The title of University Professor was created in 1935 to honor individuals whose groundbreaking work crosses the boundaries of multiple disciplines, allowing them to pursue research at any of Harvard’s Schools.
- Eric S. Maskin, Adams University Professor
- Carolyn Abbate, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor
- Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor
- Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor
- Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
- Marc W. Kirschner, John Franklin Enders University Professor
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
- George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor
- Charles M. Lieber, Joshua and Beth Friedman University Professor
- Barry C. Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor
- William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
- Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor
- Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor
- Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor
- Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor
- Rebecca M. Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor
- Dale W. Jorgenson, Samuel W. Morris University Professor
- Peter L. Galison, Pellegrino University Professor
- Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor
- Drew Faust, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor
- Martha Minow, Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor
- Irwin Shapiro, Timken University Professorship
- Cass Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor
- Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor
- Douglas A. Melton, Xander University Professor