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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Coffey | Katherine Frances | 1966 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Bixby | Frederick Lovell | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gordon | Julia Weber | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Warren | Earl | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ellison | Ralph Waldo | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Weisenfeld | Allan | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Nannes | Caspar | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rogosin | Israel | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Nagel | Ernest | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Caldwell | William Anthony | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bowen | Catherine Drinker | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Vermeule | Emily Dickinson Townsend | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Florence Price | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Burke | Kenneth | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Still | Timothy | 1968 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Brée | Germaine | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Baskin | Leonard | 1969 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Lewis | Henry | 1969 | Doctor of Music | |
| Buck | Pearl S. | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wheeler | John Archibald | 1969 | Doctor of Science |
