Harvard Alumni

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Harvard ranks among the top universities in the world and is party of the Ivy League. The athletic teams of Harvard are called the Crimson. Name these famous people who attended Harvard University.
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Second President of the United States and Founding Father
John Adams
Sixth President of the United States and son of the above
John Quincy Adams
19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881
Rutherford B. Hayes
26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909 and first American to ever win a Nobel Prize
Theodore Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt
35th President of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963
John F. Kennedy
United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and Senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968
Robert F. Kennedy
43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
George W. Bush
44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Barack Obama
First lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Michelle Obama
Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 and Democratic presidential nominee for the 2000 election
Al Gore
United States Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 who received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
United States Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968 and President of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981
Robert McNamara
United States Attorney General from 1993 to 2001
Janet Reno
United States Attorney General from 2021 to 2025
Merrick Garland
United States Secreaty of State from 2021 to 2025
Antony Blinken
United States Secretary of Energy from 2021 to 2025 and Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011
Jennifer Granholm
United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009 and former CEO of Goldman Sachs
Henry Paulson
Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017 and White House Chief of Staff from 2012 to 2013
Jack Lew
Secretary of Defense since 2025 and former television presenter ("Fox & Friends" from 2017 to 2024)
Pete Hegseth
Secretary of Health since 2025, anti-vaccine activist and independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025, Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and Republican Party's nominee for president in the 2012 election
Mitt Romney
Senator from Maryland from 1977 to 2007
Paul Sarbanes
Senator from Vermont from 1989 to 2007
Jim Jeffords
Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007 and Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007
Bill Frist
Senator from New York since 1999 and Senate Majority Leader since 2021
Chuck Schumer
Senator from New Hampshire from 2003 to 2009
John E. Sununu
Senator from Louisiana from 2005 to 2017
David Vitter
Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015
Deval Patrick
Governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019
Bruce Rauner
Senator from Virginia since 2009 and Governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006
Mark Warner
Governor of Massachusetts from 2015 to 2023 and President of the NCAA since 2023
Charlie Baker
Governor of New Jersey since 2018
Phil Murphy
Governor of Florida since 2019
Ron DeSantis
Governor of Connecticut since 2019
Ned Lamont
Governor of Rhode Island since 2021
Dan McKee
Governor of Virginia since 2022
Glenn Youngkin
Governor of Massachusetts since 2023
Maura Healey
Governor of North Carolina since 2025
Josh Stein
Governor of Indiana since 2025 and Senator from Indiana from 2019 to 2025
Mike Braun
Senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015
Carl Levin
Senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005 and Governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987
Bob Graham
Senator from Rhode Island since 1997
Jack Reed
Senator from Idaho since 1999
Mike Crapo
Senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009
Elizabeth Dole
Senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018
Al Franken
Senator from Connecticut since 2011
Richard Blumenthal
Senator from Virginia since 2013, Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010 and Democratic nominee for vice president in the 2016 election
Tim Kaine
Senator from Texas since 2013
Ted Cruz
Senator from Nebraska from 2015 to 2023
Ben Sasse
Senator from Alaska since 2015
Dan Sullivan
Senator from Arkansas since 2015
Tom Cotton
Senator from Maryland since 2017
Chris Van Hollen
Senator from Pennsylvania since 2023
John Fetterman
Senator from Arizona since 2025
Ruben Gallego
Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013
Michael Bloomberg
Senior Advistor to the President from 2017 to 2021 (and his son-in-law)
Jared Kushner
Diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his 1940s mediation in Israel and first black Nobel laureate
Ralph Bunche
President of Israel from 2007 to 2014 who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Oslo Accords peace talks
Shimon Peres
First president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
Syngman Rhee
South Korean politician and secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016
Ban Ki-moon
King of Nepal from 1972 until his assassination in 2001
Birendra
King of Denmark since 2024
Frederik
Prime Minister of Canada from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930 and 1935 to 1948
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984
Pierre Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada since 2025
Mark Carney
First President of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
Syngman Rhee
Prime Minister of Norway (1981, 1986-1989 and 1990-1996) and Director-General of the WHO from 1998 to 2003
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Prime Minister of Hungary from 1988 to 1990 and last Communist Prime Minister of Hungary
Miklós Németh
President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996. First woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country.
Benazir Bhutto
Presidnet of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 and first woman to hold this office
Mary Robinson
President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010
Álvaro Uribe
President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018 and first elected female head of state in Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President of Mexico from 2006 to 2012
Felipe Calderón
President of Taiwan from 2008 to 2016
Ma Ying-jeou
President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018 who received the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize
Juan Manuel Santos
Presient of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022
Sebastián Piñera
Prime minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015
Antonis Samaras
Prime minister of Greece since 2019
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Prime Minister of Israel since 2022 (previously from 1996 to 1999 and 2009 to 2021)
Benjamin Netanyahu
Associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939 who helped develop the "right to privacy"
Louis Brandeis
Chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005 and associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1972 to 1986
William Rehnquist
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016
Antonin Scalia
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 to 2018
Anthony Kennedy
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1994 to 2022
Stephen Breyer
17th chief justice of the United States since 2005
John Roberts
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010
Elena Kagan
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2017
Neil Gorsuch
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2022 and first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Belgian jurist and President of the Court of Justice of the European Union since 2015
Koen Lenaerts
Legal scholar and writer, known for her parenting memoir "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother"
Amy Chua
Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014 who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Ben Bernanke
Economist and first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Paul Samuelson
Banker and co-founder of Morgan Stanley
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Co-founder of Microsoft and one of the richest person in the world
Bill Gates
CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014 and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
Steve Ballmer
Co-founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta
Mark Zuckerberg
Co-founder of Facebook and the youngest self-made billionaire in the world
Dustin Moskovitz
Brazilian billionaire and co-founder of Facebook
Eduardo Saverin
Co-founder of Airbnb
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-founder and CEO of Fitbit
James Park
Founder of Electronic Arts
Trip Hawkins
Co-founder of Staples and pioneer of the natural food supermarket industry
Leo Kahn
Co-founder of Staples
Thomas G. Stemberg
Co-founder of Southwest Airlines
Rollin King
CEO of the Kraft Group and owner of the New England Patriots
Robert Kraft
Essayist, philosopher, poet and leader of the transcendentalist movement
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, philosopher and leading transcendentalist best known for his book "Walden" and the essay "Civil Disobedeience"
Henry David Thoreau
Mathematician and philosopher who is known as "the father of pragmatism"
Charles Sanders Peirce
Pan-Africanist civil rights activist and first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard
W. E. B. Du Bois
Disability rights and political activist and first deafblind person in the U.S. to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
Helen Keller
Poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" "The Waste Land" "Murder in the Cathedral"
T. S. Eliot
Poet who rose to fame for delivering her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of Joe Biden
Amanda Gorman
Writer, "The Handmaid's Tale"
Margaret Atwood
Writer and filmmaker, "Jurassic Park" and creator of "ER"
Michael Crichton
Author of the "Earthsea" series
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author of the "Bridgerton" series of novels
Julia Quinn
Theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who is responsible for naming the field of physics that is now known as condensed matter physics
Philip W. Anderson
Physicist and director of the Manhattan Project, "Father of the atomic bomb"
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Biochemist who received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing"
Jennifer Doudna
Conductor and composer, "West Side Story"
Leonard Bernstein
Former White House's chief strategist in the Trump administration and former executive chairman of Breitbart News
Steve Bannon
His show at Fox News Channel from 1996 until 2017 had been the highest-rated cable news show at the time
Bill O'Reilly
Late-night talk show who hosted the "Late Night" from 1993 to 2009, NBC's "The Tonight Show" from 2009 to 2010 and his own show on TBS from 2010 to 2021
Conan O'Brien
Director, "Black Swan" "Requiem for a Dream" "The Whale"
Darren Aronofsky
Director, "La La Land" "Whiplash" "Babylon"
Damien Chazelle
Director, "The Tree of Life" "The Thin Red Line" "Badlands"
Terrence Malick
Director, "The Last Samurai" "Legends of the Fall" "Blood Diamond"
Edward Zwick
Creator of "The Good Place", co-creator of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and writer for "The Office"
Michael Schur
Actor, "Good Will Hunting" "The Departed" "The Martian"
Matt Damon
Actor, "Men in Black" "The Fugitive" "No Country for Old Men"
Tommy Lee Jones
Actor, "3rd Rock from the Sun" "The Crown" "The World According to Garp"
John Lithgow
Actor, "The Princess Bride" "Marriage Story" "Young Sheldon"
Wallace Shawn
Actor best known for his role as Hank Schrader in "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul"
Dean Norris
Actor best known for his role as Ryan Howard in "The Office"
B. J. Novak
Actress who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Mighty Aphrodite"
Mira Sorvino
Actress, "Léon: The Professional" "Star Wars" prequels "Black Swan" "Thor"
Natalie Portman
Actress, "The Office" "Parks and Recreation" "Boston Public"
Rashida Jones
Actress, "Heat" "Double Jeopardy" "A Time to Kill"
Ashley Judd
Actress, "Leaving Las Vegas" "The Karate Kid" "Back to the Future II"
Elisabeth Shue
Academy Award film composer, "La La Land" "Whiplash" "Babylon"
Justin Hurwitz
General manager of the Cleveland Browns since 2020
Andrew Berry
Former quarterback who started for nine different teams, the most in NFL history, and spent 17 seasons in the NFL
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Basketball player who was the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA and sparked the phenomenon known as "Linsanity" during his time with the New York Knicks
Jeremy Lin
Commissioner of Baseball since 2015
Rob Manfred
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