| Year | Recipient | Degree Conferred |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Bryan A. Stevenson | Doctor of Humane Letter |
| 2023 | Joseph L. Fleischer '65 BA, '66 BArch | Doctor of Humane Letter |
| 2022 | Stanley Nelson | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 2022 | Anthony S. Fauci | Doctor of Science |
| 2021 | Alondra Nelson | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2021 | Edward Blank | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2019 | Edward S. Plotkin '53 CE, '56 MCE, '58 MBA | Doctor of Science |
| 2019 | The Honorable John Robert Lewis | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2018 | Harold Scheraga '41 | Doctor of Science |
| 2018 | Seymour L. Moskowitz '54 ME | Doctor of Science |
| 2018 | Anita Hill | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2017 | David Diaz '65 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2017 | Robert E. Kahn '60 | Doctor of Science |
| 2017 | Deborah Meier | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2016 | Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2015 | Ursual Burns | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2015 | John O'Keefe '63 BA | Doctor of Science |
| 2015 | Michael Pope '44 BEE | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 | Lillias White '78 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 2014 | Millard (Mickey) Drexler | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | Henry D. Perahia '71 BME, '73 MME | Doctor of Science |
| 2013 | Martin Cohen '70 | Doctorate of Science |
| 2012 | Kathleen Battle | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2012 | Harvey Kaylie '60 | Doctorate of Science |
| 2012 | Rafael Angel Suarez, Jr. | Doctorate of Humane Letters |
| 2012 | Sheldon Weinbaum | Doctorate of Science |
| 2011 | Bert E. Brodsky '64 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2011 | Anthony M. Johnson '81 | Doctor of Science |
| 2011 | Edward I. Koch '81 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2011 | Bernard Spitzer '43 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Doctorate of Letters |
| 2010 | H. Jack Geiger | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 2010 | Sy Sternberg '65 | Doctore of Humane Letters |
| 2009 | Geoffrey Canada | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2009 | Thelma Golden | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2008 | Eli Weisel | Doctor of Letters |
| 2008 | Enrique Carbajal | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2007 | Larry Gralla '51 | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 2007 | Johann Matzenauer | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 2007 | Mario Jose Molina | Doctor of Science |
| 2006 | Howard Dodson | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 | Harry Lustig | Doctor of Science |
| 2005 | Oscar de la Renta | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 2005 | Joseph H. Flom | Doctor of Laws |
| 2004 | Robert Mosley '91 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2004 | Richard Schiff '83 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2004 | Frank J. Sciame, Jr. | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 2004 | Bill Clinton | |
| 2003 | Reverend Calvin O. Butts | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2003 | Cristo and Jeanne-Claude | Doctors of Fine Arts |
| 2003 | Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2002 | Dr. Andreas Acrivos | Doctor of Science |
| 2002 | Dr. Irving Adler | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2002 | Frank O. Gehry | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 2002 | Dr. David Satcher | Doctor of Science |
| 2001 | Rita Moreno | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 2000 | Joyce R. Coppin '58 | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 2000 | Nathan Glazer '44 | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 2000 | George Lamming | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 2000 | Henry J. Stern '54 | Doctor of Laws |
| 2000 | David Halberstam | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 1999 | Robert Geddes | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1999 | Mario Runco, Jr. '74 | Doctor of Science |
| 1999 | Josh S. Weston '50 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1998 | Rudolph F. Crew | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 1997 | Arthur Gelb | Doctor of Humane letters |
| 1997 | Leonard Kleinrock '57 | Doctor of Science |
| 1996 | Ellen V. Futter | Doctor of Laws |
| 1996 | Seymour L. Gartenberg '52 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1996 | Oscar Hijuelos '75, '84 MA | Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 | Lonnie R. Bristow '53 | Doctor of Science |
| 1995 | Helen Frankenthaler | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1995 | Bernard H. Mendik '54 | Doctor of Laws |
| 1995 | Percy E. Sutton | Doctor of Laws |
| 1994 | Robert Hamilton Blackburn | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1994 | James Bruce Llewellyn | Doctor of Laws |
| 1994 | Albert Wohlstetter | Doctor of Letters |
| 1993 | Juan Bosch | Doctor of Letters |
| 1993 | Daniel S. Goldin | Doctor of Science |
| 1993 | Wilbur L. Pritchard | Doctor of Science |
| 1993 | Jack Rudin | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 | Chinua Achebe | Doctor of Letters |
| 1992 | Mary Schmidt Campbell | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1992 | Whitman Knapp | Doctor of Laws |
| 1992 | Louis Nunez | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1991 | Erich Bloch | Doctor of Science |
| 1991 | Faith Ringold | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1991 | Herbert Robinson | Doctor of Laws |
| 1991 | Edwin Torres | Doctor of Laws |
| 1990 | Harry Belafonte | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1990 | Miriam Colon | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1990 | Jakes Gerwel | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1990 | Lee Lorch | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1990 | Colin L. Powell | Doctor of Laws |
| 1990 | Adrienne Rich | Doctor of Letters |
| 1989 | Daniel Bell | Doctor of Laws |
| 1989 | Morton Deutsch | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1989 | Irene Diamond | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1989 | Paul Jr. Moore | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1989 | Lloyd George Richards | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1988 | Carlos Fuentes | Doctor of Letters |
| 1988 | Stanley Kaplan | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1988 | Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1988 | Alfred R. Moran | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1988 | Guang-Zhao Zhou | Doctor of Science |
| 1987 | Marian Anderson | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1987 | Kenneth Clark | Doctor of Laws |
| 1987 | Bernard Schwartz | Doctor of Science |
| 1986 | Mary Berry | Doctor of Laws |
| 1986 | Henry Cisneros | Doctor of Laws |
| 1986 | Herbert Hauptman | Doctor of Science |
| 1986 | Jerome Karle | Doctor of Science |
| 1985 | Ella Jo Baker | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1985 | Nadine Gordimer | Doctor of Letters |
| 1985 | Andrew S. Grove | Doctor of Science |
| 1984 | Jewel Plummer Cobb | Doctor of Science |
| 1984 | Lawrence Arthur Cremin | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1984 | Abdus Salam | Doctor of Science |
| 1983 | Bernard Taub Feld | Doctor of Science |
| 1983 | Helson Rolihlahla Mandela | Doctor of Laws |
| 1983 | Walter Frederick Mondale | Doctor of Laws |
| 1982 | James Baldwin | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1982 | Bruno Adrienr Boley | Doctor of Science |
| 1982 | Sir Moses Finley | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1982 | Felipe Neri Torres | Doctor of Laws |
| 1981 | Francine Du Plessix Gray | Doctor of Letters |
| 1981 | Filomen Maria D'Agostino Greenberg | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1981 | Xie Xide | Doctor of Science |
| 1980 | Jose Fernando Zalaquett Daher | Doctor of Laws |
| 1980 | Vernon Eulion Jr. Jordon | Doctor of Laws |
| 1980 | Leon Max Lederman | Doctor of Science |
| 1980 | Bernard Malamud | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1980 | Robert Eugene Marshak | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 | John Brademas | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 | Joseph D. Duffey | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 | Ella Fitzgerald | Doctor of Music |
| 1979 | Alfred Gellhorn | Doctor of Science |
| 1979 | Edgar "Yip" Harburg | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1979 | Dorothy Height | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 | Arthur Mitchell | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1979 | Louise Nevelson | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1979 | Arno Penzias | Doctor of Science |
| 1979 | Arnold Picker | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1979 | Douglas Turner Ward | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1978 | Gwendolyn Brooks | Doctor of Letters |
| 1978 | Tsung-Dao Lee | Doctor of Science |
| 1978 | Justine Wise Polier | Doctor of Laws |
| 1978 | Simon Hirsch Rifkind | Doctor of Laws |
| 1978 | Clifton R. Jr. Wharton | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1977 | Joseph A. Jr. Califano | Doctor of Laws |
| 1977 | Sophie Davis | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1977 | Adrian E. A. DeWind | Doctor of Laws |
| 1977 | Fred M. Hechinger | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1977 | Robert J. Mangum | Doctor of Laws |
| 1977 | I. I. Rabi | Doctor of Science |
| 1976 | Herbert Bienstock | Doctor of Laws |
| 1975 | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Doctor of Laws |
| 1974 | Abraham M. Rosenthal | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Kenneth J. Arrow | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Julius Axelrod | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Herman Badillo | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Leonard B. Davis | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1972 | Jacob Feld | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Stanley H. Fuld | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Buell G. Gallagher | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1972 | Philip Handler | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Milton Halpern | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Edgar Johnson | Doctor of Letters |
| 1972 | Ernest Nagel | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1972 | Frank Press | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | A. Philip Randolph | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Julian Schwinger | Doctor of Laws |
| 1971 | Coretta Scott King | |
| 1966 | Charles H. Tuttle | Doctor of Laws |
| 1964 | Morton Gottschall | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1963 | Martin Luther King | |
| 1962 | Robert Hofstadter | Doctor of Laws |
| 1960 | Arthur Kornberg | Doctor of Laws |
| 1955 | Jonas Salk | Doctor of Laws |
| 1953 | Harry N. Wright | Doctor of Laws |
| 1947 | Bernard Mannes Baruch | Doctor of Laws |
| 1947 | Stephen Pierce Duggan | Doctor of Laws |
| 1947 | Gano Dunn | Doctor of Science |
| 1947 | Charles Albert Elsberg | Doctor of Science |
| 1947 | Felix Frankfurter | Doctor of Laws |
| 1947 | David Barnard Steinman | Doctor of Science |
| 1947 | Robert Ferdinand Wagner | Doctor of Laws |
| 1893 | Russell Sturgis, BA 1856 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1892 | Cleveland Abbe, BA 1857, MA 1860 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1892 | John Bach McMaster, BA 1872 | Doctor of Philosophy |
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