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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson | Adrienne Scotchbrook | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Anderson | Philip Warren | 1991 | Doctor of Science | |
| Carter | Bennett Lester | 1991 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Larsen | Ralph S. | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wideman | John Edgar | 1991 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Caldicott | Helen | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Voorhees | Ralph W. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lichtenstein | Roy | 1990 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Franklin | John Hope | 1990 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lorenz | Edward Norton | 1990 | Doctor of Science | |
| Geltman | Samuel | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Allen | Robert E. | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Heningburg | Gustave | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Baker | Russell Wayne | 1989 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dresselhaus | Mildred S. | 1989 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Proctor | Samuel DeWitt | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lerner | Gerda | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Raven | Peter Hamilton | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Watson | James Dewey | 1988 | Doctor of Science | |
| Yasuhiro | Nakasone | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McPhee | John Angus | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lawrence | Jacob | 1988 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hopper | Grace Murray | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Gould | Stephen Jay | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Roebling | Mary Gindhart | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Roth | Philip | 1987 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Aidekman | Alex | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Williams | Joseph D. | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boehm | Helen F. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Paley | William S. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Reitman | Norman | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ribicoff | Abraham | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Muskie | Edmund Sixtus | 1986 | Doctor of Laws |
