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. [1]
The University of Waikato, informally Waikato University, is a comprehensive university in Hamilton, New Zealand. The university was established in 1964, and has a satellite campus located in Tauranga.
Bryan Charles Gould is a former British politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1979, and again from 1983 to 1994. He was a member of the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet from 1986 to 1992, and stood unsuccessfully for the leadership of the party in 1992.
Dame Te Atairangikaahu was the Māori queen for 40 years, the longest reign of any Māori monarch. Her full name and title was Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu. Her title Te Arikinui and name Te Atairangikaahu were bestowed when she became monarch; previously she was known as Princess Piki Mahuta and, after marriage, Princess Piki Paki.
Pukekohe High School is a high school in Pukekohe in the Auckland Region of New Zealand.
Sir Dryden Thomas Spring is a New Zealand businessman, who was chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Board from 1989 to 1998, chairman of New Zealand Dairy Group from 1982 to 1987, and chairman of ANZ New Zealand from 2007 to 2012.
Michael Adrian Peters is a New Zealand education academic. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Sir Ross Malcolm Jansen was mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand, from 1977 to 1989. He was an expert in local government, held a variety of positions, was academically acknowledged, and received a number of honours.
James Te Wharehuia Milroy was a New Zealand academic and expert in the Māori language. He was of Ngāi Tūhoe descent. Together with Tīmoti Kāretu and Pou Temara, Milroy was a lecturer at Te Panekiretanga o te Reo, which the three professors founded in 2004.
Diggeress Rangituatahi Te Kanawa was a New Zealand Māori tohunga raranga of Ngati Maniapoto and Ngati Kinohaku descent. At the time of her death she was regarded as New Zealand's most renowned weaver.
Sydney Campbell Smith, generally known as Campbell Smith, was a New Zealand playwright, poet and wood engraver.
Dr Huirangi Eruera Waikerepuru (CNZM) is a New Zealand Māori language activist and trade unionist of Taranaki and Ngāpuhi descent. He was active in the foundation and governance of Māori language radio and television. He had a 30-year relationship with the Tertiary Education Union and predecessors, which represents academic and general staff in universities and polytechnics.
Heni Sunderland or Heni Materoa Brown; Nanny Heni was a Māori kaumātua in New Zealand. She stood up for women's rights in her community and she represented her community in establishing their rights.
Kate Diesfeld is a New Zealand health law academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology.
Wilfred Gordon Malcolm was a New Zealand mathematician and university administrator. He was professor of pure mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington from the mid 1970s, until serving as vice-chancellor of the University of Waikato between 1985 and 1994.