List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

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This list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni includes students who studied as undergraduates or graduate students at MIT's School of Engineering; School of Science; MIT Sloan School of Management; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; School of Architecture and Planning; or Whitaker College of Health Sciences. Since there are more than 120,000 alumni (living and deceased), this listing cannot be comprehensive. Instead, this article summarizes some of the more notable MIT alumni, with some indication of the reasons they are notable in the world at large. All MIT degrees are earned through academic achievement, in that MIT has never awarded honorary degrees in any form.

The MIT Alumni Association defines eligibility for membership as follows:

The following persons are Alumni/ae Members of the Association:
All persons who have received a degree from the Institute; and All persons who have been registered as students in a degree-granting program at the Institute for (i) at least one full term in any undergraduate class which has already graduated; or (ii) for at least two full terms as graduate students.

As a celebration of the new MIT building dedicated to nanotechnology laboratories in 2018, a special silicon wafer was designed and fabricated with an image of the Great Dome. This One.MIT image is composed of more than 270,000 individual names, comprising all the students, faculty, and staff at MIT during the years 1861–2018. A special website was set up to document the creation of a large wall display in the building, and to facilitate the location of individual names in the image.

Politics and public service

United States

Name	Degree	Degree year	Notability	Notes
Lt. Gen. James Alan Abrahamson (USAF Ret'd)	B.S. – Aeronautical Engineering	1955	Director of President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative US Air Force general	⁴
Ben Bernanke	PhD – Economics	1979	Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank	⁵
Samuel Bodman	ScD – Chemical Engineering	1965	Secretary of Energy (2005–2009)	⁶
Jun Choi	B.S. – Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering	1994	Mayor of Edison, New Jersey
Henry Cohen	M.S. – Urban Planning	1949	Director of Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in the American sector of post-World War II Germany
Leighton I. Davis	M.S. – Aeronautical Engineering	1941	US Air Force general
John M. Deutch	B.S. – Chemical Engineering, PhD – Chemistry	1961 1966	Director of Central Intelligence and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton
Jimmy Doolittle	M.S., DSc – Aeronautical Engineering	1924 1925	US Air Force general
T. Coleman du Pont			United States senator from Delaware
Herbert W. Ehrgott	B.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1930	US Air Force general
Luis A. Ferré	B.S., M.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1924 1925	3rd Governor of Puerto Rico
Julius A. Furer	M.S. – Naval Architecture	1905	US Navy admiral
J. Michael Gilmore	B.S. – Physics		Director of the Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate
Jonathan Gruber	B.S. – Economics	1987	Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Professor of economics at MIT
Kathleen Hicks	Ph.D. – Political science	2010	U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (2021–present)
Jenn Hill			Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 109th district
Chrissy Houlahan	M.S. – Technology and Policy	1994	U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 6th district
Marcy Kaptur	PhD – Urban Planning	1981	U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio's 9th district
Frank Kowalski	M.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1937	United States Representative from Connecticut
Jon C. Kreitz			US Navy admiral
John M. Loh	M.S. – Aeronautical Engineering	1973	Retired four-star general in the United States Air Force; last served as Commander, Air Combat Command; 24th Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Herbert B. Loper	B.S. – Civil Engineering	1922	US Army general
N. Gregory Mankiw	PhD – Economics	1984	Chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisors
William F. Martin	M.S. – "Without Course"	1974	Deputy Secretary of Energy (1968–1988) Executive Secretary of National Security Council Special Assistant to President Reagan
Thomas Massie	B.S. – Electrical Engineering M.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1993 1996	Member of the US House of Representatives from Kentucky's 4th district	⁷
Mark McClellan	PhD – Economics	1993	Head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
Katharine Dexter McCormick	B.S. – Biology	1904	Suffragette, funded research for the Pill
Lansing McVickar		1918	Career officer with the United States Army
Bruce Morrison	B.S. – Chemistry	1965	US House of Representatives for Connecticut
David Nolan	B.S. – Political Science	1965	Founder of United States Libertarian Party
John Olver	PhD – Chemistry	1961	US House of Representatives for Massachusetts
John Birdsell Oren	M.S. – Marine Engineering		US Coast Guard admiral
Alex Padilla	B.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1994	U.S. senator from California, appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom after Kamala Harris was elected vice president
Joseph J. Romm	SB – Physics PhD – Physics	1982 1987	Assistant Secretary of the US Department of Energy
Francis Sargent	Dropped out; studied architecture	[1939]	64th governor of Massachusetts
George Shultz	PhD – Economics	1949	Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State
Phillips Waller Smith	M.S. – Ordnance Engineering	1935	US Air Force general
Paul Sohl	B.S. – Aeronautical Engineering	1985	US Navy admiral
Pete Stark	B.S. – General Engineering	1956	US House of Representatives for California
Lawrence Summers	B.S. – Economics	1975	71st United States Secretary of the Treasury
Chris Sununu	B.S. – Civil/Environmental Engineering	1998	82nd governor of New Hampshire
John E. Sununu	B.S., M.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1987 1987	United States senator from New Hampshire
John H. Sununu	B.S., M.S., PhD – Mechanical Engineering	1961 1963 1966	White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush, governor of New Hampshire, host of Crossfire
Sheila Widnall	B.S., M.S., DSc – Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering	1961 1961 1964	United States Secretary of the Air Force (1993–1997)
Tom Wolf	PhD – Political Science	1981	47th Governor of Pennsylvania	⁸

International

Name	Degree	Year	Notability	Notes
Tadatoshi Akiba	PhD – Mathematics	1970	Mayor of Hiroshima; recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award
Kofi Annan	M.S. – Management	1972	Former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Moshe Arens	Engineering		Israel Minister of Defense three times and once as Minister of Foreign Affairs
Pedro Aspe	PhD – Economics	1978	Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit
Virgilio Barco	B.S. – Civil Engineering	1943	Colombian president
Youssef Boutros Ghali	PhD – Economics	1981	Former Egyptian Minister of Finance
Ahmed Chalabi	B.S. – Mathematics	1965	Controversial Iraqi politician; deputy prime minister of Iraq
Asim Dasgupta	PhD – Economics	1975	Former Finance Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal
Harold Demuren	PhD – Aeronautical Engineering	1975	Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority; first African elected as President of ICAO General Assembly
Mario Draghi	PhD – Economics	1977	Former president of the European Central Bank; former Prime Minister of Italy
José Figueres Ferrer		1926	Former (three-time) President of Costa Rica
Pervez Hoodbhoy	SB, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, M.S. – Solid-State Physics, PhD – Nuclear Physics	1973 1978	Faculty member at the Quaid-e-Azam University since 1973; renowned nuclear research scientist in Pakistan
C.D. Howe		1907	Canadian politician and cabinet minister
Janet Keeping	B.S. – Architecture	1971	Lawyer; faculty member at the University of Calgary; Leader of the Green Party of Alberta ⁹ ¹⁰
Uzi Landau	PhD – Engineering	1976	National Infrastructure Minister of Israel
Pita Limjaroenrat	MBA – Strategy	2011	Thai politician and leader of Move Forward Party
Mao Chi-kuo	PhD – Civil Engineering	1982	Former premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (2014–2016)	¹¹
David Miliband	M.S. – Political Science	1990	British politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Yahya Muhaimin	Ph.D.	1982	Former Minister of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia
Mohammad Ali Najafi	M.S. – Mathematics	1979	Former vice president of Iran	¹²
Benjamin Netanyahu	B.S. – Architecture, M.S. – Management	1975, 1976	Prime Minister of Israel
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala	MCP – City Planning, PhD – Urban Studies & Planning	1978 1981	Finance Minister of Nigeria (2003–2006) (2011–2015), Foreign Minister of Nigeria (2006)
Lucas Papademos	B.S. – Physics, M.S. – Electrical Engineering, PhD – Economics	1970 1972 1978	Vice president of the European Central Bank (2002–2010) and Prime Minister of Greece (2011–2012)
Rachid Mohamed Rachid	PhD – Management	1993	Former Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry
Raghuram Rajan	PhD – Economics	1991	23rd Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Omar Razzaz	M.A. – City Planning	Unknown	Prime Minister of Jordan
Ali Akbar Salehi	PhD – Nuclear Engineering	1977	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran (2012–present)
Sumana Shrestha	MBA	2011	Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
Aafia Siddiqui	BS		Termed "Lady al-Qaeda", serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell
Chadchart Sittipunt	M.S. – Structural Engineering		Current Governor of Bangkok
Palanivel Thiagarajan	MBA – Financial Management	1990	Finance Minister of Indian State of Tamil Nadu
Milen Velchev	M.S. – Management	1995	Bulgarian financial minister (2001–2005)
Luis Videgaray	PhD – Economics	1998	Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (2017–2018); Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (2012–2016)
David Walter	M.S. – Political Science	circa 1970	British BBC and ITN correspondent and later political advisor
Robert Winters			Canadian politician
Tony Tan Keng Yam	M.S. – Operations Research	1964	President of the Republic of Singapore; held various cabinet positions
Selçuk Bayraktar	MAE -Aerospace Engineering	2006	Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, Baykar

Architecture and design

Christopher Charles Benninger (MCP 1971) – award-winning architect and urban planner in India, Sri Lanka, prepared capital plan of Bhutan
Walter Danforth Bliss – architect from California, with many buildings on the National Register of Historic Places
George Burnap (SB, 1906) – landscape architect of Meridian Hill Park and the first White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C.
Gordon Bunshaft (BArch 1933, MArch 1935) – architect of Lever House (New York City), Beinecke Library (Yale), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC); Pritzker Prize (1988)
Vishaan Chakrabarti (MCP 1993)— architect and dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design
Ogden Codman, Jr. (1884) – Beaux-Arts domestic architect, interior designer
Walter S. Davis (BArch 1910, MArch 1911) – designed numerous buildings in Los Angeles, California
John Desmond (MArch) – designed numerous public buildings in Baton Rouge, including the River Center
Daniel Chester French (1871, one year) – sculptor of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial), John Harvard (Harvard Yard), Minute Man (Concord, Massachusetts)
Cass Gilbert (1880) – architect of the US Supreme Court Building, Woolworth Building (New York City)
Greta Gray (1880–1961) – Bachelor of Architecture, home economist at UCLA, author and academic
Charles Sumner Greene (1891) – partner in Greene and Greene, domestic architects of Arts & Crafts style, Gamble House (Pasadena)
Henry Mather Greene (1891) – partner in Greene and Greene, domestic architects of Arts & Crafts style, Gamble House (Pasadena)
Marion Mahony Griffin (1894) – co-designer of the master plan for Canberra, Australia
Nathanael Herreshoff (B.S. 1870) – naval architect-engineer, yacht designer
Raymond Hood (1903) – architect of Rockefeller Center (New York City), Tribune Tower (Chicago)
Lois Lilley Howe (B.S. 1890) – second woman in the US to found an architecture firm
Jarvis Hunt – Chicago architect¹³
Myron Hunt (B.S. 1893) – architect of Huntington Art Gallery, Rose Bowl (Pasadena)
Piotr Kowalski (B.S. 1952) – artist, sculptor, architect, professor
Roger K. Lewis (BArch 1964; MArch 1967) – architect, urban planner, professor, author
Austin W. Lord (1888) – architect of the administration buildings, Isthmian Canal Commission, Panama; director of the School of Architecture at Columbia University
Kevin A. Lynch (B.S. 1947) – urban planner, author of the seminal book The Image of the City
John O. Merrill (B.S. 1921) – structural engineer, architect, leader of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Eleanor Manning O'Connor (B.S. 1906) – architect, educator, public housing advocate
Neri Oxman (1976– ) – Ph.D. Architectural Design (2010)
I. M. Pei (BArch 1940) – architect, Louvre Pyramid (Paris), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland), Bank of China (Hong Kong), MIT Buildings 18, 54, 66, E15; AIA Gold Medal (1979), Pritzker Prize (1983)
Frank M. Riley (1900) – architect
Donald W. Southgate (1887–1953) – architect in Nashville, Tennessee ¹⁴
Sumner Spaulding (1892–1952) – architect, graduated in 1916, designed many buildings in California
Louis Sullivan (one year) – influential founder of the Chicago School; "father of skyscrapers"; "father of modernism"; AIA Gold Medal (1944)
James Knox Taylor (1880) – Supervisory Architect of Denver Mint, Philadelphia Mint, many post offices, court houses, other federal buildings
Robert Taylor (1892) – MIT's first black graduate, architect of the Tuskegee Institute
Harry Mohr Weese (BArch 1938) – architect, historic preservation advocate, designed first group of stations for Washington Metro system

Business and entrepreneurship

See also List of companies founded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

Computers and Internet

Joseph Alsop (B.S. 1967) – co-founder of Progress Software
Efi Arazi – Israeli industrialist and businessman, founder of Scitex Corporation
Shiva Ayyadurai (B.S. 1987, M.S. 1989, M.S. 1990, PhD 2007) – scientist and inventor
Sanju Bansal – co-founder of MicroStrategy
Hugo Barra – VP Global for Xiaomi, former VP and product spokesman for Google Android
Anant Bhardwaj (Ph.D. dropout) – founder of Instabase
Katie Bouman (PhD 2017) – developer of the algorithm used in filtering the first images of a black hole taken by the Event Horizon Telescope
Larry DeMar (B.S. 1979) – programmer for Williams, co-creator of Defender and Robotron: 2084, and founder of Leading Edge Design
Matt Denesuk (B.S. 1987) – SVP, Data Analytics & AI at Royal Caribbean Group; founder of Noodle.ai, Chief Data Science Officer of GE¹⁵
John J. Donovan (Postdoc 1969) – founder of Cambridge Technology Partners, and Open Environment Corporation
Eran Egozy – co-founder, CTO, and VP of Harmonix Systems; now clarinetist and professor of music at MIT
Arash Ferdowsi (dropped out) – co-founder and CTO at Dropbox
Carly Fiorina (M.S. 1989) – former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
Philip Gale (1978–1998) – writer of TotalAccess, computer prodigy, and Internet software developer
Gideon Gartner (B.S. 1956) — founder of Gartner
Andy Gavin – co-founder of Naughty Dog and creator of the first video game with a full 3D environment, Crash Bandicoot
Shuman Ghosemajumder – author of Open Music Model, click fraud czar at Google
Cecil H. Green (B.S. 1924, M.S. 1924) – co-founder of Texas Instruments
Andrew He (B.S. 2019) – competitive programmer
William R. Hewlett (M.S. 1936) – co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
Danny Hillis (B.S. 1978, M.S. 1981, PhD 1988) – co-founder of Thinking Machines and former Disney Fellow
Mark Horowitz (B.S. 1978, M.S. 1978) – founder of Rambus
Drew Houston (B.S. 2006) – co-founder and CEO of Dropbox
Irwin M. Jacobs (M.S. 1957, ScD 1959) – co-founder of Qualcomm with Andrew Viterbi, current chairman and former CEO; former MIT professor (1959–1966)
Brewster Kahle (B.S. 1982) – internet archivist, founder of Alexa
Mitch Kapor – software entrepreneur, founder of Lotus Corporation
Earl Killian – software architect with 26 patents, MIPS ¹⁶ ¹⁷
Steve Kirsch (B.S. 1980, M.S. 1980) – inventor of the optical mouse, co-founder of Frame Technology Corporation and founder of Infoseek Corporation
Alan Kotok (B.S. 1962, M.S. 1962) – chief architect PDP-10, associate chairman World Wide Web Consortium
Susan Landau (PhD 1983) – Guggenheim Fellow and cybersecurity expert
Daniel Lewin (M.S. 1998) – founder of Akamai
Jack Little (B.S. 1978) – co-founder of MathWorks, which created and sells MATLAB
Steve Mann – co-creator of the SixthSense device
Patrick McGovern (B.S. 1960) – founder of IDG/Computerworld
Steve Meretzky (B.S. 1979) – computer game designer
Robert Metcalfe (B.S. 1969) – entrepreneur, founder of 3Com; inventor of Ethernet
Pranav Mistry (PhD) – co-creator of the SixthSense device
Nicholas Negroponte (B.Arch, M.Arch 1966) – founder, MIT Media Lab, One Laptop per Child Association
Kathy Nelson (B.S. – Electrical Engineering 1993) – creator of world's first holographic video game¹⁸
Andrew Ng (M.S. 1998) – co-founder of education technology company Coursera, director of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab
Robert Noyce (PhD 1953) – integrated circuit pioneer, co-founder of Intel, Draper Prize (1969)
Ken Olsen (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1952) – founder of Digital Equipment Corporation
Suhas Patil (M.S. 1967, PhD 1970) — founder of Cirrus Logic
William Poduska (B.S. 1960, M.S. 1960, ScD 1962) – computer engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Prime Computer and Apollo Computer
William A. Porter (MBA 1967) – founder of E*TRADE
Kanjun Qiu (M.S 2013) – founder of Imbue, an AI research lab¹⁹ ²⁰
Allen Razdow (B.S. 1976) – founder of Mathsoft Inc.; inventor of Mathcad
Alex Rigopulos (B.S. 1994, M.S. 1994) – founder of Harmonix Music Systems, developer of Guitar Hero and Rock Band
Larry Roberts (B.S. 1961, M.S. 1961, PhD 1963) – member of design group for original ARPANET, co-founder of Caspian Networks and Packetcom, former CEO of DHL
Sheldon Roberts (M.S. 1949, ScD 1952) – one of the "traitorous eight" who founded Fairchild Semiconductor; co-founder of Amelco which later became Teledyne
Douglas T. Ross (M.S. 1954) – founder of SofTech, Inc.
Michael J. Saylor (B.S. Astronautics 1987, B.S. Science, Engineering, Technology 1987) – co-founder of MicroStrategy
Megan Smith (B.S. 1986, M.S. 1988) – Google executive; former CEO of PlanetOut, early smartphones at General Magic, 3rd United States Chief Technology Officer (2014–17)
Robert Spinrad (PhD) – computer pioneer; director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ²¹
Ray Stata (B.S. 1958, M.S. 1958) – founder of Analog Devices
Lisa Su (B.S. 1990, M.S. 1991, PhD 1994) – CEO of Advanced Micro Devices
Eric Swanson – co-founder of Sycamore Networks
Theodore Tso – Google software engineer, maintainer of the ext4 filesystem
Philippe Villers (M.S. 1960) – founder of Computervision, which is now part of PTC
Andrew Viterbi (B.S. 1957, M.S. 1957) – electrical engineer; inventor of the Viterbi algorithm; co-founder of Qualcomm; former UCLA and UCSD professor
Brandon Wade (B.S. 1993) – founder of Seeking Arrangement
Christopher Weaver (M.S. 1985) – founder of Bethesda Softworks and co-founder of ZeniMax Media
Charles Zhang (PhD 1993) – Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sohu, Inc.

Engineering

Satya N. Atluri (Sc.D Aeronautics & Astronautics, 1969) – engineer; recipient of 2013 Padma Bhushan 2013,²² 2015 Crichlow Trust Prize from AIAA²³
Colin Angle – co-founder of iRobot
Vanu Bose (B.S. 1988, M.S. 1994, PhD. 1999) – electrical engineer, founder of Vanu Inc, and son of Amar Bose
Karel Bossart (M.S. 1927) – designer of the SM-65 Atlas missile
William David Coolidge (B.S. 1896) – physicist who made major contributions to X-ray machines, director of the General Electric Research Laboratory
Henry M. Crane (B.S. 1895 and 1896) – automotive engineer associated with Crane Motor Car Company, Crane-Simplex, Pontiac Six, and Wright-Martin
Charles Stark Draper (B.S. 1926, M.S. 1928, SD 1938) – engineer and inventor; the "father of inertial navigation"; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1981
Tiera Guinn Fletcher – aerospace engineer²⁴
Crawford Greenewalt (B.S. 1922) – chemical engineer, president of DuPont, lead DuPont engineer on the Manhattan Project plutonium breeder reactors, ornithologist and photographer
Helen Greiner – co-founder of iRobot
J. Halcombe Laning (B.S. 1940, PhD 1947) — developer of Q-guidance system and Apollo mission guidance system
Charles Townsend Ludington – aviation pioneer
Shekar Natarajan – Supply chain executive and engineer
Ernest Boyd MacNaughton (B.S. 1902) – bank president; president of The Oregonian; president of Reed College
Fred Mannering (PhD 1983) – professor University of South Florida; Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher ²⁵
Jim Marggraff (B.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Computer Science) – inventor of the LeapPad Learning System, Fly pentop computer, and Livescribe smartpen ²⁶
Lissa Martinez (M.S. 1980) – ocean engineer
Regina Murphy (SB 1978, PhD 1989) – professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ²⁷
Mohammad Modarres – Eminent Professor of the University of Maryland; founder of world's first graduate curriculum in reliability engineering
Henry M. Paynter (B.S. civil engineering 1944, M.S. mathematics and science 1949, ScD hydroelectric engineering 1951, all MIT) – inventor of bond graphs
Nicholas A. Peppas – professor of engineering, University of Texas at Austin, pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology
Thuan Pham (B.S. Computer Science & Engineering 1990, M.S. 1991) – CTO of Uber
RJ Scaringe (M.S., PhD) – CEO of Rivian, Plymouth, Michigan, United States
Tom Scholz – founder of the rock group Boston and Scholz Research & Development, Inc., manufacturers of Rockman sound equipment
Dorian Shainin (B.S. 1936) – quality paradigm pioneer and guru; considered one of the world's foremost experts in the fields of industrial problem solving, product reliability and quality engineering; known for the creation and development of the "Red X" concept
Mareena Robinson Snowden – first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering²⁸
Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme – former Chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of India²⁹ ³⁰
Suchatvee Suwansawat (M.S. Policy and Technology, Sc.D Geotechnical Engineering 2002) – Thai Politicians, Professor of Engineering, former president of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), former of President of the Thai Council of Engineers³¹ ³²
Christine Taylor-Butler (civil engineering 1981) – children's author

Manufacturing and defense

Vaughn Beals – CEO of Harley-Davidson
Amar Bose – founder and chairman of Bose Corporation
Wesley G. Bush – chairman, CEO and President of Northrop Grumman ³³
Morris Chang – chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest semiconductor foundry in the world
Nick DeWolf – co-founder of Teradyne
John Dorrance – founder of Campbell Soup Company
Donald Douglas – founder of Douglas Aircraft Company
Pierre S. du Pont – Du Pont Company and General Motors executive
T. Coleman du Pont – Du Pont Company president; US Senator
Armand V. Feigenbaum – quality expert
William Clay Ford, Jr. – chairman of Ford Motor Company
Bernardo Garza Sada – founder and president of the ALFA conglomerate of Mexico³⁴
Kenneth Germeshausen – co-founder, and the first "G", of the defense contractor EG&G
Bernard Marshall Gordon (B.S. 1949, M.S. 1949) – electrical engineer, inventor, philanthropist, co-founded Analogic Corporation, National Medal of Technology (1986)
George Hatsopoulos – founder of Thermo Electron Corporation
Charles Koch – co-owner, chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, the second largest private company in the US
David H. Koch – co-owner of Koch Industries; Vice-Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party
Jay Last – one of the "traitorous eight" who founded Fairchild Semiconductor; co-founder of Amelco, which became Teledyne
James McDonnell – co-founder of McDonnell Douglas
Alan Mulally – president and CEO of Ford Motor Company
William Emery Nickerson – co-founder of Gillette, now part of Procter & Gamble ³⁵
Willard Rockwell – founder of Rockwell International
Henry Singleton – founder of Teledyne
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. – automobile entrepreneur, former CEO of General Motors
Wong Tsu – first engineer of the Boeing Company
Uncas Whitaker – founder of AMP Incorporated (now a division of Tyco International)
Rick Woodward – president of Woodward Iron Company, owner of Birmingham Barons ³⁶

Finance and consulting

Roger Ward Babson – entrepreneur, founder of Babson Institute (now Babson College), 1940 presidential nominee on the Prohibition Party ticket
Sam Bankman-Fried (B.S. 2014) – convicted fraudster and former CEO of the insolvent cryptocurrency exchange FTX and quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research ³⁷
Michael Brennan – pioneering finance academic, former president of the American Finance Association
Richard Carrión – CEO of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, and of Popular, Inc.
Wesley Chan – investment partner at Google Ventures
Lisa Endlich – business author, former vice president of Goldman Sachs
Mark Gorenberg – partner of the venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Michael Hammer – pioneer of Business Process Reengineering, founder of Hammer and Co.
Robert C. Hancké – Belgian economist
Mansoor Ijaz – founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management Ltd; developer of the CARAT trading system
Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar – founder of Kirloskar Group
Arthur Dehon Little – entrepreneur, founder of the eponymous management consulting firm Arthur D. Little in 1886
Mark Mobius – emerging markets investor and fund manager
Kenichi Ohmae – former director of the Japan arm of McKinsey & Company, management consultants
Tom Perkins – founder of venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
John S. Reed – chairman of the New York Stock Exchange
Ed Seykota – commodity trader
Jim Simons – mathematician; philanthropist; founder of Renaissance Technologies hedge fund
John Thain – former CEO of Merrill Lynch, former chief executive officer of the New York Stock Exchange
William Toy – director at CDC, New York and Goldman Sachs; developer of the Black–Derman–Toy interest rate model
C. S. Venkatakrishnan – CEO of Barclays ³⁸
Gary Wang – former CTO at bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX
Nigel Wilson – CEO of Legal & General

Healthcare and biotechnology

Thomas O. Bales Jr. (BS Mechanical engineering) – medical technology inventor and entrepreneur
David Benaron – digital health entrepreneur, physician
George A. Herzlinger (B.S., PhD physics) – medical innovation entrepreneur who invented and, with Regina, founded firms that built and sold an intra aortic balloon pump and a standard-of-care rapid infuser that have saved thousands of lives³⁹
Regina E. Herzlinger (B.S. economics) – first woman to be tenured and chaired at HBS and to serve on large corporate health care boards of directors, including John Deere and Cardinal Health; author of three best-selling health care trade books; known as the "godmother of consumer-driven health care"⁴⁰
Paul F. Levy (SB, MCP 1974) – former president of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center hospitals, former executive director of Boston's MWRA Harbor Cleanup project
Neil Pappalardo (SB physics, electrical engineering 1964) – Founder and chairman of MEDITECH
Bernard Sherman (PhD astrophysics) – Canadian billionaire, philanthropist, and founder of Apotex
Robert A. Swanson – co-founder of Genentech
Ron Williams – CEO of Aetna

Miscellaneous

David A. Aaker – consultant and author of Marketing
Aditya Birla – industrialist, deceased son of Basant Kumar Birla and father of Kumar Mangalam; head of Aditya Birla Group
Joseph Chung – co-founder of Art Technology Group with fellow MIT grad Jeet Singh
Jack Crichton – oil and natural gas industrialist from Texas; Republican candidate for governor in 1964
Samuel Face – inventor and co-developer of advances in concrete and piezoelectric technologies
Victor Kwok-king Fung – prominent Hong Kong billionaire businessman and political figure
Antonio Galloni – wine critic and founder of Vinous
Eugenio Garza Sada – Mexican businessman, philanthropist and founder of the Tec de Monterrey
Krisztina "Z" Holly (B.S. 1989, M.S. 1992) – co-founder of Stylus Innovation, curator of first TEDx, founder of MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, former vice provost for innovation at University of Southern California
John Legere – CEO of T-Mobile, post-graduate school, received M.S. from MIT
Nikolaos Mavridis – founder of the Interactive Robots and Media Lab
David McGrath – founder of TAD Resources, now part of Adecco
Dana G. Mead – former CEO and chair of Tenneco
Hamid R. Moghadam – co-founder, chairman and CEO of Prologis
Stewart Nelson – founder of Systems Concepts
Eric P. Newman – numismatist
Arthur S. Obermayer – founder of the Moleculon Research Corporation; philanthropist⁴¹
John Ofori-Tenkorang – Director General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, Ghana
Generoso Pope – founder and owner of The National Enquirer
Alexander N. Rossolimo – founding chairman of Center for Security and Social Progress
Michael J. Saylor – founder of MicroStrategy
Alan Spoon (B.S. 1973) – former president of The Washington Post Company
Leelila Strogov – general assignment reporter for Fox 11 News
Richard Tomlinson – British intelligence officer
Helmut Weymar – founder of Commodities Corporation
Chris Wright – CEO of Liberty Energy

Education

Muhammad M. Al-Saggaf (M.S. 1996, PhD 2000 in Geophysics) – president of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Theodosios Alexander (M.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 1982; M.S. in Ocean Systems Management; M.S. in Mechanical Engineering; ScD in Mechanical Engineering 1987) – Dean of Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology ⁴² of Saint Louis University; Professor and Chair of Energy Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London; former James Watt Professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland; former Mechanical Engineering Professor at Washington University in St. Louis
Joseph E. Aoun (PhD 1982) – president of Northeastern University, linguist, author
Andrew Armacost (M.S. 1995, PhD 2000) – dean of the United States Air Force Academy
Dennis Assanis (M.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 1983, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering 1983, M.S. in Management 1986, PhD in Power and Propulsion 1986) – former Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan; Provost and Senior VP for Academic Affairs at Stony Brook University ⁴³
Larry Bacow (B.S. 1972) – president of Harvard University, former president of Tufts University, lawyer, economist, author
Merrill J. Bateman (PhD 1965) – former president of Brigham Young University; Mormon Presiding Bishop
Scott C. Beardsley – dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business ⁴⁴
Lawrence Berk (B.S. Architectural Engineering 1932) – founder and former president of Berklee College of Music (1945–1978)
William R. Brody (B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966) – former president of Johns Hopkins University, current president of Salk Institute
Emily Calandrelli (M.S. 2013) – aerospace engineer and STEM communicator
Marion Hamilton Carter (1893) – educator, journalist, author
Jared Cohon (M.S. 1972, PhD 1973) – former president of Carnegie Mellon University
William Cooper (PhD 1976) – president of University of Richmond
Dianna Leilani Cowern (2011) – physics alumnus and STEM educator and communicator on YouTube and elsewhere as a YouTuber and similar as "Physics Girl" collaborating often with fellow MIT graduate Emily Calandrelli and many other people associated with many other organizations⁴⁵
Allan Cullimore – former president of New Jersey Institute of Technology (1920–1947)⁴⁶
Woodie Flowers (M.S. 1968, ME 1971, PhD 1973) – MIT professor, created Introduction to Design (2.70), founder of FIRST Robotics Competition, starting host of Scientific American Frontiers (1990–93)
Philip Friedman (PhD 1972) – president of Golden Gate University
David Garrison⁴⁷ – founding chair, University of Houston–Clear Lake Physics Department
Thomas P. Gerrity – former dean of Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Hollis Godfrey (1889) – former president of Drexel University ⁴⁸
Eric Grimson (PhD Mathematics 1980) – computer scientist and Chancellor of MIT ⁴⁹
Michelle S. Hoo Fatt (B.S 1987, M.S. 1990 and Ph.D. 1992) – professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Akron ⁵⁰
Amos Horev (B.S., M.S.) – former president of Technion ⁵¹
Shirley Jackson (B.S. 1968, PhD 1973) – president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, physicist
Martin C. Jischke (M.S., PhD 1968) – former president of Purdue University
Theodora J. Kalikow (Sc.M. 1970) – former president of the University of Maine at Farmington and the University of Southern Maine
Salman Khan – founder and executive director of Khan Academy
Joseph Klafter – chemical physics professor, the eighth President of Tel Aviv University
Martin C. Libicki (B.S. Mathematics) – professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California
John Maeda (B.S., M.S. 1989) – former president of Rhode Island School of Design (2008–2013), graphic designer, computer scientist, author, venture capitalist
Modesto Maidique (B.S. 1962, M.S. 1964, EE 1966, PhD 1970) – former president of Florida International University
Julianne Malveaux (PhD 1980) – president of Bennett College
Alan Marcus (PhD 1981) – economist; professor at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College; first recipient of the Mario Gabelli Endowed Professorship
David McClain (PhD 1974) – president of University of Hawaii
Frederic Mishkin (B.S. 1973, PhD 1976) – economist; professor at Columbia Business School; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (2006–2008); appeared in the documentary Inside Job
Leo E. Morton (M.S. 1987) – chancellor of University of Missouri-Kansas City
Gretchen Ritter (Ph.D.) – dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences⁵²
Richard Santagati (M.S. 1979) – former president of Merrimack College
Rahmat Shoureshi – researcher, professor, and provost of New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Reed Shuldiner (Ph.D. 1985) – Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Nam-Pyo Suh (B.S. 1959, M.S. 1961) – president of KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Lawrence H. Summers (B.S. 1975) – former president of Harvard University, economist, former presidential advisor
Subra Suresh (ScD 1981) – former president of Carnegie Mellon University, former Director of the National Science Foundation, former Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT
Demetri Terzopoulos FRS FRSC (PhD 1984) – Academy Award-winning computer scientist, university professor, author, and entrepreneur
Ahmed Tewfik (PhD 1987) – IEEE Signal Processing Society President, former chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin
Lee T. Todd, Jr. (M.S. 1970, EE 1971, PhD 1974) – president of University of Kentucky
Laura Tyson (PhD 1974) – chairman of the CEA under Clinton; former dean of the Haas School of Business; former dean of the London Business School
Hal Varian (B.S. 1969) – chief economist at Google, founding dean of the School of Information at UC Berkeley
Patrick Henry Winston (B.S. 1965, M.S. 1967, PhD 1970) – author of standard textbooks on artificial intelligence and programming languages, MIT professor, co-founded Ascent Technology
Elisabeth Zinser (M.S. 1982) – president of Southern Oregon University

Academics

Saleem Ali (PhD 2001) – Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environment at the University of Delaware, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
Harry Binswanger – philosopher, associate of Ayn Rand
Michael Brame (PhD 1970) – professor of linguistics at the University of Washington
Dan Massey – sexual freedom scholar, religious philosopher, human rights activist, chief engineer at BBN Technologies, and senior scientist at Science Applications International Corporation
Charles Murray (M.S.; PhD Political Science 1974) – researcher, co-author of The Bell Curve – professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Ellen Swallow Richards (B.S. 1873) – founder of the modern home economics discipline; first woman admitted to MIT
Ann Senghas (PhD 1995) – developmental psychologist, professor at Columbia University

Actors, directors, and other crew

Dylan Bruno – actor; former model
Yau-Man Chan (B.S. 1974) – contestant on Survivor: Figi and Survivor: Micronesia; table tennis player
James Eckhouse (1976,⁵³ dropped out⁵⁴) – actor, Beverly Hills, 90210
Herbert Kalmus (1903) – inventor of Technicolor; star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Saladin K. Patterson (1994) – developer and executive producer of The Wonder Years revival
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude – Hollywood actor; opera singer
James Woods (1969, dropped out) – Hollywood actor; Oscar nominee; Emmy winner
Dottie Zicklin (1986) – television writer and producer; co-creator of the sitcoms Caroline in the City, Dharma & Greg, and Are You There, Chelsea?

Economists, correspondents, and political advisors

Nariman Behravesh (born 1948) – economist
Alan Carlin (born 1937) – economist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency
Dean Karlan (PhD Development Economics and Public Finance 2002) – development economist and founder of Innovations for Poverty Action
Paul Krugman (PhD) – New York Times columnist, John Bates Clark Medal and Nobel Prize winner
Robert J. Shiller (born 1946) – Nobel Prize-winning economist, academic, and author
David Walter – British BBC and ITN correspondent; political advisor; winner of Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to MIT

Musicians, record producers, and engineers

Nate Greenslit (PhD) – musician, writer and academic
Ned Lagin – played keyboards and synthesizer at a number of the Grateful Dead shows between 1970 and 1975 and on a few mid–1970s albums
Rajesh Mehta (B.S. Humanities and Engineering 1986) – hybrid trumpeter, composer, educational technology consultant
Alan Pierson (B.S. Music, Physics, 1996–1997) – conductor; Northwestern University faculty
Tom Scott (B.S. 1966) – winner of two Academy Awards for Best Sound for The Right Stuff and Amadeus
Jamshied Sharifi – Tony Award-winning composer

Painting, sculpting, and visual art

Alia Farid – contemporary artist
Marisa Morán Jahn (M.S.) – multimedia artist and founder of Studio REV-
Alan Rath (B.S. 1982) – electronic, kinetic, and robotic sculptor
Samuel Washington Weis – painter

Writers and editors

Steve Altes (B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986) – humorist, National Medal of Technology recipient, writer of Geeks & Greeks graphic novel about MIT
John W. Campbell (physics, dropped out) – writer, longtime editor of Astounding Science Fiction
Rebecca Richardson Joslin – essayist, lecturer, benefactor, clubwoman
Kealoha, born Steven Wong (1999) – performance poet; Hawaii's first Poet Laureate and National Poetry Slam Legend; storyteller; Hawaii's SlamMaster
Hugh Lofting – author of Dr. Dolittle series of books; trained at MIT as civil engineer, 1904–05
Megan Miranda — mystery and thriller novelist
John Shelton Reed (B.S. 1964) – sociologist, author of The Enduring South, elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers

Science and technology

Colin Adams – mathematician, knot theory expert, teacher, writer, math humorist
Rakesh Agrawal – National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
Buzz Aldrin – combat pilot, astronaut, second man to walk on the Moon
Pauline Morrow Austin – meteorologist, Director of Weather Radar at MIT, research staff in Radiation Laboratory
Adrian Bejan – professor of mechanical engineering, namesake of the Bejan number
Gordon Bell – computer engineer and manager, designer of DEC PDP, manager of the VAX project
Stephen Benton – invented rainbow hologram, pioneered digital holography
Marc Blank – computer game designer and programmer, developed Zork adventure game
Manuel Blum – computer scientist, received Turing Award (1995) for studies in computational complexity theory
Katie Bouman – computer scientist and electrical engineer involved in developing the algorithm used in filtering the first images of a black hole taken by the Event Horizon Telescope
Dan Bricklin – co-inventor of Visicalc, the first WYSIWYG PC spreadsheet program
Alice G. Bryant – otolaryngologist and inventor of surgical tools
Dixie Lee Bryant – geologist and educator
Edward M. Burgess – chemist, inventor of the Burgess reagent
Christopher Chen – William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University
David D. Clark – led the development of TCP/IP (the protocol that underlies the Internet)
Wesley A. Clark – computing pioneer, creator of the LINC (the first minicomputer)
Fernando Corbató – retired MIT professor, Turing Award (1990), co-founder of the Multics project
Shiladitya DasSarma (PhD 1985) – pioneering microbiologist and professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine who deciphered genetic code for Halobacterium NRC-1
Peter J. Denning (M.S. 1965, PhD 1968) – computer scientist, professor, co-founder of the Multics project, pioneered virtual memory
Jack Dennis – retired MIT professor, co-founder of the Multics project
Peter Diamandis – founder and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, co-founder and chairman of Singularity University, and co-author of New York Times bestseller Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
Whitfield Diffie – pioneer of public-key cryptography and the Diffie-Hellman protocol, Turing Award (2015)
K. Eric Drexler – pioneer nanotechnologist, author, co-founded Foresight Institute
Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (M.S. 1927, ScD 1931) – former MIT Institute professor; co-founder, and the "E", of EG&G; stroboscope photography pioneer; Oscar winner 1940
Theodore Miller Edison (1898–1992) – only child of Thomas Alva Edison who graduated from college; inventor with over 80 patents⁵⁵
Farouk El-Baz – Supervisor of Lunar Science Planning, Apollo Program, NASA
Aprille Ericsson (B.S. Aero/Astro 1986) – aerospace engineer
Kelly Falkner (PhD 1989) – oceanographer, Antarctic researcher
Bran Ferren (Class of 1974) – designer, technologist, Eegineer, entertainment technology expert, prolific inventor, Academy Award nominee
Carl Feynman – computer scientist; son of the physicist Richard Feynman
Michael Fincke (B.S. Aero/Astro 1989, SB EAPS 1989) – NASA astronaut, ISS Commander and former record-holder for time in space.
Marron William Fort (B.S. 1926, M.S. 1927, PhD 1933) – first African-American to earn a PhD in engineering
Bob Frankston (B.S. 1970, M.S. EE 1974) – co-inventor of Visicalc (first WYSIWYG PC spreadsheet program); critic of telecommunications public policy
Limor Fried – open-source hardware pioneer, founder of Adafruit Industries
Simson Garfinkel – journalist, author, computer security researcher, entrepreneur, computer science professor
Ivan Getting – co-inventor of the Global Positioning System (GPS), Draper Prize (2003)
Jim Gettys – an original developer of X Window, former director of GNOME
Yoshimi Goda – coastal engineer and recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure; undertook research at MIT with Arthur Ippen ⁵⁶
Kenneth E. Goodson – mechanical engineer and faculty at Stanford University
Martha Goodway – archaeometallurgist at the Smithsonian Institution
Bill Gosper (B.S. 1965) – mathematician, a founder of the original hacker community, pioneer of symbolic computing, originator of hashlife
Julia R. Greer (B.S. 1997) – materials science professor at Caltech, pioneer in the fields of nanomechanics and architected materials, CNN 2020 Visionary
Gerald Guralnik (B.S. 1958) – Professor of Physics, Brown University; co-discoverer of Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson in 1964 with C.R. Hagen; awarded J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics in 2010⁵⁷
C. R. Hagen (B.S., M.S. 1958, PhD. 1963) – Professor of Physics, University of Rochester; co-discoverer of Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson in 1964 with Gerald Guralnik; awarded J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics in (2010)⁵⁸ ⁵⁹
George Ellery Hale – astronomer, founded several astronomical observatories, developed Throop College of Technology into Caltech
Heidi Hammel (B.S. 1982) – planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus
Karen Hao (B.S. 2015), award-winning AI journalist⁶⁰ ⁶¹
William W. Happ (M.S.) – silicon transistor pioneer at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, and Professor at Arizona State University ⁶²
Sandra Lee Harris (SB, 1969) – systems engineer, quality assurance manager, chaplain; initiated distinction between "bug" and "feature"⁶³ while upgrading code for FOCAL for PDP-8 in 1971 at Digital Equipment Corporation
Guadalupe Hayes-Mota (B.S. 2008, M.S. 2016, MBA 2016) – biotechnologist and business director⁶⁴
Asegun Henry (M.S., PhD 2009) – mechanical engineer⁶⁵
Caroline Herzenberg (B.S. 1953) – physicist
Julian W. Hill (PhD 1928) – inventor of nylon⁶⁶
C.-T. James Huang (PhD 1982) – generative linguist, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Harvard, Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (2015), recipient of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan's Lifetime Achievement Award (2014)
David A. Huffman – computer scientist known for Huffman coding used in lossless data compression
Jerome C. Hunsaker (M.S. 1912, ScD 1923) – pioneering aeronautical engineer, airship designer, former head of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
Anya Hurlbert (PhD, 1989) – visual neuroscientist
William Jeffrey – defense technology expert, former director of National Institute of Standards and Technology
Thomas Kailath – entrepreneur, retired Stanford professor, IEEE Medal of Honor (2007)
Rudolf E. Kálmán – electrical engineer, theoretical mathematician, co-inventor of Kalman Filter algorithm, Draper Prize (2008)
Jordin Kare – high energy laser physicist, developer of "mosquito laser zapper"
Gregor Kiczales – computer scientist, professor at the University of British Columbia, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Leonard Kleinrock (M.S. Electrical Engineering 1959, PhD Computer Science 1963) – computing and Internet pioneer, one of the key group of designers of the original ARPANET
Henry Kloss (1953, dropped out) – audio engineer; entrepreneur; founder of Acoustic Research, KLH, Advent, Kloss Video, Cambridge SoundWorks, Tivoli Audio
Loren Kohnfelder – introduced the term "public key certificate" for public key cryptography in secure network communication
Raymond Kurzweil (B.S. 1970) – inventor, entrepreneur in music synthesizers, OCR and speech-to-text processing
Leslie Lamport (B.S. 1960) – computing pioneer in temporal logic, developer of LaTeX, winner of the Turing Award (2013)
Robert S. Langer – biochemical engineer, biomedical researcher, MIT professor, inventor, entrepreneur, Draper Prize (2002)
Norman Levinson (B.S., M.S. 1934, ScD 1935) – theoretical mathematician, former Institute Professor at MIT, developed Levinson recursion
Daniel Levitin – neuroscientist, music producer, author of This Is Your Brain on Music
Soung Chang Liew (B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986, PhD 1988) – information engineering professor
Steven R. Little (PhD 2005) – chemical engineer, pharmaceutical scientist, and department chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering
Maureen D. Long (PhD 2006) – observational seismologist
Edward Norton Lorenz – mathematician, meteorologist, MIT professor emeritus, invented chaos theory, discovered Lorenz attractor
Joseph Lykken (PhD 1982) – theoretical physicist, proposed "weak scale superstring" theory
Danilo M Maceda Jr – technology policy expert, software entrepreneur, film writer, software engineer, computer programmer (dropout for hacking CIA server)
Luz Martinez-Miranda – physicist and professor at the University of Maryland; first female president of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists ⁶⁷
Hiram Percy Maxim – inventor of the "Maxim Silencer" and founder of the American Radio Relay League
John F. McCarthy Jr. (B.S. 1950, M.S. 1951) – director of MIT Center for Space Research and director of Lewis Research Center, NASA
Douglas McIlroy (PhD 1959) – mathematician, software engineer, professor, developed component-based software engineering, an original developer of Unix, member of National Academy of Engineering
Diane McKnight (B.S. 1975, M.S. 1978, PhD 1979) – engineering professor, limnologist, biogeochemist, Antarctic researcher
Anne McNeil (Postdoc 2005–2007) – chemist and professor at University of Michigan
Faye McNeill (PhD 2005) – atmospheric chemist and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University
Parisa Mehrkhodavandi (PhD 2002) – chemist
Fulvio Melia (PhD 1985) – theoretical astrophysicist, professor, author, editor, general educator
Holly Michael (PhD 2005) – hydrogeologist and professor
Arnold Mindell (MSc 1961) – physicist, author, psychologist – developer of Process Oriented Psychology
Daniel Mindiola – professor of chemistry at University of Pennsylvania
Douglas J. Mink (B.S. 1973, M.S. 1974) – astronomer, software developer, co-discovered rings around Uranus, bicycling activist
Bill Parker – artist, engineer, inventor of the modern plasma lamp
Bradford Parkinson – co-inventor of the Global Positioning System (GPS), Draper Prize (2003)
Robert A. "Bob" Pease (B.S. 1961) – analog integrated circuit design expert, technical author
Irene Pepperberg (B.S. 1969) – Brandeis University professor, researcher in animal cognition, trained Alex (parrot)
Alan Perlis (M.S. 1949, PhD 1950) – computer scientist, professor, pioneer of programming languages, winner of the first Turing Award (1966)
Radia Perlman (B.S. 1973, M.S. 1976, PhD 1988) – computer scientist, network engineer, invented numerous data network technologies, "mother of the Internet"
David Pesetsky (PhD 1982) – generative linguist, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the MIT
Harry Melville Pope (1881) – gunsmith noted for precision rifling of gun barrels ⁶⁸
Edward Rebar (PhD 1997) – biologist, senior vice president, and chief technology officer at Sangamo Therapeutics
ChoKyun Rha (B.S. 1962, M.S. 1964, M.S. 1966, SCD 1967) – food technologist, professor at MIT
Adam Riess (B.S. 1992) – physicist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics awarded in 2011 for demonstrating the acceleration of the universe's rate of expansion
Louis W. Roberts (PhD 1946) – microwave physicist, chief of the Microwave Laboratory at NASA's Electronics Research Center, director of the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center ⁶⁹ ⁷⁰
Jerome Saltzer – retired MIT professor, timesharing computing pioneer, co-founder of the Multics project, Director of Project Athena
Frederick P. Salvucci (B.S. 1961, M.S. 1962) – civil engineer, transportation planner, MIT professor, former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, public transit advocate, Big Dig advocate
George W. Santos – pioneer in bone marrow transplantation
Bob Scheifler – computer scientist, leader of the X Window System project, architect of Jini
Julie Segre – epithelial biologist, Chief of the Human Genome Research Institute
Oliver Selfridge – computer scientist, father of machine perception
Claude Shannon – mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory"
Reuben Shaw (PhD 1999) – cancer researcher at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and director of one of the National Cancer Institute's seven basic laboratory cancer centers in the U.S.
Amy B. Smith (B.S. 1984, M.S. 1995) – mechanical engineer, inventor, former Peace Corps volunteer, MIT senior lecturer and researcher in appropriate technology, MacArthur Fellow (2004)
Oliver R. Smoot – namesake of the smoot unit of measurement, former chair of ANSI; former president of ISO
Richard M. Stallman (grad student, dropped out) – computer programmer; Free Software activist; creator of EMACS editor, GNU; MacArthur Fellow (1990)
Guy L. Steele, Jr. (M.S. 1977, PhD 1980) – computer scientist, programming language expert, an original editor of the Jargon File (Hacker's Dictionary)
Richard Stratt (B.S. 1975) – professor of physical chemistry at Brown University
Mahmooda Sultana (PhD 2010) – NASA research engineer⁷¹
Bert Sutherland (M.S., PhD) – managed research laboratories, including Sun Microsystems Laboratories (1992–1998), the Systems Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC (1975–1981), and the Computer Science Division of Bolt, Beranek and Newman
Ivan Sutherland (PhD 1963) – computer graphics pioneer, former professor, ARPAnet and Internet pioneer, co-founded Evans & Sutherland, Turing Award (1988)
Lynne Talley (PhD 1982) – physical oceanographer, professor⁷²
Badri Nath Tandon (1961) – gastroenterologist, textbook author, Sasakawa WHO Health Prize and Padma Bhushan winner
Andrew S. Tanenbaum (B.S. 1965) – computer scientist, professor, textbook author (operating systems), creator of Minix (the precursor to Linux)
Frederick Terman – electrical engineer; former provost of Stanford University; "father of Silicon Valley"
Ray Tomlinson – innovator of email systems, pioneered the use of the "@" symbol for email
Leonard H. Tower Jr. (B.S. Biology 1971) – early Free Software activist, software hacker
John George Trump – electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist; professor at MIT 1936–1973, directed MIT High Voltage Research Laboratory 1946–1980
Kay Tye – neuroscientist, MIT assistant professor
Ann M. Valentine – chemist, professor at Yale and Temple University
Manuel Sandoval Vallarta – MIT professor, founder of the Physics Institute at UNAM; mentor of Nobel laureate Richard Feynman
Denisa Wagner – vascular biologist at Harvard Medical School
Susie Wee – Women in Technology International laureate; CTEO of Collaboration at Cisco
Robert Williams Wood – optical physicist, developed "black light", ultraviolet and infrared photography
Joshua Wurman – meteorologist, inventor, developed the Doppler On Wheels, Bistatic Weather Radar Networks, founder and president of Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR)
Jenny Y Yang (PhD 2007) – chemist
Edward Yourdon – computer pioneer, author, lecturer, popularized the term "Y2K Bug"
Gregorio Y. Zara – inventor of the first two-way videophone; National Scientist of the Philippines
Günter M. Ziegler – mathematician, Free University of Berlin professor, ex-president of the German Mathematical Society, recipient of the Chauvenet and Leroy P. Steele prizes

Sports

Jimmy Bartolotta (2009) – professional basketball player
Charles Butt, Jr. (1941) – rowing coach
Skip Dise (2003) – member of 2010 US National Rowing Team⁷³
Adam Edelman (2014) – American-born Israeli Olympic skeleton athlete
Johan Harmenberg (dropped out in 1975; drafted by Sweden) – épée fencer, gold medal winner in the 1980 Olympics, world champion
Larry Kahn – tiddlywinks champion
Dave Lockwood (1975) – tiddlywinks champion
Jeff Sagarin (1970) – sports statistician
Zeke Sanborn – Olympic gold medalist
Jason Szuminski (2000) – major league pitcher
Steve Tucker (1991) – two-time member of the US Olympic rowing team

Miscellaneous

Katy Croff Bell (B.S. Ocean Engineering 2000) – National Geographic explorer
Sylvester Q. Cannon (B.S. Mining Engineering) – Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Csaba Csere (1978 B.S., 2 Mechanical Engineering) – automotive journalist, editor of Car and Driver
Lynn Yamada Davis (1977 B.S., Civil Engineering) – celebrity chef, Tiktoker⁷⁴ ⁷⁵
Janet Hsieh (2001) – Taiwanese-American television personality, violinist, author, and model; host of Fun Taiwan
Jeff Hwang – US Air Force fighter pilot, 1999 winner of Mackay Trophy
J. Kenji López-Alt (2002 B.S., 4, Architecture) – celebrity chef, author of The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
Ray Magliozzi (1972 B.S., 21B, Humanities and Science) – radio personality, Car Talk
Tom Magliozzi (1958 B.S., 14A, Economic Policy and Engineering) – radio personality, Car Talk
Lalit Pande (1972 M.S., 2 Mechanical Engineering) – environmentalist and Padma Shri awardee
Randal Pinkett – chairman and CEO of BCT Partners; winner of television show The Apprentice
Ubol Ratana (1973 B.S., 18 Mathematics) – Princess of Thailand
Aafia Siddiqui (1995 B.S., 7 Biology / Life Science) – neuroscientist; alleged Al-Qaeda operative; convicted of assaulting with a deadly weapon and attempting to kill US soldiers and FBI agents
Ellen Spertus (1990 B.S., 1992 M.S., 1998 PhD, Computer Science) – professor, computer scientist, 2001's "Sexiest Geek Alive"
Kelvin Teo (M.S. 2006) – young entrepreneur and season 1 winner of Malaysian reality show Love Me Do
Robert Varkonyi (1983 B.S., 15 Management, 1983 SB, 6 Computer Science and Engineering) – winner of the 2002 World Series of Poker Main Event

Fictional

Gordon Freeman, the silent protagonist of Half-Life, graduated at MIT with a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics
Lex Luthor, diabolical genius and supervillain of the DC Universe
Tim McGee, field agent specializing in cybersecurity and computer crime on NCIS, portrayed by Sean Murray
Tony Stark, alter ego of Iron Man, portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films
Howard Wolowitz, character on The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by Simon Helberg

Nobel laureate alumni

As of April 2011[update], the MIT Office of the Provost says that 76 Nobel awardees had or currently have a formal connection to MIT.⁷⁶ Of this group, 29 have earned MIT degrees (MIT has never awarded honorary degrees in any form).⁷⁷

Name	Degree	Degree year	Award year	Award	Citation	Notes
George Akerlof	PhD	1966	2001	Economics	"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"	⁷⁸
Sid Altman	B.S.	1960	1989	Chemistry	"for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"	⁷⁹
Kofi Annan	M.S.	1972	2001	Peace	"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"	⁸⁰
Robert Aumann	M.S.	1952	2005	Economics	"for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"	⁸¹
Elias James Corey	B.S. – Chemistry PhD – Chemistry	1948 1951	1990	Chemistry	"for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"	⁸²
Eric Cornell	PhD	1990	2001	Physics	"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"	⁸³
Peter Diamond	PhD	1963	2010	Economics	"for [the] analysis of markets with search frictions"	⁸⁴
Richard Feynman	B.S.	1939	1965	Physics	"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"	⁸⁵
Andrew Z. Fire	PhD	1983	2006	Medicine/Physiology	"for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"	⁸⁶
Murray Gell-Mann	PhD	1951	1969	Physics	"for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions"	⁸⁷
Leland H. Hartwell	PhD	1964	2001	Medicine/Physiology	"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"	⁸⁸
H. Robert Horvitz	B.S.	1968	2002	Medicine/Physiology	"for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'"	⁸⁹
Henry W. Kendall	B.S., PhD	1948, 1951	1990	Physics	"for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics"	⁹⁰
Lawrence Klein	PhD	1944	1980	Economics	"for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies"	⁹¹
Paul Krugman	PhD	1977	2009	Economics	"for developing new trade theory and"	⁹²
Robert B. Laughlin	PhD	1979	1998	Physics	"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"	⁹³
Robert C. Merton	PhD	1970	1997	Economics	"for a new method to determine the value of derivatives"	⁹⁴
Robert S. Mulliken	B.S. – Chemistry	1917	1966	Chemistry	"for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"	⁹⁵
Robert Mundell	PhD	1956	1999	Economics	"for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"	⁹⁶
William D. Nordhaus	PhD	1967	2018	Economics	"for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis"	⁹⁷
Charles Pedersen	M.S.	1927	1987	Chemistry	"for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"	⁹⁸
William D. Phillips	PhD	1976	1997	Physics	"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"	⁹⁹
Burton Richter	B.S., PhD	1952, 1956	1976	Physics	"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"	¹⁰⁰
Adam Riess	B.S.	1992	2011	Physics	"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"	¹⁰¹
John Robert Schrieffer	B.S.	1953	1972	Physics	"for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"	¹⁰²
William Shockley	PhD	1936	1956	Physics	"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"	¹⁰³
George F. Smoot	B.S., PhD	1966, 1970	2006	Physics	"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"	¹⁰⁴
Joseph Stiglitz	PhD	1966	2001	Economics	"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"	¹⁰⁵
Carl E. Wieman	B.S.	1973	2001	Physics	"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"	¹⁰⁶
Robert Burns Woodward	B.S.	1936	1965	Chemistry	"for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis"	¹⁰⁷

Astronaut alumni

Name	Degree	Year	Mission
James Alan Abrahamson	B.S. – Aeronautics	1955	Manned Orbital Laboratory
Buzz Aldrin	ScD – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1963	Gemini 12, Apollo 11
Dominic Antonelli	B.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1989	STS-119
Jerome Apt	PhD – Physics	1976	STS-37, STS-47, STS-59, STS-79
Kenneth Cameron	B.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics M.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1978 1979	STS-37, STS-56, STS-74
Gregory Chamitoff	PhD – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1992	STS-124, Expedition 17, Expedition 18, STS-126
Franklin Chang-Diaz	ScD – Nuclear Engineering	1977	STS-61-C, STS-34, STS-46, STS-60, STS-75, STS-91, STS-111
Philip K. Chapman	Multiple Degrees and Disciplines: B.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics ScD – Instrumentation	1964, 1967	1967
Raja Chari	M.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics	2001	SpaceX Crew-3
Catherine "Cady" Coleman	B.S. – Chemistry	1983	STS-73, STS-93
Timothy Creamer	M.S. – Physics	1992
Charles Duke	M.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1964	Apollo 16
Anthony W. England	B.S., M.S., PhD – Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences	1965, 1965, 1970	STS-51-F
Michael Fincke	Double Major: B.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics B.S. – Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences	1989	Soyuz TMA-4, Expedition 9, Soyuz TMA-13, Expedition 18, STS-134
John Grunsfeld	B.S. – Physics	1980	STS-67, STS-81, STS-103, STS-109, STS-125
Nick Hague	M.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics	2000	Soyuz MS-10, Soyuz MS-12 (Expedition 59/60)
Terry Hart	M.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1969	STS-41-C
Frederick Hauck	M.S. – Nuclear Engineering	1966	STS-7, STS-51-A, STS-26
Wendy Lawrence	M.S. – Ocean Engineering	1988	STS-67, STS-86, STS-91, STS-114
Mark C. Lee	M.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1980	STS-30, STS-47, STS-64, STS-81
William B. Lenoir	B.S., M.S., PhD – Electrical Engineering	1961, 1962, 1965	STS-5
Byron K. Lichtenberg	M.S., ScD – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1975, 1979	STS-9, STS-45
Michael Massimino	Multiple Degrees and Disciplines: M.S. – Technology and Public Policy M.S. – Mechanical Engineering Engineer's Degree – Mechanical Engineering PhD – Mechanical Engineering	1988 1988 1990 1992	STS-109, STS-125
Ronald McNair	PhD – Physics	1976	STS-41-B, STS-51-L
Pamela Ann Melroy	M.S. – Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences	1984	STS-92, STS-112, STS-120
Edgar Mitchell	ScD – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1964	Apollo 14
Jasmin Moghbeli	B.S. – Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology	2005	SpaceX Crew-7
Nicholas Patrick	M.S., PhD – Mechanical Engineering	1990, 1996	STS-116, STS-130
Stephen Robinson	Postdoc at Man-Vehicle Lab, Aeronautics/Astronautics	1993	STS-85, STS-95, STS-114
Albert Sacco	PhD – Chemical Engineering	1977	STS-73
Russell Schweickart	B.S., M.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1956, 1963	Apollo 9
David Scott	Dual Degrees: M.S. – Aeronautics/Astronautics Engineer's Degree – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1962 1962	Gemini 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 15
William Shepherd	Dual Degrees: M.S. – Mechanical Engineering Engineer's Degree – Ocean Engineering	1978, 1978	STS-27, STS-41, STS-52, Soyuz TM-31, Expedition 1, STS-102
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper	B.S., M.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1984, 1985	STS-115, STS-126
Daniel Tani	B.S., M.S. – Mechanical Engineering	1984, 1985	STS-108, STS-120, Expedition 16, STS-122
Robert Thirsk	Multiple Degrees and Disciplines: M.S. – Mechanical Engineering MBA – Management	1978, 1998	STS-78, Soyuz TMA-14, Expedition 19, STS-127
Janice Voss	Multiple Degrees and Disciplines: M.S. – Electrical Engineering PhD – Aeronautics/Astronautics	1977, 1978	STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, STS-99
Neil Woodward	B.S. – Physics	1984

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