University Awards & Recognition
Honorary Degrees Awarded
| Year Conferred | Name | Degree Conferred |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 1878 | Thomas Corwin Mendenhall | Ph.D. |
| John Bradley Peaslee | Ph.D. | |
| Jun 1879 | Allen Granberry Thurman | LL.D. |
| Morrison Remick Waite | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1881 | Joseph Millikin | Ph.D. |
| Edward Orton | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1887 | James J. Burns | Ph.D. |
| Alston Ellis | Ph.D. | |
| Burke Aaron Hinsdale | Ph.D. | |
| Jun 1890 | William I. Chamberlain | LL.D. |
| Alston Ellis | LL.D. | |
| Joshua C. Hartzler | Ph.D. | |
| Charles Embree Thorne | M.Agr. | |
| Jun 1896 | Stillman W. Robinson | D.Sc. |
| There were no Honorary Degrees conferred from 1896 until 1929 | ||
| Jun 1929 | William Oxley Thompson | LL.D. |
| Charles Franklin Kettering | D. Engr. | |
| Arthur H. Compton | D. Sc. | |
| Jun 1930 | Orville Wright | D. Sc. |
| Jun 1931 | William Henry Scott | LL.D. |
| Francis Carter Wood | D. Sc. | |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher | D. Litt. | |
| Jun 1932 | Charles Frederick Marvin | D. Sc. |
| Walter Collings O'Kane | D. Sc. | |
| Jun 1933 | Gaius Glenn Atkins | D. Litt. |
| Edward Francis | D. Sc. | |
| Paul Martyn Lincoln | D. Engr. | |
| Mar 1934 | Henry Spencer Houghton | D. Sc. |
| Torald Herman Sollmann | D. Sc. | |
| William Sharp McCann | D. Sc. | |
| Jun 1934 | Daniel Joseph Brumley | D. Engr. |
| Charles H. Lake | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1935 | Charles Edward Skinner | D. Engr. |
| Sarah Wambaugh | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1936 | Herbert Osborn | LL.D. |
| Ralph Davenport Mershon | D. Engr. | |
| Roy Donaldson McClure | D. Sc. | |
| Jun 1937 | Charles Sumner Plumb | LL.D. |
| Alice Griffith Carr | LL.D. | |
| Willard Monroe Kiplinger | LL.D. | |
| Charles Felton Scott | D. Sc. | |
| Jun 1938 | George Washington Rightmire | LL.D. |
| Julius Frederick Stone | D. Sc. | |
| Florence Ellinwood Allen | LL.D. | |
| Robert Browning Sosman | D. Sc. | |
| Evan Jay Crane | D. Sc. | |
| Jun 1939 | John William Bricker | LL.D. |
| Charles Proctor Cooper | D. Sc. | |
| Charles R. Hook | LL.D. | |
| Dard Hunter | D. Litt. | |
| Merritt Finley Miller | D. Sc. | |
| Jun 1940 | William McPherson | LL.D. |
| Jun 1941 | Lieutenant General Stanley H. Ford | LL.D. |
| Anne O'Hare McCormick | D.H.L. | |
| Ervin George Bailey | D. Engr. | |
| Mar 1942 | His Excellency Hu Shih Ambassador of the Republic of China |
LL.D. |
| Jun 1942 | Major General Lewis B. Hershey | LL.D. |
| Captain Glenn Smith Burrell | D.Engr. | |
| Edwin George Hastings | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1943 | James Edward Hagerty | LL.D. |
| Henry Herbert Goddard | LL.D. | |
| Harry Roger Drackett | D.Sc. | |
| Elmer Edwin Ware | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1944 | Ernest R. Root | LL.D. |
| Arno C. Fieldner | D.Sc. | |
| Thomas Midgley, Jr. | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1945 | Commander George C. Paffenbarger, USNR | D.Sc. |
| James Lewis Morrill | LL.D. | |
| Charles Elmer Holzer | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1946 | Paul Herman Buck | LL.D. |
| Alpheus W. Smith | LL.D. | |
| Carl E. Steeb | D.Adm. | |
| Nov 1946 | Edna Noble White | LL.D. |
| Jun 1947 | Frederick Leslie Brownlee | LL.D. |
| James Middleton Cox | LL.D. | |
| Cecil Vincent Thomas | LL.D. | |
| Edgar Collins Bain | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1948 | Boyd Henry Bode | LL.D. |
| Verne Adams Dodd | LL.D. | |
| William Lloyd Evans | LL.D. | |
| William Edwards Henderson | LL.D. | |
| James Ross Hopkins | LL.D. | |
| Joseph Alexander Leighton | LL.D. | |
| Charles Clark Stillman | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1949 | Edith D. Cockins | D.Adm. |
| John Lyon Collver | LL.D. | |
| Charles Potter Hoover | D.Engr. | |
| Raymond Carroll Osburn | D.Sc. | |
| Wilbur Henry Siebert | LL.D. | |
| Edgar Nelson Transeau | D.Sc. | |
| George White | LL.D. | |
| Sep 1949 | Frank Stanton | LL.D. |
| Jun 1950 | William Vermillion Houston | D.Sc. |
| Arthur J. Klein | LL.D. | |
| James Finney Lincoln | D.Sc. | |
| Paul Henry Nystrom | LL.D. | |
| Henry Russell Spencer | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1951 | Esther McGinnis | LL.D. |
| Gregg Manners Sinclair | LL.D. | |
| Arthur Simeon Watts | D.Sc. | |
| Clyde Elmer Williams | D.Sc. | |
| Aug 1951 | Ralph Johnson Bunche | LL.D. |
| Werrett Wallace Charters | LL.D. | |
| Dec 1951 | Fred Lazarus, Jr. | LL.D. |
| Mar 1952 | Francis William Coker | LL.D. |
| Jun 1952 | Harlan Henthorne Hatcher | LL.D. |
| Sam Higginbottom | D.Sc. | |
| Grove Hiram Patterson | LL.D. | |
| Dec 1952 | Clyde Tucker Morris | D.Sc. |
| Donald Gildersleeve Paterson | LL.D. | |
| Mar 1953 | Howard Johnson Lucas | D.Sc. |
| Jun 1953 | Thomas Alvin Boyd | D.Sc. |
| Albert Belmont Graham | LL.D. | |
| William John McCaughey | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1953 | Stanton Youngberg | D.Sc. |
| Jun 1954 | Edwin Sharp Burdell | LL.D. |
| Mason M. Roberts | LL.D. | |
| Jack A. Morton | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1954 | Howard Foster Lowry | LL.D. |
| Mar 1955 | William Edward Levis | LL.D. |
| Jun 1955 | Harry G. Good | LL.D. |
| Harry Kaplan | LL.D. | |
| Melvin DeGroote | D.Sc. | |
| Homer Charles Fritsch | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1955 | Henry Wise Hobson | LL.D. |
| Mar 1956 | Albert Kinkade Chapman | LL.D. |
| Jun 1956 | Albert Benedict Wolfe | LL.D. |
| Robert Allan Moore | D.Sc. | |
| Harrison McAllister Randall | D.Sc. | |
| Aug 1956 | Howard Landis Bevis | LL.D. |
| Ralph Winfred Tyler | LL.D. | |
| Dec 1956 | Jess Harrison Davis | D.Sc. |
| George Holland Sabine | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1957 | Thaddeus Hedges Parks | D.Sc. |
| William Van Orman Quine | LL.D. | |
| Philip Sporn | D.Sc. | |
| Aug 1957 | Charles Amos Dice | LL.D. |
| Edward Vernon Rickenbacker | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1957 | Robert Frost | D.H.L. |
| Walter Davis Lambert | D.Sc. | |
| Dael Lee Wolfle | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1958 | Wallace Reed Brode | D.Sc. |
| Karl Friedrich Meyer | D. Sc. | |
| Milton Oswin Percival | D.H.L. | |
| Leonard Riggleman | LL.D. | |
| Aug 1958 | Earle Clement Smith | D.Sc. |
| Homer Scott Swingle | D.Sc. | |
| Carl John Wiggers | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1958 | George Emmanuel Mylonas | LL.D. |
| Lydia Jane Roberts | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1959 | Ralph Fanning (In Absentia) | D.H.L. |
| Lydia Jane Roberts | D.Sc. | |
| Polykarp Kusch | D.Sc. | |
| Aug 1959 | Fred Norris Robinson | D.H.L. |
| Dec 1959 | William Mathewsom Milliken | D.H.L. |
| Jun 1960 | Stanhope Bayne-Jones | D.Sc. |
| Aug 1960 | Sidney Leavitt Pressey | LL.D. |
| Dec 1960 | Irvin Heinly Page | D.Sc. |
| Laurence Hasbrouck Snyder | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1961 | Howard Mumford Jones | D.H.L. |
| John Snively Knight | LL.D. | |
| John Davis Millett | LL.D. | |
| Albert Bruce Sabin | D.Sc. | |
| Glenn Theodore Seaborg | D.Sc. | |
| Mar 1962 | Nadia Boulanger (In Absentia) | D.H.L. |
| Harry Clifford Ramsower | D.H.L. | |
| Jun 1962 | Howard Bernhardt Adelmann | D.Sc. |
| Joseph Howard Humberstone | D.Sc. | |
| Curtis Emerson LeMay | D.Sc. | |
| Fred Homer Pumphrey | D.Sc. | |
| Aug 1962 | Foy David Kohler | D.H.L. |
| Grote Reber | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1962 | John Harvey Knox | D.Sc. |
| Roger Tory Peterson | D.Sc. | |
| Hazel Katherine Stiebeling | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1963 | Carl Raymond Arnold | D.H.L. |
| Paul Clifford Kitchin | D.Sc. | |
| Jerome Lawrence | D.H.L. | |
| Games Slayter | D.Sc. | |
| Bertram David Thomas | D.Sc. | |
| Carl Frederick Wittke | D.H.L. | |
| Aug 1963 | Karl Terzaghi | D.Sc. |
| Dec 1963 | Robert Bingham Downs | D.H.L. |
| Clarence Dewey Laylin | LL.D. | |
| Herman B. Wells | D.H.L. | |
| Jun 1964 | Leonard Bernstein | D.H.L. |
| J. George Harrar | D.Sc. | |
| G. Preston Hoff | D.Sc. | |
| Glenn Allen Sonnedecker | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1964 | Charles Austin Doan | D.Sc. |
| George Remington Havens | D.H.L. | |
| Peter H. Odegard | LL.D. | |
| Potter Stewart | LL.D. | |
| Jun 1965 | George E. Mueller | D.Sc. |
| Elliott Nugent | D.Litt. | |
| Thomas Patton | LL.D. | |
| Joseph J. Spengler | D.H.L. | |
| Dec 1965 | Francis H. Griswold | D.P.A. |
| N. Paul Hudson | D.Sc. | |
| Henry E. Hoagland | LL.D. | |
| Morris Silverman | D.H.L. | |
| Mar 1966 | Roberto Sanchez Vilella | LL.D. |
| Jun 1966 | David K. Detweiler | D.Sc. |
| Andrew Denny Rodgers III | D.Litt. | |
| Dec 1966 | William L. Everitt | D.Sc. |
| Apr 1967 | Justice Abe Fortas (Special Ceremony) | LL.D. |
| Jun 1967 | Charles Good Gomillion | LL.D. |
| Loren Franklin Steiner | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1967 | Sherman E. Lee | D.H.L. |
| Jun 1968 | James A. Rhodes | LL.D. |
| Lyman S. Ford | D.H.L. | |
| Walter Cronkite | D.H.L. | |
| Henry Chauncey | LL.D. | |
| Dec 1968 | Lister Hill (In Absentia) | LL.D. |
| Karl Schwartzwalder | D.Sc. | |
| Weikko Heiskanen (In Absentia) | D.Sc. | |
| Mar 1969 | Prem Nath Thapar (In India) | D.Sc. |
| Apr 1969 | Charles Haynes Wilson | LL.D. |
| Jun 1969 | Bob Hope | D.H.L. |
| Spiro T. Agnew | LL.D. | |
| Amory Houghton (In Absentia) | LL.D. | |
| Dec 1969 | Edward A. Hobart | D.Sc. |
| Mar 1970 | Hendrik W. Bode | D.Sc. |
| William W. Cooper | D.Sc. | |
| Henry B. Hass | D.Sc. | |
| Maynard K. Hine | D.Sc. | |
| Alvah Peterson | D.Sc. | |
| Apr 1970 | Aaron Copland (Special Ceremony) | D.H.L. |
| Jun 1970 | Richard Bradfield | D.Sc. |
| Henry Steele Commager | D.Let. | |
| Robert H. Finch | LL.D. | |
| Paul J. Flory | D.Sc. | |
| Thomas Carlyle Jones | D.Sc. | |
| J. Walter Severinghaus | D.H.L. | |
| James A. Shannon | D.Sc. | |
| S. Fred Singer | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1970 | Yuen Ren Chao (Special Ceremony) | D.H.L. |
| Sep 1970 | Wilbur J. Cohen | D.H.L. |
| Vincent G. Dethier | D.Sc. | |
| Frederick Vinton Hunt | D.Sc. | |
| Fritz Loewe | D.Sc. | |
| Mary E. Switzer | D.H.L. | |
| John A. Volpe | D.P.A. | |
| Sep 1970 | John McMichael (Special Ceremony) | D.Sc. |
| Oct 1970 | Ronald Syme (Special Ceremony | D.Let. |
| Oct 1970 | Roman Jakobson (Special Ceremony) | D.H.L. |
| Mar 1971 | Paul G. Benedum | LL.D. |
| Max M. Fisher | LL.D. | |
| John W. Galbreath | LL.D. | |
| Samuel M. Melton | LL.D. | |
| Everett D. Reese | LL.D. | |
| Barbara Walters (Guber) | D.H.L. | |
| Jun 1971 | Neil A. Armstrong | D.Sc. |
| Dec 1971 | William Joanovich | D.H.L. |
| Dr. Sherwood L. Fawcett | D.Sc. | |
| Mar 1972 | Dr. Aklilu Habte | D.H.L. |
| Dr. Howard Hanson | D.H.L. | |
| Starke R. Hathaway | D.H.L. | |
| John A. Maurer | D.Sc. | |
| Elliot Lee Richardson | LL.D. | |
| Edmund Maute Spieker | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1972 | Ambassador Armin H. Meyer | LL.D. |
| Alan Gregory Loofbourrow | D.Sc. | |
| Joseph Howard Koffolt | D.Sc. | |
| John Englebert Dunphy | D.Sc. | |
| Sep 1972 | Novice G. Fawcett (Special Action of Trustees) | LL.D. |
| Marjorie Keener Fawcett | D.H.L. | |
| Jack W. Nicklaus | A.A.D. | |
| Oct 1972 | Elizabeth M. Boggs | LL.D. |
| Dec 1972 | Hal Oscar Anger | D.Sc. |
| Paul Jackson Kramer | D.Sc. | |
| Elburt F. Osborn | D.Sc. | |
| Jesse Owens | A.A.D. | |
| Mar 1973 | Phillip R. Shriver | LL.D. |
| Jun 1973 | Elizabeth Duncan Koontz | D.H.L. |
| Arthur E. Morgan | D.H.L. | |
| George Sinclair | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1974 | Milton Caniff | D.H.L. |
| Robert Milton Zollinger | D.Sc. | |
| Walter R. Krill | D.Sc. | |
| Joseph Sandy Himes | D.Sc. | |
| Aug 1974 | Gerald R. Ford (President) | LL.D. |
| Jun 1975 | William B. Saxbe | LL.D. |
| Emil Bozler | D.Sc. | |
| Lawrence Cremin | D.H.L. | |
| Chauncey D. Leake | D.Sc. | |
| Donald J. McPherson | D.Sc. | |
| Nov 1975 | William Mason Kaula | D.Sc. |
| Mar 1976 | Alex Haley | D.H.L. |
| Leon N. Cooper | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1976 | Arthur S. Iberall | D.Sc. |
| Daniel P. Moynihan | LL.D. | |
| Jacob W. Schaefer | D.Sc. | |
| Franz T. Stone | D.H.L. | |
| Aug 1976 | Charles A. Mosher | LL.D. |
| Nov 1976 | Michio Nagai (Special Ceremony) | D.Sc. |
| Dec 1976 | Robben Wright Fleming | LL.D. |
| Allen D. Manvel | D.Sc. | |
| Mar 1977 | Roy J. Plunkett | D.Sc. |
| Walter Seager Sullivan | D.Sc. | |
| Willard Wirtz | D.H. | |
| Jun 1977 | Samuel DuBois Cook | D.H.L. |
| Dwight M. DeLong | D.Sc. | |
| Richard Lewis Meiling | D.H.L. | |
| James R. Schlesinger | LL.D. | |
| Dec 1977 | William M. Batten | D.H. |
| Walter Louis Chambers | D.Sc. | |
| Ralph M. Hardgrove | D.Sc. | |
| Mar 1978 | Philip Handler | D.Sc. |
| Jun 1978 | William A. Fowler | D.Sc. |
| Peter Jay | D.H. | |
| Ralph E. Kent | D.H. | |
| Mary A. Trautman | D.Sc. | |
| Milton B. Trautman | D.Sc. | |
| Aug 1978 | Tom Moody | LL.D. |
| Dec 1978 | Howard R. Bowen | D.H.L. |
| Anna Sokolow | D.H. | |
| Frank Ransom Strong | LL.D. | |
| Mar 1979 | Rupert Lloyd Atkin | D.Sc. |
| Melvin S. Newman | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1979 | Soichiro Honda | D.H.L. |
| Saul Krugman | D.Sc. | |
| Walter F. Mondale | LL.D. | |
| C. Radhakrishna Rao | D.Sc. | |
| Aug 1979 | Alan K. Campbell | D.H.L. |
| Hal Holbrook | D.H. | |
| Robert E. Lee | D.H. | |
| Martha Nelson Lewis | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1979 | Robert M. Duncan | LL.D. |
| Mar 1980 | Barbara Uehling | LL.D. |
| Serge Chermayeff | D.H. | |
| Jun 1980 | John E. Corbally | LL.D. |
| Edgar Dale | D.H.L. | |
| Laurence M. Gould | D.Sc. | |
| John G. Wagner | D.Sc. | |
| Aug 1980 | Marshall D. Shulman | LL.D. |
| Dec 1980 | Mary Rosamond Haas | D.H.L. |
| Frederick G. Kilgour | D.H.L. | |
| J. W. Peltason | D.H.L. | |
| Howard Rosen | D.H.L. | |
| Mar 1981 | Norman E. Borlaug | D.Sc. |
| Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. | D.H.L. | |
| Jun 1981 | Richard J. Anderle | D.Sc. |
| Eileen Heckart | D.H.L. | |
| Harold L. Enarson | D.H.L. | |
| Sep 1981 | Alistair Cooke (In Absentia) | D.H.L. |
| Vern Riffe | LL.D. | |
| Dec 1981 | Merritt Madison Chambers | D.H.L. |
| Mar 1982 | W. Edwards Deming | D.Sc. |
| Ferdinand Fairfax Stone | D.H.L. | |
| Barbara Tuchman (In Absentia) | D.H.L. | |
| Jun 1982 | R. M. Lumiansky | D.H.L. |
| Elmer Boyd Staats | D.H.L. | |
| Sep 1982 | John W. Black | D.H.L. |
| Russell W. Peterson | D.H.L. | |
| George Ledyard Stebbins | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1982 | (No honorary degrees given) | |
| Mar 1983 | Helen G. Edmonds | D.H.L. |
| Jun 1983 | Benjamin S. Bloom | D.H.L. |
| George Bush (Vice President) | D.H.L. | |
| Vincent T. DeVita, Jr. | D.Sc. | |
| Frank Press | D.Sc. | |
| Sep 1983 | Herman Chernoff | D.Sc. |
| Ralph Landau | D.Sc. | |
| Lloyd M. Parks | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1983 | Christa Wolf (in absentia) | D.H.L. |
| Mar 1984 | Robert C. Good | D.H.L. |
| Fred Machetanz | D.H.L. | |
| Jun 1984 | Harvey Brooks | D.Sc. |
| John Glenn | D.Laws | |
| Archbishop Iakovos | D.H.L. | |
| Arthur H. Robinson | D.Sc. | |
| George D. Snell | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1984 | Nikolay Alekseyevich Shilo | D.Sc. |
| Dec 1984 | Joseph McVicker Hunt | D.Sc. |
| Abba G. Lichtenstein | D.Engineering | |
| Mar 1985 | Eva Crane | D.Sc. |
| Edwin D. Dodd | D. Bus.Adm. | |
| Torsten Husen | D. Higher Ed. | |
| Myrl H. Shoemaker (in absentia) | D. Laws | |
| Jun 1985 | Richard F. Celeste | D. Laws |
| Torsten Hagerstrand | D.Sc. | |
| Ragnhild Marie Hatton | D.H.L. | |
| Aug 1985 | Amos H. Lynch, Sr. | D.H.L. |
| Dec 1985 | Richard T. Baker | D.Acct&BusAdm |
| George W. Baughman | D. Engineering | |
| David Riesman (in absentia) | D. Soc&Beh Sc | |
| Mar 1986 | Wayne Woodrow Hayes | D. Humanities |
| Jun 1986 | Berenice Abbott | D.H.L. |
| Charles W. Fries | Arts D. | |
| Donald E. Osterbrock | D.Sc. | |
| Leslie H. Wexner | D. Humanities | |
| Aug 1986 | Dale B. Baker | D.Sc. |
| John Deaver Drinko | D. Laws | |
| Paul Louis Lehmann | D.H.L. | |
| Dec 1986 | Frederick J. Doyle | D.Sc. |
| Mar 1987 | Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. | D.H.L. |
| Yoshiyuki Funatsu | D. Engineering | |
| Ullrich Georg Trendeleburg | D.Sc. | |
| May 1987 | William J. Brennan, Jr. | D. Laws |
| Jun 1987 | Pavle Ivic | D.H.L. |
| Dec 1987 | Josephine Sitterle Failer | D. Hum. |
| Ann Hutchinson Guest | D. Hum. | |
| Janet Taylor Spence | D.Sc. | |
| Paolo Emilio Taviani | D.H.L. | |
| C. K. Tseng | D.Sc. | |
| Mar 1988 | Arno A. Penzias | D.Sc. |
| Jun 1988 | Erich Bloch | D.Sc. & Eng. |
| Philip Johnson | Arts D. | |
| Roy Lichtenstein | D.F.A. | |
| Sep 1988 | Richard M. Morrow | D. Engineering |
| Dec 1988 | Marshall Hall, Jr. | D.Sc. |
| Austin H. Kiplinger | D.H.L. | |
| Mar 1989 | Andrew W. Marshall | D.Sc. |
| Jun 1989 | Elizabeth Hanford Dole | D.Law |
| Julian B. Rotter | D. Science | |
| Aug 1989 | Gertrude B. Elion | D. Science |
| Dec 1989 | Stanley E. Harrison | D.H.L. |
| Mar 1990 | Leonard L. Haynes, III | D.Law |
| May 1990 | Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov | D.Sc |
| Jun 1990 | Helen P. Alkire | D. Education |
| Edward H. Jennings | D.H.L. | |
| Hildegard E. Peplau | D.H.L. | |
| Aug 1990 | Frank H. Netter (In Absentia) | D. Arts |
| Robert W. Wissler | D.Sc. | |
| Dec 1990 | Stanley J. Aronoff | D.Laws |
| Mar 1991 | Nyle C. Brady | D.H.L. |
| D. Allan Bromley | D.Sc. | |
| Robert L. Metcalf | D.Sc. | |
| Jun 1991 | William N. Lipscomb, Jr. | D.Sc. |
| Aug 1991 | Martin Meyerson | D.H.L. |
| Peter Taylor (in absentia) | D.H.L. | |
| Mar 1992 | Arpad Goncz | D.H.L. |
| Helmut Moritz | D.Sc. | |
| Harold A. Sorgenti | D.H.L. | |
| May 1992 | Warren E. Burger | D. Laws |
| Sep 1992 | Kenneth E. Boulding (in absentia) | D. Sc. |
| Frank H. T. Rhodes | Ed.D | |
| Dec 1992 | Ralph W. Cummings | Ed.D |
| Mar 1993 | Roald Hoffmann | D. Sc. |
| Jun 1993 | Leonard Downie Jr. | D.H.L. |
| Frank Ellis | D. Sc. | |
| Hideo Sasaki | D.F.A. | |
| William H. Sweet | D. Sc. | |
| Sep 1993 | John B. McCoy | D. Bus. Adm. |
| Dec 1993 | Don Kirkham | D. Sc. |
| Howard M. Metzenbaum | D. Laws | |
| Thomas J. Moyer | D. Laws | |
| Mar 1994 | Virginia Hamilton | D.H.L. |
| Torsten N. Wiesel | D. Sc. | |
| Jun 1994 | John B. Gerlach | D. Bus. Adm. |
| Damon J. Keith | D. Laws | |
| Sept 1994 | Willy Burgdorfer | D. Sc. |
| Dec 1994 | Rajammal P. Devadas | D.H.L. |
| Jun 1995 | Alberto P. Calderon | D. Sc. |
| David H. Hubel | D. Sc. | |
| Shimon Peres | D. Dip. | |
| James Thurber (awarded posthumously) | D.H.L. | |
| Aug 1995 | John Price Hirth | D. Sc. |
| Austin E. Knowlton | D. Arch. | |
| Howard T. Odum | D. Sc. | |
| Peter L. Scott | D. Bus. Adm. | |
| Dec 1995 | Daniel Hillel | D. Sc. |
| Jeanne Bonnet McCoy | D.H.L. | |
| Mar 1996 | Leon Sullivan | D.H.L. |
| Jun 1996 | John Jakes | D. Hum. |
| Neal Lane | D. Sc. | |
| Chang-Lin Tien | D. Eng. | |
| Aug 1996 | George H. Alber | D. Bus. Adm |
| Robert F. Furchgott | D. Sc. | |
| Barbara A. Reynolds | D. Hum. Let. | |
| Dec 1996 | Lawrence R. Barnett | D. Fine Arts |
| John Doyle Ong | D. Hum | |
| E. Travis York | D. Science | |
| Mar 1997 | Ada E. Deer | D. Hum. |
| Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. | D. Science | |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. | D. Hum. Let. | |
| June 1997 | Bob Greene | D. Journalism |
| Walter Mischel | D. Science | |
| Eugene P. Odum | D. Science | |
| Erie Sauder (in absentia) | D. Hum. Let. | |
| Aug 1997 | Sir James Black | D. Science |
| Viktor E. Frankl | D. Hum. Let. | |
| Edward E. Hagenlocker | D. Science | |
| Pancras John Mukasa Ssebuwufu | D. Education | |
| R. David Thomas | D. Bus. Admin. | |
| Dec 1997 | John W. Berry | D. Bus. Admin. |
| E. Gordon Gee | D. Education | |
| E. Willard Miller | D. Science | |
| Walter Mischel | D. Science | |
| Milton A. Wolf | D. Diplomacy | |
| Mar 1998 | Stanley Katz | D. Laws |
| Gerhard Levy | D. Science | |
| Marcel Marceau | D. Hum. Let. | |
| June 12, 1998 | Mildred Dresselhaus | D. Science |
| Bob Greene | D. Journalism | |
| George St. Pierre | D. Science | |
| K. Wayne Smith | D. Hum. Let. | |
| Sept. 3, 1998 | Marie M. Clay | D. Hum. Let. |
| Vera Cooper Rubin | D. Science | |
| Ismail Serageldin | D. Nat.Res.Mgt. | |
| Donald B. Shackelford | D. Bus. Adm. | |
| Dec. 11, 1998 | Adalet Agaoglu | D. Hum. Let. |
| Leonard B. Meyer | D. Hum. Let. | |
| March 19, 1999 | Chung-Hsin Chung | D. Science |
| Richard D. Klausner | D. Science | |
| Lee Yung Dug | D. Education | |
| Eugene P. Odum | D. Science | |
| June 11, 1999 | Elias Burstein | D. Science |
| Lawrence J. DeLucas | D. Science | |
| David W. Longaberger (Posthumously) | D. Bus. Adm. | |
| Sept. 2, 1999 | William V. Lumb | D. Science |
| William G. Ouchi | D. Hum. Let. | |
| John F. Wolfe | D. Journalism | |
| Dec. 10, 1999 | Gregory S. Lashutka | D. Laws |
| Ilse Lehiste | D. Hum. Let. | |
| John G. McCoy | D. Bus. Adm. | |
| March 17, 2000 | Robert D. Putnam | D. Pol. Sci. |
| Sir Brian Urquhart | D. Int. Pol. | |
| June 9, 2000 | Robert Coleman Richardson | D. Science |
| Richard J. Solove | D. Science | |
| William Julius Wilson | D. Hum. Let. | |
| Aug. 31, 2000 | Jules LaPidus | D. Hum. Let. |
| R.S. Paroda | D. Science | |
| John Pepper | D. Bus. Adm. | |
| Dec. 8, 2000 | Jo Ann Davidson | D. Pub. Adm. |
| William Form | D. Sociology | |
| Michael Murray | D. Mus. Arts | |
| Frank Wobst | D. Hum. Let. | |
| March 16, 2001 | Henry Brognard Betts | D. Pub Service |
| Betty Frank Schoenbaum | D. Business | |
| Ratan N. Tata | D. Bus Adm | |
| Hiroyuki Yoshino | D. Engineering | |
| June 8, 2001 | Lester R. Brown | D. Science |
| William H. Cosby, Jr. | D. Education | |
| Daniel U. Kiley | D. Land Arch | |
| Raymond E. Mason, Jr. | D. Bus Adm | |
| Aug. 30, 2001 | Raphael Mechoulam | D. Science |
| Clayton Daniel Mote, Jr. | D. Science | |
| David Satcher | D. Science | |
| Karen K. Uhlenbeck | D. Science | |
| Dec. 7, 2001 | John N. Bahcall | D. Science |
| Paul Edmund Bierley | D. Music | |
| F. Albert Cotton | D. Science | |
| March 22, 2002 | Wilford Robert Gardner | D. Science |
| Theodore M. Hesburgh | D. Humane Letters | |
| Ray D. Owen | D. Science | |
| June 12, 2002 | F. Sherwood Rowland | D. Science |
| June 14, 2002 | George W. Bush | D. Public Admin. |
| Walter E. Massey | D. Science | |
| George M. Steinbrenner II | D. Bus.Adm. | |
| Marta Tienda | D. Social Science | |
| August 30, 2002 | Harold A. McMaster | D. Science |
| Andr Wambersie | D. Science | |
| November 4, 2002 | Yuan T. Lee | D. Science |
| December 13, 2002 | Charles Augustus Ballard | D. Public Service |
| Howard E. LeFevre | D. Humane Letters | |
| Louis W. Sullivan | D. Public Health | |
| March 13, 2003 | Martha Craven Nussbaum | D. Humane Letters |
| March 21, 2003 | Eva Klein | D. Science |
| Elizabeth M. Ross | D. Humane Letters | |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | D. Humane Letters | |
| May 13, 2003 | David McCullough | D. Humane Letters |
| June 13, 2003 | Robert D. Havener | D. Public Service |
| Adrienne L. Kennedy | D. Literature | |
| William E. Kirwan | D. Education | |
| R.E. "Ted" Turner | D. Humane Letters | |
| August 29, 2003 | William F. Ganong | D. Science |
| Dennis J. Greenland | D. Science | |
| October 1, 2003 | Thomas R. Cech | D. Science |
| December 14, 2003 | Gerardus 't Hooft | D. Science |
| Nathaniel R. Jones | D. Law | |
| Mark B. Rucker | D. Music | |
| March 21, 2004 | Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. | D. Humane Letters |
| Durbin Duran Feeling | D. Humane Letters | |
| June 13, 2004 | David W. Harvey | D. Science |
| August 29, 2004 | Ernest M. Henley | D. of Science |
| Howard M. Johnson | D. of Science | |
| December 12, 2004 | Edward J. Larson | D. Humane Letters |
| Leon M. Lederman | D. Science Education | |
| M.S. Swaminathan | D. Agricultural Science | |
| March 20, 2005 | Gerald E. Brown | D. Science |
| Eugenie C. Scott | D. Science | |
| June 12, 2005 | Glen H. Elder, Jr. | D. Social Science |
| William H. Hall | D. Public Service | |
| Carl E. Wieman | D. Science | |
| August 28, 2005 | Frank M. Bass | D. Bus.Adm. |
| Roger O. McClellan | D. Science | |
| Grayce McVeigh Sills | D. Public Service | |
| December 11, 2005 | Judah Folkman | D. Science |
| Jerome I. Friedman | D. Science | |
| March 19, 2006 | Neta A. Bahcall | D. Science |
| Shirley A. Jackson | D. Science | |
| Gurdev S. Khush | D. Science | |
| June 11, 2006 | Alan J. Heeger | D. Science |
| Alan G. MacDiarmid | D. Science | |
| December 10, 2006 | T.R. Lakshmanan | D. Science |
| Douglas D. Osheroff | D. Science | |
| Roy R. Romer | D. Public Service | |
| Pedro A. Sanchez | D. Science | |
| March 18, 2007 | Archibald O. Haller, Jr. | D. Social Science |
| Shirley M. Malcom | D. Science | |
| June 10, 2007 | Gerald D. Buckberg | D. Science |
| Jean-Pierre G. Changeux | D. Science | |
| William J. Clinton | D. Public Service | |
| Gilberto Gil Moreira | D. Music | |
| Karen A. Holbrook | D. Education | |
| August 26, 2007 | David J. Gross | D. Science |
| Orlando L. Taylor | D. Higher Education | |
| August 28, 2007 | Vladan Radovanovic | D. Music |
| December 9, 2007 | Wolfgang Ketterle | D. Science |
| John M. Opitz | D. Science | |
| March 16, 2008 | Roy J. Glauber | D. Science |
| June 8, 2008 | Brien A. Holden | D. Science |
| Brian Williams | D. Journalism | |
| August 24, 2008 | John L. Hall | D. Science |
| Frank Wilczek | D. Science | |
| December 14, 2008 | William E. Evans | D. Science |
| March 22, 2009 | Charles K. Brain | D. Science |
| Jules Pretty | D. Science | |
| John G. Thompson | D. Science | |
| April 10, 2009 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | D. Laws |
| June 14, 2009 | Anna C. Glenn | D. Public Service |
| August 30, 2009 | George A. Olah | D. Science |
| December 13, 2009 | lafur Ragnar Grmsson | D. Public Service |
| June 13, 2010 | Francisco J. Ayala | D. Science |
| David R. Gergen | D. Public Service | |
| August 29, 2010 | Michael B. Coleman | D. Public Service |
| Charles Henry Plumb | D. Public Service | |
Past Honorary Degree Recipients
