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| Recipients | Degree Granted | Date |
| Dr. John ABELE | Doctor of Laws (Developer of medical devices, philanthropist and venture investor) | Spring 2015 |
| Hon. Madame Justice Dr. Rosalie Silberman ABELLA | Doctor of Laws (employment equity) | April 1991 |
| Dr. Izzeldin ABUELAISH | Doctor of Laws (physician, educator, activist ) | Fall 2015 |
| Dr. Anni ALBERS | Doctor of Laws (artist) | Fall 1973 |
| Dr. Josef ALBERS | Doctor of Laws (artist) | Fall 1973 |
| Dr. Edgar Tilden ALBERTS | Doctor of Laws (York founder) | Spring 1981 |
| Hon. Dr. Lincoln MacCauley ALEXANDER | Doctor of Laws (former Lieutenant Governor) | Fall 1990 |
| Dr. Andrew ALLAN | Doctor of Letters (radio actor & writer) | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. Paul ALOFS | Doctor of Laws(social sector champion) | Spring 2019 |
| Dr. Sidney ALTMAN | Doctor of Science (Nobel Prize Biology) | Spring 1990 |
| Dr. Doris ANDERSON | Doctor of Letters (Former Governor) | Fall 1997 |
| Dr. Joan ANDREW | Doctor of Laws (Ontario public servant) | Spring 2023 |
| Baron Noël Gilroy ANNAN | Doctor of Letters (university official) | Spring 1966 |
| Dr. Louis APPLEBAUM | Doctor of Letters (composer) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Mortimer Herbert APPLEY | Doctor of Science (psychologist) | Fall 1975 |
| Dr. C.J. S. APPS | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1976 |
| Madame Justice Dr. Louise ARBOUR | Doctor of Laws (judge, scholar) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. Nancy ARCHIBALD | Doctor of Laws (Film and TV producer) | Spring 2023 |
| Dr. Hannah ARENDT | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1968 |
| Dr. Angela M. ARMITT | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. Bromley ARMSTRONG | Doctor of Laws (social justice & human rights activist) | Spring 2013 |
| Dr. Sally ARMSTRONG | Doctor of Laws (author, journalist, human rights activist) | Fall 2022 |
| Dr. H. Anthony ARRELL | Doctor of Laws (business leader) | Fall 2008 |
| Hon. Dr. John Douglas ARNUP | Doctor of Laws (retired judge) | Spring 1969 |
| Dr. Harry W. ARTHURS | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. Joseph ARVAY | Doctor of Laws (Lawyer, advocate for civil and human rights) | Spring 2016 |
| Professor Nesta Mary ASHWORTH | Doctor of Laws (scholar and teacher) | Spring 2001 |
| Dr. Beth ATCHESON | Doctor of Laws (lawyer, feminist activist,dedicated volunteer for human rights and philanthropic causes. ) | Fall 2011 |
| Dr. Phoebe ASIYO | Doctor of Laws (Kenyan parliamentarian, activist, goodwill ambassador) | Spring 2003 |
| Dr. Arnold AUGUSTE | Doctor of Laws (journalist, publisher) | Spring 2024 | Dr. Jean AUGUSTINE | Doctor of Laws (1st African-Canadian woman to be elected to the House of Commons) | Spring 2011 |
| Dr. Frank Joseph AUGUSTYN | Doctor of Letters (dancer) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Margaret AVISON | Doctor of Literature (poet) | Fall 1985 |
| Dr. Lloyd AXWORTHY | Doctor of Laws (University executive, politician , statesman, human rights champion) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. Yvonne Tempe AZIZ | Doctor of Laws (university administrator) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Salah BACHIR | Doctor of Laws (publishing) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. Constance BACKHOUSE | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Peggy BAKER | Doctor of Letters (Dancer, choreographer, teacher) | Spring 2013 |
| Lord Thomas BALOGH OF HAMPSTEAD | Doctor of Laws (economist) | Fall 1981 |
| Dr. John BANKES | Doctor of Laws (philanthropist, volunteer, business consultant, investment banker ) | Spring 2014 |
| Dr. Aharon BARAK | Doctor of Laws (President, Supreme Court of Israel) | Spring 2000 |
| Dr. Ernesto BARBINI | Doctor of Letters (music) | Spring 1980 |
| Dr. Matthew W. BARRETT | Doctor of Laws (banking) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. Maude BARLOW | Doctor of Laws (environmental and human rights author and activist ) | Spring 2014 |
| Dr. Andy BARRIE | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2010 |
| Dame Ruth Nita BARROW | Doctor of Laws (former Governor-General of Barbados) | Spring 1990 |
| Hon. Dr. James BARTLEMAN | Doctor of Laws (former Lieutenant Governorl of Ontario) | Fall 2003 |
| Dr. Dominic Stephen BARTON | Doctor of Laws (business leader) | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. Sheela BASRUR | Doctor of Laws (Chief Medical Officer of Health) | Fall 2007 |
| Dr. Isabel BASSETT | Doctor of Laws (former MPP and Minister of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation; journalist) | Fall 2001 |
| Dr. Nnimmo BASSEY | Doctor of Laws (architect, poet and environmental activist) | Fall 2023 |
| Dr. Sonja Ingrid BATA | Doctor of Laws (business) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Thomas J. BATA | Doctor of Laws (business) | Spring 1998 |
| Sir David Robert BATES | Doctor of Science (physics) | Spring 1983 |
| Dr. Philippe de Gaspé BEAUBIEN | Doctor of Laws (broadcasting & publishing exec.) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Laurent BEAUDOIN | Doctor of Laws (business) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Norma Marian BEECROFT | Doctorate of Letters (composer) | Spring 1996 |
| Dr. Paul BEESTON | Doctorate of Laws | Fall 2016 |
| Hon. Dr. Just. Jean-Marie Philémon Joseph BEETZ | Doctor of Laws (retired judge) | Spring 1983 |
| Dr. Monique BÉGIN | Doctor of Letters (former Minister of Health; university dean) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. Robert Gordon BELL | Doctor of Laws (physician) | Fall 1986 |
| Dr. Gregory BELTON | Doctor of Laws (business man, philanthropist) | Spring 2019 |
| Dr. George J. BENJAMIN | Doctor of Laws (photography) | Spring 1980 |
| Dr. Avie BENNETT | Doctors of Letters (Chancellor Emeritus and philanthropist) | Spring 2004 |
| Dr. Roy Frederick BENNETT | Doctor of Laws (business) | Fall 1989 |
| Dr. Jacques BENSIMON | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1998 |
| Hon. J. Thomas Rodney BERGER | Doctor of Laws (judge) | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. Douglas G. BERGERON | Doctor of Laws (business leader in the technology field) | Spring 2013 |
| Dr. Hakan BERGGREN | Doctor of Letters (academic links with Sweden) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Pierre BERTON | Doctor of Letters (author) | Spring 1974 |
| Air Commodore Leonard J. BIRCHALL | Doctor of Laws (Saviour of Ceylon; university administrator) | Spring 1982 |
| Hon. Florence Bayard BIRD | Doctor of Laws (senator, journalist, broadcaster & author) | Fall 1971 |
| Dr. Claude Thomas BISSELL | Doctor of Laws (Former University of Toronto President) | Spring 1967 |
| Dr. Neil BISSOONDATH | Doctor of Letters (novelist, essayist & short story writer; York alumnus) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. Barbara Aronstein BLACK | Doctor of Laws (legal history) | Spring 1990 |
| Dr. Naomi BLACK | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. Cindy BLACKSTOCK | Doctor of Laws (academic, child advocate) | Spring 2017 |
| Dr. C. Reginald BLACKSTOCK | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1974 |
| Dr. Richard BLACKWELL | Doctor of Laws | Fall 1971 |
| Dr. Vincent Wheeler BLADEN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. Marie-Claire BLAIS | Doctor of Letters (author) | Spring 1975 |
| Hon. Allan Emrys BLAKENEY | Doctor of Laws (former Premier of Saskatchewan) | Spring 1991 |
| Prof. Ronald Langley BLOORE | Doctor of Letters (artist) | Fall 1993 |
| Dr. Jean Sutherland BOGGS | Doctor of Letters (museum leader) | Fall 1976 |
| Dr. Roberta Lynn BONDAR | Doctor of Science (astronaut, scientist, physician) | Fall 1992 |
| Dr. A. Alan BOROVOY | Doctor of Laws (civil liberties advocate) | Fall 1988 |
| Dr. John BORROWS | Doctor of Laws (scholar in Indigenous Legal Traditions and Aboriginal Rights) | Spring 2018 |
| Lord Bertram Vivian BOWDEN | Doctor of Science (physicist) | Spring 1979 |
| Hon. Marion BOYD | Doctor of Laws (Social justice advocate and political pioneer) | Spring 2017 |
| Dr. William J.S. BOYLE | Doctor of Laws (innovation leader and champion of arts and culture) | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. Dionne BRAND | Doctor of Letters (poet, novelist, essayist and public intellectual) | Fall 2019 |
| Dr. Rudy BRATTY | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2017 |
| Baron Asa BRIGGS | Doctor of Laws (British historian) | Spring 1968 |
| Dr. Donald BRITTAIN | Doctor of Letters (Canadian documentary films) | Spring 1987 |
| Hon. John Edward BROADBENT | Doctor of Laws (Parliamentarian) | Fall 1991 |
| Dr. David BROADFOOT | Doctor of Letters (Actor, comedian, comic writer) | Fall 2008 |
| Dr. Tim BRODHEAD | Doctor of Laws (Community builder & non-profit champion) | Spring 2018 |
| Dr. Rosemary BROWN | Doctor of Laws (human rights activist) | Spring 1989 |
| Dr. Dave BRUBECK | Doctors of Letters (jazz pianist) | Spring 2004 |
| Dr. Thomas BRZUSTOWSKI | Doctor of Science | Fall 2005 |
| Dr. Ralph Johnson BUNCHE | Doctor of Laws (U.N. Under Secretary-General) | Spring 1970 |
| Dr. Jean Robertson BURNET | Doctor of Letters (minorities educator) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. George Allan BURTON | Doctor of Laws (former Governor) | Spring 1973 |
| Dr. David BUTLER-JONES | Doctor of Laws (Public Health Leader) | Spring 2007 |
| Dr. June CALLWOOD | Doctor of Laws (writer and activist) | Spring 1988 |
| Dr. Maria CAMPBELL | Doctor of Letters (women's & native rights advocate) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Peter CAMPBELL | Doctor of Letters (diplomat, public broadcaster) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. Steven CAMPBELL | Doctor of Laws (entrepreneur and environmentalist) | Fall 2019 |
| Dr. Paul CANTOR | Doctor of Laws (Past Chair, York Board of Governors, business leader) | Fall 2012 |
| Dr. Herbert CARNEGIE | Doctor of Laws (Community leader) | Spring 2006 |
| Sir Anthony Alfred CARO | Doctor of Letters (sculptor) | Spring 1976 |
| Dr Joseph CARON | Doctor of Laws (former ambassador to China & Japan, former high commissioner to India) | Fall 2011 |
| M. Roch CARRIER | Doctor of Letters (Canadian literature) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. Terri Lyne CARRINGTON | Doctor of Letters | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Robert CARSEN | Doctor of Laws (opera director) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. Walter CARSEN | Doctor of Laws (arts philanthropist) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. John Jarvis CARSON | Doctor of Laws (educator) | Fall 1972 |
| Dr. Allan CARWWELL | Doctor of Laws (scientist, innovator, eductor) | Fall 2014 |
| Hon. John Robert CARTWRIGHT | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1969 |
| Dr. Rubin CARTER | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2005 |
| Dr. Thérèse CASGRAIN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. Claude CASTONGUAY | Doctor of Laws (public servant, corporate leader, politician) | Spring 2000 |
| Dr. Maria Livanos CATTAUI | Doctor of Laws (Distinguished international corporate leader) | Fall 2006 |
| Dr. Ruth Grace CAWKER | Doctor of Letters (architect) | Spring 1996 |
| Dr. Floyd Sherman CHALMERS | Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hon) (publisher; past Chancellor) | Fall 1973 |
| Dr. Joan CHALMERS | Doctor of Letters (philanthropist, arts and culture) | Spring 2000 |
| Dr. Mary Ann CHAMBERS | Doctor of Laws(former MPP, philanthropist ) | Spring 2013 |
| Dr. Alfred D. CHANDLER, Jr. | Doctor of Laws (development of business theory) | Spring 1988 |
| Dr. Shan CHANDRASEKAR | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. Denise CHONG | Doctor of Laws (Writer, journalist) | Fall 2007 |
| Hon. Dr. Jean CHRÉTIEN | Doctor of Laws (political leader, Prime Minister of Canada) | Spring 1986 |
| Dr. W. Edmund CLARK | Doctor of Laws (philanthropist, business leader) | Fall 2013 |
| Rt. Hon. Joe CLARK | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Alan Martin CLARKE | Doctor of Laws (educator) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Austin CLARKE | Doctor of Letters | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. Larry Denman CLARKE | Doctor of Laws (Canadian space industry) | Spring 1985 |
| Her Excellency the Rt. Hon. Dr. Adrienne CLARKSON | Doctor of Laws (Governor-General of Canada) | Spring 2003 |
| Dr. Michael "Pinball" CLEMONS | Doctor of Laws (athlete, community service) | Fall 2000 |
| Professor Robert CLUETT | Doctor of Letters (English Professor, founder of Canadian Merit Scholarship Fund) | Spring 1996 |
| Dr. Bruce COCKBURN | Doctor of Letters (singer, songwriter & environmentalist) | Spring 1989 |
| Dr. Jack COCKWELL | Doctor of Laws (business leader) | Spring 2001 |
| Dr. Marshall A. (Mickey) COHEN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1986 |
| Dr. Maxwell COHEN | Doctor of Laws (judge) | Spring 1969 |
| Major James Wm. COLDWELL | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. David COLLENETTE | Doctor of Laws (politician) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. John Robert COLOMBO | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Rita COLWELL | Doctor of Laws (scientist) | Spring 2014 |
| Dr. Hèléne COMAY | Doctor of Laws (educator) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. Martin Philip CONNELL | Doctor of Laws (philanthropist) | Fall 1992 |
| Dr. John James CONWAY | Doctor of Laws (First Master of Founders College) | Fall 1977 |
| Dr. Jill Kathryn Ker CONWAY | Doctor of Laws (University President) | Fall 1977 |
| Dr. Ramsay COOK | Doctor of Letters (scholar, historian) | Fall 2000 |
| Dr. Gail COOK-BENNETT | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Anne C. COOLS | Doctor of Laws (former Canadian Senator, social justice advocate) | Spring 2019 |
| Dr. Mary CORNISH | Doctor of Laws (scholar, lawyer, advocate) | Fall 2015 |
| Dr. James Alexander CORRY | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1980 |
| Dr. Peter deCarteret CORY | Doctor of Laws | October 1997 |
| Dr. Gerald P. COSGRAVE | Doctor of Laws (career counseling) | Spring 1973 |
| Dr. Francesco COSSIGA | Doctor of Laws (President of Italy) | June 1986 |
| Professor Irwin COTLER | Doctor of Laws (human rights advocate) | Fall 1987 |
| Dr. John COULTER | Doctor of Letters (Canadian playwright) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Joseph Robert COULTER | Doctor of Letters (athlete & teacher) | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. Donald COUSENS | Doctor of Laws (Former Mayor of Markham) | Spring 2007 |
| Dr. Louise Bennett-COVERLEY | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Rita COX | Doctor of Letters (public librarian, storyteller & writer) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. Harold Scott MacDonald COXETER | Doctor of Science (mathematician) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Kimberlé CRENSHAW | Doctor of Laws (scholar, civil rights activist) | Spring 2019 |
| Prof. Paul-André CRÊPEAU | Doctor of Laws (civil law) | Spring 1984 |
| Dr. Cathy CROWE | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. Paul Josef CRUTZEN | Doctor of Science (atmospheric chemistry) | Spring 1986 |
| Dr. David Michael CULVER | Doctor of Laws (international business) | Spring 1989 |
| Dr. Alvin CURLING | Doctor of Laws (Former Provincial cabinet minister and Ambassador) | Fall 2009 |
| Dr. Balfour Watson CURRIE | Doctor of Science (space research) | Spring 1977 |
| Air Marshall Wilfred A. CURTIS | Doctor of Laws (York founder) | Fall 1968 |
| Dr. Victor Phillip DAHDALEH | Doctor of Laws (Business leader, philanthropist) | Spring 2016 |
| Sir Ralf Gustav DAHRENDORF | Doctor of Laws (university administrator, sociologist & politician) | Fall 1979 |
| Dr. Dominic D'ALESSANDRO | Doctor of Laws (corporate and community leader) | Spring 2006 |
| Dr. Alexander DALGARNO | Doctor of Science (physicist, astronomer) | Spring 2000 |
| Lieutenant-General Dr. Roméo DALLAIRE (Ret.) | Doctor of Laws (soldier; humanitarian) | Spring 2002 |
| Dr.Leslie DAN | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2010 |
| Dr. Michael DAN | Doctor of Laws (entrepreneur, philanthropist) | Spring 2017 |
| Barnett J. DANSON | Doctor of Laws (statesman and human rights advocate) | Spring 2006 |
| Dr. Kenneth George DAVEY | Doctor of Science (scientist, scholar, academic leader) | Fall 2015 |
| Dr. True DAVIDSON | Doctor of Laws (Mayor of East York) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Frank T. DAVIES | Doctor of Science (space research) | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. Robertson DAVIES | Doctor of Letters (editor, playwright, novelist & scholar) | Spring 1973 |
| Dr. Andrew DAVIS | Doctor of Letters (musician, conductor & composer) | Spring 1984 |
| Dr. Wade DAVIS | Doctor of Laws (anthropologist, ethnobotanist ) | Spring 2014 |
| Hon. William Grenville DAVIS | Doctor of Laws (Former Premier of Ontario) | Spring 1989 |
| Dr. Stanley Harold DEEKS | Doctor of Laws (York founder) | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. David DENISON | Doctor of Laws (Businessman, community leader) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. Lloyd Arthur DENNIS | Doctor of Letters (educational policy) | Spring 1990 |
| Dr. Dora DE PÊDERY-HUNT | Doctor of Letters (sculptor - medals) | Fall 1983 |
| Dr. Herbet DE SOUZA | Doctor of Laws | Fall 1996 |
| Dr. Horatio Henry Lovat DICKSON | Doctor of Letters (author & publisher) | Spring 1981 |
| Rt. Hon. Robert George Brian DICKSON | Doctor of Laws (Chief Justice of Canada) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Ricardo DÍEZ-HOCHLEITNER | Doctor of Letters (research & education) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. William DIMMA | Doctor of Laws (Former Dean of Business & Former Chair of York University's Board of Governors) | Fall 1998 |
| Professor Rene DIONNE | Doctor of Letters (professor) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. Cory DOCTOROW | Doctor of Laws (science fiction author, activist and journalist) | Spring 2023 |
| Dr. Jennifer DOUDNA | Doctor of Science (biochemist and leading genomics researcher) | Spring 2019 |
| Hon. Thomas Clement DOUGLAS | Doctor of Laws (Former Premier of Saskatchewan & Parliamentarian) | Spring 1974 |
| Dr. Elizabeth DOWDESWELL | Doctor of Laws (public service in environmental management) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. Vincent Roy D'OYLEY | Doctor of Letters (educational administrator) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Garth DRABINSKY | Doctor of Letters (entrepreneur, author) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. Victereene DRAPER | Doctor of Laws (university administrator) | Spring 1991 |
| Dr. Ken DRYDEN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1996 |
| Dr. Maurice Samuel Roger Charles DRUON | Doctor of Letters (Francophone Cultural Co-operation & author) | Spring 1987 |
| Hon. Charles Leonard DUBIN | Doctor of Laws (former Chief Justice of Ontario) | Fall 1990 |
| Dr. Louis DUDEK | Doctor of Letters (poet, literary critic & editor) | Spring 1983 |
| Dr. Dorothy DUNN | Doctor of Laws (education) | Fall 1980 |
| The Hon. Dr. Justice René DUSSAULT | Doctor of Laws (scholar, public servant & judge) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Peter M. DWYER | Doctor of Letters (artist) | Fall 1972 |
| Dr. Mary Two-Axe EARLEY | Doctor of Laws (Aboriginal women's rights) | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. Cyrus EATON | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. Signy H. EATON | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1971 |
| Dr. Marlys EDWARDH | Doctor of Letters | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. John Llewelyn Jones EDWARDS | Doctor of Laws (retired law professor) | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Mariano Anthony ELIA | Doctor of Laws (benefactor of postsecondary education) | Spring 1985 |
| Rev. James G. ENDICOTT | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1983 |
| Dr. Michael ENRIGHT | Doctor of Laws (broadcaster) | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. Georges Henry ERASMUS | Doctor of Laws (aboriginal leader) | Fall 1992 |
| Dr. Manfred ERHARDT | Doctor of Laws (former Minister of Higher Education for Berlin) | Fall 1999 |
| Dr. John Robert EVANS | Doctor of Laws (Former President,University of Toronto) | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. William MacDonald (Mac) EVANS | Doctor of Laws (Former President Canadian Space Agency,public servant) | Spring 2017 |
| Professor Barker FAIRLEY | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. Robert Gordon Lee FAIRWEATHER | Doctor of Laws (politician & human rights) | Spring 1993 |
| Professor Jean-Charles FALARDEAU | Doctor of Laws (sociologist) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Richard FALK | Doctor of Laws (legal scholar) | Spring 2004 |
| Sir Brian FALL | Doctor of Laws (diplomat) | Fall 2002 |
| Dr. Li-Zhi FANG | Doctor of Science (scientist & Chinese democracy advocate) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. William Douglas FARR | Doctor of Laws (university administrator) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Sandra FAIRE and Ivan FECAN | Doctor of Laws (Joint) | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. Saul FELDBERG | Doctor of Laws (entrepreneur & philanthropist) | Spring 2004 |
| Dr. Niv FICHMAN | Doctor of Letters (Film & Television) | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Debbie FIELD | Doctor of Laws(Food advocate, social activist, educator) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. Robert Duer Claydon FINCH | Doctor of Letters (poet) | Spring 1976 |
| Dr. Timothy FINDLEY | Doctor of Letters (fiction writer) | Fall 1989 |
| Dr. Jacob FINKELMAN, Q.C. | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. Bernie FINKELSTEIN, O.C. | Doctor of Letters (music) | Fall 2012 |
| Dr. William FISCH | Doctor of Laws (lawyer, public servant) | Spring 2017 |
| Dr. Murray M. FISHER | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2008 |
| Professor John Gunther FLEMING | Doctor of Laws (law - torts) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Maureen FORRESTER | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1972 |
| Hon. Eugene Alfred FORSEY | Doctor of Laws (Senator & Constitutional Expert) | Fall 1972 |
| Dr. Julia FOSTER | Doctor of Laws (Businesswoman, volunteer, arts advocate) | Fall 2015 |
| Dr. Edith Margaret Fulton FOWKE | Doctor of Letters (folklore & York faculty) | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Celia FRANCA | Doctor of Laws (dancer & choreographer) | Spring 1976 |
| The Honorable Mayann E. FRANCIS | Doctor of Laws (rights advocate, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia) | Spring 2014 |
| Dr. Ursula Martius FRANKLIN | Doctor of Science (geologist) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Margot FRANSSEN | Doctor of Laws (entrepreneur and advocate for women and girls) | Fall 2019 |
| Dr. Graham FRASER | Doctor of Laws (journalist and public officer) | Spring 2014 |
| Dr. John FRASER | Doctor of Laws (journalist and public intellectual) | Winter 2007 |
| Dr. Sheila FRASER | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2010 |
| Dr. Rowland Cardwell FRAZEE | Doctor of Laws (banker) | Spring 1984 |
| Hon. Samuel FREEDMAN | Doctor of Laws (retired judge) | Spring 1971 |
| Dr. Vaira VIKE-FREIBERGA | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. Julio FRENK | Doctor of Laws (disguished scholar) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. Hans FREUDENTHAL | Doctor of Science (math research) | Fall 1974 |
| Dr. Martin FRIEDLAND | Doctor of Laws (legal scholar, university administrator) | Spring 2003 |
| Dr. John FRIEDMANN | Doctor of Laws (Planning theorist, scholar) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. Monique Y. FRIZE | Doctor of Science (educational opportunities for women) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Herman Northrop FRYE | Doctor of Letters (author & professor) | Spring 1969 |
| Dr. Janice FUKAKUSA | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2016 |
| Dr. Robert Marshall Blount FULFORD | Doctor of Letters (journalist) | Spring 1987 |
| Dr. Ethel Margaret FULTON | Doctor of Letters (women's studies) | Spring 1986 |
| Dr. Tony GAGLIANO | Doctor of Laws (Canadian-Italian entrepreneur&philanthropist) | Spring 2018 |
| Dr. John Kenneth GALBRAITH | Doctor of Laws (economist, diplomat & writer) | Spring 1976 |
| Hon. George Alexander GALE | Doctor of Laws (former Chief Justice of Ontario) | Spring 1969 |
| Dr. Mavis GALLANT | Doctor of Letters (author) | Spring 1984 |
| Dr. Matt GALLOWAY | Doctor of Laws (radio personality) | Spring 2017 |
| Dr. Frederick G. GARDINER | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1969 |
| Dr. George Ryerson GARDINER | Doctor of Laws (Former Governor) | Fall 1982 |
| Dr. Marc GARNEAU | Doctor of Science (astronaut) | Spring 2002 |
| Dr. William Reginald Stephen GARTON | Doctor of Science (physics & spectroscopy) | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. George E. GATHERCOLE | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1966 |
| Dr. Michèle GENDREAU-MASSALOUX | Doctor of Laws (scholar, university administrator, public servant) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. Bertrand GERSTEIN | Doctor of Laws (Former Chair of York University's Board of Governors) | Fall 1980 |
| Dr. Reva GERSTEIN | Doctor of Laws (psychologist, community & university service) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. Valerie GIBBONS | Doctor of Laws (former Ontario Deputy Minister, promoted child and family equity) | Spring 2000 |
| Dr. Robert C. GIBSON | Doctor of Letters (benefactor - library collection) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. James GILLIES | Doctor of Laws (pioneering educator, scholar, politician) | Winter 2006 |
| Dr. Bernard Arthur GINGRAS | Doctor of Science (scientific research) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Edouard GLISSANT | Doctor of Letters (novelist, poet & playwright) | Spring 1989 |
| Dr. Reginald GODDEN | Doctor of Letters (pianist) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Serge GODIN | Doctor of Laws (pioneer in information technology; philanthropist ) | Spring 2013 |
| Dr. Anne GOLDEN | Doctor of Laws (community leader) | Spring 2000 |
| Hon. H. Carl GOLDENBERG | Doctor of Laws (Canadian public affairs) | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Joan GOLDFARB | Doctor of Laws (volunteer, philanthropist) | Spring 2003 |
| Dr. Martin GOLDFARB | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Nicholas GOLDSCHMIDT | Doctor of Laws (Canadian conductor, teacher and music festival organizer) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. Jane GOODALL | Doctor of Science (primatologist and anthropologist) | Spring 2024 |
| Dr. John Peter George GORDON | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1980 |
| Hon. Walter L. GORDON | Doctor of Laws (Former Chancellor & Minister of Finance) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Diane GOUDIE and Dr. Eleanor MOORE, LLD | Doctor of Laws (Innovative Educators) | Spring 2007 |
| Dr. L.B.C. GOWER | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1969 |
| Hon. Samuel George McDougall GRANGE | Doctor of Laws (Judge) | Spring 1990 |
| Dr. Charlotte GRAY | Doctor of Laws (author & political columnist) | Fall 2007 |
| Dr. John Morgan GRAY | Doctor of Laws (publisher & writer) | Spring 1976 |
| Dr. Moya GREEN | Doctor of Laws (business & public sector leader) | Fall 2018 |
| Dr. Stanley I. GREENSPAN | Doctor of Laws (medical clinician, scholar and activist in psychoanalysis) | Spring 2006 |
| Dr. Germaine GREER | Doctor of Letters (distinguished author and lecturer in feminist theory) | Fall 1999 |
| Professor John A.G. GRIFFITH | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Paul GROSS | Doctor of Laws (eminent Cdn actor, writer, producer) | Spring 2019/td> |
| Very Rev. Father Roger GUINDON | Doctor of Laws (Former Rector, University of Ottawa) | Spring 1983 |
| Dr. Ralph Barker GUSTAFSON | Doctor of Letters (poet) | Spring 1991 |
| Professor Bernard Victor GUTSELL | Doctor of Laws (cartographer) | Spring 1988 |
| Dr. Peter GZOWSKI | Doctor of Letters (broadcaster) | Spring 1991 |
| Dr. Arthur Robinson HACKETT | Doctor of Laws (York founder) | Spring 1981 |
| Professor Peter HAGGETT | Doctor of Science (geographer) | Spring 1983 |
| Dr. Don HAIG | Doctor of Letters (contributor to Canadian film) | Spring 1993 |
| Hon. Emmett M. HALL | Doctor of Laws (retired Justice of Supreme Court of Canada) | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. Wes HALL | Doctor of Laws (Entrepreneur, philanthropist, TV personality) | Fall 2023 |
| Dr. Michael Alexander Kirkwood HALLIDAY | Doctor of Letters (scholar & author, linguistics) | Spring 1988 |
| Dr. Janet Elizabeth HALLIWELL | Doctor of Science (Canadian science) | Spring 1991 |
| Dr. Francess Georgina HALPENNY | Doctor of Letters (editor & professor) | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Herbert Norman HALPERT | Doctor of Letters (Canadian folklore) | Fall 1990 |
| Dr. Piers HANDLING | Doctor of Laws (Director & CEO, TIFF) | Spring 2011 |
| Dr. Marsha HANEN | Doctor of Laws (philosopher, leader in higher education, mentor to women) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. Carol HANSEN | Doctor of Laws (lawyer) | Spring 2023 |
| Dr. Rick HANSEN | Doctor of Laws (advocate/activist for people with spinal cord injuries) | Spring 2013 |
| Dr. Charles Harold (Chuck) HANTHO | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. John Davison HARBRON | Doctor of Letters | November 1997 |
| Dr. Madeline Isobel HARDY | Doctor of Laws (educational leader) | Spring 1986 |
| Dr. Frederick Kenneth HARE | Doctor of Science (environmentalist) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Woody T. HARRELSON | Doctor of Laws (Actor/environmental activist, author) | Fall 2009 |
| Dr. Rex HARRINGTON | Doctor of Letters (ballet dancer; artist and actor) | Spring 2006 |
| Dr. Henry Silton HARRIS | Doctor of Letters (scholar) | Spring 2001 |
| Dr. R. Colebrook HARRIS | Doctor of Letters (historical geographer) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. Jason HARROW | Doctor of Letters (award-winning rapper, music producer, and social justice activist ) | Spring 2024 |
| Dr. Grace HARTMAN | Doctor of Laws (labour leader & women's rights activist) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Václav HAVEL | Doctor of Letters (in absentia - playwright & author) presented at ceremony | Spring 1982 Feb. 1990 |
| The Reverend Brent HAWKES | Doctor of Laws (Pastor, gay rights activist) | Fall 2009 |
| Dr. Bohdan (Bob) HAWRYLYSHYN | Doctor of Laws | Fall 1984 |
| Dr. Arden HAYNES | Doctor of Laws (business leader, former Chancellor) | Spring 2000 |
| Dr. Wilson Adonijah HEAD | Doctor of Laws (York faculty & social worker) | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Seamus HEANEY | Doctor of Letters (poet, Nobel Laureate) | Spring 1996 |
| Dr. D.O. HEBB | Doctor of Science | Fall 1966 |
| Dr. Chantal HÉBERT | Doctor of Laws (Journalist | Spring 2012 |
| Professor Karl F. HELLEINER | Doctor of Laws | Fall 1978 |
| Dr. Jules HELLER | Doctor of Letters (former Dean of Fine Arts) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Jay HENNICK | Doctor of Law(entrepreneur, lawyer, philanthropist) | Fall 2011 |
| Dr. Martha HENRY | Doctor of Letters (theatre & arts) | Spring 1990 |
| Dr. Marku HENRIKSSON | Doctor of Letters (scholar) | Fall 1995 |
| Dr. Ben HEPPNER | Doctor of Laws (opera singer) | Spring 2003 |
| Dr. Peter A. HERRNDORF | Doctor of Laws (publisher) | Fall 1989 |
| Dr. Naomi Louisa HERSOM | Doctor of Laws (educator & feminist) | Fall 1988 |
| Dr. Gerhard G. HERZBERG | Doctor of Science (physics) | Fall 1969 |
| General Chaim HERZOG | Doctor of Laws (President of Israel) | June 1989 |
| Dr. Ruth Atkinson HINDMARSH | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1966 |
| Dr. Colin HINES | Doctor of Science (atmospheric scientist) | Fall 2001 |
| Dr. Eric John Ernest HOBSBAWM | Doctor of Letters (art historian) | Fall 1986 |
| Dr. Abigail HOFFMAN | Doctor of Laws (athlete) | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Bill HOGARTH | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. Peter HOGG | Doctor of Laws (professor emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School, constitutional scholar and educator) | Spring 2006 |
| Dr. Richard HOGGART | Doctor of Laws (Outreach Education - writer & educator) | Spring 1988 |
| Professor John Wendell HOLMES | Doctor of Laws (diplomat, scholar & author) | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. Beland Hugh HONDERICH | Doctor of Laws (publisher, Toronto Star) | Fall 1976 |
| Dr. Chaviva HOSEK | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. James HOUSTON | Doctor of Letters (artist, author, arts administrator) | Spring 2001 |
| Dr. Charles B. HUGGINS | Doctor of Laws (surgeon - cancer research) | Spring 1968 |
| Dr. Clara HUGHES | Doctor of Laws (Olympian, mental health advocate, international humanitarian) | Fall 2012 |
| Dr. John HUNKIN | Doctor of Laws (business leader and philanthropist) | Spring 2004 |
| Dr. Mel HURTIG | Doctor of Laws (book publisher) | Fall 1980 |
| Hon. Frank IACOBUCCI | Doctor of Laws (retired Supreme Court Justice) | Spring 2005 |
| Professor George IGNATIEFF | Doctor of Laws (international diplomacy) | Fall 1975 |
| Dr. Avrom ISAACS | Doctor of Laws (Canadian art) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Elmer Walter ISELER | Doctor of Letters (Canadian choral music) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Tadao ISHIKAWA | Doctor of Laws (Japanese scholar & educator) | Spring 1990 |
| Dr. Fumiko ISHIOKA | Doctor of Laws (educator and curator) | Spring 2004 |
| Dr. Kenneth IVERSON | Doctor of Science (computer programmer) | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Frederic (Eric) JACKMAN | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2010 |
| The Hon. Henry Newton Rowell JACKMAN | Doctor of Laws (Former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario & Former Governor) | Spring 1996 |
| Dr. Dean JACOBS | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. Donald P. JACOBS | Doctor of Laws (management educator) | Spring 2002 |
| Professor William JAFFE | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1974 |
| Dr. William Fleming JAMES | Doctor of Laws (geologist) | Fall 1978 |
| Dr. Roberta JAMIESON | Doctor of Laws (First Nations Chief, lawyer, activist) | Spring 2003 |
| Hon. Michaële JEAN | Doctor of Laws (Governor General of Canada) | Winter 2007 |
| Dr. Thomas JENKINS | Doctor of Laws (business leader) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. Pamela Hansford JOHNSON (Lady Snow) | Doctor of Letters (critic & novelist) | Fall 1967 |
| Dr. Leonard V. JOHNSON | Doctor of Laws (Military General) | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Colleen JOHNSTON | Doctor of Laws (business executive, community leader ) | Fall 2018 |
| Dr. David JOHNSTON | Doctor of Laws (former Governor General of Canada, legal scholar) | Spring 2017 |
| Dr. George Arthur JOHNSTON, Q.C. | Doctor of Laws (archivist) | Spring 1981 |
| Rev. Richard Ditzel JONES | Doctor of Laws (race relations) | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. Francis Renault JOUBIN | Doctor of Laws (mining geologist & peace activist) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Pierre JUNEAU | Doctor of Laws (broadcasting policy) | Spring 1973 |
| Dr. Danielle JUTEAU, LLD | Doctor of Laws (Scholar) | Spring 2007 |
| Dr. Daniel KAHNEMAN | Doctor of Science (Psychologist) | Spring 2023 |
| Professor Otto KAHN-FREUND | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. Karen KAIN | Doctor of Letters (dancer - ballet) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Ignat KANEFF | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2010 |
| Dr. Alice KANE | Doctor of Letters (story-teller) | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Andromache KARAKATSANIS | Doctor of Laws (Justice, Supreme Court of Canada) | Fall 2023 |
| Dr. Udo KASEMETS | Doctor of Letters (musician) | Fall 1991 |
| Professor Morris KATZ | Doctor of Science | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. Jillian KEILEY | Doctor of Letters (theatre director ) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. John George KEMENY | Doctor of Laws (mathematician & computer scientist) | Spring 1984 |
| Dr. Betty KENNEDY | Doctor of Laws (broadcaster & writer) | Fall 1982 |
| Dr. James Roby KIDD | Doctor of Laws (York founder) | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. Annie KIDDER | Doctor of Laws (public education advocate) | Spring 2018 |
| Dr. Craig KIELBURGER | Doctor of Laws (child rights activist ) | Spring 2013 |
| Dr. Kyung-Won KIM | Doctor of Laws (Korean educator) | Fall 1994 |
| Dr. Michael KIRBY | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Hon. Marie Claire KIRKLAND | Doctor of Laws (politician) | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. Arthur KLEINMAN | Doctor of Science (medical anthropologist) | Spring 1996 |
| Hon. Stanley Howard KNOWLES | Doctor of Laws (parliamentarian) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Vim KOCHHAR | Doctor of Laws (humanitarian) | Spring 2014 |
| Dr. Golda KOSCHITZKY | Doctor of Laws (on behalf of her family; benefactors) | Fall 1999 |
| Dr. Robert KREMBIL | Doctor of Laws (business leader) | Spring 2000 |
| Dr. Rosemarie KUPTANA | Doctor of Laws (Inuit Leader) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. Anton Emil KUERTI | Doctor of Letters (pianist & composer) | Fall 1985 |
| Dr. Raymond KURZWEUL | Doctor of Laws (inventor & author, futurist, director of engineering at Google) | Fall 2013 |
| Dr. Huguette LABELLE | Doctor of Laws (public & health services) | Spring 1990 |
| Dr. Jean-Michel LACROIX | Doctor of Laws (Professeur à la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) | Spring 2013 |
| Professor Emmanuel LeRoy LADURIE | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1986 |
| Justice Harry S. LaFORME | Doctor of Laws (Judge of the Ontario Court of Appeal) | Fall 2008 |
| Dr. Hassanali LAKHANI | Doctor of Laws (business leader and philanthropist) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. Gilles LALANDE | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. William Kaye LAMB | Doctor of Laws (retired librarian & archivist) | Spring 1968 |
| Dr. Allen Thomas LAMBERT | Doctor of Laws (retired banker) | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Wallace E. LAMBERT | Doctor of Laws (social psychologist) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Jeanne LAMON | Doctor of Letters (Tafelmusik) | Fall 1994 |
| Dr. Claude R. LAMOUREUX | Doctor of Laws (corporate and community leader) | Spring 2006 |
| Dr. Vibert LAMPKIN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Rosemarie LANDRY | Doctor of Letters (soprano) | Spring 1991 |
| Dr. Michele LANDSBERG | Doctor of Laws (journalist, author and social activist) | Spring 2006 |
| Dr. Philip A. LAPP | Doctor of Science (former Governor) | Fall 1994 |
| Hon. Bora LASKIN | Doctor of Laws (Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Canada) | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. Melvin J. LASKY | Doctor of Letters (political writer, journalist & publisher) | Spring 1990 |
| Dr. Pierre LASSONDE | Doctor of Laws (engineer, entrepreneur, philanthropist ) | Spring 2014 |
| Dr. Dale LASTMAN | Doctor of Laws (lawyer, corporate and securities law) | Spring 2024 |
| Dr. Melvin D. LASTMAN | Doctor of Laws (former Mayor of Toronto) | October 1997 |
| Dr. Silken LAUMANN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Margaret LAURENCE | Doctor of Letters (novelist) | Spring 1980 |
| Dr. Jeannette Corbiere LAVELL | Doctor of Laws (native women’s rights activist, educator) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. Frank G. LAWSON | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1968 |
| Dr. Irving LAYTON | Doctor of Letters (poet & York faculty) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Herbert Allan Borden LEAL, Q.C. | Doctor of Laws (former Deputy Attorney-General of Ontario) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Charles Philippe LEBLOND | Doctor of Science (biologist) | Fall 1986 |
| Hon. Gerald Eric LE DAIN | Doctor of Laws (Former Dean of Law and Supreme Court justice) | Spring 1976 |
| Sister Mary Jo LEDDY | Doctor of Letters (peace, status of women & human rights activist) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. William Ralph LEDERMAN | Doctor of Laws (legal scholar) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Susur LEE | Doctor of Laws (Renowned Canadian Chef) | Spring 2023 |
| Dr. Thomas LEE | Doctor of Laws (Higher education leader, researcher, philosopher) | Spring 2023 |
| Dr. Michael LEE-CHIN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Viola LÉGER | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. John Daniel LEITCH | Doctor of Laws (former Governor) | Spring 1980 |
| Father Germain LEMIEUX | Doctor of Laws (historian) | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. Douglas V. LePAN | Doctor of Laws (scholar, poet, novelist & diplomat) | Fall 1976 |
| Dr. Sheldon LEVY | Doctor of Laws (President of Sheridan College, innovative leader, York alumnus) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. Stephen LEWIS | Doctor of Laws (former Canadian Ambassador to the UN) | Fall 1984 |
| Dr. Steven LEWIS | Doctor of Laws (Health care system and services innovator, researcher) | Spring 2022 |
| Sir William Arthur LEWIS | Doctor of Laws (economist) | Spring 1981 |
| Hon. Madame Justice Dr. Claire L'HEUREUX-DUBÉ | Doctor of Laws (Justice, Supreme Court of Canada) | Spring 2001 |
| Dr. Mark LIEVONEN | Doctor of Laws (business leader) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. Jutta LIMBACH | Doctor of Laws (President of the German Goethe-Institut, legal scholar, jurist, civil rights activist, former Chief Justice of German Supreme Court | Fall 2003 |
| Dr. Bengt LINDQUIST | Doctor of Laws (former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Disability) | Spring 2013 |
| Dr. Victor LING | Doctor of Science (scientist and leader in cancer research) | Spring 2006 |
| Dr. Jean LITTLE | Doctor of Letters (children's author) | Spring 2002 |
| Professor John A. LIVINGSTON | Doctor of Letters (biological conservation) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Shaun LONEY | Doctor of Laws (Canadian leader in social enterprise) | Spring 2023 |
| Dr. Lee A. LORCH | Doctor of Laws (York faculty, mathematician, civil rights activist) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. George Ross LORD | Doctor of Science | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. Helen LUCAS | Doctor of Letters (artist) | Fall 1991 |
| Dr. Bernard LUCHT | Doctor of Laws (TV producer, educator) | Spring 2014 |
| Dr. George LUSCOMBE | Doctor of Letters (actor & director) | Fall 1978 |
| Dr. Kevin G LYNCH | Doctor of Laws (Economist, business leader, public servant) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. Donald Cameron MacDONALD | Doctor of Laws (politician) | Fall 1983 |
| Hon. Flora Isabel MacDONALD | Doctor of Laws (politician) | Spring 1989 |
| Dr. George E.C. MacDONALD | Doctor of Laws (Canadian public servant, Lieutenant General Ret'd) | Winter 2006 |
| Dr. Roderick MacDONALD | Doctor of Laws (President, Royal Society of Canada & Legal Scholar) | Spring 2011 |
| Dr. H. Ian MacDONALD | Doctor of Laws (Scholar and Public Servant) | Spring 2007 |
| Dr. Sheena MacDONALD | Doctor of Letters (film & television) | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Elsie Gregory MacGILL | Doctor of Science | Spring 1978 |
| Hon. Justice Mark R. MacGUIGAN | Doctor of Laws (Federal Court of Appeal Judge) | Spring 1996 |
| Dr. Robert M. MacINTOSH | Doctor of Laws (Banker and former Chair of York Board) | Spring 1976 |
| Dr. John Price Sinclair MACKENZIE | Doctor of Laws (performing arts & conservation) | Spring 1990 |
| Dr. Steven Glenwood MacLEAN | Doctor of Science (astronaut & gymnast) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. Archibald MacLEISH | Doctor of Letters | Fall 1971 |
| Professor Alistair MACLEOD | Doctor of Letters (author) | Spring 2001 |
| Dr. Wanda MACNEVIN | Doctor of Laws (social worker, activist, author) | Spring 2017 |
| Dr. Earle Douglas MACPHEE | Doctor of Laws (administrator in business & education) | Fall 1972 |
| Dr. Kay MACPHERSON | Doctor of Laws (feminist) | Spring 1987 |
| Dr. Roger MAHABIR | Doctor of Laws (Technology innovator, community leader) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. Tak Wah MAK | Doctor of Science (research scientist) | Spring 2004 |
| Dr. Elias Wolf MANDEL | Doctor of Letters (poet, York faculty) | Spring 1989 |
| Dr. Nelson Rolihlahia MANDELA | Doctor of Laws (in absentia - human rights activist, former President of South Africa) presented at ceremony | Spring 1989 June 1990 |
| Dr. Lata MANGESHKAR | Doctor of Letters (vocalist) | September 1995 |
| Dr. Alberto MANGUEL | Doctor of Laws (critic, novelist and journalist) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. John MANLEY | Doctor of Laws (Lawyer, businessman, politician) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. Ruth Lor MALLOY | Doctor of Laws (human rights activist) | Spril 2023 |
| Dr. Preston MANNING | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. Peter MANSBRIDGE | Doctor of Laws (Journalist) | Spring 2011 |
| Dr. Sylvia MARACLE | Doctor of Laws (Community leader, educator, activist) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. James MARCH | Doctor of Laws, Distinguished Scholar | Winter 2007 |
| Dr. Arthur Donald MARGISON | Doctor of Laws (York founder) | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. M. Maurice MAROIS | Doctor of Science (establishment of L'Institut de la Vie) | Spring 1987 |
| Dr. Adelaide MARRIOTT | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1973 |
| Dr. Leonard C. MARSH | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. Bharat MASRANI | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2017 |
| Sir Harrie S.W. MASSEY | Doctor of Science | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. Marguerite MATHIEU | Doctor of Laws (development of social work education) | Fall 1987 |
| Dr. Judith MAXWELL | Doctor of Letters (public policy) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Margaret Norrie McCAIN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. Lynn McDONALD | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. Myres Smith McDOUGAL | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1970 |
| Dr. Barbara Jean McDOUGALL | (see ZIMMERMAN) | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. Cheryl McEWEN | Doctor of Laws (entrepreneur and philanthropist) | Spring 2019 |
| Professor Robert R. McEWEN | Doctor of Laws (entrepreneur and philanthropist) | Winter 2005 |
| Dr. David J. McFADDEN | Doctor of Laws (energy lawyer, academic innovation supporter) | Spring 2012 |
| Professor Edgar W. McINNIS | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1972 |
| Rt. Hon. Mme. Justice Dr. Beverley McLACHLIN | Doctor of Laws (jurist, educator and author) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. Norman McLAREN | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1972 |
| Colonel R.S. McLAUGHLIN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1966 |
| Dr. Robert McMICHAEL | Doctor of Letters (founder of McMichael Canadian Art Collection) | Spring 1970 |
| Hon. Roland Roy McMURTRY | Doctor of Laws (Chief Justice & former Attorney-General, Ontario) | Spring 1991 |
| Dr. Alan G. McNALLY | Doctor of Laws (banker, alumnus, former member of York Board of Governors) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. Janet McPHEE | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1986 |
| Dr. Trina McQUEEN | Doctor of Laws (broadcast media trailblaser) | Fall 2019 |
| Dr. Deepa MEHTA | Doctor of Letters (internationally acclaimed Canadian fimlmaker | Spring 2018 |
| Dr. Deborah MEIER | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Jacques MENARD | Doctor of Laws (Business leader: President of BMO Financial Group and BMO Nesbitt Burns) | Spring 2011 |
| Dr. Rick MERCER | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2014 |
| Dr. Eileen MERCIER | Doctor of Letters | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. Norah MICHENER | Doctor of Letters | Fall 1970 |
| Hon. Daniel Roland MICHENER | Doctor of Laws (Former Governor-General) | Fall 1970 |
| Dr. David MILLER | Doctor of Laws (International environmental activist, former Mayor of Toronto) | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Eleanor MILNE | Doctor of Letters (artist) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. David MIRVISH | Doctor of Letters (theatre producer; art dealer) | Spring 2002 |
| Dr. Edwin MIRVISH | Doctor of Laws (community contributions) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Rohinton MISTRY | Doctor of Letters (novelist) | Spring 2003 |
| Dr. François MITTERRAND | Doctor of Laws (President of France) | May 1987 |
| Dr. Thandika MKANDAWIRE | Doctor of Laws (scholar) | Fall 2018 |
| Dr. Ronald Mock | Doctor of Law | Fall 2017 |
| Dr. Lorraine Althea Constance MONK | Doctor of Letters (author) | Fall 1982 |
| Dr. Eleanor MOORE, LLD and Dr. Diane GOUDIE | Doctor of Laws (Innovative Educators) | Spring 2007 |
| Dr. Henry MOORE | Doctor of Letters | Fall 1971 |
| Dr. James Mavor MOORE | Doctor of Letters (playwright, actor, producer & critic) | 1969 |
| Sister Angeline MOREAU | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1976 |
| Dr. Raymond MORIYAMA | Doctor of Laws (architect & planner) | Fall 1973 |
| Dr. Lawrence Whitaker MORLEY | Doctor of Science | Spring 1974 |
| Dr. Denis MUKWEGE | Doctor of Laws (world-renowned obstetrician/gynecologist and human rights activist) | Spring 2023 |
| Dr. Harris Mutio MULE | Doctor of Laws (former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic Planning & Development, Kenya) | Spring 1980 |
| Sister Janet MURRAY | Doctor of Laws (health care executive) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. James Fraser MUSTARD | Doctor of Science (medical research) | Spring 1996 |
| Dr. Knowlton NASH | Doctor of Laws (journalist and broadcaster) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. Mark NATHANSON | Doctor of Laws (businessman and philanthropist) | Winter 2008 |
| Dr. Philip NDEGWA | Doctor of Laws (economist) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Barbara NEIS | Doctor of Laws (distinguished social scientist ) | Spring 2024 |
| Dr. Daniel NESTOR | Doctor of Laws (top-ranked doubles tennis player) | Summer 2012 |
| Dr. Peter Charles NEWMAN | Doctor of Letters (political journalist) | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. William T. NEWNHAM | Doctor of Laws (post-secondary education) | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. Marangu NJOGU | Doctor of Laws (humanitarian and global education activist) | Spring 2019 |
| Dr. Margaret NORQUAY | Doctor of Laws (Open Radio - Ryerson) | Fall 1985 |
| Dr. Samantha NUTT | Doctor of Laws (Humanitarian, Founder & Executive Director of War Child Canada) | Spring 2011 |
| Dr. Alanis OBOMSAWIN | Doctor of Letters (advocate for native rights, producer, director, songwriter & singer) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Manuel OBREGON | Doctor of Laws (musician) | Spring 2015 |
| Hon. Dennis O'CONNOR, LLD | Doctor of Laws (Associate Chief Justice of Ontario) | Spring 2007 |
| Dr. Louis L. ODETTE | Doctor of Letters (philanthropist in art and education) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. David (Dan) OFFORD | Doctor of Science (child psychiatrist) | Spring 2002 |
| Dr. Betty OLIPHANT | Doctor of Letters (ballet) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Geoffrey OLDHAM | Doctor of Laws (scientist and international development expert) | Spring 2006 |
| Dr. Donald H. OLIVER | Doctor of Laws (Senator, human rights activist) | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. Opiyo OLOYA | Doctor of Laws (Educator, activist, humanitarian) | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. Ratna OMIDVAR | Doctor of Laws (Social activist) | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. David ONLEY | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Wladyslaw ORLICZ | Doctor of Science (mathematician) | Fall 1974 |
| Dr. Yuri Fyodorovich ORLOV | Doctor of Laws (dissident & human rights advocate) | Fall 1987 |
| Dr. Gordon Francis Joseph OSBALDESTON | Doctor of Laws (public servant) | Spring 1984 |
| Dr. Bernard OSTRY | Doctor of Laws (public servant) | Spring 2002 |
| Dr. Sylvia OSTRY | Doctor of Laws (public servant & economist) | Spring 1971 |
| Dr. Steve PAIKIN | Doctor of Laws (journalist) | Spring 2017 |
| Dr. Andreas George PAPANDREOU | Doctor of Laws (politician & educator) | March 1983 |
| Dr. Jean-Guy PAQUET | Doctor of Laws (educator) | Spring 1983 |
| Madame Madeleine PARENT | Docotor of Letters (feminist) | Spring 1996 |
| Professor Gérard PARIZEAU | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Roderic B. PARK | Doctor of Science | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. Manuel Elkin PATARROYO | Doctor of Science (doctor, developer of malaria vaccine) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. Bonnie PATTERSON | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2014 |
| Dr. Linus Carl PAULING | Doctor of Science (Nobel Prize Chemistry and Peace) | Fall 1966 |
| Dr. Julie PAYETTE | Doctor of Science | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. Landon PEARSON | Doctor of Laws (President & Chair of Canadian Council on Children and Youth. Founder and Chair of Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children) | Spring 2011 |
| Hon. Gérard PELLETIER | Doctor of Laws (journalist & politician) | Fall 1971 |
| Dr. Lewis PERINBAM | Doctor of Laws (world development executive) | Spring 1984 |
| Dr. Vera PETERS | Doctor of Science | Spring 1975 |
| Dr. Oscar Emmanuel PETERSON | Doctor of Letters (concert pianist) | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Jean K. PETRIE | Doctor of Science | Fall 1969 |
| Dr. Kim PHUC | Doctor of Laws (UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the Culture of Peace) | Fall 2004 |
| Dr. Walter George PITMAN | Doctor of Laws (Director, O.I.S.E.) | Spring 1989 |
| Dr. Jean-Robert Pitte | Doctor of Laws (Dscholar) | Spring 2012 |
| Rabbi W. Gunther PLAUT | Doctor of Laws (scholar & social activist) | Spring 1987 |
| Dr. Beryl Alyce PLUMPTRE | Doctor of Laws (retired economist) | Fall 1981 |
| Dr. John Charles POLANYI | Doctor of Science (advancement of science) | Spring 1988 |
| Dr. Harry POLLOCK | Doctor Letters (novelist, poet, lecturer) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. Marcie PONTE | Doctor Laws (community builder, human rights activist) | Spring 2019 |
| Dr. Anna PORTER | Doctor Laws (accomplished publisher, novelist, memoirist, historian, cultural and political analyst) | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Lynn POSLUNS | Doctor Laws (health innovator, entrepreneur) | Spring 2019 |
| Professor Irvine Rudsdale POUNDER | Doctor of Laws (mathematician) | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. Vivienne POY | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2014 |
| Dr. Gerald A. PRATLEY | Doctor of Letters (film) | Spring 1991 |
| Dr. Raul PREBISCH | Doctor of Laws | Fall 1978 |
| Dr. Timothy PRICE | Doctor of Laws (Business leader, philanthropist) | Fall 2009 |
| Dr. Francis E.L. PRIESTLEY | Doctor of Literature (scholar & author) | Spring 1988 |
| Dr. John S. PROCTOR | Doctor of Laws (former York Chancellor & Board Chair) | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. Donald Fulton PUTNAM | Doctor of Laws (geographer) | Spring 1974 |
| Dr. Robert RABINOVITCH | Doctor of Laws (President & CEO, CBC) | Spring 2003 |
| Sir Shridath Surendranath RAMPHAL | Doctor of Laws (world peace & changes in South Africa) | Fall 1988 |
| Dr. Calvin Gordon RAND | Doctor of Laws (humanist, theatre & film producer & educator) | Spring 1984 |
| Dr. G.M. RAO | Doctor of Laws (Businessman and founder of GMR Group, India) | Spring 2011 |
| Elder Duke REDBIRD | Doctor of Laws (Ojibwe artist, poet, and scholar) | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Albert REICHMANN | Doctor of Laws (business) | Spring 1991 |
| Dr. Escott Meredith REID | Doctor of Laws (1st Glendon principal & retired diplomat) | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. Kate REID | Doctor of Letters (actress) | Spring 1970 |
| Dr. William R. REID | Doctor of Letters (sculptor, author, broadcaster & animateur) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Alison RICHARD | Doctor of Laws (University administrator and scholar) | Fall 2006 |
| Dr. Mordecai RICHLER | Doctor of Letters (novelist, essayist, journalist) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. George W. RICKEY | Doctor of Letters (sculptor) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Charles Stewart Almon RITCHIE | Doctor of Letters (diplomat, diarist) | Fall 1992 |
| Rt. Hon. Lord RITCHIE-CALDER | Doctor of Science (journalist, communicator & internationalist) | Spring 1976 |
| Dr. Angela ROBERTSON | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2017 |
| Dr. Robbie ROBERTSON | Doctor of Laws (musician and aboriginal activist) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. John Josiah ROBINETTE, Q.C. | Doctor of Laws (law - criminal) | Spring 1987 |
| Dr. Laura Jane ROBINSON | Doctor of Laws (athlete, journalist, activist) | Spring 2012 |
| Senator Dr. Douglas ROCHE (IND - AB) | Doctor of Laws (author; parliamentarian; diplomat) | Spring 2002 |
| La Duchesse Edmée de la ROCHEFOUCAULD | Doctor of Letters (scholar, author & feminist) | Spring 1988 |
| Professor Virginia J. ROCK | Doctor of Letters (contributions to Stong College) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Edward (Ted) Samuel ROGERS | Doctor of Laws (Canadian Telecommunication) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Roy ROMANOW | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Murray George ROSS | Doctor of Letters (first President of York University) University Professor | Spring 1971 1973 |
| Dr. Roger James ROSSITER | Doctor of Laws (academic, biochemist, physician, teacher & university administrator) | Spring 1971 |
| Dr. Samuel ROTHSTEIN | Doctor of Letters (librarian & educator) | Fall 1971 |
| Dr. Paul ROULEAU | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Reeta ROY | Doctor of Laws (philanthropist, global education advocate) | Spring 2024 |
| Rt. Hon. Lord James of RUSHOLME | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1970 |
| Dr. Nancy RUTH (JACKMAN) | Doctor of Laws | Fall 1994 |
| Dr. Albie SACHS | Doctor of Laws (lawyer, scholar, civil rights activist & author) | Spring 1994 |
| Dr. Albert Martin SACKS | Doctor of Laws (constitutional law) | Spring 1969 |
| Dr. Itah SADU | Doctor of Laws (author, entrepreneur) | Fall 2023 |
| Dr. Bengt SALTIN | Doctor of Laws (Researcher into Theory of Exercise as Medicine) | Spring 2011 |
| Dr. Peggie SAMPSON | Doctor of Letters (cellist) | Spring 1988 |
| Dr. Peter SANDOR | Doctor of Laws (patron of the arts, alumnus) | Spring 1999 |
| Dr. Jukka-Pekka SARASTE | Doctor of Letters (conductor) | Spring 1995 |
| Dr. Peter SATO, LLD | Doctor of Laws (Diplomat, friend of Canada) | Spring 2007 |
| Professor Samuel Berrick SAUL | Doctor of Laws (academic & author) | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. John Ralston SAUL | Doctor of Laws (novelist, essayist, Indigenous rights activist ) | Spring 2024 |
| Dr. Arthur R.A. SCACE | Doctor of Laws (lawyer) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. Vincent Joseph SCHAEFER | Doctor of Science (chemist) | Spring 1983 |
| Dr. Anatoly SCHARANSKY | Doctor of Laws (human rights activist) | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Daphne SCHIFF | Doctor of Laws (lecturer, humanitarian, pilot, adventurer) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. William George SCHNEIDER | Doctor of Science (physical chemist) | Fall 1966 |
| Dr. Seymour SCHULICH | Doctor of Laws (philanthropist, entrepreneur, business leader) | Spring 2003 |
| Dr. Samuel SCHWARTZ | Doctor of Laws (law) | Spring 2015 |
| Archbishop Edward Walter SCOTT | Doctor of Laws (advocate of social justice) | Spring 1987 |
| Professor Francis Reginald SCOTT | Doctor of Laws (law, language & civil liberties) | Spring 1976 |
| Dr. Ian Gilmour SCOTT | Doctor of Laws | October 1997 |
| Dr. Marianne Florence SCOTT | Doctor of Laws (librarian) | Fall 1985 |
| Dr. Wm. Pearson SCOTT | Doctor of Laws (Former Chair, York Board) | Fall 1971 |
| Dr. Amartya SEN | Doctor of Laws (Nobel Laureate in economics) | Spring 2004 |
| Dr. Olive SENIOR | Doctor of Laws (Eminent and prolific writer, educator, editors) | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Richard Burton SETLOW | Doctor of Science (biophysicist) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Kathleen SHANNON | Doctor of Letters | Spring 1996 |
| Dr. Isadore SHARP | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Noah James SHEBIB | Doctor of Laws (award winning music producer) | Fall 2022 |
| Professor A.G. SHENSTONE | Doctor of Science | Spring 1972 |
| Dr Frances SHEPPARD | Doctor of Laws (oncologist) | Fall 2018 |
| Dr. Howard SHORE, DLitt | Doctor of Laws (Film Composer) | Spring 2007 |
| Dr. Ann B (Rusty) SHTEIR | Doctor of Laws (feminist scholar, academic leader) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. Neil SHUBIN | Doctor of Science (Evolutionary Biologist, Paleontologist and Popular Science Writer) | Fall 2022 |
| Dr. Haroon SIDDIQUI | Doctor of Letters (journalist) | Fall 2001 |
| Dr. James Harris SIMONS | Doctor of Science (mathematician, financier, philanthropist) | Spring 2016 |
| Dr. George Gaylord SIMPSON | Doctor of Science | Fall 1966 |
| Dr. Lister S. SINCLAIR | Doctor of Letters (broadcaster) | Spring 1991 |
| Dr. Murray SINCLAIR | Doctor of Laws (judge) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. Narendra Chetram SINGH | Doctor of Laws (pediatrician, educator, health innovator & philanthropist) | Spring 2018 |
| Dr. Walter Max Ulyate SISULU | Doctor of Laws (racial equality) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Michael SMITH | Doctor of Science (educator & public awareness of science) | Spring 1994 |
| Rt. Hon. Lord SNOW | Doctor of Laws | Fall 1967 |
| Dr. Harry S. SOMERS | Doctor of Letters (composer) | Spring 1977 |
| Dr. Gregory SORBARA | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2013 |
| Dr. Joseph SORBARA | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2010 |
| Dr. Nasrin SOTOUDEH | Doctor of Laws (human rights lawyer, women’s rights activist) | Spring 2013 |
| Hon. Wishart Flett SPENCE | Doctor of Laws (judge) | Spring 1974 |
| Dr. Keith SPICER | Doctor of Laws (broadcasting policy) | Spring 1974 |
| Sir Hugh Worrell SPRINGER | Doctor of Laws (educator & barrister) | Spring 1980 |
| Dr. Graham SPRY | Doctor of Laws (author & journalist) | Spring 1976 |
| Colonel Charles Perry STACEY | Doctor of Laws (military historian) | Spring 1973 |
| Dr. Helen Katherine STACEY | Doctor of Laws ("Today's Child" magazine) | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Mark STAROWICZ | Doctor of Letters (television producer, journalist) | Spring 2001 |
| Dr. Steven S. STARYK | Doctor of Letters (concert violinist) | Spring 1980 |
| Dr. Catherine Irene STEELE | Doctor of Letters (educator) | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. Steven STEIN | Doctor of Laws (Eminent clinical psychologist, business leader, and philanthropist) | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Gunther Siegmund STENT | Doctor of Science (molecular biologist) | Spring 1984 |
| Dr. Michael STEVENSON | Doctor of Laws (eminent university administrator and scholar) | Spring 2011 |
| Dr. Donald A. STEWART | Doctor of Laws (business leader) | Fall 2012 |
| Dr. Calvin R. STILLER | Doctor of Science(surgeon, medical reseacher) | Fall 2011 |
| Dr. Boris Peter STOICHEFF | Doctor of Science (physicist) | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. Teresa STRATAS | Doctor of Letters (opera singer) | Spring 2000 |
| Dr. Maurice F. STRONG | Doctor of Laws (environmentalist, international official & business executive) | Spring 1973 |
| Dr. Barry D. STUART | Doctor of Laws (judge, mediator, scholar) | Spring 2014 |
| Dr. Louella Margaret STURDY | Doctor of Laws (university administrator) | Spring 1991 |
| Dr. Theodore Morris SUGDEN | Doctor of Science (chemist & physician) | Fall 1973 |
| Dr. Francoise SULLIVAN | Doctor of Letters (dancer & artist) | Fall 1998 |
| Dr. David SUZUKI | Doctor of Science (renowned scientist and environmentalist) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. Felicitas SVEJDA | Doctor of Science (plant breeder) | Spring 2000 |
| Dr. Barbara Willis SWEETE | Doctor of Letters (film and television) | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Pol SWINGS | Doctor of Science | Fall 1969 |
| Dr. Thomas H.B. SYMONS | Doctor of Laws (1st President of Trent University) | Spring 1973 |
| Dr. Emöke SZATHMÁRY | Doctor of Laws (University President) | Winter 2008 |
| Dr. Florence TABOBONDUNG | Doctor of Laws (Aboriginal Chief) | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Jiazhen TAN | Doctor of Science (geneticist) | Spring 1984 |
| Dr. Vincent TAO | Doctor of Laws | Fall 2017 |
| Hon. Mr. Justice Walter Surma TARNOPOLSKY | Doctor of Laws (Justice of the Court of Appeal) | Spring 1989 |
| Dr. Ratan N. TATA | Doctor of Laws (business leader, entrepreneur, philanthropist) | Spring 2014 |
| Professor George TATHAM | Doctor of Laws (geographer) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Brainerd BLYDEN-TAYLOR | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Malcom Gordon TAYLOR | Doctor of Laws (teacher; scholar; academic administrator in health policy) | Spring 1987 |
| Dr. Nathan A. TAYLOR | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1982 |
| Dr. James TEMERTY | Doctor of Laws (clean energy innovator, philanthropist) | Spring 2018 |
| Dr. Veronica TENNANT | Doctor of Letters (dance; ballet) | Spring 1987 |
| Dr. Mark TEWKESBURY | Doctor of Laws (Olympian, human rights advocate) | Fall 2022 |
| Dr. Menaka THAKKAR | Doctor of Letters (Indian dance - dancer; teacher; choreographer) | Spring 1993 |
| Dr. Henry George THODE | Doctor of Science (chemist) | Fall 1972 |
| Dr. Stuart Douglas THOM | Doctor of Laws (tax lawyer) | Spring 1980 |
| Dr. Clara McCandless THOMAS | Doctor of Letters (author) | Spring 1986 |
| Dr. Walter A. THOMPSON | Doctor of Laws (scholar; teacher) | Fall 1972 |
| Dr. Shirley L. THOMSON | Doctor of Laws (arts administrator) | Spring 2002 |
| Dr. Rick TOBIAS | Doctor of Laws (life-long advocate on behalf of low-income and marginalized people) | Fall 2012 |
| Dr. David Lloyd TOUGH | Doctor of Laws (scholar; teacher) | Spring 1972 |
| Dr. Alain TOURAINE | Doctor of Laws (eminent scholar; Sociologist) | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. Harold Barling TOWN | Doctor of Letters (painter; sculptor; muralist; print maker) | Spring 1966 |
| Dr. Tom TRAVES | Doctor of Laws (university administrator, community and educational leader) | Spring 2014 |
| Hon. Arthur TREMBLAY | Doctor of Laws (senator) | Spring 1978 |
| Dr. Anna Maria TREMONTI | Doctor of Laws (journalist) | Fall 2018 |
| Professor Eric Lansdown TRIST | Doctor of Laws (educator) | Fall 1983 |
| Dr. Lap-Chee TSUI | Doctor of Science (scientist) | Spring 2001 |
| Dr. Michael TULLOCH | Doctor of Laws (Chief Justice of Ontario) | Spring 2023 |
| Dr. Barbara TURNBULL | Doctor of Law (journalist, activist) | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. Alice Willard TURNER | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1977 |
| Rt. Hon. John Napier TURNER, P.C. | Doctor of Laws (political leader) | Spring 1969 |
| Professor William TWINING | Doctor of Laws (legal scholar) | Spring 2002 |
| Dr. Anne Barbara UNDERHILL | Doctor of Science (astronomer) | Fall 1969 |
| Dr. Frank Hawkins UNDERHILL | Doctor of Letters (historian; journalist; political activist) | Fall 1970 |
| Lt. Col. Lyndall F. URWICK | Doctor of Laws (author) | Fall 1972 |
| Dr. Francesca VALENTE | Doctor of Letters (former director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto) | Fall 1999 |
| Dr. John VAN BUREK | Doctor of Laws(renowned theatre producer and translator) | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Guy VANDERHAEGHE | Doctor of Letters (author and playwright) | Fall 2003 |
| Dr. George VARI | Doctor of Laws (business) | September 1992 |
| Dr. Helen VARI | Doctor of Laws (philanthropist) | Spring 2003 |
| Dr. M.G. VASSANJI | Doctor of Letters (author and novelist) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. Annette VERSCHUREN | Doctor of Laws (leader and innovator in sustainable business) | Spring 2018 |
| Dr. Frank Vettese | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2022 |
| Dr. Roy Henry VICKERS, DLitt | Doctor of Laws (Artist) | Spring 2007 |
| Professor Jean-Pierre VIGIER | Doctor of Science (scholar; physicist) | August 1995 |
| M. Josephe Jean-Marie Gilles VIGNEAULT | Doctor of Letters (singer) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Paul VOLCKER | Doctor of Laws (civil servant; banker) | Spring 2001 |
| Dr. Robert Carsten VON BORSTEL | Doctor of Science (scientific research) | Fall 1987 |
| Dr. Miriam WADDINGTON | Doctor of Letters (critic & poet) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Immanuel WALLERSTEIN | Doctor of Letters (scholar) | Fall 1995 |
| Dr. Edwin Hodges WALKER | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1979 |
| Dr. Maxwell William WARD | Doctor of Laws | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. John WARKENTIN | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2011 |
| Dr. James "Wreford" WATSON | Doctor of Letters (geologist; poet; novelist) | Spring 1985 |
| Dr. Whipper Billy WATSON | Doctor of Laws (wrestler) | Fall 1984 |
| Dr. Sheila WATT-CLOUTIER | Doctor of Laws (aboriginal leader, author) | Spring 2015 |
| Dr. Richard Earl WAUGH, LLD | Doctor of Laws (Banker, Business Leader) | Spring 2007 |
| Dr. Robert WEAVER | Doctor of Laws | Fall 1977 |
| Dr. Karen WEILER | Doctor of Laws (eminent jurist) | Spring 2017 |
| Dr. Larry WEINSTEIN | Doctor of Letters (film and television) | Spring 1998 |
| Dr. Paul WEILER | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2009 |
| Dr. Mike WESSINGER | Doctor of Laws (Co-founder of leading cloud-based software) | Spring 2024 | Dr. Galen WESTON | Doctor of Laws (business leader and philanthropist) | Spring 2018 |
| Dr. Hilary M. WESTON | Doctor of Laws (former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario) | Fall 2002 |
| Dr. Robert WHITE | Doctor of Laws (Canadian labour movement) | Fall 1988 |
| Dr. Hayley WICKENHEISER | Doctor of Laws (Celebrated elite athlete, author,motivational speaker) | Spring 2017 |
| Dr. Herbert William WHITTAKER | Doctor of Letters (columnist; drama critic) | Spring 1971 |
| Dr. John WHYTE | Doctor of Laws (academic, former Sask. Deputy AG and Dep. Minister of Justice) | Fall 2013 |
| Dr. Shelagh B. WILKINSON | Doctor of Laws (Scholar, activist) | Fall 2009 |
| Dr. John Mark WILLINSKY | Doctor of Laws | Spring 2008 |
| Dr. Lee WILLIAMS | Doctor of Laws (railway porter; civil rights activist) | Spring 2002 |
| Professor John WILLIS | Doctor of Laws (scholar; teacher) | Spring 1973 |
| Hon. Madame Justice Dr. Bertha WILSON | Doctor of Laws (Justice, Supreme Court of Canada) | Spring 1986 |
| Dr. Ian E. WILSON | Doctor of Letters (National Archivist of Canada) | Fall 2001 |
| Hon. Michael WILSON | Doctor of Laws (business leader, mental health advocate and statesman) | Spring 2005 |
| Dr. Henry S. WINGATE | Doctor of Laws | Fall 1967 |
| Dr. Warren K. WINKLER | Doctor of Laws(Judge, legal scholar | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. Rose WOLFE | Doctor of Laws (volunteer, Chancellor Emerita, University of Toronto) | Spring 2003 |
| Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Owen WOODHOUSE | Doctor of Laws (judge) | Spring 1981 |
| Dr. John YOLTON | Doctor of Laws (former President of York University) | Spring 1974 |
| Dr. Eberhard Heinrich ZEIDLER | Doctor of Laws (architect) | Spring 1992 |
| Dr. Barbara Jean McDougall ZIMMERMAN, PC, OC | Doctor of Laws (politician) | Spring 2012 |
| Dr. Moses ZNAIMER | Doctor of Letters (broadcast executive; producer) | Spring 2001 |
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