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.
| Year Honored | Honoree | Degree Awarded |
| 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 | James Banks | D.H.L. |
| Patricia O'Connor '71 | D.H.L. | |
| Christopher Vaughan '71 | D. Sc. | |
| Thomas Vilsack | LL.D. | |
| 2005 | Carol Bellamy | D.H.L. |
| Kathryn Jagow Mohrman '67 | D.H.L. | |
| Rein Saral '65 | D.H.L. | |
| 2004 | Frances Moore Lappé | D.H.L. |
| Debhanom Muangman '58 | D. Sc. | |
| William Schulz | D.H.L. | |
| 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 | Raymond D. Horton '62 | D.H.L. |
| Robert B. Reich | LL.D. | |
| 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 | Barry 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 | MA | |
| 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 | BA |
| 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 | BA | |
| 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 | MA |
| 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. | |
