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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Florence Price | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Burke | Kenneth | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Vermeule | Emily Dickinson Townsend | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagel | Ernest | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Caldwell | William Anthony | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bowen | Catherine Drinker | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Warren | Earl | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gordon | Julia Weber | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weisenfeld | Allan | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rogosin | Israel | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Nannes | Caspar | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Coffey | Katherine Frances | 1966 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Bixby | Frederick Lovell | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ellison | Ralph Waldo | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lowell | Robert | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hyde | Mary Morley Crapo | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws |