List of Bates College commencement speakers

The following is a list of keynote speakers at the commencement of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, United States.
* 1944 - Robert Moses
* 1945 - Sumner T. Pike
* 1946 - Harold E. Stassen
* 1947 - Warren R. Austin
* 1948 - Christian A. Herter
*1949 - Lucius D. Clay
*1950 - Paul H. Douglas
*1951 - Lester B. Pearson
*1952 - Alfred E. Driscoll
*1953 - Lester Markel
*1954 - Sherman Adams
*1955 - Edmund S. Muskie
*1956 - Harold W. Richardson
*1957 - Luis Munoz-Marin
*1958 - Alfred M. Gruenther
*1959 - Frank M. Coffin
*1960 - Karl L. Rankin
*1961 - Kazushige Hirasawa '36
*1962 - George Olmstead Jr.
*1963 - James Madison Nabrit, Jr.
*1964 - Grayson Kirk
*1965 - Hudson Hoagland
*1966 - William H. Schumann
*1967 - Margaret Chase Smith
*1968 - Steward Udall / Nils Y. Wessell
*1969 - R. Buckminster Fuller
*1970 - Russell E. Train
*1971 - Coretta Scott King
*1972 - Robert Coles
*1973 - Paul A. Freund
*1974 - Gerard Piel
*1975 - George Wildman Ball
*1976 - Paul Webster McAvoy
*1977 - Horton Guyford Stever
*1978 - Ian Lennox McHarg
*1979 - Robert B.W. MacNeil
*1980 - Elliot L. Richardson
*1981 - Warren Christopher
*1982 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault
*1983 - Bernard Lown
*1984 - Ernest L. Boyer
*1985 - George Mitchell
*1986 - Donald F. McHenry
*1987 - Ellen Ash Peters
*1988 - Donald M. Stewart
*1989 - Paul A. Volcker
*1990 - Catharine R. Stimpson
*1991 - Freeman John Dyson
*1992 - John Hope Franklin
*1993 - Lester C. Thurow
*1994 - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
*1995 - Garry Wills
*1996 - Chinua Achebe
*1997 - Oscar Arias
*1998 - Doris Kearns Goodwin
*1999 - Richard C. Holbrooke
*2000 - Desmond Tutu
*2001 - Robert B. Reich
*2002 - Steven Weinberg
*2003 - Stephen L. Carter
*2004 - John C. Whitehead, Rita R. Colwell, David Levering Lewis, Milton L. Lindholm '35
*2005 - Brian Williams, Thomas J. Anderson, Lynn Margulis, Paul Soros, Daisy Soros
*2006 - David McCullough, Marjorie Garber, David Ho, Mark Morris
*2007 - Eric Carle, Corey Harris ’91, Dean Kamen, Anna Devere Smith
*2008 - Susan Berresford, Phillip Sharp, Warren Washington, Pauline Yu
*2009 - Fareed Zakaria, Geena Davis, Robert M. Franklin Jr., Mimi A.R. Koehl, Ralph T. Perry ’51
*2010 - Rennie Harris, James McCarthy, Jane Pauley, Elizabeth Strout ’77, Teresa Woodruff
*2011 - Frank Glazer, Evelynn M. Hammonds, and Robert S. Langer
*2012 - Robert De Niro
*2013 - Gary Hirshberg
*2014 - Isabel Wilkerson

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