List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni

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 at least one full term in any undergraduate class which has already graduated; or for at least two full terms as graduate students.

Architecture and design

• Christopher Charles Benninger – 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 – landscape architect of Meridian Hill Park and the first White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C.
• Gordon Bunshaft – architect of Lever House, Beinecke Library, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ; Pritzker Prize
• Vishaan Chakrabarti — architect and dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design
• Ogden Codman, Jr. – Beaux-Arts domestic architect, interior designer
• Walter S. Davis – designed numerous buildings in Los Angeles, California
• John Desmond – designed numerous public buildings in Baton Rouge, including the River Center
• Daniel Chester French – sculptor of Abraham Lincoln, John Harvard, Minute Man
• Cass Gilbert – architect of the US Supreme Court Building, Woolworth Building
• Greta Gray – Bachelor of Architecture, home economist at UCLA, author and academic
• Charles Sumner Greene – partner in Greene and Greene, domestic architects of Arts & Crafts style, Gamble House
• Henry Mather Greene – partner in Greene and Greene, domestic architects of Arts & Crafts style, Gamble House
• Marion Mahony Griffin – co-designer of the master plan for Canberra, Australia
• Nathanael Herreshoff – naval architect-engineer, yacht designer
• Raymond Hood – architect of Rockefeller Center, Tribune Tower
• Lois Lilley Howe – second woman in the US to found an architecture firm
• Jarvis Hunt – Chicago architect
• Myron Hunt – architect of Huntington Art Gallery, Rose Bowl
• Piotr Kowalski – artist, sculptor, architect, professor
• Roger K. Lewis – architect, urban planner, professor, author
• Austin W. Lord – architect of the administration buildings, Isthmian Canal Commission, Panama; director of the School of Architecture at Columbia University
• Kevin A. Lynch – urban planner, author of the seminal book The Image of the City
• John O. Merrill – structural engineer, architect, leader of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
• Eleanor Manning O'Connor – architect, educator, public housing advocate
• Neri Oxman – Ph.D. Architectural Design
• I. M. Pei – architect, Louvre Pyramid, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bank of China, MIT Buildings 18, 54, 66, E15; AIA Gold Medal, Pritzker Prize
• Frank M. Riley – architect
• Donald W. Southgate – architect in Nashville, Tennessee
• Sumner Spaulding – architect, graduated in 1916, designed many buildings in California
• Louis Sullivan – influential founder of the Chicago School; "father of skyscrapers"; "father of modernism"; AIA Gold Medal
• James Knox Taylor – Supervisory Architect of Denver Mint, Philadelphia Mint, many post offices, court houses, other federal buildings
• Robert Taylor – MIT's first black graduate, architect of the Tuskegee Institute
• Harry Mohr Weese – architect, historic preservation advocate, designed first group of stations for Washington Metro system

Business and entrepreneurship

Computers and Internet

• Joseph Alsop – co-founder of Progress Software
• Efi Arazi – Israeli industrialist and businessman, founder of Scitex Corporation
• Shiva Ayyadurai – 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 – founder of Instabase
• Katie Bouman – developer of the algorithm used in filtering the first images of a black hole taken by the Event Horizon Telescope
• Larry DeMar – programmer for Williams, co-creator of Defender and Robotron: 2084, and founder of Leading Edge Design
• John J. Donovan – 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 – co-founder and CTO at Dropbox
• Carly Fiorina – former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
• Philip Gale – writer of TotalAccess, computer prodigy, and Internet software developer
• Gideon Gartner — 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 – co-founder of Texas Instruments
• Andrew He – competitive programmer
• William R. Hewlett – co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
• Danny Hillis – co-founder of Thinking Machines and former Disney Fellow
• Mark Horowitz – founder of Rambus
• Drew Houston – co-founder and CEO of Dropbox
• Irwin M. Jacobs – co-founder of Qualcomm with Andrew Viterbi, current chairman and former CEO; former MIT professor
• Brewster Kahle – internet archivist, founder of Alexa
• Mitch Kapor – software entrepreneur, founder of Lotus Corporation
• Steve Kirsch – inventor of the optical mouse, co-founder of Frame Technology Corporation and founder of Infoseek Corporation
• Alan Kotok – chief architect PDP-10, associate chairman World Wide Web Consortium
• Susan Landau – Guggenheim Fellow and cybersecurity expert
• Daniel Lewin – founder of Akamai
• Jack Little – co-founder of MathWorks, which created and sells MATLAB
• Steve Mann – co-creator of the SixthSense device
• Patrick McGovern – founder of IDG/Computerworld
• Steve Meretzky – computer game designer
• Robert Metcalfe – entrepreneur, founder of 3Com; inventor of Ethernet
• Pranav Mistry – co-creator of the SixthSense device
• Nicholas Negroponte – founder, MIT Media Lab, One Laptop per Child Association
• Andrew Ng – co-founder of education technology company Coursera, director of Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab
• Robert Noyce – integrated circuit pioneer, co-founder of Intel, Draper Prize
• Ken Olsen – founder of Digital Equipment Corporation
• Suhas Patil — founder of Cirrus Logic
• William Poduska – computer engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Prime Computer and Apollo Computer
• William A. Porter – founder of E*TRADE
• Kanjun Qiu – founder of Imbue, an AI research lab
• Allen Razdow – founder of Mathsoft Inc.; inventor of Mathcad
• Alex Rigopulos – founder of Harmonix Music Systems, developer of Guitar Hero and Rock Band
• Larry Roberts – member of design group for original ARPANET, co-founder of Caspian Networks and Packetcom, former CEO of DHL
• Sheldon Roberts – one of the "traitorous eight" who founded Fairchild Semiconductor; co-founder of Amelco which later became Teledyne
• Douglas T. Ross – founder of SofTech, Inc.
• Michael J. Saylor – co-founder of MicroStrategy
• Megan Smith – Google executive; former CEO of PlanetOut, early smartphones at General Magic, 3rd United States Chief Technology Officer
• Robert Spinrad – computer pioneer; director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
• Ray Stata – founder of Analog Devices
• Lisa Su – CEO of Advanced Micro Devices
• Eric Swanson – co-founder of Sycamore Networks
• Theodore Tso – Google software engineer, maintainer of the ext4 filesystem
• Philippe Villers – founder of Computervision, which is now part of PTC
• Andrew Viterbi – electrical engineer; inventor of the Viterbi algorithm; co-founder of Qualcomm; former UCLA and UCSD professor
• Brandon Wade – founder of Seeking Arrangement
• Christopher Weaver – founder of Bethesda Softworks and co-founder of ZeniMax Media
• Charles Zhang – chairman of the board and CEO of Sohu, Inc.

Engineering

• Satya N. Atluri – engineer; recipient of 2013 Padma Bhushan 2013, 2015 Crichlow Trust Prize from AIAA
• Colin Angle – co-founder of iRobot
• Vanu Bose – electrical engineer, founder of Vanu Inc, and son of Amar Bose
• Karel Bossart – designer of the SM-65 Atlas missile
• Nick Caldwell – Silicon Valley executive and advocate for tech leaders of color
• William David Coolidge – physicist who made major contributions to X-ray machines, director of the General Electric Research Laboratory
• Henry M. Crane – automotive engineer associated with Crane Motor Car Company, Crane-Simplex, Pontiac Six, and Wright-Martin
• Charles Stark Draper – engineer and inventor; the "father of inertial navigation"; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1981
• Tiera Guinn Fletcher – aerospace engineer
• Crawford Greenewalt – chemical engineer, president of DuPont, lead DuPont engineer on the Manhattan Project plutonium breeder reactors, ornithologist and photographer
• Helen Greiner – co-founder of iRobot
• Sir Kenelm Guinness, 4th Baronet – engineer with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• J. Halcombe Laning — developer of Q-guidance system and Apollo mission guidance system
• Charles Townsend Ludington – aviation pioneer
• Eric Gilbertson B.S., M.S., and Ph.D., teaching professor of engineering at Seattle University and mountaineer
• Ernest Boyd MacNaughton – bank president; president of The Oregonian; president of Reed College
• Fred Mannering – professor University of South Florida; Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
• Jim Marggraff – inventor of the LeapPad Learning System, Fly pentop computer, and Livescribe smartpen
• Lissa Martinez – ocean engineer
• Regina Murphy – professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Mohammad Modarres – Eminent Professor of the University of Maryland; founder of world's first graduate curriculum in reliability engineering
• Henry M. Paynter – 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 – CTO of Uber
• Mabel MacFerran Rockwell – only woman involved in designing and installing the power generating machinery for Hoover Dam 1
• RJ Scaringe – 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 – 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 engineering
• Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme – former Chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of India
• Suchatvee Suwansawat – Thai Politicians, Professor of Engineering, former president of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, former of President of the Thai Council of Engineers
• Christine Taylor-Butler – 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
• Morris Chang – chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, 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 Mexico
• Kenneth Germeshausen – co-founder, and the first "G", of the defense contractor EG&G
• Bernard Marshall Gordon – electrical engineer, inventor, philanthropist, co-founded Analogic Corporation, National Medal of Technology
• 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
• 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
• Rick Woodward – president of Woodward Iron Company, owner of Birmingham Barons

Finance and consulting

• Roger Ward Babson – entrepreneur, founder of Babson Institute, 1940 presidential nominee on the Prohibition Party ticket
• Sam Bankman-Fried – convicted fraudster and former CEO of the insolvent cryptocurrency exchange FTX and quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research
• 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
• Gary Wang – former CTO at bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX
• Nigel Wilson – CEO of Legal & General

Healthcare and biotechnology

• Thomas O. Bales Jr. – medical technology inventor and entrepreneur
• David Benaron – digital health entrepreneur, physician
• Bertha Isabelle Barker - bacteriologist at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research studied tuberculosis.
• Regina E. Herzlinger – 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"
• Paul F. Levy – former president of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center hospitals, former executive director of Boston's MWRA Harbor Cleanup project
• Neil Pappalardo – Founder and chairman of MEDITECH
• Bernard Sherman – 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
• 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 – 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; philanthropist
• 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 – 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 – president of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
• Theodosios Alexander – Dean of Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology 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 – president of Northeastern University, linguist, author
• Andrew Armacost – dean of the United States Air Force Academy
• Dennis Assanis – 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
• Larry Bacow – president of Harvard University, former president of Tufts University, lawyer, economist, author
• Merrill J. Bateman – former president of Brigham Young University; Mormon Presiding Bishop
• Scott C. Beardsley – dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business
• Lawrence Berk – founder and former president of Berklee College of Music
• William R. Brody – former president of Johns Hopkins University, current president of Salk Institute
• Emily Calandrelli – aerospace engineer and STEM communicator
• Marion Hamilton Carter – educator, journalist, author
• Jared Cohon – former president of Carnegie Mellon University
• William Cooper – president of University of Richmond
• Dianna Leilani Cowern – 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 organizations
• Allan Cullimore – former president of New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Woodie Flowers – MIT professor, created Introduction to Design, founder of FIRST Robotics Competition, starting host of Scientific American Frontiers
• Philip Friedman – president of Golden Gate University
• Thomas P. Gerrity – former dean of Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
• Hollis Godfrey – former president of Drexel University
• Eric Grimson – computer scientist and Chancellor of MIT
• Michelle S. Hoo Fatt – professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Akron
• Amos Horev – former president of Technion
• Shirley Jackson – president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, physicist
• Martin C. Jischke – former president of Purdue University
• Theodora J. Kalikow – 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 – professor at the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California
• John Maeda – former president of Rhode Island School of Design, graphic designer, computer scientist, author, venture capitalist
• Modesto Maidique – former president of Florida International University
• Julianne Malveaux – president of Bennett College
• Alan Marcus – economist; professor at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College; first recipient of the Mario Gabelli Endowed Professorship
• David McClain – president of University of Hawaii
• Frederic Mishkin – economist; professor at Columbia Business School; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ; appeared in the documentary Inside Job
• Leo E. Morton – chancellor of University of Missouri-Kansas City
• Gretchen Ritter – dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences
• Richard Santagati – former president of Merrimack College
• Rahmat Shoureshi – researcher, professor, and provost of New York Institute of Technology
• Reed Shuldiner – Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Nam-Pyo Suh – president of KAIST
• Lawrence H. Summers – former president of Harvard University, economist, former presidential advisor
• Subra Suresh – former president of Carnegie Mellon University, former Director of the National Science Foundation, former Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT
• Demetri Terzopoulos – Academy Award-winning computer scientist, university professor, author, and entrepreneur
• Ahmed Tewfik – 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. – president of University of Kentucky
• Laura Tyson – chairman of the CEA under Clinton; former dean of the Haas School of Business; former dean of the London Business School
• Hal Varian – chief economist at Google, founding dean of the School of Information at UC Berkeley
• Patrick Henry Winston – author of standard textbooks on artificial intelligence and programming languages, MIT professor, co-founded Ascent Technology
• Elisabeth Zinser – president of Southern Oregon University

Humanities, arts, and social sciences

Academics

• Saleem Ali – 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 – 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 – researcher, co-author of The Bell Curve – professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
• Ellen Swallow Richards – founder of the modern home economics discipline; first woman admitted to MIT
• Ann Senghas – developmental psychologist, professor at Columbia University

Actors, directors, and other crew

• Tohoru Masamune - actor. Portrayed Shredder in Michael Bay Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film), Inception, Never Have I Ever (TV series).
• Dylan Bruno – actor; former model
• Yau-Man Chan – contestant on Survivor: ''Figi and Survivor: Micronesia; table tennis player
• James Eckhouse – actor, Beverly Hills, 90210
• Herbert Kalmus – inventor of Technicolor; star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Saladin K. Patterson – developer and executive producer of The Wonder Years revival
• Erland Van Lidth De Jeude – Hollywood actor; opera singer
• James Woods – Hollywood actor; Oscar nominee; Emmy winner
• Dottie Zicklin – 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 – economist
• Alan Carlin – economist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency
• Dean Karlan – development economist and founder of Innovations for Poverty Action
• Paul Krugman – New York Times columnist, John Bates Clark Medal and Nobel Prize winner
• Robert J. Shiller – 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 – 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 – hybrid trumpeter, composer, educational technology consultant
• Alan Pierson – conductor; Northwestern University faculty
• Tom Scott – winner of two Academy Awards for Best Sound for The Right Stuff and Amadeus
• Jamshied Sharifi – Tony Award-winning composer
• Tom Scholz – Founding member and guitarist of the band Boston (band)

Painting, sculpting, and visual art

• Alia Farid – contemporary artist
• Marisa Morán Jahn – multimedia artist and founder of Studio REV-
• Alan Rath – electronic, kinetic, and robotic sculptor
• Samuel Washington Weis – painter

Writers and editors

• Steve Altes – humorist, National Medal of Technology recipient, writer of Geeks & Greeks graphic novel about MIT
• John W. Campbell – writer, longtime editor of Astounding Science Fiction
• Rebecca Richardson Joslin – essayist, lecturer, benefactor, clubwoman
• Kealoha, born Steven Wong – 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 – 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
• Hillary Diane Andales – astrophysicist and science communicator
• Pauline Morrow Austin – meteorologist, Director of Weather Radar at MIT, research staff in Radiation Laboratory
• Milo Backus – geophysicist, Dave P. Carlton Centennial Professor of geophysics
• 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 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
• Wesley A. Clark – computing pioneer, creator of the LINC
• Fernando Corbató – retired MIT professor, Turing Award, co-founder of the Multics project
• Shiladitya DasSarma – pioneering microbiologist and professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine who deciphered genetic code for Halobacterium NRC-1
• Peter J. Denning – 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
• K. Eric Drexler – pioneer nanotechnologist, author, co-founded Foresight Institute
• Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton – former MIT Institute professor; co-founder, and the "E", of EG&G; stroboscope photography pioneer; Oscar winner 1940
• Theodore Miller Edison – only child of Thomas Alva Edison who graduated from college; inventor with over 80 patents
• Farouk El-Baz – Supervisor of Lunar Science Planning, Apollo Program, NASA
• Aprille Ericsson – aerospace engineer
• Kelly Falkner – oceanographer, Antarctic researcher
• Bran Ferren – designer, technologist, Eegineer, entertainment technology expert, prolific inventor, Academy Award nominee
• Carl Feynman – computer scientist; son of the physicist Richard Feynman
• Michael Fincke – NASA astronaut, ISS Commander and former record-holder for time in space.
• Marron William Fort – first African-American to earn a PhD in engineering
• Bob Frankston – co-inventor of Visicalc ; 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, Draper Prize
• 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
• Kenneth E. Goodson – mechanical engineer and faculty at Stanford University
• Martha Goodway – archaeometallurgist at the Smithsonian Institution
• Bill Gosper – mathematician, a founder of the original hacker community, pioneer of symbolic computing, originator of hashlife
• Julia R. Greer – materials science professor at Caltech, pioneer in the fields of nanomechanics and architected materials, CNN 2020 Visionary
• Gerald Guralnik – 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 2010
• C. R. Hagen – 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
• George Ellery Hale – astronomer, founded several astronomical observatories, developed Throop College of Technology into Caltech
• Heidi Hammel – planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus
• Karen Hao, award-winning AI journalist
• William W. Happ – silicon transistor pioneer at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, and Professor at Arizona State University
• Guadalupe Hayes-Mota – biotechnologist and business director
• Asegun Henry – mechanical engineer
• Caroline Herzenberg – physicist
• Julian W. Hill – inventor of nylon
• C.-T. James Huang – generative linguist, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Harvard, Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, recipient of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan's Lifetime Achievement Award
• David A. Huffman – computer scientist known for Huffman coding used in lossless data compression
• Jerome C. Hunsaker – pioneering aeronautical engineer, airship designer, former head of MIT Mechanical Engineering Department
• Anya Hurlbert – 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
• Rudolf E. Kálmán – electrical engineer, theoretical mathematician, co-inventor of Kalman Filter algorithm, Draper Prize
• 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 – computing and Internet pioneer, one of the key group of designers of the original ARPANET
• Henry Kloss – 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 – inventor, entrepreneur in music synthesizers, OCR and speech-to-text processing
• Leslie Lamport – computing pioneer in temporal logic, developer of LaTeX, winner of the Turing Award
• Robert S. Langer – biochemical engineer, biomedical researcher, MIT professor, inventor, entrepreneur, Draper Prize
• Norman Levinson – 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 – information engineering professor
• Steven R. Little – chemical engineer, pharmaceutical scientist, and department chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering
• Maureen D. Long – observational seismologist
• Edward Norton Lorenz – mathematician, meteorologist, MIT professor emeritus, invented chaos theory, discovered Lorenz attractor
• Joseph Lykken – theoretical physicist, proposed "weak scale superstring" theory
• Luz Martinez-Miranda – physicist and professor at the University of Maryland; first female president of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists
• Hiram Percy Maxim – inventor of the "Maxim Silencer" and founder of the American Radio Relay League
• John F. McCarthy Jr. – director of MIT Center for Space Research and director of Lewis Research Center, NASA
• Douglas McIlroy – mathematician, software engineer, professor, developed component-based software engineering, an original developer of Unix, member of National Academy of Engineering
• Diane McKnight – engineering professor, limnologist, biogeochemist, Antarctic researcher
• Anne McNeil – chemist and professor at University of Michigan
• Faye McNeill – atmospheric chemist and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University
• Parisa Mehrkhodavandi – chemist
• Fulvio Melia – theoretical astrophysicist, professor, author, editor, general educator
• Holly Michael – hydrogeologist and professor
• Arnold Mindell – physicist, author, psychologist – developer of Process Oriented Psychology
• Daniel Mindiola – professor of chemistry at University of Pennsylvania
• Douglas J. Mink – 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, Draper Prize
• Robert A. "Bob" Pease – analog integrated circuit design expert, technical author
• Irene Pepperberg – Brandeis University professor, researcher in animal cognition, trained Alex
• Alan Perlis – computer scientist, professor, pioneer of programming languages, winner of the first Turing Award
• Radia Perlman – computer scientist, network engineer, invented numerous data network technologies, "mother of the Internet"
• David Pesetsky – 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 – gunsmith noted for precision rifling of gun barrels
• Ronald T. Raines – chemical biologist, entrepreneur, and MIT professor
• Edward Rebar – biologist, senior vice president, and chief technology officer at Sangamo Therapeutics
• ChoKyun Rha – food technologist, professor at MIT
• Adam Riess – physicist, Nobel Prize winner in Physics awarded in 2011 for demonstrating the acceleration of the universe's rate of expansion
• Louis W. Roberts – microwave physicist, chief of the Microwave Laboratory at NASA's Electronics Research Center, director of the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
• Jerome Saltzer – retired MIT professor, timesharing computing pioneer, co-founder of the Multics project, Director of Project Athena
• Frederick P. Salvucci – 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 – 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 – mechanical engineer, inventor, former Peace Corps volunteer, MIT senior lecturer and researcher in appropriate technology, MacArthur Fellow
• Oliver R. Smoot – namesake of the smoot unit of measurement, former chair of ANSI; former president of ISO
• Richard M. Stallman – computer programmer; Free Software activist; creator of EMACS editor, GNU; MacArthur Fellow
• Guy L. Steele, Jr. – computer scientist, programming language expert, an original editor of the Jargon File
• Richard Stratt – professor of physical chemistry at Brown University
• Mahmooda Sultana – NASA research engineer
• Bert Sutherland – managed research laboratories, including Sun Microsystems Laboratories, the Systems Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC, and the Computer Science Division of Bolt, Beranek and Newman
• Ivan Sutherland – computer graphics pioneer, former professor, ARPAnet and Internet pioneer, co-founded Evans & Sutherland, Turing Award
• Lynne Talley – physical oceanographer, professor
• Badri Nath Tandon – gastroenterologist, textbook author, Sasakawa WHO Health Prize and Padma Bhushan winner
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum – computer scientist, professor, textbook author, creator of Minix
• 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. – 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
• Jenny Y Yang – 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 – professional basketball player
• Charles Butt, Jr. – rowing coach
• Adam Edelman – American-born Israeli Olympic skeleton athlete
• Johan Harmenberg – épée fencer, gold medal winner in the 1980 Olympics, world champion
• Larry Kahn – tiddlywinks champion
• Dave Lockwood – tiddlywinks champion
• Jeff Sagarin – sports statistician
• Zeke Sanborn – Olympic gold medalist
• Jason Szuminski – major league pitcher
• Steve Tucker – two-time member of the US Olympic rowing team

Miscellaneous

• Katy Croff Bell – National Geographic explorer
• Sylvester Q. Cannon – Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• Csaba Csere – automotive journalist, editor of Car and Driver
• Lynn Yamada Davis – celebrity chef, TikToker
• Janet Hsieh – 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 – celebrity chef, author of The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
• Ray Magliozzi – radio personality, Car Talk
• Tom Magliozzi – radio personality, Car Talk
• Lalit Pande – environmentalist and Padma Shri awardee
• Randal Pinkett – chairman and CEO of BCT Partners; winner of television show The Apprentice
• Ubol Ratana – Princess of Thailand
• Aafia Siddiqui – neuroscientist; alleged Al-Qaeda operative; convicted of assaulting with a deadly weapon and attempting to kill US soldiers and FBI agents
• Ellen Spertus – professor, computer scientist, 2001's "Sexiest Geek Alive"
• Kelvin Teo – young entrepreneur and season 1 winner of Malaysian reality show Love Me Do
• Robert Varkonyi – 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