Honorary Degree Recipients
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| George H. Davis | 2012 |
| Richard Christiansen | 2011 |
| David Porter | 2011 |
| Margaret Ann Towsley Riecker | 2010 |
| Margaret Simms | 2010 |
| Peter Basquin | 2009 |
| Gary Paul Nabhan | 2009 (Sept) |
| Annie S.C. Wu | 2009 |
| Deborah Bial | 2008 |
| Nadinne Cruz | 2008 |
| Melvin Laird | 2008 |
| Carolyn Williamson Nelson | 2008 |
| Gordon Kaufman | 2007 |
| Catherine Manegold | 2007 |
| Lila Abu-Lughod | 2006 |
| Stephen P. Hubbell | 2006 |
| Jewelnel Davis | 2005 |
| Parker Palmer | 2005 |
| Stephen Stigler | 2005 |
| Warren MacKenzie | 2004 |
| Marian Neutra | 2004 |
| Lyman Van Slyke | 2004 |
| M. H. Abrams | 2003 |
| David Maybury-Lewis | 2003 |
| Nina M. Archabal | 2002 |
| Anthony Downs | 2002 |
| Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. | 2002 |
| Kenji Tanaka | 2002 |
| Judd H. Alexander | 2001 |
| Linda M. Bartoshuk | 2001 |
| Joyce A. Hughes | 2001 |
| Francis T. Vincent, Jr. | 2001 (Sept) |
| George H. Dixon | 2000 |
| Bruno Nettl | 2000 |
| Kirbyjon Caldwell | 1999 |
| Jane Hamilton | 1999 |
| Winston R. Wallin | 1999 |
| Geri M. Joseph | 1998 |
| F. Sherwood Rowland | 1998 |
| Tajiro Iwayama | 1997 |
| George N. Somero | 1997 |
| Marilyn J. Stokstad | 1997 |
| Horoshi Fukuda | 1996 |
| Garrison Keillor | 1996 (Sept) |
| Suzanne Lebsock | 1996 |
| Sir Ketimule Masire | 1996 |
| Robert G. Bergman | 1995 |
| Wayne C. Booth | 1995 |
| Jane E. Hodgson | 1994 |
| Edward Jacobson | 1994 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | 1993 |
| Robert McAfee Brown | 1993 |
| Burton Levin | 1993 |
| Peter D. Baird | 1992 |
| Ian G. Barbour | 1992 (May) |
| Mary-Claire King | 1992 |
| Walter F. Mondale | 1992 |
| Lynn Avery Hunt | 1991 |
| Norman Ramsey | 1991 |
| Edson Spencer | 1991 |
| Haldore Hanson | 1990 |
| Elizabeth B. Jerome | 1990 |
| Frank I. Wright | 1990 |
| Michael H. Armacost | 1989 |
| Roald Hoffman | 1989 |
| A.D. (Bill) Hulings | 1989 |
| Mary A. (Betty) Hulings | 1989 |
| Nicholas G. L. Hammond | 1988 |
| M.E. (Casey) Jarchow | 1988 |
| William E. (Billy) Taylor | 1988 |
| George M. Woodwell | 1988 |
| Edna H. Hong | 1987 |
| Howard V. Hong | 1987 |
| Philip Morrison | 1987 |
| Rosalie E. Wahl | 1987 |
| Harry A. Blackmun | 1986 |
| Robert H. Edwards | 1986 |
| Akira Kieda | 1986 |
| John Plummer | 1986 |
| Ronald M. Hubbs | 1985 |
| David Riesman | 1985 |
| Sidney Carne Wolff | 1985 |
| Kiyoaki Murata | 1984 |
| George J. Stigler | 1984 |
| Ann Haymond Zwinger | 1984 |
| Milic Capek | 1983 |
| A. Leon Higgenbotham | 1983 |
| G. Ledyard Stebbins | 1983 |
| Robert Gottschalk | 1982 |
| Reatha Clark King | 1982 |
| Lucian Wilmot Pye | 1982 |
| Lester Snowdon Sinness | 1982 |
| Ben C. Duniway | 1981 |
| Carl G. Hempel | 1981 |
| Loyce Houlton | 1981 |
| Shan Pu | 1981 |
| Theodore B. Taylor | 1981 |
| Warren P. Knowles | 1980 |
| Donald F. McHenry | 1980 |
| Sidney Anders Rand | 1980 (May) |
| Cecile De Sweemer | 1980 |
| Mauricio Lasansky | 1979 |
| Lloyd M. McBride | 1979 |
| Jeannette Ridlon Piccard | 1979 |
| C. Garrick Utley | 1979 |
| Muriel Buck Humphrey | 1978 |
| John M. Musser | 1978 |
| Martin A. Trow | 1978 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | 1977 |
| Mary Garst | 1977 |
| Richard H. Hoppin | 1977 |
| Virgil Kauffman | 1977 |
| Margaret Bell Cameron | 1976 |
| Harrison E. Salisbury | 1976 |
| Rev. Joseph Sittler | 1976 |
| Hon. Margaret A. Haywood | 1975 |
| Burnham Enersen | 1974 |
| Thomas Lowe Hughes | 1974 |
| Lucy Wilson Benson | 1973 |
| Henry S. Wingate | 1973 |
| Elmer L. Anderson | 1972 |
| Frank Brookes Hubachek | 1972 |
| Atherton Bean | 1971 |
| Reed Whittemore | 1971 |
| Paul J. Braisted | 1970 |
| Kingman Brewster | 1970 |
| Ralph Richard Keithahn | 1970 |
| John U. Monro | 1970 |
| Robert Greenleaf | 1969 |
| Dacie Moses | 1969 |
| Willis Weatherford | 1969 |
| Frank Edward Brown | 1968 |
| Olaf C. Christiansen | 1968 |
| Charles Eric Lincoln | 1968 |
| Emily Clark Brown | 1967 |
| Arland F. Christ-Janer | 1967 |
| Sara Crandall | 1967 |
| Charles A. Culver | 1967 |
| James Gusweller | 1967 |
| Edward C. Rosenow, Jr. | 1967 |
| Barbara Ward | 1967 |
| Minoru Yamasaki | 1967 |
| Henry Steele Commager | 1966 (Sept) |
| Rene Dubos | 1966 (Oct) |
| Douglas Maitland Knight | 1966 (Oct) |
| Roger Revelle | 1966 (Oct) |
| Walter Orr Roberts | 1966 (Oct) |
| Sigurd F. Olson | 1965 |
| Ray E. Phillips | 1965 |
| James H. Robinson | 1965 |
| James P. Shannon | 1965 |
| Julius Seelye Bixler | 1964 |
| Leal A. Headley | 1964 |
| Louis Sherman Headley | 1964 |
| D. Blake Stewart | 1964 |
| Eugenie Anderson | 1963 |
| Clemens Granskou | 1963 |
| Alan Tate | 1963 |
| Laurence M. Gould | 1962 |
| William Benton | 1961 |
| John Cowles | 1961 |
| George L. Tuve | 1961 |
| Richard L. Tuve | 1961 |
| Rosemond Tuve | 1961 |
| Merle A. Tuve | 1961 |
| Owen Meredith Wilson | 1961 |
| Chilton Powell | 1960 |
| Frank E. Stinchfield | 1960 |
| Julius A. Stratton | 1960 |
| Buell G. Gallagher | 1959 |
| Theodore Otto Wedel | 1959 |
| Theodore C. Blegen | 1958 |
| George J. Dufek | 1958 |
| Hugh Odishaw | 1958 |
| Marchette Chute | 1957 |
| Ross Lee Finney | 1957 |
| Margaret Habein | 1957 |
| Joseph Kaplan | 1957 |
| Stephen Edward Keeler | 1956 |
| Archibald MacLeish | 1956 |
| Harold R. Medina | 1956 |
| Lloyd Hilton Reyerson | 1956 |
| Laird Bell | 1955 |
| Evelyn Anderson Haymaker | 1954 |
| Henry Margenau | 1954 |
| Hayden L. Stright | 1954 |
| Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. | 1954 |
| Paul Austin Wolfe | 1953 |
| Donald K. David | 1952 |
| August N. Farmer | 1952 |
| W. Howard Pillsbury | 1952 |
| Jean A. Curran | 1951 |
| Clarence R. Decker | 1951 |
| Robert E. Gross | 1951 |
| Edward A. Fath | 1950 |
| James L. Morrill | 1950 |
| Wesley W. Spink | 1950 |
| Donald J. Cowling | 1949 |
| Carter Davidson | 1949 |
| Albert Peel | 1949 |
| Elizabeth Wallace | 1949 |
| Edwin D. Dickinson | 1948 |
| John W. Nason | 1948 (May) |
| Samuel N. Stevens | 1948 |
| Rowland M. Cross | 1947 |
| Hugh L. Keenleyside | 1947 (March) |
| Percy T. Watson | 1947 |
| Robert Lowry Calhoun | 1946 |
| Herbert F. Goodrich | 1946 |
| Charles O. Swanson | 1940 |
| Angus S. Hibbard | 1939 |
| Franz F. Exner | 1938 |
| Frederick M. Eliot | 1935 |
| Carroll R. Reed | 1935 |
| Donald C. Balfour | 1934 |
| Edward C. Rosenow | 1934 |
| Phillips E. Osgood | 1933 |
| Ambrose W. Vernon | 1933 |
| Charles H. Mayo | 1932 |
| Frank B. Kellogg | 1928 |
| William J. Mayo | 1928 |
| Howard Elliot | 1927 |
| Ernest Graham Guthrie | 1927 |
| Trevor Arnett | 1926 |
| David Bryn-Jones | 1925 |
| Josephine C. Preston | 1925 |
| Watts O. Pye | 1925 |
| William E. Barton | 1924 |
| Irving Maurer | 1924 |
| Pierce Butler | 1923 |
| John Gardner | 1923 |
| Lotus D. Coffman | 1922 |
| Susan A. Searle | 1922 |
| Robert E. Brown | 1921 |
| James Frederick Jackson | 1921 |
| Joseph A. A. Burnquist | 1920 |
| Cordenio A. Severance | 1919 |
| Cyrus Northrop | 1917 |
| Maria Sanford | 1917 |
| Lucien W. Chaney | 1916 |
| Horace Goodhue | 1916 |
| Margaret E. Huntington | 1916 |
| William Wallace Payne | 1916 |
| Luther A. Weigle | 1916 |
| Charles Emerson Burton | 1911 |
| George Huntington | 1911 |
| Marion LeRoy Burton | 1909 |
| James E. McConnell | 1906 |
| James J. Dow | 1899 |
| Delaven L. Leonard | 1895 |
| Stephen Alison Norton | 1895 |
| Edward M. Williams | 1895 |
| Arcturus Conrad | 1892 |
| George B. Barnes | 1889 |