List of University of Maryland, Baltimore County honorary degree recipients

This List of University of Maryland, Baltimore County Honorary Degree Recipients includes those persons who have been recognized by UMBC for outstanding achievements in their fields that reflect the ideals and uphold the purposes of the university, and to whom the university faculty has voted to award honorary degrees in recognition of such attainments. Many of the individuals below are also speakers during the university's commencement ceremonies.

The following are recipients of honorary degrees from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, beginning in 1970:

Honorary degree recipients, 1970–1979


1970
 * Howard K. Smith, Humane Letters

1971
 * Patricia Roberts Harris, Laws

1972
 * King V. Cheek, Laws

1973
 * B.F. Skinner, Humane Letters

1974
 * Malcolm Charles Moos, Laws

1975
 * Alice Rivlin, Laws

1976
 * James S. Ackerman, Humane Letters

1977
 * Louis Kaplan, Letters
 * Richard Lattimore, Humane Letters
 * Albert Sabin, Science

1978
 * John Barademas, Laws
 * Halden Keffer Hartline, Science
 * Ola Belle Reed, Humane Letters

1979
 * Peter Gay, Letters
 * C.L.R. James, Humane Letters

Honorary degree recipients, 1980–1989


1980
 * Ernst Boyer, Public Service
 * Lucille Clifton, Humane Letters
 * Donald Henderson, Science

1981
 * Sterling A. Brown, Humanities
 * Jon Franklin, Humane Letters

1982
 * Tom L. Freudenheim, Fine Arts
 * John M. Sheehan, Public Service
 * Maxim Shostakovich, Fine Arts
 * Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Science

1983
 * Donald D. Brown, Science
 * John L. Crew, Sr., Public Service
 * Lotte Jacobi, Fine Arts
 * Albin Owings Kuhn, Public Service
 * William Arthur Lewis, Laws

1984
 * Robert Duncan, Fine Arts
 * Stephan Jay Gould, Science
 * Raymond V. Haysbert, Public Service
 * Roger Rosenblatt, Humane Letters

1985
 * Robert M. Ball, Public Administration
 * Dorothy Hill, Humanities
 * Alice Gwathney Pinderhughes, Public Service
 * Maxine Singer, Science
 * Chia Chen Tan, Science

1986
 * John G. St.Clair Drake, Letters
 * Reg Murphy, Public Service
 * Pauline Oliveros, Music
 * Rudolph G. Penner, Public Service
 * James P. Grant, Public Service
 * Walter Rosenblum, Fine Arts

1987
 * LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., Science
 * Charles McC, Mathias, Jr., Science

1988
 * Lyn P. Meyerhoff, Fine Arts
 * Benjamin Arthur Quarles, Humane Letters
 * Walter Sondheim, Jr., Public Service
 * Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, Humane Letters

1989
 * Paul Duke, Laws
 * Frances Morton Froelicher, Public Services
 * Kou-ting Li, Science
 * Max Roach, Music

Honorary degree recipients, 1990–1999


1990
 * Taylor Branch, Humane Letters
 * Eli Jacobs, Humane Letters
 * Gwendolyn King, Public Service

1991
 * Robert Coles, Humane Letters
 * Ralph Gibson, Fine Arts
 * Arthur Kornberg, Science
 * Enolia McMillan, Public Service

1992
 * Henry Cisneros, Public Service
 * Nancy Graves, Fine Arts
 * Emmett Paige, Jr., Laws

1993
 * R. Charles Avara, Public Service
 * Perter Lax, Science
 * Robert E. Meyerhoff, Humane Letters
 * Barbara Mikulski, Letters

1994
 * Shirley Chater, Humane Letters
 * Louis Goldstein, Humane Letters
 * William Hackerman, Engineering
 * William C. Richardson, Humane Letters
 * Nelson John Sabatini, Public Service
 * William Donald Schaefer, Laws
 * Lisbeth Bamberger Schoor, Humane Letters
 * Carole Simpson, Humane Letters
 * Harold Wolff, Laws

1995
 * Edward Ray McCracken, Science
 * Otto Piene, Fine Arts
 * Harold Eliot Varmus, Science

1996
 * Stephen M. Case, Science
 * Purnell W. Choppin, Science
 * J. Robert Kerrey, Public Service

1997
 * Carl Djerassi, Science
 * John H. Gibbons, Science
 * Ira Magaziner, Public Administration
 * Donna Shalala, Public Service

1998
 * Daniel Saul Goldin, Science

1999
 * Rita Rossi Colwell, Science
 * John C. Erickson, Public Service
 * Nancy Erickson, Public Service
 * Darielle Dunn Lineman, Arts
 * Earl Louise Linehan, Arts
 * Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Public Service
 * Sargent Shriver, Public Service

Honorary degree recipients, 2000–2009


2000
 * Thomas R. Chech, Science
 * Robert W. Deutsch, Science
 * Mayo Shattuck III, Public Service

2001
 * Marian Wright Edelman, Public Service
 * Hon. Barbara Hoffman, Public Service
 * Bob Kahn, Science
 * Pete Rawlings, Public Service

2004
 * William Foege, Science
 * Ursula Burns, Engineering
 * William A. Haseltine, Science

2005
 * Mary Ann E. Mears, Fine Arts

2006
 * Soloman H. Snyder, Science
 * Richard Broadhead, Humane Letters
 * Alan Lightman, Humanities

2007
 * Betsy and George Sherman, Public Service
 * Judith Rodin, Humane Letters
 * William Brody, Science

2008
 * Virginia Dresher, Public Service
 * Paul Sarbanes, Public Service
 * Franco Einaudi, Science
 * Claude Steele, Science

2009
 * Thomas Friedman, Humane Letters
 * Shirley M. Tilghman, Science
 * Peter Agre, Science
 * Karen Davis, Public Service

Honorary degree recipients, 2010-present


2010
 * G. Wayne Clough, Science

2011
 * Rodney C. Adkins, Science
 * Jeffrey R. Immelt, Public Service
 * Marie M. Klawe, Public Service

2014 2015
 * Mary Schmidt Campbell, Fine Arts
 * Andrea Mitchell, Public Service