List of Harvard University people explained

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

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

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

Politics

See main article: List of Harvard University politicians.

Law

Other legal figures

Literature

• Benjamin Kunkel (born 1972), novelist and political economist

Film, theater, and television

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Art, architecture, and engineering

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

Professors and scholars

See also

• List of Harvard University non-graduate alumni

Notes and References

1. Zhou, Kevin. Justice Kennedy Presides at Law School, Law students face Supreme Court justice in Moot Trial Competition, The Harvard Crimson, November 15, 2006.