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Revision as of 18:19, 25 September 2010
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 to 1985)
- 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 medallist
- 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 (1992–1996)
- Charlotte Lemieux
- Walter Frederick Light — business executive
- Gordon Lightfoot — singer and songwriter
- Dennis McDermott — trade unionist, Canadian Director of the United Auto Workers (1968–1978), and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (1978–1986)
- 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 and 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 — university professor, 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 – author
- 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 - labour union activist
- Karen Kain - dancer
- Vicki Keith -marathon swimmer
- Wilbert Keon - heart surgeon and researcher
- Dr. Robert McClure - surgeon, missionary, Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1968–1971), 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 (1975–1980)
- Annabel Slaight
- Arthur Solomon
- Louis Temporale
- George Rutherford Walker
- Lois Miriam Wilson - first female Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1980–1982)
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 - business man 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 baron
- Donald 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
- 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 and patron of the arts
- Jean Ashworth Bartle — Founder and director of the Toronto Children's Chorus
- Allan Leslie Beattie — Lawyer and 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 and 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 of the francophone community
- Knowlton Nash — Journalist
- Alfred U. Oakie — Pioneer in the field of traffic safety
- Lloyd Seivright — International activist
- Masami Tsuruoka — Sports
- 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 — Activist with persons with disabilities
- 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 activitist
- 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 with Multiple Sclerosis sufferers
- Ernie Checkeris — Educator and activist, Chancellor of Thorneloe University, Sudbury
- George A. Cohon — Chicago-born lawyer and Founder and Senior Chairman of McDonald's Restaurants of Canada and philanthropist
- Lloyd Dennis — Educator
- William Andrew Dimma — Businessman and educator
- Kildare Dobbs — Writer and journalist
- Joyce Fee — Educator and community activist
- Dr. Robert Freedom — Physician, professor and author
- Donald H. Harron — Journalist, author and actor
- Jane Jacobs — American-born author and Toronto 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 and columnist
- Dr. Calvin Stiller — Physician
- Donald A. Stuart — Gold and silversmith
- Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui — Molecular geneticist and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong
- Irving Ungerman — Entrepreneur, boxer and activist
2001
- Richard M. Alway — President and 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 and teacher
- Terrence J. Donnelly — Fundraiser for cardiac research and development
- Gail J. Donner — Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, and Executive Director of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
- Fredrik Stefan Eaton — Businessman and a community volunteer
- C. Dennis Flynn — Elected official, fundraiser, community volunteer and war veteran
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Nicolas D. Georganas — Pioneer in multimedia medical communications and tele-learning
- 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, educator, neuropsychologists and behavioural neuroscientists
- 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, and recipient of the 2002 Giller Prize
- Barbara Chilcott — Actress
- Mario Cortellucci — Fundraiser
- Patricia Freeman Marshall — Community activist
- Irving R. Gerstein — Businessman and philanthropist
- Joan Goldfarb — Teacher of adults with disabilities
- Walter Gretzky — Ambassador for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation and father of Wayne Gretzky
- Phyllis M. Grosskurth — Professor emerita and fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto; winner of the Governor General's Award for non-fiction in 1965
- Dr. Raymond O. Heimbecker — Cardiovascular surgeon
- Patrick John Keenan — Volunteer
- Tom Kneebone — Actor and playwright
- Burton Kramer — Graphic designer
- Dr. Benson Lau — Physician and teacher
- J. Douglas Lawson — Volunteer, 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 — Researcher, 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 to 1972
- Lela Wilson — Champion of artists' rights
2003
- Joseph J. Barnicke — Business leader, pioneer and philanthropist
- John Kim Bell — Musician and promoter of Aboriginal culture
- Col. Archibald J. D. Brown — Businessman, community activist
- Dorothy Ellen Duncan — Teacher, curator, Executive Director of The Ontario Historical Society
- 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, author 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, activist
- 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 and community activist
- Helen Lu — Volunteer, organizer and fundraiser for charitable organizations in Toronto
- Dr. Donald Mackay — Environmental scientist, 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 — Publisher and author
- Hon. Robert Keith Rae — Lawyer, Member of Parliament, former Premier of Ontario
- Eric Wilfrid Robinson — Promoter of adult education in Canada
- Diane Simard Broadfoot — Community activist
- Joan Thompson — Volunteer
- Rita Tsang — Businesswoman
- Hon. Mabel Van Camp — Scholar, lawyer, Supreme Court Justice
- Mike Weir — Golfer, first Canadian to win the Masters Golf Tournament
- Kirk A. Wipper — Environmentalist, heritage conservationist and fitness advocate
- William John Withrow — Former director of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
2004
- Dr. Tyseer Aboulnasr — respected leader in engineering
- Jeff Adams — paralympian and world champion in wheelchair sports
- Mohammad Azhar Ali Khan — journalist and 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 and 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 (Wawrzyniec) Anthony Wnuk P.A. — outreach worker in 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 and others
- Donald Carr — Lawyer
- Brian Desbiens — Educator
- Thomas Dignan — Aboriginal healthcare advocate
- Deborah Ellis — Children's author and human rights advocate
- Hughes Eng — Community service
- Brenda L. Gallie — Expert in the treatment of retinoblastoma
- Dorothy Griffiths — Researcher, professor
- William A. Harshaw — Fundraiser, 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 and 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 and 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 — Co-founder 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
- Adeena Niazi — for her work helping newcomers settle in Canada
- Gordon M. Nixon — President and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada
- Margaret Helen Ogilvie — Chancellor’s Professor of Law at Carleton University
- Eva Olsson — Concentration camp survivor
- Marlene Ann Pierre — Aboriginal activist
- Dr. Frances A. Shepherd — University of Toronto professor
- Janice Gross Stein — Scholar
- Paul-François Sylvestre — Novelist, researcher and mentor
- William Thorsell — Director and 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[1]
- Dr. Michael Baker — physician and cancer researcher
- Dr. Sheela Basrur — Former Chief Medical Officer of Ontario[2]
- George Brady — human rights advocate, public speaker and Auschwitz survivor
- Jack Chiang — journalist, for his community service work
- 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
- 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 Chippewas of Georgina Island.
- 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. He is a founder of the International Development and Relief Foundation.[3]
- 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[4]
- 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; Assoc Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; President of Médecins Sans Frontières (1998–2001)
- Bonnie Patterson
- Shirley Peruniak
- Alice Porter
- Ken Shaw - News reader, CTV
- Janet Stewart
- Shirley Thomson - Civil servant
- George Turnbull
- Dr. Mladen Vranic
- Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik
References
- ^ Order of Ontario appointments announced
- ^ Howlett, Karen (2008-04-12). "SARS 'Mighty Mouse' named to Order of Ontario". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
- ^ http://news.ontario.ca/mci/en/2009/01/order-of-ontario-appointments-announced.html
- ^ "29 Appointees Named To Ontario's Highest Honour". Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration. 2010-01-25. Retrieved 2010-01-27.