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Honorary degrees Awarded by Princeton University

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2007
Muhammad Ali, Doctor of Humanities
Norman Augustine, Doctor of Laws
Elizabeth Blackburn, Doctor of Science
Robert Fagles, Doctor of Humane Letters
LaSalle Leffall Jr., Doctor of Science
Fritz Stern, Doctor of Humane Letters
Twyla Tharp, Doctor of Fine Arts
2006
John Bonner, Doctor of Science
Paul Farmer, Doctor of Laws
Mia Hamm, Doctor of Humanities
Seamus Heaney, Doctor of Letters
Freeman Hrabowski III, Doctor of Laws
Dolores Huerta, Doctor of Laws
2005
John Clifton Bogle ’51, Doctor of Laws
Anne d’Harnoncourt, Doctor of Laws
J. Lionel Gossman, Doctor of Hummanities
Yo-Yo Ma, Doctor of Music
Vera C. Rubin, Doctor of Science
Wole Soyinka, Doctor of Humane Letters
2004
Edward T. Cone, Doctor of Humane Letters
Pablo Eisenberg, Doctor of Laws
Charles Kuen Kao, Doctor of Science
Nannerl O. Keohane, Doctor of Laws
Robert P. Moses, Doctor of Laws
2003
Natalie Zemon Davis, Doctor of Humane Letters
Richard J. Goldstone, Doctor of Laws
Claude M. Steele, Doctor of Humane Letters
Joan Argetsinger Steitz, Doctor of Science
Lawrence H. Summers, Doctor of Laws
2002
Anthony S. Fauci, Doctor of Science
James A. Forbes, Jr., Doctor of Divinity
Terry Gross, Doctor of Humanities
Bernard Lewis, Doctor of Humane Letters
Colin Lucas, Doctor of Laws
Emily Mann, Doctor of Fine Arts
Cal Ripken, Jr., Doctor of Humanities
Oprah Gail Winfrey, Doctor of Fine Arts
2001
Kevin Gover, Doctor of Laws
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee, Doctor of Fine Arts
Aaron Lemonick, Doctor of Science
Jane Lubchenco, Doctor of Science
Courtland D. Perkins, Doctor of Science
William Felton Russell, Doctor of Humanities
Harold T. Shapiro, Doctor of Laws
Sonia Sotomayor, Doctor of Laws
2000
Val Logsdon Fitch, Doctor of Science
Mae Jemison, Doctor of Humanities
Wendy S. Kopp, Doctor of Humanities
Mary F. Lyon, Doctor of Science
Gordon E. Moore, Doctor of Laws

1999
Kofi Annan, Doctor of Laws
Oscar Arias Sánchez, Doctor of Laws
William J. Baumol, Doctor of Humane Letters
Phyllis Lambert, Doctor of Fine Arts
Harvey Lichtenstein, Doctor of Fine Arts
Gordon Parks, Doctor of Fine Arts
Harold Varmus, Doctor of Science
1998
Linda Chavez-Thompson, Doctor of Laws
Athol Fugard, Doctor of Letters
Howard E. Gardner, Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert E. Kahn, Doctor of Science
Matthew J. Perry, Jr., Doctor of Laws
John Wilder Tukey, Doctor of Science
1997
Bruce Alberts, Doctor of Science
James E. Burke, Doctor of Laws
Larry Doby, Doctor of Humanities
Mamphela Aletta Ramphele, Doctor of Laws
Stuart John Saunders, Doctor of Laws
Carl E. Schorske, Doctor of Humane Letters
Homer A. Thompson, Doctor of Humane Letters
1996
William Jefferson Clinton, Doctor of Laws
Robert McCredie May, Doctor of Science
George A. Miller, Doctor of Science
Ruth J. Simmons, Doctor of Laws
Toshiko Takaezu, Doctor of Fine Arts
LeRoy T. Walker, Doctor of Law
1995
Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Clifford James Geertz, Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert B.W. MacNeil, Doctor of Laws
Wynton Marsalis, Doctor of Fine Arts
Sadako Ogata, Doctor of Laws
John M. Prausnitz, Doctor of Science
Lawrence Stone, Doctor of Humane Letters
1994
Ansley J. Coale, Doctor of Humane Letters
Lloyd N. Cutler, Doctor of Laws
William Scheide, Doctor of Humanities
Sheila Widnall, Doctor of Science
William Julius Wilson, Doctor of Humane Letters
Frederick Wiseman, Doctor of Fine Arts
1993
William O. Baker, Doctor of Laws
Marian Wright Edelman, Doctor of Laws
Richard Charles Levin, Doctor of Laws
William S. Merwin, Doctor of Letters
Sybil Collins Mobley, Doctor of Laws
James W. Rouse, Doctor of Laws
Kurt Weitzmann, Doctor of Humanities
August Wilson, Doctor of Letters
1992
Guido Calabresi, Doctor of Laws
Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Doctor of Science
William H. Gray, III, Doctor of Laws
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Doctor of Fine Arts
Martin Schwarzschild, Doctor of Science
Eliot Wigginton, Doctor of Humanities
1991
Milton B. Babbitt, Doctor of Music
James A. Baker, III, Doctor of Laws
Gary S. Becker, Doctor of Humane Letters
James P. Comer, Doctor of Humanities
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Doctor of Science
Frank Press, Doctor of Laws
Neil L. Rudenstine, Doctor of Laws
Martin Scorsese, Doctor of Fine Arts
Donna E. Shalala, Doctor of Laws
1990
Ella Fitzgerald, Doctor of Music
Meg Greenfield, Doctor of Laws
Dorothy I. Height, Doctor of Laws
F. Sherwood Rowland, Doctor of Science
Robert Charles Tucker, Doctor of Humane Letters
P. Roy Vagelos, Doctor of Laws

1989
C. Everett Koop, Doctor of Laws
Doris Lessing, Doctor of Letters
Constance Baker Motley, Doctor of Laws
Emily Townsend Vermeule, Doctor of Humane Letters
John Thomas Walker, Doctor of Divinity
Robert Henry Dicke, Doctor of Science
1988
Johnetta Betsch Cole, Doctor of Laws
W. Arthur Lewis, Doctor of Humane Letters
Matthew Stanley Meselson, Doctor of Science
Nino Pirrotta, Doctor of Humane Letters
Mario Soares, Doctor of Laws
Eudora Welty, Doctor of Literature
1987
William G. Bowen, Doctor of Laws
Jane E. Brody, Doctor of Humanities
John Lewis, Doctor of Laws
John Rawls, Doctor of Humane Letters
Durant W. Robertson, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
Laurance S. Rockefeller, Doctor of Humanities
1986
Herbert S. Bailey, Jr., Doctor of Laws
William Joseph Brennan, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Arthur Mitchell, Doctor of Fine Arts
Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Doctor of Science
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., Doctor of Laws
John Archibald Wheeler, Doctor of Science
1985
Alonzo Church, Doctor of Science
Millicent Fenwick, Doctor of Laws
Theodor Seuss Geisel, Doctor of Fine Arts
Phillip Samuel Hughes, Doctor of Laws
Saburo Okita, Doctor of Laws
David R. Paton, Doctor of Science
Lloyd G. Richards, Doctor of Fine Arts
1984
Lyman Spitzer, Jr., Doctor of Science
Mary P. McPherson, Doctor of Laws
Rawleigh Warner, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Frank P. Stella, doctor of Fine Arts
Alonzo A. Crim, Doctor of Laws
George W. Ball, Doctor of Laws
Maurice Sendak, Doctor of Fine Arts
1983
Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, Doctor of Science
Charles L. Brown, Doctor of Laws
Kathleen Coburn, Doctor of Humane Letters
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Gregory Vlastos, Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert Venturi, Doctor of Fine Arts
William W. Bradley, Doctor of Laws
1982
Rensselaer W. Lee, Doctor of Human Letters
Ellen Stewart, Doctor of Fine Arts
Harold W. McGraw, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Stephen W. Hawking, Doctor of Science
Arthur Ashe, Doctor of Humanities
Paul A. Volker, Doctor of Laws
Hanna Holborn Gray, Doctor of Laws
1981
Stephen G. Kurtz, Doctor of Laws
Flora Lewis, Doctor of Laws
E. Bright Wilson, Doctor of Science
Donald F. McHenry, Doctor of Laws
Charles S. Singleton, Doctor of Humane Letters
Claiborne Pell, Doctor of Laws
Marcel Marceau, Doctor of Fine Arts
1980
Ruth Patrick, Doctor of Science
Enrique Tierno Galvan, Doctor of Humane Letters
James Earl Jones, Doctor of Fine Arts
Joseph R. Strayer, Doctor of Humane Letters
Chou Pei-Yuan, Doctor of Laws
Harold H. Helm, Doctor of Laws

1979
Elizabeth Bishop, Doctor of Letters
Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Doctor of Laws
Joseph Papp, Doctor of Fine Arts
Tom Bradley, Doctor of Laws
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Doctor of Humane Letters
Carl G. Hempel, Doctor of Humane Letters
1978
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Doctor of Laws
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Doctor of Laws
William Thorp, Doctor of Letters
Rosalyn S. Yalow, Doctor of Science
Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Nani Ardeshir Palkhivala, Doctor of Laws
1977
Barbara Jordan, Doctor of Laws
Howard R. Swearer, Doctor of Laws
Adolph W. Schmidt, Doctor of Laws
Joseph Lane Kirkland, Doctor of Laws
Bethany Beardslee, Doctor of Music
Henry DeW. Smyth, Doctor of Science
P.J. Conkwright, Doctor of Fine Arts
1976
Serese Khama, Doctor of Laws
Lewis Thomas, Doctor of Science
Gerson D. Cohen, Doctor of Divinity
Justine Wise Polier, Doctor of Laws
Arthur M. Wood, Doctor of Laws
Eugene P. Wigner, Doctor of Science
Mstislav Rostropovitch, Doctor of Music
1975
Roy D. Hudson, Doctor of Laws
Kurt Godel, Doctor of Science
Simone Veil, Doctor of Laws
Jean Labatut, Doctor of Humanities
Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Doctor of Laws
1974
Walsh McDermott, Doctor of Science
Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Bennett Lester Carter, Doctor of Humanities
Freeman J. Dyson, Doctor of Science
Father Georges Florovsky, Doctor of Divinity
Alex A. Kwapong, Doctor of Laws
Alpheus Thomas Mason, Doctor of Laws
Elizabeth Jane MacCormack, Doctor of Laws
1973
Richard J. Sullivan, Doctor of Laws
George Pratt Shultz, Doctor of Laws
Masao Maruyama, Doctor of Letters
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Doctor of Laws
Millard Meiss, Doctor of Letters
Joan Ganz Cooney, Doctor of Humane Letters
J.Douglas Brown, Doctor of Laws
1972
Robert Francis Goheen, Doctor of Laws
Alvin Ailey, Doctor of Fine Arts
Elisabeth Luce Moore, Doctor of Laws
Hannah Arendt, Doctor of Letters
John Hope Franklin, Doctor of Letters
Roger Huntington Sessions, Doctor of Music
1971
C. Vann Woodward, Doctor of Letters
Kenneth Bancroft Clarke, Doctor of Science
Nancy Hanks, Doctor of Humane Letters
John George Kemeny, Doctor of Laws
Derek Curtis Bok, Doctor of Laws
1970
Bob Dylan, Doctor of Music
Paul N. Ylvisaker, Doctor of Laws
Arthur Kornburg, Doctor of Science
Gordon A. Craig, Doctor of Letters
Walter E. Washington, Doctor of Laws
Russell E. Train, Doctor of Laws
Coretta Scott King, Doctor of Humanities
Walter Lippmann, Doctor of Laws
Jacob D. Beam, Doctor of Laws

1969
Donald F. Hornig, Doctor of Science
Russell W. Baker, Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert C. Wood, Doctor of Laws
Leon H. Sullivan, Doctor of Divinity
Erich von Kahler, Doctor of Letters
Charles E. Shain, Doctor of Laws
James E. Allen, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Frank Thompson, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Charles W. Yost, Doctor of Laws
1968
Thomas P.F. Hoving, Doctor of Humanities
John M. Doar, Doctor of Laws
Harold K. Hochschild, Doctor of Letters
John Bardeen, Doctor of Science
John Elbridge Hines, Doctor of Divinity
Harold Howe II, Doctor of Laws
Marianne Craig Moore, Doctor of Letters
Arthur J. Goldburg, Doctor of Laws
1967
Elliot Cook Carter, Jr., Doctor of Music
William Herbert Hudnut, Jr., Doctor of Divinity
Whitney Moore Young, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Michael James Lighthill, Doctor of Science
Jacob Viner, Doctor of Letters
Yi Pyongdo, Doctor of Letters
James Isbell Armstrong, Doctor of Laws
Clifford Philip Case, Doctor of Laws
Richard Joseph Hughes, Doctor of Laws
1966
Charles Conrad, Jr., Master of Arts
Charles Scribner, Jr., Master of Arts
Otto Eckstein, Doctor of Laws
Philip Khuri Hitti, Doctor of Letters
Northrop Frye, Doctor of Humane Letters
John Coleman Bennett, Doctor of Divinity
Robert Oppenheimer, Doctor of Science
John W. Gardner, Doctor of Laws
Nicholas DeBelleville Katzenbach, Doctor of Laws
1965
Hugh Taylor, Doctor of Science
Hugh L. Dryden, Doctor of Science
Andrew Wyeth, Doctor of Fine Arts
Archibald MacLeish, Doctor of Letters
George Seferis, Doctor of Letters
Gerard John Campbell, S.J., Doctor of Laws
Kenneth Onwuka Dike, Doctor of Laws
Adrian S. Fisher, Doctor of Laws
Henry Richardson Labouisse, Doctor of Laws
Lord Caradon of St. Cleer, Doctor of Laws
1964
Ellsworth Tompkins, Doctor of Letters
Bernard M.W. Knox, Doctor of Letters
Francis C. Wood, doctor of Science
Frederick Seitz, Doctor of Science
Ibrahim Madkour, Doctor of Letters
James A. Perkins, Doctor of Laws
Kingman Brewster, Jr., Doctor of Laws
William McChesney Martin, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Christian A. Herter, Doctor of Laws
1963
John D. Verdery, Doctor of Letters
Frank W. Notestein, Doctor of Science
Americo Castro, Doctor of Letters
Solomon Lefschetz, Doctor of Science
Arthur Carl Lichtenberger, Doctor of Divinity
Thurgood Marshall, Doctor of Laws
Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, Doctor of Laws
Robert S. MacNamara, Doctor of Laws
Alberto Lleras Camargo, Doctor of Laws
1962
Henry H. Callard, Doctor of Letters
Claude E. Shannon, Doctor of Science
George B. Kistiakowsky, Doctor of Science
Franklin C. Fry, Doctor of Divinity
Ben Shahn, Doctor of Fine Arts
Donald R. Young, Doctor of Laws
Roger W. Jones, Doctor of Laws
James M. Hester, Doctor of Laws
J.Irwin Miller, Doctor of Laws
H.Freeman Matthews, Doctor of Laws
U.Thant, Doctor of Laws
1961
John Heysnam Gibbon, Doctor of Science
G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Doctor of Science
William Ackerman Buell, Doctor of Letters
John Albert Wilson, Doctor of Letters
Herbert Feis, Doctor of Letters
Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Doctor of Letters
William Herbert Hudnut, Doctor of Divinity
Mary Ingraham Bunting, Doctor of Laws
Theodore Marting Hesburgh, Doctor of Laws
Henry Cabot Lodge, Doctor of Laws
Douglas Dillon, Doctor of Laws
Dean Rusk, Doctor of Laws
1960
Laurance P. Roberts, Master of Fine Arts
Sinclair Hamilton, Doctor of Humane Letters
James s. McDonnell, Jr., Doctor of Laws
John Cobb Cooper, Doctor of Laws
John B. Coburn, Doctor of Divinity
James I. McCord, Doctor of Divinity
Supachai Vanij-Vadhana, Doctor of Laws
Millicent C. McIntosh, Doctor of Laws
David K.E. Bruce, Doctor of Laws
James H. Douglas, Jr. Doctor of Laws
Livingston T. Merchant, Doctor of Laws
Eugene R. Black, Doctor of Laws

1959
E. Laurence Springer, Doctor of Letters
James Gilluly, Doctor of Science
Marcus A. Spencer, Doctor of Divinity
Cleveland E. Dodge, Doctor of Philanthropy
Gilbert Chinard, Doctor of Letters
Mervin J. Kelly, Doctor of Engineering
Marian Anderson, Doctor of Humanities
Mason W. Gross, Doctor of Laws
Clarke Kerr, Doctor of Laws
Jean Monnet, Doctor of Laws
John G. Diefenbaker, Doctor of Laws
1958
Datus Clifford Smith, Jr., Master of Arts
Maurice Pate, Doctor of Philanthropy
John Crocker, Doctor of Divinity
John Nash Douglas Bush, Doctor of Letters
Frederick Clifton Grant, Doctor of Letters
Tsung-Dao Lee, Doctor of Science
Chien Shiung Wu, Doctor of Science
Pendleton Herring, Doctor of Laws
William Clyde Friday, Doctor of Laws
Devereux C. Josephs, Doctor of Laws
Chen Ning Yang, Doctor of Science
1957
Fairfield Osborn, Doctor of Science
Oswald Veblen, Doctor of Science
Edward Chase Kirkland, Doctor of Letters
Paul Joseph Sachs, Doctor of Letters
Thomas Marc Parrott, Doctor of Letters
Robert Lowry Calhoun, Doctor of Divinity
F. Cyril James, Doctor of Laws
Frank Whittenmore Abrams, Doctor of Laws
George Walbridge Perkins, Doctor of Laws
Allen Welsh Dulles, Doctor of Laws
1956
Aaron Copland, Doctor of Music
Henry Eyring, Doctor of Science
Edmund Wilson, Doctor of Letters
Peter Kenneth Emmons, Doctor of Divinity
Helen Hayes, Doctor of Fine Arts
Henry Townley Heald, Doctor of Laws
Arthur Lehman Goodhart, Doctor of Laws
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Doctor of Laws
Lester Bowles Pearson, Doctor of Laws
1955
Dumond Clarke, Doctor of Philanthropy
Matthew Page Gaffney, Doctor of Letters
John Marshall Harlan, Doctor of Laws
Gaylord P. Harnwell, Doctor of Laws
Katherine Elizabeth McBride, Doctor of Laws
Henry Allen Moe, Doctor of Letters
Otto Edward Neugebauer, Doctor of Science
Edward Pulling, Doctor of Letters
Theodore Cuyler Speers, Doctor of Divinity
Francis Henry Taylor, Doctor of Fine Arts
1954
Eivind Josef Berggrav, doctor of Divinity
Edward Samuel Corwin, Doctor of Laws
William Eves III, Master of Arts
William Campbell Kerr, Doctor of Philanthropy
Edgar Odell Lovett, Doctor of Laws
Charles Rufus Morey, Doctor of Laws
G. Bromley Oxnam, Doctor of Divinity
Nathan Marsh Pusey, Doctor of Laws
Henry Norris Russel, Doctor of Science
Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Doctor of Laws
Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Doctor of Laws
1953
Ira Sprague Bowen, Doctor of Science
Angus Dun, Doctor of Divinity
Rhea McCurdy Ewing, Doctor of Philanthropy
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Doctor of Engineering
Grayson Louis Kirk, Doctor of Laws
Joshua Lockwood Logan, Master of Arts
John Jay McCloy. Doctor of Laws
Charles Sackett Sydnor, Doctor of Letters
Paul Johannes Tillich, Doctor of Letters
1952
Eugene Carson Blake, Doctor of Divinity
Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, Doctor of Science
Augustus Noble Hand, Doctor of Laws
Louis Webster Jones, Doctor of Laws
Frank Charles Laubach, Doctor of Philanthropy
Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Doctor of Laws
Charles Habib Malik, Doctor of Letters
Charles Allen Thomas, Doctor of Science
Carl Otto Von Kienbusch, Master of Arts
Leonard Dupree White, Doctor of Laws
1951
George Packer Berry, Doctor of Science
Ralph Johnson Bunche, Doctor of Laws
Samuel McCrea Cavert, Doctor of Divinity
Grenville Clark, Doctor of Laws
Simon Smith Kuznets, Doctor of Science
Harold Raymond Medina, Doctor of Laws
Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Doctor of Letters
Walter W. Stuart, Doctor of Letters
1950
Percy Williams Bridgman, Doctor of Science
Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, Doctor of Law
A. Whitney Griswold, Doctor of Laws
William Edward Lunt, Doctor of Letters
Frank Pace, Jr., Master of Arts
Alfonso Reyes, Doctor of Letters
Harold E. Stassen, Doctor of Laws
William Adolph Visserlt Hooft, Doctor of Divinity
Alexander Clinton Zabriskie, Doctor of Divinity

1949
Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr., Doctor of Letters
Henri Bonnet, Doctor of Laws
Frederick Sherwood Dunn, Doctor of Laws
Dwight Woodbridge Edwards, Doctor of Philanthropy
Sir Oliver Franks, Doctor of Laws
Everette Lee De Golyer, Doctor of Engineering
Chambers Jack MacKenzie, Doctor of Science
Thomas Guthrie Speers, Doctor of Divinity
1948
Eleanor Cross Marquand, Master of Arts
Louis Booker Wright, Doctor of Literature
Samuel Andres Stouffer, Doctor of Science
Philip Edward Smith, Doctor of Science
Tertius van Dyke, Doctor of Divinity
John Baillie, Doctor of Divinity
Katherine Cornell, Doctor of Fine Arts
Raymond Blaine Fosdick, Doctor of Laws
Omar Nelson Bradley, Doctor of Laws
Walter Ewing Hope, Doctor of Laws

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