Cornell College - Lecturers, Speakers, and Performers

Lecturers, Speakers, and Performers

Despite Cornell's small size and location in a small town, many nationally and internationally prominent speakers and performers have visited Cornell, including the following:

• Dee Dee Myers (2012)
• Karl Rove (2012)
• Robert J. Samuelson (2012)
• Rick Santorum (2011)
• Anita Perry (2011)
• Danzy Senna (2011)
• David Gergen (2010)
• Amina Wadud (2010)
• Tim Wise (2010)
• Winona LaDuke (2010)
• Terry E. Branstad (2010)
• Asher Naim (2009)
• Bob Vander Plaats(2009)
• Danielle Ofri (2009)
• Staceyann Chin(2009)
• Women (2009)
• Annie Sprinkle (2009)
• Pierce Freelon (2009)
• Yvonne Bynoe(2008)
• Tim Roemer (2008)
• Amity Shlaes (2008)
• Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher (2008)
• George Stephanopoulos (2008)
• Rev. Dr. Raphael Gamail Warnock (2008)
• Patch Adams (2008)
• Scarlett Johansson (2008)
• Amy Roloff (2008)
• Mark E. Weston (2008)
• Barack Obama (2007, 2008, 2012)
• Bill Richardson (2007)
• Madeleine Albright (2007)
• Kevin Phillips (2007)
• Mount Eerie (2007)
• Dinesh D'Souza (2007)
• Robert Solow (2006)
• Sarah Weddington (2006)
• Newt Gingrich (2005)
• Fareed Zakaria (2005)
• Bob Woodward (2004)
• Dennis Kucinich (2004)
• Howard Dean (2003)
• Ari Hest (2003)
• Joan Jett (2003)
• Janeane Garofalo (2003)
• Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (2002)
• Art Alexakis (2002)
• Stephen Jay Gould (2001)
• Sir Mix A Lot (2000)
• Walter E. Williams (2000)
• Cornel West (2000)
• Stephen Carter (1999)
• Incubus (1999)
• Gloria Steinem (1999)
• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (1999)
• They Might Be Giants (1997)
• Helen Thomas (1996)
• The Romantics (1986)
• BB King (1986)
• Kate Millet (1986)
• David C. Hilmers, NASA Astronaut, (1986)
• Jane Elliott (1985)
• Doc Severinson (1985)
• Phyllis Bryn-Julson (1978)
• Janos Starker (1978)
• Joe Pass (1978)
• Chuck Wayne (1978)
• Jerry Jeff Walker (1978)
• Lennox Hinds (1977)
• Madeline Manning-Jackson (1977)
• Haki R. Madhubuti (1977)
• Sonny Rollins (1977)
• The Rev. Albert Sampson (1977)
• Stephen Spender (1977)
• Oscar Brand (1976)
• Vassar Clements (1976)
• Betty Friedan (1976)
• Roland Hanna (1976)
• Frank Herbert (1976)
• Eugene McCarthy (1976)
• Dorian Wind Quintet (1975)
• Daniel Ellsberg (1975)
• Igor Kipnis (1975)
• William Stafford (1975)
• Keith Stroup (1975)
• Paul Winter (1975)
• Melissa Manchester (1974)
• Bella Abzug (1974)
• Julian Bond (1974)
• Ravi Shankar (1970)
• Ralph Nader (1970)
• John Denver (1970)
• François Mitterrand (1968)
• Marilyn Horne (1966)
• Milton Friedman (1965)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (1962)
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1957)
• Isaac Stern (1949)
• Robert Frost (1940)
• Marian Anderson (1937)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1934, 1946)
• Grant Wood (1933) (Wood's first public lecture)
• Amelia Earhart (1933)
• Carl Sandburg (annually, 1920–1939)
• Former U.S. President William Howard Taft (1916)
• Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan (1916)
• Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1912)
• William Jennings Bryan (1907)
• Chicago Symphony (annually, 1903–1963)
• Booker T. Washington (1900)
• Susan B. Anthony (1879)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1869)
• Fredrick Douglass (1859)