HONORARY DOCTORATES CONFERRED, ALPHABETICAL
Name Year
Thomas Perkins Abernethy (Doctor of Letters)
Nicholson Barney Adams (Doctor of Letters)
Theodore Floyd Adams (Doctor of Divinity)
Walter E. Addison (Doctor of Letters)
Charles Beattie Alexander (Doctor of Letters)
William McFaddin Alexander (Doctor of Divinity)
Alexander Alison (Doctor of Divinity)
William Allan (Doctor of Science)
E. A. Allen (Doctor of Letters)
S. Z. Ammen (Doctor of Letters)
Benjamin L. Ancell (Doctor of Divinity)
D. L. Anderson (Doctor of Divinity)
Douglas Smith Anderson (Doctor of Science)
Henry W. Anderson (Doctor of Laws)
Matthew Page Andrews (Doctor of Letters)
Moss William Armistead (Doctor of Laws)
Anne Armstrong (Doctor of Laws)
George D. Armstrong (Doctor of Laws)
J. G. Armstrong (Doctor of Divinity)
Oscar Vance Armstrong (Doctor of Divinity)
Richard Armstrong (Doctor of Divinity)
William Waddell Arrowood (Doctor of Divinity)
Thomas A. Ashley (Doctor of Laws)
John M. P. Atkinson (Doctor of Divinity)
Brown Ayres (Doctor of Laws)
Jonathan W. Bachman (Doctor of Divinity)
Newton D. Baker (Doctor of Laws)
L. G. Barbour (Doctor of Laws)
Philip Bard (Doctor of Letters)
Thomas Van Braam Barrett (Doctor of Divinity)
Edward Powers Bassett (Doctor of Laws)
Leon Bates (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Frank Batten (Doctor of Letters)
G. W. Beale (Doctor of Divinity)
Jesse Wakefield Beams (Doctor of Science)
James Edwin Bear (Doctor of Divinity)
Ernest Lovell Becker (Doctor of Science)
James Brian Bell, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
Wilbur Cosby Bell (Doctor of Divinity)
Judah P. Benjamin (Doctor of Laws)
Reginald Victor Bennett (Doctor of Divinity)
Alexander J. Beresford-Hope (Doctor of Laws)
Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy (Doctor of Laws) 
James Edwin Bethea (Doctor of Divinity)
L. M. Blackford (Doctor of Laws)
Robert E. Blackwell (Doctor of Laws)
Daniel Blain (Doctor of Divinity)
Daniel Blain (Doctor of Science)
J. Mercer Blain (Doctor of Divinity)
Cary Randolph Blain (Doctor of Divinity)
Walter Blair (Doctor of Letters)
George Boas (Doctor of Laws)
John H. Bocock (Doctor of Divinity)
Derek Bok (Doctor of Laws)
Victoria E. Bond (Doctor of Fine Arts)
J. E. Booker (Doctor of Divinity)
Augustus Lea Booth (Doctor of Laws)
Wood Bouldin (Doctor of Laws)
John R. Bowman (Doctor of Divinity)
Reginald Brack (Doctor of Letters)
Gamaliel Bradford (Doctor of Letters)
Vincent L. Bradford (Doctor of Laws)
Edward Cabell Brand (Doctor of Letters)
J. Alfred Broaddus (Doctor of Laws)
John W. Brockenbrough (Doctor of Laws)
William Emerson Brock III (Doctor of Laws)
Albert Compton Broders (Doctor of Science)
F. J. Brooke (Doctor of Divinity)
Cleanth Brooks (Doctor of Letters)
James Moore Brown (Doctor of Divinity)
Samuel Brown (Doctor of Divinity)
Paula Pimlott Brownlee (Doctor of Letters)
David K. E. Bruce (Doctor of Laws)
Helm Bruce (Doctor of Laws)
Philip Alexander Bruce (Doctor of Laws)
John Stewart Bryan (Doctor of Letters)
Joseph Bryan (Doctor of Laws)
Archibald C. Buchanan (Doctor of Laws)
E. C. Burks (Doctor of Laws)
Martin P. Burks (Doctor of Laws)
Martin Parks Burks III (Doctor of Laws)
M. Caldwell Butler (Doctor of Laws)
Harry Flood Byrd (Doctor of Commercial Science)
James Francis Byrnes (Doctor of Laws)
George W. Cable (Doctor of Letters)
A. M. Cackley (Doctor of Divinity)
John Caldwell Calhoun (Doctor of Letters)
Edmund D. Campbell (Doctor of Laws)
Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell (Doctor of Letters)
John A. Campbell (Doctor of Laws)
W. A. Campbell (Doctor of Divinity)
Hadley Cantril (Doctor of Laws)
Nahum Capen (Doctor of Laws)
John G. Carlisle (Doctor of Laws)
Edward W. Carmack (Doctor of Laws)
T. M. Carson (Doctor of Divinity)
Turner Catledge (Doctor of Letters)
George Law Cawkwell (Doctor of Humane Letters)
George Earle Chamberlain (Doctor of Laws)
John Chamberlain (Doctor of Divinity)
Leslie Cheek, Jr. (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Bennett Champ Clark (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas Dionysius Clark (Doctor of Letters)
William Mead Clark (Doctor of Divinity)
John William Claudy (Doctor of Divinity)
Lucius C. Clay (Doctor of Laws)
A. R. Cocke (Doctor of Divinity)
William Horner Cocke (Doctor of Laws)
W. G. Coe (Doctor of Divinity)
Harry Scott Coffey (Doctor of Divinity)
John Sanford Cohen (Doctor of Laws)
Fred Carrington Cole (Doctor of Laws)
Almand Rouse Coleman (Doctor of Laws)
Edward D. Colston (Doctor of Laws)
Asbury Christian Compton (Doctor of Laws)
Paul Dulaney Converse (Doctor of Laws)
Fielder Cook (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Elizabeth Helen Cooper (Doctor of Letters)
Joseph Cottrell (Doctor of Divinity)
George Barksdale Craddock (Doctor of Science)
Robert Glenn Craig (Doctor of Science)
W. P. Craighill (Doctor of Laws)
Lloyd Rutherford Craighill (Doctor of Divinity)
John Letcher Crist (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Charles G. Crooks (Doctor of Laws)
Merle D'Aubigne (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles William Dabney (Doctor of Laws)
John W. Daniel (Doctor of Laws)
Josephus Daniels (Doctor of Letters)
Colgate Whitehead Darden (Doctor of Laws)
E. C. Dargan (Doctor of Divinity)
Donald Grady Davidson (Doctor of Letters)
John William Davis (Doctor of Laws)
Richard T. Davis (Doctor of Divinity)
W. E. Davis (Doctor of Divinity)
Westmoreland Davis (Doctor of Laws)
John Henry Day (Doctor of Divinity)
Collins Denny (Doctor of Divinity)
George Hutcheson Denny (Doctor of Laws)
HomerEdwin Derrick, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
William Clyde DeVane (Doctor of Humane Letters)
James H. Dillard (Doctor of Letters)
A. C. Dixon (Doctor of Divinity)
Harold Willis Dodds (Doctor of Laws)
Wendy Doniger (Doctor of Letters)
Rita Frances Dove (Doctor of Letters)
J John Yates Downhan (Doctor of Divinity)
W. F. Draper (Doctor of Laws)
John Wilson Drye, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Richard L. Duchossois (Doctor of Laws)
Edward Theodore Dumble (Doctor of Science)
Melville Irvine Dunn (Doctor of Science)
Jessie Ball duPont (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Henry E. Dwight (Doctor of Divinity)
T. T. Eaton (Doctor of Divinity)
Theodore J. Edlich III (Doctor of Letters)
John William Eggleston (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph D. Eggleston (Doctor of Laws)
Archdeacon Elliott (Doctor of Divinity)
Wade Hampton Ellis (Doctor of Laws)
Mimi Cobb Milner Elrod (Doctor of Letters)
Theodore Hubbard Evans (Doctor of Divinity)
Thomas T. Everett (Doctor of Divinity)
William Maurice Ewing (Doctor of Science)
Charles James Faulkner, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas William Fawthrop (Doctor of Divinity)
James Corner Fenhagen (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Payne Fenner (Doctor of Laws)
Homer Lenoir Ferguson (Doctor of Commercial Science)
John T. Fey (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Herndon Fife (Doctor of Letters)
G. W. Finley (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert McElwee Firebaugh (Doctor of Divinity)
Junius Blair Fishburn (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Junius Parker Fishburn (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Charles Cochran Fishburne, Jr. (Doctor of Divinity)
Jake Fisher (Doctor of Laws)
John Palmer Fishwick (Doctor of Letters)
Herbert Ferrell Fitzpatrick (Doctor of Laws)
John Clement Fitzpatrick (Doctor of Letters)
George Allen Fleece (Doctor of Divinity)
R. H. Fleming (Doctor of Divinity)
Henry D. Flood (Doctor of Laws)
Wiley Davis Forbus (Doctor of Science)
Kenneth Joseph Foreman (Doctor of Divinity)
Alcee Fortier (Doctor of Letters)
Carol Spaulding Fox (Doctor of Letters)
Joseph Carter Fox (Doctor of Letters)
John Hope Franklin (Doctor of Letters)
Vincent Chesley Franks (Doctor of Divinity)
Douglas Southall Freeman (Doctor of Laws)
Francis Pendleton Gaines (Doctor of Laws)
Edgar Graham Gammon (Doctor of Laws)
Paul Neff Garber (Doctor of Divinity)
J. S. Gardner (Doctor of Divinity)
Frank Arthur Geldard (Doctor of Science)
Churchill J. Gibson (Doctor of Divinity)
Frank Johnson Gilliam (Doctor of Laws)
Graham Gilmer (Doctor of Divinity)
J. H. Gilmore (Doctor of Laws)
Abram David Pollock Gilmour (Doctor of Divinity)
Arthur Graham Glasgow (Doctor of Science)
Samuel M. Glasgow (Doctor of Divinity)
William A. Glasgow (Doctor of Laws)
Carter Glass (Doctor of Laws)
Edward Christian Glass (Doctor of Laws)
John M. Glenn (Doctor of Laws)
Mills E. Godwin, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph Leonard Goldstein (Doctor of Science)
George Evans Goodwin, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
Armistead Churchill Gordon (Doctor of Letters)
Franklin B. Gowen (Doctor of Laws)
Henry Tucker Graham (Doctor of Divinty)
John Grammar (Doctor of Divinity)
James Grammer (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles H. Grasty (Doctor of Letters)
W. L. Gravatt (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Alfred Graves (Doctor of Laws)
Elmon Taylor Gray (Doctor of Laws)
Jeffrey Gray (Doctor of Science)
Berryman Green (Doctor of Divinity)
Edward Luther Green (Doctor of Letters)
Fletcher Melvin Green (Doctor of Letters)
Charles Sylvester Green (Doctor of Divinity)
Herbert Bailey Gregory (Doctor of Laws)
LeRoy Gresham (Doctor of Divinity)
J. Calvin Grier (Doctor of Divinity)
Duncan Lawrence Groner (Doctor of Laws)
Devall Langhorne Gwathmey (Doctor of Divinity)
John Hall (Doctor of Laws)
Lyman Hall (Doctor of Laws)
Wilbur C. Hall (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton (Dr of Letters)
Charles S. Hamlin (Doctor of Laws)
William Soule Hammond (Doctor of Divinity)
John W. Hancock, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
William Thomson Hanzsche (Doctor of Divinity)
Alexander Marrs Harman, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
H. Herbert Harris (Doctor of Divinity)
Elias Harrison (Doctor of Divinity)
James A. Harrison (Doctor of Laws)
Abner McGehee Harvey (Doctor of Science)
Thomas H. Harvey (Doctor of Laws)
Paul H. Hayne (Doctor of Laws)
James William Head III (Doctor of Science)
F. G. R. Henderson (Doctor of Laws)
John Hendren (Doctor of Divinity)
William Wirt Henry (Doctor of Laws)
William Uhler Hensel (Doctor of Laws)
Andrew Herron (Doctor of Divinity)
William Best Hesseltine (Doctor of Letters)
Harold Nelson Hill, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Oliver White Hill (Doctor of Laws)
Omer Lee Hirst (Doctor of Laws)
LeRoy Hodges (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Henry William Hoffman (Doctor of Letters)
Walter Edward Hoffman (Doctor of Laws)
Moses D. Hoge (Doctor of Laws)
Addison Hogue (Doctor of Letters)
Jerome Heartwell Holland (Doctor of Laws)
Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
Henry Winston Holt (Doctor of Laws)
Linwood Holton (Doctor of Laws)
Arthur Hopkins (Doctor of Laws)
Farris Pierson Hotchkiss (Doctor of Letters)
Samuel R. Houston (Doctor of Divinity)
James Lewis Howe (Doctor of Science)
Oscar Caperton Huffman (Dr of Commercial Science)
Robert Morton Hughes (Doctor of Laws)
Edgar Erskine Hume (Doctor of Science)
Milton W. Humphreys (Doctor of Laws)
William Jackson Humphreys (Doctor of Science)
John Thomas Trible Hundley (Doctor of Divinity)
J. H. Hundley (Doctor of Divinity)
Gaillard Hunt (Doctor of Letters)
George R. Hunt (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Edward Royall Huntley (Doctor of Laws)
Alton Rufus Hyatt (Doctor of Laws)
Edwin Hyde (Doctor of Laws)
Richard Logan Irby (Doctor of Laws)
Leonidas Willson Irwin (Doctor of Divinity)
Samuel MacCaullay Jackson (Doctor of Laws)
T. M. Jackson (Doctor of Science)
G. Watson James (Doctor of Letters)
Robert Carter Jett (Doctor of Divinity)
L. E. Johnson (Doctor of Commercial Science)
William Preston Johnston (Doctor of Laws)
Carter Helm Jones (Doctor of Divinity)
J. William Jones (Doctor of Divinity)
William Strother Jones (Doctor of Divinity)
William T. Joynes (Doctor of Laws)
Frank Alexander Juhan (Doctor of Divinity)
Daniel Penick Junkin (Doctor of Divinity)
Francis T. A. Junkin (Doctor of Laws)
Marion Montague Junkin (Doctor of Arts)
William F. Junkin (Doctor of Divinity)
James Keith (Doctor of Laws)
Christoph Keller, Jr. (Doctor of Divinity)
Howard A. Kelly (Doctor of Laws)
Joseph Luther Kelly (Doctor of Laws)
Evan Jennings Kemp, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Robert P. Ker (Doctor of Divinity)
J. A. Kern (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Evans Kilbourne (Doctor of Laws)
John Kinnear (Doctor of Divinity)
A. B. Kinsolving (Doctor of Divinity)
Edward M. Korry (Doctor of Laws)
E. B. Kruttschnitt (Doctor of Laws)
Julius Kruttschnitt (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Philippe C. Labro (Doctor of Letters)
Matthew L. Lacy (Doctor of Divinity)
John J. Lafferty (Doctor of Letters)
Joseph Rucker Lamar (Doctor of Laws)
L. O. C. Lamar (Doctor of Laws)
S. S. Lambeth (Doctor of Divinity)
W. W. Landrum (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert Alberti Lapsley, Jr. (Doctor of Divinity)
Asa Richard Larrick (Doctor of Divinity)
John Holladay Latané (Doctor of Laws)
James T. Latimer (Doctor of Divinity)
Rupert Nelson Latture (Doctor of Laws)
James Neilson Lea (Doctor of Laws)
Frederick George Lee (Doctor of Divinity)
Henry Bedinger Lee (Doctor of Divinity)
James Melvin Lee (Doctor of Letters)
Lenoir Valentine Lee (Doctor of Divinity)
Peter James Lee (Doctor of Letters)
James T. Leftwich (Doctor of Divinity)
William Leigh (Doctor of Laws)
John Archer Lejeune (Doctor of Laws)
H. F. (Gerry) Lenfest (Doctor of Humane Letters) 2004
Marguerite Lenfest (Doctor of Humane Letters) 2004
W. A. Leonard (Doctor of Divinity)
Frank Bell Lewis (Doctor of Laws)
Frank W. Lewis (Doctor of Divinity)
Harry Bertram Lewis (Doctor of Divinity)
Edward R. Leyburn (Doctor of Divinity)
James Graham Leyburn (Doctor of Letters)
Samuel Colville Lind (Doctor of Science)
John S. Lindsay (Doctor of Laws)
William Lindsay (Doctor of Laws)
Arthur Stanley Link (Doctor of Letters)
Martin Wilie Littleton (Doctor of Laws)
James Jinkins Livesay (Doctor of Science)
J. J. Lloyd (Doctor of Divinity)
Scott Marion Loftin (Doctor of Laws)
Mercer P. Logan (Doctor of Divinity)
Frank Orren Lowden (Doctor of Laws)
Charles Wesley Lowry (Doctor of Divinity)
Richard Green Lugar (Doctor of Laws)
Duncan Campbell Lyle (Doctor of Letters)
Benjamin Obadiah Lynes (Doctor of Divinity)
Harry Lyons (Doctor of Science)
Hamilton Wright Mabie (Doctor of Laws)
Donald William McDowell MacCluer (Dr of Divinity)
Stuart Alexander MacCorkle (Doctor of Laws)
William A. MacCorkle (Doctor of Laws)
Charles Mackay (Doctor of Laws)
John David Maguire (Doctor of Letters)
Charles Delahunt Mahaffie (Doctor of Laws)
Francis Mallory (Doctor of Science)
Rosser Lynn Malone, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Clements R. Markham (Doctor of Laws)
Samuel Marsh (Doctor of Laws)
Richard Jacquelin Marshall (Doctor of Laws)
Victor F. Marshall (Doctor of Science)
Glenn Gordon Martin (Doctor of Divinity)
William McChesney Martin, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Richard R. Mason (Doctor of Divinity)
R. K. Massie (Doctor of Divinity)
Rodes Massie (Doctor of Letters)
J. B. Massy (Doctor of Divinity)
Kenneth G. Matheson (Doctor of Laws)
Alexander McAusland (Doctor of Divinity)
W. T. McAusland (Doctor of Laws)
Arthur Williamson McCain (Doctor of Laws)
John Malcolm McCardell, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
O. Hunter McClung (Doctor of Science)
A. K. McClure (Doctor of Laws)
James A. McClure (Doctor of Divinity)
Matthew Thompson McClure (Doctor of Letters)
E. W. McCorkle (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert S. McCormick (Doctor of Laws)
R. S. McCulloch (Doctor of Laws)
William G. McDowell (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Rice McDowell, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
John McElhenny (Doctor of Divinity)
F. T. McFaden (Doctor of Divinity)
John McGill (Doctor of Divinity)
R. H. McKim (Doctor of Divinity)
Henry W. McLaughlin (Doctor of Divinity)
J. A. McMurray (Doctor of Divinity)
Louis Armistead McMurray (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Chamberlin McNeill (Doctor of Divinity)
W. M. McPheeters (Doctor of Divinity)
Everard Meade (Doctor of Divinity)
Willis Wilkinson Memminger (Doctor of Divinity)
Paul L. Menzel (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert Reynold Merhige, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
William Stanford Milburn (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Whitfield Miles (Doctor of Divinity)
William McElwee Miller (Doctor of Divinity)
Paul F. Miller, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Roger Q. Mills (Doctor of Laws)
John B. Minor (Doctor of Laws)
Richard C. L. Moncure (Doctor of Laws)
James Nelson Montgomery (Doctor of Divinity)
S. S. Moore (Doctor of Divinity)
Sidney Turner Moreland (Doctor of Laws)
John Hill Morgan (Doctor of Laws)
Hugh Graham Morison (Doctor of Laws)
Edwin Alexander Morris (Doctor of Laws)
Effingham Buckley Morris (Dr of Commercial Science)
W. M. Morrison (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert Adam Mosbacher (Doctor of Laws)
Roger Harrison Mudd (Doctor of Letters)
Joseph James Murray (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles F. Myers (Doctor of Divinity)
Harry White Myers (Doctor of Divinity)
Alexander Lockhart Nelson (Doctor of Laws)
Kinloch Nelson (Doctor of Divinity)
Howard Nemerov (Doctor of Letters)
Allen Nevins (Doctor of Letters)
John Lloyd Newcomb (Doctor of Science)
John B. Newton (Doctor of Divinity)
E. W. Nichols (Doctor of Laws)
William Clarence Norman (Doctor of Laws)
Charles O'Conor (Doctor of Laws)
Whitney J. Oates (Doctor of Letters)
James Randolph Olin (Doctor of Laws)
Frederick H. Osborn (Doctor of Laws)
Herbert Stabler Osburn (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert Ould (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Latham Owen ((Doctor of Laws)
Frank Page (Doctor of Divinity)
Thomas Nelson Page (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas Nelson Page (Doctor of Letters)
George Frederick Parker (Doctor of Laws)
Ruth Parmly (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (Doctor of Letters)
Brown Craig Patterson (Doctor of Divinity)
Craig Houston Patterson (Doctor of Divinity)
James Lindsay Patton (Doctor of Divinity)
Matthew White Paxton (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Owen Paxton (Doctor of Letters)
John Barton Payne (Doctor of Laws)
George Foster Peabody (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas E. Peck (Doctor of Laws)
Hunter Pendleton (Doctor of Laws)
Edmund Pendleton (Doctor of Laws)
William Gibson Pendleton (Doctor of Divinity)
Mary Monroe Penick (Doctor of Fine Arts)
John Percival (Doctor of Divinity)
William Robertson Perkins (Doctor of Laws)
Frederick J. Perry (Doctor of Laws)
Marvin Banks Perry, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
George W. Peterkin (Doctor of Laws)
George W. Peterkin (Doctor of Divinity)
Merlen Edwin Pew (Doctor of Laws)
Harry Melvin Philpott (Doctor of Laws)
William Whatley Pierson (Doctor of Laws)
W. H. Pleasants (Doctor of Laws)
Archer A. Plegar (Doctor of Laws)
Forrest Carlisle Pogue (Doctor of Letters)
Governor John Garland Pollard (Doctor of Laws)
A. D. Pollock (Doctor of Divinity)
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Davis Powers, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
W. L. Prather (Doctor of Laws)
Harry Waddell Pratt (Doctor of Divinity)
John W. Pratt (Doctor of Divinity)
Ebenezer Pressly (Doctor of Divinity)
William Laurens Pressly (Doctor of Letters)
J. T. L. Preston (Doctor of Laws)
J. A. Preston (Doctor of Divinity)
Thomas L. Preston (Doctor of Divinity)
William C. Preston (Doctor of Laws)
Reynolds Price (Doctor of Letters)
W. T. Price (Doctor of Divinity)
William Webb Pusey III (Doctor of Letters)
Samuel Lucas Raines (Doctor of Science)
James B. Ramsay (Doctor of Divinity)
James Garfield Randall (Doctor of Letters)
Harrison Randolph (Doctor of Laws)
Isham Randolph (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Oscar deWolfe Randolph (Doctor of Divinity)
A. M. Randolph (Doctor of Laws)
D. M. Rankin (Doctor of Divinity)
Benjamin Lewis Rawlins (Doctor of Laws)
G. H. Ray (Doctor of Divinity)
William Thomas Reed (Doctor of Commercial Science)
William H. Rehnquist (Doctor of Laws)
E. A. Renouf (Doctor of Divinity)
Frederick Deane Goodwin Ribble (Doctor of Laws)
Walter Garrett Riddick (Doctor of Laws)
William Thurmond Rivière (Doctor of Divinity)
Alice Mitchell Rivlin (Doctor of Letters) 
Charles Spittal Robb (Doctor of Laws)
Lynda Johnson Robb (Doctor of Humane Letters)
Joseph Clarke Robert (Doctor of Letters)
A. Willis Robertson (Doctor of Laws)
William J. Robertson (Doctor of Laws)
Samuel Rodgers (Doctor of Divinity)
Holmes Rolston (Doctor of Divinity)
Holmes Rolston (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles R. Van Romondt (Doctor of Letters)
J. W. Rosebro (Doctor of Divinity)
Andrew Tod Roy (Doctor of Laws)
Henry Ruffner (Doctor of Laws)
William Henry Ruffner (Doctor of Laws)
Lawrence Rust (Doctor of Laws)
Archibald Rutledge (Doctor of Literature)
J. R. Sampey (Doctor of Divinity)
Irwin Taylor Sanders (Doctor of Letters)
Stuart Thomas Saunders (Doctor of Laws)
Honoria Josephine Yvonne Scannell (Doctor of Laws)
James Scott (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles S. M. See (Doctor of Divinity)
David W. Shanks (Doctor of Divinity)
Edgar Finley Shannon, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
Leander J. Shaw, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Wilfred Weaver Shaw (Doctor of Divinity)
Hugh W. Sheffey (Doctor of Laws)
George Richard Edwin Shell (Doctor of Laws)
Edward M. Shepard (Doctor of Laws)
Archibald Belling Shepperson (Doctor of Letters)
Scott Shipp (Doctor of Letters)
Scott Shipp (Doctor of Laws)
Benjamin Sledd (Doctor of Letters)
Lloyd Hollingsworth Smith, Jr. (Doctor of Science)
Edward Everett Smith (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert Chester Smith (Doctor of Laws)
W. D. Smith (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Philip Snyder (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas H. Somerville (Doctor of Laws)
Samuel R. Spencer, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
William Belser Spong, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Alexander W. Sproull (Doctor of Divinity)
Philip Dodson Sprouse (Doctor of Laws)
Sir Joseph Charles Stamp (Doctor of Laws)
Abram Penn Staples (Doctor of Laws)
M. L. Staunton (Doctor of Divinity)
Roy Lee Steinheimer, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Roscoe Bolar Stephenson, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Kensey J. Stewart (Doctor of Divinity)
Gaylord Joseph Stone (Doctor of Commercial Science)
Isodor Straus (Doctor of Laws)
Oscar Strauss (Doctor of Laws)
Charles R. Stribling (Doctor of Divinity)
G. B. Strickler (Doctor of Divinity)
John P. Strider (Doctor of Divinity)
Russell Cartwright Stroup (Doctor of Divinity)
Thomas Joseph Sugrue (Doctor of Letters)
Walter F. Sullivan (Doctor of Letters)
Henderson Suter (Doctor of Divinity)
Absalom Sydenstricker (Doctor of Divinity)
Hubert Sydenstricker (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Sackett Sydnor (Doctor of Letters)
Francis Campbell Symonds (Doctor of Divinity)
Charles Holt Taylor (Doctor of Letters)
Hannis Taylor (Doctor of Laws)
Peter Hillsman Taylor (Doctor of Letters)
Alfred P. Thom (Doctor of Laws)
William Taylor Thom, Jr. (Doctor of Science)
William Taylor Thom (Doctor of Letters)
Ernest Trice Thompson (Doctor of Letters)
Lucas P. Thompson (Doctor of Laws)
LeRoy Thompson (Doctor of Divinity)
William McQuown Thompson (Doctor of Divinity)
William Taliaferro Thompson (Doctor of Divinity)
Richard Porter Thomsen (Doctor of Laws)
John Bell Towill (Doctor of Laws)
Arnold Joseph Toynbee (Doctor of Humane Letters)
David Elton Trueblood (Doctor of Letters)
William Munford Tuck (Doctor of Laws)
Everett Tucker, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Robert H. Tucker (Doctor of Laws)
John Hellums Tucker, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Baylor Tunstall (Doctor of Laws)
Henry A. Turner, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
Cy Twombly (Doctor of Fine Arts)
Harold Clayton Urey (Doctor of Science)
Edward Virginius Valentine (Doctor of Laws)
William Reynolds Vance (Doctor of Laws)
Arthur T. Vanderbilt (Doctor of Laws)
George C. Vanderslice (Doctor of Divinity)
C. R. Vaughan (Doctor of Divinity)
Edwin Darracott Vaughn, Jr. (Doctor of Science)
Oswald Garrison Villard (Doctor of Letters)
Fred M. Vinson, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Fred M. Vinson (Doctor of Laws)
Sol Wachtler (Doctor of Laws)
James A. Waddell (Doctor of Divinity)
Joseph Addison Waddell (Doctor of Laws)
W. A. Wade (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert M. Wallace (Doctor of Divinity)
John William Warner III (Doctor of Humane Letters) 2005
John Francis Watlington, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Louis Arthur Watres (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Watts (Doctor of Laws)
George A. Wauchope (Doctor of Letters)
J. H. Waugh (Doctor of Divinity)
William A. Webb (Doctor of Laws)
John M. Wells (Doctor of Divinity)
Herbert Welsh (Doctor of Laws)
John Welsh (Doctor of Laws)
Eudora Welty (Doctor of Letters)
M. B. Wharton (Doctor of Divinity)
Henry M. White (Doctor of Divinity)
Hugh W. White (Doctor of Divinity)
W. McC. White (Doctor of Divinity)
William Chester White (Doctor of Divinity)
Robert M. White II (Doctor of Laws)
Luther Wesley White III (Doctor of Laws)
Mabel Kate Whiteside (Doctor of Letters)
Kennon Caithness Whittle (Doctor of Laws)
Gordon Thomas Whyburn (Doctor of Science)
David Herschell Wice (Doctor of Divinity)
Henry Taylor Wickham (Doctor of Laws)
Hiram Emory Widener, Jr. (Doctor of Laws)
Henry I. Willett (Doctor of Laws)
Charles Marvin Williams (Doctor of Laws)
Ernest Williams II (Doctor of Laws)
Hazel O'Dell Williams (Doctor of Humane Letters)
John Langhorne Williams (Doctor of Letters)
Robert H. Williams (Doctor of Science)
Twyman Williams (Doctor of Divinity)
Samuel Williamson (Doctor of Divinity)
A. W. Wilson (Doctor of Laws)
Goodridge A. Wilson (Doctor of Divinity)
John Delane Wilson (Doctor of Letters)
James R. Winchester (Doctor of Divinity)
Sherwood Willing Wise (Doctor of Laws)
John Minor Wisdom (Doctor of Laws)
Robert Richard Witt (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. (Doctor of Letters)
C. Vann Woodward (Doctor of Letters)
Lloyd Edson Worner (Doctor of Laws)
Louis Booker Wright (Doctor of Laws)
Thomas Henry Wright (Doctor of Divinity)
Erich Walter Zimmermann (Doctor of Laws)
In addition to the above, the following honorary Master of Arts s degrees were awarded. 
1859
William H. Brooks (Master of Arts) 1860
C. Baker Davidson (Master of Arts) 1866
Harry Estill (Master of Arts) 1865