One hundred and forty-four Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1949. [1] [2]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Roque Cordero | [74] | |
| Vicente Salas Viu | [75] | |||
| Adolfo Salazar | [75] | |||
| Poetry | Agustí Bartra | Also won in 1948, 1960 | [76] [75] | |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Juan Larrea | Also won in 1950 | [77] [75] |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Joño Baptista Veiga Salles | [75] | |
| Earth Science | Carlos de Paula Couto | Also won in 1951, 1966 | [78] [75] | |
| Mathematics | Leopoldo Nachbin | Also won in 1957, 1958 | [79] [75] | |
| Medicine and Health | José Pisanty Ovadía | [75] | ||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Hermann Niemeyer Fernández | [75] | ||
| Roberto Luiz Pimenta de Mello | Also won in 1948 | [75] | ||
| Raúl Esteban Trucco | Also won in 1950 | [75] | ||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ernesto Gutiérrez Ballesteros | [75] | ||
| John Lane | [75] | |||
| José Oiticica Filho | Also won in 1947 | [75] | ||
| Abelardo Moreno Bonilla | Also won in 1950 | [80] [75] | ||
| Arístides Herrer Alva | [81] [75] | |||
| Juan José Parodiz | [75] | |||
| Llewellyn Ivor Price | [75] | |||
| Paulo Emilio Vanzolini | Also won in 1955, 1958 | [75] | ||
| Plant Sciences | Jesús M. Idrobo Muñoz | [75] | ||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Aníbal Buitrón Cháves | [75] |