List of Williams College commencement speakers
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The following is a list of keynote speakers at the commencement of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.
Speakers[edit]
- 1965 – Adlai Stevenson
- 1966 – Lester B. Pearson
- 1967 – John W. Gardner
- 1968 – James Reston
- 1969 – Edward Kennedy
- 1970 – John Lindsay
- 1971 – René Dubos
- 1972 – Barbara Tuchman
- 1973 – Ralph E. Gomory '50
- 1974 – Sterling Allen Brown '22
- 1975 – Barbara Jordan
- 1976 – George W. Ball
- 1977 – David Riesman
- 1978 – Anthony Lewis
- 1979 – Terris Moore '29
- 1980 – Keith Broadwell Griffin
- 1981 – Donald McHenry
- 1982 – Garry Trudeau
- 1983 – Robert Coles
- 1984 – Neil Simon
- 1985 – Stephen Jay Gould
- 1986 – Zbigniew Brzezinski
- 1987 – Meg Greenfield
- 1988 – Henry Cisneros
- 1989 – Johnnetta Cole
- 1990 – Michael Dukakis
- 1991 – Guido Calabresi
- 1992 – John Hope Franklin
- 1993 – Jim Lehrer
- 1994 – Kirk Varnedoe '67
- 1995 – Bernice Johnson Reagon
- 1996 – George H. W. Bush
- 1997 – Grace Paley
- 1998 – Yo-Yo Ma
- 1999 – Christopher Reeve
- 2000 – George Mitchell
- 2001 – Robert Rubin
- 2002 – Morris Dees
- 2003 – Eric Lander
- 2004 – David Halberstam
- 2005 – Thomas L. Friedman
- 2006 – Chuck Davis
- 2007 – Katie Couric
- 2008 – Richard Serra
- 2009 – Clarence Otis '77
- 2010 – Jay McInerney '76
- 2011 – Cory Booker
- 2012 – Atul Gawande
- 2013 – Billie Jean King
- 2014 – Michael Bloomberg
- 2015 – Ursula Burns
- 2016 – Bryan Stevenson
- 2017 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 2018 – Bob Schieffer
- 2019 – Mary-Claire King
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