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Facts

Date	1636 - present
Areas Of Involvement	coeducation
Notable Alumni	Lawrence H. Summers • Jerome Bruner • A. Lawrence Lowell • Hilary Putnam • Henry Adams • Gilbert N. Lewis • E.O. Wilson • Samantha Power • Deval Patrick • Michael Kremer • Charles Olson • James Russell Lowell • Daniel Lieberman • Zbigniew Brzezinski • Cornel West • Steven Pinker • Robert O. Keohane • Thomas C. Schelling • John Hawkes • Theodore R. Sizer • Christopher A. Sims • Walter Gilbert • John Tate • McGeorge Bundy • Howard Gardner • George Steiner • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Tenley Albright • Joseph E. Murray • Roy J. Glauber • Rosabeth Moss Kanter • John Franklin Enders • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Vladimir Voevodsky • Martin Karplus • Samuel Eliot Morison • Charles Townsend Copeland • Carol Gilligan • George Herbert Hitchings • Nicolaas Bloembergen • Hironaka Heisuke • Sheldon Glashow • Mario R. Capecchi • John Livingston Lowes • David Mumford • Emil W. Haury • Alfred Kinsey • Theodore William Richards • Eric S. Maskin • Dudley R. Herschbach • Roger D. Kornberg • Maxime Bôcher • Theda Skocpol • William Gilson Farlow • Kenneth E. Iverson • Martha Nussbaum • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Noam Chomsky • Theodore Roosevelt • T.S. Eliot • Henry David Thoreau • Robert Frost • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Juan Manuel Santos • Vannevar Bush • Antonin Scalia • W.E.B. Du Bois • William H. Prescott • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Saul Kripke • Stanley Milgram • Steve Bannon • W.L. Mackenzie King • Henry Kissinger • Álvaro Uribe • Al Gore • John Key • Matt Damon • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf • Frank Gehry • John Lithgow • Ted Cruz • John Adams • Tommy Lee Jones • Beaumont Newhall • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. • Robert B. Wilson • Pete Buttigieg • Abhijit Banerjee • Moungi Bawendi • Lai Ching-te • Amanda Gorman • Gregg L. Semenza • Vivek Ramaswamy • Jonny Kim • Jean Berko Gleason • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Stephanie Wilson • Jill Stein • Mira Sorvino • Kevin Young • Jack Smith • Lawrence Wong • Antony Blinken • Charles H. Bennett • Celeste Ng • George P. Smith • Stephen L. Buchwald • Elise Stefanik • Ruben Gallego • Ron DeSantis • Gary Ruvkun • Colson Whitehead • Vivek Murthy • John Fetterman • David Baker • Ketanji Brown Jackson • Carolyn R. Bertozzi • Darren Aronofsky • Steven D. Levitt • Duma Boko • Michael Schur • Bill Ackman • Bryan Stevenson • Neil Gorsuch • Mitt Romney • Robert F. Kennedy • Benazir Bhutto • Joseph P. Kennedy • Harold H. Burton • Increase Mather • Michelle Obama • Conan O’Brien • Ted Kennedy • Michael Bloomberg • Richard Theodore Greener • Karl Deisseroth • Jack Lemmon • Al Franken • Robert S. McNamara • Bill Frist • Michael Crichton • Dambisa Moyo • Lee Hsien Loong • Robert Bly • Bill O’Reilly • John Updike • James Murdoch • Neil deGrasse Tyson • Daniel C. Dennett • Robert Lowell • Loretta Lynch • Terrence Malick • David Vitter • Marvin Minsky • Ma Ying-jeou • Ted Kaczynski • Donald Tsang • Daniel Ellsberg • Adrian Piper • Paul Volcker • Ernest Amory Codman • Thomas Wolfe • Philip Johnson • Ban Ki-Moon • Derek Parfit • Kapil Sibal • Dana Gioia • Edward L. Thorndike • Bruce Alberts • Ben Bernanke • Sebastián Piñera • G. Stanley Hall • Lewis F. Powell, Jr. • Ralph Van Deman • Sheryl Sandberg • Domingo Cavallo • Ralph Nader • Masako • Andrew Weil • Ralph Bunche • Paul Farmer • Meg Whitman • Yo-Yo Ma • Lobsang Sangay • Mervyn King • Randall Robinson • Mary Robinson • Henry Paulson • Robert B. Zoellick • Anthony Kennedy • Janet Reno • Michael Chertoff • Charles Hartshorne • Francis Fukuyama • Tim Kaine • John Dos Passos • Robert A. Taft • Kenneth Chenault • Jim Yong Kim
Related People	Lawrence H. Summers • Jerome Bruner • Drew Gilpin Faust • Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz • Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage • Charles William Eliot • James B. Conant • John Harvard • Nathan Pusey • Charles Francis Adams III • Frederic Ward Putnam • George Peabody • Henry Dunster • Edward Everett • Roland B. Dixon