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People with Honorary Degrees
This is a very small sampling of a few noteworthy individuals who have received and use their (Honorary) titles:
Business Professionals
- Malcolm S. Forbes, Doctor of Laws, 1987
- "Ted" Turner, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1989
- Walt Disney, Master of Arts, 1938
Scientific and Medical Community
- Stephen W. Hawking, Doctor of Science, 1990
- Albert Einstein, Doctor of Science, 1935
- Charles H Townes, Doctor of Science, 2001
- Nicolaas Bloembergen, Doctor of Science, 2000
Authors and Poets
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Doctor of Letters, 1978
- Arthur Schlessinger Jr., Doctor of Laws, 2000
- Tennessee Williams, Doctor of Letters, 1982
- Robert Frost, Doctor of Letters, 1936
- Carlos Fuentes, Doctor of Laws, 1983
- Carl Sandburg, Doctor of Letters, 1940
Politicians and Leaders
- Honorable Mayor Rudolph (Rudy) Giuliani, Doctor of Humanities, 2001 ~ University of Berkley
- Madeleine K. Albright, Doctor of Laws, 1995
- Winston Churchill, Doctor of Laws, 1943
- William Jefferson Clinton, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1995
- Dwight Eisenhower, Doctor of Laws, 1946
- Herbert Hoover, Doctor of Laws, 1917
- John F. Kennedy, Doctor of Laws, 1956
- Colin Powell, Doctor of Laws, 1993
- Theodore Roosevelt, Master of Arts, 1919
- Mother Teresa, Doctor of Laws, 1982
- Desmond Tutu, Doctor of Laws, 1979
Also: (some people whom you may never had known about):
- Steven Spielberg, Doctor of Letters, 1997
- Bob Hope, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1984
- William (Bill) Cosby, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1999
- (Mr.) Fred Rogers, Doctor of Letters, 1991
- Leonard Bernstein, Doctor of Music, 1967
- Walter Cronkite, Doctor of Letters, 1970
- Bob Dylan, Doctor of Music, 1970
- Ella Fitzgerald, Doctor of Music, 1990
- Katharine Hepburn, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1992
- Itzhak Perlman, Doctor of Music, 1986
- Martin Scorsese, Doctor of Fine Arts, 1991
- Yo-Yo Ma, Doctor of Music, 1991
- Quincy Jones, Doctor of Fine Arts, 1997
- Oprah Winfrey, Doctor of Fine Arts, 2002