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2 unusual facts about Honorary degree


Elena Cernei

In 1961, she was made Artistă Emerită (Honoured Artist) of the Republic of Romania and in 1999 received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of Music Bucharest for her contributions to the field of musicology.

Wendelstein Rack Railway

The construction of the Wendelstein Railway was the vision of privy councillor (Geheimer Kommerzienrat), Dr. h.c. Otto von Steinbeis, an industrialist, who was involved in forestry and agriculture in the alpine foreland as well as logging in Bosnia on a grand scale and built, in parallel with that, an extensive light railway (Kleinbahn) network.


Alan S. Kornacki

In 1981, he was awarded the Nininger Meteorite Award, and in 2008 he was awarded a professional degree by University of Missouri–Rolla.

Alfonso Guerra

In 1988 Guerra received an honorary degree from the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal in Lima, Peru, and he was awarded the Medaglia D'oro in 1984 by the Sapienza University of Rome.

Charleston School of Law

He; the Honorable Jean H. Toal, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; and the Honorable William Walter Wilkins, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit received LL.D. honorary degrees.

David DiChiera

DiChiera delivered the commencement speech at the University of Michigan's graduation ceremony in 1998 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree.

Dyer Observatory

Barnard would eventually discover 16 comets and the fifth moon of Jupiter, receive the only honorary degree Vanderbilt has ever awarded, and have the on-campus observatory named in his honor.

Hans Monderman

Monderman received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree in traffic planning for outstanding achievements in the fields of traffic engineering, urban design, and project management.

James Bultman

Bultman also earned an honorary degree from Keiwa College in Shibata City, Japan.

Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski

Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski (born 3 January 1937) is a Polish sociologist, professor, doctor honoris causa of Grand Valley State University (1993) and Teesside University (1995).

John Ruggie

Ruggie has a BA in politics and history from McMaster University in Canada; a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley; a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from McMaster; and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from University of Waterloo.

Karl Ramsayer

Ramsayer was honoured by several academic prizes and made an honorary doctor; in 1982 he got the most important prize in Austrian geodesy, the Friedrich Hopfner medal.

M. Margaret McKeown

She has also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Georgetown and studied at the University of Madrid.

Mike Bongiorno

In the fall of 2007, Bongiorno received an Honorary degree in Television, Film and Multimedia production from the IULM University of Milan.

Norman Criddle

Criddle was awarded an honorary diploma from the Manitoba Agricultural College, was Honorary President of the Natural History Society of Manitoba from 1925 to 1933, and a member of the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame.

Orla Guerin

In 2002, she was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Essex, England and won the Broadcaster of the Year Award from the London Press Club.

Perween Warsi

Warsi was awarded an honorary MBA by the University of Derby in 1997 and appointed to the Department of Trade and Industry Advisory Committee on Competitiveness.

Regina Benjamin

On May 8, 2010, she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate of Pharmacy from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at the college's 130th Commencement ceremony held at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York.

Robert Henrik Rehbinder

He was also awarded with the second highest Russian honor and given an honorary doctorship in philosophy at the University of Helsinki in 1840, at the 200 year jubilee of the University (originally Royal Academy of Turku).

Robert McGrady Blackburn

He also received honorary degrees from LaGrange College, Florida Southern, North Carolina Wesleyan College, and from Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music in Winchester, Virginia.

Sebastian Brock

He is the recipient of a number of honorary doctorates and has been awarded the Medal of Saint Ephrem the Syrian by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch and the Leverhulme prize and medal of the British Academy.

Sitembele Mzamane

In 2013 he received a Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree, jure dignitatis from Huron University College.

Tanja Fajon

In December 2010, she was the first person to receive an honorary doctorate from American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in Sarajevo.

Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill

On 14 March 2008, Bingham received the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree honoris causa from the University of Rome III, delivering a Lectio Magistralis at the Faculty of Law entitled "The Rule of Law".

Walther Bronsart von Schellendorff

Walther Franz Georg Bronsart von Schellendorff (21 December 1833, in Danzig – 13 December 1914, at Gut Marienhof, Amt Güstrow, Mecklenburg), Dr. jur. h.c., was a Prussian General of the Infantry à la suite, Adjutant-General to the Kaiser and King, and Prussian Minister of War.


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Abdul Sattar Edhi

In September 2010, Edhi was also awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire.

Adrian Searle

On 19 July 2011, Searle received an Honorary degree for Doctor of Art from Nottingham Trent University and in 2012 was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of the Arts London.

Antonia Ax:son Johnson

She has been awarded the honorary degree of doctor of civil law, Bishop's University, Canada, as well as a doctor of humane letters, Middlebury College of Vermont.

Antonie Pannekoek

His work in galactic structure, astrophysics and the history of astronomy was of international renown and won him an honorary degree from Harvard University in 1936, as well as the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1951.

Arnold Haskell

In 1974, Haskell was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) by the University of Bath.

Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger

In 1968, she was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.

Brood X

Bob Dylan's song "Day of the Locusts" (on his 1970 album New Morning) refers to the Brood X cicadas that were present in Princeton, New Jersey in June 1970 when Dylan received an honorary degree from Princeton University.

David Drewry

is a glaciologist and geophysicist who was described in the conferring of an honorary degree by Anglia Ruskin University in 1998 as having an "outstanding reputation as an eminent scientist of international repute".

Doudou Diène

Diène holds a law degree from the University of Caen (France), a doctorate in public law from the University of Paris, a diploma in political science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados)

Edmund Murton Walker

He was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle medal in 1960, and was awarded an honorary degree from Carleton University.

Edward Orton, Jr.

In 1931, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Alfred University.

Eric Nicoli

In July 2003, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from Brunel University for his outstanding service to the local community.

Ernest Holmes

In 1945, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Andhra University in India.

Frank Ching

Ching has received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Design from Nottingham Trent University; the S.Y. Chung Visiting Fellowship, New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong; and a Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Book Publishing.

Gloria M Gutman

She was also awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Western Ontario in 2010.

Helen Thompson Sunday

Nell Sunday lived long enough to speak at early Billy Graham crusades, and she frequently visited Bob Jones College, where she was given an honorary degree in 1940.

Helen Wagner

In 1988, Wagner's alma mater, Monmouth College (Illinois), awarded her an honorary degree of "Doctor of Humane Letters".

Hugh Lyon Playfair

In 1856 he became a Knight Bachelor, and in the same year was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) by St. Andrews University.

Issa Hayatou

On November 3, 2007, Hayatou was awarded an honorary degree from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Nigeria.

Jabez Burns

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, conferred upon Burns in 1846 the honorary degree of D.D., to which the faculty of Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, added that of LL.D.

Jasper, Florida

Shortly after "Killers of the Dream" was published she received an honorary degree from Howard University, a historically black college, with the declaration, "You are a dangerous revolutionist. There is enough dynamite in what you say to blow up the very foundation of segregated civilization."

Jonathan Borwein

He has received various awards including the Chauvenet Prize (1993), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1994), Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002), an honorary degree from Limoges (1999), and foreign membership in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2003).

Lanier W. Phillips

After giving speeches at schools across the U.S., Phillips was awarded an honorary degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2008 for his efforts to end discrimination.

Mariella Frostrup

In 2008, Frostrup received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from Nottingham Trent University in recognition of her contribution and commitment to journalism and broadcasting.

Masonic conspiracy theories

That the 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite is more than an honorary degree, coupled with the belief that most Freemasons are unaware of hidden or secretive ruling bodies within their organization that govern them, conduct occult ritual, or control various positions of governmental power.

Maureen Potter

She was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin in 1984, and was later awarded an honorary degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

Mike Bongiorno

On December 13, 2007, Mike Bongiorno was awarded an honorary degree Honoris Causa by IULM University of Milan.

Military Order of Savoy

This military order was to be granted to the soldiers who fought in the Italian army of Napoleon and became part of the Legion of Honor (or either obtained the honorary degree of Order of the Iron Crown) due to military merit.

Paul Schenck

Besides his studies at Elim Bible Institute, Paul graduated from Luther Rice University (with a B.A. biblical studies), was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire, (and in Rome) was granted the Graduate Catechetical Diploma by The Most Rev. Paul Laverde, the Bishop of Arlington, Virginia.

Peter Boizot

Boizot received an Honorary Degree at Loughborough University in 2000 in recognition for his successful business acumen and career, and for his contributions to Peterborough.

Republican Association of New Zealand

When the Governor-General Bernard Fergusson was awarded an honorary degree later in 1966 by the University of Canterbury, the NZRA and around 400 supporters tried to block Worcester Street (which was on the Governor-General's route to the university), chanting "We object to the honorary degree, the honorary degree" to the tune of The Beatles Yellow Submarine.

Rhode Island College

Ron McLarty, a noted television actor and novelist, is a graduate of the College; in 2007, he was the featured speaker at commencement, and was awarded an honorary degree.

Richard Wilbur

In 2012, Yale conferred an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, on Wilbur.

Roger Laurence

Through the influence of Charles Wheatly, then Fellow of St John's College, Oxford an honorary degree of M.A. was conferred on Laurence by the University of Oxford on 16 July 1713.

Samuel Finley

Finley also was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Glasgow.

Samuel Mendelsohn

In 1883 he received the honorary degree of doctor of law from the University of North Carolina.

Sherman Friedland

The Canadian composer Jean Coulthard of Vancouver composed her, ``Shelley Portrait``, for the opening of the Concordia Concert Hall, where she also received an honorary degree, and composed, `Gardens`, for Mr. Friedland and Dale Bartlett, pianist.

Sir Alfred Allen Booth, 1st Baronet

He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D.) from the University of Liverpool.

Steph Cook

She was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Medicine) from the University of Bath in 2008.

Stephane Groueff

In 2002 the American University in Bulgaria, of which Stephane Groueff was one of the founding Board members, conferred on him the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters, and the President of the Republic of Bulgaria decorated him with the "Madara Horseman" order for "...his outstanding contribution to popularizing the Bulgarian culture the world over and promoting history science in Bulgaria and abroad."

Tony Warren

In 2008 he was given an honorary degree from Manchester Metropolitan University "in recognition for his contribution to ground-breaking television and creative writing which has helped put Manchester and Salford on the cultural map".

William E. Forsythe

He was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of science from Kenyon College in 1926.