Honorary graduates and Hunter fellowships
A list of those awarded honorary degrees and Hunter fellowships.
Honorary graduates
Honorary doctorates in Literature (LitD or DLitt), Music (DMus), Law (LLD), Science (DSc) and Commerce (DCom) are awarded by the University Council in recognition of the recipient’s outstanding achievement or contribution—in relation to their particular field or discipline, or to the academic interests and programmes of the University.
| Year | Name | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Walter Nash | LLD |
| 1964 | John Moody Albert Ilott | LLD |
| 1965 | Ernest Marsden | DSc |
| 1966 | Keith Jacka Holyoake | LLD |
| 1966 | Frederick John Llewellyn | LLD |
| 1966 | Harold Gladstone Miller | LitD |
| 1967 | Charles Alexander Fleming | DSc |
| 1967 | Henry Greathead Rex Mason | LLD |
| 1968 | John Cawte Beaglehole | LitD |
| 1968 | Thurgood Marshall | LLD |
| 1968 | James Williams | LLD |
| 1969 | Guy Richardson Powles | LLD |
| 1969 | Herbert Richard Churton Wild | LLD |
| 1970 | Clarence Edward Beeby | LitD |
| 1970 | Edmund Percival Hillary | LLD |
| 1971 | S. Harvey Franklin | LitD |
| 1971 | Albert William Liley | DSc |
| 1971 | Philip Patrick Lynch | LLD |
| 1971 | Thomas Duncan Macgregor Stout | LLD |
| 1972 | Rewi Alley | LitD |
| 1972 | Max Cresswell | LitD |
| 1973 | Arthur Tyndall | LLD |
| 1974 | Vincent Aspey | DMus |
| 1975 | Denis James Matthews Glover | LitD |
| 1975 | John Ross Marshall | LLD |
| 1975 | Gwendolen Lucy Somerset | LLD |
| 1976 | Montague Harry Holcroft | LitD |
| 1976 | Masiofo Fetauimalemau Mata’afa | LLD |
| 1976 | Richard Spence Volkmann Simpson | LLD |
| 1977 | Ian Drummond Campbell | LLD |
| 1977 | Bruce Edward George Mason | LitD |
| 1978 | Thaddeus Pearcy McCarthy | LLD |
| 1978 | John Dempsey O’Shea | LitD |
| 1978 | Arthur Owen Woodhouse | LLD |
| 1979 | Austin Graham Bagnall | LitD |
| 1979 | Eruera Riini Manuera | LitD |
| 1979 | Whakaari Te Rangitakuku Mete-Kingi | LLD |
| 1979 | Joseph Holmes Miller | DSc |
| 1979 | Henare Kohere Ngata | LLD |
| 1980 | Walter James Scott | LitD |
| 1980 | Richard Walcott | DSc |
| 1980 | Kazimierz Antoni z Granowa Wodzicki | DSc |
| 1981 | James Munro Bertram | LitD |
| 1983 | John Douglas Anthony | LLD |
| 1983 | Robert William Burchfield | LitD |
| 1983 | Peter Bernard David de la Mare | DSc |
| 1983 | Daniel Brumhall Cochrane Taylor | LLD |
| 1983 | Gillian Constance Weir | DMus |
| 1984 | Henry George Lang | LLD |
| 1984 | Kevin Benjamin O’Brien | LLD |
| 1984 | Ronald Ramsay Trotter | LLD |
| 1985 | John Michael Ziman | DSc |
| 1986 | Wiremu Parker | LitD |
| 1987 | George Paterson Barton | LLD |
| 1987 | Sonja Margaret Loveday Davies | LLD |
| 1987 | Maurice Gough Gee | LitD |
| 1987 | Brian Hatton | DSc |
| 1987 | Peter Whittle | DSc |
| 1988 | Peter Malcolm McCaw | LLD |
| 1988 | Ian Ambury Miller Prior | DSc |
| 1989 | Robin Brunskill Cooke | LLD |
| 1989 | Patricia Grace | LitD |
| 1989 | Paul Alfred Reeves | LLD |
| 1989 | Ivor Lloyd Morgan Richardson | LLD |
| 1990 | Raymond Boyce | LitD |
| 1990 | Edward Taihakurei Junior Durie | LLD |
| 1990 | John Sedgley Hickman | DSc |
| 1990 | Erihapeti Rehu Murchie | LLD |
| 1990 | William Hosking Oliver | LitD |
| 1990 | Ieremia Tabai | LLD |
| 1991 | Doreen Blumhardt | LitD |
| 1991 | John Douglas Fraser | LLD |
| 1991 | Trevor Hatherton | DSc |
| 1991 | John Mansfield Thomson | DMus |
| 1992 | Colin Campbell Aikman | LLD |
| 1992 | John Joseph McGrath | LLD |
| 1992 | Janet Elaine Paul | LitD |
| 1993 | Geraldine McDonald | LitD |
| 1993 | Frances Ann Porter | LitD |
| 1993 | Margaret June Sparrow | DSc |
| 1993 | Miraka Petricevich Szászy | LLD |
| 1994 | Poul Gnatt | LitD |
| 1995 | Douglas Gray | LitD |
| 1995 | Václav Havel | LitD |
| 1995 | William Henry Robinson | DSc |
| 1996 | Neil William Ashcroft | DSc |
| 1996 | Roger Leighton Hall | LitD |
| 1996 | Rose Marie Lambert Rangimarie Turuki Pere | LitD |
| 1997 | Michael Hardie Boys | LLD |
| 1997 | Michael King | LitD |
| 1997 | Donald Francis McKenzie | LitD |
| 1997 | Elizabeth Welch Orr | LitD |
| 1998 | Thomas Eichelbaum | LLD |
| 1998 | Leslie Charles Holborow | LLD |
| 1998 | Miria Simpson | LitD |
| 1999 | William Ian Axford | DSc |
| 1999 | Alistair Te Ariki Campbell | LitD |
| 1999 | Jane Elizabeth Campion | LitD |
| 1999 | Roderick Sheldon Deane | LLD |
| 1999 | Kenneth George Douglas | LLD |
| 1999 | Alan Graham MacDiarmid | DSc |
| 1999 | Aung San Suu Kyi | LLD |
| 1999 | Te Arikinui Te Atairangikaahu | LLD |
| 2000 | Ian Charles Athfield | LitD |
| 2001 | Denis Frederick Adam | LitD |
| 2001 | Alexander Malahoff | DSc |
| 2002 | Gordon Harold Brown | LitD |
| 2002 | Lyell Richard Cresswell | DMus |
| 2002 | Michael Joseph Kelly | DSc |
| 2002 | George Robert Laking | LLD |
| 2002 | Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer | LLD |
| 2002 | Ihakara Porutu Puketapu | LLD |
| 2002 | David John Stevenson | DSc |
| 2003 | Jacqueline Cecilia Baxter | LitD |
| 2003 | Glenn Schaeffer | LitD |
| 2003 | Gillian Karawe Whitehead | DMus |
| 2003 | Leslie Young | DCom |
| 2003 | Alison Burns Quentin-Baxter | LLD |
| 2003 | Timoti Samuel Karetu | LitD |
| 2004 | David Francis Caygill | DCom |
| 2004 | Te Kapunga Matemoana Dewes | LitD |
| 2004 | Ian Alistair Gordon | LitD |
| 2004 | Frank Wakefield Holmes | DCom |
| 2004 | Witi Ihimaera | LitD |
| 2004 | Albert Francis Arthur Lofley Jones | DSc |
| 2004 | Kenneth James Keith | LLD |
| 2004 | Roy Allan McKenzie | DCom |
| 2004 | Richard Leslie Taylor | LitD |
| 2004 | Frances Helen Wilde | LLD |
| 2005 | Judith Christine Hanratty | LLD |
| 2005 | Shayle Robert Searle | DSc |
| 2005 | Frances Rosemary Walsh | LitD |
| 2005 | Albert Wendt | LitD |
| 2005 | Frank Henry Corner | LLD |
| 2005 | Geoffrey Charles Robinson | LitD |
| 2006 | Peter Wardell Hogg | LLD |
| 2006 | Michael Derek Jackson | LitD |
| 2006 | Tipene Gerard O’Regan | DCom |
| 2006 | Lee Seng Tee | DLitt |
| 2006 | Kiri Te Kanawa | DMus |
| 2006 | Jeremy Paul Axford Commons | DLitt |
| 2006 | Gordon Desmond Moller | DLitt |
| 2006 | Iritana Te Rangi Tawhiwhirangi | DLitt |
| 2007 | Fleur Adcock | DLitt |
| 2007 | John Daniel Barnett | DCom |
| 2007 | John Morrison Clarke | DLitt |
| 2007 | Wade Francis Bruce Thompson | DCom |
| 2007 | Christopher John Rutherford Robertson | DSc |
| 2008 | Colin Charles James | DLitt |
| 2008 | David John Mullan | LLD |
| 2008 | Richard Anthony Nunns | DMus |
| 2008 | Bernard Julius Spolsky | DLitt |
| 2009 | Sarah Durie Billinghurst Solomon | DMus |
| 2009 | Richard Harold Carey | DCom |
| 2009 | Lloyd David Jones | DLitt |
| 2009 | Graham Leonard Malaghan | DSci |
| 2009 | Hugh Charles Llewellyn Price | DLitt |
| 2009 | Alan Dudley Ward | LLD |
| 2009 | Pham Van Nang | DCom |
| 2010 | Donald Harman Akenson | DLitt |
| 2010 | Martin Gerhardt Banwell | DSc |
| 2010 | Paul Terence Callaghan | DSc |
| 2010 | Anthony John Stanhope Reid | DLitt |
| 2011 | Robert George Buckley | DSci |
| 2011 | Michael James Houstoun | DMus |
| 2011 | Allan Ross Ferguson | DSc |
| 2011 | Takirirangi Clarence Smith | DLitt |
| 2011 | Jack Croft Richards | DLitt |
| 2012 | John Anthony Anderson | DCom |
| 2012 | Warrick John Couch | DSc |
| 2012 | Peter Haythornthwaite | DSc |
| 2012 | Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi | LLD |
| 2013 | Paul Baines | DCom |
| 2013 | Rob Cameron | DCom |
| 2014 | Noel Barnard | DLitt |
| 2014 | Eleanor Catton | DLitt |
| 2014 | Roger Stenson Clark | LLD |
| 2015 | John Oliver Crompton Phillips | DLitt |
| 2015 | Tan Sri Halim Saad | DCom |
| 2016 | Robert Kinsela Workman | DLitt |
| 2016 | Simon John O'Neil | DMus |
| 2016 | Tuiloma Neroni Slade | LLD |
| 2017 | Moana Jackson | LLD |
| 2017 | Gregory Leo O'Brien | DLitt |
| 2017 | Patricia Lee Reddy | LLD |
| 2018 | Terence Hugh Arnold | LLD |
| 2018 | Simon William English | DCom |
| 2019 | Emma Helena Kruse Va'ai | DLitt |
| 2019 | Margaret Clara Bazley | LLD |
| 2019 | James Christopher Belich | DLitt |
| 2019 | Gillian Brooker Greer | DLitt |
| 2019 | Matiu Nohorua Te Rei | LLD |
| 2020 | Christopher Francis Finlayson | LLD |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Fiona Knox | DLitt |
| 2020 | Lynette Diana Provost | DCom |
| 2022 | Paul Murray Healy | DCom |
| 2023 | Robert Hunter Wade | DCom |
| 2023 | Christina Clyde Inglis | LLD |
| 2023 | Markus Dunajtschik | DCom |
| 2023 | Rangi-Anehu Leslie Matamua | DLitt |
Hunter fellowships
The Hunter Fellowship was instituted in 2003. The University Council gives awards in recognition of an individual’s outstanding contribution to the advancement of Victoria University of Wellington. The Hunter Fellowship replaced the previous Award for Distinguished Service.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2003 | Paul E.A. Baines |
| 2003 | Ian A. Borrin |
| 2003 | Robert L. Cameron |
| 2003 | Richard Christie |
| 2003 | Gerard J. Gordon |
| 2003 | Jocelyn Keith |
| 2003 | John L. McLean |
| 2003 | Denis G. Thom |
| 2004 | Mark H. Blumsky |
| 2004 | James H. Ogden |
| 2004 | John B. Shewan |
| 2004 | Andrew C. Thomson |
| 2004 | Beverley A. Wakem |
| 2005 | Marie Hampton |
| 2006 | Adrian Orr |
| 2006 | Andrew J. Dinsdale |
| 2007 | Donald Beattie Scott |
| 2008 | Mark Tume |
| 2009 | Rosemary Bradford |
| 2009 | David M. Carson-Parker |
| 2010 | Roger B.D. Drummond |
| 2010 | Leone D. Harkness |
| 2010 | Peter S. Hughes |
| 2010 | William N. Sheat |
| 2011 | John Greenwood |
| 2011 | Te Paekiomeka Ruha |
| 2013 | Rosemary Barrington |
| 2013 | Clare Galambos-Winter |
| 2013 | David Lawrence |
| 2013 | Peter Osborne |
| 2014 | Jock Phillips |
| 2016 | Miriama Evans |
| 2018 | Tricia Walbridge |
| 2019 | Wyn Beasley |
| 2019 | David Gault |
| 2019 | Graeme Hall |
| 2019 | Ailsa Salt |
| 2019 | Colin Scarf |
| 2019 | Don Trow |
| 2019 | Bridget Williams |
| 2021 | Leo Lonergan |
| 2021 | Brent Manning |
| 2021 | Craig Stevens |
Award for distinguished service
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1993 | Ian H. Boyd |
| 1993 | Ruth Upchurch |
| 1994 | Tim Beaglehole |
| 1994 | Margaret M. Hutchison |
| 1995 | Brian Shorland |
| 1995 | Chris Parkin |
| 1995 | Len R. Arnold |
| 1998 | Jack Ilott |
| 1999 | Halim bin Saad |
| 1999 | Stuart Francis Wilson Johnston |
| 1999 | Denis Frederick Adam |
| 1999 | Marie Bell |
| 1999 | Roy Allan McKenzie |
| 1999 | W.E. Dasent |