Out of the 46 presidents of the United States, only 5 have had brown eyes. My goal here is to go deeper into the shades of color, rather than vague words like “blue” or “brown”.
I’ll be using the official 2002 eye color chart for my ranking. No president has had green eyes nor have any been albino, so that excludes red for obvious reasons.
I also will only be looking for individual shades in presidents with photographs as paintings are unreliable and often exaggerate how light someone’s eyes are.
Dark Brown (T50-T20)
All 5 presidents with brown eyes had a darker shade of brown from what I can find. Nothing special about these eyes, 70% of the population has this color.
Richard Nixon
Chester A Arthur
Lyndon B Johnson
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Johnson
Hazel (Mix of Green and Brown)
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This section is kind of sketchy and debated. Here’s which presidents fall under the hazel color category
Thomas Jefferson
Zachary Taylor
Herbert Hoover
Dark Blue (A60)
the vast, vast majority of presidents have this shade of color. Over 95% of people with blue eyes have A60, which is essentially just a dark blue.
I’m going to go ahead and put every president with blue eyes prior to Andrew Jackson in this category, as no photographs exist of them.
Medium Blue (A40-A50)
This color, just a shade lighter than A60 is significantly rarer and only present in 6 presidents
George HW Bush (A40)
Ronald Reagan (A50)
Gerald Ford (A50)
Theodore Roosevelt (A50)
Benjamin Harrison (A50)
Ulysses S Grant (A40)
Light Blue Eyes (A30-A10)
There are only 2 presidents with any color under A40. These shades are extremely rare, even among Europeans.
Rutherford B Hayes (A20 borderline A10)
Jimmy Carter (A20)
Note: Jimmy’s eyes are listed as hazel. They are clearly not hazel, but it’s hard to say exactly what shade they are.
Rutherford’s look insanely light and almost A10. If he had a full head of hair he’d be a legit chad
I’ll be using the official 2002 eye color chart for my ranking. No president has had green eyes nor have any been albino, so that excludes red for obvious reasons.
I also will only be looking for individual shades in presidents with photographs as paintings are unreliable and often exaggerate how light someone’s eyes are.
Dark Brown (T50-T20)
All 5 presidents with brown eyes had a darker shade of brown from what I can find. Nothing special about these eyes, 70% of the population has this color.
Richard Nixon
Chester A Arthur
Lyndon B Johnson
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Johnson
Hazel (Mix of Green and Brown)
View attachment 2E42C097-BF41-4721-A6E1-6C720E30EA76.webp
This section is kind of sketchy and debated. Here’s which presidents fall under the hazel color category
Thomas Jefferson
Zachary Taylor
Herbert Hoover
Dark Blue (A60)
the vast, vast majority of presidents have this shade of color. Over 95% of people with blue eyes have A60, which is essentially just a dark blue.
I’m going to go ahead and put every president with blue eyes prior to Andrew Jackson in this category, as no photographs exist of them.
- George Washington
- John Adams
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- Andrew Jackson
- Martin Van Buren
- John Tyler
- James K. Polk
- Millard Fillmore
- Franklin Pierce
- James Buchanan
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Grover Cleveland
- William McKinley
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Bill Clinton
- George W. Bush
- Donald J. TrumP
Medium Blue (A40-A50)
This color, just a shade lighter than A60 is significantly rarer and only present in 6 presidents
George HW Bush (A40)
Ronald Reagan (A50)
Gerald Ford (A50)
Theodore Roosevelt (A50)
Benjamin Harrison (A50)
Ulysses S Grant (A40)
Light Blue Eyes (A30-A10)
There are only 2 presidents with any color under A40. These shades are extremely rare, even among Europeans.
Rutherford B Hayes (A20 borderline A10)
Jimmy Carter (A20)
Note: Jimmy’s eyes are listed as hazel. They are clearly not hazel, but it’s hard to say exactly what shade they are.
Rutherford’s look insanely light and almost A10. If he had a full head of hair he’d be a legit chad
