Harvard College alumni

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth focused on US involvement in World War II. A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt served in the New York State Senate from 1911 to 1913 and as the 44th governor of New York from 1929 to 1932.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was vice president for six months under William McKinley and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.

Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801

President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

US-British poet (1888–1965)

American philosopher (1803–1882)

American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)

American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.

Turkish economist and publicist (born 1957)

Robert Francis Kennedy, also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy served as the 64th United States attorney general from 1961 to 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he is considered an icon of modern American liberalism in the 21st century.

American novelist, poet (1932–2009)

Mark Joseph Carney is a Canadian politician and economist who has served as the 24th prime minister of Canada since 2025. He has also been leader of the Liberal Party and the member of Parliament (MP) for Nepean since 2025. He was previously Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020.

American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)

American lawyer and diplomat (born 1962) and former United States Secretary of State (2021–2025)

American author, screenwriter, film director (1942–2008)

Spanish-American philosopher

American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

American actor (1925–2001)

American astrophysicist and science communicator

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate

American economist (born 1953)

Edward Moore Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-most-senior member of the Senate when he died. He is ranked fifth in U.S. history for length of continuous service as a senator. Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the father of U.S. representative Patrick J. Kennedy.

American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)

American theoretical physicist (1925–2018)

Nobel prize winning US physicist

American chemist (born 1966)

American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)

American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United States (1722-1803)

American astronomer (1855-1916)

American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)

American actor (born 1945)

American technology executive, activist, and author

American poet and physician (1809–1894)

American economist (1924–2023)

American novelist (1896–1970)

American journalist, historian, academic, novelist (1838-1918)

American biochemist (1952-2016)

American biochemist

Charles Ellis Schumer is an American politician serving since 1999 as a United States senator from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, he has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017 and served as Senate majority leader from 2021 to 2025. He has served two stints as Senate minority leader, from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025. He became New York's senior senator in 2001, upon Daniel Patrick Moynihan's retirement. Elected to a fifth term in 2022, Schumer surpassed Moynihan and Jacob K. Javits as the longest-serving U.S. senator from New York. He is the dean of New York's congressional delegation.

American business executive (1968–2024) Former CEO of YouTube.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2005

American cellist (born 1955)

American economist (born 1954)

American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)

vice president of the United States from 1813 to 1814

American filmmaker (born 1969)

American film director and screenwriter (born 1943)

American politician (born 1982)

American physician (1885-1950)

Austrian-born American theoretical chemist (1930–2024)

American actor (1911–1986)

american developmental psychologist & academic

American psychologist (1897–1967)

American actor

American Nobel laureate in economics