List of university and college namesakes

List of university and college namesakes

Persons for whom colleges or universities were named.

* Albertus Magnus
* James Watt
* Saint Andrew
* John Wesley
* William Wilberforce
* John Ruskin
* Patrick Henry
* Jean Piaget
* Francis Asbury
* John Harvard (clergyman)
* Henry Muhlenberg
* Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
* Oral Roberts
* Richard Allen (reverend)
* Ezra Cornell
* Robert Gordon
* B. T. Roberts
* Leland Stanford, Jr.
* William Samuel Johnson
* Stephen Van Rensselaer III
* John Moores (merchant)
* William Paul Quinn
* Albert Benjamin Simpson
* Matthew Simpson
* Jacob Albright
* George Heriot
* Washington C. DePauw
* William McKendree
* Walter Russell Lambuth
* Reuben Webster Millsaps
* Leonidas Lent Hamline
* Warren Akin Candler
* John Emory
* Osman Cleander Baker
* Davis Wasgatt Clark
* Eugene Russell Hendrix
* James Osgood Andrew
* William Taylor (bishop)
* Daniel Payne
* Bénilde Romançon
* William Fletcher McMurry
* John Baldwin (educator)
* Edith Lesley
* Petro Mohyla


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