
Honorary Degrees

Honorary Degrees
Honorary Doctorate Recipients
2020s
2025
- Thomas (Tom) R. Greco, Laws
- Kristan Straub, Laws
- Dawn Madahbee Leach, Laws
- Luciano (Lu) Galasso, Laws
2024
- The Honourable Michelle O'Bonsawin, Laws (speech)
- Catharine Farrow, Business Administration (speech)
- Dan Andreae, Letters (speech)
- Jason F. McLennan, Architecture (speech)
- Tom Blake, Sports Administration (speech)
2020
- Margarete Kalin-Seidenfaden, Sciences
2010s
2019
- Cindy Blackstock, Laws (speech)
- Bernard Poulin, Arts (speech)
- Denise Truax, Letters
- Terry MacGibbon, Business Administration (speech)
- Ned Goodman, Sciences (speech)
2018
- Nicole Boivin, Laws
- Arthur B. McDonald, Sciences
2017
- Louise Picard, Letters
- Perry Dellelce, Laws
- Rita G. Corbiere, Laws
- Marianne McKenna, Laws
2016
- The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Laws
- Mark Cutifani, Laws
- Suzanne Tessier, Laws
- André Picard, Letters
- Charles Pascal, Laws
- Joseph Roberts, Letters
- Antoni Cimolino, Letters
- Rick Bartolucci, Laws
2015
- Craig Kielburger, Laws
- Susan Aglukark, Letters
- Jean-Marc Aubin, Laws
- Marguerite Andersen, Letters
- Peter Crossgrove, Laws
- Douglas Cardinal, Laws
- Sue Johanson, Letters
2014
- The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Laws
- Bruce Cockburn, Letters
- Phil Fontaine, Laws
- James K. (Jim) Gordon, Laws
- Blaine Nicholls, Laws
- Maria (Masha) Krupp, Letters
2013
- Janice Laking, Laws
- Arnold Aberman, Laws
- Ronald F. Caza, Laws
- James Marchbank, Laws
- Ron and Nancy Clark, Laws
2012
- Robert Deluce, Laws
- Meagen McGrath, Laws
- Steve Paikin, Letters
2011
- Frank Stronach, Business Administration
- Gaétan Gervais, Letters
- Patricia Hennessy, Laws
2010
- Roméo Dallaire, Laws
- Richard Malette, Laws
- Gino St-Jean, Laws
- Ted Szilva, Laws
2000s
2009
- David Dodge, Laws
- Bruce Ferguson, Letters
- Raymond Kinoshameg, Laws
- Felix Lopes Sr., Laws
- James Orbinski, Sciences
- Lorraine Petzold, Laws
2008
- Lisa Balfour Bowen, Letters
- Leland Bell, Letters
- Herménégilde Chiasson, Letters
- Ken Derrett, Sports Administration
- Ron Francis, Laws
- Silken Laumann, Laws
- Robert Paquette, Letters
- David Suzuki, Sciences
2007
- Pierre Bélanger, Laws
- Minnijean Brown Trickey, Laws
- Steven Jeromy Carriere, Sciences
- John Cunningham, Sciences
- Bruce Mau, Letters
- Robert Sawyer, Letters
- Maureen Kempston Darkes, Business Administration
- Robert McDonald, Letters
2006
- Dyane Adam, Letters
- Louise Charron, Laws
- John Daniel, Laws
- Robert Dickson, Letters
- Frederick Griffith, Letters
- Stephen Lewis, Laws
- Linda Lundström, Business Administration
- Michael Roach, Business Administration
- Homer Seguin, Laws
2005
- Michael Atkins, Letters
- John Gammon, Laws
- Ronnie Hawkins, Letters
- Gisèle Lalonde, Laws
- Roy MacGregor, Letters
- David Paciocco, Laws
- Richard Pound, Sports Administration
2004
- James Bartleman, Laws
- Yadh Ben Achour, Letters
- Kaireen Crichton, Laws
- Tomson Highway, Letters
- Nancy Ruth, Laws
- Laura Sky, Letters
- Fernand Ouellet, Letters
2003
- Hédi Bouraoui, Letters
- Aline Chrétien, Laws
- Pierre M. Gagnon, Business Administration
- Kathy Gannon, Letters
- Frank G. Paci, Letters
- Jean-Roch Pelletier, Laws
- John Ralston Saul, Letters
2002
- Allan Beattie, Laws
- Jean-Marc Dalpé, Letters
- George Ewan, Sciences
- Rick Mercer, Letters
- Ted Nolan, Laws
- Alan W. Pope, Laws
- Dorothy Pringle, Sciences
2001
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Letters
- Tony Bates, Letters
- Patrice Desbiens, Letters
- Patrick Le Sage, Laws
- Genevra Richards, Laws
- Bernard Voyer, Letters (Geography)
- James Duncan Wallace, Business Administration
2000
- Olive Patricia Dickason, Laws
- Judy Feld Carr, Laws
- Bernard Grandmaître, Laws
- Penny Hartin, Laws
- Floyd Laughren, Laws
- Liza Mosher, Laws
- Anthony J. Naldrett, Sciences
- Pierre Patry, Letters
- Ernie Schroeder, Laws
- Noble Villeneuve, Laws
1990s
1999
- Louise Arbour, Laws
- Denis F. Cheff, Business Administration
- Claire Dimock, Business Administration
- Nicholas Goldschmidt, Letters
- Guy A. Goulard, Laws
- Spyros Loukidelis, Laws
- Donald Obonsawin, Letters
1998
- John I. Clark, Sciences
- Morris Duhaime, Sciences
- Hélène Gravel, Letters
- Tom Jackson, Letters
- Gérald Janneteau, Letters
- Basil H. Johnston, Laws
1997
- Michael Cowpland, Business Administration
- Kenneth Danby, Fine Arts
- Thomas M. Davies, Business Administration
- Raymond Davis Jr., Sciences
- Gordon C. Gray, Business Administration
- William Johnson, Letters
- Guy Lemieux, Education
- Alma Ricard, Business Administration
1996
- Alex Baumann, Physical Education
- Michel Chrétien, Sciences
- Judy Erola, Laws
- Frank Pickard, Business Administration
- Wan Pu, Sciences
- Alan Querney, Business Administration
1995
- Shirley Cheechoo, Letters
- Blake Debassige, Laws
- Umberto Eco, Letters
- Joan Newman Kuyek, Social Work
- John Charles Polanyi, Sciences
- Marie-P. Poulin, Laws
- Michael D. Sopko, Business Administration
1994
- Reginald W. Bibby, Letters
- Robert R. Carmichael, Letters
- Leo W. Gerard, Letters
- Laurent Larouche, Letters
- Ruth McCuaig, Laws
- Madeleine Parent, Laws
1993
- Pierre Dansereau, Sciences
- Normand Forest, Laws
- Ursula Franklin, Sciences
- David L. Johnston, Law
- André Lacroix, Laws
- Mary Stefura, Laws
1992
- Tom Angus, Sciences
- Margaret R. Borley, Laws
- Mary Lou Fox Radulovich, Laws
- Alan J. Johnson, Education
- Oliver T. Jones, Music
- Tak Wah Mak, Sciences
- J. Arthur Pharand, Business Administration
- George J. Zytaruk, Letters
1991
- Roberta Bondar, Sciences
- Marie-Josée Drouin, Laws
- Gerry M. Lougheed Jr., Laws
- Archie MacKinnon, Letters
- Stanley G. Mullins, Letters
1990
- Margaret Beckman, Letters
- Richard Miles Blackwell, Letters
- Thomas Cummings, Letters
- Jean-Noël Desmarais, Sciences
- Robert C. Desmarais, Laws
- Yves Guérard, Letters
- Thomas L. Hennessy, Letters
- William R. Kinsella, Letters
- Robert J. Richardson, Sciences
- Marianne Scott, Letters
- Fred S. Sheridan, Letters
- Morley Torgov, Letters
1980s
1989
- Molly R. Hancock, Social Work
- John Frank Leyerle, Letters
- Daniel E. Pine Sr., Laws
- Alec D. Thorpe, Sciences
1988
- Monique Bégin, Laws
- Rosalie Bertell, Laws
- Lise Bissonnette, Letters
- Anne Hébert, Letters
- James S. Redpath, Letters
- H. Robert H. Stinson, Laws
- Endel Tulving, Letters
- Ossian E. Walli, Sciences
1987
- Robert M. Bateman, Laws
- Kenneth A. Brynaert, Laws
- Claude Castonguay, Laws
- Margaret Benjafield Dow, Laws
- James E. MacDonald, Letters
- F. Baxter Ricard, Laws
- Jeanne Sauvé, Laws
- Albert V. Tucker, Letters
1986
- Herbert E. Brown, Laws
- R.G. Brian Dickson, Laws
- Paul-Émile Filion, Letters
- James Grassby, Laws
- Paul Lacombe, Sciences
- (Ontario) Terry Mancini, Laws
- Benoit R. Mandelbrot, Sciences
- Edward Newbery, Laws
- Arthur Solomon, Laws
- Patterson Webster, Letters
1985
- Robert Campeau, Business Administration
- Chris Doherty, Laws
- Don L. James, Laws
- Nigel M. Kensit, Law
- Anton Kuerti, Music
- J. W. McNutt, Laws
- Robert Perras, Laws
- Alibert St-Aubin, Laws
1984
- Dalton J. Caswell, Laws
- Marsh A. Cooper, Laws
- Germain Lemieux, Letters
- Walter F. Light, Sciences
- Hugh P. MacMillan, Letters
- Davidson S.H.W. Nicol, Sciences
1983
- Walter Curlook, Sciences
- Clifford Fielding, Sciences
- Gérard Gardner, Sciences
- Conrad Lavigne, Laws
- John C. MacIsaac, Sciences
- William B. Plaunt, Laws
- Maurice Saulnier, Letters
- Mary Whelan, Laws
1982
- The Right Honourable Jean J. Chrétien, Laws
- Paul Desmarais, Laws
- Grace Hartman Grout Mead, Laws
- Daphne Odjig, Letters
- Edward R. Schreyer, Laws
- Yvan Trevor Wheale, Laws
- William C. Winegard, Laws
1981
- Amintore Fanfani, Laws
- Barbara Frum, Letters
- Walter L. Gordon, Letters
- James A. Jerome, Laws
- Antonine Maillet, Letters
1980
- Jean-François Hamelin, Letters
- James R. Kidd, Letters
- John T. Koski, Laws
- Stephen B. Roman, Laws
- Kenneth D. Taylor, Laws
1970s
1979
- John Barker, Laws
- Roy Bonisteel, Letters
- J. Maurice S. Careless, Letters
- Jean-Paul Drolet, Sciences
- Herman S. Johannsen, Laws
- Thomas H. Peters, Sciences
- Douglas Pollard, Letters
1978
- René Brunelle, Laws
- Robert H. Carlin, Laws
- Margaret Orange, Laws
- Norman H. Wadge, Laws
- Tuzo Wilson, Sciences
- Paul Wyczynski, Letters
1977
- John W. Beaver, Laws
- Luc Lacourcière, Letters
- W. Bennett Lewis, Sciences
- Sylvia Ostry, Letters
- Alma Reid, Laws
- Murray G. Ross, Laws
- Thomas Symons, Laws
1976
- Harry W. Bain, Letters
- Jean-Noël Desmarais Sr., Laws
- Roger Lemelin, Letters
- J. Dean Muncaster, Laws
1974
- Wallace E. Lambert, Letters
- Grace MacInnis, Laws
- René Marin, Laws
1973
- Donald J. LeRoy, Sciences
- J. d’Auteuil Richard, Letters
- Keith Spicer, Laws
1972
- Mario Bernardi, Music
- Jean-Éthier Blais, Letters
- Walter Currie, Laws
1971
- Rhéal Belisle, Laws
- Harold Bennett, Letters
- Charles H. Best, Sciences
- Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, Letters
1970
- Donald G. Creighton, Letters
- Paul Field, Sciences
- Jean-Louis Gagnon, Laws
- Farley Mowat, Letters
1960s
1969
- Emil Fackenheim, Laws
- Roger Guindon, Laws
- A. Maxwell Henderson, Laws
- J.W. Trusler, Laws
1968
- Louis P. Bonneau, Laws
- David S. Holbrook, Laws
- W.G. Schneider, Laws
- Henry S. Wingate, Laws
1967
- James S. Band, Laws
- Jean S. Boggs, Laws
- John H. Chapman, Laws
- Clément Cormier, Laws
1966
- Jacques Garneau, Laws
- Hugh MacLennan, Laws
- Alphonse M. Parent, Laws
- William G. Tamblyn, Laws
1965
- Lester B. Pearson, Laws
1964
- Benjamin F. Avery, Laws
- William Wright, Laws
1963
- Earl S. Lautenschläger, Laws
- John H. Robarts, Laws
1962
- Alexander Carter, Laws
1961
- Ralph D. Parker, Laws
- Georges P. Vanier, Laws