Earlier today, we posted audio from a 2005 talk with economist Paul Krugman who was just honored with a Nobel Prize. Steve Siegel, our beloved knower-of-all-things and head of the Y’s Buttenwieser Library, quickly noted that Krugman is the 41st Nobel Prize winner on the roster of past Y speakers and he compiled the following list. We’ve added links to the names where we have recordings online. 

Nobel Prize Winners who have spoken at the Y
(in alphabetical order)

Kofi Annan
Saul Bellow
Pearl S. Buck
Joseph Brodsky
Jimmy Carter
J. M. Coetzee
T. S. Eliot
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nadine Gordimer
Al Gore
Günter Grass
Seamus Heaney
Eric R. Kandel
Imre Kertesz
Henry Kissinger
Paul Krugman
Leon M. Lederman
Doris Lessing
Konrad Lorenz
Wangari Muta Maathai
Czeslaw Milosz
Franco Modigliani
Toni Morrison (returns on Dec 8)
V. S. Naipaul
Pablo Neruda
Octavio Paz
Arno Penzias
Shimon Peres
Harold Pinter
Yitzhak Rabin
Bertrand Russell
Jose Saramago
George Seferis
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Wole Soyinka
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Desmond Tutu
Derek Walcott
James Watson
Elie Wiesel
Rosalyn Yalow

It’s a privilege to be associated with the quality programs that the Y consistently offers to the community and of course, we’re looking forward to many more.