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