Learn more about Carleton’s Honorary Degree recipients on our Convocation Page.
Year |
Name |
Degree |
| 2024 | Frank Graves | LL.D. |
| 2024 | Mallik Tatipamula | D.Eng. |
| 2024 | David Morley | LL.D. |
| 2024 | Theresa Tam | LL.D. |
| 2024 | Jean-Paul Gladu | LL.D. |
| 2023 | David Sinclair | D. Sci. |
| 2023 | Katharine B. Stevenson | LL.D. |
| 2023 | Gray Merriam | LL.D. |
| 2023 | Janice Charette | LL.D. |
| 2023 | Liban Abokor | LL.D. |
| 2023 | Ibrahim Gedeon | LL.D. |
| 2023 | Vikas Swarup | LL.D. |
| 2023 | Barbara Dumont-Hill | LL.D. |
| 2022 | Dafydd Rhys Williams | D. Sci. |
| 2022 | John ApSimon | LL.D. |
| 2022 | Helen Branswell | LL.D. |
| 2022 | The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien | LL.D. |
| 2022 | Roger Greenberg | LL.D. |
| 2022 | Janice McDonald | LL.D. |
| 2022 | Claudette McGowan | LL.D. |
| 2022 | Bill Namagoose | LL.D. |
| 2021 | The Honourable Wanda Thomas Bernard | LL.D. |
| 2021 | Harriet Burdett-Moulton | LL.D. |
| 2021 | Chantal Hébert | LL.D. |
| 2021 | Stephen A. Jarislowsky | LL.D. |
| 2021 | Monique F. Leroux | LL.D. |
| 2021 | The Honourable Sheilah L. Martin | LL.D. |
| 2021 | June B. Pimm | LL.D. |
| 2019 | Yazmine C. Laroche | LL.D. |
| 2019 | The Right Honourable Paul Martin | LL.D. |
| 2019 | Robert Thirsk | D.Eng. |
| 2019 | Laurie Beachell | LL.D. |
| 2019 | Christina Louise Logue | LL.D. |
| 2019 | Robert Slater | LL.D. |
| 2019 | Diana Beresford-Kroeger | LL.D. |
| 2018 | Gerison Lansdown | LL.D. |
| 2018 | Steven Davis | LL.D. |
| 2018 | Gordon Hicks | D.Eng. |
| 2018 | Peter J. Buckley | LL.D. |
| 2018 | Catherine Frazee | LL.D. |
| 2018 | Jayne Theresa Stoyles | LL.D. |
| 2018 | The Right Honourable Helen Clark | LL.D. |
| 2018 | Gilles G. Patry | LL.D |
| 2017 | Count Herman van Rompuy | LL.D. |
| 2017 | Shelagh Rogers | D. Litt. |
| 2017 | Gilles Vigneault | D.Litt. |
| 2017 | Andre Picard | LL.D. |
| 2017 | Robert Wyatt | LL.D. |
| 2017 | Eleanor Wachtel | D.Litt. |
| 2017 | Tom Jackson | LL.D. |
| 2017 | Craig Oliver | LL.D. |
| 2017 | Adrian Burns | LL.D. |
| 2017 | Canute Lloyd Stanford | LL.D. |
| 2017 | Rosemary Chapdelaine | D.Eng. |
| 2017 | Ross Koningstein | D.Eng. |
| 2017 | Allan Gregg | LL.D. |
| 2017 | Michel Gaulin | LL.D. |
| 2017 | Louise Penny | D.Litt. |
| 2017 | Daniel Poliquin | D.Litt. |
| 2016 | Thomas Louttit | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Elaine Keillor | D. Mus. |
| 2016 | Daniel Alfredsson | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Gail Asper | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Margaret Bloodworth | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Peter Coughlin | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Tom Jenkins | LL.D. |
| 2016 | His Excellency The Right Honourable David Johnston | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Her Excellency Sharon Johnston | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Barbara McInnes | LL.D. |
| 2016 | John Daniel O’Leary | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Bonnie Patterson | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Karim Rashid | LL.D. |
| 2016 | John Ruddy | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Jane Urquhart | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Anthony “Tony” Urquhart | LL.D. |
| 2016 | Jodi White | LL.D. |
| 2016 | António Guterres | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Ben Heppner | D.Mus. |
| 2015 | Murray Sinclair | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Sally Armstrong | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Roman Borys | D.Mus. |
| 2015 | David Butler-Jones | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Madeleine Dion Stout | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Chad Gaffield | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Firdaus Kharas | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Preston Manning | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Diane Morrison | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Gilles Paquet | LL.D. |
| 2015 | Lloyd Robertson | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Shona L. Brown | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Clayton H. Riddell | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Chanda Kochhar | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Angela Hewitt | D.Mus. |
| 2014 | Giselle Portenier | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Mary Lou Fallis | D.Mus. |
| 2014 | Bruce Cockburn | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Michael McCain | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Ruth Corbin | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Peter Mansbridge | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Sulley Gariba | LL.D. |
| 2014 | Suzanne Fortier | D.Sc. |
| 2014 | Robert Carnegie | D.Sc. |
| 2014 | Bob Rae | LL.D. |
| 2013 | Zita Cobb | LL.D. |
| 2013 | Annette Verschuren | LL.D. |
| 2013 | M.G. Vassanji | D. Fine Arts |
| 2013 | Tomson Highway | D. Fine Arts |
| 2013 | Michael Potter | LL.D. |
| 2013 | Jean Teron and William Teron | LL.D. |
| 2013 | Constance Backhouse | LL.D. |
| 2013 | Kim Pate | LL.D. |
| 2013 | Larry Phillip Fontaine | LL.D. |
| 2013 | Irwin Brodo | D. Sc. |
| 2012 | The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean | LL.D. |
| 2012 | The Honourable John D. Richard | LL.D. |
| 2012 | Peter Grünberg | D.Sc. |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Hay | LL.D. |
| 2012 | Anne Michaels | D. Lit. |
| 2012 | Julie Payette | D. Eng. |
| 2012 | Chaviva Hošek | LL.D. |
| 2012 | Marc Kielburger | LL.D. |
| 2012 | Craig Kielburger | LL.D. |
| 2012 | Ian Hacking | LL.D. |
| 2012 | Ron Rosenes | LL.D. |
| 2012 | Elijah Harper | LL.D. |
| 2012 | José Antonio Abreu | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Donald Colborne McEown | LL.D. |
| 2011 | The Honourable David C. Onley | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Donald Wiles | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Óscar Arias Sánchez | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Monique Bégin | LL.D. |
| 2011 | David M. Baird | D. Sc. |
| 2011 | Mary May Simon | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Toller Cranston | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Joy Harvie MacLaren | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Judith Erola | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Jeffrey Turnbull | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Roderick M. Bryden | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Charlotte Gray | LL.D. |
| 2011 | Eli Kassner | D. Mus. |
| 2010 | Jeffrey Sachs | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Donald Colborne McEown | M.A. |
| 2010 | Muhammad Yunus | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Sima Samar | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Jozef Straus | D.Sc. |
| 2010 | Michael Kirby | LL.D, |
| 2010 | Ginette Lemir Rodger | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Joe Schlesinger | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Charles Joseph Clarke | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Maureen A. McTeer | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Michael Sabia | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Maude Barlow | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Phillipe Camus | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Andree Lortie | LL.D. |
| 2010 | Laurence Kardish | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Grete Hale | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Richard van Loon | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Dan Fortin | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Stephen Lewis | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Richard M. Hansen | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Adrienne Clarkson | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Edward Broadbent | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Hilary Pearson | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Christina Gold | LL.D. |
| 2009 | Max Keeping | LL.D. |
| 2008 | Minnijean Brown Trickey | LL.D. |
| 2008 | William Barton | LL.D. |
| 2008 | Mark Starowicz | LL.D. |
| 2008 | Angus Reid | LL.D. |
| 2008 | Donald Yeomans | LL.D. |
| 2008 | Frank O’Dea | LL.D. |
| 2008 | Buffy Ste-Marie | LL.D. |
| 2007 | Tom Brzustowski | LL.D. |
| 2007 | Donald Campbell | LL.D. |
| 2007 | Sheila Fraser | LL.D. |
| 2007 | James Youngblood Henderson | LL.D. |
| 2007 | Anna Maria Tremonti | LL.D. |
| 2006 | Wesley Nicol | LL.D. |
| 2006 | Barbara Jean Clark | LL.D. |
| 2006 | Reuven Bulka | LL.D. |
| 2006 | Frederick E. Gibson | LL.D. |
| 2006 | Nelofer Pazira | LL.D. |
| 2006 | David Smith | LL.D. |
| 2006 | Philip Lapp | D.Eng. |
| 2006 | John Manley | LL.D. |
| 2006 | John de Chastelain | LL.D. |
| 2005 | Roy Romanow | LL.D. |
| 2005 | Paul Okalik | LL.D. |
| 2005 | Robert McDonald | LL.D. |
| 2005 | Sonya Bata | LL.D. |
| 2005 | Marc-Andre Hamelin | D.Mus. |
| 2005 | Gareth Evans | LL.D. |
| 2005 | Rosalie Abella | LL.D. |
| 2005 | Robert Laughton | LL.D. |
| 2004 | Kofi Annan | LL.D. |
| 2004 | Keith R. Greenaway | LL.D. |
| 2004 | Carl G. Widstrand | LL.D. |
| 2004 | Beverley McLachlin | LL.D. |
| 2004 | Joseph S. Nye Jr. | LL.D. |
| 2004 | Harold J. Jennings | D.Sc. |
| 2004 | Orest Cochkanoff | D.Eng. |
| 2004 | Raymond Moriyama | D.Arch. |
| 2004 | Carl L. Monismith | D.Eng. |
| 2004 | Gail Cook-Bennett | LL.D. |
| 2004 | Robert Fisk | LL.D. |
| 2004 | Peter Herrndorf | LL.D. |
| 2004 | Marlene Brant Castellano | LL.D. |
| 2003 | Arthur Kroeger | LL.D. |
| 2003 | Landon Pearson | LL.D. |
| 2003 | Donald S. Macdonald | LL.D. |
| 2003 | Lawrence M. Krauss | D.Sc. |
| 2003 | William Wallace | D.Eng. |
| 2003 | David J. Azrieli | D.Arch. |
| 2003 | Eric Sprott | LL.D. |
| 2003 | Shirley Thomson | LL.D. |
| 2002 | Tim Brodhead | LL.D. |
| 2002 | Louise Frechette | LL.D. |
| 2002 | Jean Pigott | LL.D. |
| 2002 | David Farr | LL.D. |
| 2002 | Alois Raffler | M.Sc. |
| 2002 | Richard Karp | D.Sc. |
| 2002 | Ernest Ferderick Roots | D.Sc. |
| 2002 | John Morgridge | LL.D. |
| 2002 | Russell Mills | LL.D. |
| 2001 | Paul De Keersmaeker | LL.D. |
| 2001 | Romano Prodi | LL.D. |
| 2001 | Guy Verhofstadt | LL.D. |
| 2001 | George Anderson | LL.D. |
| 2001 | Claude A. Edwards | LL.D. |
| 2001 | Bruce A. McFarlane | LL.D. |
| 2001 | Harry B. Gray | D.Sc. |
| 2001 | Gulsun Saglamer | D.Arch. |
| 2001 | Trina McQueen | LL.D. |
| 2001 | Mario Bernardi | D.Mus. |
| 2000 | Derek H. Burney | LL.D. |
| 2000 | Marion Dewar | LL.D. |
| 2000 | James Downey | LL.D. |
| 2000 | Sydney Wise | LL.D. |
| 2000 | Karl Diedrich | M.Sc. |
| 2000 | Carol Shields | D.Litt. |
| 2000 | Louise Arbour | LL.D. |
| 2000 | Judith Maxwell | LL.D. |
| 2000 | Jay Ingram | D.Sc. |
| 2000 | Donald Shields | D.Eng. |
| 1999 | Walther Lichem | LL.D. |
| 1999 | Albert Wesley Johnson | LL.D. |
| 1999 | Maureen O’Neil | LL.D. |
| 1999 | Dorothy Smith | LL.D. |
| 1999 | Ivan P. Fellegi | D.Sc. |
| 1999 | Richard E. Taylor | D.Sc. |
| 1999 | Laurent Beaudoin | D.Eng. |
| 1999 | Leonard G. Lee | D.Eng. |
| 1998 | S. Simon Reisman | LL.D. |
| 1998 | Jocelyne Bourgon | LL.D. |
| 1998 | Maxwell Yalden | LL.D. |
| 1998 | Zdenek Johan | D.Sc. |
| 1998 | R.D. (Dick) Richmond | D.Eng. |
| 1998 | J.G. (Gerry) Turcotte | D.Eng. |
| 1998 | James Cameron | D.Fine Arts |
| 1997 | Ronald St.John Macdonald | LL.D. |
| 1997 | Willem Gilles | D.Eng. |
| 1997 | Graham Westbrook Rowley | LL.D. |
| 1997 | Lawrence Klein | LL.D. |
| 1997 | Arthur Carty | D.Sc. |
| 1997 | Phyllis Bronfman Lambert | D.Arch. |
| 1997 | Peter Jennings | D.Litt. |
| 1997 | Billy Diamond | LL.D. |
| 1996 | Ivan Leigh Head | LL.D. |
| 1996 | Flora MacDonald | LL.D. |
| 1996 | Nellie Cournoyea | LL.D. |
| 1996 | Edward Bower Carty | LL.D. |
| 1996 | Michael Smith | D.Sc. |
| 1996 | Alan G. Davenport | D.Eng. |
| 1996 | James W. Borcoman | D.Fine Arts |
| 1995 | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | LL.D. |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Dowdeswell | LL.D. |
| 1995 | Håkan A. Berggren | LL.D. |
| 1995 | Beatrice E. Wickett | LL.D. |
| 1995 | Marc-Alélard Tremblay | LL.D. |
| 1995 | Clifford K. Hargrove | D.Sc. |
| 1995 | Robert D. Schad | D.Eng. |
| 1995 | Terence H. Matthews | D.Eng. |
| 1995 | Celia Franca | D.Fine Arts |
| 1994 | Margaret Catley-Carlson | LL.D. |
| 1994 | Rosemary Brown | LL.D. |
| 1994 | Mitchell W. Sharp | LL.D. |
| 1994 | Hugh Alan Craig Cairns | LL.D. |
| 1994 | Wilbert Joseph Keon | D.Sc. |
| 1994 | Douglas J. Cardinal | D.Arch. |
| 1994 | Dan Aykroyd | D.Litt. |
| 1994 | Alanis Obomsawin | D.Litt. |
| 1993 | M.S. Gorbachev | LL.D. |
| 1993 | Martin F. Walmsley | LL.D. |
| 1993 | Priscilla Tyler | LL.D. |
| 1993 | P.B. Waite | D.Litt. |
| 1993 | Maxwell Cohen | LL.D. |
| 1993 | Luisa Paré | LL.D. |
| 1993 | Nathan Keyfitz | LL.D. |
| 1993 | Digby Johns McLaren | D.Sc. |
| 1993 | Roberta Lynn Bondar | D.Sc. |
| 1992 | Rt. Hon. Ramon John Hnatyshyn | LL.D. |
| 1992 | H. Scott Gordon | LL.D. |
| 1992 | Keith Usherwood Ingold | D.Sc. |
| 1992 | John D. Redfern | D.Eng. |
| 1992 | Jean Pierre Beauregard | D.Eng. |
| 1992 | Charles S.A. Ritchie | D.Litt. |
| 1992 | Lister Sinclair | D.Litt. |
| 1992 | Nina Jerome Natawe | LL.D. |
| 1991 | Peter Ustinov | LL.D. |
| 1991 | Enrique V. Iglesias | LL.D. |
| 1991 | Roberta L. Jamieson | LL.D. |
| 1991 | Norman D. Fenn | LL.D. |
| 1991 | Bertha Wilson | LL.D. |
| 1991 | Chil-Yong Kang | D.Sc. |
| 1991 | Leslie G. Jaeger | D.Eng. |
| 1991 | Frances Georgina Halpenny | D.Litt. |
| 1990 | Gordon Robertson | LL.D. |
| 1990 | Inger Hansen | LL.D. |
| 1990 | Antoine D’Iorio | D.Sc. |
| 1990 | Mary S. O’Brien | LL.D. |
| 1990 | John Meisel | LL.D. |
| 1990 | Douglas R. Colton | D.Eng. |
| 1990 | Naomi Jackson Groves | D.Litt. |
| 1990 | Jean Sutherland Boggs | D.Litt. |
| 1989 | John W. Pickersgill | LL.D. |
| 1989 | C. Jane Dobell | LL.D. |
| 1989 | L.A.K. Watt | D.Eng. |
| 1989 | William E. Beckel | LL.D. |
| 1989 | Tak Wah Mak | D.Sc. |
| 1989 | Conrad Black | LL.D. |
| 1989 | Beland Honderich | D.Litt. |
| 1988 | Madeleine Parent | LL.D. |
| 1988 | Anne Marguerite Squire | LL.D. |
| 1988 | Robert Law McDougall | D.Litt. |
| 1988 | Brian Dickson | LL.D. |
| 1988 | Ursula M. Franklin | D.Sc. |
| 1988 | Erich Wolfgang Vogt | D.Sc. |
| 1988 | George J. Klein (in absentia) | D.Eng. |
| 1988 | Maxwell William Ward | LL.D. |
| 1988 | June Callwood | D.Litt. |
| 1987 | Louis Rasminsky | LL.D. |
| 1987 | Major General Indar Jit Rikhye | LL.D. |
| 1987 | Pauline Jewett | LL.D. |
| 1987 | Gordon F. Osbaldeston | LL.D |
| 1987 | John H. White | D.Litt. |
| 1987 | Richard G. Lipsey | LL.D. |
| 1987 | David Suzuki | D.Sc. |
| 1987 | Raymond A. Price | D.Sc. |
| 1987 | Richard D. Hiscocks | D.Eng. |
| 1987 | H.H.E. Leipholz | D.Eng. |
| 1987 | Claudette MacKay Lassonde | D.Eng. |
| 1987 | Colin Patterson | D.Eng. |
| 1987 | Rose Eleanor Milne | D.Litt. |
| 1986 | W. David Hopper | LL.D. |
| 1986 | Huguette Labelle | LL.D. |
| 1986 | Rt. Hon. Jeanne Sauvé | LL.D. |
| 1986 | Gordon M. MacNabb | D.Eng. |
| 1986 | Wilfred Cantwell Smith | D.Litt. |
| 1986 | Wallace E. Lambert | LL.D. |
| 1985 | Javier Perez de Cuellar | LL.D. |
| 1985 | A.E. Ritchie | LL.D. |
| 1985 | R.B. Bryce | LL.D. |
| 1985 | Jean Luc Pepin | LL.D. |
| 1985 | Saran A. Narang | D.Sc. |
| 1985 | Michael C.J. Cowpland | D.Eng. |
| 1985 | Robert MacNeil | D.Litt. |
| 1985 | Lorraine Monk | D.Litt. |
| 1984 | R.A. “Dick” Bell | LL.D. |
| 1984 | Ruth M. Bell | LL.D. |
| 1984 | Elizabeth M. “Betty” Buckley | M.A. |
| 1984 | Wilfred H. Kesterton | D.Litt. |
| 1984 | Gordon F. Henderson | LL.D. |
| 1984 | Mary Jean Wright | LL.D. |
| 1984 | Harold S.M. Coxeter | D.Sc. |
| 1984 | Elvie L. Smith | D.Eng. |
| 1983 | John W. Holmes | LL.D. |
| 1983 | Rev. Dr. R. Guindon | LL.D. |
| 1983 | Norma Walmsley | LL.D. |
| 1983 | John G. Bryans | M.Sc. |
| 1983 | Edward P. Hincks | D.Sc. |
| 1983 | George Bain | D.Litt. |
| 1983 | F.R. (Budge) Crawley | D.Litt. |
| 1982 | Hilda G. Gifford | D.Litt. |
| 1982 | J.E. Hodgetts | LL.D. |
| 1982 | Robert M. Bateman | D.Sc. |
| 1982 | Douglas Shadbolt | D.Eng. |
| 1982 | Graham Spry | LL.D. |
| 1981 | Gordon Goundrey | LL.D. |
| 1981 | Pauline McGibbon | LL.D. |
| 1981 | Kenneth Grant | LL.D. |
| 1981 | H.B. Mayo | LL.D. |
| 1981 | J.C. Polanyi | D.Sc. |
| 1981 | D.J. Doyle | D.Eng. |
| 1981 | E.A. Collard | D.Litt. |
| 1980 | T.C. Douglas | LL.D. |
| 1980 | Robert E. Bell | D.Sc. |
| 1980 | J.J. Shepherd | D.Eng. |
| 1980 | R. Murray Schafer | LL.D. |
| 1979 | Hyman Soloway | LL.D. |
| 1979 | George Johnston | D.Litt. |
| 1979 | J. Wreford Watson | LL.D. |
| 1979 | Edward Irving | D.Sc. |
| 1979 | Maureen Forrester | LL.D. |
| 1978 | Escott Reid | LL.D. |
| 1978 | H.H.J. Nesbitt | D.Sc. |
| 1978 | M.S. Macphail | D.Sc. |
| 1978 | Bora Laskin | LL.D. |
| 1978 | S. Chandrasekhar | D.Sc. |
| 1978 | Antonine Maillet | D.Litt. |
| 1978 | I. Norman Smith | D.Litt. |
| 1978 | G. Hamilton Southam | LL.D. |
| 1978 | A.W. Trueman | D.Litt. |
| 1977 | J. King Gordon | LL.D. |
| 1977 | Beryl Plumptre | LL.D. |
| 1977 | Munro Beattie | D.Litt. |
| 1977 | Jean Loates | M.A. |
| 1977 | George Whalley | D.Litt. |
| 1977 | John W. Hodgins | D.Eng. |
| 1977 | F.R. Scott | LL.D. |
| 1977 | Walter B. Herbert | LL.D. |
| 1976 | E.L.M. Burns | LL.D. |
| 1976 | Margaret W. Labarge | D.Litt. |
| 1976 | E. Patrick Hartt | LL.D. |
| 1976 | E.A. Forsey | LL.D. |
| 1976 | Oswald Hall | LL.D. |
| 1976 | J.M. Harrison | D.Sc. |
| 1976 | Harold E. Johns | D.Sc. |
| 1975 | M.S. Adiseshiah | LL.D. |
| 1975 | David Golden | LL.D. |
| 1975 | J. Lorne Gray | D.Sc. |
| 1975 | Ira Puddington | D.Sc. |
| 1975 | M.G. Bekker | D.Eng. |
| 1975 | John Bland | D.Sc. |
| 1975 | James Reaney | D.Litt. |
| 1975 | Florence Bird | LL.D. |
| 1974 | Douglas Fullerton | LL.D. |
| 1974 | Leo McCarthy | LL.D. |
| 1974 | C.P. Stacey | D.Litt. |
| 1974 | Hilda Neatby | D.Litt. |
| 1974 | Charles M. Sternberg | D.Sc. |
| 1974 | R.F. Leggett | D.Eng. |
| 1974 | Margaret Laurence | D.Litt. |
| 1973 | Joan Robinson | LL.D. |
| 1973 | David A. Keys | LL.D. |
| 1973 | Oscar Peterson | LL.D. |
| 1972 | Kurt Waldheim | LL.D. |
| 1972 | M.J. Coldwell | LL.D. |
| 1972 | Rt. Rev. L A. Vachon | LL.D. |
| 1972 | A.D. Dunton | LL.D. |
| 1972 | W.M. Connor | LL.D. |
| 1972 | James A. Houston | D.Litt. |
| 1971 | R.A. MacKay | D.Litt. |
| 1971 | Helen I. Battle | D.Sc. |
| 1971 | Robert B. McClure | LL.D. |
| 1971 | Ben Etkin | D.Eng. |
| 1970 | Lord Fulton | LL.D. |
| 1970 | J. Percy Smith | D.Litt. |
| 1970 | Harry G. Johnson | LL.D. |
| 1970 | B.B. Migicovsky | D.Sc. |
| 1970 | Barker Fairley | D.Litt. |
| 1969 | J.E. Robbins | LL.D. |
| 1969 | C.J. MacKenzie | LL.D. |
| 1969 | Merle Fainsod | LL.D. |
| 1969 | F.J. Alcock | LL.D. |
| 1968 | J.P. Humphrey | LL.D. |
| 1968 | Diamond Jenness | LL.D. |
| 1968 | John G. McClelland | LL.D. |
| 1967 | Adelaide Sinclair | LL.D. |
| 1967 | Sir Philip Sherlock | LL.D. |
| 1967 | Lloyd G. Elliott | D.Sc. |
| 1967 | Gerhard Herzberg | D.Sc. |
| 1967 | Robert Hofstadter | D.Sc. |
| 1967 | John S. Foster | D.Eng. |
| 1967 | A. Brewer Hunt | D.Eng. |
| 1967 | Douglas T. Wright | D.Eng. |
| 1967 | Hugh MacLennan | LL.D. |
| 1967 | Peter M. Dwyer | LL.D. |
| 1966 | Pauline Vanier | LL.D. |
| 1966 | Vincent W. Bladen | LL.D. |
| 1966 | Wilfrid Eggleston | LL.D. |
| 1965 | Paul Gérin Lajoie | LL.D. |
| 1965 | Gwendolen M. Carter | LL.D. |
| 1965 | W.A. Noyes | D.Sc. |
| 1965 | Leo Marion | D.Sc. |
| 1964 | J.A. Gibson | LL.D. |
| 1963 | Vincent Massey | LL.D. |
| 1963 | E.M. DuPorte | D.Sc. |
| 1963 | G.P. Holland | D.Sc. |
| 1963 | W.R. Thompson | D.Sc. |
| 1963 | E.M. Walker | D.Sc. |
| 1962 | U Thant | LL.D. |
| 1962 | F.H. Soward | LL.D. |
| 1962 | W.B. Lewis | LL.D. |
| 1961 | F.G. Patten | LL.D. |
| 1961 | Moffat Woodside | LL.D. |
| 1960 | George G. Croskery | LL.D. |
| 1960 | Claude Bissell | LL.D. |
| 1960 | Alice E. Wilson | LL.D. |
| 1960 | Yosuf Karsh | LL.D. |
| 1959 | Very Rev. H.F. Légaré | LL.D. |
| 1959 | N.M. Paterson | LL.D. |
| 1959 | F.H. Underhill | LL.D. |
| 1958 | J.W.T. Spinks | LL.D. |
| 1958 | J. Tuzo Wilson | LL.D. |
| 1957 | H. Northrop Frye | LL.D. |
| 1957 | A.Y. Jackson | LL.D. |
| 1956 | H.L. Keenlyside | LL.D. |
| 1954 | Dag Hammarskjold | LL.D. |
| 1954 | Sir Douglas Copland | LL.D. |