Honorary degree recipients
| Guy Cormier, LLD |
| Julie Gichuru, LLD |
| Lady Mireille Gillings, DSc |
| David Keith, DSc |
| Lee-Ann Martin, DFA |
| Olivette Otele, LLD |
| Nathalie Petrowski, DLitt |
Read more about Spring 2022 Honorary Degree recipients.
Honarands were not nominated for Spring or Fall 2021
| Jennifer Flanagan, DSc |
| David Fung, DSc |
| Dame Julia Higgins, DSc |
| Fibbie Tati, LL.D. |
| Lyse Doucet, LL.D. |
| Margie Gillis, DFA |
| Vikas Swarup, LL.D. |
Read more about Spring 2020 Honorary Degree recipients.
Due to pandemic restrictions, in-person convocation ceremonies were postponed. Visit CU CELEBRATE to watch videos celebrating the Spring 2020 graduates.
| Rebecca Brent, LL.D. |
| Richard Felder, LL.D. |
| Barbara Davidson, DFA |
| Annette Verschuren, LL.D. |
| Aimee Mullins, LL.D. |
| Eric Martel, DSc |
| Gilles Mihalcean, DFA |
| Kamaljit Bawa, DSc |
| Kent Nagano, DFA |
| Louis Vachon, LL.D. |
| Peter Simons, LL.D. |
| Sylvia Schmelkes, LL.D. |
| Natalie Panek, DSc |
| Miriam Roland, LL.D. |
| Luigi Liberatore, LL.D. |
| Louis Tanguay, LL.D. |
| Nathalie Pilon, LL.D. |
| Meredith Monk, DFA |
| Clara Akamanzi, LL.D. |
| Robert Briscoe, LL.D. |
| Edith Cloutier, LL.D. |
| Wilton Littlechild, LL.D. |
| Meyya Meyyappan, D.Sc. |
| Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, LL.D. |
| Peter Schumann, D.F.A. |
| Serge Chapleau, LL.D. |
| Terry Mosher, LL.D. |
| Isabelle Hudon, LL.D. |
| Kon Leong, D.Sc. |
| Bernard Voyer, D.Sc. |
| Jahangir Mohammed, D.Sc. |
| Chantal Petitclerc, LL.D. |
| David Martin, D.Sc. |
| Kim Thúy, D.Litt. |
| Lise Watier, LL.D. |
| Measha Brueggergosman, D.F.A. |
| Robert Calderisi, LL.D. |
| Kenneth Woods, LL.D. |
| J. Sebastian van Berkom, LL.D. |
| Nahlah Ayed, LL.D. |
| Calin Rovinescu, LL.D. |
| Régine A. Chassagne, D.F.A. |
| Maria Klawe, D.Sc. |
| Aaron Fish, LL.D. * |
| Arlene Dickinson, LL.D. |
| David Johnston, LL.D. |
| Garrett Herman, LL.D. |
| Joan Wallach Scott, D.Litt. |
| Nora Volkow, D.Sc. |
| Pierre Lassonde, D.Sc. |
| Sherry Turkle, LL.D. |
| James Shavick, D.F.A. |
| Desmarais, France Chrétien LL.D. |
| Neamtan, Nancy LL.D. |
| Steinman, Barbara LL.D. |
| Kenneth Deer, LL.D. |
| Christiana Figueres, LL.D. |
| Emanuele (Lino) Saputo, LL.D. |
| Angèle Dubeau, D.F.A. |
| Terry Hollands, DSc |
| Anne-Marie Hubert, LL.D. |
| Michael Sabia, LL.D. |
| Sister Jacqueline St-Yves, LL.D. |
| Richard M. Stallman, LL.D. |
| Louis R. Chênevert, LL.D. |
| Chantal Hébert, LL.D. |
| Michal Hornstein, LL.D. * |
| Renata Hornstein, LL.D. * |
| Bryan Kolb, D.Sc. |
| Stuart McLean, LL.D. * |
| Chantal Pontbriand, D.F.A. |
| Gregg Saretsky, LL.D. |
| Clark Blaise, D.Litt. |
| Vahid Tarokh, D.Sc. |
| Joyce Zemans, D.F.A. |
| Leonard Kleinrock, D.Sc. |
| Deepa Mehta, D.Litt. |
| Roméo Dallaire, LL.D. |
| Mutsumi Takahashi, LL.D. |
| Christiane Germain, LL.D. |
| Françoise Bertrand, LL.D. |
| Aldo Bensadoun, LL.D. |
| Elsa Bolam, LL.D. |
| Craig Kielburger, LL.D. |
| Marc Kielburger, LL.D. |
| Jane Doe, LL.D. |
| George Springate, LL.D. * |
| Graham Fraser, LL.D. |
| Darren Entwistle, LL.D. |
| John de Chastelain, LL.D. |
| Gaston J-M Kaboré, LL.D. |
| Kathy Reichs, LL.D. |
| Xavier-Henri Hervé, D.Sc. |
| Robert Courteau, LL.D. |
| Beverley McLachlin, LL.D. |
| Rémi Quirion, LL.D. |
| Corinne Charette, LL.D. |
| Monique F. Leroux, LL.D. |
| Steve Wozniak, D.Sc. |
| Theo Jansen, LL.D. |
| Brian O'Neill Gallery, LL.D. |
| Vic Vogel, LL.D.* |
| Joëlle Berdugo Adler, LL.D. |
| Laurent Beaudoin, LL.D. |
| Robert Charlebois, LL.D. |
| Jean Chrétien, LL.D. |
| Julie Payette, D.Sc. |
| Richard Pound, LL.D. |
| R. Murray Schafer, LL.D. |
| Eleanor Wachtel, LL.D. |
| AA Bronson, LL.D. |
| Elizabeth Comper, LL.D. * |
| Tony Comper, LL.D. |
| Robert A. Walsh, D.Sc. |
| Roger Abbott, LL.D. * |
| Jean Béliveau, LL.D. * |
| Don Ferguson, LL.D. |
| Mel Hoppenheim, LL.D. |
| Andrée Lajoie, LL.D. |
| N.R. Narayan Murthy, D.Sc. |
| Richard Renaud, LL.D. |
| René Balcer, LL.D. |
| Hilary M. Weston, LL.D. |
Thierry Frémaux, LL.D.
| Frederick H. Lowy, LL.D. |
| Laura Mulvey, LL.D. |
| Robert Louis Papineau, LL.D. * |
| Robert Ritchie, LL.D. |
| Charles C. Hill, LL.D. |
| Heather Menzies, LL.D. |
| Howard Alper, LL.D. |
| André Desmarais, LL.D. |
| Donald McNaughton, LL.D. * |
| Grant Munro, LL.D. * |
| Jean-Claude Turcotte, LL.D. * |
Al Gore, LL.D.
Eric H. Molson, LL.D.
| Naïm Kattan, LL.D. |
| Alfred Leslie, LL.D. |
| L. Jacques Ménard, LL.D. * |
| Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire, LL.D. |
| Allan E. Gotlieb, LL.D. * |
| Brian Mulroney, LL.D. |
| Michael Desbois Spencer, LL.D. |
| Robert Daudelin, LL.D. |
| Shirin Ebadi, LL.D. |
| John Forzani, LL.D. * |
| Leo Goldfarb, LL.D. (posthumous) * |
| Norman D. Hébert, LL.D. * |
| Ted Moses, LL.D. |
| Bengt Saltin, LL.D. |
| Claude Taylor, LL.D. * |
| Marc Garneau, LL.D. |
| Michael Gibbons, LL.D. |
| Daniel Langlois, LL.D. |
| Bruce Mallen, LL.D. |
| André Chagnon, LL.D. |
| Adrienne Clarkson, LL.D. |
| Maryvonne Kendergi, LL.D. * |
| Alistair MacLeod, LL.D. |
| Guido Molinari, LL.D. (posthumous) * |
| John O'Brien, LL.D. * |
| Henri-Paul Rousseau, LL.D. |
| Claude Ryan, LL.D. (posthumous) * |
| Lui Che Woo, LL.D. |
| Jill Ker Conway, LL.D. |
| Natalie Zemon Davis, LL.D. |
| Leonard Ellen, LL.D. * |
| Ronald Lawless, LL.D. * |
| John Major, LL.D. |
| Jean-Paul Morin, LL.D. * |
| Sidney Altman, LL.D. |
| John Tyler Bonner, LL.D. * |
| Robert E. Brown, LL.D. |
| Tom Brzustowski, LL.D. * |
| Stephen A. Jarislowsky, LL.D. |
| Eric Kandel, LL.D. |
| Richard Monette, LL.D. * |
| Gilles Ouimet, LL.D. |
| Larry W. Swanson, LL.D. |
| Gregory Baum, LL.D. |
| Francesco Bellini, LL.D. |
| Assia Djebar, LL.D. * |
| John W. Dobson, LL.D. * |
| Julio Garcia Espinosa, LL.D. * |
| Seamus Heaney, LL.D. * |
| Julia Levy, LL.D. |
| Ahmed Zewail, LL.D. |
| Louise Arbour, LL.D. |
| Geoffrey E.H. Ballard, LL.D. * |
| Lionel P. Hurtubise, LL.D. |
| Henry Mintzberg, LL.D. |
| Robert Savoie, LL.D. * |
| Shirley L. Thomson, LL.D. * |
| John A. Roth, LL.D. |
| Giancarlo E. Valori, LL.D. |
| Jean Sutherland Boggs, LL.D. |
| Barrie J. Frost, LL.D. |
| Serge Godin, LL.D. |
| Ann Saddlemyer, LL.D. |
| James M. Stanford, LL.D. |
| Robert Lepage, LL.D. |
| Lise Thibault, LL.D. |
| J. Edward Broadbent, LL.D. |
| James W. Carey, LL.D. * |
| Peter Munk, LL.D. * |
| Charles Albert Poissant, LL.D. * |
| Annie Proulx, LL.D. |
| Charles Sirois, LL.D. |
| Robert Wall, LL.D. * |
| Henryk Gorecki, LL.D. * |
| Paul Martin, LL.D. |
| André Bazergui, LL.D. |
| David Jay Bercuson, LL.D. |
| Douglas J. Cardinal, LL.D. |
| Dominic D'Alessandro, LL.D. |
| John Economides, LL.D. * |
| Carol Shields, LL.D. * |
| Mary Wright, LL.D. |
| William Shue Lam Yip, LL.D. |
Ned Goodman, LL.D.
| Morrel Bachynski, LL.D. * |
| Elisabeth Mann Borgese, LL.D. * |
| Wendy Cukier, LL.D. |
| Roland Doré, LL.D. |
| Pierre Jean Jeanniot, LL.D. |
| Emmett Johns, LL.D. * |
| Annette Michelson, LL.D. |
| Jean A. Pouliot, LL.D. * |
| Heidi Rathjen, LL.D. |
| Jeanne Renaud, LL.D. |
| Esmeralda M.A. Thornhill, LL.D. |
| Lawrence S. Bloomberg, LL.D. |
| James Borcoman, LL.D. |
| Paul T. Kefalas, LL.D. |
| E. Leo Kolber, LL.D. * |
| Claudette MacKay-Lassonde, LL.D. * |
| David Matas, LL.D. |
| Wilfred Whyte McCutcheon, LL.D. * |
| Donald C. Savage, LL.D. * |
| Anne Sylvestre, LL.D. |
| Myer Bloom, LL.D. |
| Gilles Carle, LL.D. * |
| Jacques G. Francoeur, LL.D. * |
| Peter Godsoe, LL.D. |
| Linda Hutcheon, LL.D. |
| Michèle S. Jean, LL.D. |
| Eric McLean, LL.D. * |
| Michel Normandin, LL.D. * |
| Peter A. Vamos, LL.D. |
| Matthew W. Barrett, LL.D. |
| Joe Clark, LL.D. |
| Thomas R. Berger, LL.D. |
| Thérèse Gouin-Décarie, LL.D. |
| Otto Joachim, LL.D. * |
| John McCarthy, LL.D. * |
| Jean Pigott, LL.D. * |
| Margaret Power, LL.D. * |
| Mildred Helfand Ryerson, LL.D. * |
| Huguette Tourangeau, LL.D. * |
| Ben Weider, LL.D. * |
| Mary Eberts, LL.D. |
| Victor C. Goldbloom, LL.D. * |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, LL.D. * |
| Edgar Andrew Collard, LL.D. * |
| William K. Everson, LL.D. * |
| Mildred B. Lande, LL.D. * |
| Alanis Obomsawin, LL.D. |
| Jean-Louis Roux, LL.D. |
| Martha Sloan, LL.D. |
| Velma Weeks Barker, LL.D. |
Alan B. Gold, LL.D. *
| Charles Bronfman, LL.D. |
| Jeff W. Edington, LL.D. |
| François-Marc Gagnon, LL.D * |
| Carleen Maley Hutchins, LL.D. * |
| Judith Maxwell, LL.D. |
| Eigil Pedersen, LL.D. |
| Maurice Podbrey, LL.D. |
| Guy Saint-Pierre, LL.D. |
| Arthur Solomon, LL.D. * |
Bertha Wilson, LL.D. *
| Jean Coulthard, LL.D. * |
| Jean Coutu, LL.D. |
| Donald Knuth, LL.D. |
| David Rome, LL.D. * |
| Rosalie Silberman Abella, LL.D. |
| Michel Tremblay, D.Litt. |
| Lorne Webster, LL.D. * |
| Doris Anderson, LL.D. * |
| Paul Desmarais, LL.D. * |
| Jaime Escalante, LL.D. * |
| Ursula Franklin, LL.D. * |
| Wally Gentleman, LL.D. * |
| Mel Hurtig, LL.D. |
| Antonine Maillet, D.Litt. |
| John Polanyi, LL.D. |
| Margaret Catley-Carlson, LL.D. |
| Gratien Gélinas, D.Litt. * |
| George Drummond Birks, LL.D. * |
| Claude Castonguay, LL.D. |
| Paterson Ewen, LL.D. * |
| Jean-Paul Gourdeau, LL.D. |
| Gordon Sparling, LL.D. * |
| Robert H. Tanner, LL.D. * |
| William I.M. Turner, Jr., LL.D. * |
| Susan Mann Trofimenkoff, LL.D. |
| Dorothy A. Wills, LL.D. |
| J.V. Raymond Cyr, LL.D. |
| Paul-Émile Léger, LL.D. * |
| Raymond T. AffIeck, LL.D. * |
| Stafford Beer, LL.D. * |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, LL.D. * |
| Ronald J. Gillespie, LL.D. |
| Jori Smith, LL.D. * |
| Elizabeth Spencer, LL.D. |
| Allan R. Taylor, LL.D. |
| Ashok K. Vijh, LL.D. |
| Wei Yu, LL.D. |
W. Earle McLaughlin, LL.D. *
| Léon Bellefleur, LL.D. * |
| Robert J. Brodrick, LL.D. * |
| Margaret Fulton, LL.D. |
| Eric Kierans, LL.D. * |
| Hugh MacLennan, D.Litt. * |
| J. Gerard McDonough, LL.D. * |
| Peter M. McEntyre, LL.D. * |
| William B. Rice, LL.D. * |
| Lise Bissonnette, LL.D. |
| Robert Choquette, D.Litt. * |
| Simone de Beauvoir, D.Litt. (posthumous) * |
| Jacques de Tonnancour, LL.D. * |
| Jacques Genest, D.Sc. * |
| Grace Hartman, LL.D. * |
| Phyllis Lambert, LL.D. |
| William McMurray, LL.D. * |
| Sylvia Ostry, LL.D. |
| Hans H. (David) Stern, LL.D. * |
| Robert Stollery, LL.D. * |
| N. Byron Cavadias, LL.D. |
| Norman Cohn, LL.D. * |
| Frank R. Crawley, LL.D. * |
| Bernard Lamarre, LL.D. * |
| Theodore Lande, LL.D. * |
| Stephen Lewis, LL.D. |
| George Geoffrey Meyerhof, LL.D. * |
| Max Stern, LL.D. * |
| Charlotte Hunter Tansey, LL.D. * |
| Jean-Paul Vinay, LL.D. * |
| Lloyd I. Barber, LL.D. * |
| J. Clair Callaghan, LL.D. * |
| Lionel Chevrier, LL.D. * |
| Carl B. Crawford, LL.D. * |
| Dorothy Davis, LL.D. * |
| Peter J. Denning, LL.D. |
| Jean Paul Lemieux, LL.D. * |
| H.J. Barrington Nevitt, LL.D. * |
| Madeleine Parent, LL.D. * |
| Norma Springford, LL.D. * |
| Guy Sylvestre, LL.D. * |
| Violet Walters, LL.D. * |
| Orson Wheeler, LL.D. * |
| Roch Bolduc, LL.D. |
| Muriel H. Duckworth, LL.D. * |
| James M. Ham, LL.D. * |
| Pierre Laurin, LL.D. |
| Elvie L. Smith, LL.D. * |
| Jack Bordan, LL.D. |
| Alex C. Duff, LL.D. * |
| Arthur J. Gosselin, LL.D. |
| John R. Hannan, LL.D. * |
| Henry J. Hemens, LL.D. * |
| Myer Horowitz, LL.D. |
| Robert H. Marchessault, D.Sc. |
| Arthur P. Pascal, LL.D. * |
| Sam Tata, LL.D. * |
| Douglas Tushingham, LL.D. * |
| Douglas T. Wright, LL.D. * |
| Jules Deschênes, LL.D. * |
| Alphonsine Howlett, LL.D. * |
| Yvonne Hubert, LL.D. * |
| Josef Kates, LL.D. |
| Gordon M. MacNabb, LL.D. |
| Philip H. Surrey, LL.D. * |
| Thomas H.B. Symons, LL.D. |
| Thomas Daly, LL.D. * |
| Gérard Dion, LL.D. * |
| Roger Gaudry, LL.D. * |
| Ethel Stark, LL.D. * |
| Thérèse Casgrain, LL.D. * |
| William T.G. Hackett, LL.D. * |
| Murray Laufer, LL.D. |
| Walter F. Light, LL.D. * |
| Eric O'Connor, LL.D. * |
| Margaret Atwood, LL.D. |
| Mario Duschenes, LL.D. * |
| Robert E. Bell, LL.D. * |
| Camille A. Dagenais, LL.D. * |
| Donald C. MacPhail, LL.D. * |
| Oscar Peterson, LL.D. * |
| Maurice Proulx, LL.D. * |
| Fernand Seguin, D.Sc. * |
| Wilfred Cantwell Smith, LL.D. * |
A. Hollis Marden, LL.D. *
| Robert A. Boyd, LL.D. * |
| Harry J. Boyle, LL.D. * |
| John Hastings Dinsmore, LL.D. |
| James Gilchrist Finnie, LL.D. * |
| J. Gordin Kaplan, D.Sc. * |
| Louis Muhlstock, LL.D. * |
| Irène Sénécal, LL.D. * |
| Charles S. Carter, LL.D. * |
| Guy Desbarats, LL.D. * |
| Bernard Lonergan, LL.D. * |
| Norman McLaren, LL.D. * |
| Robert Ayre, LL.D. * |
| Irving Richard Tait, LL.D. * |
| Gerald Emmett Carter, LL.D. * |
| George A. Fierheller, LL.D. |
| Charles Fox, LL.D. |
| Larkin Kerwin, LL.D. * |
| Irving Layton, LL.D. * |
| Gerald LeDain, LL.D. * |
| David Azrieli, LL.D. * |
| Donald Olding Hebb, LL.D. * |
| Agnes C. Higgins, LL.D. * |
| Renée Vautelet, LL.D. * |
| Franz Paul Decker, LL.D. * |
| Louis-Paul Dugal, LL.D. * |
| Neil Barron Hutcheon, LL.D. * |
| Moses Levitt, LL.D. * |
| Mary MacCormack, LL.D. * |
| Patrick G. Malone, LL.D. * |
| Myer F. Pollock, LL.D. * |
| Louis Rasminsky, LL.D. * |
| Anthony Walsh, LL.D. * |
| C.F. (Bill) Carsley, LL.D. * |
| Douglass Burns Clarke, LL.D. * |
| James Alexander Corry, LL.D. * |
| Frederick G. Hubbard, LL.D. * |
| Paul Lambert, LL.D. * |
| Vernon F. McAdam, LL.D. * |
| Aylmer A. Ryan, LL.D. * |
| Carl Arthur Winkler, D.Sc. * |
| Louis-Philippe Bonneau, LL.D. * |
| Fraser F. Fulton, D.Sc. * |
| John Rutherford Heron, LL.D. * |
| Robert Ferguson Legget, D.Sc. * |
| René Pomerleau, LL.D. * |
| Casimir G. Stanczykowski, LL.D. * |
| Jean-Jacques Bertrand, LL.D. * |
| Alberto Mortara, LL.D. |
| Pierre Dansereau, D.Sc. * |
| Emil Fackenheim, LL.D. * |
| St. Clair Holland, LL.D. * |
| Alfred Pellan, LL.D. * |
| Harold Rocke Robertson, LL.D. * |
| Bryce Mackasey, LL.D. * |
| Elizabeth Homer Morton, D.Litt. * |
| George Woodcock, D.Litt. * |
| Charles-Henri Barbier, LL.D. * |
| Eedson Louis Millard Burns, LL.D.* |
| Paul Gallagher, LL.D. * |
| Saul Hayes, LL.D. * |
| George Maxwell Hobart, LL.D. * |
| Alphonse Riverin, LL.D. * |
| Maureen Katherine Stewart Forrester, LL.D. * |
| Ted Sheffield, LL.D. * |
| Robert H. L. Slater, LL.D. * |
| Percy Weissman, LL.D. * |
| Herman Smith Johannsen, LL.D. * |
| Robert Alan Speirs, LL.D. * |
| Jan Tinbergen, LL.D. * |
| Lionel Boulet, D.Sc. * |
| James Robbins Kidd, LL.D. * |
| Samuel H. Schecter, LL.D. * |
| J. Gerald Hagey, LL.D. * |
| Kathleen Ruby Jenkins, LL.D. * |
| Maurice Frederick Strong, LL.D. |
| Harold Roy Crabtree, LL.D. * |
| Jean Drapeau, LL.D. * |
| Pierre Dupuy, LL.D. * |
| Gustave Gingras, LL.D. * |
| Karl Gunnar Myrdal, LL.D. * |
| Amos Saunders, LL.D. * |
| Francis Reginald Scott, D.Litt. * |
| Colin Wesley Webster, LL.D. * |
| John James Deutsch, LL.D. * |
| Everett Cherrington Hughes, LL.D. * |
| Zubin Mehta, LL.D. |
| B. Wynne Roberts, LL.D. * |
| Jean Lesage, LL.D. * |
| Alphonse-Marie Parent, LL.D. * |
| Howard Irwin Ross, LL.D. * |
| Evan H. Turner, LL.D. |
* deceased
