Victoria University of Wellington has conferred the following honorary doctorates: Year Recipient Degree1963 Walter Nash LLD1964 John Ilott LLD1965 Ernest Marsden DSc1966 Keith Holyoake LLD1966 John Llewellyn LLD1966 Harold Miller LitD1967 Charles Fleming DSc1967 Rex Mason LLD1968 John Beaglehole LitD1968 Thurgood Marshall LLD1968 James Williams LLD1969 Guy Powles LLD1969 Richard Wild LLD1970 C. E. Beeby LitD1970 Edmund Hillary LLD1971 William Liley DSc1971 Philip Patrick Lynch LLD1971 Duncan Stout LLD1972 Rewi Alley LitD1973 Arthur Tyndall LLD1974 Vincent Aspey DMus1975 Denis Glover LitD1975 Jack Marshall LLD1975 Gwen Somerset LLD1976 Monte Holcroft LitD1976 Masiofo Laulu Fetauimalemau Mataʻafa LLD1976 Richard Spence Volkmann Simpson LLD1977 Ian Drummond Campbell LLD1977 Bruce Mason LitD1978 Thaddeus McCarthy LLD1978 John O'Shea LitD1978 Owen Woodhouse LLD1979 Graham Bagnall LitD1979 Eruera Riini Mānuera LitD1979 Whakaari Te Rangitakuku Mete-Kingi LLD1979 Holmes Miller DSc1979 Hēnare Ngata LLD1980 Walter Scott LitD1980 Kazimierz Wodzicki DSc1981 James Munro Bertram LitD1983 Doug Anthony LLD1983 Robert Burchfield LitD1983 Peter de la Mare DSc1983 Daniel Brumhall Cochrane Taylor LLD1983 Gillian Weir DMus1984 Henry Lang LLD1984 Kevin Benjamin O'Brien LLD1984 Ron Trotter LLD1985 John Ziman DSc1986 Wiremu Parker LitD1987 George Paterson Barton LLD1987 Sonja Davies LLD1987 Maurice Gee LitD1987 Peter Whittle DSc1988 Malcolm McCaw LLD1988 Ian Ambury Miller Prior DSc1989 Robin Cooke LLD1989 Patricia Grace LitD1989 Paul Reeves LLD1989 Ivor Richardson LLD1990 Raymond Boyce LitD1990 Eddie Durie LLD1990 John Hickman DSc1990 Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie LLD1990 W. H. Oliver LitD1990 Ieremia Tabai LLD1991 Doreen Blumhardt LitD1991 John Douglas Fraser LLD1991 Trevor Hatherton DSc1991 John Mansfield Thomson DMus1992 Colin Aikman LLD1992 John McGrath LLD1992 Janet Paul LitD1993 Geraldine McDonald LitD1993 Frances Porter LitD1993 Margaret Sparrow DSc1993 Mira Szászy LLD1994 Poul Gnatt LitD1995 Douglas Gray LitD1995 Václav Havel LitD1995 Bill Robinson DSc1996 Neil Ashcroft DSc1996 Roger Hall LitD1996 Rose Pere LitD1997 Michael Hardie Boys LLD1997 Michael King LitD1997 Donald McKenzie LitD1997 Elizabeth Orr LitD1998 Thomas Eichelbaum LLD1998 Les Holborow LLD1998 Miria Simpson LitD1999 Ian Axford DSc1999 Alistair Te Ariki Campbell LitD1999 Jane Campion LitD1999 Roderick Deane LLD1999 Ken Douglas LLD1999 Alan MacDiarmid DSc1999 Aung San Suu Kyi LLD1999 Te Atairangikaahu LLD2000 Ian Athfield LitD2001 Denis Adam LitD2001 Alexander Malahoff DSc2002 Gordon H. Brown LitD2002 Lyell Cresswell DMus2002 Michael Kelly DSc2002 George Laking LLD2002 Geoffrey Palmer LLD2002 Kara Puketapu LLD2002 David J. Stevenson DSc2003 Jacquie Baxter LitD2003 Glenn Schaeffer LitD2003 Gillian Whitehead DMus2003 Leslie Young DCom2003 Alison Quentin-Baxter LLD2003 Tīmoti Kāretu LitD2004 David Caygill DCom2004 Koro Dewes LitD2004 Ian Gordon LitD2004 Frank Holmes DCom2004 Witi Ihimaera LitD2004 Albert F. A. L. Jones DSc2004 Kenneth Keith LLD2004 Roy McKenzie DCom2004 Richard Taylor LitD2004 Fran Wilde LitD2005 Judith Christine Hanratty LLD2005 Shayle R. Searle DSc2005 Fran Walsh LitD2005 Albert Wendt LitD2005 Frank Corner LLD2005 Geoff Robinson LitD2006 Peter Hogg LLD2006 Michael Jackson LitD2006 Tipene O'Regan DCom2006 Lee Seng Tee LitD2006 Kiri Te Kanawa DMus2006 Jeremy Commons DLitt2006 Gordon Moller DLitt2006 Iritana Tāwhiwhirangi DLitt2007 Fleur Adcock DLitt2007 John Daniel Barnett DCom2007 John Clarke DLitt2007 Wade Francis Bruce Thompson DCom2007 Christopher John Rutherford Robertson DSc2008 Colin James DLitt2008 David John Mullan LLD2008 Richard Nunns DMus2008 Bernard Julius Spolsky DLitt2009 Richard Carey DCom2009 Graham Malaghan DSc2009 Alan Ward LLD2010 Donald Akenson DLitt2010 Paul Callaghan DSc2011 Bob Buckley DSc2011 Michael Houstoun DMus2012 Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi LLD2013 Paul Baines DCom2013 Rob Cameron DCom2014 Eleanor Catton DLitt2014 Roger Clark LLD2014 Jock Phillips DLitt2015 Halim Saad DCom2016 Kim Workman DLitt2016 Simon O'Neill DMus2016 Tuiloma Neroni Slade LLD2017 Moana Jackson LLD2017 Gregory O'Brien DLitt2017 Patsy Reddy LLD2018 Terence Arnold LLD2018 Bill English DCom2019 Emma Kruse Va'ai DLitt2019 Margaret Bazley LLD2019 James Belich DLitt2019 Gillian Greer DLitt2019 Matiu Te Rei LLD2020 Chris Finlayson LLD2020 Elizabeth Knox DLitt2020 Lyn Provost DCom2022 Paul Healy DCom2023 Robert Wade DCom2023 Christina Inglis LLD2023 Mark Dunajtschik DCom2023 Rangi Mātāmua DLitt2024 Te Ripowai Higgins DLitt2024 Pou Temara DLitt2024 Peter Hughes DLitt2025 Winnie Laban DLitt2025 David Carruthers LLD2025 Theresa Gattung DCom

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