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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoffman | Samuel David | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Anthony | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Whitlock | Foster Brand | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Reeve | Christopher | 2005 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Baker | William Franklin | 2008 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holt | Lester | 2020 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Parrott | Bishop James W., Sr. | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holstrom | Carleton A. | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Stetin | Sol | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Earl | 2015 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Shireen K. | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Chaikin | Sol C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Paul | Alice | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Piven | Frances Fox | 2015 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Chambers | Raymond G. | 2000 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Stewart | Sandy J. | 2020 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Diekhoff | John Siemon | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Still | Timothy | 1968 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Williams | Joseph D. | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Riley | Matilda White | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| DiFrancesco | Donald T. | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stillman | W. Paul | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Muskie | Edmund Sixtus | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Chisholm | Shirley | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holt | Rush | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hufstedler | Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McCormick | Richard L. | 2012 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frelinghuysen | Peter H.B. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Christie | Chris | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodino, Jr. | Peter Wallace | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Koeppe | Alfred C. | 2009 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws |
