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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Payne-Gaposchkin | Cecelia | 1968 | Doctor of Science | |
| Still | Timothy | 1968 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Florence Price | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Burke | Kenneth | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Copland | Aaron | 1967 | Doctor of Music | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Caldwell | William Anthony | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bowen | Catherine Drinker | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Fisk | James Brown | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1967 | Doctor of Science | |
| Nagel | Ernest | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ellison | Ralph Waldo | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Gordon | Julia Weber | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boocock | Philip Milledoler Brett | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Walter | F. Austin | 1966 | Doctor of Music | |
| Warren | Earl | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reilly | Hilda Christine | 1966 | Doctor of Science | |
| Coffey | Katherine Frances | 1966 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Bixby | Frederick Lovell | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weisenfeld | Allan | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rogosin | Israel | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Nannes | Caspar | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Epstein | Benjamin | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Trager | William | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Fair | Gordon Maskew | 1965 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lowell | Robert | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hyde | Mary Morley Crapo | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rees | Mina | 1965 | Doctor of Letters |