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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.

Lee Cheol-uoo

He also graduated from the Graduate School of Public Administration at the Yonsei University and achieved the Honorary doctor's degree of management at the Daegu University in August 2007.


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Alfred Monnin

He has received an honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Winnipeg (May 28, 1972), Doctor of the University, honoris causa, University of Ottawa (October 1972), Doctor of the University, honoris causa, Université Laval (June 1, 1974) and an Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Manitoba (1979).

Anatoly Sobchak

Honorary Doctor of Law at the University of Portland (Oregon, USA, 1990), University of South Florida St. Petersburg (1991), University of Macerata (Italy, 1992), St. Petersburg Law Institute of the Russian Interior Ministry

Andreas Nilsen Rygg

That same year he was honored as an honorary doctor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Andrew H. Bobeck

He received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Purdue in 1972, the 1971 Baker Prize, the Franklin Institute's 1973 Stuart Ballantine Medal, the 1975 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, and the 1987 IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award.

Anthony Bamford

Married to Carole, Lady Bamford OBE, she was made an honorary Doctor of Technology by Loughborough University in 2002.

Arne Dørumsgaard

He was awarded the Bastian Prize in 1979, and was appointed honorary doctor of literature in Taipei in 1982.

Burckhardt Helferich

He was voted into the German Academy of Sciences and was made an honorary doctor of the University of Stuttgart.

C. S. Holling

He also received the Kenneth Boulding Memorial Prize, in 2000, the Volvo Environment Prize in 2008, an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Guelph in 1998, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the Simon Fraser University in 2011.

Chester Burleigh Watts

He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Sciences degree from Indiana University in 1953.

Cleve Moler

On April 30, 2004, he was appointed Honorary Doctor (doctor technices, honoris causa) at the Technical University of Denmark.

Edward Rydz-Śmigły

Rydz was Honorary Doctor of the Universities of Warsaw and Vilnius (at that time in Poland) and Warsaw University of Technology and Honorary Citizen of various Polish cities.

Eva Burrows

In December 1993, she received an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from her alma mater, the University of Queensland.

Frank Cyril James

In 1947, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan.

Gerald B. Kieschnick

He is a 1970 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Illinois (now located in Fort Wayne, Indiana), obtained his Master of Divinity in 1977 at Concordia in Fort Wayne, and received an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1996 from Concordia University in Austin, Texas.

Henry Denifle

He was on his way to Cambridge, where he was to be made Honorary Doctor of that university, when he was struck down by the hand of death.

Howard Birndorf

Birndorf received his B.A. in Biology from Oakland University, an M.S. in Biochemistry from Wayne State University, and has received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Oakland University and Wayne State University.

Joe R. Greenhill

He received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Southern Methodist University in 1977.

Johan D. van der Vyver

He also has two honorary Doctor Legum degrees from the University of Zululand and the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education.

Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann

In 1946 he became an honorary doctor at the University of Paris, and during the following year, he became a corresponding member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Kong Hee

In May 2008, Kong was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration from Hansei University in Seoul, Korea.

Landon Pearson

She received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wilfrid Laurier University in May 1995, an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Victoria in November 2001, a Doctor of University (D.U.) from the University of Ottawa in June 2002, and an honorary Doctors of Law from Carleton University in June 2003 for her work on children's rights.

László Iván

He was awarded as honorary doctor of the University of Valencia (1983); Life for Years Prize (1994); Semmelweis University's Golden Ring; Pro Sanitate Commemorative Medal (1995); Knight's Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2001).

Lionel Blue

He is also honorary doctor of Divinity and Fellow of Grey College, Durham.

Lui Che Woo

Lui was also awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa by the University of Victoria in 2001; the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa, by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2002; an Honorary University Fellowship by the University of Hong Kong in 2002; the degree of Honorary Doctor of Laws by Concordia University in 2004, and the degree of Doctor of Business Administration, honoris causa, by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Marcel van der Linden

Marcel van der Linden received an honorary doctor from the University of Oslo in 2008.

Olga Virezoub

As a piano performer, she was engaged in over 30 first performances of her own as well as contemporary chamber music works by European and American composers as, for instance, "Senzapatria Sempiterno" by the German composer Anton Plate for the concert and award of the honorary doctor title onto Helmut Lachenmann in 2001 in Hannover.

Oswald Hoffmann

In addition, he held an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Concordia Seminary, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Philippine Christian University in Manila, The Philippines.

P. Michael Conneally

In 1989, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science honoris causa degree by Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Peter Gould

Throughout his tenure at Penn State University, Gould received many awards including the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, the Retzius Gold Metal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, as well as an honorary Doctor of Science from the Universitaire de Strasbourg.

Pierre Falcone

On June 17 2013, Pierre Falcone was conferred honorary doctor of philosophy degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for being a supporter of brain sciences.

Princeton Law School

Sonia Sotomayor, then Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Princeton University.

Robert G. Jahn

He has received the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the American Society for Engineering Education and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Andhra University.

Salvador Espriu

He was awarded honorary doctor's degrees by the universities of Toulouse and Barcelona.

Sitembele Mzamane

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

The Phoenix Boys Choir

A native Arizonan, Dr. Smith received his education at Occidental College, Master of Music at the University of Southern California, Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Arizona, and Honorary Doctor of Letters at Grand Canyon University.

Wayne Hooper

Hooper earned a Master's degree in composition, choral conducting, and radio broadcasting at Occidental College Los Angeles and was awarded honorary doctor of music degrees by Andrews University and La Sierra University.

Willie Haughey

Hon DTech (Honorary Doctor of Technology): Glasgow Caledonian University (2005)