Harvard Fellows

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American Left as a consistent critic of the foreign policy of the United States, contemporary capitalism, and corporatocracy.

Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017–2023)

Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)

American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)

American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)

American physicist

American biochemist

American theoretical physicist

American actress

Nobel Prize-winning American physician

British American author and lecturer (1915–1973)

American engineer and computer scientist

American historian (born 1969)

American philosopher (born 1947)

American political scientist

American oceanographer

American particle physicist and cosmologist

Russian mathematician (1966–2017)

New Zealand politician and academic

Finnish philosopher and logician

American historian, social critic, and public intellectual (1917–2007)

American politician (born 1940)

Dutch astronomer and chemist

American architect and design theorist (1936-2022)

Canadian humanitarian, author, and retired senator and general

French sociologist

American philosopher (1926-2018)

American physicist

Pakistani diplomat

Colombian politician

American astrophysicist

Palestinian historian (1925–2026)

American mathematician

Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, Stanford University

Prime Minister of Somalia

1916-2000 linguist and anthropologist

Indian diplomat

Singaporean diplomat

mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics

Syrian-German social and political scientist and university lecturer

American physicist and nuclear scientist (1900–1965)

politician in Massachusetts, US

American National Security Advisor (1919-1996)

Iranian philosopher

American author, educator, and political activist and strategist (born 1959)

British–Israeli knot theorist and topologist

American theoretical physicist

Iranian-American academic and author (born 1960)

Hungarian mathematician

British mathematician

Pulitzer Prize winner and professor of history studying colonial encounter in Africa during the 20th-century

American sociologist (1914-2000)

Japanese politician, political scientist

Finnish general and former Chief of Defence

American historian

Ukrainian literary critic, culturologist, and writer

Irish writer (1900-1991)

American physicist

Hungarian neurobiologist

British historian