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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahan | Edna | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bailey | Charles Philamore | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fuchs | Morris | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cleary | Edward John | 1959 | Doctor of Science | |
| Houle | Cyril Orvin | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Graham | Martha | 1959 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science | |
| Fair | Ethel Marion | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Diekhoff | John Siemon | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Powers | William | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wescott | Lloyd Bruce | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lett | Harold Alfred | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rukeyser | Muriel | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mazur | Paul Myer | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sang | Philip David | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Read | Hilton Shreve | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schettino | C. Thomas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kriendler | Irving Robert | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Stetin | Sol | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Heidelberger | Michael | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Piel | Gerard | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kessler | Henry Howard | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |