| 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 |
| 2013 |
R. Chidambaram |
Doctor of Science |
29.11.13 |
| 2013 |
Premnath Dogra |
Doctor of Science |
29.11.13 |
| 2013 |
Jitendra Nath Mohanty |
Doctor of Literature |
29.11.13 |
| 2014 |
Pranab Mukherjee |
Doctor of Literature |
28.11.14 |
| 2014 |
Muchkund Dubey |
Doctor of Literature |
28.11.14 |
| 2014 |
Bikash Sinha |
Doctor of Science |
28.11.14 |
| 2014 |
Lakshmi Shankar Ojha |
Doctor of Science |
28.11.14 |
| 2014 |
Antanas Paskevicius-Poska (Posthumously) |
Doctor of Literature |
28.11.14 |
| 2015 |
T.V. Ramakrishnan |
Doctor of Science |
09.12.15 |
| 2015 |
Lord Hameed (Khalid Hameed) |
Doctor of Science |
09.12.15 |
| 2015 |
Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
Doctor of Literature |
09.12.15 |
| 2015 |
Pandit Birju Maharaj |
Doctor of Literature |
09.12.15 |
| 2015 |
Joy Goswami |
Doctor of Literature |
09.12.15 |
| 2018 |
Mamata Banerjee |
Doctor of Literature |
11.01.18 |
| 2019 |
Gopalkrishna Gandhi |
Doctor of Literature |
7.01.19 |
| 2019 |
Dilip Mahalanabis |
Doctor of Science |
7.01.19 |
| 2019 |
Sukumar Mukherjee |
Doctor of Science |
7.01.19 |
