This is a list of notable honorary degree recipients from Hofstra University in New York.
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Recipient | Year | Notability |
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Robert Moses | 1948 | New York Park Commissioner and Chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission |
Trygve Lie | 1949 | United Nations Secretary-General |
Walter Bedell Smith | 1949 | Commander of the First Army and Ambassador to Russia |
Recipient | Year | Notability |
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Robert P. Patterson | 1950 | Former Secretary of War |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1950 | President of Columbia University and Former Army Chief of Staff |
Aymar Embury II | 1951 | Architect of the Whitestone and Triborough bridges |
William Henry Harrison | 1951 | Head of the National Defense Production Administration |
Harry Woodburn Chase | 1951 | Chancellor of New York University |
Arthur S. Adams | 1952 | President of the American Council on Education |
Cornelia Otis Skinner | 1952 | Writer and actress |
John W. Davis | 1953 | Former United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom |
Carroll Vincent Newsom | 1953 | Associate Commissioner for Higher Education in New York State |
John Mason Brown | 1954 | Author and drama critic |
Ward Melville | 1954 | Suffolk County industrialist and civic leader |
Henry Townley Heald | 1955 | Chancellor of New York University |
Joan Whitney Payson | 1955 | Philanthropist |
Morris Bishop | 1956 | Professor of Romance Literature at Cornell University |
Arthur A. Houghton Jr. | 1956 | President of Corning Glass Works |
Harold Medina | 1957 | Judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals |
Milislav Demerec | 1957 | Director of the genetics department of the Carnegie Institution of Washington |
James E. Allen Jr. | 1957 | New York State Education Commissioner |
Charles B. Stone III | 1957 | Boss of the Continental Air Command |
Thomas G. Bergin | 1958 | Master of Timothy Dwight College |
Livingston T. Merchant | 1959 | Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs |
Recipient | Year | Notability |
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Eric A. Walker | 1960 | President of Pennsylvania State University |
McGeorge Bundy | 1960 | Dean of Faculty at Harvard University |
Arthur H. Dean | 1961 | Chairman of Cornell University Board of Trustees |
George Emlen Roosevelt | 1961 | Trustee of New York University |
Adlai Stevenson II | 1961 | United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
Simon H. Rifkind | 1962 | Judge for the Southern District of New York |
Sir Patrick Dean | 1964 | British Representative to the United Nations |
Louis H. Bauer | 1964 | Former head of the American Medical Association |
John Cranford Adams | 1964 | Hofstra President |
Albert L. Nickerson | 1964 | Board Chairman of the Mobil |
Robert Goheen | 1965 | President of Princeton University |
Henry Viscardi Jr. | 1965 | Founder and President of Abilities Inc. |
George L. Cadigan | 1965 | Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri |
Martin Luther King Jr. | 1965 | President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
Jacob Javits | 1966 | United States Senator from New York |
Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr. | 1966 | President of the New York Zoological Society |
Stewart Udall | 1966 | United States Secretary of the Interior |
Harry Frank Guggenheim | 1967 | Editor and publisher of Newsday |
August Heckscher II | 1967 | Parks Commissioner of New York City |
James McNaughton Hester | 1967 | 11th President of New York University |
Broadus Mitchell | 1967 | Economics professor at Hofstra |
Robert G. Vosper | 1967 | Former President of the American Library Association |
Sidney Dillon Ripley | 1968 | Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution |
James Pitman | 1969 | Former Member of Parliament |
Edward J. Speno | 1969 | Member of the New York State Senate |
Mary E. Switzer | 1969 | Administrator of the Social and Rehabilitation Service for the US Department of Health, Education and Wellness |
George H. Williams | 1969 | President of American University |
Recipient | Year | Notability |
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Elizabeth Koontz | 1970 | First African-American President of the National Education Association |
Eugene Nickerson | 1970 | County Executive of Nassau County |
Jacques Piccard | 1970 | Swiss oceanographer |
James Herman Robinson | 1970 | Founder of Operation Crossroads Africa |
Joan Ganz Cooney | 1971 | Co-founder of Sesame Workshop |
Eleazar de Carvalho | 1971 | Music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Hofstra Professor |
John W. Gardner | 1971 | Former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare |
Nancy Hanks | 1971 | Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts |
Bill Moyers | 1971 | Former White House Press Secretary |
Chiang Yee | 1971 | Professor of Chinese at Columbia University |
Andrew Heiskell | 1972 | Chairman and CEO of Time Inc. |
William J. McGill | 1972 | 16th President of Columbia University |
Howard A. Rusk | 1972 | Founder of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine |
Tom C. Clark | 1973 | Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
Elias James Corey | 1974 | Professor of Organic Chemistry at Harvard University |
Clark Kerr | 1974 | Former President of the University of California |
Cy Leslie | 1974 | Founder and President of MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group |
Robert Nisbet | 1974 | Albert Schweitzer Chair of Humanities at Columbia University |
Alan Pifer | 1974 | President of the Carnegie Corporation |
Alan Schneider | 1974 | Theatre director |
B.F. Skinner | 1974 | Professor of Psychology at Harvard University |
Robert Coles | 1975 | Professor at Harvard Medical School |
John Houseman | 1975 | Actor, producer |
Aryeh Neier | 1975 | Co-founder of Human Rights Watch |
James Pitman | 1975 | Chief of the Department of Medicine at Winthrop University Hospital |
Joachim Prinz | 1975 | Former President of the American Jewish Congress |
Walter Sullivan | 1975 | Professor of English at Vanderbilt University |
Elie Wiesel | 1975 | Holocaust survivor, author of Night |
Frank Zarb | 1975 | Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan | 1976 | United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
James Watson | 1976 | Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Francis Ford Coppola | 1977 | Film director |
William Atwood | 1978 | Former United States Ambassador to Guinea and Kenya |
William M. Batten | 1978 | Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange |
Mary Calderone | 1978 | President and co-founder of Sex Information and Education Council of the United States |
Robert Abrams | 1979 | Attorney General of New York |
Recipient | Year | Notability |
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Isaac Asimov | 1980 | Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University |
Arthur F. Burns | 1980 | Former Chair of the Federal Reserve |
Bernard S. Meyer | 1980 | Justice on the New York Court of Appeals |
Eugene Odum | 1980 | Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia |
Tamara Dembo | 1981 | Professor Emerita of Psychology at Clark University |
Malcolm Forbes | 1981 | Publisher of Forbes magazine |
Gerald Ford | 1981 | 38th President of the United States |
Samuel Pierce | 1981 | United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
Felix Rohatyn | 1981 | Chairman of the Mutual Assistance Corporation |
Neil Simon | 1981 | Playwright, screenwriter, actor |
Sol Wachtler | 1981 | Justice on the New York Court of Appeals |
Romare Bearden | 1982 | Artist |
Courtney Blackman | 1982 | Governor to the Central Bank of Barbados |
Françoise Gilot | 1982 | French painter |
Jim Jensen | 1982 | Reporter |
Robert Kibbee | 1982 | Chancellor of the City University of New York |
Ray Kurzweil | 1982 | Inventor |
Hugh Carey | 1983 | Former Governor of New York |
Al D'Amato | 1983 | United States Senator from New York |
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. | 1983 | Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
Herbert Kelman | 1983 | Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University |
James Tobin | 1983 | Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University |
Sanford Weill | 1983 | Founder of the National Academy Foundation |
Siggi Wilzig | 1983 | Holocaust survivor, advisor to Elie Wiesel |
Maryanne Trump Barry | 1984 | Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey |
Peter Drucker | 1984 | Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University |
Alan Greenspan | 1984 | Economist |
Theodore W. Kheel | 1984 | Attorney and labor mediator |
Gloria Steinem | 1984 | Feminist and political activist |
Robert T. Beyer | 1985 | Professor of Physics at Brown University |
Ernest L. Boyer | 1985 | President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
Tom Brokaw | 1985 | Anchor of NBC Nightly News |
Raymond E. Brown | 1985 | Auburn Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies at the Union Theological Seminary |
Wilson Goode | 1985 | Mayor of Philadelphia |
Maxine Greene | 1985 | William F. Russell Professor for the Foundations of Education at Columbia Teacher's College |
Arthur Levitt | 1985 | Owner of Roll Call |
Carl Sagan | 1985 | Astronomer |
Budd Schulberg | 1985 | Screenwriter |
Arnold Burns | 1986 | United States Deputy Attorney General |
Peter Kalikow | 1986 | President of H. J. Kalikow & Co. |
David Laventhol | 1986 | Editor of The Washington Post |
Harold Arthur Poling | 1986 | President of the Ford Motor Company |
Francis T. Purcell | 1986 | Nassau County Executive |
Arnold A. Saltzman | 1986 | Businessman |
Barbara Walters | 1986 | Journalist |
E.O. Wilson | 1986 | Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University |
Rong Yiren | 1986 | Chairman of China International Trust and Investment Corporation |
Warren M. Anderson | 1987 | Member of the New York State Senate |
Stephen Jay Gould | 1987 | Professor of Geology at Harvard University |
George C. Pratt | 1987 | Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Jehan Sadat | 1987 | Former First Lady of Egypt |
Les Wexner | 1987 | Chairman of Limited Brands |
John Dingell | 1988 | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan |
Elliot Eisner | 1988 | Professor of Art and Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education |
Galway Kinnell | 1988 | Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
Norman F. Lent | 1988 | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York |
Elliot Richardson | 1988 | Former United States Secretary of Commerce |
Olin Clyde Robison | 1988 | President of Middlebury College |
Whitney North Seymour | 1988 | Attorney |
Whitney North Seymour Jr. | 1988 | Co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Edward J. Carlough | 1989 | President of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association |
Nelson DeMille | 1989 | Author |
John R. Dunne | 1989 | Member of the New York Senate from the 6th district |
Marian Wright Edelman | 1989 | President and founder of Children's Defense Fund |
Christopher Keene | 1989 | General Director of the New York City Opera |
Ralph S. Larsen | 1989 | CEO of Johnson & Johnson |
Charles Rangel | 1989 | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York |
Tony Rosenthal | 1989 | Abstract sculptor |
Preston Tisch | 1989 | Chairman of the Loews Corporation |
Recipient | Year | Notability |
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Rand Araskog | 1990 | CEO of the ITT Corporation |
Wyche Fowler | 1990 | United States Senator from Georgia |
Patricia Reilly Giff | 1990 | Author |
Helen Hayes | 1990 | Actress |
Damon Keith | 1990 | Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |
Gil Noble | 1990 | Television reporter |
Harold J. Raveché | 1990 | President of the Stevens Institute of Technology |
George Vecsey | 1990 | Sports columnist for The New York Times |
Mimi W. Coleman | 1991 | Trustee Emerita of Hofstra |
Helen Frankenthaler | 1991 | Abstract expressionist painter |
Robert M. Johnson | 1991 | Publisher of Newsday |
Geoffrey Palmer | 1991 | Former Prime Minister of New Zealand |
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | 1991 | Professor of Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center |
Patricia Wald | 1991 | Former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit |
Owen Bieber | 1992 | President of the United Auto Workers |
Elizabeth Coleman | 1992 | President of Bennington College |
Dolores Cross | 1992 | President of Chicago State University |
Sandy D'Alemberte | 1992 | President of Florida State University |
Jean Dalrymple | 1992 | Theater producer |
Marilyn French | 1992 | Author |
J. Bruce Llewellyn | 1992 | Chairman of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company |
John W. Money | 1992 | Professor of Medical Psychology at Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Thomas R. Pickering | 1992 | United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
Harrison Salisbury | 1992 | Journalist |
Susan H. Schulman | 1992 | Theater director |
Walter Turnbull | 1992 | Founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem |
Faye Wattleton | 1992 | President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America |
Tom Wicker | 1992 | Journalist |
David Dinkins | 1993 | Mayor of New York City |
Cynthia Gregory | 1993 | Prima ballerina |
Shari Lewis | 1993 | Ventriloquist |
Siegmund Spiegel | 1993 | Jewish architect, war hero, and activist; Holocaust survivor |
Harold McGraw Jr. | 1993 | CEO of McGraw-Hill |
Martin Theodore Orne | 1993 | Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at University of Pennsylvania |
L. William Seidman | 1993 | Head of the FDIC |
Gus Tyler | 1993 | Columnist |
Jack B. Weinstein | 1993 | Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Ellen Futter | 1994 | President of the American Museum of Natural History |
Murray Kempton | 1994 | Journalist |
Nicholas P. Samios | 1994 | Director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Herbert Stein | 1994 | Economist |
William L. Swing | 1994 | United States Ambassador to Haiti |
Robert Van Lierop | 1994 | Lawyer |
Mario Van Peebles | 1994 | Film director |
Melvin Van Peebles | 1994 | Film director |
José A. Cabranes | 1995 | Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Georgie Anne Geyer | 1995 | Journalist |
Faith Hubley | 1995 | Animator |
Edward Regan | 1995 | Former Comptroller of New York |
Phil Rizzuto | 1995 | New York Yankees shortstop |
Michael Wigler | 1995 | Microbiologist |
Jerome York | 1995 | CEO of IBM |
Drew S. Days III | 1996 | Solicitor General of the United States |
Charles W. Dryden | 1996 | Member of the Tuskegee Airmen |
Gloria Foster | 1996 | Actress |
Frederick Gluck | 1996 | Director at McKinsey & Company |
Deborah Miller | 1996 | Adjunct Professor of Education at New York University |
David Salten | 1996 | Consultant to Hofstra's President |
Frank Stanton | 1996 | Former President of CBS |
Jan D. Timmer | 1996 | |
Gary Becker | 1997 | Professor of Economics and Sociology at University of Chicago |
Eddie Bracken | 1997 | Actor |
Barbara Bush | 1997 | Former First Lady of the United States |
George H. W. Bush | 1997 | Former President of the United States |
Paul G. Hearne | 1997 | President of the Dole Foundation |
Billy Joel | 1997 | Singer, songwriter |
Michio Kaku | 1997 | Professor of Theoretical Physics at City College of New York |
Lorraine Monroe | 1997 | Executive Director and founder of the School Leadership Academy |
LeRoy Neiman | 1997 | Artist |
Edward Packard | 1997 | Author |
Scott Ross | 1997 | Co-founder of Digital Domain |
Martin Schröder | 1997 | Founder of Martinair |
Stephen M. Schwebel | 1997 | President of the International Court of Justice |
Percy Sutton | 1997 | Former Manhattan Borough President |
William vanden Heuvel | 1997 | Chairman of the Roosevelt Institute |
John Bierwirth | 1998 | Former CEO of Grumman |
Horace Hagedorn | 1998 | Founder of Miracle-Gro |
Kitty Carlisle | 1998 | Actress |
Owen H. Johnson | 1998 | Member of the New York Senate from the 4th district |
Marvin Kalb | 1998 | Journalist |
Judith Livingston | 1998 | First female member of the Inner Circle of Advocates |
Eugene Ludwig | 1998 | Comptroller of the Currency |
Jonathan D. Moreno | 1998 | David and Lyn Silfen University Professor at University of Pennsylvania |
Bobby Muller | 1998 | Founder of International Campaign to Ban Landmines |
Guy Stern | 1998 | Professor of German Literature and Cultural History at Wayne State University |
Robert L. Bernstein | 1999 | Founding Chair Emeritus of Human Rights Watch |
Schuyler Chapin | 1999 | Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City |
Larry Gelbart | 1999 | Creator of M*A*S*H |
John R. McGann | 1999 | Bishop of Rockville Centre |
Chuck Schumer | 1999 | United States Senator from New York |
Muriel Siebert | 1999 | First woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange |
Beatrice Wright | 1999 | Psychologist |
Recipient | Year | Notability |
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Ajaypal Singh Banga | 2010 | President and CEO of Mastercard |
Howard Dean | 2010 | Former Governor of Vermont |
Saul Katz | 2010 | President of the New York Mets |
Jan Peter Balkenende | 2011 | Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands |
Irwin Redlener | 2011 | Founder of the Children's Health Fund |
Philip Rosenthal | 2011 | Creator of Everybody Loves Raymond |
Douglas Brinkley | 2012 | Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities at Rice University |
Jonathan Lippman | 2012 | Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals |
Les Moonves | 2012 | CEO of CBS Corporation |
Nicholas Garaufis | 2013 | Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Phil Schiliro | 2013 | Former White House Director of Legislative Affairs |
Jared Kushner | 2014 | CEO of Kushner Companies |
Pele | 2014 [1] | Footballer and humanitarian |
Peter Baker | 2015 | Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times |
Herman A. Berliner | 2015 | Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Hofstra |
Vernon Jordan | 2015 | Senior Managing Director of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC |
Sallie Manzanet-Daniels | 2015 | Associate Justice of the First Judicial Department |
Kathleen Rice | 2015 | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 4th district |
Kathy Hochul | 2016 | Lieutenant Governor of New York |
Steve Israel | 2016 | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York |
Kevin J. Tracey | 2016 | CEO of Feinstein Institute for Medical Research |
Jill Biden | 2017 | Second Lady of the United States |
Mariko Silver | 2017 | President of Bennington College |
Madeline Singas | 2017 | District Attorney of Nassau County |
Janet DiFiore | 2018 | Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals |
Mike Massimino | 2018 | Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University |
Scott Rechler | 2018 | CEO and Chairman of RXR Realty |
Wolf Blitzer | 2019 | Journalist |
Marcus Brauchli | 2019 | Former executive editor of The Washington Post |
Roger W. Ferguson Jr. | 2019 | Former vice chair of the Federal Reserve |
Joe Morton | 2019 | Actor |
Recipient | Year | Notability |
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Kathryn Marinello | 2021 | President and CEO of PODS |
Eric Adams | 2022 | 110th Mayor of New York City |
Letitia James | 2023 | 67th Attorney General of New York |
Sandra Lindsay | 2023 | Vice President of Public Health Advocacy for Northwell Health |
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