Note: All names denoted by * are Fordham alumni.
2018 Honorary Degree Recipients | First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
| Emanuel | Chirico | Chairman and CEO of PVH Corp. |
| Patricia | Clarkson | Award-Winning Actress |
| Sherrilyn | Ifill | President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund |
| Cardinal Joseph W. | Tobin, C.Ss.R. | Archbishop of Newark |
| Marianne | Kraft | Principal of St. Athanasius School |
| Louise | Mirrer | President and CEO of the New York Historical Society |
| William S. | Stavropoulos | Former Chairman and CEO of the Dow Chemical Company |
| Peter B. | Vaughan | Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Social Service |
| Anne | Wiliams-Isom | CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone |
2017 Honorary Degree Recipients | First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
| Anne | Anderson | Ambassador of Ireland to the United States |
| Joseph | Cammarosano | Professor Emeritus of Economics, Fordham University |
| Anthony | Carter | Former Vice President, Global Diversity & Inclusion, and Chief Diversity Officer, Johnson & Johnson |
| Michael | Dowling | President and Chief Executive Officer of Northwell Health |
| Jane | Iannucelli | President of the Sisters of Charity |
| Gregory | Long | Chief Executive Officer and the William C. Steere Sr. President of the New York Botanical Garden |
| Cardinal Óscar Andrés | Rodríguez Maradiaga | Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Head of the Pope’s Council of Cardinals |
| Eric | Schneiderman | Attorney General of New York |
2016 Honorary Degree Recipients | First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
| Judith | Altmann | Holocaust Survivor; Vice President of the Holocaust Child Survivors of Connecticut |
| Robert | Battle | Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Gregory | Boyle | Executive Director, Homeboy Industries |
| Henry | Cobb | Founding Partner, Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners; Designer of the Fordham Law School and McKeon Residence Hall |
| Maurice | Cunniffe | Chairman and CEO, Vista Capital; Fordham University Trustee Emeritus |
| Patricia | David | Managing Director and Global Head of Diversity, JP Morgan Chase |
| Carol | Keehan | President and Chief Executive Officer, Catholic Health Association of the United States |
| Loretta | Preska | Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; Fordham University Trustee Fellow |
| David | Skorton | Secretary, Smithsonian Institute |
2015 Honorary Degree Recipients | First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
| Douglas | Brooks | Director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy |
| Hage G. | Geingob* | President, Republic of Namibia |
| Matthew | Goldstein | Former Chancellor, City University of New York |
| Judith | Livingston | Senior Partner, Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore |
| William | Loschert* | Chairman of ACE UK Limited; Nonexecutive Director of ACE Underwriting Agencies; former Fordham Trustee |
| Nana Lordina Dramani | Mahama | First Lady of the Republic of Ghana |
| Thomas | Moore* | Senior Partner, Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore |
| Michael | Mullen | Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Jaime Lucas Cardinal | Ortega | Archbishop of Havana |
| Eugene | Shvidler* | Chairman, Millhouse LLC; Executive Chairman, Highland Gold Mining, Ltd. |
| Mary Anne | Sullivan* | Partner, Hogan Lovells |
| Dennis | Walcott* | Former Chancellor, New York Public School System |
2014 Honorary Degree Recipients | First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
| Stephen | Bepler* | Senior Vice President, Capital Research Global Investors, former Fordham Trustee |
| Yvonne | Cagle | US Air Force Officer; NASA Senior Astronaut Physician and Researcher |
| Denny | Chin* | Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| Mary Alice | Hannan, OP | Former Executive Director, Part of the Solution |
| Nemir | Kirdar* | Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO, Investcorp |
| Reynold | Levy | President, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts |
| Archbishop Diarmuid | Martin | Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland |
| Constantino | Martinez | Former Major League Baseball All-Star, New York Yankees |
| Sonia | Sotomayor | Associate Justice, US Supreme Court; Author |
| Luis Antonio G. Cardinal | Tagle | Archbishop of Manila |
| Archbishop Rowan | Williams | 104th Archbishop of Canterbury; Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge |
| Archbishop Anastasios | Yannoulatos | Archbishop of Tirana, Durres, and all Albania |
2013 Honorary Degree Recipients | First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
| Kaushik | Basu | Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, World Bank |
| Sally | Bellet* | President, Stein/Bellet Foundation |
| Preet | Bharara | US Attorney for the Southern District of New York |
| Dion | DiMucci | Musician, Dion and the Belmonts |
| Richard | Engel | Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News |
| Patricia | Harris | First Deputy Mayor, New York City |
| Paulette | LoMonaco, RGS | Executive Director, Good Shepherd Services |
| John | Tognino* | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pepper Financial Group; former Merrill Lynch executive; former Executive VP, NASDAQ; Chair, Fordham Board of Trustees |
2012 Honorary Degree Recipients | First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
| Nassir Abdulaziz | Al-Nasser | President, United Nations General Assembly |
| Tony | Bennett | Singer |
| John | Brennan* | Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and Deputy National Security Advisor |
| Michelle | DePass* | Assistant Administrator, Office of International and Tribal Affairs, US Environmental Protection Agency |
| Timothy Cardinal | Dolan | Archbishop of New York |
| Eugenie | Doyle* | Professor Emerita of Pediatric Cardiology, NYU Langone Medical Center |
| Jacqueline | Novogratz | Founder and CEO, Acumen Fund; Author |
| Phylicia | Rashad | Tony Award Winning Actress, former Denzel Washington Professor of Theatre, Fordham |
| Edolphus | Towns | Representative, US Congress; Leader of the Social Work Caucus |
2011 Honorary Degree Recipients | First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
| Benigno Simeon C. | Aquino III | President, Republic of the Philippines |
| Glorya | Kaufman | Philanthropist; Founder, Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation |
| Earle I. | Mack | Arts advocate; businessman; former US Ambassador to Finland |
| Peter | Pace | Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| George E. | Pataki | Former Governor, State of New York |
| Steven E. | Sanderson | President and Chief Executive Officer, Wildlife Conservation Society; former Fordham Trustee |
| Marian | Seldes | Tony Award winning actress |
| Sviatoslav | Shevchuk | Head and Father of the Ukrainian Catholic Church |
| Alex | Trebek | Host, Jeopardy! |
| Brian | Williams | Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News |
2010 Honorary Degree Recipients | First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
| Francis M. | Campbell | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Holy See |
| Miguel Humberto | Diaz | US Ambassador to the Holy See; former professor of Theology |
| Alfonso J. "Alfy" | Fanjul Jr.* | Chairman and CEO, Fanjul Corporation |
| John K. | Mara* | President and Chief Executive Officer, New York Giants Football |
| Mary | McAleese | President of Ireland |
| Robert M. | Morgenthau | Former District Attorney of New York County |
| Richard | Ravitch | Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York |
