Se muestran a continuación, en orden alfabético, los grados honorarios otorgados por la Universidad Rutgers desde 1955.^[1]​

Nombre	Año	Título
Faye Glenn Abdellah	1973	Doctor of Laws
Roger G. Ackerman	1995	Doctor of Science
Ruth Marie Adams	1966	Doctor of Laws
James Gelston Affleck	1978	D.Sc.
Alex Aidekman	1987	Doctor of Humane Letters
Philip Alampi	1969	Doctor of Laws
Archibald Stevens Alexander	1966	Doctor of Laws
Clara L. Allen	1972	Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert E. Allen	1989	Doctor of Humane Letters
Adrienne Scotchbrook Anderson	1991	Doctor of Humane Letters
Marian Anderson	1957	Doctor of Music
Philip Warren Anderson	1991	Doctor of Science
Martina Arroyo	2012	Doctor of Fine Arts
Michael Atiyah	1992	Doctor of Science
George David Auchter	1962	Doctor of Science
Joan C. Baez	1980	Doctor of Humane Letters
Charles Philamore Bailey	1958	Doctor of Humane Letters
Bernard Bailyn	1976	Doctor of Letters
Russell Wayne Baker	1989	Doctor of Letters
William Franklin Baker	2008	Doctor of Humane Letters
William O. Baker	1981	D.Sc.
William Oliver Baker	1995	Doctor of Science
Salo Wittmayer Baron	1963	Doctor of Letters
Leonard Baskin	1969	Doctor of Fine Arts
W. Jackson Bate	1979	Doctor of Letters
Orville E. Beal	1973	Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert A. Beck	1983	Doctor of Humane Letters
Carl Beitel Bender	1963	Doctor of Science
Ezra Taft Benson	1955	Doctor of Science
Stanley S. Bergen, Jr.	2002	L.H.D.
Kaare Roald Bergethon	1959	Doctor of Laws
Robert P. Bergman	1997	Doctor of Fine Arts
Rómulo Betancourt	1964	Doctor of Laws
Basil G. Bibby	1990	D.Sc.
Joan L. Bildner	2007	Doctor of Humane Letters
Elizabeth Bishop	1972	Doctor of Letters
Frederick Lovell Bixby	1966	Doctor of Humane Letters
Eugene Robert Black	1959	Doctor of Laws
Samuel Garrison Blackman	1964	Doctor of Letters
Richard Palmer Blackmur	1958	Doctor of Letters
James Hubert Blake	1974	Doctor of Fine Arts
Herbert Lawrence Block	1963	Doctor of Letters
Benjamin S. Bloom	1975	Doctor of Humane Letters
Judy Blume	2010	Doctor of Letters
Helen F. Boehm	1986	Doctor of Humane Letters
Elizabeth M. Boggs	1984	D.Sc.
Lindy Boggs	2000	Doctor of Laws
Jon Bon Jovi	2015	Doctor of Letters
Michael Bongiovanni	1991	Doctor of Laws
Philip Milledoler Brett Boocock	1966	Doctor of Letters
Edward Elsworth Booher	1979	Doctor of Humane Letters
Catherine Drinker Bowen	1967	Doctor of Letters
William G. Bowen	1982	D.Sc.
Hugh Newell Boyd	1970	Doctor of Letters
Julian Parks Boyd	1956	Doctor of Letters
Philip J. Boyne	1976	D.Sc.
Bill Bradley	1999	Doctor of Laws
Floyd Herman Bragg	1990	Doctor of Laws
Lewis McAdory Branscomb	1984	Doctor of Science
Germaine Brée	1969	Doctor of Letters
William Joseph Brennan, Jr.	1958	Doctor of Laws
Jeffrey Brenner	2014	Doctor of Science
Ralph L. Brinster	2000	Doctor of Science
Lonnie R. Bristow	2010	L.H.D.
Anne Brooks	2002	L.H.D.
Angie Brooks-Randolph	1978	Doctor of Laws
Charles Hendrickson Brower	1966	Doctor of Laws
Greg Brown	2012	Doctor of Humane Letters
Harrison Scott Brown	1964	Doctor of Science
Lester Russell Brown	1978	Doctor of Laws
Raymond A. Brown	1972	Doctor of Laws
James Edmund Bryan	1964	Doctor of Letters
Pearl S. Buck	1969	Doctor of Humane Letters
Lonnie G. Bunch	2013	Doctor of Letters
McGeorge Bundy	1982	Doctor of Letters
Mary Ingraham Bunting	1960	Doctor of Laws
James E. Burke	1984	Doctor of Humane Letters
Kenneth Burke	1968	Doctor of Letters
Walter Dean Burnham	1982	Doctor of Letters
Arthur Frank Burns	1955	Doctor of Humane Letters
Eveline M. Burns	1981	Doctor of Letters
Glenn Willard Burton	1955	Doctor of Science
Richard Butler	2001	Doctor of Laws
Brendan T. Byrne	1974	Doctor of Laws
John Joseph Byrne, Jr.	1985	Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert Randall Cadmus	1971	D.Sc.
William T. Cahill	1970	Doctor of Laws
Sila M. Calderón	2004	Doctor of Humane Letters
Helen Caldicott	1990	Doctor of Science
William Anthony Caldwell	1967	Doctor of Letters
Daniel J. Callahan	1981	D.Sc.
Donald Forrester Cameron	1956	Doctor of Letters
Robert E. Campbell	2000	L.H.D.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso	1978	Doctor of Laws
Charles C. Carella	1997	LL.D.
Richard H. Carmona	2004	L.H.D.
José Carreras	2002	Doctor of Fine Arts
Benjamin Carson	2003	Doctor of Science
Bennett Lester Carter	1991	Doctor of Fine Arts
Clifford Phillip Case	1955	Doctor of Laws
Lauro F. Cavazos	1989	Doctor of Laws
Sol C. Chaikin	1980	Doctor of Humane Letters
Raymond G. Chambers	2000	Doctor of Humane Letters
Peter Charanis	1980	Doctor of Letters
Martin Cherkasky	1985	Doctor of Science
Julia Child	1992	Doctor of Fine Arts
Shirley Chisholm	2002	Doctor of Laws
Chris Christie	2010	Doctor of Laws
June Jackson Christmas	1988	D.Sc.
Margaret Clapp	1962	Doctor of Laws
Edward John Cleary	1959	Doctor of Science
Jewel Plummer Cobb	1982	Doctor of Letters
Katherine Frances Coffey	1966	Doctor of Fine Arts
Jordan J. Cohen	1998	D.Sc.
Stanley Norman Cohen	1994	Doctor of Science
Wilbur J. Cohen	1986	Doctor of Laws
William Harder Cole	1957	Doctor of Science
Robert Coles	1977	Doctor of Letters
Robert Coles	1992	D.Sc.
Rita R. Colwell	2005	Doctor of Science
Henry Steele Commager	1988	Doctor of Laws
Jerome W. Conn	1964	Doctor of Science
John Thomas Connor	1964	Doctor of Laws
John Thomas Connor	1967
Aaron Copland	1967	Doctor of Music
Ernesto J. Cortés, Jr.	2011	Doctor of Laws
Jon S. Corzine	2006	Doctor of Laws
Mary Bartlett Cowdrey	1964	Doctor of Letters
David Laurence Cowen	1984	Doctor of Letters
Archibald Cox	1974	Doctor of Laws
Spencer R. Crew	2002	Doctor of Humane Letters
Howard Stix Cullman	1959	Doctor of Laws
John T. Cunningham	1974	Doctor of Letters
David Paton Cuthbertson	1958	Doctor of Science
Edward E. David, Jr.	1984	Doctor of Science
Carolyne Kahle Davis	1984	D.Sc.
Jess Harrison Davis	1955	Doctor of Laws
Arthur Hobson Dean	1958	Doctor of Laws
Morris S. Dees, Jr.	2006	Doctor of Laws
Donald MacMillan Dickerson	1989	Doctor of Laws
John Siemon Diekhoff	1959	Doctor of Humane Letters
Donald T. DiFrancesco	2007	Doctor of Laws
Clarence Douglas Dillon	1961	Doctor of Laws
Carl Djerassi	2010	Doctor of Science
John Doar	1968	Doctor of Laws
Norton T. Dodge	1995	Doctor of Fine Arts
John Joseph Dougherty	1962	Doctor of Laws
Mildred S. Dresselhaus	1989	Doctor of Science
Albina du Boisrouvray	2003	L.H.D.
Ralph Anthony Dungan	1978	L.H.D.
J. Englebert Dunphy	1964
Merlin Kearfoot Duvall	1972	D.Sc.
Maurice Duverger	1982	Doctor of Letters
Bernard J. Dwyer	1993	Doctor of Laws
Florence Price Dwyer	1968	Doctor of Laws
Shirin Ebadi	2007	Doctor of Laws
Marc Ecko	2009	Doctor of Humane Letters
Umberto Eco	2002	Doctor of Humane Letters
Marian Wright Edelman	1986	Doctor of Laws
Miriam Colón Edgar	1980	Doctor of Fine Arts
Lena F. Edwards	1983	D.Sc.
Brooke Mackenzie Ellison	2011	Doctor of Humane Letters
Ralph Waldo Ellison	1966	Doctor of Letters
Thomas W. Elwood	2000	L.H.D.
Elmer W. Engstrom	1963	Doctor of Science
Benjamin Epstein	1965	Doctor of Letters
Thomas Henry Everett	1959	Master of Science
Ethel Marion Fair	1959	Doctor of Humane Letters
Gordon Maskew Fair	1965	Doctor of Science
Anthony S. Fauci	2005	D.Sc.
Lloyd McPherson Felmly	1956	Doctor of Humane Letters
Saul K. Fenster	2002	Doctor of Laws
Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr.	1966	Doctor of Laws
Francis Fergusson	1975	Doctor of Letters
Thomas Knight Finletter	1959	Doctor of Laws
James Brown Fisk	1967	Doctor of Science
Jessie Gladys Fiske	1958	Doctor of Science
James J. Florio	1990	Doctor of Laws
William Chapman Foster	1968	Doctor of Laws
John Joseph Francis	1959	Doctor of Laws
Norman C. Francis	1993	Doctor of Humane Letters
John Hope Franklin	1990	Doctor of Letters
Donald S. Frederickson	1982	D.Sc.
Rabbi Martin Freedman	1996	LL.D.
Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen	1976	Doctor of Laws
Milton Friedman	1968	Doctor of Laws
Albert Mathias Friend, Jr.	1955	Doctor of Letters
Morris Fuchs	1959	Doctor of Humane Letters
James William Fulbright	1955	Doctor of Laws
D. Carleton Gajdusek	1987	D.Sc.
John Kenneth Galbraith	1979	Doctor of Laws
Robert C. Gallo	1986	D.Sc.
Albert R. Gamper, Jr.	2007	Doctor of Humane Letters
William John Gaskill	1978	Doctor of Laws
Marilyn Hughes Gaston	2005	L.H.D.
Atul Gawande	2007	D.Sc.
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand	1993	Doctor of Science
Walter Gellhorn	1973	Doctor of Laws
Samuel Geltman	1990	Doctor of Humane Letters
Eleanor Jack Gibson	1973	Doctor of Science
Ray Millard Gidney	1961	Doctor of Laws
John Birks Gillespie	1970	Doctor of Music
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	1991	Doctor of Laws
Robert Francis Goheen	1957	Doctor of Laws
Arnold Perlman Gold	2001	L.H.D.
Sandra O. Gold	2001	L.H.D.
Henry Maurice Goldman	1977	D.Sc.
Lawrence P. Goldman	1999	Doctor of Fine Arts
Herman Heine Goldstine	1994	Doctor of Science
Robert A. Good	1974	D.Sc.
Jane Goodall	2005	Doctor of Science
Julia Weber Gordon	1966	Doctor of Humane Letters
Lincoln Gordon	1967	Doctor of Laws
Charles Mayo Goss	1975	D.Sc.
Stephen Jay Gould	1987	Doctor of Science
William Benjamin Gould IV	1998	Doctor of Laws
Martha Graham	1959	Doctor of Fine Arts
Michael Graves	1994	Doctor of Fine Arts
Vartan Gregorian	1989	Doctor of Laws
Carl Harry Gronquist	1958	Doctor of Science
Mason Welch Gross	1971	Doctor of Laws
Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama)	2005	Doctor of Humane Letters
Frederick Wilson Hall	1960	Doctor of Laws
Robert Andrew Hardt	1956	Doctor of Philosophy
Gerald C. Harvey	2014	Doctor of Humane Letters
Gerald Harvey
Charles Willard Heckel	1970	Doctor of Laws
Alfred Hedefine	1975	Doctor of Science
Michael Heidelberger	1961	Doctor of Science
John J. Heldrich	1999	Doctor of Humane Letters
Lillian Hellman	1963	Doctor of Letters
Donald A. Henderson	2004	D.Sc.
Robert L. Hendren	2008	D.Sc.
Gustav Heningburg	1989	Doctor of Humane Letters
Gustave Heningburg	2008	D.Sc.
Charles H. Hennekens	1996	D.Sc.
Robert M. "Bob" Herbert	2006	Doctor of Letters
Lewis Mordecai Herrmann	1960	Doctor of Laws
John G. Hervey	1962
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.	1969	Doctor of Laws
Martha N. Hill	2005	D.Sc.
Gregory Hines	2004	Doctor of Fine Arts
Jerome Hines	1993	Doctor of Fine Arts
Joseph Clarence Hinsey	1965
Ada Sue Hinshaw	1995	D.Sc.
Albert O. Hirschman	1978	Doctor of Laws
Samuel David Hoffman	1957	Doctor of Humane Letters
Pauline Beatrice Holderman	1965	Doctor of Humane Letters
Carleton A. Holstrom	1995	Doctor of Humane Letters
Herbert Hoover, Jr.	1956	Doctor of Laws
Grace Murray Hopper	1987	Doctor of Science
Marilyn Horne	1971	Doctor of Music
Althea Kratz Hottel	1958	Doctor of Humane Letters
Cyril Orvin Houle	1959	Doctor of Humane Letters
M. William Howard, Jr.	2010	Doctor of Humane Letters
Wesley J. Howe	1988	L.H.D.
Charles Anthony Hufnagel	1975	D.Sc.
Shirley M. Hufstedler	1981	Doctor of Laws
Joseph Egan Hughes	1956	Doctor of Laws
Richard Joseph Hughes	1962	Doctor of Laws
Richard Joseph Hughes	1968
Richard J. Hughes	1962
William John Hughes	1995	Doctor of Laws
Carlisle Hubbard Humelsine	1976	Doctor of Humane Letters
Hubert H. Humphrey	1966	Doctor of Laws
Charlayne Hunter-Gault	1994	Doctor of Fine Arts
John Richard, III Hutchins	1984	Doctor of Science
Ada Louise Huxtable	1974	Doctor of Fine Arts
Mary Morley Crapo Hyde	1965	Doctor of Letters
Gwen Ifill	2008	Doctor of Letters
Franz Joseph Ingelfinger	1977	D.Sc.
Ralph Izzo	2013	Doctor of Humane Letters
Shirley Ann Jackson	1999	Doctor of Science
Nathan Leonard Jacobs	1965	Doctor of Laws
Joel Ross Jacobson	1974	Doctor of Laws
Robert Stewart Jason	1969
Harold H. Jeghers	1976	D.Sc.
Mae C. Jemison	2001	Doctor of Science
Franklyn G. Jenifer	1989	L.H.D.
Merril Jensen	1976	Doctor of Letters
Leonard C. Johnson	1972	Doctor of Humane Letters
Thomas Herbert Johnson	1956	Doctor of Letters
Franklin Taylor Jones	1970	Doctor of Humane Letters
Lewis Webster Jones	1959	Doctor of Laws
Barbara Jordan	1993	Doctor of Letters
Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr.	1979	Doctor of Humane Letters
Margaret Atwood Judson	1968	Doctor of Laws
John Boynton Kaiser	1960	Doctor of Humane Letters
Donald Katz	2014	Doctor of Humane Letters
Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach	1964	Doctor of Laws
Thomas H. Kean	1982	Doctor of Laws
Thomas H. Kean	1989	LL.D.
George F. Kennan	1966	Doctor of Laws
Cecelia M. Kenyon	1976	Doctor of Letters
Lee John Kenyon	1955	Master of Arts
Ferdinand Kertes	1957	Doctor of Science
Henry Howard Kessler	1962	Doctor of Humane Letters
Ricardo Khan	1997	Doctor of Fine Arts
John K. Kittredge	1980	D.Sc.
Lawrence R. Klein	1993	Doctor of Science
Francis Knowles	1965	Doctor of Laws
Alfred C. Koeppe	2009	Doctor of Laws
Walter Kohn	2001	Doctor of Science
William H.W. Komp	1955	Doctor of Science
David Lloyd Kreeger	1972	Doctor of Humane Letters
Irving Robert Kriendler	1961	Doctor of Humane Letters
Frederick James Kroesen	1984	Doctor of Humane Letters
Paige D. L'Hommedieu	1967	Doctor of Humane Letters
Ralph S. Larsen	1991	Doctor of Humane Letters
Louis Lasagna	1983	Doctor of Science
Frank R. Lautenberg	1981	Doctor of Humane Letters
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey	2006	L.H.D.
Jacob Lawrence	1988	Doctor of Fine Arts
Edwin D. Leahy	2007	Doctor of Humane Letters
Richard E. Leakey	2014	Doctor of Science
James Hain Leathem	1978	D.Sc.
Joshua Lederberg	1981	Doctor of Science
Percy Maxim Lee	1956	Doctor of Laws
Alice Koller Leopold	1958	Doctor of Laws
Miles Lerman	1996	Doctor of Humane Letters
Gerda Lerner	1988	Doctor of Letters
Irwin Lerner	1984	Doctor of Science
Harold Alfred Lett	1960	Doctor of Humane Letters
Richard A. Levao	2000	Doctor of Humane Letters
Janice H. Levin	1985	Doctor of Humane Letters
Wayne M. Levin	1993	Doctor of Science
Arnold J. Levine	2001	D.Sc.
William Levine	1972	Doctor of Humane Letters
Anthony Lewis	1973	Doctor of Humane Letters
Earl Lewis	2015	Doctor of Humane Letters
Henry Lewis	1969	Doctor of Music
Shireen K. Lewis	2012	Doctor of Humane Letters
Willard Deming Lewis	1966	Doctor of Laws
William Arthur Lewis	1965	Doctor of Laws
Roy Lichtenstein	1990	Doctor of Fine Arts
Lester Z. Lieberman	2005	L.H.D.
Gustav O. Lienhard	1976	D.Sc.
Gene Elden Likens	1985	Doctor of Science
Robert Dodd Lilley	1970	Doctor of Humane Letters
William J. Linder	1999	L.H.D.
William J. Linder	1998	Doctor of Humane Letters
Gardner Lindzey	1993	Doctor of Science
Sol M. Linowitz	1977	Doctor of Laws
William Nunn Lipscomb	1979	Doctor of Science
Harold Loe	1987	D.Sc.
Virginia Long	2013	Doctor of Laws
Edward Norton Lorenz	1990	Doctor of Science
Murray Louis	2000	Doctor of Fine Arts
Robert Lowell	1965	Doctor of Letters
Jane Lubchenco	2013	Doctor of Science
Ruth W. Lubic	1986	D.Sc.
Salvador Edward Luria	1970	Doctor of Science
Beatrice Bouchier MacCarter	1958	Master of Arts
Kenneth Campbell MacKay	1960	Doctor of Laws
Edna Mahan	1958	Doctor of Humane Letters
David J. Mahoney	1996	Doctor of Humane Letters
Hildegarde Marie Mahoney	1967	Doctor of Laws
Norman Mailer	1969	Doctor of Letters
Irwin D. Mandel	1981	D.Sc.
Leslie Alexis Marchand	1981	Doctor of Letters
Lynn Margulis	2004	Doctor of Science
Luis Muñoz Marin	1965	Doctor of Laws
Ernest Mario	1992	Doctor of Science
Wynton Marsalis	1997	Doctor of Fine Arts
Paule Marshall	1996	Doctor of Letters
Ray Marshall	1978	Doctor of Laws
George Willard Martin	1963	Doctor of Science
William Hope Martin	1958	Doctor of Science
William McChesney Martin, Jr.	1965	Doctor of Laws
Anne Clark Martindell	1984	Doctor of Laws
Darrel J. Mase	1981	D.Sc.
Walter Eugene Massey	1984	Doctor of Science
Ivy F. Matsepe-Casaburri	2008	Doctor of Laws
Shigeharu Matsumoto	1966	Doctor of Laws
Jean Mayer	1983	D.Sc.
John S. Mayo	1993	Doctor of Science
Paul Myer Mazur	1961	Doctor of Humane Letters
Charles A. McCallum	1993	D.Sc.
Theodore E. McCarrick	1994	L.H.D.
Barbara McClintock	1984	Doctor of Science
Richard L. McCormick	2012	Doctor of Laws
Richard P. McCormick	1982	Doctor of Letters
Roger Henry McDonough	1956	Doctor of Letters
Ross Armstrong McFarland	1964	Doctor of Science
George McGovern	2001	L.H.D.
James E. McGreevey	2002	Doctor of Laws
Lionel Deckle McLean	1973	L.H.D.
John Angus McPhee	1988	Doctor of Letters
August Meier	1994	Doctor of Letters
Frederic Gershom Melcher	1958	Doctor of Letters
Arthur Mendel	1973	Doctor of Music
Albert W. Merck	1993	L.H.D.
Robert Bruce Merrifield	1985	D.Sc.
Martin Meyerson	1970	Doctor of Humane Letters
Earl Schenck Miers	1963	Doctor of Letters
Felix Milgrom	1991	D.Sc.
Neal E. Miller	1985	Doctor of Science
Samuel Clifford Miller	1983	Doctor of Letters
William Christian Miller	1966	Doctor of Laws
John Schoof Millis	1974	D.Sc.
Eleanor Mitchell	1968	Doctor of Letters
James Paul Mitchell	1959	Doctor of Laws
Khotso Mokhele	2005	Doctor of Humane Letters
Marianne Craig Moore	1955	Doctor of Letters
Edmund Sears Morgan	1976	Doctor of Letters
Richard Brandon Morris	1976	Doctor of Letters
Philip Morrison	1977	Doctor of Science
Toni Morrison	2011	Doctor of Letters
John Howard Morrow	1963	Doctor of Humane Letters
David Abner Morse	1957	Doctor of Laws
Rosamond Sawyer Moxon	1958	Master of Arts
Emil M. Mrak	1984	Doctor of Science
Lawrence Quincy Mumford	1956	Doctor of Letters
William Beverly Murphy	1973	Doctor of Humane Letters
Edmund Sixtus Muskie	1986	Doctor of Laws
Chauncie Kilmer Myers	1962	Doctor of Humane Letters
Ralph Nader	1972	Doctor of Laws
Ernest Nagel	1967	Doctor of Letters
Claire Waller Nagle	1978	Doctor of Laws
Caspar Nannes	1966	Doctor of Letters
John Forbes Nash, Jr.	2008	D.Sc.
Oswald George Nelson	1957	Doctor of Humane Letters
Frank H. Netter	1981	D.Sc.
Katherine K. Neuberger	1979	Doctor of Humane Letters
Maurine Brown Neuberger	1962	Doctor of Laws
Louise Nevelson	1972	Doctor of Fine Arts
Harold L. Newmark	1998	Doctor of Science
Nathan Mortimore Newmark	1955	Doctor of Science
Marjorie Hope Nicolson	1964	Doctor of Letters
Marshall W. Nirenberg	1988	D.Sc.
Eleanor Holmes Norton	1988	Doctor of Laws
Janet Lippe Norwood	2003	Doctor of Laws
Sam Nujoma	1997	Doctor of Laws
William Sanford Nye	2015	Doctor of Science
Gene O'Hara	2004	Doctor of Humane Letters
Joyce Carol Oates	1997	Doctor of Letters
Kenneth Olden	2004	D.Sc.
Bjorn R. Olsen	2000	D.Sc.
Eugene Ormandy	1960	Doctor of Music
June E. Osborn	1994	Doctor of Science
June E. Osborn	1989	D.Sc.
Cynthia Ozick	1999	Doctor of Letters
Martin J. O'Connor	1964
George Corbly Paffenbarger	1975	D.Sc.
William S. Paley	1986	Doctor of Humane Letters
Joseph Papp	1984	Doctor of Fine Arts
Rosemary Park	1956	Doctor of Laws
Gordon Alexander Parks	1980	Doctor of Fine Arts
James W. Parrott	1996	Doctor of Humane Letters
Talcott Parsons	1977	Doctor of Letters
Alice Paul	1977	Doctor of Humane Letters
Linus Pauling	1975	Doctor of Science
Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin	1968	Doctor of Science
Paul G. Pearson	1982	Doctor of Letters
Edmund Daniel Pellegrino	1973	D.Sc.
Arno A. Penzias	1979	Doctor of Science
Hildegard E. Peplau	1985	Doctor of Science
James A. Perkins	1963	Doctor of Laws
Enos J. Perry	1980	Doctor of Science
Robert G. Petersdorf	1995	D.Sc.
Martha Elizabeth Peterson	1968	Doctor of Laws
Henri Maurice Peyre	1957	Doctor of Letters
Gerard Piel	1961	Doctor of Letters
John Anthony Pino	1996	Doctor of Science
Nélida Piñón	1998	Doctor of Letters
Robert Pinsky	2000	Doctor of Letters
Frances Fox Piven	2015	Doctor of Humane Letters
Hans Popper	1981	D.Sc.
William Powers	1960	Doctor of Humane Letters
Frank Press	1979	Doctor of Science
Samuel DeWitt Proctor	1989	Doctor of Humane Letters
Mort Pye	1994	Doctor of Humane Letters
Paris Qualles	2001	Doctor of Fine Arts
Benjamin Quarles	1976	Doctor of Letters
Edith Hinkley Quimby	1956	Doctor of Science
José Ramos-Horta	2000	Doctor of Laws
Asa Philip Randolph	1964	Doctor of Laws
Frank Joseph Rauscher, Jr.	1973	Doctor of Science
Peter Hamilton Raven	1988	Doctor of Science
Hilton Shreve Read	1961	Doctor of Science
Mina Rees	1965	Doctor of Letters
Everett David Reese	1964	Doctor of Laws
Gustave Reese	1972	Doctor of Music
Christopher Reeve	2005	Doctor of Humane Letters
Hilda Christine Reilly	1966	Doctor of Science
Norman Reitman	1986	Doctor of Laws
James Barrett Reston	1957	Doctor of Letters
Richard C. Reynolds	1997	D.Sc.
Abraham Ribicoff	1986	Doctor of Laws
Dorothy Rice	1979	D.Sc.
Matilda White Riley	1983	Doctor of Humane Letters
Faith Ringgold	2009	Doctor of Letters
Bruce Ritter	1985	L.H.D.
Paul Robeson	1973	Doctor of Humane Letters
Alvin J. Rockoff	1994	Doctor of Humane Letters
Peter Wallace Rodino, Jr.	1975	Doctor of Laws
Joseph H. Rodríguez	1974	Doctor of Laws
Robert A. Roe	1993	Doctor of Letters
Mary Gindhart Roebling	1987	Doctor of Humane Letters
Israel Rogosin	1966	Doctor of Humane Letters
Heinrick Rohrer	1987	Doctor of Science
Sonny Rollins	2009	Doctor of Fine Arts
Alice S. Rossi	1975	Doctor of Science
Philip Roth	1987	Doctor of Letters
Arthur Rubinstein	1963	Doctor of Music
Ellis Rubinstein	2006	D.Sc.
Muriel Rukeyser	1961	Doctor of Letters
Vernon Wesley Ruttan	1978	Doctor of Laws
Arthur F. Ryan	2008	Doctor of Laws
Albert B. Sabin	1988	D.Sc.
Libby Bernstein Sachar	1955	Doctor of Humane Letters
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov	1981	Doctor of Science
Harrison Evans Salisbury	1983	Doctor of Letters
Philip David Sang	1961	Doctor of Letters
Louis A. Saporito	1972	D.Sc.
David Satcher	1995	D.Sc.
Gordon Hisashi Sato	2007	Doctor of Humane Letters
Royal Albert Schaaf	1956	Doctor of Science
Philip S. Schein	2006	Doctor of Science
C. Thomas Schettino	1961	Doctor of Laws
Herbert D. Schimmel	2003	Doctor of Humane Letters
Richard Schlatter	1973	Doctor of Humane Letters
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.	1982	Doctor of Letters
Steven A. Schroeder	2003	L.H.D.
Gunther Schuller	1980	Doctor of Fine Arts
Anna Jacobson Schwartz	1998	Doctor of Laws
David B. Scott	1979	D.Sc.
Eugenie C. Scott	2007	Doctor of Science
Hugh Scott	1986	Doctor of Laws
Glenn T. Seaborg	1970	Doctor of Laws
Charles Franklin Seabrook	1955	Doctor of Humane Letters
William Henry Sebrell, Jr.	1956	Doctor of Science
George Segal	1970	Doctor of Fine Arts
Peter A. Seligmann	2003	Doctor of Science
Irving J. Selikoff	1987	D.Sc.
Richard Beverland Sellars	1977	Doctor of Humane Letters
Roger Sessions	1962	Doctor of Music
Ben Shahn	1964	Doctor of Letters
Donna E. Shalala	1995	Doctor of Humane Letters
Harold T. Shapiro	1988	Doctor of Laws
Lawrence Joseph Shehan	1961
Roger Newland Shepard	1992	Doctor of Science
William B. Shockley	1956	Doctor of Science
Elaine Showalter	2001	Doctor of Letters
Arthur J. Sills	1966	Doctor of Laws
William E. Simon	1985	Doctor of Laws
Wolf Singer	2008	Doctor of Science
Jeanne Craig Sinkford	1992	D.Sc.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	2010	Doctor of Laws
Harold C. Slavkin	1999	D.Sc.
Eleanor Cutri Smeal	2010	Doctor of Humane Letters
Tavis Smiley	2007	Doctor of Humane Letters
Frederic William Smith	1964	Doctor of Laws
Howard Anthony Smith	1959	Doctor of Laws
Margaret Chase Smith	1986	Doctor of Laws
Sylvester C. Smith, Jr.	1963
Robert Brinkley Smithers	1964	Doctor of Laws
Henry DeWolf Smyth	1968	Doctor of Laws
Chester Wesley Snedeker	1955	Master of Arts
Robert M. Solow	1994	Doctor of Science
Linda L. Stamato	1985	Doctor of Laws
Isaac Stern	1983	Doctor of Fine Arts
Sol Stetin	1961	Doctor of Humane Letters
DeWitt Stetten, Jr.	1976	D.Sc.
Rosemary A. Stevens	1995	Doctor of Science
Adlai Ewing Stevenson	1962	Doctor of Laws
Bryan A. Stevenson	2015	Doctor of Laws
William Huffman Stewart	1967	Doctor of Science
Timothy Still	1968	Doctor of Humane Letters
W. Paul Stillman	1975	Doctor of Laws
Catharine R. Stimpson	2004	Doctor of Letters
William E. Strickland, Jr.	1999	Doctor of Humane Letters
Leon Sullivan	2000	Doctor of Humane Letters
Louis W. Sullivan	2002	L.H.D.
Helen Suzman	1992	Doctor of Laws
Mary Sue Sweeney Price	2004	Doctor of Fine Arts
Lawrence A. Tabak	2006	D.Sc.
Edward Lawrie Tatum	1964	Doctor of Science
Billy Taylor	1994	Doctor of Fine Arts
Howard M. Temin	1989	D.Sc.
U Thant	1968	Doctor of Laws
Anne Moreau Thomas	1999	Doctor of Humane Letters
Virgil Thomson	1956	Doctor of Letters
Curtis Hugh Threlkeld	1957	Doctor of Letters
Shirley M. Tilghman	2005	D.Sc.
Shirley M. Tilghman	2006	Doctor of Science
William Trager	1965	Doctor of Science
Stewart Lee Udall	1968	Doctor of Laws
Sidney Udenfriend	1979	D.Sc.
Arthur D. Ullian	2004	Doctor of Humane Letters
P. Roy Vagelos	1984	D.Sc.
P. Roy Vagelos	1991	Doctor of Humane Letters
Stanley C. Van Ness	1983	Doctor of Humane Letters
Arthur Vandervilt	1956	Doctor of Humane Letters
Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule	1968	Doctor of Letters
Harry Joseph Volk	1958	Doctor of Humane Letters
Joseph Francis Volker	1973	D.Sc.
Ralph W. Voorhees	1990	Doctor of Humane Letters
Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch	1998	Doctor of Science
Selman Abraham Waksman	1971	D.Sc.
Kurt Waldheim	1972	Doctor of Laws
Monroe E. Wall	1999	Doctor of Science
F. Austin Walter	1966	Doctor of Music
Earl Warren	1966	Doctor of Laws
Elizabeth Warren	2011	Doctor of Laws
James Dewey Watson	1988	Doctor of Science
Edward Anthony Wayne	1963	Doctor of Laws
June C. Wayne	2005	Doctor of Fine Arts
Robert Clifton Weaver	1963	Doctor of Laws
Edward A. Weeks	1962	Doctor of Letters
Joseph Weintraub	1958	Doctor of Laws
Allan Weisenfeld	1966	Doctor of Humane Letters
Victor Frederick Weisskopf	1983	Doctor of Laws
Eudora Welty	1978	Doctor of Letters
David A. Werblin	1988	Doctor of Laws
Glenway Wescott	1963	Doctor of Letters
Lloyd Bruce Wescott	1960	Doctor of Humane Letters
Lloyd Bruce Wescott	1975	D.Sc.
John Archibald Wheeler	1969	Doctor of Science
Katharine Elkus White	1967	Doctor of Laws
Ruth Patricia White	1962	Master of Fine Arts
Lynn White, Jr.	1979	Doctor of Letters
John C. Whitehead	1989	Doctor of Laws
Foster Brand Whitlock	1980	Doctor of Humane Letters
Christine Todd Whitman	1994	Doctor of Laws
Christine Todd Whitman	1998	LL.D.
Thomas Grey Wicker	1970	Doctor of Letters
John Edgar Wideman	1991	Doctor of Letters
Eric F. Wieschaus	2002	Doctor of Science
Joseph D. Williams	1987	Doctor of Humane Letters
Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr.	1960	Doctor of Laws
August Wilson	1996	Doctor of Letters
Blenda Jacqueline Wilson	1989	Doctor of Laws
Walter Armstrong Wilson	1967
William Julius Wilson	1995	Doctor of Science
Henry R. Winkler	1977	Doctor of Letters
Robert W. Wissler	1982	D.Sc.
Evelyn M. Witkin	1995	Doctor of Science
Deborah Cannon Patridge Wolfe	1992	Doctor of Humane Letters
Stevie Wonder	1999	Doctor of Fine Arts
C. Vann Woodward	1988	Doctor of Laws
Arvid Wretlind	1980	Doctor of Science
Chien-Shiung Wu	1963	Doctor of Science
Rosalyn S. Yalow	1980	Doctor of Science
A. Zachary Yamba	2006	Doctor of Laws
Victor Robert Yanitelli	1966	Doctor of Laws
Nakasone Yasuhiro	1988	Doctor of Laws
Paul N. Ylvisaker	1981	Doctor of Humane Letters
Donald Ramsey Young	1955	Doctor of Humane Letters
Andrew J. Young, Jr.	1978	Doctor of Laws
John S. Zapp	1972	D.Sc.
Philip G. Zimbardo	2009	Doctor of Science
Vladimir K. Zworykin	1972	Doctor of Science