The list of Harvard University people includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see
notable non-graduate alumni of Harvard. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see
President of Harvard University.
Eight
Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University:
John Adams
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...
,
John Quincy Adams,
Rutherford B. Hayes,
John F. Kennedy,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Theodore Roosevelt,
George W. Bush, and
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Obama was the first Af ...
. Bush graduated from
Harvard Business School, Hayes and Obama from
Harvard Law School, and the others from
Harvard College
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher ...
.
Over 150 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as alumni, researchers or faculty.
Nobel laureates
Pulitzer Prize winners
Royalty and nobility
Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics
Business
Politics
Law
Supreme Court justices
Other legal figures
Military
Journalism
Literature
Film, theater, and television
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Music
Art, architecture, and engineering
Academics
Educational institution founders and presidents
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(1937–1992), Israeli economist and President of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Shlomo Eckstein (1929–2020), Israeli economist and President of
Bar-Ilan University
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Amos Eiran
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, Israeli President of the
University of Haifa
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Yosef Tekoah (1925–1991), Ph.D., Israeli President of the
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Professors and scholars
Faculty
See also
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List of Harvard University non-graduate alumni
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List of companies founded by Harvard University alumni
This is a list of companies founded by Harvard University alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree programs at Harvard University but did not eventually graduate. Companies founded by alumni of Radcliffe College ("Harvard Annex", 1879-19 ...
References
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Lists of people by university or college in Massachusetts
People
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