2024
Daphne Bramham, LLD	Journalist and author
Margaret George, LLD	Elder and community leader
J. Reid Maxwell, DFA	World renowned pipe band drummer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
His Highness the Aga Khan, LLD	Spiritual leader and philanthropist

2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Indian/Linguist

 

1980
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
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
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
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
Manfred Lachs, LLD	Scholar/Diplomat

 

1975
Angelo Branca, LLD	Judge
Bora Laskin, LLD	Chief Justice, Canada
Nathan Nemetz, LLD	Chief Justice, B.C.
Patricia Proudfoot, LLD	Judge, B.C.

 

1974
Jack Diamond, LLD	Former Chancellor, SFU
John O. Wilson, LLD	Retired Chief Justice
Harold Winch, LLD	Retired M.P.

 

1973
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
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
Kenneth E. Watt, LLD	Scientist, U.Cal (Davis)

 

1969
H. G. Khorana, LLD	Scientist
R. McKenzie, LLD	Broadcaster, England
Chester Ronning, LLD	Diplomat
H. H. Stevens, LLD	Politician

 

1968
C. J. Frederickson, LLD	BoG Member SFU
H. R. MacMillan, LLD	Industrialist
Max Waterman, LLD

 

1967
Dr. Leon Koerner, LLD	Lumber baron
H. Marshall McLuhan, LLD	Prof., Communications
Madge Hogarth Trumbull, LLD	Convocation Founder

 

 

1965
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
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