Famous Alumni of Massachusetts Institute Of Technology - Celebrities from Massachusetts Institute Of Technology - page 2
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is widely considered the best institution in the world for a degree in Engineering. The campus of this university, situated in the city of Cambridge, in the United States, sprawls over 168 kilometers. According to a 2017 survey conducted by ‘Times Higher Education’, this famous institution was ranked 2nd in the whole of United States and 5th in the world. ‘Massachusetts Institute of Technology’ is not a globally recognized educational institution merely for its infrastructure or quality of education, but also for its notable alumni. The institution has produced several great entrepreneurs who have set fine examples of how a business has to be managed. Apparently, the university has produced more than 80 Nobel laureates, around 45 Rhodes Scholars and more than 30 astronauts. Some of the students who are a part of the institution’s alumni association are outstanding achievers and role models to many people around the world. A few noteworthy personalities who were once students of this famous university are Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, noted Indian economist Raghuram Rajan and television host Janet Hsieh. Kofi Annan has been immensely praised world over for his humanitarian works. He is also the founder of the non-profit initiative called the ‘Kofi Annan Foundation’ and was appointed the chairman of the organization ‘The Elders’. We are presenting to you a list of notable alumni of the ‘Massachusetts Institute of Technology’ who made waves for their remarkable achievements.
Check out the list of notable Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) alumni. Some of the notable Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) students are Carly Fiorina, John Forbes Nash, Jr., Benjamin Netanyahu, Richard Feynman and Charles Koch.
The Most Famous Alumni of Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | |||
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Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
Dolph Lundgren | November 3, 1957 | Swedish | Dolph Lundgren is a famous Swedish actor, film-maker, screenwriter and martial artist |
Franklin Chang Díaz | April 5, 1950 | Chinese, Costa Rican, American | Franklin Chang-Diaz is an American-Costa Rican physicist and former NASA astronaut |
Neri Oxman | February 6, 1976 | American | Neri Oxman is an American-Israeli architect |
Ahmed Chalabi | October 30, 1944 | Iraqi | Ahmed Chalabi was a controversial Iraqi politician who served as deputy prime minister of Iraq for a brief period |
James Harris Simons | 1938 | American | James Simons is an American mathematician and hedge fund manager who founded the famous Renaissance Technologies |
Alfred P. Sloan | May 23, 1875 | American | Alfred Sloan was an American business executive and philanthropist, known for his notable contributions to automotive industry |
Richard Feynman | May 11, 1918 | American | Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning American physicist who proposed the theory of quantum electrodynamics |
Buzz Aldrin | January 20, 1930 | American | Buzz Aldrin was a US Astronaut and was the second man to set foot on the moon |
Edith Clarke | February 10, 1883 | American | Edith Clarke was the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
Ray Tomlinson | April 23, 1941 | American | Raymond Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who was for long credited as the inventor of the email |
Henry Way Kendall
Henry Way Kendall (1926–1999) was a leading American physicist
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the classification of subatomic particles
Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai is an American inventor of Indian origin, credited by some sources to be the inventor of email
Ray Tomlinson
Raymond Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who was for long credited as the inventor of the email
Burton Richter
Burton Richter is an American scientist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 for his work on the discovery of a new subatomic particle ‘psi’
William Shockley
William Shockley was an American physicist and inventor
Edith Clarke
Edith Clarke was the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Rajan is a famous economist from India and the former Governor of RBI
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina is the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP) and the current Chair of the non-profit philanthropic organization Good360.