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.

Daniel C. Boyer (born 1971) || surrealist writer and painter || attended Harvard Summer School 1997, 1998, 2001

Name and lifespan	Known for	Relationship to Harvard
Vincent Astor (1891-1959)	businessman and philanthrophist	attended College
Francis Lee Bailey (born 1933)	former lawyer	attended College
James Blake (born 1979)	tennis player	Professional Tennis Player, attended College in 1997-1999
Frank Carlucci (born 1930)	United States Secretary of Defense	attended Business School
Jacques Chirac (born 1932)	President of France	Attended Summer School in 1953
Alistair Cooke (1908-2004)	Journalist, broadcaster	Visiting graduate student
Matt Damon (born 1970)	actor	attended College
Paul Douglas (1892-1976)	United States Senator	attended Graduate School
John Gould Fletcher (1886-1950)	Poet and philosopher	College (Attended 1903-1907, but did not finish)
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
Bruce Henderson (1915-1992)	founder of the Boston Consulting Group	attended the Business School
Blair Hornstine (born 1984)	Teenager who sued to be sole valedictorian of high school	Admission rescinded
Henry James (1843-1916)	novelist	attended Law School
Kareena Kapoor (born 1980)	Indian actress	Attended Summer School in 1999
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)
John Lomax (1867-1948)	musicologist	Visiting student (1907)
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)
Soledad O'Brien (born 1966)	Television host	College, did not graduate
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
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 (1974-1995)	murderer	attended college (1993-1995)
Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born 1981)	actor	attended college (2001-2002)
Alvaro Uribe (born 1952)	President of Colombia	Extension School 1993
Alexander Pring-Wilson (born 1978)	Accused murderer	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, did not graduate