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 – poverty activist
 - J. M. S. Careless – historian
 - Hon. William G. Davis – Premier of Ontario (1971–1985)
 - Celia Franca – founder of National Ballet of Canada
 - Harry Gairey – civil rights activist
 - Duncan Gordon
 - Roger Guindon – university administrator
 - Dianne Harkin – founder of Women for the Survival of Agriculture
 - 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 – public speaker, author and founder of the Quetico Centre
 - Oskar Morawetz – composer
 - John Polanyi – Nobel laureate
 - Al Purdy – poet
 - James Swail – researcher and developer of assistive devices for the blind
 - Bessie Touzel – social worker and teacher
 - 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 – teacher and public servant
 - 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 – activist and immigration advocate
 - Bernice Noblitt – President of the Federated Women's Institute of Canada, women's rights activist and teacher
 - John C. Parkin – architect
 - Beryl Potter – activist for the rights of people with disabilities
 - 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 W. H. Bassett – publisher, media baron
 - Dorothy Beam – advocate for the rights of the Deaf
 - Leonard Birchall – decorated RCAF pilot (World War II)
 - Violet Blackman – black rights activist
 - Morley Callaghan – author & playwright
 - Paul Charbonneau – priest and founder of Brentwood Recovery Home
 - Charles George Drake – neurosurgeon
 - Anne Gribben – nurse and labour activist
 - James Ham – engineer, administrator and President of the University of Toronto
 - 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 – nun, educator and hospital administrator
 - 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 – veterinary surgeon, organ transplant pioneer
 - Margaret Atwood – writer
 - John Bailey – physician and community organizer
 - Maxwell Enkin – refugee advocate
 - 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 – paediatric dentist and organizer of specialized care clinics for disabled children
 - Brian Orser – figure skater (Olympic medallist/world champion)
 - Clifford Pilkey – trade union leader
 - Wilfrid Sarazin
 - Herbert Smith – engineer and educator
 - Kathleen Taylor – the first woman to chair the board of a major Canadian bank
 - Jean Woodsworth – social worker, women's and seniors' rights activist
 
1991
- Gerald Barbeau
 - John Basmajian – scientist
 - Elisabeth Bednar
 - Agnes Benidickson – first female chancellor of Queen's University
 - Liona Boyd – classical guitarist
 - Clara Bernhardt – writer, poet and composer
 - 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 – minister, the first black person to graduate from Emmanuel College and be ordained in the United Church of Canada
 - William Goldwin Carrington Howland – lawyer, judge and former Chief Justice of Ontario
 - Greta Kraus – Harpsichordist, pianist and teacher
 - Sim Fai Liu – doctor and founder of the Mon Sheong Foundation
 - Veronica O'Reilly
 - Tom Patterson – founder of Stratford Festival of Canada
 - Walter Pitman – president of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (1975–80)
 - Annabel Slaight – teacher, environmentalist and co-founder of OWL
 - Arthur Solomon
 - Louis Temporale – sculptor
 - 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 – writer, advocate and founder of CMT International
 - Stefan Dupré – economist, teacher and administrator
 - William Hutt – actor
 - Germain Lemieux – folklorist and teacher
 - Arthur Martin – justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario
 - Doris McCarthy – artist
 - Terry Meagher – human rights and labour activist
 - Raymond Moriyama – architect
 - Fraser Mustard – physician and scientist
 - Oscar Peterson – jazz pianist
 - Serafina Petrone – writer, educator and philanthropist
 - Nancy Pocock – activist, advocate for refugees and artist
 - Harry Rasky – documentary film producer
 - Judith Simser – teacher and advocate for the deaf
 - 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 – cardiologist, heart surgeon and philanthropist
 - Grace Hartman – first female mayor of Sudbury
 - Daniel G. Hill – civil servant, human rights specialist, and Black Canadian historian
 - Thomas Hill – curator, writer, art historian, artist, actor, producer and traditional eskanye singer
 - Karl Kaiser – wine maker and ice wine pioneer
 - Murray Koffler – businessman and philanthropist
 - Benjamin Lu – chemical engineering professor and Professor Emeritus at University of Ottawa
 - Abbyann Lynch – teacher and ethics consultant
 - Lois Marshall – concert soprano
 - Isabel McLaughlin – artist
 - Gunther Plaut – author
 - Paul Rekai – doctor and co-founder of Central Hospital
 - Mary Stuart – administrator and volunteer
 - William Tamblyn – engineer, administrator and first President of Lakehead University
 - Shirley Van Hoof
 - Donald J.P. Ziraldo – wine maker and ice wine pioneer
 
1994
- Prasanta Basu – ophthalmologist, researcher and director of the Eye Bank of Canada (1955-1991)
 - Joan Chalmers – philanthropist
 - Martin Connell – businessman and philanthropist
 - Elsie Cressman – missionary and midwife
 - Lorna deBlicquy – aviator and Canada's first woman Civil Aviation Flight Inspector
 - 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 – artist
 - Nelles Silverthorne – pediatrician, researcher and vaccine pioneer
 - Elizabeth Thorn
 - Bryan Walls – dental surgeon, historian and author
 
1995
- Doris Anderson – author, journalist, women's rights activist
 - Tim Armstrong – public policy advisor, legal counsel and author
 - Harry Arthurs – lawyer, academic, labour law scholar
 - Douglas Bassett – media executive
 - Thomas Beck – entrepreneur and philanthropist
 - Laurent Belanger – entrepreneur and administrator
 - Marlene Castellano – teacher and researcher
 - Shirley Carr – labour leader, first woman president the Canadian Labour Congress.
 - Angela Coughlan – internationally ranked competitive swimmer, Olympic medallist
 - Corinne Devlin – gynecologist and teacher
 - Robert Filler – surgeon and researcher
 - 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 – first lay woman president of the Canadian Council of Churches
 - Vim Kochhar – former senator and co-founder of Rotary Cheshire Homes
 - Linda Lundström – fashion designer
 - Lloyd Perry – lawyer
 - Natavarlal Shah – physician, co-founder of the Sikh Education Research Centre and co-founder of the Mount Carmel Home
 - William Somerville – public servant and administrator
 
1996
- Avie Bennett – businessman and philanthropist
 - Huguette Burroughs – journalist and public servant
 - Herbert Carnegie – hockey player
 - Jesse Davidson & John Davidson – co-founders of the charity Jesse's Journey
 - Clifford R. Evans – labour leader
 - Gregory Evans – judge
 - Ellen Louks Fairclough – first female member of the Canadian federal Cabinet
 - Amber Foulkes
 - Charles Godfrey – physician, professor and former MPP
 - 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 – artist
 - Etienne Saint-Aubin – lawyer
 - Ezra Schabas – musician, educator and author
 - Al Waxman – actor
 - William Wilkinson
 - Doreen Wicks – humanitarian
 
1997
- John Brooks – founder of the John Brooks Community Foundation and Scholarship Fund
 - François Chamberland
 - Audrey Cole – activist for people with disabilities
 - John Colicos – actor
 - William Coyle – aerospace pioneer
 - Leslie Dan – businessman
 - Michael de Pencier – entrepreneur, environmental investor and publisher
 - Jack Diamond – architect, founding director of the Master of Architecture program at the University of Toronto
 - Charles Dubin – judge
 - Ralph Ellis – filmmaker, documentarian and administrator
 - Larry Grossman – politician
 - Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook – portrait sculptor
 - Abbyann Lynch – medical ethicist
 - Ron Ianni – lawyer, teacher and President of the University of Windsor
 - Roy Laine
 - Moon Lum
 - Kathleen Mann – teacher and choir director
 - Judith Meeks
 - Nancy Raeburn
 - Jack Rabinovitch – philanthropist and founder of the Giller Prize
 - Richard Rohmer – writer
 - Bob Rumball – pastor and advocate for the deaf and those with special needs
 - Nalini Stewart – administrator
 - 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 of Canada, former Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP and cabinet minister
 - Hin Cheung Tam – community activist
 - Gordie Tapp – entertainer
 - Anthony Toldo – industrialist, philanthropist, bicyclist
 - 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.[1]
 - 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 – legal scholar and historian
 - Dr. Philip Berger – physician and leader in the fields of urban medicine, addiction, homelessness and HIV/AIDS care
 - Lawrence Bloomberg – businessman and philanthropist
 - Lesley Jane Boake – educator and founder of Canine Opportunity, People Empowerment
 - Dr. Helen Chan – clinical oncologist
 - Peter Crossgrove – businessman and charity fundraiser
 - Mike DeGagné – community leader and advocate for Aboriginal peoples
 - Levente Diosady – a leader in the field of food process engineering
 - Fraser Dougall – media owner and philanthropist
 - Jacques Flamand – writer and promoter of Franco-Ontarian literature
 - Jean Gagnon – an advocate for the health and safety of workers
 - 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. – funeral director and volunteer
 - Diana Mady Kelly – theatre director and teacher of dramatic arts
 - Naseem Mahdi – spiritual leader
 - 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 – former president of Ryerson University
 - Shirley Peruniak – park naturalist and conservationist
 - Alice Porter – nurse and missionary
 - Ken Shaw – news anchor (CTV) and philanthropist
 - Janet Stewart – lawyer and philanthropist
 - Shirley Thomson – civil servant
 - George Turnbull – expert in financial services and philanthropist
 - Dr. Mladen Vranic – physician and researcher
 - Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik – physician and female AIDS activist
 
2010
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- Suhayya Abu-Hakima – technology entrepreneur and volunteer
 - Russell Bannock – fighter pilot and Second World War commander
 - Gail Beck – child and adolescent psychiatrist and champion of the HPV public immunization program
 - Joseph Chin – medical pioneer and a leader in the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer
 - Lynn Factor – social worker
 - Gerald Fagan – choral conductor, teacher and mentor
 - Nigel Fisher – former president of UNICEF Canada
 - Jacques Flamand
 - Lillie Johnson – Ontario's first black director of public health
 - Ignat Kaneff – developer and philanthropist
 - Mobeenuddin Hassan Khaja – founder of the Association of Progressive Muslims of Ontario and Canada
 - Elizabeth Ann Kinsella – founder of the Youville Centre
 - Huguette Labelle – civil servant and the first woman to lead the Red Cross in Canada
 - Elizabeth Le Geyt – writer and birdwatcher
 - Clare Lewis – former Crown attorney and judge
 - Louise Logue – expert advisor in the field of crime prevention
 - Gordon McBean – scientist and environmentalist
 - Wilma Morrison – educator, historian and founder of the Niagara Black History Association
 - James Orbinski
 - Coulter Osborne – lawyer and former associate chief of justice
 - Chris Paliare – civil litigator
 - Gilles Patry – consultant, researcher, and a university administrator
 - Dave Shannon – lawyer
 - Molly Shoichet – researcher
 - Howard Sokolowski – leader in the home building industry and philanthropist
 - Edward Sonshine – entrepreneur and philanthropist
 - Reginald Stackhouse – author, retired politician and co-founder of Centennial College
 - David Staines – scholar, professor, literary critic and writer
 - Martin Teplitsky – mediator-arbitrator, Lawyer and founder of the Lawyers Feed the Hungry program
 - Dave Toycen – president and CEO of World Vision Canada
 - John Ronald Wakegijig – launched a mental health program for First Nations youth and established Rainbow Lodge
 - Elizabeth Hillman Waterston – researcher and writer
 
2011
Reference:[5]
- Peter Adams – politician, professor and volunteer
 - Dr. Anna Banerji – helped create the Immigrant Health and Infectious Disease Clinic and the Canadian Refugee Health Conference
 - Dr. Sandra E. Black – cognitive neurologists specializing in stroke and dementia
 - Paul Cavalluzzo – Lawyer, Senior Partner, Cavalluzzo Shilton McIntyre Cornish LLP, Barristers and Solicitors
 - Catherine Colquhoun – volunteer
 - David Crombie – three-term mayor of Toronto
 - Nathalie Des Rosiers – legal expert
 - Marcel Desautels – philanthropist
 - Sara Diamond – artist and president of OCAD University
 - Charles Garrad – archaeologist, historian, and scholar
 - Peter Gilgan – developer and philanthropist
 - Frank Hayden – created Special Olympics International
 - Donald Jackson – world gold medalist in male figure skating
 - Zeib Jeeva – founding member of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund
 - Howard McCurdy – scientist, civil rights activist and MPP
 - Arthur McDonald – physicist
 - Noella Milne – lawyer and volunteer
 - Suzanne Pinel – French-language educator and television personality
 - Ucal Powell – head of Ontario's Carpenter's Union
 - Barbara Reid – children's author and illustrator
 - Alison Rose – documentary filmmaker and reporter
 - Linda Schuyler – co-creator and executive producer of the Degrassi television franchise
 - Dr. Louis Siminovitch – geneticist
 - Rahul Singh – founder of GlobalMedic
 - Connie Smith – journalist, television host and teacher
 - The Honourable Ray Stortini – retired Superior Court Judge
 - John Tory – lawyer, business leader, community activist, broadcaster and former MPP
 
2012
Reference:[6]
- Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish – physician, human rights and peace activist
 - Michael Burgess – actor and singer
 - Mark Cohon – commissioner of the Canadian Football League
 - Glen Cook – businessman and restored and preserved the historic Puce River Black Community Cemetery
 - Stephen Cook – computer scientist
 - Phyllis Creighton – chair of the Ontario Mental Health Foundation and the Addiction Research Foundation's clinical institute
 - Michael Davies – businessman and philanthropist
 - Ronald Deibert – director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs
 - Dr. Rory Fisher – headed the Department of Extended Care at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto for almost 20 years
 - Anne Golden – administrator
 - Joan Green – Toronto Board of Education's first female CEO
 - Dr. Vladimir Hachinski – neurologist and teacher
 - John D. Honsberger – lawyer
 - Dr. Shafique Keshavjee – thoracic surgeon and world leader in lung transplantation
 - Fr. Joseph MacDonald – founder of Poverello Charities Ontario
 - Don MacKinnon – advocate of Ontario's energy industry
 - Deepa Mehta – filmmaker and women's rights activist
 - Vincent Pawis – Native Inmate Liaison Officer
 - Sr. Helen Petrimoulx – advocate for refugees
 - The Honourable Sydney Robins – Supreme Court of Ontario judge
 - Dr. Gail Robinson – psychiatrist, professor and advocate, she co-founded Canada's first rape crisis centre
 - Mamdouh Shoukri – president and vice-chancellor of York University
 - Barry Smit – professor and climate change researcher
 - Brian Stewart – reporter and foreign correspondent
 - Frank Tierney – teacher and founder of the Borealis Press and Tecumseh Press
 
2013
Reference:[7]
- Irving Abella – scholar and historian
 - Dr. Mohit Bhandari – orthopaedic surgeon and researcher
 - Paul Burston – public servant
 - George E. Carter – lawyer and the first Canadian-born Black judge
 - Ellen Campbell – founder and CEO of the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness
 - Penny Collenette – leader and innovator
 - Ronald Common – President of Sault College
 - Paul Corkum – physicist and the father of attosecond science
 - David Cronenberg – filmmaker
 - Alvin Curling – first Black Speaker of the Ontario Legislature
 - Allison Fisher – Executive Director of Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health
 - Claude Gingras – former chair of the Fondation Franco-Ontarienne
 - Avvy Yao Yao Go – lawyer
 - Piers Handling – Director and CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival
 - Paul Henderson – hockey player and mentor
 - Justin Hines – singer, songwriter and founder of Justin Hines Foundation
 - Ronald Jamieson – former Senior Vice President of Aboriginal Banking at BMO Financial Group
 - Jeanne Lamon – Music Director of Toronto's Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
 - Frances Noronha – civil servant
 - Lyn McLeod – former leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
 - Diane Morrison – former Executive Director of the Mission, an Ottawa homeless shelter
 - Steve Paikin – journalist and television host
 - Dr. James Rutka – pediatric neurosurgeon and researcher
 - Adel Sedra – engineering scholar, professor and administrator
 - Toby Tanenbaum – philanthropist and volunteer
 
2014
Reference:[8]
- Mary Anne Chambers – Cabinet Minister and MPP
 - Ming-Tat Cheung – cardiologist and medical researcher
 - Michael Dan – neurosurgeon and philanthropists
 - Don Drummond – economist
 - Rick Green – performer, writer and advocate for people with ADD
 - Patrick Gullane – head and neck surgeon
 - Joseph Halstead – civil servant and administrator
 - Alis Kennedy – Métis leader
 - Sylvie Lamoureux – teacher, scholar, and academic
 - Gilles LeVasseur – lawyer, economist and professor
 - Gary Levy – founding Director of the Multi-Organ Transplant Program at Toronto General Hospital
 - Sidney B. Linden – former Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice
 - Barbara MacQuarrie – advocate for women's rights
 - Eva Marszewski – founder and Executive Director of Peacebuilders International
 - Marilyn McHarg – Co-founder and former Executive Director of the Canadian branch of Doctors Without Borders/Médécins Sans Frontières
 - Hans Messner – scientist and physician
 - James Murray – philanthropist
 - Robert Nixon – former Minister of Finance and leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
 - Dhun Noria – surgical pathologist
 - Maryka Omatsu – retired Ontario Court Justice and Canada's first Asian-Canadian female judge
 - Charles Pachter – artist
 - John Ralston Saul – writer and lecturer
 - Najmul Siddiqui – entrepreneur, community leader and philanthropist
 - Jeffrey Turnbull – physician, humanitarian and Medical Director of Ottawa Inner City Health
 - Dolores Wawia – pioneer in native education
 - David Williams – Canadian astronaut, physician and scientist
 - Warren Winkler – former labour lawyer, mediator and Chief Justice of Ontario
 
2015
Reference:[9]
- Hugh Allen – Surgeon and Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology
 - Susan Bailey – Nurse, Teacher and Pioneer in Palliative care
 - Isabel Bassett – Former Ontario Cabinet Minister and MPP
 - Monica Elaine Campbell – Pioneer in the Development of Palliative Care Services for the Deaf in Ontario
 - Dennis Chippa – Community Leader and Humanitarian
 - Wendy Craig – Professor of Psychology at Queen's University and Expert on the Prevention of Bullying
 - Gordon Cressy – Former Politician, Public Servant, Humanitarian, Mentor and Youth Advocate
 - Madeline Edwards – Community Advocate and Founding Member of the Congress of Black Women of Mississauga and Area Chapter
 - Hoda ElMaraghy – Professor and Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Center at the University of Windsor
 - Robert Fowler – Critical Care Physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Associate Professor of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto
 - Herbert Gaisano – Professor and Researcher at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine and Gastroenterologists
 - John Gignac – Veteran Fire Captain
 - June Girvan – Founder of the J'Nikira Dinqinesh Education Centre in Ottawa
 - Beverley Gordon – Founding CEO of The Safehaven Project for Community Living
 - Richard Gosling – community leader and youth advocate
 - Stephen Goudge – Former Judge in the Court of Appeal for Ontario
 - Anton Kuerti – Concert Pianist and Composer
 - Rita Letendre – Painter, Muralist and Printmaker
 - Jackie Maxwell – Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival
 - Errol Mendes – Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, Author and Advocate for the Universal Application of Human Rights
 - Julian Nedzelski – Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist and Head and Neck Surgeon at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and a Pioneer of Cochlear Implants in Ontario
 - Mike Parkhill – Founder of SayITFirst
 - René Pitre – Business Leader and Advocate of French Language Culture, Community and Education in Ontario
 - Donna Trella – Founder of Reach for the Rainbow
 - Stanley Zlotkin – A Nutrition Specialist and Researcher at The Hospital for Sick Children
 
2016
Reference:[10]
- Peter A. Adamson – Surgical Specialist in Otolaryngology
 - Mehran Anvari – Surgical Robotics Pioneer
 - Donovan Bailey – Track and Field Icon
 - Jennifer Bond – Professor of Law and Human Rights Advocate
 - Angèle Brunelle – Advocate for Northwest Ontario's Francophone Community
 - Ronald F. Caza – Lawyer and Defender of Francophone Linguistic Rights
 - Anthony Kam Chuen Chan – Pediatric Hematologist and Scientist
 - Ethel Côté – Entrepreneur, Volunteer and Community leader
 - Jim Estill – Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
 - Carol Finlay – Anglican Priest and Education Advocate
 - Cheryl Forchuk – Scholar in the Fields of Homelessness, Poverty and Mental Health
 - Dorothée Gizenga – International Development Expert and Human Rights Advocate
 - Shirley Greenberg – Lawyer and Women's Rights Advocate
 - Robert Pio Hajjar – Motivational Speaker
 - Greta Hodgkinson – Prima Ballerina
 - Dorothy Anna Jarvis – Pediatrician
 - Lisa LaFlamme – Broadcast Journalist
 - M.G. Venkatesh Mannar – Expert in Food Science Technologies and Nutrition
 - Ernest Matton (Little Brown Bear) – Community Capacity Builder and Spiritual Ambassador
 - Dennis O'Connor – former Associate Chief Justice of Ontario
 - David Pearson – Professor and Promoter of Science Communication
 - Fran Rider – Women's Hockey Advocate
 - Beverley Salmon – Anti-Racism and Community Activist
 - Hugh Segal – Public Servant
 - Helga Stephenson – Arts Administrator and Human Rights Activist
 - Margo Timmins – Vocalist
 
2017
Reference:[11]
- Dr. Upton Allen – pediatric infectious disease specialist
 - Daniel Aykroyd – actor and entrepreneur
 - Dr. Alan Bernstein – cancer researcher and research leader
 - Dr. David Cechetto – neuroscientist and director of international medical development projects
 - Dr. Peter Chang – lawyer and psychiatrist
 - The Honourable Sandra Chapnik – lawyer and judge
 - Dr. Tom Chau – biomedical engineer
 - Dr. Dorothy Cotton – psychologist and mental health advocate
 - Peter Dinsdale – Anishinaabe community leader
 - Leslie Fagan – singer and promoter of Canadian music
 - Michael Geist – scholar and public intellectual
 - Shashi Kant – professor of forest resource economics
 - Myrtha Lapierre – retired nursing professor
 - Floyd Laughren – former MPP and Finance Minister
 - Michael Lee-Chin – entrepreneur and philanthropist
 - Gail Nyberg – former Daily Bread Food Bank executive director and former school trustee
 - Dr. Dilkhush Panjwani – psychiatrist
 - Elder Geraldine Robertson – educator and advocate for residential school survivors
 - Allan Rock – former politician and UN Ambassador
 - Robert J. Sawyer – celebrated science-fiction author
 - Sandra Shamas – writer, performer and comedian
 - Elizabeth Sheehy – criminal law, scholar
 - Ilse Treurnicht – CEO and advocate for women and innovation
 
2018
Reference:[12]
- Jean Augustine – politician and social justice advocate
 - Salah Bachir – businessman and philanthropist
 - Dr. Sue Carstairs – veterinarian and conservationist
 - Ralph Chiodo – entrepreneur and philanthropist
 - Dr. Zane Cohen – colorectal surgeon
 - Dwayne De Rosario – soccer player
 - Michele DiEmanuele – CEO and public servant
 - Philip Epstein – lawyer, scholar in family law
 - Dr. Aaron Fenster – biomedical physicist
 - Mark Freiman – lawyer, public servant and former Deputy Attorney General of Ontario
 - Emmanuelle Gattuso – philanthropist
 - Mary Gordon – social entrepreneur, educator and child advocate
 - Edward Greenspon – journalist
 - Spider Jones – sports journalist, author and member of the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame
 - Neal Jotham – animal welfare advocate
 - Dalton McGuinty – provincial politician and former Premier of Ontario 2003-2013
 - Peter Menkes – businessman
 - Janice O'Born – entrepreneur and philanthropist
 - Cheryl Perea – child advocate
 - Dr. Lyne Pitre – physician and educator
 - Col. A. Britton (Brit) Smith – philanthropist
 
2019
Reference:[13]
- Melanie Adrian – law professor at Carleton University
 - Roland Armitage – former Ontario politician and Member of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
 - Dr. Allan Carswell – physicist
 - Helen Ching-Kircher – businesswoman and philanthropist
 - John Colangeli – CEO of Lutherwood and Lutherwood Child and Family Foundation
 - Nancy Coldham – businesswoman and philanthropist
 - Sean Conway – former Ontario Cabinet Minister under David Peterson
 - Clare Copeland – former Chair of Toronto Hydro
 - Barbara Croall – composer and musician
 - Lisa Farano – charity executive
 - Geoffrey Fernie – biomedical engineer
 - Dr. Allan Fox – neuroscientist
 - John Freund – author and peace activist
 - Susan Hay – journalist
 - Dr. John Jennings – historian
 - Dr. Marlys Koschinsky – Biochemistry Professor
 - James W. Leech – former head of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
 - Audrey Loeb – law professor
 - Dani Reiss – President and CEO of Canada Goose Incorporated
 - Janis Rotman – philanthropist
 - Linda Silver Dranoff – lawyer
 - Joan Sutton Straus – journalist
 
2020
Reference:[14]
- Daniel Allen – public servant
 - Dr. Joseph Raymond Buncic – physician at The Hospital for Sick Children
 - Michael DeGasperis – property developer and philanthropist
 - Dr. Raymond Desjardins – atmospheric scientist
 - Ernest Eves – former Premier of Ontario 2002-2003
 - Hershell Ezrin – public servant
 - Carlo Fidani – businessman and philanthropist
 - Karen Goldenberg – occupational therapist
 - Michael Deane Harris – former Premier of Ontario 1995-2002
 - Ellis Jacob – President and CEO of Cineplex Entertainment
 - Dr. Jing Jiang – engineering professor at the University of Western Ontario
 - Dr. Shana O. Kelley – professor at the University of Toronto
 - Dr. André Lapierre – linguistics professor at the University of Ottawa
 - Dale Lastman – lawyer
 - André M. Levesque – soldier
 - Dr. Peter Liu – cardiologist
 - Hazel McCallion – former Mayor of Mississauga 1978-2014
 - Arden McGregor – humanitarian
 - Janet McKelvy – philanthropist
 - George McLean – artist
 - Hon. Rosemary Moodie – Senator
 - Hon. Robert W. Runciman – former Senator 2010-2017
 - Dr. Marilyn Sonley – pediatric oncologist
 - Ahmad Reza Tabrizi – philanthropist
 - Hon. Karen M. Weiler – former judge
 
2021
Reference:[15]
- Payam Akhavan - human rights lawyer
 - Walter Arbib - co-founder of SkyLink Aviation
 - Teresa Cascioli - former CEO of Hamilton’s Lakeport Brewing
 - George Chuvalo - heavyweight boxing champion
 - Angela Cooper Brathwaite - nurse
 - Aimée Craft - researcher, professor, and author
 - Stephen Diamond - philanthropist
 - Nishan Duraiappah - hief of Police for Peel Region
 - Mitch Frazer - attorney
 - Leo Goldhar - philanthropist
 - Steve (Suresh) Gupta - businessman
 - Elise Harding-Davis - museum curator and professor
 - Armand P. La Barge - President of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police
 - Sandra Laronde - artist
 - Dave Levac - former Member of Provincial Parliament
 - David McKay - CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
 - Barbara Morrongiello - doctor
 - Lori Nikkel - CEO of Second Harvest
 - Rose M. Patten - banker
 - Christina Petrowska Quilico - pianist
 - Robert Poirier - former chair of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport
 - Kevin Smith - hospital administrator
 - Joan VanDuzer - creator of the Harbinger Foundation
 - Sara Waxman - author and journalist
 
2022
Reference:[16]
- Dyane Adam
 - Cindy Adams
 - Jordan Bitove
 - Vanessa Burkoski
 - Dr. Michael Cheng
 - Dianne Cunningham
 - Andre De Grasse
 - Rhoda Howard-Hassmann
 - Dr. David J. Jenkins
 - Christina Jennings
 - Dr. Mohamed Lachemi
 - Eric Lindros
 - Arthur Lockhart
 - Lorin MacDonald
 - Christine Nesbitt
 - Dr. Beverley A. Orser
 - Pauline Shirt
 - Dr. Frank Silver
 - Dr. John P. Smol
 - Dr. David Tannenbaum
 - Biagio Vinci
 - Dr. Ajay Virmani
 - Dr. Padraig Warde
 - Dr. MaryLynn West-Moynes
 - Marva Wisdom
 - Elizabeth Witmer
 
2023
Reference:[17]
- Jay Aspin
 - John M. Beck
 - Jo-Anne Clarke
 - Hon. David Collenette
 - Claire Crooks
 - Julie Di Lorenzo
 - John English
 - Lee Errett
 - Gervan Fearon
 - Patrick Foran
 - Blake C. Goldring
 - Herbert Ho Ping Kong
 - Blake Hutcheson
 - Michael Latner
 - Bernard Leduc
 - Joy MacDermid
 - Dwayne Morgan
 - Florence Ngenzebuhoro
 - Hazelle Palmer
 - Fred Possmayer
 - Peter Simon
 - Gary Slaight
 - George Trusler
 - Raquel Urtasun
 - Bhavana Varma
 
2024
Reference:[18]
- Zanana Akande
 - Martin Antony
 - Hon. Todd L. Archibald
 - Lise Bourgeois
 - Rudolph Bratty
 - Marilyn Denis
 - Nick Di Donato
 - Brian Dunne
 - Diane Dupuy, CM
 - Jeremy Freeman
 - Vivek Goel, CM
 - Brian Gover
 - Margery Holman
 - Royson James
 - Kevin Junor, MMM, CD
 - Catherine Karakatsanis
 - Winston Kassim, CM
 - Danielle Lussier
 - Alejandro Marangoni, OC, FRSC
 - Mina Mawani
 - Howard Ovens
 - Jeanne-Lucille Pattison
 - Poonam Puri
 - Elizabeth Richer
 - Jean Seely
 - Walied Soliman
 - Juliana Sprott
 - Jennifer Suess
 - Joseph Vitale
 
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