Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
- Steve Altes – humorist, National Medal of Technology recipient
- Stephen R. Barley (PhD 1984) – professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
- Harry Binswanger – philosopher, associate of Ayn Rand
- Dylan Bruno – actor
- Idit Harel Capelton – educational psychologist and epistemologist
- James Eckhouse (1976, dropped out) – actor, Beverly Hills, 90210
- Herbert Kalmus (1903) – inventor of Technicolor, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Kealoha (formerly known as Steve Wong 1999) – performance poet (Hawaii's first Poet Laureate and National Poetry Slam Legend), storyteller, and Hawaii's SlamMaster
- Sameer Khan (Ph.D in Literature) – Writer and Author
- Charlie Korsmo (2000) – actor (including Can't Hardly Wait and Dick Tracy (film))
- Paul Krugman (PhD) – New York Times columnist, John Bates Clark Medal and Nobel Prize-winner (economics)
- Ned Lagin – played keyboards and synthesizer at a number of the Grateful Dead shows between 1970 and 1975 and on a few mid 1970s albums.
- Hugh Lofting – author of Dr. Doolittle series of books (trained at MIT as civil engineer, 1904–05)
- Dan Massey - sexual freedom scholar, religious philosopher, human rights activist, chief engineer at BBN Technologies, and senior scientist at Science Applications International Corporation
- Rajesh Mehta – musician, composer and founder of ORKA-M
- Charles Murray – researcher, co-author of The Bell Curve
- Tom Scott (SB 1966) – winner of Academy Awards for sound mixing for The Right Stuff and Amadeus
- John Underkoffler (SB 1988) – science & technology advisor to Steven Spielberg
- Erland Van Lidth De Jeude – Hollywood actor, opera singer
- David Walter - British BBC and ITN correspondent and later, political advisor (winner of Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to M.I.T.)
- Samuel Washington Weis – American painter
- James Woods (1969, dropped out) – Hollywood actor, Oscar nominee, Emmy awardee
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