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 October 2020)
Abrams, Frank W. (55)
Abrams, Robert (79)
Adams, Arthur Stanton (52)
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 (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, Eleazor (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, Jr., Roger W.(19)
Field, Ruth P. (61)
Finkelstein, James (84)
Fixler, Bernard (75)
Forbes, Malcolm S. (81)
Ford, Gerald R. (81)
Foster, Gloria (96)
Foster Jr., Henry Wendell (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, Jr. James (02)
Harrison, William H. (51)
Hart, Kitty Carlisle (98)
Hartman, Thomas J. (01)
Hayes, Helen (90)
Heald, Henry T. (55)
Hearne, Paul G. (97)
Hecksher, August (67)
Heineken, Alfred (96)
Heiskell, Andrew (72)
Herbert, Lawrence (89)
Hester, James M. (67)
Higginbotham, A. Leon Jr. (83)
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)
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 IV, Robert Wood (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)
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)
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)
Mason, Ellsworth (73)
Manzanet-Daniels, Honor. 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, Walter B. (49)
Sotomayor, Sonia (06)
Speno, Edward J. (69)
Spiegel, Siegmund (93)
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)