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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Levin | Wayne M. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Levao | Richard A. | 2000 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lett | Harold Alfred | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lerner | Gerda | 1988 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lerner | Irwin | 1984 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lerman | Miles | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lederberg | Joshua | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Leakey | Richard E. | 2014 | Doctor of Science | |
| Leahy | Edwin D. | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lawrence | Jacob | 1988 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Lavizzo-Mourey | Risa J. | 2018 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lautenberg | Frank R. | 1981 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lasagna | Louis | 1983 | Doctor of Science | |
| Larsen | Ralph S. | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kroesen | Frederick James | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kriendler | Irving Robert | 1961 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kreeger | David Lloyd | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kohn | Walter | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Koeppe | Alfred C. | 2009 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Klein | Lawrence R. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Khan | Ricardo | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Kessler | Henry Howard | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kertes | Ferdinand | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kenyon | Cecelia M. | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katz | Donald | 2014 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Katyal | Neal | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Karikó | Katalin | 2023 | Doctor of Science | |
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jordan, Jr. | Vernon Eulion | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Jordan | Barbara | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jones | Franklin Taylor | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Johnson | Leonard C. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Johnson | Thomas Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jensen | Merril | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jemison | Mae C. | 2001 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jackson | Shirley Ann | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Izzo | Ralph | 2013 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
