List of university and college namesakes

Persons for whom colleges or universities were named.


 * Jacob Albright
 * Richard Allen (reverend)
 * Saint Andrew
 * James Osgood Andrew
 * Francis Asbury
 * Osman Cleander Baker
 * John Baldwin (educator)
 * Benjamin Bates IV
 * LaVerne H. Bates
 * Robert Bellarmine
 * Mary McLeod Bethune
 * Warren Akin Candler
 * Andrew Carnegie
 * Davis Wasgatt Clark
 * Ezra Cornell
 * Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
 * Washington C. DePauw
 * John Emory
 * Simon Fraser
 * Robert Gordon
 * Leonidas Lent Hamline
 * John Harvard (clergyman)
 * Eugene Russell Hendrix
 * Thomas Jefferson
 * Patrick Henry
 * George Heriot
 * William Samuel Johnson
 * Walter Russell Lambuth
 * Robert E. Lee
 * Edith Lesley
 * James Madison
 * Albertus Magnus
 * William McKendree
 * William Fletcher McMurry
 * Andrew W. Mellon
 * Reuben Webster Millsaps
 * Petro Mohyla
 * John Moores (merchant)
 * Henry Muhlenberg
 * John Frederick Oberlin
 * Daniel Payne
 * George Pepperdine
 * Jean Piaget
 * William Paul Quinn
 * B. T. Roberts
 * Oral Roberts
 * Bénilde Romançon
 * John Ruskin
 * Albert Benjamin Simpson
 * Matthew Simpson
 * Leland Stanford Jr.
 * William Taylor (bishop)
 * Stephen Van Rensselaer III
 * George Washington
 * James Watt
 * John Wesley
 * William Wilberforce
 * Jawaharlal Nehru
 * Mahatma Gandhi
 * Indira Gandhi
 * Rajiv Gandhi