This list is of members of The Harvard Lampoon, a student satirical literary society founded in 1876.
Members
Frederick Lewis Allen – American historian and editor of Harper's Magazine
Winthrop Ames – American theater director and producer, playwright and screenwriter Kurt Andersen – American novelist Michael J. Arlen – American writer Henry Beard – cofounder of the National Lampoon Robert Benchley – American humorist and film actor Suchetas Bokil- First American-Indian President of the Harvard Lampoon Andy Borowitz – American writer, comedian, satirist, and actor Carter Burwell – American film composer Robert Carlock – American television writer and producer Nathaniel Choate – American painter and sculptor who served as vice president of the National Sculpture Society Archibald Cary Coolidge – Scholar in international affairs, a planner of the Widener Library, member of the United States Foreign Service Ralph Wormeley Curtis – American painter and graphic artist in the Impressionist style Greg Daniels – American writer, producer, and director Hayes Davenport – American television writer and producer Jim Downey – American comedy writer Aaron Ehasz – American screenwriter and producer Rodman Flender — American movie director William Gaddis – American novelist Curtis Guild Jr. – American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician, Governor of Massachusetts Fred Gwynne – American actor, artist and author Merle Hazard — American satirical country singer and economist William Randolph Hearst – American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher. Roger Sherman Hoar – Science fiction author under the nom-de-plume Ralph Milne Farley, senator, and assistant attorney general Robert Hoffman – co-founder of National Lampoon Charles Hopkinson – American portraitist George Howe – American architect and educator William R. Huntington – American architect and Quaker representative to the United Nations Justin Hurwitz – American television writer and film composer Walter Isaacson - American writer and journalist. Colin Jost – American actor, comedian, and screenwriter Douglas Kenney – American writer and actor, cofounder of the National Lampoon. F. Van Wyck Mason – American historian and novelist John P. Marquand – American writer Edward Sandford Martin – first literary editor of Life Magazine Jeff Martin – American writer, editor-in-chief of The Harvard Lampoon James Murdoch – British-born American businessman, the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch B. J. Novak – American actor, screenwriter and producer Conan O'Brien – American television host, comedian, writer, and television producer Lawrence O'Donnell – American television producer, writer, pundit, and host Bill Oakley – American television writer and producer George Plimpton – American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor John Reed – American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, author of Ten Days That Shook the World Mike Reiss — American humor writer known for The Simpsons Simon Rich – American humorist, novelist, and screenwriter Elliot Richardson – American lawyer and politician, United States Attorney General Geneva Robertson-Dworet – American screenwriter Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1966–1977 Thomas Parker Sanborn – American poet, model for the protagonist of Santayana's novel The Last Puritan George Santayana – Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist Michael Schur – American television writer and producer Robert E. Sherwood – American playwright, editor, and screenwriter, speechwriter for Franklin Roosevelt Alex Shoumatoff - American writer Frederic Jesup Stimson – United States ambassador to Argentina Ernest Thayer – American writer and poet, writer of "Casey at the Bat" George W.S. Trow — American writer, humorist, and cultural critic John Updike – American novelist, poet, short story writer, art and literary critic Jon Vitti — American writer known for The Simpsons Harold Weston – American modernist painter Edmund March Wheelwright American architect, City Architect of Boston: Lampoons co-founder and architect of the Harvard Lampoon Castle John Brooks Wheelwright – American poet, founding member of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States Alexis Wilkinson – American writer Herbert Eustis Winlock – American Egyptologist Alan Yang – American screenwriter, producer and actor Steve Young — American television writer Josh Lieb — American television writer, producer and author