| Bachelor of Humane Letters | James C. Owens | 2012 |
|---|---|---|
| Master of Arts | Eugene R. Rivers | 1883 |
| Master of Science | Bennett Battle Ross | 1886 |
| Doctor of Agriculture | Edward Asburn O'Neal, III | 1932 |
| Clarence Ousley | 1932 | |
| Doctor of Divinity | W. A. McCarty | 1872 |
| J. T. Murray | 1872 | |
| William Shapard | 1873 | |
| M. S. Andrews | 1873 | |
| Josephus Shackelford | 1873 | |
| Joseph M. Weaver | 1873 | |
| D. W. Gowin | 1874 | |
| George H. Hunt | 1875 | |
| Joseph L. Miles | 1878 | |
| W. C. Hearne | 1878 | |
| Reid John Mathews | 1879 | |
| T. F. Mangum | 1882 | |
| R. B. Crawford | 1883 | |
| Frederick Howard | 1883 | |
| Henry Clay Morrison | 1883 | |
| John W. Rush | 1885 | |
| W. F. Glenn | 1886 | |
| Doctor of Engineering | Matthew Scott Sloan | 1929 |
| Doctor of Humane Letters | William Spratling | 1962 |
| Hal Stephens Dumas | 1969 | |
| Charles D. Hudson | 1992 | |
| Jimmie V. Adams | 1993 | |
| Ann Draughon Cousins | 1993 | |
| William R. Ireland, Sr. | 1993 | |
| Daniel F. Breeden | 1993 | |
| Joseph Burton Sarver, Jr. | 1994 | |
| Anne Rivers Siddons | 1997 | |
| Gerald S. Leischuck | 2000 | |
| Earl H. "Buddy" Weaver | 2006 | |
| John C. H. Miller, Jr. | 2007 | |
| Oliver D. Kingsley | 2009 | |
| Doctor of Philosophy | W. C. Richardson | 1878 |
| C. Logs Smith | 1879 | |
| William C. Stubbs | 1886 | |
| Doctor of Laws | Basil Manley | 1874 |
| Cathos W. Smith | 1874 | |
| John A. Foster | 1882 | |
| James F. Park | 1882 | |
| Burwell B. Lewis | 1883 | |
| I. T. Tichenor | 1883 | |
| Robert Frazer | 1885 | |
| A. S. Andrews | 1886 | |
| J. W. Nicholson | 1893 | |
| Bolling Hall Crenshaw | 1934 | |
| Luther Noble Duncan | 1934 | |
| John Jenkins Wilmore | 1934 | |
| Hugo Lafayette Black | 1935 | |
| John Hollis Bankhead | 1935 | |
| James Albert Keller | 1935 | |
| Robert Lee Bullard | 1938 | |
| Albert Hamilton Collins | 1938 | |
| Thomas Drake Samford, Sr. | 1938 | |
| Lister Hill | 1939 | |
| Grover Cleveland Hall | 1940 | |
| Ethelbert Brinkley Norton | 1942 | |
| Holland McTyeire Smith | 1945 | |
| Franklin Augustus Hart | 1953 | |
| William Samuel Richardson | 1957 | |
| Roy B. Sewell | 1958 | |
| Leslie Stephen Wright | 1959 | |
| Frank Ross Stewart | 1959 | |
| John Jackson Sparkman | 1960 | |
| William Howard Smith | 1961 | |
| Joseph D. Hughes | 1962 | |
| Milton K. Cummings | 1963 | |
| Frank Park Samford | 1963 | |
| Alvin A. Biggio | 1965 | |
| Peter A. Brannon | 1965 | |
| Sarah Blanton Folsom | 1966 | |
| Jackson R. McGowen | 1966 | |
| Frank M. Malone | 1967 | |
| Thomas H. Moorer | 1968 | |
| Herman Douglas Jones, Sr. | 1969 | |
| George C. Wallace | 1973 | |
| Edward Lewis Lowder | 1980 | |
| John C. Godbold | 1988 | |
| Pete B. Turnham | 1994 | |
| Henry B. Steagall, II | 1996 | |
| James T. Tatum, Jr. | 2000 | |
| Richard C. Shelby | 2002 | |
| Doctor of Letters | Ralph Brown Draughon | 1967 |
| Harold A. Franklin | 2001 | |
| Doctor of Humanities | Bibb Graves | 1935 |
| William Lee Sims, II | 1968 | |
| Owen Frederick Wise | 1970 | |
| Paul Marvin Rudolph | 1972 | |
| W. Kelly Mosley | 1973 | |
| Albert S. Golemon | 1978 | |
| Harry Melvin Philpott | 1981 | |
| Wilford S. Bailey | 1984 | |
| Doctor of Science | ||
| Atlus Lacey Quaintance | 1915 | |
| Fred Allison | 1931 | |
| Theodore Swann | 1932 | |
| Walter Edward Bryan | 1956 | |
| Robert Emmett Cammack | 1956 | |
| Thomas Wesley Martin | 1956 | |
| Edward A. Hauss | 1957 | |
| John Koga Hodnette | 1958 | |
| Ben S. Gilmer | 1958 | |
| Robert Alexander Nunn | 1959 | |
| William Rea Blake | 1961 | |
| John A. Barkley | 1961 | |
| Paul Shields Haley | 1961 | |
| John Sidney Luce | 1961 | |
| William A. Mrazek | 1962 | |
| Roger Barton McWhorter | 1963 | |
| George A. Mattison, Jr. | 1965 | |
| Estes H. Hargis | 1965 | |
| John Graham Zierdt | 1967 | |
| D. K. Caldwell | 1968 | |
| Clifton B. Cox | 1968 | |
| John L. McDaniel, Sr. | 1968 | |
| James Johnston Hicks | 1969 | |
| James W. Goodwin | 1976 | |
| Lawrence Adler | 1977 | |
| Solon Dixon | 1979 | |
| Emory O. Cunningham | 1981 | |
| John M. Harbert, III | 1981 | |
| E. T. York, Jr. | 1982 | |
| Alvin W. Vogtle, Jr. | 1982 | |
| George J. Tankersly | 1982 | |
| George W. Peake, Jr. | 1983 | |
| John Lemley Morrison | 1983 | |
| Richard G. Smith | 1983 | |
| Buris R. Boshell | 1984 | |
| Jack C. Hughston | 1985 | |
| T. K. Mattingly | 1986 | |
| Henry W. Hartsfield | 1986 | |
| Joseph Lamar Lanier, Jr. | 1987 | |
| Martha Belvin Dixon | 1991 | |
| Thelma Chapman Dixon | 1991 | |
| Earle Carter Williams | 1991 | |
| R. C. "Red" Bamberg | 1992 | |
| Michael B. McCartney | 1994 | |
| Thomas H. Dodd, Jr. | 1994 | |
| Kenneth John Barr | 1995 | |
| Dwight Lester Carlisle, Jr. | 1995 | |
| John Thomas Hartley | 1996 | |
| Harry Campbell | 1996 | |
| Elmer B. Harris | 1996 | |
| James Tracy O'Rourke | 1997 | |
| Don Logan | 1997 | |
| Charles Franklin Grisham | 1998 | |
| Samuel L. Ginn | 1998 | |
| Ruel Russell, Jr. | 1999 | |
| Samuel Pettijohn | 2001 | |
| Howell T. Heflin | 2001 | |
| Edward L. Wampold | 2003 | |
| Josetta Brittain Matthews | 2005 | |
| C. Harry Knowles | 2008 | |
| John A. Oakberg | 2015 | |
| John W. Brown | 2017 | |
| Rosemary Kopel Brown | 2017 | |
| Ralph Jordan Jr. | 2021 | |
| Walter S. "Walt" Woltosz | 2021 |
