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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Linowitz | Sol M. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McGreevey | James E. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fenster | Saul K. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sachar | Libby Bernstein | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smeal | Eleanor Cutri | 2010 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bailey | Charles Philamore | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kriendler | Irving Robert | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Vagelos | P. Roy | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smiley | Tavis | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kroesen | Frederick James | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Vandervilt | Arthur | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Larsen | Ralph S. | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gyatso | Tenzin (Dalai Lama) | 2005 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Coomaraswamy | Rajhika | 2016 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Van Ness | Stanley C. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Meyerson | Martin | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| O'Hara | Gene | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Baker | William Franklin | 2008 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sato | Gordon Hisashi | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lautenberg | Frank R. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Volk | Harry Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Chaikin | Sol C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wolfe | Deborah Cannon Patridge | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Voorhees | Ralph W. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mahan | Edna | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Chambers | Raymond G. | 2000 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Leahy | Edwin D. | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mahoney | David J. | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Barchi | Robert L. | 2022 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Paley | William S. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Diekhoff | John Siemon | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Francis | Norman C. | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schimmel | Herbert D. | 2003 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Beal | Orville E. | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Heldrich | John J. | 1999 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schlatter | Richard | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Beck | Robert A. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Patel | Eboo | 2017 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
