Celebs bestowed with honorary degrees

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Celebs bestowed with honorary degrees

Which celebrities have received honorary degrees from colleges and universities?

U.S. Rep. and Civil Rights leader John Lewis was the keynote speaker at Emory University's 2014 spring commencement, Emory's 169th. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM

Salman Rushdie receives an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Author and human rights advocate Sir Salman Rushdie, a University Distinguished Professor at Emory, delivered the keynote address at Emory University's 170th commencement on May 11, 2015. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM

Academy Award winner, Meryl Streep, received a Conferral Honorary Degree from Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie at Indiana University Auditorium on April 16, 2014 in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Ron Hoskins/Getty Images)

President Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, (far right) confers the honarary degree Doctor of Humane Letters to award-winning journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist Soledad O'Brien (second from left) after she delivered the commencement address during the Spelman College 127th Commencement at the Georgia World Congress Center on Sunday, May 18, 2014, in Atlanta. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM

United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon (R) recieves an Honorary Doctorate from University of Auckland Pro-Chancellor Peter Kiely (L) at the University of Auckland on September 3, 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand. Ban-Ki Moon received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Auckland for his role as an international statesman. (Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

In this handout photo provided by Brown University, actor/director Ben Affleck receives an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Brown University at the 245th Commencement ceremony on May 26, 2013 in Providence, Rhode Island. (Photo by Mike Cohea/Brown University via Getty Images)

Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel receives an honorary degree from UNLV during the university's 50th commencement ceremony at the Thomas & Mack Center on May 19, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Sam Morris/Getty Images)

Bowie State University Provost Weldon Jackson places a doctoral hood on U.S. first lady Michelle Obama after she received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree during the school's graduation ceremony at the Comcast Center on the campus of the University of Maryland May 17, 2013 in College Park, Maryland. Obama delivered the commencement speech for the 600 graduates of Maryland's oldest historically black university and one of the ten oldest in the country. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Carole King receives an Honorary Doctor of Music Degree during the 2013 Berklee College Of Music Commencement Ceremony at Berklee College of Music on May 11, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)

Primatologist Dame Jane Goodall receives an honorary degree at St Andrews University on September 13, 2013 in St Andrews, Scotland. (Photo by Danny Lawson - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Kris Kirstofferson attends the 2013 Berklee College Of Music Commencement Ceremony where honorary degrees were conferred on Willie Nelson, Annie Lennox and Carole King at Berklee College of Music on May 11, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)

Willie Nelson receives an Honorary Doctor of Music Degree during the 2013 Berklee College Of Music Commencement Ceremony at Berklee College of Music on May 11, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)

Stella McCartney receives Honorary Degree from the University of the Arts London at the Royal Festival Hall on July 18, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)

Singer Susan Boyle receives an honorary degree at Queen Margaret University on July 6, 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Sandy Young/Getty Images)

AFI Honorary degree recipients director David Lynch (center) and filmmaker Mel Brooks (right) with actress Laura Dern at the 2012 AFI Conservatory Commencement Ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on June 13, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Brian Williams received a Honory Doctor of Humane Letters during the 2012 George Washington University Commencement at National Mall on May 20, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kris Connor/Getty Images)

Prince Frederik of Denmark (R) presents the Danish export association's honorary diploma and H.R.H. Prince Henrik's medal of honour to PowerSense CEO Brian Sorensen (L), during a business delegation lunch at the Hotel Sofitel Wentworth on November 21, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Greg Wood - Pool/Getty Images)

Kylie Minogue receives a Honorary Degree at angela ruskin university on October 5, 2011 in Chelmsford, England. (Photo by Danny Martindale/Getty Images)

Most people know her today as author and literary giant Toni Morrison, who would write such classics as "The Bluest Eye," "Sula," "Song of Solomon" and "Beloved." She won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for "Beloved" and the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. On May 29, 2012, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

US businessman Donald Trump, stands in his ceremonial robes before recieving his honourary award of Doctor of Business Administration from Robert Gordon University on October 8, 2010 in Aberdeen, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Honorary Degree recipients and producers Kathleen Kennedy (L) and Jeffrey Katzenberg pose at AFI's Commencement Ceremony at The AFI campus on June 9, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Isabella Rossellini (R) receives an honorary degree from the Savannah College Of Art & Design board of trustees chair Alison Hopton during the college's Commencement at the Savannah Civic Center on May 29, 2010 in Savannah, Georgia. (Photo by Stephen Morton/Getty Images)

Actress Patty Lupone attends the commencement ceremony where she received an honorary degree at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on May 21, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

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U.S. Rep. and Civil Rights leader John Lewis was the keynote speaker at Emory University's 2014 spring commencement, Emory's 169th. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM

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