Eliot Honors was for seniors graduating with academic or other special honors and their families that took place 1955-2005. 

• Thomas C. Hennings, Jr., May 4, 1955
• Ralph Bunche, May 9, 1956
• Linus Pauling, May 15, 1957
• Abram L. Sachar, May 7, 1958
• H.J. Mueller, May 6, 1959
• Henry Steele Commager, May 4, 1960
• Bentley Glass, May 3, 1961
• Albert William Levi, June 1, 1962
• Gerald Holton, June 7, 1963
• Brand Blanshard, June 5, 1964
• Arthur Kornberg, June 4, 1965
• (1966 - no program in Archives)
• Immanuel Velikovsky, June 3, 1967
• (1968 - no program in Archives)
• Charles Evers, June 9, 1969
• Leonard Hall, June 1, 1970
• (1971 - no program in Archives)
• Jesse Jackson, May 25, 1972
• Charles Allen Thomas, May 24, 1973
• Lucian Krukowski, May 18, 1974
• John O. Bayley and Iris Murdoch, May 22, 1975
• Ada Louise Huxtable, May 20, 1976
• Walter Gellhorn, May 19, 1977
• Nelson Wu, May 18, 1978
• Daniel Nathans, May 17, 1979
• Thomas S. Hall, May 15, 1980
• Donald McHenry, May 21, 1981
• Norris Kelley Smith, May 20, 1982
• Merle Kling, May 19, 1983
• Daniel Shea, May 17, 1984
• Hanna Holborn Gray, May 16, 1985
• David Konig, May 15, 1986
• David Kirk, May 14, 1987
• Peter Riesenberg, May 19, 1988
• James F. Jones, May 18, 1989
• Walter Massey, May 17, 1990
• Edward S. Macias, May 16, 1991
• Edward S. Macias, May 14, 1992
• John R. Bowen, May 13, 1993
• Raymond Arvidson, May 19, 1994
• Ursula Goodenough, May 18, 1995
• Burton Wheeler, May 16, 1996
• Daniel Shea, May 15, 1997
• Jean Ensminger, May 14, 1998
• Randolph D. Pope, May 13, 1999
• Barbara Schaal, May 18, 2000
• Michael Wysession, May 17, 2001
• Henry (Roddy) Roediger, May 10, 2002
• Douglass North, May 16, 2003
• Shanti K. Khinduka, May 21, 2004
• Cynthia Weese, 2005