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Allison Harvard (born 1988), American model and television personality John Harvard (clergyman) (1607–1638), English-American clergyman after whom Harvard University is named John Harvard (politician) (1938–2016), Canadian politician and journalist, former Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba
Many colleges and universities are named after people. Namesakes include the founder of the institution, financial benefactors , revered religious leaders, notable historical figures, members of royalty , current political leaders , and respected teachers or other leaders associated with the institution.
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.Founded October 28, 1636, and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
Her ties to Harvard run deep After receiving her bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford in 1992, Gay enrolled in graduate school at Harvard, receiving her Ph.D. in government.
Kenneth Griffin is the 35th richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg billionaires index and will be just the fourth individual at Harvard to have a school named after themselves in ...
Getty. Source: Harvard Law Today Now chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law in 1978, three years after earning his bachelor's degree at the same institution.
Physicist, professor emeritus and chair of Biophysics at Harvard, research fellow at Harvard Cancer Commission [109] E. Allen Emerson (born 1954) PhD 1981 Turing Award laureate Charles Epstein (1933–2011) Harvard Medical College 1959 Geneticist; injured by Ted Kaczynski a.k.a. Unabomber [110] Paul Farmer (born 1959) Medical 1988; PhD 1990 ...
John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in Colonial New England whose deathbed [2] bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that the colony consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge".