List of teachers who married their students

This is a list of notable teachers who married their students.

• Peter Abélard married Héloïse d'Argenteuil
• Jackie Battley married future U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (1962)[1]
• Abhijit Banerjee, economist, had children with and later married economist Esther Duflo, and they later jointly won the Nobel Prize for Economics together.[2]
• Yale University Egyptology professor John Coleman Darnell married his student Colleen Darnell.[3]
• Charles Melville Dewey married Julia Henshaw[4]
• Abigail Fillmore married Millard Fillmore, a future President of the United States.
• James Earle Fraser married Laura Gardin Fraser (1913)
• Robert Henri was twice married to students of his, Linda Craige (1898) and Marjorie Organ (1908)
• Walter Kerr married Jean Kerr in 1943.[5]
• Aliza Kezeradze married Ivo Pogorelić in 1980.
• Mary Kay Letourneau married Vili Fualaau in 2005.
• Arthur Frank Mathews married Lucia Kleinhans.[6]
• Olivier Messiaen married Yvonne Loriod.
• Brigitte Trogneux married her former high school student Emmanuel Macron, who became President of France, in 2017.

References

1. Russakoff, Dale (18 December 1994). "He knew what he wanted". The Washington Post. p. A1. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
2. "Michael Heller on Esther's baby - Project Syndicate". 27 November 2015. Archived from the original on 27 November 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
3. Bass, Carole. "New details in Darnell suspension", Yale Alumni Magazine, January 17, 2013. Accessed December 5, 2023. "When tenured professor John Darnell announced his suspension from the Yale faculty last week for sexual misconduct, he did not name the student-turned-colleague with whom he had an improper relationship. But last October, Darnell’s wife did just that in a publicly available divorce court filing, asserting that Darnell began an affair with Colleen Manassa ’01, ’05PhD, in 2000."
4. David Bernard Dearinger; National Academy of Design (U.S.) (2004). Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925. Hudson Hills. ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3.
5. Pietro, M.J.S.; Hartke, G.V. (2002). Father Hartke: His Life and Legacy to the American Theater. Catholic University of America Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-8132-1082-7. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
6. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 p. 592