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 See also List of colleges and universities named after people Namesakes