List of Harvard University non-graduate alumni
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This is a list of notable people who attended Harvard University, but did not graduate or have yet to graduate. See List of Harvard University people for a fuller list of people affiliated with Harvard.
| Name and lifespan | Known for | Relationship to Harvard |
|---|---|---|
| John Adams II (1803–1834) | aide to his father President John Quincy Adams | Attended College; expelled prior to 1823 graduation; later among those designated as "Bachelor of Arts as of 1823" and admitted to Roll of Graduates |
| Vincent Astor (1891–1959) | businessman and philanthropist | Attended College |
| Francis Lee Bailey (born 1933) | former lawyer | Attended College |
| William J. A. Bailey | Radithor scandal | Attended College |
| Andrew Beyer (born ?) | horse racing expert | Attended College |
| James Blake (born 1979) | tennis player | Professional Tennis Player, attended College in 1997–1999 |
| Rick Brewer (born 1956) | president of Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana; former administrator at Charleston Southern University in North Charleston, South Carolina | post-graduate study at Harvard |
| William Starling Burgess (born 1878) | aviator, yacht designer, automotive innovator, poet | attended Harvard College 1897–1900 |
| Frank Carlucci (born 1930) | United States Secretary of Defense | Attended Business School |
| Jacques Chirac (born 1932) | former President of France; former Prime Minister of France | Attended Summer School in 1953 |
| Alistair Cooke (1908–2004) | journalist, broadcaster | visiting graduate student |
| Hamilton Coolidge (1895–1918) | soldier | Attended College 1916 but dropped out to fight in World War I (killed in action); posthumously awarded an A.B. (War Degree), Harvard Class of 1919 |
| Daniel Cosío Villegas (1898–1976) | economist, historian | student |
| Vincent Cronin (born 1924) | historian, writer | Attended College |
| Matt Damon (born 1970) | actor | Attended College |
| Paul Douglas (1892–1976) | United States Senator | Attended Graduate School |
| Edmund Fanning (1739–1818) | British Colonial Officer and Governor | Given AM Degree in 1764 |
| John F. Fitzgerald {1863–1950} | mayor of Boston, Massachusetts | Attended Harvard Medical School but dropped out 1885 after father died |
| Geoffrey S. Fletcher (born 1970) | screenwriter, film director, and adjunct film professor at Columbia University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts | |
| John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950) | poet and philosopher | College (attended 1903–1907, but did not finish) |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) | scientist | Never attended College; awarded an honorary degree in 1753 as Class of 1724 |
| Robert Frost (1874–1963) | poet | Attended College (1897–1899); awarded an honorary degree in 1937 |
| Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) | designer, architect | Attended College |
| William Gaddis (1922–1998) | novelist | Attended College |
| Bill Gates (born 1955) | co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft, entrepreneur, and philanthropist | Attended College (1973–1975); awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws in 2007 |
| Frank Gehry (born 1929) | architect | Attended Design School |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born 1933) | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | Attended Law School, later transferred to Columbia |
| James Halperin (born 1952) | co-founder and Chairman of Heritage Auctions, entrepreneur, and author | Attended College (1970–1972) |
| William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) | newspaper magnate | Attended College |
| Bruce Henderson (1915–1992) | founder of the Boston Consulting Group | Attended the Business School |
| Richard Honaker (born 1951) | attorney, former Wyoming legislator, nominee for U.S. District Judge | Attended College (1969–1973) |
| Joel Iacoomes (−1665) | Native American student (Wampanoag) | Attended Harvard Indian College; died in shipwreck at Nantucket before receiving his degree as Class of 1665; awarded a posthumous degree A.B. in 2011[1][2] |
| Lincoln Isham (1892–1971) | great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln; US Agent, World War II | Attended College; "dropped out from exhaustion"[3] |
| Henry James (1843–1916) | novelist | Attended Law School |
| Kareena Kapoor (born 1980) | Bollywood actress | Attended Summer School |
| Philip Kaufman (born 1936) | film director, screenwriter | Attended Law School |
| John Key (born 1961) | Prime Minister of New Zealand | Attended professional courses at the Business School) |
| Dan Kiley (1912–2004) | landscape architect, architect | Attended Design School |
| Edwin Land (1909–1991) | inventor | Attended College; awarded honorary doctorate in 1957 |
| Benjamin Larnell {1694–1714} | Native American student and poet | Attended Indian College; died before receiving degree; poem found in 2013[4] |
| Fred A. Leuchter (born 1943) | inventor and execution equipment designer | Attended for post-graduate studies |
| Alan Lomax (1915–2002) | musicologist | Attended College (1932–1933) |
| John Lomax (1867–1948) | musicologist | visiting student (1907) |
| Amory Lovins (born 1947) | environmentalist | attended college (1964–66) |
| Robert Lowell (1917–1977) | poet | Attended College |
| James MacArthur (1937–2010) | actor | Attended Harvard; dropped out in second year to become actor |
| Rosario Marin (born 1958) | Treasurer of the United States | Attended KSG Program for State and Local Government Executives |
| Tshilidzi Marwala (born 1971) | academic, community leader, and businessman | Attended Harvard Business School |
| Dustin Moskovitz (born 1984) | co-founder of Facebook, Inc. | Attended College |
| James Murdoch (born 1972) | British Sky Broadcasting CEO | Attended College |
| Ogden Nash (1902–1971) | poet | Attended College (1920–21) |
| Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949) | Prime Minister of Israel | Attended College; studied political science |
| Gabe Newell (born 1962) | co-founder of Valve Corporation | Attended College[5] |
| Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) | playwright | Attended College |
| James Park | co-founder and CEO of Fitbit | Attended College |
| Gram Parsons (1946–1973) | father of country rock | Attended College |
| Ion Perdicaris (1840–1925) | businessman and philanthropist | Attended College but left in second year |
| Mary Peters (born 1948) | United States Secretary of Transportation | Attended KSG Program for State and Local Government Executives |
| Albert Pike (1809–1891) | Confederate General | Attended but then chose not to attend college because of fees |
| Cole Porter (1891–1964) | composer | Attended Law and Graduate Schools |
| Bonnie Raitt (born 1949) | singer, songwriter | Attended Radcliffe |
| Jose Luis Razo, Jr. | armed robber | Attended College (1985–87) |
| Richard Read | two-time Pulitzer Prize winner | Nieman fellow (1996–97) |
| Eden Riegel (born 1981) | actress | Attended College (1998–2000) |
| Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) | businessman and philanthropist | Attended College but dropped out when he decided not to be a lawyer |
| Quentin Roosevelt (1897–1918) | soldier | Attended College 1916 but dropped out to fight in World War I (killed in action); posthumously awarded an A.B. (War Degree), Harvard Class of 1919} |
| Pete Seeger (1919–2014) | songwriter, singer, activist | Attended College |
| Birendra Bir Bikram Shah (1945–2001) | late King of Nepal | Attended for one year (1967–1968) |
| Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) | abolitionist, Union Army colonel | Attended College (1856–1859); killed in American Civil War |
| Harry Shearer (born 1943) | actor, writer | Attended Graduate School |
| Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) | poet | Special student (1897–1900) |
| Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) | 1952 and 1956 Democratic U.S. presidential nominee, Governor of Illinois | Attended Law School |
| Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born 1981) | actor | Attended college (2001–2002) |
| David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) | writer | Attended graduate school |
| David Kenyon Webster (1922–1961) | soldier, journalist, and author; was profiled in Band of Brothers | Attended college one semester; dropped out to fight in WWII[6] |
| John Wentworth (1815–1888) | mayor of Chicago | Attended Law School in 1841 |
| Marjorie Williams (1958–2005) | writer | Dropped out after junior year[7] |
| Charles W. Woodworth (1865–1940) | entomologist | Studied under Hermann August Hagen 1886 to 1888, 1900–1901 |
| Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943) | World War II Naval Marshal General, Imperial Japanese Navy | Visiting student (1919–1921) |
| Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) | founder & CEO of Facebook, Inc. | Attended College; created Facebook as an online directory for Harvard students in his second year; left soon afterward to expand the company |
References
- ↑ Native American Times 9-20-2013
- ↑ http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/05/honor-for-native-american/
- ↑ The New Yorker (February 28, 1994)
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Victoria Murphy Barret, It's A Mod, Mod Underworld, Forbes.com, December 12, 2005
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