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Holders of Honorary Degrees and Prizes from Cairo University
Cairo university is one of the numerous prestigious universities in Egypt and in the Arab region. The university has awarded the prestigious honorary doctorate degrees to prominent individuals who have made tremendous impacts and craved a niche for themselves in specific fields.
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements, such as matriculation, attendance, course credits, a dissertation, and the passing of comprehensive examinations. It is also known by the Latin phrases honoris causa (“for the sake of the honour”) or ad honorem (“to the honour”). The degree is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master’s degree, and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the academic institution, or no previous post-secondary education. The degree is often conferred as a way of honouring a distinguished visitor’s contributions to a specific field or to society in general
Below is the list of the holders of the honorary doctorates from Cairo University:
Holders of Honorary Doctorate from Cairo University (1910 – 2010)
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| Name | Position | Date |
| President Theodore Roosevelt | USA President | 08/03/1910 |
| Professor Edward Hrio | Former Professor of Wilson University | 03/05/1928 |
| King Fouad the First | Egypt’s King | 15/11/1928 |
| Professor Delmas | Professor at University of Montpellier | 20/11/1928 |
| Professor Auxerre | Dean of Faculty of Medicine, University of Montpellier, France | 27/11/1928 |
| Professor Shovenz | Manager of The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam, Netherlands | 27/11/1928 |
| Professor Kawamura | Professor of Pathology, Bijan University, Japan Aventino | 27/11/1928 |
| Professor Anstas | Professor at University of Athens | 27/11/1928 |
| Sir Koprbri | Former Manager of London University | 27/11/1928 |
| Sir Robert Villette | Professor of Chest Diseases at the University of Edinburgh | 27/11/1928 |
| Professor Natal | Professor of Sociology, Cambridge University | 27/11/1928 |
| Professor Vaquez | Professor of Paris University | 27/11/1928 |
| Professor Henry Frederick | Professor of Physiology at Liebig University, Belgium | 27/11/1928 |
| Professor Klein | Robert Koch Institute | 27/11/1928 |
| Col. Giovanni Gerksona | Physician at the Italian Army | 27/11/1928 |
| Professor Volporn | Professor of Parasitology in Hamburg, Germany | 30/11/1928 |
| Professor Janlpin | Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lyon | 30/11/1928 |
| Professor Billy Ashford | Professor of Tropical Medicine and Fungi, Columbia Universit, at School of Tropical Medicine, Puerto Rico | 30/11/1928 |
| Sir Alduxtlana | Professor of Tropical Medicine, Tiolan University, USA and Ross Institute, London | 11/12/1928 |
| Dr.\ Mohamed Tawfik Refaat Pasha | House Speaker | 24/01/1932 |
| Dr.\ Ali Maher Pasha | Minister of Justice | 24/01/1932 |
| Dr.\ Abdul-Aziz Fahmy Pasha | Head of Court of Cassation | 24/01/1932 |
| Abdul-Hamid Badawy Pash | The Registrar of Government Issues | 24/01/1932 |
| Professor Elite Smith | Professor of Anatomy, London University | 05/05/1932 |
| Professor D.kapetan | Professor of Civil Law, Paris University | 05/05/1932 |
| Professor D.chalwea | Professor of Roman Law, Roma University | 05/05/1932 |
| Professor Jill Bourdais | Professor at University of Brussels and Head of Pasteur Institute | 25/06/1932 |
| Victor Emmanuel III | King of Italy | 12/02/1933 |
| Dr.\ Lacko | Manager of Egyptian Monuments Administration, PhD. in Arachaeology | 15/04/1936 |
| Dr.\ H.b.Day | Professor of Internal Diseases | 18/06/1936 |
| Professor Edward Lambert | Manager of Comparative Law Institute, Lyon University | 17/04/1937 |
| King Farouk I | King of Egypt | 23/02/1939 |
| Professor Pierre Laland | A Member of the French Academy and Former Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts | 16/01/1940 |
| Ahmed Lotfy Al-Sayed Pasha | Former President of Cairo University, PhD. in Philosophy | 04/05/1941 |
| Dr.\ A. Bedford | Professor of Internal Diseases, London University | 12/06/1944 |
| Dr.\ James McCauley Landis | Minister of Economic Affairs at the Middle East and Dean of Faculty of Law, Harvard University | 02/01/1945 |
| Professor William Hawkins Wilson | Former Professor of Physiology | 27/05/1945 |
| Dr.\ Ahmed Amin Bek | Former Dean of Faculty of Arts | 28/04/1948 |
| Professor Douglas Dre | Former Professor of Anatomy | 01/02/1950 |
| Dr.\ Walter Russell Breen | Head of Royal College of Physicians at London | 25/12/1950 |
| Mohammed Abdulrahman Bahadrkhan | Director of The University of the Punjab in Lahore | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Omar Jalal Serk | Director of Istanbul University | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Juliude Lamorandber | Dean of Faculty of Law, Paris University | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Henry Gregoire | Professor of University of Brussels | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Jean Sarai | Manager of Paris University | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Louis Massignon | Professor of France College | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Tenoletman | Professor at University of Tübingen | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Giuseppe Cardinale | Manager of Rome University | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Emilio Garcia | Professor at Madrid University | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Copeland | Honor Professor at Liverpool University | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Jana Quivelier | Teacher at Paris University, PhD. in Science | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Charles Andrea | Former Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University – PhD. in Engineering | 25/12/1950 |
| Professor Fortener Staus | Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Zurich University – PhD. in Engineering | 25/12/1950 |
| Dr.\ Muhammad Musaddiq | Iran’s Prime Minister | 21/11/1951 |
| Professor Mirkourosh | PhD. in Engineering | 10/03/1954 |
| Dr.\ Mohamed Kamel Morsy | Former President of Cairo University | 22/12/1957 |
| Mr.\ Kwame Ankroma | President of Republic of Ghana | 19/06/1958 |
| Prince Nordom Sihanouk | Cambodia | 21/06/1959 |
| President General Ibrahim Abboud | President of Sudan | 23/12/1959 |
| King Mohammed V | King of Morocco | 13/01/1960 |
| King Mohammed Zahir Shah | King of Afghanistan | 29/10/1960 |
| Marshall Mohamed Ayub Khan | President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan | 09/11/1960 |
| Engineer Wolfgang Belize | PhD. in Engineering | 03/12/1962 |
| Dr.\ Zaker Hussein | Vice President of the Republic of India | 01/04/1963 |
| President Habib Bourguiba | President of the Republic of Tunisia | 17/02/1965 |
| Morocco’s King Hassan II | King of Morocco | 14/03/1965 |
| President Charle Helou | President of the Republic of Lebanon | 04/05/1965 |
| President Edward Okhab | President of the State’s Council at Polish People’s Republic – PhD. in Science | 27/11/1965 |
| President Leopold Sedar Senghor | President of the Republic of Senegal | 16/02/1967 |
| President Nyerere Mwalimu Julius | President of the United Republic of Tanzania | 10/04/1967 |
| President Valery Giscard d’Estaing | President of France | 10/12/1975 |
| Dr.\ Michael Alasrdi Labaki | Professor of Surgery, Louisiana State University, America | 10/03/1976 |
| Roufael Salas | The Executive Manager of UN Fund for Population Activity | 15/02/1979 |
| Mr.\ Herman Eilts | The Former American Ambassador in Cairo | 02/01/1980 |
| Mr.\ Francis Blanchard | General Manager of International Labour Organization | 21/11/1980 |
| Dr.\ Ernest Fifer | Professor of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, University of Ulm, Germany | 21/11/1981 |
| President Mohammed Gaafar Nimeiry | President of the Democratic Republic of Sudan | 22/02/1982 |
| Dr.\ Paul Edward Gray | Massachusetts Institute of Technology – PhD. | 08/01/1985 |
| President Kenneth David Kaunda | President of the Republic of Zambia | 11/02/1985 |
| President Sandro Britney | President of the Republic of Italy | 17/02/1985 |
| President Abdou Diouf | President of the Republic of Senegal | 04/03/1985 |
| Mr.\ Jesse Jackson | The American Leader | 08/07/1989 |
| Mr.\ Naguib Mahfouz | Egypt’s Great Writer | 26/10/1989 |
| Mr.\ Nelson Mandela | African freedom fighter and President of South Africa | 20/05/1990 |
| Dr.\ Mohamed Nustafa El-Bradei | International Atomic Energy Agency Director | 01/07/2008 |
| Dr.\ Anita Chavan | Minister of Education and Scientific Research at Federal Republic of Germany | 01/03/2009 |
| Mrs.\ Suzan Mubarak | Head of the National Center for Childhood and Motherhood | 16/09/2010 |
