Honorary Degree Recipients
- James Blaine LL.D. 1869, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, 1884 Presidential Candidate
- Nelson Dingley, Jr. LL.D 1874, Governor of Maine, Congressman from Lewiston, Maine
- Eugene Hale LL.D. 1882, abolitionist, U.S. Senator from Maine
- Lillian M. N. Stevens A.M. 1911, Teetotaler W.C.T.U. President
- Calvin Coolidge LL.D. 1920, President of the United States
- Robert Frost L.H.D 1936, New England poet
- William Henry Vanderbilt III LL.D. 1940, Governor of Rhode Island, philanthropist
- Lester B. Pearson LL.D 1951 1957 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Prime Minister of Canada
- Sylvia Porter Litt.D. 1959, newspaper editor and influential financial columnist
- Margaret Chase Smith LL.D 1967, U.S. Senator from Maine
- Buckminster Fuller Sc.D. 1969, inventor, architect.
- Coretta Scott King Litt.D 1971, Civil rights leader, wife of Martin Luther King
- Amory Lovins Sc.D. 1979, physicist, environmentalist, author, CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute
- Julia Child, D.F.A. 1983, Television show host
- Jimmy Carter LL.D. 1985, President of the United States
- George Putnam, LL.D., 1985, newsreporter, talk show host
- George Mitchell LL.D 1985, U.S. Senator from Maine.
- William S. Cohen LL.D. 1989, U.S. Senator from Maine, U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Paul Volcker LL.D 1989, Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Freeman Dyson Sc.D. 1991, physicist and mathematician.
- Elie Wiesel L.H.D 1995, Holocaust survivor and historian
- Doris Kearns Goodwin L.H.D 1998, Civil War historian
- Olympia Snowe LL.D 1998, U.S. Senator from Maine
- John Updike, L.D. 1998, writer
- Desmond Tutu, L.H.D. 2000, Peace activist
- Ken Burns L.H.D 2002, documentary film maker
- Brian Williams L.H.D 2005, NBC news anchor
- David McCullough L.H.D. 2006, American historian
- Geena Davis D. F. A. 2009, actress, producer, and founder of The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
- Fareed Zakaria L.H.D. 2009, journalist, television host, editor of Time Magazine
- Robert De Niro D.F.A. 2012, actor, director, producer
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