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Between 1880 and May 2008, four hundred and thirty-one
(431) Honorary Degrees have been awarded by the Johns
Hopkins University. The following is a CHRONOLOGICAL
LISTING of these awards.
|
NAME |
DEGREE |
AWARDED |
DECEASED |
|
1880 |
|
Rowland, Henry Augustus |
Ph.D. |
1880 |
1901 |
|
1881 |
|
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard |
LL.D. |
1881 |
1893 |
|
1882-1899 |
|
None |
|
1900 -
1901 |
|
None |
|
1902 |
|
Alderman, Edwin Anderson |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1931 |
|
Angell, James Burrill |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1916 |
|
Billings, John Shaw |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1913 |
|
Butler, Nicholas M. |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1947 |
|
Councilman, William T. |
A.M. |
1902 |
1933 |
|
Dabney, Charles William |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1945 |
|
Eliot, Charles William |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1926 |
|
Gilman, Benjamin I. |
A.M. |
1902 |
1933 |
|
Glenn, John M. |
A.M. |
1902 |
1950 |
|
Hadley, Arthur Twining |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1930 |
|
Hall, Clayton Coleman |
A.M. |
1902 |
1916 |
|
Hall, Granville Stanley |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1924 |
|
Harper, William Rainey |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1905 |
|
Jameson, John Franklin |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1937 |
|
Jordan, David S. |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1931 |
|
Loudon, James |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1916 |
|
Mallet, John William |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1912 |
|
Marburg, Theodore |
A.M. |
1902 |
1946 |
|
Marbury, William Luke |
A.M. |
1902 |
1935 |
|
1902 |
|
Newcomb, Simon |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1909 |
|
Patton, Rev. Francis L. |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1932 |
|
Peterson, Sir William |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1921 |
|
Pritchett, Henry Smith |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1939 |
|
Randolph, Robert Lee |
A.M. |
1902 |
1919 |
|
Riggs, Lawrason |
A.M. |
1902 |
1940 |
|
Royce, Josiah |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1916 |
|
Schouler, James |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1920 |
|
Thomas, Henry M. |
A.M. |
1902 |
1925 |
|
Walcott, Charles Doolittle |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1927 |
|
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1927 |
|
White, Andrew Dickson |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1912 |
|
White, Julian LeRoy |
A.M. |
1902 |
1923 |
|
Wilson, Edmund Beecher |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1939 |
|
Wilson, Woodrow |
LL.D. |
1902 |
1924 |
|
1903 |
|
None |
|
1904 |
|
Thompson, Sir Joseph John |
LL.D. |
1904 |
1940 |
|
1905 |
|
Osler, Sir William |
LL.D. |
1905 |
1920 |
|
Pfister, Albert Von |
LL.D. |
1905 |
1907 |
|
1906 -
1909 |
|
None |
|
1910 |
|
Von-Bernstorff, Johann |
LL.D. |
1910 |
1939 |
|
1911 |
|
Bryce, James |
LL.D. |
1911 |
1922 |
|
1912 |
|
Gorgas, William Crawford |
LL.D. |
1912 |
1920 |
|
Mitchell, Silas Weir |
LL.D. |
1912 |
1914 |
|
Ramsay, Sir William |
LL.D. |
1912 |
1917 |
|
1913 -
1914 |
|
None |
|
1915 |
|
Adams, Henry Carter |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1921 |
|
Clarke, John Mason |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1925 |
|
Dewey, John |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1952 |
|
Flexner, Simon |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1946 |
|
Goethals, George Washington |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1928 |
|
Kittredge, George Lyman |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1941 |
|
Lowel, Abbott Lawrence |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1943 |
|
Morgan, Thomas Hunt |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1945 |
|
Pupin, Michael Idovorsky |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1935 |
|
Shorey, Paul |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1934 |
|
White, Henry |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1927 |
|
Woodward, Robert Simpson |
LL.D. |
1915 |
1924 |
|
1916 -
1917 |
|
None |
|
1918 |
|
DeCellere, V. Macchi |
LL.D. |
1918 |
1919 |
|
1919 |
|
None |
|
1920 |
|
Hoover, Herbert C. |
LL.D. |
1920 |
1964 |
|
1921 |
|
Foch, Ferdinand |
LL.D. |
1921 |
1929 |
|
1922 |
|
Coolidge, Calvin |
LL.D. |
1922 |
1933 |
|
Thomas, M. Carey |
LL.D. |
1922 |
1935 |
|
1923 |
|
Geddes, Sir Aukland C. |
LL.D. |
1923 |
1954 |
|
1924 |
|
Ball, Thomas Randolph |
A.M. |
1924 |
1929 |
|
1925 |
|
Young, Owen D. |
LL.D. |
1925 |
1962 |
|
1926 |
|
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien |
LL.D. |
1926 |
1939 |
|
1927 -
1928 |
|
None |
|
1929 |
|
Bond, Carroll Taney |
LL.D. |
1929 |
1943 |
|
Donnan, Frederick George |
LL.D. |
1929 |
|
|
1930 |
|
Goodnow, Frank Johnson |
LL.D. |
1930 |
1939 |
|
Smuts, Gen. Rt. Hon. Jan C. |
LL.D. |
1930 |
1950 |
|
1931 |
|
Jeans, Sir James Hopwood |
LL.D. |
1931 |
1946 |
|
1932 |
|
None |
|
1933 |
|
Baruch, Bernard M. |
LL.D. |
1933 |
1965 |
|
1934 |
|
Dittus, Christian W. |
A.M. |
1934 |
1955 |
|
1935 |
|
Lawler, Elsie M. |
A.M. |
1935 |
1962 |
|
1936 |
|
Ames, Joseph Sweetman |
LL.D. |
1936 |
1943 |
|
Langmuir, Irving |
LL.D. |
1936 |
1957 |
|
Willoughby, Westel W. |
LL.D. |
1936 |
1945 |
|
Wilmer, William Holland |
LL.D |
1936 |
1936 |
|
1937 |
|
Compton, Karl T. |
LL.D. |
1937 |
1954 |
|
Greiner, John Edwin |
Dr.Eng. |
1937 |
1942 |
|
Thomas, Carl Clapp |
Dr.Eng. |
1937 |
1938 |
|
Wagner, Herbert A. |
Dr.Eng |
1937 |
1947 |
|
Wolman, Abel |
Dr.Eng |
1937 |
|
|
1938 |
|
Finley, John Huston |
LL.D. |
1938 |
1940 |
|
Laign, Gordon Jennings |
LL.D. |
1938 |
1945 |
|
Stamp, Josiah-Lord of Shortlands |
LL.D. |
1938 |
1941 |
|
1939 |
|
Andrews, Charles McLean |
LL.D. |
1939 |
1943 |
|
Braden, Spruille |
LL.D. |
1939 |
|
|
Kelly, Howard Atwood |
LL.D. |
1939 |
1942 |
|
Shotwell, James T. |
LL.D. |
1939 |
|
|
1940 |
|
Buckler, William H. |
LL.D. |
1940 |
1952 |
|
Bush, Vannevar |
LL.D. |
1940 |
1974 |
|
Conklin, Edwin G. |
LL.D. |
1940 |
1952 |
|
Goodwillie, Mary C. |
A.M. |
1940 |
1949 |
|
MacLeish, Archibald |
LL.D. |
1940 |
|
|
1941 |
|
Dykstra, Clarence A. |
LL.D. |
1941 |
1950 |
|
Willard, Daniel |
LL.D. |
1941 |
1942 |
|
1942 |
|
Dunning, Henry A. B. |
LL.D. |
1942 |
1962 |
|
Harrison, Ross G. |
LL.D |
1942 |
1959 |
|
Lillie, Frank R. |
LL.D. |
1942 |
1947 |
|
1943 -
1946 |
|
None |
|
1947 |
|
Erlanger, Joseph |
LL.D. |
1947 |
1965 |
|
Gasser, Herbert S. |
LL.D. |
1947 |
1963 |
|
Hiss, Alger |
LL.D. |
1947 |
deceased.
year? |
|
Inverchapel, Lord Archibald |
LL.D. |
1947 |
1951 |
|
Opie, Eugene L. |
LL.D. |
1947 |
1971 |
|
Whipple, George H. |
LL.D. |
1947 |
1976 |
|
1948 |
|
Darden, Colgate W., Jr. |
LL.D. |
1948 |
|
|
Dickinson, John Sharp |
LL.D. |
1948 |
1952 |
|
Freeman, Douglas S. |
LL.D. |
1948 |
1953 |
|
Rogers, Lindsay |
LL.D. |
1948 |
1970 |
|
Wolman, Leo |
LL.D. |
1948 |
1961 |
|
1949 |
|
Bowman, Isaiah |
LL.D. |
1949 |
1950 |
|
Flexner, Abraham |
LL.D. |
1949 |
1959 |
|
Richards, Alfred Newton |
LL.D. |
1949 |
1966 |
|
1950 |
|
Adrian, E. D. |
D.Sc. |
1950 |
1977 |
|
Chew, Samuel Claggett |
Litt.D. |
1950 |
1960 |
|
Franks, Sir Oliver |
LL.D. |
1950 |
|
|
Harvey, E. Newton |
D.Sc. |
1950 |
1959 |
|
Hill, Archibald Vivian |
D.Sc. |
1950 |
1977 |
|
Moreland, Edward Leyburn |
Dr.Eng. |
1950 |
1951 |
|
Owens, (James) Hamilton |
LL.D. |
1950 |
1967 |
|
Schmitt, Francis O. |
D.Sc. |
1950 |
|
|
Tuve, Merle Anthony |
D.Sc. |
1950 |
1977 |
|
1951 |
|
Andrews, Justin M. |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1967 |
|
Christie, Alexander G. |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1964 |
|
Havens, Raymond Dexter |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1954 |
|
Longcope, Warfield T. |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1953 |
|
Lovejoy, Arthur O. |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1962 |
|
McCollum, Elmer V. |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1967 |
|
Moe, Henry Allen |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1975 |
|
Park, Edwards A. |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1969 |
|
Weed, Lewis H. |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1952 |
|
Whitehead, John B. |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1954 |
|
Wood, Robert W. |
LL.D. |
1951 |
1955 |
|
1952 |
|
Dulles, John Foster |
LL.D. |
1952 |
1959 |
|
Eisenhower, Milton S. |
LL.D. |
1952 |
1985 |
|
Freeman, Allen Weir |
LL.D. |
1952 |
1954 |
|
Graham, Evarts Ambrose |
LL.D. |
1952 |
1957 |
|
1953 |
|
Dryden, Hugh L. |
LL.D. |
1953 |
1965 |
|
Eisenhart, Luther P. |
LL.D. |
1953 |
1965 |
|
Gifford, Walter S. |
LL.D. |
1953 |
1966 |
|
Lashley, Karl S. |
LL.D. |
1953 |
1958 |
|
Soper, Morris A. |
LL.D. |
1953 |
1963 |
|
Verhoeff, Frederick |
LL.D. |
1953 |
1968 |
|
1954 |
|
Forbes, Alexander |
D.Sc. |
1954 |
1965 |
|
Smith, Winford H. |
LL.D. |
1954 |
1961 |
|
1955 |
|
Abrams, Frank W. |
LL.D. |
1955 |
1976 |
|
Aung, Htin |
LL.D. |
1955 |
|
|
Crowe, Samuel J. |
D.Sc. |
1955 |
1955 |
|
Elkins, Wilson Homer |
LL.D. |
1955 |
|
|
Hammarskjold, Dag |
LL.D. |
1955 |
1961 |
|
McIntosh, Millicent Carey |
Litt.D. |
1955 |
|
|
1956 |
|
Kirk, Grayson |
LL.D. |
1956 |
|
|
1957 |
|
Chesney, Alan M. |
LL.D. |
1957 |
1964 |
|
Evans, Herbert McLean |
D.Sc. |
1957 |
1971 |
|
Martin, William H. |
D.Sc. |
1957 |
1974 |
|
Pusey, Nathan M. |
LL.D. |
1957 |
|
|
Reed, Lowell J. |
LL.D. |
1957 |
1966 |
|
Sonneborn, Tracy M. |
D.Sc. |
1957 |
|
|
1958 |
|
Barton, Carlyle |
LL.D. |
1958 |
1962 |
|
Eisenhower, Dwight David |
LL.D. |
1958 |
1969 |
|
MacMillan, Harold, The Hon. |
LL.D. |
1958 |
|
|
1959 |
|
Griswold, Alfred Whitney |
LL.D. |
1959 |
1963 |
|
Killian, James Rhyne, Jr. |
LL.D. |
1959 |
|
|
1960 |
|
Bayne-Jones, Stanhope |
LL.D. |
1960 |
1970 |
|
Camargo, Alberto Lleras |
LL.D. |
1960 |
|
|
Nason, John William |
LL.D. |
1960 |
|
|
1961 |
|
Herter, Christian Archibald |
L.C.D. |
1961 |
1966 |
|
Murrow, Edward R. |
LL.D. |
1961 |
1965 |
|
1962 |
|
Candau, Marcolino Gomes |
LL.D. |
1962 |
|
|
Kouwenhoven, William B. |
LL.D. |
1962 |
1975 |
|
Stratton, Julius Adams |
LL.D. |
1962 |
|
|
1963 |
|
Acheson, Dean |
LL.D. |
1963 |
1971 |
|
Battaglia, Felice |
LL.D. |
1963 |
|
|
Kraushaar, Otto F. |
LL.D. |
1963 |
|
|
Rusk, Dean |
LL.D. |
1963 |
|
|
1964 |
|
Albright, William Foxwell |
LL.D. |
1964 |
1971 |
|
Pearson, Lester B. |
LL.D. |
1964 |
1972 |
|
1965 |
|
Beadle, George |
LL.D. |
1965 |
|
|
Boas, George |
L.H.D. |
1965 |
|
|
Cairns, Huntington |
L.H.D. |
1965 |
|
|
Cherniss, Harold F. |
L.H.D. |
1965 |
|
|
Greenfield, Kent Roberts |
L.H.D. |
1965 |
1967 |
|
Hallstein, Walter |
LL.D. |
1965 |
|
|
Malone, Kemp |
L.H.D. |
1965 |
1971 |
|
1966 |
|
Marshall, Thurgood, The Hon. |
LL.D. |
1966 |
deceased.
year? |
|
McCormack, James |
LL.D. |
1966 |
1975 |
|
1967 |
|
Nitze, Paul Henry |
LL.D. |
1967 |
|
|
1968 |
|
Bard, Philip |
LL.D. |
1968 |
1977 |
|
Brooke, Edward W. |
LL.D. |
1968 |
|
|
Herring, E. Pendleton |
LL.D. |
1968 |
|
|
Shehan, Lawrence Joseph, Cardinal |
LL.D. |
1968 |
deceased.
year? |
|
1969 |
|
Bolton, Frances Payne, Mrs. |
LL.D. |
1969 |
1977 |
|
Brewster, Kingman |
LL.D. |
1969 |
|
|
Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon |
LL.D. |
1969 |
|
|
Brown, Harrison Scott |
LL.D. |
1969 |
|
|
Garland, Charles S., Sr. |
LL.D. |
1969 |
1971 |
|
Hartline, Haldon Keffer |
LL.D. |
1969 |
|
|
Jenkins, Martin D. |
LL.D. |
1969 |
|
|
Kouwenhoven, William B. |
M.D. |
1969 |
1975 |
|
Moos, Malcolm |
LL.D. |
1969 |
|
|
Wolman, Abel |
LL.D. |
1969 |
deceased.
year? |
|
1970 |
|
Burden, William A. M. |
LL.D. |
1970 |
|
|
Clark, Kenneth B. |
LL.D. |
1970 |
|
|
Cordier, Andrew W. |
LL.D. |
1970 |
1975 |
|
Evans, George Heberton, Jr. |
LL.D. |
1970 |
|
|
Jessup, Philip Caryl |
LL.D. |
1970 |
|
|
Penfield, Wilder |
LL.D. |
1970 |
1976 |
|
Richter, Curt Paul |
LL.D. |
1970 |
|
|
Smith, Gerard Coad |
LL.D. |
1970 |
|
|
Strauss, Lewis Lichtenstein |
LL.D. |
1970 |
1974 |
|
Wharton, Clifton R., Jr. |
LL.D. |
1970 |
|
|
Willier, Benjamin Harrison |
LL.D. |
1970 |
1972 |
|
1971 |
|
Gebelein, Conrad |
M.A. |
1971 |
|
|
Harris, Patricia Roberts |
LL.D. |
1971 |
|
|
Heard, Alexander |
LL.D. |
1971 |
|
|
1972 |
|
Allen, Don Cameron |
LL.D. |
1972 |
1972 |
|
Gibson, Ralph Edward |
M.D. |
1972 |
|
|
Johnson, Edgar A. J. |
LL.D. |
1972 |
1972 |
|
Reid, E. Emmet |
D.Sc. |
1972 |
1973 |
|
Walsh, Frank B. |
LL.D. |
1972 |
|
|
1973 |
|
Cloos, Ernst, Dr. |
LL.D. |
1973 |
1974 |
|
Mandel, Marvin |
LL.D. |
1973 |
|
|
Temkin, Owsei, Dr. |
LL.D. |
1973 |
|
|
Warren, Earl, The Hon. |
LL.D. |
1973 |
1974 |
|
1974 |
|
Baker, Benjamin M. |
LL.D. |
1974 |
|
|
Hernandez-Colon, Rafael |
LL.D. |
1974 |
|
|
Lane, Frederic C. |
LL.D. |
1974 |
|
|
Olin, John M. |
LL.D. |
1974 |
|
|
Sarnoff, Robert W. |
LL.D. |
1974 |
|
|
1975 |
|
Cochran, William G. |
LL.D. |
1975 |
|
|
Corner, George Washington, Dr. |
LL.D. |
1975 |
|
|
Sanford, Terry |
LL.D. |
1975 |
|
|
Scranton, William W. |
LL.D. |
1975 |
|
|
1976 |
|
Ashby, Eric, Lord |
LL.D. |
1976 |
|
|
Breit, Gregory |
LL.D. |
1976 |
|
|
Carnacini, Tito |
LL.D. |
1976 |
|
|
Pahlavi, Ashraf, Imperial Highness |
LL.D. |
1976 |
|
|
Schmidt, Helmut |
LL.D. |
1976 |
|
|
Thomas, Lewis |
LL.D. |
1976 |
|
|
Thomas, Vivien |
LL.D. |
1976 |
|
|
1977 |
|
Johnson, Gerald W. |
LL.D. |
1977 |
|
|
McElroy, William David, Dr. |
LL.D. |
1977 |
|
|
Warren, Robert Penn |
LL.D. |
1977 |
|
|
Wheeler, John Archibald, Dr. |
LL.D. |
1977 |
|
|
1978 |
|
Evans, John Robert |
L.H.D. |
1978 |
|
|
Kerr, Chester |
L.H.D. |
1978 |
|
|
Langmuir, Alexander Duncan |
L.H.D. |
1978 |
|
|
Levi-Strauss, Claude |
L.H.D. |
1978 |
|
|
Pettijohn, Francis John |
L.H.D. |
1978 |
|
|
Thomson, Virgil |
L.H.D. |
1978 |
|
|
1979 |
|
Baetjer, Anna M. |
L.H.D. |
1979 |
|
|
Skinner, B. F. |
L.H.D. |
1979 |
1990 |
|
Stern, Isaac |
L.H.D. |
1979 |
|
|
Yalow, Rosalyn S. |
L.H.D. |
1979 |
|
|
1980 |
|
Bernstein, Leonard |
L.H.D. |
1980 |
deceased.
year? |
|
Hesburgh, Theodore M., Rev. |
L.H.D. |
1980 |
|
|
Hulburt, Edward Olson |
L.H.D. |
1980 |
|
|
Ludwig, Daniel K. |
L.H.D. |
1980 |
|
|
Stein, Jules |
L.H.D. |
1980 |
|
|
1981 |
|
Anderson, Marian |
L.H.D. |
1981 |
deceased.
year? |
|
Berlin, Sir Isaiah |
L.H.D. |
1981 |
|
|
Firor, Warfield M. |
L.H.D. |
1981 |
|
|
Merrell, Margaret |
L.H.D. |
1981 |
|
|
Murphy, Franklin D. |
L.H.D. |
1981 |
|
|
Press, Frank |
L.H.D. |
1981 |
|
|
Shock, Nathan Wetherill |
L.H.D. |
1981 |
|
|
1982 |
|
Comissiona, Sergiu |
L.H.D. |
1982 |
|
|
Dahrendorf, Rolf |
L.H.D. |
1982 |
|
|
Rhodes, Frank |
L.H.D. |
1982 |
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Rome, Benjamin |
L.H.D. |
1982 |
1994 |
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White, Robert M. |
L.H.D. |
1982 |
|
|
1983 |
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Baker, Russell |
L.H.D. |
1983 |
|
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Fairbank, John King |
L.H.D. |
1983 |
|
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Garner, Wendell |
L.H.D. |
1983 |
|
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Meyerhoff, Joseph |
L.H.D. |
1983 |
deceased.
year? |
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Stellar, Eliot |
L.H.D. |
1983 |
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