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unusual facts about honorary doctorate



Abdullah S. Jum'ah

Jum'ah was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hankuk University, Seoul in April 2007.

Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs

At the time of his peerage he also received also an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Haifa.

Bruce Swedien

On 10 November 2001, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the Luleå University of Technology, Sweden for his achievements as a sound engineer.

Clarence B. Farrar

Farrar's contributions to the field of psychiatry were recognized through honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Toronto, the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada from the Governor General of Canada, and the Distinguished Service Award of the Thomas W. Salmon Committee on Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Ellie Mannette

Also in November 2000, Mannette received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West Indies and returned home to Trinidad, after a 33 year absence, to receive it.

Jody Cundy

On 12 October 2012, Paralympian Jody Cundy MBE was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Anglia Ruskin University with a ceremony at the Cambridge Corn Exchange.

John Belisario

This brought him substantial fame including an honorary doctorate from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and membership of a number of important dental bodies in Australia, Europe and North America.

Shamma Jain

Ambassador Jain was the 2009 Commencement speaker at the University of Liberia, where she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree.

T. R. Pachamuthu

On 19 February 2010, Pachamuthu was awarded with an honorary doctorate (honoris causa) from Birmingham City University for his work in the field of "engineering and technology education".

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.

Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen

His fortunes changed around his golden wedding anniversary in 1921, when he was granted a pension by the Austrian government and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Innsbruck.

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Leary also has legitimate use of the "Doctor" title because of an honorary doctorate bestowed upon him by his alma mater Emerson College.


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Albert Mosse

He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg in 1903 and, during the following year, became honorary professor there for Civil procedural law and Commercial law.

Andrei Markovits

honoris causa—an honorary doctorate—by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in Lüneburg, Germany.

Anwar Fazal

Awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Law from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (the National University) in Kuala Lumpur in 1997 and Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang in 1999.

Asım Kibar

Mr. Kibar also founded Erciyes University Organ Transplant and Dialysis Hospital, one of the leading organ transplant hospitals in Europe, and was awarded with an "Honorary Doctorate" title by the Erciyes University.

Boris Grinyov

In 2008 he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Science by Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea) for his contribution in establishing scientific and technical cooperation between Ukraine and South Korea.

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Fry holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an honorary doctorate degree from Santa Clara University.

David P. Campbell

For this accomplishment, he was awarded the E.K. Strong, Jr Gold Medal for excellence in psychological testing research, an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Colorado in 1998, and the 2001 Distinguished Professional Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Derek Wanless

A further Honorary Doctorate was awarded by Coventry University in November 2007, which prompted a Daily Telegraph article questioning the value of such awards

Erik Lönnroth

In 1999, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald's Faculty of Arts.

Frederic Bennett

He was sometime President of the Anglo-Turkish Society - he had an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Istanbul, 1984, and was granted the Freedom of the City of Ankara in 1992.

G. T. Abraham

While attending the Lambeth Conference, 1998, the Virginia Theological Seminary conferred upon Abraham an honorary doctorate at a special academic convocation on 27 July 1998 in Canterbury Cathedral's Crypt in Canterbury, Kent by Bishop Peter James Lee of Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

George Blakley

In 2001 Blakley received an honorary doctorate from Queensland University of Technology.

George Mandler

In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna.

George Shevelov

He was one of the founders and president of the émigré scholarly organization “Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences” (1959–61, 1981–86) and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta (1983) and Lund University (1984).

Gerard Jennings

In 2001 he was conferred with the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate) by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Gilberto Câmara

In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Münster.

Global Footprint Network

Wackernagel received an honorary doctorate in December 2007 from the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Gopal Ballav Pattanaik

He was conferred an honorary doctorate in law LLD by the Utkal University.

György Konrád

In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Novi Sad.

H. R. Bhardwaj

On 7 February 2011, Bharadwaj withheld the approval of honorary doctorate by the Bangalore University to noted historian and Kannada writer M. Chidananda Murthy.

Harrison Ridley Jr.

In his lifetime Ridley received more than 80 awards, including recognition from the Philadelphia City Hall and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and an honorary Doctorate in Music from Villanova University (conferred in May, 2008).

Hasan Cihat Örter

Last semester with awards, Elazig Firat University by the music branch of "State Artist" is given an Honorary Doctorate.

Hédi Bouraoui

In May, 2003, he was granted an honorary doctorate from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario in recognition of his contributions to Canadian and world literature.

Helena Znaniecki Lopata

In addition to theses awards she also received an Honorary Doctorate of Sciences from the University of Guelph.

Henrique de Senna Fernandes

In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Macau and Medal of Cultural Merit in 2001.

Jaafar of Negeri Sembilan

He was awarded Honorary Doctorate of Law by several universities namely the University of the Philippines (27 July 1990), University of Nottingham (21 July 1995), University of Santiago, Chile (28 September 1995) and University of Brunei Darussalam (11 September 1996).

Jackson Bailey

Bailey was also honored with Honorary doctorate degrees from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Wabash College in Indiana, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Waseda University in Japan.

Jacob L. Mey

In 1992 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zaragoza.

Joseph Pach

Pach graduated from the University of Toronto with an Artist Diploma in 1947, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from St. Thomas University (New Brunswick) in 1988 and an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of New Brunswick in 1993.

Kong Hee

Hansei University, Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration (2008)

Laurence Decore

He was admitted to the Order of Canada in 1983, and received an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Alberta in 1999.

Mathis Wackernagel

He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 2007, a 2006 World Wide Fund for Nature Award for Conservation Merit, and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of the US Society for Ecological Economics.

Max Crawford

Crawford was awarded an OBE in 1971 and was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Melbourne in 1988.

Michael G. Crandall

Crandall was several times a visiting professor at the University of Paris, where he received an honorary doctorate in 1999.

Michael Harner

In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate for his work from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Michael Valpy

He has won three National Newspaper Awards (two for foreign reporting and one for an analysis of dysfunctional students in the public education system) and been nominated for a fourth (for a profile of Michael Ignatieff), In 1997, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.Litt) from Trent University.

Nan Lin

He holds an honorary doctorate degree from the National Chengchi University and distinguished visiting or honorary professorships at many Chinese universities and institutes, including Nankai University, Renmin University, Fudan University, Peking University, Academia Sinica, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jilin University, Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Patrick Cousot

In 2001, he was bestowed an honorary doctorate by Saarland University, Germany.

Peter Salovey

Other honors include an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Pierre Harmel

In 1988, he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Catholic University of Louvain, and in 1991, was raised into the Belgian nobility by King Baudouin with the hereditary title of Count Harmel (Dutch: graaf Harmel).

Pierre Janet

While he did not publish much in English, the fifteen lectures he gave to the Harvard Medical School between 15 October and the end of November 1906 were published in 1907 as The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, and he received an honorary doctorate from Harvard in 1936.

Spiros Latsis

In 2006 Mr. Latsis received an honorary doctorate from Witten/Herdecke University in Witten, Germany.

Stevan Dimitrijević

In Belgrade, in 1936, at Kolarac he was conferred an honorary doctorate in theology and became a member of the History institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Tejendra Khanna

He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Political Science, by the Wonkwang University on 2010 and a Doctorate Degree (Honoris Causa) by TERI University.

Víctor Nee

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in Economics by Lund University in Sweden in 2013.

Vinayaka Missions University

On July 6, 2008, Vinayaka Missions University chancellor Dr. A. Shanmuga Sundaram conferred an honorary doctorate in philosophy on MIC deputy president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel for his contribution to politics and the Indian community in Malaysia.