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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrerras Coll | José | 2002 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cameron | Donald Forrester | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Caldwell | William Anthony | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Calderón | Sila M. | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne, Jr. | John Joseph | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Butler | Richard | 2001 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burns | Arthur Frank | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burns | Eveline M. | 1981 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burnham | Walter Dean | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Burnell | S. Jocelyn Bell | 2016 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burke | James E. | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burke | Kenneth | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bundy | McGeorge | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bunch | Lonnie G. | 2013 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Buck | Pearl S. | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bryan | James Edmund | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Brown | Greg | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Brown | Harrison Scott | 1964 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brinster | Ralph L. | 2000 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brenner | Jeffrey | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brée | Germaine | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Branscomb | Lewis McAdory | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boyd | Hugh Newell | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bowen | Catherine Drinker | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Booher | Edward Elsworth | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bon Jovi | Jon | 2015 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boehm | Helen F. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Blume | Judy | 2010 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bloom | Benjamin S. | 1975 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Block | Herbert Lawrence | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Blanchard | Terence | 2023 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Blake | James Hubert | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
