
| Last Name | First Name | Middle Name | Title | Year | Degree | Event |
| Inamori | Kazuo | 1988 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Commencement | ||
| Irish | James | R. | Rev. | 1876 | Dr. of Divinity | Commencement |
| Ives | Irving | McNeil | 1947 | Dr. of Laws | Founders Day | |
| Javits | Jacob | K. | Hon. | 1978 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement |
| Jenkins | Peter | Gorton | 2003 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Commencement | |
| Johnson | Charles | Henry | Rev. | 1915 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement |
| Johnston | Paul | William | 1951 | Dr. of Science | Commencement | |
| Jones | George | Chapman | 1928 | Dr. of Divinity | Commencement | |
| Jones | William | M. | Rev. | 1886 | Dr. of Divinity | Commencement |
| Judd | Walter | Henry | 1948 | Dr. of Laws | Founders Day | |
| Kahn | Benjamin | Maurice | 1962 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Commencement | |
| Keating | Kenneth | Barnard | 1960 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Founders Day | |
| Keeshan | Paul | M. | 1969 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Commencement | |
| Kellogg | Abraham | Lincoln | 1935 | Dr. of Laws | Founders Day | |
| Kelly | Robert | Lincoln | 1930 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement | |
| Kennedy | Paul | M. | 1994 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Commencement | |
| Kenyon | Alpheus | Burdick | 1905 | Dr. of Science | Commencement | |
| Kenyon | Alpheus | Burdick | 1877 | Master of Science | Commencement | |
| Kenyon | E. | Elvira | 1875 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Commencement | |
| Kenyon | Myron | Elwood | 1971 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement | |
| Klien | Robert | Martin | 1979 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Commencement | |
| Knight | John | Hon. | 1931 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement | |
| Komisar | Jerome | B. | 1988 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Commencement | |
| Kreidl | Norbert | J. | 1971 | Dr. of Science | Commencement | |
| Krumelien | Thre | 1868 | Master of Arts | Commencement | ||
| Kruse | Fredrick | William | Hon. | 1906 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement |
| Laegerstrom | Rumboldt | 1890 | Master of Arts | Commencement | ||
| Lalor | Juvenal | Rev. | 1954 | Dr. of Humane Letters | Founders Day | |
| Lambertsen | Eleanor | C | 1969 | Dr. of Science | Science Center Dedication | |
| Lang | Herman | Rev. | 1902 | Master of Arts | Commencement | |
| Lantman | Edgar | G. | 1932 | Dr. of Pedagogy | Commencement | |
| Lapp | John | Augustus | 1916 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement | |
| Larkins | Charles | Darius | 1904 | Dr. of Pedagogy | Commencement | |
| Lawrence | Richard | Wesley | 1939 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement | |
| Lax | Michael | S. | 1995 | Dr. of Fine Arts | Commencement | |
| Leach | William | Herman | 1933 | Dr. of Literature | Commencement | |
| Lefevere | Kamiel | 1940 | Dr. of Music | Commencement | ||
| Lehman | Herbert | Henry | Gov | 1933 | Dr. of Laws | Merrill Hall Dedication |
| Leone | Lucile | Petry | 1953 | Dr. of Science | Commencement | |
| Letson | Elizabeth | Jane | 1906 | Dr. of Science | Commencement | |
| Levis | William | Edward | 1953 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement | |
| Lewis | Abram | Herbert | Rev. | 1901 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement |
| Lewis | Alonzo | H. | 1875 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement | |
| Lewis | Daniel | 1902 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement | ||
| Lewis | Daniel | 1886 | Dr. of Philosophy | Commencement | ||
| Lewis | Edwin | Herbert | Dr. | 1910 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement |
| Lewis | J. | Gomer | Rev. | 1893 | Dr. of Divinity | Commencement |
| Lewis | Nathan | Earl | 1929 | Dr. of Science | Commencement | |
| Lundine | Stanley | Lt. Gen | 1987 | Dr. of Jurisprudence | Commencement | |
| Lunt | Samuel | Dorr | Jr. | 1967 | Dr. of Laws | Commencement |
| Lyons | Nathan | 2006 | Dr. of Fine Arts | Commencement |