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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsepe-Casaburri | Ivy F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Butler | Richard | 2001 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kessler | Henry Howard | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Allen | Robert E. | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Vagelos | P. Roy | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sachar | Libby Bernstein | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Houle | Cyril Orvin | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mazur | Paul Myer | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smeal | Eleanor Cutri | 2010 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Byrne, Jr. | John Joseph | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Anderson | Adrienne Scotchbrook | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Vandervilt | Arthur | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Patel | Eboo | 2017 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gordon | Julia Weber | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boehm | Helen F. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Howard, Jr. | M. William | 2010 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smiley | Tavis | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Van Ness | Stanley C. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lilley | Robert Dodd | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Meyer | Wayne | 2022 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Calderón | Sila M. | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Linder | William J. | 1998 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| O'Hara | Gene | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Volk | Harry Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sato | Gordon Hisashi | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Fair | Ethel Marion | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Voorhees | Ralph W. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Booher | Edward Elsworth | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Angelson | Mark A. | 2023 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ylvisaker | Paul N. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schulman | Dan | 2018 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Crew | Spencer R. | 2002 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Felmly | Lloyd McPherson | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Humelsine | Carlisle Hubbard | 1976 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kreeger | David Lloyd | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Baez | Joan C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Collins | Kevin J. | 2001 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
