Past Honorary Degrees

2024

• Kenneth J. Feld, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Walter Earl Fluker, Doctor of Laws
• Claudia Goldin, Doctor of Laws
• David Grann, Doctor of Humane Letters

2023

• Pamela Wood Avedisian, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Ketanji Brown Jackson, Doctor of Laws
• Stephen R. Karp, Doctor of Laws
• Drew Weissman, Doctor of Science
• David Zaslav, Doctor of Laws

2022

• Edward Avedisian, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Gay J. McDougall, Doctor of Laws
• Richard Shipley, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Marylou Sudders, Doctor of Laws
• Frederick Wiseman, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Robert Woodward, Doctor of Laws

2021

• Noubar Afeyan, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Catherine D’Amato, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Ayanna Pressley, Doctor of Laws

2020

• Victor J. Dzau, Doctor of Science
• Thomas R. Insel, Doctor of Science
• Yolanda Kakabadse, Doctor of Humane Letters
• David Satcher, Doctor of Laws
• Mark Volpe, Doctor of Humane Letters

2019

• Lauren Shuler Donner, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Karen Holmes Ward, Doctor of Humane Letters
• John P. Howe III, Doctor of Science
• Marcia McNutt, Doctor of Science

2018

• Vibha Bakshi, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto, Doctor of Laws
• Anthony S. Fauci, Doctor of Science
• John Lewis, Doctor of Laws
• Yimou Zhang, Doctor of Humane Letters

2017

• Bonnie Hammer, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Jeanne Knox, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Robert Knox, Doctor of Laws
• Mario J. Molina, Doctor of Laws
• David Ortiz, Doctor of Humane Letters

2016

• Carrie Hessler-Radelet, Doctor of Laws
• Ernest Moniz, Doctor of Laws
• Travis Roy, Doctor of Humane letters
• Nina Tassler, Doctor of Humane Letters

2015

• Cornell Brooks, Doctor of Laws
• Allen Questrom, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Kelli Questrom, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Meredith Vieira, Doctor of Humane Letters
• George Wein, Doctor of Humane Letters

2014

• Mayim Bialik, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Michael Brown, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Nancy Hopkins, Doctor of Science
• Rajen A. Kilachand, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Deval Patrick, Doctor of Laws

2013

• Morgan Freeman, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Wendy Kopp, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Robert S. Langer, Doctor of Science
• Peter D. Weaver, Doctor of Humane Letters

2012

• Norman R. Augustine, Doctor of Science
• Thomas G. Kelley, Doctor of Laws
• Sandra L. Lynch, Doctor of Laws
• Leonard S. Nimoy, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Eric E. Schmidt, Doctor of Science

2011

• Katie Couric, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Doctor of Laws
• Jacques Pépin, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Frank Stella, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Nina Totenberg, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Ahmed Zewail, Doctor of Science

2010

• Edward Albee, Doctor of Letters
• William T. Coleman, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Wafaa El-Sadr, Doctor of Science
• Eric H. Holder, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Osamu Shimomura, Doctor of Science

2009

• J Allard, Doctor of Letters
• Larry J. Bird, Doctor of Letters
• Michael E. Capuano, Doctor of Laws
• Alan M. Leventhal, Doctor of Laws
• Steven Spielberg, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Gloria E. White-Hammond, Doctor of Humane Letters

2008

• Earle M. Chiles, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Millard Drexler, Doctor of Humane Letters
• William H. Hayling, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Billie Jean King, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Lawrence Lucchino, Doctor of Laws

2007

• Steven Chu, Doctor of Science
• Bill Kovach, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Brice Marden, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Judy Norsigian, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Samuel O. Thier, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Peter H. Vermilye, Doctor of Humane Letters

2006

• Nancy Goodman Brinker, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Aram V. Chobanian, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Dean Kamen, Doctor of Science
• Leslie Moonves, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Frederick S. Pardee, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, Doctor of Humane Letters

2005

• David Aronson, Doctor of Fine Arts
• John W. Henry, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Shirley Ann Jackson, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Hamid Karzai, Doctor of Laws
• John F. Kerry, Doctor of Laws
• Christine Todd Whitman, Doctor of Laws
• Edward J. Zander, Doctor of Humane Letters

2004

• Anastasios of Albania, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Bill Belichick, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Saul Bellow, Doctor of Letters
• Irwin Chafetz, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Keith Lockhart, Doctor of Music
• Edward J. Markey, Doctor of Laws
• J. Craig Venter, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Alfre Woodard, Doctor of Fine Arts

2003

• Van Cliburn, Doctor of Music
• Lukas Foss, Doctor of Music
• Karen Elliott House, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Nasser David Khalili, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Velia N. Tosi, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Gerald Tsai, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
• Jon Westling, Doctor of Humane Letters
• George F. Will, Doctor of Letters

2002

• Michael E. Haynes, Doctor of Humane Letters
• William Felton Russell, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Marisa Tomei, Doctor of Fine Arts

2001

• Sila M. Calderón, Doctor of Laws
• Leonard Florence, Doctor of Laws
• Thomas M. Menino, Doctor of Laws
• Kathryn Underwood Silber, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Nicholas C. Triantafilou, Doctor of Humane Letters

2000

• Olympia Dukakis, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Norman B. Leventhal, Doctor of Laws
• Guy A. Santagate, Doctor of Laws
• Ruth J. Simmons, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Tom Wolfe, Doctor of Humane Letters

1999

• James F. Carlin, Doctor of Laws
• Geena Davis, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Ray A. Hammond II, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Henry A. Kissinger, Doctor of Laws
• Stephen J. Trachtenberg, Doctor of Humane Letters

1998

• Jordan J. Cohen, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Mary Jane England, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Ralph D. Feigin, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Floyd H. Flake, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Claudia (Ladybird) Johnson, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Rachel B. Keith, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Gary Locke, Doctor of Laws
• Donald O’Connor, Doctor of Humane Letters
• David Satcher, Doctor of Humane Letters

1997

• John Biggers, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Fredrick Fu Chien, Doctor of Laws
• Joseph Ciechanover, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Maurice Druon, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Sheikh Hasina, Doctor of Laws
• Kim Woo-Chung, Doctor of Laws
• Teng-Hui Lee, Doctor of Laws
• John (Jack) J. Parker, Doctor of Laws
• Christopher Reeve, Doctor of Laws
• Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, Doctor of Laws
• Joseph L. Tauro, Doctor of Laws
• Juan Julio Wicht Rossel, Doctor of Divinity

1996

• William M. Bulger, Doctor of Laws
• Aaron Feuerstein, Doctor of Humane Letters
• John A. Kelley, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Paul J. Liacos, Doctor of Laws
• Steven A. Schroeder, Doctor of Science
• Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento, Doctor of Laws
• Barbara Polk Washburn, Doctor of Science
• Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr., Doctor of Science
• August Wilson, Doctor of Letters

1995

• Jason Alexander, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Stephen Gerald Breyer, Doctor of Laws
• Adelaide M. Cromwell, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Robert K. Kraft, Doctor of Laws
• Nakedi Mathews Phosa, Doctor of Laws
• Norman Podhoretz, Doctor of Letters
• Joseph Polak, Doctor of Humane Letters
• John R. Silber, Doctor of Letters

1994

• Luciano Benetton, Doctor of Laws
• Jo Benkow, Doctor of Laws
• Dorothy L. Brown, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Janez Drnovšek, Doctor of Laws
• Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Doctor of Laws
• Julie Harris, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Francois Leotard, Doctor of Laws
• Ross Perot, Doctor of Laws
• Sumner Redstone, Doctor of Laws
• Robert Shaw, Doctor of Music
• Diana Chapman Walsh, Doctor of Humane Letters

1993

• W. Edwards Deming, Doctor of Science
• Joseph H. Hagan, Doctor of Laws
• C. Everett Koop, Doctor of Laws
• John F., Smith, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Gordon R. Sullivan, Doctor of Laws
• Derek A. Walcott, Doctor of Letters
• Marilyn E. Wilhelm, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Johnny Ray Youngblood, Doctor of Divinity

1992

• Beverly Byron, Doctor of Laws
• Wynton Marsalis, Doctor of Music
• Joseph A. Moore, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Fred Rogers, Doctor of Divinity
• Sue Bailey Thurman, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Doctor of Letters

1991

• Gregory H. Adamian, Doctor of Laws
• Roone Arledge, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Thomas Stephens Haggai, Doctor of Divinity
• Jesse Loftis Johnson, Doctor of Laws
• Toshiki Kaifu, Doctor of Laws
• Aubrey Fook-Wo Li, Doctor of Laws
• C. Eric Lincoln, Doctor of Humanities
• David Riesman, Doctor of Letters
• Yitzhak Shamir, Doctor of Laws
• Eduard Amvrosiyevich Shevardnadze, Doctor of Laws

1990

• Satoshi Iue, Doctor of Laws
• Angela Lansbury, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Louis Lataif, Doctor of Laws
• K. T. Li, Doctor of Laws
• Andrew P. Quigley, Doctor of Laws
• Louis W. Sullivan, Doctor of Laws
• Vernon A. Walters, Doctor of Laws
• Marion Wiesel, Doctor of Humane Letters

1989

• Barbara Pierce Bush, Doctor of Humane Letters
• George H.W. Bush, Doctor of Laws
• Hussein bin Talal, Doctor of Laws
• Helmut Kohl, Doctor of Laws
• Francois Mitterrand, Doctor of Laws
• May-Ling Soong, Doctor of Laws
• Paul Weiss, Doctor of Letters

1988

• Harold Burson, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Arthur Cohn, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Howard B. Gotlieb, Doctor of Letters
• Mary Jane Hemperley, Doctor of Laws
• Karl Alexander Muller, Doctor of Science
• Richard John Neuhaus, Doctor of Divinity
• Carlo Rubbia, Doctor of Science
• An Wang, Doctor of Science
• Faith Ryan Whittlesey, Doctor of Laws
• Carl Michael Yastrzemski, Doctor of Humane Letters

1987

• Lerone Bennett, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
• Virginia Hughes Chiles, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Robert F. Daniell, Doctor of Laws
• Harry Ellis Dickson, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Clara Hale, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Benoit Mandelbrot, Doctor of Science
• William Rehnquist, Doctor of Laws
• Terence A. Todman, Doctor of Laws

1986

• Se Hee Ahn, Doctor of Science
• Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, Doctor of Laws
• Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi, Doctor of Laws
• Don Fuqua, Doctor of Laws
• Rafiq Hariri, Doctor of Laws
• Esther Kahn, Doctor of Laws
• Norman Vincent Peale, Doctor of Divinity
• Warren Rudman, Doctor of Laws
• Al Silverman, Doctor of Laws
• Gisbert Freiherr zu Putlitz, Doctor of Laws

1985

• Sylvia K. Burack, Doctor of Letters
• Kurt Furgler, Doctor of Laws
• Nicholas Gage, Doctor of Letters
• Mitchell D. Kapor, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Paul Lorenzen, Doctor of Philosophy & Science
• Robert Anton Lutz, Doctor of Laws
• Metropolitan Methodios, Doctor of Divinity
• Samuel Dewitt Proctor, Doctor of Laws
• John Williams, Doctor of Music

1984

• Arnold Jacob Auerbach, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Brand Blanshard, Doctor of Letters
• William John Carmichael, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Charles Stark Draper, Doctor of Science
• Michael Graves, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Hassan Hamdi Ibrahim, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Edward Crosby Johnson III, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Bernard Francis Law, Doctor of Divinity
• Richard Laverne Lawson, Doctor of Laws
• Joseph Lombard, Master of Business Administration
• John Joseph Moakley, Doctor of Laws
• Theresa J. Morse, Master of Social Work

1983

• Leonard Bernstein, Doctor of Music
• Rose Ciccariello, Bachelor of Arts
• Silvio O. Conte, Doctor of Laws
• Georges F. Doriot, Doctor of Laws
• Jan Fontein, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Vartan Gregorian, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Melina Mercouri, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Dan Rather, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Edward P. G. Seaga, Doctor of Laws
• George Widmer Thorn, Doctor of Science
• Brunetta R. Wolfman, Doctor of Humane Letters

1982

• Edwin J. Beinecke, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Doctor of Science
• Byung-Chul Lee, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Humberto Medeiros, Doctor of Laws
• Edward C. Meyer, Doctor of Laws
• Abdel-Meguid Osman, Doctor of Science
• Paul C. Richards, Doctor of Letters
• Paul Rosenstein Rodan, Doctor of Laws
• James C. Wright, Jr., Doctor of Laws

1981

• Talcott M. Banks, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Elmer Bartels, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Bertha Bobath, Doctor of Humane Letters
• John Houseman, Doctor of Laws
• Lewis F. Kornfeld, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
• Michael Novak, Doctor of Letters
• Bernard W. Rogers, Doctor of Laws
• Beverly Sills, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Axel Springer, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Frederica von Stade, Doctor of Music
• William Warfield, Doctor of Music
• Margaret Bush Wilson, Doctor of Laws

1980

• Isaac Asimov, Doctor of Letters & Science
• George D. Hart, Doctor of Laws
• A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Ralph Ingersoll, Doctor of Humane Letters
• David C. Jones, Doctor of Laws
• Elliot Norton, Doctor of Humane Letters
• William E. Simon, Doctor of Laws
• Barbara Tuchman, Doctor of Letters

1979

• Allen E. Beckwith, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Philip Caldwell, Doctor of Laws
• Mary Ann L. Garrigan, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Fritz Grunebaum, Doctor of Laws
• Alexander M. Haig, Doctor of Laws
• Georgiana Jagiello, Doctor of Science
• Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Richard S. Kneisel, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Benjamin Levich, Doctor of Science
• George Kinsley Makechnie, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Clarence M. Mitchell, Doctor of Laws
• Louis I. Rosenfield, Doctor of Laws

1978

• Alice L. Beeman, Doctor of Humane Letters
• John P. Dawson, Doctor of Laws
• Hermann F. Eilts, Doctor of Laws
• Ella Fitzgerald, Doctor of Humane Letters
• G. William Miller, Doctor of Laws
• Julia C. Pratt, Doctor of Laws
• Felix Michael Rogers, Doctor of Laws
• Robert W. Sherburne, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Robert C. Wood, Doctor of Laws

1977

• Hans H. Estin, Doctor of Laws
• Henry M. Goldman, Doctor of Science
• Robert Lowell, Doctor of Letters
• Clare Boothe Luce, Doctor of Laws
• Wade H. McCree, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Maurice Sendak, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Roger Sessions, Doctor of Music

1976

• Albert R. Beisel, Doctor of Laws
• Julia Child, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Edward F. Hennessey, Doctor of Laws
• Eugene V. Rostow, Doctor of Laws
• William V. Shannon, Doctor of Humane Letters

1975

• Charles Lund Black, Doctor of Laws
• Robert George Fergusson, Doctor of Laws
• Joseph Hirshhorn, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Mary Anne Krupsak, Doctor of Laws
• Walter Piston, Doctor of Music
• Jessie M. Scott, Doctor of Science
• Albert Conrad Ulman, Doctor of Laws

1974

• Sterling A. Brown, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Cecil King, Doctor of Literature
• Eugenio Mendoza, Doctor of Laws
• Soia Mentschikoff, Doctor of Laws
• Arthur G.B. Metcalf, Doctor of Laws
• Helen Harris Perlman, Doctor of Letters
• Kevin Hagan White, Doctor of Laws
• Elie Wiesel, Doctor of Humane Letters

1973

• Leonard Broom, Doctor of Humane Letters
• June Jackson Christmas, Doctor of Science
• Sam Ervin, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Frances Tarlton Farenthold, Doctor of Laws
• Rex Harrison, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Franz J. Ingelfinger, Doctor of Science
• Luigi Mastroianni, Jr., Doctor of Science
• Alfred L. Morse, Doctor of Laws
• Walter George Muelder, Doctor of Divinity
• Stephen P. Mugar, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Octavio Paz, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Jerome Preston, Doctor of Laws
• Louis Weinstein, Doctor of Science

1972

• John Hilton Knowles, Doctor of Humane Letters

1971

• Walter Gellhorn, Doctor of Laws

1970

• Frank L. Boyden, Doctor of Letters
• Helen C. Boyden, Doctor of Letters
• Elliott Carter, Doctor of Music
• Ramsey Clark, Doctor of Laws
• Ernest Stanley Dodge, Doctor of Letters
• Robert F. Ellsworth, Doctor of Laws
• Melville B. Grosvenor, Doctor of Letters
• Kenneth I. Guscott, Doctor of Humanities
• Philip Guston, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Emil M. Hartl, Doctor of Humanities
• Edward Moore Kennedy, Doctor of Laws
• Friedrich Kessler, Doctor of Laws
• Margaret H. Merry, Doctor of Letters
• Ralph Nader, Doctor of Laws
• Jose Luis Sert, Doctor of Humanities
• Roger L. Stevens, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Carl B. Stokes, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Leon H. Sullivan, Doctor of Humanities

1969

• Virginia Apgar, Doctor of Science
• Harriett Moulton Bartlett, Doctor of Humane Letters
• David L. Bazelon, Doctor of Laws
• Robert Vivian Bradlaw, Doctor of Science
• Hilding N. Carlson, Doctor of Science
• Harold Clurman, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Deane C. Davis, Doctor of Laws
• Donald D. Durrell, Doctor of Humanities
• Jo Eleanor Elliott, Doctor of Science
• Mildred O. Elson, Doctor of Science
• Frank L. Farwell, Doctor of Humane Letters
• George J. Feldman, Doctor of Laws
• Jay W. Forrester, Doctor of Science
• Lon L. Fuller, Doctor of Laws
• Maxwell M. Geffen, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Richard C. Gilman, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Burton C. Hallowell, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Douglas Henderson, Doctor of Humane Letters
• John Ruggles Herbert, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Elwood H. Hettrick, Doctor of Laws
• Harold Hillenbrand, Doctor of Science
• Maynard K. Hine, Doctor of Science
• Joseph C. Hinsey, Doctor of Science
• Barbara C. Jordan, Doctor of Laws
• Coretta Scott King, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Seymour J. Kreshover, Doctor of Science
• H. C. Robbins Landon, Doctor of Music
• Duncan E. MacDonald, Doctor of Science
• Mary A. Maher, Doctor of Science
• John E. Mara, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Albert A. Morey, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Gordon Parks, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Arthur T. Porter, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Bertha Capen Reynolds, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Thomas H. Roberts, Doctor of Laws
• Charles I. Schottland, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Neil V. Sullivan, Doctor of Laws
• Walter E. Washington, Doctor of Laws

1968

• Bradford Leland P., Doctor of Humane Letters
• Edward W. Brooke, Doctor of Laws
• Harlan Cleveland, Doctor of Laws
• Hedley Donovan, Doctor of Letters
• Marie Farrell, Doctor of Science
• Esther A. Garrison, Doctor of Science
• Owen B. Kiernan, Doctor of Science in Education
• Ruth Taylor, Doctor of Science
• U. Thant, Doctor of Laws
• Roy Wilkins, Doctor of Humane Letters

1967

• McGeorge Bundy, Doctor of Laws
• Harold C. Case, Doctor of Laws
• John William Gardner, Doctor of Laws
• Stella Goostray, Doctor of Science
• Ralph Lowell, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Eric Sevareid, Doctors of Letters
• Charles E. Shulman, Doctor of Divinity
• Jacob J. Spiegel, Doctor of Laws
• Howard Thurman, Doctor of Divinity
• Joseph Chamberlain Wilson, Doctor of Humane Letters

1966

• Edward L. Bernays, Doctor of Humanities
• Gwendolen Margaret Carter, Doctor of Letters
• John W. Chancellor, Doctor of Humanities
• Sidney J. French, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Hudson Hoagland, Doctor of Science
• John Anthony Volpe, Doctor of Laws
• Barbara Ward, Doctor of Laws

1965

• John Karefa-Smart, Doctor of Laws
• John W. Lederle, Doctor of Humanities
• Charles W. Pettengill, Doctor of Laws
• Herbert Read, Doctor of Letters
• Reginald H. Smithwick, Doctor of Science
• Margaret Webster, Doctor of Letters

1964

• Judson Rea Butler, Doctor of Letters
• Tom C. Clark, Doctor of Laws
• John Frederick Collins, Doctor of Laws
• Albert Victor Danielsen, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Paul A. Freund, Doctor of Laws
• Howard Hanson, Doctor of Music
• Walter Lippmann, Doctor of Laws
• Heinrich Nordhoff, Doctor of Commercial Science
• G. Joseph Tauro, Doctor of Laws
• Paul Dudley White, Doctor of Science

1963

• Malcolm Pratt Aldrich, Doctor of Humanities
• George Packer Berry, Doctor of Science
• Mildred Buchanan Flagg, Doctor of Letters
• Pauline Frederick, Doctor of Letters
• Francis Keppel, Doctor of Laws
• William John Scarborough, Doctor of Laws
• Frank Stanton, Doctor of Humanities
• William Ralph Ward, Jr., Doctor of Divinity
• Clifton Reginald Wharton, Doctor of Laws
• Joseph Willen, Doctor of Humanities

1962

• Abram Berkowitz, Doctor of Laws
• Bruce Catton, Doctor of Letters
• Richard Cushing, Doctor of Humane Letters
• K. Onwuka Dike, Doctor of Letters
• Chester R. Huntley, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Makarios, Doctor of Divinity
• Adlai E. Stevenson, Doctor of Laws

1961

• Thomas Dudley Cabot, Doctor of Humanities
• Edgar H. S. Chandler, Doctor of Divinity
• Sidney Farber, Doctor of Science
• Robert L. Frost, Doctor of Letters
• Roy Edward Larsen, Doctor of Humanities
• Esther M. Lloyd-Jones, Doctor of Science in Education
• Lester Bowles Pearson, Doctor of Laws

1960

• Marian Anderson, Doctor of Music
• Warren Ortman Ault, Doctor of Letters
• Mahomed Ali Currim Chagla, Doctor of Laws
• Frederick Harold Dubord, Doctor of Laws
• Iakovos, Doctor of Divinity
• Everett William Lord, Doctor of Humanities
• William Malamud, Doctor of Science
• James Paul Mitchell, Doctor of Laws
• Carl M. Mydans, Doctor of Humanities
• Mary Elizabeth Switzer, Doctor of Humanities
• Sumner Gage Whittier, Doctor of Civil Law

1959

• Chester M. Alter, Doctor of Laws
• Jennie Loitman Barron, Doctor of Laws
• Vannevar Bush, Doctor of Science
• Lawrence G. Derthick, Doctor of Laws
• James Morison Faulkner, Doctor of Science
• Martin Luther King, Jr., Doctor of Divinity
• Robert T. Stafford, Doctor of Laws
• Stanley Ferdinand Teele, Doctor of Humanities

1958

• Gordon Willard Allport, Doctor of Humanities
• Catherine Drinker Bowen, Doctor of Letters
• Theodore Parker Ferris, Doctor of Divinity
• John Peter Hagen, Doctor of Science
• Sol Hurok, Doctor of Humanities
• William Edmonds Powers, Doctor of Laws
• Robert W. Sarnoff, Doctor of Humanities
• Paul Allman Siple, Doctor of Science
• Earl Warren, Doctor of Laws

1957

• William George Carr, Doctor of Humanities
• Francis Gerald Ensley, Doctor of Divinity
• Nels Fredrik Solomon Ferré, Doctor of Divinity
• Foster Furcolo, Doctor of Laws
• Oscar Hammerstein II, Doctor of Humanities
• W.E. Knowles Middleton, Doctor of Science
• Irvine H. Page, Doctor of Science
• Kenneth M. Setton, Doctor of Letters
• Raymond Sanger Wilkins, Doctor of Laws

1956

• Paul T. Babson, Doctor of Humanities
• Milton S. Eisenhower, Doctor of Laws
• Martha May Eliot, Doctor of Humanities
• Edward Francis Gallahue, Doctor of Humanities
• Albert Baird Hastings, Doctor of Science
•  Edgar Amos Love, Doctor of Divinity
• Justin Miller, Doctor of Laws
• Dennis J. Roberts, Doctor of Civil Law
• Lewis Lichenstein Strauss, Doctor of Laws
• Andrew Spencer Turnipseed, Doctor of Divinity
• Nils Yngve Wessell, Doctor of Laws

1955

• Matthew W. Clair, Jr., Doctor of Divinity
• Abba Eban, Doctor of Laws
• Joseph Garland, Doctor of Science
• A. Raymond Grant, Doctor of Divinity
• Frank R. Kenison, Doctor of Laws
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Doctor of Laws
• Charles Munch, Doctor of Music
• Nathan Marsh Pusey, Doctor of Laws
• Arthur A. Schuck, Doctor of Humanities
• Mark Richard Shibles, Doctor of Science in Education

1954

• Ralph Johnson Bunche, Doctor of Law
• Richard B. Cattell, Doctor of Science
• Margaret Clapp, Doctor of Letters
• Edward Elias Cohen, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Henry Hitt Crane, Doctor of Humanities
• Christian A. Herter, Doctor of Laws
• Merritt Yerkes Hughes, Doctor of Letters
• Carl Arthur Jessen, Doctor of Science in Education
• Melvin Maynard Johnson, Doctor of Humanities

1953

• Daniel Bloomfield, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Robert Hanna Felix, Doctor of Science
• Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Doctor of Science
• John Patrick Higgins, Doctor of Laws
• Kenneth Scott Latourette, Doctor of Letters
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Charles Habib Malik, Doctor of Laws
• Daniel L. Marsh, Doctor of Laws
• Ruth Sleeper, Doctor of Humanities
• Edward Weeks, Jr., Doctor of Letters

1952

• Robert Cutler, Doctor of Humanities
• Carl Stephens Ell, Doctor of Humanities
• John Farquhar Fulton, Doctor of Science
• George William Goddard, Doctor of Science
• John Bernard Hynes, Doctor of Civil Law
• Katharine Fredrica Lenroot, Doctor of Humanities
• David Eli Lilienthal, Doctor of Laws
• Stanley Elroy Qua, Doctor of Laws
• Abram Leon Sachar, Doctor of Letters
• Edward Ray Speare, Doctor of Laws

1951

• Arthur Stanton Adams, Doctor of Laws
• Newell Snow Booth, Doctor of Divinity
• Marion Luse Chenery, Doctor of Humanities
• Norman Cousins, Doctor of Letters
• Adhemar De Barros, Doctor of Laws
• Arthur Fiedler, Doctor of Music
• John Wiley Hill, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Harold Daniel Hodgkinson, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Hyungki Julius Lew, Doctor of Divinity
• Clarence Cook Little, Doctor of Science
• Lucile Petry, Doctor of Science
• Carlos P. Romulo, Doctor of Laws
• Glenwood John Sherrard, Doctor of Commercial Science
• George Frederick Zook, Doctor of Literature

1950

• Emory Stephen Bogardus, Doctor of Laws
• Ida Maud Cannon, Doctor of Science
• Charles Irving Carpenter, Doctor of Sacred Theology
• William Francis Davis, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Mary Hinckley Dearing, Doctor of Humanities
• Ralph E. Diffendorfer, Doctor of Humanities
• William Wilcox Edel, Doctor of Humanities
• Louis Finkelstein, Doctor of Letters
• George Florovsky, Doctor of Sacred Theology
• Nathaniel Howell Furman, Doctor of Science
• Edwin Clifford Johnson, Doctor of Commercial Science
• James R. Killian, Jr., Doctor of Laws
• Jacques Maritain, Doctor of Laws
• Benjamin E. Mays, Doctor of Humanities
• Earl James McGrath, Doctor of Science in Education
• Liston Pope, Doctor of Sacred Theology
• Richard Campbell Raines, Doctor of Sacred Theology
• Walter P. Reuther, Doctor of Laws
• Herman W. Steinkraus, Doctor of Laws
• Dewey David Stone, Doctor of Humanities
• William P. Tolley, Doctor of Laws
• Robert William Upton, Doctor of Laws
• Edward N. West, Doctor of Letters

1949

• Francisca Reyes Aquino, Doctor of Science in Physical Education
• Alben William Barkley, Doctor of Civil Law
• Paul Andrew Dever, Doctor of Laws
• Frederick Joseph Dillon, Doctor of Laws
• Ruth Evans, Doctor of Science in Physical Education
• Francis M. Greene, Doctor of Science
• John Owen Gross, Doctor of Sacred Theology
• Anna Hiss, Doctor of Science in Physical Education
• William L. Hughes, Doctor of Science in Physical Education
• Helen Kiduk Kim, Doctor of Laws
• John Wesley Lord, Doctor of Sacred Theology
• John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Doctor of Laws
• Howard Bagnall Meek, Doctor of Science in Education
• Norman Burdett Nash, Doctor of Sacred Theology
• Enoch Wesley Nye, Doctor of Divinity
• Howard A. Rusk, Doctor of Science
• Kenneth Charles Morton Sills, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Shields Warren, Doctor of Science
• Catherine A. Worthingham, Doctor of Science

1948

• Raymond B. Allen, Doctor of Laws
• Pedro Belou, Doctor of Science
• Charles Wesley Brashares, Doctor of Laws
• Erwin Dain Canham, Doctor of Letters & Humanity
• Carl F. Cori, Doctor of Science
• Gerty T. Cori, Doctor of Science
• George W. Corner, Sr., Doctor of Science
• George H. Gallup, Sr., Doctor of Laws
• Glenn Griswold, Doctor of Humanities
• Samuel James Harrison, Doctor of Science in Education
• Arthur Andrew Hauck, Doctor of Laws
• Roland Hayes, Doctor of Music
• Andrew Conway Ivy, Doctor of Science
• Wesley Terence Lee, Doctor of Science
• William Gordon Lennox, Doctor of Science
• Trygve Lie, Doctor of Civil Law
• Shot Kumar Mondol, Doctor of Theology
• Earl Newsom, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Grove Hiram Patterson, Doctor of Letters
• Joseph A. Rank, Doctor of Laws
• Raymond A. Rubicam, Doctor of Letters
• David Sarnoff, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Spyros P. Skouros, Doctor of Laws
• John Ward Studebaker, Doctor of Laws
• Helen B. Taussig, Doctor of Science

1947

• Warren Robinson Austin, Doctor of Laws
• Harlow Avery Alfred, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Bruce Richard Baxter, Doctor of Humanities
• Robert F. Bradford, Doctor of Laws
• Clarence Tucker Craig, Doctor of Letters
• Thomas Henry Green, Doctor of Laws
• Joseph William, Martin, Jr., Doctor of Civil Laws
• Carlos Edward Munoz-MacCormick, Doctor of Science
• Harry Kaufman Stone, Doctor of Laws
• Lucy Wang, Doctor of Humanities
• Carl Raymond Woodward, Doctor of Laws

1946

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, Doctor of Laws
• Alonzo Gaskell Grace, Doctor of Science in Education
• Ernest Rutherford Groves, Doctor of Humanities
• Tully Cleon Knoles, Doctor of Laws
• William Leonard Laurence, Doctor of Science
• Junius Ralph Magee, Doctor of Divinity
• Charles Abraham Rome, Doctor of Laws
• Ralph Ansel Ward, Doctor of Divinity
• Louis Clinton Wright, Doctor of Science in Education
• Owen D. Young, Doctor of Laws

1945

• Hugh Potter Baker, Doctor of Science in Education
• Alice Stone Blackwell, Doctor of Humanities
• Horace Albert Carter, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Joseph Henry Edge, Doctor of Science in Education
• William Roger Greeley, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Bert Ellsworth Holland, Doctor of Laws
• Sergei Koussevitzky, Doctor of Music
• Charles Seymour, Doctor of Laws
• Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Doctor of Civil Law

1944

• Charles Francis Hitchcock Allen, Doctor of Science
• John W. Bricker, Doctor of Laws
• Harold Hitz Burton, Doctor of Laws
• Wen Yuan Chen, Doctor of Divinity
• Josiah Willard Hayden, Doctor of Laws
• Frank Baldwin Jewett, Doctor of Science
• Eric A. Johnston, Doctor of Laws
• Chester Scott Keefer, Doctor of Science
• William Whatley Pierson, Doctor of Letters
• Edward Carleton Stone, Doctor of Laws
• Henrietta Szold, Doctor of Humanities
• Rufus B. von Kleinsmid, Doctor of Laws
• Julius Ernest Warren, Doctor of Science in Education
• Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Doctor of Civil Law

1943

• James Chamberlain Baker, Doctor of Humanities
• Elizabeth Burchenal, Doctor of Science in Physical Education
• Fernando Carbajal, Doctor of Science
• Guy Wilbur Cox, Doctor of Laws
• Rodulfo Brito Foucher, Doctor of Laws
• Jorge Parkinson Howard, Doctor of Divinity
• Frank Howard Lahey, Doctor of Science
• James Howard McGrath, Doctor of Laws
• Carlos Martins Pereira e Souza, Doctor of Laws
• Eugene Peeples Thomas, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Lowell Thomas, Doctor of Humanities
• Juan T. Trippe, Doctor of Laws
• Thomas J. Watson, Doctor of Letters
• Wendell Lewis Willkie, Doctor of Laws

1942

• Walter Preston Armstrong, Doctor of Laws
• Francis Biddle, Doctor of Laws
• Vincent Ravi Booth, Doctor of Divinity
• Elliott Cheatham, Doctor of Laws
• Fred Tarbell Field, Doctor of Civil Law
• Edmund W. Flynn, Doctor of Laws
• Albert James Harno, Doctor of Letters
• Shelby M. Harrison, Doctor of Letters
• Archibald King, Doctor of Laws
• William Mills Maltbie, Doctor of Civil Laws
• Clarence E. Manion, Doctor of Both Laws (Civil & Canon)
• John W. McCormack, Doctor of Laws
• Paul Vories McNutt, Doctor of Civil Law
• Sherman Robert Moulton, Doctor of Laws
• Harold Hale Murchie, Doctor of Laws
• Helen Storrow, Doctor of Humanities
• Thomas Alexander Terry, Doctor of Military Science
• Oscar Lyman Young, Doctor of Laws

1941

• Herbert Sebastian Agar, Doctor of Laws
• George Edward Bushnell, Doctor of Laws
• Zechariah Chafee, Doctor of Civil Law
• John Cowles, Doctor of Laws
• Paul Edgar Elicker, Doctor of Science in Education
• Louisa Holman Richardson Fisk, Doctor of Humanities
• Felix Forte, Doctor of Laws
• Lewis Oliver Hartman, Doctor of Humanities
• Henry Robinson Luce, Doctor of Letters
• Joy Elmer Morgan, Doctor of Science in Education
• Frank Luther Mott, Doctor of Humanities
• Henry Meeker Pollock, Doctor of Science
• Arthur Thomas Robb, Doctor of Letters
• Odell Shepard, Doctor of Humanities
• Dewey Jackson Short, Doctor of Humanities
• Robert Williams, Doctor of Laws

1940

• Mrs. Clarence A. Christian, Doctor of Fine Arts
• William Preston Few, Doctor of Humanities
• Marion Drake Flanders, Master of Fine Arts
• Courtenay Guild, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Damon Everett Hall, Doctor of Laws
• Edgar James Helms, Doctor of Divinity
• Mildred Helen McAfee, Doctor of Laws
• Henry Morgenthau, Doctor of Laws
• Winfred Overholser, Doctor of Science
• Charles Albert Plumley, Doctor of Laws
• Leverett Saltonstall, Doctor of Laws
• John Shepard, Jr., Doctor of Business Administration
• Maurice Joseph Tobin, Doctor of Laws
• Edward Howard Todd, Doctor of Science in Education

1939

• Robbins Wolcott Barstow, Doctor of Laws
• J. Emmons Briggs, Doctor of Science
• Van Wyck Brooks, Doctor of Literature
• Arlo Ayres Brown, Doctor of Humanities
• George Henry Chase, Doctor of Literature
• Mabel Wheeler Daniels, Doctor of Music
• Chandrama Constance Premnath Dass, Doctor of Pedagogy
• Rene Doynel de Saint-Quentin, Doctor of Laws
• William Otis Faxon, Doctor of Science
• John Calvin Ferguson, Doctor of Laws
• Charles E. Forlines, Doctor of Divinity
• Hughell F.W. Fosbroke, Doctor of Divinity
• Frank Pierrepont Graves, Doctor of Laws
• Eugene Blake Hawk, Doctor of Divinity
• Everett Carleton Herrick, Doctor of Humanities
• Arthur Emanuel Hertzler, Doctor of Science
• Lynn H. Hough, Doctor of Both Laws (Canon & Civil)
• Olin Merrill Jeffords, Doctor of Laws
• James Anderson Kelso, Doctor of Letters
• Arthur L. Kinsolving, Doctor of Divinity
• Alfred Mossman Landon, Doctor of Laws
• John A. Mackay, Doctor of Humanities
• Albert Wentworth Palmer, Doctor of Science
• James Joseph Ronan, Doctor of Laws
• Elbert Russell, Doctor of Letters
• Charles E. Schofield, Doctor of Laws
• Horace Greeley Smith, Doctor of Humanities
• Willard L. Sperry, Doctor of Letters
• Henry Burton Trimble, Doctor of Laws
• Harry Trust, Doctor of Divinity
• Henry Bradford Washburn, Doctor of Letters
• Luther A. Weigle, Doctor of Both Laws (Canon & Civil)

1938

• Charles Francis Adams, Doctor of Laws
• Frank G. Allen, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Leonard Carmichael, Doctor of Laws
• William E. Chenery, Doctor of Science
• Charles Jay Connick, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Harvey Warren Cox, Doctor of Humanities
• Georgia Elma Harkness, Doctor of Literature
• Eero Jarnefelt, Doctor of Laws
• Louis Edward Kirstein, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Frederick William Mansfield, Doctor of Laws
• Alexander Preston Shaw, Doctor of Divinity
• Alexander P. Snow, Doctor of Laws
• Herbert Welch, Doctor of Divinity

1937

• Alice Rebecca Appenzeller, Doctor of Pedagogy
• Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Doctor of Fine Arts
• Ernest G. Howes, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Donald Baxter MacMillan, Doctor of Science
• James Duncan MacNair, Doctor of Divinity
• Earl Alan Roadman, Doctor of Laws
• William Henry Sawyer, Doctor of Laws
• Guy Everett Snavely, Doctor of Humanities
• Charlotte Barrell Ware, Doctor of Humanities

1936

• Charles Reynolds Brown, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Louis Sherburne Cox, Doctor of Laws
• Alessandro Ghigi, Doctor of Science
• Edwin Franko Goldman, Doctor of Music
• Earl Enyeart Harper, Doctor of Laws
• Walter Albert Jessup, Doctor of Humanities
• Harry Levi, Doctor of Divinity
• Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, Doctor of Humanities
• Alonz Rogers Weed, Doctor of Laws
• William Alanson White, Doctor of Science

1935

• Richard E. Byrd, Doctor of Science
• James Ephraim Coons, Doctor of Laws
• John Erskine, Doctor of Humanities
• Hannibal Emery Hamlin, Doctor of Laws
• Marshall Noah McKusick, Doctor of Laws
• Harry Wright McPherson, Doctor of Laws
• John Augustine O’Shea, Doctor of Music
• David Ignatius Walsh, Doctor of Laws
• Annie Carleton Woodward, Doctor of Commercial Science

1934

• James Bryant Conant, Doctor of Humanities
• Wilfred Drury Gray, Doctor of Laws
• George Lowell Mayberry, Doctor of Laws
• Daniel Theodore O’Connell, Doctor of Laws
• John Lawrence Seaton, Doctor of Laws
• Francis Williams Snow, Doctor of Music

1933

• Frederick Shepherd Converse, Doctor of Music
• Clara Elizabeth Craig, Doctor of Pedagogy
• Charles Henry Donahue, Doctor of Laws
• J. Jerome Hahn, Doctor of Laws
• Willis Jefferson King, Doctor of Divinity
• Handel Lee, Doctor of Divinity
• Henry Tilton Lummus, Doctor of Laws
• Roscoe Pound, Doctor of Humane Letters

1932

• Karl Taylor Compton, Doctor of Science
• John Crawford Crosby, Doctor of Laws
• William Phillips Graves, Doctor of Science
• Robert Milton Hopkins, Doctor of Divinity
• Frank Burr Mallory, Doctor of Science
• Lemuel Herbert Murlin, Doctor of Laws
• George Augustus Sanderson, Doctor of Laws
• Thompson Stone, Doctor of Music
• George Arthur Wilson, Doctor of Laws

1931

• George Weston Anderson, Doctor of Laws
• Howard Perry Bellows, Doctor of Science
• William Morgan Butler, Doctor of Laws
• Giacomo de Martino, Doctor of Laws
• Ralph Tyler Flewelling, Doctor of Laws
• Jeremiah Edward O’Connell, Doctor of Laws
• Grace Morrison Poole, Doctor of Humanities
• Alvan Tracy Simonds, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Herbert Alden Youtz, Doctor of Divinity

1930

• Isabel Anderson, Doctor of Laws
• William Franklin Anderson, Doctor of Letters
• Charles Francis Dorr Belden, Doctor of Letters
• Herbert J. Burgstahler, Doctor of Laws
• John Gregg, Doctor of Commercial Science
• John Dwyer McLaughlin, Doctor of Laws
• Albert Barrett Meredith, Doctor of Laws
• Garfield Bromley Oxnam, Doctor of Letters
• Horace Packard, Doctor of Science
• Elmer Jeremiah Rathbun, Doctor of Laws
• Henry Knox Sherrill, Doctor of Laws
• David Washburn Wells, Doctor of Science

1929

• Walter Bradford Cannon, Doctor of Laws
• Frederick Neal Dow, Doctor of Laws
• Harry Emerson Fosdick, Doctor of Laws
• Frank Alexander Horne, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Francis John McConnell, Doctor of Laws
• Albert Enoch Pillsbury, Doctor of Laws
• Jacob Varela, Doctor of Laws

1928

• Hamilton Holt, Doctor of Humane Letters
• Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Doctor of Humanities
• Willis E. Pratt, Doctorate
• James Arthur Tufts, Doctor of Letters

1927

• Will Winton Alexander, Doctor of Divinity
• Clarence Walker Barron, Doctor of Commercial Science
• John Gabbert Bowman, Doctor of Laws
• Alvan Tufts Fuller, Doctor of Laws
• Robert Lincoln O’Brien, Doctor of Letters
• Robert James Peaslee, Doctor of Laws
• James Cash Penney, Doctor of Science

1924

• Grace Goodhue Coolidge, Doctor of Laws
• Marion Talbot, Doctor of Laws

1923

• Leonard Porter Ayres, Doctor of Commercial Science
• Ada Comstock-Notestein, Doctor of Laws
• Charles William Eliot, Doctor of Laws
• George Angier Gordon, Doctor of Laws
• Edwin Holt Hughes, Doctor of Laws
• William Edwards Huntington, Doctor of Laws
• William Fairfield Warren, Doctor of Laws
• William Lawrence, Doctor of Laws
• William Renwick Riddell, Doctor of Laws
• Arthur P. Rugg, Doctor of Laws
• John P. Stanton, Doctor of Science
• John P. Sutherland, Doctor of Science

1921

• M. Ferdinand Foch, Doctor of Laws