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. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University. Eight Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University:

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, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

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, and Barack Obama. Bush graduated from Harvard Business School, Hayes and Obama from

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, and the others from

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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 (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 (1937–1992), Israeli economist and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Shlomo Eckstein (1929–2020), Israeli economist and President of Bar-Ilan University *

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

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* Yosef Tekoah (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

References

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