List of honorary doctors of the University of Waikato
The list of Honorary Doctors of the University of Waikto below shows the recipients of honorary doctorates bestowed by the University of Waikato since its foundation in 1964.
| Year | Recipient |
| 1967 | Lord Ballantrae |
| 1968 | Pei te Hurinui Jones |
| 1969 | Arthur de Terrotte Nevill |
| 1971 | Donald Wilfred Arcus |
| 1971 | Denis Rogers |
| 1971 | Richard Bristowe Waddington |
| 1979 | Te Atairangikaahu |
| 1979 | Frank Maine Bateson |
| 1980 | Jack Stanford Allan |
| 1982 | Henry Rongomau Bennett |
| 1983 | Henare Tuwhangai |
| 1984 | Ross Malcolm Jansen |
| 1985 | Donald Rees Llewellyn |
| 1986 | Phyllis Myra Guthardt |
| 1986 | Dorothy Jessie Stafford |
| 1986 | Rangikaiamokura Wirihana Hetet |
| 1987 | David Lance Tompkins |
| 1990 | Norman William Kingsbury |
| 1992 | Janet Frame |
| 1992 | Edwin George Morgan |
| 1993 | Mary Josephine Drayton |
| 1993 | Donald Murray Stafford |
| 1994 | Silvia Rose Cartwright |
| 1995 | Edward Taihakurei Junior Durie |
| 1994 | Malvina Lorraine Major |
| 1994 | Waea Mauriohooho |
| 1994 | Charlotte Rachel Anwyl Wallace |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Ursula Alley |
| 1995 | Wilfred Gordon Malcolm |
| 1995 | Jeanette King |
| 1995 | Te Huirangi Waikerepuru |
| 1996 | Kiri Te Kanawa |
| 1996 | Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira |
| 1997 | Peter Tapsell |
| 1997 | Hiko Hohepa |
| 1997 | Manuhuia Augustus Bennett |
| 1998 | Kevin Roberts |
| 1998 | Paul Woodford Day |
| 1999 | Douglas Arthur Montrose Graham |
| 1999 | Koro Wētere |
| 1999 | Gerald David Gibb Bailey |
| 2000 | Neil Finn |
| 2001 | Tim Finn |
| 2002 | Ida Margaret Gaskin |
| 2002 | Michael King |
| 2002 | Michael MacRae Hanna |
| 2002 | Hirini Melbourne |
| 2003 | Tui Adams |
| 2004 | Margaret Anne Wilson |
| 2004 | David Gordon Edgar |
| 2004 | Caroline Bennett |
| 2004 | Apirana Tūāhae Mahuika |
| 2004 | Hare Wakakaraka Puke |
| 2005 | James Te Wharehuia Milroy |
| 2005 | Margaret Mahy |
| 2006 | Kenneth Owen Arvidson |
| 2006 | Jeffrey Alexander Jones |
| 2006 | Howard Leslie Morrison |
| 2006 | Bryan Charles Gould |
| 2006 | Edmund Percival Hillary |
| 2007 | Diggeress Rangituatahi Te Kanawa |
| 2008 | Brian Richard Perry |
| 2008 | John Allan Gallagher |
| 2008 | William Murray Gallagher |
| 2008 | Rudolf Hendrik Kleinpaste |
| 2008 | Tīmoti Samuel Kāretu |
| 2008 | Tessa Duder |
| 2009 | Heni Materoa Sunderland |
| 2009 | Zena Daysh |
| 2009 | Peter Godfrey Scott Sergel |
| 2009 | Hamish Keith |
| 2009 | Wilson James Whineray |
| 2009 | Lynley Stuart Dodd |
| 2010 | Max Martin Gibbs |
| 2010 | Margaret Bedggood Mulgan |
| 2010 | Roka Pahewa Paora |
| 2010 | Jon Mayson |
| 2011 | James Judd |
| 2011 | Catherine Moana Dewes |
| 2011 | Jools Topp |
| 2011 | Lynda Topp |
| 2012 | Campbell Smith |
| 2012 | Roger Hill |
| 2013 | Gordon Keith Stephenson |
| 2013 | Bernard Thomas Crosby |
| 2013 | Susan Elizabeth Anne Devoy |
| 2013 | Patrick Hogan |
| 2014 | Warren Scotter |
| 2014 | Dryden Spring |
| 2015 | Richard William Tonks |
| 2015 | Morehu Ngatoko Rahipere |
| 2016 | Robert James Crawford |
| 2016 | David John Moxon |
| 2016 | Denis George Browne |
| 2016 | Kīngi Tuheitia |
| 2017 | Charles Hines Daugherty |
| 2017 | Ian George Jowett |
| 2017 | Maxwell Harold Gimblett |
| 2017 | Helen Elizabeth Clark |
| 2019 | Derek Arana Te Ahi Lardelli |