MIT’s Fraternities, Sororities, and Independent Living Groups (FSILGs) number many remarkable alumni and alumnae among their members. Some of the more notable ones are listed below. If you have a suggestion for another to add, please e-mail ailg-history@mit.edu.

Name & ClassAffiliationNotable Achievement(s)
Larry Bacow ’72Zeta Beta TauPresident of Harvard, President of Tufts, Chancellor of MIT
Ken Cameron ’78Beta Theta PiThree-time space shuttle commander and pilot.
Patrick Coady ’60Phi Sigma KappaFormer Executive Director of the World Bank
Pat Confalone ’67Theta Delta ChiChairman of the Board, American Chemical Society
T. Coleman duPont 1884Sigma ChiPresident of duPont Chemical, US Senator
Richard Feynman ’39Pi Lambda PhiTheoretical physicist awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for in Quantum Electrodynamics
Jack Frailey ’47Lambda Chi AlphaMIT Crew Coach affiliated with MIT Crew for over 70 years
Andrea Ghez ’87Delta Psi/No. 6 ClubNobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 2020
Karen Gleason ’82WILGMIT Associate Provost, Professor & Entrepreneur
Paul Gray ’54Phi Sigma KappaMIT’s 14th President (1980-1990)
Crawford Greenwalt ’22Theta ChiMIT Corporation Life Member, President and Board Chairman of DuPont Chemical Company, principal of the Manhattan Project.
Charles Hayden 1890Theta XiBusinessman and philanthropist, namesake of MIT’s Hayden Library and Boston’s Hayden Planetarium
Drew Houston ’05Phi Delta ThetaFounder and CEO of DropBox Software; youngest MIT Commencement speaker in history
Robert Horvitz ’68Alpha Epsilon PiNobel Prize Laureate in Medicine in 2002
Janet Hsieh ’01Alpha Chi OmegaTV Host (Fun Taiwan) at Discovery Travel and Living, Vision Creator
Brewster Kahle ’82 Chi PhiFounder the Internet Archive and champion the Wayback Machine, 2012 Inductee to the Internet Hall of Fame.
James Killian ’26Sigma ChiMIT’s 10th President (1948-1959), first Presidential Science Advisor
Ray Kurzweil ’68Tau Epsilon PhiProlific inventor, founder of Kurzweil Music Systems, futurist who first coined the idea of the “singularity”
Dave Latham ’61Delta UpsilonDiscoverer of first exoplanet in our universe
Harold Lobdell 1917Phi Kappa SigmaVP of the MIT Alumni Association (1946-64), Dean of Students (1930-46), Editor & Publisher of the Technology Review
Laura Malley-Schmidt ’86Alpha PhiAuthor of the Panhellenic Association’s algorithm for campus recruitment
Pat McGovern ’59Phi Gamma DeltaMIT Corporation Life Member, founder and Chairman, International Data Group, Inc., and founder of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Neil Pappalardo ’64Lambda Chi AlphaFounder of Meditech, philanthropist, former member of MIT Corporation Executive Committee
John Reed ’61Lambda Chi AlphaCEO of Citibank and the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Past chair of MIT Corporation
Adam Riess ’92Phi Delta ThetaNobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 2011
Michael Saylor ’87Theta Delta ChiEntrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist
James Shields ’71Delta Tau DeltaFormer CEO and President of DRAPER Laboratory, MIT chapter advisor for two decades
Alfred P. Sloan 1890Delta UpsilonFormer president and chairman of General Motors Corporation, Namesake of Sloan School of Management
Megan Smith ’86WILG3rd United States Chief Technology Officer & Assistant to the President
Oliver Reed Smoot ’62Lambda Chi AlphaFormer head of American National Standards Institute and of International Standards Organizatio, archetype for a famed unit of measure
Hank Spaulding ’51Theta ChiMIT Corporation Life Member and Principle of Spaulding & Slye Real Estate; Founder and first director of the MIT Center for Real Estate
John Sununu ’61Phi Sigma KappaFormer Governor of New Hampshire and White House Chief of Staff
John Thain ’77Delta UpsilonFormer CEO of CITI Group and the New York Stock Exchange
Andrea Wong ’88Alpha PhiPresident, International Production at Sony Pictures Entertainment