Name Your Baby after a Genius? MacArthur Fellow Monikers

This year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipients were announced earlier today. Of the 24 winners, several had pretty interesting names (like My Hang, Shen, Sven, Whitfield, and Yoky). That inspired me to go back through all 756 MacArthur Fellows to see what other cool forenames I could find…

Male Female
Arnaldo Dante Momigliano
Avner Greif
Baldemar Velasquez
Beaumont Newhall
Demetrios Christodoulou
Errol Morris
Fazal Sheikh
Fouad Ajami
Geerat J. Vermeij
Harlan Lane
Hipolito “Paul” Roldan
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle
Loïc Wacquant
Marcel Ophuls
Merce Cunningham
Ornette Coleman
Osvaldo Golijov
Persi Diaconis
Ralf David Hotchkiss
Ran Blake
Reginald Robinson
Sendhil Mullainathan
Seweryn Bialer
Shelomo Goitein
Vamsi Mootha
Alma Guillermoprieto
Amalia Mesa-Bains
Aminah Robinson
Ayesha Jalal
Bernadette Brooten
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Brackette Williams
Byllye Avery
Donella Meadows
Ellendea Proffer Teasley
Elouise Cobell
Jeraldyne Blunden
Jorie Graham
Majora Carter
Octavia Butler
Ofelia Zepeda
Regina Carter
Shahzia Sikander
Suzan-Lori Parks
Thylias Moss
Toba Khedoori
Twyla Tharp
Unita Blackwell
Vija Celmins
Vonnie McLoyd
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