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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heningburg | Gustave | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Meyer | Wayne | 2022 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Johnson | Leonard C. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mokhele | Khotso | 2005 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Reeve | Christopher | 2005 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Parrott | Bishop James W., Sr. | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Stetin | Sol | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Jones | Franklin Taylor | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lett | Harold Alfred | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Fuchs | Morris | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Paul | Alice | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schulman | Dan | 2018 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Levao | Richard A. | 2000 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Buck | Pearl S. | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ylvisaker | Paul N. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Collins | Kevin J. | 2001 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Levin | Janice H. | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Still | Timothy | 1968 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Jordan, Jr. | Vernon Eulion | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bildner | Joan L. | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Riley | Matilda White | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Dwyer | Bernard J. | 1993 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stillman | W. Paul | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Florence Price | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Codey | Richard J. | 2005 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gaskill | William John | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Abdellah | Faye Glenn | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cohen | Wilbur J. | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ebadi | Shirin | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Muskie | Edmund Sixtus | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frazier | Kenneth C. | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gellhorn | Walter | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodino, Jr. | Peter Wallace | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws |
