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University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

. The alumni of the university include graduates and attendees. Graduates are defined as those who hold bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degrees from the university, while attendees are those who studied at the university but did not complete the program or obtain a degree. Honorary degree holders and auditors of the university are excluded. Summer session attendees are also excluded from the list since summer terms are not part of the university's formal academic years.

Nobel laureates

* Luis Alvarez (A.B. 1932, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1936) – Physics, 1968 * Emily Green Balch (attended) – Peace, 1946NNDB list of notable people affiliated with th
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* Moungi Bawendi (Ph.D. 1988) – Chemistry, 2023 *

Claudia Goldin Claudia Goldin (born May 14, 1946) is an American economic historian and labor economist who is currently the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy Study Group and was th ...

(Ph.D. 1972) – Economics, 2023 *

Gary Becker Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of ...

(A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – Economics, 1992 *

Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 July 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only w ...

(X. 1939) – Literature, 1976 * Herbert Brown (S.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1938) – Chemistry, 1979 *

James M. Buchanan James McGill Buchanan Jr. (; October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013) was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962, ''The Calculus of Consen ...

(Ph.D. 1948) – Economics, 1986 *

Owen Chamberlain Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segrè the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle. Biography Born in San Francisco, Cali ...

(Ph.D. 1949) – Physics, 1959 *

John Maxwell Coetzee John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

(Professor) – Literature, 2003 *

James Cronin James Watson Cronin (September 29, 1931 – August 25, 2016) was an American particle physicist. Cronin was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were aw ...

(S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – Physics, 1980 *

Clinton Davisson Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment. Davisson shared the Nobel Priz ...

(S.B. 1909) – Physics, 1937 *

Eugene Fama Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (; born February 14, 1939) is an American economist, best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis. He is currently Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Servic ...

(M.B.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1964) – Economics, 2013 * Jerome Friedman (A.B. 1950, S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1956) – Physics, 1990 *

Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the ...

(A.M. 1933) – Economics, 1976 * John B. Goodenough (Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 2019 *

Ernest Lawrence Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation fo ...

(X. 1923) – Physics, 1939 *

Tsung-Dao Lee Tsung-Dao Lee (; born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton star ...

(Ph.D. 1950) – Physics, 1957 * Robert Lucas Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) – Economics, 1995 *

Harry Markowitz Harry Max Markowitz (born August 24, 1927) is an American economist who received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Markowitz is a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management ...

(A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – Economics, 1990 *

Robert Millikan Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric ...

(X. 1894) – Physics, 1923 *

Robert Mulliken Robert Sanderson Mulliken Note Longuet-Higgins' amusing title for reference B238 1965 on page 354 of this Biographical Memoir. The title should be "Selected papers of Robert S Mulliken." (June 7, 1896 – October 31, 1986) was an American ph ...

(Ph.D. 1921) – Chemistry, 1966 * Paul Romer (S.B. 1977, Ph.D. 1983) – Economics, 2018 *

Irwin Rose Irwin Allan Rose (July 16, 1926 – June 2, 2015) was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Educati ...

(S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 2004 *

F. Sherwood Rowland Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927 – March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His be ...

(S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 1995 *

Paul Samuelson Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal Academies stated that he " ...

(A.B. 1935) – Economics, 1970 * Myron Scholes (M.B.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1969) – Economics, 1997 *

Herbert A. Simon Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, with a Ph.D. in political science, whose work also influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary ...

(A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1943) – Economics, 1978 *

George E. Smith George Elwood Smith (born May 10, 1930) is an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semico ...

(Ph.D. 1959) – Physics, 2009 *

Roger Sperry Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize i ...

(Ph.D. 1941) – Medicine, 1981 *

Jack Steinberger Jack Steinberger (born Hans Jakob Steinberger; May 25, 1921December 12, 2020) was a German-born American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos, the subatomic particles considered to be elementary constituents of matter. He was a recipient ...

(S.B. 1942; Ph.D. 1949) – Physics, 1988 *

George Stigler George Joseph Stigler (; January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an American economist. He was the 1982 laureate in Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered a key leader of the Chicago school of economics. Early life and e ...

(S.B. 1942, Ph.D. 1949) – Economics, 1982 *

Edward Lawrie Tatum Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The ...

(X. 1931) – Medicine, 1958 *

Daniel Tsui Daniel Chee Tsui (, born February 28, 1939) is a Chinese-born American physicist, Nobel laureate, and the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Tsui's areas of research include electrical prop ...

(S.M. 1963; Ph.D. 1967) – Physics, 1998 * James Dewey Watson (S.B. 1947) – Medicine, 1962 *

Frank Wilczek Frank Anthony Wilczek (; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Founding Direc ...

(A.B. 1970) – Physics, 2004; MacArthur Fellow (1982) * Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. 1948) – Physics, 1957

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* Shimon Agranat (J.D. 1929) – President of the Supreme Court of Israel (1965–1976) *

Saul Alinsky Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community activist and political theorist. His work through the Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation helping poor communities organize to press demands upon landlords ...

(Ph.B. 1930) – labor organizer and political activist * Prince Chad Al-Sherif Pasha (M.A.P.S.S. 2006) – of the

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and Turkey * Bernard W. Aronson (A.B. 1967) – United States

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(1989–1993) *

John Ashcroft John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist and former politician who served as the 79th U.S. Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2005. A former U.S. Senator from Missouri and the 50th ...

(J.D. 1967) – Attorney General of the United States (2001–2005) * David Axelrod (A.B. 1977) – author and former Senior Advisor to President

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* Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill (1919–1974) – judge and academic; justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (1971–1972) * Paul Bloom (1939–2009) – lawyer who recovered $6 billion for the

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Robert H. Bork Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American jurist who served as the solicitor general of the United States from 1973 to 1977. A professor at Yale Law School by occupation, he later served as a judge on the U.S. Cour ...

(A.B. 1948, J.D. 1953) – Attorney General of the United States (1973–1974);

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Judge (1982–1988) *

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(1920–2005) – member of Los Angeles City Council (1965–1997) * Lisa Brown (J.D. 1986) –

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Staff Secretary (2009–2011) *

William Holmes Brown William Holmes Brown (3 September 1929 – 27 May 2001) was the Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives from 1974 to 1994. References External linksFamous Delta Upsilon MenWilliam H. Brown, Jr., Swarthmore '51Universit ...

(J.D. 1954) –

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(1974–1994) * Charles W. Bryan – 20th and 23rd

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* Lindsey Burke (M.A. 2012) - Lawyer and member of the Kentucky house of representatives * John E. Cashman – Member of the

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from the 1st district *

Ahmed Chalabi Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi ( ar, أحمد عبد الهادي الجلبي; 30 October 1945 – 3 November 2015) was an Iraqi politician, a founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who served as the President of the Governing Council of ...

(Ph.D. 1969) – interim Oil Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of

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Elizabeth Cheney Elizabeth Lynne Cheney (; born July 28, 1966) is an American attorney and politician who has been the U.S. representative for since 2017, with her term expiring in January 2023. She chaired the House Republican Conference, the third-highest p ...

(J.D. 1996) – head of the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group (ISOG) and daughter of former U.S. Vice President

Richard Cheney Richard Bruce Cheney ( ; born January 30, 1941) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. He is currently the oldest living former ...

Ramsey Clark William Ramsey Clark (December 18, 1927 – April 9, 2021) was an American lawyer, activist, and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Pres ...

(A.M. 1950, J.D. 1951) – Attorney General of the United States (1967–1969) * Benjamin V. Cohen (

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1913, Ph.B 1914, J.D. 1915) – member of President

Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...

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James Comey James Brien Comey Jr. (; born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2013 until his dismissal in May 2017. Comey was a registered Republican for most of his adul ...

(J.D.) – seventh director of the

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* Lycurgus Conner (B.A., J.D.) – member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1961–1963) *

Richard Cordray Richard Adams Cordray (born May 3, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the COO of Federal Student Aid in the United States Department of Education. He served as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFP ...

(J.D. 1986) – 1st Director of the

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, 49th Attorney General of Ohio, 46th Treasurer of Ohio * Jon S. Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) –

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(D) (2006–2010); United States Senator (D-NJ) (2001–2006); former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs; University trustee * Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (X. 1933) – General of the

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(1954); Assistant

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under

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* Francisco Gil Diaz (Ph.D. 1972) – Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of

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James I. Dolliver James Isaac Dolliver (August 31, 1894 – December 10, 1978) served six terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district, beginning in 1944. He was the nephew of U.S. Senator Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver of Iowa. B ...

(J.D. 1921) – Republican U.S. Representative from

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Jon Dudas Jonathan Ward "Jon" Dudas, born July 5, 1968, is the senior vice president, senior associate to the president and secretary of the University of Arizona. He previously served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director ...

(J.D.) – Director of the

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, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property *

Troy Eid Troy A. Eid (born 1963) is an American attorney who served as United States Attorney for the District of Colorado from 2006 to 2009. He is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School and University of Denver Col ...

(J.D. 1991) – United States Attorney for the District of Colorado (2006–2009) *

Frank H. Easterbrook Frank Hoover Easterbrook (born September 3, 1948) is an American lawyer, jurist, and legal scholar who has served as a United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 1985. He was the Seventh Circuit's chief ...

(J.D. 1973) – Circuit Judge, United States

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* Allison H. Eid (J.D. 1991) – 95th Justice of the

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* Harvey Feldman (A.B. ?, A.M. 1954) – drafter of the

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, United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (1979–1981) * Noel Francisco (B.A. 1991 J.D. 1996) – 47th

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Jerome Frank Jerome New Frank (September 10, 1889 – January 13, 1957) was an American legal philosopher and author who played a leading role in the legal realism movement. He was Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a United States circu ...

(A.B. 1909, J.D. 1912) – legal philosopher, Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission *

Stanton Friedman Stanton Terry Friedman (July 29, 1934 – May 13, 2019) was an American nuclear physicist and professional ufologist who resided in New Brunswick, Canada. He was the original civilian investigator of the Roswell UFO incident. Early life Bor ...

(B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956) – nuclear physicist, UFOlogist * Douglas H. Ginsburg (J.D. 1973) – Chief Judge,

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Jackie Goldberg Jacqueline "Jackie" Goldberg (born November 18, 1944) is an American politician and teacher serving as a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education for the 5th district. Early life and education Goldberg was born in th ...

(M.A.T. 1973) – California State Assembly member (2000–2006) * Paulo Guedes (Ph.D. 1978) – Brazilian Minister of the Economy *

Avril Haines Avril Danica Haines (born August 27, 1969) is an American lawyer and senior government official who serves as the director of national intelligence in the Biden administration. She is the first woman to serve in this role. Haines previously se ...

(A.B. 1992) – Deputy Director of the CIA (2013–2015),

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(2015–2017), Director of National Intelligence (2021-present) * William J. Holloway (A.B. 1910) – 8th

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(1929–1931) *

James Hormel James Catherwood Hormel (January 1, 1933 – August 13, 2021) was an American philanthropist, LGBT activist, diplomat, and heir to the Hormel meatpacking fortune. He served as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1999 to 2001, and was ...

(J.D. 1958) – United States Ambassador to

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(1999–2001) *

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(M.A. 1967) – member of the

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(1993–1998); public official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations,

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, Prudential Financial, and

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* Thomas W. Hyde – major general of volunteers in the

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state senator, founder of

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* Harold LeClair Ickes (A.B. 1897 J.D. 1907) –

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(1933–1946) * Fred Ikle (A.M. 1948, Ph.D. 1950) – former

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; Director of U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1973–1977) * Peter Jambrek (Ph.D. 1971) – President of the Constitutional Court (1991–1993) and Minister of the Interior of

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(2000), member of the European Court for Human Rights (1993–1999) * Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963 Social Anthropology) – twice in charge of the Haiti Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1990-1991 and 2004-2010). * Patricia Kabbah (A.M. 1963) – former First Lady of

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* Anne Kaiser (B.A. 1990) - Member of the

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, 2003–present *

Zalmay Khalilzad Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad ( ps, ځلمی خلیل زاد, prs, زلمی خلیل‌زاد; born March 22, 1951) is an Afghan-American diplomat and foreign policy expert. Khalilzad was appointed by President Donald J. Trump to serve as U.S. Spec ...

(Ph.D. 1979) – United States Ambassador to the

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(2007–2009); former United States Ambassador to

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Ro Khanna Rohit Khanna (; born September 13, 1976) is an American politician, lawyer, and academic serving as the U.S. representative from California's 17th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated eight-term incu ...

(B.A. 1998) – Member of the

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from California's 17th district * Andy Kim (B.A. 2004) – politician and former national security adviser for Barack Obama * Amy Klobuchar (J.D. 1985) –

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(D-MN) (2007–present) *

Larry Krasner Lawrence Samuel Krasner (born March 30, 1961) is an American lawyer who is the 26th District Attorney of Philadelphia. Elected to the position in 2017, Krasner was one of the first in the United States to run as a self-described "progressive pros ...

– Federal public defender, running for District Attorney of Philadelphia *

Alexander Krasnoshchyokov Alexander Mikhailovich Krasnoshchyokov (russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Краснощёков, real name – Avraam Moiseevich Krasnoshchyok, russian: Абра́м Моисе́евич Краснощёк, October 10, 1880 – ...

(J.D. 1912) – Soviet politician, first Chairman of the Government of the Far Eastern Republic * Koh Tsu Koon (Ph.D. 1977) – third Chief Minister of the State of Penang,

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

(1990–2008) * Jewel Lafontant (J.D. 1946) –

delegate *

Brad Lander Bradford S. Lander (born July 8, 1969) is an American politician, urban planner, and community organizer who currently serves as the New York City Comptroller. A member of the Democratic Party, Lander is a progressive politician, and has been d ...

(B.A. 1991) – New York City Council Member, 39th district * Thomas Rex Lee (J.D. 1991) – Associate Justice of the

Utah Supreme Court The Utah Supreme Court is the supreme court of the state of Utah, United States. It has final authority of interpretation of the Utah Constitution. The Utah Supreme Court is composed of five members: a chief justice, an associate chief justice, ...

Rex E. Lee Rex Edwin Lee (February 27, 1935 – March 11, 1996) was an American lawyer and academic who served as the 37th Solicitor General of the United States from 1981 until 1985. He was responsible for bringing the solicitor general's office to the cent ...

(J.D. 1963) – 37th

* Edward Levi (A.B. 1932, J.D. 1935) – Attorney General of the United States (1975–1977) *

Lori Lightfoot Lori Elaine Lightfoot (born August 4, 1962) is an American attorney and politician serving since 2019 as the 56th mayor of Chicago. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Before becoming mayor, Lightfoot worked in private legal practice as ...

(J.D. 1989) – Mayor of Chicago *

Robert Todd Lincoln Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843 – July 26, 1926) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. He was the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. Robert Lincoln became a business lawyer and company presi ...

(J.D. 1867) – 35th

United States Secretary of War The secretary of war was a member of the U.S. president's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "Secretary at War" or "Secretary of War", had been appointed to serve the Congress of the ...

Lien Chan Lien Chan (; born 27 August 1936) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 1990 to 1993, Premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, Vice President of the Republic of China from 1996 to 20 ...

(Ph.D. 1965) –

Vice President of the Republic of China The vice president of the Republic of China, commonly referred to as the vice president of Taiwan, is the second-highest constitutional office of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Powers Under Article 49 the Constitution of the Republic of China ...

(

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

) under President Lee Teng-hui (1996–2000) *

Justin Yifu Lin Justin Yifu Lin (; born on October 15, 1952) is a Chinese economist and professor of economics at Peking University. He served as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank from 2008 to 2012. He has been appointed as China S ...

(Ph.D. 1986) – Senior Vice President and first Chief Economist from a developing country for

the World Bank The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development G ...

(2008–present) * T. D. A. Lingo – folk singer, radio personality, and brain researcher *

Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo, also known as George Philip Ochola (1930–1990) was a Kenyan trade unionist and Member of Parliament for Ndhiwa, South Nyanza, Kenya.Makers of a nation. Ochola Mak'Anyengo the men and women in Kenya's history. DVD, V ...

- Kenyan Trade Unionist and Politician *

Jack Markell Jack Alan Markell (born November 26, 1960) is an American politician who currently serves as the United States ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He previously served as the 73rd governor of Delaware from 2 ...

(M.B.A. 1985) – Governor of

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

(2009–2017) *

Michael W. McConnell Michael William McConnell (born May 18, 1955) is an American constitutional law scholar who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 to 2009. Since 2009, McConnell has been a ...

(J.D. 1979) – Circuit Judge, United States

Tenth Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (in case citations, 10th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: * District of Colorado * District of Kansas * Dis ...

* Antonio Martino (M.B.A. 1968) - Italian Minister of Defence (2001-2006), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994-1995), and scholar * David M. McIntosh (J.D. 1983) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 2nd district, President of the

Club for Growth The Club for Growth is a 501(c)(4) conservative organization active in the United States, with an agenda focused on cutting taxes and other economic policy issues. Club for Growth's largest funders are the billionaires Jeff Yass and Richard U ...

* Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez – Governor-elect of Tlaxcala * Abner J. Mikva (J.D. 1951) –

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...

Congressman (1956–1966); United States Congressman (1969–1973, 1975–1979);

Judge (1979–1994) *

Patsy Mink Patsy Matsu Mink (née Takemoto; December 6, 1927 – September 28, 2002) was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii. Mink was a third-generation Japanese American, having been born and raised on the island of Maui. ...

(J.D. 1951) –

(D-HI) (1965–1977, 1990–2002) *

Carol Moseley Braun Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is a former U.S. Senator, an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate ...

(J.D. 1972) –

(D-IL) (1992–1998); United States Ambassador (1999–2001) * Richard A. Mugalian – Illinois state representative and lawyer *

Eliot Ness Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone and enforce Prohibition in Chicago. He was the leader of a team of law enforcement agents, nicknamed The Untouchables. ...

(A.B. 1925) –

United States Treasury The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and ...

and

Bureau of Prohibition The Bureau of Prohibition (or Prohibition Unit) was the United States federal law enforcement agency formed to enforce the National Prohibition Act of 1919, commonly known as the Volstead Act, which enforced the 18th Amendment to the United S ...

agent, head of ''

The Untouchables Untouchables or The Untouchables may refer to: American history * Untouchables (law enforcement), a 1930s American law enforcement unit led by Eliot Ness * ''The Untouchables'' (book), an autobiography by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley * ''The U ...

'' * William Niskanen (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1962) – Chairman of the

Cato Institute The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.Koch Ind ...

Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ...

Ajit Pai Ajit Varadaraj Pai (; born January 10, 1973) is an American lawyer who served as chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2017 to 2021. He has been a partner at the private-equity firm Searchlight Capital since April 20 ...

(J.D. 1997) – Chairman of the

Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdicti ...

(2017–2021) * James B. Parsons (A.M. 1946, J.D. 1949) – first African-American Federal District Court Judge (1991–1992)University of Chicag
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Peter George Peterson Peter George Peterson (June 5, 1926 – March 20, 2018) was an American investment banker who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972, to February 1, 1973, under the Richard Nixon administration. Before serving as Sec ...

(M.B.A. 1951) –

United States Secretary of Commerce The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce. The secretary serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters relating to commerce. The secretary rep ...

(1972–1973) *

Abraham A. Ribicoff Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and was the 80th ...

(J.D. 1933) – 4th

United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare The United States secretary of health and human services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all health matters. The secretary is ...

, 80th Governor of Connecticut *

Pete Ricketts John Peter Ricketts (born August 19, 1964) is an American politician serving as the 40th governor of Nebraska since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. Ricketts is the son of Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade. He is also, with o ...

(A.B. 1986, M.B.A. 1991) – 40th

(2015–2023);

(R-NE) (2023–present) * Paul Romer (B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983) – Chief Economist of the World Bank *

Kyle Sampson D. Kyle Sampson (born in Cedar City, Utah) was the Chief of Staff and Counselor of United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He resigned on March 12, 2007, amid the controversy surrounding the firing of eight United States Attorneys i ...

(J.D. 1996) – Chief of Staff and Counselor of United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales * Bernie Sanders (A.B. 1964) – United States Senator (VT);

; 2016 and 2020 presidential candidate * David Schuman (Ph.D. 1974) –

Oregon Court of Appeals The Oregon Court of Appeals is the state intermediate Court of Appeals, appellate court in the US state of Oregon. Part of the Oregon Judicial Department, it has thirteen judges and is located in Salem, Oregon, Salem. Except for death penalty cas ...

Judge *

Masaaki Shirakawa is a Japanese economist, central banker and the 30th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), and professor at Aoyama Gakuin University. He is also a Director and Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Early life Shirakawa ...

(A.M. 1977) – Governor, Bank of Japan (2008–present) *

Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell (; born June 30, 1930) is an American author, economist, political commentator and academic who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he becam ...

(Ph.D. 1968) – winner of the

National Humanities Medal The National Humanities Medal is an American award that annually recognizes several individuals, groups, or institutions for work that has "deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens' engagement with the human ...

(2003); economist and Senior Fellow at

Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution (officially The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; abbreviated as Hoover) is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, an ...

, Stanford University * John Paul Stevens (A.B. 1941) –

United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...

Justice (1975–2010) *

Jim Talent James Matthes Talent (born October 18, 1956) is an American politician who was a U.S. Senator from Missouri from 2002 to 2007. He is a Republican and resided in the St. Louis area while serving in elected office. After serving for eight years ...

(J.D. 1981) –

United States Senator The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powe ...

(R-Mo) (2002–2007) * John Thomas (J.D. 1970) – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales *

Joe Walsh Joseph Fidler Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In a career spanning over five decades, he has been a member of three successful rock bands: the James Gang, Eagles, and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr ...

–

conservative talk radio Conservative talk radio is a talk radio format in the United States and other countries devoted to expressing conservative viewpoints of issues, as opposed to progressive talk radio. The definition of conservative talk is generally broad enough ...

host; former

Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...

Representative Representative may refer to: Politics * Representative democracy, type of democracy in which elected officials represent a group of people * House of Representatives, legislative body in various countries or sub-national entities * Legislator, som ...

from

Illinois's 8th congressional district The 8th congressional district of Illinois is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Illinois that has been represented by Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi since 2017. Geographic boundaries 2011 redistricting The congressional district cove ...

(M.P.P. 1991) *

Paul Wolfowitz Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and former dean of Johns Hopkins ...

(Ph.D. 1972) – President of the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...

(2005–2007); United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001–2005) *

Todd Young Todd Christopher Young (born August 24, 1972) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator for Indiana, a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Young previously served as the U.S. re ...

(M.B.A. 2000) – U.S. Senator from

Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...

(2017–present) *

Kateryna Yushchenko Kateryna Mykhaylivna Yushchenko ( uk, Катерина Михайлівна Ющенко, née Chumachenko (Чумаченко); September 1, 1961 in Chicago) was the First Lady of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010. She is married to former Ukrainian Pr ...

(M.B.A. 1986) – First Lady of

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

(2005–2010)

Arts and entertainment

Ed Asner Eddie Asner (; November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021) was an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is best remembered for portraying Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' a ...

(X. 1948) – Emmy Award-winning actor, ''

The Mary Tyler Moore Show ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (also known simply as ''Mary Tyler Moore'') is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring actress Mary Tyler Moore. The show originally aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977. Mo ...

'', ''

Lou Grant Lou Grant is a fictional character played by Ed Asner in two television series produced by MTM Enterprises for CBS. The first was ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' (1970–1977), a half-hour light-hearted situation comedy in which the character ...

'', '' Up'', ''

Elf An elf () is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology. They are subsequently mentioned in Snorri Sturluson's Icelandic Prose Edda. He distinguishes "ligh ...

'' * David Auburn (A.B. 1991) – playwright; winner of the Pulitzer Prize and

Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...

for '' Proof'' * Lester Beall (A.B. 1926) – modernist graphic designer * Elvin Bishop (X, 1972) – rock musician; blues icon * JoAnne Carson – painter and sculptor, Guggenheim Fellow (2016) * Anna Chlumsky (A.B. 2002) – actress; film '' My Girl'' and TV series ''

Veep ''Veep'' is an American political satire comedy television series that aired on HBO from April 22, 2012, to May 12, 2019. The series was created by Armando Iannucci as an adaptation of his sitcom ''The Thick of It''. The protagonist of ''Veep' ...

'' *

Misha Collins Dmitri "Misha" Collins "My mom went to Russia when she was in college, and ��she had a boyfriend whose name was Mitya, which she thought was the same as Misha, which it's not. And his real name was Dmitri, so my real name, actually—my birth c ...

(A.B. 1997) – actor; star of TV series '' Supernatural'' *

Kahane Cooperman Kahane Cooperman is an American documentary filmmaker and television director and producer, whose 2016 documentary ''Joe's Violin'' was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Early life Cooperman was born Kahane Ra ...

(A.B. 1980) – documentary filmmaker and television producer * Jan Crull Jr. (A.M. 1984) – documentary filmmaker *

Katherine Dunham Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for ...

(Ph.B. 1936) – dancer and choreographer, National Medal of Arts winner * Roger Ebert (X. 1970) – film critic and Pulitzer Prize winner *

Kurt Elling Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz singer and songwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Rockford, Elling became interested in music through his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. He sang in cho ...

(X. 1992) – jazz singer and nine-time

Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pr ...

nominee *

Jonathan Elliott Jonathan Elliott is an American composer and teacher. Born in 1962, Elliott grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, studying piano from the age of six. He went on to study composition at Vassar College, where his teachers included Annea Lockwood and ...

(Ph.D. 1988) – classical composer * George R. Ellis (A.B. 1959, M.F.A. 1962) – author, art historian and director of the

Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single co ...

* David B. Eskind (X. 1934) – radio scriptwriter, producer *

Irwin Leroy Fischer Irwin Leroy Fischer (July 5, 1903 – May 7, 1977) was an American composer and organist. He was a long-standing Dean of Faculty of the American Conservatory of Music and organist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 22 years. Fischer was als ...

(A.B. 1924) – classical composer, former Dean of Faculty

American Conservatory of Music The American Conservatory of Music (ACM) was a major American school of music founded in Chicago in 1886 by John James Hattstaedt (1851–1931). The conservatory was incorporated as an Illinois non-profit corporation. It developed the Conservator ...

and former principal organist

Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891. The ensemble makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival. The music director is Riccardo Muti, who began his tenu ...

* Alyce Frank (1950) – artist *

Melvin Frank Melvin Frank (13 August 1913 – 13 October 1988) was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is known for his partnership with Norman Panama and their work on films such as '' Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House'' (1948), ...

(A.B. 1935) –

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

-nominated filmmaker and screenwriter, '' A Touch of Class'' * Philip Glass (A.B. 1956) – Academy Award-nominated composer and musician * Leon Golub (A.B. 1942) – artist * John Grierson (A.M. 1927) – coined the word "documentary"; founder of the British documentary film movement; founded and headed Canada's

National Film Board The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary fi ...

during World War II; director of mass communications for

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

, 1948–50 *

Sessue Hayakawa , known professionally as , was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was a popular star in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man ...

(A.B. 1913) – Academy Award-nominated film actor; starred in

Cecil B. DeMille Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cine ...

's '' The Cheat'' and ''

Bridge on the River Kwai ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Although the film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943, the pl ...

'' *

Marilu Henner Mary Lucy Denise Henner is an American actress. She began her career appearing in the original production of the musical '' Grease'' in 1971, before making her screen debut in the 1977 comedy-drama film '' Between the Lines''. In 1977, Henner wa ...

(X. 1974) – actress; starred in TV series ''

Taxi A taxi, also known as a taxicab or simply a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choic ...

'' *

Daryl Hine William Daryl Hine (February 24, 1936 – August 20, 2012) was a Canadian poet and translator. A MacArthur Fellow for the class of 1986, Hine was the editor of ''Poetry'' from 1968 to 1978. He graduated from McGill University in 1958 and then st ...

(Ph.D. 1967) – Canadian poet and translator *

Mark Hollmann Mark Hollmann is an American composer and lyricist. Hollmann grew up in Fairview Heights, Illinois, where he graduated from Belleville Township High School East in 1981. He won a 2002 Tony Award and a 2001 Obie Award for his music and lyrics to ...

(A.B. 1985) – Tony Award-winning composer *

Celeste Holm Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia Kazan's '' Gentleman's Agreement'' (1947), and was nominated for her roles in ''Come to ...

(X. 1934) –

-winning actress, ''

Gentleman's Agreement A gentlemen's agreement, or gentleman's agreement, is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties. It is typically oral, but it may be written or simply understood as part of an unspoken agreement by convention or th ...

'', ''

All About Eve ''All About Eve'' is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although Orr does not receive a screen credit ...

'', ''

High Society High society, sometimes simply society, is the behavior and lifestyle of people with the highest levels of wealth and social status. It includes their related affiliations, social events and practices. Upscale social clubs were open to men based ...

'' * Irene Whitfield Holmes (Ph.D. 1924) – Ethnomusicologist and collector of French language American folk songs * Tyehimba Jess (A.B. 1991) – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet *

Rebecca Jarvis Rebecca Ann Jarvis (born September 28, 1981) is an American journalist and investment banker. She is the chief business, economics, and technology correspondent for ABC News, the host, creator, and managing editor of ''Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvi ...

(A.B. 2003) – runner-up on the fourth season of ''

The Apprentice ''The Apprentice'' is a reality talent game show franchise originally aired in 2004 in the United States. Created by U.S.-based British producer Mark Burnett, the show depicts contestants from around the country with various professional backg ...

'' *

Wolf Kahn Wolf Kahn (October 4, 1927 – March 15, 2020) was a German-born American painter. Kahn, known for his combination of Realism and Color Field, worked in pastel, oil paint, and printmaking. He studied under Hans Hofmann, and also graduated from ...

(A.B. 1950) – artist *

Philip Kaufman Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936) is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning more than six decades. He has been described as a "maverick" and an "iconoclast," notable for his versati ...

(A.B. 1958) – film director, '' The Right Stuff'', ''

The Unbearable Lightness of Being ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being'' ( cs, Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history. Although written in 1982, the no ...

'' * Rose Kaufman (X. 1959) – screenwriter, '' The Wanderers'' and ''

Henry & June ''Henry & June'' is a 1990 American biographical drama film directed by Philip Kaufman, and starring Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, and Maria de Medeiros. It is loosely based on the posthumously published 1986 Anaïs Nin book of the same name, and ...

'' *

Greg Kotis Greg Kotis (born 1965/1966) is an American playwright, best known for writing the book and co-writing the lyrics for the musical ''Urinetown''. Biography Career Kotis studied political science at the University of Chicago, where he was a membe ...

(A.B. 1988) – Tony Award-winning playwright *

Leopold and Loeb Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago ...

(attended) – murderers *

Brian Liesegang Brian Liesegang (born February 10, 1970) is an American songwriter, producer, composer, guitarist and programmer, and a founding member of the industrial rock band Filter. Biography Liesegang was born in New York City, where his father Dr. Tho ...

(A.B. 1992) – guitarist, former member of Nine Inch Nails and

Filter Filter, filtering or filters may refer to: Science and technology Computing * Filter (higher-order function), in functional programming * Filter (software), a computer program to process a data stream * Filter (video), a software component tha ...

Aaron Lipstadt Aaron Lipstadt (born November 12, 1952) is an American film director, television director and producer. In 1980, he began his career as assistant production manager on the film '' Battle Beyond the Stars''.Joshua Marston Joshua Jacob Marston (born August 13, 1968) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for the film ''Maria Full of Grace''. Born in Los Angeles County, California, he graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Marston worked in ...

(A.M. 1994) – film director, ''

Maria Full of Grace ''Maria Full of Grace'' (Spanish title: ''María, llena eres de gracia'', lit., " Maria, you are full of grace") is a 2004 drama film written and directed by Joshua Marston. The film was produced between Colombia and the United States. The story ...

'' * Peter Marzio – former director of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston *

Tucker Max Tucker Max (born September 27, 1975) is an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drinking and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website ''TuckerMax.com'', which has received millions of visitors since Max lau ...

(A.B. 1998) – Internet celebrity and ''New York Times'' bestselling author * Elaine May (A.B. 1953) – screenwriter, actress, and director, comedian with Nichols and May, Oscar-nominated writer of '' Heaven Can Wait'' and ''

Primary Colors A set of primary colors or primary colours (see spelling differences) consists of colorants or colored lights that can be mixed in varying amounts to produce a gamut of colors. This is the essential method used to create the perception of a br ...

'', director of '' A New Leaf'' and '' The Heartbreak Kid'' * Amy Meyers (A.B. 1977) - art historian and museum director *

Mike Nichols Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian. He was noted for his ability to work across a range of genres and for his aptitude fo ...

(X. 1953) – film and stage director; winner of a Tony Award and an Academy Award; directed ''

The Graduate ''The Graduate'' is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from W ...

'', ''

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening, after a university faculty party, they receive ...

'', ''

Catch-22 ''Catch-22'' is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, it uses a distinctive non-ch ...

'', '' Silkwood''; co-founder of

The Second City The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise and is the oldest ongoing improvisational theater troupe to be continually based in Chicago, with training programs and live theatres in Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre o ...

comedy troupe *

Sheldon Patinkin Sheldon Arthur Patinkin (August 27, 1935 – September 21, 2014) was a chair of the Theater Department of Columbia College Chicago, Artistic Director of the Getz Theater of Columbia College, Artistic Consultant of The Second City and of Steppenw ...

(A.B. 1953) – theater director *

Kimberly Peirce Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, '' Boys Don't Cry'' (1999), which won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hilary Swank's performance. Her second feature, '' Stop-Los ...

(A.B. 1990) – film director, '' Boys Don't Cry'' (Academy Award for Best Actress,

Hilary Swank Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series '' Camp Wilder'' and made her film debut with a minor role in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' (1992 ...

) and '' Stop-Loss'' *

Gordon Quinn Gordon Quinn is Artistic Director and founding member of Kartemquin Films and a 2007 recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Gordon Quinn has been making documentaries for over 45 years and has produced or dire ...

(A.B. 1965) – filmmaker, founder of

Kartemquin Films Kartemquin Films is a four-time Oscar-nominated 501(c)3 non-profit production company located in Chicago, Illinois, that produces a wide range of documentary films. It is the documentary filmmaking home of acclaimed producers such as Gordon Quinn ...

* Dan Peterman – artist * Bernard Sahlins (A.B. 1943) – co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe *

Hayden Schlossberg Hayden Schlossberg (born June 9, 1978) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on ''Cobra Kai'' (with Jon Hurwitz and Josh Heald), the ''Harold & Kumar'' films and ''American Reunion'' (with Hurwitz). Early l ...

(A.B. 2000) – writer, ''

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle ''Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle'' (released in some international markets as ''Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies'') is a 2004 American buddy stoner comedy film directed by Danny Leiner, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, and star ...

'' *

Eddie Shin Edward Andrew Yoon Beom Shin (born July 17, 1976) is an American actor. He played Dave Mendoza in the Netflix series '' Alexa & Katie'', and portrays characters named Agent Mike Li in the 2015 first season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) ...

(A.B. 1998) – actor *

Paul Sills Paul Sills (born Paul Silverberg; November 18, 1927 – June 2, 2008) was an American director and improvisation teacher, and the original director of Chicago's The Second City. Life and career Sills was born Paul Silverberg in Chicago, Illinoi ...

(A.B. 1951) – co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe *

David Steinberg David Steinberg (born August 9, 1942) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and mid 1970s, he was one of the best-known comics in the United States. He appeared on ...

– comedian, actor, writer, director, and author * Michael Stevens – creator of educational YouTube channel ''Vsauce'' *

Fritz Weaver Fritz William Weaver (January 19, 1926 − November 26, 2016) was an American actor in television, stage, and motion pictures. He portrayed Dr. Josef Weiss in the 1978 epic television drama, ''Holocaust'' for which he was nominated for a Primetime ...

(A.B. 1951) – actor, ''

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

'', ''

Fail-Safe In engineering, a fail-safe is a design feature or practice that in the event of a specific type of failure, inherently responds in a way that will cause minimal or no harm to other equipment, to the environment or to people. Unlike inherent safe ...

'', '' Black Sunday'' *

Gavin Williamson Sir Gavin Alexander Williamson (born 25 June 1976) is a British politician who most recently served as Minister of State without Portfolio from 25 October to 8 November 2022. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Staffordshire s ...

– harpsichordist *

Arthur Zegart Arthur Zegart (March 16, 1916 - February 2, 1989) was an American documentary film producer. He produced 125 documentary films for television. Early life Zegart was born on March 16, 1916 in Chicago. Zegart's father, Joseph, emigrated from Poland ...

– documentary film producer

Athletics

Jay Berwanger John Jacob "Jay" Berwanger (March 19, 1914 – June 26, 2002) was an American college football player and referee. In 1935, Berwanger was the first recipient of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, renamed the Heisman Trophy the following year. At ...

(A.B. 1936) – first Heisman Trophy winner *

Gene Clapp Eugene Howard Clapp III or Gene Clapp (born November 19, 1949) is an American rowing (sport), rower and Olympian. He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in the Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's eight, men's e ...

(M.B.A. 1974) – Olympic silver medalist, men's eight rowing * Willie D. Davis (M.B.A. 1968) – professional football player and former university trustee *

Kim Ng Kimberly J. Ng (; born November 17, 1968) is an American executive in Major League Baseball. She is currently the general manager of the Miami Marlins and the highest-ranking female baseball executive. She is the first woman to serve as general ...

(A.B. 1990) – General Manager of Miami Marlins, former senior vice president of operations with

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...

, former assistant general manager of

Los Angeles Dodgers The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn ...

* Craig Robinson (M.B.A. 1992) – former men's basketball head coach at

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering c ...

; older brother of Michelle Obama * Milton "Mitt" Romney – football player for Chicago Bears; college basketball coach; cousin of former Michigan Governor

George W. Romney George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd gover ...

Adam Silver Adam Silver (born April 25, 1962) is an American lawyer and sports executive who serves as the fifth and current commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He joined the NBA in 1992 and has held various positions within the l ...

(J.D. 1988) – Commissioner of the

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...

Business

* Andrew Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A., 1981) – President of the

New York City Economic Development Corporation New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is a nonprofit corporation whose stated mission is to "leverage the city’s assets to create beneficial jobs that drive growth. This ensures equitable and sustainable development across al ...

, youngest Goldman Sachs partner in company history, university trustee *

Roger Altman Roger Charles Altman (born April 2, 1946) is an American investment banker, the founder and senior chairman of Evercore, and a former Democratic politician. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter administration from Jan ...

(M.B.A. 1969) – founder and senior chairman of

Evercore Evercore Inc., formerly known as Evercore Partners, is a global independent investment banking advisory firm founded in 1995 by Roger Altman, David Offensend, and Austin Beutner. The firm has advised on over $4.7 trillion of merger, acquisition, a ...

United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury The United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, in the United States government, advises and assists the Secretary of the Treasury in the supervision and direction of the Department of the Treasury and its activities, and succeeds the Secret ...

* José Antonio Alvarez (M.B.A. 1996) – vice chairman and CEO of

Santander Group Banco Santander, S.A., doing business as Santander Group (, , Spanish: ), is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Santander in Spain. Additionally, Santander maintains a presence in all global financial centre ...

, the largest Eurozone banking group by market value *

Cliff Asness Clifford Scott Asness (; born October 17, 1966) is an American hedge fund manager and the co-founder of AQR Capital Management. Early life and early education Asness was born to a Jewish family, in Queens, New York, the son of Carol, who ran a ...

(M.B.A, Ph.D.) – billionaire founder of

AQR Capital AQR Capital Management (Applied Quantitative Research) is a global investment management firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The firm, which was founded in 1998 by Cliff Asness, David Kabiller, John Liew, and Robert Krail, offe ...

* Edward M. Baker (A.B. 1898) – investment broker * Robert Barnett (J.D. 1971) – partner at the law firm Williams & Connolly LLP * Bart Becht (M.B.A. 1982) – CEO of

Reckitt Benckiser Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, trade name, trading as Reckitt, is a United Kingdom, British multinational corporation, multinational fast moving consumer goods, consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, England. It is a producer of health, ...

* Paul G. Blazer (A.A. 1915) – founder of Ashland Oil & Refining Company ( Ashland, Inc.) *

David G. Booth David Gilbert Booth (born 1946) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the executive chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors, which he co-founded with Rex Sinquefield. Career Booth graduated from Lawrence High School in ...

(M.B.A. 1971) – billionaire philanthropist, co-CEO and co-founder of

Dimensional Fund Advisors Dimensional Fund Advisors, L.P. (branded Dimensional abbreviated DFA) is a private investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Dimensional was founded in Chicago in 1981 by David Booth, Rex Sinquefield and Larry Klotz. The company has affili ...

Bill Browder William Felix Browder (born April 23, 1964) is an American-born British financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which at one time was the lar ...

(A.B. 1985) – CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and human rights activist * Patrick O. Brown (AB 1976, PhD 1980, MD 1982) – CEO and founder of

Impossible Foods Impossible Foods Inc. is a company that develops plant-based substitutes for meat products. The company's signature product, the Impossible Burger, was launched in July 2016. In partnership with Burger King, Impossible Whoppers were released ...

* Debra Cafaro (JD 1982) – Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ventas, minority owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins *

Agustín Carstens Agustín Guillermo Carstens Carstens (born 9 June 1958 in Mexico City) is a Mexican economist who has served as the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements since 1 December 2017. He served as governor of the Bank of Mexico from ...

(Ph.D. 1985) – Head of the

Bank for International Settlements The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international financial institution owned by central banks that "fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks". The BIS carries out its work thr ...

known as "The Bank for Central Banks"; former Governor of

Bank of Mexico The Bank of Mexico ( es, Banco de México), abbreviated ''BdeM'' or ''Banxico,'' is Mexico's central bank, monetary authority and lender of last resort. The Bank of Mexico is autonomous in exercising its functions, and its main objective is to ac ...

; current member of

Group of Thirty The Group of Thirty, often abbreviated to G30, is an international body of financiers and academics which aims to deepen understanding of economic and financial issues and to examine consequences of decisions made in the public and private sec ...

(G-30) * Pericles Abbasi * Tae-won Chey (Ph.D. 1989) – billionaire Chairman of the

SK Group SK Group ( Korean: SK그룹, 에스케이그룹) is the second largest South Korean chaebol behind Samsung Group. SK Group is composed of 186 subsidiaries and affiliates that share the SK brand name and the group's management culture, named SKMS ...

, son-in-law of Korean president

Roh Tae-woo Roh Tae-woo (; ; 4 December 1932 – 26 October 2021) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the sixth president of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. Roh was a close ally and friend of Chun Doo-hwan, the predecessor leader ...

* Norton Clapp (Ph.B. 1928, J.D. 1929) – an original owner of

Space Needle The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States. Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark. Located in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center ...

; university trustee * William E. Conway Jr. (MBA) – billionaire co-founder of

The Carlyle Group The Carlyle Group is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $376 billion of assets under management. It specializes in private equity, real assets, and ...

* L. Gordon Crovitz (A.B. 1980) – publisher of ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'' * Daniel Doctoroff (J.D. 1984) – President of

Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was co-founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, with Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar, and a 1 ...

; former Deputy Mayor of New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg * Brady Dougan (A.B. 1981, M.B.A., 1982) – CEO of

Credit Suisse First Boston Credit Suisse First Boston (also known as CSFB and CS First Boston) is the investment banking affiliate of Credit Suisse headquartered in New York. The company was created by the merger of First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse Group in 1988 ...

; CEO-elect of

Credit Suisse Group Credit Suisse Group AG is a global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, it maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world and is one of the nine global " ...

in Zurich (beginning May 2007); youngest CEO on Wall Street (2004) * Arnold W. Donald (M.B.A. 1980) – CEO of

Carnival Corporation & plc Carnival Corporation & plc is a British-American cruise operator with a combined fleet of over 100 vessels across 10 cruise line brands. A dual-listed company, Carnival is composed of two companies – Panama-incorporated, US-headquartered Carniv ...

* J. Patrick Doyle (M.B.A. 1988) – President and CEO of

Domino's Pizza Domino's Pizza, Inc., trading as Domino's, is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain founded in 1960 and led by CEO Russell Weiner. The corporation is Delaware domiciled and headquartered at the Domino's Farms Office Park in Ann Arbor ...

Larry Ellison Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American business magnate and investor who is the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer (CTO) and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the American computer technology ...

(did not graduate) – billionaire founder of Oracle; reportedly wealthiest person in California, third-richest in United States * Marcel Erni (M.B.A. 1991) – billionaire co-founder of

Partners Group Partners Group Holding AG is a Swiss-based global private equity firm with US$127 billion in assets under management in private equity, private infrastructure, private real estate and private debt. The firm manages a broad range of funds, struct ...

(Ph.D. 1964) – "father of modern finance"; 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economics * Jacob A. Frenkel (M.A., Ph.D.) – Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the

(G-30); former David Rockefeller Professor of International Economics at the

; former Governor of the Bank of Israel * Diane Garnick (M.B.A. 2012) – Chief Income Strategist of

TIAA The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA, formerly TIAA-CREF), is a Fortune 100 financial services organization that is the leading provider of financial services in the academic, research ...

(2016–present) * Gerald Gidwitz (Ph.B. 1927) – co-founder of Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. *

Scott Griffith Scott Griffith was the chairman and chief executive officer of Zipcar, Inc. from February 2003 until his resignation on March 15, 2013, following the acquisition of Zipcar by Avis Budget Group. As of October 2020, Griffith is the CEO of Ford Autono ...

(M.B.A. 1990) – CEO of

Zipcar Zipcar is an American car-sharing company and a subsidiary of Avis Budget Group. Zipcar provides vehicle reservations to its members, billable by the minute, hour or day; members may have to pay a monthly or annual membership fee in addition ...

(2003–present) * Timothy E. Hoeksema (M.B.A. 1977) – founder of Midwest Airlines *

Gary Hoover Gary Hoover (born March 19, 1951) is an American businessperson who founded Bookstop, an American bookstore chain, and The Reference Press, which became Hoover's business information company. He is the entrepreneur-in-residence at the Univer ...

– founder of Bookstop and

Hoover's D&B Hoovers was founded by Gary Hoover and Patrick Spain in 1990Solomon, Steve.The Dynamic Duo" '' Inc.''. October 15, 1997. Retrieved on April 7, 2014. as an American business research company that provided information on companies and indu ...

Solomon, Steve.
The Dynamic Duo
" '' Inc.''. October 15, 1997. Retrieved on April 7, 2014. * Mark Hoplamazian (M.B.A. 1989) – CEO, Global Hyatt Corporation (2006–present) * Daniel Ivascyn (M.B.A. 1998) – CIO of PIMCO * Kenneth M. Jacobs (B.A. 1980) – Chairman and CEO of

Lazard Lazard Ltd (formerly known as Lazard Frères & Co.) is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management and other financial services, primarily with institutional clients. It is the world's la ...

; university trustee * Stephen A. Jarislowsky (M.A. 1946) – billionaire founder of Jarislowsky Fraser Limited, one of Canada's largest investment management firms * Porter Jarvis (M.B.A. 1932) – President, then Chairman of Swift & Co., 1955–1967 * John H. Johnson (X. 1942) – founder of Johnson Publishing, Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of ''Ebony (magazine), Ebony'' and ''Jet (magazine), Jet'' magazines * Karen Katen (B.A. Political science, M.B.A.) - pharmaceutical executive * James M. Kilts (M.B.A. 1974) – Chairman, President, and CEO of Global Gillette, Gillette Company; founding partner of Centerview Partners * :ko:구본준, Bon-Joon Koo (M.B.A.) – billionaire Vice Chairman of LG Electronics, LG Electronics Corporation * :pt:Carlos Geraldo Langoni, Carlos Langoni (PhD) – former President of the Central Bank of Brazil * Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) – Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures * Michael Larson (businessman), Michael Larson (M.B.A. 1981) – Chief Investment officer of Cascade Investment, the investment vehicle for Bill Gates and his foundation * AQR Capital, John Liew (BA 1989, MBA 1994, PhD 1995) – billionaire co-founder of

* Dave MacLennan (M.B.A.) – CEO of Cargill, the largest privately held corporation in the US * Dennis Malamatinas (M.B.A. 1979) – former CEO of Burger King, Priceline.com, Priceline Europe and Smirnoff. * Joe Mansueto (A.B. 1978, M.B.A. 1980) – billionaire Chairman and CEO of Morningstar, Inc. *

(A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – "father of modern portfolio theory"; 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics * Howard Marks (investor), Howard Marks (M.B.A. 1969) – billionaire founder of Oaktree Capital Management * James O. McKinsey (B.Phil 1917, M.A. in Commerce 1919) – Founder of McKinsey & Company; also served on the faculty of

* Peter Mensch (X, 1975, Masters in Marketing) – rock impresario * John Meriwether (M.B.A. 1973) – CEO and Principal of JWM Partners; former CEO of Long Term Capital Management * Satya Nadella (M.B.A. 1997) – CEO of Microsoft * Martin Nesbitt (businessman), Martin Nesbitt (M.B.A. 1991) – CEO of The Parking Spot, Treasurer of

's Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, 2008 presidential campaign * Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) – Chairman and CEO of Aramark * Victor Niederhoffer (Ph.D. 1969) – hedge fund manager * Merle Nethercutt Norman, Merle Norman – founder of Merle Norman Cosmetics * John Opel (M.B.A. 1949) – President of IBM (1974–1983); CEO of IBM (1981–1985); Chairman of IBM (1983–1986) * Ferdinand Peck – businessman and philanthropist, best known for financing Chicago's Auditorium Building * Peter George Peterson, Peter Peterson (M.B.A. 1951) – billionaire co-founder and former Chairman of Blackstone Group; 20th United States Secretary of Commerce * :de:Renaud de Planta, Renaud de Planta (M.B.A. 1987) – the sole senior partner of the Pictet Group, a 215-year-old Swiss bank catering to the world's wealthiest individuals * Matthew Prince (J.D. 2000) — Co-Founder and CEO of Cloudflare * Anthony Pritzker (M.B.A. 1987) – billionaire member of the Pritzker family; Founder and Managing Partner of the Pritzker Group * Donald Pritzker (J.D. 1959) – member of the Pritzker family; former president of Hyatt, Hyatt Corporation * Nicholas J. Pritzker, Nicholas Pritzker (J.D. 1975) – billionaire member of the Pritzker family; former president of Hyatt, Hyatt Corporation and co-founder of Tao Capital * Thomas Pritzker (J.D./M.B.A. 1976) – billionaire member of the Pritzker family; Chairman and CEO of The Pritzker Organization and Executive Chairman of Hyatt, Hyatt Corporation * invenergy, Michael Polsky (M.B.A. 1987) – billionaire founder of Invenergy, a multinational power generation development firm * Philip J. Purcell (M.B.A. 1967) – former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter * Roberta Cooper Ramo (J.D.) – private practice lawyer, President of the American Law Institute * Jay Rasulo (M.B.A. 1984) (AM 1982) – Senior Executive Vice President and CFO of The Walt Disney Company * Samuel Reshevsky (A.B. 1934) – accountant and chess grandmaster * Laura Ricketts (A.B. 1994) – co-owner of Chicago Cubs, board member of Lambda Legal, gay rights activist *

(M.B.A. 1991) – 40th

, former COO of TD Ameritrade * Thomas S. Ricketts (A.B. 1988, M.B.A. 1993) – CEO of Incapital LLC; Director of TD Ameritrade; Chairman of the Chicago Cubs * David Rockefeller (Ph.D. 1940) – billionaire Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969–81); former trustee of the

* Emmanuel Roman (M.B.A. 1987) – CEO of PIMCO * David Rubenstein (J.D. 1973) – billionaire co-founder of

* Álvaro Saieh (AM’76, PhD’80) – billionaire chairman of the CorpGroup; seventh richest man in Chile * Nassef Sawiris (A.B. 1982) – billionaire member of the Sawiris family; CEO of Orascom Construction; sixth richest man in Africa * Evan Sharp (A.B. 2005) – billionaire co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pinterest *

(M.A. 1977) – former Governor of the Bank of Japan; current member of the

(G-30) * Rex Sinquefield (MBA) – billionaire co-founder of

* Patrick Spain (A.B. 1974) – founder of

and HighBeam Research * Robert K. Steel, Robert Steel (M.B.A. 1984) – CEO of Wachovia Bank (2008–present); former Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs; former Under Secretary for Domestic Finance within the United States Department of the Treasury * Dick Stoken (M.B.A., 1958) – founding partner in Lind-Waldock, head of Strategic Capital Management * John Studzinski (M.B.A., 1980) – Vice Chairman of PIMCO, former Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group, former Head of the European investment banking division and Deputy Chairman of Morgan Stanley * Anthony Tan (B.A. 2004) – co-founder and chief executive officer of Grab_(company), Grab, a Nasdaq-listed e-hailing turned superapp technology company and first unicorn in Southeast Asia * Marion A. Trozzolo (PhB 1947, M.B.A. 1950) – first United States manufacturer to apply teflon to cookware * Susan Wagner (M.B.A. 1984) – co-founder, former Vice-Chairman, and COO of BlackRock * John S. Watson (Chevron), John S. Watson (M.B.A. 1980) – Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation * Jon Winkelried (A.B. & M.B.A. 1982) – CEO of TPG Capital and former COO of Goldman Sachs * Changhong Zhu (Ph.D. 1998) – CIO of State Administration of Foreign Exchange manages China's $3.8 trillion reserves

Education

* John Alroy (Ph.D. 1994) – paleobiology, paleobiologist and researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB, 2007 Charles Schuchert Award from The Paleontological Society * Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby – former Master of Clare College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of University of Cambridge * Richard C. Atkinson (Ph.B. 1948) – President of the University of California (1995–2003) * Marguerite Ross Barnett (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1972) – first African-American and female President of the University of Houston (1990–92); first African-American Chancellor of the University of Missouri (1986–90) * Werner A. Baum (Ph.D.) – second chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1973–1979) and the 7th president of University of Rhode Island (1968–1973) * Laird Bell (J.D.) – lawyer, Chairman of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees, and of Carleton College * Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (born 1949) – Israeli philosopher and President of the University of Haifa * Richard J. Bernstein (A.B.) – philosopher, professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research, former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association * Henry Bienen (A.M. 1962, Ph.D. 1966) – President of Northwestern University (1995–2009) * George W. Bond (M.A. 1923) – President of Louisiana Tech University, 1928–1936 * Leon Botstein (A.B. 1967) – President of Bard College (1975–present); principal conductor of American Symphony Orchestra * John W. Boyer (A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1975) – Dean of the College at the University of Chicago * Tom Campbell (California politician), Tom Campbell (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1980) – Dean of Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley (2002–2008) * King Virgil Cheek (J.D. 1969) – President of Shaw University (1969–1971); President of Morgan State University (1971–1974) * Rebecca S. Chopp (Ph.D. 1983) – former Chancellor, University of Denver; former President of Swarthmore College; President of Colgate University (2002–2009); former dean of Yale Divinity School; former provost of Emory University; feminist theologian * John Royston Coleman (Ph.D. 1950) – labor economist; President of Haverford College; former dean of Carnegie-Mellon University; author of ''Blue-Collar Journal''; host of CBS program ''Money Talks'' * May Louise Cowles – economist; researcher, and nationwide advocate of home economics study * Peter Dorman (Ph.D. 1985) – President, American University of Beirut (2008–present) * Mary Elizabeth Downey – Director of the Chautauqua School for Librarians who established and promoted library science education courses across the Western and Midwestern United States * Herman Dreer (Ph.D. 1955) academic administrator, educator, educational reformer and activist, author, editor, minister, and civil rights leader * Christopher L. Eisgruber (J.D. 1988) – 20th President of Princeton University * Norman Ericson (Ph.D.) – Bible scholar, faculty at Trinity International University * Eve Ewing (BA) – American sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist; Associate professor at the University of Chicago * Ward Farnsworth (J.D. 1994) – Dean of University of Texas School of Law * Paul Finkelman (Ph.D. 1976) – President of Gratz College (2017–present) * Michael Gerhardt (J.D. 1982) – Constitutional Law Professor at University of North Carolina School of Law, UNC School of Law; Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee for the nominations of Sonia Sotomayor (2009), Elena Kagan (2010), and Neil Gorsuch (2017) to the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court * Eleanor Churchill Gibbs - educator, writer * Benjamin Ginsberg (political scientist), Benjamin Ginsberg (B.A. 1968, A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1973) – professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University * Edgar Godbold (Ph.D. 1907) – President of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas (1923–1929), and Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana (1942–1951) * Marvin L. Goldberger (Ph.D. 1948) – President of California Institute of Technology (1978–1987) * Clifton Daggett Gray (Ph.D.) – President of Bates College (1920–1944) * W. G. Hardy (Ph.D. 1922) Professor of Classics of University of Alberta, writer, ice hockey administrator, Member of the Order of Canada * Carla Hayden (Ph.D. 1977) – 14th Librarian of Congress * Susan Henking (Ph.D. 1988) – President of Shimer College (2012–present) * Laurin L. Henry – academic and educator * Leo Higdon, Leo I. Higdon Jr. (M.B.A. 1972) – President of Connecticut College (2006–present); President of the College of Charleston (2001–2006); President of Babson College (1997–2001); Dean of Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia * William E. Holmes – former President of Central City College; faculty of the Atlanta Baptist Institute, now called Morehouse College, for 25 years * Sheila Miyoshi Jager 1994 (PhD): professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College * Howard Wesley Johnson (A.M. 1947) – President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966–1971) * Annie Kennedy - first member of the faculty elected at the Alabama Girls' Industrial School (now, University of Montevallo) * David Aaron Kessler (J.D. 1978) – Dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine; former Dean of Yale School of Medicine; former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner * Robert Kibbee (masters 1947, doctorate 1957) – Chancellor of the City University of New York * Thomas W. Krise (Ph.D. 1995) – 13th President of Pacific Lutheran University (2012–2017) * H. Gregg Lewis (A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1947) – professor and labor economics, labor economist * Benjamin E. Mays (A.M. 1925, Ph.D. 1935) – President of Morehouse College (1940–1967); recipient of American Educator Award (1980); civil rights activist * Alice Rebecca Brooks McGuire (Ph.D. 1958) - professor of library science, President of the American Association of School Librarians (1953-1954) * William Parker McKee (B.Div., 1887) – second president of Shimer College * Deborah Meier (A.M. 1955) – founder of small schools in New York and Boston; recipient of MacArthur Fellowship * Jacob Metzer, Jacob (Kobi) Metzer – economic historian, professor, eighth President of the Open University of Israel * Herman Clarence Nixon – professor, member of the Southern Agrarians * Daniel Nugent (Ph.D. 1988) - Professor of Anthropology University of Arizona * Dallin H. Oaks (J.D. 1957) – former President of Brigham Young University * Edison E. Oberholtzer (A.M. 1915) – founder and first President of the University of Houston * G. Dennis O'Brien (Ph.D., 1961) – former president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester * Leo J. O'Donovan (postdoctoral fellow at University of Chicago) – 47th President of Georgetown University * Santa J. Ono (A.B. 1984) – 15th President University of Michigan; 15th President & Vice-Chancellor University of British Columbia; 28th President University of Cincinnati * Vivian Paley (Ph.B. 1947) – teacher and early childhood education researcher * Don Patinkin (1922–1995)) – Israeli-American economist, and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem * William L. Pollard (Ph.D. 1976) – President of Medgar Evers College (2009–present) * Clayton Rose (B.A. 1980, M.B.A. 1981) – President of Bowdoin College (2015–present) * Thomas Sakmar (A.B. Chemistry 1978, M.D. Medicine 1982) – Senior Physician, Professor and former Acting President of The Rockefeller University * Barbara Snyder (J.D.) – president of Case Western Reserve University * Gerhard Spiegler – former President of Elizabethtown College * Samuel L. Stanley (A.B. 1976) – President of Stony Brook University (2009–2019) and Michigan State University (2019–) * Teresa A. Sullivan (Ph.D.) – sociologist and university administrator, 8th President of the University of Virginia * Vince Tinto – theorist in field of higher education, particularly concerning university student retention * David Truman (A.M. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) – President of Mount Holyoke College (1969–1978); President of Russell Sage Foundation (1978–1979) * Richard R. Wright Jr. – sociologist; President of Wilberforce University

Historians

* Solange Ashby (PhD 2016), egyptologist and nubiologist * Allan Berube (X. 1968) – founder of the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian History Project, now the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society; author of ''Coming Out Under Fire'' (1990) [Lambda Literary Award]; MacArthur Fellow (1996) * Antoinette Burton (A.M. 1984, Ph.D. 1990) – Catherine A. and Bruce C. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Henry Steele Commager (Ph.B. 1923, A.M. 1924, Ph.D. 1928) – American historian * Avery Craven (Ph.D. 1923) – Professor of History; Civil War expert * Herrlee G. Creel (Ph.B. 1926, A.M. 1927, Ph.D. 1929) – sinologist * Frances Gardiner Davenport (Ph.D. 1904) – editor of the series ''European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies'' * Angie Debo (A.M. 1924, international relations) – Oklahoma and Native Americans in the United States, Native American history, author of ''And the Waters Still Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes'' (1940) * Nicholas Dirks (A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1981) – Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology; Vice-President for Arts and Sciences at Columbia University * Paul Finkelman (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1976) – President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, Albany Law School and President of Gratz College; legal historian and author of ''Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court'' (2018) * James L. Fitzgerald (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1980) – Purandara Das Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Classics, Brown University * Lawrence M. Friedman (A.B. 1948, J.D. 1951, LL.M. 1953) – Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; legal historian and author of ''Crime and Punishment in American History'' * David Fromkin (A.B. 1950, J.D. 1953) – University Professor of International Relations, History, and Law at Boston University * Anthony Grafton (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) – Prominent Renaissance historian and Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. * Vincent Harding (A.M. 1956, Ph.D. 1965) – a scholar of American religion and society * Gertrude Himmelfarb (Ph.D. 1950) –

(2004); Professor Emeritus of History at the City University of New York * Kenneth T. Jackson (A.M. 1963, Ph.D. 1966) – Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University * Russell Jacoby (S.M. 1978) – Professor in Residence at Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles; author of ''The Last Intellectuals'' (1987 [2000]) * KC Johnson (M.A. 1989) – Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York, known for his work exposing the facts about the Duke lacrosse case * Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963) — led a psychological campaign against the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti via Radio Vonvon (1965-69); author of ''For Whom the Dogs Spy: Haiti, From the Duvalier Dictatorships to the Earthquake, Four Presidents, and Beyond'' (2014). * John Komlos (Ph.D. 1978) – professor emeritus, University of Munich economic historian and founder of the journal ''Economics and Human Biology'' * Judith Walzer Leavitt (Ph.D. 1966) – Professor Emerita, History of Medicine Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, author of ''Typhoid Mary'' * Mark Edward Lewis (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1985) – Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture, Department of History, Stanford University * Muhsin Mahdi (A.M., Ph.D.) – Iraqi-American islamologist and Arabist, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University * Walter A. McDougall (A.M. 1971, Ph.D. 1974) – Professor of History and Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania; Pulitzer Prize Winner (1986) * William Hardy McNeill (A.B. 1938, A.M. 1939) – Professor Emeritus of History at the

; author of ''The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community'' (1963) * John Victor Murra (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1956) – prominent anthropologist and researcher of the Incan Empire * Saul K. Padover (Ph.D. 1932) – historian and political scientist at the New School for Social Research in New York City * Richard Anthony Parker (Ph.D. 1938) – Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University; director of the

's epigraphic survey studying the mortuary temple of Ramses III * Rick Perlstein (B.A. 1992) – author of ''Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America'' and ''Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus'' * Vijay Prashad (A.M. 1990, Ph.D. 1994) – George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College (Connecticut), Trinity College; author of ''The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World'' (2007) * Nicolas Rasmussen (A.M. 1986) – Professor of History at the University of New South Wales * Francesca Rochberg (Ph.D. 1980) – Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley; MacArthur Fellow (1982) * Ovid R. Sellers (A.B. 1904) – Old Testament scholar and archaeologist who played a role in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls * Gertrude Smith (BA 1916, MA 1917, PhD 1921) Edwin Olson Professor of Greek (1933–1961) and chair of the Department of Classics (1934–1961) * Eileen Southern (A.B. 1940, A.M. 1941) –

(2001); first African-American female professor at Harvard University * Studs Terkel (Ph.B. 1932, J.D. 1934) – oral historian and radio host; Pulitzer Prize winner for the ''Good War: An Oral History of World War II'' (1985);

(1997) * Richard H. Timberlake (Ph.D. 1957)- economist, author, and economic historian. * Gerhard Weinberg (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) – historian, World War II expert; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * Irene J. Winter (M.A. 1967) – Ancient Near East Art historian, professor at Harvard and chair of the department of Fine Arts from 1993 to 1996; MacArthur Fellow (1983), Radcliffe Fellow (2003–04), Mellon Lecturer (2005) * Carter G. Woodson (A.B. 1908, A.M. 1908) – historian and founder of Negro History Week (1926), which evolved into Black History Month; civil rights activist * Chen Hengzhe (M.A) - writer of modern vernacular Chinese literature * Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963) — organized the first psychological campaign against the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti through Radio Vonvon (1965); author of "For Whom the Dogs Spy: Haiti, From the Duvalier Dictatorship to the Earthquake, Four Presidents and Beyond". Arcade, 2014.

Journalism

* Rick Atkinson (A.M. 1976) – reporter and author, four-time Pulitzer Prize winner * David Blum (A.B. 1977) – Editor in Chief of the ''Village Voice'' (2006–present) * David Broder (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1951) – Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary (1973); political correspondent and columnist for ''The Washington Post'' * David Brooks (journalist), David Brooks (A.B. 1983) – political commentator; columnist for ''The New York Times''; senior editor of ''The Weekly Standard''; regular commentator on ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' * Ana Marie Cox (A.B. 1994) – liberal columnist, founding editor of the Wonkette blog, correspondent for Air America Media * Roger Ebert (X. 1970) – Pulitzer Prize winner for film criticism (1975); columnist for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' * Zilfa Estcourt (A.M. 1905) – newspaper columnist and editor at the ''Tacoma Tribune'' and ''San Francisco Chronicle'' * Thomas Frank (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1994) – Editor-in-Chief of ''The Baffler''; author of ''The Conquest of Cool'' (1997) and ''What's the Matter with Kansas?'' (2004) * Janet Flanner – writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of ''The New Yorker'' magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975 * Katharine Graham (A.B. 1938) – publisher of ''The Washington Post'' for over two decades; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir ''Personal History'' (1998) * Virginia Graham (A.S. 1934) – television news correspondent; prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murders trial * Jan Crawford Greenburg (J.D. 1993) – chief legal correspondent for CBS News * Nathan Hare (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1962) – author, activist, and sociologist; founding publisher of ''The Black Scholar'', later cited as "the most important journal devoted to black issues since the ''Crisis''" by ''The New York Times'' * Seymour Hersh (A.B. 1958) – Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author, most famous for exposing the My Lai Massacre, which greatly changed public opinion of the Vietnam War; frequent contributor to ''The New Yorker'' * Daniel Hertzberg (A.B. 1968) – Pulitzer Prize winner 1988; Managing Editor of ''

'' * DeWitt John (A.M. 1937) American journalist and editor * Richard Lloyd Jones (LL.B. 1897, LL.M. 1898) – longtime publisher of the ''Tulsa Tribune'' * Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963, Social Anthropology) ''

'' (1971-1984), Co-founded in 1971 with his brother Leopold, the ''Haiti-Observateur'', a trilingual weekly (French, Haitian Creole and English), for which he still writes, more than 50 years later. * Dave Kehr (A.B. 1975) – film critic for ''The New York Times'' * Sarah Koenig (A.B. 1990) – creator of the award-winning ''Serial (podcast), Serial'' podcast * Tal Kopan (A.B.) – political reporter for CNN * Harvey Levin (J.D. 1975) – Managing Editor of TMZ.com * Roderick MacLeish (A.B. 1947) – National Public Radio political commentator; journalist and author * John G. Morris (A.B. 1937) – photo editor for ''Life (magazine), Life'', ''Ladies' Home Journal'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', ''National Geographic Magazine, National Geographic'' * Greg Palast (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1976) – progressive investigative journalist * John Podhoretz (A.B. 1982) – conservative commentator for the ''National Review'', the ''New York Post'', and ''The Weekly Standard'' * Joshua Cooper Ramo (A.B. 1992) – former foreign editor, ''Time Magazine''; managing director, Kissinger Associates * David E. Reed (A.B. 1946) – roving editor, ''Reader's Digest''; author, ''111 Days in Stanleyville'' (1965); ''Up Front in Vietnam'' (1967); ''Save the Hostages'' (1988) * Emmett Rensin – contributor to the Los Angeles Times Opinion Blog, USA Today, Salon, the New Republic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books * Edward Rothstein (Ph.D. 1994) – cultural critic at ''The New York Times''; former music critic at the ''The New Republic, New Republic'' and ''The New York Times'' * Nate Silver (A.B. 2000) – sabermetrician and inventor of PECOTA; writer for Baseball Prospectus; and founder of FiveThirtyEight.com * Robert B. Silvers (A.B. 1947) – co-founding editor of ''The New York Review of Books'' * Brent Staples (A.M. 1976, Ph.D. 1982) – editorial writer for ''The New York Times'' (1990–present); winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his memoir ''Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White'' (1994) * Bret Stephens (A.B. 1995) – foreign-affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor of ''

''; winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary * Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) – host of ''Inside Story (TV programme), Inside Story'' on Al Jazeera America, former senior correspondent on ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' * Kenneth Allen Taylor (Ph.D. 1984) – co-host of radio program ''Philosophy Talk''; Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University * Neda Ulaby (A.M. 1996) – National Public Radio reporter

Literature

* Jessica Abel (A.B. 1991) – comic book writer and artist *

(X. 1939) – author, Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize winner * Allan Bloom (Ph.B. 1949, A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – author * Paul C. Borgman (Ph.D. 1973) – religious author and professor * Dmitri Borgmann (Ph.B.) – writer * Alice C. Browning (Ph.B. 1931) — writer, editor of ''Negro Story'' (1944–1946) * Ernest Callenbach (Ph.B. 1949, A.M. 1953) – writer * Bonnie Jo Campbell (A.B. 1984) – novelist and short story writer * Paul Carroll (poet), Paul Carroll (A.M. 1952) – poet * Hayden Carruth (A.M. 1947) – winner of National Book Award in poetry * Robert Coover (A.M. 1965) – novelist and short story writer * Will Cuppy (Ph.B. 1907, A.M. 1914) – humorist * Mu Dan (A.M. 1951) – Chinese poet and literary translator * Sebastian de Grazia (A.B. 1944, Ph.D. 1948) – Pulitzer Prize winner * Caitlin Doughty – mortician, author, and promoter of death acceptance * Phyllis Eisenstein – author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels * Joseph Epstein (writer), Joseph Epstein (A.B. 1959) – essayist, literary critic, and short story writer * James T. Farrell (X. 1929) – novelist, short story writer, journalist, travel writer, poet and literary critic * Richard Garfinkle (X. 1980) – science fiction and fantasy author, author of ''Celestial Matters'' * Paul Goodman (writer), Paul Goodman (Ph.D. 1954) – social critic * Gerald Graff (A.B. 1959) – president-elect of the Modern Language Association (2008) * Katharine Graham (A.B. 1938) – author, Pulitzer Prize winner * Sam Greenlee (1954–57) – writer, author of ''The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel), The Spook Who Sat by the Door'' * Bette Howland (A.B. 1955) – writer, literary critic, MacArthur FellowMacArthur Fellow List of winners * Fenton Johnson (poet), Fenton Johnson – poet * Cyril M. Kornbluth – science fiction author * Patrick Larkin (novelist), Patrick Larkin (A.B. 1982) – author of espionage, military, and historical thrillers * Stephen Leacock (Ph.D. 1903) – Canadian humourist and professor of economics at McGill University * Luis Leal (writer), Luis Leal (A.B. 1941, Ph.D. 1950) – literary scholar and winner of

* Seth Lerer (Ph.D. 1981) – former Stanford University, Stanford professor; Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego (2009–2014) * Naomi Lindstrom (A.B. 1971) – Latin American literary critic * Jackson Mac Low (A.A. 1943) – poet, winner of Wallace Stevens award * Norman Maclean (Ph.D. 1940) – William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the

, author of ''A River Runs Through It (novel), A River Runs Through It'' * Tom Mandel (poet), Tom Mandel – contemporary poet whose work is often associated with the language poets * Campbell McGrath (A.B. 1984) – poet, MacArthur Fellow * Susan Murphy-Milano (B.A. 1981) – non-fiction author and victims' advocate * Sterling North (A.B. 1929) – children's author * Norman Panama (A.B. 1936) – screenwriter and film director * Sara Paretsky (A.M. 1969, M.B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1977) – crime novelist * Elizabeth Peters (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1952) – mystery author * Joseph G. Peterson (A.B. 1988) – author and poet * Robert Pirsig (attended but did not graduate) – philosopher, author of ''Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'' and ''Lila: An Inquiry into Morals'' * Edouard Roditi – writer and translator * Richard Rorty (A.B. 1949, A.M. 1952) – Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stanford University; MacArthur Fellow * Leo Rosten (Ph.B. 1930, Ph.D. 1937) – humorist * Philip Roth (A.M. 1955) – author, Pulitzer Prize and National Medal of Arts winner * Aram Saroyan (X c.1965) – writer, poet, and dramatist, author of famous minimalist poems such as "lighght" * John Scalzi (B.A. 1991) – novelist * Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1966) – novelist, poet and professor * Susan Sontag (A.B. 1951) – author, filmmaker and activist, MacArthur Fellow * George Steiner (A.B. 1948) – literary critic * Nancy Tilly (M.A.) - children’s author * Carl Van Vechten (1903) – writer of novels such as ''Nigger Heaven'' and prolific portrait photographer * Herman Voaden (X) – playwright and social activist * Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (A.M. 1971) – author of ''Cat's Cradle'', ''Slaughterhouse-Five'', ''Breakfast of Champions'' * Cecelia Watson (A.M. 2005, Ph.D. 2011) - nonfiction author and academic * Edward F. Wente (Ph.D. 1959) – professor and Egyptologist * Yvor Winters (attended) – poet and critic * Marguerite Young – novelist and poet

Mathematics

* Abraham Adrian Albert (B.S. 1926, S.M. 1927, Ph.D. 1928) * George Birkhoff (Ph.D. 1907) – Bôcher Memorial Prize winner * Archie Blake (mathematician), Archie Blake (S.M. 1931, Ph.D. 1937) * Gilbert Ames Bliss (Ph.D. 1900) * Alberto Calderón (Ph.D. 1950) – co-founded the Chicago school (mathematical analysis), Chicago school of mathematical analysis; winner of Bôcher Memorial Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science * Wei-Liang Chow (B.A. 1931) – known for work in algebraic geometry * Paul J. Cohen (S.M. 1954, Ph.D. 1958) – Fields Medal winner * William Dembski (Ph.D. 1988) * David Eisenbud (Ph.D. 1970) * Bernard Galler (Ph.D. 1955) * Murray Gerstenhaber (MA and Ph.D. 1951) – mathematician and lawyer * Richard Hamming (B.S. 1947) – Turing Award winner * Thomas W. Hungerford (Ph.D. 1963) * John Irwin Hutchinson (Ph.D. 1896) * Ernest Preston Lane (Ph.D. 1918) * Richard Lyons (mathematician), Richard Lyons * Saunders MacLane (A.M. 1931) – co-founder of category theory *Janet McDonald (mathematician), (Ph.D. 1943) * Anil Nerode (Ph.D. 1956) * Ken Ono (B.A. 1989) * Alice Turner Schafer (Ph.D. 1942) * Richard D. Schafer (Ph.D. 1942) * Isadore Singer (Ph.D. 1955) – Abel Prize winner * Elias M. Stein (Ph.D. 1959) * John G. Thompson, John Thompson (Ph.D. 1959) – world leader in group theory, Fields Medal and National Medal of Science winner * Oswald Veblen (Ph.D. 1903) * George W. Whitehead (Ph.D. 1941) * Dudley Weldon Woodard (M.S. 1907)

Medicine

* Charles F. Barlow (B.S. 1945, M.D. 1947) – pediatric neurologist and professor at Harvard Medical School * Robert Gallo (Resident in Medicine 1963–1965) – identified first retrovirus in humans * Maurice Hilleman (Ph.D. 1941) – leading microbiologist specialising in vaccinology, whose vaccines save nearly 8 million lives each year * Donald Hopkins (M.D. 1966) – MacArthur Fellow (1995); acting director (1985) of the Centers for Disease Control * Kathy Hudson (MSc) – microbiologist specializing in science policy * John D. Hunter 2004 – neurobiologist * Sarah H. Kagan – Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania; MacArthur Fellow in 2003 * Eve van Cauter, sleep medicine director, one of the first people to discover that sleep deprivation effects the body * Leon Kass (S.B. 1958, M.D. 1962) Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics; Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought; Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute * Andrew S. Levey (B.A. 1972) – nephrologist, medical researcher, and professor, Tufts University School of Medicine * Anne L. Peters – physician, diabetologist and professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC * Joseph Ransohoff (M.D. 1941) – pioneer in the field of neurosurgery; founder of the first neurosurgical intensive care unit; chief of neurosurgery at NYU Medical Center * Maurice H. Rees – medical educator, Dean of University of Colorado School of Medicine 1925–1945 * Janet Rowley (Ph.B. 1944, S.B. 1946, M.D. 1948) – discovered translocation on chromosome 9 resulted in the Philadelphia chromosome, and had implications for specific types of leukemia; her work has influenced further research into cancer genetics * Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind – neurologist and psychiatrist * Samuel L. Stanley, Samuel Stanley – Doctor of Medicine, MD, Immunology, immunologist, Medical Research, biomedical researcher and 5th President of Stony Brook University * David Talmage – Professor of Medicine, discovered the clonal selection theory

Religion

* Thomas J. J. Altizer (A.B. 1948, A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) – "Death of God" theologian * M. Craig Barnes (Ph.D. 1992) – president of Princeton Theological Seminary * George Ricker Berry (Ph.D. 1895) – Semitic scholar, author, archaeologist, and Professor Emeritus of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School * Nigel Biggar (A.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1986) – Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford * Jonathan Butler (historian), Jonathan Butler (Ph.D. 1975) – historian of religion, lecturer for the Seventh-day Adventist Church * Donald Eric Capps (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) – scholar and Professor of Pastoral Theology * Jesse Lee Cuninggim – Methodist clergyman, head of the Department of Religious Education at Southern Methodist University and moved the Scarritt College from Kansas City, Missouri to Nashville, Tennessee as its president * Frederick William Danker (Ph.D.) – New Testament lexicographer, editor of ''Bauer's Lexicon'', professor at Concordia Seminary, Seminex, and Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago * Mary Ann Glendon (A.B. 1959, J.D. 1961, L.L.M. 1963) – President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (highest-ranking female advisor to the Pope); Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; member of the President's Council on Bioethics * Andrew Greeley (A.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1962) – Senior Study Director at the National Opinion Research Center; Roman Catholic priest; sociologist; best-selling novelist * Charles Richmond Henderson (Old University A.B. 1870) – sociologist of religion, president of the National Prison Association * Don Wendell Holter (Ph.D. 1934) – Professor of Church History and Missions at Garrett Theological Seminary; founding President of Saint Paul School of Theology; Bishop of the United Methodist Church * Vernon Johns –civil rights activist, pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church * Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963) – First translation of the New Testament and Psalms of the Bible into Haitian Creole under the auspices of the American Bible Society (1960) * Jeffrey Kaplan (academic), Jeffrey Kaplan (Ph.D. 1993) – Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh * Douglas Laycock (J.D.) – Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, expert of religious liberties * Felix A. Levy (Ph.D. 1917) – Rabbi of Emanuel Congregation * Jeffery D. Long (A.M. 1993, PhD 2000) – Hindu expert and author of ''A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism'' * Martin Marty (Ph.D. 1956) –

(1997); national figure in non-sectarian religious studies * Ingrid Mattson (Ph.D. 1999) – first female president of Islamic Society of North America; professor of religion at Hartford Seminary * John Warwick Montgomery (Ph.D. 1962) – lawyer, theologian and academic known for his work in the field of Christian Apologetics * David Novak (A.B. 1961) – Jewish legal theorist at the University of Toronto; a founder of the Institute of Traditional Judaism; author of ''Covenantal Rights'' * Dallin H. Oaks (J.D. 1957) – Apostle; member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) * Jaroslav Pelikan (Ph.D. 1946) – historian of Christian thought; Sterling Professor of History at Yale University; winner of Library of Congress' Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences; author of ''The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine'' * Mordecai Waxman (A.B. 1937) – rabbi in American Conservative Judaism, Jewish Conservative movement, responsible for opening dialogue between American Jews and Pope John Paul II in 1987 * Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963) – first translation of the New Testament of the Bible, and the Psalms in Haitian Creole, under the auspices of the American Bible Society (October 1960).

Social sciences

* Janet L. Abu-Lughod (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950) – Professor Emerita of Sociology at the New School for Social Research * Guillermo Algaze (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) – MacArthur Fellow (2003); Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego * Anne Allison (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) – Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University * Alfred C. Aman Jr. (J.D. 1970) – professor of administrative law; author; Dean of Indiana University Maurer School of Law - Bloomington and Suffolk University Law School * Elijah Anderson (sociologist), Elijah Anderson (A.M. 1972) – William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University * Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) – Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University * Robert Axelrod (A.B. 1964) – MacArthur Fellow (1990); Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan * Howard S. Becker (Ph.B. 1946, A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) – former Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara * Walter Berns (A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1953) –

(2005); John M. Olin University Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University * Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (Ph.D. 1988) – member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank; economist * Sophonisba Breckinridge (JD, 1904) – Dean of the College of Arts, Literature, and Science,

* Keiichiro Kobayashi (Ph.D. 1998) – Professor of Faculty of Economics, Keio University * Leonard Bloomfield – linguist who led the development of structural linguistics * Larry Bourne (Ph.D. 1966) – Professor Emeritus of Urban Geography and Planning, University of Toronto * Michael Burawoy (Ph.D. 1976) – Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley * Lynton K. Caldwell (A.B. 1934, Ph.D. 1943) – Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington * Stephen Cameron (Ph.D. 1996) – financial analyst, economist and Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University * Marvin Chirelstein (J.D. 1953) – Professor at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School * Gregory Chow (A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1955) – Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Princeton University * L. Zenobia Coleman (1898-1999) - librarian * Ann Weiser Cornell (Ph.D. 1975) – authority on Focusing (psychotherapy), focusing; author of ''The Power of Focusing'' *Carol Blanche Cotton (Ph.D. 1939) – early African-American female psychologist * Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (A.B. 1960, Ph.D. 1965) – C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology and Management, Claremont Graduate University; pioneer of the concept of ''flow (psychology), flow'' * Werner J. Dannhauser (Ph.D. 1971) – Professor of Government at Cornell University and Michigan State University, expert on Nietzsche and on Judaism and politics * Nicholas de Genova (A.B. 1982, Ph.D. 1989) – Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University * Stefanie DeLuca (A.B. 1998) – Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University; author of ''Coming of Age in the Other America'' * Kristina Durante - chaired Professor at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick * Paul Ekman – professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions *

(Ph.D. 1964) – father of efficient market theory. Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago * Marianne Ferber (Ph.D.) – Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * George P. Fletcher (J.D. 1964) – Professor at Columbia Law School * Roland G. Fryer Jr. – Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University * Marc Galanter (J.D.) – Professor Emeritus at University of Wisconsin School of Law * Alexander L. George (A.M. 1941, Ph.D. 1958) – MacArthur Fellow (1983); Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, Stanford University; pioneering scholar in political psychology and foreign policy * Erving Goffman (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1953) – former Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania *

(Ph.D. 1972) – Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University * Zvi Griliches (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1957) – John Bates Clark Medalist (1965); economist * Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975) – John Bates Clark Medalist (1987); economist * Daniel S. Hamermesh (B.A. 1965) – Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin * Charles V. Hamilton (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) – civil rights leader and Professor in Political Science, Columbia University * Robin Hanson (A.M. 1984, M.S. 1984) – associate professor of economics at George Mason University, research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University * Edward C. Hayes (Ph.D. 1902) – President of the American Sociological Association * Susanna Hecht (A.B. 1972) – Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA; a founder of "Political Ecology" approach to forestry; Guggenheim Fellow (2008) * Carolyn Heinrich (Ph.D. 1995) – Sid Richardson Professor and economist at University of Texas at Austin * Ukshin Hoti (1943–1999?) – professor of international law at the Universiteti i Prishtinës, University of Pristina * Michael Hudson (economist), Michael Hudson (born 1939) - economics professor * Samuel P. Huntington (A.M. 1948) – Albert J. Weatherhead Professor of Government at Harvard University; author of ''The Clash of Civilizations'' (1998) * Harold Innis – founder of the Toronto School of Communication * Robert Kates (A.M. 1960, Ph.D. 1962) – MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor Emeritus of Geography and Director Emeritus of the World Hunger Program at Brown University * Vytautas Kavolis – sociologist, literary critic, and cultural historian * Frances Kellor – social reformer and sociologist, specializing in immigrants' rights * V. O. Key Jr. (Ph.D. 1934) – taught at UCLA, Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Alfred Cowles Professor of Government at Yale University, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government at Harvard University * Bruce M. King (Ph.D. 1978) – psychologist and professor at Clemson University * John Komlos (Ph.D. 1978) – professor emeritus, University of Munich economic historian and founder of the journal ''Economics and Human Biology'' * Rose Hum Lee (Ph.D. 1947) – first woman and first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed such at Roosevelt University, 1956 * Charles Miller Leslie – anthropologist * Frederick B. Lindstrom (Ph.D. 1950) – sociologist and historian of the Chicago School of sociology * Julie Beth Lovins (Ph.D. 1973) – Computational linguistics, computational linguist who developed the first stemming algorithm for word matching * Antonio Martino (Ph.D. 1968) – Professor of Economics at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, former Italian Ministry of Defense * Vivian Carter Mason (A.B. 1925) – gender and civil rights advocate * Adeline Masquelier (Ph.D. 1993) – cultural anthropologist at Tulane University * Nolan McCarty (A.B. 1990) – Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University * Zoila S. Mendoza (M.A. 1987, PhD 1993) – Professor and Chair of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis * Thomas W. Merrill (J.D. 1977) – Charles Evans Hughes professor at Columbia Law School * Richard Thacker Morris (Ph.D.) – Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA * Kevin M. Murphy (Ph.D. 1986) – John Bates Clark Medalist (1997); George J. Stigler Professor of Economics,

* John V. Murra (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1956) – anthropologist and researcher of the Inca Empire * Marc Leon Nerlove (A.B. 1952) – John Bates Clark Medalist (1969); economist * Esther Newton (A.M. 1964, Ph.D. 1968) – Kempner Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at State University of New York, SUNY; pioneer in gender and sexuality studies; author of ''Mother Camp'' * Harold L. Nieburg (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1960) – Professor of Political Science at State University of New York, SUNY; author of ''In the Name of Science'' * Anne Norton (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1982) – Alfred L. Cass Term Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; author of ''Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire'' (2004) * Sherry Ortner (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) – MacArthur Fellow (1990); Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles * Walter Oi (Ph.D. 1961) – Elmer B. Milliman Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester * William Padula (M.Sc. 2015) – professor of Pharmaceutical & Health Economics, University of Southern California * George L. Priest (J.D.) – John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics and Director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School * Enrico Quarantelli (Ph.D. 1959) – founder of disaster science * Paul Rabinow (A.B. 1965, A.M. 1967, Ph.D. 1970) – Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley * Renee Rabinowitz (A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1974) – psychologist and lawyer * Amien Rais (Ph.D. 1984) – professor; former Chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) of the Republic of Indonesia * Jonathan Rapping (A.B.) – professor of law at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School and Harvard Law School, criminal defense attorney, founder and president of Gideon's Promise, MacArthur Fellow (2014) * Albert Rees (Ph.D. 1950) – former

and Princeton University, Princeton economics professor, former Provost (education), Provost at Princeton University, Princeton, advisor to President Gerald Ford * James M. Redfield (A.B. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) – Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of the Committee on Social Thought at the

(1976–present) * Harriet Lange Rheingold (Ph.D. 1955) – developmental psychologist and professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * Philip Rieff (A.B. 1946, A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1954) – Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania; author of ''Freud: The Mind of the Moralist'' (1959); sociologist * Lawrence Rosen (anthropologist), Lawrence Rosen (Ph.D. 1968, J.D. 1974) – William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University; Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia University * Philip Carl Salzman (Ph.D. 1972) – Professor of Anthropology, McGill University *

(A.B. 1935) – Institute Professor, MIT. Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1970 * Ritch Savin-Williams (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1977) – Professor of developmental psychology at Cornell University; prolific sexual orientation researcher * Thomas Sebeok (A.B. 1941, A.M. 1943) – semiotician and linguist * Richard Sennett (A.B. 1964) – Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology at MIT, and Professor of Humanities at New York University * Richard B. Spencer (A.M. 2003) – white supremacist, alt-right leader * Orin Starn (A.B. 1982) – Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University * Daniel Stokols (A.B. 1969) – Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine * Edwin Sutherland (Ph.D. 1913) – former Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University * Robert Thompson (media scholar), Robert Thompson (A.B. 1981) – director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television * Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay (Ph.D. 1990) – professor of Political Science and former Provost, University of Victoria * Jeffrey K. Tulis (Ph.D. 1982) - Professor of Government and Law, The University of Texas at Austin * Jonathan Turley (A.B. 1983) – professor of law at The George Washington University Law School * Sudhir Venkatesh (A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 1997) – William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, Columbia University * Loïc Wacquant (A.M. 1986, Ph.D. 1994) – MacArthur Fellow (1997); Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley * John M. Wallace Jr. (A.M. 1987) – Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh * Althea Warren – President of the American Library Association 1943–1944 * John B. Watson (Ph.D. 1903) – established behaviorism and pioneered rat-in-maze laboratory research * Mildred Mott Wedel (M.A. 1938) – scholar of Great Plains archaeology and ethnohistory * James Q. Wilson (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1959) – Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (2003) * Michael Woodford (economist), Michael Woodford (A.B. 1977) – MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor of Economics, Princeton University * Henry Tutwiler Wright (A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1967) – MacArthur Fellow (1983); Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology, University of Michigan * Theodore O. Yntema (Ph.D. 1929) – economist, director of the Cowles Commission

Science and technology

* Robert McCormick Adams (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1956) – archeologist. Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution * Warder Clyde Allee (S.M. 1910, Ph.D. 1912) – zoologist and ecologist * Abhay Ashtekar (Ph.D. 1974) – pioneer in the field of loop quantum gravity * Zonia Baber – geographer and geologist * John N. Bahcall (S.M. 1957) – known for contributions to solar neutrino problem and development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and development of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton * Asish Basu (M.Sc. 1969) - geologist, Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas at Arlington * Ralph Buchsbaum (Ph.D. 1938) – invertebrate zoologist * Facundo Bueso Sanllehí (M.S. 1929) – Guggenheim Fellow, physicist and educator * Albert Chan (professor), Albert Chan (Ph.D. 1979) – fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, president of Hong Kong Baptist University * Jane C. Charlton (M.S. 1984) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics * Mihir Chowdhury (post doc 1962–64) – physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate * Margaret S. Collins (Ph.D. 1950) – invertebrate zoologist, professor and dean of the zoology department at Florida A&M University * William Cottrell (A.B. 2002) – former Ph.D. candidate at the California Institute of Technology, described by scientists as a "genius", convicted in April 2005 of conspiracy to arson of 8 sport utility vehicles and a Hummer dealership in the name of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) * George Cowan (Ph.D. 1940) – scientist of the Manhattan Project, founder of the Santa Fe Institute * Harmon Craig (Ph.D. 1951) – winner of Balzan Prize, the first in geochemistry; pioneer in Earth sciences * James Dahlberg (Ph.D. 1966) – professor emeritus of biomolecular chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison * Norman Davidson (biologist), Norman Davidson (B.S. 1937, Ph.D. 1941) – Caltech molecular biology professor, received a National Medal of Science * Savas Dimopoulos (Ph.D. 1978) – theoretical physicist at Stanford; with Howard Georgi, he formulated the supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model, the leading theory for particle physics beyond the Standard Model * Eleftherios Economou (Ph.D. 1969) – theoretical physicist at University of Crete, Univ. of Crete, Greece; known for his contributions in the field of surface plasmons; founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (1983–2004) * Frank Edwin Egler (S.B. 1932) – plant ecologist, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955 *

(dropped out) – co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company * Harvey Fletcher (Ph.D. 1911) – collaborator with

on the Nobel Prize-winning experiment on the charge of an electron; father of stereophonic sound * Marie Agnes Hinrichs (Ph.D. 1923) – zoology, editor for the ''Journal of School Health'' from 1954 to 1959 * Clark R. Landis (Ph.D. 1983) – chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison * Robert W. Floyd, Robert Floyd (A.B. 1953, S.B. 1958) – computer scientist, Turing Award winner * Jeannette Howard Foster (Ph.D. 1935) – librarian, professor, and researcher * T. Theodore Fujita (S.B. 1953) – meteorologist, developed the Fujita scale for measuring tornadoes * Gerald Gabrielse (Ph.D. 1980) – Professor of Physics at Harvard, known for his techniques of creating antimatter * Martin Gardner (A.B. 1936) – author and columnist of "Mathematical game, Mathematical Games" in ''Scientific American'' * Richard Garwin (Ph.D. 1949) – physicist, author of first hydrogen bomb design, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom * Greg Gbur – author and physicist who studies classical coherence theory in optical physics * Piara Singh Gill (Ph.D. 1940) – physicist, pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics * Mack Gipson, Mack Gipson Jr. (S.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1963) – first African-American to obtain a Ph.D. in Geology; founding advisor of the National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists, NABGG in 1981; consultant to NASA * Richard Gordon (theoretical biologist), Richard Gordon (BSc Mathematics 1963) – adapted Kaczmarz method to create the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique * John M. Grunsfeld – physicist and NASA astronaut * Gu Yidong (Ph.D. Organic Chemistry 1935) – chemist and one of the founders of inorganic chemistry in China * Mary Hefferan (Ph.D. Zoology 1903) – bacteriologist * Caroline Herzenberg (S.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1958) – physicist * Seymour Hess, Seymour L. Hess (Ph.D. 1950) – meteorologist and planetary scientist who designed the weather instruments for the Viking 1 * Brian M. Hoffman (S.B. 1962) – bioinorganic chemist at Northwestern University * Marian E. Hubbard (S.B. 1894) – zoology professor at Wellesley College * Edwin Hubble (S.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1917) – astronomer who found the first evidence for the Big Bang theory * Christina Hulbe (Ph.D. 1998) – Antarctic researcher, geophysicist, glaciologist * Deborah S. Jin (Ph.D. 1995) – physicist; MacArthur Fellow in 2003 * Donald Johanson (A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1974) – paleoanthropologist who discovered "Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy", a link between primates and humans * Jason Jones (programmer), Jason Jones (X. 1997) – co-founder of Bungie, the company behind ''Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo'' and ''Destiny (video game), Destiny'' * Ernest Everett Just (Ph.D. 1916) – zoologist, biologist, physiologist, and research scientist * William Tinsley Keeton (B.A. 1952, B.S. 1954) – zoologist known for work in animal navigation, and a popular professor at Cornell University * Reatha Clark King (Ph.D. 1963) - research chemist whose work in flame fluorine calorimetry contributed to NASA's successful Apollo 11 Moon landing * Vern Oliver Knudsen (Ph.D. 1922) – co-founder of the Acoustical Society of America; Chancellor of UCLA from 1959 to 1960 * Robert Kowalski – computer scientist in field of logic programming * Martin Kruskal (S.B. 1945) – Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, started the soliton revolution in mathematics; advances included Kruskal-Shafranov Instability, Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) Modes and the MHD Energy Principle, which laid theoretical foundations of controlled nuclear fusion, and Kruskal coordinates in theory of relativity * Stephen Lee (chemist), Stephen Lee (Ph.D. 1986) – Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University; MacArthur Fellow * Lynn Margulis (A.B. 1957) – Distinguished professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. National Medal of Science 1999 for Endosymbiotic Hypothesis. Also, developed Gaia theory with James Lovelock. * George Willard Martin – mycologist and professor at the University of Iowa * Kirtley F. Mather (Ph.D. 1915) – Professor of Geology at Harvard University; President, American Association for the Advancement of Science; civil libertarian * Sara Branham Matthews – microbiologist * Stanley Miller (Ph.D. 1954) – performed classic Miller–Urey experiment on origin of life in collaboration with Harold Urey in 1953 * J. Howard Moore (A.B. 1898) – zoologist, philosopher, educator and socialist who was an early advocate for animal rights based on Darwinism, Darwinian principles of shared evolutionary kinship * William Wilson Morgan (S.B. 1927, Ph.D. 1931) – astronomer who co-developed Stellar classification#Yerkes spectral classification, MK system for classification of stars, as well as classification systems for galaxies and clusters; director of Yerkes Observatory * Donald Osterbrock (A.B., Ph.D.) – astrophysicist known for his contributions to the body of knowledge on interstellar matter, gaseous nebulae, and the nuclei of active galaxies; President of American Astronomical Society; director of Lick Observatory * Saundra Herndon Oyewole (M.S.) – microbiologist, professor at Trinity Washington University, and Program Director of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation * Fushih Pan (M.D. 1986, Ph.D. 1989) – plastic surgeon; developer of the MIRA procedure * Clair Cameron Patterson (Ph.D. 1951) – geochemist accurately determined the age of the Earth and discovered significant lead contamination of the environment * Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik – Indian scholar, scientist, and science author * Jeannette Piccard (S.M. 1919) – balloon (aircraft), Balloon aeronautics, aeronaut, speaker for NASA, teacher, scientist and Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Episcopal priest * Edith Abigail Purer (M.S. 1921) – botanist * Ida Kraus Ragins (B.A. 1918, M.S. 1919) – biochemist * Raymond R. Rogers (Ph.D. 1995) – geology professor * Nancy Grace Roman (Ph.D. 1949) - astronomer, NASA's Chief of Astronomy, planning of the Hubble Space Telescope * Arthur H. Rosenfeld (Ph.D. 1954) – physicist; professor at University of California, Berkeley; Efficient energy use, energy efficiency pioneer * Meyer Rubin (S.B. 1947, S.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1956) – geologist * Carl Sagan (A.B. 1954, S.B. 1955, S.M. 1956, Ph.D. 1960) – astronomer, author of ''Contact (novel), Contact''; Pulitzer Prize winner * Ann Linnea Sandberg (Ph.D. 1964) – immunologist at National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research * John T. Scopes (X. 1931) – proponent of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution that led to the Scopes Trial and the inspiration for the play and film ''Inherit the Wind (play), Inherit the Wind'' * Alex Seropian (S.B. 1991) – co-founder of Bungie, the company behind ''Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo'' and ''Destiny (video game), Destiny'' *

(A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1943) – computer scientist, Turing Award winner; economist, Nobel Prize winner * Joanne Simpson (Ph.D. 1949) – meteorologist * Pierre Sokolsky (B.A. 1967) – 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 * Eugene Stevens (Ph.D. 1965) – known for research in biodegradable plastics * Otto Struve (Ph.D. 1923) – astronomer, Fellow of the Royal Society * David Suzuki (Ph.D. 1961) – Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation; award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster * David Tannor (born 1958) – theoretical chemist, Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the Department of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science * Shiro Tashiro (B.S. 1909, Ph.D. 1912) – Japanese-American biochemist and professor * Richard Thieme (M.A., 1967) – priest, technology consultant, author * Richard E. Tracy (Ph.D. 1961) forensic pathology, forensic pathologist * Sherry Turkle (attended Committee on Social Thought, 1971) – Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Adah Elizabeth Verder (B.S. 1923, Ph.D.1928) – medical Bacteriologist (Professional), bacteriologist and researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases *Chi Che Wang (M.S. 1916, Ph.D. 1918), biochemist, professor at Northwestern University and University of Cincinnati * Richard Wassersug (Ph.D. 1973) – professor of anatomy at Dalhousie University * Alvin M. Weinberg (B.S. 1935, M.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) – nuclear physicist, administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during and after the Manhattan Project * George Wetherill (Ph.B. 1948, S.M. 1949, S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1953) – National Medal of Science winner, known for seminal work on formation of planets and solar system * J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (B.S. 1940) – nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer, and mathematician known for contribution to the Manhattan Project * Erik Winfree (B.S.) – computer scientist, bioengineer, and professor at California Institute of Technology; MacArthur fellow in 2000 * Moddie Taylor (Ph.D. 1943) – chemist, known for contribution to the Manhattan Project while working in the Metallurgical Laboratory * J. Allen Hynek (B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1935) – astronomer, professor, and ufologist known for developing the close encounter classification system of UFO experiences * Gerald J. Wasserburg (B.S. 1951, M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1954) – John D. MacArthur Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus at California Institute of Technology

Fictional

*When Harry Met Sally..., Sally Albright and When Harry Met Sally..., Harry Burns, portrayed by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, in the film ''When Harry Met Sally...'' *Indiana Jones (character), Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr., archaeologist and adventurer portrayed by Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones, ''Indiana Jones'' film series *The Fugitive (1993 film), Dr. Richard Kimble, MD, vascular surgeon wrongly convicted of his wife's murder, portrayed by Harrison Ford in the film ''The Fugitive (1993 film), The Fugitive'' *Osmosis Jones#Cast, Drixenol "Drix" Koldreliff, a stoic cold pill in the movie ''Osmosis Jones'', played by David Hyde Pierce *Kitty Pryde, member of the superhero group the X-Men *Dr. Mark Taylor, ER Director in the TV series ''Code Black (TV series), Code Black'' *Mark Watney, astronaut and titular main character in the novel ''The Martian (Weir novel), The Martian''. Portrayed by Matt Damon in The Martian (film), the film adaptation.

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