List of The Harvard Crimson people

The following is a list of notable people who have served on the staff of The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University.

Academia

 * Andrew Weil, MD, Integrative Medicine Founder, Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Medicine Founder & Director / Professor of Medicine and Public Health / Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Medicine, Harvard
 * Rediet Abebe, computer scientist
 * Stephen Barnett (1935–2009), legal scholar at University of California, Berkeley School of Law who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970. Barnett is a former Crimson president.
 * Nancy Bauer, professor of philosophy at Tufts University and dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
 * Geoffrey Cowan, professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
 * Jamal Greene, professor at Columbia Law School
 * Peter Kramer, psychiatrist, author
 * Thomas Samuel Kuhn, philosopher and historian of science
 * Charles S. Maier, professor of history at Harvard University
 * John U. Monro, dean of Harvard College (1958–1967)
 * Eric M. Nelson, professor of government at Harvard
 * Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Provost of Barnard College. Walkowitz is a former Crimson president.
 * Claude E. Welch Jr., political scientist at SUNY at Buffalo. Welch is a former Crimson president.

Authors, journalists, and writers

 * Ravi Agrawal, reporter for CNN
 * Jonathan Alter, author covering U.S. Presidents
 * Joseph Alsop, political reporter
 * Cleveland Amory, writer. Amory is a former Crimson president.
 * Eli Attie, speechwriter and screenwriter
 * Michael Barone, television commentator, writer for The Washington Examiner, author
 * Daniel J. Boorstin, American author and writer and Librarian of Congress
 * Irin Carmon, reporter for MSNBC
 * Sewell Chan, journalist for The Los Angeles Times
 * Steve Chapman, columnist, Chicago Tribune
 * Susan Chira, author, foreign editor of The New York Times
 * Nicholas Ciarelli, founder and editor of Think Secret and founder of BookBub
 * Adam Clymer, author, journalist for The New York Times. Clymer is a former Crimson president.
 * Jonathan Cohn, author, journalist for HuffPost. Cohn is a former Crimson president.
 * Richard Connell, author
 * Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money. Cramer is a former Crimson president.
 * Michael Crichton, author
 * E. J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post
 * Ross Douthat, columnist for The New York Times
 * Ethan Drogin, writer for Suits and Lie to Me
 * Esther Dyson, digital technology analyst, author
 * Daniel Ellsberg, author, released the Pentagon Papers
 * David Fahrenthold, political reporter for The New York Times.
 * James Fallows, journalist and speechwriter to Jimmy Carter. Fallows is a former Crimson president.
 * Susan Faludi, author
 * Nicholas Fandos, political reporter for The New York Times
 * David Frankel, filmmaker
 * Jennifer Frey, sports reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post
 * Otto Fuerbringer, former editor of Time
 * V.V. Ganeshananthan, author and journalist
 * Susan Glasser, journalist at The New Yorker
 * George Goodman, a.k.a. "Adam Smith," hosted the Emmy award-winning program Adam Smith's Money World on PBS
 * Garrett Graff, reporter
 * Donald E. Graham, CEO and chairman of The Washington Post Co. Graham is a former Crimson president.
 * Linda Greenhouse, journalist for The New York Times
 * David Halberstam, author
 * Hendrik Hertzberg, journalist for The New Yorker
 * David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post
 * Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., publisher and CEO of The Washington Post. Jones is a former Crimson president.
 * Joseph Kahn, Executive Editor of The New York Times. Kahn is a former Crimson president.
 * Peter Kaplan, former editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, current creative director of Condé Nast Traveler
 * Mickey Kaus, journalist and political blogger
 * Mary Louise Kelly, co-host of NPR's All Things Considered
 * Michael Kinsley, journalist, founding editor of Slate magazine
 * Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist for The New York Times
 * Charles Lane, former editor of The New Republic
 * Jennifer 8. Lee, former journalist for The New York Times
 * Nicholas Lemann, dean emeritus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Lemann is a former Crimson president.
 * Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information
 * Anthony Lewis, author and former columnist for The New York Times
 * Walter Lippmann, Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
 * Arthur Lubow, journalist
 * J. Anthony Lukas, author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
 * Michael Maccoby, New York Times best-selling author and psychoanalyst. Maccoby is a former Crimson president.
 * Dylan Matthews, writer for Vox
 * Seth Mnookin, author of Hard News
 * Eric Newcomer, tech journalist and founder of the publication Newcomer


 * Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News
 * Alexandra Petri, comedy writer for The Washington Post
 * David Plotz, former CEO of Atlas Obscura and host of Slate Political Gabfest
 * Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times
 * Steven V. Roberts, former reporter for The New York Times, television journalist
 * Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com
 * Yair Rosenberg, writer for Tablet Magazine
 * Jack Rosenthal, journalist for The New York Times and president of The New York Times Company Foundation
 * David Sanger, journalist for The New York Times
 * Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times
 * Nell Scovell, creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and co-author of Lean In
 * Robert Ellis Smith, noted journalist and creator of the Privacy Journal
 * Whit Stillman, filmmaker
 * Ira Stoll, New York Sun executive. Stoll is a former Crimson president.
 * Stephen Stromberg, Washington Post editorial board
 * Katrina Szish, television personality
 * Evan Thomas, associate managing editor of Newsweek
 * Jeffrey Toobin, senior legal analyst for CNN
 * Pablo S. Torre, ESPN writer and television personality
 * Craig Unger, author and journalist
 * George Weller, novelist, playwright, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times and The Chicago Daily News
 * Mark Whitaker, senior vice president of NBC News, former editor of Newsweek
 * Theodore H. White, prominent political and WWII journalist
 * Amy Wilentz, journalist and contributing editor at The Nation
 * Elizabeth Wurtzel, author
 * Jeff Zucker, president of CNN and former president and CEO of NBC Universal. Zucker is a former Crimson president.

Business

 * Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
 * Hayley Barna, co-founder of Birchbox
 * Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder of Airbnb
 * Charlie Cheever, co-founder of Quora
 * Parker Conrad, founder of Zenefits
 * Robert Decherd, CEO of A. H. Belo Corporation. Decherd is a former Crimson president.
 * Jennifer Hyman, co-founder of Rent The Runway
 * Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon (company)
 * Thomas W. Lamont, former Chairman of J.P. Morgan & Co.
 * James S. Marcus, investment banker and philanthropist
 * David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and member of the Rockefeller family
 * Frederick M. Warburg, partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
 * Byron Wien, prominent investor with Morgan Stanley and Blackstone
 * Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube

Government and politics



 * Tony Blinken, Secretary of State during the Biden Administration
 * Richard Blumenthal, Senator from Connecticut
 * Pete Buttigieg, former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and 2020 Presidential candidate
 * Blair Clark, manager of Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign. Clark is a former Crimson president.
 * James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard University from 1933-1953
 * Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas
 * Brian Fallon, press secretary for Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign
 * Frederick Vanderbilt Field, socialist activist
 * James Glassman, journalist, diplomat, and director of the George W. Bush Institute
 * C. Boyden Gray, Committee for Justice chairman and White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush
 * Caroline Kennedy, U.S. ambassador to Australia and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
 * John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
 * Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform
 * Chris Pappas, Representative from New Hampshire
 * Mark Penn, chief political strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign
 * Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island
 * Alastair Rellie, MI6 director
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States. Roosevelt is a former Crimson president.
 * Elise Stefanik, Representative from New York
 * Paul Sweezy, Marxist economist and funder of the Monthly Review
 * Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan

Law

 * David J. Barron, circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Barron is a former Crimson president.
 * David Bruck, capital defense attorney
 * Paul A. Engelmayer, circuit judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
 * Garrett Epps, author and law school professor. Epps is a former Crimson president.
 * Merrick Garland, United States Attorney General, former Circuit Judge and former Supreme Court nominee
 * Melissa Hart, justice on the Colorado Supreme Court
 * Leondra Kruger, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California

Other

 * Mark Gearan, former Peace Corps director and president of the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics
 * Colin Jost, comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live
 * Jon Ledecky, owner of the New York Islanders
 * Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author. McKibben is a former Crimson president.
 * David Stearns, general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers