List of members of the Order of Ontario

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

Dr. Michael Baker – physician, cancer researcher

Dr. Sheela Basrur – Former Chief Medical Officer of Ontario

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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