<p>Gordon Freeman from the game Half-Life went to MIT. Who else?</p>
<p>stretch dude and doom from fantastic 4</p>
<p>Doonesbury goes to MIT!
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/doonesbury.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/doonesbury.html</a></p>
<p>The guy who is the subject of "White and Nerdy"</p>
<p>David Levinson from Independence Day (The guy who makes the computer virus to take out the alien ships and save earth)</p>
<p>There's quite a few more - check out this wikipedia article.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_in_popular_culture%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_in_popular_culture</a></p>
<p>not to ruin any of the fun, but Wikipedia obviously manages to make quite a list here:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_in_popular_culture%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_in_popular_culture</a></p>
<p>I knew Steve Buschemi in Armageddon, and Tobias Funke (David Cross) in Arrested Development, but they have about a dozen others listed there too.</p>
<p>Ah, someone beat me to it.</p>
<p>man.... wikipedia has everything</p>
<p>Collins in the musical RENT was a professor at MIT. :)</p>
<p>Wikipedia apparently doesn't have EVERYTHING... :P :</p>
<p>Samuel Beckett (Quantum Leap)
Al Calavicci (sp?) (Quantum Leap)
John Crichton (Farscape) (I think...I'm not sure if it's 'canon')
Oh, and that R&D guy Ronald Quincy, from NASA in Armageddon also went to MIT. Billy Bob Thornton's character referred to him as "pretty much the smartest man on the planet".</p>
<p>wow John Crichton from Farscape? Didn't know that! But I never really got into that show.</p>
<p>Didn't the professor in the Simpsons go to MIT?</p>
<p>That one sidekick from Orgasmo had 2 doctorates from MIT, 1 in physics and 1 in math, apparently. I can think of this name. </p>
<p>Also:
a large chunk of the cast from Good Will Hunting </p>
<p>and my favorite, Hiroki Sawada from Detective Conan 6: The Phantom of Baker Street was a grad student.</p>
<p>edit- Otacon from MGS eh?</p>