List of teachers who married their students

This is a list of notable teachers who married their students.

• Peter Abélard married Héloïse d'Argenteuil
• Jackie Battley married future U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (1962)^[1]
• Abhijit Banerjee, economist, had children with and later married economist Esther Duflo, and they later jointly won the Nobel Prize for Economics together.^[2]
• Yale University Egyptology professor John Coleman Darnell married his student Colleen Darnell.^[3]
• Charles Melville Dewey married Julia Henshaw^[4]
• Abigail Fillmore married Millard Fillmore, a future President of the United States.
• James Earle Fraser married Laura Gardin Fraser (1913)
• Robert Henri was twice married to students of his, Linda Craige (1898) and Marjorie Organ (1908)
• Walter Kerr married Jean Kerr in 1943.^[5]
• Aliza Kezeradze married Ivo Pogorelić in 1980.
• Mary Kay Letourneau married Vili Fualaau in 2005.
• Arthur Frank Mathews married Lucia Kleinhans.^[6]
• Olivier Messiaen married Yvonne Loriod.
• Brigitte Trogneux married her former high school student Emmanuel Macron, who became President of France, in 2017.