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==Honorary doctors==
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* [[Mari Boine]], Norway (2018)
* [[Olav Holt]], Norway (2018)
* [[Richard Horton (editor)|Richard Horton]], UK (2018)
* [[Arieh Warshel]], US (2018)
* [[Laila Stien]], Norway (2015)
* [[Trond Mohn]], Norway (2015)
* [[Oran R. Young]], US (2015)
* [[Jonas Gahr Støre]], Norway (2011)
* [[Narve Bjørgo]], Norway (2008)
* [[Ole Henrik Magga]], Norway (2008)
* [[Barbara Neis]], Canada (2008)
* [[Steven Pinker]], US (2008)
* [[Johan P. Olsen]], Norway (2006)
* [[Jan Raa]], Norway (2006)
* [[Rodolfo Stavenhagen]], Mexico (2006)
* [[Ottar Brox]], Norway (2003)
* Erica I.A. Daes, Greece (2003)
* [[Tor Hagfors]], Norway (2003)
* [[Nawal el-Saadawi]], Egypt (2003)
* [[Tenzin Gyatso]], the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet (2001)
* [[Mordechai Vanunu]], Israel (2001)
* [[William Nygaard]], Norway (1998)
* [[Salman Rushdie]], UK (1998)
* [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], Russia (1998)
* [[Robert Paine (anthropologist)|Robert Paine]], Canada (1998) <ref>{{cite journal |title=Robert Paine (1926-2010) |first=Trond |last=Thuen |journal=[[Acta Borealia]] |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=237–238 |year=2010 |doi=10.1080/08003831.2010.527540 |doi-access= }}</ref>
* Susanne Romaine, UK (1998)
* [[Rigoberta Menchú|Rigoberta Menchú Tum]], Guatemala (1996)
* [[Carsten Smith]], Norway (1995)
* [[Desmond Mpilo Tutu]], South Africa (1994)
* Jørn Dyerberg, Denmark (1993)
* Torstein Bertelsen, Norway (1993)
* [[Georg Henrik von Wright]], Finland (1993)
* [[Ragnhild Sundby]], Norway (1993)
* [[Helga Marie Hernes]], Norway (1993)
* [[Parzival Copes]], Canada (1993)
* Amy van Marken, Netherlands (1987)
* [[Kjell Bondevik]], Norway (1982)
* [[Peter F. Hjort]], Norway (1982)
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Russian Foreign Minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] received an honorary doctorate at the University of Tromsø in 2011 for having secured an agreement on the dividing line in the [[Barents Sea]] but lost his status after 28 February 2022 due to a board decision related to his co-responsibility for the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2022/02/universitetet-i-tromso-fratok-sergei-lavrov-eresdo.html|title = Universitetet i Tromsø fratok Sergei Lavrov æresdoktoratet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.uit.no/om/aresdoktorar#:~:text=The%20University%20Board%20may%20appoint,significance%20to%20the%20university%20community.|title = Honorary Doctoral Degrees}}</ref>