Honorary degrees
Details of any upcoming ceremonies which will confer honorary degrees will be posted in the table below after Council approves the recommendations from the Honorary Degrees Committee. View the criteria and procedures for the awarding of an honorary degree.
| Name | Degree | Date |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | - | - |
Please contact the University Events Unit if you would like to attend any of these ceremonies at universityevents@latrobe.edu.au.
| Name | Degree | Date conferred |
|---|---|---|
| Dr David Milton Myers | DUniv | 25.11.1976 |
| Sir Archibald Glenn OBE | DUniv | 27.01.1981 |
| The Honourable Sir Reginald Smithers | DUniv | 27.01.1981 |
| Dr Roy McCavan Simpson AO | DUniv | 10.01.1983 |
| Professor Ross Henry Day | DUniv | 18.03.1988 |
| Rev Dr John Fraser Scott AO | DUniv | 1990 |
| Dr Joseph Brown AO, OBE | DUniv | 1990 |
| Dr Jose Camilo Cela | DLitt (honoris causa) | 1991 |
| Emeritus Professor Dale Trendall | DLitt (honoris causa) | 16.12.1991 |
| Dr Dietrich Hans Borchardt AM | DUniv | 1992 |
| The Honourable Gough Whitlam AC QC | DLitt (honoris causa) | 1992 |
| Dr Francis (Frank) Sutherland Hambly | DLitt (honoris causa) | 1992 |
| Professor J J C Smart AC | DSc (honoris causa) | 1992 |
| Rev Dr John Davis McCaughey AC | DUniv | 1992 |
| Dr J Howard Browne AM | MSc (honoris causa) | 3.4.1992 |
| Dr Christon Archer | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Dr Agnes Heller | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Dr Gwen Harwood | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Dr Ursula Hoff | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Dr Helen Hughes | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Dr Warren Horton | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Dr David Denholm Neilson | DUniv | |
| Professor Liang Liquan | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Dr Barbara Ehrenreich | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Dr John Barker | DSc (honoris causa) | |
| Emeritus Professor Howard K Worner | DSc (honoris causa) | |
| Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien | DLitt (honoris causa) | 08.06.1994 |
| The Hon Richard Elgin McGarvie AC | DUniv | 07.04.1995 |
| Emeritus Professor Bruce Stone | DSc (honoris causa) | 12.05.1995 |
| Dr Phillip Garth Law | DSc (honoris causa) | 12.05.1995 |
| Professor Wang Xueren | DSc (honoris causa) | 12.05.1995 |
| Dr Patricia Clarke | LLM (honoris causa) | 19.05.1995 |
| Dr Hugh Streeton | DLitt (honoris causa) | 19.05.1995 |
| Professor Bernard Bailyn | DLitt (honoris causa) | 09.08.1995 |
| Professor Paul Francis Bourke | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Professor Gregory Moore Dening | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Professor James Tyler Patterson | DLitt (honoris causa) | |
| Professor Sir Gustav Nossal | DSc (honoris causa) | 02.05.1997 |
| Dr Hannie Rayson | DLitt (honoris causa) | 16.05.1997 |
| Dr William Whelan | DSc (honoris causa) | Nov-97 |
| Dr David Mann | LLD (honoris causa) | 27.03.1998 |
| Dr Rhonda Galbally AO | DSc (honoris causa) | 03.04.1998 |
| Dr Ruby Langford Ginibi | DLitt (honoris causa) | 01.05.1998 |
| Emeritus Professor Ross Henry Day | DSc (honoris causa) | 17.05.1998 |
| Dr Ronald J H Wells | DUniv | 22.05.1998 |
| Dr Norman Yoffee | DLitt (honoris causa) | 29.04.1998 |
| Dr Ernerst Wolfgang Barr | DUniv | 22.05.1998 |
| Dr Rino Grollo | DLitt (honoris causa) | 1998 |
| Dr Zissis Dardalis | DLitt (honoris causa) | 16.02.1998 |
| Dato Abdul Ghani bin Othman | LLD (honoris causa) | 02.09.1998 |
| Professor Evangelos Venizelos | LLD (honoris causa) | 10.11.1998 |
| Dr Sydney Brenner | DSc (honoris causa) | 10.03.1999 |
| Dr Manuel Fraga Iribane | LLD (honoris causa) | 14.04.1999 |
| Dr Lionel Leopold Wilson | DSc (honoris causa) | 23.04.1999 |
| Dr Michael Leunig | DLitt (honoris causa) | 14.05.1999 |
| Dr Robert Hunt, AM | DUniv | 10.11.1999 |
| Professor Qian Weichang | DSc (honoris causa) | 14.04.2000 |
| Dr Frank Sherwood Rowland | DSc (honoris causa) | 11.05.2000 |
| Dr Donald John Blackmore | DSc (honoris causa) | 11.05.2000 |
| Dr Susie Lum | DN (honoris causa) | 06.09.2000 |
| Dr Betty Tung Chiu Hung-ping, JP | DPH (honoris causa) | 06.09.2000 |
| Professor Han Wei | DLitt (honoris causa) | 15.11.2000 |
| Professor Georgios Babiniotis | DLitt (honoris causa) | 14.02.2001 |
| Professor Martinus J. G. Veltman | DSc (honoris causa) | 24.04.2001 |
| Professor Gordon S. Wood | DLitt (honoris causa) | 31.07.2001 |
| Professor David Kennedy | DLitt (honoris causa) | 02.10.2001 |
| Dr Christos Pahtas | DLitt (honoris causa) | 09.11.2001 |
| Professor Wang De Bing | DSc (honoris causa) | 18.06.2002 |
| Dr Alfredo Conde | DLitt (honoris causa) | 04.08.2002 |
| Dr Mario Vargas Llosa | DLitt (honoris causa) | 03.10.2002 |
| Professor John Alexander Salmond | DLitt (honoris causa) | 07.10.2002 |
| Professor Jin Lianhong | DSc (honoris causa) | 12.03.2003 |
| Professor Marianne Mithun | DLitt (honoris causa) | 13.08.2003 |
| Professor Ira Berlin | DLitt (honoris causa) | 06.10.2003 |
| Dr Robert Dunster | DUniv | 10.10.2003 |
| Emeritus Professor Ian Thornton (posthumously) | DSc (honoris causa) | 10.10.2003 |
| Dr Robert Mathews | DSc (honoris causa) | 10.10.2003 |
| Professor Rolf Zinkernagel | DSc (honoris causa) | 01.12.2003 |
| Professor George Ritzer | DLitt (honoris causa) | 23.03.2004 |
| Professor Yang Baofeng | DSc (honoris causa) | 02.04.2004 |
| Dr Sally Garratt | DN (honoris causa) | 21.05.2004 |
| Professor John Coetzee | DLitt (honoris causa) | 03.08.2004 |
| Professor Bernard Comrie | DLitt (honoris causa) | 15.09.2004 |
| Professor Dan Carter | DLitt (honoris causa) | 05.10.2004 |
| Dr Klaus Richter | LLD (honoris causa) | 29.04.2005 |
| Professor George Gratzer | DSc (honoris causa) | 10.06.2005 |
| Professor Alain Schnapp | DLitt (honoris causa) | 11.07.2005 |
| Dr Henry Fong | DLitt (honoris causa) | 07.09.2005 |
| Professor Nguyen Xuan Vang | DEd (honoris causa) | 07.10.2005 |
| Dr Mike Moore | LLD (honoris causa) | 07.10.2005 |
| Sir David King, FRS | DSc (honoris causa) | 11.10.2005 |
| Professor Peter Fearon | DLitt (honoris causa) | 07.11.2005 |
| Professor Peter Trudgill | DLitt (honoris causa) | 09.11.2005 |
| Dr Janet Secatore | DN (honoris causa) | 23.11.2005 |
| Professor Craig Calhoun | DLitt (honoris causa) | 05.12.2005 |
| Emeritus Professor Nancy Millis AC, MBE | DSc (honoris causa) | 05.05.2006 |
| Dr Les Murray AO | DLitt (honoris causa) | 23.07.2006 |
| Professor Brian Joseph | DLitt (honoris causa) | 09.08.2006 |
| Professor Orlando Patterson | DLitt (honoris causa) | 04.09.2006 |
| Professor Michael J Osborne | DLitt (honoris causa) | 29.11.2006 |
| Professor Xu Zhihong | DSc (honoris causa) | 30.03.2007 |
| Sir Paul Nurse, FRS | DSc (honoris causa) | 03.07.2007 |
| Dr James Riady | DLitt (honoris causa) | 12.09.2007 |
| Professor Jeffrey Alexander | DLitt (honoris causa) | 17.12.2007 |
| Dr Robert S. Anderssen | DSc (honoris causa) | 09.05.2008 |
| Professor Alan Frost | DLitt (honoris causa) | 20.11.2008 |
| Professor Datin Paduka Dr Khatijah binti Mohamad Yusoff | DSc (honoris causa) | 25.6. 2010 |
| Professor Ruth J. Williams | DSc (honoris causa) | 21.10.2010 |
| His Royal Highness, Crown Prince of Perlis | Doctor of Education (honoris causa) | 1.11.2010 |
| Professor Harald zur Hausen | DSc (honoris causa) | 9.11.2010 |
| The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG | Doctor of the University | 21.02.2011 |
| Dr Pauline Tan | Doctor of Nursing (honoris causa) | 24.03.2011 |
| Dr Mary White AM | DSc (honoris causa) | 15.04.2011 |
| Sylvia Walton AO | Doctor of Education (honoris causa) | 20.10.2011 |