# List of honorary doctors of the University of Canterbury

This list of Honorary Doctors of the University of Canterbury shows recipients of an honorary doctorate bestowed by the University of Canterbury since 1962, for those bestowed prior to the dissolution of University of New Zealand see List of Honorary Doctors of the University of New Zealand.
| Year | Recipient | Degree |
| 1962 | John Llewellyn | LLD |
| 1962 | Ngaio Marsh | LittD |
| 1962 | John Packer | DSc |
| 1965 | Alister McIntosh | LLD |
| 1965 | Michael Ramsey | LLD |
| 1966 | Bernard Fergusson | LLD |
| 1966 | Ted Sorensen | LLD |
| 1962 | Kenneth Gresson | LLD |
| 1962 | George Jobberns | LLD |
| 1962 | George Manning | LLD |
| 1962 | Hugh Noble Parton | DSc |
| 1973 | Charles Moihi Bennett | LLD |
| 1973 | Alan John Danks | LLD |
| 1973 | Alec Leslie Haslam | LLD |
| 1973 | Harold Cecil Holland | DSc |
| 1973 | Walter Gordon Morrison | DSc |
| 1973 | John Greville Agard Pocock | LittD |
| 1973 | Karl Raimund Popper | LittD |
| 1974 | Malcolm Burns | DSc |
| 1975 | Thomas Allen Curnow | LittD |
| 1975 | Thomas Vernon Griffiths | MusD |
| 1975 | Carlton Hunter Perkins | LLD |
| 1975 | John Henry Erle Schroder | LittD |
| 1977 | Donald William Bain | LLD |
| 1977 | Margaret Dalziel | LittD |
| 1977 | Alan Johns | DSc |
| 1977 | Alan Low | LLD |
| 1977 | Neville Crompton Phillips | LittD |
| 1978 | Herbert Meyer Caselberg | LLD |
| 1978 | Ian Edward Coop | DSc |
| 1978 | Lloyd Evans | LLD |
| 1978 | Charles Hilgendorf | LLD |
| 1978 | Lance McCaskill | DSc |
| 1981 | Frank Richardson Askin | DSc |
| 1987 | Jean Herbison | LittD |
| 1987 | John Perry Hollings | DEng |
| 1987 | Elsie Locke | LittD |
| 1987 | Ivor Richardson | LLD |
| 1987 | Bill Rowling | LLD |
| 1992 | C. E. Beeby | LittD |
| 1992 | Tipene O'Regan | LittD |
| 1992 | Edward Somers | LLD |
| 1992 | Miles Warren | LittD |
| 1993 | Margaret Mahy | LittD |
| 1996 | Ian Axford | DSc |
| 1996 | Harry Evison | LittD |
| 1996 | Angus Tait | DEng |
| 1999 | Don Brash | LLD |
| 1999 | Ian Leggat | LLD |
| 1999 | Ernst Badian | LittD |
| 1999 | Diana Isaac | DSc |
| 1999 | Lindsay Poole | DSc |
| 1999 | Warren Roper | DSc |
| 2000 | John Ritchie | MusD |
| 2000 | Maurice Till | MusD |
| 2000 | Eric Godley | DSc |
| 2000 | Robertson Stewart | DEng |
| 2000 | Gordon Ogilvie | LittD |
| 2001 | Ann Ballin | LittD |
| 2001 | Bob Park | DEng |
| 2001 | Don Beaven | DSc |
| 2001 | Robin Clark | DSc |
| 2001 | Elric Hooper | LittD |
| 2002 | Owen Marshall | LittD |
| 2002 | Brian Mason | DSc |
| 2002 | Sam Neill | LittD |
| 2002 | Gil Simpson | DSc |
| 2002 | Andrew Tipping | LLD |
| 2002 | Silvia Cartwright | LLD |
| 2003 | Bill Pickering | DEng |
| 2003 | Peter Munz | LittD |
| 2003 | Phyllis Guthardt | LLD |
| 2003 | Don Peebles | LittD |
| 2004 | Peter McKelvey | DSc |
| 2004 | Mike Moore | DCom |
| 2005 | Barry Cleavin | LittD |
| 2005 | Ian Foster | DSc |
| 2006 | Gavin Cormack | DEng |
| 2006 | Neil Scott | DSc |
| 2006 | Susan Wakefield | DCom |
| 2006 | John Wood | LittD |
| 2007 | Kerry McDonald | DCom |
| 2007 | David Teece | DCom |
| 2008 | Jonathan Mane-Wheoki | LittD |
| 2009 | Andrew McEwan | DSc |
| 2009 | Neville Jordan | DEng |
| 2010 | Robin Mann | DSc |
| 2011 | Te Aue Davis | LittD |
| 2011 | Ruth Richardson | DCom |
| 2011 | Adrienne, Lady Stewart | LittD |
| 2012 | Ngau Boon Keat | DEng |
| 2012 | Simon Murdoch | LittD |
| 2012 | Richard Garland | DSc |
| 2012 | John Burrows | LLD |
| 2012 | David Caygill | DCom |
| 2012 | Neil MacLean | LLD |
| 2012 | Graham Henry | DEd |
| 2013 | William Young | LLD |
| 2013 | Feleti Sevele | LittD |
| 2013 | Bill Culbert | DFA |
| 2014 | Alan Gibbs | DEng |
| 2014 | Antony Gough | DCom |
| 2014 | Vincent Ward | DFA |
| 2014 | Richard Ballantyne | DCom |
| 2015 | Sandra Manderson | LLD |
| 2015 | Rosemary Banks | LittD |
| 2015 | Rob Fyfe | DCom |
| 2015 | Roy Kerr | DSc |
| 2015 | John Matthews | DEng |
| 2016 | Gavin Bishop | DEd |
| 2017 | Peter Holdsworth | DEng |
| 2017 | Julie Maxton | LLD |
| 2017 | Pip McCrostie | DCom |
| 2017 | John Key | DCom |
| 2018 | Jenny Harper | LLD |
| 2019 | Liz Calder | LittD |
| 2020 | Peter Simpson | LittD |
| 2021 | John Riley | DCom |
| 2023 | Margaret Austin | DSc |
| 2023 | Ross Calman | DA |
| 2023 | Clarence Nelson | LLD |
| 2023 | Mark Stewart | DCom |

## Footnotes

* ↑ Awarded posthumously