List of Harvard Law School alumni

John O. Bailey, state Senator and Representative in Oregon, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
Brent Barton, State Representative of Oregon
Daniel Bigelow, Served in first legislature of Washington Territory, 1854
Joaquín Castro, State Representative of Texas
Raj Goyle, State Representative of Kansas
Sheila Kuehl, first openly gay member of the California legislature, child actress
Patrick D. McGee (1916–70), California State Assembly and Los Angeles City Council member in the mid–20th Century
Jonathan Miller, State Treasurer of Kentucky, democratic candidate for Governor of Kentucky, 2007
Steve Pajcic, State Representative of Florida, democratic candidate for Governor of Florida, 1986

State judges

John O. Bailey, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, state Senator and Representative in Oregon
James T. Brand, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
Bruce Bromley, Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Federico Hernández Denton, Chief Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court
Jennifer Elrod (J.D. 1992), Texas state district judge
Paul C. Gartzke, Presiding Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
W. Michael Gillette, Oregon Supreme Court justice
Mary Mullarkey, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court

City government

Neville Miller (LL.B. 1920), mayor of Louisville, Kentucky (1933–1937)
Anthony A. Williams (J.D.), mayor of Washington, D.C.
David Chiu (J.D.), president of San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Joel Wachs (born 1939), Los Angeles City Council member for thirty years (1970–2001), president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City

U.S. diplomatic figures

Norman Armour, career diplomat, chief of mission in eight countries, Assistant Secretary of State
Richard L. Baltimore, United States Ambassador to Oman (2002–2006)
Nicholas Fish II, held various diplomatic posts across Europe
Charles W. Freeman, Jr., United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1989–1992)
Evan G. Galbraith, United States Ambassador to France (1981–1985)
Philip Lader, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Aministrator of the Small Business Administration
Robert Todd Lincoln, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, United States Secretary of War
Jamie Metzl (J.D.), holder of various diplomatic and human rights positions
Ogden Mills, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, United States Secretary of the Treasury
William Phillips, twice an Undersecretary in the State Department
Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change
Robert Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State, US Trade Representative, President of the World Bank

Other U.S. political figures

John B. Bellinger III, legal advisor to the Secretary of State
Pedro Albizu Campos, leader of the Puerto Rico independence movement and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Lawrence Clayton (LL.B. 1916)– Governor 1934–1949 United States Federal Reserve Board
Paul Clement, Solicitor General of the United States
Archibald Cox, United States Solicitor General and special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
Viet D. Dinh, Assistant Attorney General of the United States
Glenn A. Fine (J.D. 1985), Inspector General of the Justice Department (2000–present)
Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, prosecutor of many notable corruption trials.
David Frum, author and speechwriter for President George W. Bush
David Gergen, political consultant and presidential advisor
David Ginsburg (1912–2010), presidential adviser and executive director of the Kerner Commission.^[7]
Michael Leiter, Principal Deputy Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and former Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
David Lilienthal, head of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Kent Markus, advisor to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and former nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Fernando Martín García, Puerto Rican politician and former member of the Senate of Puerto Rico
John J. McCloy, assistant Secretary of War, administered US occupation of Germany, president of the World Bank
Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee; campaign manager for George W. Bush's second presidential run
Ralph Nader, Green Party presidential candidate (1996, 2000, 2004); consumer advocate
Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
Franklin Raines, directed the United States Office of Management and Budget
Joseph Sandler, Longest serving General Counsel of the Democratic National Committee (1993–2009)
Bob Shrum, political consultant
Lee S. Wolosky, former White House counterterrorism official

Non-United States Government

Non-United States political figures

Canada

Pierre Trudeau , Former Prime Minister

Gaspar Bergman, Film director, Canada
Francis Fox, Canadian senator, government aide, Solicitor General of Canada, Secretary of State for Canada, Minister of Communications (Canada) and Minister of International Trade (Canada)
Joseph Ghiz, Premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia, Canada

India

Shankar Dayal Sharma, Former President of India
Kapil Sibal (LLM), Union Minister of Human Resource Development
Justice Hasnain Masoodi, J&K High Court

Taiwan (Republic of China)

Annette Lu (LL.M.), former Vice President of Taiwan
Ma Ying-jeou (S.J.D.), President of Taiwan, Chairperson of Kuomintang Party, former Mayor of T'aipei
Lai In-Jaw (S.J.D.), former President of the Judicial Yuan (Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court) of Taiwan

United Kingdom

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, British Labour Party politician
David Lammy (LLM), UK Minister of State for Higher Education, former Minister of Culture, MP for Tottenham
Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, Liberal Democrat member of the British House of Lords

Other countries

Ben Bot, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Daniel Friedmann, Israeli Minister of Justice
Irmgrad Griss, President of the Austrian Supreme Court
Ho Peng Kee, Member of Parliament in Singapore and president of the Football Association of Singapore
Daniel Lipšic, Slovakia current Interior Minister of Slovakia, former Minister of Justice
Fientje Moerman, Belgian and later, Flemish, Minister of Economy, Enterprises, Innovation, Science and Foreign Trade.
Kiraitu Murungi, Kenyan Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and Energy
Mary Robinson, former President of the Republic of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Nawaf Salam, Lebanon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Jovito Salonga, Philippine senator
Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
Gilbert Teodoro, Secretary of the Department of National Defense of the Philippines, former Congressman of Tarlac, Philippines. Candidate as a President of 2010 Philippine Elections.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian Oil Minister and OPEC official

Non-United States judicial figures

Academia

University presidents

Lawrence S. Bacow, president of Tufts University
Derek Bok, twice president of Harvard University
Kingman Brewster, Jr., president of Yale University and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Colin Diver, president of Reed College
David Leebron, president of Rice University
Steven G. Poskanzer, president of Carleton College
William C. Powers, president of the University of Texas
Jennifer Raab, president of Hunter College, City University of New York
Joel Seligman, president of the University of Rochester
John Sexton, president of New York University
Phillip Shriver, president of Miami University {Ohio}
Adel Tamano, president of University of the City of Manila of the Philippines and dean of Law of Liceo de Cagayan University
Michael K. Young, president of University of Utah

Legal academia

Law school deans

Andres D. Bautista (LL.M. 1993), law faculty dean at Far Eastern University in the Philippines
Erwin Chemerinsky (J.D. 1978), founding dean of University of California, Irvine School of Law. Before becoming dean of UC Irvine, he was a noted constitutional law scholar at Duke Law School.
Jim Chen, dean of University of Louisville School of Law
Robert C. Clark (J.D. 1972), dean (1989–2003) and professor at Harvard Law
Clarence Clyde Ferguson Jr. (LL.B. 1951), dean and professor at Harvard Law, diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to Uganda
Charles Hamilton Houston, dean of Howard University School of Law and NAACP litigation director
Eric S. Janus, dean of William Mitchell College of Law
Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law (King Hall)
Elena Kagan (J.D. 1986), dean of Harvard Law (2003–2009)
W. Page Keeton, dean of the University of Texas School of Law
Harold Hongju Koh (J.D. 1980), dean of Yale Law School and Assistant Secretary of State
Charles T. McCormick, dean of the University of Texas Law School and the University of North Carolina School of Law
William L. Prosser, dean of the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley
Symeon C. Symeonides (LL.M. 1974, S.J.D. 1980), dean of the Willamette University College of Law
Cesar L. Villanueva (LL.M. 1989), dean of the Ateneo de Manila Law School in the Philippines
Makau W. Mutua (LL.M. 1985, S.J.D. 1987), dean of the University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York
Tom Campbell (California politician) (J.D. 1976), dean of the Chapman University School of Law

Constitutional law

Jack Balkin, studies constitutional law and the impact of technology on law
Michael C. Dorf, professor of constitutional law at Columbia Law School
John Ordronaux, Civil War army surgeon, professor of medical jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, pioneering mental health commissioner
Richard Pildes, professor of constitutional law and public law at NYU School of Law
Nadine Strossen, professor of constitutional law and scholar of civil liberties at New York Law School, former president of the ACLU.
Kathleen Sullivan, constitutional law scholar at Stanford Law School
Laurence Tribe (J.D. 1966), professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School

Criminal law

Robert Blecker, criminal law professor at New York Law School and national expert on and advocate for the death penalty
Bernard Harcourt (J.D. 1989), criminological critical theorist

Legal history

Richard B. Bernstein (J.D. 1980), constitutional historian at New York Law School
Richard H. Helmholz (LL.B. 1965), property, natural resource, and legal history scholar at the University of Chicago Law School
Morton Horwitz (LL.B. 1967), torts and legal history scholar
John H. Langbein (LL.B. 1968), Sterling Professor of law and legal history at Yale Law School
Daniel H. Lowenstein (LLB 1967), election law at UCLA Law School
Charles Warren, Pulitzer Prize-winning legal historian and Assistant Attorney General

International law

Frank Attar, professor of law and international relations
Francis Boyle, international law professor at the University of Illinois
Amy Chua (J.D. 1987), international law and economics scholar at Yale Law School
Louis Henkin (LL.B 1940), international law and human rights authority
David Kennedy, critical theorist of international law
Joe Oloka-Onyango (LL.M., S.J.D.), Ugandan legal academic at Makerere University
Eric Posner, international law scholar at the University of Chicago Law School
Brad R. Roth, professor of international law and political science at Wayne State University

Law and literature

Jane Ginsburg, art and literary law property professor at Columbia Law
James Boyd White (1964), founder of the Law and Literature movement

Legal philosophy

Randy Barnett, libertarian legal theorist
Ronald Dworkin, legal and political philosopher
Richard Posner (LL.B. 1962), professor at the University of Chicago Law School, started the law and economics movement, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Peter Tillers, professor at Cardozo Law School and theorist of the law of evidence

Law and technology

Jack Balkin, studies constitutional law and the impact of technology on law
William W. Fisher, intellectual property law professor at Harvard Law School and director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Peter Junger (LL.B. 1958), Internet law activist and professor at Case Western Reserve University
Charles Nesson, professor at Harvard Law School and founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Michael Rustad, intellectual property scholar, author, and professor at Suffolk University Law School
Tim Wu (J.D. 1998), professor of law and technology at Columbia; coined the term "net neutrality"; writer for Slate
Jonathan Zittrain, scholar of Internet governance at Oxford University

Other legal academia

Stephen Barnett (1935–2009), legal scholar at Berkeley Law who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970^[10]
George Bisharat, expert on Middle East legal and political affairs
Talal A. Q. Al-Emadi, (LLM 1998) Oil & Gas Law Lecturer, Qatar University College of Law, currently completing a doctorate in law at Oxford University, first Qatari ever to study law at both Harvard and Oxford.
Susan Estrich, feminist and legal commentator for Fox News
Owen M. Fiss, a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School
Robert P. George, professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University
John Chipman Gray (LL.B. 1861), property law professor and founder of the law firm Ropes & Gray
Livingston Hall, Roscoe Pound, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School until his 1971 retirement
Christine M. Jolls, professor of law and economics at Yale Law School
Lance Liebman, professor at Columbia Law School and director of the American Law Institute
Mari Matsuda, professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a leading voice in critical race theory, and first tenured female Asian American law professor in the U.S.
Arthur R. Miller, professor at NYU School of Law, former professor at Harvard Law School
Paul Steven Miller, disability rights expert, EEOC Commissioner, professor at the University of Washington School of Law, Special Assistant to the President
John V. Orth (J.D. 1974), professor of law at UNC-Chapel Hill
John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Harvard clinical professor of law
Cass Sunstein (J.D. 1978), professor at Harvard Law
Patricia J. Williams (J.D. 1975), proponent of critical race theory in law

Other academia

Edward N. Beiser (1977), political scientist^[11]
Wallace Clift (J.D. 1952), psychology and religion, author of Jung and Christianity: The Challenge of Reconciliation and other books
Herbert J. Davenport, economist
John Fiske, philosopher and historian
Norman Holland (1950), literary critic and theorist
Harvey J. Levin (Fellow in Law and Economics, 1963–64), communications economist
John Matteson, English professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning literary biographer
Cheryl Mendelson, ethics philosopher and novelist
Samuel Moyn (J.D. 2001), intellectual historian
Eli Noam (J.D. 1975) , professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School
David Riesman, sociologist; author of The Lonely Crowd
Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
Robert Somol, director of the University of Illinois at Chicago architecture school

Activism

George Thorndike Angell, anti-animal cruelty activist
Richard Barnet (1954), disarmament activist and co-founder of the leftist think tank Institute for Policy Studies
Larissa Behrendt (LLM 1994), Australian aboriginal rights activist, novelist
John P. Davis (LL.B. 1933), African American activist
Charles E. Dunbar (LL.B. 1914), civil service reformer^[12]
George Esser, civil rights advocate
Sandra Froman, president of the National Rifle Association
Jennifer Gordon, immigrant labor organizer
Mark J. Green, public interest author, candidate for Senator from New York (1986), Mayor of New York City (2001) and New York State Attorney General (2006)
Archibald Grimké, co-founder of the NAACP
Marjorie Heins, free speech and civil liberties advocate
Mary Howell (J.D. 1991), fought to open medical schools to women
Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International
Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute libertarian activist
Hans F. Loeser (1950), anti-Vietnam War activist
David A. Morse, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for leadership of the International Labor Organization
Ethan Nadelmann, anti-War on Drugs activist
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and frequent Green Party presidential candidate
Basil O'Connor, polio research advocate and president of the American Red Cross
Wendell Phillips (1934), abolitionist and Native American rights advocate
Louis L. Redding (LL.B. 1928), NAACP lawyer and civil rights advocate; first African American admitted to the Delaware bar
Randall Robinson, anti-apartheid and pro-Haitian immigrant activist; founded the TransAfrica Forum
Harvey A. Silverglate, founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Silda Wall Spitzer, founder of Children for Children, former First Lady of New York State
Moorfield Storey, president of the NAACP and the Anti-Imperialist League
Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union
William English Walling, co-founder of the NAACP and founder of the Women's Trade Union League
Evan Wolfson, civil rights attorney
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, human rights advocate and historian

Arts

Acting

Justin Deabler, starred in The Real World: Hawaii (1992)
Jared Delgin, child actor
Hill Harper, film, television, and stage actor
Samuel S. Hinds, starred in It's a Wonderful Life and Abbott & Costello films
Sheila Kuehl, child actress, first openly gay member of the California legislature

Architecture

Paul Byard, architect and director of the Columbia architecture school historic preservation program

Comedy

Greg Giraldo, stand-up comedian and television personality

Film

Gaspar Bergman, director
Sidney Salkow, director

Literature

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott (LL.B. 1851), novelist and author of the New York State penal code
Seth Abramson (J.D. 2001), poet
Jacob M. Appel, short story writer, playwright (Arborophilia, The Mistress of Wholesome, Creve Coeur)
Louis Begley (LL.B. 1959), PEN/Hemingway Award winning novelist; author of About Schmidt
Alexander Boldizar (J.D. 1999), writer and critic
Viola Canales (J.D. 1989), novelist and short story writer
John Casey, novelist
Amy Gutman (J.D. 1993), novelist
Mohsin Hamid (J.D. 1997), novelist; author of the PEN/Hemingway Award finalist Moth Smoke and the Booker Prize-nominated The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Millicent Y. Hodge, novelist
Philip Jeyaretnam, Singaporean novelist and lawyer
Murad Kalam (J.D. 2002), novelist and short story writer
Brad Leithauser, poet, novelist, essay
James Russell Lowell, romantic poet, satirist, literary critic, United States Ambassador to Spain, and United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Archibald MacLeish (LL.B. 1919), Pulitzer Prize-winning modernist poet, playwright and Librarian of Congress
John Matteson (J.D. 1986), Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning short story writer and essayist
Cheryl Mendelson, novelist and philosopher of medical ethics
John Jay Osborn, Jr., author of The Paper Chase
Wena Poon (J.D. 1998), Singaporean author
Susan Power, PEN/Hemingway Award winning novelist
William Henry Rhodes (LL.B. 1846), poet, essayist, short story writer
Akhil Sharma, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning short story writer, novelist
Pamela Thomas-Graham, author of the Ivy League Mysteries series
Arthur Train (LL.B. 1899), author of legal thrillers
Scott Turow (J.D. 1978), author of legal thrillers
Walter Wager, mystery and spy fiction novelist
Ayelet Waldman (J.D. 1991), novelist; wrote Mommy-Track Mysteries, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits; former columnist for Slate
Sabin Willett (J.D. 1983), novelist and defense lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainment camp inmates
Lauren Willig, historical romance novelist
William Winter (LL.B. 1857), author and literary critic
Owen Wister (LL.B. 1888), writer of westerns, including The Virginian
Austin Tappan Wright (L.L.B. 1908), writer and legal scholar, wrote Islandia

Music

Samim Bilgen (1962), Turkish composer
Ruben Blades, salsa singer-songwriter and Panamanian Minister of Tourism
Jackie Fuchs (J.D., 1991), bassist for the music group The Runaways under her former stage name of Jackie Fox
Colin Meeder (J.D., 1997), Bassist for the music group The Hated
James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer

Visual arts

George Hitchcock, painter
William Wetmore Story, sculptor

Business

John Jacob Astor III
Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs
David Bonderman, founder of Texas Pacific Group (LBO)
Charles Burson
Doug Carlston, founder of computer game company Brøderbund Software
Kenneth Chenault, chairman and CEO of American Express
Russ DeLeon, founder of online gambling site PartyGaming
Marc Dreier, sole equity partner in Dreier LLP convicted of securities fraud for selling $700 million in fictitious promissory notes
Jonathan Greenleaf Eveleth, founder of first U.S. oil company
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (J.D. 1979), chairman of Swiss Re America
Russ Granik
Gerald Grinstein, CEO of Delta Air Lines
Douglas Hagerman, General Counsel, Secretary, and Senior Vice President of Rockwell Automation
Jeff Kindler
Radcliffe Killam, oilman, businessman, rancher, large landowner, and philanthropist from Laredo, Texas
Reginald Lewis
Kenneth Lipper, investment banker, novelist, film producer
Alfred Lee Loomis
Charlie Munger
Abram Nicholas Pritzker, founder of the Hyatt hotel chain
Sumner Redstone
Leonid Rozhetskin, financier
Karen Russell
Jeff Smisek, Chairman, President, and CEO of Continental Airlines, *Charlemagne Tower
Pamela Thomas-Graham
Bruce Wasserstein
William Woodward, Sr., banker and thoroughbred horse racer
Mortimer Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report, owner of the New York Daily News

Entertainment industry

Paul Attanasio, TV/film screenwriter and producer; worked on House and Homicide: Life on the Street
Ron Bass, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film producer; wrote Rain Man
Peter Blake, consulting producer for House
Debra Martin Chase, Hollywood producer
Frederick de Cordova (1933), film and television director and producer
Clive Davis, Grammy Award winning music producer
Bill Jemas, comic book writer and producer
Tammy Ji, contestant, the Amazing Race
Christopher Keyser, TV screenwriter for Party of Five
Ken Ludwig, playwright and theater director
David Otunga, WWE wrestler and former reality tv contestant, I Love New York 2
Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America
David Sonenberg, music manager and film producer
Jeff Kwatinetz, music manager and television producer
David Zippel, Tony Award-winning musical theater lyricist

Media and journalism

Commentators

Keith Boykin, author, commentator; hosts My Two Cents on BET
Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money and co-founder of TheStreet.com
Debra Dickerson, essayist on race
Rebecca Eisenberg (J.D. 1993), early blogger and writer on technology
Susan Estrich, feminist and legal commentator for Fox News
David Frum, author and speechwriter for President George W. Bush
Thomas Geoghegan, legal commentator
Lawrence Otis Graham, writer on contemporary race and class issues
Norman Hapgood, editor and critic
George Stillman Hillard, biographer, journalist, and Maine state politician
John H. Hinderaker, conservative blogger
Mickey Kaus, journalist and blogger for Slate
Carol Platt Liebau (1992), political analyst and commentator
Eric Liu, writer on race and mentorship; columnist for Slate
Ruth Marcus (J.D. 1984), columnist for the Washington Post
Kevin Philips, political commentator, Richard Nixon campaign strategist
Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize winning writer on genocide, human rights, and foreign policy
Laurie Puhn, commentator, self-help author, and television hostess
Dong Puno, Philippine columnist, television host and producer
Karen Russell, television political pundit, daughter of basketball star Bill Russell
Ben Shapiro, conservative commentator
Jeffrey Steingarten, columnist for Vogue and Slate magazines; food critic
James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst for CNN and staff writer for The New Yorker^[13]
Nicholas Vardy, Editor, The Global Guru, CIO, Global Guru Capital
Lis Wiehl (1987), legal analyst for Fox News and NPR
Tim Wu, writer for Slate; coined the term "net neutrality"; professor of law and technology at Columbia

Journalists

Adam Cohen, editorial page editor for the New York Times
Lisa Daniels (1997), anchorwoman for NBC's Weekend Today
William L. Laurence, Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist who covered the testing and dropping of the atomic bomb
Manuel Medrano, Emmy Award winner and Supreme Court correspondent for ABC News (2004–2007)
Meka Nichols, anchor/journalist for Channel One News
Rob Simmelkjaer, anchor/correspondent for ABC News Now
James B. Stewart, 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner for explanatory journalism
Benjamin C. Bradlee, former Editor at Large of the Washington Post

Publishers

Robert C. Bassett, publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel
Phil Graham, publisher of the Washington Post
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., publisher and CEO of the Washington Post
Cliff Sloan, publisher of Slate magazine

Military

Raynal Bolling, first high ranking American officer killed in the First World War
David M. Brahms, brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps
Manning Force (1848), Union leader in the American Civil War
George Henry Gordon, Union general during the American Civil War and military historian
Albert G. Jenkins (1850), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War and Congressman from Virginia (1857–61)
Samuel Underhill, naval aviator
Ken Watkin, Brigadier General and Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Forces
Charles White Whittlesey, led the Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest during the First World War

Spies

Helge Boes, CIA agent
John T. Downey, CIA agent captured in China
Alger Hiss, alleged spy of the Soviet Union

Sports

Sandy Alderson (J.D., 1976), current general manager of the New York Mets
Bob Arum, boxing promoter
Brian Burke (ice hockey), general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs
Dick Button, figure skater and figure skating commentator*Don Cohan, Olympic bronze medalist in sailing
Lou DiBella, boxing promoter
Len Elmore, professional basketball player, sportscaster^[14]
Lawrence Fleisher, sports agent; helped found the NBA Players Association
Russ Granik, deputy commissioner of the NBA
Eddie Grant, Major league baseball player (1905–1915), nicknamed "Harvard Eddie"^[15]
Rick Horrow, sports business expert
David Otunga, professional wrestler with the WWE and former reality television star
Ho Peng Kee, president of the Football Association of Singapore and Member of Parliament in Singapore
Tony Petitti, executive vice president of CBS Sports in charge of NFL football

Other

Myron Avery, Appalachian Trail hiker and travel guide author
Andy Bloch, champion poker player
Ruben Bolling, cartoonist, author of Tom the Dancing Bug
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1837), writer on sea life and expert on maritime law
William Austin Dickinson, older brother of poet Emily Dickinson
Amanda Goad, winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee and Jeopardy! Teen Tournament
Charles Goldfarb, computer language inventor
Erika Harold, winner of the Miss America contest
Gardiner Greene Hubbard, founder and first president of the National Geographic Society
Arnold W. G. Kean, developed civil aviation law
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., older brother of President John F. Kennedy
Joel I. Klein, New York City School Chancellor
Richard Lederer, author of books on language and wordplay
Robert Malley, analyst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Scotty McLennan, author and Dean of Religious Life at Stanford University
George S. Morison (1866), bridge designer
Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
George Padmore, Pan-Africanist figure
Francis Parkman, freelance historian and horticulturalist
Joan Whitney Payson, philanthropist and patron of the arts
Michael Scanlan (1956), Catholic priest and religious book author
Walter H. Seward (LL.B. 1924), third oldest living American and seventh-oldest living human
David Spindler, independent scholar of the Great Wall of China
William Stringfellow, lay theologian
Sonam Dechen Wangchuck (LL.M. 2007), Princess of Bhutan

Non-graduates

These students attended Harvard Law but, for various reasons, did not graduate.

Brooks Adams, historian
Larz Anderson, diplomat and businessman, United States Ambassador to Japan (1912–13)
William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (dropped out 1914), United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1933–1996)
William Bundy, CIA figure who had a role in planning the Vietnam War
Allan B. Calhamer, developed the board game Diplomacy
Daniel Henry Chamberlain (dropped out 1863), Governor of South Carolina
Frank Church (transferred), US Senator from Idaho (1957–81)
John Sherman Cooper (dropped out), US Senator from Kentucky (1946–1949, 1952–1955, 1956–1973)
Danny Fields (dropped out 1959), figure in the underground New York punk rock scene
Melville Fuller (dropped out 1855), Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (transferred), US Supreme Court Justice (1993–present)
Arthur A. Hartman (dropped out 1948), United States Ambassador to France (1977–1981), United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1981–1987)
Henry James, novelist; author of The Bostonians and Washington Square
Jodi Kantor (dropped out), reporter and editor on culture and politics for the New York Times
Philip Kaufman, film screenwriter and director
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., left before his last year to serve in WWII, where he was killed.
Michael Kinsley (transferred), journalist, editor, and host of Crossfire
Nicholas Longworth (transferred), Speaker of the House (1925–31)
Greg Mankiw (dropped out 1984), economist
Gordon McLendon, created Top 40 radio format
Louis Menand (dropped out 1974), American cultural and intellectual historian
Pat McCormick, comic actor and writer
William Henry Moody (dropped out), US Supreme Court Justice (1906–1910), United States Attorney General (1904–1906), United States Secretary of the Navy (1902–1904), congressman from Massachusetts (1895–1902)
George Murdock, anthropologist
John Negroponte (dropped out 1960), US Deputy Secretary of State, Director of National Intelligence
Cole Porter, composer and songwriter
Roscoe Pound (dropped out 1890), dean of Harvard Law School
Donald Regan, United States Secretary of the Treasury (1981–1985), White House Chief of Staff (1985–1987)
Angelo Rizzuto, photographer
Robert Rubin (dropped out), Secretary of the Treasury
William James Sidis (dropped out 1919), famous child prodigy
Alfred D. Sieminski (dropped out 1936), congressman from New Jersey (1951–1959)
Adlai Stevenson II (dropped out), Governor of Illinois (1949–1953) and Democratic presidential candidate (1952, 1956)
Robert W. Welch Jr. (dropped out), founder of the anticommunist John Birch Society

Fictitious alumni

Phillip Banks, character on the TV series, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Lindsay Dole, character on the TV series, The Practice
Jerry Espenson, character on the TV series, Boston Legal
Artemus Gordon, character in the film Wild Wild West
Amy Madison Gray, main character on the TV series, Judging Amy
Miranda Hobbes, character on the TV series, Sex and the City
Thurston Howell, III, character on the TV series Gilligan's Island
Daniel Kaffe, Tom Cruise's character in the film, A Few Good Men
Professor Charles Kingsfield, main character in John Jay Osborn, Jr.'s 1970 novel The Paper Chase and the adapted film and television series
Ally McBeal, main character in the eponymous TV series (attended; the show does not indicate whether she graduated)
Mitchell McDeere, main character in John Grisham's novel, The Firm, and its film adaptation
Ben Matlock, main character in the TV series Matlock
Elle Woods, main character in the Legally Blonde films and musical
Cable, superhero from the X-Force and X-Men comic books, as disclosed in X-Force Vol. 1 No. 40

^ President Barack Obama
^ USDOJ: AG: Alberto R. Gonzales
^ USDOJ: AG: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar
^ USDOJ: AG: Janet Reno
^ USDOJ: AG: William French Smith
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f The Justices of the Supreme Court
^ Grimes, William. "David Ginsburg, Longtime Washington Insider, Dies at 98", The New York Times, May 25, 2010. Accessed June 1, 2010.
^ George F. Nellist, ed (1925). "Albert Francis Judd". The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Honolulu Star Bulletin. http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/judd36bs.txt.
^ http://www.unhistory.org/CD/Stone.html
^ Grimes, William. "Stephen Barnett, a Leading Legal Scholar, Dies at 73", The New York Times, October 21, 2009. Accessed October 22, 2009.
^ Dr. Edward Beiser, The Jewish Voice and Herald, Oct 2, 2009
^ "Dunbar, Charles E.". A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (lahistory.org). http://www.lahistory.org/site21.php. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
^ Jeffrey Toobin | About Jeffrey
^ CBS Sports TV Team
^ Simon, Tom, ed (2004) (in English). Deadball Stars of the National League. Deadball Era Committee of the Society of American Baseball Research (1st ed.). Dulles, Virginia, United States of America: Brasseys. pp. 367. ISBN 1-57488-860-9.

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