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| A.B. | Bachelor of Arts |
| A.M. | Master of Arts |
| D.D. | Doctor of Divinity |
| LH.D. | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Litt.D. | Doctor of Letters |
| LL.B. | Bachelor of Laws |
| LL.D. | Doctor of Laws |
| M.D. | Doctor of Medicine |
| M.S. | Master of Science |
| Mus.D. | Doctor of Music |
| Sc.D. | Doctor of Science |
| S.T.D. | Doctor of Sacred Theology |
1700-1799
1750s
1758
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Daniel Isaac Brown | A.M. |
| Samuel Brown | A.M. |
| Isaac Browne | A.M. |
| Leonard Cutting | A.M. |
| Samuel Fayerweather | A.M. |
| Cary Ludlow | A.M. |
| David Mathews | A.M. |
| John McKesson | A.M. |
| Josiah Ogden | A.B. |
| Cyrus Punderson | A.M. |
| Ebenezer Punderson | A.M. |
| Daniel Treadwell | A.M. |
| Timothy Wetmore | A.M. |
1760s
1761
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| John Beardsley | A.B. |
| William Jackson | A.M. |
| William Samuel Johnson | A.M. |
| Samuel Peters | A.M. |
| James Scovil | A.M. |
| Samuel Seabury | A.M. |
| Agur Treadwell | A.B. |
| Edward Winslow | A.M. |
1762
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Samuel Andrews | A.M. |
| Robert Harpur | A.M. |
| Bela Hubbard | A.M. |
| Robert McKean | A.M. |
| Ebenezer Parmele | A.M. |
1764
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Matthew Cushing | A.M. |
| Samuel Giles | A.B. |
1765
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Jeremiah Leaming | A.M. |
1767
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Samuel Auchmuty | D.D. |
| Ephram Avery | A.M. |
| Thomas Bradbury Chandler | D.D. |
| George Glentworth | A.M. |
| Charles Inglis | A.M. |
| Hugh Neill | A.M. |
| John Ogilvie | A.M. |
| John Tyler | A.B. |
1768
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Samuel Bard | M.D. |
| John Beardsley | A.M. |
| Samuel Clossy | M.D. |
| Myles Cooper | LL.D. |
| John Jones | M.D. |
| Peter Middleton | M.D. |
1769
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Ebenezer Kneeland | A.M. |
| John Tyler | A.M. |
1770s
1770
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Thomas Barton | A.M. |
| Robert Blackwell | A.B. |
| John Ogilvie | D.D. |
1771
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Boucher | A.M. |
1772
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Edmund Fanning | A.M. |
1773
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Isaac Hunt | A.M. |
| Joseph Lamson | A.M. |
| Harry Munro | A.M. |
| John Stuart | A.M. |
1774
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Luke Babcock | A.M. |
| George Panton | A.M. |
| James Sayre | A.M. |
| William Tryon | LL.D. |
1780s
1787
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| James Hardie | A.B. |
1788
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Robert Annan | A.M. |
| William Cochran | A.M. |
| Alexander Hamilton | A.M. |
| Robert Charles Johnson | A.M. |
| Samuel Latham Mitchill | A.M. |
| Daniel Crommelin Verplanck | A.M. |
| James Watkin Watkins | A.M. |
1789
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Roger Alden | A.M. |
| Abraham Beach | D.D. |
| John Daniel Gros | D.D. |
| Jacob Rusten Hardenbergh | D.D. |
| Samuel Evan Johnson | A.M. |
| Jeremiah Leaming | D.D. |
| William Linn | D.D. |
| Benjamin Moore | D.D. |
1790s
1790
| Recipient | Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Joshua Bloomer | D.D. |
| James Hardie | A.M. |
| Henry Maeller | A.M. |
| Thomas Lambert Moore | A.M. |
| James Proudfit | A.M. |
1793
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Ebenezer Dibble | D.D. |
| Andrew Jaffray | D.D. |
| William Ogivile | LL.D. |
1794
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Richard Channing Moore | A.M. |
1795
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Campbell | A.M. |
| John Coffin | A.M. |
1797
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Bowden | D.D. |
| James Kent | LL.D. |
1798
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Best | A.M. |
| William Scott | A.M. |
| Andrew Smith | A.M. |
| Robert Griffeth Wetmore | A.M. |
1800-1899
1800s
1802
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Duke | A.M. |
| James Kemp | D.D. |
1804
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Edmund D. Barry | A.M. | |
| Edward Jenkins | D.D. | |
| Jacob Larzelere | A.M. | Lecturer at l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques and l'Ecole Nationale d'Administration |
| Peter Stryker | A.M |
1805
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Clement Merriam | A.M |
1806
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William James MacNeven | M.D. |
1809
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Abraham Bronson | A.M. |
1810s
1811
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Croes | D.D. |
| James Hall | D.D. |
| William Harris | D.D. |
| Isaac Wilkins | D.D. |
1812
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Oliver Cromwell Comstock | M.D. |
| William Kirkpatrick | M.D. |
| Andrew Morton | M.D. |
| Alexandra Sheldon | M.D. |
| John Augustine Smith | M.D. |
| John Stearns | M.D. |
| David Baillie Warden | M.D. |
| Joseph White | M.D. |
| Westel Willoughby | M.D. |
1814
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Churchill Osborn | M.D. |
| Wright Post | M.D. |
1815
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Frederick Beasley | D.D. |
1816
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Schureman | D.D. |
1817
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John D. Jaques | M.D. |
1818
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Robert Adrian | LL.D. |
| Joseph Hopkinson | LL.D. |
| Samuel Nichols | A.M. |
| Andrew Mitchell Thomson | D.D. |
1819
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Thomas Church Brownell | D.D. |
| Philander Chase | D.D. |
| Richard Davidson | M.D. |
| John Philip | D.D. |
| William H Richardson | M.D. |
| John Van Cleve | M.D. |
1820s
1820
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Isaac Auld | M.D. |
| William Forrest | A.M. |
1821
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Thaddeus Fiske | D.D. |
| Washington Irving | A.M. |
| Daniel McDonald | D.D. |
1822
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Lowndes | LL.D. |
| Thomas Lyell | D.D. |
| Pierre Proal | A.M. |
| John Reed | D.D. |
| Stephan N Rowan | D.D. |
| John Walsh | A.M. |
1823
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Carroll | A.M. |
| Abraham Oothout Halsey | A.M. |
| Chauncey Lee | D.D. |
| Edward Livingston | LL.D. |
| John Stark Ravenscroft | D.D. |
| Nathan Sanford | LL.D. |
| John Savage | LL.D. |
| Samuel Seabury | A.M. |
| Ambrose Spencer | LL.D. |
1824
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Langdon Cheves | LL.D. |
| William A Clark | A.M. |
| James Fenimore Cooper | A.M. |
| Thomas Addis Emmet | LL.D. |
| Ernest Lewis Hazelius | D.D. |
| Levi Silliman Ives | A.M. |
| James Kirke Paulding | A.M. |
| Daniel Webster | LL.D. |
1825
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Caldwell Calhoun | LL.D. |
| Stephen Elliot | LL.D. |
| John McVickar | D.D. |
| Nathaniel Fish Moore | LL.D. |
| Henri L P F Peneveyre | D.D. |
| Joel Roberts Poinsett | LL.D. |
| William Shelton | A.M. |
1826
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| De Witt Clinton | LL.D. |
| Samuel Jones | LL.D. |
| Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk | D.D. |
| William Wirt Phillips | D.D. |
| Peter Van Schaack | LL.D. |
1827
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Jasper Adams | D.D. |
| Henry Ustick Onderdonk | D.D. |
| William Rollinson Whittingham | A.M |
1828
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Berrian | D.D. |
| Charles Taylor Catlin | A.M |
| Asa Eaton | D.D. |
| William Hendell | D.D. |
| William Buel Sprague | D.D. |
1829
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Washington Irving | LL.D. |
| Jackson Kemper | D.D. |
| Clement Clarke Moore | LL.D. |
| James Renwick | LL.D. |
1830s
1830
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Creighton | D.D. |
| James Marsh | D.D. |
| Frederic Christian Schaeffer | D.D. |
| William Davis Snodgrass | D.D. |
| William Muarry Stone | D.D. |
1831
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Charles Anthon | LL.D. |
| Eli Baldwin | D.D. |
| Levi Silliman Ives | D.D. |
| Robert McCartee | D.D. |
| James Ryan | A.M. |
| James Shea | A.M. |
| Thomas Swords | A.B. |
| George Upfold | D.D. |
| Antoine Verren | A.B. |
1832
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Henry Anthon | D.D. |
| Francis Lister Hawks | D.D. |
1833
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Charles Burroughs | D.D. |
| George Washington Doane | D.D. |
| James Emott | LL.D. |
| James Hervey Otey | D.D. |
| John Hothersall Pinder | D.D. |
| David Prentice | A.M. |
| James M Quin | A.M. |
1834
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Orange Clark | A.M. |
| Thomas Winthrop Coit | D.D. |
| Thomas Gener | LL.D. |
| Robert J Harvey | A.M. |
| William Augustus Muhlenburg | D.D. |
| William Sherwood | A.M. |
1835
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Clarke Cutler | D.D. |
| Manton Eastburn | D.D. |
| Manuel Fetter | D.D. |
| William Gaston | LL.D. |
| Peter Augustus Jay | LL.D. |
| James Neilson Reynolds | A.M. |
| Gulian Crommelin Verplanck | LL.D. |
| William Rollinson Williams | A.M. |
1836
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Hale | D.D. |
| Benjamin Luckock | A.M. |
| Jacob Sutherland | LL.D. |
| Henry Vethake | LL.D. |
1837
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Bethune | D.D. |
| William Cullen Bryant | A.M. |
| John Duer | LL.D. |
| George Griffin | LL.D. |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck | A.M. |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman | A.M. |
| Theodore Irving | A.M. |
| Erskine Mason | D.D. |
| Philip Frederick Mayer | D.D. |
| Samuel Allen McCoskry | D.D. |
| David Bayard Ogden | LL.D. |
| Samuel Seabury | D.D. |
| Thomas House Taylor | D.D. |
| Samuel Alexander Van Vranken | D.D. |
| Peter Dumont Vroom | LL.D. |
| William Rollinson Whittingham | D.D. |
| William R Williams | D.D. |
1838
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Isaac Boyle | D.D. |
| Walter Chisolm | A.M. |
| Leonidas Polk | D.D. |
| James Romeyn | D.D. |
| Hugh Smith | D.D. |
1839
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Miller Carmichael | D.D. |
| Abraham Hasley | A.M. |
1840s
1840
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Watson Adams | D.D. |
| Stephen Elliott | D.D. |
| Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck | LL.D. |
| William Hawkesworth | A.M. |
| Hugh Swinton Legare | LL.D. |
| William Hickling Prescott | LL.D. |
1841
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Albert Gallatin | LL.D. |
| E H Gotsbergen | A.M |
| C H Gottsberger | A.M. |
| Mancius Smedes Hutton | D.D. |
| Samuel Nelson | LL.D. |
| William M Thompson | A.M. |
1842
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Gustavus Abeel | D.D. |
| James John Bowden | A.B. |
| Manuel Fetter | A.M. |
| Charles William Hackley | A.M. |
| Edward Y Higbee | A.M. |
| George C Schaeffer | A.M. |
| John H Shepherd | A.M. |
1843
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Mason Duncan | D.D. |
| George Emlen Hare | D.D. |
| Edward Y Higbee | D.D. |
| Daniel Stone | A.M. |
1844
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Edward E Ford | D.D. |
| Joseph W Ingraham | A.M. |
| Ambrose Seymour Todd | D.D. |
| Charles Edwin West | A.M. |
1845
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Daniel Dewey Barnard | LL.D. |
| Edward Cooper | A.M. |
| George H Fisher | D.D. |
| Charles Hewitt | A.M. |
| John Williamson McCullough | D.D. |
| Horatio Southgate | D.D. |
| Bird Wilson | LL.D. |
1846
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Bayard Blackwell | A.M. |
| Robert Emory | D.D. |
| Benjamin Isaacs Haight | D.D. |
| Ezra Abel Huntington | D.D. |
1847
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Murray Forbes | D.D. |
| William Ingraham Kip | D.D. |
| Joseph Henry Price | D.D. |
| John Canfield Spencer | LL.D. |
1848
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Samuel Roosevelt Johnson | D.D. |
| Francis Vinton | D.D. |
1849
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| George Alexander Crook | A.M. |
| Robert William Harris | D.D. |
| James Stephenson | A.M. |
| Horace Webster | LL.D. |
1850s
1850
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Henry James Anderson | LL.D. |
| William Betts | LL.D. |
| William Drisler | A.M. |
| Hamilton Fish | LL.D. |
| David X Junkin | D.D. |
| John Barrett Kerfoot | D.D. |
| Kendrick Metcalf | D.D. |
| Winfield Scott | LL.D. |
| Timothy D Williams | D.D. |
1851
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Francis Higgins Cuming | D.D. |
| Martin Phillips Parks | D.D. |
| Robert George Vermilye | D.D. |
| John Williams | D.D. |
| Octavius Winslow | D.D. |
1852
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Stephen Alexander | LL.D. |
| Samuel Gilman Brown | D.D. |
| William Buel Franklin | A.M. |
| Richard Pulling Jenks | A.M. |
| William McMurray | D.D. |
| John Rowland | A.M. |
| Jesse Ames Spencer | D.D. |
| William Walton | D.D. |
| John Lee Watson | D.D. |
1853
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Talbot Wilson Chambers | D.D. |
| Thomas Frederick Davis | D.D. |
| Henry D. Erskine | D.D. |
| Isaac Ferris | LL.D. |
| Charles Todd Quintard | A.M. |
| Charles Rogers | LL.D. |
| Samuel Spratt Strong | D.D. |
1854
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Robert Gordon | D.D. |
| Jean Romer | A.M. |
| J Jackson Scott | D.D. |
| Henry Philip Tappan | LL.D. |
1855
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Joseph Howland Coit | D.D. |
| William Ernest Eigenbrodt | D.D. |
| Joseph Fewsmith | D.D. |
| John Magoffin Macauley | D.D. |
| Russel Trevett | D.D. |
1856
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Blakeley | D.D. |
| John Henry Hobart | D.D. |
| A. S. Osborne | A.M |
| George Sharswood | LL.D. |
| R S Smith | A.M. |
| Alfred Stubbs | D.D. |
1857
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Joseph Alden | LL.D. |
| Alfred Baury Beach | D.D. |
| Samuel Cooke | D.D. |
| William Cecil Duncan | D.D. |
| Francis Maerschalk Kip | D.D. |
| William Ferdinand Morgan | D.D. |
1858
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Charles D'Urban Morris | A.M. |
| Samuel Spring | D.D. |
| John Ireland Tucker | D.D. |
| Isaac Dyckman Vermilye | A.M. |
| Henry Waterman | S.T.D. |
1859
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Thomas De Boice Coryell | A.M. |
| William Armstrong Dod | D.D. |
| William Mitchell Gillespie | LL.D. |
| George H Houghton | D.D. |
| Lot Jones | D.D. |
| Alexander S Leonard | D.D. |
| Alexander Gardiner Mercer | S.T.D. |
| Samuel Tyler | LL.D. |
1860s
1860
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Charles Patrick Daly | LL.D. |
| Theodore William Dwight | LL.D. |
| John Wakefield Francis | LL.D. |
| John William French | D.D. |
| Thomas Tompkins Guion | D.D. |
| David Murray Hoffman | LL.D. |
| Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard | D.D. |
| Daniel Phoenix Ingraham | LL.D. |
| Matthew Hall McAllister | LL.D. |
| Charles Stuart Tripler | A.M. |
| Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff | LL.D. |
1861
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| John Anthon | LL.D. | |
| Charles Bancroft | D.D. | |
| Alexander Warfield Bradford | LL.D. | |
| Charles Henry Hall | D.D. | |
| James Hall Mason Knox | D.D. | |
| Abraham Lincoln | LL.D. | Awarded in Washington, D.C. |
| Edward Nathaniel Mead | D.D. | |
| Joseph Clarkson Passmore | S.T.D. | |
| Sullivan Hardy Weston | S.T.D. |
1862
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Samuel Buel | S.T.D. |
| George Jarvis Geer | S.T.D. |
| Benjamin Nicholas Martin | S.T.D. |
| Henry Joel Scudder | A.M. |
| John Cotton Smith | S.T.D. |
1863
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Samuel Hanson Coxe | S.T.D. |
| Morgan Dix | D.D. |
| Samuel Eliot | LL.D. |
| Jared Bradley Flagg | ST.D. |
| James Watson Gerard | LL.D. |
| Robert Shaw Howland | D.D. |
| Matson Meier-Smith | D.D. |
| William Mitchell | LL.D. |
| Gilbert Hunt Sayres | D.D. |
| James A Williams | D.D. |
1864
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Henry Stephens Cutler | Mus.D. |
| Henry Drisler | LL.D. |
| Joseph G Fox | A.M. |
| Thomas Hunter | A.M. |
1865
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Samuel Rose Ely | D.D. |
| John Marshall Guion | D.D. |
| Andrew Johnson | LL.D. |
| McWalter Bernard Noyes | A.M. |
| James Tuttle-Smith | A.M. |
| William Henry Walter | Mus.D. |
| George D Waters | D.D. |
| Henry John Whitehouse | LL.D. |
| John Freeman Young | S.T.D. |
1866
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Edmond Armitage | D.D. |
| John Jay Elmendorf | D.D. |
| Abner Jackson | LL.D. |
| Charles Pinckney Kirkland | LL.D. |
| James Mulcahey | S.T.D. |
| Charles Todd Quintard | D.D. |
1867
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Samuel Blatchford | LL.D. |
| Samuel Breck Bostwick | D.D. |
| Frederic De Peyster | LL.D. |
| Ferdinand Cartwright Ewer | D.D. |
| Anthony Ten Broeck | D.D. |
| Daniel Sylvester Tuttle | D.D. |
| Channing M Williams | D.D. |
1868
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Philander Kinney Cady | S.T.D. |
| George Barnard Draper | D.D. |
| John Henry Hill | LL.D. |
| Samuel Hollingsworth | D.D. |
| Charles Franklin Robertson | S.T.D. |
1869
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Charles Breck | D.D. |
| Henry Ammi Dows | A.M. |
| Theodore Augustus Eaton | D.D. |
| Asa Bird Gardiner | A.M. |
| Thomas William Humes | D.D. |
| William Quintard Ketchum | D.D. |
| Benson John Lossing | A.M. |
| John Carpenter Smith | D.D. |
1870s
1870
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Samuel Brazer Babcock | S.T.D. |
| Peter Hasbrouck | A.M. |
| William Augustus McVickar | D.D. |
| Henry Nicoll | LL.D. |
1871
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Edmund Alexander De Schweintiz | S.T.D. |
| John Habersham Elliott | S.T.D. |
| James Isbell Helm | D.D. |
| Pelham Williams | S.T.D. |
1872
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Graeff Barton | LL.D. |
| James Starr Clark | D.D. |
| Howard Crosby | LL.D. |
| Edward David Hearn | A.M. |
| William Bell White Howe | S.T.D. |
| Charles O'Conor | LL.D. |
| Isaac Lewis Peet | LL.D. |
| Eliphalet Nott Potter | S.T.D. |
| Nathan Ryno Smith | M.D. |
1873
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Gottlieb Auer | S.T.D. |
| William Henry Chandler | A.M. |
| [Oliver] Wolcott Gibbs | LL.D. |
| Henry Augustus Homes | LL.D. |
| William Reed Huntington | S.T.D. |
| Benjamin Douglas Silliman | LL.D. |
| James Stephenson | D.D. |
1874
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Eben Edwards Beardsley | LL.D. |
| Joseph Hart Clinch | S.T.D. |
| Jacob Cooper | S.T.D. |
| Robert N Merritt | D.D. |
| Clarkson Nott Potter | LL.D. |
1875
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Spencer Child | D.D. |
| William Kirtland Douglas | S.T.D. |
| William Porcher Du Bose | S.T.D. |
| John Nicholas Galleher | D.D. |
| James Lenox | LL.D. |
| William Channing Russel | LL.D. |
| Thomas Edward Vermilye | LL.D. |
1876
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William Whittingham Olssen | D.D. |
| Julius Hawley Seelye | LL.D. |
1877
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Charles Coffin Adams | D.D. |
| Joseph Lemuel Chester | LL.D. |
| Thomas Ruggles Pynchon | LL.D. |
| Alonzo Groesbeck Shears | A.M. |
| James Craig Watson | LL.D. |
1878
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Fordyce Barker | LL.D. |
| David Greene Haskins | S.T.D. |
| Edward Singleton Holden | LL.D. |
| George Franklin Seymour | LL.D. |
| Edmond Hamilton Smith | LL.B. |
1880s
1880
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Leopold Damrosch | Mus.D. |
| Louis Palma di Cesnola | LL.D. |
1883
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|
1884
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| William David Walker | S.T.D. |
| Charles Walston | A.M. |
1885
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| James Hall Mason Knox | LL.D. |
| Emory McClintock | LL.D. |
1886
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| John Hall | LL.D. |
1887
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Martin Bower Anderson | LH.D. |
| Charles Andrews | LH.D. |
| James Burrill Angell | LL.D. |
| George Bancroft | LL.D. |
| Henry Barnard | LH.D. |
| Phillips Brooks | S.T.D. |
| Ephenor Adrastus Brown | A.M. |
| Francis James Child | LH.D. |
| Henry Augustus Coit | ST.D. |
| Frederic R. Coudert | LL.D. |
| George William Curtis | LH.D. |
| John Call Dalton | LL.D. |
| John Chandler Bancroft Davis | LL.D. |
| Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson | LH.D. |
| Sir John William Dawson | LL.D. |
| John De Witt | LH.D. |
| Robert Earl | LL.D. |
| Amelia Blandford Edwards | LH.D. |
| Robert Brinkerhoff Fairbairn | S.T.D. |
| Sandford Fleming | LL.D. |
| Horace Howard Furness | LH.D. |
| Merrill Edwards Gates | LH.D. |
| Daniel Coit Gilman | LL.D. |
| William W Goodwin | LL.D. |
| Benjamin Apthorp Gould | LL.D. |
| Albert Zabriskie Gray | S.T.D. |
| Isaac Hollister Hall | LH.D. |
| James A Harrison | LH.D. |
| Abram Stevens Hewitt | LL.D. |
| Eugene W Hilgard | LL.D. |
| Eugene Augustus Hoffman | S.T.D. |
| Frederic Dan Huntington | S.T.D. |
| Lord William Thompson Kelvin | LL.D. |
| John Richard Magrath | S.T.D. |
| Daniel Manning | LL.D. |
| Francis Andrew March | LH.D. |
| John Barbee Minor | LL.D. |
| Maria Mitchell | LL.D. |
| Simon Newcomb | LL.D. |
| Mrs. G H Palmer | LH.D. |
| Charles Anthony Rapallo | LL.D. |
| William Crawford Ruger | LL.D. |
| Lewis Morris Rutherford | LL.D. |
| Julius Hawley Seelye | LL.D. |
| William Milligan Sloane | LH.D |
| George Williamson Smith | S.T.D. |
| Carlo Leonardo Speranza | A.M. |
| Moritz Steinschneider | LH.D. |
| Richard Salter Storrs | LH.D. |
| George Lansing Taylor | LH.D. |
| James Hammond Trumbell | LH.D. |
| Moses Coit Tyler | LH.D. |
| John Tyndall | LL.D. |
| Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz | LL.D. |
| Morrison Remick Waite | LL.D. |
| Francis Amasa Walker | LL.D. |
| Sir Charles Walston | LH.D. |
| Andrew Dickson White | LH.D. |
| William Dwight Whitney | LH.D. |
| William Copley Winslow | LH.D. |
| Charles Augustus Young | LL.D. |
1888
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Victor Morawetz | A.M. |
| Charles Eliot Norton | LH.D. |
1889
| Recipient | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|
| Stephen P Nash | LL.D. |
1890s
1890
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| W H Clifford Bartlett | LL.D. | Class of 1826, U.S. Military Academy. Long time faculty member at West Point. |
| Samuel Bowden | D.D. | Columbia College Class 1840; Pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of York, Livingston County, N. Y., 1846-1876. |
| James Watson Gerard | LL.D. | Class of 1843, Columbia College. |
| John Howard Van Amringe | LH.D. | Class 1860, Columbia College; Professor at Columbia College |
1891
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Frank Gailor | ST.D. | Vice Chancellor of the University of the South |
| Merrill Edwards Gates | LL.D. | President of Amherst College |
| Ezra Palmer Gould | ST.D. | Professor of Biblical Criticism at the Philadelphia Divinity School |
| John Jay | LL.D. | Columbia College, Class of 1836. |
1892
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Edgar M Cullen | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State, Second Judicial District |
| Henry Lawrence Jones | ST.D. | Rector of St. Stephen's Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania |
| Fessendon Nott Otis | LL.D. | Medical doctor; professor at College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| Jacob Gould Schurman | LL.D. | President of Cornell University |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman | LH.D. | American poet, critic, and essayist |
1893
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ira Remsen | LL.D. | Professor at Johns Hopkins University |
1894
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Landon Carter Gray | A.M. | Medical doctor, specializing in neurology |
| George William Hill | LL.D. | Mathematician |
| John Hone | A.B. | |
| Emile Henry Lacombe | LL.D. | Jurist; Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit |
| Nikola Tesla | LL.D. | Electrician |
1895
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Messinger Drown | LL.D. | President-elect of Lehigh University |
1896
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Putnam Avery | A.M. | American artist, art dealer and philanthropist |
| Charles Carter Harrison | LL.D. | Provost of the University of Pennsylvania |
1897
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Andrew Law | A.M. | |
| Henry Yates Satterlee | LL.D. | Bishop of Washington |
1898
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Alphonse Fteley | A.M. | Chief engineer N.Y. Acqueduct |
| George Frederick Kunz | A.M. | American mineralogist |
| William Nielson McVickar | S.T.D. | Coadjutor Bishop of Rhode Island |
| John Fritz | A.M. | General Superintendent and Chief Engineer of the Bethlehem Iron Works; Trustee of Lehigh University |
1899
| Recipient | Honorary Degree | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| George W Melville | M.S. | Engineer-in-Chief, United States Navy |
| Theodore Roosevelt | LL.D. | Governor of New York State |
| Carl Schurz | LL.D. | Politician, author and publicist |
| John Aikman Stewart | A.M. | Wall Street banker and financier |
| Edward Livingston Trudeau | M.S. | Medical doctor |
1900-1999
1900s
1900
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Twining Hadley | LL.D. | President of Yale University |
| Abraham Jacobi | LL.D. | Professor of the Diseases of Children at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University |
| Morris Ketchum Jesup | A.M. | U.S. banker and philanthropist |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan | LL.D. | Captain, United States Navy |
| Henry William Maxwell | A.M. | Banker, broker, educator, financier, and philanthropist |
| Julian Pauncefote | LL.B. | Lord of Preston; Ambassador |
| Charles Alfred Post | A.M. | Lawyer and astronomer |
| Thomas Brackett Reed | LL.D. | Statesman; Speaker of the House |
| Minton Warren | LL.D. | Professor of Latin at Harvard University |
1901
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Theodore Low De Vinne | A.M. | American printer and scholarly author on typography. |
| Frank Dunlap Gamewell | M.S. | Educator and missionary |
| Arnold Hague | Sc.D. | Geologist |
| George Morewood Lefferts | M.S. | Medical doctor; Clinical Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| William Henry Maxwell | LL.D. | Superintendent of the New York City Public Schools |
| Rufus William Peckham | LL.D. | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
1902
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Benedict Christy | Sc.D. | Professor of Mining and Metallurgy at the University of California |
| Marie-Joseph Alfred Croiset | LL.D. | Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Paris |
| Edward Washburn Hopkins | LL.D. | Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at Yale University |
| Michael Ernest Sadler | LL.D. | Director of Special Inquiries and Reports, Education Office, London |
| Right Reverend John Lancaster Spalding | LL.D. | Bishop of Peoria |
1903
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Sloan Draper | LL.D. | President of the University of Illinois. Degree awarded in camera |
| John Britton Cauldwell | A.M. | Engineer |
| George Angier Gordon | S.T.D. | Minister of Old South Church, Boston |
| Peter Cooper Hewitt | Sc.D. | Scientist; Inventor |
| Alexander Crombie Humphreys | LL.D. | President of Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Jules Jusserand | LL.D. | Ambassador of France |
| Benjamin Barker Odell | LL.D. | Governor of New York State |
| Moses Taylor Pyne | Litt.D. | Trustee of Princeton University |
| Joseph John Thomson | Sc.D. | Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge |
1904
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Alfred Conkling Coxe | LL.D. | Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States |
| Hugo De Vries | Sc.D. | Professor of Botany at the University of Amsterdam |
| Right Reverend David Hummell Greer | S.T.D. | Coadjutor Bishop of New York |
| Charles Follen McKim | Litt.D. | Architect |
| Howard Jason Rogers | A.M. | Assistant Commissioner of Education of New York State |
| Elihu Root | LL.D. | Formerly Secretary of War of the United States |
| Right Honorable James Bryce | LL.D. | Statesman. Degree awarded in camera |
| William Henry Nicholls | Sc.D. | Chemist. Degree awarded in camera |
| Sir William Ramsay | Sc.D. | Chemist. Degree awarded in camera |
| Willard Bartlett | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State, Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Nathaniel Lord Britton | Sc.D. | Emeritus Professor of Botany at Columbia University, Director of the New York Botanical Garden |
| LeBaron Bradford Colt | LL.D. | Judge of the United States Circuit Court, First Judicial District |
| John Green Curtis | LL.D. | Professor of Physiology at Columbia University |
| Robert Fulton Cutting | LL.D. | Philanthropist; Leader and Organizer of Movements for Social and Political Betterment |
| Francis Delafield | LL.D. | Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University |
| William Archibald Dunning | LL.D. | Professor of History and Political Philosophy at Columbia University |
| James Willis Gleed | LL.D. | Professor of the Law of Real Property at the University of Kansas |
| Frank Johnson Goodnow | LL.D. | Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science at Columbia University |
| William Stewart Halsted | Sc.D. | Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University; Surgeon-In-Chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital |
| Luther Emmett Holt | Sc.D. | Carpentier Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University; Attending Physician at Babies' and New York Foundling Hospitals |
| George Sumner Huntington | Sc.D. | Professor of Anatomy at Columbia University |
| George Landon Ingraham | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State, Appellate Division, First Department |
| Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson | LL.D. | Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages at Columbia University |
| Walter Belknap James | LL.D. | Professor of the Practice of Medicine at Columbia University; Visiting Physician at Roosevelt and Presbyterian Hospitals |
| Edward Gamaliel Janeway | LL.D. | Dean of the University-and-Bellevue Hospital Medical College |
| Karl Gotthart Lamprecht | LL.D. | University Professor. Degree awarded in camera. |
| Joseph Larocque | LL.D. | Formerly President of the Bar Association of New York City |
| Ernst Joseph Lederle | Sc.D. | Former Commission of Health of New York City |
| Brander Matthews | LL.D. | Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University |
| Andrew James McCosh | LL.D. | Visiting Surgeon at the Presbyterian Hospital |
| Henry Smith Munroe | Sc.D. | Professor of Mining at Columbia University |
| Morgan Joseph O'Brien | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State, Appellate Division, First Department |
| Harry Thurston Peck | LL.D. | Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University |
| Edward Delavan Perry | LL.D. | Jay Professor of Greek at Columbia University; Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy |
| William Mecklenberg Polk | LL.D. | Dean of the Cornell University Medical College |
| William Bleecker Potter | Sc.D. | Mining and Metallurgical Engineer |
| Michael Idvorsky Pupin | Sc.D. | Professor of Electro-Mechanics at Columbia University |
| Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman | LL.D. | Professor of Political Economy and Finance at Columbia University; Past President of the American Economic Association |
| Munroe Smith | LL.D. | Professor of Roman Law and Comparative Jurisprudence at Columbia University |
| Moses Allen Starr | Sc.D. | Professor of Neurology at Columbia University; Consulting Physician at the Presbyterian Hospital |
| Oscar Soloman Straus | LL.D. | Author, Diplomat, and Publicist; Formerly Minister of the United States to Turkey |
| William Henry Welch | LL.D. | Professor of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University |
| Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson | LL.D. | Archbishop of Canterbury. Degree awarded in camera. |
1905
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| William Tufts Brigham | Sc.D. | Director of the Bishop Museum of Ethnology, Honolulu |
| Jacob McGavock Dickinson | LL.D. | Lawyer |
| Frederick Arthur Goetze | M.S. | Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds at Columbia University |
| William Dean Howells | Litt.D. | Man of Letters |
| Reverend William Thomas Manning | S.T.D. | Assistant Rector of Trinity Church, New York |
| George Francis Sever | M.S. | Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University |
| Robert Simpson Woodward | Sc.D. | Professor of Mechanics and Mathematical Physics at Columbia University; President of the Carnegie Institute of Washington |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman | LL.D. | President of the University of Virginia. Degree awarded in camera |
| Baron Jutaro Komura | LL.D. | Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs. Awarded at the opening exercises. Awarded jointly with Sergey Yulievitch Witte. Conferred in absentia. Consul General Uchida received the diploma on behalf of Komura. |
| Sergey Yulievitch Witte | LL.D. | Russian Secretary of State and President of the Committee of Ministers. Awarded at the opening exercises. Awarded jointly with Baron Jutaro Komura. Conferred in absentia. Consul General Lodygensky received the diploma on behalf of Witte. |
1906
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Giraud Elliot | Sc.D. | Curator of Zoology, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago |
| Joaquim Nabuco | LL.D. | Ambassador of Brazil to the United States |
| Edward Patterson | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State |
| Kanehiro Takaki | Sc.D. | Surgeon General (reserve) of the Japanese Navy |
| William Greenough Thayer | A.M. | Headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southboro, Massachusetts |
| William Jewett Tucker | LL.D. | President of Dartmouth College |
| Benjamin Ide Wheeler | LL.D. | President of the University of California |
| William Henry Perkin | Sc.D. | Scientist. Degree awarded in camera |
1907
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| James Fitzmaurice-Kelly | Litt.D. | Author; Editor. Degree awarded in camera |
| Archer Milton Huntington | Litt.D. | Author. Degree awarded in camera |
| Hugh McCulloh Birckhead | A.M. | Rector of St. George's Church |
| Elmer Ellsworth Brown | LL.D. | United States Commisioner of Education |
| John Aaron Browning | A.M. | Headmaster of the Browning School |
| Charles Gordon Curtis, C.E. | M.S. | Inventor |
| Wilson Farrand | A.M. | Headmaster of the Newark Academy |
| Richard Watson Gilder | Litt.D. | Editor |
| Charles Evans Hughes | LL.D. | Governor of New York State |
| Henry Fairfield Osborn | LL.D. | Da Costa Professor of Zoology |
1908
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| K.G. Rudolf Leonard | LL.D. | Jurist; Publicist, Educator, and Ambassador of Learning; Kaiser William Professor 1907-1908. Degree awarded in camera |
| Lea Luquer | S.T.D. | Rector of St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, New York |
| Charles Freeman Williams McClure | Sc.D. | Professor of Zoology at Princeton University |
| George Browne Post | LL.D. | Architect |
| Hermann Shumacher | LL.D. | Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn |
| Frederick William Stevens | LL.D. | Vice-Chancellor of New Jersey |
| Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright | A.M. | Member of the Assembly, 1902-1908 |
| Henry Clay White | LL.D. | President of Georgria State Agricultural and Mechanical College |
1909
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Guglielmo Ferrero | Litt.D. | Historian. Degree Awarded in camera |
| Albrecht F. K. Penck | Sc.D. | Privy Councillor and Director of the Geographical Institute of the Unviersity of Berlin; Kaiser Wilhelm Professor 1908-1909. Degree Awarded in camera |
| Silas Brown Brownell | LL.D. | Chairman of the Trustees at Barnard College |
| Mary Whiton Calkins | Litt.D. | Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Wellesley College |
| John Halliday Denbigh | A.M. | Principal of the Morris High School, New York City |
| Samuel Franklin Emmons | Sc.D. | Geologist |
| Christian K. F. Hulsen | Litt.D. | Archaeologist |
| Henry Churchill King | S.T.D. | President of Oberlin College |
| Benjamin Bowden Lawrence | M.S. | Engineer |
| Abbott Lawrence Lowell | LL.D. | President of Harvard University |
| Alfred Mosely, C.M.G. | LL.D. | Man of Affairs |
| John Coit Spooner | LL.D. | United States Senator from Wisconsin |
| Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff | LL.D. | German Ambassador to the United States |
1910s
1910
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Emile Boutroux | Litt.D. | Director of the Foundation of Theirs; Professor of History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne; President of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. Degree Awarded in camera |
| Otto Jespersen | Litt.D. | Professor of English Philology at the University of Copenhagen; Visiting Danish Professor at Columbia University 1909-1910. Degree awarded in camera |
| Carl Runge | Sc.D. | Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Gottingen; Kaiser Wilhelm Professor at Columbia University 1909-1910. Degree awarded in cameraa |
| Roelif Hasbrouk Brooks | A.M. | Rector of St. Paul's Church, Albany, New York |
| William Crary Brownell | Litt.D. | Author |
| William Newton Clarke | S.T.D. | Professor of Theology at Colgate University |
| Henry Steele Demarest | LL.D. | President of Rutgers College |
| Charles Buxton Going | M.S. | Engineer |
| William James Mayo | Sc.D. | Surgeon |
| John Howard Van Amringe | LL.D. | Dean of Columbia College |
| Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer | Litt.D. | Author |
| William Allen White | A.M. | Author |
| Sir William Henry White, K.C.B. | Sc.D. | Formerly Director of Construction of the British Navy; Associated in Designing the "Mauretania" and "Lusitania" |
1911
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Gustave Lanson | Litt.D. | Professor of French Literature at the University of Paris, Visiting French Professor 1911- 1912. Degree Awarded in camera |
| Josef Schick | Litt.D. | Professor of English Philosophy at the University of Munich; Kaiser Wilhelm Professor 1911-1912. Degree Awarded in camera. |
| Ernst Daenell | Litt.D. | Professor of Modern History at the University of Kiel. Degree Awarded in camera. |
| Simeon Eben Baldwin | LL.D. | Governor of Connecticut |
| Charles Sumner Burch | S.T.D. | Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of New York |
| Charles Frederick Chandler | LL.D. | Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University |
| Paul D'Estournelles de Constant | LL.D. | Senator of France |
| Samuel William Fairchild | M.S. | Chemist |
| Alonzo Barton Hepburn | LL.D. | President of the Chamber of Commerce of New York State |
| William Lawrence | S.T.D. | Bishop of Massachusetts |
| Daniel Edward Moran | M.S. | Engineer |
| Hugo Reisinger | A.M. | Art Collector; Merchant |
| Edward Robinson | Litt.D. | Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Charles Francis Stokes | Sc.D. | Surgeon General of the United States Navy |
1912
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| John William Burgess | LL.D. | Ruggles Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law; Dean of Faculties of Political Science, Philosophy, Pure Science, and the Fine Arts |
| George Washington Goethals | Sc.D. | Colonel of Engineers, United States Army; Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal |
| John Grier Hibben | Litt.D. | President of Princeton University |
| George Haven Putnam | Litt.D. | Publisher |
| Philip Mercer Rhinelander | S.T.D. | Bishop of Pennsylvania |
| Oscar Wilder Underwood | LL.D. | Representative from the State of Alabama; Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in the Sixty-Second Congress |
| Schuyler Skaats Wheeler | M.S. | Engineer |
| Edward D White | LL.D. | Chief Justice of the United States |
| Luis Maria Drago | LL.D. | Formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic; Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Was not conferred at 1912 June 5 commencement due to illness. Was then supposed to be awarded in October 1912, but apparently never was. |
1913
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Perrin | Sc.D. | Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Paris; Visiting French Professor, 1913-1914. Degree awarded in camera |
| Karl F Th Rathgen | Litt.D. | Professor of Political Economy at the Colonial Institute, Hamburg; Kaiser Wilhelm Professor 1913-1914. Degree awarded in camera |
| Josef Schumpeter | Litt.D. | Professor of Political Economy at the University of Graz; Visiting Austrian Professor 1913-1914. Degree awarded in camera |
| Henri Bergson | LL.D. | Membre de L'Insitut; Professor of Philosophy at the College de France, Visiting French Professor 1912-1913. Degree Awarded in camera |
| Felix Krueger | Litt.D. | Professor of Psychology at the University of Halle; Kaiser Wilhelm Professor 1912-1913 |
| Samuel Parkes Cadman | S.T.D. | Pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn |
| Alexis Carrel | Sc.D. | Surgeon |
| Daniel C French | Litt.D. | Sculptor |
| William C Gorgas | Sc.D. | Assistant Surgeon-General, United States Army |
| Henry Sydnor Harrison | A.M. | Author |
| William Rhinelander Stewart | A.M. | Humanitarian |
| George Sutherland | Litt.D. | United States Senator from Utah |
| Barrett Wendell | Litt.D. | Professor of English at Harvard University |
| Rudolf Eucken | Litt.D. | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jena |
1914
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Albert Geouffre De Lapradelle | LL.D. | Professor of International Public Law at the University of Paris; Visiting French Professor 1914-1915. Degree Awarded in camera |
| Aristides Agramonte | Sc.D. | Professor of Bacteriology and Experimental Pathology at the University of Cuba |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame | Litt.D. | Editor |
| Walter Johannes Damrosch | LL.D. | Conductor of the New York Symphony Society |
| John Huston Finley | LL.D. | Commissioner of Education of New York State |
| William Montague Geer | ST.D. | Clergyman |
| Seth Low | LL.D. | Eleventh President, 1890-1901; Trustee, 1881-1914 |
| William Williams | A.M. | Commissioner of Immigration at the Port of New York; Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity |
| John Parke Channing | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| John Adams Church | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Frances Bacon Crooker | Mus.D. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Frederick Warner Denton | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Gano Dunn | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Arthur Smith Dwight | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Karl Eilers | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Arthur Henry Elliot | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Henry Fred Hornbostel | A.M. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Wheaton Bradish Kunhardt | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Goodhue Livingston | A.M. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Carl August Meissner | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Rudolph Philip Miller | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
| Robert Van Arsdale Norris | M.S. | Engineer. (Degree awarded at the Special Convocation in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Mines) |
1915
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Nathan Cardozo | LL.D. | Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State |
| Arthur Louis Day | Sc.D. | Director of the Geophyiscal Laboratory, Carnagie Institution, Washington |
| Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson | A.M. | Actor |
| Robert Stanislaus Griffin | Sc.D. | Rear Admiral and Engineer-in-Chief, United States Navy |
| Myron Timothy Herrick | LL.D. | Former Ambassador to France |
| Charles Ransom Miller | Litt.D. | Editor-In-Chief of the New York Times |
| Reverend Ralph Brouwer Pomeroy | A.M. | Rector of Trinity Church, Princeton; Lecturer on Religion at Princeton University |
| Louisa Lee Schuyler | LL.D. | Philanthropist |
| Hugh Lenox Scott | LL.D. | Major General and Chief of Staff, United States Army |
1916
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Edwin Hatfield Anderson | A.M. | Director of the New York Public Library |
| Edwin Howland Blashfield | Litt.D. | President of the National Institute of Arts and Letters |
| Joseph Hodges Choate | LL.D. | Former Ambassador to Great Britain |
| George Frederick Clover | A.M. | Superintendent of St. Luke's Hospital |
| Right Reverend Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall | S.T.D. | Bishop of Vermont |
| Samuel Walker McCall | LL.D. | Governor of Massachusetts |
1917
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| George Lockhart Rives | LL.D. | Retiring Chairman of the Trustees. Degree awarded in camera |
| Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent | S.T.D. | Bishop of the Philippine Islands |
| George Ellery Hale | Sc.D. | Director of Mt. Wilson Solar Observatory, Pasadena, California |
| Richard Townley Haines Halsey | A.M. | Author of Works on American Art |
| Frank Harris Hiscock | LL.D. | Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State |
| V.K. Wellington Koo | LL.D. | Minister of the Republic of China to the United States |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Sc.D. | Inventor |
| Anna Caroline Maxwell | A.M. | Directress of the School for Nursing, Presbyterian Hospital |
| Robert Andrews Millikan | Sc.D. | Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago |
| John Purroy Mitchel | LL.D. | Mayor of New York City |
| Paul Elmer More | Litt.D. | Author; Critic |
| Right Honorable Arthur James, O.M. Balfour | LL.D. | His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Special Convocation ceremony) |
| Right Honorable Baron of Headley Cunliffe | LL.D. | Governor of the Bank of England (Special convocation ceremony) |
| Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre | LL.D. | Marshal of France (Special Convocation ceremony) |
| Rene Viviani | LL.D. | Ministre de la Justice; Ancien President du Conseil (Special convocation ceremony) |
1918
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang | LL.D. | Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan. Degree Awarded in camera. |
| Benjamin Cabanel | A.M. | Chaplain of the French Army |
| Justin Godart | LL.D. | French Under-Secretary of War |
| Fernand P.J. Baldensperger | Litt.D. | Professor at the Sorbonne; Visiting French Professor 1917-1918 |
| Robert Lansing | LL.D. | Secretary of State |
| Thomas Tertisu Noble | A.M. | Organist; Composer |
| Paul Perigord | A.M. | Lieutenant in the French Army |
| Right Honorable Earl of Reading | LL.D. | British High Commissioner and Ambassador on Special Mission |
| Francis Markoe Scott | LL.D. | Formerly Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State |
| Jonas Walso Smith | Sc.D. | Engineer |
1919
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| George Arliss | A.M. | Actor and Playwright |
| Walter Jarvis Barlow | A.M. | Physician |
| Enoch Herbert Crowder | LL.D. | Major General, Judge Advocate General, United States Army |
| Maurice Francis Egan | Litt.D. | Minister of the United States to Denmark |
| Ralph Hodder-Williams | A.M. | Captain, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry |
| Viscount Kikujiro Ishii | Litt.D. | Ambassador from Japan to the United States |
| Edward Page Mitchell | Litt.D. | Editor of the New York Sun |
| Reverend John Timothy Stone | S.T.D. | Pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church |
| His Majesty, King of the Belgians Albert | LL.D. | Degree Awarded in camera. Special convocation ceremony. |
| His Emminence Desideratus Cardinal Mercier | LL.D. | Archbishop of Malines and Primate of Belgium (Special Convocation ceremony) |
1920s
1920
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent | LL.D. | Chief of the Chaplains' Service in the American Expeditionary Forces |
| Henry Pomeroy Davison | LL.D. | Chairman of the War Council, American Red Cross |
| Herbert Clark Hoover | LL.D. | Chairman of the Commission of Relief in Belgium; United States Food Administrator |
| John Joseph Pershing | LL.D. | General of the Armies of the United States; Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces |
| William Sowden Sims | LL.D. | Rear Admiral, United States Navy; President of the Naval War College; Commander of the United States Naval Forces Operating in European Waters During the Great War |
1921
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| James Rowland Angell | LL.D. | President-Elect of Yale University |
| Marie Sklodowska Curie | Sc.D. | Physicist |
| Robert Grant | Litt.D. | Author |
| Samuel Waldron Lambert | Sc.D. | Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Medicine |
| Julius Marshall Mayer | LL.D. | Judge of the United States District Court |
| John Campbell Merriam | Sc.D. | President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| Nathan Lewis Miller | LL.D. | Governor of New York State |
| Ferdinand Foch | LL.D. | Marshal of France (Special Convocation ceremony) |
| Aristide Briand | LL.D. | President of the Council of Ministers of the French Republic. Degree awarded in camera |
1922
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Viscount d'Alte | LL.D. | Minister of Portugal |
| Baron de Cartier de Marchienne | LL.D. | Belgian Ambassador |
| William P.G. Harding | LL.D. | Governor of the Federal Reserve Board |
| Ignace Jan Paderewski | LL.D. | Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland |
| Mary Mills Patrick | Litt.D. | President of Constantinople Woman's College |
| Right Reverend Herbert Shipman | S.T.D. | Suffragan Bishop, Diocese of New York |
| Stephen Smith | Sc.D. | Physician; Public Servant |
| Frank Julian Sprague | Sc.D. | Engineer |
| Reverend Caleb Rochford Stetson | S.T.D. | Rector of Trinity Parish |
| Alfred Sao-Ke Sze | LL.D. | Minister of China |
| Augustus Thomas | Litt.D. | Playwright |
1923
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| William Shankland Andrews | LL.D. | Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State |
| Very Reverend Duncan Hodge Browne | S.T.D. | Dean of the Cathedral at Denver, Colorado |
| Don Gelasio Benedetto Anatolio Caetani | LL.D. | Italian Ambassador |
| Frederick Evan Crane | LL.D. | Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State |
| Wilbur Lucius Cross | Litt.D. | Dean of the Graduate School of Yale University |
| Very Reverend Hughell Edgar Woodall Fosbroke | S.T.D. | Dean of the General Theological Seminary |
| Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby | Litt.D. | President of Trinity College |
| Stephen Henry Olin | Litt.D. | Acting President of Wesleyan University |
1924
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| James Truslow Adams | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Robert Bridges | Litt.D. | Poet; Essayist |
| Victor Fremont Lawson | LL.D. | Journalist |
| Andrew William Mellon | LL.D. | Secretary of the Treasury |
| Adolph Simon Ochs | LL.D. | Journalist |
| Reverend Frederick Herbert Sill | Litt.D. | Headmaster of Kent School |
| Melville Elijah Stone | LL.D. | Journalist |
| Booth Tarkington | Litt.D. | Novelist |
1925
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Lee Bullard | LL.D. | Major General, United States Army, Retired |
| Henry Sloane Coffin | S.T.D. | Pastor, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church |
| Irving Langmur | Sc.D. | Engineer |
| Harlan Fiske Stone | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court |
| Owen D Young | LL.D. | Lawyer; Financier |
| John St. Loe Strachey | Litt.D. | Editor of the London Spectator |
1926
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Walter Sydney Adams | Sc.D. | Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory |
| Edward Channing | Litt.D. | McLean Professor of History at Harvard University |
| Miles Farrow | Mus.D. | Organist and Master of the Choristers at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine |
| Max Mason | Sc.D. | President of the University of Chicago |
| Right Reverend John Gardner Murray | S.T.D. | Bishop of Maryland |
| Cuthbert Winfred Pound | LL.D. | Judge of the Court of Appeals |
| Alfred Emmanuel Smith | LL.D. | Governor of New York State |
| Right Reverend Ernest Milmore Stires | S.T.D. | Bishop of Long Island |
| Henry Osborn Taylor | Litt.D. | Historian; Critic |
| Right Reverend Arthur F Winnington Ingram | S.T.D. | Lord Bishop of London |
1927
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Baldwin Jewett | Sc.D. | Former President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers |
| Irving Lehman | LL.D. | Judge of the Court of Appeals |
| William Pierson Merrill | S.T.D. | Pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church |
| John Bassett Moore | LL.D. | Hamilton Fish Professor Emeritus of International Law and Diplomacy; Member of the Permanent Court of International Justice |
| Agnes Repplier | Litt.D. | Essayist |
| James Earl Russell | Litt.D. | Dean Emeritus of Teachers College |
| Joseph Sylvester (Brother Leon) Sauget | Sc.D. | Professor of Botany, Colegio de la Salle, Havana |
1928
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Willem Mengelberg | Mus.D. | Conductor of The New York Philharmonic Society Orchestra |
| Antonio Barcelo | LL.D. | Senator of Puerto Rico |
| Murray Bartlett | S.T.D. | President of Hobart College |
| William Wallace Campbell | Sc.D. | Director of the Lick Observatory; President of the University of California |
| Willa Cather | Litt.D. | Author |
| Paul Louis Charles Claudel | LL.D. | Ambassador of the French Republic |
| Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante | LL.D. | Member of The Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague; President of the Sixth Pan-American Conference, Havana, Cuba, 1928 |
| Albert Charles Fox, S.J | LL.D. | President of St. Xavier College |
| Otto Marc Eidlitz | Sc.D. | Builder (Awarded at the Dedication of the New Medical Center) |
| Edward Stephen Harkness | LL.D. | Man of Affairs (Awarded at the Dedication of the New Medical Center) |
| James Gamble Rogers | Sc.D. | Architect (Awarded at the Dedication of the New Medical Center) |
| Dean Sage | LL.D. | Lawyer (Awarded at the Dedication of the New Medical Center) |
1929
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Templeman Loram | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1918. Department of Education, Piertermaritsburg, South Africa. |
| Percival Richard Cole | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1907. Vice-Principal of Sydney Teachers College. |
| Alfred Horation Martin | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1922. Professor of Psychology, Sydney University |
| John Seaman Bates | University Medal for Excellence | Chem.E. 1913; Ph.D. 1914; President of the Canadian Institute of Chemistry. |
| Samuel Henry Prince | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1920. Professor of Sociology, King's College, Halifax. |
| Walter Alexander Riddell | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1916. Dominion of Canada Official Adviser accredited to the League of Nations; Chairman, Dominion Employment Council. |
| Petre Sandiford | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1910. Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Toronto. |
| Luis Alfredo Tirapeugui Leiva | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1924. Head of Department of Education in National University of Santiago. |
| Ta Chen | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1923. Professor of Sociology, tsing Hua College, Peking. |
| Yu-Gwan Chen | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1922. Chemist and Professor of Chemistry and recently President of Nanking University. |
| Mon-Lin Chiang | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1917. Minister of Education, Nationlist Government, Nanking. |
| Te-Pang Hou | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1921. Engineer. |
| Shih Hu | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1927. Dean of the Department of English Literature, National University, Peking. |
| Ping-Wen Kuo | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1914. Director of China Institute in America; formerly President of Southeastern University of Nanking. |
| Timothy Ting-Fang Lew | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1914; Ph.D. 1920; Dean of the School of Religion, Yenching University, Peking. |
| Herman Chan-En Liu | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1922; President of Shanghai College. |
| Fo Sun | University Medal for Excellence | M.S. 1917. Minister of Communications in Chinese cabinet. |
| Andrew Yu-Yue Tsu | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1912. Director of religious work, Pekling Union Medical College. |
| Cheng-Fu Wang | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. 1912. Engineer. |
| Chung-Yu Wang | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. 1904. Mining Engineer. |
| Wen-Tsao Wu | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1929. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yenching University, Peking. |
| Hawkling Lugine Yen | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1911. Former President of Tsing Hua College; former Councillor of the Ministry of Foreigh Affairs; Secretary of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Honolulu. |
| Samuel Sung Young | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. 1905. Chinese Consul-General to New York City. |
| Chai-Lan Yu | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1922. Professor of Chemistry, University of Amoy. |
| Camilo Claudio Restrepo | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1887; C.E. 1889. Governor of the State of Antioquia. |
| Robert Loyalty Cru | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1913. Director of the French House in London. |
| Very Reverand Joseph Herman Hertz | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1894. Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire. |
| Eric Higgins | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1908. Physical chemist. |
| Clarence Hunter Northcott | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1918. Personnel manager. |
| William DeBurgh Whyte | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1902. Engineer. |
| Camillo Andrei | University Medal for Excellence | M.E. 1908. Engineer. |
| Iwao Frederick Ayusawa | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1920. Japanese Representative at the International Labor Office, League of Nations, Geneva. |
| Seiji G. Hishida | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1906. Educational administrator. |
| Uichi Iwaskai | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1921. Professor of Sociology, Kobe University. |
| Yetaro Kinosita | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1902. Economist. |
| Seigo Takahashi | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1917. Professor of Government in Waseda University, Tokyo |
| Tomi Wada | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1922. Organizer and administrator of an experimental school; Chofu, Nagato. |
| Naohide Yatsu | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1905. Professor of Zoology, Tokyo University. |
| Manuel Barranco | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1911; Ph.D. 1914; Secretary of the University of Mexico. |
| Victor Manuel Braschi | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.B. 1881; E.M. 1883; C.E. 1884. Engineer. |
| Carlos Contreras | University Medal for Excellence | B.Arch. 1921. Architect; professor in the National University of Mexico. |
| Moises Saenz | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. 1921. Sub-Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mexico City. |
| Francisco Benitez | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1910; A.M. 1914. School of Education, Philippine University. |
| Camilo Osias | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1910. Formerly President of National University; Resident Commissioner of the Philippines at Washington, D.C. |
| Francisco A. Quisumbing | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1921. Professor of Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Lost Banos. |
| Juan Jose Osuna | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1923. Professor of Education in the University of Puerto Rico. |
| Bulus Kuzma Khauli | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. 1905. Head of Department of Education, University of Beirut. |
| Walter Arthur Bastedo | Sc.D. | Pharmacist-Physician; Medical Author (In Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation of the College of Pharmacy) |
| George Emerson Brewer | Sc.D. | Surgeon |
| Carlos Guillermo Davila | LL.D. | Ambassador of the Republic of Chile |
| Robert Anthony Hatcher | Sc.D. | Professor of Pharmacology at Cornell University (In Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation of the College of Pharmacy) |
| Vincent Massey | LL.D. | Minister of the Dominion of Canada |
| William Hallock Park | Sc.D. | Physician; Medical Officer |
| George Arthur Plimpton | Litt.D. | Trustee of Barnard College |
| Charles Frederick Schleussner | Sc.D. | Pharmacist (In Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation of the College of Pharmacy) |
| Wilbur Lincoln Scoville | Sc.D. | Chairman of the National Formulary Revision Committee (In Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation of the College of Pharmacy) |
| Frederick John Wulling | Sc.D. | Dean of the School of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota (In Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation of the College of Pharmacy) |
| Felix Adler | Litt.D. | Professor of Social and Political Ethics (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Chester Holmes Aldrich | Litt.D. | Architect (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Walter Hull Aldridge | Sc.D. | Engineer (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Edwin Howard Armstrong | Sc.D. | Radio Engineer (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Leo Hendrick Baekeland | Sc.D. | Honorary Professor of Chemical Engineering (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Charles Sears Baldwin | Litt.D. | Professor of Rhetoric and English Composition (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Walter Jarvis Barlow | Sc.D. | Physician (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Frederick Mark Becket | Sc.D. | President of the Electro-Chemical Society (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Bernard Iddings Bell | Litt.D. | Professor of Religion; Warden of St. Stephen's College (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Charles Peter Berkey | Sc.D. | Professor of Geology (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Maurice Alpheus Bigelow | Sc.D. | Professor of Biology; Director of the School of Practical Arts (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Franz Boas | Sc.D. | Professor of Anthropology (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Marston Taylor Bogert | Sc.D. | Professor of Organic Chemistry (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Alciphron Boring | Litt.D. | Professor of Design; Director of the School of Architecture (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Clarence Braisted | Sc.D. | Surgeon-General, United States Navy, Retired (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Tenney Brewster | Litt.D. | Professor of English (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Reverend Roelif Hasbrouck Brooks | S.T.D. | Rector of St. Thomas's Chruch, New York (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Gary Nathan Calkins | Sc.D. | Professor of Protozoology (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Campbell | Sc.D. | Howe Professor of Metalllurgy (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Joseph Perkins Chamberlain | LL.D. | Professor of Public Law (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| John Bates Clark | LL.D. | Professor Emeritus of Political Economy (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Reverend Cornelius Clifford | Litt.D. | Lecturer in Philosophy (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Lotus Delta Coffman | LL.D. | President of the University of Minnesota (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Harvey Wiley Corbett | Litt.D. | Associate in Design (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| John Jacob Coss | Litt.D. | Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Summer Session (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Henry Edward Crampton | Sc.D. | Professor of Zoology (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| John William Cunliffe | Litt.D. | Professor of English; Director of the School of Journalism (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Darrach | Sc.D. | Professor of Clinical Surgery, Dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Bergen Davis | Sc.D. | Professor of Physics (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| John Dewey | Litt.D. | Professor of Philosophy (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla | Litt.D. | High Priest of the Parsis of the Northwest India and Baluchistanv (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Bell Dinsmoor | Litt.D. | Professor of Architecture (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Arthur Smith Dwight | Sc.D. | Engineer (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| James Chidester Egbert | Litt.D. | Professor of Latin; Director of University Extension and of the School of Business (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Edward Charles Elliott | LL.D. | President of Purdue University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Richard Theodore Ely | LL.D. | Research Professor of Economics at Northwestern University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| John Erskine | Litt.D. | Professor of English (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Frank Diehl Fackenthal | Litt.D. | Secretary of the University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Livingston Farrand | LL.D. | President of Cornell University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| James Fairman Fielder | LL.D. | Vice Chancellor of New Jersey; Governor of New Jersey, 1914-1917 (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Robert Herndon Fife | Litt.D. | Gebhard Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Edward Ridley Finch | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State, Appellate Division (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher | Litt.D. | Author (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| James Wilford Garner | Litt.D. | Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinios. |
| James Watson Gerard | LL.D. | Ambassador to Germany 1913-1917 (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Franklin Henry Giddings | LL.D. | Professor Emeritus of Sociology and the History of Civilization in Residence (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve | Litt.D. | Professor of English; Dean of Barnard College (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Meta Glass | Litt.D. | President of Sweet Briar College (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Frederick Arthur Goetze | Sc.D. | Treasurer of Columbia University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Richard James Horatio Gottheil | Litt.D. | Professor of Rabbinical Literature and the Semitic Languages (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Frank Pierrepont Graves | LL.D. | President of the University of New York State (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Robert Almer Harper | Sc.D. | Torrey Professor of Botany (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Herbert Edwin Hawkes | LL.D. | Professor of Mathematics; Dean of Columbia College (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes | Litt.D. | Professor of History (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Patty Smith Hill | Litt.D. | Professor of Education (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| John Sherman Hoyt | LL.D. | Trustee of the Babies' Hospital (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Walter Albert Jessup | LL.D. | President of the University of Iowa (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Allen Johnson | Litt.D. | Editor of the Dictionary of American Biography (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Douglas Wilson Johnson | Sc.D. | Professor of Physiography (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Adam Leroy Jones | Litt.D. | Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director of University Admissions (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Walter Guest Kellogg | LL.D. | Regent of the University of the State of New York (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Frederick Pual Keppel | Litt.D. | President of the Carnegie Corporation (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Cassius Jackson Keyser | Sc.D. | Adrain Professor Emeritus of Mathematics (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Heard Kilpatrick | Litt.D. | Professor of Education (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Charles Knapp | Litt.D. | Professor of Greek and Latin (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Horatio Sheafe Krans | Litt.D. | Associate Director of the American University Union in Paris (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Edward Lazansky | LL.D. | Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Frederic Schiller Lee | Sc.D. | Professor of Physiology (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Gonzalez Lodge | Litt.D. | Professor of Latin and Greek (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Charles Edward Lucke | Sc.D. | Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Robert Morrison MacIver | Litt.D. | Professor of Social Science (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Valentine Everit Macy | LL.D. | Chairman of the Trustees of Teachers College (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Walter Taylor Marvin | Litt.D. | Professor of Philosophy; Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Howard Lee McBain | LL.D. | Ruggles Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law; Dean of Faculties of Political Science, Philosophy, and Pure Science (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Nelson Glenn McCrea | Litt.D. | Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Roswell Cheney McCrea | LL.D. | Hepburn Professor of Economics (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| James Alexander Miller | Sc.D. | Professor of Clinical Medicine (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Wesley Clair Mitchell | LL.D. | Professor of Economics (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Paul Monroe | Litt.D. | Barnard Professor of Education (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Frank Gardner Moore | Litt.D. | Professor of Latin (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Daniel Edward Moran | Sc.D. | Engineer (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Benjamin Wistar Morris | Litt.D. | Architect (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Kenneth Mackenzie Murchison | Litt.D. | Architect (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| George Clinton Densmore Odell | Litt.D. | Professor of Dramatic Literature (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Alfred Owre | Sc.D. | Professor of Dentistry; Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Walter Walker Palmer | Sc.D. | Bard Professor of the Practice of Medicine (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Bruce Ryburn Payne | Litt.D. | President of George Peabody College for Teachers (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| George Braxton Pegram | Sc.D. | Professor of Physics; Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Ulrich Bonnell Phillips | Litt.D. | Professor of American History at Yale University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| John Russell Pope | Litt.D. | Architect (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Reverend Francis Lister Hawks Pott | S.T.D. | President of St. John's University, Shanghai (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Joseph Meyer Proskauer | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State, Appellate Division (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Sylvanus Albert Reed | Sc.D. | Engineer (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Zebina Ripley | Litt.D. | Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Henry Hurd Rusby | Sc.D. | Professor of Materia Medica; Dean of the College of Pharmacy (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Fletcher Russell | LL.D. | Professor of Education and Dean of Teachers College (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Julius Sachs | Litt.D. | Professor Emeritus of Education (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Edward Sapir | Sc.D. | Professor of Anthropology and General Linguistics in the University of Chicago (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Henry Rogers Seager | Litt.D. | Professor of Political Economy (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| William Robert Shepherd | Litt.D. | Seth Low Professor of History (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Henry Clapp Sherman | Sc.D. | Mitchell Professor of Chemistry (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| James Thomson Shotwell | LL.D. | Professor History (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| David Eugene Smith | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Mathematics (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Joseph Russell Smith | Sc.D. | Professor of Economic Geography (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Young Berryman Smith | LL.D. | Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| George Drayton Strayer | Litt.D. | Professor of Education (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Henry Suzzallo | LL.D. | Former President of the University of Washington (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Ashley Horace Thorndike | Litt.D. | Professor of English (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Robert Thorne | LL.B. | President of the Neurological Institute (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Frederick Tilney | Sc.D. | Professor of Neurology and Neuro-Anatomy (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Augustus Trowbridge | Sc.D. | Dean of the Graduate School of Princeton University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Milton Haight Turk | Litt.D. | Professor of English and Dean of Hobart College (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Allen Oldfather Whipple | Sc.D. | Professor of Surgery (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Norman Wilde | Litt.D. | Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Charles Clarence Williamson | Litt.D. | Professor of Literary Administration; Director of University Libraries and of the School of Library Service (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Bailey Willis | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Geology in Stanford University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Henry Parker Wilson | LL.D. | Professor of Banking (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge | LL.D. | Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy; Dean of the Faculties of Political Science, Philosophy, and Pure Science from 1912 to 1929 (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Robert Sessions Woodsworth | Sc.D. | Professor of Psychology (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| John Munro Woolsey | LL.D. | Judge of the United States District Court (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Elwood Worcester | ST.D. | Rector of Emmanuel Church, Boston (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
| Hans Zinsser | Sc.D. | Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at Harvard University (Special Convocation in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Granting of the Original Charter to King's College, Columbia University) |
1930s
1930
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Marcus Benjamin | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.B. 1878. Graduated from the School of Mines with the Class of 1878; lifelong servant of both science and letters, rendering constant and effective service to both at the capital of the nation. |
| John Marshall Chew | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1883. Rector of Good Shepherd Parish, Newburgh, New York, from 1892. |
| Richard H. Cobden | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1886. Rector of St. John's Parish, Larchmont, New York, from 1897-1923; Rector Emeritus, 1923. |
| Elbert Floyd-Jones | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1889; A.M. 1890. Record of St. Mary's Parish, Cold Spring, New York, from 1896. |
| Leonard Beecher McWhood | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1893. Effective member of the Department of Music at Columbia University from 1898 to 1910; now Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. |
| Jan Christian Smuts | LL.D. | Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, 1919-1924. Degree awarded in camera |
| Edward Dean Adams | Sc.D. | Engineer; Man of Affairs |
| Duchess of Atholl Atholl | LL.D. | Member of the House of Commons and Former Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Education |
| William Warner Bishop | Litt.D. | Librarian of the University of Michigan |
| Charles Butler | Litt.D. | Architect |
| Henry Evertson Cobb | ST.D. | Senior Minister of the Collegiate Church |
| Victor James Dowling | LL.D. | Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State, Appellate Division, First Department |
| Milo Hudson Gates | ST.D. | Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine |
| Cass Gilbert | Litt.D. | Architect; President of the National Academy of Design |
| William Gillete | Litt.D. | Actor; Playwright |
| Charles Sumner Hamlin | LL.D. | Member of the Federal Reserve Board |
| Learned Hand | LL.D. | Judge of the United States Circuit Court, Second Circuit |
| Arnold Herman Knapp | Sc.D. | Professor of Ophthalmology, 1904-1928 |
| George Wellwood Murray | LL.D. | Lawyer; Awarded at the Dedication of the New Medical Center |
| Oscar H. Rogers | Sc.D. | Physician |
| Sir John Charles Stamp | LL.D. | Economist; Administrator |
| Baron of Ash (formerly Tomlin, Thomas James Chesshyre) Tomlin | LL.D. | Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; (Special Convocation) |
| Pierre Arminjon | LL.D. | Formerly French Judge at the Mixed Tribunal of Egypt (Special Convocation) |
| Maitre Henri Decugis | LL.D. | Avocat a la Cour d'Appel de Paris (Special Convocation) |
| Viscount (formerly Murray, Andrew Graham) Dunedin | LL.D. | Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (Special Convocation) |
| Roger Burrow Gregory | LL.D. | President of the Law Society (Special Convocation) |
| Sir William Allen Jowitt | LL.D. | Attorney General of England (Special Convocation) |
| Baron of Aberfeldy (formerly Macmillan, Lord Hugh Pattison) Macmillan | LL.D. | Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (Special Convocation) |
| Sir Frederick Pollock | LL.D. | Sometime Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University (Special Convocation) |
| Walter Simons | LL.D. | Formerly President of the Supreme Court of the German Reich; Acting President of the German Reich, March to May 1925 (Special Convocation) |
1931
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mabel Smith Douglass | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. Barnard, 1899. Eager and effective administrator of all that pertains to the higher education of women. |
| John Driscoll Fitzgerald, II | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1895; Ph.D. 1906. Thoroughly trained scholar and teacher in the field of Romance philology, and particularly in the language and literature of the Spanish people. |
| Harry Harkenss Flagler | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1897. Generous and untiring in promoting music of the highest type for the instruction and cultivation of the people. |
| Frank Sutliff Hackett | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1899. High-minded and devoted guide and counselor of American youth. |
| George Samuel Rice | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1887. Foremost authority on safety appliances in mines, honored by scientific societies in many lands for contributions to the literature of mining engineering. |
| William Jay Schieffelin | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.B. 1887. For many years counselor and friend of the College of Pharmacy, untiring and fearless in works of good citizenship. |
| Solomon Marcuse Stroock | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. 1892; LL.B. 1894. Generous and devoted in many types of unofficial public service and in supporting and directing important public charities. |
| Jay Downer | Sc.D. | Engineer |
| Luther Pfahler Eisenhart | Sc.D. | Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University; Dean of the Faculty |
| Edna Ferber | Litt.D. | Author |
| Claude Moore Fuess | Litt.D. | Author |
| Francis Pendleton Gaines Gaines | Litt.D. | President of Washington and Lee University |
| Seymour Parker Gilbert | LL.D. | Formerly Agent-General for Reparation Payments of Germany |
| Frank Porter Graham | Litt.D. | President of the University of North Carolina |
| Charles Judson Herrick | Sc.D. | Professor of Neurology at the University of Chicago |
| Sir Ronald Lindsay Lindsay | LL.D. | British Ambassador at Washington |
| Arthur Dehon Little | Sc.D. | Chemical Engineer |
| James de Wolf Perry | S.T.D. | Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States |
| Sir James Arthur Salter | LL.D. | Director of the Economic and Finance Section of the League of Nations; Secretary of the British Department of the Supreme Council, 1919 |
| Freiedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron | LL.D. | German Ambassador at Washington |
| Granville Mercer Williams | S.T.D. | Rector of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin |
1932
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Edwin Cornelius Broome | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1902. Superindentent of schools at Philadelphia. |
| Clarence Herbert Cook | University Medal for Excellence | Student in Columbia College from 1875 to 1877. Teacher in the Columbia Grammar School. |
| Leon Fraser | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1909; A.M. 1912; B.Litt. 1913; Ph.D. 1915. Alternate to the President, Bank for International Settlements. |
| John Kinsey Gore | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1883; A.M. 1886. Actuary and Vice President of the Prudential Life Insurance Company. |
| Clayton Hamilton | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. 1901. Playwright and Dramatic Critic. |
| Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1906. Kenan Professor of History and Government in the University of North Carolina. |
| Emil Joseph | University Medal for Excellence | A.B.1879; LL.B. 1881. Member of the Bar, Cleveland, Ohio. |
| Charles Riborg Mann | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1890; A.M. 1891. Director of the American Council on Education; Chairman of President's Advisory Committee on Federal Relations to Education. |
| Richard Cunningham Patterson, Jr. | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1912. Commissioner of Correction of the City of New York. |
| William Bogert Walker | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1865. Clergyman. |
| Sebastian Charléty | LL.D. | Rector of the University of Paris |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | Litt.D. | Author. Degree awarded in camera |
| Edwin Hatfield Anderson | Litt.D. | Direcor of the New York Public Library |
| Robert Frost | Litt.D. | Poet; Maker of the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| Dugald Caleb Jackson | Sc.D. | Professor of Electric Power Production and Distribution at the Massachusetts Insititute of Technology |
| Thomas William Lamont | LL.D. | Man of Affairs |
| Channing Lefebvre | Mus.D. | Organist and Choirmaster of Trinity Church |
| Walter Lippman | Litt.D. | Journalist; Man of Letters |
| George Norlin | Litt.D. | President of the University of Colorado |
| Albert Henry Wiggin | LL.D. | Man of Affairs |
| Alice Pleasance Hargreaves | Litt.D. | Alice in Wonderland |
1933
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| John Arthur Barratt | University Medal for Excellence | LL.B. 1880. |
| Alfred Chester Beatty | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1898. |
| Henry Dwight Chapin | University Medal for Excellence | M.D. 1881 |
| Ellwood Patterson Conner | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. 1902; Ph.D.1905 |
| Chester Welde Cuthell | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1905; LL.B. 1907 |
| Lucetta Daniell | University Medal for Excellence | Recently retired from that important post at Teachers Colleg, in which for along generation she rendeder most effective service to the women students of that part of the University's educational system. |
| Lawton Bryab Evans | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. Georgia, 1881. Just now completing fifty years of unbroken service as Superintendent of Schools in the State of Georgia, with a well-earned reputation as administrator, as orator, and as public-spirited citizen. |
| William Livingston Hazen | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1883; LL.B. 1885 |
| Robinson Godfrey Jones | University Medal for Excellence | A.M. 1912 |
| William Langer | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1910 |
| Charles Mandred Lum | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1881 |
| Alice Duer Miller | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. Barnard, 1899. |
| Richard Alexander Parker | University Medal for Excellence | C.E. 1878; E.M. 1896 |
| Geoffrey Parsons | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1899; LL.B. 1903 |
| Albert Payson Terhune | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1893 |
| Bailey Kelly Ashford | Sc.D. | Mycologist |
| David Prescott Barrows | Litt.D. | Professor of Political Science at the University of California |
| Charles Culp Burlingham | LL.D. | Lawyer |
| Norman Hezekiah Davis | LL.D. | Chairman of the Delegation of the United States to the General Disarmament Conference at Geneva |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot | Litt.D. | Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University |
| Rufus Matthew Jones | S.T.D. | Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College |
| Stanley King | LL.D. | President of Amherst College |
| William Lyon Phelps | Litt.D. | Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale University |
| Samuel Seabury | LL.D. | Lawyer |
| Charles Warren | LL.D. | Lawyer |
| William Morton Wheeler | Sc.D. | Professor of Entomology at Harvard University |
| Sir Walter Thomas Layton | LL.D. | Teacher; Public Servant. Degree Awarded in camera |
| Will Spens | LL.D. | Master and Chancellor of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Degree Awarded in camera |
1934
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Herbert Sebastian Agar | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1919 |
| Francis Blossom | University Medal for Excellence | C.E. 1891 |
| James Brown | University Medal for Excellence | Of the Class of 1883, Engineering |
| Lewis Einstein | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1898, A.M. 1899 |
| Peter B. Grimm | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1911 |
| Jacob Barstow Smull | University Medal for Excellence | Of the Class of 1896, Engineering |
| Arthur Hays Sulzburger | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1913 |
| Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1884; LL.B. 1886 |
| Tung-Li Yuan | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1922 |
| John Buchan | Litt.D. | Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland. Degree Awarded in camera |
| Ernest William Brown | Sc.D. | Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale University |
| Harry Woodburn Chase | Litt.D. | Chancellor of New York University |
| James Bryant Conant | Sc.D. | President of Harvard University |
| Harold Willis Dodds | Litt.D. | President of Princeton University |
| James Aloysius Foley | LL.D. | Surrogate of New York County |
| Calvin Bryce Hoover | Litt.D. | Professor of Economics at Duke University |
| Cordell Hull | LL.D. | Secretary of State |
| John Maynard Keynes | LL.D. | Economist |
| Russel Henry Stafford | S.T.D. | Minister of Old South Church, Boston |
1935
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Eugene Aloysius Colligan | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1908 |
| Lincoln Ellsworth | University Medal for Excellence | Of the Class of 1905, Engineering |
| Thomas Ewing | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1885; A.M. 1886 |
| Mabel Hyde Kittredge | University Medal for Excellence | Social Worker; who has given years of an active life to improving the living and housekeeping conditions of tens of thousands of dwellers on Manhattan Island. |
| Grover Cleveland Loening | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1909; A.M. 1910; C.E. 1911 |
| Tingfu Fuller Tsiang | University Medal for Excellence | PhD. 1923 |
| Frank Vinsonhaler | University Medal for Excellence | M.D.1885 |
| Reverend Winfred Hamlin Ziegler | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1911 |
| Right Honorable and Most Reverend William Temple | Lord Archbishop of York; Primate of England and Metropolitan (Special University Convocation) | |
| William Slocum Barstow | Sc.D. | Electrical Engineer |
| William Bondy | LL.D. | Judge of the United States District Court |
| Tyler Dennett | Litt.D. | President of Williams College |
| Harvey Fletcher | Sc.D. | Electrical Engineer |
| Dixon Ryan Fox | Litt.D. | President of Union College |
| Most Reverend John Joseph Glennon | LL.D. | Archbishiop of St. Louis |
| Edwin Walter Kemmerer | LL.D. | Research Professor of International Finance at Princeton University |
| Right Reverend Warren Lincoln Rogers | S.T.D. | Bishop of Ohio |
| Helen Waddell | Litt.D. | Woman of Letters |
| Henry Agard Wallace | LL.D. | Secretary of Agriculture |
| Rafael Altamira y Crevea | LL.D. | Lawyer; Professor; Public Servant. Degree awarded in absentia |
| Sir James Colquhoun Irvine | LL.D. | Scientist; Educational Administrator |
| Count Carlo Sforza | LL.D. | Government Official in Italy |
| Count Paul Teleki | LL.D. | Government Official in Hungary |
| Erich von Prittwitz und Gaffron | Public Servant |
1936
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Lusk Babbott | University Medal for Excellence | M.D. 1918 |
| Francis Burke Brandt | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1895 |
| Lincoln Cromwell | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1886; A.M. 1888; LL.B. 1889 |
| Thomas Edmund Dewey | University Medal for Excellence | LL.B. 1925 |
| Victor Elting | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1891 |
| Robert Ogden Purves | University Medal for Excellence | Class of 1920 |
| John Angel | Litt.D. | Sculptor |
| Sigismund Cybichowski | LL.D. | Lawyer; Professor |
| William Francis Giauque | Sc.D. | Professor of Chemistry at the University of California |
| Reverend Leicester Crosby Lewis | S.T.D. | Rector of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields, Philadelphia |
| William Mather Lewis | LL.D. | President of Lafayette College |
| Ellen Fitz Pendleton | Litt.D. | President of Wellesley College |
| Stephen Joseph Pigott | Sc.D. | Engineer |
| Charles Brown Spears | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State |
| Sarah Wambaugh | LL.D. | Technical Expert; Deputy Member of the (Saar) Plebiscite Commission |
1937
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Edward Bruce | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1901; LL.B. 1904. Artist. |
| Carlos Contreras | University Medal for Excellence | B.Arch. 1921. Architect. |
| Harold Fowler | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1908. First Deputy Police Commissioner of the City of New York. |
| Robert Moses | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1914. New York City Park Commissioner. |
| Paul Windels | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1908. Corporation Counsel of the City of New York. |
| Helen Young | University Medal for Excellence | Director of the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing. |
| Van Wyck Brooks | Litt.D. | Man of Letters |
| Robert Broom | Sc.D. | Scientist |
| Reverend William Adams Brown | S.T.D. | Profesor Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary |
| Right Reverend Willia Leopold Essex | S.T.D. | Bishop of the Diocese of Quincy, Illinois |
| Right Honorable Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher | Litt.D. | Warden of New College, Oxford |
| Carter Glass | LL.D. | United States Senator from Virginia |
| John Clark Knox | LL.D. | Judge of the United States District Court |
| John Howard Northrop | Sc.D. | Scientist |
| I.N. Phelps Stokes | Litt.D. | Architect |
| Mary Emma Woolley | Litt.D. | President of Mount Holyoke College |
| Hennry Merritt Wriston | Litt.D. | President of Brown University |
| Right Reverend Winfred Hamlin Ziegler | S.T.D. | Missionary Bishop of the Diocese of Wyoming |
| Edgar Algernon Robert | LL.D. | Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, P.C. Degree awarded in camera |
1938
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| George Arents, Jr. | University Medal for Excellence | Of the Class of 1897. Corporation Executive. |
| Harold Riegelman | University Medal for Excellence | LL.B. and A.M. 1916; Lawyer. |
| George Ephraim Sokolsky | University Medal for Excellence | Of the Class of 1917, Journalism. Newspaper correspondent and man of letters. |
| Samuel Clifton Thomson | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1893 |
| Edward Larocque Tinker | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1902 |
| Célestin Bouglé | Litt.D. | Directeur de L'École Normale Superiéure. Degree awarded in camera |
| Alfred Chester Beatty | Sc.D. | Mining Engineer |
| José Castillejo | Litt.D. | Professor of Law at the University of Madrid |
| Gano Dunn | Sc.D. | Electrical Engineer |
| Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson | Litt.D. | Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh |
| James Hampton Kirkland | Litt.D. | Chancellor Emeritus of Vanderbilt University |
| Thomas Mann | Litt.D. | Author |
| Philip James McCook | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State |
| Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney | LL.D. | United States Senator from Wyoming |
| Thomas Parran, Jr. | Sc.D. | Surgeon-General of the United States |
| Charles Seymour | Litt.D. | President of Yale University |
| Reverend Joseph Richard Sizoo | S.T.D. | Pastor of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, New York City |
| Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague | Litt.D. | Economist |
| Robert Gordon Sproul | Litt.D. | President of the University of California |
| Dorothy Thompson Lewis | Litt.D. | Journalist |
| Walter Robert Matthews | S.T.D. | Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London |
1939
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Henry Brundage Culver | University Medal for Excellence | LL.B. 1893. Lawyer. |
| Gustavus Town Kirby | University Medal for Excellence | E.E. 1895; LL.B. 1898 |
| Ferdinand Kuhn, Jr. | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1925. London correspondent of the New York Times. |
| Harriet Beardslee Prescott | University Medal for Excellence | Litt.D. Mount Holyoke, 1936. Now retiring after a full half-century of devoted and indispensible service in the Library of this University. |
| Baldwin of Bewdley | LL.D. | Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury of England |
| Fred Clarke | Litt.D. | Professor of Education; Director of the Insitute of Education at the University of London |
| Edouard Herriot | LL.D. | President of the Chamber of Deputies. Degree awarded in absentia |
| John Murray | Litt.D. | Principal of the University of Southwest of England |
| Eustace Percy | LL.D. | Rector of Newcastle Division of Durham University |
| William David Ross | Litt.D. | Member of the Order of the British Empire |
| Carl Lotus Becker | Litt.D. | Professor of History at Cornell University |
| Eduard Beneš | LL.D. | President of Czechoslovakia |
| Evangeline Cory Booth | LL.D. | International Head of the Salvation Army |
| Mortimer Wardle Byers | LL.D. | Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern district of New York |
| Guy Stanton Ford | Litt.D. | President of the University of Minnesota |
| Robert Sanderson Mulliken | Sc.D. | Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago |
| Hu Shih | LL.D. | Chinese Ambassador in Washington |
| Robert Crooks Stanley | Sc.D. | Chairman of the trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Henry St. George Tucker | S.T.D. | Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States |
| Sumner Welles | LL.D. | Under Secretary of State of the United States |
| Phineas Lawrence Windsor | Litt.D. | Librarian and director of the Library School of the University of Illinois |
| Jean Zay | LL.D. | Minister of National Education of France |
1940s
1940
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pelham St. George Bissell | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1909; A.M. 1910; LL.B 1912. President Justice of the Muncipal Court, New York. |
| Francis Stuart Chapin | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1909; A.M. 1910; Ph.D. 1911. Professor of Sociology in the University of Minnesota. |
| Elbridge Colby | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1912; A.M. 1913; Ph.D. 1922. Major of Infantry at the Army War College at Washington, D.C. |
| Harris Kennedy Masters | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1894. Recognized authority on minerals and the metal industry; devoted son of Alma Mater. |
| Alfred Einstein Cohn | Sc.D. | Member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research |
| Harvey nathaniel Davis | Sc.D. | President of the Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Cupertino Del Campo | LL.D. | President of the Instituto Cultural Argentino-Borte-Americano, Buenos Aires |
| Sidney Bradshaw Fay | Litt.D. | Professor of History at Harvard University |
| Ross Granville Harrison | Sc.D. | Sterling Professor of Biology at Yale University |
| William Otis Hotchkiss | Sc.D. | President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Charles Kenneth Leith | Sc.D. | Professor of Geology at the Unviersity of Wisconsin |
| Marquess of Lothian | LL.D. | British Ambassador to the United States |
| Harry Miller Lydenberg | Litt.D. | Director of the New York Public Library |
| Arthur Hastings Merritt | Sc.D. | President of the American Dental Association |
| Stanley Forman Reed | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Robert Lawrence Stearns | LL.D. | President of the University of Colorado |
| Carl Van Doren | Litt.D. | Man of Letters |
| Béla Barthók (Bartok) | Mus.D. | Professor at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music |
| Cecil Thomas Carr | LL.D. | Of the Inner Temple |
| Karl Taylor Compton | Sc.D. | President of the Massachussetts Institute of Technology |
| Paul Hazard | Litt.D. | Man of letters |
1941
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| William Bennett Bizzell | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1921. President of the University of Oklahoma. |
| G. Forrest Butterworth, Jr. | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1913; LL.B. 1916. Chancellor of the Diocese of New York. |
| Frederic Rene Coudert, Jr. | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1918; LL.B. 1922. Member of the Senate of the State of New York. |
| Huger Elliott | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. in Architecture, 1900. Director of educatino work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| John Howard Johnson | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1920. A.M. 1921. Rector of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Harlem. |
| Arthur Vincent McDermott | University Medal for Excellence | Class of 1910, Columbia College. Director of Selective Service fo the City of New York and First Deputy Comptroller of the City. |
| William Bacon Pettus | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1904. President of the College of Chinese Studies, Peiping, China. |
| Otto David Tolischus | University Medal for Excellence | B.Litt. 1916. Correspondent of the New York Times in Europe and Asia. |
| Viscount (formerly Frederick Lindley Wood) Halifax | LL.D. | Chancellor of the University of Oxford; British Ambassador in Washington |
| Othmar Hermann Ammann | Sc.D. | Former Chief Engineer, Port of New York Authority |
| The Honorable Oswaldo Aranha | LL.D. | Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States of Brazil (Represented by Ambassador) |
| The Very Reverend James Pernette DeWolfe | S.T.D. | Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine |
| Sir Lyman Poore Duff | LL.D. | Privy Councilor and Knight; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dominion of Canada |
| The Reverend Robert Ignatius Gannon | Litt.D. | President of Fordham University |
| Anne O'Hare McCormick | Litt.D. | Member of the Eidtorial Staff of the New York Times |
| Frank Ross McCoy | LL.D. | Major General of the Army of the United States, Retired |
| Geoffrey Parsons | Litt.D. | Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Herald Tribune |
| The Honorable Enrique Ruiz-Guiñazú | LL.D. | Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic (Represented by Ambassador) |
| Clark Howell Woodward | LL.D. | Rear Admiral of the United States Navy, Retired |
1942
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| George Raimes Beach | University Medal for Excellence | LL.B. 1897. Member of the Bar of the State of New Jersey. |
| Alice Henrietta Gregg | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1921; A.M. 1928. Religious Education Secretary for the Anglican Communion in China. |
| Frank Smithwick Hogan | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1924; LL.B. 1928. District Attorney of the County of New York. |
| Henry Beetle Hough | University Medal for Excellence | B.Litt. 1918. Author of Cuntry Editor. |
| Louis Vernon Ledoux | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1902. Student and author who writes with special authority on the institutions and art of Japan. |
| Joseph Daniel McGoldrick | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1922; A.M. 1923; Ph.D 1931. Comptroller of the City of New York. |
| Edgar Joshua Nathan, Jr. | University Medal for Excellence | LL.B. 1916. President of the Borough of Manhattan. |
| Lyman Rhoades | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1902. Vice President of the Chase National Bank. |
| H.M., George II King of the Hellenes | LL.D. | (Special University Convocation) |
| John Marshall Chew | S.T.D. | Rector of the Church of the Good Shepard, Newburgh, New York |
| John Crocker | Litt.D. | Headmaster of the Groton School |
| John Wesley Dafoe | Litt.D. | Journalist and Man of Letters |
| James Byron Drew | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania |
| Hugh Aloysius Drum | LL.D. | Lieutentant General, United States Army |
| Jekuthiel Ginsburg | Sc.D. | Head of the Department of Mathematics at Yeshiva College |
| Alice Duer Miller | Litt.D. | Author and Poet |
| Samuel Eliot Morison | Litt.D. | Professor of History and Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University |
| Derwyn Trevor Owen | S.T.D. | Archbishop of Toronto; Primate of the Church of England in Canada |
| Ezequiel Padilla | LL.D. | Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico |
| Alfred Newton Richards | Sc.D. | Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania |
| James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. | LL.D. | Representative in Congress from New York State |
| Robert Runnels Williams | Sc.D. | Chemical Director of the Bell Telephone Laboratories of New York |
| Roger John Williams | Sc.D. | Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas |
| Manuel Prado Ugarteche | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Peru. Degree awarded in camera |
| Carlos Arroyo Del Rio | LL.D. | President of Ecuador (Special University Convocation) |
| Dr. Carlos Arroyo Del Rio | LL.D. | President of Ecuador (Special University Convocation) |
1943
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Miles Lanier Colean | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1922. Able and effective public servant in planning and building. |
| Gustav Egloff | University Medal for Excellence | A.M 1913; Ph.D. 1915. Researcher in the petroleum industry. |
| John Warren Hill | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1911; LL.B. 1914. Presiding Justice of the Domestic Relations Court |
| William Ogden Wiley | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1882; A.M. 1887. Publisher. |
| William Beveridge | LL.D. | Master of University College, Oxford |
| Harold Beresford Butler | LL.D. | Head of the International Labor Office at Geneva |
| John van Nostrand Dorr | Sc.D. | Engineer |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick | S.T.D. | Pastor of Riverside Church |
| Charles Franklin Kettering | Sc.D. | Engineer |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | LL.D. | Prime Minister of Canada |
| William Frederick Lamb | Litt.D. | Architect |
| William Church Osborn | LL.D. | President of the Metroploitan Museum of Art |
| Julia Marlowe Sothern | Litt.D. | Actress |
| Hatton William Sumners | LL.D. | Representative in Congress from the State of Texas |
| Enrique Peñaranda | LL.D. | (Special University Convocation) |
1944
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Clarence Orion Cheney | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1908. M.D. 1911. Director of the New York Hospital, Westchester Division. |
| Condict Walker Cutler, Jr. | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1910; M.D. 1912. Lieutenant Colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army in active service. |
| Chester Alan Fulton | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1906. President of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. |
| James Taylor Kemp | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1912; Met.E. 1916. Metallurgist. Member of the Mission for Economic Affairs. |
| Paul Evans Lockwood | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1923. Private secretary to the Governor of New York State. |
| Abbot Low Moffat | University Medal for Excellence | LL.B. 1926. Lawyer; now serving with the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination in Washington. |
| Francis Ellis Rivers | University Medal for Excellence | LL.B. 1922. Justice of the City Court. |
| Cyril Forster Garbett | LL.D. | Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan (Special University Convocation) |
| Warren Robinson Austin | LL.D. | United States Senator from Vermont |
| Charles Austin Beard | Litt.D. | Historian and Political Scientist |
| Lyman James Briggs | Sc.D. | Physicist |
| Augustus Noble Hand | LL.D. | Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Te-Pang Hou | Sc.D. | Chemist and Engineer |
| Charles Merz | Litt.D. | Editor in Chief of the New York Times |
| Francis Joseph Spellman | LL.D. | Archbishop of New York. |
| Walter Hubert Baddeley | S.T.D. | Anglican Bishop of Melanesia (Special University Convocation) |
1945
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ralph Stanton Barnaby | University Medal for Excellence | M.E. 1915. Captain in the U.S. Navy |
| William Fondiller | University Medal for Excellence | E.E. 1909; A.M. 1913. Executive Vice President of the Bell Laboratories. |
| Russell Justin Hill | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1939. War correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune. |
| Amy Loveman | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. Barnard, 1901. An editor of the Saturday Reivew of Literature. |
| Herbert Lionel Matthews | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1922. Journalist on the staff of the New York Times. |
| Rhoda Jameson Milliken | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. Barnard, 1918. Chief of the Women's Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department at Washington, D.C. |
| Paul Austin Wolfe | S.T.D. | Pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church |
| Edwin Joseph Cohn | Sc.D. | Professor of Biological Chemistry at the Medical School of Harvard University |
| Kenneth Wallace Colegrove | Litt.D. | Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. |
| Douglas Southall Freeman | Litt.D. | Editor of the News Leader, Richmond, Virginia |
| Herbert Spencer Gasser | Sc.D. | Director of Rockefeller Institute |
| Walter Franklin George | LL.D. | United States Senator from Georgia |
| George Mead, Jr. | Mus.D. | Organist and Director of Music, Trinity Church |
| Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. | LL.D. | Secretary of State of the United Staes. In absentia |
| Thomas Day Thacher | LL.D. | Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State |
| Paul Austin Wolfe | S.T.D. | Pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church |
| Juan Antonio Rios | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Chile |
1946
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Armstrong | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1909; A.M. 1910 |
| Robert Erskine Campbell | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1906 |
| Edward Mead Earle | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1917; A.M. 1918 |
| Knowlton Durham | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1901; A.M. 1902; LL.B. 1905 |
| Willet Lawrence Eccles | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1923; A.M. 1925; Ph.D. 1928 |
| Reginald James Seymour Pigott | University Medal for Excellence | Mech.E. 1906 |
| Winthrop Williams Aldrich | LL.D. | Financier |
| Maxwell Anderson | Litt.D. | Teacher; Journalist; Dramatist |
| Francis Gordon Caffey | LL.D. | Judge of the Southern District of New York |
| Babette Deutsch | Litt.D. | Author and Poet |
| Enrico Fermi | Sc.D. | Scientist; Winner of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear reactions |
| Frank Sutliff Hackett | Litt.D. | Founder and Headmaster, Riverdale Country School |
| Howard Hanson | Mus.D. | Composer |
| Poling Chang | Litt.D. | President of Nanking University |
| John Kelvey Richards, Jr. | Sc.D. | Commodore, United States Navy |
| Timothy Edward Shea | Sc.D. | Engineer |
| Harold Clayton Urey | Sc.D. | Chemist |
| Nicholai Velimirovich | S.T.D. | Bishop of Ochrida and Zicha of the Serbian Orthodox Church |
| Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, O.M. | LL.D. | Member of British Parliament |
| Geoffrey Francis Fisher | LL.D. | Archbishop of Canterbury; Primate of All England and Metropolitan |
1947
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Albert Herman Case | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1905 |
| Calvin Hadden | University Medal for Excellence | C.E. 1912 |
| William Anthony Kimbel | University Medal for Excellence | B.S. 1916 |
| David Barnard Steinman | University Medal for Excellence | C.E. 1909; A.M. 1909; Ph.D. 1911 |
| Henry Harley Arnold | LL.D. | General, United States Army. Degree awarded in absentia |
| Dwight David Eisenhower | LL.D. | General and Chief of Staff, United States Army |
| William Frederick Halsey | LL.D. | Fleet Admiral, United States Navy |
| Lewis Blane Hershey | LL.D. | Director of the Selective Service System |
| Ernest Joseph King | LL.D. | Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet; Chief of Naval Operation |
| Norman Thomas Kirk | LL.D. | Surgeon General, United States Army |
| Emory Scott Land | LL.D. | Vice Admiral, United States Navy; Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission; Administrator of the War Shipping Administration |
| Douglas MacArthur | LL.D. | General, United States Army; Commanding General, Armed forces in the Pacific. Degree awarded in absentia |
| George Catlett Marshall | LL.D. | General, United States Army; Secretary of State |
| Chester William Nimitz | LL.D. | Fleet Admiral, United States Navy |
| Alexander Archer Vandergrift | LL.D. | General, United States Marine Corps |
| Barnard Mannes Baruch | LL.D. | Man of Affairs |
| Vannevar Bush | Sc.D. | President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Chairman of the Joint Research and Development Board of the Army and Navy |
| Louis Shattuck Cates | Sc.D. | Mining Engineer |
| James Vincent Forrestal | LL.D. | Secretray of the Navy |
| Charles Spurgeon Johnson | Litt.D. | President of Fisk University |
| Robert McLean | Litt.D. | Publisher; President of the Associated Press |
| Harvey Seely Mudd | Sc.D. | Mining Engineer |
| Robert Porter Patterson | LL.D. | Secretary of War |
| Bernard Lloyd Shientag | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of New York State |
| Henry Lewis Stimson | LL.D. | Secretary of State and of War of the United States |
| John William Charles Wand | S.T.D. | Lord Bishop of London |
| William Joseph Donovan | LL.D. | Major General, United States Army; Wartime Head of the Office of Strategic Services |
| Miguel Aleman | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Mexico |
| Thomas Edmund Dewey | LL.D. | Governor of the State of New York |
1948
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Erwin Dougherty | University Medal for Excellence | C.E. 1901 |
| William Comings White | University Medal for Excellence | E.E. 1912 |
| Philip Sporn | University Medal for Excellence | E.E. 1917 |
| Melville Henry Cane | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1900; LL.B. 1903 |
| Romulo Gallegos | LL.D. | President of of the United States of Venezuela |
| Oliver Ellsworth Buckley | LL.D. | President of Bell Telephone Laboratories |
| James Francis Byrnes | LL.D. | Statesman |
| Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. | LL.D. | President of the University of Virginia |
| Manuel Gamio | Litt.D. | Director of the Instituto Indigenieta Interamericano |
| Paul Hindemith | Mus.D. | Professor of the Theory of Music and Associate Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University |
| William Walter Pettit | Litt.D. | Former Dean of the New York School of Social Work |
| Henry Knox Sherrill | S.T.D. | Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church |
| Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg | LL.D. | United States Senator from Michigan |
1949
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Milton Longacre Cornell | University Medal for Excellence | C.E. 1905 |
| Oscar Hammerstein II | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1916 |
| John Marshall Lowrie | University Medal for Excellence | LL.B. 1912 |
| Richard Rodgers | University Medal for Excellence | Class of 1923, Columbia College |
| Middleton Beaman | LL.D. | Legislative Counsel for the House of Representatives (as of June 1, 1948) |
| Omar Nelson Bradley | LL.D. | General and Chief of Staff, United States Army (voted in March, 1948) |
| Lucius DuBignon Clay | LL.D. | General, United States Army (voted in March, 1947) |
| Raymond Blaine Fosdick | LL.D. | Lawyer (voted in March 1948) |
| Oliver Shewell Franks | LL.D. | Ambassador of Great Britain to the United States |
| Paul Klapper | LL.D. | President Emeritus of Queens College |
| Helen Hayes MacArthur | Litt.D. | Actress |
| Herman Joseph Muller | Sc.D. | Professor of Zoology at Indiana University |
| Helen Rogers Reid | Litt.D. | Publisher |
| Arnold Joseph Toynbee | Litt.D. | Historian (voted in March 1948) |
| Charles Erwin Wilson | Sc.D. | Industrialist |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | LL.D. | Prime Minister of India |
1950s
1950
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Clifford Brace | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1904 |
| Thomas Hamilton Chilton | University Medal for Excellence | Chem.E. 1922 |
| Horace Reynolds Graham | University Medal for Excellence | E.M. 1908 |
| Milton C. Whitaker | University Medal for Excellence | Professor in Columbia University, 1910-1917 |
| Gabriel Gonzalez Videla | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Chile |
| Ralph Johnson Bunche | LL.D. | Director of the Division of Trusteeship of the United Nations |
| Charles Proctor Cooper | Sc.D. | President of the Presbyterian Hospital |
| Charles Kendall Gilbert | S.T.D. | Bishop of New York |
| Camille Gutt | LL.D. | Chairman of the Board of the International Monetary Fund |
| Paul Gray Hoffman | LL.D. | Economic Cooperation Administrator |
| Albert Charles Jacobs | LL.D. | Chancellor of the University of Denver |
| Trygve Halvdan Lie | LL.D. | Secretary General of the UN; Legal advisor to the Norwegian Labor Party |
| Robert Abercrombie Lovett | LL.D. | Former Under Secretary of State |
| Robert James McCracken | S.T.D. | Pastor of the Riverside Church |
| Harold Raymond Medina | LL.D. | Judge of the United States District Court |
| John Fairfield Thompson | Sc.D. | Industrialist |
| Eleanore Robson Belmont | Litt.D. | Actress, Philanthropist and Social Worker |
| Liaquat Ali Khan | LL.D. | Prime Minister of Pakistan |
1951
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Fosdick | University Medal for Excellence | Ph.D. 1939 |
| Julian Seymour Schwinger | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1936; Ph.D. 1939 |
| Vincent Auriol | LL.D. | President of the French Republic |
| Madeleine Beer Borg | L.H.D. | Worker in Philanthropy |
| Edward Calvin Kendall | Sc.D. | Biochemist |
| Henry Krumb | Sc.D. | Consulting and Mining Engineer |
| Arthur Oncken Lovejoy | Litt.D. | Philosopher |
| Walter Winne Stewart | LL.D. | Economist |
| Iphingene Ochs Sulzberger | LL.D. | Outstanding Public Citizen |
| Helen Brook Taussig | Sc.D. | Pediatrician |
| Charles Edward Wilson | LL.D. | Director of Defense Mobilization |
| Lewis Williams Douglas | LL.D. | Former United States Ambassador to Great Britain |
| Alberto Gainza Paz | LL.D. | Journalist |
1952
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Herman Wouk | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1934. Author. |
| Thomas Scherman | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1937. Muscian. |
| Juliana | LL.D. | Queen of the Netherlands |
| Anthony Eden | LL.D. | British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
| Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar | LL.D. | Educator and Statesman |
| Stephen Fielding Bayne Jr. | S.T.D. | Bishop of Olympia |
| Hugh Hammond Bennett | Sc.D. | Soil Conservationist |
| Frank Smithwick Hogan | LL.D. | District Attorney of New York County |
| Daniel Mornet | Litt.D. | Literary Historian and Critic |
| Robert Moses | LL.D. | Distinguished Public Servant |
| Lester Bowles Pearson | LL.D. | Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs |
| Joseph Pulitzer | LL.D. | Publisher |
| Anna Marie Rosenberg | L.H.D. | Assitant Secretary of Defense of Hungary |
| Allan Sproul | LL.D. | Banker |
| Wallace Stevens | Litt.D. | Poet |
| Joao Neves Da Fontoura | LL.D. | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Brazil. Degree Awarded in camera |
1953
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Milton Katims | University Medal for Excellence | A.B. 1930. Musician. |
| Grayson Lewis Kirk | LL.D. | Then Vice President and Provost of the University. Degree Awarded in camera |
| John William Davis | LL.D. | Congressman from West Virginia; Solicitor General; United States Ambassador to Great Britain |
| Luther Harris Evans | LL.D. | Librarian of Congress |
| Crawford Hallock Greenewalt | LL.D. | Industrial Chemist |
| Alfred Louis Kroeber | L.H.D. | Anthropologist |
| Frank Charles Laubach | L.H.D. | Missionary and Educator |
| John Jay McCloy | LL.D. | Former United States High Commissioner for Germany |
| Henry Allen Moe | LL.D. | Secretary General of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
| Jean Monnet | LL.D. | President of the High Authority of the European Coal-Steel Community |
| David Bernard Steinman | Sc.D. | Bridge Engineer |
| Luis Antonio Eguiguren | LL.D. | Chief Justice of the Republic of Peru |
| King of the Hellenes Paul | L.H.D. | |
| William Edward Schneck Griswold | LL.D. | Lawyer and Business Executive |
| Leonard Andrew Scheele | Sc.D. | Surgeon General of the United States |
1954
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Syngman Rhee | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Korea |
| Celal Bayar | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Turkey (Bicentennial Convocation) |
| Roy Blough | L.H.D. | Principal Director Department of Economic Affairs at the United Nations (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Thomas Henry Briggs | L.H.D. | Professor Emeritus of Education in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Sevellon Ledyard Brown | Litt.D. | Publisher of the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Harry James Carman | LL.D. | Dean Emeritus of Columbia College (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders | LL.D. | Director of the London School of Economics (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Louis Chevalier | L.H.D. | Professor of the History of the Social Structure of Paris, in the College de France (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Sir George Norman Clark | Litt.D. | Provost of Oriel College in Oxford University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Frederic René Coudert | LL.D. | Lawyer; Trustee of Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Howard Stix Cullman | LL.D. | Commissioner of the Port of the New York Authority (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Haven Emerson | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Public Health Administration in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| James Kip Finch | Sc.D. | Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Engineering in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Philip Sargant Florence | L.H.D. | Dean of the Faculties of Commerce and Social Science in Birmingham University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Joseph Folliet | L.H.D. | Director of the Social Institute in the Facultes Catholiques de Lyon (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| George Barry Ford | L.H.D. | Pastor of Corpus Christi Church, New York City (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Paul Abraham Freund | LL.D. | Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law in Harvard University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Carl Joachim Friedrich | L.H.D. | Professor of Government in Harvard University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| John Merriman Gaus | L.H.D. | Professor of Government in Harvard University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Arthur Lehman Goodhart | LL.D. | Master of University College in Oxford University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Luther Halsey Gulick | LL.D. | President of the Institute of Public Administration (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Saba Habachy | LL.D. | Attorney and Professor of Law in Fuad University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Oscar Hammerstein 2nd | Litt.D. | Librettist (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Henry Melvin Hart, Jr. | LL.D. | Professor of Law in Harvard University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Theresa Helburn | L.H.D. | Co-Director of the Theatre Guild (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| David Melville Heyman | L.H.D. | President of the New York Fund (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Archibald Vivian Hill | Sc.D. | Honorary Professor of Physiology in University College, London (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Rabbi Isidor B. Hoffman | L.H.D. | Counselor to Jewish students in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Arthur Norman Holcombe | L.H.D. | Professor of Government in Harvard University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Myres Smith McDougal | L.H.D. | Professor of Law in Yale University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| James Howard McGregor | Sc.D. | William E. Dodge, Jr. Professor of Applied Christianity, in Union Theological Seminary (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | S.T.D. | Author (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Stuart Piggott | L.H.D. | Abercromby Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Ivan Cleaveland Rand | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Harold Leslie Reeve | L.H.D. | Author and Lawyer (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Richard Rodgers | Mus.D. | Composer (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| George Adolphe Salles | L.H.D. | Director of The Louvre (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Sir George Sansom | LL.D. | Professor Emeritus of Japanese in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| William Schuman | Mus.D. | President of the Juilliard School of Music (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Angelo Piero Sereni | LL.D. | Professor of International Law in the University of Ferrara (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Sir Hartley William Shawcross | LL.D. | President of the Board of Trade and Attorney General in the Labour Government (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. | S.T.D. | Rector of St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Ingvar Svennilson | L.H.D. | Professor of Political Economy in the University of Stockholm (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Francis Henry Taylor | L.H.D. | Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Thurman William Van Metre | L.H.D. | Professor Emeritus of Transportation in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| Kenneth Clinton Wheare | L.H.D. | Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, in Oxford University (Bicentennial Convocation I) |
| William P.G. Alexander | L.H.D. | Secretary of the Association of Education Committees in Great Britain (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Harvie Branscomb | LL.D. | Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Lyman Lloyd Bryson | L.H.D. | Professor Emeritus of Education in Columbia University (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| William George Carr | L.H.D. | Executive Secretary of the National Association of the United States (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Cleaveland E. Dodge | LL.D. | Chairman of the Trustees of Teachers College; (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Harry David Gideonse | LL.D. | President of Brooklyn College of the College of the City of New York (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Henry Harrington Hill | L.H.D. | President of George Peabody College for Teachers (Second Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Mohammed Fadhil Jamali | LL.D. | Minister of Foreign Affairs and Acting Minister of Education in Iraq (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| William Jansen | L.H.D. | Superintendent of Schools of the City of New York (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Frederick Ernest Johnson | L.H.D. | Professor Emeritus of Education in Columbia University (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| John Paul Leonard | L.H.D. | President of San Francisco State College (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| John Platt Myers | LL.D. | Chancellor of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Arthur Wilson Page | LL.D. | Trustee of Teachers College (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| George Nauman Shuster | LL.D. | President of Hunter College of the College of the City of New York (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Isabel Maitland Stewart | L.H.D. | Professor Emeritus of Nursing Education in Columbia University (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| John Jacob Theobald | LL.D. | President of Queens College of The College of the City of New York (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Pearl Anderson Wanamaker | L.H.D. | State Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Washington (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Lewis Albert Wilson | LL.D. | President of the University of the State of New York and Commissioner of Education (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Buell Gordon Gallagher | LL.D. | President of The City College of The College of the City of New York (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Ordway Tead | L.H.D. | Author and Educator (Special Bicentennial Convocation honoring National Education Association and leaders in public education) |
| Shelton Hale Bishop | S.T.D. | Rector of Saint Philip's Church New York City (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Eugene Robert Black | LL.D. | President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Gerty Theresa Cori | Sc.D. | Professor of Biological Chemistry in Washington University, St. Louis (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Joseph Stancliffe Davis | L.H.D. | Director Emeritus of the Food Research Institute in Stanford University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| John Foster Dulles | LL.D. | The Secretary of State (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Edward M. Earle | L.H.D. | Professor in the School of Historical Studies Institute for Advanced Study (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Lester Blackwell Granger | L.H.D. | Executive Director of the National Urban League (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Alfred Whitney Griswold | LL.D. | President of Yale University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Erwin Nathaniel Griswold | LL.D. | Dean of the Law School in Harvard University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| William Averill Harriman | LL.D. | Statesman and Public Servant (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Henry Townley Heald | LL.D. | Chancellor of New York University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Oveta Culp Hobby | LL.D. | The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Barbara Ward Jackson | L.H.D. | Author and Economist (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Lewis Webster Jones | LL.D. | President of Rutgers University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Willard Vinton King | L.H.D. | Trustee Emeritus of Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Shinzo Koizumi | L.H.D. | Permanent Advisor to the Peers School, Tokyo (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Simon Smith Kuznets | L.H.D. | Professor of Economic Statistics in the University of Pennsylvania (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Pierre Laroque | LL.D. | Conseiller d'Etat, France (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| William Arthur Lewis | L.H.D. | Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy in the University of Manchester (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Vincent Christopher MacDonald | LL.D. | Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Gunner Carl Myrdal | L.H.D. | Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Bertil Ohlin | L.H.D. | Professor of Economics in the Stockholm School of Business (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Raul Prebisch | LL.D. | Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Nathan Marsh Pusey | LL.D. | President of Harvard University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Lionel Charles Robbins | L.H.D. | Professor of Economics in the London School of Economics and Political Science (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Sir Dennis Holme Robertson | L.H.D. | Professor of Political Economy in Cambridge University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Wilhelm Roepke | L.H.D. | Professor in the Graduate Institute of International Studies University of Geneva (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Ralph Washington Sockman | S.T.D. | Minister of Christ Church New York City (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Lewis Lichenstein Strauss | LL.D. | Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Wesley Alba Sturges | LL.D. | Dean of the Law School in Yale University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Thomas Walter Swan | LL.D. | Judge of the United States State Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| James Alward Van Fleet | LL.D. | General of the United States Army, Retired (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Jacob Viner | L.H.D. | Walker Professor of Economics in the Institute for Advanced Study (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Barbara Brances Wootton | L.H.D. | Nuffield Research Fellow in Bedford College University of London (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Haile Selassie I | LL.D. | Emperor of Ethiopia (Bicentennial Convocation II) Degree awarded in camera |
| Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | LL.D. | (Bicentennial Convocation) |
| Shigeru Yoshida | LL.D. | Prime Minister of Japan (Bicentennial Convocation) |
| Mohammed Ali | LL.D. | Prime Minister of Pakistan (Bicentennial Convocation) |
| Konrad Adenauer | LL.D. | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Felice Battaglia | LL.D. | Rector of the University of Bologna (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| James Phinney Baxter, III | LL.D. | President of Williams College (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Eivind Josef Berggrav | S.T.D. | Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway, 1937-1951 (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Margarete Bieber | Litt.D. | Classicist and Archaeologist (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Niels Henrik David Bohr | Sc.D. | Professor of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Victor Lloyd Butterfield | LL.D. | President of Wesleyan University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| John Maurice Clark | LL.D. | John Bates Clark Professor Emeritus of Political Economy in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark | Litt.D. | Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Charles Woolsey Cole | LL.D. | President of Amherst College (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| John Sloan Dickey | LL.D. | President of Dartmouth College (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Alphonse Raymond Dochez | Sc.D. | John E. Borne Professor Emeritus of Medical and Surgical Research in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Pierre Donzelot | L.H.D. | Permanent Representative of French Universities in the United States (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Noel Thomas Dowling | LL.D. | Harlan Fiske Stone Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Her Majesty, The Queen Mother Elizabeth (Queen) | LL.D. | (Bicentennial Convocation III.) |
| Gilberto De Mello Freyre | Litt.D. | Brazilian Social Anthropologist and Historian (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Etienne Henri Gilson | Litt.D. | Fellow of the Académie Française and Professor in the University of Toronto (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold | LL.D. | Secretary General of the United Nations (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Arthur Warren Hixson | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Bernardo Alberto Houssay | Sc.D. | President of the Argentine Association for the Advancement of Science (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Julian Sorell Huxley | Sc.D. | Author and Biologist (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Edward Kasner | Sc.D. | Adrain Professor Emeritus of Mathematics in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Frank Hyneman Knight | L.H.D. | Professor of Economics in the University of Chicago (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Joseph Wood Krutch | Litt.D. | Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature in Columbia University, 1937-1953 (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Sir Richard Winn Livingstone | Litt.D. | British Classicist and Educator (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Alberto Lleras Camargo | LL.D. | Secretary General of the Organization of American States, 1948-1954 (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Archibald MacLeish | Litt.D. | Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Charles Habib Malik | LL.D. | Ambassador of Lebanon to the United States (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Gabriela Mistral | Litt.D. | Chilean Poetess and Diplomat (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Fernando Ortiz | L.H.D. | Anthropologist and Director of Revista Bimestre Cubana (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Richard Roy Belden Powell | LL.D. | Dwight Professor of Law and Director of the Bicentennial of Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishran | LL.D. | Vice President of the Republic of India (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Herbert Harold Read | Sc.D. | Professor of Geology in the University of London (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| David Rockefeller | LL.D. | President of Morningside Heights, Incorporated (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Jean Sarrailh | L.H.D. | Rector of the University of Paris (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Robert Livingston Schuyler | Litt.D. | Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Gregg Manners Sinclair | LL.D. | President of the University of Hawaii (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Philip Edward Smith | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Anatomy in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Paul Henri Spaak | LL.D. | Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of Belgium (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Adlai Ewing Stevenson | LL.D. | Governor of the State of Illinois, 1948-1953 (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Arthurt Fay Taggart | Sc.D. | Vinton Professor Emeritus of Mining in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Lily Ross Taylor | Litt.D. | Professor Emeritus of Latin in Bryn Mawr College (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Lynn Thorndike | Litt.D. | Professor Emeritus of History in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Levering Tyson | LL.D. | Chancellor of the Free Europe University in Exile (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| John von Neumann | Sc.D. | Professor of Mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Earl Warren | LL.D. | Chief Justice of the United States (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Hermann Weyl | Sc.D. | Professor of Mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
| Silvio Zavala | L.H.D. | Head of the History Commission of the Inter-American Institute of Geography and History (Bicentennial Convocation III) |
1955
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Mario Scelba | LL.D. | Prime Minister of the Republic of Italy |
| Luis Batlle Berres | LL.D. | President of the National Council of Government of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay |
| Paul Eugene Magloire | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Haiti |
| Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi | LL.D. | Sananshah of Iran |
| Dino Bigongiari | Litt.D. | Da Ponte Professor Emeritus of Italian in Columbia University (Bicentennial Convocation II) |
| Frank Whittemore Abrams | LL.D. | Chairman of the Board Standard Oil Company of New Jersey |
| Allen Welsh Dulles | LL.D. | Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
| Edward Roland Noel Harriman | LL.D. | Chairman of the American National Red Cross |
| Frederick Edward Hasler | LL.D. | Banker and Advocate of Inter-American Understanding |
| David de Sola Pool | S.T.D. | Minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel |
| Thomas Reed Powell | LL.D. | Story Professor Emeritus of Law in Harvard University |
| Howard Alexander Smith | LL.D. | United States Senator from New Jersey |
| Margaret Chase Smith | LL.D. | United States Senator from Maine |
| William Pearson Tolley | LL.D. | Chancellor of Syracuse University |
| Felix Andries Vening Meinesz | Sc.D. | Professor of Geodesy and Geophysics in the University of Utrecht |
| William John Wallin | LL.D. | Member of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York |
| Field Marshal P. Pibulsonggram | LL.D. | Prime Minister of Thailand |
| Carlos Castillo Armas | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Guatemala |
1956
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Herbert Butterfield | Litt.D. | Master of Peterhouse of Cambridge University |
| George Francis Cahill | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Urology at Columbia University |
| Margaret Clapp | Litt.D. | Pulitzer Prize Recipient |
| John Marshall Harlan | LL.D. | Associate Justive of the United States Supreme Court |
| Ivan Mestrovic | Litt.D. | Sculptor |
| Edmund Astley Prentis | Sc.D. | Engineer; Distinguished Alumn of Columbia |
| Henry Pitney Van Dusen | S.T.D. | Professor and President of Union Theological Seminary |
| Sukarno | LL.D. | President of Indonesia |
1957
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hans Thacher Clarke | Sc.D. | Professor of Biochemistry; Department Chair at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University |
| Gaston Berger | L.H.D. | Distinguished Educator and Intellectual of France |
| Lee Alvin DuBridge | Sc.D. | President of the California Institute of Technology |
| Alfred M. Gruenther | LL.D. | Chief of the American National Red Cross; Supreme Allied Commander of NATO |
| Gaylord P. Harnwell | LL.D. | President of University of Pennsylvania |
| Robert Sherman Loomis | Litt.D. | Professor at Columbia University; Eastman Professor at Oxford University |
| Agnes Ernst Meyer | L.H.D. | Education activist; Philanthropist |
| James J. Rorimer | L.H.D. | Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Afred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. | LL.D. | Chairman of General Motors |
| Prince Wan Waithayakon | LL.D. | Foreign Minister of the government of Thailand |
| Marcellus Hartley Dodge | LL.D. | Trustee of Columbia University |
1958
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Walter Herman Bucher | Sc.D. | Newbury Professor Emeritus of Geology |
| Padraic Colum | Litt.D. | Poet; Dramatist |
| Rene d'Harnoncourt | L.H.D. | Director of the Museum of Modern Art |
| Robert Francis Goheen | LL.D. | President of Princeton University |
| Per Jacobson | LL.D. | Managing Director of the IMF |
| James Rhyne Killian, Jr. | Sc.D. | Educator |
| Herbert Henry Lehman | LL.D. | Governor of New York State; United States Senator; Director General of UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration |
| Millicent Carey McIntosh | LL.D. | President of Barnard |
| Charlotte Haxall Noland | L.H.D. | Founder of Foxcroft School, Virginia |
| Sidney Earle Smith | LL.D. | Canada's Secretary of State for External Affairs |
1959
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Press | University Medal for Excellence | Geophysicist |
| Dana Winslow Atchley | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University |
| Lloyd Viel Berkner | Sc.D. | President, Associated Universities |
| Clarence Douglas Dillon | LL.D. | Under Secretary of State |
| Stanley Howells Fuld | LL.D. | Judge, New York State Court of Appeals |
| Barnaby Conrad Keeney | LL.D. | President of Brown University |
| Alfred A. Knopf | L.H.D. | Publisher |
| Arthur Whittier MacMahon | LL.D. | Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at Columbia University |
| John Davison Rockefeller, III | LL.D. | Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation |
| William Pierce Rogers | LL.D. | United States Attorney General |
| George Vernadsky | L.H.D. | Professor Emeritus of History atYale University |
| Henry Alsop Riley | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Clinical Neurology at Columbia University |
| Byron Stookey | Sc.D. | Professor Emeirtus of Clinical Neurological Surgery at Columbia University |
| Arthur Hays Sulzberger | LL.D. | Publisher of the New York Times; Trustee of Columbia University |
1960s
1960
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Campbell | LL.D. | United States Comptroller General |
| Horace Donegan | S.T.D. | Bishop of New York |
| James Brown Fisk | Sc.D. | President, Bell Telephone Laboratories |
| Laurence McKinley Gould | Sc.D. | President of Carleton College; Geologist |
| Lister Hill | LL.D. | United States Senator from Alabama |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | LL.D. | United States Ambassador to the UN |
| Albert Joseph McConnell | Sc.D. | Provost of Trinity College, Dublin |
| Allan Nevins | Litt.D. | DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of American History at Columbia University |
| Frank Pace, Jr. | LL.D. | Chairman of the Board, General Dynamics Corporation; United States Secretary of the Army |
| Hyman George Rickover | Sc.D. | Vice Admiral, United States Navy |
| Mark Van Doren | Litt.D. | Professor Emeritus of English at Columbia University |
| Elliot Evans Cheatham | LL.D. | Charles Evans Hughes Professor Emeritus of Law at Columbia University |
| Francis Raymond Evershed | LL.D. | The First Baron Stapenhill |
| David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe | LL.D. | The First Viscount Kilmuir of Creich |
| Whitney North Seymour | LL.D. | President of the Bar Association |
| Jeanne Mitchell | University Medal for Excellence | Violinist |
1961
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Edouard Jeanneret | L.H.D. | Architect |
| Hayato Ikeda | LL.D. | Prime Minister of Japan |
| Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. | LL.D. | Secretary of Defense |
| Thomas Keith Glennan | Sc.D. | President of Case Institute of Technology; Head of NASA |
| Theodore Martin Hesburgh, C.S.C. | LL.D. | President of the University of Notre Dame |
| Mary Shotwell Ingraham | L.H.D. | Civic Leader; Chair on the Board of Higher Education |
| Robert Frederick Loeb | Sc.D. | Bard Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Columbia University |
| Frederick Cecil Mills | LL.D. | Heburn Professor Emeritus of Economics at Columbia University |
| Galo Lasso Plaza | LL.D. | President of Ecuador |
| Walter Gropius | L.H.D. | Architect |
| Lawrence Edward Walsh | University Medal for Excellence | |
| Thomas Merton | University Medal for Excellence |
1962
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| James Stacy Coles | LL.D. | Scientist; Teacher |
| Luther Carrington Goodrich | Litt.D. | Dean Lung Professor Emeritus of Chinese |
| Henry Franklin Guggenheim | LL.D. | Miner; Financier; Industrialist; Civic Leader; Diplomatist |
| Louis Plack Hammett | Sc.D. | Mitchill Professor Emeritus of Chemistry |
| Frederick Russel Kappel | LL.D. | Communications Leader |
| Robert McNamara | LL.D. | United States Secretary of Defense |
| Rosemary Park | LL.D. | Dean and President of Barnard College |
| Gerard Piel | L.H.D. | Science Journalist |
| Jean Casimir Henri Hilaire Roche | Sc.D. | Biologist; Rector of the University of Paris |
| John Ewart Wallace Sterling | LL.D. | President of the Association of American Universities |
| Llewellyn E. Thompson | LL.D. | United States ambassador to the U.S.S.R. |
| Arthur Michael Ramsey | S.T.D. | Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Ryusaku Tsunoda | Litt.D. | Former curator of Columbia University's Japanese Collection. Special convocation to celebrate the opening of a new Asian studies center at Columbia University. |
| Robert Jastrow | University Medal for Excellence |
1963
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Herbert Brucker | L.H.D. | Editor of the Hartford Courant. Convocation in honor of 50th anniversary of Journalism School. |
| James Reston | L.H.D. | Chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times. Convocation in honor of 50th anniversary of Journalism School. |
| Ralph Emerson McGill | L.H.D. | Publisher of the Atlanta Newspapers, Inc. Convocation in honor of 50th anniversary of Journalism School. |
| Hamilton Fish Armstrong | LL.D. | Editor; Author; Diplomat |
| John William Gardner | LL.D. | Educational Counselor; Psychologist |
| Walter Hallstein | LL.D. | President of the European Economic Community |
| Muhammad Zafrulla Khan | LL.D. | Permanent Representative of the Republic of Pakistan to the UN |
| John Allen Krout | LL.D. | Historian; Vice President Emeritus of Columbia University |
| Luis Munoz Marin | LL.D. | Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico |
| Douglas Stuart Moore | L.H.D. | Mac Dowell Professor of Music at Columbia University |
| Marjorie Hope Nicolson | Litt.D. | English teacher |
| Dean Rusk | LL.D. | President of the Rockefeller Foundation |
| Edward LaRocque Tinker | Litt.D. | Author; Patron of literature and the arts |
| Charles Hard Townes | Sc.D. | Physicist |
| Harold Brown | University Medal for Excellence |
1964
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Queen Frederika | LL.D. | Queen of the Hellenes (Greece) |
| John Coleman Bennett | S.T.D. | President of Union Theological Seminary |
| James Edward Allen Jr. | L.H.D. | President of the University of the State of New York; Commissioner of Education of New York State |
| Sir Eric Ashby | LL.D. | Scientist; Humanist; Diplomatist; Administrator; Internationally Acclaimed Statesman of Education |
| Salo Wittmayer Baron | Litt.D. | Historian of Ancient Peoples |
| Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. | LL.D. | Professor Emeritus of Law at Columbia University |
| Kingman Brewster, Jr. | LL.D. | President of Yale University |
| Theodosius Dobzhansky | Sc.D. | Scientist; Professor of Zoology at Columbia University; Professor at the Rockefeller Institute |
| John Henry Fischer | L.H.D. | President of Teachers College, Columbia University |
| Inge Lehmann | Sc.D. | Earth Scientist; Founder of the Danish Geophysical Scoiety; President of the European Seismological Federation |
| Augustus Long | LL.D. | Industrialist; President of the Presbyterian Hospital |
| Susanne Knauth Langer | LL.D. | Philosopher; Scholar; Teacher |
| Margaret Mead | LL.D. | Anthropologist |
| Jaiyeola Aduke Moore | LL.D. | Social Welfare Officer for Nigeria; Delegate to the UN |
| Alvar Aalto | L.H.D. | Master Architect |
| Daniel G. Hoffman | University Medal for Excellence |
1965
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Thomas Bissell | LL.D. | Literary Scholar |
| André Frédéric Cournand | Sc.D. | Nobel Laureate |
| Sir Patrick Henry Dean | LL.D. | Diplomatist |
| Kenneth Onwuka Dike | LL.D. | Founder and Director of the National Archives of Nigeria; President of the Historical Society of Nigeria |
| Ludwig Erhard | LL.D. | Chancellor of Germany |
| Walter D. Fletcher | LL.D. | Student; Teacher; Alumnus and Trustee of Columbia University |
| Leland John Haworth | Sc.D. | Nuclear Physicist; Professor; Director of the National Science Foundation |
| George Alexander Heard | LL.D. | Political Scientist |
| William McChesney Martin, Jr. | LL.D. | President of the New York Stock Exchange; President of the Export-Import Bank; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; United States Director of the World Ban;. Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve |
| Alva Reimer Myrdal | L.H.D. | Diplomat |
| Erwin Panofsky | Litt.D. | Professor and Scholar of Art History |
| John Hay Whitney | LL.D. | United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom; Publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. |
| Alan H. Cottrell | Sc.D. | Metallurgist; Deputy Chief Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defense |
| Ferdinand W. F. Friedensburg | Sc.D. | Mining Engineer and Mineral Economist; Public Servant; Statesman |
| John Robinson Pierce | Sc.D. | Scientist; Engineer; Administrator |
| Louis A.M. Simpson | University Medal for Excellence |
1966
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron | Litt.D. | Scoail Scientist; Professor; Author; Editor; Journalist; Philosopher |
| Sir George Coldstream, K.C.B., Q.C. | LL.D. | Senior Executive Officer of the Lord Chancellor's Office |
| Julius Goebel, Jr. | LL.D. | Law Historian |
| John Courtney Murray, S.J. | S.T.D. | Worker in religion |
| James Alfred Perkins | LL.D. | President of Cornell University |
| Dickinson Woodruff Richards | Sc.D. | Physician; Teacher at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Nobel Prize Recipient |
| David Sarnoff | Sc.D. | Pioneer of Radio and Television |
| Julian Seymour Schwinger | Sc.D. | Professor of Physics at Harvard University |
| Thomas John Watson Jr. | LL.D. | Business Executive; President of IBM |
| Robert Clifton Weaver | LL.D. | United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
| George David Woods | LL.D. | Economist; President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| Gaston Eyskens | LL.D. | Belgian Finance Minister. Special convocation. |
| Sir Jehangir Jivaji Ghandy | LL.D. | Statesman; Industrialist |
| Philip Sporn | LL.D. | Engineer |
| Edward Anders | University Medal for Excellence |
1967
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Litt.D. | Nobel Laureate in Literature |
| Sir (Cecil) Maurice Bowra | Litt.D. | Warden of Wadham College, Oxford University |
| Clifford Philip Case | LL.D. | United States Senator from New Jersey |
| Lincoln Gordon | LL.D. | Scholar; United States Ambassador to Brazil; Assistnat Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; President of Johns Hopkins University |
| John William King | LL.D. | Governor of New Hampshire |
| George Bogdan Kistiakowsky | Sc.D. | Chemist; Special Assistant in Science and Technology to the President |
| Edwin Herbert Land | Sc.D. | Optical Physicist; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| Felipe Herrera Lane | LL.D. | Professor at the University of Chile; Executive Director of the IMF; President of the Inter-American Development Bank |
| Erich Leinsdorf | L.H.D. | Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| Geroid Tanquary Robinson | LL.D. | Founder and Director of theRussian Institute of Columbia University; Seth Low Professor of History |
| Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller | LL.D. | Vice President of the United States |
| Barbara Wertheim Tuchman | Litt.D. | Author; Historian |
| Eisaku Sato | LL.D. | Prime Minister of Japan. Special convocation. |
| William Black | L.H.D. | Chairman of the Board of Chock Full o' Nuts Corporation |
| Konrad Bloch | Sc.D. | Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard University; Nobel Laureate |
| Albert Baird Hastings | Sc.D. | Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard University |
| Joshua Lederberg | Sc.D. | Geneticist |
| Willard Cole Rappleye | Sc.D. | Physician; Educator; Medical Administrator; President of the Council of the Association of American Medical Colleges; Commissioner of Hospitals |
| James Augustine Shannon | Sc.D. | Scientist; Teacher; Administrator |
| Max Frankel | University Medal for Excellence |
1968
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Right Honorable Harold MacMillan | LL.D. | Prime Minister of England. Special convocation. |
| Sir Isaiah Berlin | LL.D. | Scholar; Administrator; Planner; Teacher |
| Charles Eustis Bohlen | LL.D. | Career Diplomat |
| Edgar Williams Couper | LL.D. | Member of the New York Board of Regents; Chancellor of the University of the State of New York |
| David Dubinsky | LL.D. | Early union organizer; Director of charitable enterprises |
| Dudley Fitts | Litt.D. | Poet; Teacher; Scholar; Muscian |
| Jacques Lipchitz | L.H.D. | Sculptor |
| Joseph Irwin Miller | LL.D. | Board member of various organizations (unspecified) |
| Maurice Thompson Moore | LL.D. | Chairman of the board of Trustees |
| Martha Elizabeth Peterson | LL.D. | Professor, Dean, and President of Barnard. |
| Isidor Issac Rabi | Sc.D. | Nobel Prize winning Physicist |
| John Hermann Randall, Jr. | L.H.D. | Professor of Philosophy |
| Rene Welleck | Litt.D. | Comparative Literature Critic |
| Arthur M Okun | University Medal for Excellence |
1969
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Wellington Cordier | L.H.D. | Executive Assitant to the UN Secretary-General; Dean of the Columbia School of International Affairs; President of Columbia University |
| Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. | L.H.D. | Writer; Editor; Teacher; Distinguished art historian; Director of the Museum of Modern Art. |
| Detlev W. Bronk | Sc.D. | Physicist; Biologist; President of Johns Hopkins University; Founder of Rockefeller University; Preseident of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Eveline Mabel Burns | L.H.D. | Social Economist; Developer of American Social Security System |
| John Usher Monro | L.H.D. | Dean of Harvard College; Director of Freshman Studies at Miles College in Alabama |
| Gordon Norton Ray | LL.D. | Teacher at Harvard; Head of English Department; Vice President; Provost at the University of Illinois |
| U Thant | LL.D. | Secretary General of the UN |
| Herman B Wells | LL.D. | President and Chancellor Emeritus of Indiana University |
| M. Moran Weston | S.T.D. | Rector of St. Philip's Church in Harlem, founder and president of the Carver Savings and Loan Association |
| Roy Wilkins | LL.D. | Executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. |
| Robert Burns Woodward | Sc.D. | Organic Chemist; Nobel Prize Recipient |
| Henry Steele Commager | LL.D. | Teacher; Scholar; Editor |
| Peter Leonidovich Kapitza | Sc.D. | Physicist. Special convocation. |
| Norton D. Zinder | University Medal for Excellence |
1970s
1970
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Pau Carlos Salvador Defillo "Pablo" Casals | L.H.D. | Conductor; Composer; Teacher; Internationalist. Special convocation. |
| Derek Harold Richard Barton | Sc.D. | Professor of Chemistry in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London |
| Arthur Frank Burns | LL.D. | Economist; Presidential Advisor; President of the American Economic Association and the Academy of Political Science; Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
| Kenneth Bancroft Clark | LL.D. | Educator; Psychologist |
| John Hope Franklin | LL.D. | Professor of History at the University of Chicago |
| Paul Felix Lazarsfeld | LL.D. | Quetelet Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Columbia University |
| Arthur Levitt | LL.D. | Comptroller of New York State |
| Louis Melville Loeb | LL.D. | Lawyer |
| William James McGill | L.H.D. | Chancellor of the University of California; President of Columbia University |
| Jean Piaget | Sc.D. | Professor of Child Psychology and the History of Scientific Thought at the University of Geneva. |
| Rudolph J Wittkower | L.H.D. | Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University |
| Harry Austryn Wolfson | L.H.D. | Nathan Littauer Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Columbia University |
| Daniel S. Greenberg | University Medal for Excellence |
1971
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jorge Luis Borges | Litt.D. | Writer. Special convocation. |
| Simeon Olaosebikan Adebo | LL.D. | Undersecretary General of the UN |
| Brooke Astor | LL.D. | Philanthropist |
| Aaron Copland | L.H.D. | Composer |
| Gabriel Garcia-Marquez | Litt.D. | Novelist |
| J. George Harrar | LL.D. | President of the Rockefeller Foundation |
| John George Kemeny | LL.D. | President of Dartmouth College |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | L.H.D. | Sociologist |
| H. Houston Merritt | Sc.D. | Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Medicine; Vice President Emeritus of Columbia University |
| Matthew Stanley Meselson | Sc.D. | Professor of Biology at Harvard University |
| Ernest Nagel | Litt.D. | Professor Emeritus at Columbia University |
| Georgia O'Keefe | L.H.D. | Artist |
| Mina Splegel Rees | LL.D. | President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York |
| Russell Errol Train | LL.D. | Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality |
| Whitney Moore Young, Jr. | LL.D. | Executive Director of the National Urban League (Awarded Posthumously) |
| Paul Charles Zamecnick | Sc.D. | Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School |
| Frank Altschul | L.H.D. | Philanthropist, bibliophile, and authority in international affairs |
| Leland Matthew Goodrich | LL.D. | American political scientist |
| Joseph Rudolph Grimes | LL.D. | Lawyer and leading politician in Liberia |
| Edvard Isak Hambro | LL.D. | Norwegian politician; President of U.N. General Assembly |
| Philip C. Jessup | LL.D. | Diplomat, scholar and jurist |
| Harold Dwight Lasswell | LL.D. | American political scientist |
| Julius L. Chambers | University Medal for Excellence |
1972
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dale Raymond Corson | LL.D. | President of Cornell University |
| Louis Morton Hacker | L.H.D. | Professor Emeritus of Economics at Columbia University |
| Helen Hall | LL.D. | Social Worker |
| Alfred Hitchcock | L.H.D. | Film Director |
| Jerome Heartwell Holland | LL.D. | United States Ambassador to Sweden |
| Edith Altschul Lehman | LL.D. | Philanthropist |
| J. Edward Lumbard, Jr. | LL.D. | Jurist |
| A. Phillip Randolph | LL.D. | Labor Leader |
| Harrison Ross Steeves | Litt.D. | Professor Emeritus of English at Columbia University |
| Jack Tworkov | L.H.D. | Artist |
| C. Vann Woodward | L.H.D. | Sterling Professor of History at Yale |
| Walter Bigelow Wriston | LL.D. | Banker |
| Eugene T. Rossides | University Medal for Excellence |
1973
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kenneth J. Arrow | Sc.D. | Economist. Special Convocation for Nobel Laureates. |
| Leon N. Cooper | Sc.D. | Physicist. Special Convocation for Nobel Laureates. |
| William Stein | Sc.D. | Chemist. Special Convocation for Nobel Laureates. |
| George Balanchine | L.H.D. | Choreographer |
| Bruce Catton | Litt.D. | Author |
| Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington | Mus.D. | Composer |
| Henry J. Friendly | LL.D. | Jurist |
| Marion E. Kenworthy, M.D. | Sc.D. | Psychiatrist; Psychoanalyst |
| Elisabeth Luce Moore | LL.D. | Humanitarian; Educational Administrator |
| Samuel I. Rosenman | LL.D. | Lawyer |
| Martin Schwarzschild | Sc.D. | Astronomer |
| Paul Althaus Smith | Sc.D. | Mathematician |
| Frank Stanton | LL.D. | Psychologist; Broadcast Executive |
| Marina von Neumann Whitman | University Medal for Excellence |
1974
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Seymour Benzer | Sc.D. | Biochemist |
| Frederick Burkhardt | LL.D. | Educator |
| Katharine Graham | LL.D. | Newspaper Publisher |
| Michael Heidelberger | Sc.D. | Immunologist |
| Louis I. Kahn | L.H.D. | Architect (Awarded Posthumously) |
| Paul Oscar Kristeller | L.H.D. | Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of Philosophy |
| Arnaldo Momigliano | L.H.D. | Distinguished scholar of historical Mediterranean era |
| Henry Spencer Moore | L.H.D. | Artist; Sculptor |
| Malcolm Wilson | LL.D. | Governor of New York State |
| Lawrence Arthur Wien | LL.D. | Columbia College 1925 (A.B.), Law School 1927 (LL.B.), Lawyer, realtor and philanthropist. |
| Jacob Neusner | University Medal for Excellence |
1975
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Takeo Miki | LL.D. | Prime Minister of Japan. Special convocation. |
| Kobo Abe | L.H.D. | Writer |
| Lawrence Arthur Cremin | Litt.D. | Educator; Historian |
| Carl Djerassi | Sc.D. | Chemist |
| Dennis Gabor | Sc.D. | Physicist |
| Millard Meiss | Litt.D. | Art Historian |
| William S. Paley | LL.D. | Broadcaster; Philanthropist; Public Servant |
| Arthur Rubinstein | Mus.D. | Pianist |
| Meyer Schapiro | Litt.D. | Art Historian; Professor Emeritus |
| Philip A. Lacovara | University Medal for Excellence |
1976
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Warren E. Burger | LL.D. | Chief Justice of the United States. U.S. Bicentennial Special Convocation. |
| Lord (Alfred Thompson) Denning | LL.D. | Master of the Rolls. U.S. Bicentennial Special Convocation. |
| The Right Honourable Lord C.H. Elwyn-Jones | LL.D. | Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. U.S. Bicentennial Special Convocation. |
| The Right Honourable Lord John Widgery, O.B.E | LL.D. | Lord Chief Justice of England. U.S. Bicentennial Special Convocation |
| Chaoying Fang | L.H.D. | Bibliographical Historian. Special convocation. |
| Lienche Tu Fang | L.H.D. | Bibliographical Historian. Special convocation. |
| Hugh Carey | LL.D. | Governor of New York State |
| Erwin Chargaff | Sc.D. | Biochemist; Awarded National Medal of Science in 1974 |
| Walter Gellhorn | LL.D. | Legal scholar; Teacher; Public Servant |
| Lillian Hellman | Litt.D. | Author; Playwright |
| Roman Jakobson | Litt.D. | Founder of the Linguistic Circle of Prague |
| Edward Hirsch Levi | LL.D. | Unted States Attorney General |
| Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld | L.H.D. | Pianist; Music Historian; President of Barnard |
| Richard Brandon Morris | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Gregor Piatigorsky | Mus.D. | Cellist |
| Jacob Furth | Sc.D. | Medical Doctor; Researcher |
| Jacob K. Javits | LL.D. | Congressman; Attorney General of New York State |
| Mary Woodward Lasker | LL.D. | Biomedical Researcher |
| Maclyn McCarty | Sc.D. | Medical Scientist |
| Benno C. Schmidt | LL.D. | Co-creator of the National Cancer Program |
| Harold H. Helm | LL.D. | Business Leader |
| Charles A. Ragan, Jr. | Sc.D. | Physician; Scientists; Teacher; Medical Statesman |
| Edgar Haber | University Medal for Excellence | |
| Franklin A Thomas | University Medal for Excellence |
1977
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Jospeh Buttenwieser | LL.D. | Investment Banker |
| Owen Chadwick | Litt.D. | Regious Professor of Modern History and Master of Selwyn College; Former Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University |
| Robben W. Fleming | LL.D. | Professor of Law and Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin |
| Murrary Gell-Mann | Sc.D. | R.A. Millikan Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology |
| Julius S. Held | Litt.D. | Art Historian |
| Gilbert Highet | Litt.D. | Author |
| Shirley Mount Hufstedler | LL.D. | Jurist; Judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| Louise Nevelson | L.H.D. | Sculptor |
| Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky | Sc.D. | Physicist |
| Percy T. Phillips | Sc.D. | Leader in Dentistry |
| Laurence Sickman | L.H.D. | Curator of Oriental Art |
| Isaac Stern | Mus.D. | Musician |
| Helen Suzman | LL.D. | Professor of Economics; Member of Parliament of South Africa |
| Hendrick B. G. Casimir | Sc.D. | Physicist |
| Arne Sigvard Eklund | Sc.D. | Nuclear Physicist |
| Francis H.J.S. Perrin | Sc.D. | Physicist |
| Solly Zuckerman | Sc.D. | Baron of Burnham Thorpe; Anatomist |
| Peter B. Kenen | University Medal for Excellence |
1978
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Charles D. Breitel | LL.D. | Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York |
| William T. Gossett, The Honorable | LL.D. | President of the America Bar Association; Chairman of National Board of United Negro College Fund |
| Soia Mentschikoff | LL.D. | Lawyer; Teacher; Dean of Miami Law School |
| Lewis F. Powell, Jr. | LL.D. | President of the American Bar Association |
| Herbert Wechsler | LL.D. | Professor; Principal adviser to the American Judges at Nuremberg War Crime Trials |
| John D. de Butts | LL.D. | Electrical Engineer; Chairman of American Telephone and Telegraph Co. |
| Anna Freud | Sc.D. | Child Psychoanalist |
| Henry Beetle Hough | L.H.D. | Vineyard Gazette |
| Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Litt.D. | Author |
| Mario G. Salvadori | Sc.D. | Engineer; Art Critic |
| Lewis Thomas | Sc.D. | Physician; Biomedical Researcher; Health Adminstrator; Poetic Essayist; President of the Memorial Slaon-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Virgil Thompson | Mus.D. | Composer and critic of the musical arts |
| William York Tindall | Litt.D. | Scholar |
| Clifton R. (Reginald) Wharton, Jr. | LL.D. | Economist; Chancellor of the State University of New York |
| Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson | Sc.D. | Chemist |
| Walter Gilbert | Sc.D. | Molecular Biologist |
| Niels Kaj Jerne | Sc.D. | Director of the Basel Institute of Immunology |
| Donald Kennedy | Sc.D. | Commissioner of Food and Drugs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare |
| Aaron Klug | Sc.D. | Molecular Biologist |
| Armand Hammer | LL.D. | Industrialist |
| Vilma S Martinez | University Medal for Excellence |
1979
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| William O. Douglas | LL.D. | Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Special Convocation. |
| Melvin Calvin | Sc.D. | Professor at the University of California; Nobel Prize Recipient in Chemistry |
| Louise Adams Holland | Litt.D. | Classicist |
| Mirra Komarovsky | Litt.D. | Scholar; Feminist |
| Paul Henry Lang | Litt.D. | Musicologist |
| Leontyne Price | Mus.D. | Singer |
| Cicely Mary Strode Saunders | LL.D. | Founder of St. Christopher's Hospice |
| Irving S Shapiro | LL.D. | Chairman of the Board of Directors; Business Leader |
| Franklin A. Thomas | LL.D. | Lawyer; Practical Humanist; Trsutee of Columbia University; President of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation |
| Edgar Bright Wilson | Sc.D. | Scientist; Teacher |
1980s
1980
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sfroza | Sc.D. | Geneticist |
| Jacques Derrida | Litt.D. | Philosopher |
| George A. Miller | Sc.D. | Psychologist |
| Norman E. Borlaug | Sc.D. | Agricultural Scientist |
| Curt F. Buhler | Litt.D. | Historian; Scholar |
| May Edward Chinn | Sc.D. | Humanitarian; Physician |
| F. Albert Cotton | Sc.D. | Educator; Scientist |
| James Marston Fitch | Litt.D. | Architect; Educator |
| Ieoh Ming Pei | L.H.D. | Architect; Urbanist |
| William E. Petersen | LL.D. | Banker and Chairman of the Trustees and Trustee Emeritus of Columbia University |
| Prezell Russell Robinson | LL.D. | Educator; Statesman |
| Harry M. Rose | Sc.D. | Physician; Teacher |
| Rudolf Serkin | L.H.D. | Musician; Humanist |
| Michael I. Sovern | LL.D. | Educational Administrator; Legal Scholar |
| Leonard Woodcock | LL.D. | Labor Leader; Humanitarian |
1981
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kurt Otto Friedrichs | Sc.D. | Educator; Mathematician; Scientist |
| Robrert Dodd Lilley | LL.D. | Business and Community Leader; Trustee Emeritus of Columbia University |
| Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. | Litt.D. | Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| Otto Luening | Litt.D. | Composer; Educator; Musician |
| V.S. Naipaul | L.H.D. | Essayist; Novelist; World Author |
| Samson Raphaelson | L.H.D. | Author; Playwright; Screenwriter |
| Paul Ricoeur | Litt.D. | Humanist; Philosopher; Scholar |
| Samuel Ruben | Sc.D. | Inventor; Scientist |
| Beverly Sills Greenough | Mus.D. | Humanist; Opera Impresario; Champion of the Arts |
| William Clements Warren | LL.D. | Law School Dean; Scholar; Legal Advisor |
| George Schneiweis Wise | LL.D. | University President; Social Scientist; Philanthropist |
| Ntozake Shange | University Medal for Excellence |
1982
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bishop Desmond M. Tutu | S.T.D. | Theologian; Human Rights Leader; was not allowed to leave South Africa to attend May 19 commencement ceremony. An empty chair was on stage and his citation was read at commencement. Degree was conferred by President Sovern in Johannesburg, South Africa in August 1982. |
| George T. Delacorte, Jr. | LL.D. | Publisher; Philanthropist |
| Marion Donhoff | LL.D. | Journalist; Editor; Author |
| Eli Ginzberg | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher; Economist |
| Roald Hoffman | Sc.D. | Chemist; Scholar; Teacher |
| Arthur B. Krim | LL.D. | Lawyer; Motion Picture Executive |
| Sir Richard W. Southern | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher; Economist |
| Eudora Welty | L.H.D. | |
| Chein-Shiung Wu | Sc.D. | Physicist; Scholar; Teacher |
| Alessandro Pertini | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Italy. Special Convocation. |
| Yu-lan Fung | Litt.D. | Philosopher |
| Stephen Jay Gould | University Medal for Excellence | |
| Mark Eric Josephson | University Medal for Excellence |
1983
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Isaac Asimov | Sc.D. | Author; Biochemist |
| William Lucius Cary | LL.D. | Dwight Professor Emeritus of Law (Awarded Posthumously) |
| George B. Dantzig | Sc.D. | Mathematician; Educator |
| Northrop Frye | Litt.D. | Author; Educator |
| Jerome L. Greene | LL.D. | Lawyer; Philanthropist; Patron of the Arts |
| Polykarp Kusch | Sc.D. | Physicist; Educator |
| Claiborne Pell | LL.D. | United States Senator |
| Hildegard E. Peplau | Sc.D. | Physicist; Educator |
| Ira David Wallach | LL.D. | Lawyer; Businessman; Philanthropist |
| Edward Victor Zegarelli | Sc.D. | Educator; Oral Pathologist; Edwin S. Robinson Professor Emeritus of Dentistry; Dean Emeritus of School of Dental and Oral Surgery |
| Herbert A. Simon | Sc.D. | Richard King Mellon Professor of Computer Science and Psychology of Carnegie-Mellon. Computer Science Convocation to celebrate completion of Columbia's Computer Science Building. |
| J. Emerson Moore | University Medal for Excellence |
1984
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Malcolm Pratt Aldrich | LL.D. | Philanthropist. Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Harkness Eye Institute. |
| Bob Hope | L.H.D. | Actor, Singer. Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Harkness Eye Institute. |
| Bradley R. Straatsma | Sc.D. | Medical doctor, specializing in ophtalmology. Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Harkness Eye Institute. |
| Erik Barnouw | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher |
| Frank T. Cary | LL.D. | Business Leader |
| David L. Dodd | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher |
| Ellen Victoria Futter | LL.D. | Lawyer; President of Barnard College |
| Jack Greenberg | LL.D. | Lawyer; Teacher |
| Flora Lewis | L.H.D. | Author; Journalist |
| Benjamin Elijah Mays | LL.D. | Editor; Public Servant; Theologian; (Awarded Posthumously) |
| Chloe Anthony "Toni" Morrison | L.H.D. | Editor; Novelist; Teacher |
| Isamu Noguchi | L.H.D. | Sculptor |
| Paul A. Volcker | LL.D. | Banker; Economist; Statesman |
| Rosalyn Sussman Yalow | Sc.D. | Nobel Laureate; Physicist |
| Emanuel Ax | University Medal for Excellence |
1985
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Benacerraf Baruj | Sc.D. | Nobel Laureate; Physician; Teacher |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | L.H.D. | Dancer; Choreographer |
| Courtney C. Brown | Litt.D. | Business Executive; Educator |
| Mary Steichen Calderone | Sc.D. | Physician; Public Health Champion |
| Howard Longstreth Clark | LL.D. | Business Executive; Civic Leader |
| Marian Wright Edelman | LL.D. | Lawyer; Human Rights Leader |
| Wilfred Feinberg | LL.D. | Jurist |
| Joseph Lane Kirkland | LL.D. | Labor Chief; National Leader |
| Stella Kramrisch | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher |
| John Edward Sawyer | LL.D. | Educator; Foundation Executive |
| Nathan Leventhal | University Medal for Excellence |
1986
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Noboru Takeshita | LL.D. | Minister of Finance of Japan. Special Convocation. |
| William J. Brennan, Jr. | LL.D. | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
| Temple Hoyne Buell | L.H.D. | Architect |
| William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. | LL.D. | Lawyer; Public Servant; Human Rights Advocate |
| Fred W. Friendly | LL.D. | Journalist; Educator; Scholar |
| Mitchell I. Ginsberg | Litt.D. | Social work leader; Educator |
| William T. Golden | LL.D. | Business Leader; Science Policy Advisor |
| Benny Goodman | Mus.D. | Clarinetist; Orchestra Conductor |
| George F. Kennan | LL.D. | Diplomat; Scholar |
| Karl Meyer | Sc.D. | Biochemist; Educator |
| George E. Palade | Sc.D. | Cell Biologist; Teacher |
| Margaret M. Thompson | Litt.D. | Numismatist; Museum Curator |
| Twyla Tharp | University Medal for Excellence |
1987
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | LL.D. | United States Senator; Doctor of Laws given at a convocation at the University celebrating the bicentennial of the present charter of Columbia College |
| Samuel Eilenberg | LL.D. | Mathematician; Teacher; University President Emeritus |
| Hannah Holborn Gray | LL.D. | Philanthropist; Leading Citizen |
| Pamela C. Harriman | LL.D. | Philanthropist; Leading Citizen |
| Elvin Abraham Kabat | Sc.D. | Immunologist; Teacher; Higgins Professor Emeritus of Microbiology |
| Danny Kaye | L.H.D. | Actor. Awarded Posthumously |
| Charles B. Rangel | LL.D. | United States Congressman |
| Philip Roth | L.H.D. | Author |
| Morris A. Schapiro | LL.D. | Investment Banker; Philanthropist |
| Jean Starobinski | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher |
| Helen Hennessy Vendler | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher |
| Lowell P Weicker Jr | LL.D. | United States Senator from Connecticut. Special Convocation. |
| Evan A. Davis | University Medal for Excellence |
1988
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Charles R. Dawson | Sc.D. | Chemist; Teacher |
| Nadine Gordimer | L.H.D. | Author |
| Mathilde Krim | LL.D. | Scientist; Foundation Leader |
| Eugene M. Lang | LL.D. | Businessman; Philanthropist |
| Carl E. McGowan | LL.D. | Lawyer; Public Servant; Jurist (Degree Awarded Posthumously) |
| Emanuel M. Papper | Sc.D. | Anesthesiologist; Teacher |
| Paul Anthony Samuelson | Litt.D. | Nobel Laureate in Economics |
| Jerome S. Bruner | Sc.D. | Psychologist; Social Scientist; Educator; George Herber Mead University Professor Emeritus at the New School for Social Research |
| Alonzo A. Crim | LL.D. | Educator |
| Thomas H. Kean | LL.D. | Governor of New Jersey |
| Deborah W. Meier | LL.D. | Educator |
| Bill D. Moyers | LL.D. | Television Journalist and Commentator |
| John Werner Kluge | LL.D. | Broadcasting; Donor of John W. Kluge Presidential Scholars Program for Academically Talented and Financially Needy Minority Students |
| Augusta Souza Kappner | University Medal for Excellence |
1989
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Ralf Dahrendorf | LL.D. | Educational Leader; Scholar; Teacher |
| Bronislaw Geremek | Litt.D. | Historian; Teacher |
| Nicole M. Le Douarin | Sc.D. | Cellular Biologist; Teacher |
| Itzhak Perlman | Mus.D. | Violinist |
| Edith Porada | Litt.D. | Art Historian; Teacher |
| Lloyd George Richards | L.H.D. | Theatre Director; University Dean |
| Francesco Cossiga | LL.D. | President of the Republic of Italy. Special Convocation. |
| Anne Marie Quindlen | University Medal for Excellence |
1990s
1990
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Vaclav Havel | LL.D. | President of Czechoslovakia. Special Convocation. |
| Natalie Zemon Davis | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher |
| Joseph P. DiMaggio | LL.D. | Baseball Immortal |
| Milton Handler | LL.D. | Lawer; Scholar; Teacher |
| Helene L. Kaplan | LL.D. | Lawyer; Leader |
| Frank Press | Sc.D. | Geophysicist; Statesman of Science |
| Samuel DeWitt Proctor | S.T.D. | College President; Theologian; Pastor |
| P. Roy Vagelos | Sc.D. | Scientist; Teacher; Business Leader |
| Baruch Samuel Blumberg | Sc.D. | Scientist; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky | Litt.D. | Poet; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Val Logsdon Fitch | Sc.D. | Physicist; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Herbert Aaron Hauptman | Sc.D. | Mathematician; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Willis Eugene Lamb | Sc.D. | Physicist; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Leon Max Lederman | Sc.D. | Experimental Physicist; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Tsung Dao Lee | Sc.D. | Physicist; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Arno Allan Penzias | Sc.D. | Physicist; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Jack Steinberger | Sc.D. | Physicist; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| George Joseph Stigler | Sc.D. | Economist. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Samuel Chao Chung Ting | Sc.D. | Particle Physicist; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Harold Eliot Varmus | Sc.D. | Cell Biologist; Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| George Wald | Sc.D. | Nobel Prize Recipient. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
| Steven Weinberg | Sc.D. | Physicist. Nobel Laureates Convocation. |
1991
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Russell Wayne Baker | Litt.D. | Columnist; Author |
| Joan Ganz Cooney | LL.D. | Broadcasting Executive |
| William Dillard | LL.D. | Business Leader |
| John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie | Mus.D. | Composer; Musician |
| Thomas S. Kuhn | Litt.D. | Philosopher; Teacher |
| Mary Douglas Leakey | Litt.D. | Archaeologist; Anthropologist |
| Walter Eugene Massey | Sc.D. | Physicist; Teacher; Statesman of Science |
| Melvin Schwartz | Sc.D. | Physicist; Teacher |
| David Benjamin Sprinson | Sc.D. | Biochemist; Teacher |
1992
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Harry A. Blackmun | LL.D. | Supreme Court Justice |
| Johnetta B. Cole | LL.D. | Educational Leader |
| Gertrude B. Elion | Sc.D. | Nobel Laureate in Medicine |
| Horst Fuhrmann | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher |
| Katharine Houghton Hepburn | L.H.D. | Actress; Author |
| Marshall Darrow Shulman | Litt.D. | Diplomat; Adlai E. Stevenson Emeritus of International Relations |
| Arthur Ochs Sulzberger | LL.D. | Publisher of the New York Times; Philanthropist |
| Jacqueline K. Barton | University Medal for Excellence |
1993
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Ashe | LL.D. | Champion Athlete; Social Advocate (Awarded Posthumously) |
| Gary Stanley Becker | Sc.D. | Nobel Laureate in Economics; Educator |
| Harold George (Harry) Belafonte | L.H.D. | Entertainer; Human Rights Leader |
| Seymour Milstein | LL.D. | Business Leader; Philanthropist |
| Mary Robinson | LL.D. | President of Ireland |
| George Erik Rupp | Litt.D. | President of Rice University; President-Designate of Columbia University |
| Susan Sontag | L.H.D. | Author; Social Critic |
| Gilbert Stork | Sc.D. | Higgins Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Columbia University |
| George Stephanopoulos | University Medal for Excellence |
1994
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tenzin Gyatso | L.H.D. | 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Special Convocation. |
| James Comer | LL.D. | Pyschiatrist; Educator |
| William Theodore de Bary | Litt.D. | Asian Studies Scholar; Educator; Son of Columbia |
| Dorothy DeLay | Mus.D. | Violinist; Educator |
| Betty Friedan | Litt.D. | Author; Feminist Leader |
| Ruth Bader Ginsberg | LL.D. | Supreme Court Justice; Teacher; Scholar |
| Harry Barkus Gray | Sc.D. | Chemist; Educator |
| Johan Jorgen Holst | LL.D. | Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs; Peacemaker (Awarded Posthumously) |
| Ellen Victoria Futter | University Medal for Excellence |
1995
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Madeleine K. Albright | LL.D. | United States Permamnent Representative to the UN |
| Louis Henkin | LL.D. | University Proessor; Human Rights Scholar |
| Teddy Kollek | LL.D. | Statesman; Peacemaker |
| Robert B.W. MacNeil | L.H.D. | Broadcast Journalist; Author; Linguist |
| Salome G Waelsch | Sc.D. | Cell Biologist |
| William Julius Wilson | Litt.D. | Sociologist; Educator; Public Servant |
| Noam David Elkies | University Medal for Excellence |
1996
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Toru Takemitsu | Mus.D. | Japanese composer |
| Mark O. Hatfield | LL.D. | United States Senator |
| Andrei Kozyrev | LL.D. | Statesman; Reformer |
| Irwin D. Mandel | Sc.D. | Scientist; Educator; Author |
| Wyton Marsalis | Mus.D. | Composer; Musician; Teacher |
| Sadako Ogata | LL.D. | Diplomat; Educator; Humanitarian |
| Franz Rosenthal | Litt.D. | Scholar; Author; Mentor |
| Edwards Witten | Sc.D. | Physicist; Mathematician; Innovator |
| Helene Gayle | University Medal for Excellence |
1997
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney Brenner | Sc.D. | Scientist; Innovator |
| Kathryn Wasserman Davis | LL.D. | Diplomat; Educator |
| Eric John Earnest Hobsbawn | Litt.D. | Historian; Author |
| Donald Keene | Litt.D. | University Professor |
| John R. Lewis | LL.D. | Congressman; Civil Rights Leader |
| Joseph Greenaway | University Medal for Excellence |
1998
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce M. Alberts | Sc.D. | Molecular Biologist; Public Educator |
| Kofi A. Annan | LL.D. | Secretary-General of the UN |
| Lauren Bacall | L.H.D. | Actress; Activist |
| Rita Frances Dove | Litt.D. | Poet Laureate |
| Amartya Sen | Litt.D. | Development Economist |
| Maurice Sendak | L.H.D. | Artist; Writer |
| Fritz Stern | Litt.D. | University Professor Emeritus |
| Rockard J. Delgadillo | University Medal for Excellence |
1999
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Ali | LL.D. | The Greatest |
| Noam Chomsky | Litt.D. | Philosopher; Linguist; Activist. |
| David Brion Davis | LL.D. | Author; Scholar; Teacher; |
| Mildred Dresselhaus | Sc.D. | Physicist; Educator; Leader |
| Lawrence Kolb, M.D. | Sc.D. | Visionary; Author; Mentor |
| Ernest "Tito" Puente | Mus.D. | King of Latin Music |
| Julie Taymor | L.H.D. | Director; Designer; Mythologist |
| Richard Zare | Sc.D. | Chemist; Teacher; Innovator |
| Paul Sereno | University Medal for Excellence |
2000-
2000s
2000
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Martti Ahtisaari | LL.D. | Statesman; Humanitarian |
| David D. Ho | Sc.D. | Pioneer of Biomedical Research |
| Judith Jamison | L.H.D. | Dancer; Choreographer; Virtuoso |
| Paul Alan Marks | Sc.D. | Teacher; Researcher; Institution Builder |
| Robert E Rubin | LL.D. | Financial Savant; Public servant |
| Oscar Schachter | LL.D. | Teacher; Scholar; Diplomat |
| Rolando Tomas Acosta | University Medal for Excellence |
2001
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Timothy Berners-Lee | LL.D. | Inventor of the Web |
| Peter Robert Lamont Brown | Litt.D. | Historian; Biographer |
| Isidore S. Edelman | Sc.D. | Biochemist; Genomecist |
| Judith Smith Kaye | LL.D. | Chief Judge |
| Arthur Levitt, Jr. | LL.D. | Public Servant |
| Maxwell L. Roach | Mus.D. | Percussionist; Conductor |
| George P. Shultz | LL.D. | Statesman |
| Zhen-Yi Wang | Sc.D. | Medical Pioneer |
| Neil Degrasse Tyson | University Medal for Excellence |
2002
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jack Beeson | Mus.D. | Composer; Teacher |
| Lee. C Bollinger | LL.D. | President of Columbia University |
| Joan Didion | Litt.D. | Novelist; Essayist |
| Roberto Gonalez Echevarria | Litt.D. | Scholar; Teacher |
| Brenda Milner | Sc.D. | Scientific Pioneer |
| George J. Mitchell | LL.D. | Statesman; Public Servant |
| Ruth J. Simmons | LL.D. | President of Brown University |
| George Yancopolous | University Medal for Excellence |
2003
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Maya Angelou | Litt.D. | Author; Activist |
| Julian Hochberg | Sc.D. | Centennial Professor Emeritus of Pyschology |
| Frank Kermode | Litt.D. | Critic; Scholar; Teacher |
| Mary-Claire King | Sc.D. | Geneticist |
| Constance Baker Motley | LL.D. | United States District Judge |
| Cecil Taylor | Mus.D. | Musician; Composer |
| Andrew Wiles | Sc.D. | Mathematician |
| Claire Shipman | University Medal for Excellence |
2004
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Laurie Anderson | Mus.D. | Performing Artist |
| David Baltimore | Sc.D. | Scientist; Educator |
| The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg | LL.D. | Leader; Philantropist |
| The Honorable Robert L. Carter | LL.D. | Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney; Jurist |
| Arthur C. Danto | Litt.D. | Art Historian; Critic; Philosopher |
| Oliver W. Hill | LL.D. | Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney; Jurist |
| The Honorable Louis H. Pollak | LL.D. | Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney; Jurist |
| Leo Steinberg | Litt.D. | Art Historian; Author; Educator |
| The Honorable Jack B. Weinstein | LL.D. | Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney; Jurist |
| Craig Steven Wilder | University Medal for Excellence |
2005
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Robert A. Dahl | Litt.D. | Scholar; Political Scientist |
| Henry Franklin Graff | Litt.D. | Presidential Scholar; Teacher |
| Zaha M. Hadid | L.H.D. | Architect |
| Dorothy Irene Height | LL.D. | Social Activist |
| Brent Scowcroft | LL.D. | Military Leader; Presidential Adviser |
| Shirley M. Tilghman | Sc.D. | Molecular Biologist; Teacher |
| Endel Tulving | Sc.D. | Cognitive Scientist |
| August Wilson | Litt.D. | Playwright |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | University Medal for Excellence |
2006
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kenneth Chenault | LL.D. | Business; Community Leader |
| C.K. Chu | Sc.D. | Mathematician |
| Gerda Lerner | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Maya Lin | L.H.D. | Artist; Architect |
| Oswaldo Paya | LL.D. | Human Rights Activist |
| Irving Weissman | Sc.D. | Cell Biologist |
| Sallie Krawcheck | University Medal for Excellence |
2007
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Aharon Barak | LL.D. | Israel Supreme Court President |
| Santiago Calatrava | L.H.D. | Architect |
| Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. | Sc.D. | Neurosurgeon |
| Susan Lindquist | Sc.D. | Microbiologist |
| Barbara Novak | Litt.D. | Art Historian |
| Felix G. Rohatyn | LL.D. | Financier; Public Servant |
| Jonathan Spence | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Stephen Joel Trachtenberg | LL.D. | Leader in Higher Education |
| Suzanne Malveaux | University Medal for Excellence |
2008
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fazle Hasan Abed | LL.D. | Social Entrepreneur |
| Emanuel Ax | Mus.D. | Pianist |
| Dawn Greene | LL.D. | Philantropist |
| Eric S. Lander | Sc.D. | Geneticist |
| William E. Leuchtenberg | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Gertrude F. Neumark | Sc.D. | Physicist |
| Judith Shapiro | LL.D. | Educator |
| Alicia Graf | University Medal for Excellence |
2009
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kwame Anthony Appiah | Litt.D. | Philosopher |
| P.N. Bhagwati | LL.D. | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India |
| Caroline Walker Bynum | Litt.D. | Medieval History Scholar |
| Ainslie T. Embree | Litt.D. | Historian of Modern South Asia |
| Paul Farmer | Litt.D. | Physician; Anthropologist |
| Helene D. Gayle | LL.D. | International Humanitarian |
| H. FitzGerald Lenfest | LL.D. | Media Entrepreneur; Philanthropist |
| Joseph L. Sax | LL.D. | Environmental Law; Property Law Scholar |
| Kiran Desai | University Medal for Excellence |
2010s
2010
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bernard Bailyn | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Jacqueline K. Barton | Sc.D. | Chemist |
| Geoffrey Canada | LL.D. | Social Activist, Educator |
| C. Lowell Harriss | Litt.D. | Economist; awarded posthumously. |
| Joel I. Klein | LL.D. | Education Reformer, Attorney |
| Tony Kushner | Litt.D. | Playwright |
| Koji Nakanishi | Sc.D. | Chemist |
| Dana Schutz | University Medal for Excellence | |
| Xu Bing | L.H.D. | Artist |
| Ron Gonen | University Medal for Excellence |
2011
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ornette Coleman | Mus.D. | Musician (Jazz) |
| Martin Meisel | Litt.D. | English Scholar, Columbia University professor/administrator |
| Eleanor Jackson Piel | LL.D. | Lawyer; "champion of social justice" |
| Lydia Polgreen | University Medal for Excellence | |
| Joan A. Steitz | Sc.D. | Geneticist |
| Keith Thomas | LL.D. | Historian |
2012
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Muhal Richard Abrams | Mus.D. | Pianist and composer |
| Michelle Bachelet | LL.D. | Political Leader and Physician |
| Shu Chien | Sc.D. | Vascular Physiology and Bioengineering Scholar |
| Jean Franco | Litt.D. | English and Comparative Literature Scholar; Columbia University Professor Emerita. |
| Amy Gutman | LL.D. | University of Pennsylvania President, Political Scientist, and Philosopher |
| Thomas Robert Kitt | University Medal for Excellence | Award-winning composer, conductor, arranger and musical director. |
| Gloria Steinem | LL.D. | Author and Activist |
2013
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Alicia Abella | University Medal for Excellence | Engineer and Technology Executive |
| Herbert Irving | LL.D. | Philanthropist |
| Florence Irving | LL.D. | Philanthropist |
| Peter E. Steiger | LL.D. | Editor and Journalist |
| Arnold Rampersad | Litt.D. | Biographer, Literary Critic, Scholar |
| Laurence H. Tribe | Litt.D. | University Professor and Constitutional Law Scholar at Harvard, Attorney |
| Stanley Falkow | Sc.D. | Microbiologist |
| Zena A. Stein | Sc.D. | Professor Emerita of Public Health and Psychiatry, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Pioneer of HIV Prevention for Women |
2014
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Renzo Piano | L.H.D. | Architect |
| Cicely L. Tyson | L.H.D. | Actress |
| Mortimer B. Zuckermer | LL.D. | Real Estate Developer, Publisher, Philanthropist |
| David Remnick | Litt.D. | Writer and Editor |
| David Rosand | Litt.D. | Art Historian |
| Robert B. Silvers | Litt.D. | Editor of The New York Review of Books |
| Natasha Trethewey | Litt.D. | US Poet Laureate, Author, Scholar |
| Joseph B. Keller | Sc.D. | Mathematician |
| Alisa Weilerstein | University Medal for Excellence | Cellist |
2015
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Theda Skocpal | Litt.D. | Professor at Harvard |
| Albie Sachs | LL.D. | Anti-apartheid activist |
| David Levering Lewis | Litt.D. | Historian |
| Miloš Forman | L.H.D. | Film director |
| Anthony S. Fauci | Sc.D. | HIV Researcher |
| William V. "Bill" Campbell | LL.D. | Business executive |
| Andrea Elliott | University Medal for Excellence | Reporter for New York Times |
2016
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ban Ki-Moon | LL.D. | Eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| Amanda M. Burden | LL.D. | Urban planner |
| Zhu Chen | Sc.D. | Leading scientist in leukemia translational studies and China's Minister of Health (2007-2013) |
| Robert Darnton | Litt.D. | Cultural historian and academic librarian. Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard University |
| Susan Meiselas | L.H.D. | Photographer |
| Arthur Mitchell | L.H.D. | Dancer; A pioneer, an icon, and a self-described “political activist through dance,” |
| Robert Owen Paxton | Litt.D. | Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences at Columbia University |
| Tracy K. Smith | University Medal for Excellence | American poet |
2017
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jacques Pépin | L.H.D. | Author and Chef |
| Eric H. Holder, Jr. | LL.D. | 82nd Attorney General of the United States |
| Admiral Michael Mullen | LL.D. | 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Julia Bacha | University Medal for Excellence | Filmmaker |
| Padma Desai | Litt.D. | Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor Emerita of Comparative and Economic Systems and Economics |
| Martin Duberman | Litt.D. | Historian, Biographer, Autobiographer, Political Essayist, Playwright, and Gay Rights Advocate |
| João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira | Mus.D. | Musican and Composer |
| Allen Irwin Hyman, M.D. | Sc.D. | Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Physician, and Public Health Advocate |
2018
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Diller | L.H.D. | Architect and Designer |
| Thelma Golden | L.H.D. | Museum Director and Curator |
| Patrick Hubert Gaspard | LL.D. | Human rights advocate, public servant, and former United States Ambassador to South Africa |
| Bradley R. Efron | Sc.D. | Statistician |
| Lynn R. Sykes | Sc.D. | Higgins Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Seismologist |
| Shazi Visram | University Medal for Excellence | Entrepreneur and Activist |
2019
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Awn | Litt.D. | |
| Douglas A. Chalmers | L.H.D. | Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Special Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Retirement, and Executive Director of the Society of Senior Scholars at Columbia University. |
| Karen Brooks Hopkins | LL.D. | Board Member and Senior Advisor to the Onassis Foundation USA. She is also the Nasher Haemisegger Fellow at the National Center for Arts Research, located at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. |
| Robert Langer | Sc.D. | Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Jamie Kern Lima | University Medal for Excellence |
Co-Founders and Co-Chief Executive Officers of IT Cosmetics |
| Paulo Lima | University Medal for Excellence | Co-Founders and Co-Chief Executive Officers of IT Cosmetics |
| Molly Ola Pinney | University Medal for Excellence | Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Autism Project |
2020s
No Honorary Degrees awarded in 2020 or 2021 due to COVID-19 Pandemic
2022
| Recipient | Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | LL.D. | 67th United States Secretary of State, Former United States Senator from New York, and Former First Lady of the United States |
| Carla Hayden | Litt.D. | 14th Librarian of Congress |
| Jodi Kantor | University Medal for Excellence | |
| William Kentridge | LH.D. | Artist |
| Yo-Yo Ma | Mus.D. | Cellist and Humanitarian |
| James Stewart Polshek | LH.D. | Architect and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation |
| Patti Smith | Mus.D. | Poet and Performer |
2023
| Recipient | Honorary Degree or Honor |
|---|---|
| Katori Hall | University Medal for Excellence |
| Joyce Ladner | Litt.D. |
| Jeannie Bachelor Lavine | LL.D. |
| Jonathan Lavine | LL.D. |
| Tania León | Mus.D. |
| Minouche Shafik | LL.D. |
| Bob Woodward | Litt.D. |
| Shing-Tung Yau | Sc.D. |
2024
Announced by the University[1], but not awarded due to the cancellation of University Commencement.
| Recipient | Honorary Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire | Sc.D. | Viral Immunologist |
| Zvi Galil | Litt.D. | Computer Scientist |
| Barney S. Graham | Sc.D. | Immunologist, Virologist, and Vaccinologist |
| Robert Reffkin | University Medal for Excellence | Entrepreneur and Philanthropist |
| Darren Walker | Litt.D. | Philanthropic Leader |
2025
| Recipient | Honorary Degree or Honor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Darren Walker | Litt.D. | Philanthropic Leader |
| Zvi Galil | Litt.D. | Computer Scientist and Dean Emeritus of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science |
| Claudia Goldin | Litt.D. | Nobel Laureate and Economist |
| Daniel Kahneman | Litt.D. (Posthumous) | Psychologist |
| Barney S. Graham | Sc.D. | Immunologist, Virologist, and Vaccinologist |