| 2022 | Beatriz Perez | Doctor of Letters |
| 2019 | Donald E. Graham | Doctor of Letters |
| 2018 | Christopher Jackson | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 2017 | Comer Yates | Doctor of Laws |
| 2016 | Derreck Kayongo | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2015 | Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH | Doctor of Science |
| 2015 | Richard Garner | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 2014 | G. Malcolm Amerson (1968) | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 | Keith E. Baker (1983) | Doctor of Science in Accounting |
| 2014 | James A. Bohart (1972) | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 2014 | William L. Brightman (1975) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | Barbara R. Clark (1971) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | Charlton H. Jones (1974) | Doctor of Science in Business |
| 2014 | Nancy H. Kerr (1983) | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 | J. Brien Key (1965) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | David K. Mosher (1972) | Doctor of Science in Mathematics |
| 2014 | Philip J. Neujahr (1973) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | Ken Nishimura (1964) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | Beth Roberts (2000) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | John A. Ryland (1985) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | William O. Shropshire (1979) | Doctor of Science in Economics |
| 2014 | William F. Straley (1990) | Doctor of Science in Business |
| 2014 | T. Lavon Talley (1968) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | Louise M. Valine (1978) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | Martha H. Vardeman (1966) | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 | Victoria L. Weiss (1977) | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2014 | Philip P. Zinsmeister (1973) | Doctor of Science |
| 2013 | John Frederick (Fred) Agel, Sr. '52 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2013 | Donald J. Rubin '56 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2012 | Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson | Doctor of Letters |
| 2012 | Sue Adcock Frueauff | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2012 | Ted Turner
| Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2011 | Linda Bierds
| Doctor of Letters |
| 2011 | Kasim Reed
| Doctor of Laws |
| 2011 | Richard Wrangham
| Doctor of Science |
| 2010 | Belle Turner Lynch '61 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2010 | G. Wayne Clough | Doctor of Science |
| 2009 | Senator Johnny Isakson | Doctor of Laws |
| 2009 | Warren Jobe | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2008 | Beverly L. Hall | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2008 | Harald R. Hansen | Doctor of Laws |
| 2008 | Muhtar Kent | Doctor of Laws |
| 2007 | Tom Cousins | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2007 | Shirley Franklin | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2007 | Monica Pearson | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 | Pat Mitchell | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 | Michelle Nunn | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 | Sam Nunn | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2005 | Jack Guynn | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2004 | Garland F. Pinholster | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2004 | Janice Ann Galleshaw '75 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2003 | Myles Brand | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2002 | Samuel F. Pickering | Doctor of Letters |
| 2001 | Max Cleland | Doctor of Laws |
| 2000 | Joel Goldberg | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2000 | Louis W. Sullivan M.D. | Doctor of Letters |
| 1999 | David C. Garrett, Jr. | Doctor of Commerce |
| 1999 | Donald S. Stanton | Doctor of Letters |
| 1998 | Franklin Leigh Burke '66 | Doctor of Commerce |
| 1998 | Zell Miller | Doctor of Laws |
| 1997 | S. Truett Cathy | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1997 | Vincent Sherman '25 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1997 | Yoel Levi | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1996 | Karl Haas | Doctor of Letters |
| 1996 | Sir Keith Vivian Thomas PBA | Doctor of Laws |
| 1995 | Elmo Israel Ellis | Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 | J. Mack Robinson | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1995 | Joseph West Jones | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1995 | Paula Pimlott Brownlee | Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 | Sir Robin Renwick | Doctor of Laws |
| 1994 | Daniel Joseph Boorstin | Doctor of Letters |
| 1994 | Lu Thomasson Garrett '52 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1994 | Manning Mason Pattillo, Jr. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1993 | Chuck Jones | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1993 | Ruth Beebe Hill | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 | John Ackerman Conant | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 | Mack Albert Rikard '37 | Doctor of Commerce |
| 1992 | Miriam H. Conant | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 | Nisaburo Takanashi | Doctor of Commerce |
| 1991 | Anne Rivers Siddons | Doctor of Letters |
| 1991 | Charles Longstreet Weltner '48 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1991 | Hideo Ohki | Doctor of Laws |
| 1991 | William Porter Payne | Doctor of Laws |
| 1990 | Andrew Young | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1989 | James LaFayette Dickey III | Litterarum Doctor |
| 1988 | Michael J. Bowers | Doctor of Laws |
| 1986 | John Brooks Fuqua | Doctor of Laws |
| 1986 | Stephen John Schmidt '40 | Doctor of Laws |
| 1984 | Harry Jack Gray | Doctor of Engineering |
| 1983 | Anne Cox Chambers | Doctor of Laws |
| 1982 | William Franklin Harrington | Doctor of Sacred Theology |
| 1981 | William A. Strozier | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1980 | Earl Blackwell | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1978 | George C. Seward | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1978 | Marvin B. Perry, Jr. | Doctor of Letters |
| 1977 | Donald Charles Agnew | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1977 | Robert Lawson Shaw | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1977 | Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr. | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1976 | Cleanth Brooks | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1976 | Sanford Soverhill Atwood | Doctor of Science |
| 1976 | Wendell H. Brown | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1975 | Lawrence Wendell Bottoms | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1975 | Thomas L. Camp | Doctor of Laws |
| 1975 | William A. Egerton | Doctor of Commerce |
| 1974 | Benjamin B. Blackburn III | Doctor of Laws |
| 1974 | John R. Bertrand | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1974 | John Randolph Taylor | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1974 | Tetsuo Fukaishi | Doctor of Laws |
| 1973 | Charles L. Towers | Doctor of Laws |
| 1973 | Sylvan Meyer | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1973 | Vernon S. Broyles, Jr. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Arthur Howell | Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 | Jim David Cherry | Doctor of Science in Education |
| 1972 | Richard Emmett Deems | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1972 | Virgil W. Milton | Doctor of Laws |
| 1971 | Rev. Harry A. Fiefield | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1971 | Roy N. Goslin | Doctor of Science |
| 1971 | Sam Massell | Doctor of Laws |
| 1970 | Franklin Miller Garrett | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1969 | Herman Eugene Talmadge | Doctor of Laws |
| 1969 | Robert L. Foreman | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1968 | Harry Maxwell Dobson | Doctor of Music |
| 1968 | John Usher Monro | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1966 | Eugene Patterson | Doctor of Letters |
| 1965 | Shirley A. Johnson, Jr. | Doctor of Science |
| 1964 | Merriman Smith | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1961 | William B. Hartsfield | Doctor of Laws |
| 1956 | Margaret Davis Cate | Master of Arts |
| 1956 | Pope Furman Brock | Doctor of Laws |
| 1955 | Murray Marcus Copeland, M.D. | Doctor of Science |
| 1954 | James Saxon Childers | Doctor of Letters |
| 1952 | Irving S. Ingram, M.D. | Doctor of Education |
| 1951 | Elliott Evans Cheatham | Doctor of Laws |
| 1951 | Hughes Spalding | Doctor of Laws |
| 1950 | Ira Jarrell | Doctor of Education |
| 1950 | John A. Sibley | Doctor of Laws |
| 1947 | Eric H. Hansen | Doctor of Humanities |
| 1943 | Gen. Lewis B. Hershey | Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 | Archibald Rutledge | Doctor of Letters |
| 1941 | Ernest E. Cole | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1941 | Eugene Talmadge | Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 | Fitzgerald Hall | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1941 | Francis Lloyd F. Wood | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1941 | Jesse Holman Jones | Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 | Joseph P. Kennedy | Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 | Thomas J. Pancoast | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1940 | Albert Hamilton Collins | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1940 | Albert R. Stuart | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1940 | Glenn Stewart | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1940 | Ivan E. Allen, Sr. | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1940 | James A. Farley | Doctor of Laws |
| 1940 | Robert M. Nelson | Doctor of Laws |
| 1940 | Thomas K. Peters | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1939 | Charles R. Hook | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1939 | Frank E. Gannett | Doctor of Laws |
| 1939 | Frank N.D. Buchman | Doctor of Laws |
| 1939 | John M. Slaton | Doctor of Laws |
| 1939 | Judge Stirling P. Gilbert | Doctor of Laws |
| 1939 | Preston Herbert | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1939 | Rufus W. Oakey | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1939 | Sidney B. Hall | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1939 | Thomas J. Watson | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1938 | Charles J. Haden | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1938 | Colin English | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1938 | David Sarnoff | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1938 | Frank Richardson Kent | Doctor of Letters |
| 1938 | J. Robert Rubin | Doctor of Laws |
| 1938 | James Adams Colby | Doctor of Laws |
| 1938 | James B. Murphy | Doctor of Science |
| 1938 | John Oliver LaGorce | Doctor of Science |
| 1938 | Robert Whitehall Burns | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1937 | George L. Shearer | Doctor of Laws |
| 1937 | John Golden | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1937 | John H. Kellogg | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1937 | Joseph Patrick Kennedy | Doctor of Laws |
| 1937 | Joseph R. Murphy | Master of Commercial Science |
| 1937 | Marion Smith | Doctor of Laws |
| 1937 | William W. Ball | Doctor of Letters |
| 1936 | Charles E. Little | Doctor of Letters |
| 1936 | Clayton S. Cooper | Doctor of Letters |
| 1936 | John Francis Neylan | Doctor of Laws |
| 1936 | Margaret A. Barnes | Doctor of Letters |
| 1936 | Orson DeSaix Munn | Doctor of Science |
| 1936 | Robert H. Baker | Doctor of Science |
| 1936 | Thomas J. Lance | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1936 | Thomas S. Stribling | Doctor of Letters |
| 1935 | Amelia Earhart | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1935 | Annie Jump Cannon | Doctor of Science |
| 1935 | Caroline G. O'Day | Doctor of Laws |
| 1935 | Caroline Miller | Doctor of Letters |
| 1935 | Clara M. Thompson | Doctor of Laws |
| 1935 | Cora Smith Gould | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1935 | Florence R. Sabin | Doctor of Science |
| 1935 | Helen Rogers Reid | Doctor of Laws |
| 1935 | Josephine A. Roche | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1935 | Martha M. Berry | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1935 | Mrs. Sidney Lanier, Jr. | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1935 | Ruth Blair | Master of Public Service |
| 1935 | Thomas J. Small, M.D. | Doctor of Laws |
| 1934 | Cator Woolford | Master of Public Service |
| 1934 | Charles H. Herty | Doctor of Science |
| 1934 | Francis G. Pease | Doctor of Science |
| 1934 | Henry Bedinger Rust | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1934 | Homer Cummings | Doctor of Laws |
| 1934 | Samuel H. Sibley | Doctor of Laws |
| 1934 | Walter E. Hopper | Master of Public Service |
| 1934 | Walter Lippmann | Doctor of Letters |
| 1934 | William Green | Doctor of Public Service |
| 1933 | Albert R. Rogers | Master of Public Service |
| 1933 | Amos A. Ettinger | Doctor of Letters |
| 1933 | Archibald Henderson | Doctor of Letters |
| 1933 | Bernard M. Baruch | Doctor of Laws |
| 1933 | Edwin W. Kemmerer | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1933 | Gov. Herbert H. Lehman | Doctor of Laws |
| 1933 | M. D. Collins | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1933 | Paul Block | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1933 | Philip Weltner | Doctor of Laws |
| 1932 | Archibald W. Taylor | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1932 | Claude G. Bowers | Doctor of Laws |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Doctor of Laws |
| 1932 | Wilfred J. Funk | Doctor of Letters |
| 1931 | Albert E. Smith | Doctor of Laws |
| 1931 | Barron Collier | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1931 | Elizabeth M. Gilmer | Doctor of Letters |
| 1931 | Fowler McCormick | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1931 | Harlow Shapley | Doctor of Laws |
| 1931 | Ivy Ledbetter Lee | Doctor of Laws |
| 1931 | Rev. Joseph Terrell Dendy | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1930 | Benjamin N. Duke | Doctor of Laws |
| 1930 | Homer Thompson | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1930 | Lamartine G. Hardman | Doctor of Laws |
| 1930 | Lenix C. Sleesman | Doctor of Science |
| 1930 | Percy S. Strauss | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1930 | Rev. Wilburn A. Cleveland | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1930 | Theodore Swann | Doctor of Science |
| 1930 | Victor H. Hansen | Doctor of Letters |
| 1930 | Zadock D. Harrison | Bachelor of Arts |
| 1929 | Bishop H. J. Mikell | Doctor of Laws |
| 1929 | Louie D. Newton | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1929 | Mark Burrows | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1929 | Mrs. Joseph M. High | Doctor of Letters |
| 1929 | Nathan Haskell Dole | Doctor of Letters |
| 1929 | Rev. Russell H. Stafford | Doctor of Laws |
| 1929 | Richard B. Russell | Doctor of Laws |
| 1929 | Rudolph S. Heclit | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1928 | Clark Howell | Doctor of Laws |
| 1928 | Crichton Clarke | Doctor of Laws |
| 1928 | Haynes McFadden | Master of Commercial Science |
| 1928 | Hoke Smith | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1928 | John K. Ottley | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1928 | Morris Brandon | Doctor of Laws |
| 1928 | Royal S. Copeland | Doctor of Laws |
| 1928 | Thomas R. Preston | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1928 | William James Bailey | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1927 | E. A. Pound | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1927 | Lawton B. Evans | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1927 | Roselle M. Montgomery | Doctor of Letters |
| 1927 | Warren K. Morehead | Doctor of Science |
| 1927 | William R. Hearst | Doctor of Laws |
| 1926 | Harry Putnam Hermance | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1926 | Henry M. Atkinson | Doctor of Laws |
| 1926 | Rev. Henry W. Bloch | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1926 | Rev. John F. Preston | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1926 | Rev. Meredith A. Jones | Doctor of Laws |
| 1926 | William A. Law | Doctor of Laws |
| 1925 | Charles Edwin Mitchell | Doctor of Laws |
| 1925 | Williard N. Holmes | Doctor of Science |
| 1924 | Carlton B. Gibson | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1924 | Gutzon Borglum | Doctor of Laws |
| 1924 | Harold R. Berry | Doctor of Science |
| 1924 | John G. Bowman | Doctor of Laws |
| 1924 | Mary Brent Whiteside | Doctor of Letters |
| 1923 | Benjamin P. Gaillard | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1923 | Charles A. Sheldon, Jr. | Doctor of Music |
| 1923 | Joel Hunter | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1923 | Nathaniel P. Pratt | Doctor of Laws |
| 1923 | Rev. George L. Petrie | Doctor of Laws |
| 1923 | Willis A. Sutton | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1922 | Michael Hoke | Doctor of Laws |
| 1922 | Nanette Hopkins | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1922 | Rev. Charles A. Campbell | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1922 | Rev. J. W. Bachman | Doctor of Laws |
| 1921 | Bishop Thomas F. Gailor | Doctor of Laws |
| 1921 | Corra May Harris | Doctor of Letters |
| 1921 | J. T. Lupton | Doctor of Laws |
| 1921 | Thomas J. Smull | Doctor of Civil Engineering |
| 1920 | Rev. Clarence W. Rouse | Doctor of Laws |
| 1920 | Rev. Henry D. Phillips | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1920 | Rev. I. C. Stacy | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1920 | T. Woodrow Wilson | Doctor of Laws |
| 1871 | R. C. McInnis | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1871 | Donald McQueen | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1866 | J. R. Burgett | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1866 | James E. Evans | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1866 | John La Fayette Girardeau | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1866 | David Wills | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1857 | E. T. Buist | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1857 | Joseph R. Wilson | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1856 | James C. Patterson | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1855 | Sylvester Woodbridge | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1854 | Nathaniel Alpheus Pratt, Sr. | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1853 | Carlisle Pollock Beman | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1853 | E. P. Rogers | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1852 | Robert H. Nall | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1852 | Benjamin Morgan Palmer | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1852 | John S. Wilson | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1850 | John Stoughton | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1848 | Thomas Houston | Doctor of Divinity |
| 1847 | Richard B. Cater | Doctor of Divinity |