HONORARY DOCTORATE RECIPIENTS

Many important figures, scientists, artists, presidents of states, ministers, Nobel laureates and others are recipients of the University of Sarajevo Honorary Doctorates.

  • Academician Ivo Andrić – author, Nobel Prize laureate (1962);
  • Academician Dr. Vaso Butozan – Faculty of Veterinary Medicine full professor (1967);
  • Dr. Léopold Escande – Toulouse Institute of Technology president (1971);
  • Emerik Blum – “Energoinvest“ CEO (1971);
  • Academician Mehmed Meša Selimović – author (1971);
  • Dr. Dragomir Krndija – Faculty of Law in Split full professor (1974);
  • Academician Dr. Edhem Čamo – ANUBiH chairman (1974);
  • Academician Aleksandar Trumić – Faculty of Civil Engineering full professor (1974);
  • Dr. Fazlija Alikalfić – Faculty of Forestry full professor (1974);
  • Academician Dr. Hamdija Ćemerlić – Faculty of Law full professor (1974);
  • Academician Jahiel Finci – Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design full professor (1975);
  • Dr. Nikolai Nikolajevich Abramov – Moscow Institute of Engineering full professor (1975);
  • Josip Broz Tito – SFRY President (1977);
  • Vadim Ivanovich Utkin – George Washington University School of Metallurgy full professor, USA (1978);
  • James Alfred Lee – George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences full professor, USA (1978);
  • Rodoljub Čolaković – author (1980);
  • Rafael Salas – Executive Director of UNFPA (1981);
  • Shri Neelam Sanjiva Reddy – President of the Republic of India;
  • Lenart Johansson – SKF Göteborg International Group chairman and general manager (1983);
  • Dr. Arend D. Lubbers – Allendale Great Valley National College president, USA (1987);
  • Camilo José Cela – Spanish author and academician, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate in 1989 (1992);
  • Bernard Kouchner – French Government minister (1993);
  • Bernard Henry-Lévy – University of Paris professor (1993);
  • Alois Mock –Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Republic of Austria (1993);
  • Simon Wiesenthal – human rights activist (1996);
  • Dr. Vladimir Prelog – Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate in 1975 (1996);
  • Dr. Mihael Heners – Academy for Postgraduate Studies in Dentistry director - Karlsruhe, Germany (1999);
  • Dr. Franz Durst – Friedrich-Alexander Erlangen University in Nuremberg full professor (1999);
  • Dr. Zdeno Puhan – Eidgenossische Teschnische Hochshule Zürich full professor (2001);
  • Dr. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu – Istanbul University Faculty of Philosophy full professor, Turkey (2001);
  • Dr. Roland Hetzer – Free Berlin University and Humboldt University in Berlin full professor and Deutches Herzzentrum director (2002);
  • Dr. Wolfgang Benedek – Karl-Franzens University Faculty of Law full professor (2004);
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (2008);
  • Prof. Dr. Hermann Kuppe – German Heart Centre Berlin, Institute of Anaesthesiology director and Charite University Hospital in Berlin full professor (2009);
  • H.E. Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad – 1981-2003 Malaysian Prime Minister (2010);
  • Prof. Dr. Ichak Adizes – Adizes Institute director, Santa Barbara, California, USA, (2010);
  • Danis Tanović – Assistant Professor and director at UNSA Academy of Performing Arts (2011);
  • H. E. Viktor Jakovich – US ambassador to BiH from 1992 to 1995 (2011);
  • Dr. HaiZhong Li – Tsinghua University in Beijing full professor (2012);
  • Dr. John Louis Esposito – Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., Director of the Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding, President of American Academy of Religion (2013);
  • Dr. Kurt Kalcher –Karl-Franzens Graz University professor (2015);
  • Prof. dr. Sonja Šiljak-Yakovlev – Scientific Advisor to the National Centre for Scientific Research in France (CNRS), University Paris-Sud professor emeritus (2016).