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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.[1]
The MIT Alumni Association defines eligibility for membership as follows:[2]
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.[3]
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 | |
| 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 |
Member of the US House of Representatives | [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 to 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 | 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 | 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] |