List of Harvard University people

The list of Harvard University alumni includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. 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 Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Bush graduated from Harvard Business School, Hayes and Obama from Harvard Law School, and the others from Harvard College.

Over 150 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as alumni, researchers or faculty.

Literature

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

Art, architecture, and engineering
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 * name=Jonathan M. Bloom (born 1950)
 * year=College 1972; PhD 1980|nota=Art historian, assistant professor of art history (1981-1987)
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 * name=Henry Clifford Boles (1910–1979)
 * year=M.Arch 1949
 * nota=African American architect, active in Liberia and Massachusetts
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 * name=Louis Briel (1945–2021)
 * year=MA 1960s-1970s
 * nota=Artist and author
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 * name=Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844)
 * year=College 1781
 * nota=Architect
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 * name=Rika Burnham
 * year=|nota=Museum Educator, dancer and PROSE Award winner
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 * name=Geoffrey Chadsey (born 1967)
 * year=A.B. 1989
 * nota=Artist
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 * name=Kermit S. Champa (1939–2004)
 * year=PhD 1965
 * nota=Art historian, Andrea V. Rosenthal Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University
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 * name=Kate Cordsen (born 1966)
 * year=A.M. 1998
 * nota=Photographer, Artist}}
 * name=Allan Crite (1910–2007)
 * year=Extension 1968
 * nota=Artist
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 * name=Hardy Cross (1885–1959)
 * year=MCE 1911
 * nota=Civil engineer
 * name=James Cuno (born 1951)
 * year=A.M. 1980; PhD 1985
 * nota=Art historian, director of the Harvard Art Museums
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 * name=Frederick B. Deknatel (1905–1973)
 * year=PhD 1935
 * nota=Art historian, William Door Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University
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 * name=Walter B. Denny
 * year=A.M. 1965; PhD 1971
 * nota=Art historian, University Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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 * name=Henri Dorra (1924–2002)
 * year=A.M. 1950; PhD 1954
 * nota=Art historian, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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 * name=Massumeh Farhad
 * year=PhD 1987
 * nota=Art historian, curator at Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Asian Art
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 * name=Cécile Fromont
 * year=A.M. 2004; PhD 2008
 * nota=Art historian, Associate Professor of African and South Atlantic Art at Yale University
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 * name=Buckminster Fuller
 * year=1917; Expelled
 * nota=Architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, futurist
 * name=Joseph Goldyne (born 1942)
 * year=College 1970
 * nota=Artist, printmaker, curator
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 * name=Lauren Greenfield (born 1966)
 * year=College 1987
 * nota=Artist, Photographer, Filmmaker
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 * name=Gulgee (1926–2007)
 * year=College 1947
 * nota=Pakistani artist famous for his paintings and Islamic calligraphy; qualified engineer
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 * name=Philip Johnson (1906–2005)
 * year=College 1930
 * nota=Architect, Pritzker Prize winner
 * name=Julian Hatton (born 1956)
 * year=College 1979
 * nota=Artist, abstract landscapes
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 * name=Jarvis Hunt (1863–1941)
 * nota=Architect
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 * name=Charles L. Kuhn (1901–1985)
 * year=A.M. 1924; PhD 1929
 * nota=Art historian, director of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
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 * name=Thomas W. Lentz (born 1951)
 * year=A.M. 1981; PhD 1985
 * nota=Art historian, director of the Harvard Art Museums
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 * name=Fumihiko Maki (born 1928)
 * year=Design 1955
 * nota=Architect, Pritzker Prize winner
 * name=Howard Hibbard (1928–1984)
 * year=PhD 1958
 * nota=Art historian, Professor of Italian Baroque Art at Columbia University
 * name=Elizabeth Holloway Marston (1893–1993)
 * year=Radcliffe A.M. 1921
 * nota=Involved in the creation of the comic book character Wonder Woman
 * name=Thom Mayne (born 1944)
 * year=Design 1978
 * nota=Architect, Pritzker Prize winner
 * name=Malcolm McKesson (1909–1999)
 * year=College 1933
 * nota=Outsider artist
 * name=Philippe de Montebello (born 1936)
 * year=College 1962
 * nota=Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * name=I. M. Pei (1917–2019)
 * year=Design 1946
 * nota=Architect, Pritzker Prize winner
 * name=Jules Prown (born 1930)
 * year=A.M. 1953, PhD 1961
 * nota=Art historian, Professor of Art History Emeritus at Yale University
 * name=Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886)
 * year=College 1859
 * nota=Architect
 * name=Scott Rothkopf (born 1976)
 * year=College 1999
 * nota=Art historian, Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
 * name=Kenneth Dupee Swan (1887–1970)
 * nota=Photographer, forester
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 * name=Gary Tinterow (born 1953)
 * year=A.M. 1983
 * nota=Art historian, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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 * name=Oliver Samuel Tonks (1874–1953)
 * year=A.B. 1898, A.M. 1899, Ph.D. 1903
 * nota=Art historian, Professor of Art History Emeritus at Vassar College
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 * name=Edward Warburg (1908–1992)
 * year=1930
 * nota=Philanthropist, patron of the arts
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 * name=Harold Wethey (1902–1984)
 * year=A.M. 1931; PhD 1934
 * nota=Art historian, professor at the University of Michigan
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Religion
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 * name=Jane Dempsey Douglass (born 1933)
 * year=PhD 1963
 * nota=Feminist theologian and ecclesiastical historian; president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
 * name=Shubael Dummer (1636–1692)
 * year=College 1656
 * nota=Founder of the First Parish Congregational Church of York, the oldest church congregation in the state of Maine; killed in the Candlemas Massacre
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 * name=John Hale (1636–1700)
 * year=College 1657 (Theology Degree)
 * nota=Participant in the Salem witch trials who would later apologize for his role; first minister of the parish church in Beverly, Massachusetts
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 * name=Edward William Cornelius Humphrey (1844–1917)
 * year=Law 1866
 * nota=Presbyterian leader, lawyer and judge
 * name=Karim Aga Khan IV (born 1936)
 * year=College 1958
 * nota=Spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili branch of Islam
 * name=Bernard Francis Law (1931–2017)
 * year=College 1953
 * nota=Cardinal Archbishop of Boston
 * name=Aharon Lichtenstein (1933–2015)
 * year=PhD English
 * nota=Chief rabbi at Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank; son-in-law and disciple of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
 * name=Walter A. Maier (1893–1950)
 * year=M.A. 1920, PhD 1929
 * nota=Professor at Concordia Seminary, first speaker of The Lutheran Hour
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 * name=Cotton Mather (1663–1728)
 * year=College 1678, A.M. 1681
 * nota=Minister, author
 * name=Increase Mather (1639–1723)
 * year=College 1656
 * nota=Clergyman
 * name=Robert W. McElroy (born 1954)
 * year=College 1975
 * nota=American Roman Catholic Cardinal designate, sixth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego
 * name=Seyyed Hossein Nasr (born 1933)
 * year=Divinity
 * nota=Muslim philosopher, leading exponent of the Perennial Philosophy leader
 * name=Fan S. Noli (1882–1965)
 * year=D.D. 1908
 * nota=Clergyman, founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church
 * name=Theodore Parker (1810–1860)
 * year=Divinity
 * nota=Unitarian leader
 * name=Samuel Phillips (1690–1771)
 * year=College 1708
 * nota=First pastor of the South Church in Andover, Massachusetts
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 * name=William G. Sinkford (born 1946)
 * year=College 1968
 * nota=Unitarian Universalist leader
 * name=Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815)
 * year=D.D. 1794
 * nota=English radical dissenting minister

Athletics

 * Ross Friedman (born 1992), Major League Soccer player
 * Michael Zimmerman (born 1970), tennis player, 2x Ivy League Player of the Year

Criminals
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Educational institution founders and presidents
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 * 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, Israeli President of the University of Haifa
 * Yosef Tekoah (1925–1991), Ph.D., Israeli President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev