Eve Higginbotham, MD, Class of 1979
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD (First Black Woman to Earn an MD in the USA)
Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD (1831-1895), graduated from the New England Female Medical College in 1864.
Thomas Graham Dorsey, MD, Class of 1869
Graduated Harvard Medical Class of 1869
Few documents exist that detail the life of Thomas Graham Dorsey. Dorsey’s name first appears at Harvard Medical school as a matriculant in the Catalogue of 1867-1868. Dorsey began his medical studies in Philadelphia with Dr. J. M. Leedom of Germantown, who helped to arrange payment for classes at Harvard Medical School. Records indicate that Dorsey moved to Washington D.C. after 1869 and died in 1897.
Mildred Fay Jefferson, MD, Class of 1951
First African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School
Graduated Harvard Medical Class of 1951
Thomas Sequist, MD, MPH, Class of 1999

Graduated Harvard Medical School Class of 1996
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, Class of 1979
Graduated Harvard Medical School Class of 1979
Robert Tanner Freeman, DMD, Class of 1869
Graduated Harvard School of Dental Medicine Class of 1869
Harold May, MD, Class of 1951
Matriculated 1947; Graduated Class of 1951
Fidencio Saldaña, MD, MPH, Class of 2001

Graduated Harvard Medical School Class of 2001
Nancy E. Oriol, MD, Class of 1979
Graduated Harvard Medical School Class of 1979