Past years are available at wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program In particular

Past years are available at wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program In particular, go down to the bottom for the outbound links to the macfound.org summary lists for each year. Definitely interesting to browse: Stephen Wolfram (1981). Jared Diamond (1985). David Donoho (1991). DFW (1997). Tim B-L (1998). David Simon (2010). One forgets.