| Name | Honorary Degree | Year | Career if Known |
|---|---|---|---|
| John M. Vincent, enr. 1841-1843 | A.M. |
1852 |
Lawyer |
| Quincy Adams Gillmore | A.M. | 1856 | American Civil Engineer, Union Army General |
| William Bryant Brown, OC 1841 | A.M. | 1861 | Reverend |
| Samuel Stanford Ashley, OC 1849 | A.M. | 1865 | American Christian Minister, North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction |
| John Manning Barrows, OC 1838 | A.M. | 1865 | Preacher |
| Sarah Foster Waldo Branch | A.M. | 1865 | Educator |
| Joseph Taylor Cook | A.M. | 1865 | Chaplain |
| Heman Geer, OC 1848 | A.M. | 1865 | Pastor |
| Larmon Blakelee Lane, OC 1847 | A.M. | 1865 | Missionary, Pastor |
| Stephen Cornelius Leonard, OC 1844 | A.M. | 1865 | Educator, Pastor |
| Almeda Dunn Reynolds Matson | A.M. | 1865 | Educator |
| Albert Milton Richardson | A.M. | 1865 | Clergyman, Missionary, Temperance Activist |
| Ebenezer Tucker, OC 1844 | A.M. | 1865 | Educator, Pastor |
| Joshua J. Childs | A.M. | 1867 | Educator |
| Daniel Fowler DeWolf | A.M | 1867 | Author, Farmer, Soldier |
| Hamilton Andrews Hill | A.M. | 1867 | Author, Politician |
| Edwin Sidney Williams, OC 1865 | A.M. | 1868 | Co-founder of Carleton College, Pastor |
| George North Carruthers, OC 1862 | A.M. | 1870 | Chaplain, Missionary |
| John Paul Morgan | A.M. | 1870 | Educator, Organist |
| Bradford Smith | A.M. | 1870 | Educator |
| John Wesley White, OC 1857 | A.M. | 1870 | Minister |
| James King Newton | A.M. | 1873 | Educator, Soldier |
| John Phelps Cowles | A.M. | 1874 | Government Work, Tea Merchant |
| Francis Albert Chatfield | A.M. | 1876 | Postmaster, Druggist |
| George Frederic Thompson Cook | A.M. | 1877 | Educator, Businessperson |
| David Wilson Harlan | A.M. | 1877 | Educator |
| John Melville McPherron | A.M. | 1877 | Educator, Mathamatician |
| Antoinette Brown Blackwell, OC 1847 | A.M. | 1878 | Minister, Women's Rights Activist |
| Mary Parker Dascomb, OC 1860 | A.M. | 1878 | First Principal of the Oberlin Female Department |
| Mary Ann Wattles Faunce, OC 1868 | A.M. | 1878 | Abolitionist, Civil War Nurse, Professor of Anatomy |
| Martha Ellen French, OC 1870 | A.M. | 1878 | Educator |
| Elisha Gray, enr. 1860-1862 | A.M. | 1878 | Developer of Early Telephone Prototype, Electrical Engineer |
| Thomas F. Hicks | A.M. | 1878 | Reverend |
| Ruth Estelle Hoppin, OC 1856 | A.M. | 1878 | Educator |
| Adelia Antoinette Field Johnston, OC 1856 | A.M. | 1878 | First Woman Faculty Member at Oberlin College, Oberlin College Dean of Women |
| Mary Atkins Lynch, OC 1845 | A.M. | 1878 | Educator |
| Helen Elizabeth Martin, OC 1860 | A.M. | 1878 | Educator |
| Thomas Jefferson Pringle | A.M. | 1878 | Lawyer, Ohio State Senator |
| Helen Almira Shafer, OC 1863 | A.M. | 1878 | Educator, President of Wellesley College |
| Mary Martha Wright, OC 1870 | A.M. | 1878 | Assistant Principal of the Oberlin College Ladies Department, Educator |
| Henry Matson, OC 1861 | A.M. | 1879 | Educator, Librarian |
| George Kilbon Nash | A.M. | 1879 | Governor of Ohio, Lawyer, Soldier |
| Lucy Jane Rider Meyer, OC 1872 | A.M. | 1880 | Educator, Social Worker, Co-founder of the Chicago Training School for Home and Foreign Missions |
| Caroline Amelia Dickson Ripley, OC 1852 | A.M. | 1880 | Educator |
| John Bean Upton, enr. 1850-1853 | A.M. | 1880 | Lawyer |
| Orris Hubert Warren, enr. 1854-1857 | A.M. | 1880 | Editor, Preacher |
| Mary Jane Nettleton Ball, OC 1873 | A.M. | 1882 | Assistant Principal of the Oberlin Women's Department, Educator |
| Martha Jane Maltby, OC 1874 | A.M. | 1882 | Educator |
| John Wesley Powell | A.M. | 1882 | Explorer, Geologist, Soldier |
| Leonore Congdon Schutze | A.M. | 1882 | Geographer, Rancher |
| Margaret Elizabeth Stratton, OC 1878 | A.M. | 1882 | |
| Emma Irene Crumrine Bishop, OC 1875 | A.M. | 1883 | |
| Lyman Beecher Sperry | A.M. | 1883 | |
| Ann Moody Potter, OC 1857 | A.M. | 1884 | |
| Fenelon B. Rice | A.M. | 1884 | |
| Lucretia Celestia Wattles | A.M. | 1884 | |
| William Richards Castle | A.M. | 1885 | |
| Abbie E. Cushman Hine | A.M. | 1885 | |
| William Raymond Comings | A.M. | 1886 | |
| Mary Helen Smith | A.M. | 1887 | |
| Frederick Burt Avery | A.M. | 1888 | |
| John Martin Vincent, OC 1883 | A.M. | 1888 | |
| Charles Finney Cox, OC 1869 | A.M. | 1889 | |
| George Eugene Albrecht, OC 1882 | A.M. | 1890 | |
| Frances Cochran Hudson | A.M. | 1890 | |
| Mary Louisa Patterson Manley, OC 1880 | A.M. | 1890 | |
| Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead | A.M. | 1890 | |
| Sarah Candace Pearse Parker, OC 1851 | A.M. | 1890 | |
| Charlotte E. Patchin Bickford, OC 1869 | A.M. | 1891 | |
| Martha Ann Robinson Canfield, OC 1868 | A.M. | 1891 | |
| Julia Chapin Jump, OC 1865 | A.M. | 1891 | |
| William Henry Scott | A.M. | 1891 | |
| Mary A. Thompson Springer | A.M. | 1891 | |
| Delia Ray Whipple Wheelock, OC 1853 | A.M. | 1891 | |
| Charles Bennett Wood | A.M. | 1891 | |
| Anna Holland Jones, OC 1875 | A.M. | 1892 | |
| Mortimer Dormer Leggett | A.M. | 1892 | |
| William Myron Brooks, OC 1857 | D.D. | 1893 | |
| John Milliot Ellis, OC 1851 | D.D. | 1893 | |
| George Thompson Fairchild, OC 1862 | LL.D. | 1893 | |
| James Harris Fairchild, OC 1838 | LL.D. | 1893 | |
| Emily C. Huntington Miller, OC 1857 | A.M. | 1893 | |
| Thomas Edwin Monroe, OC 1855 | D.D. | 1893 | |
| Helen Almira Shafer, OC 1863 | LL.D. | 1893 | |
| Edwin Buritt Smith | A.M. | 1893 | |
| John Milton Williams, OC 1839 | D.D. | 1893 | |
| Joseph Estabrook, OC 1847 | D.D. | 1894 | |
| Franklin Solomon Fitch, OC 1870 | D.D. | 1894 | |
| William Goodell Frost, OC 1876 | D.D. | 1894 | |
| Russell Thaddeus Hall, OC 1865 | D.D. | 1894 | |
| Orange Scott Runnels | A.M. | 1894 | |
| Charles Jackson Ryder, 1875 | D.D. | 1894 | |
| Walter Eugene Colburn Wright, OC 1865 | D.D. | 1894 | |
| Amzi Doolittle Barber, OC 1841 | D.D. | 1895 | |
| Mary Evans | A.M. | 1895 | |
| William Newell Hull | A.M. | 1895 | |
| Jonathan Edwards Ingersoll, OC 1845 | LL.D. | 1895 | |
| Leonard Fletcher Parker, OC 1851 | D.D. | 1895 | |
| Leonard Stickney Parker, OC 1838 | D.D. | 1895 | |
| Howard Hyde Russell, OC 1888 | A.M. | 1895 | |
| Nathan Stone Scott | A.M. | 1895 | |
| Lucia Stickney | A.M. | 1895 | |
| Cassius Eugene Wright, OC 1867 | D.D. | 1895 | |
| Florence C. Nichols Benson Baier, OC 1875 | A.M. | 1896 | |
| Cyrus Grandison Baldwin, OC 1873 | D.D. | 1896 | |
| Anna Amelia Light Biddle, OC 1870 | A.M. | 1896 | |
| Lucy Anne Cross, OC 1862 | A.M. | 1897 | |
| Henry Churchill King, OC 1879 | D.D. | 1897 | |
| William Scott Ament, OC 1873 | D.D. | 1898 | |
| Homer Wright Carter, OC 1870 | D.D. | 1898 | |
| Alfred Vance Churchill | A.M. | 1898 | |
| John Guiteau Welch Cowles, OC 1856 | LL.D. | 1898 | |
| Roselle Theodore Cross, OC 1867 | D.D. | 1898 | |
| Hastings Hornell Hart, OC 1875 | LL.D. | 1898 | |
| Charles Edward Jefferson | D.D. | 1898 | |
| Sydney Dix Strong, OC 1881 | D.D. | 1898 | |
| Frederick Alphonso Noble | LL.D. | 1899 | |
| Denton Jacques Snider, OC 1862 | Litt.D. | 1899 | |
| George Eugene Albrecht, OC 1882 | D.D | 1900 | |
| George Whitfield Andrews, Cons. 1879 | A.M. | 1900 | |
| Theodore Elijah Burton, OC 1872 | LL.D. | 1900 | |
| Samuel Billings Capen | LL.D. | 1900 | |
| William Benton Chamberlain, OC 1875 | D.D. | 1900 | |
| Franklin Henry Giddings | LL.D. | 1900 | |
| Harriet Louise Keeler, OC 1870 | A.M. | 1900 | |
| Jonathan Sprague Upton, enr. 1859-1861 | A.M. | 1900 | |
| Lucien Calvin Warner, OC 1865 | LL.D. | 1900 |