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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coomaraswamy | Rajhika | 2016 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Heningburg | Gustave | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Johnson | Leonard C. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mokhele | Khotso | 2005 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lerman | Miles | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Eckō | Marc | 2009 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Powers | William | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Eco | Umberto | 2002 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burns | Arthur Frank | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Geltman | Samuel | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Aidekman | Alex | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Jones | Franklin Taylor | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lett | Harold Alfred | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Proctor | Samuel DeWitt | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wolfe | Deborah Cannon Patridge | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Levao | Richard A. | 2000 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Pye | Mort | 1994 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Levin | Janice H. | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ellison | Brooke Mackenzie | 2011 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Barchi | Robert L. | 2022 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Allen | Clara L. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ullian | Arthur D. | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Jordan, Jr. | Vernon Eulion | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bloom | Benjamin S. | 1975 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Norwood | Janet Lippe | 2003 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nujoma | Sam | 1997 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ramos-Horta | José | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hill | Anita | 2018 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yamba | A. Zachary | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws |
