Four honorary degrees will be awarded at Syracuse University’s 2016 commencement ceremony to recipients that include the commencement speaker and a Hall of Fame football player, the university has announced.

Receiving the honorary degrees will be Kevin Bell, Floyd Little, Donald Newhouse and Tobias Wolff, according to an SU News release.

Bell, the president and CEO of Lincoln Park Zoological Society in Chicago, graduated from SU in 1974 with a degree in biology.

Little, who was a running back on the SU football team in the mid-1960s, was a three-time All-American at SU and, following a nine-year career with the National Football League’s Denver Broncos, was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010.

Newhouse is this year’s commencement speaker and is the president of Advance Publications. The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is named after Newhouse’s father, Samuel I. Newhouse.

Wolff, an author known for memoirs such as “This Boy’s Life” and “In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War,” taught at SU for 17 years, according to the release.

The 2016 commencement ceremony, a joint ceremony between SU and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, will be held May 15 inside the Carrier Dome.