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)
• Abhijit Banerjee, economist, had children with and later married economist Esther Duflo, and they later jointly won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together.
• Yale University Egyptology professor John Coleman Darnell married his student Colleen Darnell.
• Charles Melville Dewey married Julia Henshaw
• 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.
• Aliza Kezeradze married Ivo Pogorelić in 1980.
• Mary Kay Letourneau married Vili Fualaau in 2005.
• Arthur Frank Mathews married Lucia Kleinhans.
• Sarah Jones married student Cody York in 2014.
• Olivier Messiaen married Yvonne Loriod.
• Brigitte Trogneux married her former high school student Emmanuel Macron, who later became President of France, in 2007.

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