麻豆传媒映画

History of honorary degrees

Honor roll

In 1753, Benjamin Franklin was granted a Master of Arts degree, which is generally considered to be the first true honorary degree awarded by 麻豆传媒映画. The first woman recipient was Helen Keller in 1955.

Past recipients

Throughout our long history, 麻豆传媒映画 has awarded hundreds of honorary degrees.

Year	Recipient	Degree
2026	Geoffrey Hinton, Noel Malcolm, Audra McDonald, Peggy Noonan, Conan O鈥橞rien	various
2025	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Richard Alley, Esther Duflo, Elaine H. Kim, Rita Moreno, Abraham Verghese	various
2024	Lawrence S. Bacow,聽Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ram铆rez, Sylvester James Gates Jr., Jennie Chin Hansen, Joy Harjo-Sapulpa, Maria A. Ressa	various
2023	Jennifer A. Doudna,聽Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, Katalin Karik贸, David Levering Lewis, Hugo No茅 Morales Rosas, Michael Glenn Mullen	various
2022	Jos茅 Ram贸n Andr茅s Puerta,聽Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern,聽Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum,聽Martha Craven Nussbaum, Vicki Lynn Ruiz, Gloria Marie Steinem, William Julius Wilson	various
2021	Frances Hamilton Arnold,聽Martin Baron, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Salman Amin Khan, Margaret Hilary Marshall, Sebasti茫o Salgado, Anna Deavere Smith	various
2019	Lonnie G. Bunch III,聽Ingrid Daubechies,聽Drew Faust,聽William Chester Jordan,聽Angela Merkel,聽David Jay Remnick,聽Emmanuel Saez,聽Marilyn Strathern,聽Wu Hung	various
2018	Sallie Watson Chisholm,聽Rita Dove,聽Harvey Vernon Fineberg,聽Ricardo Lagos, George Emanuel Lewis,聽Twyla Tharp,聽Wong Kar Wai	various
2017	Norman R. Augustine,聽Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe,聽Dame Judi Dench,聽Sandra M. Gilbert,聽James Earl Jones,聽Walter E. Massey,聽Michael Rabin,聽John Williams,聽Huda Y. Zoghbi,聽Mark Zuckerberg	various
2016	El Anatsui,聽Mary L. Bonauto,聽His Excellency Fernando Henrique Cardoso,聽David B. Davis,聽Elaine Fuchs,聽Arnold Rampersad,聽The Right Honourable Lord Martin Rees, Steven Spielberg, Judith Jarvis Thomson	various
2015	Svetlana Leontief Alpers, Robert M. Axelrod, Wallace S. Broecker, Linda B. Buck, Ren茅e Fleming, Patricia Albjerg Graham, Denis Mukwege, Deval L. Patrick, Peter Salovey, Bryan Stevenson	various
2014	Isabel Allende, Michael Bloomberg, President George H.W. Bush, Aretha Franklin, Patricia King, Peter H. Raven, Seymour Slive, Joseph E. Stiglitz	various
2013	Jos茅 Abreu, Partha Dasgupta, Donald R. Hopkins, Robert M. May, Thomas M. Menino, Elaine Pagels, C. Dixon Spangler, Jr., JoAnne Stubbe, Oprah Winfrey	various
2012	John Adams, K. Anthony Appiah, Gillian Beer, Walter Kohn, Wendy Kopp, John Lewis, Mario Molina, Fareed Zakaria	various
2011	Tim Berners-Lee, Pl谩cido Domingo, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Dudley Herschbach, James R. Houghton,聽Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Rosalind Krauss, John G.A. Pocock, David Satcher	various
2010	Thomas R. Cech, Ren茅e Fox, Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Susan Lindquist, Thomas Nagel, David G. Nathan, Onora O鈥橬eill, Richard Serra, David H. Souter, Meryl Streep	various
2009	Pedro Almod贸var,聽Steven Chu, Joan Didion, Wendy Doniger, Ronald M. Dworkin, Anthony S. Fauci, Sarah Hrdy, Robert S. Langer, Wynton Marsalis, Sidney Verba	various
2008	Karim Aga Khan, James P. Comer, Wen C. Fong, Eric R. Kandel, Damon J. Keith,聽Edward M. Kennedy, Gerda Lerner, John McCarthy, Janet Rowley, J.K. Rowling, Daniel Tosteson	various
2007	Daniel Aaron, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, William H. Gates, Conrad Harper, William F. Russell, Joan Wallach Scott, Robert Silvers, Lawrence H. Summers, Karen K. Uhlenbeck	various
2006	Francis Atiyah, Elizabeth Blackburn, Philip E. Converse, Philippe de Montebello, Shirley Ann Jackson, Jim Lehrer, Robert Parris Moses, Norman Ramsey, Leo Steinberg	various
2005	Mary Ellen Avery, David Baltimore, Caroline Walker Bynum, D. Ronald Daniel,聽John Lithgow,聽Quentin Skinner,聽Charles Marstiller Vest, Edward Witten	various
2004	Kofi Atta Annan,聽Margaret Atwood, John Michael Bishop, Robert Lee Carter, Suzanne Farrell, Daniel Kahneman, Frank Kermode,聽Shirley M. Tilghman,聽E.O. Wilson	various
2003	Gary S. Becker, Elliot Forbes, Norman C. Francis, Ellsworth Kelly, Mary-Claire King, Donald Knuth, Linda Nochlin, Philip Roth, Robert G. Stone, P. Roy Vagelos, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon	various
2002	Sydney Brenner, Peter Brown, Katherine Dunham, Albert Hirschman, Yuan T. Lee, Daniel P. Moynihan, Howard Raiffa, Mamphela Ramphele, Julius B. Richmond,聽Neil L. Rudenstine,聽Ruth J. Simmons, Bernard Williams	various
2001	John Ashbery, Ela Bhatt, Geoffrey Canada,聽J眉rgen Habermas, Isabella Karle, Leon Kirchner, Alice Rivlin, Robert E. Rubin,聽Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Richard A. Smith, Charles H. Townes	various
2000	Nicolaas Bloembergen, Noam Chomsky, Frank O. Gehry, Andrew S. Grove, Judith R. Hope, Katherine B. Loker, Maclyn McCarthy, Constance Baker Motley, Kenzaburo Oe,聽Seiji Ozawa, Amartya Sen	various

Year	Recipient	Degree
1999	Kenneth Arrow, Bernard Bailyn, Herbert Block (Herblock),聽Julia Kristeva, Mario Vargas Llosa	various
1998	Samuel H. Beer, Robert A. Dahl, Gertrude B. Elion, Seamus Heaney, John H. Johnson, Nelson Mandela, Jaroslav Pelikan, Mary Robinson, Henry Rosovsky, Jean-Pierre Serre	various
1997	Edward Abraham, Madeleine Albright, Jerome Bruner, Henry Chadwick, William Forge, Quincy D. Jones, Jr., Arthur Miller, W. Jason Morgan, Janet L. Norwood,聽John Rawls, Emily Vermeule	various
1996	Chinua Achebe, Harold Amos, Walter H. Annenberg, William T. Coleman, Jr., Natalie Davis, Francois Furet, Judith Jamison, Maya Lin, Oseola McCarty, Charles P. Slichter	various
1995	Helene Ahrweiler, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Mildred Dresselhaus, Hanna H. Gray, Vaclav Havel, Jacob Lawrence, Doris Lessing, I. M. Pei, James Tobin, John C. Whitehead	various
1994	Harry A. Blackmun, Bennett Carter, Albert Gore, Jr., William H. Gray III, Mason Hammond, Richard C. Levin, Sadako Ogata, Maxine F. Singer, James Q. Wilson	various
1993	Daniel Boorstin, James E. Burke, Julia Child, W. Edwards Deming, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Albert Eschenmoser, Oscar Handlin, Nannerl Keohane, Deborah Meier, Christine Nusslein-Volhard, Colin L. Powell, 聽Ravi Shankar, Susan Sontag, Wole Soyinka	various
1992	Robert Adams, Jr., Daniel Bell, Baruj Benacerraf, Derek Bok, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Dominique de Menil, Robert Solow, Joan Steitz,聽Isaac Stern, Edward Stone, John Updike, Clifton Wharton, Jr., Torsten Wiesel	various
1991	Georges Duby, Marian Wright Edelman, Ada Louise Huxtable, Francois Jacob, Gustav Leonhardt, Yo-Yo Ma, Frederick Mosteller,聽Eduard Shevardnadze, Andrei Sinyavsky	various
1990	Ella Fitzgerald,聽Stephen W. Hawking,聽Helmut Kohl, Michael Kimbrough Marshall, Adrienne Rich, David Riesman, Herbert A. Simon	various
1989	Benazir Bhutto,聽Toni Morrison	LL.D.
1988	Jessye Norman,聽Oscar Arias S谩nchez	various
1987	Thomas P. O鈥橬eill Jr.	LL.D.
1986	Lord Carrington	LL.D.
1985	Louise Nevelson	Art.D.
1984	Juan Carlos I,聽Benny Goodman	various
1983	Carlos Fuentes	LL.D.
1982	Mother Teresa,聽Tennessee Williams	various
1981	Ansel Adams,聽Leontyne Price	Art.D.
1980	Octavio Paz	Litt.D.
1979	Desmond Tutu	LL.D.
1978	John Cheever,聽Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	Litt.D.
1977	Barbara Jordan, Eudora Welty	various
1976	Arthur Fiedler	Art.D.
1974	Mstislav L. Rostropovich,聽Beverly Sills	Mus.D.
1973	Georgia O鈥橩eeffe,聽Robert Penn Warren	various
1972	Saul Bellow	Litt.D.
1968	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	LL.D.
1967	Leonard Bernstein	Mus.D.
1966	Martha Graham	Art.D.
1961	Aaron Copland	Mus.D.
1957	Lady Barbara Jackson, Erwin Panofsky	various
1956	John F. Kennedy	LL.D.
1955	Helen Adams Keller	LL.D.
1951	Thornton Wilder	Litt.D.
1947	George Marshall	LL.D.
1946	Dwight Eisenhower	LL.D.
1943	Winston Churchill	LL.D.
1940	Carl Sandburg	Litt.D.
1938	Walt Disney	A.M.
1937	Robert Frost	Litt.D.
1935	Albert Einstein	S.D.
1929	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	LL.D.
1919	Theodore Roosevelt	A.M.
1917	Herbert Hoover	LL.D.
1916	John Singer Sargent	Art.D.
1907	Woodrow Wilson	LL.D.
1905	William Howard Taft	LL.D.

Year	Recipient	Degree
1896	Booker T. Washington	A.M.
1872	Ulysses S. Grant	LL.D.
1866	Ralph Waldo Emerson	LL.D.
1859	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	LL.D.
1852	Alexis Charles Henri de Tocqueville	LL.D.
1833	Andrew Jackson	LL.D.
1832	Washington Irving	LL.D.
1822	John Quincy Adams	LL.D.

Year	Recipient	Degree
1792	Samuel Adams	LL.D.
1787	Thomas Jefferson	LL.D.
1781	John Adams	LL.D.
1776	George Washington	LL.D.
1753	Benjamin Franklin	A.M.

Year	Recipient	Degree
1692	William Brattle	S.T.B.
1692	John Leverett	S.T.B.
1692	Increase Mather	S.T.D.

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