Freedom of the City recipients
Dates shown indicate the date Council approved the award. Names are listed chronologically. For more detail on an individual award, contact the Office of the City Clerk at 604.873.7276.
| February 14, 2012 | Jim Green (Former City Councillor) |
| July 12 , 2011 | Milton Wong |
| July 7, 2010 | Art Phillips (Former Vancouver Mayor) |
| November 28, 2006 | The 12 (Vancouver) Field Ambulance |
| October 6, 2005 | Dal Richards |
| November 5, 2002 | Right Honourable Kim Campbell |
| May 28, 2002 | Arthur Erickson |
| November 30, 1999 | Joseph Segal |
| December 2, 1997 | Marguerite Ford |
| July 8, 1997 | YWCA |
| May 7, 1996 | Morris Wosk |
| February 22, 1994 | George Woodcock |
| September 28, 1993 | Dr. Pauline Weinstein |
| September 28, 1993 | The Hon. David C. Lam |
| September 2, 1993 | The Vancouver Foundation |
| June 18, 1992 | May Brown |
| June 16, 1992 | Thomas R. Berger |
| June 4, 1991 | Fritz Bowers |
| February 19, 1991 | George Wainborn |
| February 19, 1991 | Jack Bell |
| January 17, 1989 | Jack Shadbolt |
| July 12, 1988 | Bill Reid |
| July 12, 1988 | Nathan T. Nemetz (Chief Justice) |
| November 3, 1987 | Cecil H. Green |
| March 24, 1987 | Rick Hansen |
| January 7, 1986 | Dr. Walter Charles Koerner |
| January 7, 1986 | Dr. Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside |
| January 7, 1986 | The Hon. Henry P. Bell-Irving |
| June 11, 1985 | John Lecky |
| April 26, 1983 | B.C. Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) |
| December 15, 1981 | Stanley Noble Stronge |
| September l8, 1979 | Mary Pack |
| July 29, 1980 | Joseph Cohen |
| April 24, 1979 | Jack Diamond |
| March 14, 1978 | Jean Coulthard |
| December 6, 1977 | Seaforth Highlanders (15th Field and Artillery Regiment) |
| August 9, 1977 | William Orson Banfield |
| May 24, 1977 | Marianne Linnell |
| May 24, 1977 | Thomas McDonald |
| December 14, 1976 | John Robert Nicholson |
| August 27, 1974 | Arthur Laing |
| July 23, 1974 | Grace Maclnnis |
| February 5, 1974 | Earle Gordon Adams |
| April 10, 1973 | Harold Edward Winch |
| February 13, 1973 | HMCS Discovery |
| January 3, 1973 | Reverend Dr. George Turpin |
| January 11, 1972 | Whitford Julian Van Dusen |
| January 11, 1972 | Howard Charles Green |
| December 16, 1970 | Reginald Atherton |
| December 16, 1970 | Prentice Bloedel |
| March 30, 1970 | Halford David Wilson |
| December 17, 1968 | Clarence Wallace (Lt. Gov. of B.C.) |
| October 1, 1968 | William Mark Duke (Archbishop) |
| August 27, 1968 | George Randolph Pearkes |
| January 16, 1968 | Frank MacKenzie Ross |
| January 16, 1968 | Arthur Edward Lord |
| December 20, 1966 | Harvey Reginald MacMillan |
| December 20, 1966 | Bertram Arnold Emery |
| December 29, 1965 | Arnold Alexander Webster |
| February 17, 1965 | William Andrew Cecil Bennett (Premier) |
| December 29, 1964 | Henry Hubert Stevens |
| December 29, 1964 | Charles Edwin Thompson |
| December 29, 1964 | John Henderson |
| July 21, 1964 | William Boyd McKechnie |
| December 30, 1963 | Frederick John Hume |
| December 17, 1963 | Rufus Charles Gibbs |
| December 17, 1963 | George Torrance Cunningham |
| December 17, 1963 | Jonathan Webster Cornett |
| September 25, 1962 | Oscar Orr |
| May 31, 1955 | Stanley Victor Smith |
| November 16, 1953 | James Skitt Matthews |
| December 1, 1952 | Thomas Brooks |
| December 1, 1952 | James Blackwood |
| December 1, 1952 | George Clark Miller |
| June 16, 1947 | William Merton Neal |
| March 17, 1947 | William Harold Malkin |
| May 12, 1947 | John Bennett |
| December 23, 1946 | William Culham Woodward (Lt. Gov. of B.C.) |
| January 2, 1946 | Henry D.G. Crerar |
| September 29, 1941 | Eric Hamber (Lt. Gov. of B.C.) |
| June 30, 1941 | William Lyon MacKenzie King (Prime Minister) |
| January 4, 1939 | Richard Bedford Bennett (Prime Minister) |
| March 28, 1938 | Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton |
| August 20, 1936 | Sir Edward Beatty (President, CPR) |
| August 20, 1936 | Sir Percy Vincent (Lord Mayor of London) |