Below is a chronological listing of the Honorary Degrees that have been awarded by the Johns Hopkins University between 1880 and today.
| Draper, Frances “Toni” Murphy | L.H.D. | 2025 |
| Forster, Louis “Lou” J. | L.H.D. | 2025 |
| Khan, Salman “Sal” Amin | L.H.D. | 2025 |
| Szalay, Alexander Sandor | L.H.D. | 2025 |
| Fleming, Renee | L.H.D. | 2024 |
| Lin, Maya | L.H.D. | 2024 |
| Miller III, William H. | L.H.D. | 2024 |
| Romney, Mitt | L.H.D. | 2024 |
| Stein, Janice | L.H.D. | 2024 |
| Wonder, Stevie | L.H.D. | 2024 |
| Dracopoulos, Andreas | L.H.D. | 2023 |
| Fox, Christine | L.H.D. | 2023 |
| Guess Jr., John | L.H.D. | 2023 |
| Jamison, Kay | L.H.D. | 2023 |
| Mak, Tak | L.H.D. | 2023 |
| Trebilcock, Michael | L.H.D. | 2023 |
| Woodruff, Judy | L.H.D. | 2023 |
| Zelenskyy, Volodymyr | L.H.D. | 2023 |
| Bassler, Bonnie | L.H.D. | 2022 |
| Hodgson, David C. | L.H.D. | 2022 |
| McGovern, Jill | L.H.D. | 2022 |
| Ohanian, Alexis | L.H.D. | 2022 |
| Power, Samantha | L.H.D. | 2022 |
| Scott, Joyce | L.H.D. | 2022 |
| Sommer, Alfred | L.H.D. | 2022 |
| Bates, Ernest A. | L.H.D. | 2021 |
| Lerner, Sid (presented at private ceremony) | L.H.D. | 2019 |
| Abella, Rosalie Silberman | L.H.D. | 2019 |
| Aronson, Jeffrey H. | L.H.D. | 2019 |
| Bhagwati, Jagdish N. | L.H.D. | 2019 |
| Goldberg, Jeffrey | L.H.D. | 2019 |
| Haney, Cecil D. | L.H.D. | 2019 |
| Hobbs, Helen H. | L.H.D. | 2019 |
| Bernstein, David | L.H.D. | 2018 |
| Hobson, Mellody | L.H.D. | 2018 |
| Lucas, George | L.H.D. | 2018 |
| Miles, Douglas | L.H.D. | 2018 |
| Snyder, Solomon H. | L.H.D. | 2018 |
| Stevenson, Bryan A. | L.H.D. | 2018 |
| Johnson, Katherine C. (presented at private ceremony) | L.H.D. | 2017 |
| Bruni, Frank A., Jr. | L.H.D. | 2017 |
| Gutman, Amy | L.H.D. | 2017 |
| Hayden, Carla | L.H.D. | 2017 |
| O’Connor, Ralph, S. | L.H.D. | 2017 |
| Varmus, Harold | L.H.D. | 2017 |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Axel, Richard | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Baker, Susan P. | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Heller, Ellen Moses | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Lee, Shelton Jackson “Spike” | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Rodin, Judith | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Stiller, Shale D. | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Zabin, Laurie S. | L.H.D. | 2016 |
| Alsop, Marin | L.H.D. | 2015 |
| Catmull, Edwin E. | L.H.D. | 2015 |
| Cummings, Elijah | L.H.D. | 2015 |
| Deering, Anthony | L.H.D. | 2015 |
| Deering, Lynn | L.H.D. | 2015 |
| Fauci, Anthony | L.H.D. | 2015 |
| Fleisher, Leon | L.H.D. | 2015 |
| Kirwan, William “Brit” | L.H.D. | 2015 |
| Augustine, Norman | L.H.D. | 2014 |
| Branch, Taylor | L.H.D. | 2014 |
| Flaherty, Pamela | L.H.D. | 2014 |
| Kaplan, Roberta | L.H.D. | 2014 |
| Lazarus, Fred | L.H.D. | 2014 |
| Windsor, Edith | L.H.D. | 2014 |
| Wojcicki, Susan | L.H.D. | 2014 |
| Brown, Eddie C. | L.H.D | 2013 |
| Brown, C. Sylvia | L.H.D. | 2013 |
| Mountcastle, Vernon | L.H.D. | 2013 |
| Sewankambo, Nelson K. | L.H.D. | 2013 |
| Colwell, Rita R. | L.H.D. | 2012 |
| Suu Kyi, Aung San | L.H.D. | 2012 |
| Lewis, Stephen H. | L.H.D. | 2012 |
| Malone, John C. | L.H.D. | 2012 |
| Palmisano, Samuel J. | L.H.D. | 2012 |
| Sen, Amartya | L.H.D | 2012 |
| Armstrong, Michael C. | L.H.D. | 2011 |
| Barth, John | L.H.D. | 2011 |
| Hrabowski, Freeman | L.H.D. | 2011 |
| Serwadda, David | L.H.D. | 2011 |
| Simon, David | L.H.D. | 2011 |
| Zakaria, Fareed | L.H.D. | 2011 |
| Johns, Michael M.E. | L.H.D. | 2010 |
| Mandelbrot, Benoit B. | L.H.D. | 2010 |
| Nelson, Douglas W. | L.H.D. | 2010 |
| Ochoa, Ellen | L.H.D. | 2010 |
| Pedersen, Marilyn Ames | L.H.D. | 2010 |
| Zerhouni, Elias A. | L.H.D. | 2010 |
| Lantos, Thomas P. (posthumously) | L.H.D. | 2009 |
| Brody, William R. | L.H.D. | 2009 |
| Goodwin Jr., William H. | L.H.D. | 2009 |
| Johns, Richard J. | L.H.D. | 2009 |
| Pelosi, Nancy D’Alesandro | L.H.D. | 2009 |
| Bunting Jr., George | L.H.D. | 2008 |
| Ennis, Ethel | L.H.D. | 2008 |
| Fischell, Robert E. | L.H.D. | 2008 |
| Mason, Raymond A. “Chip” | L.H.D. | 2008 |
| Nye, William S. | L.H.D. | 2008 |
| Schwarz, M. Roy | L.H.D. | 2007 |
| Sheridan, R. Champlin | L.H.D. | 2007 |
| Alain, Marie-Claire | L.H.D. | 2006 |
| Taylor, Carl | L.H.D. | 2006 |
| Gore, Albert, Jr. | L.H.D. | 2005 |
| Hertzberg, Arthur | L.H.D. | 2005 |
| Sirindhorn, Maha Chakri, Princess of Thailand | L.H.D. | 2005 |
| Witten, Edward | L.H.D. | 2005 |
| Ginsburg, Ruth Bader | L.H.D. | 2004 |
| Pocock, John Greville Agard | L.H.D. | 2004 |
| Smith, Hamilton O. | L.H.D. | 2004 |
| Bloomberg, Michael R. | L.H.D. | 2003 |
| Bromery, Randolph W. | L.H.D. | 2003 |
| Fagin, Claire M. | L.H.D. | 2003 |
| Kimmel, Sidney | L.H.D. | 2003 |
| Moore, Gordon E. | L.H.D. | 2003 |
| Brokaw, Tom | L.H.D. | 2002 |
| Choppin, Purnell | L.H.D. | 2002 |
| Crosby, Ranice | L.H.D. | 2002 |
| Mundell, Robert | L.H.D. | 2002 |
| Ripken, Cal | L.H.D. | 2002 |
| Shusheng, Jiang | L.H.D. | 2002 |
| Karen Padgett Davis | L.H.D. | 2001 |
| Alfred E. Mann | L.H.D. | 2001 |
| Maclyn McCarty | L.H.D. | 2001 |
| Arnall Patz | L.H.D. | 2001 |
| Annan, Kofi | L.H.D. | 2000 |
| Bing, Richard J. | L.H.D. | 2000 |
| Glaser, Robert J. | L.H.D. | 2000 |
| Griswold III, Benjamin H. | L.H.D. | 2000 |
| Healy, Bernadine P. | L.H.D. | 2000 |
| McKusick, Victor A. | L.H.D. | 2000 |
| Meyerhoff, Harvey M. | L.H.D. | 2000 |
| Muller, Steven | L.H.D. | 2000 |
| Avery, Mary Ellen, Dr. | L.H.D. | 1999 |
| Clark, A. James | L.H.D. | 1999 |
| Caspersen, Finn M.W. | L.H.D. | 1999 |
| Shallenberger, Clyde R., Rev. | L.H.D. | 1999 |
| Van Allen, James | L.H.D. | 1999 |
| Minzhang, Chen (Note: Chen Minzhang didn’t attend in person due to a serious illness. Dean Sommer, HPH, delivered the degree to him in China.) | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Dole, Elizabeth Hanford | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Gwaltney, Corbin | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Koc, Rahmi M. | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Schlossberg, Leon | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Shapiro, Sam | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Sussmuth, Rita | L.H.D. | 1998 |
| Abrams, Herbert E. (received June 7th at School of Medicine) | L.H.D. | 1997 |
| Butterfield, Right Hon. Lord | L.H.D. | 1997 |
| Cole, Johnnetta, Dr. | L.H.D. | 1997 |
| Fastie, William | L.H.D. | 1997 |
| Kripke, Saul, Dr. | L.H.D. | 1997 |
| Maragall, Pasqual, Dr. | L.H.D. | 1997 |
| Watts, Andre’ | L.H.D. | 1997 |
| Feeley, Sister Kathleen | L.H.D. | 1996 |
| Hackerman, Norman | L.H.D. | 1996 |
| Ogata, Sadako, Mrs. | L.H.D. | 1996 |
| Wilson, William Julius | L.H.D. | 1996 |
| Robins, Charles (presented at private ceremony) | H.B.A. | 1995 |
| Chung, Ju Yung | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Fazio, Antonio | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Koppel, Ted | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Leone, Lucille P., Mrs. | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Mikulski, Barbara A., The Hon. | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Mock, Alois, The. Hon. | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Richardson, William C. | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Sirikit, Queen (of Thailand) | L.H.D. | 1995 |
| Albright, Madeleine | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| Blount, Clarence | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| Henderson, D.A. | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| Pinkard, Anne M. | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| Ross, Richard S. | L.H.D. | 1994 |
| Gelb, Richard L. | L.H.D. | 1993 |
| Jacobsen, Josephine | L.H.D. | 1993 |
| Kaplan, Louis L. | L.H.D. | 1993 |
| Levinson, Barry | L.H.D. | 1993 |
| Miller, Merton H. | L.H.D. | 1993 |
| Tosteson, Daniel C. | L.H.D. | 1993 |
| von Weizsaecker, Richard | L.H.D. | 1993 |
| Heyssel, Robert M. | L.H.D. | 1992 |
| Horwitz, Abraham | L.H.D. | 1992 |
| Iaccocca, Lee | L.H.D. | 1992 |
| Koop, C. Everett | L.H.D. | 1992 |
| Krieger, Zanvyl | L.H.D. | 1992 |
| Mulroney, Brian | L.H.D. | 1992 |
| Rocard, Michel | L.H.D. | 1992 |
| Odhiambo, Thomas | L.H.D. | 1991 |
| Turner, Thomas B. | L.H.D. | 1991 |
| Woodward, C. Vann | L.H.D. | 1991 |
| Bleumle, Louis W. | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Bush, George Herbert Walker | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Cater, Douglass | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Hackerman, Willard | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Hay, Elizabeth D. | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Hood, Leroy E. | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Hubel, David H. | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Johnson, D. Mead | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Johnson, Lady Bird | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Levi, Robert H. | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Linowitz, Sol M. | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Shaw, Robert L. | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Trudeau, Garry | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Wiesel, Torsten Nils | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Wolfe, Thomas K., Jr. | L.H.D. | 1990 |
| Horne, Marilyn | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Perez de Cuellar, Javier | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Sadik, Nafis | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Sculley, John | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Stern, Milton R. | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Sullivan, Louis W. | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Wenk, Edward, Jr. | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Young, Leo | L.H.D. | 1989 |
| Boorstin, Daniel J. | L.H.D. | 1988 |
| Francis, Norman C. | L.H.D. | 1988 |
| Fulbright, J. William | L.H.D. | 1988 |
| Nakayama, Sohei | L.H.D. | 1988 |
| Roversi-Monaco, Fabio | L.H.D. | 1988 |
| Sawyer, John E. | L.H.D. | 1988 |
| Bodian, David | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Corwin, Alsoph H. | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Gregorian, Vartan | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Hamburger, Ferdinand, Jr. | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Marshall, Charles Burton | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Menotti, Gian Carlo | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Schmidt, Benno C., Jr. | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Simon, Jennifer Jones | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Spadolini, Giovanni | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Stebbins, Ernest L. | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Williams, Harold M. | L.H.D. | 1987 |
| Decker, Alonzo G., Jr. | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Dorsey, Rhoda M. | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Kandel, Eric R. | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Knott, Henry J., Sr. | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Mann, William Neville | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Rukeyser, Louis R. | L.H.D. | 1986 |
| Pertini, Sandro (in Bologna, Italy) | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Hammer, Armand | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Hewlett, William R. | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Hoobler, Sibley W. | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Houseman, John | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Khadduri, Majid | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Rouse, James W. | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Schuman, William | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Walker, A. Earl | L.H.D. | 1985 |
| Kerr, Malcolm H. (posthumously) | L.H.D. | 1984 |
| Forbes, Malcolm | L.H.D. | 1984 |
| Merrick, Robert Graff | L.H.D. | 1984 |
| Nakasone, Yasuhiro | L.H.D. | 1984 |
| Ripley, S. Dillon, II | L.H.D. | 1984 |
| Volcker, Paul | L.H.D. | 1984 |
| Baker, Russell | L.H.D. | 1983 |
| Fairbank, John King | L.H.D. | 1983 |
| Garner, Wendell | L.H.D. | 1983 |
| Meyerhoff, Joseph | L.H.D. | 1983 |
| Stellar, Eliot | L.H.D. | 1983 |
| Woolf, Harry | L.H.D. | 1983 |
| Comissiona, Sergiu | L.H.D. | 1982 |
| Dahrendorf, Rolf | L.H.D. | 1982 |
| Rhodes, Frank | L.H.D. | 1982 |
| Rome, Benjamin | L.H.D. | 1982 |
| White, Robert M. | L.H.D. | 1982 |
| Anderson, Marian | L.H.D. | 1981 |
| Berlin, Sir Isaiah | L.H.D. | 1981 |
| Firor, Warfield M. | L.H.D. | 1981 |
| Merrell, Margaret | L.H.D. | 1981 |
| Murphy, Franklin D. | L.H.D. | 1981 |
| Press, Frank | L.H.D. | 1981 |
| Shock, Nathan Wetherill | L.H.D. | 1981 |
| Bernstein, Leonard | L.H.D. | 1980 |
| Hesburgh, Theodore M., Rev. | L.H.D. | 1980 |
| Hulburt, Edward Olson | L.H.D. | 1980 |
| Ludwig, Daniel K. | L.H.D. | 1980 |
| Stein, Jules | L.H.D. | 1980 |
| Baetjer, Anna M. | L.H.D. | 1979 |
| Skinner, B.F. | L.H.D. | 1979 |
| Stern, Isaac | L.H.D. | 1979 |
| Yalow, Rosalyn S. | L.H.D. | 1979 |
| Evans, John Robert | L.H.D. | 1978 |
| Kerr, Chester | L.H.D. | 1978 |
| Langmuir, Alexander Duncan | L.H.D. | 1978 |
| Levi-Strauss, Claude | L.H.D. | 1978 |
| Pettijohn, Francis John | L.H.D. | 1978 |
| Thomson, Virgil | L.H.D. | 1978 |
| Johnson, Gerald W. | LL.D. | 1977 |
| McElroy, William David, Dr. | LL.D. | 1977 |
| Warren, Robert Penn | LL.D. | 1977 |
| Wheeler, John Archibald, Dr. | LL.D. | 1977 |
| Ashby, Eric, Lord | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Breit, Gregory | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Carnacini, Tito | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Pahlavi, Ashraf, Imperial Highness | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Schmidt, Helmut | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Thomas, Lewis | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Thomas, Vivien | LL.D. | 1976 |
| Cochran, William G. | LL.D. | 1975 |
| Corner, George Washington, Dr. | LL.D. | 1975 |
| Sanford, Terry | LL.D. | 1975 |
| Scranton, William W. | LL.D. | 1975 |
| Baker, Benjamin M. | LL.D. | 1974 |
| Hernandez-Colon, Rafael | LL.D. | 1974 |
| Lane, Frederic C. | LL.D. | 1974 |
| Olin, John M. | LL.D. | 1974 |
| Sarnoff, Robert W. | LL.D. | 1974 |
| Cloos, Ernst, Dr. | LL.D. | 1973 |
| Mandel, Marvin | LL.D. | 1973 |
| Temkin, Owsei, Dr. | LL.D. | 1973 |
| Warren, Earl, The Hon. | LL.D. | 1973 |
| Allen, Don Cameron | LL.D. | 1972 |
| Gibson, Ralph Edward | M.D. | 1972 |
| Johnson, Edgar A. J. | LL.D. | 1972 |
| Reid, E. Emmet | D.Sc. | 1972 |
| Walsh, Frank B. | LL.D. | 1972 |
| Gebelein, Conrad | M.A. | 1971 |
| Harris, Patricia Roberts | LL.D. | 1971 |
| Heard, Alexander | LL.D. | 1971 |
| Burden, William A. M. | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Clark, Kenneth B. | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Cordier, Andrew W. | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Evans, George Heberton, Jr. | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Jessup, Philip Caryl | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Penfield, Wilder | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Richter, Curt Paul | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Smith, Gerard Coad | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Strauss, Lewis Lichtenstein | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Wharton, Clifton R., Jr. | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Willier, Benjamin Harrison | LL.D. | 1970 |
| Bolton, Frances Payne, Mrs. | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Brewster, Kingman | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Brown, Harrison Scott | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Garland, Charles S., Sr. | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Hartline, Haldon Keffer | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Jenkins, Martin D. | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Kouwenhoven, William B. | M.D. | 1969 |
| Moos, Malcolm | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Wolman, Abel | LL.D. | 1969 |
| Bard, Philip | LL.D. | 1968 |
| Brooke, Edward W. | LL.D. | 1968 |
| Herring, E. Pendleton | LL.D. | 1968 |
| Shehan, Lawrence Joseph, Cardinal | LL.D. | 1968 |
| Nitze, Paul Henry | LL.D. | 1967 |
| Marshall, Thurgood, The Hon. | LL.D. | 1966 |
| McCormack, James | LL.D. | 1966 |
| Beadle, George | LL.D. | 1965 |
| Boas, George | L.H.D. | 1965 |
| Cairns, Huntington | L.H.D. | 1965 |
| Cherniss, Harold F. | L.H.D. | 1965 |
| Greenfield, Kent Roberts | L.H.D. | 1965 |
| Hallstein, Walter | LL.D. | 1965 |
| Malone, Kemp | L.H.D. | 1965 |
| Albright, William Foxwell | LL.D. | 1964 |
| Pearson, Lester B. | LL.D. | 1964 |
| Acheson, Dean | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Battaglia, Felice | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Kraushaar, Otto F. | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Rusk, Dean | LL.D. | 1963 |
| Candau, Marcolino Gomes | LL.D. | 1962 |
| Kouwenhoven, William B. | LL.D. | 1962 |
| Stratton, Julius Adams | LL.D. | 1962 |
| Herter, Christian Archibald | L.C.D. | 1961 |
| Murrow, Edward R. | LL.D. | 1961 |
| Bayne-Jones, Stanhope | LL.D. | 1960 |
| Camargo, Alberto Lleras | LL.D. | 1960 |
| Nason, John William | LL.D. | 1960 |
| Griswold, Alfred Whitney | LL.D. | 1959 |
| Killian, James Rhyne, Jr. | LL.D. | 1959 |
| Barton, Carlyle | LL.D. | 1958 |
| Eisenhower, Dwight David | LL.D. | 1958 |
| MacMillan, Harold, The Hon. | LL.D. | 1958 |
| Chesney, Alan M. | LL.D. | 1957 |
| Evans, Herbert McLean | D.Sc. | 1957 |
| Martin, William H. | D.Sc. | 1957 |
| Pusey, Nathan M. | LL.D. | 1957 |
| Reed, Lowell J. | LL.D. | 1957 |
| Sonneborn, Tracy M. | D.Sc. | 1957 |
| Kirk, Grayson | LL.D. | 1956 |
| Abrams, Frank W. | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Aung, Htin | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Crowe, Samuel J. | D.Sc. | 1955 |
| Elkins, Wilson Homer | LL.D. | 1955 |
| Hammarskjold, Dag | LL.D. | 1955 |
| McIntosh, Millicent Carey | Litt.D. | 1955 |
| Forbes, Alexander | D.Sc. | 1954 |
| Smith, Winford H. | LL.D. | 1954 |
| Dryden, Hugh L. | LL.D. | 1953 |
| Eisenhart, Luther P. | LL.D. | 1953 |
| Gifford, Walter S. | LL.D. | 1953 |
| Lashley, Karl S. | LL.D. | 1953 |
| Soper, Morris A. | LL.D. | 1953 |
| Verhoeff, Frederick | LL.D. | 1953 |
| Dulles, John Foster | LL.D. | 1952 |
| Eisenhower, Milton S. | LL.D. | 1952 |
| Freeman, Allen Weir | LL.D. | 1952 |
| Graham, Evarts Ambrose | LL.D. | 1952 |
| Andrews, Justin M. | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Christie, Alexander G. | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Havens, Raymond Dexter | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Longcope, Warfield T. | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Lovejoy, Arthur O. | LL.D. | 1951 |
| McCollum, Elmer V. | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Moe, Henry Allen | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Park, Edwards A. | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Weed, Lewis H. | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Whitehead, John B. | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Wood, Robert W. | LL.D. | 1951 |
| Adrian, E. D. | D.Sc. | 1950 |
| Chew, Samuel Claggett | Litt.D. | 1950 |
| Franks, Sir Oliver | LL.D. | 1950 |
| Harvey, E. Newton | D.Sc. | 1950 |
| Hill, Archibald Vivian | D.Sc. | 1950 |
| Moreland, Edward Leyburn | Dr.Eng. | 1950 |
| Owens, (James) Hamilton | LL.D. | 1950 |
| Schmitt, Francis O. | D.Sc. | 1950 |
| Tuve, Merle Anthony | D.Sc. | 1950 |
| Bowman, Isaiah | LL.D. | 1949 |
| Flexner, Abraham | LL.D. | 1949 |
| Richards, Alfred Newton | LL.D. | 1949 |
| Darden, Colgate W., Jr. | LL.D. | 1948 |
| Dickinson, John Sharp | LL.D. | 1948 |
| Freeman, Douglas S. | LL.D. | 1948 |
| Rogers, Lindsay | LL.D. | 1948 |
| Wolman, Leo | LL.D. | 1948 |
| Erlanger, Joseph | LL.D. | 1947 |
| Gasser, Herbert S. | LL.D. | 1947 |
| Hiss, Alger | LL.D. | 1947 |
| Inverchapel, Lord Archibald | LL.D. | 1947 |
| Opie, Eugene L. | LL.D. | 1947 |
| Whipple, George H. | LL.D. | 1947 |
| Dunning, Henry A. B. | LL.D. | 1942 |
| Harrison, Ross G. | LL.D | 1942 |
| Lillie, Frank R. | LL.D. | 1942 |
| Dykstra, Clarence A. | LL.D. | 1941 |
| Willard, Daniel | LL.D. | 1941 |
| Buckler, William H. | LL.D. | 1940 |
| Bush, Vannevar | LL.D. | 1940 |
| Conklin, Edwin G. | LL.D. | 1940 |
| Goodwillie, Mary C. | A.M. | 1940 |
| MacLeish, Archibald | LL.D. | 1940 |
| Andrews, Charles McLean | LL.D. | 1939 |
| Braden, Spruille | LL.D. | 1939 |
| Kelly, Howard Atwood | LL.D. | 1939 |
| Shotwell, James T. | LL.D. | 1939 |
| Finley, John Huston | LL.D. | 1938 |
| Laign, Gordon Jennings | LL.D. | 1938 |
| Stamp, Josiah-Lord of Shortlands | LL.D. | 1938 |
| Compton, Karl T. | LL.D. | 1937 |
| Greiner, John Edwin | Dr.Eng. | 1937 |
| Thomas, Carl Clapp | Dr.Eng. | 1937 |
| Wagner, Herbert A. | Dr.Eng | 1937 |
| Wolman, Abel | Dr.Eng | 1937 |
| Ames, Joseph Sweetman | LL.D. | 1936 |
| Langmuir, Irving | LL.D. | 1936 |
| Willoughby, Westel W. | LL.D. | 1936 |
| Wilmer, William Holland | LL.D | 1936 |
| Lawler, Elsie M. | A.M. | 1935 |
| Dittus, Christian W. | A.M. | 1934 |
| Baruch, Bernard M. | LL.D. | 1933 |
| Jeans, Sir James Hopwood | LL.D. | 1931 |
| Goodnow, Frank Johnson | LL.D. | 1930 |
| Smuts, Gen. Rt. Hon. Jan C. | LL.D. | 1930 |
| Bond, Carroll Taney | LL.D. | 1929 |
| Donnan, Frederick George | LL.D. | 1929 |
| Levy-Bruhl, Lucien | LL.D. | 1926 |
| Young, Owen D. | LL.D. | 1925 |
| Ball, Thomas Randolph | A.M. | 1924 |
| Geddes, Sir Aukland C. | LL.D. | 1923 |
| Coolidge, Calvin | LL.D. | 1922 |
| Thomas, M. Carey | LL.D. | 1922 |
| Foch, Ferdinand | LL.D. | 1921 |
| Hoover, Herbert C. | LL.D. | 1920 |
| DeCellere, V. Macchi | LL.D. | 1918 |
| Adams, Henry Carter | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Clarke, John Mason | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Dewey, John | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Flexner, Simon | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Goethals, George Washington | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Kittredge, George Lyman | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Lowel, Abbott Lawrence | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Morgan, Thomas Hunt | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Pupin, Michael Idovorsky | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Shorey, Paul | LL.D. | 1915 |
| White, Henry | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Woodward, Robert Simpson | LL.D. | 1915 |
| Gorgas, William Crawford | LL.D. | 1912 |
| Mitchell, Silas Weir | LL.D. | 1912 |
| Ramsay, Sir William | LL.D. | 1912 |
| Bryce, James | LL.D. | 1911 |
| Von-Bernstorff, Johann | LL.D. | 1910 |
| Osler, Sir William | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Pfister, Albert Von | LL.D. | 1905 |
| Thompson, Sir Joseph John | LL.D. | 1904 |
| Alderman, Edwin Anderson | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Angell, James Burrill | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Billings, John Shaw | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Butler, Nicholas M. | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Councilman, William T. | A.M. | 1902 |
| Dabney, Charles William | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Eliot, Charles William | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Gilman, Benjamin I. | A.M. | 1902 |
| Glenn, John M. | A.M. | 1902 |
| Hadley, Arthur Twining | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Hall, Clayton Coleman | A.M. | 1902 |
| Hall, Granville Stanley | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Harper, William Rainey | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Jameson, John Franklin | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Jordan, David S. | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Loudon, James | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Mallet, John William | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Marburg, Theodore | A.M. | 1902 |
| Marbury, William Luke | A.M. | 1902 |
| Newcomb, Simon | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Patton, Rev. Francis L. | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Peterson, Sir William | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Pritchett, Henry Smith | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Randolph, Robert Lee | A.M. | 1902 |
| Riggs, Lawrason | A.M. | 1902 |
| Royce, Josiah | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Schouler, James | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Thomas, Henry M. | A.M. | 1902 |
| Walcott, Charles Doolittle | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Wheeler, Benjamin Ide | LL.D. | 1902 |
| White, Andrew Dickson | LL.D. | 1902 |
| White, Julian LeRoy | A.M. | 1902 |
| Wilson, Edmund Beecher | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Wilson, Woodrow | LL.D. | 1902 |
| Hayes, Rutherford Birchard | LL.D. | 1881 |
| Rowland, Henry Augustus | Ph.D. | 1880 |