Honorary Degrees
Recipients
- Berenice Abbott DFA 1973
- Jane Addams LLD 1910
- Stella Adler DFA 1987
- Gwen Agna LHD 2020
- Dorothy Ainsworth 1916 SCD 1956
- Fay Ajzenberg-Selove SCD 1995
- Madeleine Korbel Albright LLD 2003
- Elizabeth Alexander DFA 2019
- Jane Alexander DFA 1999
- Florence Ellinwood Allen LLD 1925
- Hope Emily Allen LHD 1946
- Christiane Amanpour LHD 2008
- Marian Anderson MUS 1944
- Mary Anderson LLD 1941
- Maya Angelou LTD 1975
- Gladys Anslow 1914 SCD 1950
- Hannah Arendt LLD 1966
- Margaret Arnstein 1925 SCD 1950
- Helen Atwater 1897 SCD 1943
- Margaret Atwood LTD 1982
- Tammy Baldwin '84 LLD 2009
- Mahzarin Banaji SCD 2015
- Ana Marie Barrenechea LTD 1967
- Nita Barrow LLD 1991
- Leona Baumgartner SCD 1956
- Rose Fairbank Beals 1895 SCD 1934
- Mary Beard LLD 1945
- Alison Bechdel DFA 2016
- Bodil Begtrup LLD 1949
- M. Kathleen Bell 1944 AM 1959
- Sally Benson SCD 2015
- Mary Lathrap Benton LHD 1914
- Charlotte Bequignon-Lagarde LLD 1949
- Mildred Jeanmaire Berendsen 1949 LHD 1991
- Mary Berry LLD 1990
- Ela Bhatt LHD 2014
- Deborah Bial LHD 2021
- Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan LLD 2010
- Elizabeth Bishop LTD 1968
- Barbara Black LLD 1988
- Albert F. Blakeslee SCD 1952
- Elizabeth Blanchard AM 1888
- Sarah Gibson Blanding LLD 1949
- Frances Bradshaw Blanshard 1916 LLD 1946
- Charles Blitzer LLD 1989
- Mabel Thorp Boardman LLD 1916
- Jean Sutherland Boggs LLD 1975
- Nadia Boulanger DFA 1958
- Helen Childs Boyden 1904 LHD 1934
- Muriel Clara Bradbrook LLD 1965
- Anna Branch 1897 AM 1934
- Germaine Bree LTD 1960
- Vivion Lenon Brewer 1921 LHD 1961
- Hari Brissimi 1948 LLD 2005
- Roslyn Brock LHD 2016
- Anita Brookner LTD 1989
- Gwendolyn Brooks LTD 1997
- Adelaide Brown 1888 SCD 1939
- Ann Winkelman Brown 1959 LLD 2000
- Nina Browne 1882 LTD 1930
- Elizabeth T. Bunce 1937 SCD 1971
- Mary Bunting-Smith LLD 1960
- Eleanor Margaret Peachy Burbidge SCD 1963
- Barbara Pierce Bush 1947 LHD 1989
- Helen Caldicott LLD 1990
- Sarah Caldwell DFA 1974
- Mary Calkins 1885 LLD 1910
- Ruth Brooks Calkins 1921 AB 1939
- Helen Maud Cam LLD 1949
- Joanne Campbell LHD 2021
- Eric Carle LTD 2014
- Giuseppina Carmirelli MUS 1982
- Rachel Carson LTD 1953
- Eunice Hunton Carter 1921 LLD 1938
- Gwendolen M. Carter LLD 1979
- Eleanora Carus-Wilson LLD 1968
- Willa Sibert Cather LHD 1933
- Carrie Chapman Catt LLD 1925
- Victoria Chan Chan-Palay 1965 SCD 1979
- Gloria Chandler 1919 LHD 1968
- Mary Ellen Chase LTD 1949
- Judy Chicago DFA 2000
- Julia McWilliams Child 1934 LHD 1985
- Constance Chilton 1926 AM 1951
- Shirley Chisholm LLD 1975
- Carol T. Christ LHD 2018
- Margaret Clapp LLD 1949
- Annetta Clark 1904 AM 1929
- Catherine Cleary LLD 1973
- Jewel Plummer Cobb SCD 2006
- Hazel Winans Coe 1921 LHD 1962
- Johnnetta B. Cole LLD 2000
- Rita Rossi Colwell SCD 2004
- Grace Hazard Conkling 1899 AM 1930
- Silvio Conte LLD 1991
- Jill Ker Conway LTD 1988
- Alison Cook Cook 1918 AM 1954
- Constance Eberhardt Cook LLD 1971
- Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge AM 1927
- Grace Goodhue Coolidge LLD 1929
- Joan Cooney LLD 1986
- Gerty T. Cori SCD 1949
- Katherine Cornell LHD 1937
- Louise Frances Cowles AM 1893
- Cheryl A. Crawford 1925 DFA 1962
- Joanne V. Creighton LLD 1996
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw LLD 2018
- Adelaide Cromwell 1940 LTD 2015
- Otelia Cromwell 1900 LLD 1950
- Elizabeth C. Crosby SCD 1967
- Frances Crowe LHD 2015
- Rachel Eleanor Crowdy LLD 1926
- Marie Curie SCD 1921
- Anna Cutler 1885 LHD 1952
- M. Elizabeth Czarnomska AM 1904
- Marie-Therese d'Alverny LTD 1977
- Edwidge Danticat LTD 2012
- Herbert John Davis LLD 1949
- Natalie Zemon Davis 1949 LHD 1977
- Katrina de Hirsch SCD 1984
- Fe del Mundo SCD 1970
- Maria de Maeztu LLD 1919
- Maria-Rosa Lida de Malkiel LTD 1955
- Agnes George De Mille LHD 1954
- Charlotte DeForest 1901 LHD 1921
- Vera Micheles Dean LLD 1944
- Paula Deitz 1959 LHD 2006
- Sirarpie Der Nersessian LHD 1957
- Ninette de Valois DFA 1957
- Colleen Dewhurst DFA 1989
- Marion Dodd 1906 AM 1936
- Elizabeth Dole LHD 1998
- Marion Graffin Donhoff LHD 1962
- Rhoda Mary Dorsey 1949 LLD 1979
- Rita Dove DFA 2018
- Ruth Draper LHD 1947
- Mildred Dresselhaus SCD 1980
- Elizabeth Drew LTD 1962
- Sophie Drinker MUS 1949
- Eleanor Shipley Duckett LHD 1949
- Esther Cloudman Dunn LTD 1956
- Mary Maples Dunn LTD 1998
- Sylvia A. Earle SCD 2011
- Marian Wright Edelman LLD 1969
- Margaret Edson 1983 LTD 2008
- Amelia Blanchard Edwards LLD 1886
- Martha M. Eliot SCD 1949
- Katharine Asher Engel 1920 AM 1950
- Katherine Woodruff Fanning 1949 LTD 1988
- Beatrix Cadwalader Jone Farrand LHD 1936
- Drew Gilpin Faust LHD 2019
- Marion Spencer Fay SCD 1964
- Sidney Bradshaw Fay LHD 1929
- Honor Bridget Fell SCD 1962
- Yen-Tsai Feng LHD 1982
- Mercedes Fermin-Gomez LLD 1970
- Zelda Fichandler DFA 1977
- Marian Ropes Fielding 1924 SCD 1965
- Mary Peters Fieser SCD 1969
- Christiana Figueres LLD 2020
- Vigdis Finnbogadottir LLD 1988
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher LHD 1954
- Minnie Maddern Fiske AM 1926
- Janet Flanner LLD 1958
- Edna Foley 1901 SCD 1928
- Florence Whitney Fosdick 1900 LHD 1950
- Julie Foudy LLD 2005
- Renee C. Fox 1949 LHD 1975
- Helen Frankenthaler DFA 1973
- Claire M. Fraser-Liggett SCD 2009
- Yvonne Freccero LHD 2019
- Betty Goldstein Friedan 1942 LHD 1975
- Ellen Futter LLD 1995
- John Kenneth Galbraith LLD 1989
- Cecelia Payne Gaposchkin SCD 1951
- Juliet V. García LHD 2015
- Harry Norman Gardiner LHD 1924
- Helene D. Gayle SCD 2007
- Carel Bailey Germain LHD 1993
- Anne Angen Gershon 1960 SCD 1993
- Eleanor Jack Gibson 1931 SCD 1972
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth SCD 1945
- Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve LHD 1936
- Carol Gilligan LTD 1999
- Florence Gilman SCD 1923
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg LLD 1994
- Nikki Giovanni LTD 1975
- Catherine Crozier Gleason MUS 1965
- Ellen Gleditsch SCD 1914
- Thelma Golden 1987 DFA 2004
- Winifred Goldring SCD 1957
- Ellen Goodman LHD 1993
- Nadine Gordimer LTD 1985
- Beate Sirota Gordon LLD 2008
- Katharine Graham LLD 1975
- Martha Graham DFA 1969
- Evelyn Boyd Granville 1945 SCD 1989
- Ella Tambussi Grasso LLD 1976
- Hanna Gray LLD 1986
- Constance McLaughlin Green 1919 LTD 1963
- Edith Green LLD 1966
- Meg E. Greenfield 1952 LHD 1978
- Jocelyn Crane Griffin 1930 MSS 1947
- Martha Wright Griffiths LLD 1976
- Tatyana Grosman DFA 1973
- Lani Guinier LLD 1999
- Ruchira Gupta LHD 2016
- Julia Gulliver 1879 LLD 1910
- Ute Hagen DFA 1978
- Helen Hall LHD 1969
- Mira Hall 1883 LHD 1933
- Alice Hamilton SCD 1927
- Gordon Hamilton LHD 1953
- Nancy Hanks LHD 1978
- Elizabeth Hardwick LTD 1975
- Joy Harjo DFA 2021
- Jane Lakes Harman 1966 LLD 1994
- Julie Harris AM 1956
- Patricia Harris LLD 1974
- Rosemary Harris DFA 1968
- Anna Harrison SCD 1975
- Ann Hartman 1954 LLD 1995
- Emelyn Battersby Hartridge LHD 1928
- Constance R. Harvey 1927 LLD 1952
- Harriet Boyd Hawes 1892 LHD 1910
- Elizabeth D. Hay 1948 SCD 1973
- Helen Hayes LHD 1940
- Charles Downer Hazen LLD 1937
- Dorothy Height LHD 1975
- Carolyn G. Heilbrun LTD 1989
- Lillian Hellman LTD 1974
- Julia Henderson LLD 1967
- Helen Margaret Hewitt LTD 1968
- Clare Higgins LLD 2017
- Anita F. Hill LLD 2002
- Edith N. Hill 1903 AM 1928
- Justina Hill 1916 SCD 1941
- Gertrude Himmelfarb LTD 1977
- Marion Hines 1913 SCD 1943
- Oveta Culp Hobby LLD 1954
- Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit SCD 1984
- Malvina Hoffman LHD 1951
- Louise Adams Holland LTD 1965
- Florence Hollis 1931 LHD 1967
- Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg 1943 LHD 2007
- Rebecca Wilder Holmes MUS 1936
- Vera Brown Holmes LTD 1960
- Jenny Holzer DFA 2009
- Elizabeth Holtzman LLD 1982
- Louise Homer AM 1931
- Donald C. Hood SCD 2000
- Nancy Hopkins SCD 2007
- Grace Hopper LLD 1984
- Karen Horn LLD 1992
- B. Elizabeth Horner SCD 2006
- Matina Horner LLD 1979
- Dorothy Millicent Horstmann SCD 1961
- Mildred Helen McAfee Horton LLD 1944
- Julia Ward Howe LLD 1910
- Arianna Huffington LTD 2013
- Shirley Hufstedler LLD 1982
- Eleanor Humphreys 1917 SCD 1967
- Harriet Hunt 1913 AM 1949
- Swanee Hunt LHD 2014
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault LHD 2009
- Ada Louise Huxtable LHD 1968
- Gwen Ifill LHD 2005
- Barbel Inhelder SCD 1975
- Elizabeth Skinner Jackson 1910 AM 1950
- Shirley Ann Jackson SCD 2002
- Tano Jodai LLD 1962
- Laura Johnson LLD 1976
- Sir Robert Jones SCD 1921
- Mary Augusta Jordan LHD 1910
- Sara Murray Jordan SCD 1935
- Mother Mary Rogers Joseph 1905 LHD 1950
- Pauline Kael LTD 1973
- Amanda Bryan Kane 1927 LHD 1955
- Marie F. Kapp AM 1904
- Nancy Kassebaum LLD 1990
- Rajkumari Amrit Kaur LLD 1956
- Evelyn Fox Keller SCD 2014
- Florence M. Kelley 1934 LLD 1960
- Elizabeth Kennan LLD 1984
- Dorothy Kenyon 1908 LLD 1948
- Nannerl Keohane LLD 1987
- Everett Kimball LLD 1947
- Mary-Claire King SCD 1994
- Reatha Clark King LLD 1993
- Mary Kirkbride SCD 1932
- Helen Paull Kirkpatrick 1931 MA 1948
- Charlotte Kohler LTD 1971
- Wendy Kopp LLD 2001
- Stella Kramrisch LHD 1982
- Otto F. Kraushaar LLD 1948
- Mathilde Krim SCD 1996
- Afroditi K. Krokodilou AM 1948
- Michelle Kwan LHD 2017
- Madeleine L'Engle 41 LTD 1986
- Florence Corliss Lamont 1893 LLD 1952
- Julie Clifford Lathrop LLD 1928
- Lauren Beth Lazin 1982 DFA 2007
- Rochelle Lazarus 1968 LHD 2005
- Eva Le Galliene LHD 1930
- P. Leelavathy 1970 LLD 1997
- Dorothy F. Leet LTD 1954
- Elma Lewis DFA 1976
- Maya Lin DFA 1993
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1928 AM 1935 LTD 1970
- Mary Pillsbury Lord 1927 LLD 1953
- Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury 1980 LHD 2006
- Jane Lynch DFA 2012
- Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey LHD 1978
- Florence I. Macdonald 1932 AM 1976
- Jean Kenyon Mackenzie AM 1927
- Rachel Maddow LLD 2010
- Margaret E. Mahoney LLD 1985
- Nancy Weiss Malkiel 1965 LTD 1997
- Wilma Pearl Mankiller LLD 1998
- Henrietta Mann LHD 2017
- Margaret Mitchell Marsh 1922 AM 1939
- Dorothy Nepper Marshall '35 LLD 1972
- Margaret H. Marshall LLD 2011
- Anne Helen Martikainen SCD 1969
- Anne C. Martindell '02 AC LLD 2002
- Maria Goeppert Mayer SCD 1961
- Veronica Maz LHD 1980
- Helen McAfee 1903 LHD 1935
- Mildred Helen McAfee LLD 1944
- Mary McBee 1906 LHD 1936
- Katherine McBride LLD 1947
- Mary McCarthy LHD 1988
- Kenneth McCartney MSW 1973
- Barbara McClintock SCD 1958
- Ellen Zinsser McCloy 1918 LLD 1953
- Isabel Platt McClumpha 1917 AM 1960
- Victoria Murden McClure 1985 LHD 2010
- Anne O'Hare McCormick LLD 1939
- Henry Noble McCracken LLD 1915
- Audra McDonald DFA 2021
- Sallie McFague 1955 LTD 1977
- Phyllis McGinley LTD 1964
- Monica McGoldrick 1969 LHD 1991
- Millicent Carey McIntosh LLD 1940
- William McKinley LLD 1899
- Mary McLeod LHD 1994
- Mary McMillan 1916 AM 1941
- Mary P. McPherson 1957 LLD 1981
- Elizabeth Storrs Mead LHD 1900
- Golda Meir LLD 1960
- Lise Meitner SCD 1946
- Gwendolyn Grant Mellon 1934 LHD 1959
- Dorothy Reed Mendenhall 1895 SCD 1930
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall LLD 1978
- Soia Mentschikoff LLD 1967
- Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi LHD 1999
- Helen Kirkpatrick Milbank 1931 AM 1948
- Dorothy Canning Miller 25 LTD 1959
- Josephine Milligan 1882 SCD 1930
- Jessica Mitford LTD 1974
- Agnes Mongan 1929 LHD 1941
- Elizabeth Mongan LHD 1985
- Marianne Moore LHD 1955
- Cathleen Morawetz SCD 1982
- Cristina Jiménez Moreta LLD 2020
- Edmund S. Morgan LLD 1996
- Erica Morini MUS 1955
- Grace McCann Morley LHD 1957
- Ann Axtell Morris 1922 AM 1935
- Toni Morrison LTD 1991
- Elizabeth Cutter Morrow 1896 LHD 1937
- Frances Hulett Morton 32 LLD 1957
- Cynthia Moss 1962 SCD2002
- Constance Baker Motely LHD 1965
- Thea Musgrave MUS 1979
- Ng'endo Mwangi 1961 SCD 1987
- Martha Myers DFA 2010
- Diana S. Natalicio LLD 2001
- Elisabeth Muser Neilson LHD 1939
- Nellie Neilson LHD 1938
- William Allan Neilson LLD 1942
- Marilyn Carlson Nelson 1961 LHD 2015
- Zara Nelsova MUS 1992
- Wilhelmina of The Netherlands LLD 1949
- Louise Nevelson DFA 1973
- Mabel Newcomber LLD 1945
- Marjorie Hope Nicolson LLD 1941
- Jessye Norman MUS 1998
- Eleanor Norton LLD 1983
- Ada Comstock Notestein 1897 LHD 1922
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy 2002 DFA 2018
- Cornelia Hahn Oberlander 1944 LHD 2003
- Flannery O'Connor LTD 1963
- Katherine Brownell Oettinger 1925 LLD 1957
- Sadako Ogata LLD 1980
- Mildred Scott Olmsted 1912 LHD 1974
- Marchesa Iris Origo LTD 1964
- Erin O’Shea ’88 SCD 2017
- Helenka Pantaleoni LTD 1975
- Marion Edwards Park LLD 1925
- Mary Prescott Parsons 1908 LHD 1958
- Martha Lucas Pate LHD 1971
- Mary Mills Patrick LLD 1914
- Ludella L. Peck AM 1904
- Nancy Pelosi LLD 2021
- Ellen Fitz Pendleton LLD 1925
- Mary Locke Petermann SCD 1966
- Esther Eggersten Peterson LLD 1963
- Marjorie Phillips DFA 1973
- Harvey Picker 1942 LLD 1997
- Helen Sinclair Pittman 1921 SCD 1966
- Katha Pollitt LHD 2002
- Ai-jen Poo LHD 2019
- Edith Porada LTD 1967
- Katherine Anne Porter LLD 1958
- Sylvia Porter LLD 1976
- Louise Pound LHD 1928
- Anne Prache LHD 1992
- Harriet Barnes Pratt 1900 LHD 1940
- Ruth R. Puffer 1929 SCD 1970
- Robert L. Pura LHD 2018
- Bertha Haven Putnam LLD 1945
- Anna Quindlen LHD 1996
- Lea Rabin LHD 1998
- Mamphela Aletta Ramphele LHD 2000
- Judith Raskin Raskin 1949 AM 1963
- Dixy Lee Ray SCD 1975
- Mary Raymond 1891 LHD 1934
- The Dowager Marchioness of Reading LLD 1956
- C. Eric Reeves LLD 2008
- Helen Rogers Reid LLD 1948
- Harriet Seelye Rhees 1888 AM 1930
- Adrienne Rich LTD 1979
- Ann Richards LLD 1992
- Ellen Henrietta Richards SCD 1910
- Mary Ellen Richmond AM 1921
- Gisela Maria Augusta Richter LHD 1935
- Maria Elena Rincon LHD 1949
- Caroline Robbins LLD 1971
- Julia Robinson SCD 1979
- Mary Robinson 1890 AM 1925
- Josephine Roche LLD 1932
- Barbara Honeyman Roll 1932 LHD 1989
- Eleanor Roosevelt LLD 1949
- Cicely Kershaw Rosenberry 1930 AM 1962
- Elisabeth Kubler Ross SCD 1975
- Loretta June Ross LHD 2013
- Vera C. Rubin SCD 2001
- Florence Sabin 1893 SCD 1910
- Jane Kelly Sabine 1888 SCD 1938
- Irma Salas LHD 1964
- Margaret Sanger LLD 1949
- Sophie Satin SCD 1944
- Laura Lord Scales 1901 LHD 1931
- Josephine Schain LLD 1937
- Berta Scharrer SCD 1980
- Albert Schinz LHD 1928
- Felice Nierenberg Schwartz 1946 LHD 1981
- Vida Scudder 1884 LHD 1922
- Emma Sebring 1889 LHD 1925
- Laurenus Clark Seelye LLD 1913
- Donna E. Shalala LLD 2001
- Peggy M. Shepard SCD 2010
- Mary Kimberly Shirk 1904 LTD 1950
- Muriel Siebert LLD 2012
- Beverly Sills LHD 1985
- Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch LLD 1951
- Mary Simmonds 1971 SCD 2005
- Adele Simmons LLD 1989
- Ruth J. Simmons LHD 2014
- Ase Gruda Skard LHD 1983
- Anna Deavere Smith DFA 2003
- Margaret Chase Smith LLD 1949
- Megan Smith SCD 2016
- Olive Watkins Smith SCD 1951
- Florence H. Snow 1904 AM 1925
- Susan Solomon SCD 2012
- Brinda Somaya DFA 2012
- Theodate H. Soule 1917 LHD 1963
- Emma Bailey Speer AM 1925
- Lois Harkrider Stair 1944 LHD 1981
- Gloria Steinem 1956 LTD 1988
- Rise Stevens DFA 1970
- Eleanor Bumstead Stevenson 1923 AM 1946
- George Stanley Stevenson LLD 1949
- Helen Osborne Storrow AM 1934
- Dorothy C. Stratton LLD 1952
- Ethel Grey Stringfellow LHD 1960
- Lucy Stuart Sutherland LLD 1964
- Helen Suzman LLD 1977
- Mary Elizabeth Switzer LLD 1967
- Irene Barnes Taeuber LLD 1960
- Maria Tallchief DFA 1981
- James M. Taylor LLD 1913
- Lily Rose Taylor LTD 1961
- Sallie McFague TeSelle LTD 1977
- Clara Murphy Tead 1913 LLD 1950
- Romila Thapar LTD 1999
- Caroline Bedell Thomas 1925 SCD 1955
- Helen Elizabeth Thompson LHD 1929
- Margaret Farrand Thorp 1914 LTD 1957
- Shiranee Tilakawardane LLD 2011
- Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani LLD 1990
- Dominique Toran-Allerand 1955 SCD 1998
- Joan P. Tower DFA 2013
- Gertrude Townsend AM 1947
- Garry B. Trudeau LHD 1987
- Dwight William Tryon AM 1923
- Nicola Sauvage Tsongas ’68 LLD 2019
- Barbara Tuchman LTD 1974
- Henry Mather Tyler LHD 1926
- Laura D'Andrea Tyson 1969 LLD 1994
- Liv Ullmann DFA 1980
- Laurel Ulrich LTD 1995
- Eliza Parker Underhill AM 1892
- Sigrid Undset LTD 1943
- Richard P. Unsworth LLD 1992
- Lida Josephine Usilton SCD 1953
- Irita Van Doren LTD 1955
- Miriam Van Waters LLD 1932
- Helen Vendler LTD 1980
- Emily Townsend Vermeule LTD 1972
- Melanne Verveer LLD 2013
- Berthe Vincens AM 1910
- Deborah Voigt MUS 2015
- Lillian D. Wald LLD 1949
- Sima Wali LHD 2002
- Julia Walsh LHD 1983
- Abby Wambach LHD 2016
- Pearl Anderson Wanamaker LHD 1956
- Barbara Ward LLD 1949
- Bennetta Bullock Washington LLD 1970
- Wendy Wasserstein DFA 1996
- Hyla S. Watters 1915 SCD 1950
- Margaret Webster LHD 1945
- Cynthia Clark Wedel LHD 1972
- Cicely V. Wedgewood LLD 1962
- Carrie Mae Weems DFA 2011
- Marguerite Wells 1895 LLD 1935
- Eudora Welty LTD 1956
- Cornel West LHD 2001
- Jaqueline Grennen Wexler LLD 1975
- Helen Constance White LTD 1947
- Rev. Gloria White-Hammond DD 2020
- Anna Young Whiting 1916 SCD 1964
- Suvia Paton Whittemore 1919 LHD 1977
- Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton LLD 1955
- Sheila Widnall SCD 1990
- Richard Wilbur LTD 1996
- Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson LLD 1966
- Charlotte Willard 1883 LHD 1922
- Cicely Delphine Williams SCD 1976
- Jody Williams LLD 2006
- Patricia J. Williams LLD 2004
- Margaret Wilson LLD 1978
- Mary Wilson 1891 LHD 1931
- Mira B. Wilson 1914 LLD 1938
- Stephanie Wilson SCD 2016
- Oprah Winfrey DFA 2017
- Dorothy Wolff 1918 SCD 1963
- Helen Wolff LHD 1978
- Edith Elmer Wood 1890 LLD 1940
- Judy Woodruff LHD 2004
- Mary Emma Woolley LLD 1910
- Jane Worcester 1931 SCD 1968
- Mary Clabaugh Wright LLD 1968
- Chien Shiung Wu SCD 1959
- Yi-Fang Wu LLD 1943
- Xie Hsieh Xide 1949 SCD 1981
- Caroline Ardelia Yale LHD 1910
- Rosalyn Yalow SCD 1994
- Hanya Yanagihara ’95 DFA 2020
- Jane Yolen 1960 LTD 2003
- Marguerite Yourcenar LTD 1961
- Elizabeth Rosenberg Zetzel 1928 SCD 1968
Key
- DD = Doctor of Divinity
- DFA = Doctor of Fine Arts
- LTD = Doctor of Letters
- LHD = Doctor of Humane Letters
- LLD = Doctor of Laws
- MUS = Doctor of Music
- SCD = Doctor of Science