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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdellah | Faye Glenn | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ackerman | Raymond | 2016 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ackerman | Roger G. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Aidekman | Alex | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Allen | Robert E. | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Allen | Clara L. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Anderson | Adrienne Scotchbrook | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1957 | Doctor of Music | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science | |
| Angelson | Mark A. | 2023 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Arroyo | Martina | 2012 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Atiyah | Sir Michael | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Auchter | George David | 1962 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baez | Joan C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bailey | Charles Philamore | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bailyn | Bernard | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baker | Russell Wayne | 1989 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baker | William Franklin | 2008 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Baker | William Oliver | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Barchi | Robert L. | 2022 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Baron | Salo Wittmayer | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baskin | Leonard | 1969 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Bate | W. Jackson | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Beal | Orville E. | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Beck | Robert A. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bender | Carl Beitel | 1963 | Doctor of Science | |
| Benson | Ezra Taft | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergman | Robert P. | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bildner | Joan L. | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bishop | Elizabeth | 1972 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bixby | Frederick Lovell | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Blackman | Samuel Garrison | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Blackmur | Richard Palmer | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Blake | James Hubert | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Blanchard | Terence | 2023 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bloom | Benjamin S. | 1975 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Blume | Judy | 2010 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Boehm | Helen F. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bon Jovi | Jon | 2015 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Booher | Edward Elsworth | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
