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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rukeyser | Muriel | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mazur | Paul Myer | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sang | Philip David | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Read | Hilton Shreve | 1961 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schettino | C. Thomas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lett | Harold Alfred | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Powers | William | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wescott | Lloyd Bruce | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1960 | Doctor of Music | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Diekhoff | John Siemon | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fuchs | Morris | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cleary | Edward John | 1959 | Doctor of Science | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Houle | Cyril Orvin | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Everett | Thomas Henry | 1959 | Master of Science | |
| Fair | Ethel Marion | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Graham | Martha | 1959 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gronquist | Carl Harry | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bailey | Charles Philamore | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cuthbertson | David Paton | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Melcher | Frederic Gershom | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| MacCarter | Beatrice Bouchier | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fiske | Jessie Gladys | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mahan | Edna | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin | William Hope | 1958 | Doctor of Science | |
| Moxon | Rosamond Sawyer | 1958 | Master of Arts | |
| Blackmur | Richard Palmer | 1958 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Volk | Harry Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Reston | James Barrett | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Peyre | Henri Maurice | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Nelson | Oswald George | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters |