Below is a partial list of honours and awards received by Eliot or bestowed or created in his honour.
National or state honours
These honours are displayed in order of precedence based on Eliot's nationality and rules of protocol, not awarding date.
| National or State Honours | |||
| Order of Merit | United Kingdom | 1948[124][125] | |
| Presidential Medal of Freedom | United States | 1964 | |
| Officier de la Légion d'honneur | France | 1951 | |
| Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres | France | 1960 |
Literary awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry" (1948)[8]
- Hanseatic Goethe Prize (of Hamburg) (1955)
- Dante Medal (of Florence) (1959)
Drama awards
- 1950 Tony Award for Best Play for the Broadway production of The Cocktail Party
- 1983 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for his poems used in the musical Cats (posthumous award)
- 1983 Tony Award for Best Original Score for his poems used in the musical Cats (shared with Andrew Lloyd Webber) (posthumous award) [126]
Music awards
- Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for his poems used in the song "Memory" (1982)[127]
Academic awards
- Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (1935)[128]
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1954)[129]
- Elected to the American Philosophical Society (1960)[130]
- Thirteen Honorary Doctorates (Including ones from Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, and Harvard)
Other honours
- Eliot College of the University of Kent, England, named in his honour
- Celebrated on U.S. commemorative postage stamps
- Star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame
