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Honorary degree recipients

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2020s

Reshma Shetty, Ph.D.
 
 
Read more about Fall 2022 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

Eric J. Nestler, DSc
 

Jennifer Flanagan, DSc
David Fung, DSc
Dame Julia Higgins, DSc
Fibbie Tatti, LL.D.
Lyse Doucet, LL.D.
Margie Gillis, DFA
Vikas Swarup, LL.D.
 
 

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Due to pandemic restrictions, in-person convocation ceremonies were postponed. Visit CU CELEBRATE to watch videos celebrating the Spring 2020 graduates.

2010s

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.

2000s

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.

Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, 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.

1990s

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.

1980s

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. *

1970s

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. *

Frances Perot Foster, 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. *

1960s

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. *

Paul Gérin-Lajoie, LL.D.
Henry Foss Hall, LL.D. *
Wilfred N. Hall, LL.D. *
Omond McKillop Solandt, 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

 
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