Learn more about Carleton’s Honorary Degree recipients on our Convocation Page.

Year

Name

Degree
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 Dave Smith LL.D.
2006 Nelofer Pazira 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.