List of honorary doctors of the University of Canterbury
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 | Frederick John Llewellyn | LLD |
| 1962 | Ngaio Marsh | LittD |
| 1962 | John Packer | DSc |
| 1965 | Alister Donald McIntosh | LLD |
| 1965 | Arthur Michael Ramsey | LLD |
| 1966 | Bernard Edward Fergusson | LLD |
| 1966 | Theodore Chaikin Sorenson | LLD |
| 1962 | Kenneth Macfarlane 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 | Thomas 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 Tutton Johns | DSc |
| 1977 | Alan Low | LLD |
| 1977 | Neville Crompton Phillips | LittD |
| 1978 | Herbert Meyer Caselberg | LLD |
| 1978 | Ian Edward Coop | DSc |
| 1978 | Lloyd Thomas Evans | LLD |
| 1978 | Charles Hilgendorf | LLD |
| 1978 | Lance McCaskill | DSc |
| 1981 | Frank Richardson Askin | DSc |
| 1987 | Jean Marjory Herbison | LittD |
| 1987 | John Perry Hollings | DEng |
| 1987 | Elsie Violet Locke | LittD |
| 1987 | Ivor Lloyd Morgan Richardson | LLD |
| 1987 | Wallace Edward Rowling | LLD |
| 1992 | Clarence Edward Beeby | LittD |
| 1992 | Tipene Gerard O'Regan | LittD |
| 1992 | Edward Jonathan Somers | LLD |
| 1992 | Frederick Miles Warren | LittD |
| 1993 | Margaret May Mahy | LittD |
| 1996 | William Axford | DSc |
| 1996 | Harry Charles Evison | LittD |
| 1996 | Angus Tait | DEng |
| 1999 | Donald Thomas Brash | LLD |
| 1999 | Ian Dallas Leggat | LLD |
| 1999 | Ernst Badian | LittD |
| 1999 | Diana Isaac | DSc |
| 1999 | Lindsay Poole | DSc |
| 1999 | Warren Roper | DSc |
| 2000 | John Anthony Ritchie | MusD |
| 2000 | Maurice Alfred Till | MusD |
| 2000 | Eric John Godley | DSc |
| 2000 | Robertson Huntly Stewart | DEng |
| 2000 | Gordon Bryant Ogilvie | LittD |
| 2001 | Ann Ballin | LittD |
| 2001 | Robert Park | DEng |
| 2001 | Don Ward Beaven | DSc |
| 2001 | Robin Clark | DSc |
| 2001 | Elric James Hooper | LittD |
| 2002 | Owen Marshall | LittD |
| 2002 | Brian Mason | DSc |
| 2002 | Sam Neill | LittD |
| 2002 | Gil Simpson | DSc |
| 2002 | Andrew Tipping | LLD |
| 2002 | Silvia Rose Cartwright | LLD |
| 2003 | William 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 Tremere 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 Vaka'uta Sevele | LittD |
| 2013 | Bill 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 | DEd |
| 2017 | Julie Maxton | LLD |
| 2017 | Phillipa McCrostie | DCom |
| 2017 | John Key | DCom |
| 2018 | Jenny Harper | LLD |