Honorary Degrees
| Date | Name | Degree |
| 2024 | Cecilia Kang ’94 | Doctor of Letters |
| 2023 | Amber Ebarb ’03 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2022 | Stephen E. Hammond ’79 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2022 | Mark Anderson ’78 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2018 | Ashifi Gogo ’05 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| John Stanton ’77 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2017 | James L. Robart ’69 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg ’01 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2016 | Mary Yu | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | Robert Manning ’80 | Doctor of Science |
| Sally Jewell | Doctor of Science | |
| 2013 | Eric Idle | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Morten Lauridsen ’65 | Doctor of Music | |
| 2012 | Eric Schlosser | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Colleen Willoughby ’55 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2011 | Meda Chesney-Lind ’69 |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2010 | James K. Hayner |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Juan Williams | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2009 | Bishop Othal Hawthorne Lakey ’57 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Bill Priedhorsky ’73 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2008 | William Gates, Sr | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Margaret Chesney ’71 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2007 | Jeffrey D. Sachs | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Paula England ’71 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2006 | Ronald Takaki | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 | Robert W. Young ’55 | Doctor of Public Service |
| 2005 | Thomas E. Cronin | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Charles E. Anderson | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2004 | Deborah Butterfield | Doctor of Humanities |
| Dale Chihuly | Doctor of Humanities | |
| Michael Ignatieff | Doctor of Law | |
| 2003 | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2002 | Leroy Hood | Previously Awarded Doctor of Science |
| 2001 | Ryan Crocker ’71 | Doctor of Laws |
| Jack Freimann | Doctor of Humanities | |
| 2000 | James McBride | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Timothy Egan | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1999 | James Freedman | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| David Suzuki | Doctor of Science | |
| 1998 | Norm Rice | Doctor of Laws |
| Tess Gallagher | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1997 | Martha Nussbaum | Doctor of Humanities |
| Sigvard "Ted" Hansen ’57 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ashton "Ash" O’Donnell ’43 | Doctor of Science | |
| 1996 | Mark Hatfield | Doctor of Laws |
| 1995 | Nagle Jackson ’58 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Leroy Hood | Doctor of Science | |
| George Ball | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Eva Brann | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1994 | Donald Kennedy | Doctor of Science |
| Elizabeth Welty | Doctor of Science | |
| David Stevens ’47 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Cecil Andrus | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1993 | Eugene Lang | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Janine Pease Windy-Boy | Doctor of Education | |
| Matthew Prophet | Doctor of Education | |
| 1992 | Michael Gillette | Doctor of Laws |
| Steve Lane ’66 | Doctor of Public Service | |
| Jim Ellis | Doctor of Public Service | |
| Jeannette Hayner | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1991 | William Booth Gardner | Doctor of Laws |
| Doris Swayze Bounds | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Craig Lesley ’67 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1990 | Clair Lynn Gaudiani | Doctor of Letters |
| Norma J. Paulus | Doctor of Letters | |
| William R. Wiley | Doctor of Humanities | |
| 1989 | Baker Ferguson ’39 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Robert Weston Graham ’36 | Doctor of Laws | |
| David Clark Brewster | Doctor of Letters | |
| 1988 | Carlton T. Helming | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lawrence W. Milas | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Yau-Ben Dai | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nadine Vail Skotheim | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Robert Allen Skotheim | Doctor of Letters | |
| 1987 | Carl Peterson ’33 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Arthur Gustav Rempel | Doctor of Science | |
| Fredric Francis Santler, ‘41 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jean Enerson | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1986 | Alexander William Astin | Doctor of Laws |
| Pietro Belluschi | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Carolyn Ashley Kizer | Doctor of Letters | |
| George Tsutakawa | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| George Hunt Weyerhaeuser | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1985 | Howard Rothmann Bowen | Doctor of Letters |
| Paul Errol Bragdon | Doctor of Laws | |
| John William Ward | Doctor of Letters | |
| 1984 | David Wesley Gaiser, M.D. ’24 | Doctor of Science |
| Thomas Dillon Howells | Doctor of Letters | |
| 1983 | Dan Fenno Henderson ’44 | Doctor of Laws |
| 1982 | William P. Gerberding | Doctor of Laws |
| Richard S. F. Eells ’40 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1981 | Thomas James Pressly | Doctor of Laws |
| Patsy Takemoto Mink | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1980 | William Bernard Peach ’40 | Doctor of Letters |
| John Bruce Beckwith, M.D. ’54 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sherwood Fawcett | Doctor of Science | |
| 1979 | David Hugh Dillard, M.D. ’46 | Doctor of Science |
| Elizabeth Story Donno ’44 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Harriet Evelyn Miller ’41 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Harry Woolf | Doctor of Science | |
| 1978 | Bruce Alden McFadden ’52 | Doctor of Science |
| Clarence Webster Monroe, M.D. ’28 | Doctor of Science | |
| Frank Crawford Shoemaker ’43 | Doctor of Science | |
| 1977 | Robert Bechtold Heilman | Doctor of Humanities |
| Ivar Edmund Highberg ’32 | Doctor of Science | |
| 1976 | Albert H. Garretson ’31 | Doctor of Laws |
| Michael M. May ’44 | Doctor of Science | |
| Virginia Kelly Sherwood | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1975 | Reginald Herbold Green ’55 | Doctor of Laws |
| John Ervin Jesseph, M.D. ’49 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mrs. Elbridge Hadley Stuart (Evelyn Clark ’28) |
Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1974 | Thomas Stephen Foley | Doctor of Laws |
| David Lockhart Judd ’43 | Doctor of Science | |
| 1973 | Bernard R. Berelson | Doctor of Laws |
| Kenneth Evans Fry, M.D. ’26 | Doctor of Science | |
| 1972 | Alan Keith Campbell ’47 | Doctor of Laws |
| Grace Farnsworth Phillips | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1971 | Kenneth Culp Davis ’31 | Doctor of Laws |
| Henry Alan Fairbank ’40 | Doctor of Science | |
| 1970 | Robert Harrison Brome ’33 | Doctor of Laws |
| Robert LeRoy Clodius ’42 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marvin M. D. Williams ’25 | Doctor of Science | |
| 1969 | Daniel J. Evans | Doctor of Civil Laws |
| Howard Jay Graham ’27 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1968 | Joseph Messner | Doctor of Music |
| Albert C. Ullman ’35 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1967 | Purnendu K. Banerjee | Doctor of Literature |
| Louis B. Perry | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1966 | Frank Loyal Haigh | Doctor of Science |
| Henry Martin Jackson | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Paul Boole McKee | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1965 | William Martin Fairbank ’39 | Doctor of Science |
| Arjay Miller | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1964 | Clifford Merrill Drury | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Elbridge Hadley Stuart | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1963 | Arthur Trumbull Lee ’17 | Doctor of Laws |
| 1962 | Arthur Sherwood Flemming | Doctor of Public Admin. |
| Donald Sherwood ’22 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Carroll Zimmerman | Doctor of Science | |
| 1961 | Frank Edward Butterworth | Doctor of Divinity |
| Roy Robert Cahill | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1960 | Martha Douglas Bost ’21 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Jean Cordiner ’19 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Reuel Lanphier Howe ’27 | Doctor of Divinity | |
| 1959 | Harold Emmons Crawford ’11 | Doctor of Science |
| Chester Collins Maxey ’12 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Russell Burton Staines ’33 | Doctor of Divinity | |
| Frank Parks Weaver | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1958 | John Ray Dunning | Doctor of Science |
| Katheryn Wilson | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1957 | Edward Paddock Morgan ’32 | Doctor of Letters |
| Herbert Frederick Traut | Doctor of Science | |
| Gordon Justin Wright ’33 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1956 | Ralph Phipps Edgerton ’31 | Doctor of Laws |
| John Gordon Gose | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gilbert Carl Norris ’40 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Charles Frederick Stafford ’40 | Doctor of Laws | |
| William Woodrow Wells ’38 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Merlin Sherman Young ’40 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1955 | Walker Bleakney ’24 | Doctor of Science |
| Walter Houser Brattain ’24 | Doctor of Science | |
| Robert Bigham Brode ’21 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wallace Reed Brode ’21 | Doctor of Science | |
| Vladimir Rojansky ’24 | Doctor of Science | |
| Everly John Workman ’24 | Doctor of Science | |
| 1954 | Roland Herbert Bainton ’14 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Jonathan Whitman Edwards | Doctor of Education | |
| Robert Clifford Goodwin ’29 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Howard James Knott | Doctor of Science | |
| Jackson Martindell | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1953 | Stephen B. L. Penrose, Jr. | Doctor of Laws |
| John Grant Kelly | Doctor of Business Admin. | |
| Paul Marsh Pitman ’53 | Doctor of Humanities | |
| 1952 | Bishop Stephen Fielding Bayne | Doctor of Divinity |
| Luther Halsey Gulick | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1951 | Richard Flagg Ayres ’25 | Doctor of Divinity |
| Mary Cooper Jewett Gaiser | Doctor of Laws | |
| Charles Penrose | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Herbert Ringhoffer | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1950 | Raymond Moley | Doctor of Civil Law |
| Morgan Samuel Odell | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1949 | Frances Penrose Owen ’19 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1948 | Ralph Jarron Cordiner | Doctor of Laws |
| Noel Gharrett Sargent | Doctor of Laws | |
| Harper Joy ’22 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1947 | Paul Garrett ’13 | Doctor of Laws |
| Otis Halbert Holmes ’23 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1946 | Norman Archibald MacRae Mackenzie | Doctor of Civil Law |
| Heber Hinds Ryan | Doctor of Education | |
| 1945 | Guy Everett Snavely | Doctor of Education |
| Park Weed Willis ’15 | Doctor of Laws | |
| George Bruce Marquis | Master of Arts | |
| Francis Arthur Garrecht | Doctor of Civil Law | |
| 1944 | Arthur Freeborn Douglas | Doctor of Laws |
| John Cushman Lyman | Doctor of Science | |
| 1943 | Dorsey Franklin Baker ’16 | Doctor of Laws |
| Eric Allen Johnston | Doctor of Civil Law | |
| 1942 | William Edmund Milne | Doctor of Science |
| Joel Edward Ferris | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ernest O. Holland | Doctor of Laws | |
| Arthur Bernard Langlie | Doctor of Laws | |
| Walter Andrew Bratton | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1941 | Werner Andrew Rupp | Doctor of Laws |
| 1940 | Edith Hinkley Quimby ’12 | Doctor of Science |
| 1939 | Joel Harper | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1938 | William Orville Douglas ’20 | Doctor of Laws |
| Walter Crosby Eells ’08 | Doctor of Science | |
| 1937 | Lawrence Wendell Fifield | Doctor of Letters |
| 1936 | Luther Nicholas Williams | Doctor of Divinity |
| Ralph Loveland Roys | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bruce Richard Baxter | Doctor of Laws | |
| Charles Seymour Whitman | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1935 | Marshall Newport Dana | Doctor of Laws |
| 1934 | Harry Abbott Reynolds | Master of Arts |
| Wellington Pegg | Master of Arts | |
| Miller Freeman | Master of Arts | |
| William Martin Proctor | Doctor of Letters | |
| Stanley Alexander Easton | Doctor of Science | |
| Winlock W. Miller | Doctor of Laws | |
| Raymond B. Wilcox | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ely Herbert Botsford | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reginald Hascall Parsons | Doctor of Laws | |
| Russell Whitman | Doctor of Laws | |
| William Huchinson Cowles | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1933 | John McLauchlan | Doctor of Divinity |
| Rufus Woods | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mark E. Reed | Doctor of Laws | |
| James Alger Fee ’10 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1932 | Marion Bauer | Master of Arts |
| Gena Branscombe Tenney | Master of Arts | |
| James Alger Fee ’10 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1931 | Lucile McIntyre | Master of Arts |
| Angie E. Bowden | Master or Arts | |
| David Crockett Graham ’08 | Doctor of Science | |
| Otto Burton Rupp, 1898 | Doctor of Laws | |
| William Webster Ellsworth | Doctor of Letters | |
| 1930 | Henry M. Hart | Master of Arts |
| John B. Horner | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1929 | Lowell Clarence Bradford ’29 | Master of Arts |
| Edward Cartwright Pease | Master of Arts | |
| Lemuel Henry Wells | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1928 | Levi William Hutton | Master of Arts |
| William Gaius Greenslade ’07 | Doctor of Divinity | |
| John Langdon Rand | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1927 | Stoddard King | Master of Laws |
| Stephen James Chadwick | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1926 | Lucius Olmsted Baird | Doctor of Divinity |
| Thomas Allen McBride | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frederick Wallace Wilson ’91 | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1925 | Katherine Harriet Blynn | Master of Arts |
| 1924 | Hugh Elmer Brown | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1923 | William Henry Boddy | Doctor of Divinity |
| William Dunlop Robinson | Doctor of Divinity | |
| 1922 | Frederic William Keator | Doctor of Laws |
| Louis Francis Anderson | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1921 | Helen Louise Burr | Master of Arts |
| Helen Abby Pepoon | Master of Arts | |
| Frank Hale Touret | Doctor of Divinity | |
| 1919 | John Warren Langdon | Master of Arts |
| Robert Clark Yenney ’89 | Doctor of Science | |
| Austin Rice | Doctor of Divinity | |
| Harry Augustus Garfield | Doctor of Literature | |
| Henry Smith Pritchett | Doctor of Literature | |
| 1918 | Mack F. Gose | Doctor of Laws |
| 1917 | Melvin Amos Brannon | Doctor of Laws |
| 1916 | Alexander Beers | Master of Arts |
| 1915 | William Waterbury Scudder, Jr. | Doctor of Divinity |
| William Edgar Borah | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miles Conway Moore | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1914 | Otto Burton Rupp ’89 | Master of Arts |
| Mary Shipman Penrose | Master of Arts | |
| Josephine Corless Preston | Master of Arts | |
| 1913 | Raymond Cummings Brooks | Doctor of Divinity |
| Walter Benwell Hinson | Doctor of Divinity | |
| Horace Cooper Mason | Doctor of Divinity | |
| 1911 | Mark Allison Matthews | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1908 | Martha Wiley ’98 | Master of Laws |
| 1906 | William Augustus Mowry | Doctor of Laws |
| Arthur Henderson Smith | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1904 | Samuel Greene | Doctor of Divinity |
| Horace Payne James | Doctor of Divinity | |
| Edward Lincoln Smith | Doctor of Divinity | |
| George R. Wallace | Doctor of Divinity | |
| Cornelius Holgate Hanford | Doctor of Laws | |
| George Turner | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1903 | Eugene Solomon Talbot | Master of Science |
| 1902 | Rose Elizabeth Dovell ’02 | Master of Arts |
| 1900 | Charles Timblin | Master of Arts |
| 1899 | William H. G. Temple | Doctor of Divinity |
| Wilmot Woodruff Van Dusen | Doctor of Divinity | |
| 1898 | Judge Thomas Burke | Doctor of Laws |
| 1897 | Oliver Woodson Nixon | Doctor of Laws |
| Daniel Kimball Pearson | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1895 | Clarence Leslie Diven | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1894 | Clarence Spalding Sargeant | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1893 | Wallace Nutting | Doctor of Divinity |
| Leavitt H. Hallock | Doctor of Divinity | |
| Thomas Sims | Doctor of Divinity | |
| Lyman Enos Knapp | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1891 | Amy Richards | Master of Arts |
| 1890 | John Beard Allen | Doctor of Laws |
| Henry G. McArthur | Doctor of Divinity | |
| Thomas M. Gunn | Doctor of Divinity | |
| Myron Eells | Doctor of Divinity |
Commencement