Since 1981, 1131 people have been named MacArthur Fellows, ranging in age from 18 to 82.
In the five broad categories defined by the foundation, the breakdown … 展开

• Fouad Ajami, political scientist
• Charles A. Bigelow, type designer
• Peter Robert Lamont Brown, historian
• Robert Darnton, European historian 展开

• George W. Archibald, ornithologist
• Shelly Bernstein, pediatric hematologist
• Peter J. Bickel, statistician
• Ernesto J. Cortes Jr., community organizer 展开

• Paul Adams, neurobiologist
• Milton Babbitt, composer and music theorist
• Christopher Beckwith, philologist
• Richard … 展开

• A. R. Ammons, poet
• Joseph Brodsky, poet
• John Cairns, molecular biologist
• Gregory V. Chudnovsky, mathematician
• Joel E. Cohen, … 展开

• R. Stephen Berry, physical chemist
• Seweryn Bialer, political scientist
• William C. Clark, ecologist and environmental policy analyst
• Philip D. … 展开

• Joan Abrahamson, community development leader
• John Ashbery, poet
• John F. Benton, medieval historian
• Harold Bloom, … 展开