Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Henry Adams (1838β1918) |
College 1858; Professor |
Historian, novelist |
[44] |
John Coolidge Adams (born 1947) |
College 1969; A.M. 1971 |
Composer |
[45] |
James Agee (1909β1955) |
College 1932 |
Novelist, screenwriter |
[46] |
Liaquat Ahamed (born 1952) |
M.A. |
Author |
|
Conrad Aiken (1889β1973) |
College 1912 |
Poet, writer |
[47] |
John Ashbery (born 1927) |
College 1949 |
Poet |
[48] |
Brooks Atkinson (1894β1984) |
College 1917 |
Theater critic |
[49] |
Bernard Bailyn (born 1922) |
A.M. 1947; PhD 1953; Professor 1961β |
Historian |
[50] |
Walter Jackson Bate (1918-1999) |
College 1939 |
Historian |
|
James Phinney Baxter III (1893-1975) |
Ph. D 1926 |
Historian |
|
William M. Beecher (born 1933) |
College |
Journalist |
|
Samuel Flagg Bemis (1891-1973) |
Ph. D. 1916 |
Historian |
|
Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) |
Ph. D |
Historian |
|
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914β2004) |
College 1934 |
Historian, Librarian of Congress |
[51] |
Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) |
College 1908 |
Historian |
|
Paul Herman Buck (1899-1978) |
M.A. 1924 |
Historian |
|
Robert Campbell (born 1937) |
College 1958, Graduate School of Design 1967 |
Boston Globe architecture critic |
[52] |
Elliot Carter (born 1908) |
College 1932 |
Composer |
[53] |
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918β2007) |
College 1940; Professor |
Historian |
|
Edward Channing (1856β1931) |
College 1878 |
Historian |
|
Robert Coles (born 1929) |
College 1950 |
Author |
|
Holland Cotter (born 1947) |
College 1970 |
Journalist |
|
Merle Curti (1897-1996) |
College 1920 |
Historian |
|
David Brion Davis (born 1927) |
Ph. D 1955 |
Historian |
|
Bernard DeVoto (1897β1955) |
College 1920 |
Historian |
|
Jared Diamond (born 1937) |
College 1958 |
Author, biologist |
[54] |
John W. Dower (born 1938) |
Ph. D 1972 |
Historian |
|
Richard Eder (born 1932) |
College 1954 |
Los Angeles Times journalist |
[55] |
Caroline Elkins (born 1969) |
Ph. D 2001 |
Historian |
|
Will Englund (born 1953) |
College 1977 |
Journalist |
|
Susan Faludi (born 1959) |
College 1981 |
Author, journalist |
[56] |
Mark Feeney (born 1957) |
College 1979 |
Boston Globe journalist |
[55] |
Herbert Feis (1893β1972) |
College 1916 |
Historian |
|
James Thomas Flexner (1908β2003) |
College 1926 |
Historian |
|
Sydney P. Freedberg |
College 1975 |
Journalist |
|
Alix M. Freedman (born 1957) |
College 1979 |
Journalist |
|
Daniel Golden |
College 1978 |
Journalist |
|
Ellen Goodman (born 1941) |
Radcliffe 1963 |
Boston Globe columnist |
[57] |
Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) |
PhD 1968 |
Historian, author |
[58] |
Annette Gordon-Reed (born 1958) |
Law 1984; Professor |
Historian |
|
Linda Greenhouse (born 1947) |
Radcliffe 1968 |
New York Times journalist |
[59] |
Richard Grozier (1887-1946) |
College 1909 |
Editor |
|
Cornelia Grumman (born 1963) |
KSG 1989 |
Journalist |
|
David Halberstam (1934β2007) |
College 1955 |
Author |
[60] |
Oscar Handlin (1915-2011) |
M.A. 1935 |
Historian |
|
Marcus Lee Hansen (1892-1938) |
Ph. D. 1928 |
Historian |
|
Laurie Hays |
College 1979 |
Journalist |
|
Tim Hays (1907-2011) |
Law 1942 |
Publisher |
|
John Harbison (born 1938) |
College 1960 |
Composer |
[61] |
Robert Hillyer (1895-1961) |
College 1917 |
Poet |
|
Daniel Walker Howe (born 1937) |
College 1959 |
Journalist |
|
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (1864-1960) |
A.M. 1888 |
Author |
|
Henry James (1879-1947) |
College 1899 |
Biographer |
|
Joseph Kahn (born 1964) |
College 1987 |
Journalist |
|
Michael Kammen (1936-2013) |
Ph. D. 1964 |
Historian |
|
Peter R. Kann (born 1942) |
College |
Journalist |
|
Justin Kaplan (1925-2014) |
College 1944 |
Biographer |
|
Stanley Karnow (1925-2013) |
College 1947 |
Journalist |
|
John F. Kennedy (1917β1963) |
College 1940 |
U.S. President |
[62] |
Tracy Kidder (born 1945) |
College 1967 |
Author |
|
Edward M. Kingsbury |
College 1875 |
Historian |
|
Charles Krauthammer (born 1950) |
Medical 1975 |
Washington Post columnist |
[63] |
Nicholas D. Kristof (born 1959) |
College 1981 |
New York Times columnist |
[64] |
Stanley Kunitz (1905β2006) |
College 1926; A.M. 1927 |
Poet, U.S. Poet Laureate |
[65] |
Oliver La Farge (1901-1963) |
College 1924 |
Author |
|
Oliver Larkin (1896β1970) |
College 1918 |
Art historian |
[66] |
Edward J. Larson (born 1953) |
Law 1979 |
Historian |
|
William L. Laurence (1888-1977) |
Law |
Journalist |
|
Joseph Lelyveld (born 1937) |
College 1958 |
Journalist |
|
Anthony Lewis (born 1927) |
College 1948 |
New York Times columnist |
[67] |
R. W. B. Lewis (1917-2002) |
College 1939 |
Biographer |
|
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) |
College 1910 |
Journalist |
|
J. Anthony Lukas (1933β1997) |
College 1955 |
Journalist |
[68] |
Robert Lowell (1917β1977) |
Dropped out |
Poet |
[69] |
John E. Mack (1929β2004) |
Medical 1955 |
Psychiatrist, writer, professor at Harvard University School of Medicine |
|
Archibald MacLeish (1892β1982) |
Law 1919 |
Poet, writer |
[70][better source needed] |
John P. Marquand (1893-1960) |
College 1915 |
Novelist |
|
Megan Marshall (born 1954) |
College 1977 |
Biographer |
|
John Matteson (born 1961) |
Law 1986 |
Biographer |
|
Garrett Mattingly (1900-1962) |
College 1923 |
Historian |
|
Charles Howard McIlwain (1871-1968) |
M.A. 1903 |
Historian |
|
James Alan McPherson (born 1943) |
Law 1968 |
Essayist |
|
Zachary Mider |
College 2000 |
Journalist |
|
Jack Miles (born 1942) |
Ph. D 1971 |
Historian |
|
Paul Moravec (born 1957) |
College 1980 |
Composer, professor |
[71] |
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887β1976) |
College 1908; PhD 1912; Professor |
Historian |
[72] |
Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 1970) |
M.D. 2000 |
Author |
|
Steven Naifeh (born 1952) |
Law 1977 |
Biographer |
|
Evan Osnos (born 1976) |
College 1998 |
Journalist |
|
Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929) |
College 1893 |
Historian |
|
Frederic L. Paxson (1877-1948) |
M.A. |
Historian |
|
Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) |
Ph. D. 1899 |
Philopsopher |
|
Walter Piston (1894-1976) |
College 1924 |
Composer |
|
Sumner Chilton Powell (1924-1993) |
Ph. D. 1956 |
Historian |
|
Jack N. Rakove (born 1947) |
Ph. D 1975 |
Historian |
|
Samantha Power (born 1970) |
Law 1999; Professor |
Writer |
[73] |
Richard Read (born 1957) |
Nieman fellow 1996-97 |
Journalist |
[74][75] |
Tom Reiss (born 1964) |
College 1987 |
Journalist |
|
David E. Sanger (born 1960) |
College 1982 |
Journalist |
[76] |
Charlie Savage (born 1975) |
College 1998 |
Journalist |
|
Sydney Schanberg (born 1934) |
College 1955 |
Journalist |
[77] |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917β2007) |
College 1938; professor |
Historian, advisor to John F. Kennedy |
[78] |
Carl Emil Schorske (1915β2015) |
Ph. D 1950 |
Historian |
|
Lloyd Schwartz (born 1941) |
Ph. D. 1976 |
Author |
|
Roger Sessions (1896-1985) |
College 1915 |
Composer |
|
Neil Sheehan (born 1936) |
College 1958 |
Journalist |
[79] |
Odell Shepard (1884-1967) |
Ph. D. 1917 |
Historian |
|
Gregory White Smith (1951-2014) |
Law 1978 |
Biographer |
|
Tracy K. Smith (1972βpresent) |
College 1994 |
Poet |
|
Paul Starr (born 1949) |
Ph. D. |
Academic |
|
Richard Strout (1898-1990) |
College 1919 |
Journalist |
|
Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (1912β1993) |
College 1934 |
Journalist |
|
William Taubman (born 1940) |
College 1962 |
Biographer |
|
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) |
College 1923 |
Composer |
|
John Updike (1932β2009) |
College 1954 |
Novelist, poet, short story writer, critic |
[80] |
Peter Viereck (1916-2006) |
College 1937 |
Poet |
|
Charles Warren (1868β1954) |
College 1889 |
Historian |
|
Jonathan Weiner (born 1953) |
College 1976 |
Historian |
|
George Weller (1907β2002) |
College 1929 |
Journalist |
[81] |
Theodore White (1915β1986) |
College 1938 |
Journalist |
[82] |
Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1881-1945) |
Radcliffe 1907 |
Biographer |
|
Gordon S. Wood (1933) |
A.M. 1959; PhD 1964 |
Historian, professor |
[83] |
Sheryl WuDunn (born 1959) |
M.B.A. 1986 |
Author |
|
Yehudi Wyner (born 1929) |
M.A. |
Composer |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Roger Adams (1889β1971) |
College 1909, PhD 1912 |
Pioneering organic chemist |
[86] |
Howard H. Aiken (1900β1973) |
M.A. 1937; PhD 1939 |
Computer scientist; designer of the Harvard Mark I |
[87] |
James Gilbert Baker (1914β2005) |
PhD 1942 |
Astronomer, optician |
[88] |
John Bartlett (1784β1849) |
College 1805 |
Minister, founder of Massachusetts General Hospital |
[89] |
Craig Call Black |
PhD 1962 |
Paleontologist |
|
Francine D. Blau (born 1946) |
M.A. 1969; PhD 1975 |
Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, first woman to receive the IZA Prize in Labor Economics |
[90] |
Dan Bricklin (born 1951) |
Business 1979 |
Creator of VisiCalc |
[91] |
Thomas H. Clark (1893β1996) |
College 1917; A.M. 1921; PhD 1923 |
Geologist; one of the top Canadian scientists of the 20th century; namesake of Thomasclarkite |
[92] |
Stephen Cook |
S.M. 1962; PhD 1966 |
Computer scientist |
[93] |
Don Coppersmith |
S.M. 1975; PhD 1977 |
Computer scientist |
[94] |
Leda Cosmides (born 1957) |
College 1979; PhD 1985 |
Evolutionary psychologist |
[95] |
Robert K. Crane |
PhD 1950 |
Biochemist |
[96] |
Harvey Cushing (1869β1939) |
Medical 1895 |
Neurosurgeon |
|
Elliott Cutler (1888β1947) |
College 1909, M.D. 1913; Professor |
Surgeon and medical educator |
[97] |
Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936) |
PhD 1962 |
Chemist, winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1995/96 |
[98] |
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) |
College 1980 |
Astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Television Host |
[99] |
Fe Del Mundo (born 1911) |
Medical 1938 |
National Scientist of the Philippines; pediatrician; recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award; devised an incubator made out of bamboo, designed for use in rural communities without electrical power; the first woman admitted as a student at Harvard Medical School |
|
Russell Doolittle |
PhD, 1962 |
Biochemist |
[100] |
Gideon Dreyfuss |
PhD 1978 |
Biochemist, HHMI investigator |
[101] |
Charles Epstein |
Harvard Medical College 1959 |
Geneticist; injured by Ted Kaczynski a.k.a. Unabomber |
[102] |
Paul Farmer (born 1959) |
Medical 1988; PhD 1990; Professor |
Founder of Partners in Health |
[103] |
Lewis J. Feldman |
PhD 1975 |
Professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley |
[104] |
Rabab Fetieh (born 1954) |
Dental 1987 |
First Saudi Arabian female orthodontist |
|
Robert Galambos (1914β2010) |
PhD |
Researcher who discovered how bats use echolocation |
[105] |
Paul Graham (born 1964) |
S.M. 1988; PhD 1990 |
Computer programmer and essayist |
|
Ulysses S. Grant IV (1893β1977) |
College 1915 |
Paleontologist |
|
Brian Greene (born 1963) |
College 1984 |
Famous in the world of string theory; Columbia University professor |
[106] |
Victor Guillemin (born 1937) |
PhD 1962 |
Differential geometer |
[107] |
G. Stanley Hall (1844β1924) |
PhD 1878 |
First president of APA and Clark University |
[108] |
Benjamin Morgan Harrod (1837β1912) |
College 1856; Civil Engineering 1859 |
Designed the water and sewerage systems in his native New Orleans, Louisiana |
[109] |
Donald Olding Hebb (1904β1985) |
PhD 1936 |
Canadian psychologist; "father of neuropsychology"; President of the American Psychological Association 1960; Fellow of the Royal Society; Chancellor of McGill University 1970β1974 |
|
Heisuke Hironaka (1931β) |
PhD 1960; Professor |
Mathematician, Fields Medal winner |
[110] |
Arthur Allen Hoag (1921β1999) |
PhD 1953 |
Discovered Hoag's object |
|
Tony Hsieh (1973β) |
College 1995 |
CEO of online shoe and clothing shop Zappos, co-founder of LinkExchange, author of Delivering Happiness |
[111] |
Ruth Hubbard (1924β) |
PhD 1950 Radcliffe |
professor, biologist |
[112] |
Ernest Ingersoll (1852β1946) |
|
Naturalist, writer and explorer |
|
Thomas Jaggar |
PhD 1897 |
Geologist, founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory |
[113] |
William James (1842β1910) |
Medical 1869 |
Philosopher; psychologist; namesake of William James Hall |
[114] |
Michio Kaku (born 1947) |
College 1968 |
Theoretical physicist, activist |
|
Alfred Kinsey (1894β1956) |
Sc. D. 1919 |
Sexologist |
[115] |
Ivan KrstiΔ |
College |
Computer security expert |
|
Holbrook Mann MacNeille (1907β1973) |
PhD 1935 |
Mathematician |
[116] |
Scott McNealy (born 1954) |
College 1976 |
Co-founder and chairman of Sun Microsystems |
[117] |
John S. Meyer (1924β2011) |
|
Physician |
|
Marvin Minsky (born 1927) |
College 1950 |
Computer scientist |
[118] |
Sylvanus G. Morley (1883β1948) |
College 1908 |
Mayanist scholar and archaeologist |
[119] |
Robert Tappan Morris (born 1965) |
College 1987; S.M. 1993; PhD 1999 |
CS professor at MIT, creator of the first computer worm |
|
David Mumford (born 1937) |
College 1957; PhD 1961 |
Mathematician, Fields Medal winner |
[120] |
Major General Spurgeon Neel (1919β2003) |
MPH 1958 |
Pioneer of aeromedical evacuation |
[121] |
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904β1967) |
College 1925 |
Physicist, "father of the atomic bomb" |
[122] |
Tim O'Reilly |
College 1975 |
Founder of O'Reilly Media |
[123] |
George Parkman (1790β1849) |
College 1809; Medical 1813 |
Physician, businessman, murder victim |
[124] |
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839β1914) |
College 1859 |
Philosopher, mathematician |
[125] |
A. Sivathanu Pillai (born 1947) |
Business 1991 |
Distinguished Scientist and Chief Controller DRDO and CEO of BrahMos Aerospace |
[126] |
Mark Plotkin (born 1955) |
Extension 1979 |
Ethnobotanist; founder of Amazon Conservation Team |
[127] |
Daniel Quillen (1940β2011) |
College 1961; PhD 1964 |
Mathematician, Fields Medal winner |
[128] |
Christian R. H. Raetz |
M.D. and PhD 1973 |
Professor of biochemistry at Duke University and member of National Academy of Sciences |
[129] |
Joseph Ransohoff (1915β2001) |
College 1938 |
Neurosurgeon, professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the New York University School of Medicine |
|
Charles Reigeluth |
B.A. Economics, 1969 |
Professor of instructional design systems and creator of Elaboration Theory |
[130] |
Stuart A. Rice (born 1932) |
A.M. 1954; PhD 1955 |
Physical chemist at The University of Chicago |
[131] |
Dennis Ritchie |
College 1963; PhD 1968 |
Computer scientist |
[132] |
Vern L. Schramm |
M.S nutrition |
Professor of biochemistry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
[133] |
Harold Hill Smith (1910β1994) |
PhD |
Geneticist |
[134] |
Richard Stallman (born 1953) |
College 1974 |
Founder of the Free Software Foundation |
|
John Tooby |
PhD 1985 |
Anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist |
|
Marius Vassiliou |
College 1978 |
Computational scientist and research executive |
|
An Wang (1920β1990) |
PhD 1948 |
Computer pioneer; inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame for magnetic core memory; philanthropist |
[135] |
John White Webster (1793β1850) |
College 1811; Medical 1815 |
Physician, professor, killer; Parkman-Webster murder case |
|
Edward Osborne Wilson (born 1929) |
PhD 1955; professor |
Biologist |
[136] |
Charles F. Winslow (1811β1877) |
Medical 1834 |
Physician, diplomat, and atomic theorist |
[137] |
John Winthrop (1714β1779) |
College 1732; professor |
Astronomer, mathematician |
|
Chauncey Wright (1830β1875) |
College 1852 |
Mathematician, philosopher, professor |
[138] |
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835β1915) |
College 1856 |
President of Union Pacific Railroad |
[139] |
Marcus Agius (born 1946) |
Business 1972 |
Chairman, Barclays PLC |
[140] |
Steve Ballmer (born 1956) |
College 1977 |
President and CEO of Microsoft |
[141] |
Charles M. Berger (1936β2008) |
Business, 1960 |
Business executive, H. J. Heinz Company; CEO of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company |
[142] |
Gordon Binder |
|
CEO of Amgen (1988β2000) |
[143] |
Lloyd Blankfein |
College 1975; Law 1978 |
CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs |
[144] |
Daniel Burke (1929β2011) |
MBA 1955 |
former President of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) 1986β1994, engineered the $3.5 billion acquisition of ABC by Capital Cities in 1986 |
[145] |
John T. Cahill |
College; MBA |
Chairman and CEO of The Pepsi Bottling Group |
[146] |
Doug Carlston |
College 1970; Law 1975 |
Co-founder of BrΓΈderbund Software |
[147] |
Howard L. Clark, Sr. (1916β2001) |
Law |
former CEO American Express (1960β1977) |
[148] |
Michael Cohrs |
College 1979; Business 1981 |
Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank |
|
Edward Conard |
Business 1982 |
Founding partner, Bain Capital |
[149] |
Zoe Cruz (b. 1955) |
College 1977; Business 1982 |
Former Co-President of Morgan Stanley |
[150] |
John D'Agostino |
MBA, 2002 |
MD of Alkeon Capital, youngest Head of Strategy for NYMEX and subject of best-selling book 'Rigged: The Ivy League Kid who Changed the World of Oil From Wall Street to Dubai' |
[151] |
Jamie Dimon (born 1956) |
Business 1982 |
Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase |
[152] |
Colin Drummond (born 1951) |
MBA |
CEO of Viridor and joint CEO of Pennon Group |
[153] |
Victor Fung (born 1945) |
PhD 1971 |
Chairman of Li & Fung group of companies |
[154] |
Elbridge T. Gerry, Sr. (1909β1999) |
BA, 1931 |
General partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.; Director of the Union Pacific Railroad 1957-1986 |
[155] |
Philippe Harache (born 1954) |
Advanced Management programme |
Former deputy CEO of Eurocopter |
[156] |
Trip Hawkins (born 1953) |
College 1976 |
Founder of Electronic Arts and the 3DO Company |
[157] |
Sean M. Healey (born 1961) |
College 1983; Law 1987 |
CEO of Affiliated Managers Group and chairman of the Peabody Essex Museum |
[158] |
Warren Hellman (born 1934) |
Business 1959 |
Founder of Hellman & Friedman and Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates (today Matrix Partners); former president, chairman, head of Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers |
|
Richard Leslie Huber (born 1936) |
College 1958 |
Former CEO (1997β2000) of Aetna |
[159] |
Jeffrey R. Immelt (born 1956) |
Business 1982 |
Chairman and CEO of General Electric |
[160] |
Whipple V. N. Jones (1909β2001) |
College 1932, Business |
Founder of Aspen Highlands |
|
Carol Kalish (1955β1991) |
Radcliffe College |
Editor, Marvel Comics executive |
|
Jeff Kindler |
Law 1980 |
CEO of Pfizer |
[161] |
Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (born 1938) |
Business 1964 |
Tamil Malaysian businessman and philanthropist |
|
Steve Kuhn |
Economics 1991 |
Head of fixed-income trading, Pine River Capital Management |
[162] |
J. Hicks Lanier |
Business 1964 |
CEO of Oxford Industries |
[163] |
John Loeb (1902β1996) |
College 1924 |
Financier |
[164] |
John Langeloth Loeb, Jr. |
College 1952; Business 1954 |
Chairman of Loeb, Rhoades Trust Company; former United States Ambassador to Denmark |
|
Sonita Lontoh |
Business 2003; cross-registered MIT graduate student |
Green technology executive |
|
Paul B. Loyd, Jr. |
M.B.A. |
Former chairman and chief executive officer of the R&B Falcon Corporation (1997β2001) |
[165] |
Stanley Marcus (1905β2002) |
College 1925; Business 1926 |
President and CEO, Neiman Marcus department stores |
[166] |
Douglas McGregor (1906β1964) |
A.M. 1933; PhD 1935 |
Management theorist |
[167] |
James McNerney (born 1949) |
Business 1975 |
Chairman and CEO of Boeing |
[168] |
George W. Merck (born 1894) |
College 1915 |
Industrialist, president of Merck & Co. |
[169] |
Fred Meyer |
Harvard Business School (early 1950s) |
President of Tyler Corporation of Texas 1983-1986; chairman of the Republican Party of Texas 1988-1994 |
[170] |
Roy G. Niederhoffer (born 1966) |
College 1987 |
Founder and President of R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc. |
[171] |
Ellen Pao |
|
CEO of Reddit |
|
Sumner Redstone (born 1923) |
College 1944; Law 1947 |
Chairman and CEO of Viacom |
[172] |
Fred Reichheld (born 1952) |
College 1974; Business 1978 |
Author of bestselling business books |
[173] |
Kevin Patrick Reilly, Sr. (born 1928) |
College (ca. 1950) |
Retired CEO of Lamar Advertising Company in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives |
[174] |
Sean E. Reilly (born 1961) |
College 1984, Law 1989 |
Chief operations officer and vice president for mergers and acquisitions of Lamar Advertising and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives |
[175] |
David Rockefeller (born 1916) |
College 1936 |
Banker; philanthropist; Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank |
[176] |
Steve Schwarzman (born 1947) |
Business 1972 |
Billionaire, owner of Blackstone Group |
[177] |
Daniel C. Searle (1926β2007) |
Business 1952 |
Heir, CEO of G. D. Searle & Company, conservative philanthropist |
[178] |
Sivasankaran (born 1956) |
Business 1975 |
Chairman of Siva Group |
|
Jeffrey Skilling (born 1953) |
Business 1979 |
CEO of Enron; convicted of fraud and conspiracy |
[179] |
Jan Stenbeck (1942β2002) |
Business |
President of MTG |
|
William H Sumner (1780β1861) |
College 1799 |
Developed East Boston |
[180] |
Ratan Naval Tata (born 1937) |
Business 1975 |
Chairman of Tata Group |
[181] |
John Thain (born 1955) |
Business 1979 |
Chairman and CEO of CIT Group, last chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch |
[182] |
Charlemagne Tower (1809β1889) |
Law 1830 |
Lawyer, businessman; namesake of towns in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and North Dakota; served on Harvard's board of overseers |
[183] |
Robert Uihlein, Jr. (1916β1976) |
College 1938 |
Chairman of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company |
[184] |
Harry Elkins Widener (1885β1912) |
College 1907 |
Namesake of Harvard's Widener Library; died in the sinking of the Titanic |
[185] |
Leah Zell (born 1949) |
College 1971 |
American Investor |
[186] |
Moses Znaimer (born 1942) |
A.M. |
Canadian media mogul |
[187] |
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Spencer Abraham (born 1952) |
Law 1979 |
United States Secretary of Energy, United States Senator |
[243] |
Dean Acheson (1893β1971) |
Law 1918 |
United States Secretary of State |
[244] |
Brock Adams (1927β2004) |
Law 1952 |
United States Secretary of Transportation |
[245] |
Charles Francis Adams III (1866β1954) |
College 1888; Law 1892 |
United States Secretary of the Navy |
[246] |
Bruce Babbitt (born 1938) |
Law 1965 |
United States Secretary of the Interior, Governor of Arizona |
[247] |
Robert Bacon (1860β1919) |
College 1880 |
United States Secretary of State |
[248] |
Joseph Barr (1918β1996) |
A.M. 1941 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
[249] |
William Bennett (born 1943) |
Law 1971 |
United States Secretary of Education, activist |
[250] |
Francis Biddle (1886β1968) |
College 1909; Law 1911 |
United States Attorney General |
[251] |
Charles Bonaparte (1851β1921) |
College 1870, Law 1872 |
United States Attorney General |
|
Nicholas F. Brady (born 1930) |
Business 1954 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
[252] |
James H. Burnley IV (born 1948) |
Law 1973 |
United States Secretary of Transportation |
|
Sylvia Mathews Burwell (born 1965) |
College 1987 |
United States Secretary of Health and Human Services |
[253] |
Joseph Califano (born 1931) |
Law 1955 |
United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare |
[254] |
Frank Carlucci (born 1930) |
Business 1955 |
United States Secretary of Defense |
|
Julian Castro (born 1974) |
Law 2000 |
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
|
Elaine Chao (born 1953) |
Business 1979 |
United States Secretary of Labor |
[255] |
Michael Chertoff (born 1953) |
College 1975; Law 1978 |
United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
[256] |
Henry Cisneros (born 1947) |
HKS 1973 |
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
[257] |
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (born 1920) |
Law 1946 |
United States Secretary of Transportation |
|
John T. Connor (1914β2000) |
Law 1939 |
United States Secretary of Commerce |
|
Caleb Cushing (1800β1878) |
College 1817 |
United States Attorney General |
|
Charles Devens (1820β1891) |
College 1838, Law 1840 |
United States Attorney General |
|
Samuel Dexter (1761β1816) |
College 1781 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
|
C. Douglas Dillon (1909β2003) |
College 1931 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
[258] |
Elizabeth Hanford Dole (born 1936) |
Law 1965 |
United States Secretary of Transportation, United States Secretary of Labor |
|
Shaun Donovan (born 1966) |
College 1987; HKS 1995 |
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
[259] |
Arne Duncan (born 1964) |
College 1987 |
United States Secretary of Education |
|
William M. Evarts (1818β1901) |
Law 1840 |
United States Attorney General, United States Secretary of State |
|
Edward Everett (1794β1865) |
College 1811; A.M. 1814 |
United States Secretary of State |
[260] |
Charles S. Fairchild (1842β1920) |
College 1863, Law 1865 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
|
Barbara Hackman Franklin (born 1940) |
Business 1964 |
United States Secretary of Commerce |
[261] |
Alberto Gonzales (born 1955) |
Law 1982 |
United States Attorney General |
[262] |
Christian Herter (1895β1966) |
College 1915 |
United States Secretary of State |
[263] |
Ebenezer R. Hoar (1816β1895) |
College 1835 |
United States Attorney General |
|
Donald Hodel (born 1935) |
College 1957 |
United States Secretary of the Interior, United States Secretary of Energy |
[264] |
David F. Houston (1866β1940) |
College 1892 |
United States Secretary of Agriculture |
[265] |
Robert F. Kennedy (1925β1968) |
College 1948 |
United States Attorney General, United States Senator |
[266] |
Cameron Kerry (born 1950) |
College 1972 |
United States Secretary of Commerce |
|
Richard Kleindienst (1923β2000) |
College 1947; Law 1950 |
United States Attorney General |
[267] |
Jack Lew (born 1955) |
College 1978 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
|
Drew Lewis (born 1931) |
Business 1955 |
United States Secretary of Transportation |
[268] |
Levi Lincoln, Sr. (1749β1820) |
College 1772 |
United States Attorney General |
|
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843β1926) |
College 1864 |
United States Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln |
[269] |
Robert A. Lovett (1895β1986) |
Law, 1919, Business 1921 |
United States Secretary of Defense |
|
Loretta Lynch (born 1959) |
College 1981, Law 1984 |
United States Attorney General |
|
James Thomas Lynn (1927β2010) |
Law 1951 |
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
|
Neil H. McElroy (1904β1972) |
College 1925 |
United States Secretary of Defense |
[270] |
Robert McNamara (1916β2009) |
Business 1939 |
United States Secretary of Defense |
[271] |
Ogden Mills (1884β1937) |
College 1904, Law 1907 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
[272] |
William Henry Moody (1853β1917) |
College 1876 |
United States Attorney General |
|
Vivek Murthy (born 1977) |
College 1998 |
Surgeon General of the United States |
|
Richard Olney (1835β1917) |
Law 1858 |
United States Secretary of State |
[273] |
Henry Paulson (born 1946) |
Business 1970 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
[274] |
Thomas Perez (born 1961) |
Law 1987, HKS 1987 |
United States Secretary of Labor |
|
Timothy Pickering (1745β1829) |
College 1763 |
United States Secretary of State, United States Secretary of War |
[275] |
Penny Pritzker (born 1959) |
College 1981 |
United States Secretary of Commerce |
|
Donald Regan (1918β2003) |
College 1940 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
[276] |
Janet Reno (born 1938) |
Law 1963 |
United States Attorney General |
[277] |
Elliot Richardson (1920β1999) |
College 1941, Law 1947 |
United States Secretary of Defense, United States Attorney General |
[278] |
William Adams Richardson (1821β1896) |
College 1843 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
|
Tom Ridge (born 1946) |
College 1967 |
United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
[279] |
Robert E. Rubin (born 1938) |
College 1960 |
United States Secretary of the Treasury; Chairman of Citigroup |
[280] |
James Schlesinger (born 1929) |
College 1950; A.M. 1952; PhD 1956 |
United States Secretary of Defense, United States Secretary of Energy |
[281] |
William French Smith (1917β1990) |
Law 1942 |
United States Attorney General |
[282] |
Henry L. Stimson (1867β1950) |
A.M. 1889 |
United States Secretary of State, United States Secretary of War |
[283] |
Lawrence Summers (born 1954) |
PhD 1982; President (2001β2006); Professor |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
[284] |
Elihu B. Washburne (1816β1887) |
Law 1840 |
United States Secretary of State |
|
Robert C. Weaver (1907β1997) |
College 1934 |
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
|
Sinclair Weeks (1893β1972) |
College 1914 |
United States Secretary of Commerce |
[285] |
Caspar Weinberger (1917β2006) |
College 1938; Law 1941 |
United States Secretary of Defense |
[286] |
Willard Wirtz (born 1912) |
Law 1937 |
United States Secretary of Labor |
[287] |
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Spencer Abraham (born 1952) |
Law 1978 |
United States Senator |
|
Brock Adams (1927β2004) |
Law 1952 |
United States Senator |
|
Samuel G. Arnold (1821β1880) |
Law 1845 |
United States Senator |
|
Charles G. Atherton (1804β1853) |
College 1822 |
United States Senator |
|
Robert Woodward Barnwell (1801β1882) |
College 1821 |
United States Senator |
|
Jeff Bingaman (born 1943) |
College 1965 |
United States Senator |
[288] |
Hiram Bingham III (1875β1956) |
PhD. 1905 |
United States Senator |
|
Richard Blumenthal (born 1946) |
College 1967 |
United States Senator |
[289] |
Robert J. Bulkley (1880β1965) |
College 1902, Law 1906 |
United States Senator |
|
Edward R. Burke (1880β1968) |
Law 1911 |
United States Senator |
|
Harold Hitz Burton (1888β1964) |
Law 1911 |
United States Senator |
|
John Chafee (1922β1999) |
Law 1950 |
United States Senator |
[290] |
Christopher G. Champlin (1768-1840) |
College 1786 |
United States Senator |
|
William E. Chandler (1835β1917) |
Law 1854 |
United States Senator |
|
David Worth Clark (1902β1955) |
Law 1925 |
United States Senator |
|
Joseph S. Clark (1901β1990) |
College 1923 |
United States Senator |
[291] |
Edward P. Costigan (1874β1939) |
College 1899 |
United States Senator |
|
Tom Cotton (born 1977) |
College 1999, Law 2002 |
United States Senator |
|
Samuel C. Crafts (1768β1853) |
College 1790 |
United States Senator |
|
Mike Crapo (born 1951) |
Law 1977 |
United States Senator |
[292] |
Ted Cruz (born 1970) |
Law 1995 |
United States Senator |
[293] |
John Culver (born 1932) |
College 1954; Law 1962 |
United States Senator |
[294] |
Bronson M. Cutting (1888β1935) |
College 1910 |
United States Senator |
|
Charles Cutts (1769β1846) |
College 1789 |
United States Senator |
|
Tristram Dalton (1738-1817) |
College 1755 |
United States Senator |
|
William F. De Saussure (1792β1870) |
College 1810 |
United States Senator |
|
Samuel Dexter (1761β1816) |
College 1781 |
United States Senator |
|
Elizabeth Dole (born 1936) |
A.M. 1960; Law 1965 |
United States Senator, U.S. presidential candidate |
[295] |
Thomas Eagleton (1929β2007) |
Law 1953 |
United States Senator, 1972 Democratic U.S. vice presidential nominee |
[296] |
Sam Ervin (1896β1985) |
Law 1922 |
United States Senator |
[297] |
James B. Eustis (1834β1899) |
Law 1854 |
United States Senator |
|
Russ Feingold (born 1953) |
Law 1979 |
United States Senator |
[298] |
Hiram Fong (1906β2004) |
Law 1935 |
United States Senator |
[299] |
Dwight Foster (1757-1823) |
College 1784 |
United States Senator |
|
Al Franken (born 1951) |
College 1973 |
United States Senator, comedian, actor |
[300] |
Bill Frist (born 1952) |
Medical 1978 |
United States Senator, Majority Leader |
[301] |
David Gambrell (born 1929) |
Law 1952 |
United States Senator |
[302] |
Peter G. Gerry (1879β1957) |
College 1901 |
United States Senator |
|
Guy D. Goff (1866β1933) |
Law 1891 |
United States Senator |
|
Benjamin Goodhue (1748β1814) |
College 1766 |
United States Senator |
|
Christopher Gore (1758β1827) |
College 1776 |
United States Senator |
|
Bob Graham (born 1936) |
Law 1962 |
United States Senator, Governor of Florida, U.S. presidential candidate |
[303] |
Ernest Gruening (1887β1974) |
College 1907; Medical 1912 |
United States Senator |
[304] |
Edward Gurney (1914β1996) |
Law 1938 |
United States Senator |
[305] |
Frederick Hale (1874β1963) |
College 1896 |
United States Senator |
|
Floyd Haskell (1916β1998) |
College 1937; Law 1941 |
United States Senator |
[306] |
William Hathaway (born 1924) |
College 1949; Law 1953 |
United States Senator |
[307] |
H. John Heinz (1938β1991) |
Business 1963 |
United States Senator |
[308] |
Anthony Higgins (1840β1912) |
Law 1864 |
United States Senator |
|
George Frisbie Hoar (1826β1904) |
College 1846 |
United States Senator |
|
Henry F. Hollis (1869β1949) |
College 1892 |
United States Senator |
|
Richard C. Hunter (1884β1941) |
Law 1910 |
United States Senator |
|
James Jeffords (born 1934) |
Law 1962 |
United States Senator |
[309] |
Daniel T. Jewett (1807β1906) |
Law 1833 |
United States Senator |
|
Tim Kaine (born 1958) |
Law 1983 |
Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator |
[310] |
Kenneth Keating (1900β1975) |
Law 1923 |
United States Senator, U.S. presidential candidate |
[311] |
James P. Kem (1890β1965) |
Law 1913 |
United States Senator |
|
Edward Kennedy (1932β2009) |
College 1956; Honorary degree 2008 |
United States Senator, U.S. presidential candidate |
[312] |
Henry W. Keyes (1862β1938) |
College 1887 |
United States Senator |
|
Rufus King (1755β1827) |
College 1777 |
United States Senator |
|
Paul G. Kirk (born 1938) |
1960, Harvard Law 1968 |
United States Senator |
|
Herbert Kohl (born 1935) |
Business 1958 |
United States Senator |
[313] |
Carl Levin (born 1934) |
Law 1959 |
United States Senator |
[314] |
James Lloyd (1769β1831) |
College 1787 |
United States Senator |
|
Henry Cabot Lodge (1850β1924) |
College 1871; Law 1874; PhD 1876 |
President pro tempore of the United States Senate |
[315] |
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902β1985) |
College 1924 |
United States Senator, 1960 Republican U.S. vice presidential nominee |
[316] |
Gilman Marston (1811β1890) |
Law 1840 |
United States Senator |
|
Spark Matsunaga (1916β1990) |
Law 1951 |
United States Senator |
[317] |
Prentiss Mellen (1764β1840) |
College 1784 |
United States Senator |
|
Amos Nourse (1794β1877) |
College 1812, PhD. 1817 |
United States Senator |
|
Harrison Gray Otis
(1765β1848) |
Law 1765 |
United States Senator |
[318] |
Elijah Paine (1757β1842) |
College 1781 |
United States Senator |
|
Samuel Pasco (1834β1917) |
College 1858 |
United States Senator |
|
Boies Penrose (1860β1921) |
Law 1881 |
United States Senator |
|
Claude Pepper (1900β1989) |
Law 1924 |
United States Senator, U.S. Congressman |
[319] |
Timothy Pickering (1745β1829) |
College 1763 |
United States Senator |
|
Larry Pressler (born 1942) |
HKS 1971; Law 1971 |
United States Senator |
[320] |
William Proxmire (1915β2005) |
Business 1940; HKS 1949 |
United States Senator |
[321] |
Robert Rantoul, Jr. (1805β1852) |
College 1826 |
United States Senator |
|
Jack Reed (born 1949) |
HKS 1973; Law 1982 |
United States Senator |
[322] |
Jay Rockefeller (born 1937) |
College 1961 |
United States Senator |
[323] |
William Roth (1921β2003) |
Business 1947; Law 1949 |
United States Senator |
[324] |
Frederic M. Sackett (1868β1941) |
Law 1893 |
United States Senator |
|
Leverett Saltonstall (1892β1979) |
College 1914; Law 1917 |
United States Senator |
[325] |
Paul Sarbanes (born 1933) |
Law 1960 |
United States Senator |
[326] |
Ben Sasse (born 1972) |
College 1994 |
United States Senator |
|
Frederick A. Sawyer (1822β1891) |
College 1844 |
United States Senator |
|
Harrison Schmitt (born 1935) |
PhD 1964 |
United States Senator, Astronaut |
[327] |
Charles Schumer (born 1950) |
College 1971; Law 1974 |
United States Senator |
[328] |
James Sheafe (1755β1829) |
College 1774 |
United States Senator |
|
William Paine Sheffield, Sr. (1820β1907) |
College 1774 |
United States Senator |
|
Benjamin Smith II (1916β1991) |
College 1939 |
United States Senator |
[329] |
Peleg Sprague (1793β1880) |
College 1812 |
United States Senator |
|
Ted Stevens (1923β2010) |
Law 1950 |
President pro tempore of the United States Senate |
[330] |
Adlai Stevenson III (born 1930) |
College 1952; Law 1957 |
United States Senator |
[331] |
Richard Stone (born 1928) |
College 1949 |
United States Senator |
[332] |
Dan Sullivan (born 1964) |
College 1987 |
United States Senator |
|
Charles Sumner (1811β1874) |
College 1830; Law 1833 |
United States Senator |
[333] |
John E. Sununu (born 1964) |
Business 1991 |
United States Senator |
[334] |
Kingsley A. Taft (1903-1970) |
Law 1928 |
United States Senator |
|
Robert A. Taft (1889β1953) |
Law 1913 |
United States Senator |
[335] |
Robert Taft Jr. (1917β1993) |
Law 1942 |
United States Senator |
[336] |
Thomas W. Thompson (1766β1821) |
College 1786 |
United States Senator |
|
Pat Toomey (born 1961) |
College 1984 |
United States Senator |
[337] |
Robert Torricelli (born 1951) |
HKS 1980 |
United States Senator |
[338] |
Jonathan Trumbull (1710β1785) |
College 1727 |
United States Senator |
|
Paul Tsongas (1941β1997) |
HKS 1974 |
United States Senator |
[339] |
David Vitter (born 1961) |
College 1983 |
United States Senator |
[340] |
Mark Warner (born 1954) |
Law 1980 |
Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, co-founder of Nextel |
[341] |
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) |
Professor of Law |
United States Senator |
[342] |
Sinclair Weeks (1893β1972) |
College 1914 |
United States Senator |
|
Paine Wingate (1739-1838) |
College 1759 |
United States Senator |
|
Robert Charles Winthrop (1809β1894) |
College 1828 |
United States Senator |
|
Tim Wirth (born 1939) |
College 1961; Education 1964 |
United States Senator |
[343] |
Thomas A. Wofford (1908β1978) |
Law 1931 |
United States Senator |
|
Edward O. Wolcott (1848β1905) |
Law 1875 |
United States Senator |
|
Louis Wyman (1917β2002) |
Law 1941 |
United States Senator |
[344] |
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
AnΓbal Acevedo VilΓ‘ (born 1962) |
Law 1987 |
Governor of Puerto Rico |
[345] |
Samuel Adams (1722β1803) |
College 1740; A.M. 1743 |
Governor of Massachusetts, organizer of Boston Tea Party |
[346] |
Henry Watkins Allen (1820-1866) |
Law 1858 |
Governor of Louisiana |
|
Benjamin Ames (1778-1835) |
College 1803 |
Governor of Maine |
|
Charlie Baker (born 1956) |
College 1979 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Nathaniel B. Baker (1818-1876) |
College 1839 |
Governor of New Hampshire |
|
Robert P. Bass (1873-1960) |
College 1896 |
Governor of New Hampshire |
|
Percival Proctor Baxter (1876-1969) |
Law 1901 |
Governor of Maine |
|
Franklin S. Billings (1862-1935) |
College 1885 |
Governor of Vermont |
|
James Bowdoin (1726-1790) |
College 1745 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
John Q. A. Brackett (1842-1918) |
College 1865, Law 1868 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Robert F. Bradford (1902-1983) |
College 1923 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Roger Branigin (1902β1975) |
Law |
Governor of Indiana |
[347] |
Phil Bredesen (born 1943) |
College 1967 |
Governor of Tennessee |
[348] |
Owen Brewster (1888-1961) |
Law 1913 |
Governor of Maine |
|
J. Melville Broughton (1888-1949) |
Law 1913 |
Governor of North Carolina |
|
C. Farris Bryant (1914β2002) |
Law 1938 |
Governor of Florida |
[349] |
Alexander Bullock (1816-1882) |
Law 1840 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Brendan Byrne (born 1924) |
Law 1950 |
Governor of New Jersey |
[350] |
John Lee Carroll (1830-1911) |
Law 1851 |
Governor of Maryland |
|
Prentice Cooper (1895-1965) |
Law 1921 |
Governor of Tennessee |
|
Channing H. Cox (1879-1968) |
Law 1904 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Robert B. Crosby (1911-2000) |
Law 1935 |
Governor of Nebraska |
|
Jim Doyle (born 1945) |
Law 1972 |
Governor of Wisconsin |
[351] |
Alfred E. Driscoll (1902-1975) |
Law 1928 |
Governor of New Jersey |
|
Michael Dukakis (born 1933) |
Law 1960 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1988 Democratic U.S. presidential nominee |
[352] |
Pierre S. du Pont, IV (born 1935) |
Law 1963 |
Governor of Delaware, U.S. presidential candidate |
[353] |
George Howard Earle III (1890-1914) |
College 1912 |
Governor of Pennsylvania |
|
Joseph B. Ely (1881-1956) |
Law 1905 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
William Eustis (1753-1825) |
College 1772 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
William Tudor Gardiner (1892-1953) |
Law 1917 |
Governor of Maine |
|
Booth Gardner (born 1936) |
Business 1963 |
Governor of Washington |
[354] |
Lucius F. C. Garvin (1841-1922) |
Medical 1867 |
Governor of Rhode Island |
|
Samuel Goddard (1919β2006) |
College 1941 |
Governor of Arizona |
[355] |
Jennifer Granholm (born 1959) |
Law 1987 |
Governor of Michigan |
[356] |
Hugh Gregg (1917-2003) |
Law 1942 |
Governor of New Hampshire |
|
Curtis Guild, Jr. (1860-1915) |
College 1881 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
John Hancock (1737β1793) |
College 1754 |
President of the Continental Congress, first Governor of Massachusetts |
[357] |
Christian Herter (1895-1966) |
College 1915 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Horace Hildreth (1902-1988) |
Law 1928 |
Governor of Maine |
|
George Hoadly (1826-1902) |
Law 1844 |
Governor of Ohio |
|
Bob Holden (born 1949) |
HKS 1976 |
Governor of Missouri |
|
Linwood Holton (born 1923) |
Law 1949 |
Governor of Virginia |
[358] |
Richard B. Hubbard (1832-1901) |
Law 1853 |
Governor of Texas |
|
Tim Kaine (born 1958) |
Law 1983 |
Governor of Virginia |
[359] |
Edward Kent (1802-1877) |
College 1821 |
Governor of Maine |
|
John King (1916β1996) |
College 1938 |
Governor of New Hampshire |
[360] |
Everett J. Lake (1871-1948) |
College 1890 |
Governor of Connecticut |
|
Frank Licht (1916β1987) |
Law 1941 |
Governor of Rhode Island |
[361] |
Levi Lincoln, Jr. (1782-1868) |
College 1802 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
John Davis Lodge (1903β1985) |
College 1925; Law 1929 |
Governor of Connecticut |
[362] |
John Davis Long (1838-1915) |
College 1857 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
John Lynch (born 1952) |
Business 1979 |
Governor of New Hampshire |
[363] |
Ray Mabus (born 1948) |
Law 1976 |
Governor of Mississippi |
[364] |
Jim McGreevey (born 1957) |
Education 1982 |
Governor of New Jersey |
[365][366] |
Paul V. McNutt (1891-1955) |
Law 1916 |
Governor of Indiana |
|
Carl E. Milliken (1877-1961) |
College 1899 |
Governor of Maine |
|
Charles Paine (1799-1853) |
College 1816 |
Governor of Vermont |
|
Deval Patrick (born 1956) |
College 1978; Law 1982 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
[367] |
Endicott Peabody (1920β1997) |
College 1942; Law 1948 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
[368] |
Sylvester Pennoyer (1831-1902) |
Law 1854 |
Governor of Oregon |
|
Charles Poletti (1903-2002) |
College 1924, Law 1928 |
Governor of New York |
|
Robert E. Quinn (1894-1975) |
Law 1918 |
Governor of Rhode Island |
|
William F. Quinn (1919-2006) |
Law 1947 |
Governor of Hawaii |
|
Gina Raimondo (born 1971) |
College 1993 |
Governor of Rhode Island |
|
Bruce Rauner (born 1957) |
Business 1981 |
Governor of Illinois |
|
John H. Reed (born 1921) |
Naval Supply 1944 |
Governor of Maine |
[369] |
George D. Robinson (1834-1896) |
College 1856 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Buddy Roemer (born 1943) |
College 1964; Business 1967 |
Governor of Louisiana |
[370] |
Mitt Romney (born 1947) |
Business 1975; Law 1975 |
Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. presidential candidate |
[371] |
William Russell (1857-1896) |
College 1877 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
George L. Sheldon (born 1870) |
1893 |
14th Governor of Nebraska |
[372] |
Milward L. Simpson (1897-1993) |
Law 1925 |
Governor of Wyoming |
|
Samuel E. Smith (1788-1860) |
College 1808 |
Governor of Maine |
|
Richard Snelling (1927β1991) |
College 1948 |
Governor of Vermont |
[373] |
Eliot Spitzer (born 1959) |
Law 1984 |
Governor of New York |
[374] |
Caleb Strong (1745-1819) |
College 1763 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Increase Sumner (1746-1799) |
College 1763 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Bruce Sundlun (born 1920) |
Law 1949 |
Governor of Rhode Island |
[375] |
J. Fife Symington III (born 1945) |
College 1968 |
Governor of Arizona |
[376] |
Jonathan Trumbull (1710β1785) |
College 1727; A.M. 1730 |
Governor of Connecticut |
[377] |
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (1740β1809) |
College 1759 |
Governor of Connecticut; son of John Trumbull class of 1727; served as US Speaker of the House and US Senator |
[378] |
Jim Guy Tucker (born 1943) |
College 1964 |
Governor of Arkansas |
[379] |
David Walters (born 1951) |
Business 1975 |
Governor of Oklahoma |
[380] |
Mark Warner (born 1954) |
Law 1980 |
Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, co-founder of Nextel |
[341] |
William Weld (born 1945) |
College 1966; Law 1970 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
[381] |
William Pinkney Whyte (1824-1908) |
Law 1844 |
Governor of Maryland |
|
Joseph H. Williams (1814-1896) |
College 1830 |
Governor of Maine |
|
Augustus E. Willson (1846-1931) |
College 1865, Law 1872 |
Governor of Kentucky |
|
Roger Wolcott (1847-1900) |
College 1870, Law 1874 |
Governor of Massachusetts |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (1807-1886) |
College 1825 |
United States Representative |
|
George E. Adams (1840-1917) |
College 1860 |
United States Representative |
|
John Adler (1959β2011) |
College 1981; Law 1984 |
U.S. Congressman |
[382] |
Richard S. Aldrich (1884-1941) |
Law 1909 |
United States Representative |
|
Joseph Allen (1749-1827) |
College 1774 |
United States Representative |
|
Tom Allen (born 1945) |
Law 1974 |
U.S. Congressman |
[383] |
A. Piatt Andrew (1873-1936) |
GSAS 1895 |
United States Representative |
|
John F. Andrew (1850-1895) |
College 1872 |
United States Representative |
|
Fisher Ames (1758-1808) |
College 1774 |
United States Representative |
|
John Anderson (born 1922) |
Law 1949 |
U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Congressman |
[384] |
John Ashbrook (1928β1982) |
College 1952 |
U.S. presidential candidate, U.S. Congressman |
[385] |
Charles Humphrey Atherton (1773-1853) |
College 1794 |
United States Representative |
|
Robert L. Bacon (1884-1938) |
College 1907 |
United States Representative |
|
Charles Montague Bakewell (1867-1957) |
GSAS 1894 |
United States Representative |
|
Joseph C. Baldwin (1897-1957) |
College 1920 |
United States Representative |
|
John Goff Ballentine (1825-1915) |
Law 1848 |
United States Representative |
|
David Barker, Jr. (1797-1834) |
College 1815 |
United States Representative |
|
John Barrow (born 1955) |
Law 1979 |
U.S. Congressman |
[386][387] |
Samuel J. Barrows (1845-1909) |
Divinity 1871 |
United States Representative |
|
Franklin Bartlett (1847-1909) |
College 1869 |
United States Representative |
|
Perkins Bass (1912-2011) |
Law 1938 |
United States Representative |
|
William H. Bates (1917-1969) |
Business 1947 |
United States Representative |
|
Anthony Beilenson (born 1932) |
College 1954; Law 1957 |
U.S. Congressman |
[388] |
Perry Belmont (1851-1947) |
College 1872 |
United States Representative |
|
Doug Bereuter (born 1939) |
Design 1966; HKS 1973 |
U.S. Congressman |
[389] |
Horace Binney (1780-1875) |
College 1797 |
United States Representative |
|
Chester C. Bolton (1882-1939) |
College 1905 |
United States Representative |
|
Oliver P. Bolton (1917-1972) |
College 1939 |
United States Representative |
|
Benjamin Bourne (1755-1808) |
College 1775 |
United States Representative |
|
Shearjashub Bourne (1746-1806) |
College 1764 |
United States Representative |
|
Henry Sherman Boutell (1856-1926) |
College 1876 |
United States Representative |
|
David R. Bowen (born 1932) |
College 1954 |
United States Representative |
|
Selwyn Z. Bowman (1840-1928) |
College 1860 |
United States Representative |
|
Brendan F. Boyle (born 1977) |
HKS 2005 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
George Bradbury (1770-1823) |
College 1789 |
United States Representative |
|
Theophilus Bradbury (1739-1803) |
College 1757 |
United States Representative |
|
John Brademas (born 1927) |
College 1949 |
U.S. House Majority Whip |
[390] |
Vincent M. Brennan (1890-1959) |
Law 1912 |
United States Representative |
|
Frederick George Bromberg (1837-1930) |
College 1858 |
United States Representative |
|
James E. Bromwell (1920-2009) |
Business 1947 |
United States Representative |
|
George M. Brooks (1824-1893) |
College 1844 |
United States Representative |
|
Lathrop Brown (1883-1959) |
College 1903 |
United States Representative |
|
Frank H. Buck (1887-1942) |
Law 1911 |
United States Representative |
|
Melville Bull (1854-1909) |
College 1877 |
United States Representative |
|
Henry Adams Bullard (1788-1851) |
College 1807 |
United States Representative |
|
Anson Burlingame (1820-1870) |
Law 1846 |
United States Representative |
|
James N. Burnes (1827-1889) |
Law 1853 |
United States Representative |
|
Josiah Butler (1779-1854) |
College 1803 |
United States Representative |
|
Bud Brown (born 1927) |
Business 1949 |
United States Representative |
|
Clement Laird Brumbaugh (1863-1921) |
College 1894 |
United States Representative |
|
Daniel Dee Burnes (1851-1899) |
Law 1874 |
United States Representative |
|
Edward Burnett (1849-1925) |
College 1871 |
United States Representative |
|
Tom Campbell (born 1952) |
Law 1976 |
U.S. Congressman |
[391] |
Bruce F. Caputo (born 1943) |
College 1965 |
United States Representative |
|
JoaquΓn Castro (born 1974) |
Law 2000 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Theron Ephron Catlin (1878-1960) |
College 1899 |
United States Representative |
|
John Curtis Chamberlain (1772-1834) |
College 1793 |
United States Representative |
|
Alfred C. Chapin (1848-1936) |
Law 1871 |
United States Representative |
|
Robert B. Chiperfield (1899-1971) |
College 1922 |
United States Representative |
|
William M. Citron (1896-1976) |
Law 1921 |
United States Representative |
|
Henry Alden Clark (1850-1944) |
College 1874 |
United States Representative |
|
John Bullock Clark, Jr. (1831-1903) |
Law 1854 |
United States Representative |
|
Katherine Clark (born 1963) |
HKS 1997 |
U.S. Congresswoman |
[387] |
Curt Clawson (born 1959) |
Business 1980 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Joseph W. Clift (1837-1908) |
Medical 1862 |
United States Representative |
|
David Cobb (1748-1830) |
College 1766 |
United States Representative |
|
William Cogswell (1838-1895) |
Law 1860 |
United States Representative |
|
Joshua Coit (1758-1798) |
College 1776 |
United States Representative |
|
James M. Collins (1916-1989) |
Business 1943 |
United States Representative |
|
Patrick Collins (1844-1905) |
Law 1871 |
United States Representative |
|
John Bertrand Conlan (born 1930) |
Law 1954 |
United States Representative |
|
Gerry Connolly (born 1950) |
HKS 1979 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Merrill Cook (born 1946) |
Business 1971 |
U.S. Congressman |
[392] |
Jim Cooper (born 1954) |
Law 1980 |
U.S. Congressman |
[393] |
Sam Coppersmith (born 1955) |
College 1976 |
United States Representative |
|
Tom Cotton (born 1977) |
College 1999, Law 2002 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Clarence Dennis Coughlin (1883-1946) |
College 1906 |
United States Representative |
|
Lawrence Coughlin (1929-2001) |
Business 1954 |
United States Representative |
|
Christopher Cox (born 1952) |
Business 1977; Law 1977 |
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, U.S. Congressman |
[394] |
James K. Coyne, III (born 1946) |
Business 1970 |
United States Representative |
|
William C. Cramer (1922-2003) |
Law 1948 |
United States Representative |
|
Paul Cronin (born 1938) |
HKS 1969 |
U.S. Congressman |
[395] |
Frank Crowther (1870-1955) |
Dental 1898 |
United States Representative |
|
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903) |
Law 1845 |
United States Representative |
|
Laurence Curtis (1893-1989) |
College 1916 |
United States Representative |
|
Joshua Cushman (1761-1834) |
College 1787 |
United States Representative |
|
Richard Cutts (1771-1845) |
College 1790 |
United States Representative |
|
Frederick W. Dallinger (1871-1955) |
College 1893 |
United States Representative |
|
Joseph Dane (1778-1858) |
College 1799 |
United States Representative |
|
Henry G. Danforth (1854-1918) |
College 1877 |
United States Representative |
|
Samuel Arza Davenport (1834-1911) |
Law 1855 |
United States Representative |
|
Artur Davis (born 1967) |
College 1990; Law 1993 |
U.S. Congressman |
[396] |
George T. Davis (1810-1877) |
College 1829 |
United States Representative |
|
Horace Davis (1831-1916) |
College 1849 |
United States Representative |
|
Jacob E. Davis (1905-2003) |
Law 1930 |
United States Representative |
|
Robert T. Davis (1823-1906) |
Medical 1847 |
United States Representative |
|
John Dawson (1762-1814) |
College 1782 |
United States Representative |
|
Frederick Simpson Deitrick (1875-1948) |
Law 1898 |
United States Representative |
|
Henry C. Deming (1815-1872) |
College 1839 |
United States Representative |
|
David W. Dennis (1912-1999) |
Law 1936 |
United States Representative |
|
Winfield K. Denton (1896-1971) |
Law 1922 |
United States Representative |
|
Ron DeSantis (born 1978) |
Law 2005 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Albert Douglas (1852-1935) |
Law 1874 |
United States Representative |
|
John G. Dow (1905-2003) |
College 1927 |
United States Representative |
|
James P.B. Duffy (1878-1969) |
Law 1904 |
United States Representative |
|
James H. Duncan (1793-1869) |
College 1812 |
United States Representative |
|
Edwin Russell Durno (1899-1976) |
Medical 1927 |
United States Representative |
|
Chet Edwards (born 1951) |
Business 1981 |
U.S. Congressman |
[397] |
Caleb Ellis (1767-1816) |
College 1793 |
United States Representative |
|
Samuel Atkins Eliot (1798-1862) |
College 1817 |
United States Representative |
|
Thomas H. Eliot (1907-1991) |
College 1928 |
United States Representative |
|
Arlen Erdahl (born 1931) |
KSG 1966 |
United States Representative |
|
Elizabeth Esty (born 1959) |
College 1981 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
George Eustis, Jr. (1828-1872) |
Law 1848 |
United States Representative |
|
William Everett (1839-1910) |
College 1859 |
United States Representative |
|
Paul Fearing (1762-1822) |
College 1785 |
United States Representative |
|
Michael A. Feighan (1905-1992) |
Law 1931 |
United States Representative |
|
Hamilton Fish III (1888-1991) |
College 1910 |
United States Representative |
|
Hamilton Fish IV (1926-1996) |
College 1949 |
United States Representative |
|
Joseph L. Fisher (1914-1992) |
GSAS 1947 |
United States Representative |
|
Frederick G. Fleetwood (1868-1938) |
College 1891 |
United States Representative |
|
George Edmund Foss (1863-1936) |
College 1885 |
United States Representative |
|
Abiel Foster (1735-1806) |
College 1756 |
United States Representative |
|
Bill Foster (born 1955) |
PhD 1983 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
George B. Francis (1883-1967) |
Law 1907 |
United States Representative |
|
Barney Frank (born 1940) |
College 1962; Law 1977 |
U.S. Congressman |
[398] |
Nathan Frank (1852-1931) |
Law 1871 |
United States Representative |
|
Nathaniel Freeman, Jr. (1766-1800) |
College 1787 |
United States Representative |
|
Richard P. Freeman (1869-1944) |
College 1891 |
United States Representative |
|
Louis A. Frothingham (1871-1928) |
College 1893 |
United States Representative |
|
James G. Fulton (1903-1971) |
Law 1927 |
United States Representative |
|
Ruben Gallego (born 1979) |
College 2002 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
James A. Gallivan (1866-1928) |
College 1888 |
United States Representative |
|
Barzillai Gannett (1764-1832) |
College 1785 |
United States Representative |
|
John Ganson (1818-1874) |
College 1839 |
United States Representative |
|
John Garamendi (born 1945) |
Business 1970 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Augustus Peabody Gardner (1865-1918) |
College 1886 |
United States Representative |
|
Francis Gardner (1771-1835) |
College 1793 |
United States Representative |
|
Frederick Gillett (1851β1935) |
Law 1877 |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |
[399] |
Charles J. Gilman (1824-1901) |
Law 1850 |
United States Representative |
|
William Gordon (1763-1802) |
College 1779 |
United States Representative |
|
Benjamin Gorham (1775-1855) |
College 1795 |
United States Representative |
|
Bill Gradison (born 1928) |
Business 1951 |
United States Representative |
|
Fred Grandy (born 1948) |
College 1970 |
Actor, U.S. Representative |
[400] |
Allan Grayson (born 1958) |
College 1978; HKS 1983; Law 1983 |
Actor, U.S. Representative |
[401] |
Isaiah L. Green (1761-1841) |
College 1781 |
United States Representative |
|
S. William Green (1929-2002) |
College 1950 |
United States Representative |
|
Willard Hall (1780-1875) |
College 1799 |
United States Representative |
|
Jane Harman (born 1945) |
Law 1969 |
U.S. Representative |
[402] |
Michael J. Harrington (born 1936) |
College 1958 |
United States Representative |
|
Benjamin W. Harris (1823-1907) |
Law 1849 |
United States Representative |
|
Katherine Harris (born 1957) |
HKS 1997 |
U.S. Representative, Florida Secretary of State during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election recount |
[403] |
Robert O. Harris (1854-1926) |
College 1877 |
United States Representative |
|
Frank G. Harrison (1940-2009) |
Law 1964 |
United States Representative |
|
Julian Hartridge (1829-1879) |
Law 1850 |
United States Representative |
|
Seth Hastings (1762-1831) |
College 1782 |
United States Representative |
|
William Soden Hastings (1798-1842) |
College 1817 |
United States Representative |
|
Nathaniel Appleton Haven (1762-1831) |
College 1779 |
United States Representative |
|
Edward D. Hayden (1833-1908) |
College 1854 |
United States Representative |
|
Brian Higgins (born 1959) |
HKS 1996 |
U.S. Representative |
[404] |
John Patrick Higgins (1893-1955) |
College 1917 |
United States Representative |
|
John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill (1879-1941) |
Law 1903 |
United States Representative |
|
Jim Himes (born 1966) |
College 1988 |
U.S. Representative |
[405] |
Rockwood Hoar (1855-1906) |
College 1876 |
United States Representative |
|
Samuel Hoar (1778-1856) |
College 1802 |
United States Representative |
|
Sherman Hoar (1860-1898) |
College 1882 |
United States Representative |
|
John B. Hollister (1890-1979) |
Law 1915 |
United States Representative |
|
Elizabeth Holtzman (born 1941) |
Radcliffe 1962; Law 1965 |
U.S. Representative, District Attorney, New York Comptroller |
[406] |
Charles E. Hooker (1825-1914) |
Law 1846 |
United States Representative |
|
Steve Horn (born 1931) |
HKS 1955 |
U.S. Representative |
[407] |
Alanson B. Houghton (1863-1941) |
College 1886 |
United States Representative |
|
Amory Houghton (born 1926) |
College 1950; Business 1952 |
U.S. Representative |
[408] |
L. Paul Howland (1865-1942) |
Law 1890 |
United States Representative |
|
Michael Huffington (born 1947) |
Business 1971 |
U.S. Representative, businessman and husband of Arianna Huffington |
[409] |
John W. Hulbert (1770-1831) |
College 1795 |
United States Representative |
|
Morton D. Hull (1867-1937) |
College 1892 |
United States Representative |
|
William L. Hungate (1922-2007) |
Law 1948 |
United States Representative |
|
Carleton Hunt (1836-1921) |
College 1856 |
United States Representative |
|
John Jarman (1915-1982) |
Law 1941 |
United States Representative |
|
Leonard Jarvis (1781-1854) |
College 1800 |
United States Representative |
|
William J. Jefferson (born 1947) |
Law 1972 |
U.S. Representative |
[410] |
Albert G. Jenkins (1830-1864) |
Law 1850 |
United States Representative |
|
Nancy Johnson (born 1935) |
Radcliffe 1957 |
U.S. Representative |
[411] |
Thomas Laurens Jones (1819-1887) |
Law 1846 |
United States Representative |
|
Robert Kean (1893-1980) |
College 1915 |
United States Representative |
|
Joseph G. Kendall (1788-1847) |
Law 1810 |
United States Representative |
|
Joseph P. Kennedy III (born 1980) |
Law 2009 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Barbara Kennelly (born 1936) |
Business 1959 |
U.S. Representative |
[412] |
John Bozman Kerr (1809-1878) |
College 1830 |
United States Representative |
|
Ron Kind (born 1963) |
College 1985 |
U.S. Representative |
[413] |
Daniel P. King (1801-1850) |
College 1823 |
United States Representative |
|
James G. King (1791β1853) |
College 1810 |
U.S. Representative |
[414] |
Herb Klein (born 1930) |
Law 1953 |
United States Representative |
|
Samuel Knox (1815-1905) |
Law 1838 |
United States Representative |
|
Ken Kramer (born 1942) |
Law 1966 |
United States Representative |
|
John C. Kunkel (1898-1970) |
Law 1926 |
United States Representative |
|
Peter Kyros (1925-2012) |
College 1957 |
United States Representative |
|
Jim Langevin (born 1964) |
HKS 1994 |
U.S. Representative |
[415] |
Henderson Lovelace Lanham (1888-1957) |
GSAS 1912 |
United States Representative |
|
John LeBoutillier (born 1953) |
College 1976 |
United States Representative |
|
Silas Lee (1760-1814) |
College 1784 |
United States Representative |
|
George Leonard (1729-1819) |
College 1748 |
United States Representative |
|
John E. Leonard (1845β1878) |
College 1863 |
U.S. Representative |
[416] |
Sander Levin (born 1931) |
Law 1957 |
U.S. Representative |
[417] |
Mel Levine (born 1943) |
Law 1969 |
United States Representative |
|
Lawrence Lewis (1879-1943) |
College 1901 |
United States Representative |
|
Lucius Littauer (1859-1944) |
College 1878 |
United States Representative |
|
John Locke (1764-1855) |
College 1792 |
United States Representative |
|
Stephen Longfellow (1776-1849) |
College 1798 |
United States Representative |
|
Nicholas Longworth (1869β1931) |
College 1891 |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |
[418] |
George B. Loring (1817-1891) |
College 1838 |
United States Representative |
|
Theodore Lyman (1833-1897) |
College 1855 |
United States Representative |
|
Stephen Lynch (born 1955) |
HKS 1999 |
U.S. Representative |
[419] |
William Pitt Lynde (1817-1885) |
Law 1841 |
United States Representative |
|
Torbert Macdonald (1917-1976) |
College 1940 |
United States Representative |
|
W. Kingsland Macy (1889-1961) |
College 1912 |
United States Representative |
|
Dan Maffei (born 1968) |
HKS 1995 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Walter W. Magee (1861-1927) |
College 1889 |
United States Representative |
|
Andrew Maguire (born 1939) |
KSG 1966 |
United States Representative |
|
Rowland B. Mahany (1864-1937) |
College 1884 |
United States Representative |
|
James H. Maloney (born 1948) |
College 1972 |
U.S. Congressman |
[420] |
David S. Mann (born 1939) |
College 1961 |
United States Representative |
|
Jim Matheson (born 1960) |
College 1982 |
U.S. Congressman |
[421] |
Wiley Mayne (1917-2007) |
College 1938 |
United States Representative |
|
Romano L. Mazzoli (born 1932) |
KSG 2004 |
United States Representative |
|
Washington J. McCormick (1884-1949) |
College 1906 |
United States Representative |
|
Walter I. McCoy (1859-1933) |
College 1882 |
United States Representative |
|
Martha McSally (born 1966) |
HKS 1990 |
U.S. Congresswoman |
[387] |
Wilbur Mills (1909-1992) |
Law 1933 |
United States Representative |
|
Walt Minnick (born 1942) |
Law 1969 |
United States Representative |
|
Nahum Mitchell (1769-1853) |
College 1789 |
United States Representative |
|
Thomas R. Mitchell (1783-1837) |
College 1802 |
United States Representative |
|
John S. Monagan (1911-2005) |
Law 1937 |
United States Representative |
|
Jim Moody (born 1935) |
HKS 1967 |
U.S. Representative |
[422] |
John Moolenaar (born 1961) |
KSG 1989 |
United States Representative |
|
William S. Moorhead (1923-1987) |
Law 1949 |
United States Representative |
|
Edward Joy Morris (1815-1881) |
College 1836 |
United States Representative |
|
Seth Moulton (born 1978) |
College 2001, HBS-HKS 2011 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Isaac Edward Morse (1809-1866) |
College 1829 |
United States Representative |
|
Harold G. Mosier (1889-1971) |
Law 1915 |
United States Representative |
|
Luther W. Mott (1874-1923) |
College 1896 |
United States Representative |
|
Scott Murphy (born 1970) |
College 1992 |
U.S. Representative |
[423] |
Henry F. Naphen (1852-1905) |
College 1878 |
United States Representative |
|
Charles P. Nelson (1907-1962) |
Law 1931 |
United States Representative |
|
James Ellsworth Noland (1920-1992) |
Business 1943 |
United States Representative |
|
Joseph F. O'Connell (1872-1942) |
Law 1896 |
United States Representative |
|
John J. O'Connor (1885-1960) |
Law 1911 |
United States Representative |
|
Gayton P. Osgood (1797-1861) |
College 1815 |
United States Representative |
|
Richard Ottinger (born 1929) |
Law 1953 |
United States Representative |
|
George E. Outland (1906-1981) |
GSAS 1929 |
United States Representative |
|
Allen Ferdinand Owen (1816-1865) |
Law 1839 |
United States Representative |
|
John G. Palfrey (1796-1881) |
College 1815 |
United States Representative |
|
Isaac Parker (1768-1830) |
College 1786 |
United States Representative |
|
Gorham Parks (1794-1877) |
College 1813 |
United States Representative |
|
George Partridge (1740-1828) |
College 1762 |
United States Representative |
|
John Perkins, Jr. (1819-1885) |
Law 1842 |
United States Representative |
|
William H. Perry (1839β1902) |
College 1859 |
U.S. Representative |
[424] |
Andrew James Peters (1872-1938) |
College 1895, Law 1898 |
United States Representative |
|
Tom Petri (born 1940) |
College 1962; Law 1965 |
U.S. Representative |
[425] |
Michael Francis Phelan (1875-1941) |
College 1897 |
United States Representative |
|
Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) |
College 1920 |
United States Representative |
|
Stephen C. Phillips (1801-1857) |
College 1819 |
United States Representative |
|
William Alvin Pittenger (1885-1951) |
Law 1912 |
United States Representative |
|
Edmund Platt (1865-1939) |
College 1888 |
United States Representative |
|
William Plumer, Jr. (1789-1854) |
College 1809 |
United States Representative |
|
Bruce Poliquin (born 1953) |
College 1976 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Mike Pompeo (born 1963) |
Law 1994 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Charles O. Porter (1919-2006) |
College 1941 |
United States Representative |
|
Elisha R. Potter (1811-1882) |
College 1830 |
United States Representative |
|
Henry Otis Pratt (1838-1931) |
College 1862 |
United States Representative |
|
William Preston (1816-1887) |
Law 1838 |
United States Representative |
|
L. Richardson Preyer (1919-2001) |
Law 1949 |
United States Representative |
|
Josiah Quincy III (1772-1864) |
College 1790 |
United States Representative |
|
John H. Ray (1886-1975) |
Law 1911 |
United States Representative |
|
Nathan Read (1759-1849) |
College 1781 |
United States Representative |
|
Ben Reifel (1906-1990) |
KSG 1949 |
United States Representative |
|
Henry S. Reuss (1912-2002) |
Law 1936 |
United States Representative |
|
Mel Reynolds (born 1952) |
KSG 1986 |
United States Representative |
|
John Jacob Rhodes (1916-2003) |
Law 1941 |
United States Representative |
|
Thomas Rice (1768-1854) |
College 1793 |
United States Representative |
|
William M. Richardson (1774-1838) |
College 1797 |
United States Representative |
|
Francis W. Rockwell (1844-1929) |
Law 1871 |
United States Representative |
|
John Jacob Rogers (1881-1925) |
College 1904 |
United States Representative |
|
Edward G. Rohrbough (1874-1956) |
GSAS 1906 |
United States Representative |
|
James Roosevelt (1907-1991) |
College 1930 |
United States Representative |
|
Nathaniel Ruggles (1761-1819) |
College 1781 |
United States Representative |
|
Richard M. Russell (1891-1977) |
College 1914 |
United States Representative |
|
Raul Ruiz (born 1972) |
HKS 2001, Medical 2001 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Leverett Saltonstall I (1783-1845) |
College 1802 |
United States Representative |
|
John Sarbanes (born 1962) |
Law 1988 |
U.S. Representative |
[426] |
James H. Scheuer (1920-2005) |
Business 1943 |
United States Representative |
|
Adam Schiff (born 1960) |
Law 1985 |
U.S. Representative |
[427] |
Pat Schroeder (born 1940) |
Law 1964 |
U.S. Representative |
[428] |
Bobby Scott (born 1947) |
College 1969 |
U.S. Congressman |
[429] |
Ebenezer Seaver (1763-1844) |
College 1784 |
United States Representative |
|
John F. Seiberling (1918-2008) |
College 1941 |
United States Representative |
|
Joe Sestak (born 1951) |
HKS 1980; PhD 1984 |
U.S. Congressman |
[430] |
Terri Sewell (born 1965) |
Law 1992 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
Samuel Sewall (1757-1812) |
College 1776 |
United States Representative |
|
Bob Shamansky (1927-2011) |
Law 1950 |
United States Representative |
|
Brad Sherman (born 1954) |
Law 1979 |
U.S. Congressman |
[431] |
Rob Simmons (born 1943) |
HKS 1979 |
U.S. Congressman |
[432] |
John Simpkins (1862-1898) |
College 1885 |
United States Representative |
|
Kenneth F. Simpson (1895-1941) |
Law 1922 |
United States Representative |
|
Josiah Smith (1738-1803) |
College 1774 |
United States Representative |
|
Peter Plympton Smith (born 1945) |
Education 1970 |
United States Representative |
|
William Henry Sowden (1840-1907) |
Law 1865 |
United States Representative |
|
Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848) |
College 1783 |
United States Representative |
|
Charles F. Sprague (1857-1902) |
College 1879 |
United States Representative |
|
William H. Stafford (1869-1957) |
Law 1893 |
United States Representative |
|
Harley O. Staggers, Jr. (born 1951) |
College 1974 |
United States Representative |
|
James V. Stanton (born 1932) |
AMP 1984 |
United States Representative |
|
Asahel Stearns (1774-1839) |
College 1797 |
United States Representative |
|
Foster Waterman Stearns (1881-1956) |
GSAS 1906 |
United States Representative |
|
William Stedman (1765-1831) |
College 1784 |
United States Representative |
|
Elise Stefanik (born 1980) |
College 2006 |
U.S. Congresswoman |
[387] |
George R. Stobbs (1877-1966) |
College 1899 |
United States Representative |
|
Eben F. Stone (1822-1895) |
College 1843 |
United States Representative |
|
Bellamy Storer (1847-1922) |
College 1867 |
United States Representative |
|
Samuel S. Stratton (1916β1990) |
A.M. 1940 |
U.S. Congressman |
[433] |
George Sullivan (1771-1838) |
College 1790 |
United States Representative |
|
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (1818-1898) |
Law 1840 |
United States Representative |
|
William Irvin Swoope (1862-1930) |
Law 1886 |
United States Representative |
|
Mark Takano (born 1960) |
College 1983 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
John J. Taylor (1808-1892) |
College 1829 |
United States Representative |
|
Nelson Taylor (1821-1894) |
Law 1860 |
United States Representative |
|
Frank Tejeda (1945β1997) |
HKS 1980 |
U.S. Congressman |
[434] |
Samuel Tenney (1748-1816) |
College 1772 |
United States Representative |
|
George H. Tinkham (1870-1956) |
College 1894 |
United States Representative |
|
Thomas Chandler Thacher (1858-1945) |
College 1882 |
United States Representative |
|
George Thatcher (1754-1824) |
College 1776 |
United States Representative |
|
Samuel Thatcher (1776-1872) |
College 1793 |
United States Representative |
|
John A. Thayer (1857-1917) |
College 1879 |
United States Representative |
|
Pat Toomey (born 1961) |
College 1984 |
U.S. Congressman, Club for Growth president |
[435] |
Peter Torkildsen (born 1958) |
HKS 1990 |
U.S. Congressman |
[436] |
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (1740β1809) |
College 1759 |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |
[437] |
Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-1875) |
Divinity 1821 |
United States Representative |
|
George B. Upham (1768-1848) |
College 1789 |
United States Representative |
|
Jabez Upham (1764-1811) |
College 1785 |
United States Representative |
|
Chris Van Hollen (born 1959) |
HKS 1985 |
U.S. Congressman |
[438] |
Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764-1839) |
College 1782 |
United States Representative |
|
Richard Vander Veen (1922-2006) |
Law 1949 |
United States Representative |
|
Juan Vargas (born 1961) |
Law 1991 |
U.S. Congressman |
[387] |
John Varnum (1778-1836) |
College 1798 |
United States Representative |
|
Victor Veysey (1915-2001) |
Business 1938 |
United States Representative |
|
Roger Vose (1763-1841) |
College 1790 |
United States Representative |
|
Peleg Wadsworth (1748-1829) |
College 1769 |
United States Representative |
|
Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker (1838-1903) |
Law 1858 |
United States Representative |
|
Samuel H. Walley (1805-1877) |
College 1826 |
United States Representative |
|
Artemas Ward (1727-1800) |
College 1748 |
United States Representative |
|
Artemas Ward Jr. (1762-1847) |
College 1783 |
United States Representative |
|
Samuel L. Warner (1828-1893) |
Law 1854 |
United States Representative |
|
Vespasian Warner (1842-1925) |
Law 1868 |
United States Representative |
|
William W. Warren (1834-1880) |
College 1855 |
United States Representative |
|
Charles G. Washburn (1857-1928) |
College 1880 |
United States Representative |
|
Laurence Hawley Watres (1882-1964) |
Law 1907 |
United States Representative |
|
Archibald J. Weaver (1843-1887) |
Law 1869 |
United States Representative |
|
Ed Weber (born 1931) |
Law 1956 |
United States Representative |
|
Charles W. Whalen, Jr. (1920-2011) |
Business 1946 |
United States Representative |
|
Laban Wheaton (1754-1846) |
College 1774 |
United States Representative |
|
Leonard White (1767-1849) |
College 1787 |
United States Representative |
|
William Whiting (1813-1873) |
College 1833 |
United States Representative |
|
Richard B. Wigglesworth (1891-1960) |
College 1912 |
United States Representative |
|
Lemuel Williams (1747-1828) |
College 1765 |
United States Representative |
|
James Wilson I (1766-1839) |
College 1789 |
United States Representative |
|
John Wilson (1777-1848) |
College 1799 |
United States Representative |
|
Scott Wike (1834-1901) |
Law 1859 |
United States Representative |
|
Samuel Winslow (1862-1940) |
College 1885 |
United States Representative |
|
Robert Winthrop (1809β1894) |
College 1828 |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |
[439] |
Samuel T. Worcester (1804-1882) |
College 1830 |
United States Representative |
|
John W. Wydler (1924-1987) |
Law 1950 |
United States Representative |
|
Chalmers Wylie (1920-1998) |
Law 1948 |
United States Representative |
|
Clarence Clifton Young (born 1922) |
Law 1949 |
United States Representative |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkla (1892β1929), from Siam (Thailand) |
Certificate in Public Health 1921 |
Member of the House of Chakri, of Siam (Thailand); son of King Chulalongkorn of Siam; father of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) and King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand; regarded as the father of modern medicine and public health of Thailand |
[84] |
Reg Alcock (1948-2011) |
KSG |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah (born 1955) |
PhD |
Son of late Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah; Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States from 1993 to 2003; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait from 2003 to 2011; current Deputy Prime Minister of Kuwait; his elder brother is Sheikh Salem Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, former Defense and Interior Minister |
[84] |
Ray Atherton (1883β1960) |
College 1905 |
First United States Ambassador to Canada |
|
Lalith Athulathmudali (1936β1993) |
Law |
Sri Lankan Minister of National Security, Minister of Education |
|
Pierre Baillargeon (1812-1891) |
Medical |
Member of Senate of Canada |
|
Sandy Berger (born 1945) |
Law 1971 |
United States National Security Advisor |
|
Ben Bernanke (born 1953) |
College 1975 |
Chair of the Federal Reserve |
|
Sallie Bernard |
Radcliffe 1979 |
Executive Director of SafeMinds |
|
James Berry |
Law |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Julie Bishop (born 1956) |
Business, 1996 |
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs |
|
Julia Chang Bloch |
Government, Grad School 1967 |
United States Ambassador to Nepal (under President George H. W. Bush), the first US Ambassador of Asian origin |
|
Michael Bloomberg (born 1942) |
Business 1966 |
Mayor of New York City |
|
AndrΓ© Boisclair (born 1966) |
HKS 2005 |
Former leader of Parti QuΓ©bΓ©cois |
|
Nick Boles (born 1965) |
HKS |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Frederick William Borden (1847-1917) |
Medical 1868 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
L. Paul Bremer (born 1941) |
Business 1966 |
Ambassador |
|
Zbigniew Brzezinski (born 1928) |
PhD 1953 |
United States National Security Advisor |
|
Liam Byrne (born 1970) |
Business |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Anna Escobedo Cabral (born 1959) |
HKS 1990 |
Treasurer of the United States |
|
Pat Caddell |
College 1972 |
Pollster |
|
Barry Campbell (born 1950) |
Law 1977 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos (1891β1965) |
PhD
1921 |
President of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party; led the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s |
[445][446] |
Frank T. Caprio (born 1966) |
College 1988 |
General Treasurer of Rhode Island |
|
Gil Carmichael |
1976 (fellow) |
Businessman and transportation specialist from Meridian, Mississippi; Republican candidate for U.S. Senate (1972), governor (1975 and 1979), and lieutenant governor (1983) |
[447] |
Robert Cerasoli (born 1945) |
HKS 1988 |
Massachusetts House of Representatives, Inspector General Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Inspector General New Orleans |
[448] |
Lena Chen |
College 2009 |
Blogger, feminist |
|
P. Chidambaram |
HBS |
Finance Minister of India |
|
Newton Ramsay Colter (1844-1917) |
Medical 1867 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Ross Cranston (born 1948) |
Law 1973 |
Member of British Parliament |
|
David Davis (born 1948) |
Business 1985 |
British politician |
|
Nelson Antonio Denis |
College 1977 |
Former New York State Assemblyman |
|
Louis-LΓ©on Lesieur Desaulniers (1823-1896) |
College 1846 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868β1963) |
College 1890; A.M. 1891; PhD 1895 |
Civil rights leader, African American studies scholar |
|
Lucie Edwards |
HKS 1984 |
Canadian diplomat |
|
William Ellery (1727β1780) |
College 1747 |
Signer of United States Declaration of Independence |
|
Daniel Ellsberg (born 1931) |
College 1952; PhD 1963 |
Leaker of the Pentagon Papers |
|
John English (born 1945) |
Ph.D 1973 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Douglas Feith (born 1953) |
College 1975 |
U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy |
|
Andy Fillmore (born 1966) |
GSD 1995 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Dudley Fishburn (born 1946) |
College |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Michèle Flournoy (born 1960) |
College 1983 |
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy of the United States |
[449] |
Nigel Forman (born 1943) |
HKS |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Chrystia Freeland (born 1968) |
College |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Richard Fuller |
|
British Member of Parliament |
|
David Gergen (born 1942) |
Law 1967 |
Advisor to four U.S. presidents |
|
Carl Gershman (born 1943) |
M. Education 1968 |
U.N. Representative and National Endowment for Democracy President |
|
Herman Goldner (1916β2010) |
MBA, c. 1947 |
Mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, 1961β1967, 1971β1973 |
[450] |
Richard N. Goodwin (born 1931) |
Law 1958 |
Speechwriter for Kennedy and Johnson administrations; author |
|
Jennifer Gordon |
College 1987, Law 1992 |
Founded the Workplace Project; associate professor at Fordham University School of Law |
|
Jamie Gorelick (born 1950) |
College 1972; Law 1975 |
Member of 9/11 Commission |
|
Barbara Greene (born 1945) |
KSG |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
John Hagelin (born 1954) |
PhD 1981 |
Third-party presidential candidate |
|
Charles Sumner Hamlin (1861-1938) |
College 1886 |
Chair of the Federal Reserve |
|
Will Ford Hartnett (1956β) |
College 1978 |
Lawyer from Dallas; member of the Texas House of Representatives |
|
Hon. Howard E. Haugerud |
|
American diplomat |
|
Kerry Healey (1960β) |
College 1982 |
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
|
James M. Henderson (1921β1995) |
Advanced Management Program, Date missing |
Founder of top-ranked Henderson Advertising Agency of Greenville, South Carolina; Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1970 |
[451] |
Paul Heroux (born 1976) |
MPA 2011 |
State Representative from Massachusetts |
|
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823β1911) |
College 1841 |
Author, abolitionist, Colonel |
|
Alger Hiss (1904β1996) |
Law 1929 |
Accused of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union |
|
Tom Hockin (born 1938) |
KSG |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
William Hooper (1742β1790) |
College 1760 |
Signer of United States Declaration of Independence |
|
Ken Hughes (born 1954) |
KSG 1983 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Rafael Hui (1948β) |
HKS 1983 |
Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong |
|
Lindsay Hyde (1982β) |
College 2004 |
Founder and President of Strong Women, Strong Girls, Inc. |
|
Michael Ignatieff (born 1947) |
PhD History 1976 |
Liberal Party of Canada leader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition; Member of Parliament; scholar; professor; author |
|
Greville Janner (born 1928) |
Law |
Member, House of Lords |
|
William Jeffrey |
PhD |
13th Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
|
Pauline Jewett (1922-1992) |
Ph.D 1949 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Henry Kaulback (1830-1896) |
College |
Member of Senate of Canada |
|
Raymond W. Kelly (born 1940) |
HKS 1984 |
New York City Police Commissioner |
|
Caroline Kennedy (born 1957) |
Radcliffe 1980 |
Writer; daughter of John F. Kennedy |
|
Joseph P. Kennedy (1888β1969) |
College 1912 |
Kennedy political family patriarch |
|
Alan Keyes (born 1950) |
College 1972; PhD 1979 |
U.S. presidential candidate and Senatorial candidate |
|
Marc Kielburger (born 1977) |
College 1999 |
Canadian humanitarian and activist |
|
Faik Konitza (1875β1942) |
|
Writer, Ambassador of Albania to the United States |
|
Philip Lader |
Law |
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom |
|
Anthony Lake (born 1939) |
College 1961 |
United States National Security Advisor |
|
David Lammy (born 1972) |
Law 1994 |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Maurice Lamontagne (1917-1983) |
M.A. |
Member of Senate of Canada |
|
Corliss Lamont (1905β1995) |
College 1924, professor |
ACLU director, humanist author |
|
Tobias Lear (1762β1816) |
College 1783 |
George Washington's personal secretary |
|
Dominic LeBlanc (born 1967) |
Law |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Alfred Lefurgey (1871-1934) |
Law 1894 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Lawrence B. Lindsey (born 1954) |
A.M. 1981; PhD 1985 |
Economist, Director of the National Economic Council |
|
Donald Stovel Macdonald (born 1932) |
Law |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Roderick MacFarquhar (born 1930) |
College 1955 |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Roy MacLaren (born 1934) |
AMP 1973 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Cyrus Macmillan (1882-1953) |
Ph.D 1909 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Nabiel Makarim (born 1945) |
HKS 1984 |
Indonesian Environmental Minister |
|
Michael Marshall (1930-2006) |
Business 1960 |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Crown Princess Masako of Japan (born 1963) |
B.A. |
Consort of Crown Prince Naruhito, the first son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko; member of the Imperial House of Japan through marriage |
[84] |
Timothy Massad (born 1956) |
College 1978; Law 1984 |
Corporate lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability, nominee to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
[452] |
Dan Massey (1942β2013) |
Graduate 1969 |
Sexual freedom scholar, religious philosopher, human rights activist, chief engineer at BBN Technologies, and senior scientist at Science Applications International Corporation |
|
Robert Charles Matthews (1871-1952) |
College 1902 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Allan McAvity (1882-1944) |
College |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Susan McCaw (born 1962) |
Business 1988 |
US Ambassador to Austria, 2005β2007 |
[453] |
Ezekiel McLeod (1840-1920) |
Law 1867 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Ken Mehlman (born 1967) |
Law 1991 |
former chairman of the Republican National Committee |
|
David Miller (born 1958) |
Economics (undergrad) 1981 |
Mayor of Toronto |
|
William Green Miller |
|
United States Ambassador to Ukraine from 1993 to 1998 |
|
Rhodri Morgan (born 1939) |
HKS |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Daniel Mudd (born 1956) |
HKS 1986 |
President and CEO of Fannie Mae |
|
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith (1934β) |
Business |
Economist, diplomat, and language veteran from Bangladesh |
|
Kiraitu Murungi (born 1952) |
Law 1991 |
Minister of Energy in Kenya |
|
Ephraim Bell Muttart (1839-1912) |
Medical 1861 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Ralph Nader (born 1934) |
Law 1958 |
Public advocate |
|
Brooks Newmark (born 1958) |
College 1980 |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Archie Norman (born 1954) |
Business |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Grover Norquist (born 1956) |
College 1978; Business 1981 |
Activist |
|
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 1954) |
College 1981 |
Finance Minister of Nigeria, Foreign Affairs Minister of Nigeria |
|
Joe Oliver (born 1940) |
Business 1970 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
James Otis (1725β1783) |
College 1743; A.M. 1746 |
Lawyer influential in American Revolution |
|
Samuel Allyne Otis
(1740β1814) |
College 1759 |
1st Secretary of the U.S. Senate |
[454] |
Kelly Overton |
Government |
Animal rights activist |
|
Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi, of Iran (Persia) (1966β2011) |
PhD student at the time of his death |
Member of the Pahlavi Imperial Family of Iran (Persia); younger son of the former Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his third wife Empress Farah Pahlavi; second in order of succession to the Iranian throne before the Iranian Revolution |
[84] |
Robert Treat Paine (1731β1814) |
College 1749 |
Signer of United States Declaration of Independence |
|
Francis Pangilinan (born 1963) |
HKS 1998 |
Senator and the Majority Leader of the Senate of the Philippines |
|
Clay Pell |
|
United States Department of Education official |
[455] |
George Halsey Perley (1857-1938) |
College 1878 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Claire Perry (born 1964) |
Business |
Member of British Parliament |
|
JosΓ© PiΓ±era (born 1948) |
Economics, Grad School M.A. 1972, PhD 1974 |
Chile Minister of Labor and Social Security; Minister of Mines (under President Augusto Pinochet) 1978β1980; enacted world's first system of private retirement accounts; known as one of the Chicago Boys |
|
Loulan Pitre, Jr. (born 1961) |
Undergraduate 1983, Law 1986 |
New Orleans lawyer and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Lafource Parish, Louisiana |
[456] |
Jesse Robredo (1958β2012) |
M.P.A. 1999 |
Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government of the Philippines |
|
Stuart Rabner (born 1960) |
Law 1984 |
New Jersey State Attorney General |
|
Franklin Raines (born 1949) |
College 1971; Law 1976 |
Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae |
|
Murray Rankin (born 1950) |
Law |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Rosa Gumataotao Rios (born 1966) |
College 1987 |
Treasurer of the United States |
|
Andres Rivero (born 1962) |
Law 1987 |
Local Deputy in the Congress of Colima, member of PAN, and former President of Seguros ING, S.A. de C.V. |
|
Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy (1885-1955) |
College 1909 |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933β2003) |
College 1954 |
Son of Aga Khan III, the 48th Imam of Nizari Ismailism; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1978 |
[84] |
Muhammad Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah (born 1958) |
Law |
Foreign Minister of Kuwait |
|
Surakiart Sathirathai (born 1958) |
Law |
Foreign Minister of Thailand |
|
G. David Schine (1927β1996) |
College 1949 |
Entrepreneur, businessman, political activist |
|
Jyotiraditya Scindia (born 1971) |
College 1993 |
Indian Member of Parliament and Union Minister of State for IT and Communications |
|
Phyllis Schlafly (born 1924) |
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1945 |
Political activist |
|
Joel Herbert Seaverns (1860-1923) |
College 1881 |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Nancy Sherman |
1982 |
Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, military ethicist |
|
Faryar Shirzad (born 1966) |
HKS |
Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush |
|
Bob Shrum (born 1943) |
Law 1968 |
Political consultant |
|
Jayant Sinha (born 1963) |
Business, 1992 |
Minister of State for Finance, Member of Parliament in the Narendra Modi Ministry, former managing director at Omidyar Network, former Partner at McKinsey & Company |
[457] |
Sven Spengemann (born 1966) |
Law |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Steve Spinner |
MBA |
Adviser to Obama Campaign, Department of Energy Official |
|
Robert Stanfield (1914-2003) |
Law |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Paul Stinchcombe (born 1962) |
Law |
Member of British Parliament |
|
George William Strake, Jr. (born 1935) |
MBA 1961 |
Secretary of State of Texas, 1979β1981; Republican state chairman, 1983β1988; Houston businessman and philanthropist |
[458] |
Subramanian Swamy (born 1939) |
Phd Economics 1965 |
Former Indian Union Minister of Commerce and Industry |
|
Edita Tahiri (born 1956) |
HKS 2002 |
Founder and leader of independence movement of Kosovo; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo 1991β2000; Deputy Prime Minister |
|
Lorenzo M. TaΓ±ada (1898β1992) |
Law |
Philippine Senator, nationalist and civil libertarian |
|
Tina Tchen (born 1956) |
College 1978 |
Lawyer, Assistant to President Barack Obama; Chief of Staff to First Lady Michelle Obama; Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls |
|
Peter Thurnham (1938-2010) |
Business 1969 |
Member of British Parliament |
|
Arthur Tremblay (1917-1996) |
M.Ed 1945 |
Member of Senate of Canada |
|
Thomas Tweedie (1871-1944) |
Law 1905 |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Bernardo Villegas |
PhD in Economics |
Economist, presidential advisor, founder of the Center for Research and Communication, led a committee that drafted the 1987 Philippine Constitution |
|
Paul Volcker (born 1927) |
HKS 1951 |
Chairman of the Federal Reserve |
|
William Michael Wall (1911-1961) |
Ph.D 1954 |
Member of Senate of Canada |
|
Martha M. Walz (born 1953) |
HKS 2000 |
Democratic member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives |
|
George F. Ward |
M.P.A. |
Former United States Ambassador to Namibia |
[459] |
Joseph Warren (1741β1775) |
College 1759; A.M. 1762 |
Physician, soldier, activist |
[460] |
Princess Maria Carolina Christina of Bourbon-Parma, Duchess of Guernica and Marchioness of Sala (born 1974) |
|
Member of the Royal and Ducal House of Bourbon-Parma and Dutch Royal Family; fourth and youngest child of Princess Irene of the Netherlands and Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma |
[84] |
Prince Radu of Romania (born 1960) |
Executive Program 2004 |
Son-in-law of former King Michael I of Romania; in 1996 he married Princess Margarita of Romania, the king's eldest daughter and the Crown Princess of Romania, also known as the "Custodian of the Romanian Crown" |
[84] |
Alexander Watson |
College 1961 |
Ambassador, diplomat |
|
Kevin White |
HKS 1957 |
Mayor of Boston |
|
Dean Whiteway (born 1944) |
M.A. |
Member of House of Commons of Canada |
|
Anthony A. Williams |
HKS, Law 1987 |
Mayor of Washington, DC |
|
Gita Wirjawan |
HKS, 2000 |
Minister of Trade of Indonesia |
|
James Wolfensohn (1933β) |
Business 1959 |
Ninth President of the World Bank |
|
Yam Ah Mee (1957β) |
Business |
Returning Officer, Singaporean general election, 2011, former Brigadier General in the Republic of Singapore Air Force |
|
Robert Zoellick (born 1953) |
Law 1979; HKS 1981 |
Eleventh President of the World Bank |
|
Raja Nazrin Shah of Perak (born 1956) |
Masters; PhD |
Son of the current Sultan of Perak, one of the Sultans of Malaysia, as a federal constitutional monarchy |
[84] |
Raja Nazrin Shah (born 1956) |
A.M.; PhD |
Crown Prince of Perak, Malaysia |
|
Shpend Ahmeti (born 1978) |
2004.; HKS Public Administration |
Mayor of Prishtina |
|
Lars-Gunnar Wigemark (born 1960) |
College 1984 |
EU Ambassador to Pakistan |
[461] |
William Williams (1731β1811) |
College 1751 |
Signer of United States Declaration of Independence |
|
Hastings Wyman (born 1939) |
Bachelor of Arts 1961 |
Political consultant, author, journalist, publisher of The Southern Political Report |
[462] |
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832β1899) |
College 1852 |
Novelist |
[473] |
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) |
Radcliffe A.M. 1962 |
Novelist |
[474] |
Peter Benchley (1940β2006) |
College 1961 |
Novelist |
[475] |
Robert Benchley (1889β1945) |
College 1912 |
Comedian |
[476] |
John Berendt (born 1939) |
College 1961 |
Writer |
[477] |
Robert Bly (born 1926) |
College 1950 |
Poet |
|
Marita Bonner |
Radcliffe College 1922 |
Harlem Renaissance writer, essayist, poet |
|
Bill Branon |
College 1959 |
Novelist |
|
Harold Brodkey (1930β1996) |
College 1952 |
Novelist |
|
George Hardin Brown |
College 1971 |
Medieval scholar |
[478] |
Thomas Bulfinch (1796β1867) |
College 1814 |
Mythologist |
|
William S. Burroughs (1914β1997) |
College 1936 |
Writer |
|
Ethan Canin (born 1960) |
Medical 1989 |
Author |
|
Steven R. Covey (1932β2012) |
Business 1975 |
Author and self-help guru |
|
Michael Crichton (1942β2008) |
College 1964; Medical 1969 |
Novelist, best known for Jurassic Park and the television series ER |
|
E. E. Cummings (1894β1962) |
College 1915; A.M. 1916 |
Poet |
|
Guy Davenport (1927β2005) |
PhD |
Writer, artist, critic |
|
Paul de Man (1919β1983) |
PhD 1960 |
literary critic |
|
Joseph Dennie (1768β1812) |
College 1790 |
Author, editor |
[479] |
John dos Passos (1896β1970) |
College 1916 |
Novelist |
|
Edward Eager (1911β1964) |
College c. 1932 |
Writer of children's literature |
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803β1882) |
College 1821; Divinity 1829 |
Writer, namesake of Emerson Hall |
|
Berry Fleming (1899β1989) |
College 1922 |
Writer of novels[480] |
|
Al Franken (born 1951) |
College 1973 |
Comedian, United States Senator |
|
Edward Gorey (1925β2000) |
College 1950 |
Writer, illustrator |
|
Kathleen Hale |
College 2010 |
Author[481] |
|
Donald Hall (born 1928) |
College 1951 |
14th U.S. Poet Laureate |
|
Louisa Hall (born 1982) |
College 2004 |
Author |
|
James D. Hart (died 1990) |
|
Writer, professor |
|
Mark Helprin (born 1947) |
College, Graduate School |
Writer |
|
Julie Hilden |
College 1989 |
Author |
|
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809β1894) |
College; PhD 1836; professor |
Poet, physician |
|
Angela Hur |
College 2002 |
Author |
[482][483] |
Gregg Hurwitz |
College 1995 |
Novelist, comics writer |
|
Uzodinma Iweala (born 1982) |
College 2004 |
Author |
|
Gish Jen (born 1955) |
College 1977 |
Author |
|
Helen Keller (1880β1968) |
Radcliffe 1904 |
Deafblind author, activist, and lecturer |
|
H.T. Kirby-Smith (born 1938) |
A.M. 1964 |
Poet and author |
|
Maxine Kumin (born 1925) |
College 1946; A.M. 1948 |
Poet |
|
Jean Kwok |
College |
Author |
[484] |
Ursula K. Le Guin (born 1929) |
Radcliffe 1951 |
Novelist |
|
Hunter Lewis (born 1947) |
A.B. 1969 |
Author |
|
Frederick Wadsworth Loring (1848β1871) |
College 1870 |
Author, newspaper correspondent |
|
James Russell Lowell (1819β1891) |
College 1838 |
Poet, abolitionist |
|
Alison Lurie (born 1926) |
Radcliffe 1947 |
Novelist |
|
Norman Mailer (1923β2007) |
College 1943 |
Novelist |
|
F.O. Matthiessen (1902β1950) |
M.A. 1926 PhD 1927 |
Harvard Teacher |
|
Anne McCaffrey (1926β2011) |
Radcliffe 1947 |
Novelist |
|
Charles Murray (born 1943) |
College 1965 |
Writer |
|
Howard Nemerov (1920β1991) |
College 1941 |
Poet |
|
Frank O'Hara (1926β1966) |
College 1950 |
Poet |
|
George Plimpton (1927β2003) |
College 1948 |
Writer, journalist, actor |
|
Adrienne Rich (born 1929) |
Radcliffe 1951 |
Poet |
|
George de la Ruiz Santayana (1863-1952) |
College 1886 |
Philosopher, poet |
|
E. San Juan, Jr. |
A.M.; PhD |
Poet, cultural scholar |
|
Erich Segal (born 1937) |
College 1958; A.M. 1959; PhD 1965 |
Author, screenwriter |
|
Maximo V. Soliven (born 1933) |
PhD 1951 |
Writer, Chevalier (knight) of the National Order of Merit |
|
Susan Sontag (1933β2004) |
A.M. 1957 |
Writer, activist |
|
Thomas Sowell (born 1930) |
College 1958 |
Writer, economist |
|
Gertrude Stein (1874β1946) |
Radcliffe 1897 |
Poet, novelist |
|
Ernest Thayer (1863β1940) |
College 1885 |
Poet |
|
Henry David Thoreau (1817β1862) |
College 1837 |
Journalist, philosopher, writer |
|
Sergio Troncoso (born 1961) |
College 1983 |
Novelist and writer of short stories |
|
Lily Tuck (born 1938) |
Radcliffe College 1960 |
Novelist, winner of the 2004 National Book Award. |
[485] |
Scott Turow (born 1949) |
Law 1978 |
Novelist, lawyer |
|
John Updike (1932β2009) |
College 1954 |
Novelist |
|
Kaavya Viswanathan (born 1987) |
College 2008 |
Novelist, noted plagiarist |
|
Andrew Weil (born 1942) |
College 1964; Medical School 1968 |
Medical writer |
|
Richard Wilbur (born 1921) |
A.M. 1947; professor |
Poet |
|
Thomas Wolfe (1900β1938) |
A.M. 1922 |
Novelist |
|
Elizabeth Wurtzel (born 1967) |
College 1989 |
Writer |
|
A. B. Yehoshua (born 1936) |
|
Novelist, essayist, and playwright |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Tatyana Ali (born 1979) |
College 2002 |
Actress, Singer |
|
Darren Aronofsky (born 1969) |
College 1991 |
Film director and screenwriter |
[486] |
Catherine Oxenberg (born 1961) |
|
Serbian American actress |
[84] |
Ronald Bass (born 1942) |
Law 1967 |
Screenwriter |
[487] |
S. N. Behrman (1893β1973) |
College 1916 |
Playwright, screenwriter |
|
Roberts Blossom (1924β2011) |
College 1943 |
Actor, poet |
|
Andy Borowitz (born 1958) |
College 1980 |
Comedian, film actor |
|
Josh Brener (born 1984) |
College 2007 |
Actor |
|
Amy Brenneman (born 1964) |
College 1987 |
Actress |
|
Gaspar Bergman (born 1979) |
Law 2001 |
Film director |
|
Bill Brown |
College 1992 |
Experimental filmmaker |
|
Nestor Carbonell (born 1967) |
College 1990 |
Actor |
|
Emily Carmichael (born 1982) |
College 2004 |
Director, screenwriter, animator |
|
Stockard Channing (born 1944) |
Radcliffe 1965 |
Actress |
|
Damien Chazelle (born 1985) |
College 2007 |
Film director, screenwriter, Academy Award nominee for Whiplash |
|
Rob Cohen (born 1949) |
College 1971 |
Film director, screenwriter |
|
Cesar Conde (born 1973) |
College 1995 |
President of Univision |
|
Lindsay Crouse (born 1948) |
Radcliffe 1970 |
Actress |
|
Matt Damon (born 1970) |
College 1988β1992 |
Actor, screenwriter, producer, Academy Award winner |
|
Greg Daniels (born 1962) |
College 1980β1984 |
Comedy writer, producer, and director |
|
Jeremy Doner (born 1974) |
College 1994 |
Screenwriter |
[488] |
Christopher Durang (born 1949) |
College 1971 |
Playwright |
|
Geoffrey S. Fletcher (born 1970) |
College 1992 |
Screenwriter, film director, professor |
|
Greg Giraldo (1965β2010) |
Law 1988 |
Comedian |
|
Armando Gutierrez (1949) |
Extension 2009 |
Actor, Producer |
|
Fred Grandy (born 1948) |
College 1970 |
Actor, U.S. Congressman |
[400] |
Andre Gregory (born 1934) |
College 1956 |
Theatre director, actor |
|
Fred Gwynne (1926β1993) |
College 1951 |
Actor |
|
Hill Harper (1966) |
HKS, Law 1992 |
Actor |
|
Erika Harold (1980) |
Law 2007 |
Miss America 2003 |
[489] |
Sarah Haskins (1979) |
College 2001 |
Comedian |
|
Josephine Hull (1886β1957) |
Radcliffe 1899 |
Actress |
|
Rashida Jones (born 1976) |
College 1997 |
Actress |
|
Tommy Lee Jones (born 1946) |
College 1969 |
Actor, Academy Award winner |
|
Colin Jost (born 1982) |
College 2004 |
Actor, writer, comedian |
|
Douglas Kenney (1947β1980) |
College 1968 |
Humorist, screenwriter |
|
Jack Lemmon (1925β2001) |
College 1947 |
Actor, Academy Award winner |
|
Alan Jay Lerner (1918β1986) |
College 1940 |
Lyricist, librettist |
|
Jeremy Leven (born 1941) |
Education 1973 |
Novelist, screenwriter, director, producer |
|
John Lithgow (born 1945) |
College 1967 |
Actor, Academy Award nominee |
|
Donal Logue (born 1966) |
College 1989 |
Actor |
|
Joseph Losey (1909β1984) |
A.M. |
Film director |
|
Terrence Malick (born 1943) |
College 1966 |
Film director, screenwriter |
|
Robert Myhrum |
College 1948 |
Emmy-nominated television director |
|
Dan McGrath (born 1965) |
College 1985 |
Emmy-winning writer, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, King of the Hill |
|
Tom McGrath (born 1956) |
College 1976, MBA 1980 |
Film and theater executive, producer; The Princess Bride, Hair, Passing Strange, West Side Story; six-time Tony winner |
|
Abel Meeropol |
|
Actor and composer |
|
Alex Michel (born 1970) |
College 1992 |
Businessman, television personality; The Bachelor |
|
David Monahan (born 1971) |
College |
Actor |
|
Mira Nair (born 1957) |
College 1979 |
Film director |
|
Dean Norris (born 1962/63) |
College 1985 |
Actor, Breaking Bad, Under the Dome |
|
B. J. Novak (born 1979) |
College 2001 |
Comedian, actor, The Office |
|
Conan O'Brien (born 1963) |
College 1985 |
Talk show host |
|
Mark O'Donnell (1954β2012) |
College 1976 |
Comedy writer, Tony winner for Hairspray, author, op-ed columnist |
|
Steve O'Donnell (born 1954) |
College 1976 |
Comedy writer, multiple Emmy winner, Head Writer for David Letterman Show, The Simpsons |
|
Keir Pearson (born 1968) |
College 1989 |
Screenwriter |
|
Frank R. Pierson (born 1925) |
College 1950 |
Screenwriter, film director |
|
Natalie Portman (born 1981) |
College 2003 |
Actress, Academy Award winner |
|
Carol Potter (born 1948) |
Social Relations (Psychology) 1970 |
Actress, Beverly Hills, 90210 |
[490] |
Fred Gwynne (1926β1993) |
College 1951 |
Actor |
|
Mo Rocca (born 1969) |
College 1991 |
Comedian |
|
Meredith Salenger (born 1970) |
College 1992 |
Actress |
|
Michael Schur (born 1975) |
College 1997 |
Writer for Saturday Night Live, The Office, and Parks and Recreation |
|
Peter Sellars |
College 1980 |
Theater director |
|
Wallace Shawn (born 1943) |
College 1965 |
Actor, playwright |
|
Elisabeth Shue (born 1963) |
College 2000 |
Actress |
|
Henry Singer (born 1957) |
College 1980 |
Film director |
|
Mira Sorvino (born 1967) |
College 1990 |
Actress, Academy Award winner |
|
Whit Stillman (born 1952) |
College 1973 |
Screenwriter, film director |
|
Renee Tajima-PeΓ±a |
College 1980 |
Film director and producer, Who Killed Vincent Chin? |
[491] |
Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) |
College 1979 |
Screenwriter |
|
Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born 1981) |
College 2004 |
Actor |
|
Scottie Thompson (born 1981) |
College 2005 |
Actress |
[492] |
James Toback (born 1944) |
College 1966 |
Film director and screenwriter |
|
Brian Tyler (born 1972) |
College 1998 |
Film composer and music producer |
|
Jack Valenti (1921β2007) |
Business 1952 |
President of the MPAA |
|
Courtney B. Vance (born 1960) |
College 1982 |
Actor |
|
John Weidman |
College 1968 |
Librettist |
|
Scott Weinger (born 1975) |
College 1998 |
Actor |
|
Steve Zahn (born 1967) |
|
Actor |
|
Jeff Zucker (born 1965) |
College 1986 |
President of NBC Universal |
|
Edward Zwick (born 1952) |
College 1974 |
Film director, producer, Academy Award winner |
|
Bill Stetson |
B.A. 1982 |
President of the Vermont Film Commission; producer of What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library; Citizen Suits; and A Closer Walk |
|
Olga Fedori |
College 2004 |
Actress, singer |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Eugene C. Barker (1874β1956) |
Graduate study in history |
Premier historian of Texas |
|
Sylvan Barnet |
PhD 1954 |
Shakespearean scholar |
|
Bernard Berenson (1865β1959) |
College 1887 |
Art historian |
|
Luciano Berio (1925β2003) |
1994 Distinguished Composer in Residence |
Composer |
|
Michael Beschloss (born 1955) |
Business 1980 |
Historian |
|
David Bevington |
PhD 1958 |
Scholar |
|
Amy Bishop (born 1965) |
PhD |
Assassinated three fellow professors and wounded two more at The University of Alabama in Huntsville |
|
John Boswell (1947β1994) |
PhD 1975 |
Historian of homosexual history |
|
Robert Castelli (born 1949) |
M.A. 1996 |
Criminal Justice Department Chair at Iona College, New York State Assemblyman |
|
Yuen Ren Chao (1892β1982) |
PhD 1918 |
Chinese American linguist, philosopher and amateur composer |
|
Schuyler V. Cammann (1921β1991) |
M.A. 1941 |
Anthropologist |
|
Donald Davidson (1917β2003) |
PhD |
Philosopher |
|
Greg Dening (1931β2008) |
PhD |
Historian, scholar of historical ethnography |
|
John K. Fairbank (1907β1991) |
College 1929 |
East Asian scholar |
|
Ben Finney (b. 1934) |
PhD 1964 |
Anthropologist, author, Polynesian Voyaging Society co-founder |
|
M. Judah Folkman (February 24, 1933 β January 14, 2008) |
1953 |
Founder of angiogenesis |
|
Mary Parker Follett (1868β1933) |
Radcliffe 1898 |
Social and political theorist |
|
Richard Foltz (born 1961) |
PhD 1996 |
Historian of religions |
|
James Fowler (born 1970) |
College 1992; PhD 2003 |
Political scientist |
[552] |
Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (1909β1981) |
M.A. 1932 |
Historian |
[553] |
Nelson Goodman (1906β1998) |
College 1928; PhD 1941 |
Philosopher |
|
Philip F. Gura |
A.B. 1972; PhD 1977 |
Leading scholar on American history and literature |
|
Patricia Greenspan |
A.M. 1968; PhD 1972 |
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park |
[554] |
Harlan P. Hanson (1925β1996) |
A.B. 1948; PhD 1959 |
Director of the Advanced Placement program (1965β1989) |
|
Perry H. Howard |
|
Sociologist at Louisiana State University who researched Louisiana politics |
|
T.R. Kidder born 1960 |
PhD 1989 |
Archaeologist, former Dean of Tulane |
|
Gary N. Knoppers |
A.M. 1986; PhD 1988 |
Leading scholar on Chronicles and Chronicler |
|
Robert A. Kraft |
PhD 1961 |
Leading scholar on Jewish history and Christian origins |
|
Rosalind E. Krauss |
PhD 1969 |
Art historian and founder of academic journal October |
|
Alan Kreider (born 1941) |
A.M. (1965), PhD (1971), Travelling Fellow (1966β67) |
Former Director, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, University of Oxford |
|
Saul Kripke (born 1940) |
College; Society of Fellows |
Philosopher |
|
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922β1996) |
College 1943; A.M. 1946; PhD 1949 |
Philosopher and historian of science |
|
Robert C. Lieberman (born 1964) |
PhD 1994 |
Political scientist, Provost of Johns Hopkins University |
[555] |
David Lewis (1941β2001) |
PhD 1967 |
Philosopher |
|
Perry Link |
College 1966, PhD 1976 |
Sinologist, professor |
|
Tanya Luhrmann |
College 1981 |
Psychological anthropologist, elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 |
|
Roger Martin (born 1956) |
Business 1978 |
Dean of University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management |
|
Francis Parkman (1823β1898) |
Law |
Historian |
|
Juan Antonio PΓ©rez LΓ³pez (1934β1996) |
PhD 1970 |
Business theorist |
|
Joel M. Podolny (born 1965) |
College 1986 |
Dean of Yale School of Management; sociologist |
|
Mark Rosenzweig (1922β2009) |
PhD 1949 |
Professor at the University of California, Berkeley whose studies showed that the brain develops into adulthood based on life experiences |
[556] |
Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954) |
B.A.;M.A;PhD |
Economist |
|
Edward Said (1935β2003) |
A.M.; PhD 1964 |
Coined term Orientalism; Palestinian activist; professor |
|
George Santayana (1863β1952) |
College 1886; PhD 1889; professor |
Philosopher |
|
Jonathan Siegel (born 1962) |
College 1984 |
Professor of Law, George Washington University |
|
Harpreet Singh |
M.T.S. 2005; PhD 2011 |
Scholar of Islamic, Hindu and Sikh traditions of South Asia; co-founder of the Sikh Coalition |
[557] |
Andrea Smith |
B.A. |
Native American Studies |
|
Christian Smith (born 1960) |
PhD 1990 |
Religious Studies |
|
Timothy L. Smith (1924β1997) |
PhD |
Religious historian, author |
[558] |
Diane Souvaine |
College |
Chairperson of the computer science program at Tufts University; professor of computer science and mathematics |
|
Ronald Spores |
PhD 1964 |
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University |
[559] |
Phillip Swagel |
PhD 1993 |
Economist |
[560] |
Barbara Tuchman (1912β1989) |
Radcliffe 1933; faculty |
Historian |
|
Jon Wiener (1944β) |
PhD |
Historian |
[561] |
Charles W. Woodworth (1865β1940) |
Grad. Student, Researcher (1886β1888), (1900β1901) |
Entomologist; founder of UCB's Entomology Department |
|
Amy Zegart (1967β) |
College 1989, magna cum laude in East Asian Studies |
Professor of Public Policy; UCLA School of Public Affairs |
|
Name |
Class year |
Notability |
Reference(s) |
Mark Albion (born 1951) |
PhD 1982 |
Author, social entrepreneur, co-founder of Net Impact |
|
Esko Aho (born 1954) |
IOP Fellow 2000 |
Prime Minister of Finland (1991β1995) |
[563] |
William Berenberg (1915β2005) |
College 1936; professor |
Professor of pediatrics, physician |
[564] |
Theodore C. Bestor |
Professor |
Anthropologist |
|
Grete L. Bibring (1899β1977) |
Professor, Harvard Medical School |
Psychoanalyst; first female professor at Harvard Medical School |
[565] |
Fitzroy Carrington (born 1869) |
Lecturer on engraving |
Journalist |
|
Richard Clarke (born 1951) |
Faculty |
Diplomat, counterterrorism expert |
|
Kim B. Clark |
College 1974; A.M. 1977; PhD 1978; Dean of business school 1995β2005 |
Economist; President of BYU-Idaho |
|
Lawrence "Crash" Davis (1919β2001) |
Baseball coach (1943β1945) |
Inspiration for Bull Durham |
|
Alan Dershowitz (born 1938) |
Professor (1964β) |
Law scholar, pro-Israel activist |
|
Bruce Donoff (born 1951) |
Dental 1967; Medical 1973 |
Dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine |
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Noam Elkies (born 1966) |
A.M. 1986; PhD 1987; professor (1990β) |
Mathematician |
|
Archie Epps (1937β2003) |
B.D 1961 |
Dean of Students, (1971β1999) |
[566] |
Denise Faustman |
Associate Professor of Medicine |
Medical doctor and pioneer in diabetes research |
|
Martin Feldstein (born 1939) |
College 1961; professor |
Economist |
|
Niall Ferguson (born 1964) |
Professor 2005βpresent |
Historian |
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908β2006) |
Professor |
Canadian-American Keynesian economist |
|
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950) |
Professor |
African American studies scholar |
|
Daniel Gilbert |
Professor at the Department of Psychology |
Social psychologist |
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Andrew M. Gleason |
Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy |
|
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Daniel Goldhagen (born 1959) |
PhD; previously an Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies |
Political scientist; controversial author of Hitler's Willing Executioners |
|
Stephen Jay Gould (1941β2002) |
Professor |
Biologist |
|
Stephen Greenblatt (born 1943) |
Professor |
Literary critic |
|
Walter Gropius (1883β1969) |
Professor; dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design |
Architect |
|
Theodore Hall (1925β1999) |
College 1943 |
Soviet spy on the Manhattan Project |
|
Caroline Hoxby |
College 1988; professor |
Economist |
|
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz |
PhD; professor |
Historian |
|
Samuel P. Huntington (born 1927) |
PhD 1951; professor |
Political scientist |
|
Jay Jasanoff |
A.B. 1963, PhD 1968; professor 1970β78, 1998β |
Linguist |
[567] |
Geoffrey Jones (academic) |
Professor 2002βpresent |
Business historian |
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Howard Koh (born 1952) |
Professor, Harvard School of Public Health |
Physician |
|
Susumu Kuno (born 1933) |
PhD 1964, Professor Emeritus |
Linguist |
[568] |
George Martin Lane (1823β1897) |
Professor (1869β1894) |
Classical scholar |
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Timothy Leary (1920β1996) |
Professor (1959β1963) |
Writer, psychologist, LSD guru |
|
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807β1882) |
Professor (1834β1854) |
Poet |
|
N. Gregory Mankiw (born 1958) |
Professor |
Economist, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors |
|
Harvey Mansfield |
Professor |
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University |
|
JuliΓ‘n MarΓas (1914β2005) |
Professor |
Philosopher and author |
|
Richard Marius (1933β1999) |
Professor |
Reformation historian and author |
|
Ernst Mayr (1904β2005) |
Professor |
Evolutionary biologist |
|
Robert C. Merton (born 1944) |
Professor |
Economist, Nobel Prize winner |
|
Ken Nakayama |
Professor |
Psychologist |
|
Robert Nozick (1938β2002) |
Professor |
Libertarian philosopher |
|
Milman Parry (??-1935) |
Professor |
Scholar of the classics and folklore |
|
Benjamin Peirce (1809β1880) |
College 1829; professor |
Mathematician |
|
Steven Pinker (born 1954) |
PhD 1979; professor (2003β) |
Psychologist |
|
Seda Pumpyanskaya (born 1965) |
1992; |
International Corporate Communication Director |
|
Robert Putnam (born 1941) |
Professor |
Political scientist |
|
W. V. Quine (1908β2000) |
PhD 1932; professor (1956β2000) |
Philosopher, logician |
|
John Rawls (1921β2002) |
Professor |
Philosopher, political scientist |
|
Wade Regehr |
Professor |
Neurobiology |
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Edwin O. Reischauer (1910β1990) |
PhD 1939; professor; namesake of Reischauer Institute |
East Asian scholar |
|
Juan Rosai |
Visiting Professor |
Medical doctor and professor of pathology; author of a main textbook in the field; discoverer of the Rosai-Dorfman disease |
|
Josiah Royce (1855β1916) |
Professor (1892β1914) |
Philosopher |
|
James R. Russell |
Professor (1993β) |
Professor and scholar; Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University |
[570] |
Nadav Safran (1925β2003) |
Professor |
Expert in Arab politics; former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies |
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Michael Sandel |
Professor |
Political scientist |
|
Elaine Scarry |
Professor of English and American Literature and Language, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value |
Author |
|
Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888β1965) |
Professor, namesake of Schlesinger Library |
Historian |
|
B. F. Skinner (1904β1990) |
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology |
Behavioral psychologist, inventor |
|
Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916β2000) |
Professor |
Religious scholar, professor |
|
Jared Sparks (1789β1866) |
College 1819; professor (1838β1849) |
Historian |
|
David A. Thomas (born 1956) |
Professor |
Dean of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University |
|
Laurence Tribe (born 1941) |
College 1962; Law 1966; professor |
Lawyer |
|
Cornel West (born 1953) |
Professor (1993β2002) |
African American studies scholar |
|
George M. Whitesides (born 1939) |
College 1960; University professor (1982β) |
Chemist |
|
James Q. Wilson (born 1931) |
Professor 1961β1987 |
Professor of public policy |
|
Dave Winer (born 1955) |
Fellow at HLS's Berkman Center for Internet and Society 2004 |
Software developer; early and still famous blogger |
|
Harry Austryn Wolfson (1887β1974) |
PhD; professor |
Philosopher |
|
Ma Ying-Jeou (born 1950) |
Doctor of Juridical Science, J.S.D. 1981. |
12th President of the Republic of China |
|
Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936β1982) |
A.M., economics, 1965. |
Kenyan economist, father of U.S. President Barack Obama |
|
Sameh El-Saharty (born 1957) |
MD, MSc, MPH 1991 |
president of Harvard Arab Alumni, Senior Health specialist, World Bank |
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Richard Wilson (born 1926) |
Professor at the Department of Physics (1955β) |
Physicist |
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