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

NameBirthdayNationalityBio
Dolph LundgrenNovember 3, 1957SwedishDolph Lundgren is a famous Swedish actor, film-maker, screenwriter and martial artist
Franklin Chang DíazApril 5, 1950Chinese, Costa Rican, AmericanFranklin Chang-Diaz is an American-Costa Rican physicist and former NASA astronaut
Neri OxmanFebruary 6, 1976AmericanNeri Oxman is an American-Israeli architect
Ahmed ChalabiOctober 30, 1944IraqiAhmed Chalabi was a controversial Iraqi politician who served as deputy prime minister of Iraq for a brief period
James Harris Simons1938AmericanJames Simons is an American mathematician and hedge fund manager who founded the famous Renaissance Technologies
Alfred P. SloanMay 23, 1875AmericanAlfred Sloan was an American business executive and philanthropist, known for his notable contributions to automotive industry
Richard FeynmanMay 11, 1918AmericanRichard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning American physicist who proposed the theory of quantum electrodynamics
Buzz AldrinJanuary 20, 1930AmericanBuzz Aldrin was a US Astronaut and was the second man to set foot on the moon
Edith ClarkeFebruary 10, 1883AmericanEdith Clarke was the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ray TomlinsonApril 23, 1941AmericanRaymond Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who was for long credited as the inventor of the email
Lawrence Klein

Lawrence Klein

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AmericanSeptember 14, 1920103 views

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

AmericanSeptember 15, 1929139 views

Shiva Ayyadurai

Shiva Ayyadurai is an American inventor of Indian origin, credited by some sources to be the inventor of email

IndianDecember 2, 1963156 views

Ray Tomlinson

Raymond Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who was for long credited as the inventor of the email

AmericanApril 23, 1941254 views

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’

AmericanMarch 22, 1931106 views

William Shockley

William Shockley was an American physicist and inventor

AmericanFebruary 13, 1910156 views

Edith Clarke

Edith Clarke was the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

AmericanFebruary 10, 1883266 views

Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram Rajan is a famous economist from India and the former Governor of RBI

IndianFebruary 3, 1963210 views

Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina is the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP) and the current Chair of the non-profit philanthropic organization Good360.