Complete list of Honorary Degree Recipients by year

2025
Peggy Garritty
Radhe & Krishna Gupta
Dr Kenrick Lewis
Dr Michel Sadelain

2024
Reneltta Arluk
Professor Catherine Bell
Dr Robert Foster
Dr Randy Gregg
Dr Charles Lee
Jan Reimer
Richard Smith
Dr Donna Strickland
Dr Lorne Tyrrell
Dr Connie Varnhagen

2023
Bert Crowfoot
Scott Graham
Dr Temple Grandin
The Honourable Sheila Greckol
Dr Michael Houghton
Dr Joanne Liu
Shirley McClellan
Brian Paisley
Fred Penner
Dr Stanley Read
Stacy Schiff
The Honourable Murray Sinclair

2022
Jalal Barzanji
The Honourable Russell Brown
Dr Brian Cox
The Honourable Eileen Gillese
Lorne Gladu
Elder Elmer Ghostkeeper
Ingrid Kritsch
The Honourable Sheilah Louise Martin
Rick Mercer
Garry Merkel
Sheila O'Kelly
Michael Phair
Dr Molly Shoichet
Douglas Stollery
Dr David H. Turpin
Dr Brian Wildcat

2021
Dr Ruth Collins-Nakai
Her Honour, The Honourable Salma Lakhani
Reza Nasseri
Cheryl Whiskeyjack

2020
Dr Michael Houghton

2019
Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina
Allan Gordon Bell
Dr Carol Cass
Esi Edugyan
Martin Garber-Conrad
Dr Allan Goodman
Caroline Jenner
Sarah Jerome
Dr Cyril Kay
Ron MacLean
Alice Major
Vivian Manasc
Carmen McNary
The Honourable Mary Moreau
The Honourable Claudette Tardiff
Francis Whiskeyjack

2018
Nahlah Ayed
Louise Bradley
The Right Honourable Helen Elizabeth Clark
Dr Ralph C. Haas
The Honourable Dan Hays
Stephen Kakfwi
Dr France Levasseur-Ouimet
David Matas
Brenda McLean
Dr David Naylor
Dr Rajinder S. Pannu
Mark Henry Rowswell
Jeremy Spurgeon
Dr David Suzuki
Dr Nettie Wiebe

2017
Dennis Anderson
Dr Jeanne Besner
The Honourable Jean
William Eddins
Sharon Firth
Douglas Goss
His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston
Bob McDonald
Dave Mowat
Firoz Rasul
Dr Saida Rasul
Anne Smith
Tricia Smith
Dr Marie Wilson
Dr Shing-Tung Yau

2016
Salah Bachir
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Dr Mark Carney
Lieutenant-General (Retired) the Honourable Roméo A. Dallaire
Dr Anthony Fields
Francis Morris Flewwelling
Ruth Kelly
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Mandel
Dr Jerome Okon Nriagu
Elizabeth O'Neill
The Honourable Mary Robinson
Dr Indira V. Samarasekera
Ralph Barclay Young

2015
Rear-Admiral Jennifer Bennett
Hugh Bolton
Dr Jonathan Koon-Shum Choi
Dr Robert Bertram Church
Dr Patricia Clements
Danny Gaudet
David Hancock
Chantal St-Cyr Hébert
Her Honour, the Honourable Lois Mitchell
Dr Samantha Nutt
Jane Ash Poitras
Bruce Saville
Dr Russell Schnell
Dr Dennis J. Slamon
Professor Su Guaning
Dr Stephen J. Toope
Professor Chia-Ying Chao Yeh
Professor Xian-En Zhang

2014
Dr Kamaljit Bawa
Dr David R. Cheriton
Darren Entwistle
Dennis Erker
Dr Helen Hays
Bruce Hogle
Clara Hughes
Dave Lede
Dr Alexander McCalla
John C. Poon
Dr David Schindler
Beckie Scott
Sandra Woitas
Elsie Rose Yanik

2013
Dr Margaret-Ann Armour
James Balog
Sharon Butala
Dr Lincoln Chen
The Honourable Catherine Fraser
Donald Ross Getty
Charles Hantho
Dr Jacob Masliyah
Sarah McLachlan
Deepa Mehta
Louise Annette Miller
The Honourable Jim Prentice
Edward Michael Stelmach
Dr Ian Grote Stirling

2012
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Dr Donald Dingwell
Dr Julio J. Frenk
Leymah Roberta Gbowee
Brian Heidecker
Dr Steve E. Hrudey
Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman
Dr Garry Lindberg
The Right Honourable Paul Martin
Sunita Narain
Dr James Jude Orbinski
Holger Petersen
Chantal Petitclerc
Mary May Simon
John Stanton
Dr Shirley Marie Stinson
Marguerite Jean Trussler
Professor Fan Zeng

2011
Charlie Kakotok Evalik
Bunny Ferguson
Rick Hansen
Louise Hayes
Craig Kielburger
The Honourable Michael J.L. Kirby
John Chin Sung Lau
Dr Karen Luker
Dr Austin Mardon
Dr Arthur B. McDonald
Palagummi Sainath
Joe Schlesinger
Ron Triffo
Lawrence Chia-Huang Wang
Dr Efim Zelmanov

2010
Hugh Anson-Cartwright
Dr Albert Bandura
Chief Victor Buffalo
The Right Honourable Kim Campbell
Angela Mai-Lin Cheng
Yvonne Chiu
Patrick Daniel
Colonel (Retired) the Honourable Donald S. Ethell
Brewster Kahle
James G. Neal
Dr Kay Raseroka
Dr Ernest Frederick Roots
Dr M. S. Swaminathan
Dr Romila Thapar
Dr Aubrey Tingle
Allan Wachowich

2009
Louise Arbour
His Highness the Aga Khan
Dr Yves Fouron
Dr Michael R. Hayden
Jay Ingram
Dianne and Irving Kipnes
The Honourable Kevin G. Lynch
Dr James G. March
Dr Juliet McMaster
Dr Eliot A. Phillipson
Catherine Roozen
James Westvick Thorsell
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Rudy Wiebe

2008
Esko Tapani Aho
Bertha (Berdie) Helen Fowler
Fil Fraser
Alex Simeon Janvier
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean
Dr Elizabeth (Betty) Millard Jones
Dr Bartha Marie Knoppers
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Preston Manning
Dr J. Peter Meekison
Dr Anthony James Pawson
Dr J. Craig Venter
Pamela Wallin
John B. Zoe

2007
Allen Benson
Sheldon Bowles
Professors Patricia Smith Churchland and Paul Churchland
George Thomas Hendery Cooper
P.J. Perry
Hunter Harrison
Dr Maria Klawe
J. Wilton Littlechild
John H. Matthews
Margaret Ann McCaig
The Honourable A. Anne McLellan
Dr Norbert Rubin Morgenstern
Allison Douglas O'Brien
Sir Keith O'Nions
Donald McQueen Shaver
Dr Robert C. P. Westbury
W. Robert Wyman

2006
The Honourable James S. Edwards
Dr William S. Fyfe
Tom Jackson
Dr Daniel Kahneman
The Honourable Norman L. Kwong
Cécile E. Mactaggart
Gwyn Morgan
Julie Payette
Martha Cook Piper
Dr Matthew Warren Spence
Kenneth L. Thompson

2005
Susan Aglukark
Dr George Elliott Clarke
Dr John Evans
Dr Roderick Douglas Fraser
Dr Jean Gray
Ted Harrison
Harry Hole and James F. (Jim) Hole
Drs Doris and Peter Kule
Ronald Neil Mannix
Dr John Polanyi
Sharon Pollock
José Saramago
Dr Janice Stein
Alfred George Wirth

2004
Jim Carter
William (Bill) Comrie
Nellie Cournoyea
Dr Charles Richard Harington
Arthur Kroeger
Dr Sima Samar
The Right Honourable The Lady Soames
Her Imperial Highness Princess Hisako Takamado

2003
Dr John Irving Bell
Margaret (Marmie) Hess
Linda Hughes
Lieutenant-General (Retired) Donald C. Mackenzie
Lloyd Malin
Douglas McNally
Dr Charles Stelck
Benjamin Torchinsky

2002
Douglas Cardinal
Arthur Hiller
John Hume
Dr Alistair MacLeod
Allan Markin
Doris McCarthy
Eric Newell
Dr Robert Steadward
Madame Jiang Zehui

2001
Herbert Clifford Belcourt
Dr Henry Friesen
Erast Huculak
Dr Walter Lichem
Dr Antoine Noujaim
Adi Roche
Professor Wole Soyinka
Don Tapscott

2000
Dr Thomas A. Brzustowski
Wayne Gretzky
Her Honour, the Honourable Lois E. Hole
Louis Hyndman
Arne Rudolph Nielsen
James Stanford
Dr Jozef Straus
The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu

1987-1999
John Kim Bell
Harold Cardinal
Laurence George Decore
Millard Dean Fuller
Dr James Grierson MacGregor, Jr
Gerald James Maier
Dr James Fraser Mustard
Kenneth Clifford Welsh
Harriet Snowball Winspear
John T. Ferguson
Dr Robert Hall Haynes
Dr Maxwell Leo Howell
Dr Joseph B. Martin
Raymond J. Nelson
Claude Ryan
Professor Roger Woodward
Dr Per-Ingvar Brånemark
Charles Chan
Georges Henry Erasmus
Professor William H. Hurlburt
Dr Robert Kroetsch
The Honourable Tatsuo Ozawa
Andrew George Alexander Russell
Dr Manmohan Singh
Dr Christopher R. Somerville
Dr Mamoru Watanabe
Margaret Zeidler
Margaret C. Cammaert
Eric Ericson
Eldon D. Foote
Richard F. Haskayne
Dr Paul Janssen
The Honourable H.A. "Bud" Olson
Dr Michael Smith
Paul M. Tellier
Dr Olive Patricia Dickason
Clare James Drake
Peter "Petro" Jacyk
Gary William Wilcox McPherson
Dr Tattanahall Lakshminarayani Nagabhushan
Dr Glenda Patricia Simms
Jake Superstein
William Arnold Thorsell
Doris Badir
Dr Paul Davenport
James Frank Elliott
Dasha Sosia Goody
Dr Leslie Claude Green
His Excellency The Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn
Roger Alexandre Hurtubise
David George Alexander McLean
Stanley Albert Milner
Violet Archer
Helen Forrester
Ray Fortune
Edgar T. Jones
Walter Kaasa
Yukio Kobayashi
Hiroshi Kurimoto
Levko Lukianenko
The Right Honourable Donald F. Mazankowski
James R. Shaw
Dr Ted Tetsuo Aoki
David Edward Barmes
Hélène Cixous
Naomi Louisa Hersom
Marjorie Hodgson
Oleksandr Honchar
The Reverend K. Glen Johnson
Ronald Earl Jordan
Mary Lobay
Hugh John Sanders Pearson
The Honourable Madam Justice Ellen Irene Picard
The Honourable Mr Justice William Alexander Stevenson
The Honourable Thomas Gordon Towers
Frances Elizabeth Allen
The Honourable Marjorie Montgomery Bowker
Margaret Ruth Pringle Carse
Dr Eliot Corday
Dr Walter E. Harris
Peggy Holmes
Alexander M. Iakovlev
Dr Raymond Urgel Lemieux
Reginald D. Loomis
The Honourable Beverly M. McLachlin
The Honourable Tevie H. Miller
Bruce B. Peel
Ronald Donald Southern
Dr Richard E. Taylor
Dr Walter H. Worth
Dr Charles Fred Bentley
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro
Richard Bryan Erb
Herbert Thomas Hargrave
Dr Myer Horowitz
The Honourable Mr Justice Samuel Sereth Lieberman
Sandy Auld Mactaggart
Dr Gordon Edward Myers
Gordon Peacock
Bernard Ewald Riedel
Donald Victor Smiley
Marion Tuu’luq
David George Vice
Dorothy Anne Wheeler
Dr Alison Genevieve White
Ronald Kitchener Banister
The Honourable Monique Bégin
Sidney Robert Blair
Chester Raymond Cunningham
Dr Robert Edward Folinsbee
Dr Ursula Martius Franklin
Dr Lloyd Douglas Maclean
Ethel Anne Marliss
Stephen Russel Ramsankar
Michael A. Strembitsky
Thomas Joseph Walsh
Tara Ali Baig
June Callwood
Jennifer Dickson
Dr George Ford
Xinbai Huang
Dr Mervyn James Huston
Jacob Gordin Kaplan
Egerton Warren King
The Honourable Mr Justice Gerard Vincent La Forest
Dr Robert Alexander Leslie Macbeth
Dr Lionel Everett McLeod
The Honourable Chief Justice W. Kenneth Moore
John Lewis Schlosser
Isabel Munroe Smith
Dr Donald Russell Stanley
Margaret Weir Andrekson
Thomas Benjamin Banks
Barbara Anne Burrows
The Honourable Jean Chrétien
The Honourable Neil Crawford
Dr Allan Stuart Hay
Ivan Leigh Head
Stephen Arnold Jarislowsky
Shizu Kurimoto
Dr Alfred Ernest Pallister
John Edward Poole
Peter Savaryn
Dr Horst A. Schmid
Dr Phillip Vallentine Tobias