List of university and college namesakes

Persons for whom colleges or universities were named.

  • Jacob Albright
  • Richard Allen (reverend)
  • Saint Andrew
  • James Osgood Andrew
  • Francis Asbury
  • Osman Cleander Baker
  • John Baldwin (educator)
  • Benjamin Bates IV
  • LaVerne H. Bates
  • Robert Bellarmine
  • Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Warren Akin Candler
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Davis Wasgatt Clark
  • Ezra Cornell
  • Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
  • Washington C. DePauw
  • John Emory
  • Simon Fraser
  • Robert Gordon
  • Leonidas Lent Hamline
  • John Harvard (clergyman)
  • Eugene Russell Hendrix
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Patrick Henry
  • George Heriot
  • William Samuel Johnson
  • Walter Russell Lambuth
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Edith Lesley
  • James Madison
  • Albertus Magnus
  • William McKendree
  • William Fletcher McMurry
  • Andrew W. Mellon
  • Reuben Webster Millsaps
  • Petro Mohyla
  • John Moores (merchant)
  • Henry Muhlenberg
  • John Frederick Oberlin
  • Daniel Payne
  • George Pepperdine
  • Jean Piaget
  • William Paul Quinn
  • B. T. Roberts
  • Oral Roberts
  • Bénilde Romançon
  • John Ruskin
  • Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Matthew Simpson
  • Leland Stanford Jr.
  • William Taylor (bishop)
  • Stephen Van Rensselaer III
  • George Washington
  • James Watt
  • John Wesley
  • William Wilberforce
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Rajiv Gandhi

See also

  • List of colleges and universities named after people
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