Honorary appointments to the Order of Canada

The order's constitution permits the appointment of five honorary members of the Order of Canada per year. The following is a list of all honorary appointments to date; those rendered in italics were later made Canadian citizens and thus no longer regarded as honorary inductees.

#	Name	Appointment	Investiture	Death/removal	Occupation/field of endeavour
Companions
5.	Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...	3 September 1998	24 September 1998		Former President of South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans... .
6.	Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...	1 August 2000	31 October 2000	30 March 2002	Former Royal Consort of Canada.
9.	Frank Gehry Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...	12 November 2002	16 June 2003		Architect.
10.	Boutros Boutros-Ghali Boutros Boutros-Ghali Boutros Boutros-Ghali is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996...	8 May 2003	7 May 2004		Former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
11.	Václav Havel Václav Havel Václav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally...	8 May 2003	3 March 2004		Former President of the Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest.... .
12.	Aga Khan IV Aga Khan IV Prince Karim, Aga Khan IV, NPk, NI, KBE, CC, GCC, GCIH, GCM is the 49th and current Imam of the Shia Imami Nizari Ismaili Muslims. He has held this position under the title of Aga Khan since July 11, 1957, when, at the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan...	29 October 2004	6 June 2005		Imam Imam An imam is an Islamic leadership position, often the worship leader of a mosque and the Muslim community. Similar to spiritual leaders, the imam is the one who leads Islamic worship services. More often, the community turns to the mosque imam if they have a religious question... of the Shia Imami Ismaili Ismaili ' is a branch of Shia Islam. It is the second largest branch of Shia Islam, after the Twelvers... Muslims.
Officers
2.	John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism...	17 April 1997	5 November 1997	29 April 2006	Economist.
3.	James Hillier James Hillier James Hillier, was a Canadian-born scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938....	17 April 1997	5 November 1997	15 January 2007	Inventor of the electron microscope Electron microscope An electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses a beam of electrons to illuminate the specimen and produce a magnified image. Electron microscopes have a greater resolving power than a light-powered optical microscope, because electrons have wavelengths about 100,000 times shorter than... .
4.	Charles Dutoit Charles Dutoit Charles Édouard Dutoit, is a Swiss conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of French and Russian 20th century music...	23 October 1997	30 January 2002		Conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Montreal Symphony Orchestra Orchestre symphonique de Montréal is a symphony orchestra based in Montréal, Québec, Canada, with Montréal's Place des Arts as its home.-History:... .
8.	Tanya Moiseiwitsch Tanya Moiseiwitsch Tanya Moiseiwitsch, OC was an English theatre designer.Born in London, the daughter of Daisy Kennedy, an Australian concert violinist and Benno Moiseiwitsch, a famous Ukrainian classical pianist, she attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts...	10 October 2002	16 May 2003	19 February 2003	Theatre designer for the Stratford Festival.
15.	Charles Aznavour Charles Aznavour Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...	10 April 2008	5 July 2008		Musician and actor.
16.	Bernard Pivot Bernard Pivot Bernard Pivot, OC, CQ is a journalist, interviewer and host of French cultural television programmes. He is a member of the Académie Goncourt.-Biography:Pivot was born in Lyon, the son of grocers...	10 April 2008	7 May 2008		Television host and culture promoter.
18.	Sima Samar Sima Samar Dr. Sima Samar OC is a politician in Afghanistan, who served as Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan from December 2001 to 2003...	25 May 2009	17 November 2010		Human rights Human rights Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national... leader.
Members
1.	Zena Sheardown	11 October 1981	29 December 1986		Instrumental participant during the Canadian Caper Canadian caper The "Canadian Caper" was the popular name given to the covert rescue by the Government of Canada of six American diplomats who evaded capture during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran and taking of embassy personnel as hostages by the Iranians on November 4, 1979.- Sanctuary... .
7.	Lois Lilienstein	1 May 2002	24 October 2003		Member of Sharon, Lois & Bram Sharon, Lois & Bram Sharon, Lois & Bram is the name of a Canadian children's musical trio composed of Sharon Hampson , Lois Ada Lilienstein , and Bramwell "Bram" Morrison .-Group formation:Sharon Hampson, Lois Lillenstein, and Bram Morrison began their singing... .
13.	Francis Cabot Francis Cabot Francis Higginson Cabot, was an American gardener and horticulturist.A 1949 graduate of Harvard College, Cabot was active in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and was one of the four founders of the a cappella singing group, the Harvard Krokodiloes...	29 June 2005	9 September 2005		Horticulturist.
14.	Salome Bey Salome Bey Salome Bey, CM is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and composer who has lived in Toronto, Ontario since 1966. In 2005, she was made an honorary Member of the Order of Canada....	17 November 2005	26 October 2006		Musician.
17.	Zachary Richard Zachary Richard Zachary Richard is a Cajun singer/songwriter and poet. His music is an innovative combination of Cajun and Zydeco musical styles.-Biography:...	25 May 2009			Singer, songwriter, and poet.

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