List of The Harvard Lampoon members

This list is of members of The Harvard Lampoon, a student satirical literary society founded in 1876.

Members

• Frederick Lewis Allen – American historian and editor of Harper's Magazine
• Winthrop Ames – American theater director and producer, playwright and screenwriter
• Kurt Andersen – American novelist, '76.
• Richard Appel – American writer and producer known for his work on King of the Hill, The Cleveland Show and Family Guy, '85.
• Henry Beard – cofounder of the National Lampoon, '67.
• Robert Benchley – American humorist and film actor, known for writings in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, 1913.
• John Berendt -- American author, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• Andy Borowitz – American writer, comedian, satirist, and actor, '80.
• Carter Burwell – American film composer, '77.
• Robert Carlock – American television writer and producer, '95.
• Nathaniel Choate – American painter and sculptor who served as vice president of the National Sculpture Society, 1922.
• Archibald Cary Coolidge – Scholar in international affairs, a planner of the Widener Library, member of the United States Foreign Service, 1887.
• Ralph Wormeley Curtis – American painter and graphic artist in the Impressionist style, 1876.
• Greg Daniels – American writer, producer, and director, co-developer of King of the Hill and the American version of The Office, '85.
• Jim Downey – American comedy writer, '74.
• Aaron Ehasz – American screenwriter and producer, '95–'96.
• Rodman Flender – American movie director, '84.
• Michael K. Frith - Bermudian artist and television producer. He is the former executive vice-president and creative director of The Jim Henson Company, '63.
• William Gaddis – president of the Lampoon, American novelist, author of The Recognitions and J R.
• Curtis Guild Jr. – American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician, Governor of Massachusetts, 1881.
• Fred Gwynne – American actor, artist and author, '51.
• Merle Hazard – American satirical country singer and economist.
• William Randolph Hearst – American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher.
• Lisa Henson - first women elected president of Harvard Lampoon, '83.
• Roger Sherman Hoar – Science fiction author under the nom-de-plume Ralph Milne Farley, senator, and assistant attorney general
• Robert Hoffman – co-founder of National Lampoon, '72.
• Charles Hopkinson – American portraitist, 1891.
• George Howe – American architect and educator, 1908.
• William R. Huntington – American architect and Quaker representative to the United Nations
• Justin Hurwitz – American television writer and film composer, '08.
• Walter Isaacson – American biographer and journalist, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, '74.
• Al Jean – American producer and writer known for The Simpsons, '81.
• Colin Jost – American actor, comedian, and screenwriter, '04.
• Douglas Kenney – American writer and actor, cofounder of the National Lampoon, '68.
• Josh Lieb – American television writer, producer and author
• F. Van Wyck Mason – American historian and novelist
• John P. Marquand – American writer
• Edward Sandford Martin – first literary editor of Life Magazine and founding member of the Lampoon, 1877.
• Jeff Martin – American writer, editor-in-chief of The Harvard Lampoon, '82.
• George Meyer – writer, founder of humor magazine Army Man, credited with "thoroughly shap[ing] the comic sensibility" of The Simpsons, '78.
• James Murdoch – British-born American businessman, the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
• B. J. Novak – American actor, screenwriter and producer, '01.
• Conan O'Brien – American television host, comedian, writer, and television producer, '85.
• Lawrence O'Donnell – American television producer, writer, pundit, and host, '76.
• Bill Oakley – American television writer and producer, '88.
• George Plimpton – American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor, '50.
• John Reed – American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, author of Ten Days That Shook the World, 1910.
• Mike Reiss – American humor writer known for The Simpsons, '81.
• Simon Rich – American humorist, novelist, and screenwriter, '07.
• Elliot Richardson – American lawyer and politician, United States Attorney General
• Geneva Robertson-Dworet – American screenwriter, '07.
• Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1966–1977, '54.
• Thomas Parker Sanborn – American poet, model for the protagonist of Santayana's novel The Last Puritan
• George Santayana – Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1886.
• Michael Schur – American television writer and producer, '97.
• Robert E. Sherwood – American playwright, editor, and screenwriter, speechwriter for Franklin Roosevelt
• Alex Shoumatoff – American writer
• Frederic Jesup Stimson – United States ambassador to Argentina
• Ernest Thayer – American writer and poet, writer of "Casey at the Bat"
• George W.S. Trow – American writer, humorist, and cultural critic
• John Updike – American novelist, poet, short story writer, art and literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner for Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest
• Patric M. Verrone – American television writer and labor leader.
• Jon Vitti – American writer known for The Simpsons, '81.
• Josh Weinstein, American writer known for The Simpsons.
• Harold Weston – American modernist painter
• Edmund March Wheelwright American architect, City Architect of Boston: Lampoon's co-founder and architect of the Harvard Lampoon Castle
• John Brooks Wheelwright – American poet, founding member of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States
• Alexis Wilkinson – American writer
• Maiya Williams – American screenwriter and author
• Herbert Eustis Winlock – American Egyptologist
• Alan Yang – American screenwriter, producer and actor
• Steve Young – American television writer
• Tyler Ory – First person to hold an elected position for both The Lampoon and Crimson simultaneously.