Past honorary degree recipients
2025 |
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| Cindy Blackstock, LLD | Human rights advocate for Indigenous children |
| Iyál' (Vanessa) Campbell, LLD | Elder and teacher of Skwxwú7mesh sníchim |
| Francis Halzen, DSc | Physicist and principal investigator of IceCube |
| Zacharias Kunuk, DFA | Inuk filmmaker and cultural activist |
| David Marmorek, DSc | Acquatic ecologist |
| Azra Raza, DSc | Oncologist, researcher and author |
| Ogwi'low'gwa Kim Recalma-Clutesi, LLD | Matriarch, scholar, academic and cultural mentor, traditional knowledge-holder, teacher, writer, filmmaker, community leader, cross-cultural interpreter |
| Mary-Woo Sims 沈明麗, LLD | Human rights advocate |
| Barry Truax, DFA | Electroacoustic and computer music trailblazer |
2024 |
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| Daphne Bramham, LLD | Journalist and author |
| Yi Cui, DSc | Trailblazing scientist |
| Esi Edugyan, DLitt | Canadian novelist and internationally rewowned bestselling author |
| Margaret George, LLD | Elder and community leader |
| Elio Luongo, LLD | Visionary business leader |
| J. Reid Maxwell, DFA | World renowned pipe band drummer |
| Alexandra Newton, DSc | Canadian buochemist and world-renowed scientist |
| Gerri Sinclair, DSc | Visionary leader in technology, business, research and government |
| Kii'iljuus, DSc | Professor and cultural advisor |
| Hildegard Westerkamp, DFA | Sound activist composer and soundscape educator |
2023 |
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| Adelle Blackett, LLD | International leader in human rights |
| Donald Dingwell, DSc | Geoscientist |
| Stan Douglas, DFA | Contemporary artist |
| Esther Duflo, LLD | Economist |
| barbara findlay, LLD | Activist and laywer |
| Larry Grant, LLD | Elder and community leader |
| Dany Laferrière, DLitt | Author and filmmaker |
| Joy MacPhail, LLD | Leader and social advocate |
| Svend Robinson, LLD | Activist and laywer |
| Zainub Verjee, DFA | Artist, writer, critic, and arts administrator |
| Phyllis Webstad, LLD | Orange Shirt Day founder |
2022 |
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| Penny Ballem, DSc | Public health leader and distinguished academic clinician |
| Afua Cooper, DLitt | Multidisciplinary scholar, author and artist |
| Anne Giardini, LLD | Business leader, lawyer and writer |
| Michelle Good, DLitt | Author, lawyer and advocate |
| Cristina Mittermeier & Paul Nicklen, DFA | Conservationists and photographers |
| James Chi Ming Pau, LLD | Humanitarian |
| Andrew Petter, LLD | President emeritus and academia visionary leader |
| Rupert Raj, LLD | Trans activist, counsellor and author |
| Robert Turner, LLD | Northwestern transportation heritage consultant |
| Alan Twigg, DLitt | Author and publisher |
2021 |
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| John Blatherwick, DSc | Public health leader |
| Catherine Clement, LLD | Communicator, author and community curator |
| Andreas Dracopoulos, LLD | Philanthropist, Co-President Stavros Niarchos Foundation |
| Michael J. Fox, DFA | Actor, author, Parkinson’s disease cure advocate |
| Victor Hayes, DSc | Information technology and communication pioneer |
| Herb (Jay) James, LLD | Founder, International Sound Foundation |
| Margo Kane, DFA | Artist and Indgenous arts activist |
| Nurjehan Mawani, LLD | Lawyer and humanitarian |
| Wally Oppal, LLD | Former judge and B.C. attorney general |
| Maria Ressa, LLD | Journalist, author |
| Malinda S. Smith, LLD | Author, professor, researcher |
| Theresa Tam, DSc | Chief Public Health Officer of Canada |
| Siila (Sheila) Watt-Cloutier, LLD | Inuit leader, activist |
2020 |
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| Beth Allen (Bif Naked), DFA | Gold and platinum-selling rock star, author, songwriter, human and animal rights advocate |
| John Borrows, LLD | Indigenous, constitutional and environmental lawyer |
| Randy Boyagoda, DLitt | Canadian writer, critic and academic |
| Sara Diamond, DSc | Digital media visionary |
| Vincent Di Lollo, DSc | Leader among cognitive systems researchers and professor |
| Mariana Mazzucato, LLD | Internationally celebrated economist and professor |
| Sophie Pierre, LLD | Indigenous leader in Canada |
| Mina Shum, DFA | Canadian screenwriter, director and producer |
| George P. Smith, DSc | Nobel laureate, professor and molecular biologist |
| Diane Sowden, LLD | Advocate against sexual exploitation of children |
2019 |
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| Norman Armour, DFA | Arts advocate and co-founder, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival |
| Nadine Caron, DSc | Anishnawbe surgeon and associate professor |
| Timothy Caulfield, DSc | Professor and advocate for evidence-based health policy |
| Chief Robert Joseph, LLD | Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation and peace-builder |
| Ruby Peter, LLD | Coast Salish elder, linguistics research and language teacher |
| Joseph Schwarcz, DSc | Professor and award-winning chemist |
| Dava Sobel, DSc | Award-winning former science reporter and best-selling author |
| Lorne Trottier, DSc | Innovator, entrepreneur and philanthropist |
| Jennifer Wade, LLD | Co-founder, Vancouver's Amnesty International chapter and human rights advocate |
2018 |
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| Michael Francis, LLD | Chartered accountant, innovator and leader |
| Jane Goodall, DSc | Primatologist and anthropologist |
| Alison Gopnik, LLD | Professor, University of California, Berkeley |
| Dorothy Grant, DFA | Haida fashion designer |
| Ashok Khosla, LLD | Pioneer in environmental sustainability |
| Crystal Pite, DFA | Internationally renowned Canadian choreographer |
| Madeleine Thien, DLitt | Canadian author who has won Canada's top literary awards |
| Stanley Zlotkin, DSc | Paediatrician, professor and advocate for children's health |
2018 Special Convocation |
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| His Highness the Aga Khan, LLD | Spiritual leader and philanthropist |
2017 |
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| The Honourable Jacob (Jack) Austin, LLD | Retired Canadian senator and former federal cabinet minister |
| Dionne Brand, DLitt | Professor and award-winning poet, novelist and essayist |
| Ivan Coyote, LLD | Award winning author, storyteller and LGBTQ2S community advocate |
| David Gillanders, LLD | Real estate lawyer and founding chair of SFU Community Corporation |
| James (Jim) Hart, DFA | Chief, Haida artist and master carver |
| James Cameron Hogg, DSc | Physician, researcher and educator |
| Asma Jahangir, LLD | Pakistani human rights lawyer and activist |
| Miloon Kothari, LLD | Architect and internationally recognized human rights advocate |
| Robert Williams, LLD | Urban planner and former provincial MLA and cabinet minister |
2016 |
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| Izzeldin Abuelaish, DSc | Palestinian physician and peace activist |
| Evan Tlesla II Adams, DSc | Coast Salish physician and actor |
| Keith Beedie, LLD | Visionary business leader and philanthropist |
| Robert Bringhurst, DLitt | Celebrated author and poet |
| David Gillespie, DSc | Award-winning SFU adjunct professor and entomologist |
| Evaleen Jaager Roy, LLD | Past SFU Board Chair and business and community leader |
| Nigel Lockyer, DSc | Internationally recognized experimental particle physicist and transformative leader |
| Geoffrey Massey, LLD | Architect and co-designer of the SFU Burnaby campus |
| Vivienne Poy, LLD | Former Senator of Canada and a champion of intercultural understanding |
| Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, LLD | Note: Honorary Doctorate of Laws was returned to SFU in March 2023 |
| Tamara Vrooman, LLD | Business leader committed to equality, inclusion and empowerment |
| Lorna Wanosts'a7 Williams, LLD | BC educator and former Canada Reserach Chair in Indigenous Knowledge and Learning |
2015 |
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| Jennifer Allen Simons, LLD |
Award-winning educator, thought leader, and nuclear disarmament specialist |
| Nini Baird, LLD | Arts activist and one of Canada’s 100 most powerful women |
| Lorna Crozier, DLitt | Award-winning poet, essayist and professor |
| Meeru Dhalwala and Vikram Vij, LLD | Owners of several award-winning Metro Vancouver restaurants, including world-renowned Vij’s Restaurant |
| Judy Graves, LLD |
Humanitarian and Vancouver’s first advocate for the homeless |
| Harry Gray, DSc |
A prize-winning chemist and founding director of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology |
| Maggie Ip, LLD | Founder of S.U.C.C.E.S.S, one of Canada’s largest multilingual and multicultural social service organizations |
| Sut Jhally, DFA |
Executive director of the Media Education Foundation, and a prolific filmmaker and author |
| Ken Lum, DFA | World-renowned artist and educator |
| Deepa Mehta, DFA |
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and producer |
| Bill Nye, DSc |
Scientist, educator, and television performer “Bill Nye the Science Guy” |
| Nancy J. Turner, DSc |
An acclaimed ethnobotanist and ethnoecologist |
2014 |
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| David Baines, DLitt | An award-winning Vancouver Sun securities columnist |
| Rt Hon Kim Campbell, LLD | Canada’s 19th and first female Prime Minister |
| Sir Mason Durie, DSc | An expert on Indigenous and Maori development |
| John Maeda, DFA | A leading designer recognized for intersecting graphic design, computer science, art and education |
| Steven Pinker, DSc | An experimental psychologist hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people on Earth |
| Ahmed Zewail, DSc | 1999 Nobel-laureate and pre-eminent statesman |
2013 |
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| Shabana Azmi, DFA | Award-winning actor and advocate for the rights of women, minorities and displaced slum-dwellers in India. |
| Barry Downs, LLD | Architect and founder of DA Architects and Partners |
| Michael Ingham, LLD | Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster |
| Jack Lee and Terry Lee, DFA | World renowned bagpipers |
| Andy MacKinnon, DSc | Research ecologist with the BC Forest Service |
| Kelvin Ogilvie, DSc | Canadian Senator, past president of Acadia University, member of the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame |
| Christine Sinclair, LLD | Canadian soccer player and olympian |
| Michael Stevenson, LLD | Political scientist and president emeritus of Simon Fraser University |
| John Webb, DSc | Doctor and director of interventional cardiology at St. Paul's Hospital |
2012 |
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| Harry Arthurs, LLD | York University president emeritus, professor emeritus and former Osgoode Hall Law School dean |
| Kim Baird, LLD | Former chief of the Tsawwassen First Nation |
| Glenda Gray, DSc | South African pediatrician |
| A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, LLD | Former president of India |
| Louise Mandell, LLD | Vancouver lawyer in the area of Aboriginal and treaty rights law |
| Martha Nussbaum, DLitt | American philosopher, classics scholar, University of Chicago faculty member |
| Saida Rasul, LLD | Dentist and former member of SFU's board of governors |
| Jagat (Jack) Uppal, LLD | B.C. South Asian community leader and businessman |
| Yosef Wosk, DLitt | Vancouver philanthropist, scholar, educator, rabbi, community leader, businessman and former director of Continuing Studies at SFU. |
2011 |
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| George Cohon, LLD | McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Limited/McDonald’s Russia founder and creator of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Canada/Russia |
| William Deverell, DLitt | Internationally acclaimed B.C. writer, environmental activist, civil libertarian and criminal lawyer |
| Wendy Grant-John, LLD | Former three-term Musqueam chief |
| Ian Hampton, DFA | Acclaimed cellist |
| C.S. (Buzz) Holling, DSc | Celebrated ecologist |
| Sarah McLachlan, DFA | Grammy and Juno Award-winning Vancouver musician, singer, songwriter and Lilith Fair founder |
| Pavel Pevzner, DSc | Widely recognized leader in the field of computational molecular biology |
| Ray Spaxman, LLD | Vancouver’s director of planning from 1973-89 and a key visionary behind SFU’s UniverCity development |
| Robert Thirsk, DSc | Engineer, physician and Canadian Space Agency astronaut |
| Brian Williams, LLD | 40-year veteran sportscaster considered the dean of Olympic sports broadcasting in Canada |
2010 |
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| Beverley Ann Busson, LLD | Retired RCMP commissioner and Canada’s first female top Mountie |
| Pat Carney, LLD | Former federal Senator, MP and Minister Responsible for the Canada-US free trade negotiations |
| Gordon F. Gibson, LLD | Vancouver political columnist, author and former Liberal politician |
| Julio Montaner, DSc | Argentine-Canadian physician and one of the world’s leading AIDS specialists |
| Alexandra Morton, DSc | B.C. biologist and activist |
2009 |
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| Mark Angelo, DSc | River conservationist, teacher and writer |
| Louise Arbour, LLD | Former Canadian Supreme Court justice and UN human rights high commissioner |
| Robin Blaser, DLitt | SFU English professor emeritus and one of North America’s most influential poets |
| Stewart Blusson, DSc | Vancouver diamond pioneer and philanthropist |
| Victor Gomel, DSc | Professor and former head of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UBC |
| Richard Henriquez, LLD | Major figure in Canadian architecture and founding partner of Henriquez Partners |
| Rafe Mair, LLD | Broadcast personality and political commentator |
| James McEwen, DSc | Biomedical engineer, former adjunct professor in SFU’s School of Engineering Science |
| Djavad Mowafaghian, LLD | West Vancouver real estate developer and philanthropist |
| John Willinsky, LLD | Stanford University education professor and pioneering "open access" champion |
2008 |
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| Nelly Auersperg, DSc | UBC Professor, Terry Fox Research Scientist |
| Iain Baxter&, DFA | Professor Emeritus, School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor |
| Cary Fowler, LLD | Executive Director, Global Crop Diversity Trust |
| William Gibson, DLitt | Writer, Science-Fiction |
| Rick Hansen, LLD | President and CEO of the Rick Hansen Foundation |
| Michael Kirby, LLD | Former Canadian Senator, Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada |
| Martha Piper, LLD | Former UBC President |
| Susan Point, DFA | Artist |
| Mossadiq Umedaly, LLD | Chairman of BC Hydro and Xantrax Technology Inc. |
2007 |
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| Larry Beasley, LLD | Vancouver City Planner |
| Douglas Coupland, DLitt | Novelist, Playwright, Visual Artist |
| Marguerite Ford, LLD | Community Planner, Former Vancouver City Councillor |
| Ray Hyman, DSc | Parapsychology Critic, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Oregon at Eugene |
| Stephen Jarislowsky, LLD | Philanthropist |
| Richard Lipsey, LLD | Economist, SFU Professor Emeritus |
| Terry Snutch, DSc | Molecular Biologist |
| Eleanor Wachtel, DLitt | Writer, CBC Radio Broadcaster |
2006 |
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| Alan Astbury, DSc | Professor Emeritus, UVic, Former Director, TRIUMPH Laboratory |
| Monique Begin, LLD | Former federal Minister of Health |
| Costa Gavras, DFA | Distinguished filmmaker |
| Christopher Gaze, DFA | Actor, Shakespearan |
| Allan King, DFA | Distinguished filmmaker |
| Robert A. Mundell, LLD | Economist and Nobel Prize Winner (1999) |
| Rudy North, LLD | Founder, Phillips, Hagar and North |
| Nancy Olivieri, DSc | Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto |
| Lui Passaglia, LLD | SFU Alumnus, former BC Lion |
| Maria Tippett, DLitt | SFU Alumna, Canadian author |
2005 |
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| Michael Audain, LLD | Chair/CEO, Polygon Homes Ltd., patron of the arts |
| Alfred Bader, DSc | Co-Founder, Aldrich Chemical Co., art historian/philanthropist |
| Jack Blaney, LLD | SFU President Emeritus |
| Lieut.-General Romeo Dallaire, LLD | Humanitarian |
| Leila Getz, DFA | Founder/director, Vancouver Recital Society |
| Alma Lee, DLitt | Founder/artistic director, Vancouver International Writers Festival |
| Brandt Louie, LLD | President/CEO, H.Y. Louie Co. Ltd., SFU Chancellor Emeritus |
| Allan Luke, LLD | SFU alumnus, distinguished scholar |
| Jeffrey Sachs, LLD | Director, Columbia University Earth Institute |
| Bing Thom, LLD | Principal, Bing Thom Architects Inc. |
2004 |
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| Daryl Duke, DFA | Emmy Award-winning film director/producer |
| Sheila Fraser, LLD | Canada's auditor general |
| Janine Fuller, LLD | Activist |
| Nancy Greene Raine, LLD | Olympic gold medal skier |
| Stephen Lewis, LLD | Former ambassador to the U.N. |
| Nancy McKinstry, LLD | VP, Odlum Brown and founder/chair, Minerva Foundation for B.C. Women |
| David McLean, LLD | Chair, Canadian National Railway and Chair/CEO, the McLean Group |
| Marco Marra, DSc | Genome researcher |
| Don Rix, DSc | Philanthropist |
| Madame Justice Lynn Smith, LLD | A founder, director/chair, Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) |
2004 Special Convocation |
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| His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, LL.D. | Nobel Peace Prize, 1989 |
| Shirin Ebadi, LL.D. | Nobel Peace Prize, 2003 |
| Desmond Tutu, LL.D. | Nobel Peace Prize, 1984 |
2003 |
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| John Alleyne, DFA | Former Artistic Director, Ballet B.C. |
| Luder Deecke, DSc | Brain Research, University of Vienna |
| John Dixon, LLD | B.C. Civil Liberties Association |
| Mike Harcourt, LLD | Former Premier |
| Jack Kowarsky, LLD | Philanthropist |
| George Pedersen, LLD | Former SFU President |
| Max Wyman, DLitt | Journalist |
2002 |
|
| Victor Ling, LLD | Health Researcher |
| Tong Kooi Ong, LLD | Businessman |
| Angus Reid, LLD | Trend Researcher |
| Carole Taylor, LLD | Business leader |
| Shirley Tilghman, LLD | Educator & Researcher |
| Theodore H. Maiman, LLD | Nobel Prize Nominee |
| Cornelia Oberlander, LLD | Landscape Architect |
| Rosalie Segal, LLD | Philanthropist |
2001 |
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| Betty Fox, LLD | Honorary chair, Terry Fox Foundation |
| Jerry Franklin, LLD | Forest ecologist |
| Reginald Golledge, LLD | Professor, Geography, University of California |
| Peter Legge, LLD | Author, publisher, philanthropist |
| Firoz Rasul, LLD | President/CEO, Ballard Power Systems Inc. |
| Ted Sterling, LLD | Founder, SFU computing science program |
2000 |
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| Ed Broadbent, LLD | Former federal NDP leader |
| Joseph Gosnell, LLD | Nisga'a Tribal Council president |
| John Kerr, LLD | Chair/CEO, Lignum Ltd. |
| Judith Marcuse, LLD | Dancer/Choreographer |
| Beverely McLachlin, LLD | First female chief justice of Canada |
| John Ralston Saul, LLD | Essayist and novelist |
| Kenneth Spencer, LLD | Co-founder of Creo Products Inc. |
| David Suzuki, LLD | Environmentalist and television personality |
| Julie Payette, LLD | Astronaut |
1999 |
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| Gordon Diamond, LLD | Chair/CEO of a group of B.C.-based companies |
| Celia Duthie, LLD | President, Duthie Books |
| Peter Eng, LLD | Chair, Allied Holdings Group |
| John Fraser, LLD | Environmental ambassador |
| Julia Levy, LLD | Professor, UBC; President/CEO, QLT PhotoTherepeutics Inc. |
| John S. MacDonald, LLD | Co-founder, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. |
| Don Mattrick, LLD | President, Electronic Arts Worldwide Studios |
| Grant Strate, LLD | Choreographer, teacher, professor emeritus, SFU |
1998 |
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| Robert Carkner, LLD | Retired educator |
| Stan Hagen, LLD | Politician |
| Albert Overhauser, LLD | Physicist, Purdue University |
| Barbara Rae, LLD | Former SFU Chancellor, businesswoman |
| Klaus Rieckhoff, LLD | Professor emeritus, Physics, SFU |
| Milton Wong, LLD | President, M.K. Wong Associates Ltd. |
1997 |
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| Doris Anderson, LLD | Editor, political activist, writer |
| Geoffrey Ballard, LLD | President, Ballard Power Systems |
| Keith Laidler, LLD | Professor emeritus, Chemistry, U. of Ottawa |
| Grace McCarthy, LLD | Politician |
| Hugh McDonald, LLD | Philanthropist |
| Henry Mintzberg, LLD | Professor, Management |
| William Saywell, LLD | Former SFU president |
| Murray Schafer, LLD | Composer |
1996 |
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| Thelma Finlayson, LLD | Professor emeritus, Biology, SFU |
| Scott McIntyre, LLD | Publisher |
| Eric Vogt, LLD | Professor (retired), Physics, UBC |
| Morris J. Wosk, LLD | Businessman, Philanthropist |
| Wei Yu, LLD | Deputy, National People's Congress |
1995 |
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| Iona V. Campagnolo, LLD | Chancellor, UNBC |
| Ivan P. Fellegi, LLD | Chief Statistician of Canada |
| Wendy McDonald, LLD | President, B.C. Bearing Engineers |
| Len Norris, LLD | Cartoonist |
| Rene Theophil Nuytten, LLD | President, Can-Dive Services |
1994 |
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| Joy Coghill, LLD | Actress |
| Robert Davidson, LLD | Artist |
| Daniel Gelbart, LLD | Scientist |
| Michael Phelps, LLD | Businessman |
| Doris Shadbolt, LLD | Museum Curator |
| Michael Smith, LLD | Scientist |
| Audrey Thomas, LLD | Author |
1993 |
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| Neil Bartlett, LLD | Scientist |
| Geoffrey L Bursill-Hall, LLD | Professor emeritus, Linguistics, SFU |
| Martin Cornell, LLD | Chair, Imagine Program |
| Donald Hudson, LLD | Chair, SFU Foundation |
| Doreen Kimura, LLD | Psychologist, Researcher |
| Joy Kogawa, LLD | Writer |
1992 |
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| Aimee August, LLD | First Nations Elder |
| Dennis Culver, LLD | Accountant |
| A. John Ellis, LLD | Businessman |
| Maurice Halperin, LLD | Professor emeritus, Political Science SFU |
| John Maynard Smith, LLD | Biologist |
| Thomas A. Simons, LLD | Engineer |
| Veronica Tennant, LLD | Ballerina |
1991 |
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| Liona Boyd, LLD | Musician |
| Irwin Cotler, LLD | Human Rights Activist |
| James Douglas, LLD | Publisher |
| Helmut & Hugo Eppich, LLD | Businessmen |
| Mary Filer & Harold Spence-Sales, LLD | Artist and Architect |
| Pauline Jewett, LLD | Politician and SFU President |
| Hon. David C. & Mrs D. Lam, LLD | Lieutenant Governor |
| Bill Reid, LLD | Artist |
| F. Sherwood Rowland, LLD | Environmentalist |
1990 |
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| Ronald J. Baker, LLD | First Academic Planner, SFU |
| Kenneth Dye, LLD | Auditor General |
| Peter Gzowski, LLD | Broadcaster |
| Geraldine Kenney-Wallace, LLD | Scientist |
| Patricia Kathleen Page, LLD | Poet Citation | Address |
| Howard Petch, LL.D. | Past President, U. Victoria |
1989 |
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| Samuel Belzberg, LLD | Businessman |
| Maureen Forrester, LLD | Soprano |
| Arthur Fouks, LLD | Lawyer |
| Barbara Frum, LLD | Journalist |
| Antonine Maillet, LLD | Author |
| Ray Parkinson, LLD | Psychiatrist |
1988 |
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| Jack McClelland, LLD | Publisher |
| Fred Moonen, LLD | Former BOG Chair, SFU |
| Joseph Segal, LLD | BOG Member, SFU |
| Frederic Van Zyl Slabbert, LLD | South African politician |
1987 |
|
| John Bligh, LLD | Scientist |
| Paul Coté, LLD | Former Chancellor, SFU |
| Ursula Franklin, LLD | Scientist |
| May Gutteridge, LLD | Social Worker |
| Dorothy Livesay, LLD | Poet |
| Thomas G. Rust, LLD | Chair, Crown Forest Ind. |
1986 |
|
| David Barrett, LLD | Former Premier of B.C. |
| Gustav Bene, LLD | Director General, CIDA |
| Muriel Duckworth, LLD | Professor of Music, UBC |
| Alan M. Eyre, LLD | BoG member, SFU |
| Daniel E. Koshland, LLD | Professor of Biochemistry, Berkeley |
1985 |
|
| Harry M. Evans, LLD | Former Registrar, SFU |
| John K. Friesen, LLD | Educator |
| Fred L. Hartley, LLD | President, Union Oil of Cal. |
| Barbara Pentland, LLD | Professor of Music, UBC |
| Grant Reuber, LLD | President, Bank of Montreal |
| Douglas Roche, LLD | Ambassador for Disarmament |
1984 |
|
| Frank Beinder, LLD | Director, B.C. Association of Colleges |
| Hubert Evans, LLD | Author |
| Harry E. Gunning, LLD | Professor of Chemistry, University of Alberta |
| Rt. Hon. E. R. Schreyer, LLD | Former Governor General of Canada |
1983 |
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| Morris Belkin, LLD | Chair, Belkin Industries |
| Alan Emmott, LLD | Mayor of Burnaby |
| John I. Goodlad, LLD | Dean of Education, UCLA |
| Kenneth Strand, LLD | Former President, SFU |
| Jack Webster, LLD | Journalist/Broadcaster |
1982 - Opening of Faculty of Business Administration |
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| James Gillies, LLD | Former Dean of Business, UCLA |
| Alan T. Lambert, LLD | Former Chair, T.D. Bank |
| John H. McArthur, LLD | Dean of Business, Harvard |
| Robert G. Rogers, LLD | CEO, Crown Zellerbach |
| Gordon Atherley, LLD | President, Can. Ctr. Occ. Health/Safety |
| Hon W. M. Hamilton, LLD | Past Postmaster General |
| Anne Stevenson, LLD | Educator |
| Edward O. Wilson, LLD | Biologist, Harvard |
1981 |
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| Elsje Armstrong, LLD | Director of Museums & Planetarium |
| Mario Bunge, LLD | Physicist/Philosopher |
| Laughlin Currie, LLD | Economist/Adv. to Govt./Colombia |
| Ian McTaggart-Cowan, LLD | Dean of Graduate Studies, UBC |
| Louis Miranda, LLD | Squamish First Nation/Linguist |
1980 |
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| William S. Hoar, LLD | Editor, Can. Journal of Zoology |
| Iby Koerner, LLD | Convocation Founder |
| Evelyn Lett, LLD | Convocation Founder |
| R. S. McNeish, LLD | Archaeologist |
| John Roger Meredith, LLD | Supt. of Educ. Programs, B.C. |
| F. R. Scott, LLD | Poet/Writer/Dean of Law McGill |
1979 |
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| Harry Adaskin, LLD | Violinist/Prof. of Music UBC |
| Thomas Berger, LLD | Judge |
| Cyrus H. McLean, LLD | Chairman, B.C. Tel. |
| R. W. Prittie, LLD | Mayor of Burnaby |
| Syd Thompson, LLD | Labour Leader, AFL-CIO |
1978 |
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| J. V. Christensen, LLD | Pres., Tahsis Co. |
| Ida Halpern, LLD | Musicologist/Critic |
| Arnold Hean, LLD | Lawyer/Convocation Founder |
| Percy Ritchie Sandwell, LLD | Engineer |
| Jack Shadbolt, LLD | Artist |
| J. Tuzo Wilson, LLD | Physicist |
1977 |
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| Kenneth P. Caple, LLD | Former Chancellor, SFU |
| Elizabeth A. Lane, LLD | Head, B.C. Arts Board |
| Margaret Laurence, LLD | Author |
| Guy R. Williams, LLD | Senator/First Nation Chief |
1976 |
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| Manfred Lachs, LLD | Scholar/Diplomat |
1975 |
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| Angelo Branca, LLD | Judge |
| Bora Laskin, LLD | Chief Justice, Canada |
| Nathan Nemetz, LLD | Chief Justice, B.C. |
| Patricia Proudfoot, LLD | Judge, B.C. |
1974 |
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| Jack Diamond, LLD | Former Chancellor, SFU |
| John O. Wilson, LLD | Retired Chief Justice |
| Harold Winch, LLD | Retired M.P. |
1973 |
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| Alex Colville, LLD | Artist |
| Arthur Erickson, LLD | Architect |
| Gordon Smith, LLD | Artist |
1972 |
|
| G. Herzberg, LLD | Physicist/Nobel Laureate |
| Grace MacInnis, LLD | M.P. |
| P. D. McTaggart-Cowan, LLD | First President, SFU |
1971 |
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| Daniel George, LLD | Actor/First Nation Chief |
| Willard Ireland, LLD | Prov. Librarian/Archivist |
| Margaret (Ma) Murray, LLD | Publisher/Hist. Chronicler |
| Margaret Ormsby, LLD | Hist. Writer/Prof., UBC |
| Gordon Shrum, LLD | Former Chancellor, SFU |
1970 |
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| Kenneth E. Watt, LLD | Scientist, U.Cal (Davis) |
1969 |
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| H. G. Khorana, LLD | Scientist |
| R. McKenzie, LLD | Broadcaster, England |
| Chester Ronning, LLD | Diplomat |
| H. H. Stevens, LLD | Politician |
1968 |
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| C. J. Frederickson, LLD | BoG Member SFU |
| H. R. MacMillan, LLD | Industrialist |
| Max Waterman, LLD |
1967 |
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| Dr. Leon Koerner, LLD | Lumber baron |
| H. Marshall McLuhan, LLD | Prof., Communications |
| Madge Hogarth Trumbull, LLD | Convocation Founder |
1965 |
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| W. A. C. Bennett, LLD | Premier of B.C. |
| The Rt. Hon. Lord Lovat, LLD | Chief, Clan Fraser |
| John B. Macdonald, LLD | President, UBC |
| G. R. Pearkes, LLD | Lt. Gov. B.C. |
| L. R. Peterson, LLD | Minister of Education |
2021 |
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| John Blatherwick, LLD | Public health leader |
| Catherine Clement, LLD | Communicator, author and community curator |
| Andreas Dracopoulos, LLD | Philanthropist, Co-President Stavros Niarchos Foundation |
| Michael J. Fox, DFA | Actor, author, Parkinson’s disease cure advocate |
| Victor Hayes, DSc | Information technology and communication pioneer |
| Herb (Jay) James, LLD | Founder, International Sound Foundation |
| Margo Kane, DFA | Artist and Indgenous arts activist |
| Nurjehan Mawani, LLD | Lawyer and humanitarian |
| Wally Oppal, LLD | Former judge and B.C. attorney general |
| Maria Ressa, LLD | Journalist, author |
| Malinda S. Smith, LLD | Author, professor, researcher |
| Theresa Tam, DSc | Chief Public Health Officer of Canada |
| Siila (Sheila) Watt-Cloutier, LLD | Inuit leader, activist |