John Harvard
English-American clergyman and philanthropist
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Updated 2026-05-29
Died in 1638 after donating his library to a scrappy colonial college, which promptly named itself after him. John Harvard never actually founded Harvard University, but he's basically the brand now.
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John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in colonial New England whose deathbed 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".
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