The New York Philharmonic (officially named the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York) confers Honorary Membership in the Society on those who have made outstanding contributions to the world of symphonic music or an unprecedented impact on the life of the Orchestra. It is bestowed only on rare occasions and only with the unanimous approval of the Board of Directors.
| Henri Vieuxtemps | 1843 | Ole Bull | 1843 | Leopold de Meyer | 1845 | Joseph Burke | 1846 | Felix Mendelssohn | 1846 | Louis Spohr | 1846 | Henri Herz | 1846 | Camillo Sivori | 1846 | Giovanni Bottessini | 1850 | Jenny Lind Goldschmidt | 1850 | Jules Benedict | 1850 | Henrietta Sontag | 1852 | Marietta Alboni | 1852 | Carl Eckert | 1852 | Paul Julien | 1853 | William Vincent Wallace | 1853 | Friedrich Schneider | 1853 | Richard Hoffman | 1854 | Louis Moreau Gottschalk | 1855 | Cesare Badiali | 1856 | Anna de la Grange | 1857 | Sigismund Thalberg | 1857 | Gustave Satter | 1857 | Henry C. Timm | 1863 | Edward Hodges | 1865 | Theodore Eisfeld | 1865 | William Scharfenberg | 1866 | Sebastian Bach Mills | 1867 | R. Ogden Doremus, M.D. | 1869 | Edwin Booth, Tragedian | 1869 | Mrs. Scott Siddans | 1869 | Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa | 1870 | Anna Mehlig | 1870 | Franz Liszt | 1872 | Richard Wagner | 1872 | Joachim Raff | 1872 | George Templeton Strong, Esq. | 1872 | Anton Rubinstein | 1873 | Dr. Leopold Damrosch | 1877 | E.H. Schermerhorn, Esq. | 1879 | Rafael Joseffy | 1883 | Theodore Thomas | 1892 | E. Francis Hyde, Esq. | 1892 | Elkan Naumberg, Esq. | 1892 | Dr. Antonin Dvorák | 1894 | Mrs. Francis G. Shaw | 1899 | Frederick Bergner | 1900 | Andrew Carnegie, Esq. | 1905 | John D. Rockefeller, Esq. | 1905 | President Calvin Coolidge | 1924 | President Harry S. Truman | 1945 | Countess Mercati | 1949 | Igor Stravinsky | 1957 | Paul Hindemith | 1960 | Helen Huntington Hull | 1968 | Aaron Copland | 1970 | Rudolf Serkin | 1972 | Leonard Bernstein | 1984 | Zubin Mehta | 1991 | Pierre Boulez | 1992 | Isaac Stern | 1992 | Erich Leinsdorf | 1992 | Carlos Moseley | 2001 |
