List of Williams College commencement speakers

The following is a list of keynote speakers at the commencement of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.
Speakers
*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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