This list of Harvard University alumni includes notable graduates, professors, and administrators affiliated with Harvard University. For a list of notable non-graduates of Harvard, see the list of Harvard University non-graduate alumni. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University.

Eight presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Bush graduated from Harvard Business School, Hayes and Obama from Harvard Law School, and the others from Harvard College.

Over 150 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as alumni, researchers or faculty.

Nobel laureates

Pulitzer Prize winners

Royalty and nobility

Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

Business

Victor Niederhoffer (1943– 2026), hedge fund manager, U.S. Squash Champion and Paddleball Champion, bestselling author, and statistician."Capitalist squash," The New York Times, April 13, 1975. Whitney Tilson (born 1966), hedge fund manager, philanthropist, author, and Democratic political activist Monroe Trout (born 1962), formerly American, hedge fund manager Georges Frem (1934–2006), Lebanese businessman, philanthropist and politician

Politics

Law

Supreme Court justices

Other legal figures

Danielle Sassoon, Class of 2008, former acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York

Military

Journalism

Literature

Film, theater, and television

Music

Art, architecture, and engineering

Religion

Athletics

Spencer Freedman (born 1998), college basketball player for the Harvard Crimson and NYU Violets Ross Friedman (born 1992), Major League Soccer player Elizabeth Tartakovsky (born 2000), Olympic saber fencer Michael Zimmerman (born 1970), tennis player, 2x Ivy League Player of the Year

Criminals

Academics

Educational institution founders and presidents

Yoram Ben-Porat (1937–1992), Israeli economist and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Shlomo Eckstein (1929–2020), Israeli economist and President of Bar-Ilan University Amos Eiran, Israeli President of the University of Haifa Yosef Tekoah (1925–1991), Ph.D., Israeli President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Professors and scholars

Faculty

See also

List of people from Massachusetts

References