Notable people




Alumni

Over more than three and a half centuries, Harvard alumni have contributed creatively and significantly to society, the arts and sciences, business, and national and international affairs. Harvard's alumni include eight U.S. presidents, 188 living billionaires, 79 Nobel laureates, 7 Fields Medal winners, 9 Turing Award laureates, 369 Rhodes Scholars, 252 Marshall Scholars, and 13 Mitchell Scholars. Harvard students and alumni have also won 10 Academy Awards, 48 Pulitzer Prizes, and 108 Olympic medals (including 46 gold medals), and they have founded many notable companies worldwide.

  • Notable Harvard alumni include:

  • 2nd President of the United States John Adams (AB, 1755; AM, 1758)

  • 6th President of the United States John Quincy Adams (AB, 1787; AM, 1790)

  • Essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (AB, 1821)

  • Naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (AB, 1837)

  • 19th President of the United States Rutherford B. Hayes (LLB, 1845)

  • Philosopher, logician, and mathematician Charles Sanders Peirce (AB, 1862, SB 1863)

  • 26th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Theodore Roosevelt (AB, 1880)

  • Sociologist and civil rights activist
    W. E. B. Du Bois (PhD, 1895)

  • 32nd President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (AB, 1903)

  • Author, political activist, and lecturer Helen Keller (AB, 1904, Radcliffe College)

  • Poet and Nobel laureate in literature T. S. Eliot (AB, 1909; AM, 1910)

  • Physicist and leader of Manhattan Project J. Robert Oppenheimer (AB, 1925)

  • Economist and Nobel laureate in economics Paul Samuelson (AM, 1936; PhD, 1941)

  • Musician and composer Leonard Bernstein (AB, 1939)

  • 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy (AB, 1940)

  • 7th President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson (LLM, 1968)

  • 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore (AB, 1969)

  • 24th President of Liberia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (MPA, 1971)

  • 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto (AB, 1973, Radcliffe College)

  • 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke (AB, 1975; AM, 1975)

  • 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush (MBA, 1975)

  • 17th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Roberts (AB, 1976; JD, 1979)

  • Founder of Microsoft and philanthropist Bill Gates (College, 1977;a LLD hc, 2007)

  • 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon (MPA, 1984)

  • Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Elena Kagan (JD, 1986)

  • Former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama (JD, 1988)

  • Biochemist and Nobel laureate in chemistry Jennifer Doudna (PhD, 1989)

  • 44th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama (JD, 1991)

Faculty

  • Notable present and past Harvard faculty include:

  • James B. Conant

  • Alan Dershowitz

  • John Kenneth Galbraith

  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  • Alice Hamilton

  • Seamus Heaney

  • William James

  • Timothy Leary

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Naomi Oreskes

  • Steven Pinker

  • Lisa Randall

  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

  • Amartya Sen

  • B. F. Skinner

  • E. O. Wilson

  • John Winthrop

  • Shing-Tung Yau

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