美国有的大学，有的是以地名，州名，市名命名的。有的是以人名命名的。可惜绝大多数这些名人 我都没听说过，懂的专家能否普及一下，比如
- Harvard University: John Harvard
- Yale University: Elihu Yale
- Brown University: Nicholas Brown
- Stanford University: Leland Stanford
- Johns Hopkins University: Johns Hopkins
- Vanderbilt University: Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Rockefeller University: John D. Rockefeller
- Duke University: Washington Duke
- Rice University: William Marsh Rice
- Emory University: John Emory
- Cornell University: Ezra Cornell
- Pepperdine University: George Pepperdine
- Calvin University: John Calvin
- Fisk University: Erastus Fisk
- Drew University: Daniel Drew
- Fisk University：Erastus Fisk
- Carnegie Mellon University: Andrew Carnegie + Andrew Mellon
- Williams College: Ephraim Williams
- Oberlin College: John Frederick Oberlin
- Harvey Mudd College: Harvey S. Mudd
- Reed College: Cyrus Ingerson Reed
- Wheaton College: Warren L. Wheaton
- Whitman College: Marcus Whitman
- Claremont McKenna College: James Millard McKenna
- Knox College: Henry Knox
- 应该还有好多。。。那些和建校没有关系的名人就不列了，比如 Columbia，Washington之类的
