Honorary Degree Recipients
- Byong Man Ahn – 2004 – Academic
- Robert Ballard - 2001 - Oceanographer, discoverer of the RMS Titanic
- Joseph Biden - 2004 - Current Vice President of the United States, then-United States Senator (D-Delaware)
- Edward G. Boehne - 2001 - President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
- John C. Bogle - 1999 - Founder and CEO of the The Vanguard Group
- Ben Carson, M.D. - 1997 - American neurosurgeon
- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. - 2002 - Business historian
- Rita R. Colwell - 2003 - Former Director of the National Science Foundation
- William B. DeLauder - 2005 - Former president of Delaware State University
- Louis Freeh - 1999 - Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Adrian Hall - 2007 - British actor, thespian
- Daisaku Ikeda - 2000 - Buddhist religious leader, President of Soka Gakkai International
- Paul R. Jones - 2004 - Art collector, Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art
- Audrey F. Manley - 2002 - Former United States Surgeon General, Current President of Spelman College
- Geoffrey Marcy - 2004 - Astronomer, discoverer of the first extrasolar planet 51 Pegasi b
- J. W. Marriott, Jr. - 2005 - Marriot International
- Mary McAleese - 2002- Current President of Ireland
- George J. Mitchell - 2003 - Former United States Senator (D-Maine)
- Joseph Neubauer - 2006 - CEO of ARAMARK
- Russell W. Peterson - 2006 - Former Governor of Delaware, scientist
- Martin A. Pomerantz - 2001 - American physicist and astronomer
- Cal Ripken Jr. - 2008 - American baseball player
- William V. Roth - 2003 - Former United States Senator (R-Delaware)
- Walter K. Stapleton - 1998 - Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Susan Stroman - 2005 - Tony Award-winning Broadway director, choreographer, film director, and performer.
- W.D. Snodgrass - 2005 - American poet
- E. Norman Veasey - 2003 - Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court
- Craig Venter - 2004 - American biologist, Founder of the The Institute for Genomic Research
- Paul A. Volcker - 2001 - Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- John J. Williams - 1975 - Former United States Senator (R-Delaware)
- Jamie Wyeth - 2002 - American realist painter
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