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Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1942

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1946

Janssen Medal from the French Academy of Sciences in 1946

Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society (1947)

Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society in 1951

National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Jansky Prize, 1967

Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 1972

Association pour le Développement International de l’Observatoire de Nice, ADION medal, 1978

Balzan Prize for Astrophysics in 1984

Inamori Foundation, Kyoto Prize, 1987

Bangunan Oort , bangunan terkini Leiden Observatory

Ahli Akademi Seni dan Sains Kerajaan Belanda (1937–1943, 1945–)

Setelah kematiannya, ahli astrofizik Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar memenangi Hadiah Nobel, "Oak besar Astronomi telah ditebang, dan kami hilang tanpa bayangannya."

Blaauw, Adriaan, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (Springer, NY, 2007), pp. 853–55.

Chapman, David M.F., “Reflections: Jan Hendrik Oort—- Swirling Galaxies and Clouds of Comets,” JRASC 94, 53-54 (2000).

ESA Space Science, “Comet Pioneer: Jan Hendrik Oort,” 27 February 2004.

Oort, J.H., “Some Notes on My Life as an Astronomer,” Annual Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics 19, 1 (1981).

Katgert-Merkelijn, J., University of Leiden, Jan Oort, Astronomer

van de Hulst, H.C., Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society of London 40, 320-26 (1994).

van Woerden, Hugo, Willem N. Brouw, and Henk C. van de Hulst, eds., Oort and the Universe: A Sketch of Oort’s Research and Person (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1980).