Honorary Degree Recipients

1864

• John Carlin (1813-1891)

1869

• James Denison
• Richard Elliott
• J. Scott Hutton

1870

• Charles Baker
• John R. Burnet
• David Buxton
• Harvey P. Peet
• William W. Turner

1872

• Walter W. Angus

1877

• Thomas Macintire

1878

• Otto F. Kruse

1880

• Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
• Edmund Booth (1810-1905)

1881

• Kierkegaard C. Ekbohrn

1882

• Lars A. Havstad

1883

• Edwin A. Hodgson

1887

• Richard Elliott
• William Stainer

1889

• Monseigneur DeHaerne
• William D. Kerr
• Jonathan L. Noyes
• Harriet B. Rogers
• Warring Wilkinson
• Job Williams

1892

• Enoch Henry Currier (1849-1917)

1893

• R. Mathison

1895

• Jacob M. Koehler
• Austin W. Mann

1896

• George M. McClure

1897

• Frank Read

1899

• Samuel Johnson

1900

• Thomas Gallaudet (1822-1902)

1901

• Francis P. Maginn

1902

• John W. Michaels

1904

• George T. Dougherty
• Amos G. Draper (1845-1917)
• Thomas Fox
• John B. Hotchkiss
• Michael Gerald McCarthy
• Robert Patterson
• James L. Smith

1908

• William Addison
• Francis D. Clarke
• Charles S. Deem
• Charles W. Ely

1909

• Dwight F. Bangs

1911

• Frank M. Driggs
• Willis Hubbard
• Sidney J. Vail

1914

• Sylvia C. Balis
• Samuel G. Davidson
• Olof Hanson
• Philip Joseph Hasenstab
• James Henry Logan
• J. Schuyler Long
• Laura Sheridan

1916

• Edward Allen Fay (1843-1923)
• Warren Robinson

1918

• John Henry Kent

1920

• Isaac B. Gardner
• Eddy Jonathan Holbrook

1921

• Augustus Barney Greener
• Charles Richards Neillie

1922

• George M. Teegarden (1852-1936)

1923

• Ida Gaarder
• Elizabeth Peet (1874-1962)

1924

• William A. Caldwell
• John H. Clark
• A. L. E. Crouter
• Isaac Goldberg
• John W. Jones
• Thomas S. Marr
• James M. Stewart
• Newton F. Walker
• Cadwallader Lincoln Washburn (1866-1965)

1927

• Frank G. Barnes
• Thomas S. McAloney

1928

• Mabel Elleny Adams
• Francis P. Gibson

1929

• Arthur Percy Buchanan

1930

• Samuel M. Freeman
• William C. Ritter

1931

• Knight Dunlap (1875-1949)
• Rudolph Pinter

1932

• Rev. Arthur D. Bryant
• Vernon Kellogg

1934

• John W. Blattner
• Thomas Rodwell

1935

• Edward McKee Goodwin
• Percival Hall

1936

• Helen B. Fay
• Edith M. Fitzgerald

1937

• Henry J. Stegermerten
• Odie W. Underhill
• Nathan Zimble

1938

• Winfield Scott Runde
• Howard Leslie Terry

1939

• Tom L. Anderson
• Kreigh B. Ayers
• Rev. Arthur D. Bryant
• Frank Milton Driggs
• Giulio Ferreri
• Stacy Rufus Guild
• John W. Michaels
• Selwyn Oxley
• Joao Brazil Silvado
• Josephine Timberlake

1941

• Herbert C. Merrill
• Daniel Picard
• Daniel Tuttle Cloud

1942

• Thomas C. Forrester
• Truman Lee Ingle
• Arthur L. Roberts
• James A. Weaver

1943

• Ignatius Bjorlee
• Elwood A. Stevenson

1944

• Harry F. Best
• Thomas W. Osborne
• Henry A. Perkins
• Josephine Quinn

1945

• Arthur C. Manning
• Florence Lewis May

1946

• Irving S. Fusfeld

1947

• David Friedman
• Ethel Acuff Poore

1949

• Harley Daniel Drake
• Inis B. Hall
• George Morris McClure, Sr.

1950

• Daniel Tuttle Cloud
• Herbert E. Day
• Earl Edwin Mackowske
• Elizabeth Peet (1874-1962)
• David Peikoff (1900-1995)

1951

• Albert A. Atwood
• Saliendra Nath Banerji
• Sam B. Craig
• Ernest Gallaudet Draper
• Burton W. Driggs
• James N. Orman
• Ben M. Schowe, Sr.
• Odie W. Underhill

1952

• Edmund B. Boatner
• Leonard M. Elstad (1917-2008)
• Rev. Robert Capers Fletcher

1953

• Winfield Scott Runde

1954

• Truman Lee Ingle (posthumously)
• Rev. J. Stanley Light
• John Phillips
• The Honorable William Homer Thornberry (1909-1995)

1955

• Byron B. Burnes
• Linton M. Collins
• Frederick H. Hughes
• Thure Lindstrom
• Delight Rice
• Mary Elizabeth Switzer (1900-1971)

1956

• Robert Samuel Brown
• Mildred Agnes Groht
• Marcus L. Kenner
• Helen Northrop
• Jackson A. Raney

1957

• Eric Stanley Greenaway
• David Peikoff (1900-1995)
• Edward J. Waterhouse
• Helmer R. Myklebust (1910-2008)
• Peter Joseph Salmon
• Boyce Robert Williams

• Howard Malcolm Quigley
• Edward Watson Tillinghast

• Maxine Tull Boatner
• Marshall I. Hester
• Petra Fandrem Howard
• Clarence D. O'Connor
• Clairine MacKay Rea Wilson

• Anthony A. Hajna
• Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973)
• S. Richard Silverman (1910-2000)

• Elizabeth English Benson
• John Keble Cloud
• Powrie Vaux Doctor (1903-1971)
• Grover C. Farquhar
• Stanley D. Roth

• James Hamilton Galloway
• Wilson Henry Grabill (1912-1983)
• Wesley Lauritsen (1898-1992)
• Thomas W. Osborne

• William Edmund Baxter
• James Theodore Flood
• William Theodore Griffing
• Marie Seward Kennard
• James Bradshaw Mintener
• Roy Moore Stelle
• Bernard Th. J. Trevoort, S. J.
• Antonio Magarotto

• L. Stephen Cherry
• Warren Rudolph Forster
• Rev. Homer Earl Grace
• Charles Elliott MacDonald
• George Edward Muth
• Edwin Winfred Nies
• Nathan Poole

• Thomas J. Dillon
• John Edward Fogarty
• Lister Hill
• Alice M. Teegarden
• Louise Treadwell Tracy (1896-1983)

• Marvin B. Clatterbuck
• George M. Ferris, Sr.
• Marshall S. Hiskey
• Sister M. Regina Kirk
• John David Rainer
• Averill John Wiley, Sr.

• Samuel A. Block
• Ben Earl Hoffmeyer
• Joseph Hunt
• Edna S. Levine
• Edward C. Merrill, Jr. (1920-1995)
• Dragoljub Vukotic

• Herman S. Cahen
• The Honorable Sherman G. Finesilver (1927-2006)
• Andrew Jackson Foster (1925-1987)
• Robert J. Smithdas

• Antoine Dresse (1902-1998)
• Elliot Lee Richardson (1920-1999)
• Luther D. Robinson, M.D.
• Kelly H. Stevens

• Nanette Fabray MacDougall
• The Honorable Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson (1905-1989)
• Malcolm J. Norwood (1927-1989)
• Kenneth Z. Altshuler, M.D.

• Terje Basilier
• Jane Baker Spain
• Ray G. Wenger
• Arthur W. Wenger
• Joseph P. Youngs, Jr.

• Mervin D. Garretson
• Craig Mills
• The Honorable Albert Harold Quie
• Robert Haig Weitbrecht (1920-1983)

• David Hays
• McCay Vernon

• Cesare Magarotto
• D. K. Nandy
• Ole Munk Plum

• Arthur Buchwald (1925-2007)
• Roy K. Holcomb
• The Honorable Jennings Randolph (1902-1998)

• Jack Ashley, M.P., Baron Ashley of Stoke
• Alan B. Crammatte (1911-1996)
• Vittorio Ieralla
• Frederick C. Schreiber (1922-1979)

• Patria G. Forsythe
• Lawrence Newman
• Frank B. Sullivan

• Joanne Greenberg
• Edgar L. Lowell
• Steven Muller

• Edna Paananen Adler (1915-2000)
• The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
• Thomas S. Spradley

• Frank G. Bowe (1947-2007)
• Loy E. Golladay (1913-1999)
• Mark Howard Medoff
• The Honorable Charles Harting Percy
• Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913-2001)
• Alan A. Reich (1930-2005)
• Augustin Yanes Valer

• Julius Barnathan (1927-1997)
• Louise Fletcher
• William J. McClure
• Jess M. Smith, Jr. (1919-2005)

• The Honorable Robert William "Bob" Packwood
• Frances B. Merrill (1920-1993)
• Andre Saint-Antonin

• The Honorable David Edward Bonior

• William J. Bennett
• Felix-Jesus Pinedo Peydro
• Randall L. Tobias

• Gerald "Bummy" Burstein
• Jerry C. Lee
• Robert F. Panara
• John Robert Silber

• The Honorable Silvio Ottavio Conte (1921-1991)
• Marlee Beth Matlin

• Bernard N. Bragg
• Jack Randle Gannon
• William C. Stokoe (1919-2000)

• Leon Auerbach (1916-1991)
• Katharine Meyer Graham (1917-2001)
• Douglas J. N. Burke (1931-1988)
• Clifton F. Carbin

• Richard M. Phillips
• John Edward Dewar Ball (1932-2010)

• George William Guthrie Montgomery
• Howard E. "Rocky" Stone (1925-2004)
• The Honorable Thomas Richard "Tom" Harkin

• Linda Bove
• The Honorable Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr.

• Phyllis Frelich
• The Honorable Steven Craig Gunderson
• Shuichi Obata

• Roger Wilkins
• Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr. (1930-2002)
• Eric F. Malzkuhn (1922-2008)

• President William Jefferson Clinton
• Jerald M. Jordan (1927-2008)
• The Honorable Major Robert Odell Owens

• Charlotte Coffield
• Marian Wright Edelman
• James L. Hicks
• Ralph H. White (1923-2006)

• Robert R. Davila
• George E. Detmold (1917-2005)
• The Honorable Robert J. Dole
• Alexander Fleischman (1921-2007)

• Thomas Olof Berg (1922-2009)
• Gilbert Louis Delgado
• His Excellency Franklin Abraham Sonn
• Frank R. Turk

• Yerker J. O. Andersson
• Liisa Kauppinen

• William C. Richardson
• Thomas A. Mayes

• Marion Harmon McVernon - Bachelor of Arts
• David M. Sadker
• Benjamin J. Soukup, Jr.

• William Earl Kennard
• Father Cyril Bernhard Axelrod

• George Arthur Boyd
• Gilbert Charles Eastman (1934-2006)
• Gertrude Scott Galloway

• Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson
• Henry A. Klopping

• Freeman A. Hrabowski III
• Marilyn Jean Smith
• Mary Herring Wright - Bachelor of Arts
• Eric Franklin Plunkett - Bachelor of Arts
  (awarded posthumously in 2001; Class of 2004)
• Benjamin Scott Varner - Bachelor of Arts
  (awarded posthumously in 2001; Class of 2004)

• Oscar P. Cohen
• Oliver W. Sacks, M.D.

• Bernice Johnson Reagon
• Edmund Waterstreet

• Betty G. Miller
• Albert J. Simone

• Ed Bosson
• Donald N. Langenberg
• Charles V. Williams

• Ursula Bellugi
• Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen
• Knud Søndergaard
• Roberto Wirth

• Nancy S. Grasmick
• Robert G. Sanderson

• Gary M. Malkowski
• Karen Peltz Strauss

• Audree Lauraine Norton, '52
• Markku Jokinen