Harvard College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

For more information see List of Harvard University people

Architecture

• Buckminster Fuller (expelled)
• Philip Johnson

Art

• Waldo Peirce
• Ellen Harvey
• Alex Kahn
• Marina Rosenfeld

Astronomy

• Andrew Fraknoi

Athletics

• Ryan Fitzpatrick
• Eddie Grant
• Bobby Jones
• Christopher Nowinski
• Jeremy Lin

Business

• Steve Ballmer
• Lloyd Blankfein
• Jim Cramer
• Bill Gates (did not graduate)
• James Halperin (did not graduate)
• Trip Hawkins
• William Randolph Hearst (rusticated)
• Scott Mead
• Sumner Redstone
• Mark Zuckerberg (did not graduate)

Economics

• Ben Bernanke
• Martin Feldstein
• Steven Levitt
• Merton Miller
• Robert M. Solow
• James Tobin

Education

• Edwin H Baker Pratt

Journalism

• Nicholas D. Kristof
• Anthony Lewis
• Walter Lippmann

Law

• Harry Blackmun
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• John Roberts
• David Souter

Literature

• James Agee
• William S. Burroughs
• Michael Crichton
• E. E. Cummings
• John Dos Passos
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• T. S. Eliot
• Jean Kwok
• Norman Mailer
• Edmund Pearson
• Erich Segal
• Wallace Stevens
• John Updike

Mathematics

• Theodore Kaczynski
• Tom Lehrer

Performance arts - music, theater and film

• Darren Aronofsky
• Paris Barclay
• Leonard Bernstein
• Andy Borowitz
• Amy Brenneman
• Carter Burwell
• Nestor Carbonell
• Rivers Cuomo
• Matt Damon (did not graduate)
• Nelson Denis
• Fred Gwynne
• Hao Huang
• Rashida Jones
• Tommy Lee Jones
• Jack Lemmon
• Ryan Leslie
• John Lithgow
• Donal Logue
• Yo-Yo Ma
• Terrence Malick
• Lorenzo Mariani
• Tom Morello
• Conan O'Brien
• Natalie Portman
• Joshua Redman
• Elisabeth Shue
• Mira Sorvino
• Michael Stern

Philosophy

• Donald Davidson
• Daniel Dennett
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• W.V.O. Quine
• George Santayana
• Henry David Thoreau

Physics

• Philip Warren Anderson
• Theodore Hall
• J. Robert Oppenheimer

Politics

• John Adams
• John Quincy Adams
• Samuel Adams
• Benazir Bhutto
• Sir George Downing
• Al Franken
• Elbridge Gerry
• Al Gore
• John Hancock
• Edward M. Kennedy
• John F. Kennedy
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Henry Kissinger
• Deval Patrick
• Tom Ridge
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Jay Rockefeller
• Chuck Schumer
• Meshech Weare
• John Weston

Religion

• Joseph Stevens Buckminster
• Aga Khan IV
• Cotton Mather
• Increase Mather
• Theodore Parker

Fictional alumni

• A.J. (The Fairly OddParents) (one episode)
• Oliver Barrett IV
• Patrick Bateman
• Quentin Compson (did not graduate)
• Frasier Crane
• Denzel Crocker of The Fairly Oddparents {one episode}
• Ari Gold
• Thurston Howell III
• Montgomery (Monty) Kessler (With Honors)
• Method Man (movie: How High)
• Reverend Samuel Parris as a character in The Crucible
• Herb Powell
• Redman (movie: How High)
• James "Toofer" Spurlock
• Charles Emerson Winchester III