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
• 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 Ph.D. 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
• 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
• Henry N. R. 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 M. 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 K. 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 — Supreme Court of Canada Justice
• 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

2006

• 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 - youth activists
• 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

• 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 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

2009

• 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

2010

• 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

References

• List of Order of Ontario recipients

2011

 * Peter Adams
 * Dr. Anna Banerji
 * Dr. Sandra E. Black
 * Paul Cavalluzzo
 * 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
 * Claude Lamoureux (appointed in 2008)