List of Harvard University people
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 the list of Harvard University non-graduate alumni. For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University.
Eight Presidents of the United States have graduated from Harvard University: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Bush graduated from Harvard Business School, Hayes and Obama from Harvard Law School, and the others from Harvard College.
Over 150 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university as alumni, researchers or faculty.
Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics
Business
- Whitney Tilson, hedge fund manager, philanthropist, author, and Democratic political activist
- Georges Frem, Lebanese businessman, philanthropist and politician
Law
Other legal figures
- Danielle Sassoon, Class of 2008, former acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Literature
- Benjamin Kunkel, novelist and political economist
Religion
Athletics
- Spencer Freedman, college basketball player for the Harvard Crimson and NYU Violets
- Ross Friedman, Major League Soccer player
- Elizabeth Tartakovsky, Olympic saber fencer
- Michael Zimmerman, tennis player, 2x Ivy League Player of the Year
Academics
Educational institution founders and presidents
- Yoram Ben-Porat, Israeli economist and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Shlomo Eckstein, Israeli economist and President of Bar-Ilan University
- Amos Eiran, Israeli President of the University of Haifa
- Yosef Tekoah, Ph.D., Israeli President of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev