List of Harvard College freshman dormitories

[1] Residents have included Jillian Dempsey, Alexander Fällström, Charles Lane, Eduardo Saverin, Esther Lofgren, Ben Mezrich, David Sacks, Mira Sorvino, and Paul Wylie.

[4] Past residents include Jeff Bingaman, Rosa Brooks, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Michael Cohrs, Jeremy Doner, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Langdon Gilkey, Charles Grier Sellers, Swinburne Hale, Julie Hilden, Marcial Lichauco, Norman Mailer, Malia Obama, Natalie Portman, Joseph Ransohoff, Frank Rich, Mo Rocca, Joshua Sharfstein, Don Sweeney, John Weidman, and Michael Weishan.

Past notable residents include Elliott Abrams, Bill Kristol, Wallace Shawn, Laurence Tribe, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and Colin Jost.

Past residents include Pete Buttigieg, Al Jean, Horatio Alger Jr., Alex Biega, David Halberstam, Christian Herter, Conan O'Brien, Sumner Redstone, Henry Hobson Richardson, Noah Welch, Cornel West, and Jeff Zucker.

Designed by two Harvard Presidents, John Leverett and Benjamin Wadsworth, between 1718 and 1720 for the housing of sixty-four students, the building served various functions over the years, including a refuge for American soldiers during the Siege of Boston, and an observatory after Thomas Hollis' donation of a twenty-four-foot telescope in 1722.

Past residents include Kristin Goss, Hendrik Hertzberg, Nicholas Kristof, Bjorn Poonen, Peter Sagal, Andrew Tobias, Chris Wallace, and Fernando Zobel de Ayala.

Past residents include Francis Parkman, Philippe de Montebello, Trip Hawkins, Jeremy Lin, Eric Maskin, Mehmet Oz, Nathan Pusey, Sydney Schanberg, and Edmund Ware Sinnott.

Notable residents include Darren Aronofsky, Phil Bredesen, William S. Burroughs, Peter Chiarelli, Seth Goldman, Joseph Lelyveld, Soledad O'Brien, Tom Ridge, John Roberts, David Souter, Caspar Weinberger, Tim Wirth, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Past notable residents include James Agee, Bill Ackman, Conrad Aiken, Steve Ballmer, Virgilio Barco Isakson, Andy Borowitz, Hamzah bin al Hussein, E. E. Cummings, Roy J. Glauber, Walter Isaacson, Ji Chaozhu, Perri Klass, Bernard Francis Law, John F. Manning, Crown Princess Masako, Jonathan Mostow, Gabe Newell, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Edward Seaga, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, James Tobin, Stephanie Wilson, and Owen Wister.

The second largest of the freshman dormitories, and actually three buildings, Wigglesworth is located along the southern edge of the Yard, between Widener Library and Boylston Hall to the north, and Massachusetts Avenue to the south.