Commencement Archive

Institution

Yale University

27 addresses catalogued

№ 2026.003
Min Jin Lee
2026 · Novelist and essayist
№ 2025.003
Jacinda Ardern
2025 · Former prime minister of New Zealand
№ 2024.003
Vivek Murthy
2024 · U.S. Surgeon General
№ 2023.003
Elizabeth Alexander
2023 · Poet, educator, and cultural advocate
№ 2022.004
Reshma Saujani
2022 · Advocate for women and girls
№ 2021.004
Robert Lopez
2021 · Songwriter (EGOT winner); Yale College Class of 1997
№ 2020.003
Jean Bennett
2020 · Scientific researcher and gene-therapy pioneer
№ 2019.003
Chimamanda Adichie
2019 · Novelist and nonfiction writer
№ 2018.003
Hillary Rodham Clinton
2018 · Former secretary of state, senator, and first lady
№ 2017.003
Theo Epstein
2017 · Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations
№ 2016.003
Samantha Power
2016 · U.S. representative to the United Nations
№ 2015.018
Joseph Biden
2015 · 47th vice president of the United States
№ 2014.028
John Kerry
2014 · U.S. secretary of state
№ 2013.029
Cory Booker
2013 · Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
№ 2012.036
Barbara Walters
2012 · Television journalist
№ 2011.037
Tom Hanks
2011 · Actor
№ 2010.031
William Jefferson Clinton
2010 · 42nd president of the United States
№ 2009.025
Christopher Buckley
2009 · Author
№ 2008.020
Tony Blair
2008 · Former prime minister of the United Kingdom
№ 2007.021
Fareed Zakaria
2007 · Editor of Newsweek International; author and columnist
№ 2006.014
Anderson Cooper
2006 · CNN anchor; Yale College Class of 1989
№ 2005.011
Eleanor Holmes Norton
2005 · U.S. Delegate for the District of Columbia; Yale M.A. 1963, J.D. 1964
№ 2004.018
Ken Burns
2004 · Documentary filmmaker
№ 2003.015
Tom Friedman
2003 · Foreign-affairs columnist, The New York Times; three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
№ 2002.005
George Pataki
2002 · Governor of New York; Yale College Class of 1967
№ 2001.007
Hillary Rodham Clinton
2001 · U.S. Senator from New York; Yale Law School Class of 1973
№ 2000.011
Robert Woodward
2000 · Associate editor, The Washington Post; Yale College Class of 1965