2023
Rebecca Makkai, Doctor of Letters
William Sullivan Peyton, Class of 1907 First Black Graduate, bestowed posthumously, Doctor of Science
Julianne Sitch, Doctor of Liberal Arts
2022
Stephen D. Schutt, Doctor of Liberal Arts
2019
Bridget Coughlin, Doctor of Science
Joseph Ferguson ’81, Doctor of Laws
Dorri McWhorter, Doctor of Humane Letters
2018
Jane Hamilton, Doctor of Letters
Gary T. Johnson, Doctor of Liberal Arts
Teepu Siddique, MD, Doctor of Science
2017
Evelyn Diaz, Doctor of Humane Letters
Tom Ricketts, Doctor of Letters
2016
David Axelrod - Doctor of Laws
Randy Lamm Berlin ’75 - Doctor of Letters
Dawn Turner - Doctor of Letters
2015
Steve Chapman - Doctor of Letters
Diana Nyad ’73 - Doctor of Humane Letters
Tamara A. Smith ’80 - Doctor of Humane Letters
2014
Rabiah Mayas - Doctor of Science
Rev. Christine Chakoian - Doctor of Letters
Kelly Leonard ’88 - Doctor of Fine Arts
2013
Connie K. Duckworth - Doctor of Humane Letters
Stuart Dybek - Doctor of Letters
Stephen Schwartz - Doctor of Fine Arts
2012
Philip O. Geier - Doctor of Letters
Susan Garrett ’94 - Doctor of Laws
Robert D. Krebs - Doctor of Laws
Richard A. Posner - Doctor of Laws
2011
Richard Armstrong ’71 - Doctor of Fine Arts
Mary J.C. Hendrix - Doctor of Science
Regina Taylor - Doctor of Fine Arts
2010
Rebecca Claire Gilman - Doctor of Literature
Grace Elizabeth Groner ’31 - Doctor of Humane Letters
Darlene Clark Hine - Doctor of Letters
Daniel Mark Gross - Doctor of Letters
2009
Barbara Gaines - Doctor of Fine Arts
Peter G. Schiff ’74 - Doctor of Laws
Scott F. Turow - Doctor of Letters
2008
Scott Simon - Doctor of Humane Letters
Danielle S. Allen - Doctor of Laws
Janet D. Rowley - Doctor of Science
Maria Velez de Berliner ’87 - Doctor of Laws
2007
Robert Pinsky - Doctor of Letters
Susan E. Mayer - Doctor of Laws
Yasuhiro Moriuchi ’68 - Doctor of Humane Letters
Lovie L. Smith - Doctor of Humane Letters
2006
Marsha E. Barnes ’69 - Doctor of Laws
Kahil El’Zabar ’77 - Doctor of Fine Arts
Samuel J. Henry - Doctor of Laws
Robert A. Falls - Doctor of Fine Arts
2005
Dr. Richard Joel Ablin ’62 - Doctor of Science
Lonnie G. Bunch - Doctor of Letters
Lillian Groag - Doctor of Fine Arts
2004
Laurence R. Lee - Doctor of Laws
The Honorable Blanche M. Manning - Doctor of Laws
Ralph J. Mills Jr. ’54 - Doctor of Letters
José A. “Pepe” Vargas - Doctor of Fine Arts
2003
L. Natalie Caroll ’71 - Doctor of Science
Arne Duncan - Doctor of Laws
Peggy A. Lautenschlager ’77 - Doctor of Laws
David B. Mathis ’60 - Doctor of Laws
2002
Deborah Leff - Doctor of Humane Letters
Carl Lorenzo MaultsBy ’69 - Doctor of Fine Arts
Cass R. Sunstein - Doctor of Laws
Studs Terkel - Doctor of Letters
2001
Sidney Altman - Doctor of Science
Jean Bethke Elshtain - Doctor of Letters
Walter Andrew Hill - Doctor of Science
Marcy Scott - Doctor of Humane Letters
David Spadafora - Doctor of Letters
2000
Marcia Ann Gillespie ’66 - Doctor of Letters
John J. McDonough - Doctor of Humane Letters
John Edward Porter - Doctor of Laws
Geoffrey Benson Shields - Doctor of Laws
1999
H.R.H. Irene, Princess of Greece - Doctor of Humane Letters
Paula Polk Lillard - Doctor of Letters
Ingram Douglass Marshall ’64 - Doctor of Fine Arts
John W. Rogers Jr. - Doctor of Laws
1998
Don Patricio Aylwin - Doctor of Laws
William C. Bartholomay ’55 - Doctor of Laws
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Doctor of Science
Rebecca McGowan ’70 - Doctor of Laws
1997
Russell W. Fisher - Doctor of Laws
Alice Judson Hayes - Doctor of Letters
Lloyd J. Ogilvie ’52 - Doctor of Divinity
Ruth J. Simmons - Doctor of Laws
1996
William Graham Cole - Doctor of Humane Letters
Barbara Goldsmith - Doctor of Letters
James A. Lovell Jr. - Doctor of Science
Edith Waisbrot Martin ’67 - Doctor of Science
1995
Adele Chatfield Taylor - Doctor of Fine Arts
Thomas H. Jacobsen ’63 - Doctor of Laws
Vincent Lane - Doctor of Laws
Hugo F. Sonnenschein - Doctor of Laws
1994
Virginia Fiester Frederick - Doctor of Laws
James P. Gorter - Doctor of Laws
Gayle Pemberton ’70 - Doctor of Letters
Christopher S. Wren - Doctor of Letters
1993
Paul J. Adams III - Doctor of Humane Letters
Ann Donnelley Hardy - Doctor of Humane Letters
Eugene Hotchkiss - Doctor of Laws
Bill Kurtis - Doctor of Laws
Don Carlos Manzanares - Doctor of Laws
1992
Jill Ker Conway - Doctor of Letters
Hiroshi Iwamoto ’61 - Doctor of Laws
Norman F. Ramsey - Doctor of Science
1991
Sigvard G. Gissler ’56 - Doctor of Laws
Donald P. Jacobs - Doctor of Laws
Anita Chen Li ’57 - Doctor of Humane Letters
Charlotte Head Simmons - Doctor of Humane Letters
Frederick Wiseman - Doctor of Fine Arts
1990
Wesley M. Dixon Jr. - Doctor of Laws
James Farmer - Doctor of Humane Letters
Eilene M. Galloway - Doctor of Laws
Stephen W. Gray ’36 - Doctor of Science
1989
Ardis Krainik - Doctor of Fine Arts
Clarence Page - Doctor of Letters
Samuel Knox Skinner - Doctor of Laws
Robert Douglas Stuart Jr. - Doctor of Laws
1988
Leon M. Lederman - Doctor of Science
George Irving Shirley - Doctor of Fine Arts
Jerome W. Van Gorkom - Doctor of Laws
Fern D. Young - Doctor of Humane Letters
1987
Albert Blake Dick III - Doctor of Laws
William M. Dyal Jr. - Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert E. Wallenborn ’27 - Doctor of Fine Arts
Ann C. Williams - Doctor of Laws
1986
Victor Aitay - Doctor of Fine Arts
Barbara Proctor - Doctor of Letters
John Rutledge ’70 - Doctor of Laws
Ruth Winter - Doctor of Humane Letters
1985
Vernon D. Jarrett - Doctor of Humane Letters
Lisel Mueller - Doctor of Fine Arts
Philip L. Speidel ’19 - Doctor of Laws
1984
Joseph A. Gore - Doctor of Laws
Arthur G. Hailand Jr. - Doctor of Humane Letters
Floyd Kalber - Doctor of Laws
Glenn K. Seidenfeld ’35 - Doctor of Letters
1983
William B. Graham - Doctor of Laws
Grace Murray Hopper - Doctor of Science
Charles A. Meyer - Doctor of Laws
Anna L. Standard ’45 - Doctor of Humane Letters
1982
Marva N. Collins - Doctor of Humane Letters
George F. Kennan - Doctor of Laws
Robert McClory - Doctor of Laws
Richard Wilbur - Doctor of Letters
1981
John B. Anderson - Doctor of Laws
Walter E. Massey - Doctor of Science
Ginc Odell - Doctor of Fine Arts
Mike Royko - Doctor of Letters
1980
Georgie Anne Geyer - Doctor of Letters
George S. Halas - Doctor of Laws
Margaret Hillis - Doctor of Fine Arts
Foster G. McGaw - Doctor of Humane Letters
1979
Charles L. Brown - Doctor of Laws
Shirley Knight Hopkins - Doctor of Fine Arts
George E. Johnson - Doctor of Laws
Franklin McMahon - Doctor of Fine Arts
1978
Mortimer J. Adler - Doctor of Literature
Arthur L. Burnes - Doctor of Science
Carla Anderson Hills - Doctor of Laws
Benjamin L. Hooks - Doctor of Humane Letters
1977
George R. Beach - Doctor of Humane Letters
Edith Foster Farwell - Doctor of Science
Theodor Seuss Geisel - Doctor of Humane Letters
Thomas J. Moran ’47 - Doctor of Laws
Cecil A. Partee - Doctor of Humane Letters
Ernest H. Volwiler - Doctor of Humane Letters
1976
Benjamin C. Bradlee - Doctor of Letters
Paul H. Burgert - Doctor of Science
John H. Haugh ’31 - Doctor of Humane Letters
M. Allen Kimble - Doctor of Divinity
Adele Smith Simmons - Doctor of Humane Letters
1975
Edwin Asmann ’28 - Doctor of Science
Margaret Burke - Doctor of Humane Letters
Ruth Page - Doctor of Fine Arts
Donald Rumsfeld - Doctor of Laws
Miller Upton - Doctor of Humane Letters
1974
Wade Langdon Hampton ’29 - Doctor of Laws
Jewel Stradford Lafontant - Doctor of Laws
Marion Musser Lloyd - Doctor of Humane Letters
Richard Buell Ogilvie - Doctor of Humane Letters
1973
John Hope Franklin - Doctor of Letters
Alan Frank Guttmacher - Doctor of Laws
David Halberstam - Doctor of Laws
Beatrice Edna Tucker - Doctor of Science
Richard ’36 Widmark - Doctor of Fine Arts
1972
Ivan Albright - Doctor of Fine Arts
Richard Howard Hunt - Doctor of Fine Arts
John Reich - Doctor of Humane Letters
Louis Sudler - Doctor of Letters
1971
Albert Victor Crewe - Doctor of Science
Jesse Louis Jackson - Doctor of Divinity
Maria Tallchief Paschen - Doctor of Fine Arts
Samuel Weiler Witwer - Doctor of Juridical Science
1970
Mary Longbrake ’35 - Doctor of Laws
Mary Van Etten Ward - Doctor of Humane Letters
Payson Sibley Wild - Do c tor of Letters
Frank H. Woods - Doctor of Humane Letters
1969
James A. Campbell - Doctor of Humane Letters
Harold Harlow Corbin Jr. - Doctor of Humane Letters
Glen A. Lloyd - Doctor of Laws
William R. Polk - Doctor of Laws
Ellen Thorne Smith - Doctor of Humane Letters
1968
William Edward Hartmann - Doctor of Humane Letters
Edward Hirsch Levi - Doctor of Laws
Appleton A. Mason Jr. - Doctor of Humane Letters
Harold Rosenberg - Doctor of Letters
Mies van der Rohe - Doctor of Letters
1967
David Matthew Kennedy - Doctor of Humane Letters
Norman Ross - Doctor of Letters
Charles G. Sauers - Doctor of Humane Letters
George Berkeley Young - Doctor of Laws
1966
Ben Walter Heineman - Doctor of Laws
Nicholas Michael Lattof - Doctor of Humane Letters
Julian Hirsch Levi - Doctor of Laws
Barbara Ward - Doctor of Laws
Orlando Winfield Wilson - Doctor of Laws
Suzette Morton Zurcher - Doctor of Humane Letters
1965
Paul M. Angle - Doctor of Laws
Gwendolyn Brooks - Doctor of Letters
Elliott Donnelley - Doctor of Humane Letters
Edwin L. Gilroy ’18 - Doctor of Humane Letters
Huston Smith - Doctor of Science
Lawrence W. Towner - Doctor of Letters
1964
Jane Warner Dick - Doctor of Humane Letters
Edward D. McDougal Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Francis T.P. Plimpton - Doctor of Laws
Herbert Victor Prochnow - Doctor of Laws
1963
Jean Beliard - Doctor of Laws
William McCormick Blair - Doctor of Letters
Alicia Patterson - Doctor of Letters
Carroll H. Sudler - Doctor of Humane Letters
Irvin L. Young ’26 - Doctor of Humane Letters
1962
George W. Beadle - Doctor of Science
Harry D. Gideonse - Doctor of Laws
Kermit Gordon - Doctor of Laws
Richard H. Hutchison - Doctor of Divinity
Charles H. Percy - Doctor of Laws
William C. Petty - Doctor of Humane Letters
1961
Lowell T. Coggeshall - Doctor of Laws
Carol Fox - Doctor of Humane Letters
John Howard Wood ’22 - Doctor of Laws
1960
E. Fay Campbell - Doctor of Divinity
Marguerite Stitt Church - Doctor of Laws
Philip R. Clarke - Doctor of Laws
1959
Harold Blake Walker - Doctor of Letters of Humanity
James Carson Worthy ’52 - Doctor of Laws
1958
James Franklin Oates Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Frederick Fairchild Quinlan - Doctor of Laws
Harold H. Viehman - Doctor of Divinity
1957
Arthur Holly Compton - Doctor of Science
Herbert Lawrence Block ’31 - Doctor of Laws
Arnold W. Carlson ’28 - Doctor of Laws
Richard Ashton Dempsey - Doctor of Divinity
Joseph Barclay Fleming - Doctor of Laws
Clarence B. Randall - Doctor of Laws
Robert E. Wood - Doctor of Laws
1956
Detlev W. Bronk - Doctor of Science
Wendell Q. Halverson - Doctor of Divinity
1955
Everett Dwight Graff 1906 - Doctor of Humane Letters
Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton - Doctor of Laws
John Wesley McCracken - Doctor of Humane Letters
1954
Elven James Berkheiser 1909 - Doctor of Science
Eugene Carson Blake - Doctor of Divinity
Walter Vincent Schaefer - Doctor of Laws
1953
James Henderson Douglas Jr. - Doctor of Laws
R. Douglas Stuart - Doctor of Laws
1952
Sylvia Shaw Judson - Doctor of Sculpture
Robert E. Wilson ’12 - Doctor of Laws
Harold T. Wilson - Doctor of Divinity
1951
Paul Howard Douglas - Doctor of Laws
Robert King Hall ’34 - Doctor of Laws
Frank William Read - Doctor of Laws
1950
Vincent Frank Coleman ’32 - Doctor of Laws
Franklyn Bliss Snyder - Doctor of Laws
1949
Chester Rudolph Davis ’17 - Doctor of Laws
Carl Raymond Gray Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Adlai Ewing Stevenson - Doctor of Laws
1948
Lilace Reid Barnes - Doctor of Humane Letters
George Dinsmore Stoddard - Doctor of Laws
1947
Dwight H. Green - Doctor of Laws
Charles C. Mather ’14 - Doctor of Pedagogy
William McInnes - Doctor of Divinity
1946
Raymond Bernard Allen - Doctor of Laws
S. DeWitt Clough - Doctor of Laws
1945
Lewis H. Brown - Doctor of Laws
Robert H. Crozier 1893 - Doctor of Laws
Clarence W. Diver 1905 - Doctor of Laws
John F. Haas 1900 - Doctor of Laws
Raymond Moore ’20 - Doctor of Pedagogy
Robert Bowman Stewart - Doctor of Divinity
1944
Evan A. Evans 1894 - Doctor of Laws
1943
Clarence A. Dykstra - Doctor of Laws
1942
Alan Valentine - Doctor of Laws
1941
George Wm. Dowrie 1901 - Doctor of Laws
Hu Shih - Doctor of Laws
1940
Joseph R. Sizoo - Doctor of Laws
1939
Hayne Ellis - Doctor of Laws
Alfred E. Hamill - Doctor of Humane Letters
R. Lincoln Long ’12 - Doctor of Divinity
Oliver Scott Thompson 1904 - Doctor of Humane Letters
Edward A. Weeks - Doctor of Literature
1938
Preston Bradley - Doctor of Laws
Ralph H. Bush ’11 - Doctor of Laws
1937
Glenn Frank - Doctor of Laws
Paul Starrett - Doctor of Laws
1936
Frank Knox - Doctor of Laws
Charles Thom 1895 - Doctor of Science
Andrew C. Zenos - Doctor of Literature
1935
Wat T. Cluverius - Doctor of Laws
Francis S. Hutchins - Doctor of Laws
1934
Homer S. Cummings - Doctor of Laws
1933
Harold L. Ickes - Doctor of Laws
1931
Walter S. Brewster - Master of Arts
Flora J. Cooke - Master of Arts
John Henry S. Lee 1895 - Doctor of Laws
James Weber Linn - Doctor of Literature
William H. Marbach ’12 - Doctor of Divinity
1930
John Edw. Carver 1897 - Doctor of Divinity
William D. MacMillan 1892 - Doctor of Science
Herbert Wm. Prince - Doctor of Divinity
John S. Zelie - Doctor of Literature
1929
Walter J. Kohler - Doctor of Laws
James G.K. McClure - Doctor of Laws
James G. Needham - Doctor of Science
1928
Calvin H. French 1888 - Doctor of Divinity
Silas Hardy Strawn - Doctor of Laws
1927
John Timothy Stone - Doctor of Laws
Eloise R. Tremain - Master of Arts
1926
John Rogers Commons - Doctor of Laws
Siegfried Gruenstein 1899 - Master of Arts
1925
William W. Comfort - Doctor of Laws
David Fales 1896 - Doctor of Laws
John A. MacIntosh - Doctor of Laws
Angus Sillars - Doctor of Divinity
1924
John M. Coulter - Doctor of Science
William D. Forbes 1880 - Doctor of Divinity
William Mather Lewis 1900 - Doctor of Laws
1923
Cornelius Betten 1900 - Doctor of Science
William H. Humiston 1891 - Master of Science
Burtis MacHatton 1895 - Doctor of Divinity
Harry Olson - Doctor of Laws
1922
George R. Baker - Doctor of Divinity
Newell Dwight Hillis 1884 - Doctor of Laws
George Roberts - Doctor of Divinity
1921
Dean Lewis 1895 - Master of Laws
Henry Dale White 1909 - Doctor of Divinity
1919
Ralph H. Bush ’11 - Master of Arts
1918
Albert C. Wenban - Master of Philosophy
1917
George Wm. Wright 1892 - Doctor of Divinity
1913
Clifford W. Barnes - Doctor of Laws
Henry Marcotte 1893 - Doctor of Divinity
1912
Hobart C. Chatfield Taylor - Doctor of Literature
1910
Graham Lee - Doctor of Divinity
1907
Edward E. Nourse 1888 - Doctor of Divinity
1903
Paul David Bergen - Doctor of Divinity
1901
Louis Edwards Holden - Doctor of Laws
1900
W. C. Barrett - Doctor of Laws
1898
Washington A. Nichols - Doctor of Divinity
1897
Charles N. Johnson - Master of Arts
1895
Truman W. Brophy - Doctor of Laws
1891
Arthur Judson Brown - Doctor of Divinity
August F. Bruske - Doctor of Divinity
William E. Moore - Doctor of Laws
1890
John Thomas Duffield - Doctor of Laws
Edward C. Sickels - Doctor of Divinity
1889
Norman Bridge - Master of Arts
William Justin Harsha - Doctor of Divinity
Robert W. Patterson - Doctor of Laws
1888
William H. Byford - Doctor of Laws
Henry Salisbury Jerome - Master of Arts
James G.K. McClure - Doctor of Divinity
1886
Joseph Milton Greene - Doctor of Divinity
1885
Ambrose C. Smith - Doctor of Divinity
1882
John H. Barrows - Doctor of Divinity
George F. Selby - Master of Arts
1881
Thomas C. Easton - Doctor of Divinity
Gideon P. Nichols - Doctor of Divinity
Mark Skinner - Doctor of Laws
1880
Thomas G. Smith - Doctor of Divinity
John B. Stewart - Doctor of Divinity