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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huxtable | Ada Louise | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Rodriguez | Joseph H. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Abdellah | Faye Glenn | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gellhorn | Walter | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gibson | Eleanor Jack | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lewis | Anthony | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rauscher, Jr. | Frank Joseph | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schlatter | Richard | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Beal | Orville E. | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Murphy | William Beverly | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Robeson | Paul | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mendel | Arthur | 1973 | Doctor of Music | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bishop | Elizabeth | 1972 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Johnson | Leonard C. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Zworykin | Vladimir K. | 1972 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nevelson | Louise | 1972 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Allen | Clara L. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Levine | William | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Waldheim | Kurt | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Kreeger | David Lloyd | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Nader | Ralph | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Horne | Marilyn | 1971 | Doctor of Music | |
| Gross | Mason Welch | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Franklin Taylor | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gillespie | John Birks | 1970 | Doctor of Music | |
| Wicker | Thomas Grey | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Boyd | Hugh Newell | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lilley | Robert Dodd | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Seaborg | Glenn T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Luria | Salvador Edward | 1970 | Doctor of Science | |
| Segal | George | 1970 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Meyerson | Martin | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wheeler | John Archibald | 1969 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lewis | Henry | 1969 | Doctor of Music | |
| Brée | Germaine | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Baskin | Leonard | 1969 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Buck | Pearl S. | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Florence Price | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Burke | Kenneth | 1968 | Doctor of Letters |
