| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| John Abizaid (1951-) |
Retired US Army General and former Commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM) |
M.A. 1981 [1] |
| Spencer Abraham (born 1952) |
United States Secretary of Energy, United States Senator |
Law School 1979 [2] |
| Anibal Acevedo Vila (1962-) |
Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; US Congressman |
Law School (LLM) 1987 [3] |
| Dean Acheson (1893-1971) |
United States Secretary of State |
Law School 1918 [4] |
| Charles Francis Adams III (1866-1954) |
United States Secretary of the Navy |
College 1888; Law School 1892[citation needed] |
| Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835-1915) |
President of Union Pacific Railroad |
College 1856 [5] |
| Henry Adams (1838-1918) |
Historian; novelist |
College 1858; Professor [6] |
| John Adams (1735-1826) |
President of the United States |
College 1755 [7] |
| John Coolidge Adams (born 1947) |
Composer |
College 1969; M.A. 1971 [8] |
| John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) |
President of the United States |
College 1787 [9] |
| Roger Adams (1889-1971) |
Pioneering organic chemist |
College 1909, Ph.D. 1912 [10] |
| Samuel Adams (1722-1803) |
Organizer of Boston Tea Party |
College 1740; M.A. 1743 [11] |
| Mahidol Adulyadej (1892-1929) |
Prince of Thailand, father of present king Bhumibol Adulyadej |
C.P.H. 1921; Medical School (M.D.) 1928 [12] |
| James Agee (1909-1955) |
Novelist, screenwriter |
College 1932 [13] |
| Esko Aho (born 1954) |
Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995) |
IOP Fellow, 2000 [14] |
| Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) |
Novelist |
College 1852 [15] |
| John Anderson (born 1922) |
U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Congressman |
Law School 1949 [16] |
| Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) |
Composer |
College 1929; M.A. 1930 [17] |
| Darren Aronofsky (born 1969) |
Film director and screenwriter |
College 1991 [18] |
| Kenneth Arrow (born 1921) |
Economist; Nobel Prize winner |
Professor (1968-1979) [19] |
| John Ashbery (born 1927) |
Poet |
College 1949 [20] |
| John Ashbrook (1928-1982) |
U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Congressman |
College 1952 [21] |
| Vincent Astor (1891-1959) |
businessman and philanthrophist |
attended College, did not graduate[citation needed] |
| Margaret Atwood (born 1929) |
Novelist |
Radcliffe M.A. 1962; [22] |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| Pat Caddell (??-) |
Pollster |
College 1972 |
| Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (born 1962) |
President of Mexico |
KSG 2000 |
| Ethan Canin (born 1960) |
Author |
Medical School 1989 |
| Frank T. Caprio (born 1966) |
General Treasurer of R.I. |
College 1988 |
| Andrew Card (born 1947) |
White House Chief of Staff (G.W. Bush) |
Attended KSG |
| Diane Cardwell |
New York Times reporter |
College 1987 |
| Frank Carlucci (born 1930) |
United States Secretary of Defense |
Attended Business School, did not graduate |
| Elliot Carter (born 1908) |
Composer |
College 1932 |
| Doug Carlston |
Co-founder of Brøderbund Software, publisher of popular computer games |
College 1970, Law School 1975 |
| Fitzroy Carrington (born 1869) |
Journalist |
Lecturer on engraving |
| Paul C. Casey (born 1961) |
Member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 1989 - present) |
|
| Stockard Channing (born 1944) |
Actress |
Radcliffe 1965 |
| William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) |
Unitarian leader |
College 1798 |
| Elaine Chao (born 1953) |
United States Secretary of Labor |
Business School 1979 |
| Michael Chertoff (born 1953) |
United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
College 1975; Law School 1978 |
| Christopher Chetsanga (born 1935) |
DNA expert, discovered two repair enzymes |
Post Doctoral Fellow 1969 |
| P. Chidambaram |
Finance Minister of India |
Law School |
| Jacques Chirac (born 1932) |
President of France |
Attended Summer School in 1953 |
| Noam Chomsky (linguist and social theorist) (born 1928) |
Social Theorist |
Junior Research Fellow 1951 |
| William Christie (born 1944) |
Conductor |
College 1966 |
| Henry Cisneros (born 1947) |
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
KSG 1973 |
| Richard Clarke (born 1951) |
Diplomat; counterterrorism expert |
Faculty |
| Kim B. Clark (??) |
Economist; |
College 1974; M.A. 1977; Ph.D. 1978; Dean of business school 1995-2005 |
| Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996) |
Geologist; One of the top Canadian scientists of the 20th Century; Thomasclarkite |
A.B. 1917; A.M. 1921; Ph.D. 1923 |
| Rob Cohen (born 1949) |
Film director, screenwriter |
College 1971 |
| Stephen Cook (??-) |
Computer scientist |
M.A. 1962; Ph.D. 1966 |
| Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) |
Journalist, broadcaster |
Visiting graduate student |
| Yvette Cooper (1969-) |
Politician, Member of British Parliament |
Kennedy Scholar 1991 |
| Don Coppersmith (??-) |
Computer scientist |
M.S. 1975; Ph.D. 1977 |
| Kevin Corke (??-) |
Journalist, NBC News |
Kennedy School M.P.A. 2004 |
| Steven R. Covey (??-) |
Author and self-help guru, |
Business school 1975 |
| Elias J. Corey (born 1928) |
Chemist; Nobel Prize winner |
Professor |
| Leda Cosmides (born 1957) |
Evolutionary psychologist |
College 1979; Ph.D 1985 |
| Archibald Cox (1912-2004) |
Special prosecutor in the Watergate Scandal |
College 1934; Law School 1937 |
| Chris Cox (born 1952) |
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman |
Business School 1977; Law School 1977 |
| James Cramer (born 1955) |
Television host |
College 1977; Law School 1984 |
| Michael Crichton (born 1942) |
Novelist, best known for Jurassic Park and the television series ER |
College 1964; Medical School 1969 |
| Hardy Cross |
Civil engineer |
MCE 1911 |
| Lindsay Crouse (born 1948) |
Actress |
Radcliffe 1970 |
| E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) |
Poet |
College 1915; M.A. 1916 |
| Rivers Cuomo (born 1970) |
Singer of band Weezer |
Recently completed college, English and American Literature (originally dropped out) |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| William Gaddis (1922-1998) |
Novelist |
Attended College, did not graduate |
| John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) |
Canadian-American Keynesian Economist |
Professor |
| William H. Gates (born 1955) |
Co-founder of Microsoft; as of 2006, wealthiest person in the world |
Attended College, dropped, given honorary degree. |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950) |
African American studies scholar |
Professor |
| Frank Gehry (born 1929) |
Architect |
Attended Design School, did not graduate |
| David Gergen (born 1942) |
Advisor to four U.S. presidents |
Law School 1967 |
| Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) |
Vice President of the United States |
College 1762 |
| Daniel Gilbert |
Social psychologist |
Professor at the Department of Psychology |
| Walter Gilbert (born 1932) |
Molecular biologist; Nobel Prize winner |
College; professor |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born 1933) |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
Attended Law School, later transferred |
| Sheldon Lee Glashow (born 1932) |
Physicist; Nobel Prize winner |
Ph.D. 1959; professor |
| Roy J. Glauber |
Physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics winner |
Ph.D. |
| Daniel Goldhagen (born 1959) |
Political scientist; controversial author of Hitler's Willing Executioners |
Ph.D. recipient, previously an Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies |
| Alberto Gonzales (born 1955) |
Attorney General of the United States |
Law School 1982 |
| Ellen Goodman (born 1941) |
Boston Globe columnist |
Racliffe 1963 |
| Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) |
Philosopher |
|
| Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) |
Historian, author |
Ph.D. 1968 |
| Richard Goodwin (born 1931) |
Speechwriter for Kennedy and Johnson administrations, author |
Law |
| Al Gore (born 1948) |
Vice President of the United States |
College 1969 |
| Jamie Gorelick (born 1950) |
Member of 9/11 Commission |
College 1972; Law School 1975 |
| Edward Gorey (1925-2000) |
Illustrator |
College 1950 |
| Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) |
Biologist |
Professor |
| Bob Graham (born 1936) |
United States Senator, Governor of Florida |
Law School 1962 |
| Donald Graham (born 1945) |
The Washington Post Company chairman and CEO |
College 1966 |
| Paul Graham (born 1964) |
Computer programmer and essayist |
M.S. 1988 Ph.D. 1990 |
| Fred Grandy (born 1948) |
Actor, politician |
College 1970 |
| Jennifer Granholm (born 1959) |
Governor of Michigan |
Law School 1987 |
| Clifton D. Gray (1875-1944) |
President of Bates College |
College 1897 |
| Stephen Greenblatt (born 1943) |
Literary critic |
Professor |
| Milton Green (1913-2005) |
Runner, former world recorder holder in hurdles |
College |
| Brian Greene (born 1963) |
Famous in the world of String Theory. Columbia University Professor |
College 1984 |
| Andre Gregory (born 1934) |
Theatre director, actor |
College 1956 |
| Jasper Griffin |
Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford (1992-2004) |
Jackson Fellow (1960-61) |
| Walter Gropius (1883-1969) |
Architect |
Professor; dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design |
| Fred Gwynne (1926-1993) |
Actor |
College 1951 |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| John Hagelin (born 1954) |
Third-party presidential candidate |
Ph.D. 1981 |
| David Halberstam (born 1934) |
Author |
College 1955 |
| Donald Hall (born 1928) |
14th U.S. Poet Laureate |
BA 1951 |
| G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924) |
First president of APA and Clark University |
Ph.D. 1878 |
| John Hancock (1737-1793) |
President of the Continental Congress |
College 1754 |
| John Harbison (born 1938) |
Composer |
College 1960 |
| David C. Hardesty |
President of West Virginia University |
J.D. 1973 |
| Katherine Harris (born 1957) |
U.S. Congresswoman, Florida Secretary of State during the state's recount in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election |
KSG 1997 [34] |
| Trip Hawkins (born 1953) |
Founder of Electronic Arts and the 3DO Company |
College |
| Rutherford Hayes (1822-1893) |
President of the United States |
Law School 1845 |
| Kerry Healey (1960-) |
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
College 1982 |
| William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) |
Newspaper magnate |
Attended College, did not graduate |
| H. John Heinz (1938-1991) |
United States Senator |
Business School 1963 |
| Mark Helprin (born 1947) |
Writer |
College, Graduate School |
| Bruce Henderson (1915-1992) |
Founder of the Boston Consulting Group |
Attended Business School, did not graduate |
| Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932) |
Chemist; Nobel Prize winner |
Professor |
| Christian Herter (1895-1966) |
United States Secretary of State |
College 1915 |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) |
Author, Abolitionist, Colonel |
College 1841, |
| Julie Hilden |
Author, |
College 1989. |
| Alger Hiss (1904-1996) |
Accused of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union |
Law School 1929 |
| Fred Ho (1957-) |
Jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, and bandleader |
Sociology 1979 |
| Donald Hodel (born 1935) |
United States Secretary of the Interior, United States Secretary of Energy |
College 1957 |
| Elizabeth Holtzman (born 1941) |
Congresswoman, District Attorney, New York Comptroller |
B.A. 1962 J.D. 1965 |
| Blair Hornstine (born 1984) |
Teenager who sued to be sole valedictorian of high school |
Unsuccessful applicant |
| Caroline Hoxby |
Economist |
A.B. 1988; professor |
| Heisuke Hironaka (1931-) |
Mathematician; Fields Medal winner |
Ph.D. 1960 |
| Michael Huffington (born 1947) |
Businessman and husband of Arianna Huffington |
MBA 1971 |
| Peter Hughes (born 1956) |
Chief Executive, Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand, |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) |
Poet, physician |
College; Ph.D. 1836; professor |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
College 1861; Law School 1866 |
| Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz |
Historian |
Ph.D.; professor |
| Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) |
Jurist |
Law School 1922 and 1923 |
| Rafael Hui (1948-) |
Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong |
MPA 1983 |
| Josephine Hull (1886-1957) |
Actress |
Radcliffe 1899 |
| Samuel P. Huntington (born 1927) |
Political scientist |
Ph.D. 1951; professor |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| Ted Kaczynski (born 1942) |
Unabomber terrorist |
College 1962 |
| Philip Kaufman (born 1936) |
Film director, screenwriter |
Attended Law School, did not graduate |
| Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
Deafblind author, activist, and lecturer |
Radcliffe 1904 |
| Anthony Kennedy (born 1936) |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
Law School 1961 |
| Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (born 1957) |
Writer; daughter of John F. Kennedy |
Radcliffe 1980 |
| Edward Kennedy (born 1932) |
United States Senator |
College 1956 |
| John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
President of the United States |
College 1940; gave name to Kennedy School of Government |
| Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) |
Kennedy political family patriarch |
College 1912 |
| Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) |
United States Senator, U.S. Attorney General |
College 1948 |
| Douglas Kenney (1947-1980) |
Humorist, screenwriter |
College 1968 |
| Alan Keyes (born 1950) |
U.S. presidential candidate and Senatorial candidate |
College 1972; Ph.D. 1979 |
| Karim Aga Khan IV (born 1936) |
Spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili branch of Islam |
College 1959 |
| Marc Kielburger (born 1977) |
Canadian humanitarian and activist |
College 1999 |
| Ron Kind (born 1963) |
Member of Congress |
College 1985 |
| Jeff Kindler |
CEO of Pfizer |
Law School 1980 |
| Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) |
Sexologist |
Sc.D. 1919 |
| Michael Kinsley (born 1951) |
Journalist |
College 1972; Law School 1977 |
| Henry Kissinger (born 1923) |
United States Secretary of State, National Security Advisor |
College 1950; M.A. 1952; Ph.D. 1954; Professor 1957 |
| Richard Kleindienst (1923-2000) |
United States Attorney General |
College 1947; Law School 1950 |
| Howard Koh (born 1952) |
Physician |
Professor, Harvard School of Public Health |
| Herbert Kohl (born 1935) |
United States Senator |
Business School 1958 |
| Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947) |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 |
College 1967 |
| Alan Kreider (born 1941) |
formerly Director, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, University of Oxford |
A.M. (1965), Ph.D. (1971), Travelling Fellow (1966-67) |
| Saul Kripke (born 1940) |
Philosopher |
College; Society of Fellows |
| Nicholas D. Kristof (born 1959) |
New York Times columnist |
College 1981 |
| William Kristol (born 1952) |
Editor of The Weekly Standard |
College 1973; Ph.D. 1979 |
| Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922-1996) |
Philosopher and historian of science |
College 1943; M.A. 1946; Ph.D. 1949 |
| Maxine Kumin (born 1925) |
Poet |
College 1946; M.A. 1948 |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| Philip Lader (born ?) |
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom |
Law School |
| Anthony Lake (born 1939) |
United States National Security Advisor |
College 1961 |
| Corliss Lamont (1905-1995) |
ACLU director, humanist author |
College 1924, professor |
| Edwin Land (1909-1991) |
Inventor |
Attended College, did not graduate |
| George Martin Lane (1823-1897) |
Classical scholar |
Professor (1869-1894) |
| Jim Langevin (born 1964) |
member of the US House of Representatives for Rhode Island |
Kennedy School |
| Bernard Francis Law (born 1931) |
Cardinal Archbishop of Boston during the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal |
College 1953 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) |
Novelist |
Radcliffe 1951 |
| Tobias Lear (1762-1816) |
George Washington's personal secretary |
College 1783 |
| Timothy Leary (1920-1996) |
Writer; psychologist; LSD guru |
Professor (1959-1963) |
| Chas Lee (born 1971) |
Embezzler |
College 1993 |
| Lee Hsien Loong (born 1952) |
Current Prime Minister of Singapore |
MPA Kennedy School of Government 1980 |
| Tom Lehrer (born 1928) |
Satirist; Mathematician; Singer |
College 1946; M.A. 1947 |
| Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) |
Actor |
College 1947 |
| Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) |
Lyricist, librettist |
College 1940 |
| Carl Levin (born 1934) |
United States Senator |
Law School (1959) |
| Anthony Lewis (born 1927) |
New York Times columnist |
College 1948 |
| David Lewis (1941-2001) |
Philosopher |
Ph.D. |
| Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) |
Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln |
College 1864 |
| Lawrence B. Lindsey (born 1954) |
Economist |
M.A. 1981; Ph.D. 1985 |
| John Lithgow (born 1945) |
Actor |
College 1967 |
| Perry Link |
Sinologist, Professor |
B.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1976 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985) |
1960 Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. |
College 1924 |
| John Loeb (1902-1996) |
Financier |
College 1924 |
| Donal Logue (born 1966) |
Actor |
College 1989 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
Poet |
Professor (1834-1854) |
| Alan Lomax (1915-2002) |
Musicologist |
Attended College (1932-1933), did not graduate |
| John Lomax (1867-1948) |
Musicologist |
Visiting student (1907) |
| Joseph Losey (1909-1984) |
Film director |
A.M. |
| James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
Poet, abolitionist |
College 1838 |
| Robert Lowell (1917-1977) |
Poet |
Attended College, did not graduate |
| Alison Lurie (born 1926) |
Novelist |
Radcliffe 1947 |
| John Lynch (born 1952) |
Governor of New Hampshire |
Business School 1979 |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King (born 1874) |
Prime Minister of Canada |
MA and PhD in political economy in 1898 and 1909 |
| Yo-Yo Ma (born 1955) |
cellist |
College 1976 |
| Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) |
Poet, writer |
Law School 1919 |
| Miguel de la Madrid (b. 1934) |
President of Mexico (1982 – 1988) |
KSG 1965 |
| Holbrook Mann MacNeille (1907-1973) |
Mathematician |
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1935 |
| Nabiel Makarim (born 1945) |
Indonesian Environmental Minister |
John F. Kennedy School of Government 1984 |
| Norman Mailer (born 1923) |
Novelist |
College 1943 |
| Terrence Malick (born 1943) |
Film director, screenwriter |
College 1966 |
| N. Gregory Mankiw (born 1958) |
Economist |
Professor |
| Harvey Mansfield |
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University |
Professor |
| Ehsan Maraghi (born 1946) |
Dean of Tehran University |
M.B.A. Harvard School of Business Management |
| Julián Marías (1914-2005) |
Philosopher and author |
Professor |
| Richard Marius (1933-1999) |
Reformation historian and author |
Professor |
| Elizabeth (Sadie) Holloway Marston (born 1893) |
co-creator of the comic book character, Wonder Woman |
Radcliffe College, M.A. 1921 |
| Roger Martin (born 1956) |
Dean of University of Toronto's Rotman School of Business |
M.B.A. 1978 |
| Cotton Mather (1663-1728) |
Minister, author |
College 1678, M.A. 1681 |
| Increase Mather (1639-1723) |
Clergyman |
College 1656 |
| Jim Matheson (born 1960) |
Congressman from Utah |
College |
| Thom Mayne (born 1944) |
Architect; Pritzker Prize winner |
School of Design 1978 |
| Ernst Mayr (1904-2005) |
Evolutionary biologist |
Professor |
| Anne McCaffrey (born 1926) |
Novelist |
Radcliffe 1947 |
| Neil H. McElroy (1904-1972) |
United States Secretary of Defense |
College 1925 |
| Jim McGreevey (born 1957) |
Governor of New Jersey |
GSE 1982 |
| Douglas McGregor (1906-1964) |
Management theorist |
M.A. 1933 Ph.D. 1935 |
| Malcolm McKesson (1909-1999) |
Outsider artist |
College 1933 |
| Robert McNamara (born 1916) |
United States Secretary of Defense |
Business School 1939 |
| Scott McNealy (born 1954) |
Co-founder and chairman of Sun Microsystems |
College |
| Abel Meeropol (born 1903) |
(a.k.a. Lewis Allan), Actor and composer |
| Ken Mehlman (born 1967) |
Chairman of the Republican National Committee |
Law School 1991 |
| George W. Merck (born 1894) |
Industrialist; president of Merck & Co. |
College, 1915 |
| Robert Merton (born 1944) |
Economist; Nobel Prize winner |
Professor, Harvard Business School |
| Tom Mesereau (born 1950) |
Criminal defense attorney |
College 1973 |
| Alex Michel (born 1970) |
American businessman and television personality for The Bachelor |
College 1992 |
| Marvin Minsky (born 1927) |
Computer scientist |
College 1950 |
| David Miller (born 1958) |
Mayor of Toronto |
College |
| David Monahan (born 1971) |
Actor |
College |
| Dominic Moore (born 1980) |
NHL Player Pittsburgh Penguins |
College |
| Steve Moore (born 1978) |
NHL Player Colorado Avalanche |
College |
| Tom Morello (born 1964) |
Lead guitarist of the band Audioslave; ex-lead guitarist of the band Rage Against the Machine; Political activist |
College 1986 |
| David Morgan (born 1947) |
CEO of Westpac |
Ph.D |
| Sylvanus G. Morley (1883-1948) |
Mayanist scholar and archaeologist |
College 1908 |
| Robert Tappan Morris (born 1965) |
CS professor at MIT, creator of the first computer worm |
College 1987; M.S. 1993; Ph.D. Applied Sciences 1999 |
| David Mumford (born 1937) |
Mathematician; Fields Medal winner |
College 1957; Ph.D. 1961 |
| James Murdoch (born 1972) |
British Sky Broadcasting CEO |
Attended College, did not graduate |
| Charles Murray (born 1943) |
Writer |
College 1965 |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| Stuart Rabner (born 1960) |
Attorney General of the State of New Jersey 2006-? |
Law School 1984 |
| Franklin Raines (born 1949) |
Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae |
College 1971; Law School 1976 |
| Bonnie Raitt (born 1949) |
Singer, songwriter |
Attended Radcliffe, did not graduate |
| Norman F. Ramsey (born 1915) |
Physicist; Nobel Prize winner |
Professor |
| John Rawls (1921-2002) |
Philosopher; political scientist |
Professor |
| Joshua Redman (born 1969) |
Jazz saxophonist |
College 1991 |
| Sumner Redstone (born 1923) |
Chairman and CEO of Viacom |
College 1943; Law School 1947 |
| Jack Reed (born 1949) |
United States Senator |
KSG 1973; Law School 1982 |
| John Reed (1887-1920) |
Journalist, activist |
College 1910 |
| Donald Regan (1918-2003) |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
College 1940 |
| Fred Reichheld |
Author of bestselling business books |
College 1974; Business School 1978 |
| William Rehnquist (1924-2005) |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
M.A. 1950 |
| Edwin O. Reischauer (1910-1990) |
East Asian scholar |
Ph.D. 1939; professor; gave name to Reischauer Institute |
| Janet Reno (born 1938) |
United States Attorney General |
Law School 1963 |
| Syngman Rhee (1875-1965) |
President of South Korea |
M.A. 1909 |
| Stuart A. Rice (born 1932) |
Physical chemist at The University of Chicago |
A.M., 1954; Ph.D., 1955 |
| Adrienne Rich (born 1929) |
Poet |
Radcliffe 1951 |
| Frank Rich (born 1949) |
New York Times columnist |
College 1971 |
| Elliot Richardson (1920-1999) |
United States Secretary of Defense, United States Attorney General |
College 1941, Law School 1947 |
| Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) |
Architect |
College 1859 |
| Tom Ridge (born 1946) |
United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
College 1967 |
| Eden Riegel (born 1981) |
Actress |
Attended College (1998-2000), did not graduate |
| Michael Ritchie (1938-2001) |
Film director |
College 1960 |
| John Roberts (born 1955) |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
College 1976; Law School 1979 |
| Mo Rocca (born 1969) |
Comedian |
College 1991 |
| Jay Rockefeller (born 1937) |
United States Senator |
College 1961 |
| David Rockefeller (born 1916) |
Banker; Philanthropist; Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank |
College 1936 |
| Eduardo Rodríguez (born 1956) |
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bolivia; Interim President of Bolivia |
Law School |
| Mitt Romney (born 1947) |
Governor of Massachusetts |
Business School and Law School 1975 |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
President of the United States |
College 1904 |
| Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
President of the United States |
College 1880 |
| Josiah Royce (1855-1916) |
Philosopher |
Professor (1892-1914) |
| Robert E. Rubin (born 1938) |
U.S. Treasury Secretary; Chairman, Citigroup |
College 1960 |
| Angela Ruggiero (born 1980) |
Olympic athlete, hockey player |
College 2004 |
| James R. Russell [35] |
Professor and scholar; Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University |
Professor (1993-) |
| Frederic Rzewski (born 1938) |
Composer, pianist |
College 1958 |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| Nadav Safran (1925-2003) |
An expert in Arab politics and former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies |
Professor |
| Edward Said (1935-2003) |
Coined term Orientalism; Palestinian activist |
M.A. ??; Ph.D. 1964 |
| Meredith Salenger (born 1970) |
Actress |
College 1992 |
| Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born 1948) |
President of Mexico, (1988-94) |
M.P.A. 1973; Ph.D. 1978 |
| Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979) |
United States Senator |
College 1914; Law School 1917 |
| Michael Sandel (??-) |
Political scientist |
Professor |
| E. San Juan, Jr. |
Poet, cultural scholar |
AM, PhD |
| George Santayana (1863-1952) |
Philosopher |
College 1886; Ph.D. 1889; professor |
| Francisco Santos (??-) |
Vice President of Colombia |
Extension School 1992 |
| Paul Sarbanes (born 1933) |
United States Senator |
Law School 1960 |
| Surakiart Sathirathai (born 1958) |
Foreign Minister of Thailand |
Law School; LL.M.; S.J.D. |
| Antonin Scalia (born 1936) |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
Law School 1960 |
| Elaine Scarry |
Author |
Professor of English and American Literature and Language, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value |
| Sydney Schanberg (born 1934) |
Journalist |
College 1955 |
| Phyllis Schlafly (born 1924) |
Political activist |
Graduate School 1945 |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965) |
Historian |
Professor; gave name to Schlesinger Library |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (born 1917) |
Historian, advisor to John F. Kennedy |
College 1938; professor |
| Harrison Schmitt (born 1935) |
Astronaut, United States Senator |
Ph.D. 1964 |
| Bill Schneider |
Journalist, political analyst |
M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972 |
| Steve Schwarzman (1947) |
Billionarie, owner of Blackstone Group |
MBA |
| Pat Schroeder (born 1940) |
U.S. Congresswoman |
Law School 1964 |
| Charles Schumer (born 1950) |
United States Senator |
College 1971; Law School 1974 |
| Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) |
Physicist; Nobel Prize winner (1965) |
Professor |
| Pete Seeger (born 1919) |
Songwriter, singer, activist |
Attended College, did not graduate |
| Erich Segal (born 1937) |
Author, screenwriter |
College 1958; M.A. 1959; Ph.D. 1965 |
| Peter Sellars (??-) |
Theater director |
College 1980 |
| Amartya Sen (born 1933) |
Economist; Nobel Prize winner (1998) |
Professor |
| HM King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah (1945-2001) |
Late King of Nepal |
Attended for one year (1967) |
| Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863) |
Abolitionist, Union Army colonel |
Attended College (1856-1859), did not graduate. |
| Wallace Shawn (born 1943) |
Actor, playwright |
College 1965 |
| Harry Shearer (born 1943) |
Actor, writer |
Attended Graduate School, did not graduate |
| Faryar Shirzad (born ?) |
Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush |
KSG |
| Bob Shrum (born 1943) |
Political consultant |
Law School 1968 |
| Elisabeth Shue (born 1963) |
Actress |
College 2000 |
| Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf |
President of Liberia |
KSG |
| Jonathan Siegel (born 1962) |
Professor of Law, George Washington University |
College 1984 |
| Jeffrey Skilling (born 1953) |
CEO of Enron |
Business School 1979 |
| Burrhus F. Skinner (1904-1990) |
behavioristic psychologist |
Ph.D. 1931, Researcher till 1936, Professor since 1948 |
| Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916–2000) |
Harvard Divinity School |
Professor 1964–73 |
| Christian Smith (born 1960) |
Religious Studies |
Ph.D. 1990 |
| Cordwainer Smith (1913-1966) |
East Asian scholar; science fiction writer |
Faculty |
| William French Smith (1917-1990) |
United States Attorney General |
Law School 1942 |
| Robert M. Solow (born 1924) |
Economist; Nobel Prize winner (1987) |
College 1947, Ph.D. 1951 |
| Maximo V. Soliven (born 1933) |
Decorated Writer; Chevalier (knight) of the National Order of Merit. |
Ph.D. 1951 |
| Susan Sontag (1933-2004) |
Writer, activist |
M.A. 1957 |
| Mira Sorvino (born 1967) |
Actress |
College 1990 |
| David Souter (born 1939) |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
College 1961; Law School 1966 |
| Thomas Sowell (born 1930) |
Writer, economist |
College 1958 |
| Jared Sparks (1789-1866) |
Historian |
College 1819; professor (1838-1849) |
| Eliot Spitzer (born 1959) |
New York Attorney General |
Law School 1984 |
| Richard Stallman (born 1953) |
Founder of the Free Software Foundation |
College 1974 |
| David J. Steinberg |
President of Long Island University |
B.A., M.A., and Ph.D |
| Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) |
Poet, novelist |
Radcliffe 1897 |
| Theodore Steinbock (1952 - ) |
Radiologist, author |
College and Medical School |
| Ted Stevens (born 1923) |
President pro tempore of the United States Senate |
Law School 1950 |
| Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) |
Poet |
Special student (1897-1900), did not graduate |
| Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) |
1952 and 1956 Democratic U.S. presidential nominee, Governor of Illinois |
Attended Law School, did not graduate |
| Whit Stillman (born 1952) |
Screenwriter, film director |
College 1973 |
| Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) |
United States Secretary of State, United States Secretary of War |
M.A. 1889 |
| Robert Strassburg (1915-2003) |
Conductor, Composer, Professor of Music, Musicologist |
M.A. 1950 |
| Andrew Sullivan (born 1963) |
Blogger, journalist |
M.A. 1986; Ph.D. 1990 |
| Lawrence Summers (born 1954) |
Economist; United States Secretary of the Treasury; Chief Economist for the World Bank |
Ph.D. 1982; President (2001-2006) |
| Charles Sumner (1811-1874) |
United States Senator |
College 1830; Law School 1833 |
| William H Sumner (1780-1861) |
Developed East Boston |
College 1799 |
| John E. Sununu (born 1964) |
United States Senator |
Business School 1991 |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| Sinedu Tadesse (1974-1995) |
Murderer |
Attended college (1993-1995), did not graduate. |
| Robert Taft (1889-1953) |
United States Senator |
Law School 1913 |
| Lorenzo M. Tañada (1898-1992) |
Philippine Senator, nationalist and civil libertarian |
Master of Laws |
| Ernest Thayer (1863-1940) |
Poet |
College 1885 |
| Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born 1981) |
Actor |
Attended college (2001-2002), did not graduate. |
| Grant Thompson (??-) |
Runner-up on second season of Dream Job, actor |
College 1998 |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
Journalist, philosopher, writer |
College 1837 |
| James Toback (born 1944) |
Film director and screenwriter |
College 1966 |
| James Tobin (1918-2002) |
Economist; Nobel Prize winner (1981) |
College 1939 |
| John Tooby (?? --) |
Anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist |
Ph.D 1985 |
| Pat Toomey (born 1961) |
Club for Growth president |
College 1984 |
| Joshua Toulmin (1740-1815) |
English Radical Dissenting minister |
D.D. 1794 |
| Laurence Tribe (born 1941) |
Lawyer |
College 1962; Law School 1966; professor |
| Sergio Troncoso (born 1961) |
Novelist and writer of short stories |
College 1983 |
| Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) |
Prime Minister of Canada |
M.A. 1945 |
| Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785) |
Politician |
College 1727 |
| Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (1740-1809) |
Politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives |
College 1759 |
| Donald Tsang (born 1944) |
Politician, Chief Executive of Hong Kong |
KSG 1982 |
| Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) |
Historian |
Radcliffe 1933; faculty |
| Scott Turow (born 1949) |
Novelist, lawyer |
Law School 1978 |
| Name |
Known for |
Relationship to Harvard |
| Chris Wallace (born 1947) |
Television host |
College 1969 |
| Mark Warner (born 1954) |
Governor of Virginia, co-founder of Nextel |
Law School 1980 |
| Samuel Warren (born 1852) |
Attorney; law partner of Louis Brandeis |
Law School 1877 |
| Alexander Watson |
Ambassador, diplomat |
College 1961 |
| James D. Watson (born 1928) |
Molecular biologist; Nobel Prize winner |
Professor |
| John Weidman (??-) |
Librettist |
College 1968 |
| Andrew Weil (born 1942) |
Medical writer |
College 1964; Medical School 1968 |
| Caspar Weinberger (1917-2006) |
United States Secretary of Defense |
College 1938; Law School 1941 |
| Weld Family |
Many associations including donation of Weld Hall and Weld Boathouse |
1600s - present |
| William Weld (born 1945) |
Governor of Massachusetts |
College 1966; Law School 1970 |
| Cornel West (born 1953) |
African American studies scholar |
Professor (1993-2002) |
| Theodore White (1915-1986) |
Journalist |
College 1938 |
| William Lindsay White |
Journalist |
College 1924 |
| George Whitesides (born 1939) |
Chemist |
College 1960; University professor (1982-) |
| Harry Elkins Widener (1885-1912) |
Harvard's Widener Library is named after him, died in the sinking of the Titanic |
College 1907 |
| Richard Wilbur (born 1921) |
Poet |
M.A. 1947; professor |
| Peggy R. Williams |
President of Ithaca College |
Ed.D. 1983 |
| Edward Osborne Wilson (born 1929) |
Biologist |
Ph.D. 1955; professor |
| Kenneth G. Wilson (born 1936) |
Physicist; Nobel Prize winner |
College 1956 |
| James Q. Wilson (born 1931) |
Professor of public policy |
Professor of Government-1961 to 1987 |
| Dave Winer (born 1955) |
Software developer; early and still famous blogger |
Fellow at HLS's Berkman Center for Internet and Society 2004 |
| Charles F. Winslow (1811-1877) |
physician, diplomat, and atomic theorist |
M.D. 1834 |
| John Winthrop (1714-1779) |
Astronomer; Mathematician |
College 1732; professor |
| Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) |
Novelist |
M.A. 1922 |
| James Wolfensohn (1933-) |
Ninth President of the World Bank |
Business School 1959 |
| Henry Austryn Wolfson (1887-1974) |
Philosopher |
Ph.D.; professor |
| Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) |
Chemist, Nobel Prize 1965 |
professor |
| Charles W. Woodworth (1865-1940) |
Entomologist; Founder UCB's Entomology Department |
Grad. Student, Researcher (1886-1888), (1900-1901) |
| Chauncey Wright (1830-1875) |
Mathematician, philosopher, professor |
College 1852 |
| Elizabeth Wurtzel (born 1967) |
Writer |
College 1989 |
| Paul Wylie (born 1964) |
Figure skater |
College 1991 |
