# List of University of Calcutta honorary degree recipients

This is a list of honorary degree recipients from the University of Calcutta.

## Honorary degree recipients
### Color key

    Light green indicates "(Special)"; pink indicates "(Posthumous)"
| Year | Name | Degree |
| 1876 | H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales | Doctor in Law |
| 1876 | Monier Williams | Doctor in Law |
| 1876 | Krishna Mohan Banerjee | Doctor in Law |
| 1876 | Rajendralal Mitra | Doctor in Law |
| 1897 | Alfred Woodley Croft | Doctor in Law |
| 1898 | Mahendralal Sircar | Doctor in Law |
| 1906 | H.R.H. George Frederick Ernest Albert, Prince of Wales | Doctor in Law |
| 1908 | Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser | Doctor of Literature |
| 1908 | Asutosh Mookerjee | Doctor of Science |
| 1908 | Arthur Schuster | Doctor of Science |
| 1908 | Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1908 | Pratul Chandra Chatterjee | Doctor of Law |
| 1908 | Gooroodas Banerjee | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1908 | Eugene Lafont | Doctor of Science |
| 1908 | Herbert Hope Risley | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1908 | Gerald Bomford | Doctor of Medicine |
| 1908 | Thomas Henry Holland | Doctor of Science |
| 1908 | Prafulla Chandra Ray | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1908 | George Frederick William Thibaut | Doctor of Science |
| 1908 | Subbaiyar Subramaniya Aiyar | Doctor of Law |
| 1911 | Crown Prince of the German Empires of Prussia | Doctor of Law |
| 1912 | Douglas Craven Phillott | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1912 | Paul Johannes Briihl | Doctor of Science |
| 1912 | Jagadish Chandra Bose | Doctor of Science |
| 1913 | Hermann Oldenberg | Doctor of Literature |
| 1913 | Andrew Russell Forsyth | Doctor of Science |
| 1913 | Taraknath Palit | Doctor of Law |
| 1913 | Paul Vinogradoff | Doctor of Law |
| 1913 | Hermann Jacobi | Doctor of Literature |
| 1913 | William Henry Young | Doctor of Science |
| 1913 | Rash Behari Ghosh | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Doctor of Literature |
| 1913 | Henry Hubert Hayden | Doctor of Science |
| 1913 | Sylvain Levi | Doctor of Literature |
| 1920 | Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher | Doctor of Literature |
| 1921 | Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay | Doctor of Literature |
| 1921 | Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Earl of Reading | Doctor of Law |
| 1921 | William Jackson Pope | Doctor of Science |
| 1921 | William Alexander Craigie | Doctor of Literature |
| 1921 | Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya | Doctor of Science (Eng.) |
| 1921 | Brajendra Nath Seal | Doctor of Science |
| 1921 | Raghunath Purushottam Paranjpye | Doctor of Science |
| 1921 | John Hubert Marshall | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1921 | Gilbert Thomas Walker | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1921 | Rudrapatna Shama Sastri | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1921 | Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1921 | Henry Stephen | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1921 | Cuthbert Edmund Cullis | Doctor of Science |
| 1921 | Dinesh Chandra Sen | Doctor of Literature |
| 1921 | Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 1921 | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | Doctor of Science |
| 1921 | Abanindranath Tagore | Doctor of Literature |
| 1921 | Syed Ameer Ali | Doctor of Law |
| 1921 | Arthur Anthony Macdonell | Doctor of Oriental |
| 1921 | Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, High Steward of Windsor | Doctor of Law |
| 1922 | James Wilford Garner | Doctor of Law |
| 1926 | William Ewart Greaves | Doctor of Law |
| 1928 | Arnold Sommerfeld | Doctor of Science |
| 1930 | William Spence Urquhart (de) | Doctor of Law |
| 1931 | Rajendranath Mukherjee | Doctor of Science |
| 1931 | Heramba Chandra Maitra | Doctor of Literature |
| 1931 | Charles Albert Bentley | Doctor of Medicine |
| 1932 | Francis Stanley Jackson | Doctor of Science |
| 1934 | Hassan Suhrawardy | Doctor of Science |
| 1938 | James Hopwood Jeans | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | Francis William Aston | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | Ernest Barker | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | Arthur Henry Reginald Buller | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | Arthur Stanley Eddington | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | Ronald Aylmer Fisher | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | William Searle Holdsworth | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | Carl Gustav Jung | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | Charles Samuel Myers | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | Walther Straub (de) | Doctor of Law |
| 1938 | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee | Doctor of Literature |
| 1941 | Nilratan Sircar | Doctor of Science |
| 1942 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Doctor of Law |
| 1942 | Mohammad Azizul Haque | Doctor of Literature |
| 1944 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | Doctor of Science |
| 1948 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari | Doctor of Law |
| 1949 | Pramathanath Banerjee | Doctor of Literature |
| 1952 | Rajendra Prasad | Doctor of Law |
| 1952 | Harendra Coomar Mookerjee | Doctor of Literature |
| 1952 | Sambhunath Banerjee | Doctor of Law |
| 1956 | Jogeschandra Ray | Doctor of Literature |
| 1957 | Nandalal Bose | Doctor of Literature |
| 1957 | Rajsekhar Basu | Doctor of Literature |
| 1957 | Zakir Hussain | Doctor of Literature |
| 1957 | Vidhusekhar Bhattacharyya | Doctor of Literature |
| 1957 | Jogendranath Bagchi | Doctor of Literature |
| 1957 | Arnold Joseph Toynbee | Doctor of Literature |
| 1957 | Satyendra Nath Bose | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Lloyd Viel Berkner | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Jnanendra Chandra Ghosh | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Harold Spencer Jones | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Yoshio Kitagawa | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Alexander Nesmeyanov | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | J. Robert Oppenheimer | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Sudhi Ranjan Das | Doctor of Law |
| 1957 | Atul Chandra Gupta | Doctor of Law |
| 1960 | Niels Henrik David Bohr | Doctor of Science |
| 1961 | Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta | Doctor of Literature |
| 1965 | Gopinath Kaviraj | Doctor of Literature |
| 1967 | Satischandra Ghosh | Doctor of Literature |
| 1968 | Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay | Doctor of Literature |
| 1968 | Nilratan Dhar | Doctor of Science |
| 1969 | Ramesh Chandra Majumdar | Doctor of Literature |
| 1969 | Dilip Kumar Roy | Doctor of Literature |
| 1969 | Radhagobinda Nath | Doctor of Literature |
| 1969 | Suniti Kumar Chatterji | Doctor of Literature |
| 1969 | Debendra Mohan Bose | Doctor of Science |
| 1970 | Srikumar Bandyopadhyay | Doctor of Literature |
| 1970 | Priyadaranjan Ray | Doctor of Science |
| 1971 | Durgadas Basu | Doctor of Law |
| 1972 | Abu Sayeed Chowdhury | Doctor of Law |
| 1973 | Sailendranath Sen | Doctor of Medicine |
| 1973 | Prasantabihari Mukhopadhyay | Doctor of Law |
| 1974 | Hargobind Khorana | Doctor of Science |
| 1975 | Jnanendranath Mukhopadhyay | Doctor of Science |
| 1976 | Sumitranandan Pant | Doctor of Literature |
| 1981 | Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya | Doctor of Science |
| 1982 | Janardan Chakrabarti | Doctor of Literature |
| 1982 | Udipi Ramachandra Rao | Doctor of Science |
| 1984 | Rezaul Karim | Doctor of Literature |
| 1985 | Satyajit Ray | Doctor of Literature |
| 1986 | Pandit Ravi Shankar | Doctor of Literature |
| 1986 | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | Doctor of Literature |
| 1988 | Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay | Doctor of Literature |
| 1988 | G. I. Marchuk | Doctor of Science |
| 1989 | Hirendranath Mukhopadhyay | Doctor of Literature |
| 1989 | Bhabatosh Datta | Doctor of Literature |
| 1989 | Ashesh Prasad Mitra | Doctor of Science |
| 1989 | Safdar Hashmi | Doctor of Literature |
| 1990 | Subodhchandra Sengupta | Doctor of Literature |
| 1990 | Srijib Bhattacharyya | Doctor of Literature |
| 1990 | Gopal Haldar | Doctor of Literature |
| 1991 | Võ Nguyên Giáp | Doctor of Literature |
| 1993 | Amartya Kumar Sen | Doctor of Literature |
| 1993 | Asghar Ali Engineer | Doctor of Literature |
| 1994 | Sambhu Nath De | Doctor of Science |
| 1994 | Giovanni Spadolini | Doctor of Literature |
| 1995 | Laxmi Mall Singhvi | Doctor of Law |
| 1995 | Durga Das Basu | Doctor of Literature |
| 1995 | Triguna Sen | Doctor of Science |
| 1995 | Radhanath Rath | Doctor of Literature |
| 1997 | Ali Akbar Khan | Doctor of Literature |
| 1997 | Leela Majumdar | Doctor of Literature |
| 1998 | Sushil Kumar Dhara | Doctor of Literature |
| 1998 | Binoy Krishna Chaudhuri | Doctor of Literature |
| 1998 | Pratap Chandra Chunder | Doctor of Literature |
| 1998 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan | Doctor of Science |
| 1998 | Autar Singh Paintal | Doctor of Science |
| 2001 | Jayant Vishnu Narlikar | Doctor of Science |
| 2001 | Noam Chomsky | Doctor of Literature |
| 2002 | Krishnaswami Kasturirangan | Doctor of Science |
| 2002 | Romila Thapar | Doctor of Literature |
| 2003 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao | Doctor of Science |
| 2003 | Tapan Raychaudhuri | Doctor of Literature |
| 2004 | C. N. R. Rao | Doctor of Science |
| 2004 | Ashoke Sen | Doctor of Science |
| 2005 | Man Mohan Sharma | Doctor of Science |
| 2005 | Mihir Rakshit | Doctor of Science |
| 2005 | Nirmal Kumar Ganguly | Doctor of Literature |
| 2006 | Sankar Lal Adhya | Doctor of Science |
| 2006 | Andre Beteille | Doctor of Literature |
| 2006 | Purushottama Lal | Doctor of Literature |
| 2007 | Romano Prodi | Doctor of Science |
| 2007 | Jyoti Basu | Doctor of Law |
| 2007 | Nirendranath Chakraborty | Doctor of Literature |
| 2007 | Tapas Majumdar | Doctor of Literature |
| 2008 | Goverdhan Mehta | Doctor of Science |
| 2008 | Mushirul Hasan | Doctor of Literature |
| 2008 | Ratan Lal Brahmachary | Doctor of Science |
| 2009 | Mrinal Sen | Doctor of Literature |
| 2009 | Santi Pada Gon Chaudhuri | Doctor of Science |
| 2009 | Sunita Narain | Doctor of Science |
| 2010 | Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck | Doctor of Law |
| 2010 | Bimal Jalan | Doctor of Literature |
| 2010 | Srikumar Banerjee | Doctor of Science |
| 2012 | Shyam Benegal | Doctor of Literature |
| 2012 | U. R. Ananthamurthy | Doctor of Literature |
| 2012 | Pranab Kumar Sen | Doctor of Science |
| 2013 | R. Chidambaram | Doctor of Science |
| 2013 | Premnath Dogra | Doctor of Science |
| 2013 | Jitendra Nath Mohanty | Doctor of Literature |
| 2014 | Pranab Mukherjee | Doctor of Literature |
| 2014 | Muchkund Dubey | Doctor of Literature |
| 2014 | Bikash Sinha | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 | Lakshmi Shankar Ojha | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 | Antanas Paskevicius-Poska | Doctor of Literature |
| 2015 | T. V. Ramakrishnan | Doctor of Science |
| 2015 | Lord Hameed (Khalid Hameed) | Doctor of Science |
| 2015 | Sanjay Subrahmanyam | Doctor of Literature |
| 2015 | Pandit Birju Maharaj | Doctor of Literature |
| 2015 | Joy Goswami | Doctor of Literature |
| 2018 | Mamata Banerjee | Doctor of Literature |
| 2019 | Gopalkrishna Gandhi | Doctor of Literature |
| 2019 | Dilip Mahalanabis | Doctor of Science |
| 2019 | Srikumar Banerjee | Doctor of Science |
| 2020 | Abhijit Banerjee | Doctor of Literature |