Category
page 1MacArthur Fellows

Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet (1940-1996)
Derek Walcott
Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright (1930–2017)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian writer (born 1977)

Susan Sontag
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004)
Barbara McClintock
American scientist and cytogeneticist
David Gross
American particle physicist and string theorist

Thomas Pynchon
American novelist (born 1937)
Frank Wilczek
American theoretical physicist
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
Esther Duflo
French-American economist (born 1972)
Adam Riess
American astrophysicist
Andrew Wiles
English mathematician (1953–)

Joseph Hooton Taylor
American astronomer
Carolyn Bertozzi
American chemist (born 1966)
Jared Diamond
American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)

Douglas Osheroff
American physicist
James Randi
Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent

Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist

John Hopfield
American scientist (born 1933)

Adrienne Rich
American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)

Karen Uhlenbeck
American mathematician (born 1942)
David Foster Wallace
American fiction writer and essayist (1962–2008)
Bill Irwin
American actor, clown, and comedian (born 1950)
Ornette Coleman
American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer (1930–2015)
Terence Tao
Australian-American mathematician

Leszek Kołakowski
Philosopher, historian of ideas (1927–2009)

Howard Gardner
american developmental psychologist & academic
Robert K. Merton
American sociologist (1910–2003)

Richard Rorty
American philosopher (1931–2007)
Harold Bloom
American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)

Michael Kremer
American development economist
Octavia E. Butler
American science fiction writer (1947-2006)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British-American author (1927-2013)

Robert Penn Warren
American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)

Jim Yong Kim
South Korean-American physician and anthropologist, 12th President of the World Bank

Cindy Sherman
American photographer (born 1954)
Lin-Manuel Miranda
American songwriter and composer (born 1980)

Jerzy Grotowski
Polish theatre director
Shing-Tung Yau
American mathematician from Hong Kong

Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)

George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)

Junot Díaz
author
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader

David Mumford
British/American mathematician

Israel Gelfand
Soviet-American mathematician

John Ashbery
poet from the United States of America (1927–2017)

Max Roach
American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer (1924–2007)
Ingrid Daubechies
Belgian physicist and mathematician

N. K. Jemisin
American science fiction and fantasy writer

Carl Woese
American microbiologist
Colson Whitehead
American novelist (born 1969)

Michael Freedman
Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson
American mathematician (1919–1985)
Charles Simic
Serbian born American poet (1938-2023)
Robert Sapolsky
American neuroendocrinology researcher (b. 1957)