Honorary Degree Recipients
Doctor of Letters
| Name of Recipients | Designation (At time of conferment) | Conferment Year |
| Mr Philip Yeo | Chair, Economic Development Innovations Singapore Chair, Accuron Technologies Pte Limited Chair, Advanced MedTech Holdings Chair, i-Globe Partners | 2023 |
| Mr Marcus Wallenberg | Chair, Board of Directors, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken | 2022 |
| Ms Chew Gek Khim | Executive Chair and CEO, Tecity Group Executive Chair, Straits Trading Company Limited Deputy Chair, Tan Chin Tuan Foundation | 2021 |
| Mr Koh Boon Hwee | Chair, Altara Ventures Pte Ltd Former Chair, NTU Board of Trustees | 2021 |
| Mr Eddie Teo Chan Seng | Chair, Council of Presidential Advisers Pro-Chancellor, Singapore Management University | 2021 |
| Mrs Margaret Lien Wen Hsien | Governor Emeritus, Lien Foundation | 2019 |
| Professor Sir Keith O’ Nions | Chair, Cambridge Enterprise Board Former Member, NTU Board of Trustees | 2019 |
| Dr Lee Seng Tee | Chair, Lee Foundation Singapore | 2018 |
| Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam | Former President, Republic of Singapore Former Chancellor, NTU | 2018 |
| Professor Helga Nowotny | Professor Emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich Chair, ERA Council Forum Austria Former President, European Research Council | 2017 |
| Mr Iskandar Jalil | Master Potter and Ceramicist | 2016 |
| Professor Haresh Shah | Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Founder and Senior Advisor, RMS, Inc. Former Member, NTU Board of Trustees Senior Academic Advisor to the President, NTU | 2015 |
| Dr Wee Cho Yaw | Chair Emeritus and Adviser, United Overseas Bank Pro-Chancellor, NTU | 2014 |
| Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | President, Republic of Indonesia | 2013 |
| Mr S. R. Nathan | Former President, Republic of Singapore Former Chancellor, NTU | 2011 |
| Dr Lee Seng Gee | Chair, Lee Foundation | 2009 |
| Dr Tan Swie Hian | Artist | 2003 |
| Sir Eric Ash | Rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine | 2002 |
| Dr Pan Shou | Poet and Calligrapher | 1998 |
| Dr John Brown | Dean of Technology, Brunel University | 1996 |
| Dr Hartarto Sastrosenarto | Coordinating Minister of Industry and Trade, Republic of Indonesia | 1995 |
| Dr Michael Fam | Executive Chair, Fraser & Neave Group | 1993 |
Doctor of Education
| Name of Recipients | Designation (At time of conferment) | Conferment Year |
| Ms Ho Peng | Advisor, Ministry of Education | 2023 |
| Prof Linda Darling-Hammond | Charles E.Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University | 2009 |
Doctor of Engineering
| Name of Recipients | Designation (At time of conferment) | Conferment Year |
| Professor Sir David Payne | Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre Director, Zeplar Institute Co-Director, The Photonics Institute | 2016 |
| Professor Richard Parker | Director of Research & Technology, Rolls- Royce plc | 2013 |
| Mr Tan Gee Paw | Chair, Public Utilities Board | 2013 |
| Prof Chad A. Mirkin | Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Medicine, Northwestern University | 2012 |
| Prof Michael Graetzel | Professor, Director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 2011 |
| Prof Perry L. McCarty | Silas H. Palmer Professor Emeritus, Environmental Engineering and Science, Stanford University | 2010 |
| Prof Jose Luis Encarnacao | Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics | 2008 |
| Dr A P J Abdul Kalam | Former President, Republic of India | 2008 |
Doctor of Science
| Name of Recipients | Designation (At time of conferment) | Conferment Year |
| Professor Alexander J.B. Zehnder | Professor Emeritus, ETH Zurich Former Member, NTU Board of Trustees Chair, SCELSE Scientific Advisory Board | 2024 |
| Professor Dame Lynn Gladden | Executive Chair, UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | 2023 |
| Mr Peter Ho Hak Ean | Senior Advisor, Centre for Strategic Futures | 2018 |
| Professor James Barber | Emeritus Ernst Chain Professor of Biochemistry, Imperial College London | 2017 |
| Professor Bengt Johan Freddrik Nordén | Chair Professor of Physical Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden | 2014 |
| Professor Wolfgang A. Herrmann | President, Technical University of Munich | 2013 |
| Prof Rudolph A. Marcus | Noyes Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology | 2010 |
| Prof Chua Nam Hai | Professor and Head, Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University | 2008 |
| Prof Yang Chen Ning | Nobel Laureate in Physics (1957) | 2008 |