| Year |
Recipient |
Degree[1] |
| 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 William | LLD |
| 1969 | Guy Richardson Powles | LLD |
| 1969 | Herbert Richard Churton Wild | LLD |
| 1970 | Clarence Edward Beeby | LitD |
| 1970 | Edmund Percival Hillary | LLD |
| 1971 | Albert William Liley | DSc |
| 1971 | Philip Patrick Lynch | LLD |
| 1971 | Thomas Duncan MacGregor Stout | LLD |
| 1972 | Rewi Alley | 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 | 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 | 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 | LitD |
| 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 | LitD |
| 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 | Richard Carey[2] | DCom |
| 2009 | Graham Malaghan | DSc |
| 2009 | Alan Dudley Ward | LLD |
| 2010 | Donald Akenson | DLitt[3] |
| 2010 | Paul Callaghan | DSc |
| 2011 | Robert Buckley | DSc |
| 2011 | Michael Houstoun | DMus |
| 2012 | Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi | LLD |
| 2013 | Paul Baines | DCom |
| 2013 | Rob Cameron | DCom |
| 2014 | Eleanor Catton | DLitt |
| 2014 | Roger Clark | LLD |