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.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." 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.Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986 p. 592 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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