Past Honorary Degrees
Each year at Commencement, the College awards honorary doctorates to those honorees selected by a committee of faculty. The Honorary Degree Committee makes their selection from a list of nominees compiled from suggestions made by faculty and staff. For more information about the selection criteria, see page A7 in the Faculty Handbook. Note: All names that are followed by class year are alumni of Grinnell College. For text of the award citation, when available, click on the name of the honoree.
- 2016
- Zadie Smith, D.H.L.
- Thomas Cole ’71, D.L.
- Fred Hersch ’77, D.H.L.
- Claudia Swisher, S.Sc.D.
- 2015
- Bill McKibben, D.H.L.
- Penny Bender Sebring ’64 and Charles Ashby Lewis, D.L.
- Mary Seely, D.Sc.
- Kit Abel Hawkins, S.Sc.D.
- 2014
- Nancy Giles, D.H.L.
- Dorje Gurung ’94, D.Sc.
- Sterling Lord ’42, D.H.L.
- Jaya Subramanian, S.Sc.D.
- 2013
- Sarah Kay, D.H.L
- Nathanial Borenstein ’80, D.Sc.
- David Abarr ’83, D.Sc.
- Bonnie Tinker, D.H.L
- 2012
- Jamaica Kincaid, D.H.L.
- Kay Bucksbaum ’51, D.L.
- Pat Irwin ’77, D.H.L.
- 2011
- Anna Quindlen, D.H.L.
- David Feldman '71, D.H.L.
- Henry Wilhelm '68, D.S.
- Pardis Sabeti, D.S.
- 2010
- Jeffrey Sachs, D.H.L.
- Lonabelle "Kappie" Kaplan Spencer '47, LL.D.
- Sam Tanenhaus '77, D.H.L.
- 2009
- Thomas L. Friedman, D.H.L
- Jodie Levin-Epstein '72, LL.D.
- John F. Schwaller '69, D.H.L.
- A. Gregory Theilmann '72, LL.D.
- 2008
- Judith Butler, D.H.L.
- Rekha Basu, D.H.L.
- John W. Canady M.D. '80, D.Sc.
- James H. Lowry '61, LL.D.
- 2007
- Angela Y. Davis, D.H.L.
- Susan Asbrook Harvey '75, D.H.L.
- John Brady Keisling, LL.D.
- Margaret Tolbert '79, D.Sc.
- 2006
- Thomas Vilsack, LL.D.
- James Banks, D.H.L.
- Patricia O'Connor '71, D.H.L.
- Christopher Vaughan '71, D.Sc.
- 2005
- Carol Bellamy, D.H.L.
- Kathryn Jagow Mohrman '67, D.H.L.
- Rein Saral '65, D.H.L.
- 2004
- William Schulz, D.H.L.
- Frances Moore Lappé, D.H.L.
- Debhanom Muangman '58, D.Sc.
- Mary Sue Wilson Coleman '65, D.Sc.
- 2003
- Gordon Edelstein '76, D.F.A.
- Vernon E. Faulconer '61, LL.D.
- Merry Wiesner-Hanks '73, D.H.L.
- 2002
- Robert B. Reich, LL.D.
- Raymond D. Horton '62, D.H.L.
- Rubin Cooper Vera, D.Sc.
- 2001
- Caroline Scheaffer Arnold '66, D.H.L.
- Robert A. Dahl, LL.D.
- Jim Diers '75, LL.D.
- Robert P. Moses, D.H.L.
- 2000
- Dolores C. Huerta, D.H.L.
- Kim Kihwan '57, D.H.L.
- Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz, D.H.L.
- Arthur C. Risser '60, D.H.L.
- 1999
- Marcia L. Colish, D.H.L.
- Duane W. Krohnke '61, D.H.L.
- Anne Campbell Spence '66, D.Sc.
- Fred Wertheimer, D.H.L.
- 1998
- Alberta Nelson Coleman '35, D.H.L.
- Joycelyn Elders, D.Sc.
- George T. McJimsey '58, D.H.L.
- Kunio Waki '66, D.H.L.
- 1997
- Bertha Daubendiek '36, D.H.L.
- Jean Bethke Elshtain, D.H.L.
- David McCullough, D.H.L.
- David Mura '74, D.H.L.
- 1996
- Robert F. Austin '54, D.H.L.
- Paula J. McDermott '75, D.H.L.
- Albert J. Pinder, D.H.L.
- Ann W. Richards, LL.D.
- 1995
- Claude W. Ahrens '38
- Sister Dorina Chase, D.H.L.
- Thomas W. Merrill '71, LL.D.
- Alan D. Wheat '72, LL.D.
- 1994
- Mary Frances Berry, L.H.D.
- I. Craig Henderson '63, S.D.
- Paul G. Risser '61, S.D.
- Joseph F. Rosenfield '25, L.H.D.
- Lanford Wilson, L.H.D.
- 1993
- Harry Edwards, L.H.D.
- Wallace D. Loh '65, LL.D.
- David G. Marker '59, S.D.
- Martha Nussbaum, L.H.D.
- 1992
- Alfred W. Crosby, L.H.D.
- Evelyn Davis, L.L.D.
- Linda Kaufmann Kerber, L.H.D.
- Randall C. Morgan, Jr. '65, D.Sc.
- 1991
- David Billington, D.C.
- Bob Edwards, L.H.D.
- Grant O. Gale, D.Sc.
- Liane Ellison Norman '59, L.H.D.
- 1990
- Johnnetta B. Cole, LL.D.
- Amb. George E. Moose '66, LL.D.
- Michael P. Schulhof '64, D.Sc.
- Lauren Soth, L.H.D.
- 1989
- Edward M. Hirsch '72, L.H.D.
- Donald E. Knuth, D.Sc.
- Tetusuo Najita '58, LL.D.
- Geneva Overholser, L.H.D.
- 1988
- Charles W. Anderson, LL.D.
- Marian Wright Edelman, LL.D.
- Gary Giddons '70, D.F.A.
- Meridel LeSueur, L.H.D.
- 1987
- Thomas R. Chech '70, D.Sc.
- Mario M. Cuomo, LL.D.
- Helene Scriabine, L.H.D.
- Robert B. Winter '54, D.Sc.
- 1986
- Hortense Calisher, L.H.D.
- Curtis A. Harnack '49, L.H.D.
- Brian E. Urquhart, LL.D.
- Henry T. Wingate '69, LL.D.
- 1985
- Benjamin R. Barber, LL.D.
- Judith L. Mann, L.H.D.
- 1984
- Sir Roger Bannister, D.Sc.
- E. Douglas Brown, L.H.D.
- Amy K. Clampitt '41, L.H.D.
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault, L.H.D.
- Mary Louise Smith, LL.D.
- 1983
- John Kenneth Galbraith, LL.D.
- Margaret E. Kuhn, LL.D.
- George W. Simon '55, D.Sc.
- 1982
- Samuel Hoyt Elbert '28, L.H.D.
- Mary Emily Hannah '58, LL.D.
- William Jovanovich, L.H.D.
- Dean Melvin Rossa, D.Sc.
- 1981
- Barry Commoner, LL.D.
- John C. Culver, LL.D.
- Philip F. Nelson '50, L.H.D.
- Clinton A. Rehling '39, L.H.D.
- 1980
- Joan Wilson Sullivan '50, L.H.D.
- Howard M. Warrington '34, LL.D.
- Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., L.H.D.
- 1979
- Bernard Bailyn, L.H.D.
- Jane Temple Howard, L.H.D.
- John R. Parish '27, D.Sc.
- Marilyn Walsh '50, LL.D.
- 1978
- Betty Hornor Liljestrand, LL.D.
- Samuel R. Rosenthal, L.H.D.
- Joseph Frazier Wall '41, L.H.D.
- Edward Osborne Wilson, D.Sc.
- 1977
- R. Hal Dean '38, LL.D.
- Patricia A. McIlrath '37, L.H.D.
- Louis Studs Turkel, L.H.D.
- Garrett Garry Trudeau, L.H.D.
- 1976
- Murray Kempton, LL.D.
- Ann Jacobson McGonigle '49, D.Arts
- Gregor Piatigorsky, D.Arts
- Thomas Fisher Railsback '54, LL.D.
- 1975
- Ralph James Kaufmann '47, L.H.D.
- Glenn Leggett, L.H.D.
- 1974
- Thomas Barnabas, LL.D.
- Hanna Holborn Gray, Litt.D.
- William F. Hejna '54, D.Sc.
- Blair Stewart, LL.D.
- Nancy Theilgaard Watts '48, L.H.D.
- 1973
- Harry A. Duncan '38, L.H.D.
- Lucius Perry Gregg, D.Sc.
- Burton W. Jones '23, D.Sc.
- Marion Musser Lloyd, LL.D.
- Louise Rosenfield Noun '29, L.H.D.
- 1972
- Robert W. Crawford, LL.D.
- G. Lester Duke '25, L.H.D.
- R. Buckminster Fuller, Litt.D.
- Herbert J. Hancock '60, D.F.A.
- Clair C. Patterson '43, D.Sc.
- Dorothy Daniell Schramm, LL.D.
- James S. Schramm, D.F.A.
- John R. Spencer '47, D.F.A.
- Jessie L. Ternberg '46, D.Sc.
- Fred A. Winter '21, L.H.D.
- 1971
- Andrew Billingsley '51, L.H.D.
- Roy J. Clampitt 1911, L.H.D.
- Alfred F. Conard '32, LL.D.
- Robert B. Heilman, LL.D.
- Bayless A. Manning, LL.D.
- Randall C. Morgan, L.H.D.
- S. Idell Pyle 1916, D.Sc.
- Robert D. Ray, LL.D.
- Harvey Uhlenhopp '36, LL.D.
- 1970
- Horace Mann Bond, L.H.D.
- H. Maurice Fridlund 1918, LL.D.
- Morse W. Rew 1907, D.Sc.
- John G. Stoessinger '50, LL.D.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Litt.D.
- 1969
- John F. Chapman '24, LL.D.
- Philip P. Hallie '46, Litt.D.
- Harold E. Hughes, LL.D.
- Roger P. Loveland 1919, D.Sc.
- Dring D. Needham 1914, LL.D.
- James H. Stauss '36, LL.D.
- Curtis W. Tarr, L.H.D.
- 1968, B.A.rry Commoner, D.Sc.
- Dennis H. Kelly 1918, D.Sc.
- Myron Koenig '32, L.H.D.
- Dwight J. Porter '38, LL.D.
- 1967
- James I. Armstrong, Litt.D.
- Daniel Bell, L.H.D.
- Stephen Benedict, L.H.D.
- George Champion, LL.D.
- Ralph Ellison, L.H.D.
- Fred W. Friendly, L.H.D.
- Richard Gilman, L.H.D.
- Peter S. Hackes '48, L.H.D.
- Samuel I. Hayakawa, Litt.D.
- Gerald Holton, D.Sc.
- Sally Hughes-Schrader 1917, D.Sc.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., L.H.D.
- William H. Lawrence, L.H.D.
- Benjamin E. Mays, Litt.D.
- George McGovern, LL.D.
- Dean E. McHenry, LL.D.
- Marshall McLuhan, Litt.D.
- Leonard B. Meyer, L.H.D.
- Ashley Montagu, D.Sc.
- Willie Morris, L.H.D.
- Calvin H. Plimpton, D.Sc.
- Robert Rauschenberg, L.H.D.
- Richard H. Rovere, L.H.D.
- Harold C. Schonberg, L.H.D.
- 1966
- E. Wilson Lyon, LL.D.
- Gabriel R. Manalac 1916, D.Ed.
- 1965
- H. Eugene Breitenbach '25, LL.D.
- Dwight David Eisenhower, LL.D.
- Mary Patterson Routt 1908, HH.D
- Helen Cosntance White, L.H.D.
- 1964
- Howard Rothmann Bowen, Litt.D.
- Francis Crispin Ellis 1914, D.D.
- Theodore Alexander Gill, D.D.
- Eugene Johnson McNeel, LL.D.
- James Louis Robertson '29, LL.D.
- Henry Nelson Wieman, Litt.D.
- 1963
- I. Hwthorne Arey '28, LL.D.
- George A. Buttrick, D.D.
- Arthur J. Jones 1893, LL.D.
- Arnold J. Toynbee, L.H.D.
- 1962
- Harry S. Ashmore, LL.D.
- Luang Binbakyha Bidyabhed '23, D.Sc.
- Eugene Carson Blake, D.D.
- James H. Douglas, LL.D.
- L. F. Hickernell 1920, D.Sc.
- Anna Federsen Petteys '12, LL.D.
- 1961
- Joseph I. Brody 1911, LL.D.
- William Graham Cole, LL.D.
- Dwight G. McCarty 1901, LL.D.
- Allan Nevins, Litt.D.
- William B. Otis 1901, L.H.D.
- Alonzo Petteys 1911, LL.D.
- 1960
- Conrado Benitez, LL.D.
- James Wills Lenhart, D.D.
- C. Ward Macy 1920, LL.D.
- Wilfred J. McNeil, LL.D.
- Herbert A. Templeton 1905, LL.D.
- Paul Weiss, L.H.D.
- Theodore O. Yntema, LL.D.
- 1959
- Browne Barr '39, D.D.
- Carl C. Compton 1913, LL.D.
- Roswell Garst, LL.D.
- Raymond D. Harriman 1909, L.H.D.
- Keyes D. Metcalf, Litt.D.
- George D. Stoddard, D.F.A.
- Burt J. Thompson 1894, LL.D.
- 1958
- Robert H. Aborn 1918, D.Sc.
- Evelyn Fisher Frisble 1898, D.Sc.
- Edward R. Murrow, LL.D.
- Eber L. Palmer 1918, LL.D.
- 1957
- Lewis R. Barrett 1917, LL.D.
- Gardner Cowles, LL.D.
- Clifford C. Crump, D.Sc.
- Frank F. Everest '26, LL.D.
- James F. Findlay '22, LL.D.
- Raymond A. Hare '24, LL.D.
- MacKinlay Kantor, Litt.D.
- Perry Miller, Litt.D.
- James A. Pike, D.D.
- William G. Pollard, D.D.
- Liston Pope, D.D.
- David Riesman, LL.D.
- James Johnson Sweeney, D.F.A.
- James A. Van Allen, D.Sc.
- William H. Whyte, Jr., LL.D.
- Norbert Wiener, D.Sc.
- 1956
- George Leland Bach '36, LL.D.
- Mandell Morton Bober, LL.D.
- Hallie Flanagan Davis 1911, D.F.A.
- Donald A. Quarles, D.Sc.
- J. Stuart Russell 1913, LL.D.
- 1955
- John Cowles, LL.D.
- Charles Harold McCloy, D.Sc.
- 1954
- Mason Ladd 1920, LL.D.
- Thurgood Marshall, LL.D.
- John H. Spencer '29, LL.D.
- Joseph N. Welch 1914, LL.D.
- 1953
- Christopher J. Abbott, LL.D.
- Truman B. Douglass, LL.D.
- Frederick D. Kirsch, Jr., D.F.A.
- Wu Kuo-cheng '23, LL.D.
- Raymond B. McClenon, D.Sc.
- 1952
- Nelson I. Baxter, D.D.
- Carl Joachim Friedrich, LL.D.
- Gerard S. Nollen 1902, LL.D.
- Hudson H. Pittman 1912, D.D.
- Earle D. Ross, L.H.D.
- 1951
- Detley Wulf Bronk, D.Sc.
- Clark Graham, LL.D.
- Robert Wells Harper, LL.D.
- William L. Laurence, L.H.D.
- 1950
- Mary Braginton 1920, L.H.D.
- James Francis Cooke, D.F.A.
- James Norman Hall 1910, Litt.D.
- Earl D. Strong 1909, LL.D.
- 1949
- Maynard B. Barnes 1919, LL.D.
- John Scott Everton, D.D.
- Theodore W. Schultz, LL.D.
- Forrest W. Seymour, L.H.D.
- 1948
- William Gardner McLaren 1898, LL.D.
- Royal John Montgomery, D.D.
- Philip Winston Pillsbury, LL.D.
- Arthur William Radford, LL.D.
- 1947
- John Stark Evans 1913, D.Mus.
- Archibald K. Gardner 1891, LL.D.
- William Gardner, LL.D.
- Byron Sharpe Hollishead, LL.D.
- Andrew Conway Ivy, D.Sc.
- Leland West Mann, D.D.
- 1946
- Ronald Bridges, D.D.
- Jean Charlot, D.F.A.
- Marshall Field III, LL.D.
- Norman Foerster, L.H.D.
- Carl Joaquin Hambro, LL.D.
- Paul Gray Hoffman, LL.D.
- Leonard Eugene Hurtz, LL.D.
- Ralph H. Lyman 1907, D.Mus.
- W. Albert Noyes Jr. 1919, D.Sc.
- Ezequiel Padilla, LL.D.
- John Patrick Ryan, LL.D.
- John H. Talbott '24, D.Sc.
- Everett Stanton Turner 1911, LL.D.
- 1945
- Ernest Edward Charlton 1913, D.Sc.
- Donald J. Cowling, LL.D.
- Fred Darby 1895, LL.D.
- John Dashiell Stoops, LL.D.
- 1944
- Henry Shoemaker Conard, D.Sc.
- Russell Cowles, D.F.A.
- Delton Thomas Howard, L.H.D.
- Harold S. Matthews 1916, D.D.
- Richard Morrow Steiner '24, D.D.
- Harry S. Truman, LL.D.
- Carl S. Weist, D.D.
- 1943
- Jesse M. Burlew 1900, D.Sc.
- Herbert C. Holdridge, LL.D.
- Florence Stewart Kerr 1912, LL.D.
- Harold Dewey Smith, LL.D.
- Edward A. Steiner, L.H.D.
- 1942
- Paul Hensen Appleby 1913, LL.D.
- David Ernest Crabb 1902, D.D.
- Eleanor Lowden 1903, L.H.D.
- Henry Robinson Luce, LL.D.
- Modie Spiegel, Jr., M.A.
- Joseph Sunnen, M.Sc.
- 1941
- Arthur Edward Andersen, LL.D.
- Virgil Melvin Hancher, LL.D.
- Dennis Hugh Kelly 1918, M.A.
- William Wesley Waymack, Litt.D.
- James Vincent Yager 1920, M.A.
- 1940
- Glenn Clark 1905, Litt.D.
- Charles Eben Cushman 1891, D.D.
- Albert William Merrill 1890, D.Ed.
- John Scholte Nollen L.H.D.
- 1939
- Frederick H. Bair 1912, D.Ed.
- Paul W. Richards 1894, LL.D.
- 1938
- Rudolph Ganz, D.Mus.
- P. Adelstein Johnson, D.D.
- Francis Eber Palmer 1888, LL.D.
- 1937
- Ernest Baden Benger 1907, D.Sc.
- Rossetter Gleason Cole, D.Mus.
- 1936
- Oliver Ellsworth Buckley 1909, D.Sc.
- 1935
- Chester Charles Davis 1911, LL.D.
- Harry Lloyd Hopkins 1912, LL.D.
- Ervine Peter Inglis 1916, D.D.
- Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, LL.D.
- 1932
- Eliot Grinnell Mears, LL.D.
- Reinhold Niebuhr, D.D.
- Irving Berdine Richman, Litt.D.
- 1931
- Gordon Lockwood Berry 1906, B.A.
- Archibald Cattell 1891, LL.D.
- Harry Elmore Downer 1882, LL.D.
- Ray Anderson Eusden 1912, D.D.
- Ruth Sucko Nuhn 1914, M.A.
- Robert Ballantine Sweet 1900, B.A.
- Charles Elmer Tower 1896, D.D.
- 1930
- Eli P. Clark, LL.D.
- John Lewis Gillin 1895, LL.D.
- William Squire Kenyon 1890, LL.D.
- 1929
- Norman Robert Blatherwick 1909, D.Sc.
- Salmon Oliver Levinson, LL.D.
- Vere VanderHyden Loper 1915, D.D.
- William Albert Noyes, Sr. 1879, D.Sc.
- 1928
- James Levi Barton, D.D.
- Samuel Robinson Williams 1901, D.Sc.
- 1927
- Ernest James Jaqua 1907, LL.D.
- 1926
- Caroline Sheldon 1893, Litt.D.
- 1925
- Joanna Harris Haines 1865, M.A.
- Cecelia I. Jeffrey 1909, M.A.
- William Edward Paul 1905, D.D.
- 1924
- Harry Waldo Norris 1886, D.Sc.
- Garrett Polhemus Wyckoff 1894, LL.D.
- 1923
- Edward Weeks Cross, D.D.
- Jesse Myron Owen 1890, M.A.
- 1922
- Margaret Moninger 1913, M.A.
- 1920
- Edward Cary Hayes, LL.D.
- Henry James 1883, M.A.
- Wilmot Brookings Mitchell, Litt.D.
- Edward Caldwell Moore, LL.D.
- John Winthrop Platner, LL.D.
- Walter George Smith, LL.D.
- 1919
- Henry Forsythe Milligan, D.D.
- Henry Morgenthau, Sr., LL.D.
- 1918
- Jacob Wendell Clark, M.A.
- Albert Shaw 1879, LL.D.
- Selden Lincoln Whitcomb 1886, Litt.D.
- 1917
- Epghraim Douglass Adams 1887, LL.D.
- Henry Edwine Brown, M.A.
- Malcolm Dana, D.D.
- Daniel D. Murphy, LL.D.
- William Wheelock Peet, LL.D.
- Henry W. Tuttle, D.D.
- Arthur L. Weatherly 1892, D.D.
- 1916
- Emilius Clark Dudley 1899, LL.D.
- William D. Evans, Sr., L.L.D.
- Harry Ernest Peabody, D.D.
- Byron Webster Preston, LL.D.
- John Oliver Thrush, D.D.
- 1915
- John Cheesman Clark, L.L.D.
- Charles Hamilton Hughes, L.L.D.
- Harvey Ingham, L.L.D.
- Rev. William Allen Knight, D.D.
- Thomas McClelland, L.L.D.
- Rev. William J. Minchin, D.D.
- John Calvin Montgomery 1893, M.A.
- Alfred Noyes, Litt.D.
- Rev. Naboth Osborne, D.D.
- Ellen Sabin, L.L.D.
- Samuel Strauss, L.L.D.
- 1914
- James Perkins Burling 1889, D.D.
- Raymond Calkins, D.D.
- Harlow Spencer Mills 1874, D.D.
- Lee L. Summers, M.A.
- 1913
- Charles Luther Fitch 1896, M.A.
- George C. Williams, D.D.
- 1912
- Oliver F. Emerson 1882, Litt.D.
- Charles E. McKinley 1891, D.D.
- Theodore C. Munger 1884, LL.D.
- Edward B. Scheve D. Mus.
- 1911
- Dana W. Bartlett 1882, D.D.
- Jesse Macy 1870, LL.D.
- 1910
- Frank William Johnson 1897, M.A.
- 1909
- Ewing Ogden Tade 1858, D.D.
- 1907
- Alexander Francis, D.D.
- Abbie Williams Hill, M.A.
- Charles Noble, D.D.
- 1906
- Azora S. Davis, D.D.
- J.E. Dodge 1875, LL.D.
- Isaac A. Loos, LL.D.
- James E. Snowden, D.D.
- George E. White 1882, D.D.
- 1905
- Asa Lee Ames 1882, M.A.
- Paul Shorey, LL.D.
- George Meason Whicher 1882, Litt.D.
- 1904
- Asher Anderson, D.D.
- Andrew B. Chalmers, D.D.
- Francis E. Clark, LL.D.
- Frank G. Smith, D.D.
- 1903
- Rev. George Luther Cady, D.D.
- Rev. George D. Marsh 1867, D.D.
- Rev. Robert L. Marsh, D.D.
- 1902
- Rev. Edward T. Harper, D.D.
- 1901
- Rev. C.O. Day, D.D.
- 1898
- Henry Carter Adams 1874, LL.D.
- Charles E. Bessey, LL.D.
- Eli P. Clark, M.A.
- Homer Taylor Fuller, D.D.
- William W. Peet, M.A.
- James H. Pettee, D.D.
- Charles Theodore Steck 1858, D.D.
- Edmund March Vittum, D.D.
- Frank N. White, D.D.
- Frank P. Wigton 1879, M.A.
- John Hill Windsor 1854, D.D.
- 1896
- Rev. Stephen G. Barnes, D.D.
- 1894
- Rev. Edward T. Fairbank, D.D.
- 1892
- Charles A. Berry, D.D.
- E.C. Dudley, M.D., M.A.
- Luther C. Harris 1881, M.A.
- Mahlon Willett 1869, D.D.
- 1891
- Rev. James L. Hill 1871, D.D.
- Judge W.L. Pattee, LL.D.
- Rev. William H. Ryder, D.D.
- Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D.D.
- 1890
- John L. Atkinson, M.A.
- Rev. John Wesley Carr 1865, M.A.
- Hiram Landis Getz, M.D., M.A.
- Lorettus S. Metcalf, LL.D.
- 1889
- Allen C. Barrows, D.D.
- Thomas Davies, D.D.
- H.T. Englehorn, A.M.
- C.E. Harrington, D.D.
- J.F. Heilner, A.M.
- Julius A. Reed, D.D.
- 1888
- Alexander Fleischmann, A.M.
- Mary E. Snell 1869, A.M.
- R.B. Snell 1870, A.M.
- 1887
- Harvey Adams, D.D.
- Henry E. Barnes, D.D.
- Ephraim Cutter, LL.D.
- Albert H. Heath, D.D.
- William Kincaid, D.D.
- Daniel Lane, D.D.
- Robert W. McAll, D.D.
- 1886
- Charles F. Buss, M.A.
- E.M. Cravath, D.D.
- Charles F. Craver, M.A.
- Edward A. Goodnow, M.A.
- Irving J. Manatt, LL.D.
- A.F. Sherrill, D.D.
- 1884
- James Brande, D.D.
- David J. Brewer, LL.D.
- Judge William R. Lewis, M.A.
- James Powell, D.D.
- 1883
- William Bruce Allison, LL.D.
- Henry Seymour Barnes, Ph.D
- Silas Leroy Blake, S.T.D.
- Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers, A.M.
- James Scott, S.T.D.
- 1882
- Ephraim Adams, S.T.D.
- David Otis Mears, S.T.D.
- 1881
- James Falconer Wilson, LL.D.
- 1880
- George Washington Crary, LL.D.
- James Amazias Whitney, S.T.D.
- 1879
- William Walter Woodworth, S.T.D.
- 1878
- John Wesley Chapman, A.M.
- Samuel Ives Curtis, S.T.D.
- Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, S.T.D.
- 1877
- Mary Ellis, A.M.
- Charles Hammond, LL.D.
- Jesse Winegar Hough, S.T.D.
- 1876
- Samuel Freeman Miller, LL.D.
- 1875
- John Bascom, S.T.D.
- Selah Merrill, S.T.D.
- Joshua Thomas Tucker, S.T.D.
- 1874
- Israel Ward Andrews, LL.D.
- Stephan Rollins Dennen, S.T.D.
- 1873
- Job Cushman, A.M.
- Rhys Gwesyn Jones, S.T.D.
- James Madison Love, LL.D.
- 1872
- Arthur Sherburne Hardy, A.M.
- 1871
- Lucian Caleb Blanchard, A.M.
- Charles Edward Cheney, S.T.D.
- Thomas Drummond, LL.D.
- James Bruen Howell, LL.D.
- George Henry Lewis, A.M.
- Edward Pruyn 1869, A.M.
- George Reed Ransom, A.M.
- Julian Monson Sturtevant, LL.D.
- George Thacher, S.T.D.
- 1870
- Richard Brockway Bull, A.M.
- Chester Cicero Cole, LL.D.
- Jesse Guernsey, S.T.D.
- William Gardner Hammond, LL.D.
- George Slocum Folger Savage, S.T.D.
- John Teesdale, A.M.
- 1869
- Charles Aldrich, A.M.
- Moses Willard Bartlett, A.M.
- James Frederick Joy, LL.D.
- Crescentius Niles Tarbox, S.T.D.
- 1868
- Charles Frederick Boynton, A.M.
- Alexander Huntington Clapp, S.T.D.
- Charles Henry Conklin, A.M.
- James Williston Patterson, LL.D.
- Orestes Hawley St. John, A.M.
- Israel Perkins Warren, S.T.D.
- Lyman Whiting, S.T.D.
- 1867
- Samuel Davies Cochran, S.T.D.
- John Putnam Gulliver, S.T.D.
- James Harlan, LL.D.
- Jonathan Piper, A.M.
- 1866
- Orville Willard Merrill, M.A.
- Charles Christopher Parry, M.A.
- Charles Abiathar White, A.M.
- 1865
- Henry Martyn Dexter, LL.D.
- George Daniel Frisbie, M.A.
- James William Grimes, LL.D.
- Francis Wayland Palmer, M.A.
- Edwin McMasters Stanton, LL.D.
- 1863
- John Forest Dillon, LL.D.
- Abram Scott Kissell, M.A.
- George Grover Wright, LL.D.