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 & Class | Affiliation | Notable Achievement(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Larry Bacow ’72 | Zeta Beta Tau | President of Harvard, President of Tufts, Chancellor of MIT |
| Ken Cameron ’78 | Beta Theta Pi | Three-time space shuttle commander and pilot. |
| Patrick Coady ’60 | Phi Sigma Kappa | Former Executive Director of the World Bank |
| Pat Confalone ’67 | Theta Delta Chi | Chairman of the Board, American Chemical Society |
| T. Coleman duPont 1884 | Sigma Chi | President of duPont Chemical, US Senator |
| Richard Feynman ’39 | Pi Lambda Phi | Theoretical physicist awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for in Quantum Electrodynamics |
| Jack Frailey ’47 | Lambda Chi Alpha | MIT Crew Coach affiliated with MIT Crew for over 70 years |
| Andrea Ghez ’87 | Delta Psi/No. 6 Club | Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 2020 |
| Karen Gleason ’82 | WILG | MIT Associate Provost, Professor & Entrepreneur |
| Paul Gray ’54 | Phi Sigma Kappa | MIT’s 14th President (1980-1990) |
| Crawford Greenwalt ’22 | Theta Chi | MIT Corporation Life Member, President and Board Chairman of DuPont Chemical Company, principal of the Manhattan Project. |
| Charles Hayden 1890 | Theta Xi | Businessman and philanthropist, namesake of MIT’s Hayden Library and Boston’s Hayden Planetarium |
| Drew Houston ’05 | Phi Delta Theta | Founder and CEO of DropBox Software; youngest MIT Commencement speaker in history |
| Robert Horvitz ’68 | Alpha Epsilon Pi | Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine in 2002 |
| Janet Hsieh ’01 | Alpha Chi Omega | TV Host (Fun Taiwan) at Discovery Travel and Living, Vision Creator |
| James Killian ’26 | Sigma Chi | MIT’s 10th President (1948-1959), first Presidential Science Advisor |
| Ray Kurzweil ’68 | Tau Epsilon Phi | Prolific inventor, founder of Kurzweil Music Systems, futurist who first coined the idea of the “singularity” |
| Dave Latham ’61 | Delta Upsilon | Discoverer of first exoplanet in our universe |
| Harold E Lobdell 1917 | Phi Kappa Sigma | VP of the MIT Alumni Association (1946-64), Dean of Students (1930-46), Editor & Publisher of the Technology Review |
| Laura Malley-Schmidt ’86 | Alpha Phi | Author of the Panhellenic Association’s algorithm for campus recruitment |
| Pat McGovern ’59 | Phi Gamma Delta | MIT Corporation Life Member, founder and Chairman, International Data Group, Inc., and founder of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT |
| Neil Pappalardo ’64 | Lambda Chi Alpha | Founder of Meditech, philanthropist, former member of MIT Corporation Executive Committee |
| John Reed ’61 | Lambda Chi Alpha | CEO of Citibank and the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Past chair of MIT Corporation |
| Adam Riess ’92 | Phi Delta Theta | Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 2011 |
| Michael Saylor ’87 | Theta Delta Chi | Entrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist |
| James Shields ’71 | Delta Tau Delta | Former CEO and President of DRAPER Laboratory, MIT chapter advisor for two decades |
| Alfred P. Sloan 1890 | Delta Upsilon | Former president and chairman of General Motors Corporation, Namesake of Sloan School of Management |
| Megan Smith ’86 | WILG | 3rd United States Chief Technology Officer & Assistant to the President |
| Oliver Reed Smoot ’62 | Lambda Chi Alpha | Former head of American National Standards Institute and of International Standards Organizatio, archetype for a famed unit of measure |
| Hank Spaulding ’51 | Theta Chi | MIT Corporation Life Member and Principle of Spaulding & Slye Real Estate; Founder and first director of the MIT Center for Real Estate |
| John Sununu ’61 | Phi Sigma Kappa | Former Governor of New Hampshire and White House Chief of Staff |
| John Thain ’77 | Delta Upsilon | Former CEO of CITI Group and the New York Stock Exchange |
| Andrea Wong ’88 | Alpha Phi | President, International Production at Sony Pictures Entertainment |