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 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 2013Bill 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 DCom2023Margaret AustinDSc2023Ross CalmanDA2023Clarence NelsonLLD2023Mark StewartDCom2025Gaylene PrestonLittD2025Graham PanckhurstLLD

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