The University has been recognising outstanding achievement, exceptional service and significant contribution through the granting of Honorary Doctorates since 1976.
Honorary Doctorates
- Honorary Doctor of Architecture (Hon. DArch)
- Honorary Doctor of Information Sciences (Hon. DInfoSc)
- Honorary Doctor of Engineering (Hon. DEng)
- Honorary Doctor of Health Sciences (Hon. DHSc)
- Honorary Doctor of Medicine (Hon. MD)
- Honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon DLitt)
- Honorary Doctor of Laws (Hon LLD)
- Honorary Doctor of Business (Hon. DBus)
- Honorary Doctor of Science (Hon DSc)
- Honorary Doctor of Education (Hon EdD)
- Honorary Doctor of Creative Arts (Hon DCA)
- Honorary Doctor of the University of Wollongong (Hon DUOW).
- 2020 - present recipients
- 2010 - 2019 recipients
- 2000 - 2009 recipients
- 1999 - 1990 recipients
- 1989 - 1980 recipients
- 1979 - 1976 recipients
| Year | Award | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 |
Hon DUOW | Christine McLoughlin AM |
| Hon DLitt | Tara June Winch | |
| Hon DLitt | Debra Keenahan | |
| Hon DHSc | Emma McKeon AM | |
2024 |
Hon DLitt | Julia Gillard AC |
| Hon DSc | William Buttemer | |
| Hon DSc | Kay Patterson AO | |
| Hon LLD | Craig Foster AM | |
| Hon DLitt | Louise Sauvage OAM | |
| Hon DLitt | Geoff Morrell | |
| 2023 | Hon DLitt | Joyce Donovan |
| Hon DLitt | Bronwyn Fredericks | |
| Hon DSc | Robert Moses OAM | |
| Hon DSc | Joe Chicharo OM | |
| Hon DSc | Judy Agnes Raper AM | |
| 2022 | Hon DLitt | Michael Cassel |
| Hon DLitt | Lisa Havilah | |
| Hon DSc | Kim McKay AO | |
| Hon LLD | Michael Noonan AO | |
| Hon DSc | Alan Pettigrew | |
| Hon DSc | Bruce Thom AM | |
| Hon DSc | Robin Thompson | |
| Hon DSc | Lei Jiang | |
| Hon DLitt | Ben Quilty | |
| 2021 | Hon LLD | Jillian Broadbent AC |
| Hon DSc | Paul Wellings CBE | |
| Hon DSc | Fiona Wood AM |
| Year | Award | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Hon DLitt | Elizabeth Proust AO |
| Hon DSc | Timothy Fischer AC (dec'd) | |
| Hon DLitt | Len Ainsworth AM | |
| Hon DSc | Philip Clarke AO (dec'd) | |
| Hon DSc | Dennis Shanahan | |
| Hon DLitt | Aunty Gail Wallace | |
| Hon DSc | Ian Watt AC | |
| Hon DSc | Lisa Wilkinson AM | |
| 2018 | Hon DSc | Stephen Andersen OAM |
| Hon LLD | Max Lu AO | |
| Hon DLitt | Peter Robson AO | |
| Hon DLitt | Sarah Springman CBE | |
| Hon DSc | Carla Zampatti AC (dec'd) | |
| 2017 | Hon LLD | Tim Flannery |
| Hon DLitt | David Gruen | |
| Hon DSc | Kathy Lette | |
| Hon LLD | Adi Paterson | |
| 2016 | Hon DLitt | Phil Clingan |
| Hon DSc | Robert Furbank | |
| Hon DSc | The Honorable Michael Kirby AC | |
| Hon DLitt | Hugh Mackay AO | |
| Hon DSc | John Patterson | |
| Hon DSc | Ann Wintle | |
| 2015 | Hon LLD | Douglas Becker |
| Hon DLitt | Ita Buttrose AO OBE | |
| Hon DLitt | Carl Chiarelle (dec'd) | |
| Hon LLd | David Gonski AC | |
| Hon DBA | Thomas Keneally AO | |
| Hon DLitt | Kurt Lambeck AO | |
| Hon DSc | Catherine Livingstone AO | |
| 2014 | Hon DSc | John Borghetti |
| Hon DSc | Tim Ellis | |
| Hon DLit | Jinghai Li | |
| Hon LLD | Barbara Nicholson | |
| Hon DSc | Lynne Williams | |
| 2013 | Hon DSc | Christopher Abbott AM |
| Year | Award | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Hon DSc | Roger Summons |
| Hon DLitt | Michael Henry Codd AC | |
| 2008 | Hon DSc | Roy Andrew Lawrie |
| 2007 | Hon DSc | Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO (dec'd) |
| Hon DLitt | Karina Kelly | |
| 2005 | Hon DSc | Leonard F Lindoy |
| Hon DSc | Dame Bridget Ogilvie DBE | |
| 2004 | Hon EdD | Brian Finn AO (dec'd) |
| 2003 | Hon DCA | Peter Carroll |
| Hon DLitt | Christine Nixon | |
| 2002 | Hon DUOW | His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (dec'd) |
| Hon DSc | Graeme Milbourne Clark AO | |
| 2001 | Hon DSc | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (dec'd) |
| Hon DSc | Mary Elizabeth White | |
| 2000 | Hon LLD | Lindsay James Curtis AM (dec’d) |
| Hon PhD | Rosemary Allison Stanton |
| Year | Award | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 |
Hon DLitt | Brian Somerville Gillett AM |
| Hon DLitt | The Rt Honourable Sir John Grey Gorton GCMG AC CH (dec’d) | |
| Hon DLitt | The Rt Honourable Michael Thomas Somare CH (dec'd) | |
| Hon PhD | The Honourable Edward Gough Whitlam AC (dec'd) | |
| Hon DLitt | Allan Roy Sefton (dec’d) | |
1988 |
Hon DSc | Howard Knox Worner CBE (dec’d) |
| Hon DSc | Daniel Tague (dec’d) | |
| 1985 |
Hon DSc | Thistle Yolette Stead (dec’d) |
| Hon DLitt | Sir Roden Cutler VC KCMG KCVO CBE (dec’d) | |
| Hon DCA | John Henry Antill OBE CMG (dec’d) | |
| Hon MA | Luigi Strano (dec'd) | |
| 1984 | Hon DLitt | Sir Richard Kirby (dec'd) |
| 1981 | Hon DLitt | Lindsay Michael Birt AO CBE (dec’d) |
| 1980 | Hon DLitt | Walter Pike (dec'd) |
| Year | Award | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Hon DSc | Sir Ian Munro McLennan KBE CBE (dec’d) |
| 1977 | Hon DLitt | Edgar Beale (dec'd) |
| 1976 | Hon DSc | Charles A M Gray (dec’d) |
| Hon DSc | Sir Rupert H Myers KBE AO (dec'd) | |
| Hon DSc | David Edwin Parry (dec’d) | |
| Hon DSc | Sir Robert Webster CMG CBE (dec’d) |