. | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| Richards, Dickinson W. | 1957 | Doctor of Science |
| Spender, Sir Percy Claude | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| Adenauer, Konrad | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
| Edgerton, Henry White | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
| Galatti, Stephen | 1956 | Master of Arts |
| Langer, William L. | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn | 1956 | Doctor of Letters |
| Olds, Irving Sands | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
| Roselle, Ernest North | 1956 | Master of Arts |
| Sherburn, George W. | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Taylor, Maxwell Davenport | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
| Webb, Electra Havemeyer | 1956 | Master of Arts |
| Wilder, Amos Niven | 1956 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Woodward, Robert Burns | 1956 | Doctor of Science |
| Benson, John H. | 1955 | Master of Arts |
| Bronk, Detlev Wulf | 1955 | Doctor of Science |
| Coe, Albert Buckner | 1955 | Doctor of Divinity |
| du Vigneaud, Vincent | 1955 | Doctor of Science |
| Gipson, Lawrence Henry | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Hall, William E. | 1955 | Master of Arts |
| Humphrey, George M. | 1955 | Doctor of Laws |
| Moore, Douglas S. | 1955 | Doctor of Music |
| Smith, Walter Bedell | 1955 | Doctor of Laws |
| Stevens, Wallace | 1955 | Doctor of Letters |
| Sturley, Winifred | 1955 | Master of Arts |
| Devanandan, Paul D. | 1954 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Dibelius, Friedrick Karl | 1954 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Fisher, Geoffrey F. | 1954 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kittredge, Henry Crocker | 1954 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lewis, Edmund Harris | 1954 | Doctor of Laws |
| Malik, Charles Habib | 1954 | Doctor of Laws |
| Michael, Archbishop | 1954 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Needham, Wesley E. | 1954 | Master of Arts |
| Paton, Alan S. | 1954 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Penfield, Wilder Graves | 1954 | Doctor of Science |
| Shannon, Claude Elwood | 1954 | Master of Science |
| Shepley, Ethan A. Hitchcock | 1954 | Doctor of Laws |
| Spruance, Raymond A. | 1954 | Doctor of Laws |
| Teller, Edward | 1954 | Doctor of Science |
| Visser't Hooft, Willem Adolf | 1954 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Wright, Frank Lloyd | 1954 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Wright, Louis Booker | 1954 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Bartholomew, Marshall | 1953 | Master of Arts |
| Dana, Samuel Trask | 1953 | Doctor of Science |
| duPont, Henry Francis | 1953 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Enders, John Franklin | 1953 | Doctor of Science |
| Fulbright, James W. | 1953 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gaffney, Matthew P. | 1953 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hendrickson, George L. | 1953 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lohmann, Carl A. | 1953 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Mendell, Clarence W. | 1953 | Doctor of Laws |
| Moe, Henry A. | 1953 | Doctor of Laws |
| Morse, Hermann N. | 1953 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Pusey, Nathan M. | 1953 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pusey, Nathan Marsh | 1953 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sachs, Paul J. | 1953 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Thurber, James Grover | 1953 | Doctor of Letters |
| Bradford, Arthur H. | 1952 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Hincks, Carroll C. | 1952 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lovett, Robert A. | 1952 | Doctor of Laws |
| Moses, Robert | 1952 | Doctor of Laws |
| Taft, Charles Phelps | 1952 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wadsworth, James Wolcott | 1952 | Doctor of Laws |
| Winternitz, Milton Charles | 1952 | Doctor of Laws |
| Albright, William Foxwell | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Bowen, Norman Levi | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| Bridgman, Percy Williams | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| Buck, Sir Peter Henry | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| Clark, John Maurice | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Corbin, Arthur Linton | 1951 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cori, Gerty Therese | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| Dewey, John | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Godel, Kurt | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson | 1951 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Loewi, Otto | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| MacIver, Robert Morrison | 1951 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Malone, Kemp | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Mathewson, Champiion Herbert | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| McIlwain, Charles Howard | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Merriam, Charles Edward | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Merrill, Elmer Drew | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| Morey, Charles Rufus | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Notestein, Wallace | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Russell, Henry Norris | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| Sturtevant, Alfred Henry | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| Sturtevant, Edgar Howard | 1951 | Doctor of Letters |
| Tolman, Edward Chace | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| Urey, Harold Clayton | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| von Karman, Theodore | 1951 | Doctor of Science |
| Hoffman, Paul Gray | 1950 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kendall, Edward Calvin | 1950 | Doctor of Science |
| Kennan, George Frost | 1950 | Doctor of Laws |
| Leffingwell, Russell Cornell | 1950 | Doctor of Laws |
| Marin, John | 1950 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Marquand, John Phillips | 1950 | Doctor of Letters |
| Reid, Helen Rogers | 1950 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Reisner, John Henry | 1950 | Master of Arts |
| Smadel, Joseph Edwin | 1950 | Master of Science |
| Stakman, Elvin Charles | 1950 | Doctor of Science |
| Weigle, Luther Allan | 1950 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Bissell, Jr., Richard Mervin | 1949 | Master of Arts |
| Canham, Erwin Dain | 1949 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Clay, Lucius DuBignon | 1949 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coe, William Robertson | 1949 | Master of Arts |
| Dodge, Bayard | 1949 | Doctor of Laws |
| McCloy, John Jay | 1949 | Doctor of Laws |
| Morison, Samuel Eliot | 1949 | Doctor of Letters |
| Nash, Norman Burdett | 1949 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Rollins, Carl Purington | 1949 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Rous, Peyton | 1949 | Doctor of Science |
| Saarinen, Eero | 1949 | Master of Arts |
| Wright, Sewall | 1949 | Doctor of Science |
| Adams, Roger | 1948 | Doctor of Science |
| Belmont, Eleanor Robson | 1948 | Master of Arts |
| Cavert, Samuel McCrea | 1948 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Cockburn, James Hutchison | 1948 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Eagle, Harry | 1948 | Master of Science |
| Eisenhower, General Dwight David | 1948 | Doctor of Laws |
| Goodhart, Arthur Lehman | 1948 | Doctor of Laws |
| O'Brian, John Lord | 1948 | Doctor of Laws |
| White, Elwyn Brooks | 1948 | Doctor of Letters |
| Alexander, K.G. | 1947 | Doctor of Laws |
| Beadle, George Wells | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Blakeslee, Albert Francis | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Bradley, Wilmot Hyde | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Byrnes, James Francis | 1947 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coe, Wesley Roswell | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Eliot, Thomas Stearns | 1947 | Doctor of Letters |
| Evans, Alexander William | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Hersey, John | 1947 | Master of Arts |
| Huggins, Charles Brenton | 1947 | Master of Science |
| Hull, Albert Wallace | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Pauling, Linus Carl | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Porter, Richard William | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Rose, William Cumming | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Smith, George Milton | 1947 | Doctor of Laws |
| Swan, Thomas Walter | 1947 | Doctor of Laws |
| van Dusen, Henry Pitney | 1947 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Vickery, Hubert Bradford | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Warren, Charles Hyde | 1947 | Doctor of Laws |
| Whipple, George Hoyt | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Whitney, Hassler | 1947 | Doctor of Science |
| Wilder, Thornton Niven | 1947 | Doctor of Letters |
| Ashburn, Frank Davis | 1946 | Master of Arts |
| Blalock, Alfred | 1946 | Master of Science |
| Cori, Carl Ferdinand | 1946 | Doctor of Science |
| Evans, Luther Harris | 1946 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Fermi, Enrico | 1946 | Doctor of Science |
| Finley, David Edward | 1946 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Freeman, Douglas Southall | 1946 | Doctor of Letters |
| Ivins, Jr., William Mills | 1946 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Jewett, Frank Baldwin | 1946 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kroeber, Alfred Louis | 1946 | Doctor of Science |
| Lie, Trygve | 1946 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lydenberg, Harry Miller | 1946 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Metcalf, Keyes Dewitt | 1946 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Milliken, William Mathewson | 1946 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Osgood, Charles Grosvenor | 1946 | Doctor of Letters |
| Oxnam, Bishop G. Bromley | 1946 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Parr, Albert Eide | 1946 | Doctor of Science |
| Pearson, Lester Bowles | 1946 | Doctor of Laws |
| Simpson, George Gaylord | 1946 | Doctor of Science |
| Tinker, Chauncey Brewster | 1946 | Doctor of Letters |
| Wagner, Henry Raup | 1946 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Wroth, Lawrence Counselman | 1946 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Williams, Robert R. | 1943 | Doctor of Science |
| Behnke,Albert Richard | 1942 | Master of Science |
| Bush, Vannevar | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gates, Artemus Lamb | 1942 | Master of Arts |
| Lovett, Robert Abercrombie | 1942 | Master of Arts |
| McCoy, General Frank Ross | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| Merz, Charles | 1942 | Doctor of Letters |
| Niebuhr, Rev. Reinhold | 1942 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Soong, Ts Vung | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bacon, Leonard | 1941 | Master of Arts |
| Bigelow, Henry Bryant | 1941 | Doctor of Science |
| Dun, Rev. Angus | 1941 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Francis, Jr.,Thomas | 1941 | Master of Science |
| Halifax, The Right Honorable Viscount | 1941 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sherwood, Robert Emmet | 1941 | Doctor of Letters |
| Sills, Kenneth Charles Morton | 1941 | Doctor of Laws |
| Stoll, Elmer Edgar | 1941 | Doctor of Letters |
| Taylor, Francis Henry | 1941 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Wilkie, Wendell Lewis | 1941 | Doctor of Laws |
| Clarke, Gilmore David | 1940 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Doisy, Edward Adelbert | 1940 | Doctor of Science |
| Gardner, Leroy Upson | 1940 | Master of Science |
| Graves, Henry Solon | 1940 | Doctor of Laws |
| Howe, Arthur | 1940 | Master of Arts |
| LaGuardia, Fiorello | 1940 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lothian, The Marquess of | 1940 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sandburg, Carl | 1940 | Doctor of Letters |
| Shih, Hu | 1940 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tillich, Paul | 1940 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Benes, Eduard | 1939 | Doctor of Laws |
| Delano, William Adams | 1939 | Master of Arts |
| Fischer, Arthur Frederick | 1939 | Master of Arts |
| Goodpasture, Ernest William | 1939 | Master of Science |
| Hand, Augustus Noble | 1939 | Doctor of Laws |
| Harrison, Ross Granville | 1939 | Doctor of Science |
| MacLeish, Archibald | 1939 | Doctor of Letters |
| Stewart, George | 1939 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Wilson, Hugh Robert | 1939 | Doctor of Laws |
| Zinsser, Hans | 1939 | Doctor of Science |
| Disney, Walter Elias | 1938 | Master of Arts |
| Griggs, Maitland Fuller | 1938 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Koussevitzky, Serge | 1938 | Doctor of Music |
| Landis, Eugene Markley | 1938 | Master of Science |
| Mann, Thomas | 1938 | Doctor of Letters |
| McConaughy, James Lukens | 1938 | Doctor of Laws |
| Noyes, Morgan Phelps | 1938 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Peabody, Endicott | 1938 | Doctor of Laws |
| Reed, Stanley Forman | 1938 | Doctor of Laws |
| Robbins, Howard Chandler | 1938 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Stanley, Wendell Meredith | 1938 | Doctor of Science |
| Tweedsmuir, Lord | 1938 | Doctor of Laws |
| Benet, Stephen Vincent | 1937 | Doctor of Letters |
| Buckland, Edward Grant | 1937 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hobson, Henry Wise | 1937 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Hull, Cordell | 1937 | Doctor of Laws |
| K'Ung, H.H. | 1937 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lawrence, Ernest Orlando | 1937 | Doctor of Science |
| McClure, Jr. James Gore King | 1937 | Master of Arts |
| Northrop, John Howard | 1937 | Doctor of Science |
| Root, Robert Kilburn | 1937 | Doctor of Letters |
| Smith, Homer William | 1937 | Master of Science |
| Trippe, Juan Terry | 1937 | Master of Arts |
| Fisher, Samuel Herbert | 1936 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lewis, Sinclair | 1936 | Doctor of Letters |
| Lobenstine, Edwin Carlyle | 1936 | Doctor of Divinity |
| McFee, William | 1936 | Master of Arts |
| Milles, Carl | 1936 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Moses, Robert | 1936 | Master of Arts |
| Painter, Theophilus Shickel | 1936 | Doctor of Science |
| Sears, Charles Brown | 1936 | Doctor of Laws |
| Shope, Richard Edwin | 1936 | Master of Science |
| Taft, Horace Dutton | 1936 | Doctor of Laws |
| Trevelyan, George Macaulay | 1936 | Doctor of Letters |
| Andrews, Charles McLean | 1935 | Doctor of Letters |
| Glass, Carter | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hampden, Walter | 1935 | Master of Arts |
| Jones, Rufus Matthew | 1935 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Knight, Henry Clifford | 1935 | Master of Arts |
| Merritt, Schuyler | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ripley, Alfred Lawrence | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Seashore, Carl Emil | 1935 | Doctor of Science |
| Sikorsky, Igor | 1935 | Master of Science |
| Sproul, Robert Gordon | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Baillie, John | 1934 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Conant, James Bryant | 1934 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fuess, Claude Moore | 1934 | Doctor of Letters |
| Harshe, Robert Bartholow | 1934 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Judd, Albert Francis | 1934 | Master of Arts |
| Keyes, Frederick George | 1934 | Doctor of Science |
| Meyer, Adolf | 1934 | Doctor of Science |
| Phelps, William Lyon | 1934 | Doctor of Laws |
| Phillips, Duncan | 1934 | Master of Arts |
| Rice, John Levi | 1934 | Master of Arts |
| Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | 1934 | Doctor of Laws |
| Torrey, Charles Cutler | 1934 | Doctor of Letters |
| Brown, Ernest William | 1933 | Doctor of Science |
| Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker | 1933 | Master of Arts |
| Castle, William Bosworth | 1933 | Master of Science |
| Cumming, Hugh Smith | 1933 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dodds, Harold Willis | 1933 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ellsworth, Lincoln | 1933 | Master of Science |
| Loomis, Alfred Lee | 1933 | Master of Science |
| Maltbite, William Millis | 1933 | Doctor of Laws |
| Peters, Harry Alfred | 1933 | Master of Arts |
| Richards, Alfred Newton | 1933 | Doctor of Science |
| Tittle, Ernest Fremont | 1933 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Winlock, Herbert Eustis | 1933 | Doctor of Letters |
| Amman, Othmar Hermann | 1932 | Master of Science |
| Baker, Newton Diehl | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Becker, Carl Lotus | 1932 | Doctor of Letters |
| Buttrick, George Arthur | 1932 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Garrison, Fielding Hudson | 1932 | Doctor of Letters |
| Grubb, William Irwin | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lawrie, Lee | 1932 | Master of Arts |
| Lillie, Frank Rattray | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Meyer, Eugene | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Noyes, Frank Brett | 1932 | Master of Arts |
| Adee, George Townsend | 1931 | Master of Arts |
| Detwiler, Samuel Randall | 1931 | Master of Science |
| Freeman, John Ripley | 1931 | Doctor of Science |
| Gibson, Hugh | 1931 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hand, Learned | 1931 | Doctor of Laws |
| Opie, Eugene Lindsay | 1931 | Doctor of Science |
| Porter, Frank Chamberlin | 1931 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Rogers, James Grafton | 1931 | Master of Arts |
| Root, Edwin Park | 1931 | Master of Arts |
| Wilbur, Ray Lyman | 1931 | Doctor of Laws |
| Adam, Robert Borthwick | 1930 | Master of Arts |
| Conklin, Edwin Grant | 1930 | Doctor of Science |
| Cross, Wilbur Lucius | 1930 | Doctor of Letters |
| Gamble, James Lawder | 1930 | Master of Science |
| Gillette, William | 1930 | Master of Arts |
| Harrison, Paul Wilberforce | 1930 | Master of Arts |
| Lindsay, Right Honorable Sir Ronald Charles | 1930 | Doctor of Laws |
| McConnell, Francis John | 1930 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Schuchert, Charles | 1930 | Doctor of Science |
| Thacher, Thomas Day | 1930 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bacon, Benjamin Wisner | 1929 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Carmalt, William Henry | 1929 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cather, Willa | 1929 | Doctor of Letters |
| Compton, Arthur Holly | 1929 | Doctor of Science |
| Fisher, Richard Thornton | 1929 | Master of Science |
| Harrison, George Leslie | 1929 | Master of Arts |
| Massey, Honorable Vincent | 1929 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mitchell, William Dewitt | 1929 | Doctor of Laws |
| Morgan, John Hill | 1929 | Master of Arts |
| Park, William Hallock | 1929 | Doctor of Science |
| Sherrill, Henry Knox | 1929 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Stimson, Henry Lewis | 1929 | Doctor of Laws |
| Aydelotte, Frank | 1928 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bannard, Otto Tremont | 1928 | Doctor of Laws |
| Brown, Charles Reynolds | 1928 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Claudel, Paul | 1928 | Doctor of Letters |
| Graham, Evarts Ambrose | 1928 | Master of Science |
| Harbord, James Guthrie | 1928 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ives, Herbert Eugene | 1928 | Doctor of Science |
| Kappers, C. Ubo Ariens | 1928 | Doctor of Science |
| Lowes, John Livingston | 1928 | Doctor of Letters |
| Rogers, Bruce | 1928 | Master of Arts |
| Russell, George William | 1928 | Doctor of Letters |
| Sage, Dean | 1928 | Master of Arts |
| Stoeckel, Robbins Battell | 1928 | Master of Arts |
| Yen, James Y.C. | 1928 | Master of Arts |
| Abel, John Jacob | 1927 | Doctor of Science |
| Blegen, Carl William | 1927 | Master of Arts |
| Byrd, Richard Evelyn | 1927 | Master of Arts |
| Chapin, Charles Value | 1927 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague | 1927 | Master of Arts |
| Gilkey, Charles Whitney | 1927 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Greeley, William Buckhout | 1927 | Master of Arts |
| Irvine, Sir James Colquhoun | 1927 | Doctor of Science |
| Keller, Adolph | 1927 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Kirschner, Charles Louis | 1927 | Master of Arts |
| Lawrance, Charles Lanier | 1927 | Master of Arts |
| Morrow, Dwight Whitney | 1927 | Doctor of Laws |
| Neilson, William Allan | 1927 | Doctor of Letters |
| van Devanter, Willis | 1927 | Doctor of Laws |
| Whipple, George Hoyt | 1927 | Master of Arts |
| Whitehead, Alfred North | 1927 | Doctor of Science |
| Atterbury, William W. | 1926 | Doctor of Laws |
| Boyden, Frank Learoyd | 1926 | Master of Arts |
| Curtiss, Julian Wheeler | 1926 | Master of Arts |
| Day, Jr., Clarence | 1926 | Master of Arts |
| Deforest, Lee | 1926 | Doctor of Science |
| Dochez, Alphonse Raymond | 1926 | Doctor of Science |
| Forbes, Charles Henry | 1926 | Master of Arts |
| Gustavus Adolphus, His Royal Highness | 1926 | Doctor of Laws |
| Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov | 1926 | Doctor of Music |
| Luce, Henry Robinson | 1926 | Master of Arts |
| Mason, Max | 1926 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mellon, Andrew William | 1926 | Doctor of Laws |
| O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone | 1926 | Doctor of Letters |
| Pidgeon, George Campbell | 1926 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Robinson, Lucius Franklin | 1926 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wicks, Robert Russell | 1926 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Williston, Samuel | 1926 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cadman, Samuel Parkes | 1925 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Davis, John Staige | 1925 | Master of Arts |
| Hammond, John Hays | 1925 | Doctor of Laws |
| Harkness, Edward Stephen | 1925 | Master of Arts |
| Hopkins, Ernest Martin | 1925 | Doctor of Laws |
| Manly, John Matthews | 1925 | Doctor of Letters |
| Millikan, Robert Andrews | 1925 | Doctor of Science |
| Moore, John Monroe | 1925 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Morrill, Arthur Boothby | 1925 | Master of Arts |
| Pinchot, Gifford | 1925 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pratt, Francis Cole | 1925 | Master of Arts |
| Repplier, Agnes | 1925 | Doctor of Letters |
| Sheffield, James Rockwell | 1925 | Doctor of Laws |
| van Slyke, Donald Dexter | 1925 | Doctor of Science |
| Young, Owen D. | 1925 | Doctor of Laws |
| Adams, George Burton | 1924 | Doctor of Laws |
| Banting, Frederick Grant | 1924 | Doctor of Science |
| Carter, Howard | 1924 | Doctor of Science |
| Frost, Robert | 1924 | Doctor of Letters |
| Gabrilowitsch, Ossip | 1924 | Master of Arts |
| Hyde, Clement Collester | 1924 | Master of Arts |
| King,William Lyon Mackenzie, Right Honorable | 1924 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kinley, David | 1924 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kittredge, George Lyman | 1924 | Doctor of Letters |
| Mason, William Smith | 1924 | Master of Arts |
| Moody, Paul Dwight | 1924 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Parsons, Edward Lambe | 1924 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Pope, John Russell | 1924 | Master of Arts |
| Stone, Harlan Fiske | 1924 | Doctor of Laws |
| Williams, Frederick Wells | 1924 | Master of Arts |
| Brush, George Deforest | 1923 | Master of Arts |
| Caetani, Prince Gelasio | 1923 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cannon, Walter Bradford | 1923 | Doctor of Science |
| Chandler, John Scudder | 1923 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Eno, William Phelps | 1923 | Master of Arts |
| Farnam, Henry Walcott | 1923 | Doctor of Laws |
| Farrand, Livingston | 1923 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fosdick, Harry Emerson | 1923 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Hough, Charles Merrill | 1923 | Doctor of Laws |
| Loeb, Jacques | 1923 | Doctor of Science |
| Osborn, Henry Fairfield | 1923 | Doctor of Science |
| Pratt, Joseph Hyde | 1923 | Master of Arts |
| Thacher, Sherman Day | 1923 | Master of Arts |
| Wharton, Edith | 1923 | Doctor of Letters |
| Woolley, Mary Emma | 1923 | Doctor of Laws |
| Beers, Clifford Whittingham | 1922 | Master of Arts |
| Bennett, Charles Joseph | 1922 | Master of Arts |
| Carty, John Joseph | 1922 | Doctor of Science |
| Chittenden, Russell Henry | 1922 | Doctor of Laws |
| Falconer,Robert Alexander, Sir , K.C.M.G. | 1922 | Doctor of Laws |
| Garvan, Francis Patrick | 1922 | Master of Arts |
| Howland, Murray Shipley | 1922 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Merriam, John Campbell | 1922 | Doctor of Science |
| Nutting, Mary Adelaide | 1922 | Master of Arts |
| Ochs, Adolph S. | 1922 | Master of Arts |
| Robinson, Edwin Arlington | 1922 | Doctor of Letters |
| Sperry, Willard Learoyd | 1922 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Warren, Lloyd | 1922 | Master of Arts |
| Yen, Fu-Chun | 1922 | Master of Arts |
| Angell, James Rowland | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Benet, William Rose | 1921 | Master of Arts |
| Bowman, Isaiah | 1921 | Master of Arts |
| Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Curie,Marie, Madame | 1921 | Doctor of Science |
| Davis, John William | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Grinnell, George Bird | 1921 | Doctor of Letters |
| Holcomb, Marcus Hensey | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hutchins, William James | 1921 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Jones,Robert, Sir | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lathrop, Julia Clifford | 1921 | Master of Arts |