List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1953

None

One hundred and ninety one Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1953. |
| Owen Vincent Dodson || ||
|
| Leonard Baskin || ||
|
| Misch Kohn || Also won in 1952 ||
|
| Harold Paris || Also won in 1954 ||
|
| Charles Schucker || ||
|
| rowspan="8" | Music Composition || Mark Bucci || Also won in 1957 ||
|
| Henry Bryan Dority || Also won in 1952 ||
|
| Nikolai Lopatnikoff || ||
|
| Bohuslav Martinů || Also won in 1956 ||
|
| rowspan="4" | Architecture, Planning and Design || Clay Lancaster || Also won in 1964 ||
|
| Aladar Olgyay || ||
|
| Victor Olgyay || ||
|
| rowspan="3" | Biography || William Clyde DeVane || ||
|
| rowspan="3" | British History || James Alexander Gibson || ||
|
| Caroline Robbins || ||
|
| Virginia Randolph Grace || Also won in 1953 ||
|
| Robert Lorentz Scranton || ||
|
| Kurt von Fritz || ||
|
| Mabel L. Lang || ||
|
| Edward Hetzel Schafer || Also won in 1968 ||
|
| Benjamin Isadore Schwartz || ||
|
| rowspan="8" | English Literature || Kathleen Coburn || Also won in 1956 ||
|
| James Gilmer McManaway || ||
|
| Edgar F. Shannon Jr. || ||
|
| Ernest Sirluck || ||
|
| Charles de Tolnay || Also won in 1948, 1949 ||
|
| James Thomas Flexner || Also won in 1980 ||
|
| George Howard Forsyth Jr. || ||
|
| Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan || ||
|
| Robert L. Van Nice || ||
|
| rowspan="2" | Folklore and Popular Culture || Tristram Potter Coffin || ||
|
| General Nonfiction || Marion Lena Starkey || Also won in 1958 ||
|
| Chester Verne Easum || ||
|
| Robert George Leeson Waite || ||
|
| Samuel Dickinson Stirk || ||
|
| Latin American Literature || Clinton H. Gardiner || ||
|
| rowspan="2" | Linguistics || Robert Anderson Hall Jr. || Also won in 1970 ||
|
| Wallace Warner Douglas || Also won in 1972 ||
|
| Leonard Howard Unger || ||
|
| rowspan="2" | Medieval Literature || Alfred L. Kellogg || ||
|
| rowspan="2" | Near Eastern Studies || Benno Landsberger || Also won in 1956 ||
|
| Hal Lehrman || Also won in 1951 ||
|
| Raymond Klibansky || Also won in 1965 ||
|
| Charles Frankel || ||
|
| Sidney Hook || Also won in 1928, 1929 ||
|
| Slavic Literature || Wiktor Weintraub || ||
|
| Hayward Keniston || ||
|
| Edwin Jack Webber || ||
|
| Carl Parcher Russell || Also won in 1952 ||
|
| rowspan="89" | Natural Sciences || rowspan="2" | Applied Mathematics || Werner Goldsmith || ||
|
| George Jura || ||
|
| David Grover Frey || ||
|
| Charles Merwin Gilbert || ||
|
| Joe Mauk Smith || ||
|
| Geography and Environmental Studies || Raymond E. Crist || Also won in 1940 ||
|
| rowspan="10" | Mathematics || Felix Browder || Also won in 1966 ||
|
| Albert Edward Heins || ||
|
| Antoni Zygmund || ||
|
| Ellen Neall Duvall || ||
|
| Konrad Bloch || Also won in 1960, 1975 ||
|
| John T. Edsall || Also won in 1940 ||
|
| Lloyd Noel Ferguson || ||
|
| Leon A. Heppel || Also won in 1975 ||
|
| Henry Koffler || ||
|
| rowspan="12" | Organismic Biology and Ecology || Joseph R. Bailey || ||
|
| Harold F. Blum || Also won in 1936, 1945 ||
|
| Anthony Calhoun Clement || ||
|
| John Thompson Emlen Jr. || ||
|
| Carl Gans || Also won in 1977 ||
|
| Eugene Nicholas Kozloff || ||
|
| rowspan="12" | Physics || Robert Kemp Adair || ||
|
| John Gilbert Daunt || Also won in 1958 ||
|
| Leonard Herbert Hall || ||
|
| Charles Keith McLane || ||
|
| Reba Paeff Mirsky || ||
|
| rowspan="2" | Economics || Joseph Dorfman || ||
|
| Milton R. Konvitz || ||
|
| Davis McEntire || ||
|
| T. Lynn Smith || Also won in 1951 ||
|}

Category Field of Study Fellow Notes Ref Creative Arts Fine Arts Antonio Frasconi Also won in 1953 Antonio Joseph Also won in 1957 Mauricio Lasansky Also won in 1943, 1944, 1945, 1964 Education Alfredo T. Morales Economic History Carlos Augusto Luzzetti Natural Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Jorge Sahade Also won in 1955 Molecular and Cellular Biology Gustavo Hoecker Salas Norberto José Palleroni Also won in 1954, 1955 Neuroscience Carlos E. Eyzaguirre Also won in 1954 Raúl Hernández Peón Organismic Biology & Ecology José Cândido de Melo Carvalho Also won in 1952 Anderson Coelho de Andrade Fernando da Costa Novaes Oswaldo Giannotti Norman Millott Plant Science Antonio Krapovickas Henri Alain Liogier Also won in 1950, 1957 Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Ricardo Alegría Also won in 1953 Sociology Orlando Fals Borda Also won in 1954