Honorary Degree Recipient by Year

1892                           Doctor of Laws                                  John Rockey Park

 

1894                           Doctor of Science                             Joseph T. Kingsbury

 

1907                           Master of Arts                                    David Robert Allen

1907                           Doctor of Didactics                           William M. Stewart

 

1910                           Doctor of Laws                                  Joseph W. Rawlins

 

1916                           Master of Arts                                    J.E. McKnight

1916                           Doctor of Laws                                  Joseph T. Kingsbury

1916                           Doctor of Science                             J.B. Toronto

 

1919                           Doctor of Laws                                  William W. Riter

 

1920                           Doctor of Education                          George F. Eaton

1920                           Doctor of Science                             Joseph F. Merrill

 

1921                           Doctor of Laws                                  John A. Widtsoe

1921                           Doctor of Literature                        George M. Marshall

 

1922                           Doctor of Science                             Dorsey A. Lyon

1922                           Doctor of Laws                                  James E. Talmage

1922                           Doctor of Laws                                  Barton Warren Evermann*

1922                           Doctor of Laws                                  James H. Robinson*

 

1925                           Doctor of Laws                                  Waldemar Van Cott

 

1927                           Doctor of Laws                                 William Frederick Durand

 

1931                           Doctor of Laws                                  William H. Wattis

1931                           Doctor of Education                        Milton Bennion

 

1934                           Doctor of Laws                                  George H. Dern

1934                           Doctor of Laws                                  J. Reuben Clark, Jr.

 

1938                           Doctor of Literature                           Maud May Babcock

 

1939                           Doctor of Laws                                  Tillman D. Johnson

 

1940                           Doctor of Laws                                  George Thomas

 

1942                           Doctor of Science                             Daniel Cowan Jackling

1942                           Doctor of Science                             Ralph Vary Chamberlin

 


 

1943                           Doctor of Literature                           Benjamin Roland Lewis

1943                           Doctor of Laws                                  Marriner Stoddard Eccles

 

June    1944               Doctor of Science                             Harvey Fletcher

June    1944               Doctor of Laws                                  William H. Leary

Sept    1944               Doctor of Science                             Thomas Parran

Sept    1944               Doctor of Science                             Samuel Clinton Baldwin

 

Mar. 3, 1946              Doctor of Laws                                  William Robert Tyndale

June 3, 1946              Doctor of Science                             Clyde Elmer Williams

June 3, 1946              Doctor of Humanities                        LeRoy Eugene Cowles

Dec 22, 1946              Doctor of Laws                                  Theodore Bruce Beatty

 

June 14, 1947           Doctor of Laws                                  Roy D. Thatcher

 

1948                           Doctor of Education                          David H. Christensen          

1948                           Doctor of Laws                                  William R. Wallace

 

1949                           Doctor of Laws                                  John Francis Fitzpatrick

1949                           Doctor of Laws                                  James Roscoe Miller

1949                           Doctor of Laws                                  David Douglas Moffat

 

1950                           Doctor of Laws                                  Maud Smith (Mrs. A.J.) Gorham

1950                           Doctor of Humanities                        George Albert Smith

1950                           Doctor of Laws                                  Harold Montelle Stephens

 

1951                           Doctor of Letters                               David Oman McKay

1951                           Doctor of Laws                                  James W. Collins

1951                           Doctor of Laws                                  Wilson McCarthy

 

1952                           Doctor of Laws                                  George Madill Gadsby

1952                           Doctor of Science                             Henry Eyring

 

1953                           Doctor of Laws                                  Ezra Taft Benson

1953                           Doctor of Laws                                  Charles Rendell Mabey

1953                           Doctor of Laws                                  Sterling Welling Sill

 

Mar 27, 1954             Doctor of Science                             Sir Alexander Fleming

June 7, 1954              Doctor of Engineering                      William Conrad Browning

 

June 6, 1955              Doctor of Humanities                        Lucy May Van Cott

June 6, 1955              Doctor of Laws                                  Arthur Lawton Beeley

 

June 4, 1956              Doctor of Laws                                  Ernest Bamberger

June 4, 1956              Doctor of Laws                                  Richard Louis Evans

 

June 10, 1957           Doctor of Laws                                  Maurice Abravanel

June 10, 1957           Doctor of Laws                                  Adam Sharp Bennion


 

 

June 9, 1958              Doctor of Laws                                  Earl Jay Glade

June 9, 1958              Doctor of Laws                                  Frank E. Holman

 

June 8, 1959              Doctor of Laws                                  Gustave Pollard Backman

June 8, 1959              Doctor of Laws                                  Henry Dinwoodey Moyle

June 8, 1959              Doctor of Laws                                  Arthur Vivian Watkins

 

June 6, 1960              Doctor of Laws                                  William Jerome O=Connor

June 6, 1960              Doctor of Laws                                  George Wilcken Romney

June 6, 1960              Doctor of Humanities                        Levi Edgar Young

Aug 26, 1960             Doctor of Laws                                  Florence Ellinwood Allen

Aug 26, 1960             Doctor of Laws                                  Hyrum Leo Marshall

 

June 5, 1961               Doctor of Laws                                  William Thomas Gossett

June 5, 1961              Doctor of Laws                                  Sterling Moss McMurrin

June 5, 1961              Doctor of Science                             Simon Ramo

 

June 11, 1962           Doctor of Laws                                  George Dewey Clyde

June 11, 1962           Doctor of Laws                                  Harry Joseph Loynd

June 11, 1962           Doctor of Laws                                  Owen Meredith Wilson

 

June 10, 1963           Doctor of Science                             Walter Pace Cottam

June 10, 1963           Doctor of Laws                                  George Stoddard Eccles

June 10, 1963           Doctor of Laws                                  Roger John Traynor

 

June 8, 1964              Doctor of Humanities                        Harold Bingham Lee

June 8, 1964              Doctor of Laws                                  Albert Ray Olpin

June 8, 1964              Doctor of Laws                                  George Morgan Fister

 

June 11, 1965           Doctor of Humanities                        Royden Glade Derrick

June 11, 1965           Doctor of Laws                                  John McChrystal Wallace

June 11, 1965           Doctor of Laws                                  Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson

Aug.  21, 1965           Doctor of Laws                                  Hugh B. Brown

 

Jan.  24, 1966           Doctor of Humanities                        Aaron Copland

June 10, 1966           Doctor of Humanities                        William Averell Harriman

June 10. 1966           Doctor of Humanities                        Grant Johannesen

June 10, 1966           Doctor of Laws                                  John Willard Marriott

Aug 21, 1966             Doctor of Laws                                  Howard Mumford Jones

 

June 9, 1967              Doctor of Laws                                  Robert Joseph Dwyer

June 9, 1967              Doctor of Laws                                  Rosel Herschel Hyde

June 9, 1967              Doctor of Humanities                        Arnold Joseph Toynbee

June 9, 1967              Doctor of Science                             Maxwell Myer Wintrobe

Aug 20, 1967             Doctor of Humane Letters                John William Gardner

 

May 8, 1968               Doctor of Science                             Frederick Seitz


 

May 14, 1968            Doctor of Science                             George Porter

May 16, 1968            Doctor of Science                             Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

May 17, 1968            Doctor of Letters                               Wallace Stegner

June 7, 1968              Doctor of Humane Letters                Sydney Winfield Angleman

June 7, 1968              Doctor of Humane Letters                Aziz Suryal Atiya

June 7, 1968              Doctor of Laws                                  Clarence Bamberger

June 7, 1968              Doctor of Humane Letters                Alexander Schreiner

June 7, 1968              Doctor of Humane Letters                J.E. Wallace Sterling

Aug  3, 1968              Doctor of Laws                                  David A. Burchinal

Aug 18, 1968             Doctor of Humane Letters                Stewart Lee Udall

 

Feb  5, 1969              Doctor of Humane Letters                Lee Hills

June 6, 1969              Doctor of Science                             Louis Sanford Goodman

June 6, 1969              Doctor of Laws                                  Neal Ash Maxwell

June 6, 1969              Doctor of Laws                                  Frank R. Milliken

June 6, 1969              Doctor of Humane Letters                Joseph Rosenblatt

Aug 16, 1969             Doctor of Laws                                  Harold P. Fabian

Aug 16, 1969             Doctor of Laws                                  Nathan Eldon Tanner

 

June 5, 1970              Doctor of Science                             Murray Gell-Mann

June 5, 1970              Doctor of Laws                                  Calvin L. Rampton

June 5, 1970              Doctor of Laws                                  L.S. Skaggs, Jr.

June 5, 1970              Doctor of Laws                                  Earl Warren

Aug  8, 1970              Doctor of Laws                                  Joseph Randall Holzapple

Aug 15, 1970             Doctor of Science                             Armand J. Eardley

Aug 15, 1970             Doctor of Humane Letters                Sidney Hook

Oct    8, 1970              Doctor of Science                             Glenn T. Seaborg

 

June 5, 1971              Doctor of Laws                                  Wallace F. Bennett

June 5, 1971              Doctor of Science                             James C. Fletcher

June 5, 1971              Doctor of Humane Letters                Alberta Mae Henry

June 5, 1971              Doctor of Science                             George Wald

Aug 14, 1971             Doctor of Humanities                        Gina Bachauer

Aug 14, 1971             Doctor of Laws                                  David T. Lewis

Oct  15, 1971            Doctor of Humane Letters                John P. O=Keefe

 

April 6, 1972              Doctor of Humane Letters                Jo Mielziner

June 3, 1972              Doctor of Humane Letters                Shotaro Kamiya

June 3, 1972              Doctor of Science                             Wendell Phillips

June 3, 1972              Doctor of Science                             Leo T. Samuels

June 3, 1972              Doctor of Laws                                  Belle S. Spafford

June 3, 1972              Doctor of Laws                                  Obert C. Tanner

June 3, 1972              Doctor of Humane Letters                Esther Peterson

 

June 2, 1973              Doctor of Humane Letters                Juanita Leon Brooks

June 2, 1973              Doctor of Humane Letters                Robert Henry Hinckley, Sr.

June 2, 1973              Doctor of Laws                                  Frank Edward Moss

June 2, 1973              Doctor of Humane Letters                Alfred C. Emery

June 2, 1973              Doctor of Laws                                  James Reston


 

 

June 8, 1974              Doctor of Humane Letters                Kenneth B. Castleton

June 8, 1974              Doctor of Laws                                  Franklin S. Forsberg

June 8, 1974              Doctor of Humane Letters                Alice Sheets Marriott

June 8, 1974              Doctor of Laws                                  Clark Kerr

 

June 7, 1975              Doctor of Laws                                  Lorenzo Neville Hoopes

June 7, 1975              Doctor of Humane Letters                Jerald Hayden Merrill

June 7, 1975              Doctor of Laws                                  Merlo John Pusey

June 7, 1975              Doctor of Humane Letters                Glenn Walker Wallace

 

June 10, 1976           Doctor of Laws                                  W. Hughes Brockbank

June 10, 1976           Doctor of Humane Letters                Richard P. Condie

June 10, 1976           Doctor of Laws                                  Houshang Nahavandi

June 10, 1976           Doctor of Humane Letters                Lucybeth Cardon Rampton

June 10, 1976           Doctor of Laws                                  William W. Scranton

 

June 11, 1977           Doctor of Laws                                  Reva Beck Bosone

June 11, 1977           Doctor of Humane Letters                John William Gallivan

June 11, 1977           Doctor of Laws                                  George Homer Durham

Sept. 10, 1977          Doctor of Laws                                  Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
(Wiesbaden, Germany)

 

June 10, 1978           Doctor of Humane Letters                Willem F. Christensen

June 10, 1978           Doctor of Humane Letters                John Hope Franklin

June 10, 1978           Doctor of Laws                                  Esther R. Landa

 

April 4, 1979              Doctor of Humane Letters                Lord Ashby

June 9, 1979              Doctor of Fine Arts                           Virginia Tanner Bennett

June 9, 1979              Doctor of Science                             John Aldous Dixon

June 9, 1979              Doctor of Humane Letters                Theodore M. Hesburgh

 

June 7, 1980              Doctor of Fine Arts                           Lila Eccles Brimhall

June 7, 1980              Doctor of Science                             Jesse D. Jennings

June 7, 1980              Doctor of Science                             Alex G. Oblad

 

June 13, 1981           Doctor of Laws                                  Terrel H. Bell

June 13, 1981           Doctor of Laws                                  Edward W. Clyde

June 13, 1981           Doctor of Humane Letters                Camilla Eyring Kimball

June 13, 1981           Doctor of Humane Letters                Spencer W. Kimball

 

June 12, 1982           Doctor of Humane Letters                Lowell L. Bennion

June 12, 1982           Doctor of Science                             Thomas J. Parmley

June 12, 1982           Doctor of Humane Letters                Louis C. Zucker

 

June 11, 1983           Doctor of Laws                                  Richard A. Harrison


 

June 11, 1983           Doctor of Science                             Willem J. Kolff

June 11, 1983           Doctor of Engineering                      Elmo R. Morgan

June 11, 1983           Doctor of Science                             Spyridon D. Moulopoulos

June 11, 1983           Doctor of Letter                                 David P. Gardner

 

June 9, 1984              Doctor of Laws                                  Marvin J. Ashton

June 9, 1984              Doctor of Laws                                  Arch L. Madsen

June 9, 1984              Doctor of Humane Letters                Norma Warenski Matheson

June 9, 1984              Doctor of Laws                                  Scott M. Matheson, Sr.

June 9, 1984              Doctor of Humane Letters                Helen Zeese Papanikolas

June 9, 1984              Doctor of Laws                                  Arvo Van Alstyne

 

June 8, 1985              Doctor of Laws                                  Fred Friendly

June 8, 1985              Doctor of Humane Letters                Alwin Nikolais

June 8, 1985              Doctor of Laws                                  James E. Petersen

June 8, 1985              Doctor of Humane Letters                Barbara K. Samuels

 

June 13, 1986           Doctor of Science                             Wayne S. Brown

June 13, 1986           Doctor of Laws                                  J. Willard Marriott, Jr.

June 13, 1986           Doctor of Science                             Ewart A. Swinyard

June 13, 1986           Doctor of Humane Letters                Vladimir Ussachevsky

 

June 12, 1987           Doctor of Humanities                        William Bailey

June 12, 1987           Doctor of Science                             David C. Evans

June 12, 1987           Doctor of Laws                                  Warren E. Pugh

June 12, 1987           Doctor of Humanities                        Brent Scowcroft

 

June 10, 1988           Doctor of Science                             Maxine Conder

June 10, 1988           Doctor of Laws                                  R. Earl Holding

June 10, 1988           Doctor of Humanities                        Roger Rosenblatt

June 10, 1988           Doctor of Laws                                  Samuel D. Thurman

June 10, 1988           Doctor of Humane Letters                Bishop William K. Weigand

 

June 9, 1989              Doctor of Science                             Leighton E. Cluff

June 9, 1989              Doctor of Fine Arts                           Mrs. Walter E. Cosgriff

June 9, 1989              Doctor of Humane Letters                James Fallows

June 9, 1989              Doctor of Laws                                  Kendall D. Garff

June 9, 1989              Doctor of Humanities                        Joseph Boyer Jarvis

 

June 8, 1990              Doctor of Laws                                  Donald B. Holbrook

June 8, 1990              Doctor of Humane Letters                Roy W. Simmons

June 8, 1990              Doctor of Humanities                        Aline W. Skaggs

June 8, 1990              Doctor of Humane Letters                Parry D. Sorensen

 

June 14, 1991           Doctor of Laws                                  Spencer F. Eccles

June 14, 1991           Doctor of Laws                                  Amitai Etzioni

June 14, 1991           Doctor of Laws                                  Larry H. Miller

June 14, 1991           Doctor of Laws                                  John A. Moran

June 14, 1991           Doctor of Laws                                  Chase N. Peterson


 

June 14, 1991           Doctor of Humane Letters                Grethe B. Peterson

June 12, 1992           Doctor of Laws                                  Norman H. Bangerter

June 12, 1992           Doctor of Humane Letters                Iver E. Bradley

June 12, 1992           Doctor of Laws                                  Edwin J. Garn

June 12, 1992           Doctor of Humane Letters                Gordon B. Hinckley

June 12, 1992           Doctor of Science                             Jon M. Huntsman

June 12, 1992           Doctor of Humane Letters                Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

 

June 11, 1993           Doctor of Science                             Alan C. Ashton

June 11, 1993           Doctor of Education                          Ernest L. Boyer

June 11, 1993           Doctor of Humane Letters                Rev. France A. Davis

June 11, 1993           Doctor of Humane Letters                William Rolfe Kerr

June 11, 1993           Doctor of Humane Letters                Dorothy Snow

 

June 10, 1994           Doctor of Humane Letters                Lola M. Atiya 

June 10, 1994           Doctor of Humane Letters                Brewster Ghiselin

June 10, 1994           Doctor of Humane Letters                Robert D. Hales

June 10, 1994           Doctor of Humanities                        Florence S. Jacobsen

June 10, 1994           Doctor of Science                             G. Frank Joklik

June 10, 1994           Doctor of Science                             Raymond J. Noorda

 

June 9, 1995              Doctor of Science                             James H. Clark

June 9, 1995              Doctor of Humanities                        Charles H. Dick

June 9, 1995              Doctor of Humane Letters                Marian Wright Edelman

June 9, 1995              Doctor of Humane Letters                Grace A. Tanner

June 9, 1995              Doctor of Science                             C. Ray Wylie, Jr.

 

June 7, 1996              Doctor of Humanities                        Daniel J. Boorstin

June 7, 1996              Doctor of Humane Letters                Ezekiel R. Dumke, Jr

June 7, 1996              Doctor of Science                             William R. Gould

June 7, 1996              Doctor of Humanities                        Rex A. Skidmore

June 7, 1996              Doctor of Laws                                  J. D. Williams

 

June 13, 1997           Doctor of Laws                                  Rodney H. Brady

June 13, 1997           Doctor of Humane Letters                Carolyn Tanner Irish

June 13, 1997           Doctor of Science                             Robert W. Parry

June 13, 1997           Doctor of Humane Letters                Arthur K. Smith

June 13, 1997           Doctor of Humane Letters                June D. Smith

June 13, 1997           Doctor of Science                             John E. Warnock

 

June 12, 1998           Doctor of Humane Letters                Reed W. Brinton

June 12, 1998           Doctor of Laws                                  Christine M. Durham

June 12, 1998           Doctor of Science                             Yong-Teh Lee

June 12, 1998           Doctor of Humanities                        Brigham D. Madsen

 

May 7, 1999               Doctor of Humane Letters                David L. Freed

May 7, 1999               Doctor of Humanities                        William Mulder

May 7, 1999               Doctor of Human Letters                  Robert L. Rice

May 7, 1999               Doctor of Fine Arts                           Shirley R. Ririe


 

May 7, 1999               Doctor of Business                           W. Mitt Romney

May 7, 1999               Doctor of Fine Arts                           Joan J. Woodbury

 

May 5, 2000               Doctor of Business                           Frank William Gay

May 5, 2000               Doctor of Laws                                  James S. Jardine

May 5, 2000               Doctor of Humane Letters                Bob Schieffer

May 5, 2000               Doctor of Science                             Ivan E. Sutherland

May 5, 2000               Doctor of Humane Letters                Emma Lou Thayne

 

May 4, 2001               Doctor of Humane Letters                Annette P. Cumming

May 4, 2001               Doctor of Laws                                  Michael D. Zimmerman

May 4, 2001               Doctor of Humane Letters                Irene S. Fisher

May 4, 2001               Doctor of Laws                                  Rocco C. Siciliano

May 4, 2001               Doctor of Humane Letters                William T. Close

 

May 10, 2002            Doctor of Humane Letters                Ellen G. Callister

May 10, 2002            Doctor of Laws                                  Louis H. Callister

May 10, 2002            Doctor of Laws                                  James E. Faust

May 10, 2002            Doctor of Fine Arts                           Jon Jory

 

May 2, 2003               Doctor of Humane Letters                Afton B. Bradshaw

May 2, 2003               Doctor of Business                           William H. ABill@ Child

May 2, 2003               Doctor of Humane Letters                Tom C. Korologos

May 2, 2003               Doctor of Public Health                    E.W. AAl@ Thrasher

May 2, 2003               Doctor of Humanities                        Terry Tempest Williams

 

May 7, 2004               Doctor of Business                           Ian Cumming

May 7, 2004               Doctor of Humane Letters                Cleone P. Eccles

May 7, 2004               Doctor of Science                             H. Tracy Hall

May 7, 2004               Doctor of Humane Letters                Chris A. Machen

May 7, 2004               Doctor of Humane Letters                J. Bernard Machen

May 7, 2004               Doctor of Laws                                  Tom Ridge

 

May 6, 2005               Doctor of Laws                                  Robert F. Bennett

May 6, 2005               Doctor of Engineering                      Edwin E. Catmull

May 6, 2005               Doctor of Humane Letters                Katherine W. Dumke

May 6, 2005               Doctor of Humane Letters                Arnie C. Ferrin

May 6, 2005               Doctor of Humane Letters                George Niederaur

May 6, 2005               Doctor of Humane Letters                Marta Sutton Weeks

 

May 5, 2006               Doctor of Business                           Pierre Lassonde

May 5, 2006               Doctor of Laws                                  Michael O. Leavitt

May 5, 2006               Doctor of Science                             John Matsen

May 5, 2006               Doctor of Fine Arts                           Marcia P. Price

May 5, 2006               Doctor of Education                          Eunice Kennedy Shriver

May 5, 2006               Doctor of Science                             Homer R. Warner

 

May 4, 2007               Doctor of Business                           A. Scott Anderson

May 4, 2007               Doctor of Laws                                  Orrin G. Hatch

May 4, 2007               Doctor of Humane Letters                Mickey Ibarra

May 4, 2007  &nbs