Honorary Degree Recipients by Class Year
|
Name |
Class Year |
Date Received |
| Robert Sessions Woodworth | 1891 | 1951 |
| Frederick Warren Beekman | 1893 | 1953 |
| Kendall Emerson, Jr. | 1897 | 1950 |
| Gordon Berry | 1902 | 1952 |
| Albert William Atwood | 1903 | 1953 |
| Alfred Gellhorn | 1903 | 1969 |
| Ernest Miller Whitcomb | 1904 | 1965 |
| Bruce Barton | 1907 | 1957 |
| Hubert Baker Goodrich | 1909 | 1954 |
| Clarence Francis | 1910 | 1955 |
| Eustace Seligman | 1910 | 1965 |
| Frank Cary | 1911 | 1961 |
| Robert Hudson George | 1911 | 1956 |
| Randolph Evernghim Paul | 1911 | 1951 |
| Allison Wilson Marsh | 1912 | 1963 |
| Spencer Miller, Jr. | 1912 | 1951 |
| Fred Benjamin Millett | 1912 | 1957 |
| Preston Rogers Bassett | 1913 | 1953 |
| Harold Henry Plough | 1913 | 1963 |
| Walter R. Agard | 1915 | 1955 |
| John Merriam Gaus | 1915 | 1960 |
| Sidney Raymond Packard | 1915 | 1960 |
| William Goodwin Avirett | 1916 | 1951 |
| Alfred Hamlin Washburn | 1916 | 1956 |
| Morris Albert Copeland | 1917 | 1957 |
| Alfred Sherwood Romer | 1917 | 1952 |
| Carter Goodrich | 1918 | 1958 |
| Leonard Page Moore | 1919 | 1959 |
| Charles Scott Porter | 1919 | 1956 |
| Herman Marluk Wessell | 1919 | 1964 |
| Daniel Bliss | 1920 | 1950 |
| Frederick Allan Parker | 1920 | 1973 |
| Paul Augustus Raushenbush | 1920 | 1970 |
| John Newton Worcester | 1921 | 1971 |
| Gerald Warren Brace | 1922 | 1969 |
| Edward William Eames | 1922 | 1955 |
| Francis Taylor Pearsons Plimpton | 1922 | 1973 |
| John Henry Neale | 1924 | 1974 |
| Fayette Curtis Canfield | 1925 | 1955 |
| William Montague Cobb | 1925 | 1955 |
| Will Mercer Cook | 1925 | 1965 |
| William Henry Hastie | 1925 | 1960 |
| Edward Jones Manwell | 1925 | 1975 |
| Oliver Boutwell Merrill, Jr. | 1925 | 1976 |
| Kingsley Arter Taft | 1925 | 1950 |
| Irving J. Wolman | 1925 | 1975 |
| George Kungchao Yeh | 1925 | 1959 |
| Robert Olney Anthony | 1926 | 1976 |
| James Siegismund Schramm | 1926 | 1961 |
| John Vernon Butler | 1927 | 1952 |
| Charles Woolsey Cole | 1927 | 1960 |
| Walter Gellhorn | 1927 | 1952 |
| Toshikazu Kase | 1927 | 1982 |
| Hollis Freeman Price | 1927 | 1962 |
| F. Wylie Sypher | 1927 | 1977 |
| Doughty Bartlett | 1928 | 1953 |
| Lyman August Brewer III | 1928 | 1978 |
| Frederic Murray Hadley | 1928 | 1973 |
| David Rittenhouse Inglis | 1928 | 1963 |
| Robert Ira Blakesley | 1929 | 1954 |
| J. Sydney Stillman | 1929 | 1979 |
| Eugene Smith Wilson | 1929 | 1971 |
| Reuben A. Brower | 1930 | 1964 |
| J. Clarence Chambers, Jr. | 1930 | 1980 |
| Stephen Walkley Grant | 1930 | 1970 |
| John Scoville Hall | 1930 | 1980 |
| Stephen Cole Kleene | 1930 | 1970 |
| Samuel Perkins Hayes, Jr. | 1931 | 1966 |
| Roger Hazelton | 1931 | 1951 |
| Howard W. Jones, Jr. | 1931 | 1986 |
| Jesse McLane Trotter | 1931 | 1956 |
| Wilburn Camrack Campbell | 1932 | 1957 |
| Myron Piper Gilmore | 1932 | 1962 |
| Patrick Healy, Jr. | 1932 | 1972 |
| Lawrence MacColl Horton | 1932 | 1957 |
| Donald Holman McLean, Jr. | 1932 | 1977 |
| George Leslie Cadigan | 1933 | 1958 |
| Alfred Friendly | 1933 | 1958 |
| Richard Glenn Gettell | 1933 | 1957 |
| James Alfred Guest, Sr. | 1933 | 1971 |
| Clifford Lee Lord | 1933 | 1953 |
| Chalmers McGeogh Roberts | 1933 | 1963 |
| Frederick H. Wagman | 1933 | 1958 |
| Paul Langdon Ward | 1933 | 1961 |
| Duncan Smith Ballatine | 1934 | 1959 |
| Philip H. Coombs | 1934 | 1962 |
| Robert O. Schlaifer | 1934 | 1979 |
| Frederick S. Allis | 1935 | 1965 |
| James William Miller | 1935 | 1973 |
| David Bicknell Truman | 1935 | 1964 |
| Charles K. Arter, Jr. | 1936 | 1971 |
| F. Otto Haas, | 1936 | 1991 |
| William Summer Johnson | 1936 | 1956 |
| Stephen Emerson Whicher | 1936 | 1961 |
| Lucian Joseph Colucci | 1937 | 1977 |
| G. Armour Craig | 1937 | 1986 |
| Robert Lionne DeWitt | 1937 | 1962 |
| Henry Stuart Hughes | 1937 | 1967 |
| Leonard C. Meeker | 1937 | 1967 |
| Thomas Porter Whitney | 1937 | 1972 |
| Cornelius Bodine | 1938 | 1973 |
| Mac Vincent Edds | 1938 | 1968 |
| John Jeppson | 1938 | 1963 |
| Victor Samuel Johnson, Jr. | 1938 | 1978 |
| Melvin Kranzberg | 1938 | 1983 |
| Richard Ward Reuter | 1938 | 1963 |
| Walter Orr Roberts | 1938 | 1959 |
| Albert Nathaniel Whiting | 1938 | 1968 |
| William Atherton | 1939 | 1969 |
| Robert Francis Byrnes | 1939 | 1964 |
| Homer H. Clark, Jr. | 1939 | 1979 |
| Robert Henry Guest | 1939 | 1974 |
| John Whitney Hall | 1939 | 1989 |
| Calvin Hastings Plimpton | 1939 | 1971 |
| Wright Tisdale | 1939 | 1966 |
| John Harris Burt | 1940 | 1960 |
| John Charles Haas | 1940 | 1975 |
| Arno Richard Kassander, Jr. | 1941 | 1971 |
| Alfred Sargent Lee | 1941 | 1971 |
| Robert Morgenthau | 1941 | 1966 |
| L. Stanton Williams | 1941 | 1981 |
| Eric Pratt Hamp | 1942 | 1972 |
| Albert Hermann Hastorf III | 1942 | 1967 |
| John Hugh Liedtke | 1942 | 1977 |
| Richard Wilbur | 1942 | 1952 |
| Richard Wilbur | 1942 | 1967 |
| Robert McAfee Brown | 1943 | 1953 |
| John J. Conger | 1943 | 1983 |
| Wallace C. Dayton | 1943 | 1994 |
| Harry V. Keefe, Jr. | 1943 | 1987 |
| Samuel F. Kitchell | 1943 | 1983 |
| Talcott Williams Seelye | 1944 | 1974 |
| Thomas J. B. Flanagan | 1945 | 1995 |
| George Latimer Shinn | 1945 | 1982 |
| Stansfield Turner | 1945 | 1976 |
| Theodore L. Cross | 1946 | 1988 |
| David Ferry | 1946 | 2006 |
| Julian Howard Gibbs | 1946 | 1971 |
| Edward N. Ney | 1946 | 1991 |
| Robert S. Brustein | 1947 | 1972 |
| John Edward Deady | 1947 | 1969 |
| James Ingram Merrill | 1947 | 1968 |
| Leslie Tillotson Webster, Jr. | 1947 | 1982 |
| Richard F. Fenno, Jr. | 1948 | 1986 |
| Harry G. Barnes, Jr. | 1949 | 1984 |
| William H. Gerdts | 1949 | 1992 |
| Frederick D. Greene II | 1949 | 1969 |
| Richard Poirer | 1949 | 1978 |
| Ben Frank Stoltzfus | 1949 | 1974 |
| K. Frank Austen | 1950 | 2000 |
| George B. Beitzel | 1950 | 1987 |
| Paul Errol Bragdon | 1950 | 1980 |
| J. Robert Buchanan | 1950 | 1985 |
| Thomas Francis Eagleton | 1950 | 1970 |
| Cushing Esty, Jr. | 1950 | 1970 |
| Alexander M. (Sandy) Keith | 1950 | 1996 |
| Henry Way Kendall | 1950 | 1975 |
| Carl Woese | 1950 | 1985 |
| David Babbott | 1951 | 1981 |
| John Plimpton Kendall | 1951 | 1976 |
| Charles R. Longsworth | 1951 | 1971 |
| Richard R. Lower | 1951 | 1971 |
| Thomas H. Wyman | 1951 | 1993 |
| William Dorey Andrews | 1952 | 1977 |
| James W. Fernandez | 1952 | 1992 |
| Ulric St. Clair Haynes | 1952 | 2012 |
| William Shield McFeely | 1952 | 1982 |
| J. Peter Toennies | 1952 | 2007 |
| Robert L. Stern | 1953 | 1988 |
| James J. Barnes | 1954 | 1999 |
| Andrew G. Galef | 1954 | 1994 |
| Donald A. B. Lindberg | 1954 | 1979 |
| Ralph Gilmore Allen | 1955 | 1980 |
| Robert Fagles | 1955 | 1990 |
| William W. Falsgraf | 1955 | 1986 |
| Antonio Luis Ferré | 1955 | 1995 |
| Edmund S. Phelps | 1955 | 1985 |
| Ernest B. Seasholes | 1955 | 1988 |
| H. Irving Grousbeck | 1956 | 2000 |
| Robert Ross Holloway | 1956 | 1976 |
| Takakazu Kuriyama | 1956 | 1995 |
| Van Doorn Ooms | 1956 | 1981 |
| Davis Burton Durk | 1957 | 1972 |
| H. Axel Schupf | 1957 | 2007 |
| Richard A. Wasserstrom | 1957 | 1982 |
| Barry R. Bloom | 1958 | 1990 |
| Hiroaki Fujii | 1958 | 2001 |
| Amos B. Hostetter | 1958 | 2006 |
| David C. Suzuki | 1958 | 1989 |
| John Fox Wieland | 1958 | 1993 |
| John E. Abele | 1959 | 2011 |
| John W. Dower | 1959 | 2002 |
| Werner L. Gundersheimer | 1959 | 1984 |
| David Frantz Bradford | 1960 | 1985 |
| Robert L. Woodbury | 1960 | 1990 |
| John Mark Deutch | 1961 | 1978 |
| Koichiro Fujikura | 1961 | 1991 |
| Harold E. Varmus | 1961 | 1984 |
| Gerald R. Fink | 1962 | 1982 |
| Henry A. Freedman | 1962 | 2008 |
| Philip Gossett | 1962 | 1993 |
| James Alfred Guest, Jr. | 1962 | 1997 |
| David M. Lawrence | 1962 | 1994 |
| Rice C. Leach | 1962 | 1987 |
| Richard M. Freeland | 1963 | 1998 |
| Hugh B. Price | 1963 | 1995 |
| Jon E. Rohde, M.D. | 1963 | 1983 |
| Edwin M. Truman | 1963 | 1988 |
| Farzam Arbab | 1964 | 1989 |
| Charles Ashby Lewis | 1964 | 2003 |
| David K. Lewis | 1964 | 2012 |
| Douglas R. Lowy | 1964 | 1992 |
| Peter Rubinstein | 1964 | 2017 |
| Joseph Eugene Stiglitz | 1964 | 1974 |
| Colin S. Diver | 1965 | 1990 |
| Robert W. Field | 1965 | 1997 |
| John I. Gallin | 1965 | 1988 |
| Jeffrey Kittay | 1965 | 1997 |
| Kenneth H. Bacon | 1966 | 2001 |
| Jeffrey A. Hoffman | 1966 | 1999 |
| Evan Maclyn Maurer | 1966 | 1996 |
| Michael Howard Merson | 1966 | 1996 |
| Theodore Harvey Rosengarten | 1966 | 1991 |
| Kazuo Asakai | 1967 | 2005 |
| Richard S. LeFrak | 1967 | 1998 |
| Alan M. Blum | 1969 | 2006 |
| Robert H. Brown | 1969 | 2008 |
| Frederick E. Hoxie | 1969 | 1994 |
| James R. Steinman | 1969 | 2013 |
| Curt I. Civin | 1970 | 2001 |
| Thomas M. Davis III | 1971 | 2009 |
| Charles D. Gilbert | 1971 | 2022 |
| Peter Morrison Vitousek | 1971 | 2003 |
| Robert Yarchoan | 1971 | 2013 |
| Steven M. Gluckstern | 1972 | 1997 |
| Joseph H. Hartzler | 1972 | 1998 |
| David P. Corey | 1973 | 2019 |
| Stephen Payne Goff | 1973 | 1996 |
| David Aaron Kessler | 1973 | 1992 |
| Paul Yock | 1973 | 2007 |
| Cullen Murphy | 1974 | 2019 |
| Barrett Rollins | 1974 | 2017 |
| Harvey J. Rosenfield | 1974 | 2010 |
| Tucker Collins | 1975 | 1998 |
| George Papandreou | 1975 | 2002 |
| Joshua M. Epstein | 1976 | 2010 |
| Charles C. Mann | 1976 | 2019 |
| Andrew R. Marks | 1976 | 2009 |
| Paul Smith | 1976 | 2015 |
| Saraswathi Vedam | 1978 | 2008 |
| Frederic (Ted) Conover | 1980 | 2001 |
| Thai Lee | 1980 | 2014 |
| Philip Simmons | 1980 | 2002 |
| Margaret Bangser | 1981 | 2009 |
| Sherri Wasserman Goodman | 1981 | 2018 |
| Kellie Jones | 1981 | 2018 |
| Sung-Joo Kim | 1981 | 2000 |
| David O. Russell | 1981 | 2002 |
| Jim Ansara | 1982 | 2015 |
| Christopher A. Bohjalian '82 | 1982 | 2016 |
| Patrick Fitzgerald | 1982 | 2007 |
| Rosanne Haggerty | 1982 | 2003 |
| Madeline P. Janis | 1982 | 2013 |
| Kirk R. Johnson | 1982 | 2016 |
| Andrew W. Kendall | 1983 | 2011 |
| William J.C. Amend III | 1984 | 2000 |
| Inger K. Damon | 1984 | 2016 |
| Brooke Kamin Rapaport | 1984 | 2022 |
| Jide J. Zeitlin | 1985 | 2014 |
| P. Gabrielle Foreman | 1986 | 2023 |
| Rafael Campo | 1987 | 2004 |
| Frederic Bryant Hollister | 1987 | 2013 |
| Jeffrey Wright | 1987 | 2004 |
| Amy Rosenzweig | 1988 | 2005 |
| Sonya Clark | 1989 | 2015 |
| Yanira Castro | 1994 | 2017 |
| Andrea L. Dutton | 1995 | 2022 |
| Stephen Hoge | 1998 | 2023 |
| Paul J. Rieckhoff III | 1998 | 2013 |
| Kimmie L. Weeks | 2005 | 2011 |