Each year, Oberlin College hosts a Baccalaureate ceremony for upcoming graduates. There is a speaker or group of speakers highlighted at the event.
| Year | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Prior to 1910 | the President |
| 1910 | Prof. Edward I. Bosworth |
| 1911-1925 | the President |
| 1926 | Rev. Dr. Thomas Wesley Graham |
| 1927 | the President |
| 1928 | Dr. D. F. Bradley '82 |
| 1929 | Dr. J. B. Hayden '09 |
| 1930 | Dr. Harold C. Phillips |
| 1931 | Dr. Francis J. McConnell |
| 1932 | Dwight J. Bradley '12 |
| 1933 | President W. J. Hutchins |
| 1934 | Dr. Carl S. Patton '88 |
| 1935 | Dr. J. T. Stocking |
| 1936 | Douglas Horton |
| 1937 | Raymond Calkins |
| 1938 | John Edgar Park |
| 1939 | Albert W. Palmer |
| 1940 | Albert Buckner Coe |
| 1941 | Walter William Van Kirk |
| 1942 | Norman Vincent Peale |
| 1943 | Douglas Horton |
| 1944 | Boynton Merrill |
| 1945 | Frank Halliday Ferris |
| 1946 | Charles Whitney Gilkey |
| 1947 | Rev. Chester B. Emerson |
| 1948 | Rev. Thomas W. Graham |
| 1949 | Dr. Harold Cooke Philips |
| 1950 | Dr. Clarence Tucker Craig |
| 1951 | Dr. Roland Herbert Bainton |
| 1952 | Dr. Leonard Albert Stidley |
| 1953 | Dr. Karl Heath Kopf |
| 1954 | Dr. Douglas Erin Steere |
| 1955 | Dr. Albert Jacob Penner |
| 1956 | Dr. Harry Hitt Crane |
| 1957 | Dr. Theodore Otto Wedel |
| 1958 | Dr. Jesse Edward Thomas |
| 1959 | Dr. Joseph Ferguson King |
| 1960 | Dr. Walter Marshall Horton |
| 1961 | Dr. Victor Obenhaus |
| 1962 | Rev. Stephen Trowbridge Crary |
| 1963 | Rev. Herbert Ensign Van Meter |
| 1964 | Rev. Lawrence Lazelle Durgin |
| 1965 | R. H. Edwin Espy |
| 1966 | Rev. Robbins Strong |
| 1967 | Rev. Paul William Wedgewood Green |
| 1968 | Rev. B. Whitman Dennison |
| 1969 | Rev. Paul R. Dettman |
| 1970 | Donald K. Swearer |
| 1971 | David Mechem Byers |
| 1972 | Edward LeRoy Long, Jr. |
| 1973 | David Mechem Byers |
| 1974 | George Simons |
| 1975 | Rev. Peter Beebe |
| 1976 | Rev. Dr. Eleanor Jeannetta Woodcock |
| 1977 | Clyde A. Holbrook |
| 1978 | Dean Carl H. Marbury |
| 1979 | Rev. Dr. Howard Schomer |
| 1980 | Robert Rankin |
| 1981 | Rev. O. Eugene Pickett |
| 1982 | Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr. |
| 1984 | Rev. John A. Kruse |
| 1985 | Rev. Dr. George A. Parsons |
| 1986 | Rev. Richard A. Thompson |
| 1987 | Rev. Dr. Harvey G. Cox |
| 1988 | Rev. Albert Ladue Jeandheur |
| 1989 | Rev. Dr. Major J. Jones |
| 1990 | Rev. Lloyd E. Gressle |
| 1991 | Rev. Dr. John Dixon Elder '53 |
| 1992 | Alda Marsh Morgan |
| 1993 | Rev. Dr. Fred L. Steen |
| 1994 | Rev. Susan E. McGarry |
| 1995 | Rabbi Daniel Dorfman |
| 1996 | Rev. Dr. William F. Schulz '71 |
| 1997 | Jane Redmont '72 |
| 1998 | Rev. Dr. John Dixon Elder '53 |
| 1999 | Johnnetta Betsch Cole '57 |
| 2000 | Rev. Jim Wallis |
| 2001 | Bishop Anthony Pilla |
| 2002 | Charles M. Sennott |
| 2003 | Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi |
| 2004 | Imam Dr. Ahmad Sakr |
| 2005 | Sharon Daloz Parks |
| 2006 | Dr. Joseph E. Lowery |
| 2007 | Dr. David W. Orr |
| 2008 | Gilbert C. Meilaender, Jr. |
| 2009 | Rev. Prof. Peter J. Gomes |
| 2010 | Rabbi David Saperstein |
| 2011 | James Carroll |
| 2012 | Daisy Khan |
| 2013 | Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia |
| 2014 | Mary Evelyn Tucker |
| 2015 | Johnnetta B. Cole |
| 2015 | Marian Wright Edelman |
| 2015 | Alan B. Wachtel |
| 2015 | Harris L. Wofford |
| 2016 | Rev. Frank Chikane* |
| 2017 | Rabbi Jill Jacobs |
| 2018 | Su’ad Abdul Khabeer |
| 2019 | Matthew Fox |
| 2020 | Student panel on the Coronavirus pandemic |
| 2021 | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| 2022 | Raavi Muzaffar Asdar, Imani Badillo, Marwan M. Ghanem, Avi Hurewitz, Jane Vourlekis, Serena Elizabeth Zets |
| 2023 | David Dorsey and Student Presenters |
| 2024 | Multifaith Chaplaincy and Sustained Dialogue Presenters |
| 2025 | Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine, Emily Barton, Chris Jenkins, David Orr, Gina Pérez |