Hofstra University awards honorary degrees to distinguished individuals who deserve acknowledgment for their contributions to and performance in their chosen field or industry.
Honorary Degree Recipients
(as of May 2023)
- Abrams, Frank W. (55)
- Abrams, Robert (79)
- Adams, Arthur Stanton (52)
- Adams, The Hon. Eric L. (22)
- Adams, Frederick B., Jr. (59)
- Adams, John C. (64)
- Albrecht, Chris (05)
- Allen, James E., Jr. (57)
- Allen, Will (14)
- Ambrose, Stephen E. (00)
- Ammidon, Hoyt (68)
- Anderson, Warren M. (87)
- Arad, Avi (05)
- Araskog, Rand V. (90)
- Asimov, Isaac (80)
- Attwood, William (78)
- Axinn, Donald E. (91)
- Back, George (99)
- Baer, Albert M. (67)
- Balkenende, Jan Peter (11)
- Baker, Peter (15)
- Banga, Ajaypal Singh (10)
- Barell, Martin C. (85)
- Barry, John (96)
- Barry, Maryanne Trump (84)
- Batten, William M. (78)
- Bauer, Louis H. (64)
- Bearden, Romare (82)
- Becker, Gary S. (97)
- Bergin, Thomas G. (58)
- Bergman, Stanley M. (17)
- Berliner, Herman A. (15)
- Bernstein, Robert L. (99)
- Beyer, Robert T. (85)
- Biden, Jill (17)
- Bieber, Owen (92)
- Bierwirth, John (98)
- Bishop, Morris G. (56)
- Black, Theodore M. (74)
- Blackman, Courtney N. (82)
- Blitzer, Wolf (19)
- Blodgett, Eleanor D. (80)
- Bologna, Joseph (02)
- Boyer, Ernest L. (85)
- Bracken, Eddie (97)
- Brauchli, Marcus W (19)
- Breed, Eben (69)
- Brinkley, Douglas (12)
- Brokaw, Tom (85)
- Brown, Arthur W. (66)
- Brown, Janet (12)
- Brown, John Mason (54)
- Brown, Raymond E. (85)
- Bundy, McGeorge (60)
- Burns, Arnold I. (86)
- Burns, Arthur F. (80)
- Burstein, Beatrice S. (83)
- Bush, Barbara (97)
- Bush, George H.W. (97)
- Cabranes, Jose A. (95)
- Cadigan, George L. (65)
- Calabresi, Guido (99)
- Calderone, Mary S. (78)
- Carey, Hugh L. (83)
- Carlough, Edward J. (89)
- Casey, Richard Conway (00)
- Cathey, Henry Marc (91)
- Chapin, Schuyler (99)
- Chase, Harry W. (51)
- Chaykin, Irving J. (80)
- Chenault, Kenneth I. (07)
- Ciolli, Rita F. (17)
- Clark, Tom C. (73)
- Clinton, William J. (05)
- Cohen, Jordan J. (19)
- Coleman, Cy (00)
- Coleman, Elizabeth (92)
- Coleman, Mimi W. (91)
- Coleman, Norman (03)
- Coles, Robert M. (75)
- Connelly, Eugene B. (90)
- Cooney, Joan G. (71)
- Coppola, Francis F. (77)
- Corey, Elias J. (74)
- Coulson, Robert (87)
- Couper, Edgar W. (63)
- Cross, Dolores E. (92)
- D’Alemberte, Talbot (92)
- D’Amato, Alfonse M. (83)
- Dalrymple, Jean (92)
- Davis, John W. (53)
- Davison, Alfred T. (61)
- Davison, Kate T. (51)
- Days, Drew S., III (96)
- Dean, Arthur H. (61)
- Dean, Howard (10)
- Dean, Patrick (64)
- de Carvalho, Eleazar (71)
- Dembo, Tamara (81)
- Demerec, Milislav (57)
- DeMille, Nelson (89)
- Dennehy, Brian (03)
- deSoet, Jan F.A. (90)
- DiFiore, Janet (18)
- DiNapoli, Thomas P. (09)
- Dingell, John D. (88)
- Dinkins, David N. (93)
- Doctorow, E.L. (04)
- Dobbs, Lou (04)
- Dowling, Michael (05)
- Drucker, Peter F. (84)
- Dryden, Charles (96)
- Dunne, John R. (89)
- Durham, Christine M. (07)
- Edelman, Marian W. (89)
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (50)
- Eisner, Elliot (88)
- Ekblom, Harry E. (82)
- Embury, Aymar, II (51)
- Epstein, Saul Leon (70)
- Fanelli, Sean A. (97)
- Fanton, Jonathan F. (01)
- Ferguson, Roger W., Jr. (19)
- Field, Ruth P. (61)
- Finkelstein, James (84)
- Fixler, Bernard (75)
- Forbes, Malcolm S. (81)
- Ford, Gerald R. (81)
- Foster, Gloria (96)
- Foster, Henry Wendell, Jr. (03)
- Fowler, Wyche, Jr. (90)
- Frankenthaler, Helen (91)
- French, Marilyn (92)
- Futter, Ellen V. (94)
- Gannon, Robert (48)
- Garaufis, Nicholas G. (13)
- Gardner, John W. (71)
- Gelbart, Larry (99)
- Genrich, Willard A. (85)
- Getzels, Jacob W. (84)
- Geyer, Georgie Ann (95)
- Giff, Patricia R. (90)
- Gilot, Francoise (82)
- Gluck, Frederick W. (96)
- Goddard, Colin (05)
- Goheen, Robert F. (65)
- Goode, W. Wilson (85)
- Goodman, Dr. Yetta M. (02)
- Gould, Stephen J. (87)
- Green, Maxine (85)
- Greenberg, Maurice (00)
- Greene, Morris A. (70)
- Greenspan, Alan (84)
- Gregory, Cynthia (93)
- Guggenheim, Harry F. (67)
- Hagedorn, Horace (98)
- Hamroff, Marc (16)
- Hanks, Nancy (71)
- Hannon, Kemp (00)
- Harding, James, Jr. (02)
- Harrison, William H. (51)
- Hart, Kitty Carlisle (98)
- Hartman, Thomas J. (01)
- Hayes, Helen (90)
- Heald, Henry T. (55)
- Hearne, Paul G. (97)
- Heckscher, August (67)
- Heineken, Alfred (96)
- Heiskell, Andrew (72)
- Herbert, Lawrence (89)
- Hester, James M. (67)
- Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr. (83)
- Hlibok, Gregory j. (23)
- Hochul, Kathy (16)
- Hodgkinson, Harold L. (87)
- Hornstein, Moses (67)
- Houghton, Arthur A., Jr. (56)
- Houseman, John (75)
- Hubbell, George L., Jr. (57)
- Hubley, Faith (95)
- Israel, Steve (16)
- James, The Hon. Letitia James (23)
- Jansen, Raymond A. (00)
- Jansen, William (58)
- Javits, Jacob K. (66)
- Jefferson, Wallace B. (09)
- Jenkins, Paul (96)
- Jensen, Jim (82)
- Joel, Billy (97)
- Johnson, Owen H. (98)
- Johnson, Robert M. (91)
- Johnson, Robert Wood, IV (02)
- Jordan, Vernon E., Jr. (15)
- Jordon, Patricia James (94)
- Kaku, Michio (97)
- Kalb, Marvin L. (98)
- Kalikow, Peter S. (86)
- Karpatkin, Rhoda (98)
- Katz, Saul (10)
- Kaufman, Robert (04)
- Kaye, Judith S. (01)
- Keene, Christopher (89)
- Keith, Damon J. (90)
- Kellner, Dr. Irwin L. (95)
- Kelman, Herbert (83)
- Kempton, Murray (94)
- Kerr, Clark (74)
- Kheel, Theodore W. (84)
- Kibbee, Robert J. (82)
- King, Martin Luther, Jr. (65)
- Kinnell, Galway (88)
- Kirkland, L. Lane (90)
- Kissinger, Walter B. (01)
- Knapp, Halsey B. (49)
- Koontz, Elizabeth D. (70)
- Krout, John A. (65)
- Kruger, Arthur (82)
- Kurzweil, Raymond (82)
- Kushner, Jared (14)
- Lambert '89, Dr. Kurt (22)
- Lamont, Thomas S. (59)
- Larocca, James L. (93)
- Larsen, Ralph S. (89)
- Laubach, Gerald D. (79)
- Laventhol, David (86)
- Lavery, Rev. Charles J. (68)
- Leeds, Gerard (06)
- Leeds, Lilo (06)
- Lent, Norman F. (88)
- Leslie, Seymour (74)
- Levitt, Arthur Jr. (85)
- Lewis, Shari (93)
- Lie, Trygve (49)
- Liebman, Seymour (16)
- Lindsay, Sandra (23)
- Linton, Floyd S. (95)
- Lippman, Jonathan (12)
- Lister, Bruce A. (98)
- Livingston, Judith (98)
- Llewellyn, J. Bruce (92)
- Lowe, Emily (53)
- Ludwig, Eugene (98)
- Lyons, Jeffrey (00)
- Malone, Raymond H. (91)
- Marburger, John H. (00)
- Margiotta, Joseph M. (01)
- Marinello, Kathryn (21)
- Mason, Ellsworth (73)
- Manzanet-Daniels, The Hon. Sallie (15)
- Massimino, Mike (18)
- Mathews, David (99)
- McCall, H. Carl (00)
- McCarthy, Carolyn (02)
- McEwen, William P. (78)
- McGann, John R. (99)
- McGill, William J. (72)
- McGinnis, Marcy (02)
- McGraw, Harold W., Jr. (93)
- McKeon, Robert (10)
- McManaway, James G. (60)
- Medina, Harold R. (57)
- Meier, Deborah (96)
- Melville, Ward (54)
- Merchant, Livingston T. (59)
- Meyer, Bernard S. (80)
- Mitchell, Broadus (67)
- Money, John W.
- Monroe, Daniel L. (73)
- Monroe, Lorraine (97)
- Moonves, Leslie (12)
- Moore, Judith Livingston (98)
- Moot, Welles Van Ness (53)
- Mooyart-Doubleday, B. (95)
- Moran, Michael (91)
- Moreno, Jonathan (98)
- Morton, Joe (19)
- Moses, Robert (48)
- Moyers, Bill D. (71)
- Moynihan, Daniel P. (76)
- Muller, Robert (98)
- Neeleman, David (07)
- Negroponte, Nicholas (09)
- Neier, Aryeh (75)
- Neiman, Leroy (97)
- Ness, Frederick W. (75)
- Newson, Carroll V. (53)
- Nickerson, Albert L. (64)
- Nickerson, Eugene H. (70)
- Nisbet, Robert A. (74)
- Noble, Gil (90)
- North, Whitney (88)
- Nyquist, Ewald B. (75)
- Odum, Eugene P. (80)
- Olsten, William (91)
- O’Neill, Paul H. (09)
- Orne, Martin (93)
- Osborn, Fairfield (66)
- Oster, Sharon M. (01)
- Oxley, Michael G. (06)
- Packard, Edward B. (97)
- Palmer, Geoffrey (91)
- Paterson, David A. (06)
- Patterson, Robert P. (50)
- Payson, Joan W. (55)
- Peale, Mundy I. (59)
- Peters, Bernadette (02)
- Peterson, Martha E. (69)
- Piccard, Jacques E. (70)
- Pickering, Thomas R. (92)
- Pierce, Samuel R. (81)
- Pifer, Alan (74)
- Pitman, James (69)
- Polak, Jack (04)
- Poling, Harold A. (86)
- Portalatin, Julio A. (13)
- Pratt, George C. (87)
- Prinz, Joachim (75)
- Purcell, Francis T. (86)
- Purcell, Patrick J. (92)
- Rangel, Charles B. (89)
- Raveche, Harold J. (90)
- Rechler, Scott (18)
- Redlener, Irwin E. (11)
- Regan, Edward V. (95)
- Rice, The Hon. Kathleen (15)
- Richardson, Elliot L. (88)
- Ridgeway, Matthew B. (53)
- Rifkind, Simon H. (62)
- Ripley, Sidney D., II (68)
- Rivkin, Leonard L. (89)
- Rizzuto, Phil (95)
- Roberts, Cokie (03)
- Robinson, James H. (70)
- Robison, Olin (88)
- Roche, John P. (89)
- Rohatyn, Felix G. (81)
- Roosevelt, George E. (61)
- Rorty, Dr. Richard (02)
- Rosenberg, Alex (89)
- Rosenthal, Philip (11)
- Rosenthal, Tony (89)
- Ross, Scott (97)
- Rosser, Richard F. (91)
- Rusk, Howard A. (72)
- Rustin, Bayard (82)
- Sadat, Jehan (87)
- Sagan, Carl (85)
- Salisbury, Harrison E. (92)
- Salten, David G. (96)
- Saltzman, Arnold A. (86)
- Saltzman, Joan R. (99)
- Samios, Nicolas P. (94)
- Savage, Frank (95)
- Scala, James (98)
- Schapiro, Morton Owen (06)
- Schieffer, Bob Lloyd (09)
- Schiliro, Phil (13)
- Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (91)
- Eric Schmertz (07)
- Schneider, Alan (74)
- Schroder, Martin (97)
- Schulberg, Budd (85)
- Schulman, Susan H. (92)
- Schumer, Charles E. (99)
- Schwebel, Stephen M. (97)
- Segal, Gordon (97)
- Seidman, L. William (93)
- Seymour, Whitney N. (88)
- Siebert, Muriel (99)
- Silver, Mariko (17)
- Silver, Edward (89)
- Simon, Neil (81)
- Simons, Dr. James (02)
- Singas, Madeline (17)
- Skinner, B.F. (74)
- Skinner, Cornelia O. (52)
- Smith, B. Othanel (86)
- Smith, Dr. Lawrence G. (22)
- Smith, Walter B. (49)
- Sotomayor, Sonia (06)
- Speno, Edward J. (69)
- Spiegel, Siegmund (93)
- Spitz, Dr. Judith (23)
- Spitzer, Eliot (04)
- Stanton, Frank (96)
- Stein, Herbert (94)
- Steinem, Gloria (84)
- Stern, Guy (98)
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (61)
- Stillman, Bruce W. (01)
- Stone, Charles B. III (57)
- Stone, George W., Jr. (63)
- Straus, Roger W. (88)
- Sullivan, Martin J. (08)
- Sullivan, Susan M. (01)
- Sullivan, Walter (75)
- Sutton, Percy E. (97)
- Swing, William Lacy (94)
- Switzer, Mary E. (69)
- Tammero, Robert A. (91)
- Taylor, Renee (02)
- Tese, Vincent (93)
- Thatcher, Margaret (00)
- Theobald, John J. (58)
- ‘t Hooft, Gerardus (01)
- Tilles, Roger (09)
- Timmer, Jan D. (96)
- Tisch, Preston R. (89)
- Tisdale, Henry N. (09)
- Tobin, James (83)
- Toperoff, Sam (99)
- Townsend, Paul B. (71)
- Tracey, Kevin (16)
- Trowbridge, Alexander B. (68)
- Turnbull, Walter J. (92)
- Tyler, Gus (93)
- Udall, Steward L. (66)
- vanden Huevel, William J. (97)
- van Roijen, Herman J. (52)
- Van Lierop, Robert (94)
- Van Peebles, Mario (94)
- Van Peebles, Melvin (94)
- Vecsey, George (90)
- Viscardi, Henry, Jr. (65)
- Volcker, Paul A. (87)
- Vosper, Robert G. (67)
- Wachtler, Sol (81)
- Wald, Patricia M. (91)
- Walker, Eric A. (60)
- Walters, Barbara (86)
- Watson, James D. (76)
- Wattleton, Faye (92)
- Watts, John M. (58)
- Weill, Sanford I. (83)
- Weingrow, Howard (05)
- Weinstein, Jack B. (93)
- Weisenberg, Harvey (14)
- Weller, Augustus B. (73)
- Werner, Edwin R. (86)
- Wexner, Leslie H. (87)
- White, Mary Jo (02)
- Wicker, Thomas G. (92)
- Wiesel, Elie (75)
- Wigler, Michael H. (95)
- Williams, George H. (69)
- Wilson, Edward O. (86)
- Wilzig, Siggi B. (83)
- Wright, Beatrice (99)
- Yee, Chiang (71)
- Yiren, Rong (86)
- York, Jerome B. (95)
- Younger, Judith T. (74)
- Zarb, Frank (75)
- Zizzo, Alicia (97)