Honorary degrees

Brigham Young University has bestowed honorary degrees on more than 160 men and women. A sampling of the luminaries, including the first, founding administrator Karl G. Maeser:

• 1889 — Karl G. Maeser, founding principal, Brigham Young Academy

• 1941 — Justice George Sutherland

• 1957 — Cecil B. DeMille, Hollywood director

• 1959 — Carl Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and historian

• 1967 — Norman Vincent Peale, preacher, inspirational author

• 1968 — Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor, electronic television

• 1975 — Chief Justice Warren Burger, U.S. Supreme Court

• 1977 — Alex Haley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Roots"

• 1980 — Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist

• 1989 — Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize-winning author, Holocaust survivor

• 1994 — Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court

• 1999 — Madeleine L'Engle, author, "A Wrinkle in Time"

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Source: BYU University Communication and "Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years"