Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients
This list of honorary degree recipients is sortable by last name, year conferred, and degree type. Click on the title of the column to sort the list by that particular content.
We have added the honorary degree citations for some of our recipients. Click on the Citation images, where shown, to read them.
| Last name | First name | Year |
Degree |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Byrne, Jr. | John Joseph | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Neuberger | Katherine K. | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Anthony | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Meyer | Wayne | 2022 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Powers | William | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holstrom | Carleton A. | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Calderón | Sila M. | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Shireen K. | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Fair | Ethel Marion | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Proctor | Samuel DeWitt | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Booher | Edward Elsworth | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Angelson | Mark A. | 2023 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schulman | Dan | 2018 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Crew | Spencer R. | 2002 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Pye | Mort | 1994 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Felmly | Lloyd McPherson | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ylvisaker | Paul N. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Baez | Joan C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Collins | Kevin J. | 2001 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ullian | Arthur D. | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norwood | Janet Lippe | 2003 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Codey | Richard J. | 2005 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nujoma | Sam | 1997 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ramos-Horta | José | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hufstedler | Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McCormick | Richard L. | 2012 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frazier | Kenneth C. | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gould | William Benjamin, IV | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katyal | Neal | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
