Dudley House is one of the thirteen undergraduate "houses" within Harvard College, serving the very few Harvard undergraduates not living in one of the other twelve (residential) houses; this includes student's living in the off-campus Dudley Co-ops. It also serves certain graduate students.

Dudley House is named for Thomas Dudley

Thomas Dudley

Thomas Dudley was a colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home...

, who signed the charter of Harvard College as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.