Doctor of Literature
- 1962 Henry Devenish Skinner
- 1963 Charles Orwell Brasch
- 1963 Esmond Samuel de Beer
- 1969 William Parker Morrell
- 1969 John Cawte Beaglehole
- 1978 Janet Clutha (née Frame)
- 1978 Ruth Minnie Dallas (née Mumford)
- 1981 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
- 1984 Norman Davis
- 1984 Daniel Marcus Davin
- 1994 Ernest Alan Horsman
- 1996 James Ng
- 1998 Hone Tuwhare
- 1999 George John Griffiths
- 1999 Geoffrey Sandford Cox
- 1999 Annette Claire Baier
- 2001 Shona Katrine Dunlop MacTavish
- 2002 Christopher Francis Rivers de Hamel
- 2005 William Manhire
- 2007 Mary Allan Ronnie
- 2008 Priscilla Muriel McQueen
- 2009 Barbara Lillias Romaine Anderson
- 2009 Shirley Erena Murray
- 2011 Brian Lindsay Turner
- 2019 Bridget Rosamund Williams
Doctor of Music
- 1969 Douglas Gordon Lilburn
- 1994 William David Southgate
- 2007 Patricia Katherine Payne
Doctor of Divinity
- 1976 Lloyd George Geering
- 1976 Harold Walter Turner
- 2000 George Angus Fulton Knight
- 2000 Graham Norman Stanton
- 2009 Paul Oestreicher
Doctor of Laws
- 1962 Hubert James Ryburn
- 1962 Robert John Tainsh Belly
- 1962 Charles Ernest Hercus
- 1967 Elizabeth Gregory
- 1968 Arthur Espie Porritt
- 1968 Carl Victor Smith
- 1969 Harold Eric Barrowclough
- 1969 John Maclellan Bates
- 1969 Allen Howard Johnston
- 1969 Robert Stevenson Aitken
- 1969 Arthur Beacham
- 1969 Clarence Edward Beeby
- 1969 John Waddell Hayward
- 1969 John Alexander Lee
- 1969 John Lochiel Robson
- 1970 Arnold Henry Nordmeyer
- 1972 Robert Martin Williams
- 1973 Ratu Sir Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilau Mara
- 1975 Ronald Victor Christie
- 1978 William John Harris
- 1978 Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey
- 1979 John Spenser Somerville
- 1979 Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd
- 1982 Maurice Joel
- 1990 Shridath Surendranath Ramphal
- 1990 James Archibald Valentine
- 1990 James Bruce Robertson
- 1993 Silvia Rose Cartwright
- 1993 Haji Sulaiman bin Haji Daud
- 1993 Iona Williams (née Livingston)
- 1993 Robin Orlando Hamilton Irvine
- 1994 Neville Clifford Bain
- 1994 Dorothy Rita Fraser
- 1994 Douglas William Girvan
- 1994 Ralph Hotere
- 1996 Peter Wilfred Tapsell
- 1997 Frank Wakefield Holmes
- 1998 Judith Olwyn Medlicott
- 1998 Judith Mayhew
- 2000 Leo Moggie
- 2001 Ahmad Azizuddin Bin Zainal Abidin
- 2002 Allan James Hubbard
- 2003 Eion Sinclair Edgar
- 2004 Graeme Fogelberg
- 2004 Paratene Ngata
- 2005 Thomas Robert Alexander Harries Davis
- 2005 Jeremy James Waldron
- 2005 Michael Andrew Stedman
- 2006 Malcolm John Grant
- 2007 Mary Patricia McAleese
- 2007 John Hall-Jones
- 2008 Mason Harold Durie
- 2008 Lindsay John Brown
- 2008 Edward John McCoy
- 2009 Michael John Cullen
- 2009 Trevor Donald Scott
- 2010 Marilynn Lois Webb
- 2011 David Christopher Graham Skegg
- 2014 Christine Ruth French
- 2017 Stanley Victor Paris
- 2018 John Francis Ward
- 2019 Atholl John Anderson
- 2019 Viopapa Annandale-Atherton
- 2019 Simon William English
- 2019 Brigid Anne Inder
- 2019 Forrest Miller
- 2019 Julian Charles Stanley Smith
- 2019 Clive Bentley Ross
- 2019 Carla Marja Olga van Zon
- 2021 Harlene Hayne
Doctor of Science
- 1962 William Percy Gowland
- 1965 Richard Wright Willette
- 1967 Frederick George Soper
- 1968 Muriel Emma Bell
- 1969 Basil Glover Bibby
- 1969 Derek Ernest Denny-Brown
- 1969 Charles Alfred Coulson
- 1972 Herbert Dudley Purves
- 1974 John Thorpe Holloway
- 1975 Charles Ritchie Burns
- 1975 Eric Frederick D'Ath
- 1975 Thomas Russell Cumming Fraser
- 1975 Edward George Sayers
- 1975 Frederick Horace Smirk
- 1975 John Arthur Stallworthy
- 1975 Stanley Livingstone Wilson
- 1975 John Patrick Walsh
- 1979 Terence Albert Rodgers
- 1989 Allan Charles Wilson
- 1995 William Sefton Fyfe
- 1997 Mazlan binti Othman
- 1997 Alison Margaret Holst
- 1997 Murray Frederick Brennan
- 1999 James Julian Bennett Jack
- 2000 William Ian McDonald
- 2000 John Bullamore Mackie
- 2000 George Bouet Petersen
- 2006 Beryl Overton Howie
- 2007 John Bevan Gavin
- 2007 Robert Gordon Webster
- 2010 James Robert Flynn
- 2013 Audrey Lily Eagle
- 2013 Helen Elisabeth Heslop
- 2014 Peter David Gluckman
- 2014 Alan Francis Mark
- 2019 William Alexander Robertson
Doctor of Commerce
- 2014 Graeme James Marsh
- 2015 Ian Ferguson Farrant
- 2017 Graeme Richard Hart
- 2018 Norman Michael Thomas Geary
- 2019 John Frederick Judge