List of university and college namesakes
# 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
