Honorary Doctorate Recipients
Below is a listing of honorary doctorates awarded by Ohio University, arranged by year.
1925
Jacob Grant Collicott, Doctor of Laws
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Doctor of Sacred Theology
1927
Charles Edward Skinner, Doctor of Science
Daniel Willard, Doctor of Laws
1928
John Steward Bryan, Doctor of Laws
Albert Leonard, Doctor of Education
1929
Henry Clyde Shertone, Master of Arts
1930
Myers Y. Cooper, Doctor of Laws
1931
Louis Rudolph de Steiguer, Doctor of Laws
1932
William Lowe Bryan, Doctor of Humane Letters
Earnest Brown Skinner, Doctor of Laws
1933
Frank Pierpont Graves, Doctor of Laws
1934
Clinton Poston Biddle, Doctor of Laws
Luther Allan Weigle, Doctor of Sacred Theology
1954
William E. Alderman, Doctor of Laws
Arthur A. Brainerd, Doctor of Engineering
Benjamin F. Fairless, Doctor of Laws
Fredia M. Gillilan, Doctor of Humane Letters
Frank J. Lausche, Doctor of Laws
Jay Arthur Myers, Doctor of Laws
Ralph W. Sockman, Doctor of Laws
John Theodorakopoulos, Doctor of Laws
Ernst von Dohnanyi, Doctor of Music
1957
John W. Galbreath, Doctor of Laws
C. W. O'Neill, Doctor of Laws
Hiram Roy Wilson, Doctor of Letters
1958
Dag Hammarskjold, Doctor of Laws
1961
John C. Baker, Doctor of Humane Letters; Founders Citation
Governor Michael DiSalle, Doctor of Humane Letters
Walter S. Gamertsfelder, Doctor of Laws
Dr. J. W. Morgan, Curator of Chemical Literature
1962
The Reverand Arvid Willard Alden, Doctor of Divinity
Donald Kirk David, Doctor of Humane Letters
George Frederic Doriot, Doctor of Laws
Barnaby Conrad Kenney, Doctor of Humane Letters
James Alfred Perkins, Doctor of Humane Letters
1964
Robert S. McNamara, Doctor of Humane Letters
1965
Pauline Frederick, Doctor of Humane Letters
Fred Howe Johnson, Doctor of Laws
Yousuf Karsch, Doctor of Humane Letters
Edwin L. Kennedy, Doctor of Laws
1966
Dr. Charles Ephriam Burchfield, Doctor of Humane Letters
Dr. Starke R. Hathaway, Doctor of Humane Letters
Wayne L. Hays, Doctor of Laws
1967
Dr. C. Frederick Kittle, Doctor of Laws
James Allen Rhodes, Doctor of Laws
Eldon T. Smith, Doctor of Humane Letters
1968
Dr. Ishaya S. Audu, Doctor of Humane Letters
Oscar Cargill, Doctor of Humane Letters
William H. Fenzel, Doctor of Humane Letters
John Gardner, Doctor of Laws
Richard L. Krabach, Doctor of Public Finance
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Doctor of Humane Letters
1969
Vernon R. Alden, Doctor of Letters
John A. Hannah, Doctor of Humane Letters
Granville, Hicks, Doctor of Humane Letters
Marjorie Lawrence, Doctor of Humane Letters
Henry Viscardi, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
1970
Martin Walker Essex, Doctor of Laws
Joseph B. Hall, Doctor of Laws
Barton A. Holl, Sr., Doctor of Laws
Paul M. Kendall, Doctor of Humane Letters
1971
Warren Holmes Corning, Doctor of Humane Letters
Earl C. Seigred, Doctor of Humane Letters
George W. Stacher, Doctor of Humane Letters
Calvin William Verity, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
1972
Lester D. Crow, Doctor of Humane Letters
Paul Ricoeur, Doctor of Humane Letters
1973
Arshad Ayub, Doctor of Laws
Elmer Jagoq, Doctor of Laws
Rowena Sprout, Doctor of Humane Letters
Frank Stanton, Doctor of Mass Communication
1974
John Martin, Doctor of Humane Letters
Jerome Robbins, Doctor of Humane Letters
Cornelius J. Ryan, Doctor of Humane Letters
C. Paul Stocker, Doctor of Engineering
1975
Andrew Alford, Doctor of Applied Science
James Warren McClure, Doctor of Mass Communication
Kohei Miura, Doctor of Engineering, Science Education (posthumous)
Fritz J. Russ, Doctor of Engineering
1958
Dean W. Jeffers, Doctor of Laws
Helen M. Robinson Jobe, Doctor of Humane Letters
Dwight H. Rutherford, Doctor of Laws
Jacqueline G. Wexler, Doctor of Humane Letters
1977
Sidney Alexander, Doctor of Humane Letters
Stephen H. Fuller, Doctor of Laws
Ariel C. Hollinshead, Doctor of Science
Vernal G. Riffe, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Jesse Hilton Stuart, Doctor of Humane Letters
1978
Richard W. Eddy, Doctor of Laws
Jeanette G. Grasselli, Doctor of Science
Eugene F. Rinta, Doctor of Laws
1979
Elizabeth Evans Baker, Doctor of Humane Letters
Lillian Gordy Cater, Doctor of Humane Letters
Richard E. Leakey, Doctor of Humane Letters
Oliver Ocasek, Doctor of Laws
President Kazuo Yamada, Doctor of Laws (President of Chubu Univ.)
1980
John S. Denslow, Doctor of Science
Malcolm S. Forbes, Doctor of Humane Letters
Patricia R. Harris, Doctor of Laws
Dato Musa Hitam, Doctor of Public Service (Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia)
Wilfred R. Konneker, Doctor of Laws
1981
John Janeway Conger, Doctor of Science
Philip Handler, Doctor of Science
Harold W. McGraw, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
Tun Hussein bin Onn, Doctor of Laws and Public Service (Prime Minister of Malaysia)
Senator George V. Voinovich, Doctor of Laws
1982
Marsetio Donosepoetro, Doctor of Science
Herbert A. Einhorn, Doctor of Laws
John H. McConnell, Doctor of Laws
Lee M. Rich, Doctor of Communication
Van Gordon Sauter, Doctor of Humane Letters
Charles E. Scripps, Doctor of Communication
Sol Taishoff, Doctor of Communication
John Derfel Turner, Doctor of Laws
1983
Alton W. Whitehouse, Jr., Doctor of Laws
1984
John Herbert Beeler, Doctor of Humane Letters
Philip Caldwell, Doctor of Laws
Demetrios Coucouzis, Doctor of Humane Letters
Charles E. Glover, Doctor of Laws
Sydney Gruson, Doctor of Humane Letters
His Eminence Archbishop Iakovos, Doctor of Humane Letters (Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archidocese of North and South America)
Senator Harry Meshel, Doctor of Laws
1985
Governor Richard F. Celeste, Doctor of Laws
Warren G. French, Doctor of Humane Letters
James William Fulbright, Doctor of Humane Letters
Hsino Kao, Doctor of Science
Cruse W. Moss, Doctor of Laws
Corwin W. Nixon, Doctor of Laws
Ralph E. Schey, Doctor of Laws
1986
Kathleen Battle, Doctor of Music
Daniel J. Boorstin, Doctor of Letters
Murray Goldstein, Doctor of Science
Robert Hartford, Doctor of Laws
Thomas Tlou, Doctor of Laws
Peter V. Ueberroth, Doctor of Laws
1987
Glenn H. Brown, Doctor of Science
Paul E. Gillmor, Doctor of Laws
Donald J. Pease, Doctor of Laws
1988
Robert E. Holmes, Doctor of Laws
Loret Miller Ruppe, Doctor of Humane Letters
Helen Suzman, (No specific degree listed in records)
Chen-Ku Wang, Doctor of Laws
Elie Wiesel, Doctor of Humane Letters
1989
Roger E. Ailes, Doctor of Communication
Carol C. Harter, Doctor of Humane Letters
Paul Kennedy, Doctor of Laws
Dr. Q. K. J. Masire, Doctor of Humane Letters
1990
William G. Anderson, Doctor of Humane Letters
William B. Coulter, Doctor of Humane Letters
His Royal Highness Tunku Ja'afar Ibni Al-Marhum, Doctor of Law (Sultan of Malaysia)
J. Bill McCutcheon, Doctor of Theater
Eudora A. Welty, Doctor of Literature
1991
Dato Haji Ani bin Arope, Doctor of Laws
Foster Harmon, Doctor of Fine Arts
1992
Stanley J. Aronoff, Doctor of Humane Letters
The Right Reverend William G. Black, Doctor of Humane Letters
James Bruning, Doctor of Humane Letters
N. Scott Momaday, Doctor of Humane Letters
Gertrude F. Rempfer, Doctor of Science
K. Wayne Smith, Doctor of Laws
1993
Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Doctor of Fine Arts
You-Bao Shao, Doctor of Laws
William J. Holmes, Doctor of Laws
Clarence E. Page, Doctor of Letters
1994
Ernest L. Boyer, Doctor of Laws
Mary Pallay Covell, Doctor of Humane Letters
Alan E. Riedel, Doctor of Laws
Claire Oates Ping, Doctor of Humane Letters
1995
Jenny Holzer, Doctor of Arts
1996
Edward O. Wilson, Doctor of Science
Richard H. Brown, Doctor of Laws
1997
Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Doctor of Humane Letters
Frederick Harris, Doctor of Fine Arts
Robert D. Walter, Doctor of Business
Sally Aw Sian, Doctor of Mass Communication
1998
Terry Anderson, Doctor of Humane Letters
John C. Angus, Doctor of Science
Speaker Newt Gingrich, Doctor of Public Service
Daniel Kung-Chuen Shao, Doctor of Laws
James J. Whalen, Doctor of Laws
1999
His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Doctor of Laws (The Ninth Monarch of Thailand)
Benny Ray Bailey, Doctor of Public Service
Leon Harris, Doctor of Mass Communication
Pedro Miguel Lamport, Doctor of Public Service
Murray Louis, Doctor of Performing Arts
2000
Helena Thomas, Doctor of Communication
2001
Sang-Hoon Bang, Doctor of Mass Communication
Leona Hughes, Doctor of Humane Letters
Thomas Mapfumo, Doctor of Music
2002
Robert P. Axline, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
David C. Wilhelm, Doctor of Public Service
2003
Martin L. Hecht, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Donald E. Osterbrock, Doctor of Science
Beth K. Stocker, Doctor of Humane Letters
Martin Savidge, Doctor of Mass Communications
2004
N. Victor Goodman, Doctor of Public Service
Riste Gusterov, Doctor of Laws
David McCullough, Doctor of Humane Letters
2005
Arlene "Phoebe" Beasley, Doctor of Fine Arts
Charles R. Stuckey, Jr., Doctor of Engineering
2006
Carl E. Heiles, Ph.D., Doctor of Science
Sadanand Singh, Ph.D., Doctor of Laws
Brian Unger, B.S.C., Doctor of Communication
Charles M. Vest, Ph.D., Doctor of Science
2007
Kao Kim Hourn, Ph.D., Doctor of Public Service
Jennie S. Hwang, Ph.D., Doctor of Science
Thanu Kulachol, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters
John Light, Ph.D., Doctor of Laws
Chief Ken Nnamani, Doctor of Laws
2008
Peter King, Doctor of Communication
John S. Mattox, Doctor of Public Service
2009
Herman Leonard, Doctor of Fine Arts
Paul Dutton Grannis, Ph.D., Doctor of Science
Judy Clabes, Doctor of Communications
2011
Dr. Atul Gawande, Doctor of Public Service
Violet Patton, Doctor of Letters
2012
Nancy Cartwright, Doctor of Communication
Michael E. Jackson, Lt., Col., USAF (Ret), Doctor of Public Service
Hwa-Wei Lee, Ph.D., Doctor of Letters
2013
Andrew Alexander, Doctor of Communication
Paul Schullery, Doctor of Literature
Dr. Thomas J. Meyer, Doctor of Chemistry
2014
Raymon B. Fogg Sr., Doctor of Humane Letters
Ambassador Tebelelo Mazile Seretse, Doctor of Public Service
2015
Brig. Gen. James M. Abraham, Army (Ret), Doctor of Public Service
Sam Crowl, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters
2016
Ms. Cheryl Hurley, Doctor of Letters
2017
David M. Crane, Doctor of Laws
2019
Robert Paul Kirshner, Ph.D., Doctor of Science
Venkatraman “Venki” Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., Doctor of Science
2020
Francis "Frank" Papay, M.D., Doctor of Science
Richard A. Vincent, M.B.A., Doctor of Humane Letters
2022
To be awarded in April 2022
Jue Chen, Ph.D., Doctor of Science
John A. Roush, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters