# 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.
* Richard Appel – American writer and producer known for his work on King of the Hill, The Cleveland Show and Family Guy, '85.
* Henry Beard – cofounder of the National Lampoon, '67.
* Robert Benchley – American humorist and film actor, known for writings in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, 1913.
* John Berendt -- American author, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
* Andy Borowitz – American writer, comedian, satirist, and actor, '80.
* Carter Burwell – American film composer, '77.
* Robert Carlock – American television writer and producer, '95.
* Nathaniel Choate – American painter and sculptor who served as vice president of the National Sculpture Society, 1922.
* 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.
* Greg Daniels – American writer, producer, and director, co-developer of King of the Hill and the American version of The Office, '85.
* Jim Downey – American comedy writer, '74.
* Aaron Ehasz – American screenwriter and producer, '95–'96.
* Rodman Flender – American movie director, '84.
* Michael K. Frith - Bermudian artist and television producer. He is the former executive vice-president and creative director of The Jim Henson Company, '63.
* William Gaddis – president of the Lampoon, American novelist, author of The Recognitions and J R.
* Curtis Guild Jr. – American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician, Governor of Massachusetts, 1881.
* Fred Gwynne – American actor, artist and author, '51.
* Merle Hazard – American satirical country singer and economist.
* William Randolph Hearst – American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher.
* Lisa Henson - first women elected president of Harvard Lampoon, '83.
* 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.
* Charles Hopkinson – American portraitist, 1891.
* 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.
* Walter Isaacson – American biographer and journalist, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe, '74.
* Al Jean – American producer and writer known for The Simpsons, '81.
* Colin Jost – American actor, comedian, and screenwriter, '04.
* Douglas Kenney – American writer and actor, cofounder of the National Lampoon, '68.
* 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.
* Jeff Martin – American writer, editor-in-chief of The Harvard Lampoon, '82.
* George Meyer – writer, founder of humor magazine Army Man, credited with "thoroughly shap[ing] the comic sensibility" of The Simpsons, '78.
* James Murdoch – British-born American businessman, the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
* B. J. Novak – American actor, screenwriter and producer, '01.
* Conan O'Brien – American television host, comedian, writer, and television producer, '85.
* Lawrence O'Donnell – American television producer, writer, pundit, and host, '76.
* Bill Oakley – American television writer and producer, '88.
* George Plimpton – American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor, '50.
* John Reed – American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, author of Ten Days That Shook the World, 1910.
* Mike Reiss – American humor writer known for The Simpsons, '81.
* Simon Rich – American humorist, novelist, and screenwriter, '07.
* Elliot Richardson – American lawyer and politician, United States Attorney General
* Geneva Robertson-Dworet – American screenwriter, '07.
* Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1966–1977, '54.
* 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.
* Michael Schur – American television writer and producer, '97.
* 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.
* Josh Weinstein, American writer known for The Simpsons.
* 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
* Steve Young – American television writer
* Tyler Ory – First person to hold an elected position for both The Lampoon and Crimson simultaneously.