This is a list of honorary degree recipients from Binghamton University in New York.
| Name of recipient | Year | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Edwin Link | 1981 | Inventor and father of simulation technology |
| David de Wied | 1981 | Discoverer of neuropeptides |
| Charles Singleton | 1981 | Professor emeritus of humanistic studies, Johns Hopkins University |
| Paul Oskar Kristeller | 1982 | Professor of philosophy, Columbia University |
| David Soyer, Arnold Steinhardt and Michael Tree | 1983 | Founding members of the Guarneri Quartet |
| René Wellek | 1983 | Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Yale University |
| Thomas G. Bergin | 1984 | Sterling Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages, Yale University |
| Abraham J. Briloff | 1984 | Professor of accounting and financial ethicist |
| Helen Mary Caldicott | 1984 | Physician and activist |
| Leroy "Slam" Stewart | 1984 | Jazz musician |
| Kenneth Clark | 1985 | Psychologist |
| Roald Hoffmann | 1985 | Theoretical chemist and 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient |
| Winfred Lehmann | 1985 | Ashbel Smith Professor of Linguistics and German Languages, University of Texas |
| Eliezer Wiesel | 1985 | Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Boston University |
| Morton Bloomfield | 1986 | Professor emeritus of English and American literature and language, Harvard University |
| Stephen Jay Gould | 1986 | Evolutionary biologist and historian of science |
| Paul D. Maclean (MD) | 1986 | Intramural research scientist, National Institute of Mental Health |
| Josef Skvorecky | 1986 | Professor of English, University of Toronto |
| Brian Urquhart | 1986 | Under-secretary of the United Nations |
| Manfred Lachs | 1987 | Judge on the International Court of Justice |
| Bernard Lewis | 1987 | Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University |
| John Hope Franklin | 1988 | Historian |
| Alvin Liberman | 1988 | Speech psychologist |
| Aryeh Neier | 1988 | Human rights activist and founder of Americas Watch |
| Lewis Branscomb | 1989 | Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| Majid Khadduri | 1989 | Distinguished research professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies |
| Lofti Zadeh | 1989 | Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, University of California, Berkeley |
| Byllye Avery | 1990 | Founder and director, National Black Women's Health Network |
| Leszek Kolakowski | 1990 | Senior research fellow, All Souls' College, Oxford University |
| Jacob Lawrence | 1990 | Professor of art, University of Washington |
| Andrew Rutherford | 1990 | Warden, Goldsmiths' College, University of London |
| Gunther Wilke | 1990 | Director, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research |
| Jerome Frank | 1991 | Psychiatrist and psychologist, professor emeritus, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Niara Sudarkasa | 1991 | African-American anthropologist and educator |
| Jack Kilby | 1992 | Nobel Laureate and co-inventor of the integrated circuit |
| Johnnetta Cole | 1993 | President, Spelman College |
| Deborah Tannen | 1993 | Linguist and author |
| Andrew Bergman | 1994 | Film producer |
| John Cairns | 1994 | University distinguished professor of environmental biology, director of University Center for Environmental Studies and Hazardous Materials Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Mary Lowe Good | 1994 | Senior vice president for technology, Allied SIgnal, Inc. |
| Matthew McHugh | 1994 | Counselor to the president, The World Bank |
| William Julius Wilson | 1994 | Director and Lucy Flower University Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of Chicago, Center for the Study of Urban Inequity |
| Ilya Prigogine | 1995 | Noble Laureate in chemistry |
| Art Spiegelman | 1995 | Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist |
| Chinua Achebe | 1996 | Author |
| Shirley Chater | 1996 | Educator and administrator; Commissioner, Social Security Administration |
| Willhelm Gispen | 1996 | Leading scholar on the functioning of the brain |
| Donald Westlake | 1996 | Author of over 100 novels and non-fiction titles |
| Linda Gordon | 1997 | Historian |
| Maxine Greene | 1997 | Scholar and teacher in the philosophy and history of education, curriculum studies, teacher education and aesthetic education |
| Walter Isard | 1997 | Economist and founder of the discipline of peace science |
| Arnold Levine | 1997 | Molecular biologist and discoverer of tumor suppressant protein |
| Israel Rosefsky | 1997 | Pediatrician and philanthropist |
| Rodrigo Carazo | 1998 | Former president of United Nationals, established University of Peace |
| Susan Clark-Johnson | 1998 | President/publisher, journalist, editor, Gannett |
| C. Peter Magrath | 1998 | President of NASULGC, former president of Binghamton University, former University of Minnesota president |
| George Olah | 1998 | Scholar, researcher in superacids and carbocation chemistry |
| Robert W. Fogel | 1999 | Economic historian and early advocate of using quantitative methods in history |
| Mary Francis Berry | 1999 | Former chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights |
| David Komansky | 1999 | Chairman of the board and COO of Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Smith |
| Kurt Masur | 1999 | Music director, New York Philharmonic |
| R. Nicholas Burns | 2000 | U.S. Ambassador to Greece |
| Steve Kroft | 2000 | Television journalist |
| Shari Lawrence Pfleeger | 2000 | President, Systems Software, Inc., founder of Howard University's Center for Research in Evaluating Software, alumna 1970 |
| Paul Reiser | 2000 | Author, actor and comedian, alumnus 1977 |
| Loretta Ford | 2001 | Founding dean and dean emeritus, University of Rochester, leader/pioneer in nurse practitioner model |
| Stewart Paperin | 2001 | Former Executive vice president, Open Society Institute, alumnus 1968 and 1969 |
| Robert Pinsky | 2001 | Poetry editor, 1997-2000 Poet Laureate |
| Freeman Hrabowski III | 2002 | President, University of Maryland, African-American leader, nationally acclaimed educator |
| Gary Kunis | 2002 | Former vice president and chief science officer for Cisco Systems, Inc |
| Elmar Oliveira | 2002 | Classical violinist |
| Kemal Guruz | 2003 | President, Turkish Council of Higher Education |
| Dean Kamen | 2003 | Engineer, entrepreneur, inventor |
| Alan MacDiarmid | 2003 | 2000 Novel Prize winner in chemistry, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania |
| Mark A. Zurack | 2003 | Former executive vice president, Goldman Sachs |
| Sydney Pollack | 2003 | Author and film producer |
| Edgar Bronfman | 2004 | President, World Jewish Congress, chairman of International Board of Governors for Hillel |
| Eugene DeLoatch | 2004 | Dean of School of Engineering, Morgan State University, first African- American president of American Society for Engineering |
| Charlene Kahlor Kramer | 2004 | Vice president of Corporate Letters Communications, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), alumna 1973 |
| Ezra Laderman | 2004 | President, American Music Center |
| Ada Sue Hinshaw | 2005 | Founding director of the National Institute for Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), dean of School of Nursing, University of Michigan |
| Evelyn Glennie | 2006 | Scottish percussionist and timpanist |
| Erwin Goldberg | 2006 | Professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology, Northwestern University, alumnus 1956 |
| Linda Greenhouse | 2006 | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist |
| Allan Lyons | 2007 | Accountant, financier, educator and business leader |
| J. David Singer | 2007 | Political scientist and educator |
| Ronald Ehrenberg | 2008 | Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, Cornell University, alumnus 1966 |
| Richard Felder | 2008 | Hoechst Celanse Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University |
| Theodore Kooser | 2008 | Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry |
| Raymond Osterhout | 2008 | Philanthropist, retired group vice president and underwriting and marketing manager, Swiss Reinsurance Corporation |
| David Sedaris | 2008 | Author and humorist |
| Geoffrey Canada | 2009 | Social welfare administrator, educator and writer |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | 2009 | United States Supreme Court Justice |
| Mario Paniccia | 2009 | Director, Photonics Technology Lab, Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation, alumnus 1988 |
| Lawrence Schorr | 2009 | Attorney and philanthropist, alumnus 1975 and 1977 |
| Ahmet Acar | 2010 | Rector/professor, Middle East Technical University, Turkey |
| Steven Bloom | 2010 | Philanthropist, financial analyst, alumnus 1978 |
| Terrence Keane | 2011 | Professor and vice chairman in psychiatry, Boston University, alumnus 1976 and 1979 |
| David Orr | 2011 | Paul Sears Distinguished Professor and chair, environmental studies program at Oberlin College |
| Owen C. Pell | 2011 | International litigator, alumnus 1980 |
| James Carrigg | 2012 | Watson School founder and retired president, chairman and CEO of New York State Electric & Gas |
| Steve Karmen | 2012 | Composer, musician, arranger, author |
| Paul Turovsky | 2012 | Philanthropist, founding partner, True North Management Group, alumnus 1973 |
| Mary Wakefield | 2012 | Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration |
| Marilyn Link | 2013 | Pioneering Pilot, educator, philanthropist and managing director of an oceanographic institute |
| Voya Markovich | 2013 | Leading expert in advanced electronics packaging |
| Nancy Wackstein | 2013 | Preeminent social worker and champion of the homeless and disadvantaged, alumnus 1973 |
| George Whitesides | 2013 | Prolific and influential scientist in chemistry, materials science, physics and engineering |
| Carol C. Harter | 2014 | Academic administrator and English language editor, alumnus 1964 |
| Eric P. Schwartz | 2014 | Public policy scholar, public servant and international humanitarian and human rights expert, alumnus 1979 |
| Deborah Gray White | 2014 | Academian and influential historian of African-American and American women's history, alumnus 1971 |
| Horace Wood Gibson, Jr. | 2015 | Renaissance man and educator |
| Jason Randolph Stanley | 2015 | Educator and philosopher |
| Tien Wu | 2015 | CEO and member of the board of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. |
| John R. Bartle | 2016 | Dean of the college of Public Affairs and Community Service, and professor of public administration, University of Omaha, Nebraska |
| Marc D. Lawrence | 2016 | Screenwriter, producer, director, alumnus 1981 |
| Nathan Englander | 2017 | Award-winning author, playwright and translator, alumnus 1991 |
| Anthony I. Kornheiser | 2017 | Sports journalist and commentator, alumnus 1971 |
| Geraldine MacDonald | 2017 | Pioneer of internet communications, alumnus 1968 |
| Sergio Rapu Haoa | 2017 | Archeologist and cultural ambassador for Rapa Nui, Chile |
| Ali Çarkoğlu | 2018 | Educator, higher education administrator and political commentator, alumnus 1994 |
| Asunción "Sunny" C. Hostin | 2018 | Columnist, social commentator and multi-platform journalist, alumnus 1990 |
| Aaron Mair | 2018 | Founder of the environmental justice movement, alumnus 1984 |
| Balakrishna Gopalan Iyer | 2019 | Business leader and educator, alumnus 2000 |
| Patricia A. Saunders | 2019 | Humanitarian and student-athlete advocate, alumnus 1965 |
| Howard Unger | 2019 | Financial innovator and world peace advocate, alumnus 1982 |
| Robert H. Swan | 2022 | Leader of several online corporations, alumnus 1985 |
| Yasmin L. Hurd | 2024 | Studied neurobiology of substance use and associated disorders |
| Lee Ranaldo | 2024 | Musician who co-founded the band Sonic Youth |
| Alexander S. Vindman | 2024 | Former colonel in the U.S. Army |
| Govindasamy Viswanathan | 2024 | Founded the Vellore Institute of Technology |