• Source: List of New York University honorary degree recipients

      • Honorary degree recipients of NYU are typically persons of great distinction or achievement who are nationally or internationally prominent in their subject areas or disciplines and who reflect the values of New York University. As a whole, the group of honorees vary in their fields of endeavor, and are diverse in ethnicity, race, background, and gender.
      Among some of the distinguished recipients honored in recent years at Commencement are the following:

      Louise Bourgeois, artist
      David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times
      Emmanuelle Charpentier, scientist whose research led to some of the most important tools for genome “editing”, and Scientific Member and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, and Visiting Professor at Umeå University.
      Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States.
      Billy Crystal, comedian, actor, producer, writer, director, and 1970 alumnus of the Tisch School of the Arts.
      Patrick Desbois, President, Yahad-In Unum
      Aretha Franklin (Hall of Fame artist)
      Claire Marie Fraser (Genomicist)
      Lang Lang, internationally renowned pianist
      John Lewis, courageous leader of the U.S. civil rights movement and a Member of Congress since 1986.
      Sanna Marin, 46th Prime Minister of Finland
      Margaret H. Marshall, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the first woman to hold that position, wrote the first high court opinion in the U.S. permitting same-sex marriage.
      Omara Khan Massoudi, Afghan Museum Director and Preserver of Cultural Patrimony
      Robert Rubin, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
      Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
      Oliver Stone, film director and NYU Tisch Alum
      Taylor Swift singer-songwriter
      Dylan Tilley (Exogeologist, Mineralogist)
      Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada
      Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation.
      Charles Weissmann, Professor and Chairman, Department of Infectology, The Scripps Research Institute
      Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve System Chair


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