List of awards and honours received by Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal, KBE (December 31, 1908 – September 20, 2005) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter. He was presented with many awards, merits, and honorary doctorates over the course of his life.

Academic institutions
Wiesenthal was awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, including seven faculties of law.
 * Honorary member of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, 1989
 * Honorary Member of the Academy of Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1994
 * Human Rights Award of the Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria, 1994
 * Honorary Doctorate from the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 1994
 * Honorary doctorate from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel