Recipients (Alphabetical)
| Name | Degree | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Abell, Irvin | Doctor of Laws | 1943 |
| Adams, Arthur S. | Doctor of Laws | 1955 |
| Adams, Phillip Rhys | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1964 |
| Adler, Stella | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1991 |
| Alexander, John Frank | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1967 |
| Allyn, Stanley Charles | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1956 |
| Amer, James Barr | Doctor of Laws | 1908 |
| Anderson, James M. | Doctor of Science | 2017 |
| Angell, James Rowland | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| Applegate, O. Lester | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1971 |
| Appleton, Sir Edward Victor | Doctor of Letters | 1957 |
| Aring, Charles D. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1990 |
| Armstrong, Neil | Doctor of Science | 1982 |
| Aronoff, Stanley J. | Doctor of Laws | 1990 |
| Asbury Eslie | Doctor of Science | 1976 |
| Auburn, Norman P. | Doctor of Laws | 1952 |
| Austin, Helen Elsie | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1969 |
| Babbitt, Bruce | Doctor of Laws | 1995 |
| Bachmeyer, Arthur Charles | Doctor of Science | 1935 |
| Bacon, Admund N. | Doctor of Public Service | 1980 |
| Balanchine, George | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1967 |
| Baldwin, Ward | Doctor of Science | 1915 |
| Barger, A. Clifford | Doctor of Science | 1977 |
| Barrett, C. Francis | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2015 |
| Barrett, Charles M. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1987 |
| Barrett, John F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2011 |
| Barrett, Michael R. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2002 |
| Bartlett, Walter E. | Doctor of Letters | 1988 |
| Bass, Charles Cassidy | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Battle, Kathleen | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1983 |
| Bauer, Louis Agricola | Doctor of Science | 1913 |
| Bauer, Bertha | Master of Arts | 1925 |
| Beck, Clark E. | Doctor of Science | 2003 |
| Beckjord, Walter Clarence | Doctor of Engineering | 1956 |
| Beer, Lori A. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2022 |
| Bell, H. Glenn | Doctor of Science | 1961 |
| Benedict, Alfred B. | Doctor of Laws | 1917 |
| Bennis, Warren G. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2007 |
| Bereskin, Alexander B. | Doctor of Science | 1991 |
| Berger, Raoul | Doctor of Laws | 1975 |
| Berns, H. Jerome | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1962 |
| Berry, Theodore Moody | Doctor of Laws | 1968 |
| Berte, Neal R. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1993 |
| Bevis, Howard L. | Doctor of Laws | 1940 |
| Bhati, Anant R. | Doctor of Science | 2010 |
| Biddle, Livingston Ludow, Jr. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1979 |
| Bierkoe, George O. | Doctor of Letters | 1971 |
| Bilger, Leonora Neuffer | Doctor of Laws | 1950 |
| Billings, Frank | Doctor of Laws | 1924 |
| Bingham, Barry | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1962 |
| Bishop, Barry C. | Doctor of Science | 1994 |
| Bisplinghoff, Raymond L. | Doctor of Science | 1963 |
| Blankenhorn, Marion Arthur | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1957 |
| Blegen, Carl William | Doctor of Laws | 1958 |
| Bonham, Jeanne Snodgrass | Doctor of Laws | 1995 |
| Bookman, Clarence Monroe | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1929 |
| Booth, L. Venchael | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1989 |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1976 |
| Borgman, Jim | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1991 |
| Bosanquet, Charles Ian Carr | Doctor of Laws | 1964 |
| Bradford, Leland | Doctor of Laws | 1976 |
| Brand, Louis | Doctor of Science | 1956 |
| Branson, Herman Russell | Doctor of Science | 1967 |
| Braun, Emma Lucy | Doctor of Science | 1964 |
| Bridgewater, Pamela E. | Doctor of Laws | 2006 |
| Briggs, Lord Asa | Doctor of Letters | 1977 |
| Brodie, Renton Kirkwood | Doctor of Laws | 1963 |
| Brokamp, Raymond John | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2010 |
| Bronk, Detlev Wulf | Doctor of Engineering | 1951 |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn | Doctor of Letters | 1974 |
| Brown, Donald D. | Doctor of Science | 1992 |
| Brown, Henry T. | Doctor of Science | 2001 |
| Brown, Jack E. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1998 |
| Brown, Tim | Doctor of Arts & Humane Letters | 2024 |
| Bruner, Jerome Seymour | Doctor of Letters | 1966 |
| Bucher, Walter | Doctor of Science | 1963 |
| Buckberg, Gerald D. | Doctor of Science | 2007 |
| Budig, Otto M. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2009 |
| Bullock, John R. | Doctor of Laws | 1963 |
| Burck, Arthur Albert | Doctor of Laws | 1969 |
| Burns, Norman | Doctor of Letters | 1970 |
| Bursiek, Ralph C. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1976 |
| Burton, Harold Hitz | Doctor of Laws | 1958 |
| Butler, William J. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1988 |
| Camara, Dom Helder | Doctor of Laws | 1975 |
| Campbell, Mary Edith | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1931 |
| Carmichael, Daniel P. | Doctor of Laws | 2006 |
| Carlson, William S. | Doctor of Letters | 1970 |
| Carter, Elliott | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1989 |
| Cassady, Thomas D. | Doctor of Letters | 2019 |
| Castellini, Robert H. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2013 |
| Catton, Bruce | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1964 |
| Cavenee, Webster K. | Doctor of Science | 2002 |
| Chandler, Albert B. | Doctor of Laws | 1991 |
| Chandler, Frank Wadleigh | Doctor of Letters | 1944 |
| Chesley, Stanley M. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1993 |
| Chisholm, Shirley | Doctor of Laws | 1975 |
| Clark, Frank M. | Doctor of Laws | 1914 |
| Clarke, Timothy D. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2005 |
| Clay, Lucius D. | Doctor of Laws | 1965 |
| Cliburn, Van | Doctor of Music | 1974 |
| Clooney, Nick | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2012 |
| Cockrum, Charles A. | Doctor of Science | 1993 |
| Cohen, Dolly Lurie | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1967 |
| Colaw, Emerson Stephen | Doctor of Letters | 1969 |
| Coles, Robert | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1976 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Doctor of Laws | 1975 |
| Condit, Carl Wilbur | Doctor of Letters | 1967 |
| Condon, Randall | Doctor of Laws | 1925 |
| Constant, Frank Henry | Doctor of Science | 1915 |
| Conway, Herbet | Doctor of Science | 1969 |
| Corbett, J. Ralph | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1963 |
| Corbett, Patricia | Doctor of Music | 1976 |
| Cornelius, Dorothy A. | Doctor of Public Service | 1984 |
| Costen, Lloyd E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1994 |
| Courter, Claude V. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1955 |
| Cox, Archibald | Doctor of Laws | 1967 |
| Cox, Phillip R. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2009 |
| Cox, W. Howard | Doctor of Commerical Science | 1958 |
| Coy, Francis | Doctor of Commerical Science | 1976 |
| Crabbs, George D. | Doctor of Science | 1928 |
| Crawford, Alvin H. | Doctor of Science | 2018 |
| Crist, Raymond E. | Doctor of Science | 1969 |
| Crouch, Charles B. | Doctor of Laws | 1962 |
| Currie, Charles L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1984 |
| Dabney, Charles William | Doctor of Laws | 1937 |
| Dale, Francis Lykins | Doctor of Laws | 1967 |
| Daniels, Barbara | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1993 |
| Davies, Chase Mason | Doctor of Laws | 1959 |
| Davis, Jacob Erastus | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1964 |
| Day, Edmund Ezra | Doctor of Laws | 1943 |
| Day, Robert Henry | Doctor of Laws | 1933 |
| De Nora, Vittorio | Doctor of Science | 1995 |
| DeBakey, Michael Ellis | Doctor of Letters | 1969 |
| deChambrun, Jean Pierre | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1965 |
| DeLay, Dorothy | Doctor of Performing Arts | 2001 |
| Dello Joio, Norman Joseph | Doctor of Music | 1967 |
| Deupree, Richard R. | Doctor of Laws | 1955 |
| Diaz, Armando V. | Doctor of Laws | 1921 |
| Dick, George Frederick | Doctor of Science | 1925 |
| Dick, Gladys H. | Doctor of Science | 1925 |
| Dillon, David B. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2014 |
| Dinsmore, Frank F. | Doctor of Laws | 1948 |
| Dodd, William Edward | Doctor of Laws | 1929 |
| Dodds, Harold Willis | Doctor of Laws | 1935 |
| Dolbey, Dorothy Nichols | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1969 |
| Dole, Elizabeth | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1999 |
| Donahue, Phil | Doctor of Journalism | 1988 |
| Dorst, Stanley E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1962 |
| Dowd, Marian LaCour | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1968 |
| Draper, Walter Adams | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1956 |
| Dudley, William Lofland | Doctor of Laws | 1914 |
| Duffey, Joseph Daniel | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1978 |
| Dumas, Rhetaugh Graves | Doctor of Public Service | 1981 |
| Dupuis, Charles W. | Master of Arts | 1922 |
| Dupuis, Charles W. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1956 |
| Dury, Ralph | Doctor of Science | 1976 |
| Dury, Ralph E. | Master of Science | 1958 |
| Duveneck, Frank | Doctor of Laws | 1917 |
| Dyer, Elizabeth | Doctor of Science | 1954 |
| Dykstra, Charles Addison | Doctor of Letters | 1937 |
| Dzau, Victor J. | Doctor of Science | 2015 |
| Eames, Charles and Ray | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1978 |
| Earley, Jane Deserisy | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1966 |
| Eban, Abba | Doctor of Laws | 1974 |
| Edelman, Randy | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2004 |
| Edwards, George C. | Doctor of Laws | 1982 |
| Eisendrath, Maurice Nathan | Doctor of Laws | 1957 |
| Emery, Mary | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| Engel, Lehman | Doctor of Music | 1971 |
| Ervin, Sam | Doctor of Laws | 1974 |
| Estes, Elliott M. | Doctor of Science | 1971 |
| Everingham, Lyle | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1993 |
| Fabe, Robert | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1998 |
| Fairbank, John | Doctor of Letters | 1973 |
| Farrell, Erma Pfleger | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1969 |
| Farrell, Suzanne | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1990 |
| Fawcett, Novice G. | Doctor of Laws | 1960 |
| Fealy, Robert L. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2013 |
| Feis, Herbert | Doctor of Laws | 1968 |
| Felson, Benjamin | Doctor of Science | 1988 |
| Fenneman, Nevin M. | Doctor of Laws | 1940 |
| Ferger, Roger H. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1962 |
| Ferson, Merton | Doctor of Laws | 1947 |
| Fields, Ernest S. | Doctor of Laws | 1961 |
| Filkosky, William J. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1984 |
| Fischer, Martin Henry | Doctor of Laws | 1951 |
| Fite, Dean Pickering | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1970 |
| Fleisher, Leon | Doctor of Music | 2013 |
| Fleming, John | Doctor of Science | 1933 |
| Flory, Paul J. | Doctor of Science | 1982 |
| Franklin, John Hope | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1998 |
| Friendly, Henry Jacob | Doctor of Laws | 1968 |
| Fromm, Paul | Doctor of Music | 1974 |
| Frost, Robert | Doctor of Laws | 1954 |
| Fulford, Margaret | Doctor of Science | 1988 |
| Gallagher, Buell Gordon | Doctor of Letters | 1957 |
| Gavin, Frank Stanton | Doctor of Laws | 1932 |
| Geddes, Sir Aukland | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| Geier, Frederick V. | Doctor of Laws | 1956 |
| Geier, James A.D. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1983 |
| Geier, Philip Otto, Jr. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1971 |
| Geist, William | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2003 |
| Gert, Bernard | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2006 |
| Gest, J.H. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1922 |
| Gettler, Benjamin | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2003 |
| Gieringer, Carl K. | Doctor of Science | 1976 |
| Glenn, John | Doctor of Engineering | 2013 |
| Glueck, Nelson | Doctor of Laws | 1936 |
| Goering, John B. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2005 |
| Goodhart, Arthur Lehman | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1964 |
| Gottschalk, Alfred | Doctor of Laws | 1976 |
| Gowdy, Robert C. | Doctor of Science | 1947 |
| Graham, Evarts Ambrose | Doctor of Science | 1927 |
| Graham, Michael J. | Doctor of Humanities | 2013 |
| Graves, Michael | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1982 |
| Green, James Albert | Doctor of Letters | 1948 |
| Gregg, Clifford Cilley | Doctor of Laws | 1958 |
| Gresham, Perry Epler | Doctor of Letters | 1966 |
| Grote, Irvin Walter | Doctor of Science | 1967 |
| Grubb, William I. | Doctor of Laws | 1933 |
| Haley, Virginia Baker | Doctor of Pedagogy | 1968 |
| Halifax, Right Hon. Viscount | Doctor of Laws | 1944 |
| Hall, Joseph Bates | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1959 |
| Hamner, Earl | Doctor of Performing Arts | 2008 |
| Handlin, Oscar | Doctor of Letters | 1981 |
| Harlan, Louis R. | Doctor of Letters | 1986 |
| Harrell, C.A. | Doctor of Laws | 1963 |
| Harrison, Rose Granville | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Haskins, Caryl P. | Doctor of Laws | 1960 |
| Hatcher, Harlan H. | Doctor of Laws | 1952 |
| Hatfield, Mark Odom | Doctor of Laws | 1970 |
| Hauck, Frederick A. | Doctor of Science | 1986 |
| Hawley, Amos Henry | Doctor of Letters | 1977 |
| Hawley, Paul R. | Doctor of Laws | 1944 |
| Hayes, James | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1977 |
| Hays, Reuben Benjamin | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1959 |
| Heimann, Gary | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2015 |
| Heimann, Sandra W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2013 |
| Hektoen, Ludwig | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| Herbold, Robert J. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2014 |
| Herget, Paul | Doctor of Science | 1978 |
| Herman, Stan | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2008 |
| Hermanies, John H. | Doctor of Laws | 1992 |
| Herrick, Charles J. | Doctor of Science | 1926 |
| Herschede, Joan R. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2004 |
| Hesburgh, Theodore M. | Doctor of Letters | 1981 |
| Heuer, George | Doctor of Laws | 1932 |
| Hexster, Jack H. | Doctor of Laws | 1978 |
| Hexter, Maurice B. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1980 |
| Heyns, Roger | Doctor of Laws | 1975 |
| Hickman, W. Braddock | Doctor of Laws | 1966 |
| Hicks, Frederick | Doctor of Laws | 1928 |
| Hilker, Cathryn Hosea | Doctor of Science | 2004 |
| Hill, G. Carlton | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1963 |
| Hirt, Al | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1968 |
| Hodgson, James D. | Doctor of Laws | 1972 |
| Hoffman, Charles | Doctor of Science | 1973 |
| Holland, Jerome Heartwell | Doctor of Laws | 1966 |
| Hollister, John B. | Doctor of Laws | 1960 |
| Holmes, Christian | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| Hook, Charles Ruffin | Doctor of Public Service | 1956 |
| Hope, Bob (Leslie Townes) | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1970 |
| Horine, Emmet F. | Master of Arts | 1952 |
| Hovde, Frederick L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1956 |
| Hoven, Ardis Dee | Doctor of Science | 2013 |
| Huebner, Robert J. | Doctor of Laws | 1965 |
| Humes, Thomas | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2016 |
| Jackson, Dennis E. | Doctor of Science | 1969 |
| Jackson, Jesse L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1979 |
| Jacobs, Carl Marion | Doctor of Laws | 1964 |
| Jarring, Gunnar | Doctor of Laws | 1963 |
| Johnson, Howard | Doctor of Laws | 1973 |
| Johnson, John | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1976 |
| Johnson, Lewis B. | Doctor of Letters | 2017 |
| Johnson, Timothy | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2023 |
| Johnston, Logan T. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1962 |
| Johnston, Mary E. | Doctor of Laws | 1954 |
| Jones, Nathaniel R. | Doctor of Laws | 1996 |
| Jordan, Barbara | Doctor of Laws | 1976 |
| Jordan, Edwin O. | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Joyce, David L. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2010 |
| Kartalia, Mitchell P. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1981 |
| Katz, Reuven J. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2001 |
| Kautz, James C. | Doctor of Laws | 1995 |
| Kawamoto, Minoru | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1969 |
| Keagy, Walter R. | Master of Arts | 1958 |
| Keating, William J. | Doctor of Laws | 1975 |
| Keating, William J. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2001 |
| Keefe, John W. | Doctor of Laws | 1984 |
| Kehoe, Robert A. | Doctor of Science | 1978 |
| Keith, Damon J. | Doctor of Laws | 1997 |
| Kelley, Edgar Stillman | Doctor of Laws | 1917 |
| Kendall, Edward C. | Doctor of Science | 1923 |
| Kendle, Candace | Doctor of Science | 2010 |
| Kenney, Edward C. | Doctor of Laws | 1963 |
| Kereiakes, Dean J. | Doctor of Science | 2014 |
| Kettering, Charles F. | Doctor of Science | 1928 |
| Kinneary, Joseph P. | Doctor of Laws | 1991 |
| King, Coretta Scott | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2004 |
| Kirchwey, George Washington | Doctor of Laws | 1908 |
| Knaggs, Nelson Stuart | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1971 |
| Knappstein, K. Heinrich | Doctor of Laws | 1963 |
| Kock, Winston E. | Doctor of Science | 1952 |
| Kohut, Heinz | Doctor of Science | 1973 |
| Kolodzik, Marvin P. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2018 |
| Koop, C. Everett | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1991 |
| Kornberg, Hans | Doctor of Science | 1974 |
| Kramer, Harry Patrick | Doctor of Science | 1965 |
| Kronenberger, Louis | Doctor of Letters | 1952 |
| Krueger, Hilmar C. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1996 |
| Kunzel, Erich | Doctor of Performing Arts | 2000 |
| Lahey, Frank H. | Doctor of Laws | 1951 |
| Landers, Ann | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1974 |
| Landwith, Henri | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1997 |
| Langsam, Walter C. | Doctor of Laws | 1975 |
| Lasker, B. J. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1974 |
| Laurence, Daniel | Doctor of Laws | 1944 |
| Laws, Annie | Master of Education | 1924 |
| Lazarus, Fred, Jr. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1956 |
| Learmonth, Doloris F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2019 |
| LeBlond, Richard Emmett | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1966 |
| Leutner, Winfred G. | Doctor of Laws | 1949 |
| Levertov, Denise | Doctor of Letters | 1973 |
| Levine, Aaron | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1996 |
| Levine, James | Doctor of Music | 1973 |
| Lewis, Dean Dewitt | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Lewis, Earl | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2015 |
| Lewis, Edward Shakespear | Doctor of aws | 1970 |
| Lewis, Samella Sanders | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1993 |
| Liatis, Alexis S. | Doctor of Laws | 1961 |
| Lichter, Jacob | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1963 |
| Lindhorst, Ambrose H. | Doctor of Laws | 1985 |
| Lindner, Carl H. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1985 |
| Lindner, Carl H. III | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2016 |
| Lindner, Richard E. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2002 |
| Lindner, S. Craig | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2016 |
| Lingle, Walter Lee, Jr. | Doctor of Laws | 1969 |
| Lloyd, Curtis Gates | Doctor of Science | 1926 |
| Lloyd, John Arthur | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1967 |
| Lloyd, John Uri | Doctor of Science | 1916 |
| Loewy, Raymond Fernand | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1956 |
| Logan, Laura R. | Doctor of Science | 1954 |
| Lopez-Cobos, Jesus | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1996 |
| Lovett, Robert Williamson | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Lowenstein, Arthur | Doctor of Science | 1925 |
| Lukens, Matthias E. | Doctor of Laws | 1968 |
| Maccoby, Eleanor | Doctor of Science | 1975 |
| Maddox, Eva L. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2006 |
| Major, Ralph H. | Doctor of Letters | 1952 |
| Malone, Beverly | Doctor of Science | 2015 |
| Mancini, Joseph A. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1990 |
| Manggrum, Loretta C. | Doctor of Music | 1985 |
| Manss, Robert W. | Doctor of Laws | 1968 |
| Marburg, Theodore | Doctor of Laws | 1917 |
| Marcus, Jacob Rader | Doctor of Laws | 1950 |
| Marks, Bernard | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1993 |
| Marquette, Bleecker | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1976 |
| Marshall, Carrington T. | Doctor of Laws | 1925 |
| Martin, William R. | Doctor of Laws | 2014 |
| Maruska, Edward J. | Doctor of Science | 1989 |
| Marx, Marjorie McCullough | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2003 |
| Mayfield, Frank Henderson | Doctor of Science | 1971 |
| Maynard, Thane | Doctor of Science | 2012 |
| McBride, Angelo Barro | Doctor of Public Service | 1983 |
| McClain, William Andrew | Doctor of Laws | 1971 |
| McCollum, Elmer Vernon | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| McCollum, Kevin E. | Doctor of Performing Arts | 2005 |
| McDonald, Robert A. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2010 |
| McElroy, Neil H. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1956 |
| McKeachie, Wilbert J. | Doctor of Laws | 1975 |
| McLaughlin, George Dunlap | Master of Science | 1924 |
| McMurrich, J. Playfair | Doctor of Laws | 1924 |
| McVea, Emilie Watts | Doctor of Letters | 1916 |
| Mead, Margaret | Doctor of Science | 1965 |
| Melish, John Howard | Doctor of Laws | 1931 |
| Meyers, Philip M., Sr. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1978 |
| Mezes, Sidney Edward | Doctor of Laws | 1915 |
| Miller, Dane A. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2003 |
| Miller, John R. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1983 |
| Miller, William Snow | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Millett, John D. | Doctor of Letters | 1967 |
| Mitchell, Don G. | Doctor of Science | 1958 |
| Mischell, Thomas E. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2022 |
| Mitchell, Samuel C. | Doctor of Laws | 1914 |
| Mixter, James M. E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1977 |
| Moore, Ann | Doctor of Medical Science | 2018 |
| Möltmann, Gunter | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1992 |
| Morgens, Howard | Doctor of Laws | 1960 |
| Morgenstern, Julian | Doctor of Laws | 1937 |
| Morrill, James Lewis | Doctor of Laws | 1948 |
| Moyers, Bill | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1998 |
| Mulligan, Rev. Robert | Doctor of Laws | 1976 |
| Myers, Philip Van Ness | Doctor of Laws | 1913 |
| Nahm, Helen | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1968 |
| Nelson, Frank Howard | Doctor of Laws | 1924 |
| Nester, William R. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2005 |
| Neumann, Heinrich | Doctor of Laws | 1910 |
| Neihoff, H. C. Buck | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2011 |
| Nippert, Alfred Kuno | Doctor of Laws | 1956 |
| Nippert, Louis | Doctor of Laws | 1971 |
| Nippert, Louis Dieterle | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1967 |
| Noguchi, Hideyo (Posthumous) | Doctor of Laws | 1928 |
| Novy, F. G. | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| O'Connor, Paul Lynch | Doctor of Laws | 1964 |
| Oesper, Ralph Edward | Doctor of Science | 1966 |
| Oliver, John Chadwick | Doctor of Science | 1929 |
| Opitz, Herwart Siegfried | Doctor of Science | 1969 |
| Orchin, Milton | Doctor of Science | 1984 |
| Osborn, Cyrus R. | Doctor of Science | 1948 |
| Osterbrock, Donald E. | Doctor of Science | 2004 |
| Owens, Brigman "Brig" | Doctore of Humane Letters | 2008 |
| Owens, O'dell M. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1997 |
| Oxley, Lucy O. | Doctor of Science | 1990 |
| Pabodie, William H. | Master of Arts | 1917 |
| Paffrath, Leslie | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1959 |
| Parham, Marjorie | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2000 |
| Payne, Dorothy Stolzenbach | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1967 |
| Payne, J. B. | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| Peale, Norman Vincent | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1968 |
| Pechstein, Louis A., Sr. | Doctor of Laws | 1949 |
| Peck, John Weld | Doctor of Laws | 1965 |
| Pepper, John E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2007 |
| Perkins, Dexter | Doctor of Letters | 1970 |
| Perry, Kirk L. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2015 |
| Peters, Rudolph Albert | Doctor of Science | 1953 |
| Peyre, Henri | Doctor of Letters | 1961 |
| Pfau, Susan L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2006 |
| Phalen, Thomas F. | Doctor of Laws | 1996 |
| Phillips, George Augustus | Doctor of Pedagogy | 1964 |
| Phillips, Kathryn Sisson | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1964 |
| Phillipson, David | Doctor of Laws | 1914 |
| Pichler, Joseph A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2009 |
| Pierce, Wendell Howard | Doctor of Laws | 1959 |
| Polaski, Deborah Poe | Doctor of Performing Arts | 2010 |
| Polk, Louis F. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1971 |
| Polman, Paul | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2009 |
| Porter, Jermain Gildersleeve | Doctor of Science | 1930 |
| Portman III, William C. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2021 |
| Pound, Roscoe | Doctor of Laws | 1933 |
| Prentis, Henning Webb, Jr. | Doctor of Laws | 1943 |
| Prince, Faith | Doctor of Performing Arts | 2009 |
| Procter, William Cooper | Doctor of Laws | 1922 |
| Pugh, Robert C. | Doctor of Laws | 1921 |
| Rachford, Benjamin K. | Doctor of Laws | 1926 |
| Rajadhyaksha, Vikram V. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2000 |
| Ransohoff, Daniel J. | Doctor of Humane Letters (Posthumous) | 1993 |
| Ransohoff, Joseph | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| Ransohoff, Marion | Doctor of Letters | 1962 |
| Reams, Lee Roy | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1998 |
| Reichert, Victor E. | Doctor of Letters | 1965 |
| Rentschler, Peter E. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1965 |
| Rhodes, James A. | Doctor of Laws | 1967 |
| Rich, Carl West | Doctor of Laws | 1959 |
| Richardson, Elliot | Doctor of Laws | 1974 |
| Richardson, Robert E., Jr. | Doctor of Laws | 2019 |
| Richardson, William Shaw | Doctor of Laws | 1967 |
| Rieveschl, Ellen | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2019 |
| Rieveschl, George, Jr. | Doctor of Science | 1956 |
| Riffe, Vernal G. | Doctor of Laws | 1990 |
| Robeck, Gordon G. | Doctor of Science | 1985 |
| Robertson, Oscar P. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2007 |
| Rockefeller, John D., IV | Doctor of Laws | 1973 |
| Rogers, Carl | Doctor of Science | 1974 |
| Romano, John | Doctor of Science | 1979 |
| Romulo, Carlos Pena | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1980 |
| Rose, Frank Anthony | Doctor of Laws | 1958 |
| Rose, Michael D. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1989 |
| Rosenow, Edward C. | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Rosenthal, Lois | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2008 |
| Rosenthal, Richard | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2008 |
| Rothenberg, Jean W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1994 |
| Rowe, Brian Henry | Doctor of Science | 1987 |
| Rowe, John Jay | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1956 |
| Rowe, WIlliam Wallace | Doctore of Humane Letters | 1964 |
| Rubin, Carl B. | Doctor of Laws | 1988 |
| Rudolf, Max | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1960 |
| Ruehlmann, Eugene | Doctor of Laws | 2011 |
| Ruthven, John A. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2013 |
| Sabin, Albert | Doctor of Science | 1974 |
| Samuels, Martin A. | Doctor of Science | 2005 |
| Sanford, Edward Terry | Doctor of Laws | 1908 |
| Sawyer, Charles | Doctor of Laws | 1950 |
| Sawyer, Diane | Doctor or Journalism | 1992 |
| Schaefer, George A. Jr. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2006 |
| Schiff, Robert C., Sr. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2001 |
| Schloss, Milton J., Sr. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1995 |
| Schlotfeldt, Rozella M. | Doctor of Science | 1989 |
| Schneider, Herman | Doctor of Laws | 1933 |
| Schrieffer, John Robert | Doctor of Science | 1977 |
| Schubert, Arthur William | Doctor of Laws | 1971 |
| Schulz, William F. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2005 |
| Schwab, James E. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2016 |
| Schwab, Louis | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| Seasongood, Agnes | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1974 |
| Sedqwick, William Thompson | Doctor of Laws | 1920 |
| Seibert, Donald V. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1975 |
| Semple, William Tunstall | Doctor of Laws | 1951 |
| Seretse, Tebelelo Mazile | Doctor of Public Service | 2014 |
| Shattuck, Frederick C. | Doctor of Laws | 1908 |
| Shaw, Albert | Doctor of Laws | 1913 |
| Sheakley, Larry A. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2012 |
| Shoemaker, Myrl | Doctor of Laws | 1982 |
| Shohl, Walter M. | Doctor of Laws | 1966 |
| Shore, T. Spencer | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1964 |
| Shriver, Phillip Raymond | Doctor of Letters | 1966 |
| Shuttlesworth, Fred L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2001 |
| Siddall, Kelly Y. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1962 |
| Simon, Frank | Doctor of Music | 1966 |
| Simrall, Josephine P. | Master of Arts | 1936 |
| Smith, C. Alphonso | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1916 |
| Smith, Gloria R. | Doctor of Science | 1992 |
| Spain, Jayne Baker | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1971 |
| Spence, James | Doctor of Laws | 1951 |
| Spencer, Donald A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2006 |
| Spencer, Marian A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2006 |
| Sritanyaratana, Somchitt | Doctor of Pedagogy | 1968 |
| Stahr, Elvis J. | Doctor of Letters | 1966 |
| Steger, Joseph A. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2004 |
| Stein, Ben | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2002 |
| Stern, Joseph S., Jr. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1989 |
| Stern, Robert D. | Doctor of Humane Letters (Posthumous) | 1993 |
| Stevenson, Will P. | Doctor of Laws | 1933 |
| Stewar, Potter | Doctor of Laws | 1963 |
| Stewart, James Garfield | Doctor of Laws | 1958 |
| Stockard, Charles Rupert | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Stokes, Carl Burton | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1968 |
| Strauss, Joseph B. | Doctor of Science | 1930 |
| Streitmann, Albert Peter | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1956 |
| Strike, George L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1999 |
| Stuart, James Merton | Doctor of Commercial Sciences | 1969 |
| Sullivan, Leon | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1974 |
| Sumberg, Alfred D. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1994 |
| Taft, Annie Sinton | Doctor of Laws | 1922 |
| Taft, Bob | Doctor of Laws | 2000 |
| Taft, Charles P. | Doctor of Laws | 1922 |
| Taft, Charles Phelps | Doctor of Laws | 1965 |
| Taft, Robert A., Sr. | Doctor of Laws | 1949 |
| Taft, William Howard | Doctor of Laws | 1925 |
| Tajo, Italo | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1987 |
| Tangeman, Marjorie | Doctor of Laws | 1974 |
| Tangeman, Walter William | Doctor of Science | 1958 |
| Tannenwald, Theodore | Doctor of Laws | 1976 |
| Tate, Ben E. | Doctor of Laws | 1961 |
| Tcherkassky, Marianna | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1999 |
| Teller, Edward | Doctor of Laws | 1962 |
| Thilly, Frank | Doctor of Laws | 1913 |
| Thornburg, Dick | Doctor of Letters | 1964 |
| Thornburgh, Richard E. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2009 |
| Tivney, John Louis | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1971 |
| Toffler, Alvin | Doctor of Letters | 1972 |
| Trabert, M. Anthony | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2007 |
| Treadwell, Oscar | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1997 |
| Trethewey, Natasha | Doctor of Fine Arts | 2016 |
| Tu, Kuang-hsun | Doctor of Laws | 1968 |
| Tuner, Darwin T. | Doctor of Letters | 1983 |
| Twitchell, Ernest | Doctor of Science | 1915 |
| Tyler, Ralph W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1960 |
| Ullman, Myron E. "Mike" III | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2006 |
| Vail, Derrick Tilton | Doctor of Science | 1969 |
| Van Devanter, Willis | Doctor of Laws | 1927 |
| Venable, William H. | Doctor of Letters | 1917 |
| Volcker, Paul A. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1986 |
| Von Pauer, Ernest Charles J. | Doctor of Laws | 1957 |
| Von Rosenstiel, Werner | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2003 |
| vonBraun, Sigismund | Doctor of Laws | 1967 |
| Vontz, Albert W., Jr. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1989 |
| Waddington, Conrad Hal | Doctor of Laws | 1971 |
| Waite, Henry M. | Doctor of Engineering | 1933 |
| Walshe, Francis Marin Rouse | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1959 |
| Walters, Raymond | Doctor of Laws | 1955 |
| Ward, Henry Baldwin | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Warkany, Josef | Doctor of Science | 1986 |
| Warland, Dale Eugene | Doctor of Performing Arts | 2008 |
| Warner, Geraldine | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2021 |
| Warren, Earl | Doctor of Laws | 1958 |
| Warren, Frederick M. | Doctor of Laws | 1964 |
| Warrington, John Wesley | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1980 |
| Waterman, Alan Tower | Doctor of Laws | 1959 |
| Watson, Jack M. | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1982 |
| Watts, Mary S. | Master of Arts | 1917 |
| Webster, John Clarence | Doctor of Science | 1920 |
| Wedbush, Edward W. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2000 |
| Wedbush, Jean | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2016 |
| Wehling, Robert L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1998 |
| Weick, Paul Charles | Doctor of Laws | 1965 |
| Weisburger, Elizabeth Kreiser | Doctor of Science | 1981 |
| Werner, Calvin J. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1969 |
| Wesley, Charles Harris | Doctor of Laws | 1964 |
| West, John Andrew (Skip) | Doctor of Laws | 2017 |
| Westheimer, Frank | Doctor of Science | 1976 |
| White, David | Doctor of Science | 1923 |
| Whiting, Carson R. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1984 |
| Wick, Chad P. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2005 |
| Wiener, Malcom H. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2007 |
| Wile, George J. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2005 |
| Williams, Jeffrey P. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2009 |
| Wilson, Don W. | Doctor of Letters | 1988 |
| Wilson, Steven A. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2006 |
| Winkler, Henry R. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1987 |
| Wiesmann, William P. | Doctor of Science | 2008 |
| Wiseman, Frederick | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1973 |
| Wolfson, Erwin S. | Doctor of Laws | 1961 |
| Woo, Peter K.C. | Doctor of Letters | 1994 |
| Wood, Harland G. | Doctor of Science | 1982 |
| Woodson, Sr., Robert L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2012 |
| Wright, Orville | Doctor of Science | 1917 |
| Wulsin, Lucien | Doctor of Science | 1957 |
| Wyler, Jeffrey L. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2011 |
| Wyler, Joel P. | Doctor of Commercial Science | 2002 |
| Young, Andrew J. | Doctor of Public Service | 2014 |
| Zimmer, William Homer | Doctor of Commercial Science | 1964 |
| Zimmerman, Charles Ballard | Doctor of Laws | 1958 |
| Zimpher, Nancy L. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 2017 |
| Ziv, Frederick W. | Doctor of Performing Arts | 1985 |
*Cosby, William H., Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters (2001) revoked via board resolution on May 8, 2018