Honorary Degree Recipients
The George Washington University Honorary Degree Recipients
1827-2024
(All degrees are conferred honoris causa)
Name | Year | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Spence, John | 1827 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Ball, Eli | 1831 | Master of Arts |
| Dagg, J.L. | 1831 | Master of Arts |
| Keeny, John C. | 1831 | Master of Arts |
| Olney, Jesse | 1831 | Master of Arts |
| Perry, George B. | 1831 | Master of Arts |
| Beaumont, William | 1831 | Medical Degree |
| Gaitner, Ephraim K. | 1833 | Medical Degree |
| Smiley, Thomas J. | 1833 | Master of Arts |
| Tucker, Levi | 1833 | Master of Arts |
| Waite, Samuel | 1834 | Master of Arts |
| Wells, William R. | 1835 | Master of Arts |
| Howell, Robert B.C. | 1837 | Master of Arts |
| Dickison, E.W. | 1838 | Master of Arts |
| Hume, Thomas | 1839 | Master of Arts |
| Nichols, Joseph D. | 1839 | Master of Arts |
| Oglivie, John | 1839 | Master of Arts |
| Baker, Joseph | 1840 | Master of Arts |
| Kearney, John H. | 1840 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Brand, William | 1841 | Bachelor of Arts |
| Jeter, Jeremiah B. | 1841 | Master of Arts |
| Keeling, Henry | 1841 | Master of Arts |
| Taylor, James B. | 1841 | Master of Arts |
| Thornton, Thomas C. | 1841 | Master of Arts |
| Acworth, James | 1842 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Godwin, Benjamin | 1842 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Maclay, Archibald | 1842 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Poindexter, Abram M. | 1842 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Broaddus, Andrew | 1843 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Cornell, William M. | 1843 | Master of Arts |
| Pendleton, Charles H. | 1843 | Master of Arts |
| Cornelius, Samuel | 1844 | Master of Arts |
| Eaton, Joseph H. | 1844 | Master of Arts |
| Fuller, Richard | 1844 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Howard, Calvin | 1844 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Massie, John | 1844 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Spear, Philetus B. | 1844 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Stringfellow, Thornton | 1844 | Master of Arts |
| Teasdale, Thomas C. | 1844 | Master of Arts |
| Banvard, Joseph | 1845 | Master of Arts |
| Brand, William | 1845 | Master of Arts |
| Camp, Norman W. | 1845 | Master of Arts |
| Chandler, George C. | 1845 | Master of Arts |
| Eldridge, Daniel | 1845 | Master of Arts |
| Wheeler, Samuel J. | 1845 | Master of Arts |
| Worthington, Robert Hazard | 1845 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Aglett, Philip A. | 1846 | Master of Arts |
| Butts, Richard L. | 1846 | Master of Arts |
| Davis, Isaac | 1846 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gindrat, Abram | 1846 | Master of Arts |
| McWhorter, A.B. | 1846 | Master of Arts |
| O-Neil, James B. | 1846 | Doctor of Laws |
| Smallwood, Edward F. | 1846 | Master of Arts |
| Thayer, John M. | 1847 | Master of Arts |
| Berryman, William J. | 1848 | Master of Arts |
| Hutchinson, Elijah | 1849 | Master of Arts |
| Jeter, Jeremiah B. | 1849 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Mason, Samuel G. | 1849 | Master of Arts |
| Allen, Stephen M. | 1850 | Master of Arts |
| Bellamy, Thomas | 1850 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Jones, John Taylor | 1850 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Mallory, C.D. | 1850 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Witt, Daniel | 1850 | Master of Arts |
| Haven, Franklin | 1851 | Master of Arts |
| Hobbins, Jr., Joseph S. | 1851 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Holmead, Alfred | 1851 | Master of Arts |
| Gunnell, Francis M. | 1852 | Master of Arts |
| Ker, Samuel G. | 1853 | Master of Arts |
| Maury, Mathew F. | 1853 | Doctor of Laws |
| Maynard, Edward | 1853 | Master of Arts |
| Remley, James | 1853 | Master of Arts |
| Biewend, Adolphe F.T. | 1854 | Master of Arts |
| Binney, Joseph G. | 1854 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Broaddus, William F. | 1854 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Chase, Lawson | 1855 | Master of Arts |
| James, Charles S. | 1856 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Patton, Alfred S. | 1856 | Master of Arts |
| Taylor, James B. | 1856 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Cobb, Howell | 1858 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fox, Robert C. | 1858 | Master of Arts |
| Martin, William I. | 1858 | Master of Arts |
| Owens, Sydney H. | 1858 | Master of Arts |
| Samson, George W. | 1858 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Boyce, James P. | 1859 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Wilkinson, A.G. | 1859 | Master of Arts |
| Brown, Henry K. | 1860 | Master of Arts |
| Dennison, James | 1860 | Bachelor of Philosophy |
| Mason, John Thompson | 1860 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Mclain, William | 1860 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Palmer, Willie J. | 1860 | Master of Arts |
| Roberts, W.H. | 1860 | Master of Arts |
| Ryland, Robert | 1860 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Stimpson, William | 1860 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Tucker, Henry H. | 1860 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Mattingly, William F. | 1862 | Master of Arts |
| Maynard, Edward | 1862 | Master of Arts |
| Durand, H.H. | 1863 | Master of Arts |
| Leech, S.V. | 1863 | Master of Arts |
| Orcutt, John | 1863 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Bulfinch, S.G. | 1864 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Parks, Henry J. | 1864 | Master of Arts |
| Prentiss, Daniel H. | 1864 | Master of Arts |
| Randolph, Warren | 1864 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Booth, John H. | 1865 | Master of Arts |
| Brown, F.D. | 1865 | Master of Arts |
| Gill, Theodore | 1865 | Master of Arts |
| Shepard, Thomas J. | 1865 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Wilson, Franklin | 1865 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Wingate, William M. | 1865 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Gill, Theodore | 1866 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Keeling, R.J. | 1866 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Peabody, George | 1866 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sparks, Hiram C. | 1866 | Master of Arts |
| Williams, Walter M. | 1866 | Master of Arts |
| Williams, John W.M. | 1866 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Bagby, Richard H. | 1867 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Ball, William T. | 1867 | Master of Arts |
| Grammar, Julius E. | 1867 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Helm, S.L. | 1867 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Landels, William | 1867 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Rangabe, A.R. | 1867 | Doctor of Laws |
| Young, Edward | 1867 | Master of Arts |
| Cathcart, Samuel | 1868 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Custis, G.W.N. | 1868 | Master of Arts |
| Dodge, Henry W. | 1868 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Johnson, Daniel D. | 1868 | Master of Arts |
| McIntosh, W.H. | 1868 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Welling, James | 1868 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wilson, Joseph S. | 1868 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Corcoran, William W. | 1869 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gallaudet, Edward M. | 1869 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Howell, George | 1869 | Master of Arts |
| Johnson, Joseph Taber | 1869 | Master of Arts |
| Landrum, S. | 1869 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Nichols, James K. | 1869 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Webster, Amos | 1869 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Brown, Charles T. | 1870 | Master of Arts |
| Clark, Walter | 1870 | Bachelor of Laws |
| Fleet, A.F. | 1870 | Master of Arts |
| Gill, Theodore | 1870 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Palmer, Willie J. | 1870 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Pelavet, Emanuel | 1870 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Yerkes, David | 1870 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Dimmock, Anthony W. | 1871 | Master of Arts |
| Pierrepont, Edward | 1871 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tyree, Cornelius | 1871 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Williams, Walter M. | 1871 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Young, Edward | 1871 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Battle, Archibald J. | 1872 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Christian, Joseph | 1872 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kable, William H. | 1873 | Master of Arts |
| Kennedy, John C. | 1873 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pinkney, William | 1873 | Doctor of Laws |
| Richardson, William A. | 1873 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sydnor, Thomas W. | 1873 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Adams, George F. | 1874 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Atkins, Addison B. | 1874 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Newcomb, Simon | 1874 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sowers, Z.C. | 1874 | Master of Arts |
| Baird, Spencer F. | 1875 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cowes, Elliott | 1875 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Cox, Walter L. | 1875 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gwaltney, Luther Rice | 1876 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Kirkwood, Samuel J. | 1876 | Doctor of Laws |
| Devens, Charles | 1877 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pollard, John | 1877 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Duncan, Thomas | 1878 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Shields, Charles Woodruff | 1878 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wilkinson, A.G. | 1878 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Mason, Otis T. | 1879 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Montague, Andrew P. | 1879 | Master of Arts |
| Nichols, Charles H. | 1879 | Doctor of Laws |
| Maury, William A. | 1880 | Doctor of Laws |
| France, Joseph H. | 1881 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Hedden, William D. | 1881 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Vaughn, William R. | 1881 | Master of Arts |
| Cook, Richard B. | 1882 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Morgan, George W. | 1882 | Doctor of Music |
| Powell, John W. | 1882 | Doctor of Laws |
| Leach, George V. | 1883 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Nelson, James | 1883 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Richardson, John C.S. | 1883 | Master of Arts |
| Wilson, William L. | 1883 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Fletcher, Robert | 1884 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Stuart, Albert R. | 1885 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Chamberlin, Thomas C. | 1887 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bagby, George F. | 1888 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Fairchild, Charles S. | 1888 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hubbard, Gardiner Greene | 1888 | Doctor of Laws |
| Massey, J.L. | 1888 | Master of Arts |
| Wilson, John M. | 1890 | Doctor of Laws |
| Nelson, S. Gifford | 1892 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Davis, Harry C. | 1894 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Gill, Theodore N. | 1894 | Doctor of Laws |
| Meador, Chastain C. | 1894 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Seth, James | 1894 | Doctor of Science |
| Thomas, Andrew J.S. | 1894 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Bagby, Alfred | 1895 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Church, Melville | 1895 | Master of Patent Laws |
| Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott | 1895 | Doctor of Laws |
| Greene, Samuel Harrison | 1895 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lange, J.H. | 1895 | Master of Laws |
| Muir, Joseph Johnson | 1895 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Buck, James Albert | 1896 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Hepworth, George Hughes | 1896 | Doctor of Divinity |
| MacArthur, Robert Stuart | 1896 | Doctor of Laws |
| Stevenson, Adlai E. | 1896 | Doctor of Laws |
| Burnham, Sarah Maria | 1897 | Master of Arts |
| Mason, Otis Tufton | 1897 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rice, William Duncan | 1897 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Ward, Lester Frank | 1897 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bigelow, Frank Hagar | 1899 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Clarke, Frank W. | 1899 | Doctor of Science |
| Moore, John Bassett | 1899 | Doctor of Laws |
| McKenney, William I. | 1900 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Wainwright, Richard | 1900 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mattingly, William Francis | 1901 | Doctor of Laws |
| Schultze, Augustus | 1901 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Horton, George | 1902 | Doctor of Letters |
| Keller, Benjamin Frank | 1903 | Doctor of Laws |
| Putnam, Herbert | 1903 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tucker, Henry St. George | 1903 | Doctor of Laws |
| Franklin, Fabian | 1904 | Doctor of Laws |
| King, William Bruce | 1904 | Master of Arts |
| Larner, John B. | 1904 | Doctor of Laws |
| McKim, Randolph H. | 1904 | Doctor of Laws |
| Newlands, Francis Griffith | 1904 | Doctor of Laws |
| Samson, Thomas S. | 1904 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Steele, Sanford H. | 1904 | Master of Laws |
| Stuart, Alexander T. | 1904 | Master of Arts |
| Veer, Albert Vander | 1904 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dodd, Charles Hastings | 1905 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Ion, Theodore P. | 1905 | Master of Laws |
| Mantague, Andrew Jackson | 1905 | Doctor of Laws |
| Crosby, Oscar Terry | 1907 | Doctor of Laws |
| Paine, Willis Seaver | 1908 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rubner, M. Cornelius | 1908 | Doctor of Music |
| Santelmann, William H. | 1908 | Doctor of Music |
| Skiff, Frederick J.V. | 1908 | Doctor of Laws |
| Harding, Alfred | 1909 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hughes, Charles Evans | 1909 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pierce, Ulysses G.B. | 1909 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Roosevelt, Theodore | 1909 | Doctor of Laws |
| Stockton, Charles Herbert | 1909 | Doctor of Laws |
| Brown, Elmer Ellsworth | 1911 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gunnell, Francis Mackall | 1911 | Doctor of Laws |
| Howard, Leland Ossian | 1911 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Munroe, Charles Edward | 1912 | Doctor of Laws |
| Scott, James Brown | 1912 | Doctor of Laws |
| Austin, Oscar Phelps | 1913 | Master of Arts |
| Bell, Alexander G. | 1913 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bowerman, George Franklin | 1913 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Sothern, Edward Hugh | 1913 | Doctor of Letters |
| Hall, Percival | 1914 | Doctor of Letters |
| Thurston, Ernest L. | 1914 | Master of Arts |
| Brown, Glenn | 1915 | Master of Arts |
| Dall, William Henry | 1915 | Doctor of Laws |
| Franz, Shepherd | 1915 | Doctor of Medicine |
| Tittman, Otto Hilgard | 1915 | Doctor of Laws |
| Millington, Henry W.O. | 1916 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Stafford, Wendell Phillips | 1916 | Doctor of Letters |
| Taylor, David Watson | 1916 | Doctor of Science |
| Collier, William Miller | 1917 | Doctor of Laws |
| Davis, Arthur Powell | 1917 | Doctor of Science |
| Merrill, George Perkins | 1917 | Doctor of Science |
| Noyes, Theodore Williams | 1917 | Doctor of Laws |
| Russell, Frederick Fuller | 1917 | Doctor of Science |
| Southard, Elmer Ernest | 1917 | Doctor of Science |
| Anderson, Isabel | 1918 | Doctor of Letters |
| Auerbach, Joseph Smith | 1918 | Doctor of Letters |
| Birnie, Douglas Putnam | 1918 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Case, Theodore Willard | 1918 | Master of Science |
| Gore, James Howard | 1918 | Doctor of Letters |
| Hayford, John Filmore | 1918 | Doctor of Science |
| Holmes, William Henry | 1918 | Doctor of Science |
| Lisner, Abram | 1918 | Master of Arts |
| Munroe, James Phinney | 1918 | Doctor of Letters |
| King Albert of Belgium | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Day, William A. | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Douty, Nicholas | 1919 | Doctor of Music |
| Hammond, Jr., John Hays | 1919 | Doctor of Science |
| Henning, George Neely | 1919 | Doctor of Letters |
| Kahn, Otto Herman | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn | 1919 | Doctor of Letters |
| Payne, John Barton | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Poindexter, Miles | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah | 1919 | Doctor of Letters |
| Sterrett, James MacBride | 1919 | Doctor of Letters |
| Sutherland, Howard | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Teller, John DuBois | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Todd, George Carroll | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wadsworth, Jr., James Wolcott | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wood, Leonard | 1919 | Doctor of Laws |
| Calder, William Musgrave | 1920 | Doctor of Laws |
| Geddes, Auckland C. | 1920 | Doctor of Laws |
| Harding, Warren Gamaliel | 1920 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hoover, Herbert Clark | 1920 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ibanez, Vicente Blasco | 1920 | Doctor of Letters |
| Lenroot, Irvine Luther | 1920 | Doctor of Laws |
| Macveagh, Franklin | 1920 | Doctor of Laws |
| Nelson, Edward William | 1920 | Doctor of Science |
| Palmer, A. Mitchell | 1920 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pershing, John Joseph | 1920 | Doctor of Laws |
| Russell, James T. | 1920 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Shipman, Herbert | 1920 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Aiken, Eugene Clarence | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Berryman, Clifford Kennedy | 1921 | Master of Arts |
| Betts, Charles Henry | 1921 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Boardman, Mabel Thorpe | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Brown, Thomas Edwin | 1921 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Church, Melville | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coville, Frederick Vernon | 1921 | Doctor of Science |
| Dempsey, Stephen Wallace | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Devries, William Levering | 1921 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Ferry, Frederick Carlos | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| French, Permeal Jane | 1921 | Master of Arts |
| Fuller, Samuel Richard | 1921 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Gayangos, Juan Riano y | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hodgkins, Howard Lincoln | 1921 | Doctor of Science |
| Houghton, Alanson Bigelow | 1921 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Jusserand, Jean Adrien A.J. | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Keyes, Frances P. | 1921 | Doctor of Letters |
| Mather, Stephen Tyng | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mathieu, Beltran | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mechlin, Leila | 1921 | Master of Arts |
| Messenger, North Overton | 1921 | Master of Arts |
| Mondell, Frank Wheeler | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Moses, George Higgins | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mott, Luther Wright | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Nichols, Robert Hasings | 1921 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Parker, James S. | 1921 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Parks, Charles Wellman | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pittman, Key | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pollard, John Garland | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ricci, V. Rolandi | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Richardson, Charles William | 1921 | Doctor of Science |
| Richmond, Charles A. | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rounds, Arthur Charles | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Seymour, George Dudley | 1921 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Snell, Bertrand Hollis | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sothern, Julia Marlowe | 1921 | Doctor of Letters |
| Springer, Frank | 1921 | Doctor of Science |
| Sutherland, George | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Thompson, Robert Means | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Worthington, Augustus Storrs | 1921 | Doctor of Laws |
| Amoss, Harold L. | 1922 | Doctor of Science |
| Gennadius, Joannes | 1922 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Nicolay, Helen | 1922 | Master of Arts |
| Radcliffe, Wallace | 1922 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Thompson, Huston | 1922 | Doctor of Laws |
| Moore, Charles | 1923 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wurdemann, Harry Vanderbilt | 1923 | Doctor of Science |
| Carr, Wilbur John | 1925 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gregg, Alexander W. | 1925 | Master of Arts |
| Henning, Edward J. | 1925 | Doctor of Laws |
| Noyes, Frank Brett | 1925 | Doctor of Laws |
| Pupin, Michael Idvorsky | 1925 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Cook, Lora Haines | 1926 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fitspatrick, John Clement | 1926 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Grew, Joseph Clark | 1926 | Doctor of Laws |
| Groover, Thomas Allen | 1926 | Doctor of Science |
| Howard, Esme | 1926 | Doctor of Laws |
| LaGorce, John Oliver | 1926 | Doctor of Letters |
| Capen, Samuel Paul | 1927 | Doctor of Science |
| Pound, Roscoe | 1928 | Doctor of Laws |
| Robertson, David Allen | 1928 | Doctor of Laws |
| Russell, William Fletcher | 1928 | Doctor of Laws |
| Stone, Harlan Fiske | 1928 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coolidge, Calvin | 1929 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coolidge, Grace Goodhue | 1929 | Doctor of Laws |
| MacDonald, James Ramsey | 1929 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rubio, Pascual Ortiz | 1929 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coffman, Lotus Delta | 1930 | Doctor of Science in Education |
| Dodge, Harrison Howell | 1930 | Doctor of Laws |
| Borden, William Cline | 1931 | Doctor of Science |
| Cooper, William John | 1931 | Doctor of Science in Education |
| Siam, King of, Prajadhipok | 1931 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wilbur, William Allen | 1931 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bassler, Ray Smith | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Bethell, Union Noble | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Betts, III, Philander | 1932 | Doctor of Engineering |
| Chesney, Alan Mason | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Clephane, Walter Collins | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cortelyou, George Bruce | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dearing, Fred Morris | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dellinger, John Howard | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Evans, Jessie Fant | 1932 | Doctor of Education |
| Gay, Frederick Parker | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Hastings, Daniel O. | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hoehling, Adolph August | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hurley, Patrick Jay | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Johnson, Nelson Trusler | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kindler, Hans | 1932 | Doctor of Music |
| Kramer, Stephen Elliott | 1932 | Doctor of Education |
| MacAuley, Alvan | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Molitor, David Albert | 1932 | Doctor of Engineering |
| Moore, Charles N. | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Reichelderfer, Luther Halsey | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ritt, Joseph Fels | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Robinson, George Canby | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Ruffin, Sterling | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Ryan, Jr., Will Carson | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Shute, Daniel Kerfoot | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Ward, Albert Norman | 1932 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wetmore, Alexander | 1932 | Doctor of Science |
| Freeman, James Edward | 1933 | Doctor of Civil Law |
| Hull, Cordell | 1934 | Doctor of Laws |
| Moulton, Harold Glenn | 1934 | Doctor of Laws |
| Newcomb, John Lloyd | 1934 | Doctor of Laws |
| Willard, Arthur Cutts | 1934 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bell, Ulric | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Covell, David Ransom | 1935 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Essary, Jesse Frederick | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hayden, Jay G. | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hoover, John Edgar | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lippman, Walter | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ross, Charles Griffith | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Van Anda, Carr V. | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wallen, Theodore | 1935 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wilbur, Hannah Knapp | 1935 | Master of Arts |
| Cowles, John Henry | 1936 | Doctor of Laws |
| Holmes, Charles Wendell | 1936 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sizoo, Joseph Richard | 1936 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Abbott, Charles Greeley | 1937 | Doctor of Science |
| Bartsch, Paul | 1937 | Doctor of Science |
| Bowie, William | 1937 | Doctor of Science |
| Briggs, Lyman James | 1937 | Doctor of Science |
| Ellery, Edward | 1937 | Doctor of Laws |
| Manning, Helen Taft | 1937 | Doctor of Laws |
| Merriam, John Campbell | 1937 | Doctor of Laws |
| Peet, Elizabeth | 1937 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Pegram, George Braxton | 1937 | Doctor of Science |
| Strong, Hattie Maria | 1937 | Doctor of Laws |
| White, William Alanson | 1937 | Doctor of Laws |
| Graves, Frank Pierrepont | 1938 | Doctor of Laws |
| Jack, Theodore Henley | 1938 | Doctor of Letters |
| Shimer, William Allison | 1938 | Doctor of Laws |
| Aranha, Oswaldo | 1939 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fleming, Robert Vedder | 1939 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hagner, Francis Randall | 1939 | Doctor of Science |
| LaCour, Dan | 1939 | Doctor of Science |
| Ruediger, William Carl | 1939 | Doctor of Education |
| Taylor, Lewis Harvie | 1939 | Master of Science in Administration |
| Winterbotham, Harold St. John | 1939 | Doctor of Science |
| Morley, Felix M. | 1940 | Doctor of Letters |
| Alfaro, Colon Eloy | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| Castro, Hector David | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| del Rio, Carlos A.A. | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| McIntire, Ross T. | 1942 | Doctor of Science |
| Najera, Francisco C. | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| Page, William Tyler | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| Recinos, Adrian | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| Watson, Edwin Martin | 1942 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ballou, Frank W. | 1945 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tack, Augustus Vincent | 1946 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Tompkins, Charles Hook | 1946 | Doctor of Engineering |
| Truman**, Harry S | 1946 | Doctor of Laws |
| White, Charles Stanley | 1946 | Doctor of Science |
| Snyder, John Wesley | 1947 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bloedorn, Walter Andrew | 1948 | Doctor of Science |
| Doyle, Henry Grattan | 1948 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fleming, Philip Bracken | 1948 | Doctor of Civil Laws |
| Kayser, Elmer Louis | 1948 | Doctor of Laws |
| Van Vleck, William Cabell | 1948 | Doctor of Laws |
| Erwin, Henry Parsons | 1952 | Doctor of Science |
| Glover, Jr., Charles Caroll | 1952 | Doctor of Laws |
| Grosvenor, Gilbert | 1952 | Doctor of Science |
| Tuckerman, Walter Rupert | 1952 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rhee, Syngman | 1954 | Doctor of Laws |
| Berres, Luis Batlle | 1955 | Doctor of Laws |
| Aspinwall, Clarence Aiken | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
| Carmichael, Leonard | 1956 | Doctor of Science |
| Grant, III, Ulysses S. | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kure, Bumpei | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lawson, Alfred Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bolwell, Robert Whitney | 1957 | Doctor of Letters |
| Ellison, Newell Windom | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| McCoy, Philbrick | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| Morocco, King of, Mohamed V | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| Watson, Robert Clement | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
| Astin, Allen Varley | 1958 | Doctor of Science |
| Bastian, Walter M. | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Borden, Daniel LeRay | 1958 | Doctor of Science |
| Brucker, Wilber Marion | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Marvin, Dorothy Betts | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| McKelway, Benjamin Mosby | 1958 | Doctor of Literature |
| Morgenstierne, Wilhelm | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Murphy, Robert Daniel | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rhyne, Charles Sylvanus | 1958 | Doctor of Civil Laws |
| Smith, Margaret Chase | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wright, Louis Booker | 1958 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coolidge, Harold Jefferson | 1959 | Doctor of Science |
| Davis, Watson | 1959 | Doctor of Science |
| Dulles, Allen Welsh | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fulbright, James William | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
| Grosvenor, Melville Bell | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
| Marvin, Cloyd Heck | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
| Coleman, James Plemon | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Finley, David Edward | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kilmuir, Viscount | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Korth, Fred | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Milbank, Jeremiah | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Overholser, Winfred | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Randall, John Daniel | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Smylie, Robert Eben | 1960 | Doctor of Laws |
| Teller, Edward | 1960 | Doctor of Science |
| Calhoun, Galloway | 1961 | Doctor of Laws |
| Colclough, Oswald Symister | 1961 | Doctor of Science |
| Howard, Frank Atherton | 1961 | Doctor of Science |
| Howe, Mary | 1961 | Doctor of Music |
| Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | 1961 | Doctor of Laws |
| Meyer, Agnes Ernst | 1961 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Romney, George | 1961 | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| Smith, Luther Andrew | 1961 | Doctor of Laws |
| Webb, James Edwin | 1961 | Doctor of Laws |
| Calkins, Robert DeBlois | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gilruth, Robert Rowe | 1962 | Doctor of Science |
| McNamara, Robert Strange | 1962 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Nicolson, Marjorie Hope | 1962 | Doctor of Letters |
| Seaborg, Glenn Theodore | 1962 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Zuckert, Eugene Martin | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
| Carr, Edith Koon | 1963 | Doctor of Laws |
| Foster, William C. | 1963 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Glueck, Sheldon | 1963 | Doctor of Social Science |
| Haskins, Caryl Parker | 1963 | Doctor of Science |
| McManaway, James Gilmer | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Bunn, S.J., Edward Bernard | 1964 | Doctor of Literature |
| Eisenhower, Dwight David | 1964 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Fox, Levi | 1964 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Kerr, Clark | 1964 | Doctor of Public Service |
| McCormack, John William | 1964 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Rockefeller, Laurance S. | 1964 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Thornton, Charles Bates | 1964 | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| Willis, Benjamin | 1964 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Graham, Willard J. | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| Haughton, Daniel Jeremiah | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kennedy, David Matthew | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rusk, Dean | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |
| Harper, John Carsten | 1966 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Ripley, II, Sidney Dillon | 1966 | Doctor of Science |
| Welch, Leo Dewey | 1966 | Doctor of Laws |
| Brooke, Edward William | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Clark, Tom C. | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Huggins, Charles Brenton | 1967 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Jones, Thomas Victor | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lemnitzer, Lyman Louis | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mills, Wilbur Daigh | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ross, Walter George | 1967 | Doctor of Laws |
| Brewster, Jr., Kingman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
| Du Vigneaud, Vincent | 1968 | Doctor of Science |
| Enrlich, Jacob Wilbur | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hatzfeld, Helmut Anthony | 1968 | Doctor of Letters |
| Stone, Jr., George W. | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
| Clagett, Marshall | 1969 | Doctor of Laws |
| Elion, Gertrude Belle | 1969 | Doctor of Science |
| Jones, Roger Warren | 1969 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Martin, Charles | 1969 | Doctor of Letters |
| Muskie, Edmund Sixtus | 1969 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Warren, Earl | 1969 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Waterman, Sterry Robinson | 1969 | Doctor of Laws |
| Burns, Jacob | 1970 | Doctor of Laws |
| Clark, Kenneth Bancroft | 1970 | Doctor of Laws |
| Edgerton, Henry White | 1970 | Doctor of Laws |
| Friesen, Gordon Arthur | 1970 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ochoa, Severo | 1970 | Doctor of Science |
| Spain, Jayce Baker | 1970 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Wall, Charles Cecil | 1970 | Doctor of Laws |
| Washington, Walter Edward | 1970 | Doctor of Laws |
| Axelrod, Julius | 1971 | Doctor of Laws |
| Henley, Benjamin Joseph | 1971 | Doctor of Public Service |
| McKenzie, Charles Stewart | 1971 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Nyquist, Ewald Berger | 1971 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Staats, Elmer Boyd | 1971 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Ervin, Jr., Samuel James | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fubini, Eugene G. | 1972 | Doctor of Science |
| Nirenberg, Marshall Warren | 1972 | Doctor of Science |
| Rogers, Paul Grant | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sachar, Abram Leon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sarnoff, Robert W. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Schweitzer, Pierre-Paul | 1972 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wheeler, Harold Alden | 1972 | Doctor of Science |
| Burns, Arthur Frank | 1973 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cortright, Edgar Maurice | 1973 | Doctor of Science |
| Handler, Philip | 1973 | Doctor of Science |
| Hanks, Nancy | 1973 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Hogness, John Rusten | 1973 | Doctor of Laws |
| Morris, Edward Karrick | 1973 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Oppenheim, Saul Chesterfield | 1973 | Doctor of Laws |
| Strauss, Lewis L. | 1973 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Berman, Ronald Stanley | 1974 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Sabin, Albert Bruce | 1974 | Doctor of Laws |
| Shah of Iran | 1974 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Camalier, Renah F. | 1975 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Daniel, Margaret Truman | 1975 | Doctor of Letters |
| Dorati, Antal | 1975 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Fichandler, Zelda | 1975 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Seamans, Jr., Robert C. | 1975 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Shouse, Catherine Filene | 1975 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Sisco, Joseph John | 1975 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Block, Dr., Louis | 1976 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cooper, Dr., Theodore | 1976 | Doctor of Science |
| Hatfield, Mark O. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hitch, Charles Johnston | 1976 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kreeger, David Lloyd | 1976 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bennis, Warren | 1977 | Doctor of Laws |
| Knox, Dr., Bernard M.W. | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Robinson, James Arthur | 1977 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Brown, John Carter | 1978 | Doctor of Letters |
| Hearth, Donald Payne | 1978 | Doctor of Science |
| Herzog, Henry William | 1978 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ingelfinger, Franz Joseph | 1978 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kanakaratne, Neville | 1978 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rostropovich, Mstislav | 1978 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Wilson, John Johnston | 1978 | Doctor of Laws |
| Carter, Lisle Carleton | 1979 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gutheim, Frederick | 1979 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Iacocca, Lee A. | 1979 | Doctor of Public Service |
| McCree, Jr., Wade H. | 1979 | Doctor of Laws |
| Phillip, Laura Emily | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Phillips, Charles Emory | 1979 | Doctor of Laws |
| Terry, Fernando B. | 1979 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bloedorn, Ethel David | 1980 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Dirksen, Richard Wayne | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Howrey, Edward Freeland | 1980 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kristol, Irving | 1980 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Rowan, Carl Thomas | 1980 | Doctor of Laws |
| Burger, Warren Earl | 1981 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hopper, Grace Murray | 1981 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Mathias, Jr., Charles McCurdy | 1981 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Richardson, Elliott Lee | 1981 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Rinehart, Theodore | 1981 | Doctor of Laws |
| Salas, Rafael Montinola | 1981 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Stever, H. Guyford | 1981 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cousins, Norman | 1982 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gass, William Howard | 1982 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Marriott, Jr., John Willard | 1982 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Shriver, Robert Sargent | 1982 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Yung, Chung Ju | 1982 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bell, Terrel Howard | 1983 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bonner, Orville Richard | 1983 | Honorary Master of Business Administration |
| Cooper, John A.D. | 1983 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Duncan, Harry F. | 1983 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Grosvenor, Gilbert Melville | 1983 | Doctor of Public Service |
| MacNeil, Robert B.W. | 1983 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Peterson, Peter G. | 1983 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Rivlin, Alice Mitchell | 1983 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Wald, Patricia McGowan | 1983 | Doctor of Laws |
| Alpert, M.D., Seymour | 1984 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bader, Franz | 1984 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Bernard, Jessie | 1984 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Cisneros, Henry Gabriel | 1984 | Doctor of Laws |
| Conte, Silvio Ottavio | 1984 | Doctor of Laws |
| DeVita, Jr., M.D., Vincent Theodore | 1984 | Doctor of Science |
| Futrell, Mary Hatwood | 1984 | Doctor of Public Service |
| McGovern, George Stanley | 1984 | Doctor of Laws |
| Warnke, Paul Culliton | 1984 | Doctor of Laws |
| Barr, Andrew | 1985 | Doctor of Business Administration |
| Bell, Stephen Scott | 1985 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bennett, William John | 1985 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Bloch, Erich | 1985 | Doctor of Science |
| Bogsch, Arpad | 1985 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cremin, Lawrence Arthur | 1985 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Eliade, Mircea | 1985 | Doctor of Letters |
| Frederickson, Donald S. | 1985 | Doctor of Science |
| Greene, Harold Herman | 1985 | Doctor of Laws |
| Kiam II, Victor Kermit | 1985 | Doctor of Laws |
| Marriott, John Willard | 1985 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Wick, Charles Z. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws |
| Yankelovich, Daniel | 1985 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bok, Sissela Myrdal | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Buss, Arthur Edward | 1986 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Carter III, William Hodding | 1986 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Deming, W. Edwards | 1986 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Eagleburger, Lawrence Sidney | 1986 | Doctor of Laws |
| Franklin, Phyllis | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Hacker, Benjamin T. | 1986 | Doctor of Education |
| Johnson, Claudia Alta T. | 1986 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Nashman, Alvin Eli | 1986 | Doctor of Science |
| Robb, Charles Spittal | 1986 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wyngaarden, James Barnes | 1986 | Doctor of Science |
| Carrico, Harry Lee | 1987 | Doctor of Laws |
| Davis, Natalie Zemon | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Latimer, John Francis | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Packwood, Robert William | 1987 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Petersen, Richard Herman | 1987 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Rasmussen, Wayne David | 1987 | Doctor of Letters |
| Reed, Charles Bass | 1987 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Ridgway, Rozanne L. | 1987 | Doctor of Laws |
| Stein, Jacob Arthur | 1987 | Doctor of Laws |
| Yardley, Jonathan | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Briggs, Asa Lord | 1988 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Crowe, Jr., William James | 1988 | Doctor of Laws |
| Duncan, John Bonner | 1988 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Grunder, Hermann August | 1988 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Gulhati, Kaval | 1988 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Kim, Woo-Choong | 1988 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Landau, George Walter | 1988 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Pickens, Jr., T. Boone | 1988 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Shakhashiri, Bassam Zekin | 1988 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Thier, Samuel Osiah | 1988 | Doctor of Science |
| Udall, Morris King | 1988 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cavazos, Lauro Fred | 1989 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cromwell, Adelaide M. | 1989 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Elliott, Lloyd Hartman | 1989 | Doctor of Laws |
| Holley, Sandra C. | 1989 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Mitchell, Edward Franklin | 1989 | Doctor of Science |
| Scowcroft, Brent | 1989 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tae-woo, Roh | 1989 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sullivan, Louis Wade | 1989 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Sutherland, Giles | 1989 | Doctor of Laws |
| Thornburgh, Dick | 1989 | Doctor of Laws |
| Billington, James Hadley | 1990 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cheney, Lynne Ann | 1990 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cluff, Leighton E. | 1990 | Doctor of Science |
| Dubinin, Yuri Vladimirovich | 1990 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Huff, Jr., Talbot Shelton | 1990 | Doctor of Science |
| Mitchell, George John | 1990 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Pell, Claiborne | 1990 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Powell, Colin Luther | 1990 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Wilder, Lawrence D. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws |
| Brady, James Scott | 1991 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Brady, Sarah Kemp | 1991 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Brownlee, Paula Pimlott | 1991 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dixon, Sharon Pratt | 1991 | Doctor of Laws |
| Fascell, Dante B. | 1991 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Fitzgerald, Ella | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Hesburgh, Rev. Dr., Theodore Martin | 1991 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Kammen, Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Letters |
| Koop, C. Everett | 1991 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Lewis, Delano E. | 1991 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Moore, Claude | 1991 | Doctor of Science |
| Reagan, Ronald Wilson | 1991 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Solarz, Stephen J. | 1991 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Stafford, John Rogers | 1991 | Doctor of Laws |
| White, Jr., John Austin | 1991 | Doctor of Science |
| Barr, William P. | 1992 | Doctor of Laws |
| Edley, Christopher F. | 1992 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Frankenthaler, Helen | 1992 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Kessler, David A. | 1992 | Doctor of Science |
| Maynard, Robert C. | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Penzias, Arno | 1992 | Doctor of Science |
| Ripple, Kenneth F. | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Singer, Maxine F. | 1992 | Doctor of Science |
| Skinner, Samuel Knox | 1992 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Wilson John A. | 1992 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Auerbach, Arnold "Red" | 1993 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bloom, Claire | 1993 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Bowsher, Charles A. | 1993 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Gates, Jr., Henry Louis | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Healy, Bernadine P. | 1993 | Doctor of Science |
| McConnell, Harden Marsden | 1993 | Doctor of Science |
| Raspberry, William James | 1993 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Roth, Philip | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Shalala, Donna Edna | 1993 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Stern, Isaac | 1993 | Doctor of Music |
| Van Duyn, Mon | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Clinton, Hillary Rodham | 1994 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Davison, Roderic Hollett | 1994 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
Drew, Elizabeth | 1994 | Doctor of Letters |
| Elders, M. Jocelyn | 1994 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Franklin, John Hope | 1994 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Green, Joyce Hens | 1994 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lindner, Thaddeus A. | 1994 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Petersdorf, Robert George | 1994 | Doctor of Science |
| Blackmun, Harry A. | 1995 | Doctor of Laws |
| Cohen, Jordan J. | 1995 | Doctor of Science |
| Dole, Elizabeth | 1995 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Eban, Abba | 1995 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Foley, Thomas S. | 1995 | Doctor of Laws |
| Thomas, Helen | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Bellows, Everett H. | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Collins, Francis Sellers | 1996 | Doctor of Science |
| Edelman, Marian Wright | 1996 | Doctor of Public Service |
| King, Larry | 1996 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Lichtenstein, Roy | 1996 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Navratilova, Martina | 1996 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Price, Hugh Bernard | 1996 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rabin, Yitzhak | 1996 | Doctor of Public Service, posthumous |
| Rehnquist, William Hubbs | 1996 | Doctor of Laws |
| Baca, Joseph F. | 1997 | Doctor of Laws |
| Campbell, Elizabeth P. | 1997 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cohen, I. Bernard | 1997 | Doctor of Science |
| Ginsburg, Ruth Bader | 1997 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tauber, Laszlo N. | 1997 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Hitachi HIH, Prince Masahito | 1997 | Doctor of Science |
| Blackwell, Harolyn | 1998 | Doctor of Music |
| Brimmer, Andrew F. | 1998 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Carr, Oliver T. | 1998 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dole, Robert J. | 1998 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Himmelfarb, Gertrude | 1998 | Doctor of Letters |
| Holder, Jr., Eric | 1998 | Doctor of Laws |
| Weingold, Allan B. | 1998 | Doctor of Science |
| Dyson, Esther | 1999 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Joyner-Kersee, Jacqueline | 1999 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Levitt, Arthur | 1999 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Mubarak, Mohamed Hosni | 1999 | Doctor of Laws |
| Tutu, Desmond M. | 1999 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Williams, Anthony A. | 1999 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wills, Garry | 1999 | Doctor of Letters |
| Albright, Madeleine K. | 2000 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gilbert, Sir Martin | 2000 | Doctor of Letters |
| Lewis, John | 2000 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Wolfensohn, James D. | 2000 | Doctor of Public Service |
King of Morocco, His Majesty Mohammed VI | 2000 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rodriguez, Miguel Angel | 2000 | Doctor of Laws |
| Wouk, Herman | 2001 | Doctor of Letters |
| Bennett, Tony | 2001 | Doctor of Music |
| Colwell, Rita Rossi | 2001 | Doctor of Science |
| Jarvis, Charlene Drew | 2001 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Shepherd, H.R. | 2001 | Doctor of Science |
| Slatkin, Leonard | 2001 | Doctor of Music |
| Tydings, John R. | 2001 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Reno, Janet | 2001 | Doctor of Laws |
| Davis, F. Elwood | 2001 | Doctor of Laws |
| Katsav, Moshe | 2001 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Rasmussen, Aders Fogh | 2002 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Green, Darrell | 2002 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Hall, Jim | 2002 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Schwoerer, Lois Green | 2002 | Doctor of Letters |
| Simmons, Ruth J. | 2002 | Doctor of Letters |
| Zeglis, John D. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws |
| Carnahan, Jean | 2003 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cohen, Sheldon | 2003 | Doctor of Laws |
| Jacobs, Madeleine | 2003 | Doctor of Science |
| Taylor, Billy | 2003 | Doctor of Science |
| Warner, Mark | 2003 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Brady, Luther W. | 2004 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Lederman, Leon M. | 2004 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Paster, Gail Kern | 2004 | Doctor of Letters |
| Shalikashvili, John M. | 2004 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Buergenthal, Thomas | 2004 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dresselhaus, Mildred S. | 2005 | Doctor of Science |
| Ibarguen, Alberto | 2005 | Doctor of Letters |
| Rooney, Andy | 2005 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Russell, Philip K. | 2005 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Reid, Harry | 2005 | Doctor of Laws |
| Bush, Barbara Pierce | 2006 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bush, George H.W. | 2006 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Redstone, Sumner M. | 2006 | Doctor of Arts |
| Robinson, Frank | 2006 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Glickman, Dan | 2006 | Doctor of Laws |
| Blitzer, Wolf | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Cicerone, Ralph J. | 2007 | Doctor of Science |
| Cropp, Linda W. | 2007 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Fineberg, Harvey V. | 2007 | Doctor of Science |
| Weicker, Jr., Lowell P. | 2007 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bond, Julian | 2008 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Inouye, Daniel K. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws |
| Manatt, Charles T. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws |
| McConnell, John M. | 2008 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Trachtenberg, Stephen Joel | 2008 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Emanuel, Rahm | 2009 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Narum, Jeanne | 2009 | Doctor of Science |
| Safer, John | 2009 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Lee, Myung-bak | 2009 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Brubeck, David W. | 2010 | Doctor of Music |
| Clark, A. James | 2010 | Doctor of Engineering |
| Obama, Michelle | 2010 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bloomberg, Michael R. | 2011 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cafritz, Peggy Cooper | 2011 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Coleman, Jr., William T. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws |
| Slim, Carlos | 2012 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Smith, Clarice | 2012 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Williams, Brian | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Allen, Thad | 2013 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Fulbright, Harriet M. | 2013 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Washington, Kerry | 2013 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Andrés, José | 2014 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cooper, Maudine R. | 2014 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Ramsey, Russell | 2014 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cook, Tim | 2015 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Watson, Carole M. | 2015 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Fauci, Anthony S. | 2015 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Booker, Cory | 2016 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Joanna Shields | 2016 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Small, Albert H. | 2016 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Duckworth, Tammy | 2017 | Doctor of Public Service |
| West, Nadja | 2017 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Baron, Marty | 2017 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Knapp, Steven | 2018 | Doctor of Letters |
| Taylor, Elana Meyers, B.S. ’06, M.T.A. ’11 | 2018 | Doctor of Public Service |
| McNutt, Marcia | 2018 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Darden, Christine Mann, D.Sc '83 | 2019 | Doctor of Science |
| McCain, Cindy Hensley | 2019 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Guthrie, Savannah Clark | 2019 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Kahn, Michael | 2019 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Carbonell, Jr., Nelson A. | 2021 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bunch, III, Lonnie G. | 2021 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Warren, Elizabeth | 2021 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bash, Dana | 2022 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Todd, Chuck | 2022 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bowser, Muriel Elizabeth | 2023 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Milken, Michael | 2023 | Doctor of Science |
| Stevenson, Bryan | 2023 | Doctor of Laws |
| Gray, Vincent Condol, B.A. '64 | 2024 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Ledecky, Jonathan | 2024 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Psaki, Jen | 2024 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Loeb, John | 2024 | Doctor of Public Service |