List of members of the Order of Ontario

The following is a full list of members of the Order of Ontario, both past and current, in order of their date of appointment.

Members

1987

• John Black Aird – 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Aline Akeson
• J. M. S. Careless – historian
• Bill Davis – Premier of Ontario (1971–85)
• Celia Franca – founder of National Ballet of Canada
• Harry Gairey
• Duncan Gordon
• Roger Guindon – university administrator
• Dianne Harkin
• Cleeve Horne – portrait painter and sculptor
• Benjamin Sinclair Johnson – sprinter
• Franc Joubin – prospector and geologist
• Johnny Lombardi – pioneer of multicultural broadcasting in Canada
• Clifford McIntosh
• Oskar Morawetz – composer
• John Polanyi – Nobel laureate
• Al Purdy – poet
• James Swail
• Bessie Touzel
• Whipper Billy Watson – professional wrestler, supporter of children's charities

1988

• Alex Baumann – competitive swimmer, Olympic medalist
• June Callwood – journalist, author and social activist
• Floyd Chalmers – editor, publisher and philanthropist
• Robertson Davies – novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, professor, founding Master of Massey College
• Reva Gerstein – first woman Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario (1992–96)
• Charlotte Lemieux
• Walter Frederick Light – business executive
• Gordon Lightfoot – singer and songwriter
• Dennis McDermott – trade unionist, Canadian Director of the United Auto Workers (1968–78), and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (1978–86)
• Pauline McGibbon – 22nd Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
• Don Moore
• Bernice Noblitt
• John C. Parkin – architect
• Beryl Potter
• John Josiah Robinette – lawyer
• Murray Ross – founding president of York University
• Robert B. Salter – Orthopedic surgeon and professor
• John Weinzweig – composer

1989

• Louis Applebaum – composer
• John Bassett – publisher, media baron
• Dorothy Beam
• Leonard Birchall – decorated RCAF pilot (World War II)
• Violet Blackman
• Morley Callaghan – author & playwright
• Paul Charbonneau
• Charles George Drake – neurosurgeon
• Anne Gribben
• James Ham
• Kenneth Hare – climatologist
• Daniel Iannuzzi – broadcaster
• Norman Jewison – film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre
• Basil Johnston – Anishinaabe writer & storyteller
• Cliff Lumsdon – world champion marathon swimmer
• Janet Murray
• Laure Rièse – educator; first female faculty member to obtain a PhD from University of Toronto
• Harry Thode – geochemist, nuclear chemist, and academic administrator
• Eberhard Zeidler – architect

1990

• James Archibald
• Margaret Atwood – writer
• John Bailey
• Maxwell Enkin
• Maureen Forrester – contralto
• Ursula Franklin – metallurgist, research physicist, author and educator
• George R. Gardiner – businessman, philanthropist and co-founder of the Gardiner Museum
• Stanley Grizzle – trade union activist
• Karen Kain – dancer
• Vicki Keith – marathon swimmer
• Wilbert Keon – heart surgeon, scientific researcher
• Dr. Robert McClure – surgeon, missionary, Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1968–71), social activist
• Roland Michener – 20th Governor-General of Canada
• Roderick Moran
• Brian Orser – figure skater (Olympic medallist/world champion)
• Clifford Pilkey – trade union leader
• Wilfrid Sarazin
• Herbert Smith
• Kathleen Taylor
• Jean Woodsworth

1991

• Gerald Barbeau
• John Basmajian – scientist
• Elisabeth Bednar
• Agnes Benidickson – first female Chancellor of Queen's University
• Liona Boyd – classical guitarist
• Clara Bernhardt
• A. J. Casson – artist, member of the Group of Seven
• Clifford Chadderton – veteran (World War II), CEO of The War Amps
• Frances Dafoe – figure skater, World Champion and Olympic medallist
• Dora de Pedery-Hunt – artist, designer of coins for Royal Canadian Mint
• John Craig Eaton – businessman
• John Robert Evans – pediatrician, academic, businessperson, civic leader, founding dean of McMaster University Faculty of Medicine
• Timothy Findley – author & playwright
• Mary Lou Fox
• Wilbur Howard
• William Goldwin Carrington Howland – lawyer, judge and former Chief Justice of Ontario
• Greta Kraus
• Sim Fai Liu
• Veronica O'Reilly
• Tom Patterson – founder of Stratford Festival of Canada
• Walter Pitman – president of Ryerson University (1975–80)
• Annabel Slaight
• Arthur Solomon
• Louis Temporale
• George Rutherford Walker
• Lois Miriam Wilson – first female Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1980–82)

1992

• Lincoln Alexander – 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Bromley Armstrong – civil rights leader
• Boris Berlin – pianist, music educator, arranger, and composer
• Pierre Berton – author, journalist, TV personality
• Suzanne Rochon-Burnett – first aboriginal person in Canada to own and operate a private commercial radio station
• Linda Crabtree
• Stefan Dupré
• William Hutt – actor
• Germain Lemieux
• Arthur Martin
• Doris McCarthy – artist
• Terry Meagher
• Raymond Moriyama – architect
• Fraser Mustard – physician and scientist
• Oscar Peterson – jazz pianist
• Serafina Petrone
• Nancy Pocock
• Harry Rasky – documentary film producer
• Judith Simser
• Rose Wolfe – Chancellor of the University of Toronto (1991–1997)

1993

• Roberta Bondar – astronaut
• Pat Capponi – author and advocate for mental health issues and poverty issues
• Jean-Gabriel Castel – law professor and Professor Emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School
• Tirone David – cardiac surgeon
• Colin diCenzo
• Budhendra Doobay
• Grace Hartman – first female mayor of Sudbury
• Daniel G. Hill – civil servant, human rights specialist, and Black Canadian historian
• Thomas Hill
• Karl Kaiser
• Murray Koffler – businessman and philanthropist
• Benjamin Lu – chemical engineering professor and Professor Emeritus at University of Ottawa
• Abbyann Lynch
• Lois Marshall – concert soprano
• Isabel McLaughlin
• Gunther Plaut – author
• Paul Rekai
• Mary Stuart
• William Tamblyn
• Shirley Van Hoof
• Donald J.P. Ziraldo

1994

• Prasanta Basu
• Joan Chalmers – philanthropist
• Martin Connell – businessman and philanthropist
• Elsie Cressman
• Lorna deBlicquy
• Selma Edelstone
• Nicholas Goldschmidt – conductor, first music director of the Royal Conservatory Opera School (University of Toronto)
• Martha Henry – actress
• Conrad Lavigne – media executive
• Donald C. MacDonald – politician
• Flora MacDonald – politician
• Edwin Mirvish – businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario
• Alice Munro – writer
• Phil Nimmons – jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader
• Ted Nolan – hockey player and coach
• George Pedersen – president of University of Western Ontario (1985 to 1994)
• Ronald Satok
• Nelles Silverthorne
• Elizabeth Thorn
• Bryan Walls

1995

• Doris Anderson – author, journalist, women's rights activist
• Tim Armstrong
• Harry Arthurs – lawyer, academic, labour law scholar
• Douglas Bassett – media executive
• Thomas Beck
• Laurent Belanger
• Marlene Castellano
• Shirley Carr – labour leader, first woman president the Canadian Labour Congress.
• Angela Coughlan – internationally ranked competitive swimmer, Olympic medallist
• Corinne Devlin
• Robert Filler
• Ted Hargreaves – businessman and charitable fundraiser
• Elmer Iseler – conductor of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, founder of the Festival Singers of Canada and the Elmer Iseler Singers
• Heather Johnston
• Vim Kochhar
• Linda Lundström – fashion designer
• Lloyd Perry
• Natavarlal Shah
• William Somerville

1996

• Avie Bennett – businessman and philanthropis
• Huguette Burroughs
• Herbert Carnegie – hockey player
• Jesse Davidson & John Davidson
• Clifford Evans
• Gregory Evans – judge
• Ellen Louks Fairclough – first female member of the Canadian federal Cabinet
• Amber Foulkes
• Charles Godfrey
• Kamala-Jean Gopie – political activist
• Chris Hadfield – astronaut
• Tommy Hunter – country singer
• Arlette Lefebvre – child psychologist at the Hospital for Sick Children
• Jeffrey Wan-shu Lo
• Janet Lunn – children's writer
• Trisha Romance
• Etienne Saint-Aubin
• Ezra Schabas
• Al Waxman – actor
• William Wilkinson
• Doreen Wicks – humanitarian

1997

• John Brooks
• François Chamberland
• Audrey Cole
• John Colicos – actor
• William Coyle
• Leslie Dan – businessman
• Michael de Pencier
• Jack Diamond – architect, founding director of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Toronto
• Charles Dubin – judge
• Ralph Ellis
• Larry Grossman – politician
• Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook – portrait sculptor
• Ron Ianni
• Roy Laine
• Moon Lum
• Kathleen Mann
• Judith Meeks
• Nancy Raeburn
• Jack Rabinovitch – philanthropist and founder of the Giller Prize
• Richard Rohmer – writer
• Bob Rumball
• Nalini Stewart
• Paul Tsai

1998

• Marion Anderson – Aboriginal band councillor
• Bluma Appel – philanthropist, arts patron
• Jean Ashworth Bartle – Founder and director of the Toronto Children's Chorus
• Allan Leslie Beattie – lawyer, former chairman of the board for the Hospital for Sick Children
• Irene Broadfoot – community activist
• Norman Campbell – television director & producer, playwright
• Armando Felice DeLuca – community activist
• Claire O. Dimock – community activist
• Ydessa Hendeles – Founder, director and curator of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation and Grand Founder of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
• Dr. Kenneth C. Hobbs – physician, international humanitarian
• Hal Jackman – business leader, philanthropist, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Chair of the Ontario Arts Council and Chancellor of the University of Toronto
• Maureen Kempston Darkes – President and General Manager of General Motors Canada Ltd. and community activist
• Marvelle Koffler – Founder of the Marvelle Koffler Breast Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Koffler Centre for the Arts
• Dr. Lap Cheung Lee – community activist
• Andrée Lortie – advocate for the Francophone community
• Knowlton Nash – journalist
• Alfred U. Oakie – pioneer in traffic safety
• Lloyd Seivright – activist
• Masami Tsuruoka – sports figure
• Thomas Leonard Wells – politician

1999

• William Blake – Community activist
• Doris Boissoneau – Ojibwe language activist
• Paul Michel Bosc – Wine-maker
• Mavis Elaine Burke – Educator, advocate for early childhood education and community activist
• Clarice Chalmers – Philanthropist
• Keshav Chandaria – philanthropist
• Susan Charness – disability-rights activist
• Sam John Ciccolini – entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Esther Farlinger – charity fundraiser
• Victor Feldbrill – violinist, orchestral conductor and champion of Canadian music
• Dr. James Ferguson – medical researcher
• Maxwell Goldhar – businessman, philanthropist
• Doris Lau – financial adviser, charity fundraiser, goodwill ambassador for Ontario and scholarship sponsor
• Eileen McGregor – community activist
• Winnie "Roach" Leuszler – first Canadian to swim the English Channel, sportswoman
• Alice King Sculthorpe – community activist
• Dr. Bette Stephenson – physician, founding member of the College of Family Physicians Canada, former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP and cabinet minister
• Hin Cheung Tam – community activist
• Gordie Tapp – entertainer
• Anthony Toldo – industrialist and philanthropist
• Lisette Véron-Rainu – children's activist
• Ken Watts – Founder of the Ontario Collegiate Drama Festival

2000

• Danielle Allen and Normand Pellerin – educators
• Maggie Atkinson – Lawyer and AIDS activist
• Marilyn Brooks – Fashion designer and philanthropist
• Nickie Cassidy – activist on behalf of sufferers of multiple sclerosis
• Ernie Checkeris – Educator and activist, Chancellor of Thorneloe University, Sudbury
• George A. Cohon – Chicago-born lawyer; founder/senior chairman of McDonald's Restaurants of Canada; philanthropist
• Lloyd Dennis – educator
• William Andrew Dimma – businessman and educator
• Kildare Dobbs – writer, journalist
• Joyce Fee – educator and community activist
• Dr. Robert Freedom – physician, professor and author
• Donald H. Harron – journalist, author and actor
• Jane Jacobs – U.S.-born naturalized Canadian author; Toronto-based urban philosopher
• Stephan Lewar – venture capitalist, financier and philanthropist
• Janet MacInnis – fundraiser and volunteer
• Frank Miller – politician (former Premier of Ontario)
• Betty Oliphant – founder of the National Ballet School of Canada
• J. Robert S. Prichard – educator, author and former President of the University of Toronto
• Joseph Radmore – athlete, member of the Canadian Paralympic Team
• Margaret M. Risk – nurse
• Haroon Siddiqui – journalist, columnist
• Dr. Calvin Stiller – physician
• Donald A. Stuart – gold and silversmith
• Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui – molecular geneticist; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
• Irving Ungerman – entrepreneur, boxer and activist

2001

• Richard M. Alway – President/Vice-Chancellor of St. Michael's College, promoter of Catholic-Anglican dialogue in Canada
• Gwen M. Boniface – first female Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner
• Rita Burak – public servant
• Danielle Campo – athlete, member of the Canadian Paralympic Team
• Michael "Pinball" Clemons – President and former player of the Toronto Argonauts
• Ken Danby – artist
• Terry Daynard – researcher, teacher
• Terrence J. Donnelly – fundraiser for cardiac research and development
• Gail J. Donner – Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto; Executive Director of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
• Fredrik Stefan Eaton – businessman, community volunteer
• C. Dennis Flynn – elected official, fundraiser, community volunteer and war veteran
• Prof. Dr. Nicolas D. Georganas – pioneer in multimedia medical communications and telelearning
• Helen Haddow – community activist
• Paul Kells – workplace safety advocate
• Jake Lamoureux – Volunteer with young people
• Alexina Louie – composer of classical music
• Lewis W. MacKenzie, Major General (Retired) – Ontario Director of ICROSS Canada, the International Community for the Relief of Starvation and Suffering
• Signe and Robert McMichael – builders and donors of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection of Group of Seven paintings in Kleinburg
• Dusty Miller – patron of the arts, artistic director of the Cambrian Players
• David Mirvish – leader in the development and promotion of the visual arts in Ontario
• Peter Nesbitt Oliver – historian
• James S. Redpath – Chancellor of Nipissing University
• Dr. Donald T. Stuss – clinical psychologist, neuropsychologist and behavioural neuroscientist
• Bhausaheb Ubale – human rights activist
• Dr. Carin Wittnich – University of Toronto professor and researcher
• Madeline Ziniak – Vice-president and executive producer of CFMT television, promoter of multiculturalism

2002

• Peggy Baker – dancer, choreographer and teacher; founder of the Toronto-based Dancemakers
• James Bartleman – Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• Marilyn Bell DiLascio – first person to swim Lake Ontario (1954)
• David Blackwood – artist
• Frederick M. Catzman – lawyer
• Austin Clarke – author, teacher, mentor, writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto; recipient of the 2002 Giller Prize
• Barbara Chilcott – actress
• Mario Cortellucci – fundraiser
• Patricia Freeman Marshall – community activist
• Irving R. Gerstein – businessman, philanthropist
• Joan Goldfarb – teacher of adults with disabilities
• Walter Gretzky – Ambassador for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and father of Wayne Gretzky
• Phyllis M. Grosskurth – Professor emerita and Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto; 1965 winner of the Governor General's Award for non-fiction
• Dr. Raymond O. Heimbecker – cardiovascular surgeon
• Patrick John Keenan – volunteer
• Tom Kneebone – actor, playwright
• Burton Kramer – graphic designer
• Dr. Benson Lau – physician and teacher
• J. Douglas Lawson – Vice-Chairman of the Ontario Arts Council
• Rhéal Leroux – Volunteer, former president of the Festival Franco-Ontarien
• Dr. William K. Lindsay – surgeon and professor
• Joan Murray – art historian, former director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa
• Dr. Mark J. Poznansky – President and Scientific Director of the Robarts Research Institute
• Dr. Joanna Santa Barbara – physician, national president of the Physicians for Global Survival
• Thomas H. B. Symons – founder of Trent University and its president and vice-chancellor (from 1961–72)
• Lela Wilson – artists' rights activist

2003

• Joseph J. Barnicke – businessman and philanthropist
• John Kim Bell – musician, promoter of Aboriginal culture
• Col. Archibald J. D. Brown – businessman, community activist
• Dorothy Ellen Duncan – Executive Director of The Ontario Historical Society, teacher, curator
• Julian Fantino – police officer, former Chief of Police for London, York Region and Toronto; Ontario's Commissioner of Emergency Management; now Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police
• Mary Germain – community activist
• Dr. Avis E. Glaze – teacher, administrator, writer and international educator
• Dr. Benjamin Goldberg – psychiatrist
• Doris Grinspun – Executive Director of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO)
• George Gross – Corporate Sports Editor of Sun Media Corporation
• Macklin Hancock – pioneer in urban planning, urban design and landscape architecture
• Ryan Hreljac – elementary school student, committed to raising funds for clean water and sanitation projects around the world since the age of six
• Dr. Frederic Jackman – psychologist
• Laura Louise Legge – lawyer, community activist
• Helen Lu – volunteer, organizer and fundraiser for charitable organizations in Toronto
• Dr. Donald Mackay – Professor of Environmental and Resource Studies at Trent University, and director of the Canadian Environmental Modelling Centre
• Hon. Jack Marshall – Second World War veteran, Member of Parliament, Senator, and activist
• Anna Porter – writer, book publisher
• Hon. Robert Keith Rae – Member of Parliament, former Premier of Ontario, lawyer
• Eric Wilfrid Robinson – promoter of adult education
• Diane Simard Broadfoot – community activist
• Joan Thompson – volunteer
• Rita Tsang – businesswoman
• Hon. Mabel Van Camp – judge; first woman on the Supreme Court of Ontario
• Mike Weir – golfer; first Canadian to win the Masters Golf Tournament
• Kirk Albert Walter Wipper – environmentalist, heritage conservationist and fitness advocate (died 2011)
• William John Withrow – former director of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

2004

• Dr. Tyseer Aboulnasr – engineer
• Jeff Adams – Paralympian and world champion in wheelchair sports
• Mohammad Azhar Ali Khan – journalist, multiculturalism expert
• Diana Alli – outreach worker
• Patricia Ann Arato – aphasia care volunteer
• Dr. Robin F. Badgley – sociologist, founder of Department of Behavioural Science at the University of Toronto
• Iain Baxter& – conceptual artist
• Louise Binder – speaker on HIV/AIDS issues
• Richard Bradshaw – director of the Canadian Opera Company
• Leonard A. Braithwaite – lawyer and former MPP
• Dr. Inez Elliston – educator, community volunteer
• Adele Fifield – director of "The War Amps"
• Joan Francolini – community volunteer
• Sheldon Galbraith – figure skating coach
• Dr. Allan Gross – Professor of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Andrea Hansen – violinist
• Joyce Ann Lange – advocate for the hearing impaired
• Delores Lawrence – leading female entrepreneur and philanthropist
• René J. Marin – respected Francophone jurist
• David McGirr – community volunteer in Northern Ontario
• Anthony Pawson – scientist known for research of signal transduction in cells
• Kim Phuc Phan Thi – Vietnamese napalm victim
• John Rochon – marksman
• Chandrakant Shah – public health educator
• Gordon Surgeoner – entomologist specializing in insect transmitted diseases
• Galen Weston – businessman in food services sector
• Reverend Monsignor Lawrence Anthony Wnuk – outreach worker to the Polish community
• James Young – former Chief Coroner
• Margaret Zeidler – architect

2005

• Naomi Alboim – public servant
• Ron Barbaro – community service
• Harold Brathwaite – educator
• Boris Brott – conductor (Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Donald Carr – lawyer
• Brian Desbiens – educator
• Thomas Dignan – Aboriginal healthcare advocate
• Deborah Ellis – children's author, human rights advocate
• Hughes Eng – community service
• Brenda L. Gallie – Expert in the treatment of retinoblastoma
• Dorothy Griffiths – researcher, educator
• William A. Harshaw – fundraiser for Parkinson's disease
• John Honderich – former editor and publisher, Toronto Star
• Leon Katz – engineer, medical inventor
• Gisèle Lalonde – educator
• Mike Lazaridis – founder, Research in Motion; inventor, BlackBerry
• Beatrice Levis – advocate for social justice
• Nancy Lockhart – Chair, Ontario Science Centre
• Ernest McCulloch – pioneer in stem cell biology
• Lillian McGregor – teacher of aboriginal languages
• Sher Ali Mirza – engineer
• Ratna Omidvar – former president, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants
• Sandra Rotman – philanthropist
• Mark Starowicz – broadcaster, journalist
• Marlene Streit – professional golfer
• Ronald W. Taylor – physician in sports medicine; team physician to the Toronto Blue Jays
• James Till – pioneer in stem cell biology
• John Walker Whiteside – assistant crown attorney
• Moses Znaimer – broadcaster

2007

• Thomas J. Bitove – businessman, community activist
• John Richard Bond – University of Toronto astrophysicist and cosmologist
• Bernice and Rolland Desnoyers – foster parents for children and youth since 1960
• Peter J. George – economist, author, President and Vice Chancellor of McMaster University in Hamilton and Chair of the Council of Ontario Universities
• Christopher A. Harris – cofounder of the Ottawa-Carleton Immigrant Services Organization, the National Capital Alliance on Race Relations and the Jamaican Ottawa Community Association
• Peter Herrndorf – Broadcasting executive
• Rebecca F. Jamieson – First Nations activist
• Max Keeping – Ottawa media personality
• M. David Lepofsky – disability activist
• Dr. Tak W. Mak – biomedical scientist
• J. William McConkey – University of Windsor professor
• Dr. Roderick R. McInnes – University of Toronto professor and senior scientist with the Hospital for Sick Children
• R. Roy McMurtry – former Chief Justice of Ontario and Attorney General of Ontario
• Lorraine Monk – author, photographer, and artist
• Albert Kai-Wing Ng – graphic designer and creator of graphic design accreditation
• Adeena Niazi – helping newcomers settle in Canada
• Gordon M. Nixon – President/CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
• Margaret Helen Ogilvie – Chancellor's Professor of Law at Carleton University
• Eva Olsson – Holocaust survivor
• Marlene Ann Pierre – Aboriginal activist
• Dr. Frances A. Shepherd – University of Toronto professor
• Janice Gross Stein – scholar, academic
• Paul-François Sylvestre – novelist, researcher and mentor
• William Thorsell – Director/CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum
• Dr. David Walde – Director of the Oncology Program
• Dr. Paul Walfish – University of Toronto professor and senior consultant

2008

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• Dr. Michael Baker – physician, cancer researcher
• Dr. Sheela Basrur – Former Chief Medical Officer of Ontario^[2]
• George Brady – human rights advocate, public speaker and Auschwitz survivor
• Jack Chiang – journalist, community service
• Tony Dean – Secretary of the Cabinet, credited with improving the Ontario Public Service
• Mary Dickson – lawyer, educator and advocate for people with disabilities
• Noel Edison – Artistic Director of the Elora Festival and the conductor of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
• Frank Fernandes – Toronto businessman and volunteer
• Jean-Robert Gauthier – for his work in advancing French-language education
• Sam George – Native Canadians' rights activist
• Heather Gibson – educator specializing in American Sign Language (ASL)
• Robert A. Gordon – served as president of Humber College
• Gordon Gray – philanthropist
• Susan Hoeg – community service on behalf of the Georgina Island Chippewas
• Claude Lamoureux – served as president and CEO of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
• Patrick Le Sage – served as Chief Justice for the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
• Dr. Joe MacInnis – physician, scientist and undersea explorer
• Dr. David MacLennan – biomedical scientist, expert in biochemistry, genetics and physiology of muscle function
• Lorna Marsden – served as President of York University and of Wilfrid Laurier University, and a former senator.
• David Peterson – former Premier of Ontario
• Ed Ratushny – expert on the Canadian judiciary
• Rosemary Sadlier – author and president of the Ontario Black History Society
• Dr. Fuad Sahin – for his contributions to community service; founder of the International Development and Relief Foundation.^[3]
• Barbara Ann Scott-King – Olympic champion figure skater in 1948
• Ellen Seligman – for contributions to publishing and support of Canadian authors
• Peter Silverman – broadcaster and consumer advocate
• David Smith – philanthropist
• Ted Szilva – originator and developer of the Big Nickel Project
• Mary Welsh – for 35 years of community and civic contributions

2009

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• Constance Backhouse
• Dr. Philip Berger
• Lawrence Bloomberg
• Lesley Jane Boake
• Dr. Helen Chan
• Peter Crossgrove
• Mike DeGagné
• Levente Diosady
• Fraser Dougall
• Jacques Flamand
• Jean Gagnon
• Paul Godfrey – Chair of Metro Toronto (1973–1984), businessman
• Peter Godsoe – businessman
• Ovid Jackson – provincial politician
• Dr. Kellie Leitch – orthopaedic pediatric surgeon; Assoc. Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Gerry Lougheed, Jr.
• Diana Mady Kelly
• Naseem Mahdi
• Dr. Samantha Nutt – Executive Director, War Child Canada
• Dr. James Orbinski – physician; Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; President of Médecins Sans Frontières (1998–2001)
• Bonnie Patterson
• Shirley Peruniak
• Alice Porter
• Ken Shaw – newsreader (CTV)
• Janet Stewart
• Shirley Thomson – civil servant
• George Turnbull
• Dr. Mladen Vranic
• Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik

2010

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• Suhayya Abu-Hakima
• Russell Bannock
• Gail Beck
• Joseph Chin
• Lynn Factor
• Gerald Fagan
• Nigel Fisher
• Jacques Flamand
• Lillie Johnson
• Ignat Kaneff
• Mobeenuddin Hassan Khaja
• Elizabeth Ann Kinsella
• Huguette Labelle
• Elizabeth Le Geyt
• Clare Lewis
• Louise Logue
• Gordon McBean
• Wilma Morrison
• James Orbinski
• Coulter Osborne
• Chris Paliare
• Gilles Patry
• Dave Shannon
• Molly Shoichet
• Howard Sokolowski
• Edward Sonshine
• Reginald Stackhouse
• David Staines
• Martin Teplitsky
• Dave Toycen
• John Ronald Wakegijig
• Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

2011

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• Peter Adams – politician, professor and volunteer
• Dr. Anna Banerji
• Dr. Sandra E. Black
• Paul Cavalluzzo – Lawyer, Senior Partner, Cavalluzzo Shilton McIntyre Cornish LLP, Barristers and Solicitors
• Catherine Colquhoun
• David Crombie
• Nathalie Des Rosiers
• Marcel Desautels
• Sara Diamond
• Charles Garrad
• Peter Gilgan
• Frank Hayden
• Donald Jackson
• Zeib Jeeva
• Howard McCurdy
• Arthur McDonald
• Noella Milne
• Suzanne Pinel
• Ucal Powell
• Barbara Reid
• Alison Rose
• Linda Schuyler
• Dr. Louis Siminovitch
• Rahul Singh
• Connie Smith
• The Honourable Ray Stortini
• John Tory

2012

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• Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish
• Michael Burgess
• Mark Cohon
• Glen Cook
• Stephen Cook
• Phyllis Creighton
• Michael Davies
• Ronald Deibert
• Dr. Rory Fisher
• Anne Golden
• Joan Green
• Dr. Vladimir Hachinski
• John D. Honsberger
• Dr. Shafique Keshavjee
• Fr. Joseph MacDonald
• Don MacKinnon
• Deepa Mehta
• Vincent Pawis
• Sr. Helen Petrimoulx
• The Honourable Sydney Robins
• Dr. Gail Robinson
• Mamdouh Shoukri
• Barry Smit
• Brian Stewart
• Frank Tierney
• Marlene Streit (Appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2005 and will be invested at 2013 ceremony)
• Huguette Labelle (Appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2010 and will be invested at 2013 ceremony)

2013

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• Irving Abella
• Dr. Mohit Bhandari
• Paul Burston
• George E. Carter
• Ellen Campbell
• Penny Collenette
• Ronald Common
• Paul Corkum
• David Cronenberg
• Alvin Curling
• Allison Fisher
• Claude Gingras
• Avvy Yao Yao Go
• Piers Handling
• Paul Henderson
• Justin Hines
• Ronald Jamieson
• Jeanne Lamon
• Frances Noronha
• Lyn McLeod
• Diane Morrison
• Steve Paikin
• Dr. James Rutka
• Adel Sedra
• Toby Tanenbaum

2014

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• Mary Anne Chambers
• Ming-Tat Cheung
• Michael Dan
• Don Drummond
• Rick Green
• Patrick Gullane
• Joseph Halstead
• Alis Kennedy
• Sylvie Lamoureux
• Gilles LeVasseur
• Gary Levy
• Sidney B. Linden
• Barbara MacQuarrie
• Eva Marszewski
• Marilyn McHarg
• Hans Messner
• James Murray
• Robert Nixon
• Dhun Noria
• Maryka Omatsu
• Charles Pachter
• John Ralston Saul
• Najmul Siddiqui
• Jeffrey Turnbull
• Dolores Wawia
• David Williams
• Warren Winkler

2015

• Hugh Allen^[10]
• Susan Bailey
• Isabel Bassett
• Monica Elaine Campbell
• Dennis Chippa
• Wendy Craig
• Gordon Cressy
• Madeline Edwards
• Hoda ElMaraghy
• Robert Fowler
• Herbert Gaisano
• John Gignac
• June Girvan
• Beverley Gordon
• Richard Gosling
• Stephen Goudge
• Anton Kuerti
• Rita Letendre
• Jackie Maxwell
• Errol Mendes
• Julian Nedzelski
• Mike Parkhill
• René Pitre
• Donna Trella
• Stanley Zlotkin

References

• List of Order of Ontario recipients