public speaker - a person who delivers a speech or orationelocutionist - a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery haranguer - a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer - someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims" spellbinder - an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound tub-thumper - a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker Burke, Edmund Burke - English statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797) Demosthenes - Athenian statesman and orator (circa 385-322 BC) Patrick Henry, Henry - a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799) Isocrates - Athenian rhetorician and orator (436-338 BC) |