List of Harvard University non-graduate alumni

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
John Adams II (1803-1834}	Aide to his father President John Quincy Adams	attended College-expelled prior to 1823 graduation
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
Daniel C. Boyer (born 1971)	surrealist painter and writer, business executive, Japanese poltician	attended Summer School 1997, 1998, 2001
Frank Carlucci (born 1930)	United States Secretary of Defense	attended Business School
Jacques Chirac (born 1932)	former 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 F. Fitzgerald {1863-1950}	Mayor of Boston Massachusetts	Attended Harvard Medical School but dropped out 1885 after father died.
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
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 MacArthur (born 1937)	actor	attended Harvard-dropped out in Sophmore year to become actor
Tshilidzi Marwala (born 1971)	academic, community leader, and businessman	attended Harvard Business School
James Murdoch (born 1972)	British Sky Broadcasting CEO	attended College
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
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
Eden Riegel (born 1981)	actress	attended College (1998-2000)
Quentin Roosevelt (born 1897)	soldier	attended College 1916 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) Killed 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
Sinedu Tadesse (1974-1995)	murderer	attended college (1993-1995)
Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born 1981)	actor	attended college (2001-2002)
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)	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