List of university and college namesakes
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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