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 |
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Long | Virginia | 2013 | Doctor of Laws | |
Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
Dees, Jr. | Morris S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
Murphy | Philip | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
Vagelos | P. Roy | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Sachar | Libby Bernstein | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Francis | Norman C. | 1993 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Morrow | John Howard | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Smeal | Eleanor Cutri | 2010 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Beal | Orville E. | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Harvey | Gerald C. | 2014 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Vandervilt | Arthur | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Brown | Greg | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Robeson | Paul L. | 2019 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Levine | William | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Smiley | Tavis | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Beck | Robert A. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Katz | Donald | 2014 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Hoffman | Samuel David | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Van Ness | Stanley C. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Whitlock | Foster Brand | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Lewis | Anthony | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Holstrom | Carleton A. | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Holt | Lester | 2020 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
O'Hara | Gene | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Volk | Harry Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Sato | Gordon Hisashi | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Lewis | Shireen K. | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Lewis | Earl | 2015 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Voorhees | Ralph W. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Fuchs | Morris | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Buck | Pearl S. | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Stewart | Sandy J. | 2020 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Piven | Frances Fox | 2015 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Williams | Joseph D. | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
Paley | William S. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters |