| Faculty - Current: 76 | ||
| Anderson, Stanford | 1969 | |
| Banerjee, Abhijit | 2000 | |
| Benedek, George B. | 1960 | |
| Benney, David J. | 1964 | |
| Berger, Suzanne | 1979 | |
| Bertschinger, Edmund | 2007 | |
| Berwick, Robert C. | 1987 | |
| Boyle, Edward A. | 1991 | |
| Bras, Rafael L. | 1982 | |
| Burchfiel, B. Clark | 1985 | |
| Chen, Gang | 2002 | |
| Chen, Min | 1985 | |
| Cheng, Hung | 1970 | |
| Chisholm, Sallie W. | 1997 | |
| Conrad, Janet M. | 2009 | |
| de Neufville, Richard | 1973 | |
| Deutch, John M. | 1974 | |
| Diamond, Peter A. | 1965, 1982 | |
| Doyle, Patrick S. | 2009 | |
| Dudley, Richard M. | 1991 | |
| Fink, Gerald R. | 1974 | |
| Fogelson, Robert M. | 1973 | |
| Freedman, Daniel Z. | 1973, 1985 | |
| Goemans, Michel X. | 2007 | |
| Guillemin, Victor W. | 1988 | |
| Harbison, John H. | 1977 | |
| Helgason, Sigurdur | 1964 | |
| Hynes, Richard O. | 1982 | |
| Jackiw, Roman W. | 1977 | |
| Jensen, Klavs F. | 1987 | |
| Joannopoulos, John D. | 1981 | |
| Kac, Victor | 1986 | |
| Kanigel, Robert | 2008 | |
| Kardar, Mehran | 2001 | |
| Kleiman, Steven L. | 1979 | |
| Lauffenburger, Douglas A. | 1989 | |
| Lee, Patrick | 1995 | |
| Levy, Frank | 1986 | |
| Lippard, Stephen J. | 1971 | |
| Litster, J. David | 1971 | |
| Lo, Andrew W. | 2002 | |
| Lodish, Harvey F. | 1977 | |
| Lusztig, George | 1982 | |
| Maier, Pauline | 1988 | |
| Mei, Chiang C. | 1972 | |
| Melrose, Richard B. | 1992 | |
| Negele, John W. | 1982 | |
| Oppenheim, Alan V. | 1972 | |
| Perry, Ruth | 1987 | |
| Prelec, Drazen | 2005 | |
| Rich, Alexander | 1963 | |
| Ritvo, Harriet | 1989 | |
| Rose, Nancy L. | 2004 | |
| Ross, Stephen A. | 1975 | |
| Schechter, Paul L. | 2001 | |
| Silbey, Robert J. | 1972 | |
| Silbey, Susan S. | 2008 | |
| Singer, Irving | 1965 | |
| Singer, Isadore M. | 1968, 1975 | |
| Smith, Merritt Roe | 1982 | |
| Spirn, Anne Whiston | 2007 | |
| Stalnaker, Robert | 1974 | |
| Stanley, Richard P. | 1983 | |
| Sudan, Madhu | 2005 | |
| Toomre, Alar | 1969 | |
| Turkle, Sherry R. | 1980 | |
| Uricchio, William | 2003 | |
| Vale, Lawrence | 1995 | |
| van Oudenaarden, Alexander | 2008 | |
| Vercoe, Barry L. | 1982 | |
| Walker, Graham C. | 1984 | |
| Wexler, Kenneth | 1985 | |
| Wunsch, Carl I. | 1981 | |
| Zwiebach, Barton | 1996 | |
| Staff - Current: 4 | ||
| Frankel, Felice | 1995 | |
| Funkhouser, Erica | 2007 | |
| Tirole, Jean - Visiting Faculty | 1988 | |
| Zhang, Shuguang | 2006 | |
| Faculty - Emeritus: 56 | ||
| Alberty, Robert A. | 1950 | |
| Bamberger, Jeanne S. | 1988 | |
| Bernstein, Aron M. | 1968 | |
| Bers, Abraham | 1968 | |
| Biemann, Klaus | 1983 | |
| Brace, William F. | 1960 | |
| Brenner, Howard | 1988 | |
| Chomsky, Noam | 1971 | |
| Clark, George W. | 1962 | |
| Dyck, Martin | 1961 | |
| Eckaus, Richard S. | 1961 | |
| Fisher, Franklin M. | 1981 | |
| Gallager, Robert G. | 1977 | |
| Garland, Carl W. | 1963 | |
| Graham, Loren R. | 1969 | |
| Grodzins, Lee | 1964, 1971 | |
| Halle, Morris | 1960 | |
| Howard, Louis N. | 1961 | |
| Huang, Kerson | 1965 | |
| Ingard, Karl Uno | 1959 | |
| Kaysen, Carl | 1955 | |
| Keller, Evelyn F. | 2000 | |
| Keniston, Kenneth | 1979 | |
| Kerman, Arthur K. | 1961 | |
| King, Jonathan | 1986 | |
| Kostant, Bertram | 1959 | |
| Koster, George F. | 1954 | |
| Lax, Benjamin | 1981 | |
| Lewin, Walter H. G. | 1984 | |
| Lin, Chia-Chiao | 1954, 1960 | |
| Lomon, Earle L. | 1965 | |
| Magasanik, Boris | 1957 | |
| Malkus, Willem V. R. | 1971, 1979 | |
| Marx, Leo | 1961, 1965 | |
| Newman, John Nicholas | 1973 | |
| Osborne, Louis S. | 1959 | |
| Papert, Seymour A. | 1980 | |
| Penman, Sheldon | 1982 | |
| Pettengill, Gordon H. | 1980 | |
| Probstein, Ronald F. | 1960 | |
| Rein, Martin | 1978 | |
| Rogers, Jr., Hartley | 1960 | |
| Sacks, Gerald E. | 1966 | |
| Samuelson, Paul A. | 1948 | |
| Seyferth, Dietmar | 1967 | |
| Steinfeld, Jeffrey I. | 1972 | |
| Stevens, Kenneth N. | 1962 | |
| Stroock, Daniel W. | 1978 | |
| Temin, Peter | 2001 | |
| Trilling, Leon | 1963 | |
| Waugh, John S. | 1962 | |
| Weiner, Charles | 1970 | |
| Weiss, Rainer | 2000 | |
| Wolff, Cynthia Griffin | 1997 | |
| Yip, Sidney | 1972 | |
| Staff - Retired: 1 | ||
| Lerman, Leonard | 1971 | |
| Faculty - Former: 7 | ||
| Cahn, John W. | 1960 | |
| Fudenberg, Drew | 1990 | |
| Maskin, Eric S. | 1980 | |
| Naginski, Erika | 2007 | |
| Sharpless, K. Barry | 1987 | |
| Slyomovics, Susan | 1995 | |
| Vempala, Santosh S. | 2005 | |
| Staff - Former: 2 | ||
| Alter, Stephen | 2002 | |
| Erman, Geraldine | 1994 | |
| Faculty - Deceased: 25 | ||
| Ambrose, Warren | 1947 | |
| Benedict, Manson | 1968 | |
| Boolos, George | 1996 | |
| Brown, Edgar Cary | 1956 | |
| Buchanan, John M. | 1964 | |
| Deutsch, Martin | 1953, 1960 | |
| Dornbusch, Rudiger | 1979 | |
| Earls, Paul | 1970 | |
| Elliott, John F. | 1964 | |
| Feshbach, Herman | 1954 | |
| Frieden, Bernard J. | 1975 | |
| Harleman, Donald R F. | 1968 | |
| Haus, Hermann A. | 1959 | |
| Ingram, Vernon M. | 1967 | |
| Kaufmann, William Weed | 1951 | |
| Kay, Lily E. | 1997 | |
| Low, Francis E. | 1961 | |
| Melcher, James R. | 1971 | |
| Rodwin, Lloyd | 1964 | |
| Tisza, Laszlo | 1962 | |
| Toong, Tau Yi | 1958 | |
| Villars, Felix M. H. | 1956 | |
| Weisskopf, Victor F. | 1956 | |
| Whitehead, George W. | 1955 | |
| MIT Corporation member - Deceased: 2 | ||
| Saxon, David S. | 1956, 1961 | |
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Guggenheim Fellow total: 173