Honorary Degrees awarded at the University of Michigan, 1852-2008
| Last Name | Given Name(s) | Year | Term | Degree Awarded | Alum | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradish | Alvah | 1852 | Master of Arts | |||
| Sager | Abram | 1852 | Master of Arts | |||
| Welch | Adonijah Strong | 1852 | Master of Arts | |||
| Everts | Orpheus | 1865 | Doctor of Medicine | |||
| Baxter | Witter Johnson | 1866 | Master of Arts | |||
| Campbell | James Valentine | 1866 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| White | Andrew Dickson | 1867 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Boise | James Robinson | 1868 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Harris | Joseph | 1868 | Master of Science | |||
| Newton | Hubert Anson | 1868 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Sarmiento | Domingo Faustino | 1868 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Belden | William Henry | 1869 | Master of Arts | |||
| Norris | Lyman Decatur | 1869 | Master of Arts | |||
| Slocum | Elliott Truax | 1869 | Master of Arts | |||
| Ingham | Oscar Solomon | 1870 | Master of Arts | |||
| Sill | John Mahelm Berry | 1870 | Master of Arts | |||
| Turner | Jerome Willard | 1870 | Master of Arts | |||
| Abbott | Theophilus Capen | 1871 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Steinmetz | Jacob Lieber | 1871 | Master of Arts | |||
| Lossing | Benson John | 1872 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Payne | William Harold | 1872 | Master of Arts | |||
| Upjohn | William | 1872 | Doctor of Medicine | |||
| Cooley | Thomas McIntyre | 1873 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Hennequin | Alfred | 1873 | Master of Arts | |||
| Walker | Charles Irish | 1874 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Ripley | George | 1875 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Steere | Joseph Beal | 1875 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Langley | John Williams | 1877 | Doctor of Medicine | |||
| Welch | Adonijah Strong | 1878 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Barnum | William Henry | 1879 | Master of Arts | |||
| Ewell | Marshall Davis | 1879 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Finch | John Wesley | 1879 | Doctor of Dentistry | |||
| Fiske | Lewis Ransom | 1879 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Wheeler | Orlando Belina | 1879 | Civil Engineering | |||
| Beal | William James | 1880 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Horton | Edward Augustus | 1880 | Master of Arts | |||
| Trowbridge | Tillman Conkling | 1880 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Andrews | Edmund | 1881 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Davis | Raymond Cazallis | 1881 | Master of Arts | |||
| Ford | Corydon La | 1881 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Morris | George Sylvester | 1881 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Palmer | Alonzo Benjamin | 1881 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Rogers | Randolph | 1881 | Master of Arts | |||
| Taft | Jonathan | 1881 | Doctor of Medicine | |||
| Chamberlin | Thomas Chrowder | 1882 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Cochran | Varnum Barstow | 1882 | Master of Arts | |||
| Freeman | Alice Elvira | 1882 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Richards | Abraham Edmund | 1882 | Master of Arts | |||
| Cooke | Philip St. George | 1883 | Master of Arts | |||
| Dolbear | Amos Emerson | 1883 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Graves | Benjamin Franklin | 1883 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Hegeler | Edward Charles | 1883 | Master of Arts | |||
| Langley | Samuel Pierpont | 1883 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Greene | Charles Ezra | 1884 | Civil Engineering | |||
| Nelson | Theodore | 1884 | Master of Arts | |||
| Cooley | Mortimer Elwyn | 1885 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Frieze | Henry Simmons | 1885 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Miller | Willoughby Dayton | 1885 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Parsons | Henry Betts | 1885 | Master of Pharmacy | |||
| Davis | Cushman Kellogg | 1886 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Hart | Sir Robert | 1886 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Prescott | Albert Benjamin | 1886 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Toyama | Masakazu | 1886 | Master of Arts | |||
| Brown | Henry Billings | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Bryce | James | 1887 | Doctor of laws | |||
| Chamberlin | Thomas Chrowder | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Champlin | John Wayne | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Daniel | John Warwick | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Gray | Asa | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Hall | Granville Stanley | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Harris | Samuel Smith | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| High | James Lambert | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Hilgard | Eugene | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Joy | James Frederick | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Lippincott | Joshua Allen | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Macfarlane | Alexander | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Mendenhall | Thomas Corwin | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Michaelis | Otto Ernest | 1887 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Miller | Samuel Freeman | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Pickering | Edward Charles | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Trowbridge | William Petit | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Winsor | Justin | 1887 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Abbe | Cleveland | 1888 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Payne | William Harold | 1888 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Sewall | Henry | 1888 | Doctor of Medicine | |||
| D'Ooge | Martin Luther | 1889 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Horton | Albert Howell | 1889 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| McKinstry | Elisha Williams | 1889 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Baker | Henry Brooks | 1890 | Master of Arts | |||
| Blair | Austin | 1890 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Howell | William Henry | 1890 | Doctor of Medicine | |||
| Stanley | Albert Augustus | 1890 | Master of Arts | |||
| Stone | lLucinda Hinsdale | 1890 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Bayard | Thomas Francis | 1891 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Grant | Claudius Buchanan | 1891 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Lewis | Isaiah Giles | 1891 | Master of Pharmacy | |||
| Swan | Henry Harrison | 1891 | Master of Arts | |||
| Langley | John Williams | 1892 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Woodward | John Simpson | 1892 | Doctor of Philosophy | |||
| Aldrich | Charles Henry | 1893 | Master of Arts | |||
| De Nancrède | Charles Beylard Guerard | 1893 | Master of Arts | |||
| Maxwell | Lawrence | 1893 | Bachelor of Science | |||
| Schaeberle | John Martin | 1893 | Master of Science | |||
| Harrington | Mark Walrod | 1894 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Kirchner | Otto | 1894 | Doctor of Arts | |||
| Mechem | Floyd Russell | 1894 | Master of Arts | |||
| O'Brien | Frank | 1894 | Master of Arts | |||
| Palmer | George Herbert | 1894 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Sternberg | George Miller | 1894 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Chapin | Angie Clara | 1895 | Master of Arts | |||
| Frackelton | William S. | 1895 | Master of Arts | |||
| Hurd | Henry Mills | 1895 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| McMurdy | Robert Henry | 1895 | Master of Laws | |||
| Noble | Alfred | 1895 | Master of Laws | |||
| Poppleton | Andrew Jackson | 1895 | Master of Arts | |||
| Ranson | Wyllys Cadwell | 1895 | Master of Arts | |||
| Hanchett | Benton | 1896 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Mark | Edward Laurens | 1896 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| McLaughlin | Andrew Cunningham | 1896 | Master of Arts | |||
| Prescott | Albert Benjamin | 1896 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Quinby | William Emory | 1896 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Sayre | Lucius Elmer | 1896 | Bachelor of Science in | |||
| Doolittle | Charles Leander | 1897 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Hull | Lawrence Cameron | 1897 | Master of Arts | |||
| Miner | Maurice Ashbel | 1897 | Master of Pharmacy | |||
| Putnam | Daniel | 1897 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Severens | Henry Franklin | 1897 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Story | Robert Herbert | 1897 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Wheeler | Ebenezer Smith | 1897 | Master of Science | |||
| Woelfflin | Edward Ritter V. | 1897 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Day | William Rufus | 1898 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Jacobi | Abraham | 1898 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Long | Oscar Russell | 1898 | Doctor of Medicine | |||
| Waterloo | Stanley | 1898 | Master of Arts | |||
| Brush | Charles Francis | 1899 | Master of Science | |||
| Campbell | William Wallace | 1899 | Master of Science | |||
| Hazard | Caroline | 1899 | Master of Arts | |||
| Kent | Charles Artemas | 1899 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Barr | Robert | 1900 | Master of Arts | |||
| Dewey | Richard Smith | 1900 | Master of Arts | |||
| Kedzie | Robert Clark | 1900 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Mall | Franklin Paine | 1900 | Master of Arts | |||
| Mayo | William James | 1900 | Master of Arts | |||
| Phelps | Abel Mix | 1900 | Master of Arts | |||
| Pilcher | Lewis Stephen Fish | 1900 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Pomeroy | Emmet Hall | 1900 | Master of Arts | |||
| Robinson | Albert Alonzo | 1900 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Vaughan | Victor Clarence | 1900 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Washburn | George | 1900 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| White | Peter | 1900 | Master of Arts | |||
| Bliss | Frederick Leroy | 1901 | Master of Arts | |||
| McGowan | Jonas Hartzel | 1901 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Smith | Joseph Rowe | 1901 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Spring | Alfred | 1901 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Stearns | Frederick | 1901 | Master of Arts | |||
| White | Joseph Mandeville | 1901 | Master of Arts | |||
| Wilson | General Bluford | 1901 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the Class of 1865) R.P., 1901, p. 672 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Alvord | Austin White | 1902 | Master of Arts | |||
| Barbour | Florus Alonzo | 1902 | Master of Arts | |||
| Beadle | William Henry Harrison | 1902 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Kiefer | Hermann | 1902 | Doctor of Medicine | |||
| Moses | Bernard | 1902 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Reed | Walter | 1902 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Sherrard | Harry Gray | 1902 | Master of Arts | |||
| Swan | Henry Harrison | 1902 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Abel | John Jacob | 1903 | Master of Arts | |||
| Barbosa | Jose Celso | 1903 | Master of Arts | |||
| Carrow | Flemming | 1903 | Master of Arts | |||
| Jenks | Jeremiah Whipple | 1903 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Morrissey | Andrew | 1903 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Quarles | Joseph Very | 1903 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Wanty | George Proctor | 1903 | Master of Arts | |||
| White | Stewart Edward | 1903 | Master of Arts | |||
| Freer | Charles Lang | 1904 | Master of Laws | |||
| Gayley | Charles Mills | 1904 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Gerrish | Frederic Henry | 1904 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Maxwell | Lawrence | 1904 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Millspaugh | Jesse Fonda | 1904 | Master of Arts | |||
| Munson | James Decker | 1904 | Master of Arts | |||
| Thomas | Calvin | 1904 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Williams | Gershom Mott | 1904 | Master of Arts | |||
| Burton | Clarence Monroe | 1905 | Master of Arts | |||
| Campbell | William Wallace | 1905 | Doctor of Science | |||
| McGraw | Theodore Andrews | 1905 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Pritchett | Henry Smith | 1905 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Spencer | Mary Clare | 1905 | Master of Arts | |||
| Warner | William | 1905 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Carman | George Noble | 1906 | Master of Arts | |||
| Christian | Edmund Adolph | 1906 | Master of Arts | |||
| Dudley | Charles Ashman | 1906 | Master of Arts | |||
| Grawn | Charles Theodore | 1906 | Master of Arts | |||
| Locy | William Albert | 1906 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Aldrich | Edgar | 1907 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Ballore | Comte de Fernand | 1907 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Barnard | Job | 1907 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Cochran | Carlos Bingham | 1907 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Comstock | George Cary | 1907 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Cutting | Charles Sidney | 1907 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Del Valle | Raphael | 1907 | Bachelor of Science | |||
| Herrick | James Bryan | 1907 | Master of Arts | |||
| MacNaughton | James | 1907 | Bachelor of Science in Civil | (as of the Class of 1888 R.P., 1907, p. 137 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Courtney | Walter | 1908 | Master of Arts | |||
| Kirby | Frank Eugene | 1908 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Mall | Franklin Paine | 1908 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Mayo | William James | 1908 | Doctor of Science | |||
| O'Brien | Thomas James | 1908 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Olcott | William James | 1908 | Master of Arts | |||
| Snyder | Jonathan Le Moyne | 1908 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Williams | Calvin Scott | 1908 | Master of Arts | |||
| Wright | Luther Lampheare | 1908 | Master of Arts | |||
| Babcock | Robert Hall | 1909 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Blair | Charles Austin | 1909 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Haff | Delbert James | 1909 | Master of Arts | |||
| Howison | George Holmes | 1909 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Kendall | Calvin Noyes | 1909 | Master of Arts | |||
| Shafroth | John Franklin | 1909 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Denney | Joseph Villiers | 1910 | Master of Arts | |||
| Fletcher | Frank Ward | 1910 | Master of Arts | |||
| Hamilton | Alice | 1910 | Master of Arts | X | Pioneer investigator in the field of industrial medicine; former member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School | |
| Harison | Beverly Drake | 1910 | Master of Arts | |||
| Harriman | Karl Edwin | 1910 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the Class of 1898 R.P., 1910, p. 795 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc) | ||
| Hosmer | George Stedman | 1910 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Kidd | James Harvey | 1910 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| May | Thomas | 1910 | Master of Arts | |||
| McAlvay | Aaron Vance | 1910 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Moore | George Whitney | 1910 | Bachelor of Laws | (as of the Class of 1873) R.P., 1910, p. 795 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Rogers | Edward Sidney | 1910 | Master of Laws | |||
| Rosencrans | William Henry | 1910 | Bachelor of Science in Civil | (As of the Class of 1894) R.P., 1910, p. 795 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Russel | Walter Scott | 1910 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Sabin | Marden | 1910 | Master of Arts | |||
| Babst | Earl D. | 1911 | Master of Arts | X | ||
| Canfield | George Lewis | 1911 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the class of 1888) R.P., 1911, p. 192 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Dow | Alex | 1911 | Master of Engineering | President, Detroit Edison Company | ||
| Evans | Williams Augustus | 1911 | Doctor of Public Health | |||
| Geisler | Joseph Frank | 1911 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Hill | Louis Clarence | 1911 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Judson | Harry Pratt | 1911 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Chicago | ||
| Kiefer | Guy Lincoln | 1911 | Doctor of Public Health | |||
| McCabe | Albert Eugene | 1911 | Bachelor of Laws | (as of the class of 1894 R.P., 1911, p. 242 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Osborn | Chase Salmon | 1911 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Park | Samuel Culver | 1911 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the Class of 1891) R.P., 1911, p. 192 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Pond | Allen Bartlit | 1911 | Master of Arts | |||
| Pond | Irving Kane | 1911 | Master of Arts | |||
| Prout | Henry Goslee | 1911 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Ripley | Joseph | 1911 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Thayer | Rufus Hildreth | 1911 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Webster | John Robinson | 1911 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the Class of 1876) R.P., 1911, p. 192 (Voted as honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Abel | John Jacob | 1912 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Angell | James Burrill | 1912 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Bacon | Frederick Hampden | 1912 | Bachelor of Arts | as of the Class of 1871 R. P., 1912, p. 477 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Benzenberg | George Henry | 1912 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Bigelow | Melville Madison | 1912 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Brush | Charles Francis | 1912 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Burch | Charles Sumner | 1912 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Carhart | Henry Smith | 1912 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Davis | Harry Compton | 1912 | Bachelor of Laws | (as of the Class of 1877 R.P., 1912, p. 477 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Davis | Joseph Baker | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| Donovan | Cornelius | 1912 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Fay | Edward Allen | 1912 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Gifford | Harold | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| Heineman | David Emil | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| Howell | William Henry | 1912 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Kaye | James Hamilton Barcroft | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| King | Harry Eldridge | 1912 | Bachelor of Laws | (as of the Class of 1883) R.P., 1912, p. 477 (Voted as an honorary degree, nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Lamont | Robert Patterson | 1912 | Master of Arts | Secretary of Commerce | ||
| Landmann | Otto | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| Lightner | Clarence Ashley | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| MacMillan | Lincoln | 1912 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the Class of 1890) R.P., 1912, p. 477 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| McLaughlin | Andrew Cunningham | 1912 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| McMurrich | James Playfair | 1912 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Mechem | Floyd Russell | 1912 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Prinz | Herman | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| Sewall | Henry | 1912 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Smith | Clement McDonald | 1912 | Bachelor of Laws | (as of the Class of 1867) R.P., 1912, p. 477 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Turner | Madelon Louisa Stockwell | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| Walker | Bryant | 1912 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Warriner | Eugene Clarence | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| Weeks | John Elmer | 1912 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Wood | James Craven | 1912 | Master of Arts | |||
| Woodward | Robert Simpson | 1912 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Blue | Rupert | 1913 | Doctor of Public Health | |||
| Brown | Charles Carroll | 1913 | Master of Arts | |||
| Carpenter | William Leland | 1913 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Cole | Rossetter Gleason | 1913 | Master of Arts | |||
| Decker | Edward Harris | 1913 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the Class of 1897 R.P., 1913, p. 760 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Dewey | John | 1913 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| DeWitt | Lydia Maria Adams | 1913 | Master of Arts | |||
| Eisenmann | John | 1913 | Master of Arts | |||
| Ferris | Woodbridge Nathan | 1913 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| French | Walter Hiram | 1913 | Master of Science | |||
| Friedman | Carl Kimball | 1913 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the Class of 1891 R.P., 1913, p. 760 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Gemmell | Robert Campbell | 1913 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Hektoen | Ludvig | 1913 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Kastl | Alexander Edward | 1913 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Klotz | Otto Julius | 1913 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Knappen | Loyal Edwin | 1913 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Kremers | Edward | 1913 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Leuschner | Armin Otto | 1913 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Loud | Henry Nelson | 1913 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the Class of 1872 R.P., 1913, p. 760 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| McGraw | Stanley Dickinson | 1913 | Bachelor of Arts | (as of the Class of 1872 R.P., 1913, p. 760 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Melchers | Gari | 1913 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Mendel | Lafayette Benedict | 1913 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Miner | Selden Spencer | 1913 | Bachelor of Laws | (as of the class of 1878) R.P., 1913, p. 760 (Voted as an honorary degree, not nunc pro tunc.) | ||
| Pound | Roscoe | 1913 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Price | Weston Andrew Valleau | 1913 | Master of Science | |||
| Ripley | Henry Clay | 1913 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Roe | John Orlando | 1913 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Van Hoosen | Bertha | 1913 | Master of Arts | |||
| Vincent | George Edgar | 1913 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Minnesota | ||
| Adams | Franklin Pierce | 1914 | Master of Arts | |||
| Baker | Francis Elisha | 1914 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Brunnow | Rudolph Ernest | 1914 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Clark | Annie Duxberry | 1914 | Master of Arts | |||
| Crew | Henry | 1914 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Follett | William W. | 1914 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Hulbert | Henry Schoolcraft | 1914 | Master of Laws | |||
| Hulst | Cornelia Steketee | 1914 | Master of Arts | |||
| Jackson | Victor Hugo | 1914 | Master of Arts | |||
| James | Edmund Janes | 1914 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Illinois | ||
| Mitchell | Andrew Stuart | 1914 | Master of Science | |||
| Preble | Robert Bruce | 1914 | Master of Arts | |||
| Smith | Dean Tyler | 1914 | Master of Science | |||
| Tuthill | Job | 1914 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Williams | Benezette | 1914 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Worcester | Dean Conant | 1914 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Zane | John Maxcy | 1914 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Angell | Alexis Caswell | 1915 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Cattell | David Mahlon | 1915 | Master of Arts | |||
| Cooley | Lyman Edgar | 1915 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Darling | John Henry | 1915 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Fischer | Arthur Ferdinand | 1915 | Master of Arts | |||
| Garwood | Ralph Stillman | 1915 | Master of Arts | |||
| Goodale | George Pomeroy | 1915 | Master of Arts | |||
| Hempl | George | 1915 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Jenks | William Lee | 1915 | Master of Arts | |||
| Sears | William Bernard | 1915 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Shorey | Paul | 1915 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Skeel | Roland Edward | 1915 | Master of Arts | |||
| Thompson | William Oxley | 1915 | Doctor of Laws | President, Ohio State University | ||
| Campbell | Henry Munroe | 1916 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Denison | Arthur Carter | 1916 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Dunn | William LeRoy | 1916 | Master of Arts | |||
| Gilbert | Cass | 1916 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Goffe. James Riddle | Master of Arts | 1916 | ||||
| Hill | Albert Ross | 1916 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Missouri | ||
| Moorehead | Frederick Brown | 1916 | Master of Science | |||
| Reed | Frank Fremont | 1916 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Sabin | Louis Carlton | 1916 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Talbot | Arthur Newell | 1916 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Thomas | Charles Spalding | 1916 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Warren | Charles Beecher | 1916 | Master of Arts | |||
| Watson | John | 1916 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Birmingham | Henry Patrick | 1917 | Master of Arts | |||
| Braisted | William Clarence | 1917 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Coffin | Howard Earle | 1917 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Dercle | Charles | 1917 | Master of Arts | |||
| Farrand | Livingston | 1917 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Gilmour | John | 1917 | Master of Arts | |||
| Goodwin | Thomas | 1917 | Master of Arts | |||
| Rist | Edouard | 1917 | Master of Arts | |||
| Sutherland | [Alexander] George | 1917 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Winship | George Parker | 1917 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Beck | James Montgomery | 1918 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Jones | Henry | 1918 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Lauzanne | M. Stephane Joseph | 1918 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Miers | Henry Alexander | 1918 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Shipley | Artur Everett | 1918 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Sidgwick | Rose | 1918 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Spurgeon | Caroline | 1918 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Walker | Edward Mewburn | 1918 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Williams | Gardner Fred | 1918 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Wood | Leonard | 1918 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Budge | Alfred | 1919 | Master of Arts | |||
| Crocker | Herbert Samuel | 1919 | Master of Engineering | |||
| De Nancrède | Charles Beylard Guerard | 1919 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Elliott | Isaac Hughes | 1919 | Master of Arts | |||
| Green | Andrew Heatley | 1919 | Master of Engineering | |||
| Hyvernat | Henry Eugene Xavier | 1919 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Kahn | Ottto Herman | 1919 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Keppel | The Honorable Frederick | 1919 | Doctor of Laws | Third Assistant Secretary of War | ||
| Kirchner | Otto | 1919 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Mercier | Cardinal Desire Joseph | 1919 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Ohlinger | Gustavus Adolphus | 1919 | Master of Arts | |||
| Perry | Stuart Hoffman | 1919 | Master of Arts | |||
| Raymond | William Galt | 1919 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Sharp | William Graves | 1919 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Swift | Lucius Burrie | 1919 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Burton | Marion Leroy | 1920 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Minnesota; President Elect, University of Michigan | ||
| Crowder | Enoch Herbert | 1920 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Ford | Worthington Chauncey | 1920 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Gay | Edwin Francis | 1920 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Ireland | Merritte Weber | 1920 | Master of Arts | |||
| Kahn | Ida | 1920 | Master of Arts | |||
| Leland | Henry Martyn | 1920 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Steere | Joseph Hall | 1920 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Bulkley | Harry Conant | 1921 | Master of Arts | |||
| Canright | Harry Lee | 1921 | Master of Arts | |||
| Channing | Edward | 1921 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Comstock | Ada Louise | 1921 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Duffy | James Eugene | 1921 | Master of Arts | |||
| Fiske | Bradley Allen | 1921 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Geddes | Sir Auckland Campbell | 1921 | Doctor of Laws | British Ambassador to the United States | ||
| Hutchins | Harry Burns | 1921 | Doctor of Laws | President Emeritus, University of Michigan | ||
| Malcolm | George Arthur | 1921 | J.D. | X | Former Justice, Supreme Court, Philippine Islands and former Dean of the College of Law, University of the Phillippines | |
| Stefanson | Vilhjalmur | 1921 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Stitt | Edward Rhodes | 1921 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Barnes | Mortimer Grant | 1922 | Master of Engineering | Chief Engineer, Division of Waterways, State of Illinois | ||
| Chapin | Roy Dikeman | 1922 | Master of Arts | President, Hudson Motor Car Company | ||
| Frost | Robert | 1922 | Master of Arts | Poet and teacher; DECEASED | ||
| Grandgent | Charles Hall | 1922 | Doctor of Humane Letters | One of the finest of Harvard's teachers | ||
| Grieves | Clarence Jones | 1922 | Master of Arts | Chief of the Dental Staff and Oral Consultant, Johns Hopkins University Hospital | ||
| Groesbeck | Alexander Joseph | 1922 | Doctor of Laws | Governor, State of Michigan | ||
| Hughes | The Honorable Charles | 1922 | Doctor of Laws | United States Secretary of State | ||
| Lewis | Sir. Thomas | 1922 | Doctor of Science | Physician of the University Hospital, London, England, and Physician of the Staff of the Royal Medical Research Committee | ||
| Smith | Erwin Frank | 1922 | Doctor of Laws | Since 1886 Pathologist in charge of the Laboratory of Pathology, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture | ||
| Todd | Albert May | 1922 | Master of Arts | Scientific and practial developer of medicinal and plant resources of the State of Michigan | ||
| Veasey | James Alexander | 1922 | Master of Laws | General Counsel, Carter Oil Company, resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the distributing center of a vast and indispensable industry | ||
| Cardozo | Benjamin Nathan | 1923 | Doctor of Laws | Judge, Court of Appeals, State of New York | ||
| Cross | Wilbur Lucius | 1923 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Graduate School, Yale University | ||
| Crozier | William | 1923 | Doctor of Engineering | Major General, United States Army | ||
| De Schweinitz | George Edmund | 1923 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania and President, American Medical Association | ||
| Eastman | Sidney Corning | 1923 | Master of Arts | An honored member of the Chicago Bar, and an alumnus constant in devotion and generous in loyalty | ||
| Fosdick | The Reverand Harry | 1923 | Doctor of Laws | Special Preacher, First Presbyterian Church, New York City and Professor of Practical Theology, Union Theological Seminary | ||
| Jameson | John Franklin | 1923 | Doctor of Laws | Director, Department of Historical Research, Carnegie Institution in Washington; Managing Editor, American Historical Review | ||
| Lawson | Victor Fremont | 1923 | Doctor of Laws | Editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News Since 1876 | ||
| Miller | John Barnes | 1923 | Master of Arts | He became a successful organizer of various light and power companies in California -- President of the Edison Electric Company from 1906 to 1909 and of the Southern California Edison Company since that time. | ||
| Burch | Roussea Angelus | 1924 | Doctor of Laws | Justice, Spureme Court, State of Kansas and member, Council of the American Law Institute | ||
| Cather | Willa Sibert | 1924 | Doctor of Letters | A writer whose originality of thought and forceful beauty of style have profoundly enriched American literature | ||
| Cody | Frank | 1924 | Master of Arts | Superintendent, Detroit Public Schools | ||
| Dow | Alex | 1924 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Eames | Wilberforce | 1924 | Doctor of Laws | Of the New York Public Library, an authority in the literature dealing with the early history of America | ||
| Frank | Glenn | 1924 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Editor-in-Chief, Century Magazine | ||
| Morgan | Thomas Hunt | 1924 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Experimental Zoology, Columbia University | ||
| Stock | Frederick A. | 1924 | Doctor of Music | Director, Chicago Symphony Orchestra | ||
| West | Bina M. | 1924 | Master of Arts | Organizer and Supreme Commander, Women's Benefit Association of the Maccabees | ||
| Wright | Orville | 1924 | Doctor of Engineering | Demonstrated that flight was possible in a machine heavier than air | ||
| Blodgett | Mrs. Minnie Cumnock | 1925 | Master of Arts | A trustee of Vassar College and a leader in matters of civic betterment | ||
| Booth | George G. | 1925 | Master of Arts | A patron of arts and letters, director of large affairs, public - spirited citizen | ||
| Corwin | Dr. Edward Samuel | 1925 | Doctor of Laws | McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University | ||
| Cushny | Dr. Arthur Robertson | 1925 | Doctor of Laws | Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Materia Medica, University of Edinburgh | ||
| Finley | Dr. John Huston | 1925 | Doctor of Laws | Author, educator, college president, and editor of the New York Times | ||
| Hanus | Paul Henry | 1925 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of the History and Arts of Teaching, Harvard University | ||
| Hoskier | Herman Charles | 1925 | Master of Arts | Vice-President, Foreign Finance Corporation | ||
| Mead | Dr. Elwood | 1925 | Doctor of Laws | Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, engineer, law - giver, and administrator | ||
| Swift | James Marcus | 1925 | Master of Laws | District Attorney and Attorney General, Massachusetts, Commissioner for the Revision of the Statute Laws, and Chairman, Committee for the Revision of the Criminal Law | ||
| Vandenberg | Arthur Hendrick | 1925 | Master of Arts | X | Editor and publisher, Grand Rapids Herald | |
| Dennis | Dr. Louis Munroe | 1926 | Doctor of Science | Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, Cornell University | ||
| Ford | Henry | 1926 | Doctor of Engineering | Whose genius brought into being an industry that changed the world | ||
| Hayes | Dr. George Byron | 1926 | Master of Science | A graduate of the College of Dental Surgery in the class of 1889 and resident since then in Paris, he gained international recognition as a leader in his profession | ||
| Jeffers | Frederick Albert | 1926 | Master of Arts | President, State Board of Education, Superintendent of Schools, Painesdale, whose marked success in organizing and directing a system of township schools has won him a commanding position among the schoolment of the State | ||
| Lake | Kirsopp | 1926 | Doctor of Letters | Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Harvard University | ||
| Rosenberry | Justice Marvin Briston | 1926 | Doctor of Laws | Justice, Supreme Court State of Wisconsin and Member, Council of the American Law Institute. | ||
| Sabin | Florence Rena | 1926 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Histology, Johns Hopkins University and member, Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research | ||
| Salmon | (Miss) Lucy Maynard | 1926 | Doctor of Letters | Professor of History, Vassar College | ||
| Seltzer | Leonard Adam | 1926 | Master of Science | A graduate of the College of Pharmacy in the class of 1892 who has successfully combined a business career with devotion to science | ||
| Stevens | Alviso Burdett | 1926 | Doctor of Science | X | A graduate of the College of Pharmacy in the class of 1878, for many years a professor and dean in the University | |
| Whyte | Sir Frederick | 1926 | Doctor of Laws | Former member of Parliament. First President of the Legislative Assembly of India | ||
| Abbot | Willis John | 1927 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Editor, Christian Science Monitor | ||
| Longworth | The Honorable Nicholas | 1927 | Doctor of Laws | For many years a Representative of his State in Congress, who as Speaker directed its affairs with singular tact and judgment | ||
| Richards | John Evan | 1927 | Doctor of Laws | Justice, Supreme Court, State of California | ||
| Taussig | Frank William | 1927 | Doctor of Laws | Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University | ||
| Wagner | Frank Casper | 1927 | Doctor of Engineering | President, Rose Polytechnic Institute | ||
| Whitney | Willis Rodney | 1927 | Doctor of Science | Director, Research Laboratory, General Electirc Company | ||
| Wickersham | George Woodward | 1927 | Doctor of Laws | Attorney General of the United States from 1909 to 1913, President of the Amerian Law Institute | ||
| Ziwet | Alexander | 1927 | Doctor of Science | For many years Professor of Mathematics in the University and Professor Emeritus since 1925 | ||
| Clapp | Earl Hart | 1928 | Doctor of Science | Assistant Forester in Charge of Research, United States Forest Service | ||
| Gabrilowitsch | Ossip | 1928 | Doctor of Music | Conductor, Detroit Symphony Orchestra | ||
| Gilbreth | Lillian Moller | 1928 | Master of Engineering | Consulting Engineer in management | ||
| Harper | Lathrop Colgate | 1928 | Master of Arts | Bibliographical expert | ||
| Heiss | Charles Augustus | 1928 | Master of Arts | Comptroller, American Telephone and Telegraph Company | ||
| Keogh | Andrew | 1928 | Doctor of Letters | Stirling Professor of Bibliography and Librarian, Yale University | ||
| Kettering | Charles Franklin | 1928 | Doctor of Engineering | President and General Manager, General Motors Research Corporation; research engineer and inventor | ||
| Mason | George DeWitt | 1928 | Master of Architecture | Architect, Detroit | ||
| Mason | William Smith | 1928 | Doctor of Letters | Collector of Frankliniana | ||
| Rowell | The Honorable Chester | 1928 | Doctor of Laws | Journalist; Regent, University of California | ||
| Scoville | Wilbur Lincoln | 1928 | Master of Science | Chairman, National Formulary Committee, American Pharmaceutical Association | ||
| Stevens | John Frank | 1928 | Doctor of Engineering | Transportation Engineer | ||
| Strawn | Silas Hardy | 1928 | Doctor of Laws | President, American Bar Association | ||
| Webster | Arthur | 1928 | Master of Laws | Judge, Third Judicial Circuit, State of Michigan | ||
| Baxter | Gregory Paul | 1929 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University | ||
| Cooley | Mortimer Elwyn | 1929 | Doctor of Engineering | |||
| Craigie | Sir William Alexander | 1929 | Doctor of Letters | Editor, Oxford English Dictionary | ||
| Crummer | LeRoy | 1929 | Doctor of Letters | Physician and collector of books and prints relating to the history of medicine | ||
| Dennison | Henry Sturgis | 1929 | Doctor of Business | President, Dennison Manufacturing Company, Framingham, Massachusetts | ||
| Dow | Henry Herbert | 1929 | Doctor of Engineering | President, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan | ||
| Good | James William | 1929 | Doctor of Laws | Secretary of War | ||
| Harrison | Ross Granville | 1929 | Doctor of Science | Sterling Professor of Biology and Director, Osborn Zoological Laboratory, Yale University | ||
| Hyde | Arthur Mastick | 1929 | Doctor of Laws | Secretary of Agriculture | ||
| Lamont | Robert Patterson | 1929 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Millikan | Robert Andrews | 1929 | Doctor of Laws | Director, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, and Chairman, Administrative Council, California Institute of Technology | ||
| Simonds | Ossian Cole | 1929 | Master of Arts | Landscape architect | ||
| Vincent | Jesse Gurney | 1929 | Master of Engineering | Vice-President of Engineering, Packard Motor Car Company | ||
| Webber | Henry William | 1929 | Master of Laws | Member, New York Bar | ||
| Willard | Frederic Wilson | 1929 | Master of Arts | Personnel Director, Western Electric Company | ||
| Brooks | Henry Harlow | 1930 | Master of Science | Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York University | ||
| Bulkley | Harry Conant | 1930 | Doctor of Laws | Member, Detroit Bar and Regent Emeritus, University of Michigan | ||
| Burr | Dr. Colonel Bell | 1930 | Master of Arts | Flint, Michigan | ||
| Chamard | Henri | 1930 | Doctor of Letters | Professor, Sorbonne, Paris, and Visiting Professor, University of Michigan | ||
| Hess | Alfred Fabian | 1930 | Doctor of Science | Pediatrician and recognized authority upon vitamins and deficiency diseases | ||
| Leverett | Frank | 1930 | Doctor of Science | Geologist | ||
| Logan | William Hoffman Gardiner | 1930 | Master of Science | Dean of the Chicago Dental College, Loyola University | ||
| Massey | The Honorable Vincent | 1930 | Doctor of Laws | His Majesty's Minister for Canada to the United States | ||
| Pond | Irving Kane | 1930 | Doctor of Architecture | |||
| Rogers | Edward Sidney | 1930 | Doctor of Laws | Authority on the law of unfair trade, trademark, and copyright | ||
| Smith | Harlan Ingersoll | 1930 | Master of Arts | Archaeologist, Victoria National Museum, Ottawa, Canada | ||
| Stanley | Albert Augustus | 1930 | Doctor of Music | Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Michigan | ||
| Stratton | Mary Chase Perry | 1930 | Master of Arts | Artist, innovator, and craftsman in the field of ceramics | ||
| Turner | Scott | 1930 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Director, United States Bureau of Mines | |
| Tuttle | Arthur J. | 1930 | Master of Laws | Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan | ||
| Angell | James Rowland | 1931 | Doctor of Laws | President, Yale University | ||
| Baker | Newton Diehl | 1931 | Doctor of Laws | Former Secretary of War | ||
| Bragdon | Claude | 1931 | Master of Architecture | Architect and author | ||
| Bronson | Thomas Bertrand | 1931 | Master of Arts | Assistant Headmaster, Lawrenceville School | ||
| Capps | Edward | 1931 | Doctor of Letters | Professor of Classics, Princeton University, and former Ambassador to Greece | ||
| Coffman | Lotus Delta | 1931 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Minnesota | ||
| Farrand | Max | 1931 | Doctor of Laws | Historian; Director of Research, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery | ||
| Freund | Ernst | 1931 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Law, Univerity of Chicago | ||
| Groesbeck | Clarence Edward | 1931 | Doctor of Engineering | Banker and director of public utilities | ||
| Jennings | Charles Godwin | 1931 | Master of Arts | Physician, Detroit; Chairman of the Board of Governors, American College of Physicians | ||
| Kline | George Milton | 1931 | Master of Arts | Psychiatrist; Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases | ||
| Lombard | Warren Plimpton | 1931 | Doctor of Science | Professor Emeritus of Physiology | ||
| Starrett | William Aiken | 1931 | Doctor of Engineering | Designer and constructor of modern steel frame buildings | ||
| Titus | Harold | 1931 | Master of Arts | Writer and member of the State Conservation Commission | ||
| Bode | Boyd Henry | 1932 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Education, Ohio State University | ||
| Campbell | Douglas Houghton | 1932 | Doctor of Laws | Professor Emeritus of Botany, Stanford University | ||
| Chase | Harry Woodburn | 1932 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Illinois | ||
| Crane | Augustus Warren | 1932 | Master of Arts | Pioneer Roentgenologist | ||
| Grace | Sergius Paul | 1932 | Doctor of Engineering | Assistant Vice-President, Bell Telephone Laboratories | ||
| Herrick | James Bryan | 1932 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Hunt | Ormond Edson | 1932 | Master of Science | Vice-President, General Motors Corporation | ||
| Jones | Paul | 1932 | Master of Laws | Judge, United States District Court, Cleveland, Ohio | ||
| Lothrop | Marcus Thompson | 1932 | Master of Science in | Metallurgist; President, Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio | ||
| Marshall | Alfred Cookman | 1932 | Master of Science in | Vice-President and General Manager, Detroit Edison Company | ||
| Miller | Walter | 1932 | Doctor of Letters | Professor of Latin and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Missouri | ||
| Mitchell | William De Witt | 1932 | Doctor of Laws | United States Attorney General | ||
| Scott | James Brown | 1932 | Doctor of Laws | Trustee and Secretary, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | ||
| Sharpe | Nelson | 1932 | Doctor of Laws | Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Michigan | ||
| Spaulding | Thomas Marshall | 1932 | Doctor of Letters | Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army | ||
| Warren | Lewis Eugene | 1932 | Master of Science | Pharmaceutical Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture | ||
| Wiest | Howard | 1932 | Doctor of Laws | Associate Justice, Supreme Court, State of Michigan | ||
| Baird | James | 1933 | Doctor of Engineering | President, James Baird Construction Company | ||
| Barger | George | 1933 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Medical Chemistry, University of Edinburgh | ||
| Barnes | John Peter | 1933 | Master of Laws | Judge, United States District Court, Northern District, Illinois | ||
| Beale | Joseph Henry | 1933 | Doctor of Laws | Royall Professor of Law, Harvard University | ||
| Deardorff | Neva Ruth | 1933 | Master of Arts | Director Research Bureau, Welfare Council of New York | ||
| Duggan | Stephen Pierce | 1933 | Doctor of Laws | Faculty Member, Department of Political Science, Colleg of the City of New York and Director, Institute of International Education | ||
| Ferry | Dexter Mason, Jr. | 1933 | Master of Arts | President, Ferry - Morse Seed Company and President, Standard Accident Insurance Co. | ||
| Gauss | Christian | 1933 | Doctor of Laws | Dean of the College, Princeton University | ||
| Johnston | John Black | 1933 | Doctor of Science | Neurologist, Dean of the College of Science, Literature and the Arts, University of Minnesota | ||
| Kahn | Albert | 1933 | Doctor of Laws | Architect | ||
| McMath | Robert Raynolds | 1933 | Master of Arts | Engineer and astronomer | ||
| Merriam | John Campbell | 1933 | Doctor of Laws | Paleontologist, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. | ||
| Miller | Joseph Leggett | 1933 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Chicago | ||
| Saarinen | Eliel | 1933 | Doctor of Architecture | Architect and city planner | ||
| Seabury | Samuel | 1933 | Doctor of Laws | Member of the Supreme Court and later of the Court of Appeals of New York | ||
| Sullivan | Eugene Cornelius | 1933 | Doctor of Science | Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Corning Glass Works | ||
| Taylor | Orla Benedict | 1933 | Doctor of Laws | Lawyer | ||
| Vance | John Thomas | 1933 | Master of Laws | X | Law Librarian of Congress. Archaeologist | |
| Zeder | Fred Morrell | 1933 | Master of Engineering | Vice-President in Charge of Engineering, The Chrysler Corporation | ||
| Bell | Harold Idris | 1934 | Doctor of Letters | Keeper of Manuscripts and Egerton Librarian, British Museum | ||
| Burr | Alexander George | 1934 | Master of Laws | Chief Justice, Supreme Court, State of North Dakota | ||
| Clements | William Lawrence | 1934 | Doctor of Laws | Industrialist; collector of historical books and manuscripts | ||
| Crocker | Herbert Samuel | 1934 | Doctor of Engineering | Civil engineer | ||
| Fead | Louis Henry | 1934 | Doctor of Laws | Associate Justice, Supreme Court, State of Michigan | ||
| Hinsdale | Wilbert B. | 1934 | Master of Arts | Physician, educator, archaeologist | ||
| Lippman | Walter | 1934 | Doctor of Laws | Editor and publicist | ||
| MacChesney | Nathan William | 1934 | Doctor of Laws | Lawyer; member of Illinois Commission on Uniform State Law | ||
| McNitt | Virgil Venice | 1934 | Master of Arts | Journalist and publisher | ||
| Morehouse | Lyman Foote | 1934 | Doctor of Engineering | Electrical engineer | ||
| Stone | Harlan Fiske | 1934 | Doctor of Laws | Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court | ||
| Wallace | George Barclay | 1934 | Master of Arts | Professor of Pharmacology, New York University and Bellevue Hospital | ||
| Zook | George Frederick | 1934 | Doctor of Laws | United States Commissioner of Education | ||
| Biddle | Andrew Porter | 1935 | Master of Arts | Dermatologist | ||
| Blakeslee | Howard Walter | 1935 | Master of Science | Science Editor, Associate Press | ||
| Canfield | Arthur Graves | 1935 | Doctor of Letters | Professor Emeritus of the Romance Languages and Literatures | ||
| Clark | Herbert Watson | 1935 | Doctor of Laws | Member, San Francisco Bar | ||
| Goodrich | Ernest Payson | 1935 | Doctor of Engineering | Consulting engineer | ||
| Hull | The Honorable Cordell | 1935 | Doctor of Laws | United States Secretary of State | ||
| Jones | Lewis Ralph | 1935 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin | ||
| Macauley | Alvan | 1935 | Doctor of Laws | President, Packard Motor Car Company | ||
| Meese | William Henry | 1935 | Master of Engineering | Vice-President, Western Electric Company | ||
| Merriam | Charles Edward | 1935 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago | ||
| Parker | Walter Robert | 1935 | Doctor of Science | Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology | ||
| Phillips | Orie Leon | 1935 | Doctor of Laws | Judge, United States Tenth Judicial Circuit | ||
| Streeter | Geroge Linius | 1935 | Doctor of Laws | Anatomist, Carnegie Institution of Washington | ||
| Van Slyke | Donald Dexter | 1935 | Doctor of Science | Chief Chemist, Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute | ||
| Briggs | Lyman James | 1936 | Doctor of Laws | X | Director, National Bureau of Standards | |
| Chrysler | Walter Percy | 1936 | Doctor of Engineering | Chariman of the Board, Chrysler Corporation | ||
| Hedrick | Earle Raymond | 1936 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles | |
| Hull | Oscar Clayton | 1936 | Master of Laws | X | Member, Detroit Bar | |
| Kron | Gabriel | 1936 | Master of Engineering | X | Research Engineer, General Electric Company | |
| McDonald | Thomas Francis | 1936 | Master of Laws | X | Member, St. Louis Bar | |
| McKenzie | William Dexter | 1936 | Master of Arts | X | Member, Chicago Bar | |
| Moffit | John T. | 1936 | Master of Laws | X | Judge, Circuit Court, State of Iowa | |
| Novy | Frederick George | 1936 | Doctor of Laws | X | Dean Emeritus of the Medical School | |
| Peavy | George Wilcox | 1936 | Doctor of Science | X | President, Oregon State Agricultural College | |
| Peterson | Reuben | 1936 | Doctor of Science | Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology | ||
| Reighard | Jacob Ellsworth | 1936 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor Emeritus of Zoology | |
| Rowland | Russell Sturgis | 1936 | Master of Science | X | Master of Science | |
| Van Deman | Esther Boise | 1936 | Doctor of Letters | X | Archaeologist, Victoria National Museum, Ottawa, Canada | |
| Winlock | Herbert Eustis | 1936 | Doctor of Letters | Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City | ||
| Baldensperger | Philippe Jules Fernand | 1937 | Doctor of Letters | Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University | ||
| Bradley | Samuel Stewart | 1937 | Master of Science | X | Pioneer organizer and builder in the aeronautical industries | |
| Cook | Ernest Fullerton | 1937 | Master of Science | Chairman, Committee of Revision, United States Pharmacopoeia | ||
| Dewey | Thomas Edmund | 1937 | Master of Science | X | Deputy Assistant District Attorney, New York County | |
| Erlanger | Joseph | 1937 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Physiology, Washington University | ||
| Geddes | Norman Bel | 1937 | Master of Arts | Stage, industrial, and architectural designer | ||
| Gomberg | Moses | 1937 | Doctor of Laws | X | Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Universtiy of Michigan | |
| Harley | Herbert Lincoln | 1937 | Master of Laws | X | Director, American Judicature Society | |
| Hicks | Clarence John | 1937 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman, Executive Committee, Industrial Relations Counselors | ||
| Kamperman | George Able | 1937 | Master of Arts | X | Obstetrician and Gynecologist | |
| Main | John Fleming | 1937 | Doctor of Laws | X | Justice, Supreme Court of Washington | |
| McCarroll | Russell Hudson | 1937 | Master of Engineering | X | In charge of chemical and metallurgical research, Ford Motor Company | |
| Nicolson | Marjorie Hope | 1937 | Doctor of Letters | X | Dean of Smith College | |
| Park | Robert Ezra | 1937 | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Chicago | |
| Riggs | Henry Earle | 1937 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Michigan | |
| Sackett | Robert Lemuel | 1937 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Dean of Engineering, Pennsylvania State College | |
| Wood | Norman Asa | 1937 | Master of Science | Emeritus Curator of Birds, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan | ||
| Young | Karl | 1937 | Doctor of Laws | X | Professor of English, Yale University | |
| Christian | Henry Asbury | 1938 | Doctor of Science | Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics, Harvard Medical School, and Physician-in-Chief, Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston | ||
| Cooke | James Francis | 1938 | Doctor of Laws | Musician, editor, President, Presser Foundation | ||
| Cunningham | Edwin Sheddan | 1938 | Master of Arts | X | United States Consul General, Shanghai, China, retired | |
| Harris | William Pickett, Jr. | 1938 | Master of Science | Mammalogist; Honorary Associate Curator of Mammals, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan | ||
| Lawrence | Ernest Orlando | 1938 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Physics, University of California | ||
| Merritt | Arthur Hastings | 1938 | Master of Science | Investigator, clinician, and author in the field of dental science | ||
| Morey | Charles Rufus | 1938 | Doctor of Letters | X | Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University | |
| Mulford | Walter | 1938 | Doctor of Science | Forester; Professor and Chief of the Division of Forestry, University of California | ||
| Murfin | James Orin | 1938 | Doctor of Laws | X | Member, Detroit Bar; Regent Emeritus, Univesrity of Michigan | |
| Rous | Peyton | 1938 | Doctor of Science | Member in pathology and bacteriology, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research | ||
| Spaulding | Oliver Lyman | 1938 | Doctor of Laws | X | Colonel, Field Artillery, United States Army; military historian | |
| Tatlock | John Strong Perry | 1938 | Doctor of Letters | Professor of English, University of California | ||
| Timoshenko | Stephen | 1938 | Doctor of Engineering | Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Stanford University | ||
| Van Valkenburgh | Arba Seymour | 1938 | Doctor of Laws | X | Judge, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Eight Circuit, retired | |
| Archer | Robert Samuel | 1939 | Master of Engineering | X | Metallurgist, Repubic Steel Corporation, Chicago | |
| Carmody | Martin Henry | 1939 | Doctor of Laws | X | Member, Grand Rapids Bar; Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus | |
| Dudley | Adolphus Mansfield | 1939 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Electrical engineer; Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. | |
| Ford | Guy Stanton | 1939 | Doctor of Laws | Historian; President, University of Minnesota | ||
| Hobbs | William Herbert | 1939 | Doctor of Laws | Professor Emeritus of Geology, University of Michigan | ||
| Horton | Bryson Dexter | 1939 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Engineer, inventor, and leader in philanthorpic activities | |
| Johnson | Edward | 1939 | Doctor of Music | General Counsel, Carter Oil Company, resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the distributing center of a vast and General Manager, Metropolitan Opera Association | ||
| MacNeal | Ward J. | 1939 | Doctor of Science | X | Pathologist; Professor and Director of Laboratories, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital | |
| Murphy | Frank William | 1939 | Doctor of Laws | X | United States Attorney General; former Mayor, Detroit, Governor General and High Commissioner, Philippine Islands and Governor, State of Michigan | |
| Roedder | Edwin Carl Lothar | 1939 | Doctor of Letters | X | Professor of the German Language and Literature, College of the City of New York | |
| Seabury | Charles Ward | 1939 | Master of Arts | X | President, Marsh and McLennan, Chicago, Illinois; former President, Chicago Association of Commerce | |
| Senear | Francis Eugene | 1939 | Master of Science | X | Dermatologist; Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology, University of Illinois | |
| Whitney | Allen Sisson | 1939 | Doctor of Education | X | Professor Emeritus of Educational Administration and Supervision and Dean Emeritus of the School of Education, University of Michigan | |
| Baird | Charles | 1940 | Master of Arts | X | Banker; former member, Board of Curators, University of Missouri | |
| Barkdull | Howard L. | 1940 | Master of Laws | X | Member of the Cleveland, Ohio Bar; former President, Ohio State Bar Association | |
| Beal | Junius Emery | 1940 | Doctor of Laws | X | Regent Emeritus, University of Michigan | |
| Booth | Fenton Whitlock | 1940 | Doctor of Laws | X | Former Chief Justice, United States Court of Claims | |
| Cooley | Thomas Benton | 1940 | Doctor of Science | X | Pediatrician; former member, Medical Faculty | |
| Elles | Norma Bertha | 1940 | Master of Science | X | Ophthalmologist; Houston, Texas | |
| Harrison | Tinsely Randolph | 1940 | Master of Science | X | Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University | |
| Havenhill | L.D. | 1940 | Master of Science | X | Dean of the School of Pharmacy, University of Kansas | |
| Lind | Samuel Colville | 1940 | Doctor of Science | Dean of the Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota; former member of the Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan | ||
| Lowery | Percival | 1940 | Master of Science | X | Practitioner, teacher, and director of research in dentistry | |
| Merker | Harvey Milton | 1940 | Master of Engineering | X | Director of Scientific Relations, Parke, Davis and Company, Detroit | |
| Parker | John Castlereagh, Jr. | 1940 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Vice-President, Consolidated Edison Company, New York; former member, Engineering faculty, University of Michigan | |
| Pritchard | Stuart | 1940 | Doctor of Science | Specialist in pulmonary diseases; President and General Director, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek | ||
| Wheeler | Burton Kendall | 1940 | Doctor of Laws | X | United States Senator from Montana | |
| White | Oliver Wilson | 1940 | Master of Science | X | Orthodontist; Organizer of Public Health Programs in Dentistry and Children's Dentistry | |
| Barnes | Gladeon Marcus | 1941 | Master of Engineering | X | Brigadier General, Ordnance Department, United States Army | |
| Bastin | Edson Sunderland | 1941 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor of Economic Geology and Chairman, Department of Geology, University of Chicago. | |
| Bates | Henry Moore | 1941 | Doctor of Laws | X | Dean Emeritus of the Law School, University of Michigan. | |
| Buhl | Lawrence De Long | 1941 | Master of Arts | X | Industrialist, Detroit | |
| Cook | George Winter | 1941 | Master of Laws | Member of the Flint Bar; former President, Michigan State Bar Association | ||
| Crane | Ronald Salmon | 1941 | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Professor and Chairman, Department of English, University of Chicago | |
| Dow | Willard Henry | 1941 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Manufacturer of chemicals, Midland, Michigan | |
| Fink | George Rupert | 1941 | Doctor of Engineering | Manufacturer of steel, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan | ||
| Foote | Mark | 1941 | Master of Arts | X | Journalist and Washington correspondent | |
| Hastings | Albert Baird | 1941 | Doctor of Science | X | Hammilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry, Harvard University Medical School | |
| Lilly | Josiah Kirby | 1941 | Master of Science | Pharmaceutical manufacturer, Indianapolis, Indiana | ||
| Mast | Samuel Ottmar | 1941 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor of Zoology, Head of the Department of Zoology, and Director, Zoological Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University | |
| Mowrer | Paul Scott | 1941 | Doctor of Laws | X | Editor, Chicago Daily News | |
| Neville | Edwin Lowe | 1941 | Doctor of Laws | X | Of Center Conway, New Hampshire; former United States Minister to Thailand | |
| Norton | William John | 1941 | Doctor of Laws | Director of social and philanthropic work, Pleasant Ridge, Michigan | ||
| Stevenson | Russell Alger | 1941 | Doctor of Laws | X | Dean of the School of Business Administration, University of Minnesota | |
| Vaughan | Warren Taylor | 1941 | Master of Science | X | Physician, author and editor, of Richmond, Virginia | |
| Welch | George Martin | 1941 | Doctor of Business | Executive in the telephone industry, Pleasant Ridge, Michigan | ||
| Wigger | Carl John | 1941 | Doctor of Science | X | Physiologist, Cleveland Heights, Ohio | |
| Wright | Frederick Eugene | 1941 | Doctor of Science | Geologist and mineralogist, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Biggers | John David | 1942 | Doctor of Laws | X | President, Libbey-Owens Ford Glass Company; former Director of Production, Office of Production Management | |
| Butzel | Henry Magnus | 1942 | Doctor of Laws | X | Associate Justice, Spureme Court, State of Michigan | |
| Eastman | Joseph Bartlett | 1942 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission and Director, Office of Defense Transportation | ||
| North | Walter Harper | 1942 | Doctor of Laws | X | Associate Justice, Supreme Court, State of Michigan | |
| Parker | John Johnston | 1942 | Doctor of Laws | Judge, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit | ||
| Penberthy | Grover Cleveland | 1942 | Master of Science | X | Clinical Professor of Surgery, Wayne University; Colonal, M.C., U.S.A. | |
| Schairer | Otto Sorg | 1942 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Vice-President, Radio Corporation of America in charge of Patent Department and Laboratories | |
| Vanderbilt | Arthur T. | 1942 | Doctor of Laws | Member, New Jersey Bar; former President, American Bar Association | ||
| Hannah | John Alfred | 1944 | Doctor of Laws | X | President, Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science | |
| Wood | Edward Frederick Lindley | 1944 | Doctor of Laws | Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States | ||
| Smith | Shirley Wheeler | 1945 | Doctor of Laws | X | A graduate of the College of Literature, Science, and Arts in the Class of 1897; Master of Arts in 1900; For the past thirty-seven years chief financial officer of the University of Michigan | |
| Anderson | The Honorable Clinton | 1946 | Doctor of Laws | X | United States Secretary of Agriculture | |
| Avery | Clarence Willard | 1947 | Doctor of Engineering | X | President and Chairman of the Board, Murray Corporation of America, Detroit | |
| Martin | The Honorable Paul | 1947 | Doctor of Laws | Minister of National Health and Welfare, Canada | ||
| Van Kleffens | Eelco Nicolaas | 1947 | Doctor of Laws | X | Statesman | |
| Bacher | Robert Fox | 1948 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor of Physics and Director, Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Cornell University; member, Atomic Energy Commission | |
| Espie | John Paxton | 1948 | Doctor of Public Administration | State Representative for twelve terms; Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the Michigan House of Representatives. | ||
| Fulbright | The Honorable James | 1948 | Doctor of Laws | United States Senator from Arkansas; former President, University of Arkansas | ||
| Hamilton | Alice | 1948 | Doctor of Science | X | Pioneer investigator in the field of industrial medicine; former member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School | |
| Holmes | Samuel Jackson | 1948 | Doctor of Science | Emeritus Professor of Zoology, University of California; Former facutly member, University of Michigan | ||
| Simons | Charles Caspar | 1948 | Doctor of Laws | X | Judge, United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit | |
| Wroth | Lawrence Counselman | 1948 | Doctor of Letters | Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library and Research Professor of American History, Brown University | ||
| Brand | George Edward | 1949 | Master of Laws | X | Member, Detroit Bar; former President, State Bar of Michigan | |
| Bromley | The Honorable Bruce | 1949 | Doctor of Laws | X | Judge, Court of Appeals, State of New York | |
| Bronk | Detlev Wulf | 1949 | Doctor of Laws | X | Biophysicist, President, John Hopkins University | |
| Campbell | Roy Stuart | 1949 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Former President and Manager, New York Ship-building Corporation | |
| Conant | James Bryant | 1949 | Doctor of Laws | Chemist; President of Harvard | ||
| Day | Edmund Ezra | 1949 | Doctor of Laws | President of Cornell University from 1937 to 1940 and then its Chancellor | ||
| Dodge | Joseph Morrell | 1949 | Doctor of Laws | President, Detroit Bank and President, American Bankers Association; deputy for trade and finance to the Military Governor of Germany | ||
| Hudnut | Joseph | 1949 | Doctor of Fine Arts | X | Dean of the Faculty of Design, Harvard University | |
| Kidder | Alfred Vincent | 1949 | Doctor of Science | American archaeologist; Faculty Member, Peabody Museum, Harvard University | ||
| Mullendore | William Clinton | 1949 | Doctor of Laws | X | President, Southern California Edison Company | |
| Pahlavi | Mohammend Reza | 1949 | Doctor of Civil Law | Shaw of Iran; Foreign Head of State | ||
| Spedding | Frank Harold | 1949 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor of Chemistry and Director, Atomic Institute, Iowa State College | |
| Sturtevant | Edgar Howard | 1949 | Doctor of Letters | Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Yale University | ||
| Artiaga | Santiago | 1950 | Doctor of Public | X | Former Acting Mayor, Manila and Governor, Province of Bukidnon, Mindanao | |
| Carlson | William Samuel | 1950 | Doctor of Laws | X | Geologist, explorer, and educator | |
| David | Vernon Cyrenius | 1950 | Doctor of Science | X | Rush Professor Surgery, University of Illinois | |
| Flaherty | Robert Joseph | 1950 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Creator of the Documentary film | ||
| Franks | The Right Honorable Sir | 1950 | Doctor of Laws | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Great Britain to the United States | ||
| Lindblad | Bertil | 1950 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory, University of Stockholm | ||
| Mason | George Walter | 1950 | Doctor of Laws | X | President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation | |
| Babst | Earl D. | 1951 | Doctors of Laws | X | Chairman of the Board, American Sugar Refining Company | |
| Bourke-White | Margaret | 1951 | Doctor of Fine Arts | X | War correspondent, photographer, editor | |
| Bunche | Ralph Johnson | 1951 | Doctor of Laws | Director, Department of Trusteeship, United Nations | ||
| Ellis | Howard Sylvester | 1951 | Doctor of Laws | X | Professor Economics, University of California | |
| Emanuel | Julia Esther | 1951 | Master of Science | X | Pharmacist and civic leader | |
| Ferguson | Homer | 1951 | Doctor of Laws | X | United States Senator from Michigan | |
| Hatcher | Harlan Henthorne | 1951 | Doctor of Laws | Vice-President, Ohio State University and President-elect, University of Michigan | ||
| Jenkins | Guy Hugh | 1951 | Master of Arts | Journalist; political editor of the Booth newspapers | ||
| Lear | William Powell | 1951 | Doctor of Engineering | Inventor and manufacturer in the fields of radio and aviation | ||
| Montague | Gilbert Holland | 1951 | Doctor of Laws | Member, New York Bar, author and legal scholar | ||
| Rogers | Charles Herbert | 1951 | Doctor of Science | X | Dean of the College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota | |
| Scheele | Leonard Andrew | 1951 | Doctor of Science | X | Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service | |
| Starr | Floyd | 1951 | Master of Arts | Founder and President, Starr Commonwealth for Boys | ||
| Walgreen | Charles Rudolph, Jr. | 1951 | Master of Science | X | Pharmacist and executive | |
| Blanding | Sarah Gibson | 1952 | Doctor of Laws | President, Vassar College | ||
| Britton | Edgar Clay | 1952 | Doctor of Science | X | Director of the Organic Research Laboratory, Dow Chemical Company; DECEASED | |
| Brown | Prentiss Marsh | 1952 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman of the Board, Detroit Edison Company and former United States Senator from Michigan | ||
| Carmichael | Oliver Cromwell | 1952 | Doctor of Laws | President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching | ||
| Curtis | George Morris | 1952 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Department of Research Surgery, Ohio State University | |
| Dillman | Grover Cleveland | 1952 | Doctor of Engineering | President, Michigan College of Mining and Technology | ||
| Juliana | Her Majesty Queen | 1952 | Doctor of Civil Law | Queen of the Netherlands | ||
| Lang | Chester Henry | 1952 | Doctor of Laws | X | Vice-President, General Electric Company | |
| Ormandy | Eugene | 1952 | Doctor of Music | Conductor, Philadelphia Orchestra | ||
| Post | Chandler Rathfon | 1952 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University | ||
| Pound | Arthur | 1952 | Doctor of Letters | X | Author and historian | |
| Sunderland | Edson Read | 1952 | Doctor of Laws | X | Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Michigan | |
| Adams | Roger | 1953 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois | ||
| Africa | Bernabe | 1953 | Doctor of Laws | X | Ambassador of the Philippine Republic to Thailand | |
| Allen | Wyeth | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | X | President, Globe - Union, Inc., Milwaukee; former President, Alumni Association | |
| Crandall | Lou Revere | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | X | President, George A. Fuller Company | |
| Dana | Samuel Trask | 1953 | Doctor of Laws | Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Dean Emeritus of the School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan | ||
| DeFrance | Smith J. | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Director, Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California | |
| Fairman | James Ferdinand | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Vice-President, Consolidate Edison Company, New York | |
| Gordon | Seth Edwin | 1953 | Doctor of Science | Consultant and General Director, California Fish and Game Commission | ||
| Haugen | Einar Ingvald | 1953 | Doctor of Letters | Thompson Professor of Scandinavian Languages, University of Wisconsin | ||
| Humphrey | George Magoffin | 1953 | Doctor of Laws | X | United States Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. | |
| Jolly | Thomas Daniel | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | Vice-President, Chief Engineer, and Director of Purchases, Aluminum Company of America | ||
| Matthaei | Frederick Carl | 1953 | Doctor of Business | X | President, American Metal Products Company, Detroit | |
| McArdle | Richard Edwin | 1953 | Doctor of Science | X | Chief of the United States Forest Service | |
| Merker | Harvey Milton | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Director of Scientific Relations, Parke, Davis and Company, Detroit | |
| Middlebush | Frederick Arnold | 1953 | Doctor of Laws | X | President, University of Missouri | |
| Morse | Elba Lila | 1953 | Master of Science | X | Superintendent, Children's Clinic, Marquette | |
| Moses | Robert | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | Commissioner of Parks, New York City | ||
| Pack | Randolph Greene | 1953 | Doctor of Science | Industrialist; apostle of conversation; DECEASED | ||
| Parker | James Wentworth | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | Former President and General Manager, Detroit Edison Company | ||
| Randall | Clarence Belden | 1953 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman of the Board, Inland Steel Company; DECEASED | ||
| Robinson | Harold Franklin | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Chief Naval Architect, Shipbuilding Division, Bethlehem Steel Co. | |
| Ruthven | Alexander Grant | 1953 | Doctor of Laws | X | President Emeritus, University of Michigan | |
| White | Alfred Holmes | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, University of Michiga; (posthumously) | |
| Wilson | Charles Erwin | 1953 | Doctor of Engineering | Secretary of Defense; DECEASED | ||
| Bushnell | George Edward | 1954 | Doctor of Laws | Justice, Supreme Court, State of Michigan | ||
| Fagerburg | Dewey Frank | 1954 | Master of Laws | X | Member, law firm of Snyder, Chadwell, and Fagerburg | |
| Gorman | Michael Arthur | 1954 | Master of Arts | Editor, Flint Journal | ||
| Gould | Laurence McKinley | 1954 | Doctor of Laws | X | President, Calreton College | |
| Kucher | Andrew Albert | 1954 | Doctor of Engineering | Director, Ford Scientific Laboratory | ||
| Lightner | Milton Clarkson | 1954 | Doctor of Laws | X | President, Singer Sewing Machine Co. | |
| Porter | Katherine Anne | 1954 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Writer | ||
| Porter | Quincy | 1954 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Professor of Music, Yale University | ||
| Schreiber | Carl Frederick | 1954 | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Chairman, Department of German, Yale University | |
| Selassie 1 | His Imperial Majesty Haile | 1954 | Doctor of Civil Laws | Emperor of Ethiopia | ||
| Andrews | Gould Arthur | 1955 | Doctor of Education | X | President, Grand Rapids Junior College | |
| Andrews | T. Coleman | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue | ||
| Benedict | William Lemuel | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | X | Retired Head of the Section on Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic | |
| Brucker | Wilber Marion | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | X | Member, law firm of Clark, Klein, Brucker, & Waples, Detroit; former Governor, State of Michigan | |
| Curtice | Harlow Herbert | 1955 | Doctor of Engineering | President, General Motors Corporation | ||
| Dodds | Harold Willis | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | President, Princeton University | ||
| Fuller | R. Buckminster | 1955 | Doctor of Arts | Author, inventor, and architect | ||
| Guest | Edgar Albert | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | Writer | ||
| Janaki | Edavaleth Kakkat | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | X | Director, Central Botanical Laboratory, Government of India | |
| Mott | Charles Stewart | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | President, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | ||
| Pibulsonggram | His Excellency P. | 1955 | Doctor of Civil Laws | Field Marshal; Prime Minister of Thailand; DECEASED | ||
| Salk | Jonas Edward | 1955 | Doctor of Science | X | Research Professor, Department of Bacteriology, and Director, Virus Research Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh | |
| Shenk | John Wesley | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | X | Associate Justice, Supreme Court, State of California; DECEASED | |
| SyCip | Albino Zarate | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | X | General Manager and Chairman of the Board, China Banking Corporation, Philippine Islands; DECEASED | |
| Warren | The Honorable Earl | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | Chief Justice, United States Supreme Court | ||
| Burchard | John Ely | 1956 | Doctor of Architecture | Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Carillo | Nabor | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | Rector, National University of Mexico | ||
| Cisler | Walker Lee | 1956 | Doctor of Engineering | President and Director, Detroit Edison Company | ||
| Cress | Earl Henry | 1956 | Master of Business | X | President, Ann Arbor Trust Company | |
| Ditchy | Clair William | 1956 | Master of Architecture | X | Architect, Civic Planner, Administrator | |
| Erlanson | Carl Oscar | 1956 | Doctor of Science | X | Head of the Section of Plant Introduction, Agricultural Research Service | |
| Kelly | Harry Francis | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | Justice, Supreme Court, State of Michigan and Ex-Governor, State of Michigan | ||
| Lorch | Emil | 1956 | Doctor of Architecture | Professor Emeritus of Architecture, University of Michigan; DECEASED | ||
| Malcolm | George Arthur | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | X | Former Justice, Supreme Court, Philippine Islands and former Dean of the College of Law, University of the Phillippines | |
| Miller | Arthur | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Novelist, playwright, and dramatic theorist | |
| Parker | William Riley | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of English, New York University, and Executive Secretary, Modern Language Association of America | ||
| Reuther | Walter Philip | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | President, International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America - U.A.W. | ||
| Steinman | David B. | 1956 | Doctor of Engineering | Bridge Engineer - Designer and Chief Engineer of the Straits of Mackinac Bridge; DECEASED | ||
| Sukarno | His Excellency | 1956 | Doctor of Civil Laws | President of the Republic of Indonesia | ||
| Weller | Thomas Huckle | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | X | Head of the Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard University, and Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health | |
| Breech | Ernest Robert | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman of the Board, Ford Motor Company | ||
| Kennan | George Frost | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | The Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, New Jersey | ||
| Miller | James Roscoe | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | Twelfth President of Northwestern University | ||
| Summerfield | Arthur Ellsworth | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | United States Postmaster General | ||
| Thompson | Homer Armstrong | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | X | Professor of Classical Archaeology, Institute for Advanced Study, Princteon, and Field Director of Agora Excavations, American School of Classical Studies, Athens | |
| Bowen | Catherine Drinker | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Musician, essayist, biographer | ||
| Chayne | Charles Augustine | 1958 | Doctor of Engineering | Vice-President in Charge of the Engineering Staff, General Motors Corporation | ||
| Coulter | Glenn Monroe | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | X | Attorney | |
| Doolittle | James Harold | 1958 | Doctor of Engineering | Aviator, pioneer in aeronautics, military strategist | ||
| Furnas | Clifford Cook | 1958 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Chancellor, University of Buffalo; aeronautical engineer | |
| Heuss | His Excellency Theodor | 1958 | Doctor of Civil Law | President of the Federal Republic of Germany | ||
| Kai-Shek | Madame Chiang | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | Artist, diplomat, gentlewoman | ||
| Munro | The Honorable Sir Leslie | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | Ambassador of New Zealand to the United States and President, Twelfth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations | ||
| Satterthwaite | Joseph Charles | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | X | Director General of the Foreign Service of the United States | |
| Seaborg | Glenn Theodore | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | Profsesor of Chemistry and Associate Director of the Radiation Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley | ||
| Zeder | James Churchill | 1958 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Automotive engineer, industrial planner | |
| Anderson | Marian | 1959 | Doctor of Music | Contralto, member, member of United States delegation to the United Nations; United States Cultural Ambassador to the World | ||
| Brown | The Honorable John | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | X | Admiralty Lawyer, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit | |
| Burke | Arleigh Albert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | X | Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy | |
| Carson | Ralph Moore | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | X | Member, law firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, New York City | |
| Coller | Frederick Amasa | 1959 | Doctor of Arts | Surgeon, historian of medicine, Professor Emeritus of Surgery and long - time Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Medical School | ||
| Dethmers | The Honorable John Roy | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | X | Member, law firm of Eisenhower, Hunter, Ramsdel, and Duncan, Tacoma | |
| Gault | Harry G. | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | X | Member, law firm of Gault, Davison, and Bowers, Flint | |
| Griswold | Erwin Nathaniel | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | Dean of the Law School, Harvard University | ||
| Harlan | The Honorable John | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | Justice, United States Supreme Court | ||
| Havens | George Remington | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Professor of French, Ohio State University | ||
| Levi | Edward Hirsch | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | Dean of the Law School, University of Chicago | ||
| O'Connor | Basil | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | President, The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis since its inception in 1938, and of its successor, The National Foundation | ||
| O'Hara | the Honorable John Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | X | Recorder and Judge, Recorder's Court, Detroit | |
| Schroeder | Werner William | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | X | Lawyer and political leader | |
| Shawcross | The Right Honorable Lord | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | Queen's Counsel, Baron of Friston; barrister, teacher, statesman | ||
| Waterman | Alan Tower | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | Director, National Science Foundation | ||
| Whitehouse | William Whitcomb | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | President, Albion College | ||
| Wile | Udo Julius | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | Professor Emeritus of Dermatology and Syphilology and former Chairman, Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, University of Michigan Medical School | ||
| Williams | The Honorable Gerhard | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | X | Governor, State of Michigan | |
| Chapman | Sydney | 1960 | Doctor of Science | Geophysical Scienctist, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Science and Technology, University of Michigan | ||
| Crowther | Sir Geoffrey | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman, Central Advisory Council for Education (England); Managing Director, The Economist | ||
| Graves | Mortimer | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Former Executive Director, American Council of Learned Societies | ||
| Hanson | Howard | 1960 | Doctor of Music | Director, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester | ||
| Powers | Justin Lawrence | 1960 | Doctor of Science | X | Director, Scientific Division, American Pharmaceutical Association | |
| Schmehl | Francis Lawrence | 1960 | Doctor of Science | Chief, Health Research Facilities Branch Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health | ||
| Sweeney | James Johnson | 1960 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | ||
| Thorp | Willard Long | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | Economist, public servant; Director, Merrill Center for Economics, Amherst | ||
| Trudeau | Lt. General Arthur Gilbert | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | Chief of Research and Development, Department of the Army | ||
| Van Allen | James Alfred | 1960 | Doctor of Science | Physicist, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts; Professor of Physics, University of Iowa | ||
| Bowles | Chester | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | Under Secretary of State, Department of State, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Buchanan | John Machlin | 1961 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor and head of Division of Biochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Candau | Marcolino Gomes | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | Director, World Health Organization | ||
| Donner | Frederic Garrett | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | X | Chairman of the Board, General Motors Corporation, 1775 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y. | |
| Murrow | Edward R. | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | Director, United States Information Agency; DECEASED | ||
| Ohama | Nobumoto | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | President, Waseda University Totsuka-machi, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Rice | Elmer | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | Playwright, director of plays, and novelist | ||
| Shannon | Claude Elwood | 1961 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor Communication Sciences and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Toynbee | Arnold Joseph | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | British Historian; 45 Pembroke Square; London, W. 8, England | ||
| Yamasaki | Minoru | 1961 | Doctor of Architecture | Architect, Detroit and Birmingham; 1025 East Maple Road, Birmingham, Michigan | ||
| Bartlett | Fred William | 1962 | Doctor of Science | X | Geologist, retired Chairman of the Board, Socony Mobil Oil, Inc. | |
| Emrich | The Right Reverend | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Bishop, Episcopal Diocese, Michigan | ||
| Frost | Robert | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |||
| Kennedy | Charles Stuart | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | X | Surgeon and Regent Emeritus, University of Michigan | |
| Kresge | Stanley Sebastian | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | President, The Kresge Foundation | ||
| McNamara | The Honorable Robert | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | United States Secretary of Defense | ||
| Moreno | Mario | 1962 | Doctor of Humanities | Movie actor from Mexico City, "Cantinflas" | ||
| Moscoso | Teodoro | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | X | (Jose Teodoro Moscoso Mora Rodriguez) United States Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress | |
| Roethke | Theodore | 1962 | Doctor of Letters | X | Poet, DECEASED | |
| Roosa | Robert Vincent | 1962 | Doctor of Science in Business | X | Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs | |
| Schriever | Bernard A. | 1962 | Doctor of Aeronautical | Commander, Air Force Systems Command Andrews Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Staebler | Neil | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | X | Businessman and Political Leader | |
| Steere | William Campbell | 1962 | Doctor of Science | X | Director, New York Botanical Garden | |
| Wiesner | Jerome B. | 1962 | Doctor of Science | X | Director, Office of Science and Technology | |
| Bissell | Claude Thomas | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Toronto | ||
| Burgess | The Right Reverend John | 1963 | Doctor of Humanities | X | Suffragan Bishop, Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts | |
| Dey | Surendra Kumar | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | X | Minister of Community Development, Government of India | |
| Dow | Alden Ball | 1963 | Doctor of Architecture | X | Architect, Midland, Michigan | |
| Eddy | Nathan Browne | 1963 | Doctor of Science | Consultant on Narcotics, National Institutes of Health | ||
| Fish | James Brown | 1963 | Doctor of Engineering | President, Bell Telephone Laboratories | ||
| Gordon | John Franklin | 1963 | Doctor of Engineering | X | President and Chief Operation Officer, General Motors Corporation | |
| Jakobson | Roman | 1963 | Doctor of Letters | Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of General Linguistics, Harvard University; Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | ||
| Morris | Emory William | 1963 | Doctor of Science | X | President, W.K. Kellogg Foundation | |
| Sakanishi | Shio | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Member of Japanese governmental commissions, including the Constitutional Commission; Broadcaster; Poet; and Literary Critic | |
| Snow | Sir Charles Percy | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Rector, University of St. Andrews; author, scientist, public servant | ||
| Tavares | The Honorable Cyrus Nils | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | X | Judge, United States District Court, Hawaii | |
| Thompason | Floyd LaVerne | 1963 | Doctor of Science | X | Director, Langley Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
| Wirtz | W. Willard | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | United States Secretary of Labor | ||
| Bernstein | Leonard | 1964 | Doctor of Music | Conductor, pianist, composer (Musician) | ||
| Bonisteel | Roscoe Osmond | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | Lawyer, Regent Emeritus, University of Michigan | ||
| Bugher | John C. | 1964 | Doctor of Science | X | Director, Puerto Rico Nuclear Center | |
| Cole | Edward N. | 1964 | Doctor of Engineering | Vice-President in Charge of Car and Truck Divisions Group, General Motors Corporation | ||
| Copland | Aaron | 1964 | Doctor of Music | Composer | ||
| Curti | Merle | 1964 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, University of Wisconsin | ||
| Dempsey | James Raymon | 1964 | Doctor of Engineering | X | President, Astronautics Division of the General Dynamics Corporation | |
| Donovan | Allen Francis | 1964 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Senior Vice-President, Technical, Aerospace Corporation | |
| Hawkins | Willis Moore, Jr. | 1964 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Development | |
| Hicks | Weimer K. | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | President, Kalamazoo College | ||
| Johnson | Clarence Leonard | 1964 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Vice-President for Advanced Development Projects, Lockhead Aircraft Corporation | |
| Johnson | Lyndon Baines | 1964 | Doctor of Civil Law | President, United States | ||
| Maddy | Joseph Edgar | 1964 | Doctor of Music | Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Michigan; founder, President, and Muscial Director, National Music Camp; co-founder, National Arts Academy, Interlochen; DECEASED | ||
| Marshall | The Honorable Thurgood | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, New York City | ||
| Moore | Earl Vincent | 1964 | Doctor of Music | X | Composer, organist, education; Dean Emeritus of the School of Music and Professor Emeritus of Music | |
| Saarinen | Aline Bernstein | 1964 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Art editor and critic | ||
| Stevens | Roger L. | 1964 | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Theatrical producer and real estate broker | |
| Weber | Ernst | 1964 | Doctor of Engineering | President, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn | ||
| Bernhard | His Royal Highness Prince | 1965 | Doctor of Civil Law | Prince Consort of the Netherlands | ||
| Brown | W. Norman | 1965 | Doctor of Letters | Professor of Sanskrit and Chairman, South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Carnap | Rudolf | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Research Philosopher, University of California at Los Angeles | ||
| Kirk | Grayson Louis | 1965 | Doctor of Science | President, Columbia University | ||
| McDivitt | Lt. Colonel James Alton | 1965 | Doctor of Astonautical | X | Command Pilot of Gemini 4 Spacecraft. Special Convocation, June 15, 1965 | |
| Miller | Neal E. | 1965 | Doctor of Science | James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology, Yale University | ||
| Nirenberg | Marshall Warren | 1965 | Doctor of Science | X | Biochemist, National Institutes of Health | |
| Reston | James Barrett | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | Associate Editor, New York Times | ||
| Shepard | Samuel, Jr. | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | X | Assistant Superintendent, Banneker School District, St. Louis, Missouri | |
| Theorell | Axel Hugo Teodor | 1965 | Doctor of Science | Director, Department of Biochemistry, Nobel Medical Institute, Stockholm, Sweden | ||
| Townsend | Lynn Alfred | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | X | President, Chrysler Corporation | |
| Van Slyke | Cassius James | 1965 | Doctor of Science | Former Associate Director, National Institutes of Health; DECEASED | ||
| White II | Lt. Colonel Edward | 1965 | Doctor of Astronautical | X | Astronaut-First American to walk in space Special Convocation, June 15, 1965; DECEASED | |
| Anspach | Charles Leroy | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | X | President Emeritus, Central Michigan University | |
| Cook | Donald Clarnece | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | X | President, American Electric Power Company | |
| Darby | William Jefferson, Jr. | 1966 | Doctor of Science | X | Nutritionist and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University | |
| Feis | Herbert | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University | ||
| Galbraith | John Kenneth | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Economics, Harvard University | ||
| Jessup | The Honorable Philip | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | Judge, International Court of Justice at The Hague | ||
| Marcos | His Excellency Ferdinand | 1966 | Doctor of Civil Law | President of the Republic of the Philippines | ||
| Ramo | Simon | 1966 | Doctor of Engineering | Vice-Chairman of the Board, Thompson, Ramo, Woldridge, Inc. | ||
| Randall | Harrison McAllister | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | X | Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Michigan; DECEASED | |
| Smith | Arnold Cantwell | 1966 | Doctor of Civil Laws | Secretary-General of the British Commonwealth | ||
| Stechow | Wolfgang | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, Oberlin College | ||
| Stewart | Potter | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court | ||
| White | Helen Constance | 1966 | Doctor of Letters | Former Chairman, Department of English, University of Wisconsin | ||
| Yeasting | John Oliver | 1966 | Doctor of Business | X | Vice-President and General Manager, Commerical Airplane Division, The Boeing Company | |
| Acheson | Dean Gooderham | 1967 | Doctor of Civil Law | Former United States Secretary of State | ||
| Ashby | Sir Eric | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Master, Clare College, Cambridge, England | ||
| Baumgartner | Leona | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Visiting Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; physician and public servant | ||
| Becker | Hellmut | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Honorary Professor for Educational Sociology, Free University of Berlin; Director, Institute for Educational Research, Max Planck Society | ||
| Belluschi | Pietro | 1967 | Doctor of Architecture | Architect; former Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | President, Radcliffe College | ||
| Capelle | Jean | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Professor, University of Nancy, France | ||
| Chandrasekhar | Subrahmanyan | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Theoretical astrophysicist | ||
| Chesebrough | Harry Elmer | 1967 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Vice-President for Production Planning and Development, Chrysler Corporation | |
| Courvoisier | Jacques | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Professor of Church History, University of Geneva | ||
| Dallapiccola | Luigi | 1967 | Doctor of Music | Musical composer | ||
| Daniels | Troy Cook | 1967 | Doctor of Science | X | Dean Emeritus of the School of Pharmacy, University of California | |
| De Bakey | Michael Ellis | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Surgeon | ||
| Dobzhansky | Theodosius | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Professor and Member, Rockefeller University | ||
| Doxiadis | Constantinos Apostolos | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Architect; President, Doxiadis Associates, Athens, Greece, Chairman of the Board, Athens Technological Institute | ||
| Ellison | Ralph W. | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | Author | ||
| Erhard | His Excellency Ludwig | 1967 | Doctor of Civil Law | Economist and statesman; former Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany | ||
| Everitt | William Littell | 1967 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Illinois | |
| Firth | Raymond William | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Anthropology, LondonSchool of Economics | ||
| Fleming | Robben Wright | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | President Designate, University of Michigan | ||
| Fock | Vladimir Alexandrovitch | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Theoretical Physicist and Professor, University of Leningrad | ||
| Foster | Luther Hilton | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | President, Tuskegee Institute | ||
| Francke | Don Eugene | 1967 | Doctor of Science | X | Editor and Publisher, Drug Intelligence | |
| Frey | Donald Nelson | 1967 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Vice-President, Ford Motor Company and General Manager, Ford Division | |
| Gardner | The Honorable John | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Glass | David V. | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Demographer: Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science | ||
| Goddard | James Lee | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare | ||
| Goodier | James Norman | 1967 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Professor of Engineering Mechanics, Stanford University; DECEASED | |
| Grennan | Jacqueline | 1967 | Doctor of Humanities | President, Webster College | ||
| Hamada | Shoji | 1967 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Ceramist | ||
| Heyns | Roger William | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | X | Chancellor, University of California at Berkeley | |
| Higuchi | Takeru | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Regents' Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Kansas | ||
| Hoffman | Paul Gray | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Industrialist and public servant; Administrator, United Nations Development Programme | ||
| Holbrook | George Edward | 1967 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Vice-President, Du Pont Company | |
| Husain | His Excellency Zakir | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Vice-President of the Republic of India | ||
| Jacob | Francois | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Microbiologist | ||
| Keast | William Rea | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | President, Wayne State University | ||
| Kinzel | Augustus Braun | 1967 | Doctor of Engineering | President, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies; former Vice-president for Research, Union Carbide Corporation | ||
| Kraus | Edward Henry | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Professor Emeritus of Crystallography and Mineralogy, Dean Emeritus of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts | ||
| Kuryowicz | Jerzy | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Professor Emeritus of Indo-European Linguistics, Jagellonian University of Cracow, Poland | ||
| Li | Choh-Ming | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Vice Chancellor, The Chinese University, Hong Kong | ||
| Maeda | Yoichi | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | Professor of French, University of Tokyo | ||
| Millas | Juan Gomez | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Minister of Education, Republic of Chile | ||
| Milliken | The Honorable William | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Lieutenant Governor, State of Michigan | ||
| Murray | S. J., The Rev. John | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Professor of Theology, Woodstock College; DECEASED | ||
| Myrdal | Karl Gunnar | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Social economist and public servant | ||
| Notestein | Frank Wallace | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Demographer; President, Population Council | ||
| Ochoa | Severo | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Biochemist, New York University College of Medicine | ||
| Piaget | Jean | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Co-Director, Institute of the Sciences of Education, University of Geneva | ||
| Pusey | Nathan M. | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | President, Harvard University | ||
| Reischauer | Edwin O. | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Former United States Ambassador to Japan; University Professor, Harvard University | ||
| Robertson | Harold Rocke | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Principal and Vice Chancellor, McGill University | ||
| Romney | The Honorable George | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Governor, State of Michigan | ||
| Rossi-Doria | Manlio | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Naples | ||
| Samuelson | Paul Anthony | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Schaff | Adam | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Professor of Philosophy, University of Warsaw | ||
| Searle | John Gideon | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Chairman of the Board, G.D. Searle and Company | ||
| Seitz | Frederick | 1967 | Doctor of Science | President, National Academy of Sciences; Professor of Physics, University of Illinois | ||
| Svennilson | Ingvar | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Economics, Stockholm University | ||
| Taylor | Sir Geoffrey Ingram | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Physical scientist, Cambridge University | ||
| Thant | His Excellency U | 1967 | Doctor of Civil Laws | Secretary-General, United Nations | ||
| Tiselius | Arne Wilhelm Kaurin | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Research Professor of Biochemistry, University of Uppsala | ||
| Urey | Harold Clayton | 1967 | Doctor of Science | Chemist | ||
| Weinblum | Georg | 1967 | Doctor of Engineering | Director Emeritus, Institute for Shipbuilding, University of Hamburg | ||
| Wilson | Owen Meredith | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Minnesota | ||
| Zurayk | Constatine Kaysar | 1967 | Doctor of Letters | Distinguished Professor of History, American University of Beirut | ||
| Boerma | Addeke Hendrik | 1968 | Doctor of Science | Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations | ||
| Burkhardt | Frederick H. | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | President, American Council of Learned Societies | ||
| Cornely | Paul Bertau | 1968 | Doctor of Science | X | Head of the Department of Preventative Medicine and Public Health, Howard University | |
| Crafts | Edward Clayton | 1968 | Doctor of Science | X | Director, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, United States Department of Interior | |
| Dawson | John Philip | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | X | Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, Harvard University | |
| Edsall | John Tileston | 1968 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Biological Chemistry, Harvard University | ||
| Fontaine | Athanas Paul | 1968 | Doctor of Business | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Bendix Corporation | ||
| Gossett | William Thomas | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | President, American Bar Association | ||
| Harrison | Wallace Kirkman | 1968 | Doctor of Architecture | New York architect | ||
| Huggins | Charles Brenton | 1968 | Doctor of Science | William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Medical School | ||
| Mallea | Eduardo | 1968 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Argentine novelist, journalist, and diplomat | ||
| Stewart | William Huffman | 1968 | Doctor of Science | Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service | ||
| Weaver | The Honorable Robert | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development | ||
| Beadle | George Wells | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | President Emeritus, University of Chicago and Director, Institute of Biomedical Research | ||
| Briggs | Robert P. | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | X | Commissioner of Financial Institutions, State of Michigan; Regent Emeritus, University of Michigan | |
| Hart | The Honorable Philip A. | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | X | United States Senator from Michigan; DECEASED | |
| Honigman | Jason Lester | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | X | Senior partner, laws firm of Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn, Detroit | |
| Knight | John Shively | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | Editor and publisher; President, The Beacon Journal Publishing Company and Knight Newspapers, Incorporated | ||
| Knopf | Alfred A. | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Chairman of the Board, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York City | ||
| Krogman | Wilton Marion | 1969 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Physical Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Philadelphia Center for Research in Child Growth | ||
| Morgan | Walter Thomas James | 1969 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Biochemistry, Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine, University of London | ||
| Odegaard | Charles Edwin | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Washington | ||
| Seidlin | Oskar | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Regents' Professor of German, Ohio State University | ||
| Baker | William Oliver | 1970 | Doctor of Science | Vice President for Research, Bell Telephone Laboratories | ||
| Bree | Germaine | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Professor, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin | ||
| Bronson | Bertrand Harris | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley | |
| Brownell | Roy Edmund | 1970 | Doctor of Humanities | X | Lawyer and civic leader; Secretary, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation; DECEASED | |
| Crosby | Elizabeth Caroline | 1970 | Doctor of Science | X | Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Consultant in Neurosurgery, University of Michigan and University of Alabama; DECEASED | |
| Linowitz | Sol Myron | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | Senior partner, Coudert Brothers Law Firm, New york City and Washington, D.C.; Chairman, Special Committee on Campus Tensions, American Council on Education | ||
| Martin | William McChesney, Jr. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman, Federal Reserve Board | ||
| Mumford | Lawrence Quincy | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | Librarian of Congress | ||
| Peterson | Esther | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | Government official; lecturer; Washington Representative of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; member of Consumer Advisory Consumer Affairs of the Senate Commerce Committee | ||
| Rees | Mina | 1970 | Doctor of Science | Mathematician, educator; President, Graduate Division, The City University of New York; President-elect, American Association for the Advancement of Science | ||
| Stason | Edwin Blythe | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | X | Former Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School, University of Michigan; former Administrator, American Bar Foundation and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University | |
| Wharton | Clifton R., Jr. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | President, Michigan State University | ||
| David | Edward E(mil), Jr. | 1971 | Doctor of Science | Science Adviser to the President of the United States, and Director, Office of Science and Technology | ||
| Hanks | Nancy | 1971 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts | ||
| Hayes | Helen | 1971 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Actress | ||
| Hitchings | George Herbert | 1971 | Doctor of Science | Vice President for Research, Burroughs Wellcome Company | ||
| Irwin | Colonel James B. | 1971 | Doctor of Astronautical | X | Astronaut-Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 15, July, 1971 | |
| Jones | James Earl | 1971 | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Actor | |
| Judd | Dorothy Leonard | 1971 | Doctor of Humanities | X | Civic worker and recently retired Civil Service Commissioner for the State of Michigan | |
| Kerr | Walter Francis | 1971 | Doctor of Letters | Drama critic and author | ||
| Long | Thomas George | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | X | Member, law firm of Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein, & Van Zile, Detroit | |
| McCree | Wade Hampton, Jr. | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | Judge, United States Circuit Court, Sixth Circuit | ||
| Mielziner | Jo | 1971 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Stage designer; adviser on the interior design of the Power Center | ||
| Monro | John Usher | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | Director of Freshman Studies, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama | ||
| Power | Eugene Barnum | 1971 | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Founder of University Microfilms and Regent Emeritus, University of Michigan | |
| Rudel | Julius | 1971 | Doctor of Music | Conductor and opera director | ||
| Schutz | The Honorable Klaus | 1971 | Doctor of Civil Laws | Governing Mayor of Berlin | ||
| Scott | Colonel David R. | 1971 | Doctor of Astronautical | X | Astronaut-Space Commander of Apollo 15, July, 1971 | |
| Sitterly | Charlotte Moore | 1971 | Doctor of Science | Retired Physicist in the Atonomic Physics Division, National Bureau of Standards | ||
| Todd | The Right Honorable | 1971 | Doctor of Science | Baron Todd of Trumpington; organic chemist, Master, Christ's College, Cambridge | ||
| Wittmann | Otto | 1971 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Trustee and Director, Toledo Museum of Art | ||
| Woodward | C(omer) Vann. | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | Sterling Professor of History, yale University | ||
| Worden | Lt. Colonel Alfred M. | 1971 | Doctor of Astronautical | X | Astronaut-Command Module Pilot of Apollo 15, July, 1971 | |
| Young | Whitney Moore, Jr. | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | Executive Director, National Urban League, New York City; awarded posthumously | ||
| Arnstein | Margaret Gene | 1972 | Doctor of Science | Dean of the School of Nursing, Yale University; DECEASED | ||
| Bixby | Harold Glenn | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | X | Chairman, Ex-Cell-O Corporation | |
| Chipman | John | 1972 | Doctor of Science | Professor Emeritus of Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Drachler | Norman | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | X | Director, Institute for Education Leadership, The George Washington University; former Superintendent, Detroit Public Schools | |
| Gullen | George Edgar, Jr. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | President, Wayne State University | ||
| Li | Fang Kuei | 1972 | Doctor of Letters | X | Professor Linguistics, University of Hawaii | |
| McGill | William James | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | President, Columbia University | ||
| Wellek | Rene | 1972 | Doctor of Letters | Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University | ||
| Dunham | Sir Kingsley Charles | 1973 | Doctor of Science | Director, Institute of Geological Sciences, London, England, and President, International Union of Geological Sciences | ||
| Feinsinger | Nathan Paul | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | X | Professor of Laws, University of Wisconsin | |
| Gerstenberg | Richard Charles | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | X | Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, General Motors Corporation | |
| Goebel | Paul Gordon | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | X | Regent Emeritus, University of Michigan | |
| Goldman | Jerome Lee | 1973 | Doctor of Science | X | Naval architect and marine engineer | |
| Griffin | Robert Paul | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | X | United States Senator | |
| Harris | Patricia Roberts | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | Partner, law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Kampelman, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Kerr | Clark | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman, Carnegie Commission on Higher Education | ||
| Lousma | Lt. Colonel Jack Robert | 1973 | Doctor of Astronautical | X | Astronaut-Pilot of the Skylab II space mission | |
| Palade | George Emil | 1973 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Cell Biology and Head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology, Rockefeller University | ||
| Bardeen | John | 1974 | Doctor of Science | Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois | ||
| Bentley | Helen Delich | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission | ||
| Campbell | Donald Thomas | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University | ||
| Catton | Bruce | 1974 | Doctor of Letters | Author; historian; Senior Editor, American Heritage Publishing Company | ||
| Ford | Gerald R. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | X | Vice President, United States | |
| Goldberg | Leo | 1974 | Doctor of Science | Higgins Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director, Kitt Peak National Observatory; and current President, International Astronomical Union | ||
| James | Preston Everett | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Geography, Syracuse University | ||
| Keith | The Honorable Damon | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan | ||
| Mott | Charles Stewart Harding | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | President, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | ||
| Newsom | Carroll Vincent | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | X | Educational consultant | |
| Avery | Mary Ellen | 1975 | Doctor of Science | Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard University, and Physician-in-Chief, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston | ||
| Baldwin | Ralph Belknap | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | X | Astronomer, physicist, and President, Oliver Machinery Company, Grand Rapids | |
| Brewster | Kingman, Jr. | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | President, Yale University | ||
| Darling | George Bapst, Jr. | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | X | Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology, Yale University | |
| Deutsch | Karl Wolfgang | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | Political scientist and Professor, Harvard University | ||
| Fontana | Mars Guy | 1975 | Doctor of Engineering | X | Chairman, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Ohio State University | |
| Griffiths | Martha Wright | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | United States Congresswoman | ||
| Katzir | Ephraim | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | President of State of Israel | ||
| Kreshover | Seymour Jacob | 1975 | Doctor of Science | Director, National Institute of Dental Research; Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service | ||
| Rivlin | Alice Mitchell | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | Economist and Director, United States Congressional Budget Office | ||
| Boorstin | Daniel Joseph | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | Librarian of Congress | ||
| Ford | Elizabeth Bloomer (Mrs. ) | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | First Lady, United States | ||
| Giroud | Francoise | 1976 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, The French Republic | ||
| Jenner | Albert Ernest, Jr. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | Practicing Attorney, Chicago, Illinois. Chief Counsel Warren Commission (Assassination of President Kennedy); House Judiciary Committee in the Matter of the Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon. Senior Partner Jenner and Block, Chicago, Illinois | ||
| Karle | Isabella Lugoski | 1976 | Doctor of Science | X | Research physicist, Naval Research Laboratory | |
| Lisagor | Peter Irvin | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | X | Journalist. Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Daily News. A.B. 1939 | |
| Califano | Joseph Anthony Jr. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Clark | Kenneth B. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | Psychologist, Clark, Phipps, Clark & Harris, Inc., New York City | ||
| Clark | Peter B. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | President and Publisher, The Evening News Corporation, Detroit, Michigan | ||
| Franklin | John Hope | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Historian, University of Chicago | ||
| Fredrickson | Donald S. | 1977 | Doctor of Science | X | Director, National Institutes of Health, HEW | |
| Hunt | Richard Howard | 1977 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Sculptor, Chicago, Illinois | ||
| Klein | Lawrence Robert | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | Economist and Educator, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | ||
| Lawrence | Robert Klein | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Milosz | Czeslaw | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | Poet, University of California at Berkeley | ||
| Okita | Saburo | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman, The Japan Economic Research Center, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Paton | Alan Stewart | 1977 | Doctor of Letters | |||
| Woodcock | Leonard | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | President, International UAW, Detroit, Michigan | ||
| Berger | Raoul | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | Concert Musician, Public Servant, Practicing Attorney and Constitutional Scholar | ||
| Blumenthal | W. Michael | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | United States Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Boulding | Kenneth Ewart | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | Economics Professor, University of Colorado | ||
| Burbidge | E. Margaret | 1978 | Doctor of Science | Teacher, Discoverer, Renowned Astronomer (University of California at San Diego) | ||
| Freire | Paulo | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | Brazilian Educator, Geneva, Switzerland. Philosopher, Liberator | ||
| Jenkins | Roy Harris | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | President, Commission of the European Communities Brussels, Belgium | ||
| Mondale | Walter F. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | Vice President, United States | ||
| Osborn | Stella Brunt | 1978 | Doctor of Letters | X | Author, World Stateswoman for Peace Movements, Sault Ste. Marie, MI. Poulan, GA. | |
| Simon | Herbert A. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | Professor of Computer Science and Psychology Carnegie - Mellon University, Pittsburgh | ||
| Ting | Samuel C. C. | 1978 | Doctor of Science | X | Nobel Laureate in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Bonner | Thomas F. | 1979 | Doctor of Laws | President, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan | ||
| Brimmer | Andrew F. | 1979 | Doctor of Laws | Economist | ||
| DeLarrocha | Alicia | 1979 | Doctor of Music | Concert Pianist, Barcelona, Spain | ||
| Dike | Kenneth Onwuka | 1979 | Doctor of Laws | African Historian, Harvard University, former President, University of Ibadan, Nigeria | ||
| Friedman | Herbert | 1979 | Doctor of Science | Chief Scientist, E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Hufstedler | Shirley Mount | 1979 | Doctor of Laws | Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Los Angeles | ||
| Jackson | The Reverend Jesse L. | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | National President, Operation PUSH, Inc. Chicago, Illinois | ||
| Jones | Virginia Lacy | 1979 | Doctor of Letters | Dean of the School of Library Service, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia | ||
| Smith | Allan F. | 1979 | Doctor of Laws | X | Interim President, University of Michigan, former Dean of the Law School, Vice President for Academic Affairs. (LL.M.1941) (S.J.D. 1950) | |
| Correa | Charles M. | 1980 | Doctor of Architecture | X | Architect, Bombay, India | |
| Fraser | Douglas A. | 1980 | Doctor of Laws | President, United Automobile Workers Union, Detroit | ||
| Garrels | Robert M. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | X | Educator, Geoscientist, Professor of Geology, Northwestern University of South Florida | |
| Hayaishi | Osamu | 1980 | Doctor of Science | Dean of the Medical School, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Biochemist | ||
| McHenry | Donald F. | 1980 | Doctor of Laws | United States Ambassador to the United Nations, New York City | ||
| Rochberg | George | 1980 | Doctor of Music | Composer, Educator, University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Wilder | Raymond L. | 1980 | Doctor of Laws | Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Michigan | ||
| Wyngaarden | James B., M. D. | 1980 | Doctor of Science | X | Physician, Medical Scientist and Researcher, Duke University | |
| Young | Coleman A. | 1980 | Doctor of Laws | Mayor, City of Detroit | ||
| Gray | Hanna Holborn | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Chicago | ||
| Hesburgh | The Reverend Theodore | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | President, University of Notre Dame | ||
| Laduri | Emmanuel Le Roy | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | French Historian | ||
| Noguchi | Isamu | 1981 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Sculptor, artist | ||
| Wever | Ernest Glen | 1981 | Doctor of Science | Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Princeton University | ||
| Fairbank | John King | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | Pioneer in the American Study of Modern China | ||
| Ford | William D. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | United States Congressman | ||
| Kennedy | Donald | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | President, Stanford University | ||
| McGowan | Carl | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | Judge, United States Court of Appeals | ||
| Milliken | Helen W. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | Champion of the Equality of Rights for All, Patroness of the Arts and First Lady, State of Michigan | ||
| Caldwell | Philip | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Ford Motor Company | ||
| Smith | Otis M. | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | Vice President, General Motors Corporation | ||
| Cronkite | Walter | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | CBS Correspondent | ||
| DeVries | Peter | 1984 | Doctor of Letters | Writer, Poet, Editor | ||
| Knox | Bernard M.W. | 1984 | Doctor of Humanities | Director, Center for Hellenic Studies (Trustees of Harvard University) | ||
| Teeters | Nancy Hays | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | Economist, Governor, Federal Reserve System | ||
| Blanchard | James J. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | Governor, State of Michigan | ||
| Dahl | Robert A. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale University | ||
| Dando | Shigemitsu | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | Judge from Japan | ||
| Kung | Hans | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |||
| Marceau | Marcel | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Pantomimist | ||
| Adams | Charles G. | 1986 | Doctor of Humanities | President NAACP; Minister; Detroit | ||
| Cassidy | Frederic G. | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | Editor, Dictionary of American Regional English | ||
| DeCuellar | Javier Perez | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | Secretary-General, United Nations | ||
| Montgomery | Dean | 1986 | Doctor of Science | Professor, Institute for Advanced Study | ||
| Zevi | Bruno | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Arch. | ||
| Kelly | Gene (Eugene C.) | 1987 | Doctor of Fine Arts | Dancer, actor, choreographer, director | ||
| Mandela | Nelson | 1987 | Doctor of Laws | Member of the African National Congress; led personal crusade against apartheid and in defense of human rights; degree awarded in absentia | ||
| Masur | Kurt | 1987 | Doctor of Music | Director, Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig | ||
| Norman | Jessye | 1987 | Doctor of Music | X | Singer | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1987 | Doctor of Laws | President, Princeton University; President Emeritus, University of Michigan | ||
| Stadtman | Earl R. | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |||
| Wallace | Mike | 1987 | Doctor of Laws | CBS News Correspondent | ||
| Brodsky | Joseph Alexandrovich | 1988 | Doctor of Humane Letters | Poet; Nobel Laureat 1987 | ||
| Kirkpatrick | Jeane J. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | Served in the President's Cabinet from 1981-1985; Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations; Columnist | ||
| Parsons | John T. | 1988 | Doctor of Engineering | Industrialist, Entrepreneur, Civil Leader; received National Medal of Technology in 1985 (presented by the President of the United States) | ||
| Scott | The Reverend Nathan A. | 1988 | Doctor of Humanities | X | Minister; priest of the Episcopal Church; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
| Shulman | Marshall | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | X | Director, W. Averell Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, Columbia University; expert on Russian | |
| Horner | Matina Souretis | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | X | President, Radcliffe College | |
| Raiffa | Howard | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | X | Founding director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis near Vienna, Austria | |
| Singer | Isadore M. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | X | Institute Professor of Mathematics, Massachussettes Institute of Technology; received National Medal of Science in 1985 | |
| Batchelor | George | 1990 | S | Doctor of Science | Founder and Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University (1959-1983) | |
| Fox | Geraldine Dietz | 1990 | S | Doctor of Laws | Executive Director, Friends of NIDCD (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders); | |
| Karle | Jerome | 1990 | W | Doctor of Science | X | Chief Scientist of the Laboratory for the Structure of Matter, Washington, D.C.; Nobel Prize winner 1985 (structural chemistry) |
| Lappe | Frances Moore | 1990 | W | Doctor of Laws | Author, Diet for a Small Planet (1971); Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (1977); leading world authority on food, agriculture, and hunger | |
| Nederlander | Robert E. | 1990 | W | Doctor of Laws | X | President, Nederlander Organization, Inc.; President and managing partner of the New York Yankees (1990); former Regent of the University of Michigan (1968-1984); served as chairman of the Campaign for Michigan |
| Rhodes | Frank H.T. | 1990 | S | Doctor of Laws | President, Cornell University | |
| Smith | Roger B. | 1990 | S | Doctor of Laws | Chairman, General Motors Corporation | |
| Viravan | Amnuay | 1990 | W | Doctor of Laws | X | Chief operating officer of the Bangkok Bank, Thailand; economist |
| Bush | Barbara pierce | 1991 | S | Doctor of Laws | First Lady of the United States; spouse of President George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States | |
| Bush | George Herbert Walker | 1991 | S | Doctor of Laws | 41st President of the United States | |
| Frye | Billy E. | 1991 | S | Doctor of Laws | Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Emory University; former Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Michigan, 1982-86 | |
| Kety | Seymour S. | 1991 | S | Doctor of Science | Neuroscientist; Senior Scientist, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland | |
| Manoogian | Alex | 1991 | W | Doctor of Humane Letters | Philanthropist; world's principal benefactor of Armenian scholarship, literature, and art | |
| Musgrave | Richard A. | 1991 | W | Doctor of Laws | Economist; professor of economics at the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1958 | |
| Parks | Rosa Louise | 1991 | S | Doctor of Laws | Recognized at the "Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement"; civil rights activist; founder of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development; honorary degree conferred at University of Michigan-Dearborn, April 28, 1991 | |
| Pursell | Carl | 1991 | W | Doctor of Laws | U.S. Representative from the State of Michigan; member of the House Appropriation Committee | |
| Sagdeev | Roald Z. | 1991 | S | Doctor of Science | Russian space physicist; humanitarian activist; Lenin Prize winner 1984; Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR; (married to Susan Eisenhower) | |
| Taubman | A. Alfred | 1991 | S | Doctor of Laws | Real estate developer; civic leader; founder and chairman of The Taubman Company, Inc.; principal benefactor of U of M's A. Alfred Taubman Health Care center and the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Library; founding director of the Michigan Partnership for New Education | |
| Wexler | Nancy Sabin | 1991 | W | Doctor of Science | X | International authority on the search for genes that cause human disease; President of the Hereditary Disease Foundation; most important scientific contribution is for the work she has done on Huntington's Disease |
| Wu | Ta-You | 1991 | S | Doctor of Science | X | Theorectical physicist and scientific statesman; President of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC |
| Brown | J. Carter | 1992 | W | Doctor of Laws | Director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1969-1991) | |
| Clinton | Hillary Rodham | 1992 | W | Doctor of Laws | First Lady of the United States | |
| Housner | George W. | 1992 | W | Doctor of Science | X | Civil Engineer; pioneer in the design of earthquake-resistant structures |
| Moore | Charles W. | 1992 | S | Doctor of Architecture | X | Architect; educator; writer; received B. Arch. Degree from U of M in 1947; DECEASED |
| Morrison | Toni | 1992 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | Author; Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Council for the Humanities at Princeton University; senior editor at Random House for twenty years; received 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her novel, Beloved | |
| Oates | Joyce Carol | 1992 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | Author; Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University; recipient of National Book Award for her novel, them in 1970 | |
| Walgreen | Charles R., Jr. | 1992 | W | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Established nationwide chain of more than 600 drugstores; retired as Chairman of the Walgreen Company in 1971; volunteer and philanthropist in the service of the University of Michigan |
| Wolf | Eric | 1992 | S | Doctor of Laws | Anthropologist; member of department of Anthropology at U of M from 1961 to 1971 | |
| du Broisrouvray | Countess Albina | 1993 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | President of the Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud, a worldwide charitable foundation established in memory of her son (B.S. Engineering, 1982); generous contributor to aerospace engineering at the University | |
| Engler | John M. | 1993 | W | Doctor of Laws | 46th Governor of the State of Michigan | |
| Gerstacker | Carl A. | 1993 | W | Doctor of Laws | X | Chairman of the Board at Dow Chemical for sixteen years; served as chairman of the Export Expansion Council of the U.S. Dept. of Commence and as a member of the United States Commission of UNESCO; generous contributor of engineering education and research at the University |
| Hall | Donald | 1993 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | Prize-winning poet, essayist, anthologist, dramatist, critic, and author of children's books; a member of the University of Michigan faculty 1957-1975 | |
| Ramsey | Norman F. | 1993 | S | Doctor of Science | Experimental physicist; received Nobel Prize in 1989 for research on time-reversal systems and development of the atomic clock | |
| Towsley | Margaret Dow | 1993 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Philanthropist, devoting nearly 50 years to promoting improvements in education, child and family welfare, and the performing arts; generous contributor to the University |
| Wiesel | Elie | 1993 | W | Doctor of Humane Letters | Spokesman for international peace and human rights; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986; author | |
| Wilkins | Roger | 1993 | W | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Educator, scholar, journalist, and policy maker; Assistant Attorney General of the United States under President Lyndon Johnson; received Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for Watergate coverage in the Washington Post |
| Archer | Dennis Wayne | 1994 | S | Doctor of Laws | Mayor of the City of Detroit | |
| Broder | David S. | 1994 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | Washington Post political columnist; winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for his book The Party's Over | |
| Cunningham | The Reverend William T. | 1994 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | Past of the Catholic Church of Madonna; Founder of Focus: HOPE | |
| Dantzig | George B. | 1994 | W | Doctor of Science | X | Mathematician |
| Fisher III | Charles T. | 1994 | S | Doctor of Laws | Past chairman and president of NBD Bancorp and its principal subsidiary, NBD Bank, N.A. | |
| Graber | T. M. | 1994 | W | Doctor of Science | Orthodontist and anatomist | |
| Hebert | Don | 1994 | S | Doctor of Science (Dearborn) | Creator of Watch Mr. Wizard, a half hour weekly television program introduced in 1951 and continued until 1965; honorary degree conferred at University of Michigan-Dearborn, April 24, 1994 | |
| Josaitis | Eleanor M. | 1994 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | Co-founder and associate director of Focus: HOPE | |
| Novello | Antonia C. | 1994 | W | Doctor of Laws | UNICEF Special Representative for Health and Nutrition; former surgion general of the U.S. Public Health Service (appointed by President George Bush in 1990) | |
| Seidman | L. William | 1994 | S | Doctor of Laws | X | Chief commentator of the Consumer News Business Channel (CNBC); former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; President Gerald R. Ford's Assistant for Economic Affairs from 1974-1977 |
| Sheffield | Horace L. Jr. | 1994 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | Retired administrative assistant to United Auto Workers Presidents Douglas Fraser and Leonard Woodcock; local and national civil rights leader; DECEASED | |
| Arnheim | Rudolf | 1995 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | aesthetic psychologist | |
| Bowen | William G. | 1995 | S | Doctor of Laws | President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1988-); former President of Princeton University (1972-1988) | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1995 | S | Doctor of Laws | President and Founder of the Children's Defense Fund (1973-) | |
| Shine | Neal | 1995 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | Editor, Detroit Free Press until 1995 | |
| White | Hayden | 1995 | S | Doctor of Humane Letters | X | Historian, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruze, CA |
| Altman | Robert | 1996 | W | |||
| Cole | Johnnetta B. | 1996 | S | Laws | ||
| Gorecki | Henryk Mikolaj | 1996 | S | Music | ||
| Hill | Jr., Jesse | 1996 | S | Laws | ||
| O'Connor | Sandra Day | 1996 | W | |||
| Pickering | John H. | 1996 | W | |||
| Rostropovich | Mstislav | 1996 | S | Music | ||
| Rubin | Vera C. | 1996 | W | |||
| Sadik | Nafis | 1996 | S | Science | ||
| Smale | Stephen | 1996 | S | Science | ||
| Baker | Gwendolyn Calvert | 1997 | W | |||
| Berry | Mary Frances | 1997 | S | |||
| Burns | Ken | 1997 | W | |||
| Fiske | Jr., Robert B. | 1997 | S | |||
| Godunov | Sergei | 1997 | S | |||
| Roberts | Jr., Eugene L. | 1997 | S | |||
| Smalley | Richard E. | 1997 | W | |||
| DiChiera | David | 1998 | W | |||
| Ford | Richard | 1998 | S | |||
| Good | Mary L. | 1998 | S | |||
| Ramphele | Mamphela | 1998 | S | |||
| Said | Edward W. | 1998 | S | |||
| Yang | Chen Ning | 1998 | W | |||
| Annan | Kofi | 1999 | S | |||
| Barak | Aharon | 1999 | S | |||
| Jarvi | Neeme | 1999 | W | |||
| Malcolm | Shirley M. | 1999 | S | |||
| Paley | Grace | 1999 | W | |||
| Prodi | Romano | 1999 | W | |||
| Toer | Pramoedya Ananta | 1999 | S | |||
| Halberstam | David | 2000 | S | |||
| Hermelin | David B. | 2000 | S | |||
| Kasdan | Lawrence | 2000 | S | |||
| Leonard | Elmore | 2000 | W | |||
| Reagon | Bernice Johnson | 2000 | S | |||
| Tishman | John L. | 2000 | W | |||
| Veltman | Martinus J.G. | 2000 | S | |||
| Ying | Madame Lin Ju | 2000 | W | |||
| Davidson | William | 2001 | S | |||
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 2001 | S | |||
| Gourneau | Dwight A. | 2001 | W | |||
| Ivey | Bill | 2001 | S | |||
| Michnik | Adam | 2001 | S | |||
| Pinsky | Robert | 2001 | S | |||
| Sahlins | Marshall | 2001 | S | |||
| Vatsyayan | Kapila | 2001 | W | |||
| Glaser | Donald A. | 2002 | S | |||
| Gray | William H. | 2002 | S | |||
| Hamp | Steven K. | 2002 | S | |||
| Johnson | Roy Hamlin | 2002 | W | |||
| Levine | Philip | 2002 | W | |||
| McClain | William | 2002 | S | |||
| McKay | Nellie Y. | 2002 | W | |||
| Rich | John | 2002 | S | |||
| Shalala | Donna E. | 2002 | S | |||
| Goodman | Leo A. | 2003 | W | |||
| Grabar | Oleg | 2003 | S | |||
| Granholm | Jennifer M. | 2003 | S | |||
| Jamison | Judith | 2003 | S | |||
| Lurie | Ann | 2003 | W | |||
| Miller | Thomas J. | 2003 | W | |||
| Schwarz | John J.H. | 2003 | S | |||
| Shuval | Hillel I. | 2003 | S | |||
| Taylor | Billy | 2003 | S | |||
| Aaron | Daniel | 2004 | S | |||
| Chambers | Julius L. | 2004 | S | |||
| Davis | Jr., David E. | 2004 | S | |||
| Eisenstein | Elizabeth L. | 2004 | W | |||
| Joy | William Nelson | 2004 | S | |||
| Moses | Robert P. | 2004 | W | |||
| Stern | Helmut | 2004 | S | |||
| Uhlenbeck | Karen | 2004 | S | |||
| Bloch | Henry W. | 2005 | S | |||
| Brown | John Seely | 2005 | S | |||
| Catlett | Elizabeth | 2005 | W | |||
| Dresselhaus | Mildred S. | 2005 | S | |||
| Dyson | Freeman J. | 2005 | W | |||
| McEwen | Bruce S. | 2005 | S | |||
| Richardson | William C. | 2005 | W | |||
| Riecker | Margaret Ann | 2005 | S | |||
| Schembechler | Glenn E. | 2005 | S | |||
| Zell | Samuel | 2005 | W | |||
| Amanpour | Christine | 2006 | S | |||
| Bing | Dave | 2006 | W | |||
| Huxtable | Ada Louise | 2006 | W | |||
| Ostrom | Elinor | 2006 | S | |||
| Richardson | William C. | 2006 | S | |||
| Sen | Amartya | 2006 | S | |||
| Steele | Claude | 2006 | W | |||
| White | William S. | 2006 | S | |||
| Bond | Jr., J. Max | 2007 | S | |||
| Bynum | Caroline Walker | 2007 | W | |||
| Clinton | William Jefferson | 2007 | S | |||
| Collins | Francis S. | 2007 | W | |||
| Converse | Philip E. | 2007 | S | |||
| Tilly | Charles H. | 2007 | S | |||
| Tilly | Charles H. | 2007 | W | |||
| Wege | Peter Melvin | 2007 | W | |||
| Wyman | Irma M. | 2007 | S | |||
| Abbott | Jim (Flint) | 2008 | S | |||
| Allen | Frances | 2008 | S | |||
| Burnell | Jocelyn Bell | 2008 | S | |||
| Harwell | Ernie | 2008 | S | |||
| Ndebele | Njabulo | 2008 | S | |||
| O'Brien | Jack | 2008 | S | |||
| Woodruff | Bob | 2008 | S |