Honorary Degree Recipients
| 1896 | Grace Espy Patton | Master of Science |
| 1907 | E.J. Iddings | Master of Science |
| 1910 | Joseph F. Daniels | Master of Science |
| 1919 | Luther C. Bragg | Bachelor of Science |
| C.G. Sargent | Bachelor of Science | |
| George F. Snyder | Master of Science | |
| 1921 | Ralph L. Crosman | Bachelor of Science |
| 1924 | Mrs. Bargis (Delphine Harris) Coy | Master of Arts |
| 1929 | Raymond Walter | Bachelor of Science |
| 1930 | Otto W. Shaeffer | Master of Science |
| 1945 | Otto Vincent Adams | Doctor of Science |
| Percy Nicol Annand | Doctor of Science | |
| Harry Dean Cochran | Doctor of Science | |
| Milton S. Eisenhower | Doctor of Science | |
| William Hugh Feldman | Doctor of Science | |
| Margaret Prendergast McLean | Doctor of Science | |
| 1947 | William Silas Hill | Doctor of Science |
| 1948 | Charles F. Brannan | Doctor of Science |
| 1950 | Dr. I. E. Newsom | Doctor of Science |
| 1955 | William R. Kreutzer | Doctor of Science |
| 1956 | Aleck John Lunn | Doctor of Science |
| 1958 | James Ray Miller | Doctor of Letters |
| Anna Eleanor Roosevelt | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1959 | Laurence Wood Durrell | Doctor of Science |
| Miriam Augusta Palmer | Doctor of Science | |
| Charles N. Shepardson | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1960 | W. Averell Harriman | Doctor of Laws |
| William Bell O'Donnell | Doctor of Laws | |
| Maurice S. Shahan | Doctor of Science | |
| 1961 | Conrad Henry Becker | Doctor of Laws |
| Julius Wayne Reitz | Doctor of Laws | |
| William Robert Ross | Doctor of Laws | |
| Raymond H. Miller | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hilario J. Santos | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1962 | Reuben Gilbert Gustavson | Doctor of Science |
| Wendell Phillips | Doctor of Commercial Science | |
| 1963 | Wayne Norviel Aspinall | Doctor of Civil Law |
| John Alfred Hannah | Doctor of Laws | |
| Michael Joseph Kirwan | Doctor of Civil Law | |
| 1964 | Andrew G. Clark | Doctor of Laws |
| 1965 | James Allen McCain | Doctor of Laws |
| 1966 | Robert Anderson | Doctor of Laws |
| 1967 | Chester M. Alter | Doctor of Science |
| 1968 | Gordon L. Allott | Doctor of Laws |
| 1969 | William E. Morgan | Doctor of Laws |
| 1970 | Phillip Handler | Doctor of Science |
| John A. Love | Doctor of Laws | |
| Henry Nash Smith | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frederick P. Thieme | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stewart L. Udall | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis W. Walt | Doctor of Laws | |
| 1971 | Marie-Claire Alain | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Maurice B. Mitchell | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | Doctor of Science | |
| 1972 | John Olive | Doctor of Science |
| Harold McCracken | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1973 | Mary Scott | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Frank Waters | Doctor of Letters | |
| Gabriel Murrillo Peralta | Doctor of Science | |
| 1974 | Donald L. Hammond | Doctor of Science |
| 1975 | Victor Bravo Ahuja | Doctor of Science |
| Thomas L. Kimball | Doctor of Science | |
| 1976 | George H. Weyerhaeuser | Doctor of Science |
| Robert W. Long | Doctor of Science | |
| 1977 | H. Marie Worminton | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Robert Q. Marston | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1979 | Richard Hunt | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| H. Harry Wieder | Doctor of Science | |
| 1980 | Fu Hua Chen | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| David Talmage | Honorary Doctor of Science | |
| Warren Garst | Honorary Doctor of Science | |
| 1981 | Elnora M. Gilfoyle | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| John G. Powers | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1984 | Russel L. Heath | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| 1985 | Francis M. Lechleitner | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| Ed N. Honnen | Honorary Doctor of Science | |
| 1986 | Henry E. Lowenstein | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| Dwada K. Jawara | Honorary Doctor of Science | |
| 1987 | Howard M. Temin | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| 1988 | Kenneth Monfort | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| 1989 | Malcolm S. Forbes | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| Thomas E. Lovejoy III | Honorary Doctor of Science | |
| Robert C. Norris | Honorary Doctor of Science | |
| 1990 | C. Radhakrishna Rao | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| Leonard Lee Rue III | Honorary Doctor of Science | |
| 1994 | Lawrence Phelps | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Robert Barkley | Honorary Doctor of Science | |
| Carl A. Bimson | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 1997 | Jungho Sonu | Honorary Doctor of Science |
| 2002 | Ben Houston | Bachelor of Science in Animal Science |
| 2003 | Walter Scott, Jr. | Doctor of Engineering |
| 2004 | John Mosley | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Edna Mosley | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Joseph F. Phelps | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Richard Lewis Robinson | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kathryn C. Hach-Darrow | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2005 | Robert S. Everitt | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Tom J. Gleason | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2006 | Maurice Albertson | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2007 | Lorne A. Babiuk | Doctor of Science |
| E. Hadley Stuart, Jr. | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2008 | Michael S. Smith | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2009 | Timothy E. Wirth | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| C.N.R. Rao | Doctor of Science | |
| 2011 | Pat Stryker | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Alice Wallace | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Edward Warner | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Peter H. Coors | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2012 | Richard Monfort | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Nan Stuart | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sophie Craighead | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2013 | Barry Irwin Goldfarb | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Dave and Gail Liniger | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2014 | David and Paula Edwards | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Muhtar Kent | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Dennis Repp | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2015 | Ibrahim Al-Assaf | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2016 | Princess Abigail Kawananakoa | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| J. Robert Wilson | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2018 | James C. Kennedy | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Thomas H. Bailey | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| 2022 | Joe Blake | Doctor of Humane Letters |