List of The Harvard Crimson people
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The following is a list of notable people who have served on the staff of The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University.
Editors, journalists, and reporters
- Jonathan Alter, author covering U.S. Presidents[1]
- Joseph Alsop, political reporter[2]
- Cleveland Amory, writer and animal rights activist.[3][4] Amory is a former Crimson president.
- Nina Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times[5] reporter for The New York Times[6][7]
- William M. Beecher, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Minnesota Star Tribune[8][9]
- Jess Bravin, Wall Street Journal reporter covering the Supreme Court of the United States[10][11][12]
- Bartle Bull, editor for Middle East Monitor and Prospect[13][14][15]
- David Burnham, reporter for The New York Times[16]
- Diane Cardwell, renewable energy reporter for The New York Times[17]
- Sewell Chan, journalist for The Los Angeles Times
- Susan Chira, Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project.[18][19] Chira is a former Crimson president.
- Nicholas Ciarelli, founder and editor of Think Secret and founder of BookBub[20]
- Adam Clymer, author, journalist for The New York Times.[21] Clymer is a former Crimson president.
- Jonathan Cohn, author, journalist for HuffPost.[22] Cohn is a former Crimson president.
- Deborah Copaken, author and photojournalist[23][24][25][26]
- Sarah Crichton, writer and editor[27]
- William O. Dapping, reporter for The Citizen in Auburn, New York[28]
- Lynn Darling, reporter and editor at The Washington Post and Esquire[29][30][31]
- Esther Dyson, digital technology analyst, author[32]
- Daniel Ellsberg, author, released the Pentagon Papers[33][34]
- David Fahrenthold, Pulitzer Prize–winning political reporter for The New York Times.[35]
- James Fallows, journalist and speechwriter to Jimmy Carter.[32] Fallows is a former Crimson president.
- Susan Faludi, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author[36]
- Christopher John Farley, culture writer for The Wall Street Journal[26][37]
- Sydney P. Freedberg, Pulitzer Prize winner and investigative reporter[38][39]
- Alix M. Freedman, reporter and editor with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters.[40]
- Otto Fuerbringer, former editor of Time.[4][41] Fuerbringer is a former Crimson president.
- Susan Glasser, journalist at The New Yorker[42]
- George Goodman, a.k.a. "Adam Smith," hosted the Emmy award-winning program Adam Smith's Money World on PBS
- Garrett Graff, former editor of Politico magazine and the Washingtonian[43]
- Linda Greenhouse, journalist for The New York Times[44][45]
- Michael Grunwald, journalist at Politico Magazine
- Anemona Hartocollis, reporter for The New York Times[46]
- Laurie Hays, reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News[47]
- Rosalind S. Helderman, reporter with The New York Times[48][49]
- Hendrik Hertzberg, journalist for The New Yorker[50]
- Fred Hiatt, Pulitzer Prize winner and editor for The Washington Post[51][52]
- Harry Hurt III, writer, professional golfer, and biographer of Donald Trump[53][54]
- Peter Kaplan, former editor-in-chief of The New York Observer, current creative director of Condé Nast Traveler
- Mickey Kaus, journalist and political blogger[55]
- Sam Koppelman, journalist, founder of Hunterbrook[56]
- Charles Lane, former editor of The New Republic[57]
- Jennifer 8. Lee, former journalist for The New York Times[18][58][59]
- Anthony Lewis, Pulitzer Prize winner, author, and former columnist for The New York Times[60]
- Ivan Levingston, reporter for the Financial Times[61][62]
- Annie Lowrey, author and staff writer at The Atlantic.[63]
- Arthur Lubow, journalist
- J. Anthony Lukas, author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist[32]
- Michael M. Luo, executive editor of The New Yorker[64]
- Dylan Matthews, writer for Vox[65]
- Victor McElheny, science journalist and founder of the Knight Science Journalism program[66]
- Seth Mnookin, author of Hard News[67]
- Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch[68][69]
- Evan Osnos, journalist for The New Yorker[70]
- Alexandra Petri, comedy writer for The Washington Post[71]
- Steven V. Roberts, former reporter for The New York Times, television journalist[72]
- Margot Roosevelt, labor reporter for the Los Angeles Times and great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt[73]
- Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com and editor at Axios[74]
- Yair Rosenberg, staff writer for The Atlantic[75]
- David Sanger, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times[76]
- Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times[77]
- Raymond Sokolov, food critic for The Wall Street Journal[78]
- Michael Sragow, film critic[79][80]
- Richard Strout, journalist with The Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic[81]
- Steven C. Swett, reporter with The Baltimore Sun, The Wall Street Journal, and Valley News[82][83]
- William Roscoe Thayer, author, editor, and historian[81]
- Evan Thomas, associate managing editor of Newsweek[84]
- Craig Unger, author and journalist
- Amy Wilentz, journalist and contributing editor at The Nation[85]
- Graeme Wood, author and journalist at The Atlantic[86][87]
Columnists, critics, and opinion writers
- Steve Chapman, columnist, Chicago Tribune
- Noam Cohen, author and columnist for The New York Times[88][89]
- E. J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post[32]
- Ross Douthat, columnist for The New York Times[90]
- David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post[32]
- Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for The New York Times[91]
- Frank Rich, columnist for The New York Times[92]
- Robert J. Samuelson, reporter and columnist[93][94][95]
- Stephen Stromberg, Washington Post editorial board[96]
Executives, founders, and publishers
- Ravi Agrawal, editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy[97][18]
- Alessandra Galloni, editor in chief of Reuters[98]
- Donald E. Graham, CEO and chairman of The Washington Post Co. Graham is a former Crimson president.[18][99]
- Sam Jacobs, editor-in-chief for Time[100][101]
- Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., publisher and CEO of The Washington Post.[99] Jones is a former Crimson president.
- Joseph Kahn, Executive Editor of The New York Times. Kahn is a former Crimson president.[18][102][103]
- Michael Kinsley, journalist, founding editor of Slate magazine[32]
- Wendy Lesser, founder of The Threepenny Review[104]
- Jessica Lessin, founder of The Information
- Eric Newcomer, tech journalist and founder of the publication Newcomer[105]
- Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News[59][106]
- David Plotz, former CEO of Atlas Obscura and host of Slate Political Gabfest[107]
- Jack Rosenthal, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times and president of The New York Times Company Foundation[108][109]
- Robert Ellis Smith, journalist and creator of the Privacy Journal.[110] Smith is a former Crimson president.
- Ira Stoll, New York Sun executive. Stoll is a former Crimson president.
- Mark Whitaker, senior vice president of NBC News, former editor of Newsweek[111]
Foreign correspondents
- David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author and author[32]
- Selig S. Harrison, reporter specializing in North Korea and East Asia[112][113][114]
- Javier Hernández, Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times[115]
- Peter R. Kann, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal[116][117]
- Philip Pan, journalist and author[118]
- Anton Troianovski, Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times[119]
- George Weller, novelist, playwright, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for The New York Times and The Chicago Daily News[4][120]
- Theodore H. White, prominent political and WWII journalist[2]
Authors and novelists
- Michael Crichton, author[121][122][123]
- John Putnam Demos, author and historian of the Salem witch trials[124]
- V.V. Ganeshananthan, author and journalist[125]
- James Gleick, author and historian of science[126][127]
- Henry James, writer and biographer[128]
- Myron Kaufmann, novelist and author of Remember Me to God[129][130][131]
- Charles Thornton Libby, author and historian[81]
- Michael Maccoby, New York Times best-selling author and psychoanalyst.[132][133] Maccoby is a former Crimson president.
- Michael Massing, MacArthur Fellow and author of books on the war on drugs and the Iraq War[134]
- Martin Mayer, novelist[135][136]
- Matthew Quirk, novelist[137][138]
- Michael E. Raynor, author of books on business management[139]
- Abraham Josephine Riesman, reporter and biographer[140][141]
- David Riesman, sociologist and author of The Lonely Crowd[142][143][144]
- Joel Townsley Rogers, science fiction writer[81]
- Bayard Tuckerman, biographer[81]
- Suzy Welch, business author and wife of General Electric CEO Jack Welch[145][146][147]
- Owen Wister, author of The Virginian[81] and "father of Western fiction"[148]
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, author[149]
Sports reporters
- Andrew Beyer, horse racing reporter and inventor of the Beyer Speed Figure[150][151]
- Jennifer Frey, sports reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post[152]
- Gwen Knapp, sports reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times[153][154][155]
- Jon Morosi, reporter with MLB Network and NHL Network[156][157]
- John Powers, Pulitzer Prize winner, sports reporter for The Boston Globe, and the "dean of Olympic journalists"[158][159][160]
- Pablo Torre, ESPN writer, television personality, podcast host[161][162][163]
Radio and television
- Michael Barone, television commentator, writer for The Washington Examiner, author[164]
- Irin Carmon, reporter for MSNBC[165]
- Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money. Cramer is a former Crimson president.[166]
- Jennifer Griffin,Pentagon correspondent for Fox News[167][168][169]
- Mary Louise Kelly, co-host of NPR's All Things Considered[170]
- Melissa Lee, CNBC news anchor[171][172]
- Errol Louis, journalist and television show host[173]
- Abby Phillip, CNN news anchor[174]
- Katrina Szish, television personality[175]
- Jeffrey Toobin, senior legal analyst for CNN[91]
- Selina Wang, White House Correspondent for ABC News[176]
Academia
Administrators
- David Bosco, associate dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University[177][178]
- James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953[142][179]
- William Emerson, first dean of the MIT School of Architecture[81]
- Mark Gearan, former Peace Corps director and president of the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics[180]
- Carol J. Greenhouse, professor at Princeton University, sister of Linda Greenhouse[181]
- Nicholas Lemann, dean emeritus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[182] Lemann is a former Crimson president.
- Alfred Henry Lloyd, philosopher and interim president at the University of Michigan[81]
- Jennifer Mnookin, incoming president of Columbia University[183]
- John U. Monro, dean of Harvard College[142][184]
- Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health[185]
- Peter Tufano, former dean of the Saïd Business School[186]
Professors
Humanities
- Stephen Barnett, legal scholar at University of California, Berkeley School of Law who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970.[187] Barnett is a former Crimson president.
- Nancy Bauer, professor of philosophy at Tufts University and dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
- Marilyn Booth, professor at the University of Oxford[188]
- Randall Collins, sociologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania[189]
- Geoffrey Cowan, professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism[190]
- Jamal Greene, professor at Columbia Law School[191]
- Farah Griffin, professor of African-American literature at Columbia University[192][193]
- Benjamin W. Heineman Jr., writer, GE executive, and professor at Harvard Law School[194]
- James Hershberg, professor of international history specializing in the Cold War at George Washington University[195]
- Richard Hyland, professor at Rutgers Law School[196]
- Christopher Jencks, professor and social scientist[197]
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn, philosopher and historian of science
- Charles Kurzman, professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[198]
- Charles S. Maier, professor of history at Harvard University[199]
- F. Warren McFarlan, professor at Harvard Business School[200]
- John Ulric Nef, economic historian[81]
- Eric M. Nelson, professor of government at Harvard[201]
- Maurice Samuels, professor of French at Yale University and director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism[139]
- Martha A. Sandweiss, professor of history at Princeton University[202]
- M. E. Sarotte, historian and professor at Johns Hopkins University[26][24][203]
- Wendy Seltzer, professor and former board member of the World Wide Web Foundation[204][205]
- Daniel Sharfstein, professor at Vanderbilt University[206][207]
- Ganesh Sitaraman, professor at Vanderbilt University[208]
- Madhavi Sunder, professor at Georgetown University Law Center[209][210]
- Claude E. Welch Jr., political scientist at SUNY at Buffalo. Welch is a former Crimson president.
- Barrett Wendell, English professor at Harvard and the University of Paris[81]
- David Yermack, professor of finance at New York University Stern School of Business[211][212]
Sciences
- Rediet Abebe, computer scientist, University of California, Berkeley[213]
- Joel E. Cohen, professor at Rockefeller University[214]
- Rupert Emerson, professor of political science at Harvard[81][142]
- Kristin Goss, professor of public policy at Duke University[215]
- Peter Kramer, psychiatrist, author[32]
- Bernardo L. Sabatini, professor at Harvard Medical School[216]
- Peter M. Shane, professor at Moritz College of Law[217]
- William Sydney Thayer, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine[81]
Business
CEOs and executives
- Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers[218][219]
- John Cowles Sr., co-owner of the Cowles Media Company[81]
- Gardner Cowles Jr., co-owner of the Cowles Media Company[81]
- Robert Decherd, CEO of A. H. Belo Corporation. Decherd is a former Crimson president.[220][221]
- Richard Edelman, CEO of public relations firm Edelman[222][223]
- Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon[224][225]
- J. Spencer Love, president and chairman of Burlington Industries and namesake of the Love School of Business at Elon University[81]
- Ben Sherwood, former president of Disney-ABC Television Group and ABC News[226][227][228]
- Walter H. Wheeler Jr., president of Pitney Bowes[81]
- Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube[229]
- Jeff Zucker, president of CNN and former president and CEO of NBC Universal. Zucker is a former Crimson president.[230]
Founders
- Hayley Barna, co-founder of Birchbox[231]
- Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder of Airbnb[232]
- Tyler Bosmeny, founder of Clever and visiting partner at Y Combinator[233]
- Charlie Cheever, co-founder of Quora[234]
- Parker Conrad, founder of Zenefits and Rippling[235][236][237]
- Jennifer Hyman, co-founder of Rent The Runway[236][238]
Finance
- Amos Tuck French, banker[81]
- Albert Hamilton Gordon, owner of Kidder Peabody[81][239]
- Matthew Granade, senior executive at Bridgewater and Point72[240][241]
- Alfred Winslow Jones, "the father of the hedge fund industry"[81][242]
- Thomas W. Lamont, former Chairman of J.P. Morgan & Co.[243]
- Thomas H. Lee, founder of Thomas H. Lee Partners and an early pioneer of leveraged buyouts[244]
- James S. Marcus, investment banker and philanthropist[245]
- David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and member of the Rockefeller family[2][142]
- Philip Roosevelt, author, investment banker, and member of the Roosevelt family[81]
- Walter E. Sachs, partner at Goldman Sachs and part of the Goldman–Sachs family[81]
- Frederick M. Warburg, partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.[246]
- James Warburg, banker and member of the Warburg family[81]
- Byron Wien, prominent investor with Morgan Stanley and Blackstone[247]
Film and television
- Paul Attanasio, two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay[248]
- Eli Attie, speechwriter and screenwriter[249]
- Michael Colton, screenwriter of Home Economics and A Futile and Stupid Gesture[250]
- Richard Connell, author, screenwriter, and 1941 Oscar nominee[81][251]
- Ethan Drogin, writer for Suits and Lie to Me[252]
- Jeffrey D. Dunn, former CEO of Sesame Workshop[253]
- David Frankel, filmmaker[254]
- Lauren Greenfield, documentary filmmaker[255][256]
- Herbert Dudley Hale Jr., documentary filmmaker for the State Department and U.S. military[81]
- Colin Jost, comedian and writer for Saturday Night Live[257]
- Bruce L. Paisner, CEO of International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences[258][259]
- Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me![24][260]
- Nell Scovell, creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and co-author of Lean In[261][262]
- Whit Stillman, filmmaker[263]
Government and politics
Presidents of the United States of America
- John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States[2][264][265]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States. Roosevelt is a former Crimson president.[265][266][267][268][269]
Cabinet Secretaries
- Robert Bacon, Secretary of State during the Theodore Roosevelt administration[81]
- Antony Blinken, Secretary of State during the Biden administration[18][270][271]
- Pete Buttigieg, former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana and 2020 presidential candidate[272]
- Merrick Garland, United States Attorney General during the Biden administration, former Circuit Judge and former Supreme Court nominee[273]
- Gina Raimondo, former Governor of Rhode Island and Secretary of Commerce during the Biden administration[274]
- Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan[275][276]
Governors
- Franklin S. Billings, governor of Vermont[81]
- Robert F. Bradford, governor of Massachusetts[81][142]
- Curtis Guild Jr., governor of Massachusetts[81]
Members of Congress
- Henry Alden Clark, Representative from Pennsylvania.[81] Clark was a co-founder of The Crimson.[277]
- Richard Blumenthal, Senator from Connecticut[278][279]
- Robert J. Bulkley, Senator from Ohio[81]
- Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas[280][281]
- Augustus P. Gardner, Representative from Massachusetts[81]
- Bill Green, Representative from New York[282][283]
- Alanson B. Houghton, Representative from New York and U.S. ambassador to Germany and the United Kingdom[81]
- W. Kingsland Macy, Representative from New York[81]
- Chris Pappas, Representative from New Hampshire[284][285]
- Elise Stefanik, Representative from New York[286]
- Samuel Winslow, Representative from Massachusetts[81]
Ambassadors
- Dan Baer, United States Ambassador to the OSCE and executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education[287]
- Donald Blinken, United States ambassador to Hungary and co-founder of Warburg Pincus[288][289]
- David Gray, United States ambassador to Ireland[81]
- Joseph Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan from 1932 until December 8, 1941[4][81]
- Caroline Kennedy, U.S. ambassador to Australia and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy[290]
- Lithgow Osborne, United States Ambassador to Norway[81]
- David Scheffer, United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues[291][292]
- Frederic Jesup Stimson, writer and United States Ambassador to Argentina[81]
- Henry Serrano Villard, United States ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania[81]
Government officials
- Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department[293][294]
- Amanda Bennett, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and editor, CEO of the United States Agency for Global Media during the Biden administration[295][296]
- Matt Blumenthal, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives[297]
- Mike Bonin, member of the Los Angeles City Council[298]
- Daniel J. Boorstin, author, writer, and Librarian of Congress[299]
- Jon Finer, deputy national security advisor in the Biden administration[300]
- James Glassman, journalist, diplomat, and director of the George W. Bush Institute[301][302]
- Herbert P. Gleason, Boston's chief legal counsel[303][304]
- C. Boyden Gray, Committee for Justice chairman and White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush[305]
- Adam S. Hickey, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General[18][306]
- Gilbert B. Kaplan, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade[307]
- Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939[81]
- Josiah Quincy VI, mayor of Boston[81]
- Alastair Rellie, MI6 director
- Andrew Samwick, chief economist of the Council of Economic Advisers during the George W. Bush administration and professor at Dartmouth College[308]
- Peter Shapiro, youngest-ever person elected to the New Jersey General Assembly[309][310]
- Arthur Sweetser, journalist and diplomat[81]
- Adam Yarmolinsky, staffer in the Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Carter administrations[311][312]
Political operatives and organizers
- Blair Clark, manager of Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign. Clark is a former Crimson president.[142][313]
- Brian Fallon, press secretary for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and communications director for Kamala Harris in 2024[314][315]
- Peter Ferrara, policy analyst with The Heartland Institute and climate change denialist[316][317]
- Frederick Vanderbilt Field, socialist activist[318]
- Powers Hapgood, Socialist Party leader[81]
- Corliss Lamont, founder of the National Council of American–Soviet Friendship[81]
- Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform[319]
- Mark Penn, chief political strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign[320]
- Kathie Sarachild, radical feminist[321][322][323]
- Douglas Schoen, political consultant and pundit[324][325]
- Paul Sweezy, Marxist economist and funder of the Monthly Review[326]
- Fairfax Henry Wheelan, San Francisco political reformer[81]
Law
Federal and state judges
- David J. Barron, circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.[327][328] Barron is a former Crimson president.
- Theodore D. Chuang, judge on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland[329][330][331]
- Paul A. Engelmayer, circuit judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[332]
- Michael E. Farbiarz, judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[333][334]
- Melissa Hart, justice on the Colorado Supreme Court[335]
- Leondra Kruger, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California[336]
- Patti B. Saris, judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[337][338][339]
- Hiller B. Zobel, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court[340][341]
Attorneys
- Francis R. Appleton, prominent 19th-century attorney[81]
- Arthur A. Ballantine, attorney and first-ever solicitor for the IRS[81]
- David Bruck, capital defense attorney
- Garrett Epps, author and law school professor. Epps is a former Crimson president.
- Albert M. Kales, originator of the Missouri Plan[81]
- David Lat, founder of Above the Law[342][343][344]
- Shannon Liss-Riordan, labor attorney and candidate for the 2020 United States Senate election in Massachusetts[345]
- Nicole Seligman, attorney for Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial and director for OpenAI[346]
- Peter Y. Solmssen, general counsel of Siemens[347]
- Samuel D. Warren II, co-founder of Nutter McClennen & Fish with Louis Brandeis[81][348]
Military
- Frederick Hobbes Allen, lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps during World War I[81][349]
- J. Sinclair Armstrong, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Assistant Secretary of the Navy[350][351]
- Winthrop Astor Chanler, Rough Rider and World War I veteran[81]
- Woodbury Kane, Rough Rider[81][349]
- Hanford MacNider, lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, World War I and World War II veteran, United States ambassador to Canada[81][352][353]
- Charles Coudert Nast, major general in the U.S. Army[81]
Music and art
- George Biddle, painter and muralist[81]
- Jacob Brackman, lyricist and musical collaborator with Carly Simon[354][355]
- Archibald Brown, architect and competitor in the architecture event at the 1936 Summer Olympics[81]
- John Alden Carpenter, composer[81]
- Peter Engel, origami artist[356]
- Ellen Harvey, conceptual artist[357]
- James Loeb, art collector[81]
- Stephen O. Saxe, graphic designer and historian of printing[358][359]
- Edward Perry Warren, art collector[81]
Science and medicine
- Wilder Dwight Bancroft, chemist[81]
- Peter Breggin, psychiatrist, author, and ADHD critic[360][361]
- Francis P. Farquhar, mountaineer and environmentalist[81]
- Jerome Davis Greene, diplomat, planner of the Harvard Tercentenary celebration, and co-founder of the American Sexual Health Association[81]
- Roger Sherman Greene II, U.S. diplomat and medical administrator in China[81]
- Michael J. Halberstam, cardiologist and author, brother of David Halberstam[362][363]
- Rustin McIntosh, pediatrician[81]
- Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author. McKibben is a former Crimson president.[364]
- William Pao, oncologist, professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, former executive at Pfizer[365]
- Jay Varma, epidemiologist who led New York City's response to the COVID-19 pandemic[366][367]
- Andrew Weil, alternative medicine advocate[368]
Sports
- Edward Bowditch, two-time college football All-American[81]
- Jon Ledecky, owner of the New York Islanders[369][370][371]
- Frank A. Mason, football head coach at Harvard and Ole Miss[81]
- Richard Sears, seven-time US Open men's singles champion, including the first-ever US Open, and six-time US Open men's doubles champion[81]
- David Stearns, general manager of the New York Mets[372]
- Howard Taylor, 1889 US Open men's doubles champion[81]