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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reitman | Norman | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Reeve | Christopher | 2005 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Redd | Dana | 2023 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Read | Hilton Shreve | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rauscher, Jr. | Frank Joseph | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ramos-Horta | José | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ralph | Sheryl Lee | 2023 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Quimby | Edith Hinkley | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Quarles | Benjamin | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Qualles | Paris | 2001 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Pye | Mort | 1994 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Proctor | Samuel DeWitt | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Press | Frank | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Powers | William | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Piven | Frances Fox | 2015 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Pinsky | Robert | 2000 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Piñon | Nélida | 1998 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Pino | John Anthony | 1996 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pierce | Wendell | 2021 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Piel | Gerard | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Peyre | Henri Maurice | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Persichilli | Judith | 2022 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perry | Enos J. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peplau | Hildegard E. | 1985 | Doctor of Science | |
| Penzias | Arno A. | 1979 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pearson | Paul G. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Pauling | Linus | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Paul | Alice | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Patel | Eboo | 2017 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Parsons | Talcott | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Parrott | Bishop James W., Sr. | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Parks | Gordon Alexander | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Papp | Joseph | 1984 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Paley | William S. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ozick | Cynthia | 1999 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Owens "Queen Latifah" | Dana | 2018 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Osborn | June E. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Oates | Joyce Carol | 1997 | Doctor of Letters |
