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Honoris Causa
| Year | Name | Degree | Date |
| 1876 | H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales | Doctor in Law | 03.01.76 |
| 1876 | Monier Williams | Doctor in Law | 11.03.76 |
| 1876 | Krishna Mohan Banerjee | Doctor in Law | 11.03.76 |
| 1876 | Rajendralal Mitra | Doctor in Law | 11.03.76 |
| 1897 | Alfred Wooddey Croft | Doctor in Law | 20.02.97 |
| 1898 | Mahendralal Sircar | Doctor in Law | 19.02.98 |
| 1906 | H.R.H. George Frederick Ernest Albert, Prince of Wales | Doctor in Law | 05.01.06 |
| 1908 | Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser | Doctor of Literature | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Asutosh Mookerjee | Doctor of Science | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Arthur Schuster | Doctor of Science | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar | Doctor of Philosophy | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Pratul Chandra Chatterjee | Doctor of Law | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Gooroo Das Banerjee | Doctor of Philosophy | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Eugine Lafont | Doctor of Science | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Herbert Hope Risley | Doctor of Philosophy | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Gerald Bomford | Doctor of Medicine | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Thomas Henry Holland | Doctor of Science | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Praphullachandra Ray | Doctor of Philosophy | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | George Frederick William Thibant | Doctor of Science | 14.03.08 |
| 1908 | Subbaiyar Subramaniya Aiyar | Doctor of Law | 14.03.08 |
| 1911 (Special) | Crown Prince of the German Empires of Prussia | Doctor of Law | 04.02.11 |
| 1912 | Douglas Cravan Phillott | Doctor of Philosophy | 16.03.12 |
| 1912 | Paul Johannes Briihl | Doctor of Science | 16.03.12 |
| 1912 | Jagadis Chandra Bose | Doctor of Science | 16.03.12 |
| 1913 (Special) | Hermann Oldenbary | Doctor of Literature | 25.01.13 |
| 1913 | Andrew Russel Forsyth | Doctor of Science | 25.01.13 |
| 1913 | Taraknath Palit | Doctor of Law | 25.01.13 |
| 1913 | Paul Vinogradoff | Doctor of Law | 26.12.13 |
| 1913 | Hermann Jacobi | Doctor of Literature | 26.12.13 |
| 1913 | William Henry Young | Doctor of Science | 26.12.13 |
| 1913 (Special) | Rashbehary Ghosh | Doctor of Philosophy | 26.12.13 |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Doctor of Literature | 26.12.13 |
| 1913 | Henry Hubert Hayden | Doctor of Science | 26.12.13 |
| 1913 | Sylvain Livi | Doctor of Literature | 26.12.13 |
| 1920 | Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher | Doctor of Literature | 05.01.20 |
| 1921 (Special) | John Lumley Dundas Earl of Ronaldshay | Doctor of Literature | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Earl of Reading | Doctor of Law | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | William Jackson Pope | Doctor of Science | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | William Alexander Craigie | Doctor of Literature | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Mokshagundum Visvesvaraya | Doctor of Science (Eng.) | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Brajendranath Seal | Doctor of Science | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Raghunath Purushottam Paranjpye | Doctor of Science | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | John Hubert Marshall | Doctor of Philosophy | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Gilbert Thomas Walker | Doctor of Philosophy | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Rudrapatna Shama Sastri | Doctor of Philosophy | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyenger | Doctor of Philosophy | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Henry Stephen | Doctor of Philosophy | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Cuthbert Edmund Cullis | Doctor of Science | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Dineschandra Sen | Doctor of Literature | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar | Doctor of Philosophy | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman | Doctor of Science | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Abanindranath Tagore | Doctor of Literature | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Syed Ameer Ali | Doctor of Law | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Arthur Anthony Macdonell Learning | Doctor of Oriental | 17.12.21 |
| 1921 | Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David,Prince of Wales Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, High Steward of Windsor | Doctor of Law | 27.12.21 |
| 1922 | James Wilford Garner | Doctor of Law | 18.11.22 |
| 1926 | (Special) William Ewart Greaves | Doctor of Law | 29.07.26 |
| 1928 | Arnold Sommerfeld | Doctor of Science | 12.10.28 |
| 1930 | William Spence Urquhart | Doctor of Law | 05.08.30 |
| 1931 | Rajendranath Mukherjee | Doctor of Science | 28.02.31 |
| 1931 | Heramba Chandra Maitra | Doctor of Literature | 28.02.31 |
| 1931 | Charles Albert Bentley | Doctor of Medicine | 28.02.31 |
| 1932 | Francis Stanley Jackson | Doctor of Law | 11.01.32 |
| 1934 (Special) | Hassan Suhrawardy | Doctor of Science | 06.08.34 |
| 1938 (Special) | James Hopwood Jeans | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938 (Special) | Francis William Aston | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938 (Special) | Ernest Barker | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938 (Special) | Arthur Henry Reginald Buller | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938 | (Special) Arthur Stanley Eddington | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938(Special) | Ronald Aylmer Fisher | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938 (Special) | William Searle Holdsworth | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938 (Special) | Charles Gustave Jung | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938 (Special) | Charles Samuel Myers | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938 (Special) | Waltter Straub | Doctor of Law | 07.01.38 |
| 1938 | Syamaprasad Mukhopadhyay | Doctor of Literature | 26.11.38 |
| 1941 | Nilratan Sircar | Doctor of Science | 08.03.41 |
| 1942 | Sir Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | Doctor of Law | 28.02.42 |
| 1942 (Special) | Mohammad Aazizul Huque | Doctor of Literature | 12.03.42 |
| 1944 (Special) | Bidhanchandra Ray | Doctor of Science | 14.06.44 |
| 1948 (Special) | Chakravarti Rajagopal Acharia | Doctor of Law | 30.11.48 |
| 1949 (Special) | Pramathanath Banerjee | Doctor of Literature | 27.08.49 |
| 1952 (Special) | Rajendra Prasad | Doctor of Law | 26.12.52 |
| 1952 (Special) | Harendracoomer Mookerjee | Doctor of Literature | 26.12.52 |
| 1952 (Special) | Sambhunath Banerjee | Doctor of Law | 26.12.52 |
| 1956 (Special) | Jogeschandra Ray | Doctor of Literature | 17.04.56 |
| 1957 (Special) | Nandalal Basu | Doctor of Literature | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Rajsekhar Basu | Doctor of Literature | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 | Zakir Hussain | Doctor of Literature | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 | Vidhusekhar Bhattacharyya | Doctor of Literature | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Jogendranath Bagchi | Doctor of Literature | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Arnold Joseph Toynbee | Doctor of Literature | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Satyendranath Basu | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Lloyd Viel Barkner | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Jnanendrachandra Ghosh | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Harold Spencer Jones | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Yosio Kitagawa | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 (Special) | Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnnan | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 | Prasantachandra Mahalanabis | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 | Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 | Alexander Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 | John Robert Oppenheimer | Doctor of Science | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 | Sudhiranjan Das | Doctor of Law | 23.01.57 |
| 1957 | Atulchandra Gupta | Doctor of Law | 23.01.57 |
| 1960 (Special) | Niels Henrik David Bohr | Doctor of Science | 23.01.60 |
| 1961 (Special) | Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta | Doctor of Literature | 28.01.61 |
| 1965 (Special) | Gopinath Kaviraj | Doctor of Literature | 21.01.65 |
| 1967 (Special) | Satischandra Ghosh | Doctor of Literature | 23.09.67 |
| 1968 (Special) | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Doctor of Literature | 24.08.68 |
| 1968 (Special) | Nilratan Dhar | Doctor of Science | 24.08.68 |
| 1969 | Rameshchandra Majumdar | Doctor of Literature | 31.03.69 |
| 1969 | Dilip Kumar Ray | Doctor of Literature | 31.03.69 |
| 1969 | Radhagobinda Nath | Doctor of Literature | 31.03.69 |
| 1969 | Sunitikumar Chattopadhyay | Doctor of Literature | 31.03.69 |
| 1969 | Debendramohan Basu | Doctor of Science | 31.03.69 |
| 1970 | Srikumar Bandyopadhyay | Doctor of Literature | 01.10.70 |
| 1970 | Priyadaranjan Ray | Doctor of Science | 01.10.70 |
| 1971 | Durgadas Basu | Doctor of Law | 19. 11. 71 |
| 1972 (Special) | Abu Sayeed Chowdhury | Doctor of Law | 05.12.72 |
| 1973 | Sailendranath Sen (Posthumous) | Doctor of Medicine | 16.06.73 |
| 1973 | Prasantabihari Mukhopadhyay | Doctor of Law | 16.06.73 |
| 1974 (Special) | Hargobind Khorana | Doctor of Science | 04.11.74 |
| 1975 (Special) | Jnanendranath Mukhopadhyay | Doctor of Science | 24.11.75 |
| 1976 | Sumitranandan Pant | Doctor of Literature | 13.03.76 |
| 1981 | Gopalchandra Bhattacharyya | Doctor of Science | 21.01.81 |
| 1982 | Janardan Chakrabarti | Doctor of Literature | 25.05.82 |
| 1982 | Udipi Ramchandra Rao | Doctor of Science | 25.05.82 |
| 1984 (Special) | Rezaul Karim | Doctor of Literature | 14.07.84 |
| 1985 | Satyajit Ray | Doctor of Literature | 22.03.85 |
| 1986 | Pandit Ravi Shankar | Doctor of Literature | 25.04.86 |
| 1986 (Special) | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | Doctor of Literature | 02.09.86 |
| 1988 (Special) | Hemantakumar Mukhopadhyay | Doctor of Literature | 01.04.88 |
| 1988 | G. I. Marchuk | Doctor of Science | 01.04.88 |
| 1989 | Hirendranath Mukhopadhyay | Doctor of Literature | 24.01.89 |
| 1989 | Bhabatosh Datta | Doctor of Literature | 24.01.89 |
| 1989 | Asesh Prasad Mitra | Doctor of Science | 24.01.89 |
| 1989 | Safdar Hasmi (Posthumous) | Doctor of Literature | 24.01.89 |
| 1990 | Subodhchandra Sengupta | Doctor of Literature | 17.01.90 |
| 1990 | Srijib Bhattacharyya | Doctor of Literature | 17.01.90 |
| 1990 | Gopal Haldar | Doctor of Literature | 17.01.90 |
| 1991 (Special) | VO Nguyen Giap | Doctor of Literature | 16.01.91 |
| 1993 | Amartya Kumar Sen | Doctor of Literature | 17.02.93 |
| 1993 | Asghar Ali Engineer | Doctor of Literature | 17.02.93 |
| 1994 | Sambhunath De (Posthumous) | Doctor of Science | 25.02.94 |
| 1994 | Govanni Spadolini | Doctor of Literature | 25.02.94 |
| 1995 | L.M. Singhvi | Doctor of Law | 17.04.95 |
| 1995 | Durgadas Basu | Doctor of Literature | 17.04.95 |
| 1995 | Triguna Sen | Doctor of Science | 17.04.95 |
| 1995 | Radhanath Rath | Doctor of Literature | 17.04.95 |
| 1997 | Ali Akbar Khan | Doctor of Literature | 16.08.97 |
| 1997 | Lila Majumdar | Doctor of Literature | 16.08.97 |
| 1998 | Sushil Kumar Dhara | Doctor of Literature | 27.05.98 |
| 1998 | Binoy Krishna Chaudhuri | Doctor of Literature | 27.05.98 |
| 1998 | Pratap Chandra Chunder | Doctor of Literature | 27.05.98 |
| 1998 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan | Doctor of Science | 27.05.98 |
| 1998 | Abtar Singh Paintal | Doctor of Science | 27.05.98 |
| 2001 | Jayanta Vishnu Narlikar | Doctor of Science | 15.01.01 |
| 2001 (Special) | Noam Chomsky | Doctor of Literature | 22.11.01 |
| 2002 | Krishnaswami Kasturirangan | Doctor of Science | 05.04.02 |
| 2002 | Romilla Thaper | Doctor of Literature | 05.04.02 |
| 2003 | Calampudi Radhakrishna Rao | Doctor of Science | 28.01.03 |
| 2003 | Tapan Kumar Roychaudhuri | Doctor of Literature | 28.01.03 |
| 2004 | C. N. R. Rao | Doctor of Science | 09.03.04 |
| 2004 | Ashoke Sen | Doctor of Science | 09.03.04 |
| 2005 | Man Mohan Sharma | Doctor of Science | 28.04.05 |
| 2005 | Mihir Kanti Rakshit | Doctor of Science | 28.04.05 |
| 2005 | N.K. Ganguly | Doctor of Literature | 28.04.05 |
| 2006 | Sankar Lal Adhya | Doctor of Science | 27.03.06 |
| 2006 | Andre Beteille | Doctor of Literature | 27.03.06 |
| 2006 | Purusottama Lal | Doctor of Literature | 27.03.06 |
| 2007 (Special) | Romano Prodi | Doctor of Science | 12.02.07 |
| 2007 (Special) | Jyoti Basu | Doctor of Law | 26.04.07 |
| 2007 | Nirendranath Chakraborty | Doctor of Literature | 03.05.07 |
| 2007 | Tapas Majumdar | Doctor of Literature | 03.05.07 |
| 2008 | Goverdhan Mehta | Doctor of Science | 23.09.08 |
| 2008 | Mushirul Hasan | Doctor of Literature | 23.09.08 |
| 2008 | Ratan Lal Brahmachary | Doctor of Science | 23.09.08 |
| 2009 | Mrinal Sen | Doctor of Literature | 11.09.09 |
| 2009 | Santi Pada Gon Chaudhuri | Doctor of Science | 11.09.09 |
| 2009 | Sunita Narain | Doctor of Science | 11.09.09 |
| 2010 | Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | Doctor of Law | 05.10.10 |
| 2010 | Bimal Jalan | Doctor of Literature | 05.10.10 |
| 2010 | Srikumar Banerjee | Doctor of Science | 05.10.10 |
| 2012 | Shyam Benegal | Doctor of Literature | 22.03.12 |
| 2012 | U.R. Ananthamurthy | Doctor of Literature | 22.03.12 |
| 2012 | Pranab Kumar Sen | Doctor of Science | 22.03.12 |
