- John Diefenbaker
John George Diefenbaker, CH, PC, QC, BA, MA, LL.B, LL.D, DCL, FRSC, FRSA, D.Litt, DSL, (18 September 1895 - 16 August 1979) was the 13th Prime Minister of Canada (1957 - 1963). Diefenbaker was known by several nicknames during his career, "J.G.D." and "The Leader" (a moniker that continued to be applied to him even after his leaving the post of prime minister), but most affectionately as "Dief the Chief" or simply "the Chief". - Pierre Berton
Pierre Francis Berton, CC, O.Ont, BA, D.Litt (July 12, 1920 - November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist. An accomplished storyteller, Berton was one of Canada's most prolific and popular authors. He wrote 50 books, including ones on popular culture, Canadian history, critiques of mainstream religion, anthologies, … - Marcus Jastrow
Marcus Mordechai Jastrow (June 5, 1829, Rogasen, Prussian Poland - October 13, 1903, Germantown, Pennsylvania) was a renowned Talmudic scholar, most famously known for his authorship of the popular and comprehensive "A Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature". Jastrow was born in Posen, Poland. After receiving rabbinical ordination, Ph.D., and "Doctorate of Letters" (D.Litt), … - Mavor Moore
James Mavor Moore, CC, OBC, BA, D.Litt (March 8, 1919 - December 18, 2006) was a Canadian writer, producer, actor, public servant, critic, and educator. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Francis John Moore, an Anglican theologian, and Dora Mavor Moore, who helped establish Canadian professional theatre in the 1930s and 1940s, Moore graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto in 1941. During World War II, he was an intelligence officer. - Farley Mowat
Farley McGill Mowat OC, BA, D.Litt (born May 12, 1921 in Belleville, Ontario) is a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors. Many of his most popular works have been memoirs of his childhood, his war service, and his work as a naturalist. His works have been translated into 52 languages and he has sold more than 14 million books. A movie about his experiences with wolves, titled "Never Cry Wolf", was released to widespread popularity in 1983. - P. K. Page
Patricia Kathleen Page,CC, OBC, D.Litt (born November 23, 1916), commonly known as P. K. Page, is a Canadian poet. She was born in England and moved with her family to Canada in 1919. She now lives in Victoria, British Columbia. In 1977 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1998. In 2006, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. <sup></sup> - Dorothy Livesay
Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, OC, OBC, M.Ed, D.Litt, FRSC (12 October 1909 - 29 December 1996) was a Canadian poet. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of J.F.B. Livesay and Florence Randal Livesay, she moved to Toronto, Ontario with her family in 1920. Livesay received a BA in 1931 from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and received a diploma from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work in 1934. - W. O. Mitchell
William Ormond Mitchell, PC, OC, D.Litt better known as W.O. Mitchell (March 13, 1914 - February 25, 1998) was a Canadian writer. W. O. Mitchell was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Manitoba and then completed his BA and a teaching certificate at the University of Alberta in 1943. An author of novels, short stories, and plays, he is best known for his 1947 novel, "Who Has Seen The Wind", … - Tom Devine
Professor Tom M Devine (Thomas Martin Devine) OBE FRSE FBA (born Motherwell, Scotland 1945) is a well-known and widely published Scottish historian. His main research interest is Scottish history since c.1600. He is widely regarded as the pre-eminent authority on the history of modern Scotland. In April 2005, he was appointed to the Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh, … - William Hutt
William Ian DeWitt Hutt, CC, O.Ont, MM, BA, DFA, D.Litt (May 2, 1920 - June 27, 2007) was a Canadian actor of stage and film. Hutt was born in Toronto, Ontario, the second of three children. Hutt served five years as a medic during World War II, receiving the Military Medal for "bravery in the field". After the war, he received his BA in 1948 from Trinity College of the University of Toronto, … - Claude Bissell
Claude Thomas Bissell, CC, MA, FRSC, D.Litt (10 February 1916 - 21 June 2000) was a Canadian author and educator. He was the eighth president of the University of Toronto from 1958 to 1971. He played a major part in the expansion of the University of Toronto, tripling the size of the university during his tenure. He was born in Meaford, Ontario, the youngest of nine children. - Roy Thomson 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
Sir Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, GBE, D.Litt, D.C.L, LL.D, L.H.D. (June 5, 1894 - August 4, 1976) was a newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur. Thomson was born in Toronto, the son of Herbert Thomson, an Ontario barber. Herbert Thomson was a telegraphist turned barber at the Grosvenor Hotel in Toronto and married English born Alice Coombs. He was born in Toronto to Hugh Thomson and Mary Nichol Sylvester. - Eli Mandel
Eli Mandel PhD, D.Litt (hon.) (3 December 1922 - 3 September 1992) was a Canadian poet and literary academic. He was born Elias Wolf Mandel in Estevan, Saskatchewan to Jewish parents who emigrated from Russia. After serving in Canada's Medical Corps during World War 2, he studied English at the University of Saskatchewan attaining a Master of Arts degree in 1950. His further studies at the University of Toronto would earn him a PhD in 1957. - John Hemming
John Hemming (born 1935) is a Canadian-born explorer and author. Hemming was born in Vancouver - because his father had been through the trenches in the First War, saw the Second coming, and wanted him born in North America. So he sent John's mother on a cruise through the Panama Canal that ended in British Columbia; but John was brought back to London when he was two months old. He is a proud Canadian but has not been there since visiting Expo in 1967. - Joe Schlesinger
Joe Schlesinger, CM, D.Litt (born 1928) is a Canadian television journalist and author. Born in Vienna, Austria, his family moved to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. In 1939, his parents sent him and his brother to a school for Czechoslovakian refugees in Wales organized by Nicholas Winton to escape the anti-semitism of continental Europe during World War II. After the war, he returned to Bratislava and found out that his parents had been killed in the Holocaust. - Joan Clark
Joan Clark BA, D.Litt (hon.) (née MacDonald is a Canadian fiction author. Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957. She has worked as a teacher Clark lived in Alberta for two decades and attended Edmonton's University of Alberta. - Henry Hall
Dr Henry Reginald Holland Hall MBE, FBA, FSA (30th September 1873 — 13th October 1930) was an English Egyptologist and historian. Henry R.H. Hall was the son of Sydney Hall, MVO, MA, a portrait painter and illustrator for "The Graphic" newspaper, and his wife Hannah Holland. He went to Merchant Taylors' School and showed an interest in history and ancient Egypt from an early age. By the age of 11 he wrote a history of Persia, … - Hugh Marwick
Dr Hugh Marwick (November 30, 1881, Rousay, Orkney - May 21, 1965, Kirkwall) was a Scottish scholar noted for his research on the Orkney Norn. His MA was from the University of Edinburgh, who awarded his D.Litt in 1926 after he had worked many years on his doctoral thesis, the basis for his book "The Orkney Norn". While researching and writing, he was also headmaster of Kirkwall Grammar School (then called the Burgh School). - Jameel Jalibi
Prof. Dr. Jameel Jalibi Ph.D., D.Litt, is a noted linguist, critic, writer, researcher, educationist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics from Pakistan. He assumed the office of University of Karachi Vice-Chancellor and Professor & Chairman of the Department of Urdu, University of Karachi in 1980s. - Moinuddin Aqeel
Dr. Moinuddin Aqeel is an author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics from Pakistan. He remained associated with the University of Karachi as Professor and Chairman, Department of Urdu and Director Bureau of Composition, Compilation and Translation. Dr. Aqeel earned M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Karachi and became one of the few scholars of the subcontinent who were granted a D.litt degree from the same institution. - Abul Lais Siddiqui
Dr. Abul Lais Siddiqui or Abul Laith Siddiqui is an author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics from Pakistan. He remained associated with the University of Karachi as Professor and Chairman, Department of Urdu. Dr. Siddiqui earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Urdu and D.Litt. by Karachi University. He also remained associated with School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK and Columbia University, … - Henry Hicks
Henry Davies Hicks, CC, QC, BA, B.Sc, BCL, MA, D.Ed, DCL, LL.D, D.Litt (March 5, 1915 - December 9, 1990) was a lawyer, university administrator, and politician in Nova Scotia. He was elected to the provincial legislature in 1945 as a Liberal and served as minister of education from 1949 to 1954 in the government of Angus L. MacDonald. When MacDonald died, Hicks ran for the Liberal party leadership against interim leader and Premier Harold Connolly. - Philip Babcock Gove
Philip Babcock Gove (1902-1972) was an American lexicographer who was editor-in-chief of the controversial "Webster's Third New International Dictionary", published in 1961. Born in Concord, New Hampshire, he received his A.B. from Dartmouth College, his A.M. from Harvard University, his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and his D.Litt from Dartmouth. He started working for the G. and C. Merriam Company in 1946. - Eleanor Constance Lodge
Eleanor Constance Lodge, CBE, was born on 18 September 1869 at Hanley, Staffordshire. She was Vice-Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1890 to 1921 and then Principal of Westfield College, Hampstead, in the University of London from 1921 to 1931. She was the first woman recipient of a D.Litt by the University of Oxford, in 1928, which was awarded for her work in the field of modern history. She died aged 66 on 19 March 1936 at Oxford. - Syed Waqar Ahmed Rizvi
Dr. Syed Waqar Ahmed Rizvi (b. Dec 05 1936) is an author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics from Pakistan. He remained associated with the University of Karachi as Professor of Urdu and Arabic. Dr. Waqar earned M.A. Urdu (1961), University of Delhi, … - Digby Jones Baron Jones of Birmingham
Sir Digby Jones, who articulates policy on behalf of thousands of private companies across Britain, said: “Strong, effective and informed leadership is crucial to the success of British business. This state-of-the art facility will make a valuable contribution to leadership development across the UK and beyond. I am delighted to launch the new centre and will follow its development with interest. - Thora Hird
Dame Thora Hird DBE (28 May 1911 - 15 March 2003) was an English actress. Thora was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She was the mother of the actress Janette Scott, and thus formerly the mother-in-law of the singer Mel Tormé. Her first ever appearance on stage was when she was two months old in a play her father was managing. Thora Hird was mainly associated with television comedy, notably the sitcoms "Meet the Wife" (a 1960s classic), … - Carol Shields
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel "The Stone Diaries", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award - Veronica Tennant
Veronica Tennant, CC, D.Litt. (born January 15, 1946) is a Canadian prima ballerina. She was born in London, England and moved to Canada with her parents in 1955. She was Prima ballerina of the National Ballet of Canada. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. In 1975 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 2003. In 2006, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. <sup></sup> - Rick Hansen
Richard Marvin Hansen CC, OBC, LLD "(honoris causa)", D.Litt. "(honoris causa)" (born August 26, 1957) is a Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist for people with spinal cord injuries. Following a car crash at the age of 15, Hansen sustained a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the belly button down. Hansen is most famous for his "Man in Motion" world tour. - Northrop Frye
Herman Northrop Frye, CC, MA (Oxon), DD, D.Litt., FRSC (July 14, 1912 - January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary critics and literary theorists of the twentieth century. - James Houston
James Archibald Houston, OC, D.Litt., FRSA, LL.D (June 12, 1921 - April 17, 2005) was a Canadian artist, designer, children's author and filmmaker who played an important role in the recognition of Inuit art and introduced printmaking to the Inuit. The name "Saumik" was attributed to him by Inuit, which means "the left handed one". Born in Toronto, Ontario, he studied art as a child with Arthur Lismer and was educated at the Ontario College of Art (1938-1940), … - Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Geoffrey Winthrop Young D.Litt. (1876 – 1958) was an English climber and author of several notable books on mountaineering. He was also a poet of some distinction and an educator that sought alternatives. He began rock climbing shortly before his first term at Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied Classics and won the "Chancellor's Medal for English Verse" two years in a row. - Bryan R. Wilson
Bryan Ronald Wilson, D.Litt. (Oxon), F.B.A. (25 June 1926, Leeds – 9 October 2004, Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire), was Reader Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Oxford and President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion 1971-75. - Maya Pencheva
Maya Pencheva (born 3 May 1947) is a Bulgarian linguist best known for her work on English word formation, semantics and language typology. <br /> Maya Pencheva, D.Litt., is Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies, St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. - Elaine Morgan
Elaine Morgan (born 1920) is a Welsh feminist writer, best known for her television work, including screenwriting most of the episodes of "Dr. Finlay's Casebook". She is also the author of several books about the aquatic ape hypothesis, among them "The Descent of Woman", "The Aquatic Ape", "The Scars of Evolution", "The Descent of the Child" and her latest, "The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis". - Charles Singer
Charles Joseph Singer (2 November 1876 - 10 June 1960) was a British historian of science and medicine. - Abul Khair Kashfi
Prof. Dr. Syed Muhammad Abul Khair Kashfi "Ph.D., D.Litt.", is an author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics from Pakistan. He remained associated with the University of Karachi as Professor and Chairman, Department of Urdu from 1958 to 1994. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan. After retirement, Dr. Kashfi devotes his time to writing, guiding research, … - Paul Langford
Professor Paul Langford (born November 20, 1945) is a British historian and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Educated at Monmouth School and Hertford College, Oxford, he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in modern history at Lincoln College in 1969, becoming a tutorial fellow in 1970. He was a university lecturer from 1971 to 1994, being elected a Reader in modern history in 1994 and a professor of modern history in 1996. - Henry de Beltgens Gibbins
Henry de Beltgens Gibbins (1865-1907) was a popular historian of 19th century England whose books were bestsellers in the late Victorian period; his "Industry in England" went to ten editions over fifteen years, and was published internationally. On his father's side he was from a Huguenot family which had moved from Hampshire to London in the late 18th century; his maternal grandfather Jean de Beltgens was a member of the House of Assembly in Dominica, West Indies.
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