List of university and college namesakes explained

Persons for whom colleges or universities were named.

• Jacob Albright
• Richard Allen (reverend)
• Saint Andrew
• James Osgood Andrew
• Francis Asbury
• Osman Cleander Baker
• John Baldwin (educator)
• Benjamin Bates IV
• LaVerne H. Bates
• Robert Bellarmine
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Warren Akin Candler
• Andrew Carnegie
• Davis Wasgatt Clark
• Ezra Cornell
• Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
• Washington C. DePauw
• John Emory
• Simon Fraser
• Robert Gordon
• Leonidas Lent Hamline
• John Harvard (clergyman)
• Eugene Russell Hendrix
• Thomas Jefferson
• Patrick Henry
• George Heriot
• William Samuel Johnson
• Walter Russell Lambuth
• Robert E. Lee
• Edith Lesley
• James Madison
• Albertus Magnus
• William McKendree
• William Fletcher McMurry
• Andrew W. Mellon
• Reuben Webster Millsaps
• Petro Mohyla
• John Moores (merchant)
• Henry Muhlenberg
• John Frederick Oberlin
• Daniel Payne
• George Pepperdine
• Jean Piaget
• William Paul Quinn
• B. T. Roberts
• Oral Roberts
• Bénilde Romançon
• John Ruskin
• Albert Benjamin Simpson
• Matthew Simpson
• Leland Stanford Jr.
• William Taylor (bishop)
• Stephen Van Rensselaer III
• George Washington
• James Watt
• John Wesley
• William Wilberforce
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Indira Gandhi
• Rajiv Gandhi

See also

• List of colleges and universities named after people