Among the best-known graduates of Harvard University are American political leaders John Hancock, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Al Gore, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Canadian Governor General David Lloyd Johnston, Canadian Prime Ministers Mackenzie King and Pierre Trudeau, Canadian political leader Michael Ignatieff, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, religious leader, businessman & philanthropist Aga Khan IV, philanthropist Huntington Hartford, Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, Mexican President Felipe Calderón,[138] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, philosopher Henry David Thoreau and authors Carl Sagan, Ralph Waldo Emerson and William S. Burroughs, educator Harlan Hanson, poets Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings, conductor Leonard Bernstein, cellist Yo Yo Ma, comedian and television show host and writer Conan O'Brien, actors Jack Lemmon, Natalie Portman, Mira Sorvino, Tatyana Ali, Elisabeth Shue, Rashida Jones, Matt Damon and Tommy Lee Jones, film directors Darren Aronofsky, Mira Nair, Whit Stillman, and Terrence Malick, Brian Graden - the former President of Programming at MTV, VH1, CMT, and the LGBT channel, Logo, which he assisted in launching. Architect Philip Johnson, guitarist Tom Morello, singer Rivers Cuomo, musician, producer and composer Ryan Leslie, unabomber Ted Kaczynski, programmer and activist Richard Stallman and civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois.
Among its most famous current faculty members are biologist E. O. Wilson, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, physicists Lisa Randall and Roy Glauber, chemists Elias Corey, Dudley R. Herschbach and George M. Whitesides, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt, writer Louis Menand, critic Helen Vendler, historian Niall Ferguson, economists Amartya Sen, N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert Barro, Stephen A. Marglin, Don M. Wilson III and Martin Feldstein, political philosophers Harvey Mansfield and Michael Sandel, political scientists Robert Putnam, Joseph Nye, and Stanley Hoffmann, scholar/composers Robert Levin and Bernard Rands, and sociolinguist Anne Harper Charity Hudley.
Seventy-five Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with the university. Since 1974, 19 Nobel Prize winners and 15 winners of the American literary award, the Pulitzer Prize, have served on the Harvard faculty.
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