Notable non-graduate alumni of Harvard University
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vincent Astor (1891-1959) | businessman and philanthrophist | attended College |
| Francis Lee Bailey (born 1933) | former lawyer | attended College |
| Andrew Beyer (born ?) | horse racing expert | attended College |
| James Blake (born 1979) | tennis player | Professional Tennis Player, attended College in 1997-1999 |
| Frank Carlucci (born 1930) | United States Secretary of Defense | attended Business School |
| Jacques Chirac (born 1932) | President of France | attended Summer School in 1953 |
| Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) | Journalist, broadcaster | visiting graduate student |
| 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 |
| John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950) | Poet and philosopher | College (attended 1903-1907, but did not finish) |
| 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 |
| William H. Gates (born 1955) | Co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft, American entrepreneur, and philanthropist | attended College (1973-197?); awarded an honorary doctorate in 2007 |
| Frank Gehry (born 1929) | architect | attended Design School |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born 1933) | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | attended Law School, later transferred to Columbia |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Dan Kiley (1912-2004) | landscape architect, architect | attended Design School |
| Edwin Land (1909-1991) | inventor | attended College |
| Fred A. Leuchter (born 1944) | inventor, holocaust denier | completed postgraduate work at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| Alan Lomax (1915-2002) | musicologist | attended College (1932-1933) |
| John Lomax (1867-1948) | musicologist | visiting student (1907) |
| Robert Lowell (1917-1977) | poet | attended College |
| James Murdoch (born 1972) | British Sky Broadcasting CEO | attended College |
| Tshilidzi Marwala (born 1971) | academic, community leader, and businessman | attended Harvard Business School |
| Ogden Nash (1902-1971) | poet | attended College (1920-21) |
| Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) | playwright | attended College |
| Gram Parsons (1946-1973) | father of country-rock | attended College |
| Mary Peters (born ?) | United States Secretary of Transportation | attended KSG Program for State and Local Government Executives |
| Cole Porter (1891-1964) | composer | attended Law and Graduate Schools |
| Bonnie Raitt (born 1949) | singer, songwriter | attended Radcliffe |
| Eden Riegel (born 1981) | actress | attended College (1998-2000) |
| Quentin Roosevelt (born 1897) | soldier | attended College but dropped out to fight in World War I; killed 1918 |
| Pete Seeger (born 1919) | 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) |
| 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 |
| Sinedu Tadesse (1974-1995) | murderer | attended college (1993-1995) |
| Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born 1981) | actor | attended college (2001-2002) |
| David Foster Wallace (born 1962) | writer | Attended graduate school; did not graduate |
| Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) | World War II admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy | visiting student (1919-1921) |
| Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) | Founder & CEO of Facebook, Inc. | attended College |
