| Year | Name | | Biographical Information | Degree Awarded | Inst. |
| 1932 | Gen. James Gordon Steese | d | Director, Alaska Railroad and Alaska Roads | D. Science | UA |
| 1935 | Hon. James Wickersham | d | Judge; Congressional Delegate 1909-21; 1931-33; instrumental in the creation of the University of Alaska | LL.D. | UA |
| 1940 | Jacob P. Anderson | d | Alaska Botanist | D. Science | UA |
| 1946 | Herbert Brandt | d | Ornithologist, Dean of Men at UA | D. Science | UA |
| 1948 | Stuart Lyman | d | 1st Director of Geophysical Observatory | D. Science | UA |
| 1949 | William Elmhirst Duckering | d | 1st Dean of University of Alaska | D. Engineering | UA |
| 1949 | Henry M. Jackson | d | US Congressman from Washington | LL.D. | UA |
