Past Honorary Degrees Recipients Temple University confers honorary degrees to distinguished individuals whose values and accomplishments exemplify th...
Past Honorary Degrees Recipients Temple University confers honorary degrees to distinguished individuals whose values and accomplishments exemplify the university’s mission and ideals. Temple has awarded more than 850 honorary degrees throughout its history.
Patrick J. O’Connor Pallam Raju M. Mallipudi Frank Albert Cotton Larry Magid Chris Matthews Patty LaBelle Anthony J. Scirica Floyd W. Alston Donald Richie Dennis W. Archer Edward R. Becker H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest Dennis J. Alter H. Patrick Swygert Harold G. Schaeffer Sister Mary Scullion Warren V. (Pete) Musser Daniel H. Polett Geraldine Dietz Fox Milton L. Rock William (“Sonny”) Randolph Hill, Jr. Wilsonia B. Sanchez Howard Gittis Camille O. Cosby Francesco Rutelli Phyllis W. Beck Murray H. Shusterman Sidney Kimmel Mstislav Rostropovich William H. Rehnquist Epaminondas P. Spiliotopoulos Louis J. Esposito Ela R. Bhatt
Masahisa Naitoh William Edward (Billy) Taylor Richard J. Fox Isadore A. Shrager William H. Cosby, Jr. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Harold E. Kohn Linda Darling-Hammond Nelson A. Diaz Ruth W. Hayre Robert Maxwell Elizabeth Maxwell J. Jerome Cooper John B. Roberts Paul M. Washington Rosemarie Greco Bettino Craxi Benjamin L. Hooks Natan Sharansky Raymond W. Smith William H. Gray, III Constance E. Clayton Richard A. Tilghman (Bishop) Desmond M. Tutu James J. A. Gallagher Hon. Nochem S. Winnet Arlen Specter Arnold Relman, (M.D.) Bernard C. Watson Dolores K. Sloviter John C. Haas Katherine R. Sturgis, (M.D.) Robert C. Gallo Ruth Patrick Joseph F. Boyle W. Wilson Goode Archbishop Iakovos Abaron Barak Adolf Theis Gwendolyn Killebrew Helmut Schmidt Jamie B. Fuster Julius W. Erving Peter Fischer-Appelt R. Anderson Pew William J. Kolff
Joseph M. First Bernard W. Harleston John A. Marcum (The Hon.) Bill Bradley Irving S. Shapiro Barbara Chase-Riboud Bowen C. Dees John L. Dotson, Jr. Ernest L. Boyer Joseph Brown Esther M. Klein Sol Sherry, (M.D.) William W. Tomlinson Barbara Walters Joseph T. L. Boyo (The Hon.) Dick Thornburgh Xiaoping Deng Cicely Tyson Howard M. Temin R. Stewart Rauch, Jr. Richard D. Hanusey Samuel Dash Esther Boyer Griswold H. John Heinz, III Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Esther Peterson * K. Roald Bergethon John W. Tukey Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr. Gunnar Dybwad Clifford Scott Green A. Addison Roberts Roy Wilkins Claus H. Rohlfs (Father) Terrence Toland Marya Mannes Arturo Morales-Carrión Sidney Weinhouse Siteke G. Mwale John Thomas Dunlop David P. Eastburn Alberto Ginastera Benjamin R. Jones Harold D. Lasswell Myres Smith McDougal Max Rudolf
Henry G. Parks, Jr. Martha Peterson Robert J. McCloskey Waldo E. Nelson Robert W. Crawford Maury Massler Eric Sevareid Andrew F. Brimmer Evan H. Turner John H. Franklin Truman Capote Maynard K. Hine John Houseman Irving K. Kessler Barbara Weisberger Charles R. Tyson Edward W. Brooke Elliott L. Richardson Paul A. Freund Robert J. Glaser Frank Capra Elizabeth M. Greenfield Philip Handler Leon Levy Beverly Sills Axel C. Springer Kenneth M. Endicott Rabbi Martin Berkowitz Robert Coles Robert L. Poindexter Ernest Dunbar Teodoro Moscoso John B. Mosley Jean Piaget Robert W. Sarnoff Bärbel Inhelder Donald H. McGannon James D. Hodgson John W. Oswald Peter F. Drucker Sol Schoenbach Henry H. Nichols Wesley W. Posvar Willard VanOrman Quine William D. Revelli
LL.D. Hum.D. D.P.S. L.H.D. D.P.S. Sc.D. D. Mass Comm. D.P.A. LL.D. Litt.D. Litt.D. Sc.D. D. Arts LL.D. D.F.A. LL.D. D.P.S. LL.D. L.H.D. Sc.D. D. Arts LL.D. Sc.D. D.P.S. Mus.D. L.H.D. D.P.S. LL.D. L.H.D. D.Ped. Litt.D. D. Journ. LL.D. LL.D. L.H.D. D.P.S. L.H.D. D.P.S. LL.D. Sc.D. Litt.D. Mus.D. D.D. LL.D. Litt. D. Mus.D.
Charles W. Shreiner, Jr. Frederick Durrenmatt Jacqueline G. Wexler John R. Bunting, Jr. Richard S. Schweiker Leon H. Sullivan Jaimie Benitez James J. Kerley Theodore C. Sorensen Aaron J. Brumbaugh Alva Myrdal Gunnar K. Myrdal Hurst Robins Anderson James C. Smith John F. White John H. Randall, Jr. Thomas H. Hamilton William W. Hagerty Margaret Hillis David H. Kurtzman Ralph E. McGill Peter Mennin John R. Rackley Howard P. Rome Raymond P. Shafer William H. Stewart Anna Moffo Burton R. Laub Eugene M. Shoemaker Prem Nath Kirpal Thomas H. Lake Abraham L. Freedman Marion Szekely-Freschl Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. Abba Eban Lynn Fontanne Hubert H. Humphrey Warner Lawson Alfred Lunt Conrad Richter Mary E. Switzer Henry J. Tasca Francis Kepple J. A. Livingston Jerome S. Bruner Marion Szekely-Freschl
Mildred Custin Lowell T. Coggeshall Robert L. DeWitt Wilfred D. Gillen Henry J. Nave Arlin M. Adams Eugenie Moore Anderson Harold L. Ervin Harry A. Batten J. Murray Barbour Theodore M. Hesburgh David Dubinsky August Heckscher John J. Krol Robert Lowell John S. Rice Carl T. Rowan Harold C. Schonberg Andrew Wyeth Donald F. Hornig Edmund C. Kornfeld John D. Roberts Josephine L. Redenius Keith Spalding Louis G. Wersen Vermont C. Royster William W. Scranton Pablo Casals Louis Finkelstein Pamela Hansford-Johnson (Lady Snow) Arthur T. McGonigle Malcolm E. Mellott Josef Nordenhaug Samuel Silver Charles P. Snow (Lord) William C. Westmoreland Brother Daniel Bernian Clarence R. Moll Eleanor Steber Frank A. Cotton Fritz Bock George A. Steiner Russell C. Cooney Bruno Kreisky Margaret Mead Walter A. Munns
David Riesman Glenn T. Seaborg William R. Spofford Oliver G. Willits Alice Turley Cullan Miguel Aleman Robert C. Weaver Wilfred Conwell Bain Rudolf Bing John Joseph Bluett Harold C. Case John D. Cockcroft (Sir) Norman Cousins Boothe C. Davis Loyal Davis William H. Hastie Albert B. Sabin Everett S. Wallis Owen H. Wangensteen Fred L. Whipple Carl Zigrosser George F. Archambault Hans Thirring Karl R. Bopp
