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.
- Vincent Astor (1891-1959) || businessman and philanthrophist || attended College
- F. Lee Bailey (born 1933) || lawyer || attended College
- Piotr Blass (born 1948) || Mathematician World Wide Web pioneer || attended Graduate School M.A.1976, later transferred to University of Michigan
- Frank Carlucci (born 1930) || United States Secretary of Defense || attended Business School
- Matt Damon (born 1970) || actor || attended College
- Paul Douglas (1892-1976) || United States Senator || attended Graduate School
- 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 of Microsoft; as of 2006, wealthiest person in the world || attended College
- 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
- Henry James (1843-1916) || novelist || attended Law School
- Kareena Kapoor (1999) Indian actress Attended a summer course and later dropped
- Philip Kaufman (born 1936) || film director, screenwriter || attended Law School
- Edwin Land (1909-1991) || inventor || attended College
- Alan Lomax (1915-2002) || musicologist || attended College (1932-1933)
- Robert Lowell (1917-1977) || poet || attended College
- 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
- 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)
- Pete Seeger (born 1919) || songwriter, singer, activist || attended College
- HM King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah (1945-2001) || Late King of Nepal || attended for one year (1967)
- 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 (1993-1995) || murderer
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born 1981) || actor || attended college (2001-2002)
- Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) || World War II admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy || visiting student (1919-1921)
- Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) || founder of Facebook|| attended college (2002-2004)
- Mikael L. McKenvich (born 1901) (died 1982) || creator of Lieman
- James Blake (born 1979) || tennis player || Professional Tennis Player, attended College 1997-1999