This is a list of notable people affiliated with the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

, a public research university in

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash River, Wabash and Ohio River, Ohio rivers to its ...

Notable alumni

Not all listed alumni graduated from the university, and are so noted if the information is known.

Nobel Prize winners

* Edward Doisy, B.S. 1914, M.S. 1916 –

Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine () is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single ...

, 1943 *

Vincent Du Vigneaud Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. He was recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypep ...

, B.S. 1923, M.S. 1924 –

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

, 1955; also served as faculty member *

Robert W. Holley Robert William Holley (January 28, 1922 – February 11, 1993) was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 (with Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) for describing the structure of alani ...

, B.A. 1942 – Physiology or Medicine, 1968 *

Jack Kilby Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instrumen ...

, B.S. 1947 –

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

, 2000; inventor of the

integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...

* Edwin G. Krebs, B.A. 1940 –

, 1992 *

Polykarp Kusch Polykarp Kusch (; January 26, 1911 – March 20, 1993) was a German-American physicist who shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the electron magnetic moment was greater than its ...

, M.S. 1933, Ph.D. 1936 – Physics, 1955 * John Schrieffer, M.S. 1954, Ph.D. 1957 – Physics, 1972; also served as faculty member *

Phillip Sharp Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukary ...

, Ph.D. 1969 – Chemistry, 1993 * Wendell Stanley, M.S. 1927, PhD. 1929 – Chemistry 1946 *

Rosalyn Yalow Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoass ...

, M.S. 1942, Ph.D. 1945 – Physiology or Medicine, 1977

Pulitzer Prize winners

Leonora LaPeter Anton Leonora LaPeter Anton is an American journalist with the ''Tampa Bay Times''. Anton was a co-recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Biography Anton grew up in Connecticut, but spent a lot of her childhood living in Gr ...

, B.S. 1986 –

Investigative Journalism Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend m ...

, 2016 *

Barry Bearak Barry Leon Bearak (born August 31, 1949, in Chicago) is an American journalist and educator who has worked as a reporter and correspondent for '' The Miami Herald'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', and ''The New York Times''. He taught journalism as ...

, M.S. 1974 – International Reporting, 2002 *

Michael Colgrass Michael Charles Colgrass (April 22, 1932 – July 2, 2019) was an American and Canadian musician, composer, and educator. He was an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre. Early life and education Colgrass was born in Brookfield, I ...

, B.A. 1956 –

Music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

, 1978 *

George Crumb George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical ...

, M.A. 1952 –

, 1968 *

David Herbert Donald David Herbert Donald (October 1, 1920 – May 17, 2009) was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, for books about Thomas Wolfe and Charles Sumner; he published ...

, M.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1946 –

Biography A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or curri ...

, 1961 and 1988 *

Roger Ebert Roger Joseph Ebert ( ; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American Film criticism, film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter and author. He wrote for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. Eber ...

, B.S. 1964 –

Criticism Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something. Criticism can range from impromptu comments to a written detailed response. , ''the act of giving your opinion or judgment about the ...

, 1975 * Roy J. Harris, B.A. 1925 –

Public Service A public service or service of general (economic) interest is any service intended to address the needs of aggregate members of a community, whether provided directly by a public sector agency, via public financing available to private busin ...

, 1950 *

Beth Henley Elizabeth Becker Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her play '' Crimes of the Heart'' won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and ...

Drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...

, 1981 * Paul Ingrassia, B.S. 1972 –

Beat Reporting Beat reporting, also known as specialized reporting, is a genre of journalism focused on a particular issue, sector, organization, or institution over time. Description Beat reporters build up a base of knowledge on and gain familiarity with t ...

, 1993 *

Allan Nevins Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and ...

, B.A. 1912, M.A. 1913 –

, 1933 and 1937 *

Richard Powers Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel ''The Echo Maker'' won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.Fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...

, 2019 *

James Reston James "Scotty" Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995) was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He was associated for many years with ''The New York Times.'' Early life and educati ...

, B.S. 1932 – National Reporting, 1945 and 1957 * Robert Lewis Taylor, B.A. 1933 –

Fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...

, 1959 *

Carl Van Doren Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950) was an American critic and biographer. He was the brother of critic and teacher Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren. He won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Aut ...

, B.A. 1907 –

, 1939 *

Mark Van Doren Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thin ...

, B.A. 1914 –

Poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

, 1940

Academia

Notable professors and scholars

* Warren Ambrose, B.S. 1935, M.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1939 – mathematics, professor emeritus of mathematics at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

; he is often considered one of the fathers of modern geometry. *

Icek Ajzen Icek Ajzen (born 1942, Chełm, Poland) is a social psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and is best known for his work, with ...

, M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1969. – social psychology, professor emeritus at

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

; Considered the most influential social psychologist. Known by his work on the

theory of planned behavior The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is a psychological theory that links beliefs to behavior. The theory maintains that three core components, namely, attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control, together shape an individual' ...

. By 2021 has over 350,000 citations (google scholar). *

Steven Bachrach Steven M. Bachrach is an organic chemist who took up the position of Dean of Science at Monmouth University in 2016. Bachrach had previously been the Dr D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Trinity University (Texas), Trinity Unive ...

, B.S., Ph.D. (

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

) – dean of science at

Monmouth University Monmouth University is a private university in West Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, it became Monmouth College in 1956 and Monmouth University in 1995 after receiving its university charter, c ...

, previously the Dr D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas * George C. Baldwin, Ph.D. 1943 – theoretical and experimental physicist and professor of nuclear engineering, at

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) was an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the New York (state), state of New York and headquartered in Boston. Over the year ...

Company,

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (; RPI) is a private university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...

, and

Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development Laboratory, laboratories of the United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, United States Department of Energy ...

Nancy Baym Nancy Baym (born 1965) is an American scholar and senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research, formerly a professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. She was a member of the founding board and former president of t ...

, M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1994 – professor of communication studies at

the University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...

* Arnold O. Beckman, B.S. 1922, M.S. 1923 – former professor of chemistry at

Caltech The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private university, private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small g ...

* Saint Elmo Brady, Ph.D. 1916 – notable

HBCU Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of serving African Americans. Most are in the Southern U ...

educator, first African American to obtain a Ph.D. degree in chemistry in the United States * Roger Crossgrove, M.F.A. 1951 – professor of art emeritus at the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...

* Paul S. Dunkin, M.A. 1931, B.S. 1935, Ph.D. 1937 – professor emeritus of library services at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

* Daniel Farber, B.A. 1971, M.A. 1972, J.D. 1975 – Sho Sato Professor of Law at the

UC Berkeley School of Law The University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law) is the Law school in the United States, law school of the University of California, Berkeley. The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years, although it was ...

Abdul Haque Faridi Abul Faraḥ Muḥammad Abdul Ḥaque Farīdī (25 May 1903 – 5 February 1996) was a Bangladeshi educator and author. In recognition of his contributions in the field of linguistics, he was awarded a Bangla Academy Fellowship. Faridi was the f ...

, Bangladeshi academic * Gerald R. Ferris, Ph.D. – Francis Eppes Professor of Management and professor of psychology at

Florida State University Florida State University (FSU or Florida State) is a Public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the s ...

* Thomas Gillespie (epidemiologist), B.S., Ph.D. (

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

) - Professor and Chair of Environmental Sciences at

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

* Jessica Greenberg – assistant professor of Anthropology and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies *

Marva Griffin Carter Marva Griffin Carter is an American musician, composer, musicologist, and author. She has worked as an academic administrator and professor at Georgia State University since 1993. In 2020 the Society for American Music recognized her work with ...

, Ph.D. – musicologist, author, and professor of music at

Georgia State University Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a Public university, public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It is al ...

Allan Hay Allan Stuart Hay FRS (July 23, 1929 – August 14, 2017) was a Canadian chemist, and Tomlinson Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at McGill University. He is best known for his synthesization of Polyphenylene Oxide, leading to the development of No ...

, Ph.D. 1955 – Tomlinson Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at

McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...

Nick Holonyak Nick Holonyak Jr. ( ; November 3, 1928September 18, 2022) was an American engineer and educator. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light. This device was t ...

, Jr., B.S. 1950, M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1954 – *

John Bardeen John Bardeen (; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American solid-state physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Houser Brattain for their inventio ...

Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at

UIUC The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

, member of

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American Nonprofit organization, nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. It is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), along with the National Academ ...

in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Materials Engineering for contributions to development of semiconductor controlled rectifiers,

light emitting diodes A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that Light#Light sources, emits light when Electric current, current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy in the form of pho ...

, and

diode laser The laser diode chip removed and placed on the eye of a needle for scale A laser diode (LD, also injection laser diode or ILD or semiconductor laser or diode laser) is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode in which a diode p ...

, two-time Nobel Prize Winner in Physics for work on the transistor and then for the BCS Theory of Superconductivity * John Honnold, William A. Schnader Professor of Commercial Law at

University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Carey Law, or Penn Law; previously University of Pennsylvania Law School) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Phi ...

* Fakhreddine Karray, Loblaws Research Chair of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Waterloo * A.C. Littleton, B.S. 1912, M.S. 1918, Ph.D. 1931 – professor and accounting historian University of Illinois,

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...

The Accounting Review ''The Accounting Review'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Accounting Association (AAA) that covers accounting with a scope encompassing any accounting-related subject and any research methodology. ''The Accou ...

Accounting Hall of Fame The Accounting Hall of Fame is an award "recognizing accountants who are making or have made a significant contribution to the advancement of accounting" since the beginning of the 20th century. Inductees are from both accounting academia and pract ...

inductee *

Douglas A. Melton Douglas A. Melton is an American medical researcher who is the Harvard University Professor, Xander University Professor at Harvard University, and was an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2022. Melton is a co-director of ...

, B.S. – biologist, Xander

University Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

* Jennifer Mercieca, Ph.D.— American rhetorical scholar and professor at

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, TA&M, or TAMU) is a public university, public, Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of ...

, author of ''Demagogue for president: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump'' *

Michael Moore Michael Francis Moore is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. Moore's work frequently addresses various Social issue, social, political, and economic topics. He first became publicly known for his award-winning debut ...

– professor of theoretical physics at the

University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

James Purdy James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 March 13, 2009) was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, from his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work ha ...

, scholar of digital rhetoric * Nora C. Quebral, Ph.D. – proponent of the development communication discipline; Professor Emeritus of development communication at

University of the Philippines Los Baños The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB; ), also referred to as UP Los Baños or colloquially as Elbi (), is a public research university primarily located in the towns of Los Baños and Bay in the province of Laguna, some 65 kilo ...

* Mark Reckase, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...

Maurice H. Rees Maurice Holmes Rees (April 27, 1880 – May 25, 1945) was an American medical educator who served as Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Superintendent of the University of Colorado Hospital from 1920 to 1945. Early life an ...

, Medical educator and Dean of

University of Colorado School of Medicine The University of Colorado School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Colorado system. It is located at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, one of the four University of Colorado campuses, six mil ...

from 1925 to 1945 *

Bernard Rosenthal Bernard J. Rosenthal (August 9, 1914 – July 28, 2009),Grimes, William New York Times, July 31, 2009. also known as Tony Rosenthal, was an American Abstract art, abstract sculptor widely known for his monumental public art sculptures, created ...

, Ph.D. 1968 – Professor Emeritus of English at

Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university in Binghamton metropolitan area, Greater Binghamton, New York, United States. It is one of the four uni ...

* Clifford E. Singer, professor emeritus and director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security *

Jessie Carney Smith Jessie Carney Smith (born September 24, 1930) is an American librarian and educator, formerly Dean of the Fisk University Library and Camille Cosby Distinguished Chair in the Humanities. She was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. degree ...

, Ph.D. 1964 – Librarian Emeritus of

Fisk University Fisk University is a Private university, private Historically black colleges and universities, historically black Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 and its campus i ...

; first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in library science at UI * Guy Standing, M.A. 1972 – Professor of

Development Studies Development studies is an interdisciplinary branch of social science. Development studies is offered as a specialized master's degree in a number of reputed universities around the world. It has grown in popularity as a subject of study since the ...

at the

School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area ...

(SOAS),

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

* Gilbert Y. Steiner, Ph.D. 1950 – fourth president of the

Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global econo ...

* Dewey Stuit, American educational psychologist; dean of the College of Arts at the

University of Iowa The University of Iowa (U of I, UIowa, or Iowa) is a public university, public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized int ...

from 1948 to 1977 *

Clyde Summers Clyde Wilson Summers (November 21, 1918 – October 30, 2010) was an American lawyer and educator who advocated for more democratic procedures in labor unions. He helped write the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (also known ...

, B.S. 1939, J.D. 1942, labor lawyer and law professor at the

Yale Law School Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...

and

, subject of

In re Summers ''In re Summers'', 325 U.S. 561 (1945), is a 5-to-4 ruling by the United States Supreme Court which held that the First and Fourteenth amendment freedoms of a conscientious objector were not infringed when a state bar association declined to adm ...

Maurice Cole Tanquary Maurice Cole Tanquary (November 26, 1881 - October 25, 1944) was a professor of entomology, a member of the Crocker Land Expedition and is considered to be a pioneer in modern beekeeping. Early life Tanquary was the son of Thomas J. and Florence ...

, A.B. 1907, M.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1912 – professor of entomology at several universities and member of the

Crocker Land Expedition The Crocker Land Expedition took place in 1913. Its purpose was to investigate the existence of Crocker Land, a huge island supposedly sighted by the explorer Robert Peary from the top of Cape Colgate in 1906. It is now believed that Peary fraud ...

* James Thomson, B.S. 1981 – professor of microbiology,

University of Wisconsin – Madison A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...

* Janis Driver Treworgy, M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1985 – American academic and sedimentary geologist * Clark R. Landis, B.A. 1980 – American academic and professor of chemistry at

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

* Juyang Weng, M.Sc. 1985, Ph.D. 1989 – Chinese-American computer engineer, neuroscientist, author, and academic. * Morris M. Kleiner, A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1974, economics – American academic, AFL-CIO Professor of Labor Policy

College presidents and vice-presidents

* Benjamin Allen – president,

University of Northern Iowa The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is a public university in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. UNI offers more than 90 majors across five colleges. The fall 2024 total enrollment was 9,283 students. The university was initially founded in 1 ...

* John L. Anderson, M.S., Ph.D. – eighth president,

Illinois Institute of Technology The Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the m ...

; former provost,

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...

Robert M. Berdahl Robert Max Berdahl (born March 15, 1937) is a retired American college and university administrator. Biography Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Berdahl received a Bachelor of Arts from Augustana College (South Dakota), Augustana College in 195 ...

, M.A. – president of

American Association of Universities American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, ...

, former chancellor of

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

, former president of

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

* Warren E. Bow, M.A. – president of

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public university, public research university in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 375 programs. It is Michigan's third-l ...

* Alvin Bowman, Ph.D. – president,

Illinois State University Illinois State University (ISU) is a public research university in Normal, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University and is the oldest public university in Illinois. The university emphasizes teachin ...

* Tom Buchanan, Ph.D. – twenty-third president,

University of Wyoming The University of Wyoming (UW) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming, United States. It was founded in March 1886, four years before the territory was admitted as the 44th state, ...

* David L. Chicoine, Ph.D. – president,

South Dakota State University South Dakota State University (SDSU or SD State) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Brookings, South Dakota, United States. Founded in 1881, it is the state's largest university and is the sec ...

Coching Chu Coching Chu (; March 7, 1890 – February 7, 1974), also romanized as Zhu Kezhen, was a Chinese geologist and meteorologist. Life and career Born in Shangyu, Zhejiang, Chu received his secondary education at the Tangshan School of Rail and ...

, B.S. 1913 – sixteenth president,

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University (ZJU) is a public university, public research university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and D ...

(

National Chekiang University Zhejiang University (ZJU) is a public research university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and Double First-Class Construction. The university w ...

period); former vice president,

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

* Ralph J. Cicerone, M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1970 – president,

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the ...

, former chancellor of

UC Irvine UC may refer to: Education In the United States * University of California system * University of Charleston, West Virginia * University of Chicago, Illinois * University of Cincinnati, Ohio * Upsala College, East Orange, New Jersey (''defunct ...

* Lewis Collens, B.S., M.A. – seventh president,

John E. Cribbet John Edward Cribbet (February 21, 1918 – May 23, 2009) was a well-known legal scholar, dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, and chancellor of the University of Illinois. Biography Cribbet was born in Findlay, Illinois, just outsi ...

, J.D. – legal scholar, dean of the

University of Illinois College of Law The University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign is the law school of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a public land-grant research university in Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. It was established in 1897 and offers th ...

, and chancellor of the University of Illinois * Lois B. DeFleur, Ph.D. – president,

, former Provost of

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

* W. Kent Fuchs, M.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1985 – twelfth president,

Philip Handler Philip Handler (August 13, 1917 – December 29, 1981) was an American nutritionist, and biochemist. He was President of the United States National Academy of Sciences for two terms from 1969 to 1981. He was also a recipient of the National Meda ...

, Ph.D. 1939 – president,

Tori Haring-Smith Tori Haring-Smith is an American academic and the former president of Washington & Jefferson College. Education Haring-Smith received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and doctoral and master's degrees from the University of Illinois ...

, Ph.D. – president,

Washington & Jefferson College Washington & Jefferson College (W&J College or W&J) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Washington, Pennsylvania, United States. The college traces its origin to three Presbyterian m ...

* Freeman A. Hrabowski III, M.A., Ph.D. – president,

University of Maryland, Baltimore County The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a Public university, public research university in Catonsville, Maryland named after Baltimore County, Maryland, Baltimore County. It had a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students, 61 un ...

* Emil Q. Javier, B.S. 1964 – seventeenth president,

University of the Philippines The University of the Philippines (UP; ) is a Higher education in the Philippines#State universities and colleges, state university system in the Philippines. It is the country's national university, as mandated by List of Philippine laws, Re ...

* Alain E. Kaloyeros, Ph.D. 1987 – first president, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute * Robert W. Kustra, Ph.D. – president,

Boise State University Boise State University (BSU) is a Public university, public research university in Boise, Idaho, United States. Founded in 1932 by the Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church, it became an independent junior college in 1934 and has b ...

* Judy Jolley Mohraz. Ph.D. 1974 – ninth president,

Goucher College Goucher College ( ') is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1885 as a Nonsectarian, nonsecterian Women's colleges in the United States, ...

John Niland John Rodney Niland (born 10 September 1940) is an Australian academic and board director. Niland obtained a Bachelor and Master of Commerce from UNSW and his PhD is from the University of Illinois. He has held academic positions at Cornell Uni ...

, Ph.D. 1970 – fourth president,

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1949. The university comprises seven faculties, through which it offers bachelor's, master's and docto ...

, Australia *

J. Wayne Reitz Julius Wayne Reitz (December 31, 1908 – December 24, 1993) was an American agricultural economist, professor and university president. Reitz was a native of Kansas, and earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in his chosen fiel ...

, M.S. 1935 – fifth president,

* Steven B. Sample, B.S. 1962, M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1965 – tenth president,

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

* David J. Schmidly, Ph.D., – twentieth president,

University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM; ) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Founded in 1889 by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature, it is the state's second oldest university, a flagship university in th ...

* Justin Schwartz, B.S. 1985 – Chancellor of the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University o ...

* Michael Schwartz, B.S. 1958, M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962 – President

Cleveland State University Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in oper ...

James J. Stukel James J. Stukel (born March 30, 1937) is an American former educator who served as the 15th president of the University of Illinois system. Early life James Stukel was born on March 30, 1937, in Joliet, Illinois, to Philip and Julia Stukel. J ...

, M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1968 – fifteenth president,

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United ...

Dianne Boardley Suber Dianne Boardley Suber is an American academic administrator who was the tenth president of Saint Augustine's University from 1999 to 2014. She was previously an assistant provost at Hampton University. Life Suber received a Bachelor of Science d ...

, M.Ed. – tenth president of

Saint Augustine's University Saint Augustine's University is a private historically black Christian college in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was founded by Episcopal Church clergy in 1867 for the education of formerly enslaved Black people. The university has traditionall ...

William D. Underwood William D. Underwood has been the eighteenth President of Mercer University since 2006. He was the interim President of Baylor University from 2005 to 2006. Biography Underwood graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University and received a J.D. fro ...

, J.D. – eighteenth president,

Mercer University Mercer University is a Private university, private Research university, research university in Macon, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1833 as Mercer Institute and gaining university status in 1837, it is the oldest private university in the s ...

* Marvin Wachman, Ph.D. – president,

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist ministe ...

, former president of Lincoln University * Arnold R. Weber, B.S. 1950 - fourteenth president,

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

Herman B Wells Herman B Wells (June 7, 1902 – March 18, 2000), a native of Boone County, Indiana, was the eleventh president of Indiana University Bloomington and its first university chancellor. He was pivotal in the transformation of Indiana Universi ...

– president,

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a state university system, system of Public university, public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. The system has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration o ...

* Chen Xujing – vice president,

Nankai University Nankai University is a public university in Tianjin, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Nankai University was establ ...

and Zhongsan University; president,

Lingnan University Lingnan University a public research university located in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong. Lingnan University has 3 faculties, 3 Schools, 16 departments, 2 language centres, and 2 units (science and music), offering 29 degree honours ...

and

Jinan University Jinan University ( ; JNU, zh, 暨南大学) is a national public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is managed by the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The university is part of the Double First-Class ...

College provosts and vice provosts

* Joseph A. Alutto, M.A. – Provost,

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

* Richard C. Lee, Ph.D. – Vice Provost,

University of Nevada, Las Vegas The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the ...

Architecture

Max Abramovitz Max Abramovitz (May 23, 1908 – September 12, 2004) was an American architect. He was best known for his work with the New York City firm Harrison & Abramovitz. Life Abramovitz was the son of Romanian Jewish immigrant parents. He graduat ...

, B.S. 1929 – architect on many campus and prominent international buildings including the United Nations Building, Assembly Hall (since renamed to

State Farm Center The State Farm Center is a large dome-shaped 15,544-seat indoor arena located in Champaign, Illinois, owned and operated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The arena hosts games for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball, ...

) and the

Avery Fisher Hall David Geffen Hall is a concert hall at Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The 2,200-seat auditorium opened in 1962, and is the home of the New York Philharmonic. The facility, designed by Max Abramovitz, was o ...

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 ...

in New York City *

Henry Bacon Henry Bacon (November 28, 1866February 16, 1924) was an American Beaux-Arts architect who oversaw the engineering and design of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., built between 1915 and 1922, which was his final project before his 1924 ...

– architect of the

Lincoln Memorial The Lincoln Memorial is a List of national memorials of the United States, U.S. national memorial honoring Abraham Lincoln, the List of presidents of the United States, 16th president of the United States, located on the western end of the Nati ...

in Washington, D.C. *

Temple Hoyne Buell Temple Hoyne Buell (September 9, 1895 – January 5, 1990) was an American architect, real estate developer and entrepreneur namesake of the Buell Theatre in Denver Center Complex, Buell & Company, and the Temple Buell Foundation. Buell was b ...

– architect for the first American central mall *

Jeanne Gang Jeanne Gang (born March 19, 1964) is an American architect and the founder and leader of Studio Gang (established in 1997), an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Paris. She is known for ...

, B.S. 1986 – architect *

Walter Burley Griffin Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect. He designed Canberra, Australia's capital city, the New South Wales towns of Griffith, New South Wales, Griffith and Leeton, New So ...

, B. Arch. 1899 – architect and designer of

Canberra Canberra ( ; ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the Federation of Australia, federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's list of cities in Australia, largest in ...

* Ralph Johnson, B. Arch 1971 – principal architect of the

Perkins+Will Perkins is a surname derived from the Anglo-Saxon corruption of the kin of Pierre (from Pierre kin to Pierrekin to Perkins), introduced into England by the Norman Conquest. It is found throughout mid- and southern England. Another derivation com ...

* Arthur Rolland Kelly – B. Arch 1902 * Ron Labinski – founder of HOK Sport * David Miller, M. Arch 1972 – principal architect of the Miller/Hull partnership, FAIA *

César Pelli César Pelli (October 12, 1926 – July 19, 2019) was an Argentine architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Three of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Wo ...

, M. Arch. 1954 – architect for the

Petronas Twin Towers The Petronas Towers (), also known as the Petronas Twin Towers and colloquially the KLCC Twin Towers, are an interlinked pair of 88-storey supertall skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, standing at . From 1996 to 2004, they were the tall ...

William Pereira William Leonard Pereira (April 25, 1909 – November 13, 1985) was an American architect from Chicago, Illinois, who was noted for his Futurist architecture#Post-modern futurism, futuristic designs of landmark buildings such as the Transamer ...

, M. Arch. 1930 – notable mid-20th century American architect in Los Angeles, known for

Transamerica Pyramid The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. Located at 600 Montgomery Street between Clay and Washingto ...

and

Geisel Library Geisel Library is the main library building of the University of California, San Diego. It is named in honor of Audrey Geisel, Audrey and Theodor Seuss Geisel, the latter of whom is better known as children's author Dr. Seuss. The building's di ...

Nathan Clifford Ricker Nathan Clifford Ricker, D.Arch (June 24, 1843 – March 19, 1924) was a professor and architect known for his work at the University of Illinois. He was born on a farm near Acton, Maine June 24, 1843. In 1875, he was married to Mary Carter ...

, D. Arch. 1871 – first architect to receive a degree in architecture from an American institution * Patricia Saldaña Natke, B. Arch. 1986 – architect * William L. Steele – architect of the

Prairie School Prairie School is a late 19th and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped i ...

during the early-twentieth century * Robert Farguhar Train (1869-1951), Arts and Crafts architect * Ralph A. Vaughn (1907–2000) – academic, architect and film set designer; founded the Pi Psi chapter of

Omega Psi Phi Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. () is a List of African-American fraternities, historically African-American Fraternities and sororities, fraternity. It was founded on November 17, 1911 at Howard University. Omega Psi Phi is a founding member of ...

Art

Ivan Albright Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (February 20, 1897 – November 18, 1983) was an American painter, sculptor and print-maker most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes. Due to his technique and dark subject matter, he is of ...

– painter *

Mark Staff Brandl Mark Staff Brandl (born 1955) is an American-born artist, art historian and philosopher of art now living primarily in Switzerland. History Born in Peoria, Illinois and raised in Pekin, Illinois, Brandl is the son of Earl and Ruth Brandl, and ...

, B.F.A. 1978 – artist, art historian and critic * Christopher Brown, B.F.A. 1973 – painter, printmaker, and professor * Annie Crawley – underwater photographer *

Greg Drasler Greg Drasler is an American artist known for metaphorical paintings that mix vernacular imagery and decoration and visual and interpretive conundrums.Goodman, Jonathan. "Greg Drasler at Generous Miracles," ''Art in America'', July 2000.Scher ...

, B.F.A. 1980; M.F.A. 1983 – artist and educator * Leslie Erganian – artist and writer * Hart D. Fisher, B.A. 1992 – comics book creator, comics publisher * Tom Goldenberg, B.F.A. 1970 – artist and educator *

David Klamen David Klamen (born 1961) is an American artist and academic. He is known for visually diverse paintings that meld technical mastery with postmodern explorations of the processes by which humans understand and interpret experience.Hixson, Kathryn. ...

, B.F.A. 1983 – artist and academic *

Chitra Ramanathan Chitra may refer to: Art * Chitra (art), a historic art that includes paintings, sketching with or without multiple colors People * Chithra, Indian playback singer * Chitra (actress), Indian film actress (1965-2021) * V. J. Chitra, Indian telev ...

, B.F.A Painting, 1993, M.B.A 1997 – contemporary abstract painter and art educator * Susan Rankaitis, B.F.A. 1971 – artist * Angela M. Rivers, B.F.A. 1975 – Artist, Art Curator *

Leo Segedin Leopold Segedin (March 22, 1927 – January 7, 2025) was an American artist and educator based in Chicago. He is best known as an urban figurative painter, who portrayed humanist scenes of life in mid-20th century Chicago.Klauba, Judith Lloyd an ...

, B.F.A. 1948; M.F.A. 1950 – artist and educator *

Deb Sokolow Deb Sokolow (born 1974) is an American visual artist who lives and works in Chicago. Sokolow's work uses both image and text to conjure connections among historical events, celebrities, politicians, and her own personal history in order to spur new ...

, B.A. 1996 – artist *

Lorado Taft Lorado Zadok Taft (April 29, 1860 – October 30, 1936) was an American sculptor, writer and educator. Part of the American Renaissance movement, his monumental pieces include, ''Fountain of Time'', ''Spirit of the Great Lakes'', and ''The ...

– sculptor, writer and educator * Charles H. Traub, B.A. – photographer and educator *

Don Weeke Don Weeke (born 1947) is an American fiber and gourd artist from Addieville, Illinois best known for combining basketry with gourds using natural materials from the environment. His work is regularly on display nationally at galler ...

, B.S. 1969 – fiber and gourd artist * William Wegman, M. F. A. 1967 – painter and photographer * Vivian Zapata – Painter, Official artist of the 2005 Latin Grammys * Barbara Zeigler – artist

Astronauts

Scott Altman Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman (born August 15, 1959) is a retired United States Navy Captain and naval aviator, engineer, test pilot and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. His fourth mission on STS-125 was the ...

, B.S. 1981 * Lee J. Archambault, B.S. 1982, M.S. 1984 * Dale A. Gardner, B.S. 1970 *

Michael S. Hopkins Michael Scott "Mike" Hopkins (born December 28, 1968) is a United States Space Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. Hopkins was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20. He made his first spaceflight as a flight en ...

, B.S. 1992 *

Steven R. Nagel Steven Ray Nagel (October 27, 1946 – August 21, 2014), (Col, USAF), was an American astronaut, aeronautical and mechanical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. In total, he logged 723 hours in space. After NASA, he worked ...

, B.S. 1969 *

Joseph R. Tanner Joseph Richard Tanner (born January 21, 1950) is an American instructor at the University of Colorado Boulder, mechanical engineer, a former naval officer and aviator, and a former NASA astronaut. He was born in Danville, Illinois. He is unusual ...

, B.S. 1973

Business

Irving Azoff Irving Azoff (; born December 12, 1947) is an American businessman, who is chairman of Full Stop Management, a company that represents recording artists. During the course of his career, he has worked as an agent, personal manager, concert pr ...

, attended – CEO of

Ticketmaster Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an American ticket sales and distribution company based in Beverly Hills, California, with operations in many countries around the world. In 2010, it merged with Live Nation under the name Live Nation Ente ...

(2008–present); Executive Chairman

Live Nation Entertainment Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. is an American multinational entertainment company that was founded in 2010 following the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. It promotes, operates and manages ticket sales for live entertainment internation ...

Sunil Benimadhu Sunil Benimadhu is the Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM). He has spearheaded the project to enable the SEM join the World Federation of Exchanges, a key standard-setter in the stock exchange industry. Benimadhu was ele ...

, M.B.A 1992 – chief executive officer of the

Stock Exchange of Mauritius The Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) (); is an organization responsible for the operation of Mauritius's primary stock exchange located at Port Louis. The SEM operates two markets: the Official Market and the Development & Enterprise Market (DEM). ...

(2002–present) *

Jim Cantalupo James Richard Cantalupo (November 14, 1943 – April 19, 2004) was an American businessman. He served as chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corporation from 2003 until his sudden death by heart attack at the age of 60. Life Cant ...

, 1966 – chairman and chief executive officer of

McDonald's McDonald's Corporation, doing business as McDonald's, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational fast food chain store, chain. As of 2024, it is the second largest by number of locations in the world, behind only the Chinese ch ...

(1991–2004) *

Stephen Carley Stephen Carley joined Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. as Chief Executive Officer and as a director in September 2010. Prior to joining Red Robin, Carley served from April 2001 to August 2010 as the Chief Executive Officer of El Pollo Loco, Inc., a ...

, A.B. ''

circa Circa is a Latin word meaning "around, approximately". Circa or CIRCA may also refer to: * CIRCA (art platform), in London * Circa (band), a progressive rock supergroup * Circa (company), an American skateboard footwear company * Circa (contempora ...

'' 1973 – chief executive officer of

El Pollo Loco El Pollo Loco (Spanish for "The Crazy Chicken") is the name of three independent restaurant chains that specialize in Mexican-style grilled chicken. The Mexican and American companies were founded by Juan Francisco Ochoa while the Filipino comp ...

, former president and chief operating officer of Universal City Hollywood *

Jerry Colangelo Jerry Colangelo (born November 20, 1939) is an American businessman and sports executive. He formerly owned the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the A ...

, B.S. 1962 – president and chief executive officer of

Phoenix Suns The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The Suns compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division (NBA), Pacific Division of the Western Conference (NBA), We ...

; managing general partner of

Arizona Diamondbacks The Arizona Diamondbacks are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. The Diamondbacks compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division. The franchise was established ...

Jon Corzine Jon Stevens Corzine ( ; born January 1, 1947) is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006, and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. Corzine ran f ...

, A.B. 1969 – chairman and chief executive officer of

Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan in New York City, with regional headquarters in many internationa ...

(1994–1999), ''cross listed in Politics section'' *

Bob Dudley Robert Warren Dudley (born September 14, 1955) is an American businessman who is a former group chief executive of BP. He had been president and chief executive of TNK-BP and on June 18, 2010, was assigned to be BP executive in charge of the G ...

, B.S. – managing director and chief executive officer-designate of BP *

Martin Eberhard Martin Forest Eberhard (; born 1960) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tesla, Inc. (then Tesla Motors) with Marc Tarpenning in July 2003, where Eberhard was its original CEO serving until late 2007. In 2015, he was induct ...

, 1960 – co-founder and chief executive officer of

Tesla Motors Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, it designs, manufactures and sells battery electric vehicles (BEVs), stationary battery energy storage devices from hom ...

* George T. Felbeck, B.S.M.E. 1919, M.S.M.E. 1921 – president of

Union Carbide Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) is an American chemical company headquartered in Seadrift, Texas. It has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company since 2001. Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more f ...

(1944–1962) * George M.C. Fisher, 1962 – chief executive officer of

Eastman Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak (), is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorporated i ...

(1993–2000) *

Ravin Gandhi Ravin Gandhi is an American businessman. Gandhi was an executive with Coatings and Chemicals Corporation before its sale to Akzo Nobel. He later founded Glenborn Partners, a private equity firm, and GMM Nonstick Coatings, where he remained its CE ...

– founder of GMM Nonstick Coatings *

John Georges John Georges () (born October 16, 1960) is an American businessman from New Orleans, who owns Louisiana's two largest newspapers and online news sites. He formerly served on the Louisiana Board of Regents, the body which supervises higher educa ...

, 1951 – chief executive officer of

International Paper The International Paper Company is an American pulp and paper company, the largest such company in the world. It has approximately 39,000 employees, and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. History The company was incorporated January 31 ...

(1985–1996) * Harry Gray, 1941 – chief executive officer of

United Technologies United Technologies Corporation (UTC) was an American multinational corporation, multinational list of conglomerates, conglomerate headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. It researched, developed, and manufactured products in numerous are ...

(1974–1986) * E.B. Harris, 1935 – president of the

Chicago Mercantile Exchange The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) (often called "the Chicago Merc", or "the Merc") is an American derivatives marketplace based in Chicago and located at 20 S. Wacker Drive. The CME was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board ...

Robert L. Johnson Robert Louis Johnson (born April 8, 1946) is an American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, and investor. He is the co-founder of BET, which was acquired by Viacom in 2001. He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding compa ...

– founder of

Black Entertainment Television Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting Black American audiences. It is the flagship channel of the BET Media Group, a subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group. Originally launched ...

; principal owner of the

Charlotte Bobcats Charlotte most commonly refers to: *Charlotte (given name), a feminine form of the given name Charles ** Princess Charlotte (disambiguation) ** Queen Charlotte (disambiguation) *Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, a city * Charlotte (cake) ...

Tony Khan Antony Rafiq Khan (born October 10, 1982) is an American businessman, sports executive, and professional wrestling promoter. He is best known as the founder, co-owner, president, CEO, executive producer, and head booker of All Elite Wrestling ...

, B.S. 2007 – founder, co-owner, president, and CEO of

All Elite Wrestling All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is an American professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. It is owned and operated by Shahid Khan, Shahid and Tony Khan, with the latter serving as President (corporate title), president an ...

(AEW); co-owner and senior vice president of football administration & technology for the

Jacksonville Jaguars The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jaguars compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC South, South division. The team ...

; owner and chairman of

Fulham F.C. Fulham Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Fulham, West London, England. The club competes in the , the top tier of English football league system, English football. They have played home games at Craven ...

* Pete Koomen, M.S. 2006 – co-founder of

Optimizely Optimizely is an American company that provides digital experience platform software as a service. Optimizely provides A/B testing and multivariate testing tools, website personalization, and feature toggle capabilities, as well as web content ...

* Bruce Krasberg, 1930 – business executive and horticulturist * Michael P. Krasny, B.S. 1975 – founder and chairman emeritus of

CDW CDW Corporation is an American multi-brand provider of innovative information technology services, serving business, government, education, and healthcare sectors across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Headquartered in Vernon ...

Arvind Krishna Arvind Krishna (born November 23, 1962) is an American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been CEO of IBM since April 2020 and chairman since January 2021. Arvind began his career at IBM in 1990, at its Thomas J. Watso ...

, M.S. 1987, Ph.D. 1990 – chief executive officer of IBM * Stephen McLin, B.S. 1968 – former

Bank of America The Bank of America Corporation (Bank of America) (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment banking, investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in ...

executive *

Christopher Michel Christopher P. Michel is an American photographer and entrepreneur, who founded Military.com. He is the current artist in residence at the National Academies. Early life and career Michel attended the University of Illinois. He served as a ...

, B.A. 1990 – founder and chief executive officer of

Military.com Military.com is a website that provides news and information about the United States military, service members, veterans, and their families as well as foreign policy and broader national security issues. Founded in 1999, the site has been a divi ...

(1999–2007); founder and chief executive officer of

Affinity Labs Affinity Labs was a company that built social networking sites for niche groups such as firefighters, police officers, nurses and the Armed Forces. In January 2008, Affinity Labs was merged into Monster.com in a $61 million transaction. Affin ...

* Steven L. Miller, B.S. 1967 – chief executive officer of

Shell Oil Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company, headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New Y ...

(1999–2002) * Tom Murphy, B.S. 1938 – chairman of

General Motors General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning and manufacturing f ...

Jim Oberweis James D. Oberweis (born June 10, 1946) is an American businessman, investment manager, and politician from the state of Illinois. The former owner of Oberweis Dairy in North Aurora near Chicago, he served as a member of the Illinois Senate, rep ...

– chairman of

Oberweis Dairy Oberweis Dairy, headquartered in North Aurora, Illinois, is the parent company of several dairy-related and fast food restaurant operations in the midwest region of the United States. Its businesses include a home delivery service available in ...

Ron Popeil Ronald Martin Popeil ( ; May 3, 1935 – July 28, 2021) was an American inventor and marketing personality, and founder of the direct response marketing company Ronco. He made appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie and coined t ...

– attended (left after one year) – inventor of the

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C. W. Post Charles William Post (October 26, 1854 – May 9, 1914) was an American innovator, breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer and a pioneer in the prepared-food industry. He was the founder of what is now Post Consumer Brands. Early life and ...

– attended (left after two years) – breakfast cereal magnate * Jasper Sanfilippo, Sr. – businessman and industrialist who led and substantially grew his family's nut business, John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc., into one of the largest in the world *

Abe Saperstein Abraham Michael Saperstein (; July 4, 1902 – March 15, 1966) was the founder, owner and earliest coach of the Harlem Globetrotters. Saperstein was a leading figure in black basketball and baseball from the 1920s through the 1950s, primarily be ...

– creator of the

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Steve Sarowitz Steve Sarowitz (born 1965/1966) is an American billionaire businessman, and the founder of Paylocity Corporation, Paylocity. Early life Sarowitz earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Career Sarowitz ow ...

(born 1965/1966) – billionaire founder of

Paylocity Paylocity Holding Corporation is an American provider of cloud-based payroll and human capital management (HCM) software. History The company was founded by Steve Sarowitz in 1997 as Ameripay Payroll Ltd. It was renamed Paylocity in December 20 ...

Reshma Saujani Reshma Saujani (born November 18, 1975) is an American lawyer, politician, civil servant, and the founder of the nonprofit organization "Girls Who Code", which aims to increase the number of women in computer science and close the gender employm ...

– founder and CEO of

Girls Who Code Girls Who Code (also known as GWC) is an international nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. Among its programs are a summer immersion program, a specialized campus program, after-school ...

Therese Tucker Therese Tucker is an American businesswoman, the chairman, CEO and founder of BlackLine, an enterprise software company with a market cap of $2.17 billion as of 2018. Early life She has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics fro ...

– CEO and Founder of

BlackLine BlackLine Systems, Inc., is an American enterprise software company that develops cloud-based services designed to automate and manage the entire financial close process as well as consolidation, invoice-to-cash, and intercompany accounting. The ...

Barbara Turf Barbara Turf (February 28, 1943 – July 12, 2014) was an American business executive and former schoolteacher who served as the CEO of Crate & Barrel, a houseware and furniture retail chain, from 2008 until 2012. Crate & Barrel is headquartered i ...

– CEO of

Crate & Barrel Euromarket Designs Inc., doing business as Crate & Barrel (stylized as Crate&Barrel), is an international furniture and home décor retail store headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois. They employ 8200 employees across over 100 stores in the Uni ...

(2008–2012) *

Jack Welch John Francis Welch Jr. (November 19, 1935 – March 1, 2020) was an American business executive, chemical engineer, and writer. He was Chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE) between 1981 and 2001. His long career at General Electric ( ...

, M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1961 – chief executive officer of

(1981–2001) * C. E. Woolman, 1912 – founder of

Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines, Inc. is a Major airlines of the United States, major airline in the United States headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, operating nine hubs, with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being its ...

Yi Gang Yi Gang () (born 5 March 1958) is a Chinese economist who served as the governor of the People's Bank of China from 2018 to 2023, vice governor of the People's Bank of China from 2007 to 2018, director of the State Administration of Foreign Ex ...

, Ph.D. 1986 – director of

State Administration of Foreign Exchange The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) of the People's Republic of China is an administrative agency under the State Council tasked with drafting rules and regulations governing foreign exchange market activities, and managing the ...

* John D. Zeglis, B.S. 1969 – former president of

AT&T AT&T Inc., an abbreviation for its predecessor's former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the w ...

; former chairman and chief executive officer of

AT&T Wireless AT&T Mobility, LLC, also known as AT&T Wireless and marketed as simply AT&T, is an American telecommunications company. Formed in April 2000 as Cingular Wireless LLC, It is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Inc. and provides wireless serv ...

* Marcin Kleczynski, B.S. 2012 – founder and CEO of Malwarebytes

Engineering and technology

* Shoaib Abbasi, B.S. 1980, M.S. 1980 – president and chief executive officer of

Informatica Informatica Inc. is an American software development company founded in 1993. It is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Its core products include enterprise cloud data management and data integration. It was co-founded by Gaurav Dhillon a ...

Harlan Anderson Harlan E. Anderson (October 15, 1929 - January 30, 2019) was an American engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which later became the second largest computer company in the world. Other nota ...

, B.S., M.S. – computer pioneer and founder of

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until ...

Marc Andreessen Marc Lowell Andreessen ( ; born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and ...

, B.S. 1993 – co-creator of

Mosaic A mosaic () is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/Mortar (masonry), mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and ...

, co-founder of

Netscape Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser was o ...

, currently co-founder of venture-capital firm

Andreessen Horowitz AH Capital Management, LLC (commonly known as Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z) is an American privately held venture capital firm, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. As of M ...

Bruce Artwick Bruce Arthur Artwick (born January 1, 1953) is an American software engineer. He is the creator of the first consumer flight simulator software. He founded Sublogic after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1977, ...

, M.S. 1976 – creator of ''

Microsoft Flight Simulator ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' is a series of Flight simulation video game, flight simulator programs for MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and diff ...

'' * William F. Baker, M.S. 1980 – best known for being the structural engineer of

Burj Khalifa The Burj Khalifa (known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration) is a megatall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, or just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding the antenna, but inc ...

, the world's tallest man-made structure *

Ken Batcher Kenneth Edward Batcher (December 27, 1935 – August 22, 2019) was an American academic who was emeritus professor of Computer Science at Kent State University. He also worked as a computer architect at Goodyear Aerospace in Akron, Ohio for 28 y ...

, Ph.D. 1969 – ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award winner for work on parallel computers * Arnold O. Beckman, B.S. 1922, M.S. 1923 – inventor of the

pH meter A pH meter is a scientific instrument that measures the hydrogen-ion activity in water-based solutions, indicating its acidity or alkalinity expressed as pH. The pH meter measures the difference in electrical potential between a pH electro ...

, founder of

Beckman Instruments Beckman Coulter, Inc. is a Danaher Corporation company that develops, manufactures, and markets products relevant to biomedical testing. It operates in the industries of diagnostics under the brand name Beckman Coulter and life sciences under t ...

; major donor to the university which included a gift to found the Beckman Institute; namesake of the Beckman Quadrangle *

Eric Bina Eric J. Bina (born October 1964) is an American software programmer who is the co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. In 1993, Bina along with Marc Andreessen authored the first version of Mosaic while working as a programmer at Na ...

, B.S. 1986, M.S. 1988 –- co-creator of the

and among the first employees of

Donald Bitzer Donald Lester Bitzer (January 1, 1934 – December 10, 2024) was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He was the co-inventor of the plasma display and was widely regarded as the "father of PLATO". Life and career Donald Leste ...

, B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1960–2003

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categor ...

in Technical Achievement for the invention of the

plasma display A plasma display panel is a type of flat-panel display that uses small cells containing Plasma (physics), plasma: Ionization, ionized gas that responds to electric fields. Plasma televisions were the first large (over diagonal) flat-panel displ ...

Ed Boon Edward Boon (born February 22, 1964) is an American video game programmer, voice actor, and director. Boon was employed for over 15 years at Midway Games. Since 2011, he has worked for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for one of its subsi ...

, B.S. 1986 – creator of the ''

Mortal Kombat ''Mortal Kombat'' is an American media franchise centered on a series of fighting game, fighting video games originally developed by Midway Games in 1992. The original ''Mortal Kombat (1992 video game), Mortal Kombat'' arcade game spawned Lis ...

'' video game series *

Paul Bragiel Paul Bragiel (born 15 September 1977 in Chicago, Illinois) is an internet entrepreneur and currently a managing partner of Bragiel Brothers. Early life Bragiel, the oldest child of Mary and Walter Bragiel, was raised in Mt. Prospect and South Ba ...

, B.S. 1999 – co-founder Meetro & Bragiel Brothers, Colombian National Team cross-country skier * Keith Brendley, B.S., 1980—leading authority on

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s and president of Artis, a research and development company *

Mike Byster Michael Byster (born March 5, 1959) is an American mental calculator, and math educator. He worked as a commodities market, commodity trader until he quit his job to devote himself to teaching children his methods. He has spoken to over 10,000 cl ...

, 1981 –

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, mathematician *

Steve Chen Steve Chen (; born August 25, 1978) is a Taiwanese-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. After he co-founded the company A ...

– co-founder of YouTube * Yixin Chen – professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. * Ven Te Chow, Ph.D. – professor of hydrology * John Cioffi, B.S. 1978 – father of DSL (broadband internet connection), Marconi Prize winner, founder of Amati Communications (sold to Texas Instruments), IEEE Fellow * Atsugiri Jason, Jason David Danielson, B.S. – comedian in Japan * Alan M. Davis, M.S. 1973, Ph.D. 1975 – IEEE Fellow for contributions to software engineering, author, entrepreneur * Lemuel Davis, M.S. – software engineer in the field of computer animation; winner of a 1992 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Scientific and Technical Award, Scientific and Engineering Award * James DeLaurier, B.S. – designed the first microwave-powered aircraft, the first engine-powered ornithopter, and the first human-carrying ornithopter * Daniel W. Dobberpuhl, B.S. 1967 – creator of DEC Alpha, Alpha and StrongARM microprocessors at Digital Equipment Corporation, DEC * Steve Dorner, B.S. 1983 – creator of Eudora (e-mail client), Eudora * Russell Dupuis, B.S. 1970, M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1972 – professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology; co-recipient of the 2002 National Medal of Technology; awarded the 2007 IEEE Edison Medal; pioneer in metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and the commercialization of LEDs * Brendan Eich, M.S. 1986 – creator of JavaScript; chief technology officer of Mozilla Corporation * Larry Ellison, attended (left after sophomore year) – founder of Oracle Corporation * Michael S. Hart, Michael Hart, B.A. 1973 – founder of Project Gutenberg * Tomlinson Holman, B.S. 1968 – creator of THX, professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts * John C. Houbolt, B.S. 1940, M.S. 1942 – retired NASA engineer who successfully promoted lunar orbit rendezvous for Apollo Space Program * Jawed Karim, B.S. 2004 – co-founder of YouTube * Fazlur Khan, Ph.D. 1955 – designer and builder of the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the world when it was built in 1973 * Shahid Khan, B.S. 1971 – owner of the

; owner of Fulham F.C., Fulham F.C.; founder and CEO of Flex-N-Gate; recipient of the Mechanical Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award (1999) * Ed Krol – author of ''Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog'' * Chris Lattner – author of LLVM and related projects, such as the compiler Clang and the programming language Swift (programming language), Swift. At the start of 2017 he started working at

as vice president of Tesla Autopilot, Autopilot Software. * Max Levchin, B.S. 1997 – co-founder of PayPal * Jenny Levine (librarian), Jenny Levine, M.L.I.S. 1992 – evangelist for library technology and American Library Association Internet strategist * Russel Simmons – co-founder and chief technical officer of Yelp! * Bob Miner, B.A. (mathematics) 1963 – co-founder of Oracle Corporation * Ray Ozzie, B.S. 1979 – creator of Lotus Notes cofounder of Lotus, co-president of Microsoft * Anna Patterson, Ph.D. 1988 – Vice President of Engineering, Artificial Intelligence at Google and co-founder of Cuil * Emily S. Patterson, M.S., 1996, Ph.D., 1999 – Professor at Ohio State University College of Medicine * Cecil Peabody – writer, graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT (1877) and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT * Jerry Sanders (businessman), Jerry Sanders, B.S. 1958 – co-founder and former chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices * Peter Shirley, Ph.D. 1991 – Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA recognized for contributions to real time ray tracing * Thomas Siebel, B.A. 1975, M.B.A. 1983, M.S. 1985 – founder of Siebel Systems * H. Gene Slottow, Ph.D. 1964 – 2003

in Technical Achievement for the invention of the

* Nadine Barrie Smith, B.S. 1985, M.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1996 – biomedical researcher in therapeutic ultrasound * Jeremy Stoppelman – co-founder and chief executive officer of Yelp! * Bill Stumpf – designer of the Aeron chair, Aeron and Ergon ergonomic chairs * Jakub Szefer – B.S. – computer engineering professor. * Parisa Tabriz – head of security at Google Chrome * Mark Tebbe – B.S. 1983 – co-founder of Lante Corporation and Answers.com * Craig Vetter – BFA Industrial Design c. 1966 – founder of Vetter Fairing Company and Motorcycle Hall of Fame inductee * Kevin Warwick – Senior Beckman Fellow, 2004 – cyborg scientist, University of Reading * Vinay Hiremath – co-founder of Loom, Inc.

Journalism and non-fiction broadcasting

* Jabari Asim, scholar-in-residence 2008–2010 – former editor-in-chief of ''The Crisis'', ''The Washington Post'' ''Book World'' deputy editor, columnist; author * Dan Balz, B.A. 1968, M.A. 1972 – ''Washington Post'' national political reporter and editor; author * Claudia Cassidy, 1921 – ''Chicago Tribune'' music and drama critic * John Chancellor – political analyst and newscaster for ''NBC Nightly News'' *

, B.S. 1964 – film critic * Sean Evans (interviewer), Sean Evans, B.A. 2008 – host of YouTube series ''Hot Ones'' * Bill Geist, 1968 – CBS News correspondent * Robert Goralski, 1949 – NBC News correspondent * Bob Grant (radio host), Bob Grant – radio talk show personality * Steven Hager – editor of ''High Times'' and founder of the Cannabis Cup * Herb Keinon – columnist and journalist for ''The Jerusalem Post'' * Frederick C Klein, B.A. 1959 – sportswriter for ''The Wall Street Journal'' and author * Will Leitch – writer and founding editor of Deadspin * Jane Marie, B.A. 2002 – journalist and podcaster, former producer of ''This American Life'' and founder of Little Everywhere * Carol Marin, A.B. 1970 – former news anchor; ''60 Minutes'' correspondent; Illinois Journalist of the Year (1988) * Tom Merritt, B.S. journalism – technology journalist and broadcaster on TWiT.tv * Charlie Meyerson, Charles (Charlie) Meyerson, B.S., 1977; M.S., 1978, journalism �
radio, newspaper and internet reporter
* Robert Novak, B.A. 1952 – political commentator and columnist * Suze Orman, B.A. 1976 – financial adviser and author * Steve Osunsami, B.S. 1993 – senior national correspondent, ABC News * Ian Punnett – radio talk-show personality, and Saturday-night host of ''Coast to Coast AM'' * B. Mitchel Reed, B.S., M.A. – radio personality in Los Angeles and New York City * Taylor Rooks, B.S. broadcast journalism – Big Ten Network television personality and sideline reporter * Dan Savage – advice columnist (Savage Love) and theater director * Gene Shalit, 1949 – film critic * Loren Tate - sports journalist * Patricia Thompson (producer), Patricia Thompson, 1969 – film and television producer * Terry Teachout, M.A. music—theater critic and writer * Douglas Wilson (interior designer), Douglas Wilson – television personality and designer (''Trading Spaces'') * Gregor Ziemer – author and journalist, provided expert testimony during the Nuremberg Trials

Literature

* Nelson Algren, B.S. 1931 – author of 1950 National Book Award-winning ''The Man With the Golden Arm'' * William Attaway, B.A. 1935 – author of ''Blood on the Forge'' * Ann Bannon, B.A. 1955 – pulp-fiction writer, author of ''The Beebo Brinker Chronicles'' * Marianne Boruch, B.A. 1972 – poet * Dee Brown (novelist), Dee Brown, M.S. 1951 – author of ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'' * John F. Callahan, M.A., Ph.D. – literary executor for Ralph Ellison * Iris Chang, B.A. 1989 – author of ''The Rape of Nanking (book), The Rape of Nanking'' * Mary Tracy Earle (1864–1955), American author * Dave Eggers, attended 1980s and 90s, B.S. 2002 – author of ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'', ''What Is the What'', and ''Zeitoun (book), Zeitoun'' * Stanley Elkin, B.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1961 – National Book Critics Circle Award winner for ''George Mills'' in 1982 and for ''Mrs. Ted Bliss'' in 1995 * Lee Falk, 1932 – creator of The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician * Rolando Hinojosa, Ph.D. 1969 – author of ''Klail City Death Trip Series'' * Irene Hunt, B.A. 1939 – Newbery Medal-winning author of ''Up a Road Slowly'' * Richmond Lattimore, Ph.D. 1935 – poet; translator of the ''Iliad'' and ''the Odyssey'' * William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., B.A. 1930 – novelist and fiction editor of ''The New Yorker'' (1936–1976) * Tulika Mehrotra, B.A 2002 – Author of Delhi Stopover and Crashing B-Town. Writer for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue (magazine), Vogue, India Today and Men's Health * Nnedi Okorafor, B.A. 1996 – author of Binti (novel), Binti, Who Fears Death, and Akata Witch * Porsha Olayiwola, B.A. 2010 – Afrofuturist writer and poet laureate of Boston * Harry Mark Petrakis, attended – novelist *

Richard Powers Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel ''The Echo Maker'' won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...

of ''USA Today'' (2004–2008) * Henry Petroski, Ph.D. 1968 – civil engineer and writer * Irna Phillips, 1923 – creator of the soap opera

Military

* Lew Allen, Jr., M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1954 – Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force * Kenneth D. Bailey 1935 – Medal of Honor recipient * Casper H. Conrad Jr., B.S. 1922 – U.S. Army brigadier general * Reginald C. Harmon, LLB 1927 – first United States Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Air Force Judge Advocate General * Thomas R. Lamont, J.D. 1972 – United States Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) * Jerald D. Slack – U.S. Air National Guard Major General, Adjutant General of Wisconsin * Herbert Sobel – U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, commander of E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States), Easy Company, 506th Infantry Regiment during World War II, featured in Band of Brothers (miniseries), Band of Brothers * Eugene L. Tattini – U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General * David M. Van Buren, B.S. 1971 – Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition)

Music

* Anton Armstrong – choral director * Jay Bennett – musician for band Wilco * Charles L. Bestor – composer and music educator * Marty Casey, B.A. – lead vocalist of the band Lovehammers * Rene Clausen – composer, conductor * Ron Dewar – jazz saxophonist * Alexander Djordjevic – pianist * Neal Doughty, attended late 1960s – keyboard player and founding member of REO Speedwagon * Dan Fogelberg – singer-songwriter * GAWNE – rapper, singer, and songwriter * Nathan Gunn – baritone, opera singer * John B. Haberlen – director of

school of music * Jerry Hadley – opera singer * Chan Hing-yan – composer and music educator * Kenneth Jennings (conductor), Kenneth Jennings – composer and music educator * Craig Hella Johnson – choir conductor * Green Velvet, Curtis Jones – house music producer * Mike Kinsella, 1999 – indie-rock musician; frontman of American Football (band), American Football * Brian Krock – multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader of Big Heart Machine and liddle * Carolyn Kuan – conductor, pianist, music director for Hartford Symphony Orchestra * Jeffrey Kurtzman – musicologist and music editor * Jim McNeely – jazz pianist, composer, and arranger * Donald Nally – choral director * Bob Nanna – indie-rock musician; founder of the bands Friction, Braid (band), Braid, Hey Mercedes, and The City on Film * John Pierce (tenor), John Pierce (born 1959) – operatic tenor and academic voice teacher * Noam Pikelny – banjo player; recipient of Steve Martin Award for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass * Psalm One – hip-hop artist * Mary McCarty Snow – composer * John Summit – house music producer * SuperKnova – guitarist and indie-pop musician, singer, and producer * Matt Wertz – singer-songwriter * Brian Courtney Wilson – Grammy-nominated gospel artist

Performing arts

* Ruth Attaway – Broadway and film actress (''You Can't Take It with You (play), You Can't Take It With You'', ''Raintree County (film), Raintree County'', ''Porgy and Bess (film), Porgy and Bess'', and ''Being There'') * Barbara Bain, B.S. – winner of three consecutive Emmy Awards for the role of Cinnamon Carter in ''Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series), Mission: Impossible'' * Betsy Brandt, B.F.A. 1996 – television actress (Marie Schrader in ''Breaking Bad'') * Timothy Carhart – film and television actor (''Pink Cadillac (film), Pink Cadillac'', ''The Hunt for Red October (film), The Hunt for Red October'') * Terrence Connor Carson – singer and stage, voice, and television actor * Arden Cho – actress * Andrew Davis (director), Andrew Davis – film director (''The Fugitive (1993 film), The Fugitive'') * Janice Ferri Esser, B.F.A. 1981, M.S. 1982 – Daytime Emmy-winning writer (''The Young & the Restless'') * Dominic Fumusa, M.F.A. 1994 – actor (''Nurse Jackie'') * Grant Gee – film director (''Meeting People Is Easy'') * Nancy Lee Grahn, briefly attended – Daytime Emmy Award, Daytime Emmy-winning actress * Gene Hackman, attended – five-time Academy Award-nominated actor * Jonathan Hammond (filmmaker), Jonathan Hammond – film director (''We All Die Alone'') * Shanola Hampton – actor (''Shameless (U.S. TV series), Shameless'') * Arte Johnson, 1949 – ''Laugh-In'' television personality * Margaret Judson – television actress (''The Newsroom (U.S. TV series), The Newsroom'') * Chris Landreth, B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986 – Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning animator (Best Animated Short Film, 2004, '"Ryan (film), Ryan") * Ang Lee, B.F.A. 1980 – Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning movie director (Best Director, 2005, ''Brokeback Mountain''; 2012, ''Life of Pi (film), Life of Pi'') * Ned Luke, 1979 – actor (''Grand Theft Auto V'') * John Franklin (actor), John Franklin, 1983– Isaac (''Children of the Corn (1984 film), Children of the Corn'' (1984 film)) * Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, 1980 – actress (''Scarface (1983 film), Scarface'', ''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'', ''The Color of Money'') * John McNaughton – film and television director (''Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer'', ''Wild Things (film), Wild Things'') * Ryan McPartlin – actor (''Chuck (TV series), Chuck'') * Donna Mills – film and television actress (''Knots Landing'') * Ben Murphy – television actor (''Alias Smith and Jones'') * Lucas Neff – actor (''Raising Hope'') * Nick Offerman, 1993 – actor (''Parks and Recreation'') * Jerry Orbach, B.A. – Broadway, film and television actor (''Dirty Dancing'', Detective Lennie Briscoe in ''Law & Order'') * Peter Palmer (actor), Peter Palmer – actor and singer; played "Li'l Abner" on Li'l Abner (musical), Broadway and Li'l Abner (1959 film), film * Larry Parks – Academy Awards, Academy Award-nominated actor; blacklisted in Hollywood after testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee * Andy Richter, briefly attended – actor and Conan O'Brien sidekick * Alan Ruck – actor (''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'', ''Star Trek Generations'', ''Spin City, Succession (TV series), Succession'') * Jonathan Sadowski – actor (''$h*! My Dad Says, $#*! My Dad Says'') * Allan Sherman – comedian (known for the Grammy Award-winning novelty song "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"; television writer and producer (co-creator of ''I've Got a Secret'') * Jessica Steinrock – intimacy coordinator and TikToker * Sushanth, B.E. – Telugu actor * Lynne Thigpen, B.A. 1970–1997 Tony Award-winning actress (''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (game show), Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?'') * Prashanth Venkataramanujam, B.S. 2009 – Television comedy writer and producer * Grant Williams (actor), Grant Williams – film actor (''The Incredible Shrinking Man'') and operatic tenor * Roger Young (director), Roger Young, M.S. –

-winning TV and movie director

Politics and government

U.S. Senate

* Carol Moseley Braun – first African-American female United States senator (Illinois, 1993–1999); United States Ambassador to New Zealand, U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa (1999–2001) * Prentiss M. Brown – United States senator from Michigan (1936–1943); U.S. representative from Michigan (1933–1936) *

, A.B. 1969 – Governor of New Jersey (2006–2010) and U.S. senator from New Jersey (2001–2006), ''cross listed in Business section'' * Alan J. Dixon, B.S. – United States senator from Illinois (1981–1993); 34th Illinois Secretary of State * John Porter East, Law, 1959 – United States senator from North Carolina (1981–1986) * Kelly Loeffler, B.S. 1992 – Administrator of the Small Business Administration (2025 - present) and United States senator from Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia (2020–2021)

U.S. House of Representatives

* John Bayard Anderson, John Anderson – U.S. representative from Illinois (1961–1981); 1980 presidential candidate * Willis J. Bailey, 1879 – United States House of Representatives, United States representative and the List of Governors of Kansas, 16th Governor of Kansas * Terry L. Bruce – U.S. representative from Illinois's 19th congressional district (1985–1993). He earned his B.A. in 1966 and his J.D. in 1969. * Larry Bucshon – U.S. representative from Indiana (since 2011) * Nikki Budzinski – U.S. representative from Illinois (Since 2023) * Edwin V. Champion – U.S. representative from Illinois (1937–1939) * Donald C. Dobbins – U.S. representative from Illinois (1933–1937) * William J. Graham, B.L. 1893 – U.S. representative from Illinois (1917–1924) * George Evan Howell, B.S. 1927, LL.B. 1930 – U.S. representative from Illinois (1941–1947) * Jesse Jackson, Jr., J.D. 1993 – U.S. representative from Illinois (1995–2012) * Tim Johnson (Illinois politician), Tim Johnson, B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972 – U.S. representative from Illinois (2001–2013) * Lynn Morley Martin, B.A. 1960 – U.S. representative from Illinois (1981–1991) and secretary of labor in the cabinet of George H. W. Bush (1991–1993) * Peter Roskam, B.A. 1983 – U.S. representative from Illinois (since 2007), House Republican Chief Deputy Whip (2011–2014) * Kurt Schrader, B.S. 1975, D.V.M. 1977 – U.S. representative from Oregon (since 2009) * Jan Schakowsky, B.S. 1965 – U.S. representative from Illinois (since 1999) * Steve Schiff, B.A. 1968 – U.S. representative from New Mexico (1989–1998) * Harold H. Velde, J.D. 1937 – U.S. representative from Illinois (1949–1957) * Jerry Weller, B.S. 1979 – U.S. representative from Illinois (1995–2009)

Executive branch officials

* Nancy Brinker, 1968 – founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure; Chief of Protocol of the United States, United States Ambassador to Hungary, United States ambassador to Hungary (2001–2003) * Mark Filip, B.A. 1988 – acting Attorney General of the United States, attorney general of the United States (2009); Deputy Attorney General of the United States (2008–2009); Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2004–2008) * William Marion Jardine – served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture and the Ambassadors from the United States, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt * Neel Kashkari, B.S. 1995, M.S. 1997 – interim assistant secretary of the treasury for financial stability in the United States Department of the Treasury * Julius B. Richmond, B.S., M.S. 1939 – 12th United States Surgeon General and the United States Assistant Secretary for Health (1977–1981); vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; first national director for Head Start Program, Project Head Start * Samuel K. Skinner, 1960 – secretary of transportation (1989–1991); White House Chief of Staff during the George H. W. Bush Administration (1992) * Louis E. Sola, M.S. 1998 – Commissioner, Federal Maritime Commission. * Phillips Talbot – United States diplomat, United States Ambassador to Greece, United States ambassador to Greece (1965–1969)

Statewide offices

* Russell Olson, attended – 39th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, lieutenant governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983) * Ashton C. Shallenberger – 15th governor of Nebraska * Samuel H. Shapiro – 34th governor of Illinois (1968); 38th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, lieutenant governor of Illinois (1961–1968) * Juliana Stratton – 48th lieutenant governor of Illinois * Frank White (North Dakota politician), Frank White, 1880 – eighth Governor of North Dakota * Leslie Munger – former Illinois Comptroller (2015–2017)

State legislators

* Paul Faraci, B.S. 1989 – Illinois State Senate (2023–present) * Tom Fink, J.D. 1952 – Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives (1973), Mayor of Anchorage (1987–1994) * Allen J. Flannigan – Wisconsin State Assemblyman (1957–1966) * Jehan Gordon-Booth – Illinois House of Representatives (since 2009) * Chuck Graham, B.S. 1987 – Missouri House of Representatives (1996–2002), Missouri State Senate 2004 * Kiah Morris, B.S. 2006 – Vermont House of Representatives (since 2014) * David S. Olsen, B.S. 2011 – Illinois House of Representatives (since 2016–2019) * Aaron Ortiz, B.A. 2013 – Illinois House of Representatives & Chicago 14th Ward Committeeman (since 2018) * Robert W. Pritchard – Illinois House of Representatives (since 2003), former chairman of the DeKalb County Board (1998–2003) * Thomas P. Sinnett, 1909 – Illinois House of Representatives (1924–1940), Democratic Party floor leader (1932–1934)

Judiciary

* Wayne Andersen, J.D. 1970 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Harold Baker (judge), Harold Baker, J.D. 1956 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois * Charles Guy Briggle, LL.B. 1904 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois * Colin S. Bruce, B.A. 1986, J.D. 1989 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois * Owen McIntosh Burns, B.A. 1916, LL.B. 1921 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania * Thomas R. Chiola, J.D. 1977 – Judge of the Illinois Circuit Court of Cook County, first openly gay elected official in Illinois * Brian Cogan, B.A. 1975 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York * Bernard Martin Decker, B.A. 1926 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Arno H. Denecke, LL.B. 1939 – Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court * Richard Everett Dorr, B.S. 1965 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri * Thomas M. Durkin, B.S. 1975 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Mark Filip, B.A. 1988 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * James L. Foreman, B.S. 1950, J.D. 1952 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois * Rita B. Garman, B.S. 1965 – Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court (since 2001) * John Phil Gilbert, B.S. 1971 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois * William J. Graham, B.L. 1893 – Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals * James F. Holderman, B.S. 1968, J.D. 1971 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * George Evan Howell, B.S. 1927, LL.B. 1930 – Judge of the United States Court of Claims * William F. Jung, J.D. 1983 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida * Frederick J. Kapala, J.D. 1976 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Lloyd A. Karmeier, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1964 – Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court (since 2004) * Alfred Younges Kirkland Sr., B.A. 1941, J.D. 1943 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Ray Klingbiel, LL.B. 1924 – Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court * Walter C. Lindley, LL.B. 1904, J.D. 1910 – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit * J. Warren Madden, B.A. 1911 – Judge of the United States Court of Claims * George M. Marovich, B.S. 1952, J.D. 1954 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Prentice Marshall, B.S. 1949, J.D. 1951 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * William J. Martinez, B.A. 1977, B.S. 1977 – Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado * Frederick Olen Mercer, LL.B. 1924 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois * Patricia Millett, B.A. 1985 – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit * Ramon Ocasio III – 6th Judicial Subcircuit Judge, Cook County, Illinois (since 2006) * George True Page – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit * Casper Platt, B.A. 1914 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois * Philip Godfrey Reinhard, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1964 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Scovel Richardson, B.A. 1934, M.A. 1936 – Judge of the United States Court of International Trade * Nancy J. Rosenstengel, B.A. 1990 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois * Stanley Julian Roszkowski, B.S. 1949, J.D. 1954 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois * Howard C. Ryan – Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court * Roy Solfisburg, J.D. 1940 – Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court * Robert C. Underwood, LL.B. 1939 – Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court (1962–1984) * Fred Louis Wham, LL.B. 1909 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois * Harlington Wood Jr., B.A. 1942, J.D. 1948 – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit * Staci Michelle Yandle, B.S. 1983 – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Local offices

* Michael Cabonargi, commissioner of the Cook County Board of Review * Johanna Contreras – acting executive of Ulster County, New York, 2022 * Bob Fioretti, B.A. in Political Science 1975, Chicago alderman, 2007–2015 * M.J. Khan, Master's in Engineering – former member of the Houston City CouncilDooley, Tara. "Khan inspires Muslims with election to council." ''Houston Chronicle''. Saturday, December 13, 2003. Religion p. 1. NewsBank Record Number: 3716921. Available from the Houston Public Library website with a library card. * Dick Murphy, B.A. 1965 – mayor of San Diego (2000–2005) * Eileen O'Neill Burke – Cook County State's Attorney (2024–present) * Thomas D. Westfall (1927–2005) – former mayor of El Paso, Texas

Activists

* James Brady, 1962 – White House Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan, hand-gun-control advocate * Dorothy Day, 1918 – founder of the Catholic Worker Movement * Jesse Jackson – civil rights, civil-rights leader; presidential candidate; founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition * Victor Kamber, B.S. 1965 – formed The Kamber Group, working for Democratic Party candidates and labor unions * Vashti McCollum – political activist for the separation of religion and public education and the plaintiff of the McCollum v. Board of Education, McCollum case * Carlos Montezuma (Wassaja), B.S. 1884 – Native Americans in the United States, Native American activist and a founding member of the Society of American Indians * Atour Sargon, B.A. – Assyrian American activist, first ethnic Assyrian people, Assyrian elected to the Lincolnwood, Illinois, Lincolnwood board of trustees * Albert Shanker – president of the United Federation of Teachers (1964–1984); president of the American Federation of Teachers (1974–1997)

International figures

* Giorgi Kvirikashvili, M.S. 1998 – Prime Minister of Georgia (country), Georgia * Berhane Abrehe, M.S. 1972 – Third Minister of Finance of Eritrea * Rafael Correa, Ph.D. 2001 — President and former secretary (Minister) of Finances of Ecuador * Cüneyd Düzyol, M.S. 1996 – Turkish minister of development * Mustafa Khalil, M.S. 1948, Ph.D., 1951 – former prime minister of Egypt (1978–1980) * Atef Ebeid, Ph.D. 1962 – former prime minister of Egypt (1999–2004) * Annette Lu – former vice-president of Taiwan (2000–2008) * Oran McPherson – former speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta; Minister of Public Works for the United Farmers of Alberta government * Maxwell Mkwezalamba, Ph.D. 1995 – Commissioner for Economic Affairs for the African Union Commission (since 2004) * Fidel V. Ramos M.S, 1951 – former president of the Philippines (1992–1998) * Kandeh Yumkella, Ph.D. 1991 – director-general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization * Lin Chuan, Ph.D. – current Premier of the Republic of China, premier of Taiwan and former Ministry of Finance (Taiwan), Minister of Finance. * Sri Mulyani Indrawati, M.Sc., Ph.D. – 26th finance minister of Indonesia (2016-now) & Managing Director of the World Bank Group (1 June 2010 – 27 July 2016) * Bambang Brodjonegoro, Prof., S.E., M.U.P., Ph.D. – 13th Minister of National Development Planning of Indonesia (2016-now) & 29th finance minister of Indonesia (27 October 2014 – 27 July 2016) * Rajai Muasher, M.Sc., Ph.D. – Jordan's deputy prime minister and minister of state for prime ministry affairs * Sixtus Lanner – Austrian member of Parliament

Other

* Jill Wine-Banks, B.S. – Watergate prosecutor; General Counsel of the Army (1977–1980); Executive Director of the American Bar Association

Science and mathematics

* MiMi Aung, BSEE 1988, MS 1990 – lead engineer on the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, Mars Helicopter ''Ingenuity'' * Rudolf Bayer, Ph.D. 1966 – Mathematician and Computer Scientist known for b-tree and red–black tree * Ahmet Nihat Berker, Ph.D. 1977 – condensed matter physicist; president of Sabancı University, Istanbul–Turkey * David Blackwell, Ph.D. 1941 – mathematician; 2010 Rao–Blackwell theorem; first African American to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (1965); first black tenured faculty member at the

* Murray S. Blum – entomologist, authority on chemical ecology and pheromones * Harold E. Brooks, Ph.D. 1990 – atmospheric scientist; tornado climatology expert * John Carbon, B.S. 1952 – biochemist; National Academy of Sciences member * Stephen S. Chang, Ph.D. 1952 – food scientist; recipient, IFT Stephen S. Chang Award for Lipid or Flavor Science * Alfred Y. Cho, B.S. 1960, M.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1968 – father of molecular beam epitaxy; received the National Medal of Science in 1993 * Karl Clark (chemist), Karl Clark, Ph.D. – discovered the hot water oil separation process * Cutler J. Cleveland, Ph.D. – editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy and the Encyclopedia of Earth * Ronald Cohn, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1971 – researcher and cameraman who helped document Koko (gorilla), Koko, the mountain gorilla * Ronald Fuchs, M.S. 1955, PhD in 1957 – physicist * Donald Geman, B.A. 1965 – applied mathematician, who discovered the Gibbs sampler method in computer vision, Random forests in machine learning, and the Top Scoring Pairs (TSP) classifier in bioinformatics; professor at Johns Hopkins University * Josephine Burns Glasgow, A.B., 1909, master's degree, Ph.D. in mathematics, 1913 – the second woman to receive a Ph.D. from Illinois University * Gene H. Golub, B.S. 1953, M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1959 – B. Bolzano Gold Medal for Merits in the Field of Mathematical * T. R. Govindachari, Post-doc 1946–49, Natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Temple Grandin, Ph.D. 1989 – animal scientist; bestselling author; consultant to the livestock industry in animal behavior; her biopic (about her life as a woman diagnosed with autism at age two) won five Emmy Awards in 2010 * Paul Halmos, B.S. 1935, Ph.D. 1938 – mathematician * Richard Hamming, Ph.D. 1942 – mathematician; developed Hamming code and Hamming distance; winner of 1968 Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Turing Award; namesake of the IEEE's IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Richard W. Hamming Medal * Leslie M. Hicks, Ph.D. 2005 – analytical chemist * Donald G. Higman, Ph.D. 1952 – mathematician, discovered the Higman–Sims group * Deborah M. Hinton, M.S. 1976, Ph.D. 1980, microbiologist, chief of the gene expression and regulation section in the laboratory of cell and molecular biology at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. * Donald Johanson, B.S. 1966 – anthropologist, discoverer of oldest known hominid, "Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy" * W. Dudley Johnson, B.S. 1951 – cardiac surgeon known as the father of coronary artery bypass surgery * David A. Johnston, B.S. 1971 – United States Geological Survey, USGS volcanologist killed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens * Charles David Keeling, B.S. 1948 – chemist, alerted the world about the possible connection between climate change and human activity * Michael Lacey (mathematician), Michael Lacey, Ph.D. 1987 – awarded the Salem Prize for solving conjectures about the Bilinear Hilbert Transform * Richard Leibler, Ph.D. 1939 – mathematician and cryptanalyst; formulated the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a measure of similarity between probability distributions; directed the Princeton center of the Institute for Defense Analysis * Sandra Leiblum, Ph.D. – sexologist * Stephanie A. Majewski, B.S. 2002; Ph.D. Stanford University 2007 – physicist * Eloisa Biasotto Mano (1924–2019), Brazilian chemist, professor * Jeffrey S. Moore (chemist), Jeffrey S. Moore, Ph.D. 1989 – chemist * Catherine J. Murphy, B.S. 1986 – chemist * P. T. Narasimhan, Post-doc 1957–59 – theoretical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Rahul Pandit, MS and PhD 1977–82 – condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Francine Patterson, B.S. 1970 – researcher who taught a modified version of American Sign Language to a mountain gorilla named Koko (gorilla), Koko * Mary Lynn Reed, Ph.D. 1995 – Chief of Mathematics Research at the National Security Agency and president of the Crypto-Mathematics Institute * Harold Reetz, Ph.D. crop physiology and ecology, agronomist and former president of the Foundation for Agronomic Research * Idun Reiten, Ph.D. 1971 – professor of mathematics; considered to be one of Norway's greatest living mathematicians * John A. Rogers – physical chemist and a materials scientist * Allan Sandage, B.S., 1948 – astronomer and cosmologist; winner of 1991 Crafoord Prize * Pierre Sokolsky, Ph.D. 1973 – astrophysicist, Panofsky Prize Laureate, directed the High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector, HiRES Cosmic Ray Detector project and pioneer in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray physics * Leia Stirling – American Association for the Advancement of Science Leshner Leadership Fellow and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor in Human–computer interaction * Steven Takiff, Ph.D. 1970 – mathematician * Charles W. Woodworth, B.S. 1885, M.S. 1886 – founder of the Division of Entomology,

; the PBESA gives the C. W. Woodworth Award * Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Ph.D. 1975 – computer scientist, winner of 2000 Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Turing Award * K. R. Sridhar, M.S. 1984, Ph.D. 1989 – Founder of Bloom Energy * Alessandro Piccolo (agricultural scientist), Alessandro Piccolo, chemist and agricultural scientist Humboldt Prize in Chemistry 1999

Sports

Administration

* Ron Guenther, B.S. 1967, M.S. 1968 – Illinois Fighting Illini Athletic director, Athletic Director (1992–2011) * Tony Khan (sports executive), Tony Khan, B.S. 2007 – President of

, Senior Vice President of Football Administration and Technology of

, vice chairman and Director of Football Operations of

, son of Shahid Khan * Chester Pittser, B.S. 1924 – Miami University football and basketball coach (1924–1931), Montclair State College football, basketball and baseball coach (1934–1943) * Douglas R. Mills, Doug Mills – (1926–1930), Illinois Fighting Illini athletic director (1941–1966), Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball Head Coach (1936–1947) * Josh Whitman, B.S. 2001, J.D. 2008 – Illinois Fighting Illini Athletic director, Athletic Director (2016–present), former NFL player

Baseball

* Jason Anderson (baseball), Jason Anderson – Major League Baseball player * Dick Barrett (baseball), Dick Barrett – former Major League Baseball player, member of Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame * Fred Beebe – late Major League Baseball player * Lou Boudreau – late Major League Baseball player; member of the Baseball Hall of Fame * Mark Dalesandro – former Major League Baseball catcher and third baseman * Hoot Evers – former Major League Baseball outfielder (two-time All-Star) * Darrin Fletcher – former Major League Baseball catcher * Moe Franklin – Major League Baseball player. * Tom Haller – former Major League Baseball catcher * Ken Holtzman – former Major League Baseball 2-time All-Star pitcher and Israel Baseball League manager * Tanner Roark – Major League Baseball pitcher, Washington Nationals * Marv Rotblatt – Major League Baseball pitcher, Chicago White Sox * Scott Spiezio – has played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, Anaheim Angels, and Seattle Mariners * Terry Wells – retired Major League Baseball pitcher

Basketball

* Nick Anderson (basketball), Nick Anderson – (1987–1989), played professionally for the National Basketball Association, NBA's Orlando Magic and Sacramento Kings * James Augustine (basketball), James Augustine – basketball (2002–2006), played two seasons for the National Basketball Association, NBA's Orlando Magic, all-time leader in rebounds at Illinois * Steve Bardo – former National Basketball Association player, current ESPN & Big Ten Network basketball analyst * Kenny Battle – played in 4 NBA seasons for the

, Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors * Tal Brody – American-Israeli former Euroleague basketball player * Dee Brown (Illinois), Dee Brown – former National Basketball Association player * Chuck Carney – (1918–1921), First Big Ten athlete to be named a football and basketball All-American, Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (1922), twice named a Helms Foundation All-American for basketball (1920 & 1922) *

– (1958–1962), Former owner of the NBA's

, the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, the Continental Indoor Soccer League, CISL's Arizona Sandsharks, the Arena Football League's Arizona Rattlers and Major League Baseball, MLB's

* Brian Cook (basketball), Brian Cook – (1999–2003), Fifth all-time scorer for the Illini, played professionally in NBA *Ayo Dosunmu professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls * Nnanna Egwu – professional basketball player for the National Basketball League (Australia), National Basketball League of Australia and New Zealand * Kendall Gill – (1986–1990), 1990 consensus All-American and Big 10 Player of the Year, played professionally for 15 seasons in the NBA * Lowell Hamilton – (1985–1989), played Professional Basketball in Greece. * Derek Harper – (1980–1983), played professionally for 16 seasons in the NBA, ranked 11th all-time in steals and 17th in assists * Luther Head – (2001–2005), guard for the Sacramento Kings * Malcolm Hill (basketball), Malcolm Hill – (2013–2017), professional basketball player for the Star Hotshots of the Philippine Basketball Association * Eddie Johnson (basketball, born 1959), Eddie Johnson – played professionally for 17 seasons in the NBA, and the league's 35th all-time leading scorer * Johnny Kerr, Johnny "Red" Kerr – member of the 1952 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, Final Four team, played professionally for 11 seasons in the NBA, first head coach for both the Chicago Bulls and

, and a former broadcaster for the Chicago Bulls. * Meyers Leonard – (2010–2012), center for the Portland Trail Blazers, eleventh overall pick in 2012 NBA draft * Demetri McCamey – Turkish Basketball League player * Ken Norman – (1984–1987), played professionally for 10 seasons in the NBA * Don Ohl – basketball (1954–1958), played 10 seasons (1960–1970) in the NBA for three teams (Detroit Pistons, Baltimore Bullets, St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks ), 5xNBA All-Star * Johnny Orr (basketball, born 1927), Johnny Orr – basketball (1944–45), Named the National Coach of the Year for the 1976 season and Big Ten Coach of the Year in college basketball while coaching at Michigan Wolverines men's basketball, Michigan * Stan Patrick – former National Basketball Association player * Andy Phillip – basketball (1941–1943, 1946–1947), Member of the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball#When duty calls, ''"Whiz Kids"'', played 11 seasons of professional basketball for the Chicago Stags, Philadelphia Warriors, Fort Wayne Pistons and Boston Celtics (1947–1958), Head Coach of the St. Louis Hawks (1958–1959), 5xNBA All-Star, 2x Consensus All-American * Roger Powell (basketball), Roger Powell – former National Basketball Association player * Brian Randle (born 1985) – basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Super League * Dave Scholz – former National Basketball Association player * Cindy Stein – basketball, head women's basketball coach at the

since 1998 * Jaylon Tate – professional basketball player in the National Basketball League of Canada * Deon Thomas – American-Israeli former Euroleague basketball player * Deron Williams – National Basketball Association player * Frank Williams (basketball), Frank Williams – has been part of the NBA's New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, Chicago Bulls, and Los Angeles Clippers * Ray Woods – basketball (1913–1917), Names Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (1917), 3xHelms Foundation NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, All-American (1915–1917), 3xFirst Team All-Big Ten

Football

* Paul Adams (American football coach), Paul Adams – Former Deerfield High School (Illinois), Deerfield High School coach * Alex Agase – Former National Football League player, Cleveland Browns, Member of the College Football Hall of Fame * Ron Acks – former National Football League player, linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons * Jeff Allen (offensive guard), Jeff Allen – American football, football (2008–2011), offensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs * Alan Ball (American football), Alan Ball – National Football League player, cornerback for the

* Arrelious Benn – National Football League player, wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers * Chuck Boerio – National Football League player, linebacker for the Green Bay Packers * Ed Brady (American football), Ed Brady – former National Football League player, linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals * Josh Brent – National Football League player, defensive tackles for the Dallas Cowboys * Bill Brown (American football), Bill Brown – former National Football League player, running back for the Minnesota Vikings * Darrick Brownlow – former National Football League player, linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys * Lloyd Burdick – National Football League tackle * Dick Butkus – National Football League linebacker; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame * Luke Butkus– National Football League coach, offensive line coach for the Chicago Bears, nephew of Dick Butkus * J. C. Caroline – former National Football League player, defensive back and halfback for the Chicago Bears * Danny Clark IV – National Football League player, linebacker for the New Orleans Saints * Steve Collier – National Football League player, offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers * Jameel Cook – former National Football League player, fullback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers * Vontae Davis – National Football League player, cornerback for the Indianapolis Colts * Mark Dennis (American football), Mark Dennis – former National Football League player, offensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins * David Diehl – National Football League player, offensive guard for the New York Giants * Doug Dieken – former National Football League player, offensive tackle for the Cleveland Browns * Ken Dilger – (1991–1994), played professionally for the Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers; starting Tight end in Super Bowl XXXVII * Tony Eason, Charles Carroll "Tony" Eason – (1979–1983) played professionally for the New England Patriots; led team to Super Bowl XX * Moe Gardner – former National Football League player, former defensive line for the Atlanta Falcons * Jeff George – first overall pick of 1990 NFL Draft by the Indianapolis Colts, also played for a variety of teams including the Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders, and the Washington Redskins * Lou Gordon (American football), Lou Gordon – former National Football League player, defensive end for the Chicago Cardinals * Red Grange – charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame * Howard Griffith – former National Football League player, fullback for the Denver Broncos * George Halas – former National Football League coach for the Chicago Bears; charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame * Don Hansen – former National Football League player, linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons * Kevin Hardy (linebacker), Kevin Hardy – played professionally for the NFL's

, Dallas Cowboys, and Cincinnati Bengals * Kelvin Hayden – National Football League player, cornerback for the Chicago Bears * Brad Hopkins – first round pick in the 1993 NFL draft by the Tennessee Titans and future all-pro. * Michael Hoomanawanui – (2007–2009), tight end for the New England Patriots * A.J. Jenkins – (2008–2011)), wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs, thirtieth overall pick in 2012 NFL draft * Henry Jones (American football), Henry Jones – former National Football League player, safety for the Buffalo Bills * Brandon Jordan (defensive lineman), Brandon Jordan – Canadian Football League player, defensive tackle for the BC Lions * William G. Kline – head coach for the

and University of Nebraska football and basketball teams * Mikel Leshoure – National Football League player, running back for the Detroit Lions * Greg Lewis (wide receiver), Greg Lewis – National Football League player, wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles * Brandon Lloyd – (1999–2002), wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers, 2010 Pro Bowler and 2010 NFL receiving yards leader * Corey Liuget – (2008–2010), defensive end for the San Diego Chargers, eighteenth overall pick in 2011 NFL draft * Rashard Mendenhall – National Football League player, running back for the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers. * Whitney Mercilus – (2009–2011), linebacker for the Houston Texans, twenty-sixth overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft * Brandon Moore (guard), Brandon Moore – former National Football League player, former offensive guard for the New York Jets * Aaron Moorehead – National Football League player, wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts * Ray Nitschke – played professionally for the NFL's Green Bay Packers, and an enshrined member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame * Tony Pashos – National Football League player, offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens * Preston Pearson – (1963–1967), Played 13 seasons in the NFL for the Colts, Steelers and Cowboys despite not playing college football * Frosty Peters – former National Football League player * Neil Rackers – National Football League player, kicker for the Houston Texans * Simeon Rice – former National Football League player, defensive end * Scott Studwell – American football, football (1972–1976), Played 14 seasons (1977–1990) for the Minnesota Vikings, 2-time Pro-Bowler * Marques Sullivan – Playboy All-American Tackle that played 4 season with NFL's Buffalo Bills, New York Giants, and New England Patriots * Pierre Thomas (American football), Pierre Thomas – National Football League player, running back for the New Orleans Saints * Bruce Thornton (defensive lineman), Bruce Thornton – former National Football League player, defensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys * Fred Wakefield – National Football League player, offensive guard for the Arizona Cardinals * Steve Weatherford – National Football League player, punter for the New York Giants * Eugene Wilson (American football), Eugene Wilson – National Football League player, defensive back for the New England Patriots * Juice Williams, Isiah John "Juice" Williams – American Football, football (2006–2009), NFL Free Agent

Golf

* Bob Goalby – professional golfer; won 1968 Masters Tournament * D. A. Points – golf, PGA golfer (1999–present) * Steve Stricker – (1986–1990), PGA golfer (1990–present) * Thomas Pieters – (2010–2013), PGA golfer (2013–present)

Tennis

* Kevin Anderson (tennis), Kevin Anderson – tennis; finalist Wimbledon and U. S. Open * Amer Delic – tennis; N.C.A.A. singles champion * Rajeev Ram – tennis; 3 Grand Slam men's doubles and 2 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles

Wrestling

* David Otunga – professional wrestler; two-time WWE Raw Tag Team Championship, WWE Tag Team Champion * Lindsey Durlacher – two-time All-American Greco-Roman wrestler * Mark Jayne – wrestler; two-time NWCA All-Star Member * Jeff Monson – wrestler; two-time gold medalist (99' and 05') ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championships, current mixed martial artist, formerly for the Ultimate Fighting Championship * Jesse Delgado – wrestler, three-time All-American, two-time National Champion at 125 lbs.

Olympics

* Kevin Anderson (tennis), Kevin Anderson – Olympian in men's tennis 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing * Michelle Bartsch-Hackley – gold medalist in women's volleyball 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics in Tokyo * Avery Brundage, B.S. 1909 – Olympian, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President (1952–1972) * Dike Eddleman – (1947–49), also tied for 2nd at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the high jump * Abie Grossfeld – Olympic, Pan Am, and Maccabiah Games gymnast and coach * George Kerr (athlete), George Kerr – (1958–1960), all-time Big Ten Olympian list, champion sprinter and 400/800 meter runner from Jamaica, 1960 Rome, Italy Summer Olympic bronze medal 800 meter winner * Don Laz – track & field, record setting American pole vaulter and silver medalist in Pole Vault in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland * Daniel Kinsey – gold medalist in men's 110 m hurdles, 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris * Jonathan Kuck – silver medalist in speed skating in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver * Don Laz – silver medalist in pole vault in the 1952 Helsinki, Finland Games; architect in Champaign, Illinois; his design career was cut short by a stroke * Tatyana McFadden – USA paralympian athlete competing mainly in category T54 sprint events, team member for the 2012 London Olympics * Herb McKenley – silver medalist in 400 m, 1948 Summer Olympics in London; silver medal in 100 m and 400 m, gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay, 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki * Harold Osborn – won two gold medals in the 1924 Summer Olympics, charter member of U.S. Track & Field Hall of Fame * Jordyn Poulter – gold medalist in women's volleyball 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics in Tokyo * Bob Richards – gold medalist in pole vault in the 1952 Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne Games * Ashley Spencer (athlete), Ashley Spencer – bronze medalist in 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, 400 meter hurdles; 2013 world champion, 4-x-400 relay * Justin Spring – (2002–2006), member of the bronze medal-winning United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics#Artistic gymnastics, men's gymnastics team at the 2008 Summer Olympics * Craig Virgin – long-distance runner, 1975 NCAA cross country running, cross country champion, 1980 and 1981 world cross-country champion * Deron Williams – USA basketball team member for the 2012 London Olympics

Soccer

* Vanessa DiBernardo – first player in program history to be drafted in the National Women's Soccer League, NWSL, made over 150 appearances with the Chicago Red Stars, current player with Kansas City Current * Hope Breslin – first player drafted by Angel City FC, professional soccer player for Brooklyn FC (USL), Brooklyn FC

Other

* Perdita Felicien – first female in Illinois history to win a gold medal in an individual event at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, World Championships * Belal Muhammad (fighter), Belal Muhammad – (Law) Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC Welterweight Champion. (Mixed Martial Arts) * Billy Arnold (racing driver), Billy Arnold – Race driver and winner of the 1930 Indianapolis 500 mile race

Fictional

* M*A*S*H (TV series), Lt. Col. Henry Blake, portrayed by McLean Stevenson on M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H * List of Modern Family characters, Cam Tucker, portrayed by Eric Stonestreet on Modern Family

Miscellaneous

* Fred Goetz AKA "Shotgun" George Ziegler, prohibition-era gunman and associate of mobsters Gus Winkler and Fred Burke.

Notable faculty

Presidents

Chancellors

Nobel laureates

, 1951–1991– awarded Nobel Prizes for

in 1953 for co-inventing the transistor and again in 1972 for work on superconductivity (one of the four people in the world to win multiple Nobel Prizes and the only one who won twice in Physics) * Elias James Corey, Elias James (E.J.) Corey, 1951–1959 – Nobel laureate (

, 1990) * Leonid Hurwicz, 1950–1951, 2001 – Nobel laureate (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Economics, 2007) * Paul Lauterbur, 1985–2007 – Nobel laureate (

, 2003) * Anthony James Leggett, 1983 – Nobel laureate (

, 2003) * Salvador Luria, 1950–1959 – Nobel laureate (

, 1969) * Rudolph Marcus, 1964–1968 – Nobel laureate (

, 1992) * Franco Modigliani, 1948–1952 – Nobel laureate (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Economics, 1985) * Alvin E. Roth, 1974–1982 – Nobel laureate (Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Economics, 2012 )

Pulitzer Prize winners

* Leon Dash, faculty – Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, Explanatory Journalism, 1995 * William Gaines (professor), Bill Gaines, faculty – Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Investigative Reporting, 1976 and 1988 *

, 2019

Other

* Elmer H. Antonsen, Ph.D. 1961, faculty 1967–1996, chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, later chair of the Department of Linguistics * William Bagley (educator), William Bagley, faculty 1908–1917 – an original proponent of educational essentialism * Tamer BaşarTamer Başar was elected in 2000
as a member of

in List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Electronics), Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering for development of dynamic game theory and application to robust control of systems with uncertainty. – Swanlund Endowed Chair & CAS Professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; winner of Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2006 * Gordon Baym, professor emeritus in physics, a theoretician in a wide range of fields including condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics. * Nina Baym, professor of English 1963–2004, literary critic and literary historian * Richard Blahut''Richard E. Blahut'' was elected in 1990
as a member of

in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering for pioneering work in coherent emitter signal processing and for contributions to information theory and Error Control Coding, error control codes. – former Chair (official), chair of the Electrical engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the

, best known for his Blahut–Arimoto algorithm used in rate–distortion theory; winner of Claude E. Shannon Award, IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award in 2005 and the recipient of IEEE Third Millennium Medal * Leonard Bloomfield, faculty 1910–1921 – linguist who led the development of structural linguistics * Eleanor Blum, Professor Emerita of Library Science at the

. * Jean Bourgain, faculty – Fields Medal in Mathematics of International Mathematical Union, 1994 * Zong-qi Cai, leads the Forum on Chinese Poetic Culture * Ira Carmen, 1968–2009 – first political scientist elected to the Human Genome Organization; co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics * Wallace Hume Carothers – organic chemist, inventor of nylon and first synthetic rubber (Neoprene) * Weng Cho Chew – professor of electrical and computer engineering, member of

* Ron Dewar – music educator, jazz saxophonist, leader of influential Memphis Nighthawks * Anne Haas Dyson, Professor in Curriculum and Instruction * Jan Erkert, chair of the Department of Dance; Fulbright scholar * Joseph L. Doob, faculty 1935–1978 – developed a theory of mathematical Doob martingale, martingales * Donald B. Gillies, 1928–1975, professor of mathematics, pioneer in computer science and game theory * Heini Halberstam, 1980–1996 – professor of mathematics, known for the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture Elliott–Halberstam conjecture * David Gottlieb (biologist), David Gottlieb, 1946–1982 – discovered chloramphenicol; Guggenheim Fellow, Biology-Plant Science, 1963 * Donald J. Harris, 1966–1967 – asst. professor of economics, later prof. of economics at Stanford University; father of Vice President Kamala D. Harris * William Walter Hay, 1956–1977 professor of railway engineering remembered with the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association Hay Award * Lejaren Hiller, faculty 1952–1968 – chemist and composer; invented process for dyeing Orlon; pioneer in music composition by computer (1950s) * Walter Höllerer, faculty 1973–1996 – Modern German literature professor, novelist, poet *

, Jr. – Lemelson-MIT Prize (2004), National Medal of Technology (2002), National Medal of Science (1990); credited for the invention of the LED and the first semiconductor laser to operate in the visible spectrum * Sri Mulyani Indrawati, M.A., Ph.D. 1992 – managing director of the World Bank Group (since 2010), former finance minister of Indonesia (2005–2010) * Ivan R. King, 1956–1954, professor of astronomy * Donald William Kerst, 1938–1957 – developed the betatron * Petar V. KokotovicPetar V. Kokotović was elected in 1996
as a member of

in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for development and applications of large-scale systems analysis and adaptive control control theory, theory. – winner of Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 2002 * Anthony Jacobi, mechanical science and engineering professor * Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster, Library and Information Science Professor from 1972 to 1992. He was later promoted to professor emeritus (a position he held until 2013) of Library and Information Science * Jean-Pierre Leburton – Gregory E. Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of Physics * Stephen E. Levinson – professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering * Stephen P. Long – environmental plant physiologist, Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the National Academy of Sciences studying how to improve photosynthesis to increase the yield of food and biofuel crops * Francis Wheeler Loomis, Head of Physics Department 1929–1957 – former Guggenheim Fellow; established school's physics department * Catherine J. Murphy – professor of chemistry * Lisa Nakamura, Director of the Asian American Studies Program – Author of "Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet" (2008), "Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet" (2002), and co-editor of "Race in Cyberspace" (2002) * Marie Hochmuth Nichols, faculty 1939–1976 – influential rhetorical critic * Eric Oldfield (academic), Eric Oldfield, Harriet A. Harlin Professor of Chemistry * Mangalore Anantha Pai, power engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Don Patinkin (1922–1995) – Israeli-American economist, and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Herbert Penzl, faculty 1938–1950 – Austrian-American linguist specialized in Germanic philology * Ernst Alfred Philippson, faculty 1947–1968 – German philologist, longtime editor of the ''Journal of English and Germanic Philology'' * Catherine Prendergast – scholar of English and intellectual history, 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient * Irmengard Rauch – faculty 1968–82 – scholar of Germanic linguistics * Abram L. Sachar, 1923–1948 – founding president of Brandeis University * Theodore Sougiannis, distinguished professor of accountancy * Timothy D. Stark, since 1991 – Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering * Dora Dougherty Strother, 1949–1950 – aviation instructor, test pilot, Women Airforce Service Pilots, Women Airforce Service Pilot, and one of the first women to pilot a B-29 Superfortress, B-29 bomber. * Fred W. Tanner, 1923–1956 – food microbiologist; charter member of the Institute of Food Technologists; founder of scientific journal ''Food Research'' (now the ''Journal of Food Science'') * Alexandre Tombini, Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil * Brian Wansink, 1997–2005 – Julian Simon professor and author of ''Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think'' * William Warfield, 1976–1990 – bass-baritone singer; chair of the Division of Voice in the College of Music * Carl Woese – Crafoord Prize recipient (bioscience, 2003); professor of microbiology; foreign member of the Royal Society; defined the Archaea * Charles Zeleny, zoologist * Ladislav Zgusta, faculty 1971–1995 – chair of the Department of Linguistics; director of the Center for Advanced Study; historical linguist and lexicographer from Czechoslovakia * Rakesh M. Bhatt, MA 1987, PHD 1994 – linguist

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