One hundred and fifty-four Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1951. [1] [2] $568,000 was disbursed. [3]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Pierre Marcelin | [80] | |
| Philippe Thoby-Marcelin | [80] | |||
| Fine Arts | José Vela Zanetti | Also won in 1952 | [81] | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Edmundo O'Gorman | [82] | |
| Medieval History | José Luis Romero | Also won in 1969 | [83] | |
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Amado Alonso | [2] | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | João José Bigarella | [84] | |
| Carlos de Paula Couto | Also won in 1949, 1966 | [85] | ||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | Leví Marrero Artiles | [86] | ||
| Mathematics | José Adem | Also won in 1952 | [87] | |
| Medicine and Health | Augusto A. Camara | Also won in 1950 | [88] | |
| Ephraim Donoso | Also won in 1952 | [89] | ||
| Roberto Eusebio Mancini | [90] | |||
| Juan García Ramos | Also won in 1948 | [91] | ||
| Neuroscience | Mario Altamirano Orrego | [92] | ||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Danko Brncic | Also won in 1969 | [93] | |
| Francisco J. S. Lara | Also won in 1950 | [94] | ||
| Neuroscience | José Bebin Bustamante | Also won in 1950 | [95] | |
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Raymond Millard Cable | [96] | ||
| Plant Science | Domingo Cozzo | [97] | ||
| José Cuatrecasas | Also won in 1950 | [98] | ||
| Luis Enrique Gregory | [99] | |||
| Jorge León | Also won in 1952 | [100] | ||
| Alicia Lourteig | Also won in 1952 | [101] | ||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ricardo Alegría | Also won in 1953 | [102] |
| Pedro Carrasco Pizana | [103] | |||
| Julio César Cubillos | [104] | |||
| Sociology | José Vicente Freitas Marcondes | [105] |