Honorary Degree Recipients
University of New England
Honorary Degree Recipients since 1955
(Year, Recipient and Award)
| YEAR | NAME | AWARD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Margaret Bain | Doctor of Letters |
| 2026 | John Cleland | Doctor of Science |
| 2025 | Michelle Bullock | Doctor of Letters |
| 2025 | The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG | Doctor of Letters |
| 2025 | Jan McClelland AM | Doctor of Letters |
| 2025 | Robert McLean AM | Doctor of Letters |
| 2025 | John Stuckey | Doctor of Letters |
| 2025 | Paul Nunnari | Doctor of Letters |
| 2024 | Brittany Abraham | Doctor of Science |
| 2023 | Graeme Koehne | Doctor of Letters |
| 2023 | Trevor Parmenter | Doctor of Letters |
| 2022 | Jennifer Teasdale | Doctor of Letters |
| 2022 | Kerrie Mengerson | Doctor of Science |
| 2021 | Robert Finch | Doctor of Letters |
| 2021 | Colin Ahoy | Doctor of Letters |
| 2021 | Gary Smith | Doctor of Letters |
| 2021 | Maxwell Schroder | Doctor of Letters |
| 2021 | Jennifer Bott AO | Doctor of Letters |
| 2020 | Don Walker | Doctor of Letters |
| 2020 | Don Stammer | Doctor of Letters |
| 2020 | Bernie Shakeshaft | Doctor of Letters |
| 2020 | Douglas Daft | Doctor of Letters |
| 2020 | David Ellyard | Doctor of Science |
| 2019 | Paul Barratt | Doctor of Letters |
| 2019 | Wendy McCarthy | Doctor of Letters |
| 2018 | Kerry Schott | Doctor of Letters |
| 2018 | Randall Albury | Doctor of Letters |
| 2017 | Gina O Gonong | Doctor of Letters |
| 2017 | Jack Beetson | Doctor of Letters |
| 2017 | Dianne Roberts | Doctor of Letters |
| 2016 | Pauline Allen | Doctor of Letters |
| 2015 | Alan McIntosh | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 | Dean Brown | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 | Bridget Ogilvie | Doctor of Science |
| 2014 | Peter Donovan | Doctor of Letters |
| 2014 | Shirley Randell | Doctor of Letters |
| 2014 | Tony Windsor | Doctor of Letters |
| 2013 | Neil Trudinger | Doctor of Science |
| 2013 | Sue Fell | Doctor of Letters |
| 2013 | Kevin Scarce | Doctor of Letters |
| 2012 | Scott Williams | Doctor of Letters |
| 2011 | Edwina Ridgway | Doctor of the University |
| 2011 | Gisela Kaplan | Doctor of Science |
| 2011 | Jennifer Crew | Distinguished Fellow |
| 2011 | Arthur Rickards | Distinguished Graduate Fellow |
| 2010 | Sharon Sullivan | Doctor of Letters |
| 2010 | Pat Watters | Distinguished Graduate Fellow |
| 2009 | Edward Norman Dancer | Doctor of Science |
| 2008 | John S Ryan | Doctor of Letters |
| 2007 | James RF Harris | Doctor of the University |
| 2007 | James SF Barker | Doctor of Science |
| 2007 | Richard Torbay | Doctor of Letters |
| 2007 | Lionel Gilbert | Doctor of Letters |
| 2007 | Norman Feather | Doctor of Letters |
| 2005 | Colin Maurice Perrott | Doctor of Science |
| 2005 | Bernard Michael Bindon | Doctor of Rural Science |
| 2004 | Grant Stewart Harman | Doctor of the University |
| 2004 | Donald Alexander Aitkin | Doctor of Letters |
| 2004 | William Graham Maddox | Doctor of Letters |
| 2004 | Pema Thinley | Doctor of Education |
| 2004 | Maxwell George Magnus Woods | Master of Rural Science |
| 2003 | Philip Arthur Rickards | Doctor of the University |
| 2002 | Philip William Bennett | Doctor of the University |
| 2002 | Warren Ferris Musgrave | Doctor of Economics |
| 2001 | Frank Fisher | Doctor of Education |
| 2000 | Geoffery Robert Quaife | Doctor of the University |
| 2000 | Richard Meale | Doctor of Letters |
| 2000 | Mark Solon | Doctor of Education |
| 1999 | James Frazier | Doctor of Science |
| 1999 | Stanley Droder | Doctor of Economics |
| 1998 | Peter Charles Anderson | Doctor of the University |
| 1998 | Sir Hermann Black | Doctor of the University |
| 1998 | Horst Werner Doelle | Doctor of Science |
| 1998 | Roger Robert Woodward | Doctor of Letters |
| 1998 | Kym Barrett | Master of Arts |
| 1997 | Miriam Joyce Dixson | Doctor of Letters |
| 1997 | Peter Bridgewater | Doctor of Resource Management |
| 1997 | Calvin Wyatt Rose | Doctor of Resource Management |
| 1997 | John Michael Landy | Doctor of Rural Science |
| 1997 | Teresa Irene Jessica Morris-Suzuki | Doctor of Economics |
| 1997 | Robert Charles Herbert | Master of Arts |
| 1997 | Anne Catherine von Bertouch | Master of Arts |
| 1997 | Patricia Chapman | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1996 | Richard Austen | Doctor of the University |
| 1996 | Richard William Butler | Doctor of the University |
| 1996 | Ian McCahon Sinclair | Doctor of the University |
| 1996 | Sir Laurence Whistler Street | Doctor of Economics |
| 1996 | Patrick Annandale Watters | Master of Arts |
| 1996 | Roland Johanne Breckwoldt | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1995 | John Huntley Bishop | Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 | Catherine Joan Ellis | Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 | Margaret Elaine Whitlam | Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 | John Ralph Burton | Doctor of Resource Management |
| 1995 | John Louis Dillon | Doctor of Economics |
| 1995 | Arnold David Goode | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1995 | Eleanor Mollie Horadam | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1995 | Donald Leslie Roberts | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1994 | Frank Kenneth Rickwoods | Doctor of Science |
| 1994 | James Russell McWilliam | Doctor of Rural Science |
| 1994 | Ross McDonald Parish | Doctor of Economics |
| 1994 | Colin Grant | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1994 | John Beaumont Williams | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1993 | Bernard William Fraser | Doctor of the University |
| 1993 | Margaret Rose Hankinson | Doctor of the University |
| 1993 | Beryl Elizabeth Ingold | Doctor of the University |
| 1993 | Lionel Edwards Phelps | Doctor of the University |
| 1993 | Kevin Patrick Sheridan | Doctor of the University |
| 1993 | Robert Blackie Austin | Doctor of Science |
| 1993 | Keith Oliver Campbell | Doctor of Economics |
| 1993 | Noel Charles William Beadle | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1993 | Henry Joseph Kennedy | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1992 | John Charles Kerin | Doctor of the University |
| 1992 | Ralph Whaddon Parsons | Doctor of the University |
| 1992 | Isabel McBryde | Doctor of Letters |
| 1992 | Alan Treloar | Doctor of Letters |
| 1992 | Robert Michael Corkill | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1992 | Paul Lorimer Johnstone | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1992 | Jacqueline Lamble | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1992 | Keith Alexander McKenzie | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1991 | Archibald John Alexander Nelson | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1991 | Trevor Grant Plater | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1991 | Maxwell George Magnus Woods | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1991 | Marjorie Forsyth Yeates | Honorary Fellow of the University |
| 1990 | Robert Clarence Robertson-Cuninghame | Doctor of the University |
| 1990 | Leslie Allan Murray | Doctor of Letters |
| 1989 | Verghese Kurien | Doctor of the University |
| 1989 | Nancy Gray | Master of the University |
| 1987 | Ronald Cecil Gates | Doctor of Letters |
| 1987 | Ronald Max Hartwell | Doctor of Letters |
| 1986 | Archibald William Cameron | Master of Arts |
| 1986 | Zihni Joseph Buzo | Master of Science |
| 1985 | Richard Geoffrey Blomfield | Doctor of Letters |
| 1985 | Gordon Lee McClymont | Doctor of Rural Science |
| 1985 | Russell James Pollard | Master of Arts |
| 1984 | Thomas Charles Lamble | Doctor of Letters |
| 1984 | Desiderius Orban | Doctor of Letters |
| 1983 | Peter Arundell Wright | Doctor of Rural Science |
| 1983 | Kathleen Mary Letters | Master of Music |
| 1982 | Sir Frank Walters Kitto | Doctor of Letters |
| 1981 | Sir Arthur Roden Cutler | Doctor of Letters |
| 1981 | Alec Lazenby | Doctor of Rural Science |
| 1979 | Sir Zelman Cowen | Doctor of Letters |
| 1979 | James Pilkington Belshaw | Doctor of Economics |
| 1978 | Alan Heywood Voisey | Doctor of Science |
| 1977 | Albert Campbell Morgan Howard | Master of Music |
| 1976 | Gilbert James Butland | Doctor of Letters |
| 1975 | Haddon Forrester King | Doctor of Science |
| 1974 | Dame Margaret van Praagh | Doctor of Letters |
| 1973 | Alec Derwent Hope | Doctor of Letters |
| 1973 | Louise Tiffany Daley | Master of Arts |
| 1973 | Howard Charles Sheath | Master of Arts |
| 1972 | Evangeline Harris | Master of Arts |
| 1971 | Edwin John Tapp | Doctor of Letters |
| 1970 | Sir John Grenfell Crawford | Doctor of Economics |
| 1970 | Jack Neville Lewis | Doctor of Economics |
| 1969 | Sir Robert Bowden Madgwick | Doctor of Letters |
| 1967 | Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd | Doctor of Letters |
| 1967 | Eric John Underwood | Doctor of Rural Science |
| 1963 | Roy Leslie Blake | Doctor of Letters |
| 1963 | Judith Arundell Wright McKinney | Doctor of Letters |
| 1962 | Sir Albert Edwin Axon | Doctor of Science |
| 1962 | The Honorable Mr Justice John Sydney Clancy | Doctor of Letters |
| 1962 | Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Hayden Owen Lane-Poole | Doctor of Letters |
| 1961 | The Right Reverend John Stoward Moyes | Doctor of Letters |
| 1961 | His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Eric Winslow Woodward | Doctor of Letters |
| 1958 | Jack Griffiths Davies | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | Phillip Arundell Wright | Doctor of Science |
| 1957 | The Honourable David Henry Drummond | Doctor of Literature |
| 1957 | Stephen Henry Roberts | Doctor of Literature |
| 1956 | Sir Ian Clunies-Ross | Doctor of Science |
| 1956 | The Honourable John Joseph Cahill | Doctor of Literature |
| 1956 | The Honourable Robert James Heffron | Doctor of Literature |
| 1956 | His Excellency General Sir John Northcott | Doctor of Literature |
| 1955 | Edgar Harold Booth | Doctor of Science |
| 1955 | The Right Honourable Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page | Doctor of Science |
| 1955 | Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn | Doctor of Literature |
| 1955 | Cecil Bede Newling | Doctor of Literature |
| 1955 | His Excellency Field Marshall Sir William Joseph Slim | Doctor of Literature |
