List of The Harvard Lampoon members

This list is of members of The Harvard Lampoon, a student satirical literary society founded in 1876.

Members

• John Aboud – American screenwriter and producer
• 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, '76.^[1]
• Richard Appel – American writer and producer known for his work on King of the Hill, The Cleveland Show and Family Guy, '85.^[2][3]
• Henry Beard – cofounder of the National Lampoon, '67.^[4][5]
• Robert Benchley – American humorist and film actor, known for writings in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, 1913.^[6]
• John Berendt -- American author, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• Andy Borowitz – American writer, comedian, satirist, and actor, '80.^[7]
• Carter Burwell – American film composer, '77.^[8]
• Robert Carlock – American television writer and producer, '95.^[9][10]
• Nathaniel Choate – American painter and sculptor who served as vice president of the National Sculpture Society, 1922.^[11]
• Michael Colton – American screenwriter and producer
• Archibald Cary Coolidge – Scholar in international affairs, a planner of the Widener Library, member of the United States Foreign Service, 1887.
• Ralph Wormeley Curtis – American painter and graphic artist in the Impressionist style, 1876.^[12][13]
• Greg Daniels – American writer, producer, and director, co-developer of King of the Hill and the American version of The Office, '85.^[14][15]
• Jim Downey – American comedy writer, '74.^[16][17]
• Aaron Ehasz – American screenwriter and producer, '95–'96.^[18]
• Rodman Flender – American movie director, '84.^[19][20][2]
• Michael K. Frith - Bermudian artist and television producer. He is the former executive vice-president and creative director of The Jim Henson Company, '63.^[21][22]
• William Gaddis – president of the Lampoon, American novelist, author of The Recognitions and J R.^[23]
• Curtis Guild Jr. – American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician, Governor of Massachusetts, 1881.
• Fred Gwynne – American actor, artist and author, '51.^[24][25]
• Merle Hazard – American satirical country singer and economist.^[26][16]
• William Randolph Hearst – American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher.
• Lisa Henson - first woman elected president of Harvard Lampoon, '83.^[27]
• 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, '72.^[28]
• Charles Hopkinson – American portraitist, 1891.^[29]
• George Howe – American architect and educator, 1908.
• William R. Huntington – American architect and Quaker representative to the United Nations
• Justin Hurwitz – American television writer and film composer, '08.^[30][31]
• Walter Isaacson – American biographer and journalist, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, '74.^[32][33]
• Al Jean – American producer and writer known for The Simpsons, '81.^[2][34][35]
• Colin Jost – American actor, comedian, and screenwriter, '04.^[36][37]
• Douglas Kenney – American writer and actor, cofounder of the National Lampoon, '68.^[38][4]
• Josh Lieb – American television writer, producer and author
• F. Van Wyck Mason – American historian and novelist
• John P. Marquand – American writer
• Edward Sandford Martin – first literary editor of Life Magazine and founding member of the Lampoon, 1877.^[39][40]
• Jeff Martin – American writer, editor-in-chief of The Harvard Lampoon, '82.^[41][42]
• George Meyer – writer, founder of humor magazine Army Man, credited with "thoroughly shap[ing] the comic sensibility" of The Simpsons, '78.^[43]
• James Murdoch – British-born American businessman, the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.^[44]
• B. J. Novak – American actor, screenwriter and producer, '01.^[45]
• Conan O'Brien – American television host, comedian, writer, and television producer, '85.^[46][2]
• Lawrence O'Donnell – American television producer, writer, pundit, and host, '76.^[47]
• Bill Oakley – American television writer and producer, '88.^[41][48]
• George Plimpton – American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor, '50.^[49]
• John Reed – American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, author of Ten Days That Shook the World, 1910.^[50]
• Mike Reiss – American humor writer known for The Simpsons, '81.^[2][34]
• Simon Rich – American humorist, novelist, and screenwriter, '07.^[51]
• Elliot Richardson – American lawyer and politician, United States Attorney General
• Geneva Robertson-Dworet – American screenwriter, '07.^[52][53]
• Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1966–1977, '54.^[54][55]
• 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, 1886.^[56]
• Michael Schur – American television writer and producer, '97.^[15][57]
• 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, Pulitzer Prize winner for Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest
• Patric M. Verrone – American television writer and labor leader.
• Jon Vitti – American writer known for The Simpsons, '81.^[41][48]
• Josh Weinstein, American writer known for The Simpsons.^[a]
• Harold Weston – American modernist painter
• Edmund March Wheelwright American architect, City Architect of Boston: Lampoon's 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
• Maiya Williams – American screenwriter and author
• Herbert Eustis Winlock – American Egyptologist
• Alan Yang – American screenwriter, producer and actor^[58]
• Steve Young – American television writer

Notes

1. Although he attended Stanford University, Weinstein is an honorary member of the Harvard Lampoon, as he worked on some of Lampoon's parody publications with Bill Oakley over the summers between course years.^[48][41]