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