The list of Harvard University alumni includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with

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. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see the

list of Harvard University non-graduate alumni This is a list of some notable people who attended Harvard University, but did not graduate or have yet to graduate. See ''List of Harvard University people'' for a more comprehensive list of people affiliated with Harvard. , - , Bonnie Raitt , ...

. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see

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. Eight

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have graduated from Harvard University:

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before Presidency of John Adams, his presidency, he was a leader of ...

John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams (; July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825. During his long diploma ...

Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Birchard Hayes (; October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. Hayes served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861. He was a staunch Abolitionism in the Un ...

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected p ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served ...

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T.R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in New York (state), New York politics, incl ...

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he i ...

, and

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ...

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. 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

Whitney Tilson Whitney Richard Tilson (born November 1, 1966) is an American former hedge fund manager, author, and Democratic Party political activist. He is a candidate in the 2025 New York City mayoral Democratic primary. Early life and education Whitney ...

(born 1966), hedge fund manager, philanthropist, author, and Democratic political activist

Politics

Law

Supreme Court justices

Other legal figures

* Danielle Sassoon, Class of 2008, former acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York

Military

Journalism

Literature

* Benjamin Kunkel (born 1972), novelist and political economist

Film, theater, and television

Music

Art, architecture, and engineering

Religion

Athletics

* Spencer Freedman (born 1998), college basketball player for the

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and NYU Violets * Ross Friedman (born 1992), Major League Soccer player * Elizabeth Tartakovsky (born 2000), Olympic saber fencer * Michael Zimmerman (born 1970), tennis player, 2x Ivy League Player of the Year

Criminals

Academics

Educational institution founders and presidents

Yoram Ben-Porat Yoram Ben-Porat (also, Ben-Porath; ; born 1937; died October 18, 1992) was an Israeli academic and economist. He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1990 until his death in 1992 in an automobile accident at the age of 55. ...

(1937–1992), Israeli economist and President of the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

Shlomo Eckstein Shlomo Raber Eckstein (; 1 November 1929 – 12 January 2020) was an Israeli economist, and President of Bar-Ilan University. Biography Eckstein was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. His family emigrated from Germany before World War II to Mexico, whi ...

(1929–2020), Israeli economist and President of

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 ...

Amos Eiran Amos Eiran (Hebrew language, Hebrew: עמוס ערן) is a former president of the University of Haifa in Israel. He earned a BA in humanities from American University in Washington, DC, an MA in history from Tel Aviv University, a Diploma in Bus ...

, Israeli President of the

University of Haifa The University of Haifa (, ) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963 as a branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation as an inde ...

Yosef Tekoah Joseph Tekoah (; 4 March 1925 – 14 April 1991) was a senior Israeli diplomat and the President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1975–1981). He was instrumental in the Israeli settlement in disputed DMZ territories with Syria, serving ...

(1925–1991), Ph.D., Israeli President of the

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public university, public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli List of national founders, national founder David Ben-Gurion, the unive ...

Professors and scholars

Faculty

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