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The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 citizens or residents of the U.S., of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work." According to the Foundation website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential." The current amount of the award is $500'000, paid in quarterly installments over five years. There have been 731 recipients to date. The MacArthur Foundation has distributed over $350 million to these recipients.

The Fellowship has no application. People are nominated anonymously, by a body of nominators who submit recommendations to a small selection committee of about a dozen people, also anonymous. The committee then reviews every nominee and passes along their recommendations to the President and the board of directors. The entire process is anonymous and confidential. Most new MacArthur Fellows first learn that they have even been considered when they receive the congratulatory phone call - see NY Times Op-Ed by MacArthur genius Jim Collins for insight into the experience.

Contents 1 List of MacArthur Fellows 1.1 1981 1.2 1982 1.3 1983 1.4 1984 1.5 1985 1.6 1986 1.7 1987 1.8 1988 1.9 1989 1.10 1990 1.11 1991 1.12 1992 1.13 1993 1.14 1994 1.15 1995 1.16 1996 1.17 1997 1.18 1998 1.19 1999 1.20 2000 1.21 2001 1.22 2002 1.23 2003 1.24 2004 1.25 2005 1.26 2006 1.27 2007 2 References in popular culture 3 References 4 External links

MacArthur Fellows organized by the year of their awards:

A. R. Ammons, poet Joseph Brodsky, poet Gregory V. Chudnovsky, mathematician Robert Coles, child psychiatrist Shelly Errington, cultural anthropologist Henry Louis Gates, Jr., literary critic Michael Ghiselin, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, paleontology Ian Graham, archaeologist John Imbrie, climatologist Elma Lewis, arts educator James Alan McPherson, novelist, writer Roy P. Mottahedeh, historian Douglas D. Osheroff, physicist Robert Root-Bernstein, biologist and historian of science Lawrence Rosen, attorney and anthropologist Carl E. Schorske, intellectual historian Leslie Marmon Silko, writer Derek Walcott, poet and playwright Robert Penn Warren, poet, writer, and literary critic Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist and physicist[1]

John Cairns, molecular biologist Joel E. Cohen, population biologist Richard Critchfield, essayist Howard Gardner, psychologist John Gaventa, sociologist David Hawkins, philosopher John P. Holdren, arms control and energy analyst Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and historian Robert Kates, geographer Raphael Carl Lee, surgeon Cormac McCarthy, writer Barbara McClintock, geneticist Richard C. Mulligan, molecular biologist Elaine H. Pagels, historian of religion David Pingree, Historian of Science Paul G. Richards, seismologist Richard Rorty, philosopher Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., astrophysicist Michael Woodford, economist George Zweig, physicist and neurobiologist[2]

Fouad Ajami, political scientist Charles A. Bigelow, graphic designer Peter Robert Lamont Brown, historian Robert Darnton, European historian Persi Diaconis, statistician William Gaddis, novelist Ved Mehta, writer Robert Parris Moses, educator and philosopher Richard A. Muller, geologist and astrophysicist

Conlon Nancarrow, composer Alfonso Ortiz, cultural anthropologist Francesca Rochberg, Assyriologist and historian of science Charles Sabel, political scientist and legal scholar Ralph Shapey, composer and conductor Michael Silverstein, lingust Randolph Whitfield, Jr, ophthalmologist Frank Wilczek, physicist Frederick Wiseman, documentary filmmaker Edward Witten, physicist [3]

R. Stephen Berry, physical chemist Philip D. Curtin, historian of Africa William H. Durham, biological anthropologist Bradley Efron, statistician David L. Felten, neuroscientist Shelomo Goitein, medieval historian Ramon Gutierrez, historian Bela Julesz, psychologist William Kennedy, novelist Leszek Kolakowski, historian of philosophy and religion Brad Leithauser, poet and writer Lawrence W. Levine, historian Ralph Manheim, translator Charles S. Peskin, mathematician and physiologist Julia Robinson, mathematician John Sayles, filmmaker and writer Peter Sellars, theater and opera director

Adrian Wilson (book designer), book designer, printer, and historian of the book Irene J. Winter, art historian and archaeologist Mark S. Wrighton, chemist[4] Seweryn Bialer, political scientist William C. Clark, ecologist and environmental policy analyst Randall W. Forsberg, political scientist and arms control strategist Alexander L. George, political scientist Mott T. Greene, historian of science John J. Hopfield, physicist and biologist Sylvia A. Law, human rights lawyer Robert K. Merton, historian and sociologist of science Walter F. Morris, Jr., cultural preservationist A.K. Ramanujan, poet, translator, and literary scholar Alice M. Rivlin, economist and policy analyst Richard M. Schoen, mathematician Karen K. Uhlenbeck, mathematician[5]

George Archibald, ornithologist Ernesto J. Cortes, Jr., community organizer Robert Hass, poet, critic, and translator J. Bryan Hass, religion and foreign policy scholar Robert Irwin, painter and installation artist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter Paul Oskar Kristeller, intellectual historian and philosopher Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, educator Heather Lechtman, mateirals scientist and archaeologist Michael Lerner (environmentalist), public health leader Andrew W. Lewis, medieval historian Arnold J. Mandell, neuroscientist and psychiatrist Matthew Meselson, geneticist and arms control analyst David R. Nelson, physicist Michael Piore, economist Judith N. Shklar, political philosopher Charles Simic, poet, translator, and essayist David Stuart, linguist and epigrapher John E. Toews, intellectual historian James Turrell, light sculptor Jay Weiss, psychologist Carl R. Woese, molecular biologist[6] Shelly Bernstein, pediatric hematologist Peter J. Bickel, statistician

William Drayton, public service innovator Sidney Drell, physicist and arms policy analyst Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, mathematical physicist Michael H. Freedman, mathematician Curtis G. Hames, family physician Shirley Heath, linguistic anthropologist Bette Howland, writer and literary critic Bill Irwin, writer and performance artist Fritz John, mathematician Galway Kinnell, poet Henry Kraus, art historian Peter Mathews, archaeologist and epigrapher Beaumont Newhall, historian of photography Roger S. Payne, zoologist and conservationist Edward V. Roberts, civil rights leader Elliot Sperling, Tibetan studies scholar Frank Sulloway, psychologist (child birth-order research) Alar Toomre, astronomer and mathematician Amos Tversky, cognitive scientist J. Kirk Varnedoe, art historian Bret Wallach, geographer Arthur Winfree, physiologist and mathematician Billie Young, community development leader[7]

Joan Abrahamson, community development leader John Ashbery, poet John F. Benton, midieval historian Harold Bloom, literary critic Valery Chalidze, physicist and human rights organizer William Cronon, environmental historian Merce Cunningham, choreographer Jared Diamond, environmental historian and physiologist Marian Edelman, Children's Defense Fund founder Morton Halperin, political scientist Robert M. Hayes, lawyer and human rights leader Edwin Hutchins, cognitive scientist Sam Maloof, Woodworker

Andrew McGuire, trauma prevention specialist Patrick Noonan, conservationist George Oster, mathematical biologist Thomas G. Palaima, classicist Peter Raven, botanist Jane S. Richardson, biochemist Gregory Schopen, historian of religion Franklin Stahl, geneticist J. Richard Steffy, nautical archaeologist Ellen Stewart, theater director Paul Taylor, choreographer, dance company founder Shing-Tung Yau, mathematician [8]

Paul Adams, neurobiologist Milton Babbitt, composer Christopher Beckwith, philologist Richard Benson, photographer Lester R. Brown, agricultural economist Caroline Bynum, medieval historian William A. Christian, historian of religion Nancy Farriss, historian Benedict Gross, mathematician Daryl Hine, poet and translator John Robert Horner, paleobiologist Thomas C. Joe, social policy analyst David Keightley, historian and sinologist

Albert J. Libchaber, physicist David C. Page, molecular geneticist George Perle, composer and music theorist James Randi, educator David Rudovsky, civil rights lawyer Robert Shapley, neurophysiologist Leo Steinberg, art historian Richard P. Turco, atmospheric scientist Thomas Whiteside, journalist Allan C. Wilson, biochemist Jay Wright, poet and playwright Charles Wuorinen, composer[9]

Walter Abish, writer Robert Axelrod, political scientist Robert F. Coleman, mathematician Douglas Crase, poet Daniel Friedan, physicist David Gross, physicist Ira Herskowitz, molecular geneticist Irving Howe, literary and social critic Wesley Charles Jacobs, Jr., rural planner Peter Jeffery, musicologist Horace Freeland Judson, historian of science Stuart Alan Kauffman, evolutionary biologist Richard Kenney, poet Eric Lander, geneticist and mathematician Michael Malin, geologist and planetary scientist Deborah W. Meier, education reform leader

Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, historian David Mumford, mathematician Tina Rosenberg, journalist David Rumelhart, cognitive scientist and psychologist Robert Morris Sapolsky, neuroendocrinologist and primatologist Meyer Schapiro, art historian John H. Schwarz, physicist Jon Seger, evolutionary ecologist Stephen Shenker, physicist David Dean Shulman, historian of religion Muriel S. Snowden, community organizer Mark Strand, poet and writer May Swenson, poet Huynh Thong, translator and editor William Julius Wilson, sociologist Richard Wrangham, primate ethologist[10]

Charles Archambeau, geophysicist Michael Baxandall, art historian Ruth Behar, cultural anthropologist Ran Blake, composer and pianist Charles Burnett, filmmaker Philip James DeVries, insect biologist Andre Dubus, writer Helen T. Edwards, physicist Jon H. Else, documentary filmmaker John G. Fleagle, primatologist and paleontologist Cornell H. Fleischer, Middle Eastern historian Getatchew Haile, philologist and linguist Raymond Jeanloz, geophysicist Marvin Phillip Kahl, zoologist Naomi Pierce, biologist Thomas Pynchon, novelist Stephen J. Pyne, environmental historian

Max Roach, percussionist and jazz composer Hipolito (Paul) Roldan, community developer Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, archaeologist David Alan Rosenberg, military historian Susan Irene Rotroff, archaeologist Bruce Schwartz, figurative sculptor and puppeteer Robert S. Shaw, physicist Jonathan Spence, historian Noel M. Swerdlow, historian of science Gary A. Tomlinson, musicologist Alan Walker, paleontologist Eddie Williams, policy analyst and civil rights leader Rita P. Wright, archaeologist Garth Youngberg, agriculturalist[11]

Anthony Amsterdam, attorney and legal scholar Byllye Avery, women's healthcare leader Alvin Bronstein, human rights lawyer Leo Buss, evolutionary biologist Jay Cantor, writer George Davis, environmental policy analyst Allen Grossman, poet John Harbison, composer and conductor Keith Hefner, journalist and educator Ralf Hotchkiss, rehabilitation engineer John Rice Irwin, curator and cultural preservationist Daniel Janzen, ecologist Bernice Johnson Reagon, music historian, composer, and vocalist Aaron Lansky, cultural preservationist Jennifer Moody, archaeologist and anthropologist

Errol Morris, filmmaker Vivian Paley, educator and writer Richard Powers, novelist Martin Puryear, sculptor Theodre Rosengarten, historian Margaret W. Rossiter, historian of science George Russell, composer and music theorist Pam Solo, arms control analyst Ellendea Proffer Teasley, translator and publisher Clair Van Vliet, book artist Baldemar Velasquez, farm labor leader Bill Viola, video artist Eliot Wigginton, educator Patricia Wright, primatologist [12]

John Christian Bailar, biostatistician Martha Clarke, theater director Jacques d'Amboise, dance educator Guy Davenport, writer and critic Lisa Delpit, education reform leader John Eaton, composer Paul R. Ehrlich, population biologist Charlotte Erickson, historian Lee Friedlander, photographer Margaret Geller, astrophysicist Jorie Graham, poet Patricia Hampl, writer John Hollander, poet and literary critic Thomas Cleveland Holt, social and cultural historian David Kazhdan, mathematician Calvin King, land and farm development specialist M. A. R. Koehl, marine biologist Nancy Kopell, mathematician

Michael Moschen, performance artist Gary Nabhan, ethnobotanist Sherry Ortner, anthropologist Otis Pitts, community development leader Yvonne Rainer, filmmaker and choreographer Michael Schudson, sociologist Rebecca J. Scott, historian Marc Shell, scholar Susan Sontag, photographer, writer Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation founder, Copyleft concept inventor Guy Tudor, conservationist Maria Varela, community development leader Gregory Vlastos, classicist and philosopher Kent Whealy, preservationist Eric Wolf, anthropologist Sidney Wolfe, physician Robert Woodson, community development leader Jose Zalaquett, human rights lawyer[13]

Jacqueline Barton, biophysical chemist Paul Berman, journalist James Blinn, computer animator Taylor Branch, social historian Trisha Brown, choreographer Mari Jo Buhle, American historian Patricia Churchland, philosopher David Donoho, statistician Steven Feld, anthropologist Alice Fulton, poet Guillermo Gómez-Peña, writer and artist Jerzy Grotowski, theater director David Hammons, artist Sophia Harris, child care leader Lewis Hyde, writer Ali Akbar Khan, musician

Sergiu Klainerman, mathematician Martin Kreitman, geneticist Harlan Lane, psychologist and linguist William Linder, community development leader Patricia Locke, tribal rights leader Mark Morris, choreographer and dancer Marcel Ophüls, documentary filmmaker Arnold Rampersad, biographer and literary critic Gunther Schuller, composer, conductor, jazz historian Joel Schwartz, epidemiologist Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist and composer Julie Taymor, theater director David Werner, health care leader James Westphal, engineer and scientist Eleanor Wilner, poet [14]

Janet Benshoof, attorney Robert Blackburn, printmaker Unita Blackwell, civil rights leader Lorna Bourg, rural development leader Stanley Cavell, philosopher Amy Clampitt, poet Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician Wendy Ewald, photographer Irving Feldman, poet Barbara Fields, historian Robert Hall, journalist Ann Hanson, historian John Henry Holland, computer scientist Wes Jackson, agronomist Evelyn Keller, historian and philosopher of science Steve Lacy, saxophonist and composer Suzanne Lebsock, social historian

Sharon Long, plant biologist Norman Manea, writer Paule Marshall, writer Michael Massing, journalist Robert McCabe, educator Susan Meiselas, photojournalist Amalia Mesa-Bains, artist and cultural critic Stephen Schneider, climatologist Joanna Scott, writer John T. Scott, artist John Terborgh, conservation biologist Twyla Tharp, dancer and choreographer Philip Treisman, mathematics educator Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, historian Geerat J. Vermeij, evolutionary biologist Gunter Wagner, developmental biologist[15]

Nancy Cartwright, philosopher Demetrios Christodoulou, mathematician and physicist Maria Crawford, geologist Stanley Crouch, jazz critic and writer Nora England, anthropological linguist Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist Victoria Foe, developmental biologist Ernest Gaines, writer Pedro Greer, physician Thom Gunn, poet and literary critic Ann Hamilton, artist Sokoni Karanja, child and family development specialist Ann Lauterbach, poet and literary critic Stephen Lee, chemist Carol Levine, AIDS policy specialist Amory Lovins, physicist and energy analyst

Jane Lubchenco, marine biologist Ruth Lubic, nurse / midwife Jim Powell, poet and translator Margie Profet, evolutionary biologist Thomas Scanlon, philosopher Aaron Shirley, health care leader William Siemering, journalist and radio producer Ellen Silbergeld, biologist Leonard van der Kuijp, philologist and historian Frank von Hippel, arms control and energy analyst John Wideman, writer Heather Williams, biologist and ornithologist Marion Williams, gospel music performer Robert H. Williams, physicist and energy analyst Henry T. Wright, archaeologist and anthropologist[16]

Robert Adams, photographer Jeraldyne Blunden, choreographer Anthony Braxton (Avant-Garde composer and musician) Rogers Brubaker, sociologist Ornette Coleman, jazz performer and composer Israel Gelfand, mathematician and biologist Faye Ginsburg, anthropologist Heidi Hartmann, economist Bill T. Jones (dancer and choreographer) Peter E. Kenmore, agricultural entomologist

Joseph E. Marshall, educator Carolyn McKecuen, economic development leader Donella Meadows, writer Arthur Mitchell, choreographer Hugo Morales, radio producer Janine Pease, educator Willie Reale, theater arts educator Adrienne Rich, poet and writer Sam-Ang Sam, musician and cultural preservationist Vincent Almendros, animator Jack Wisdom, physicist[17]

Allison Anders, filmmaker Jed Z. Buchwald, historian Octavia Butler, science fiction novelist Sandra Cisneros, writer and poet Sandy Close, journalist Frederick C. Cuny, disaster relief specialist Sharon Emerson, biologist Richard Foreman, theater director Alma Guillermoprieto, journalist Virginia Hamilton, writer Donald Hopkins, physician Susan W. Kieffer, geologist

Elizabeth LeCompte, theater director Patricia Nelson Limerick, historian Michael Marletta, chemist Pamela Matson, ecologist Susan McClary, musicologist Meredith Monk, vocalist, composer, director Rosalin P. Petchesky, political scientist Joel Rogers, political scientist Cindy Sherman, photographer Bryan Stevenson, human rights lawyer Nicholas Strausfeld, neurobiologist Richard White, historian[18]

James Angel, astronomer Joaquin Avila, voting rights advocate Allan Berube, historian Barbara Block, marine biologist Joan Breton Connelly, classical archaeologist Thomas Daniel, biologist Martin Daniel Eakes, economic development strategist Rebecca Goldstein, writer Robert Greenstein, public policy analyst Richard Howard, poet

John Jesurun, playwright Richard Lenski, biologist Louis Massiah, documentary filmmaker Vonnie McLoyd, developmental psychologist Thylias Moss, poet and writer Eiko Otake & Koma Otake, dancers, choreographers Nathan Seiberg, physicist Anna Deavere Smith, playwright/journalist/actress Dorothy Stoneman, educator William E. Strickland, art educator[19]

Luis Alfaro, writer and performance artist Lee Breur, playwright Vija Celmins, artist Eric Charnov, evolutionary biologist Elouise Cobell, banker Peter Galison, historian Mark Harrington, AIDS researcher Eva Harris, molecular biologist Michael Kremer, economist Russel Lande, biologist Kerry James Marshall, artist Nancy Moran, artist

Han Ong, playwright Kathleen Ross, educator Pamela Samuelson, copyright scholar and activist Susan Stewart, literary scholar and poet Elizabeth Streb, dancer and choreographer Trimpin, sound sculptor Loïc Wacquant, sociologist Kara Walker, artist David Foster Wallace, writer and journalist Andrew Wiles, mathematician Brackette Williams, anthropologist[20]

Janine Antoni, artist Ida Applebroog, artist Ellen Barry, lawyer Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web protocol Linda Bierds, poet Bernadette Brooten, historian John Carlstrom, astrophysicist Mike Davis, historian Nancy Folbre, economist Avner Greif, economist Kun-Liang Guan, biochemist Gary Hill, artist Edward Hirsch, poet, essayist Ayesha Jalal, historian Charles R. Johnson, writer

Leah Krubitzer, neuroscientist Stewart Kwoh, human rights activist Charles Lewis, journalist William McDonald, rancher and conservationist Peter Miller, historian Don Mitchell, cultural geographer Rebecca Nelson, plant pathologist Elinor Ochs, linguistic anthropologist Ishmael Reed, poet, essayist, novelist Benjamin D. Santer, atmospheric scientist Karl Sims, computer scientist and artist Dorothy Thomas, human rights activist Leonard Zeskind, human rights activist Mary Zimmerman, playwright[21]

Jillian Banfield, geologist Carolyn Bertozzi, chemist Xu Bing, printmaker Bruce G. Blair, policy analyst John Bonifaz, election lawyer and voting rights leader Shawn Carlson, educator Mark Danner, journalist Alison L. Des Forges, human rights activist Elizabeth Diller, architect Saul Friedländer, historian Jennifer Gordon, lawyer David Hillis, biologist Sara Horowitz, lawyer Jacqueline Jones, historian Laura Kiessling, biochemist Leslie Kurke, scholar

David Levering Lewis, biographer and historian Juan Maldacena, physicist Gay J. McDougall, human rights lawyer Campbell McGrath, poet Denny Moore, anthropological linguist Elizabeth Murray, artist Pepon Osorio, artist Ricardo Scofidio, architect Peter Shor, computer scientist Eva Silverstein, physicist Wilma Subra, scientist Ken Vandermark, saxophonist, composer Naomi Wallace, playwright Jeffrey Weeks, mathematician Fred Wilson, artist Ofelia Zepeda, linguist[22]

Susan E. Alcock, archaeologist K. Christopher Beard, paleontologist Lucy Blake, conservationist Anne Carson, poet Peter J. Hayes, energy policy activist David A. Isay, radio producer Alfredo Jaar, photographer Ben Katchor, graphic novelist Hideo Mabuchi, physicist Susan Marshall, choreographer Samuel Mockbee, architect Cecilia Muñoz, civil rights policy analyst Margaret Murnane, optical physicist

Laura Otis, literary scholar and historian of science Lucia M. Perillo, poet Matthew Rabin, economist Carl Safina, marine conservationist Daniel P. Schrag, geochemist Susan E. Sygall, civil rights leader Gina G. Turrigiano, neuroscientist Gary Urton, anthropologist Patricia J. Williams, legal scholar Deborah Willis, historian of photography and photographer Erik Winfree, computer and materials scientist Horng-Tzer Yau, mathematician[23]

Andrea Barrett, writer Christopher Chyba, astrobiologist Michael Dickinson, fly biologist/bioengineer Rosanne Haggerty, housing and community development leader Lene Hau, physicist Dave Hickey, art critic Stephen Hough, pianist Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist Sandra Lanham, pilot and conservationist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, artist Cynthia Moss, natural historian

Dirk Obbink, classicist and papyrologist Norman Pace, biochemist Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright Brooks Pate, physical chemist Xiao Qiang, human rights leader Geraldine Seydoux, molecular biologist Bright Sheng, composer David Spergel, astrophysicist Jean Strouse, biographer Julie Su, human rights lawyer David Wilson, creator of The Museum of Jurassic Technology[24]

Danielle Allen, classicist and political scientist Bonnie Bassler, molecular biologist Ann M. Blair, intellectual historian Katherine Boo, Journalist Paul Ginsparg, physicist David B. Goldstein, energy conservation specialist Karen Hesse, writer Janine Jagger, epidemiologist Daniel Jurafsky, computer scientist and linguist Toba Khedoori, artist Liz Lerman, choreographer George E. Lewis, trombonist Liza Lou, artist

Edgar Meyer, bassist and composer Jack Miles, writer and Biblical scholar Erik Mueggler, anthropologist and ethnographer Sendhil Mullainathan, economist Stanley Nelson, documentary filmmaker Lee Ann Newsom, paleoethnobotanist Daniela Rus, computer scientist Charles C. Steidel, astronomer Brian Tucker, seismologist Camilo José Vergara, photographer Paul Wennberg, atmospheric chemist Colson Whitehead, writer[25]

Guillermo Algaze, archaeologist Jim Collins, biomedical engineer Lydia Davis, writer Erik Demaine, theoretical computer scientist Corinne Dufka, human rights researcher Peter Gleick, conservation analyst Osvaldo Golijov, composer Deborah Jin, physicist Angela Johnson, writer Tom Joyce, blacksmith Sarah H. Kagan, gerontological nurse Ned Kahn, artist and science exhibit designer

Jim Yong Kim, public health physician Nawal M. Nour, obstetrician and gynecologist Loren H. Rieseberg, botanist Amy Rosenzweig, biochemist Pedro A. Sanchez, agronomist Lateefah Simon, women's development leader Peter Sis, illustrator Sarah Sze, sculptor Eve Troutt Powell, historian Anders Winroth, historian Daisy Youngblood, ceramic artist Xiaowei Zhuang, biophysicist[26]

Guillermo Algaze, anthropologist and archaeologist Angela Belcher, materials scientist and engineer Gretchen Berland, physician and filmmaker James Carpenter, artist Joseph DeRisi, biologist Katherine Gottlieb, health care leader David Green, technology transfer innovator Aleksandar Hemon, writer Heather Hurst, archaeological illustrator Edward P. Jones, writer John Kamm, human rights activist Daphne Koller, computer scientist

Naomi Leonard, engineer Tommie Lindsey, school debate coach Rueben Martinez, businessman and activist Maria Mavroudi, historian Vamsi Mootha, clinical molecular biologist Judy Pfaff, American sculptor Aminah Robinson, artist Reginald Robinson, pianist and composer Cheryl Rogowski, farmer Amy Smith, inventor and mechanical engineer Julie Theriot, microbiologist C. D. Wright, poet[27]

Marin Alsop, symphony conductor Ted Ames, fisherman, conservationist, marine biologist Terry Belanger, rare book preservationist Edet Belzberg, documentary filmmaker Majora Carter, urban revitalization strategist Lu Chen, neuroscientist Michael Cohen, pharmacist Joseph Curtin, violinmaker Aaron Dworkin, music educator Teresita Fernández, sculptor Claire Gmachl, quantum cascade laser engineer Sue Goldie, physician /researcher Steven Goodman, conservation biologist

Pehr Harbury, biochemist Nicole King, molecular biologist Jon Kleinberg, computer scientist Jonathan Lethem, novelist Michael Manga, geophysicist Todd Martinez, theoretical chemist Julie Mehretu, painter Kevin M. Murphy, economist Olufunmilayo Olopade, clinician/researcher Fazal Sheikh, photographer Emily Thompson, aural historian Michael Walsh, vehicle emissions specialist[28]

David Carroll (naturalist), naturalist author/illustrator Regina Carter, jazz violinist Kenneth C. Catania, neurobiologist Lisa Curran, tropical forester Kevin Eggan, biologist James Fruchterman, technologist Atul Gawande, surgeon and author Linda Griffith, bioengineer Victoria Hale, CEO OneWorld Health Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, journalist and author David Macaulay, author/illustrator Josiah McElheny, sculptor D. Holmes Morton, physician

John A. Rich, physician Jennifer Richeson, social psychologist Sarah Ruhl, playwright George Saunders, short story writer Anna Schuleit, commemorative artist Shahzia Sikander, painter Terence Tao, mathematician Claire J. Tomlin, aviation engineer Luis von Ahn, computer scientist Edith Widder, deep-sea explorer Matias Zaldarriaga, cosmologist John Zorn, composer and musician[29]

Deborah Bial, education strategist Peter Cole, translator/poet/publisher Lisa Cooper, public health physician Ruth DeFries, environmental geographer Mercedes Doretti, forensic anthropologist Stuart Dybek, short story writer Marc Edwards, water quality engineer Michael Elowitz, molecular biologist Saul Griffith, inventor Sven Haakanson, Alutiiq curator/anthropologist/preservationist Corey Harris, blues musician Cheryl Hayashi, spider silk biologist

My Hang V. Huynh, chemist Claire Kremen, conservation biologist Whitfield Lovell, painter/installation artist Yoky Matsuoka, neuroroboticist Lynn Nottage, playwright Mark Roth, biomedical scientist Paul Rothemund, nanotechnologist Jay Rubenstein, medieval historian Jonathan Shay, clinical psychiatrist/classicist Joan Snyder, painter Dawn Upshaw, vocalist Shen Wei, choreographer [30]

• In the television show Will and Grace, during episode 6.17, Grace says to Will: "If the Macarthur Foundation gave out Evil Genius Grants, you would so win one."

• In the Family Guy episode "Petarded," Peter takes an IQ test to determine if he is eligible for a MacArthur grant, believing himself to be a genius; however, the test results say that he is mentally retarded.

• In the television show Friends, during episode 9.20 (The One With the Soap Opera Party), Charlie (Aisha Tyler) says to Ross when describing her first boyfriend, "He did win the Macarthur Genius Grant though" in response to all of her boyfriends winning Nobel Prizes except one.

• In the movie Little Miss Sunshine, Frank says that he attempted suicide after his rival was awarded a genius grant for his studies of Marcel Proust.

• MacArthur Fellows Program website