Honorary degree recipients
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. |
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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