Nobel laureates

• Luis Alvarez (S.B. 1932, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1936) Nobel Laureate in Physics (1968)
• Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) University Professor in Economics and Sociology; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1992); John Bates Clark Medalist (1967), National Medal of Science for Behavioral and Social Science (2002)
• Saul Bellow (X. 1939) Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in English (1962-93); Nobel Laureate in Literature (1976); winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the novel Humboldt's Gift (1976); National Medal of Arts (1988)
• Herbert Brown (S.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1938) Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1979)
• James Buchanan (Ph.D. 1948) Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1986)
• Owen Chamberlain (Ph.D. 1949) Nobel Laureate in Physics (1959)
• James Cronin (S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) University Professor Emeritus in Physics; Nobel Laureate in Physics (1980); National Medal of Science for Physical Sciences (1999)
• Clinton Davisson (S.B. 1909) Nobel Laureate in Physics (1937)
• Jerome Friedman (A.B. 1950, S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1956) Nobel Laureate in Physics (1990)
• Milton Friedman (A.M. 1933) Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1976); John Bates Clark Medalist (1951)
• Ernest Lawrence (X. 1923) Nobel Laureate in Physics (1939)
• Tsung-Dao Lee (Ph.D. 1950) Nobel Laureate in Physics (1957)
• Robert Lucas Jr (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1995)
• Harry Markowitz (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1990)
• Robert Millikan (X. 1894) Nobel Laureate in Physics, (1923)
• Robert Mulliken (Ph.D. 1921) Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1966)
• Irwin Rose (S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1952) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)
• F. Sherwood Rowland (S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1952) Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1995)
• Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1970); John Bates Clark Medalist (1947)
• Myron Scholes (M.B.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1970) Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1997)
• Herbert Simon (A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1943) Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1978)
• Roger Sperry (Ph.D. 1941) Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1981)
• Jack Steinberger (S.B. 1942; Ph.D. 1949) Nobel Laureate in Physics (1988
• George Stigler (S.B. 1942, Ph.D. 1949) Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (1982); National Medal of Science for Behavioral & Social Science (1987)
• Edward Lawrie Tatum (X. 1931) Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1958)
• Daniel Tsui (S.M. 1963; Ph.D. 1967) Nobel Laureate in Physics (1998)
• James Dewey Watson (Ph.B. 1946, S.B. 1947) Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1962)
• Frank Wilczek (A.B. 1970) Nobel Laureate in Physics (2004)
• Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. 1948) Nobel Laureate in Physics (1957)

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Pulitzer Prize winners

• David Auburn (A.B. 1991) Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony Award winner for the play Proof (2001)
• David Broder (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1951) Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary (1973); political correspondent and columnist for the Washington Post
• Roger Ebert (X 1970) Pulitzer Prize winner for film criticism (1975); columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times
• Katharine Graham (A.B. 1938) Chairman of the executive committee of the Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir Personal History (1998)
• Seymour Hersh (A.B. 1958) Pulitzer Prize winner for international reporting (1970)
• Dan Hertzberg (A.B. 1968) Pulitzer Prize winner (1988) for reporting on the 1987 stock market crash; Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal
• Philip Roth (A.M. 1955) Author; Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel American Pastoral (1998); National Medal of Arts (1998)
• 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); National Humanities Medal (1997)

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MacArthur Fellows

• Robert Axelrod (A.B. 1964) MacArthur Fellow and “genius grant” winner (1990). Professor of Public Policy (University of Michigan).
• Donald Hopkins (M.D. 1966) Deputy Director of International Health of the Centers for Disease Control; recipient of the MacArthur fellowship award
• Bette Howland (A.B. 1955) MacArthur Fellow and “genius grant” winner (1984), Writer
• Robert W. Kates (A.M. 1960, Ph.D. 1962) MacArthur Fellow and “genius grant” winner (1981). Professor Emeritus of Geography and Director Emeritus, World Hunger Program (Brown University)
• Stephen Lee (Ph.D. 1986) MacArthur Fellow and “genius grant” winner (1983). Professor of Chemistry (University of Michigan)
• Richard Rorty (A.B. 1949, A.M. 1952) MacArthur Fellow and “genius grant” winner (1981). Professor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature (Stanford University)
• Michael Woodford (A.B. 1977) MacArthur Fellow and “genius grant” winner (1981). Professor of Economics (Princeton University)
• Henry Tutwiler Wright (A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1967) MacArthur Fellow and "genius grant" winner (1983). Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology (University of Michigan)

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Government, Social Service, Politics

• John Ashcroft (J.D. 1967) Attorney General of the United States (2000 - 2004)
• Hastings Kamuzu Banda (Ph.B. 1931) Primer Minister of Malawi (1963-1966). President of Malawi(1966-1971). Life President of Malawi (1971-1997).
• Marek Belka (Studied on scholarship), Prime Minister of Poland since March 2004
• Robert H. Bork (A.B. 1948, J.D. 1953) Attorney General of the United States (1973-1974); U.S. Court of Appeals Judge (1982-88); nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan (1987)
• Barbara Bowman (A.M. 1952) President and founder of Chicago's Erickson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development (1966); President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (1980-82)
• William Holmes Brown (J.D. 1954) House Parliamentarian, House of Representatives (1974-94)
• Ahmed Chalabi (Ph.D. 1969) Interim Oil Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
• Ramsey Clark (A.M. 1950, J.D. 1951) Human rights activist; former U.S. Attorney General (1967-69)
• Jon S. Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) United States Senator (D, NJ); New Jersey Governor-Elect (D); former CEO of Goldman Sachs; University trustee
• Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (X. 1933) First African-American General of the United States Air Force (1954); Commander of the Tuskegee Airmen; Assistant Secretary of Transportation under Richard Nixon
• Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (A.B. 1952) Former President of the Republic of Bolivia
• Charles V. Hamilton (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) Civil rights leader; Author, with Stokley Carmichael, of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America (1967); Professor of Political Science (Columbia University)
• James Hormel (J.D. 1958) First openly gay U.S. ambassador
• Patricia Kabbah (A.M 1963) Former first lady of Sierra Leone
• Jewel Lafontant (J.D. 1946) First African-American woman to receive a degree from the University of Chicago Law School; United Nations delegate
• Edward Levi (A.B. 1932, J.D. 1935) President of the University of Chicago (1968-75); U.S. Attorney General (1975-77)
• Lien Chan (Ph.D. 1965) Former Vice-President of the Republic of China, Taiwan under Pres. Lee Teng-hui; Chairman of the Kuomintang Nationalist Party 2000-05
• Omar Ramadhan Mapuri (A.M. 1985) Minister of Education and Minister for Home Affairs of the United Republic of Tanzania
• Ulysses G. Mason (M.D. 1936) Founder of first integrated hospital in Cleveland, Ohio during the 1950's
• Abner J. Mikva (J.D. 1951) Visiting Professor in Law; Illinois Congressman (1956-66); U.S. Congressman (1969-73, 1975-79); United States Court of Appeals Judge (1979-94)
• Patsy Mink (J.D. 1951) First Asian-American woman elected to United States House of Representatives (D, HI) (1965-77 and 1990-2002)
• Carol Moseley-Braun(J.D. 1972) First African-American woman elected to United States Senate (D, Il) (1992-1998); U.S. Ambassador (1999-2001); Democratic Presidential Primary Candidate (2004)
• William Niskanen (Ph.D. Unknown) President of the Cato Institute.
• Bernie Sanders (A.B. 1964) Independent Congressmen from Vermont. Longest serving Independent in the United States House of Representatives.
• John Paul Stevens (A.B. 1941) United States Supreme Court Justice
• Paul Wolfowitz (Ph.D. 1972) President of the World Bank
• Daniel Doctoroff (J.D. 1984) Deputy Major of New York City under Mayor Mike Bloomberg

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Journalism

• David Brooks (A.B. 1983) Op-Ed 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) Editor of Wonkette weblog
• Thomas Frank (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1994) Editor-in-chief of The Baffler
• 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
• Carl H. Lavin (A.B. 1979) Deputy managing editor, news, Philadelphia Inquirer
• John Podhoretz (A.B. 1982) Conservative commentator for National Review, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, inter alia; son of Norman Podhoretz
• Joshua Cooper Ramo (A.B. 1992) Senior Editor of Time magazine
• Brent Staples (A.M. 1976, Ph.D. 1982) Editorial writer for the New York Times (1990-present); winner of the Anisfield Wolff Book Award for his memoir Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White (1994)
• Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) Senior Correspondent on PBS news program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

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Academia

• Richard C. Atkinson (Ph.B. 1948) Former President of the University of California
• Marguerite Ross Barnett (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1972) First African-American, female President of the University of Houston (1990-92); first African-American Chancellor of the University of Missouri (1986-90)
• Henry Bienen (A.M. 1962, Ph.D. 1966) President of Northwestern University
• Leon Botstein (A.B. 1967) President of Bard College; Principal Conductor of American Symphony Orchestra
• Rebecca Chopp (Ph.D. 1983) President of Colgate University; former dean of Yale Divinity School; former provost of Emory University; feminist theologian
• 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
• Marvin L. Goldberger (Ph.D. 1948) Former President of Caltech (1978-87); Physicist
• Chimere Ikoku (S.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1964) Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria
• Dennis Keller (M.B.A. 1968) Chairman and CEO of DeVry Inc.; University trustee
• David A. Kessler (J.D. 1978) Dean of Yale School of Medicine; Former FDA Commissioner
• Benjamin E. Mays (A.M 1925, Ph.D. 1935) President of Morehouse College (1940-1967); Recipient of the American Educator Award (1980); Civil Rights Activist
• James M. Redfield (A.G. 1954; Ph.D. 1961) Present member of the University's faculty; Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of the Committee on Social Thought (1976-Present), and Professor of the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures.
• David Truman, Former president of Mount Holyoke College

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Science and Technology

• Robert McCormick Adams (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1956) Archeologist; Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution
• Robert Bell (S.M. 1973) Research Scientist at AT&T Research Labs and AT&T Science and Technology Medalist (2003)
• George Birkhoff (Ph.D. 1907) Mathematician; winner of the first Bôcher Memorial Prize for his memoir Dynamical Systems with Two Degrees of Freedom (1917)
• Martin Gardner(A.B. 1936) Author and columnist of "Mathematical Games" in the magazine Scientific American
• 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 (1981)
• Warren E. Henry (Ph.D. 1941) Physicist and Professor in magnetism and superconductivity; developed video amplifiers used in portable radar systems on warships in World War II for the Allies; his demonstration of the proof of non-interacting paramagnetic ions is used in a number of physics texts
• Edwin Hubble (S.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1917) Astronomer who found first evidence for the big bang theory
• Donald Johanson (A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1974) Paleoanthropologist who discovered "Lucy", a link between primates and humans
• Jason Jones, (X 1997) Co-founder of Bungie Studios, the company behind Halo.
• Ernest Everett Just (Ph.D. 1916) Zoologist, Biologist, Physiologist, Research Scientist
• 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
• Carl Sagan (A.B. 1954, S.B. 1955, S.M. 1956, Ph.D. 1960) Astronomer; author of Contact; famous public television educator and personality (Cosmos: A Personal Voyage)
• Alex Seropian, (S.B. 1991) Co-founder of Bungie Studios, the company behind Halo.
• Isadore Singer (Ph.D 1955 ) Winner of the 2004 Abel Prize in Mathematics.
• David Suzuki (Ph.D 1961) Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster

Robert McCormick Adams Jr. ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ... Robert Bell, Irish man of letters Robert Bell (January 16, 1800 - April 12, 1867) was an Irish man of letters. ... AT&T (formerly an abbreviation for American Telephone and Telegraph) Corporation NYSE: T is an American telecommunications company. ... George David Birkhoff (21 March 1884 - 12 November 1944) was an American mathematician, and one of the most important leaders in mathematics in the USA in his generation. ... The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). ... Martin Gardner (born October 21, 1914) is an American recreational mathematician, skeptic, and author of the long-running but now discontinued Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. ... Mathematical games include many topics which are a part of recreational mathematics, but can also cover topics such as the mathematics of games, and playing games with mathematics. ... Scientific American is a popular-science magazine, published monthly since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. ... Edwin Hubble Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer, noted for his discovery of galaxies beyond the Milky Way and the cosmic red shift. ... According to the Big Bang theory, the universe originated in an extremely dense and hot state (bottom). ... Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist known for his discovery of the skeleton of a 3. ... Binomial name Australopithecus afarensis Johanson & White, 1978 Lucy is a 3. ... Jason Jones is a resident of the state of Louisiana, and is the current elected chair of the National Lavender Greens Caucus, the official voice of LGBTIQ people within the Green Party of the United States. ... Bungie Studios is a video game developer founded in 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation (or in the non-legal definition Bungie Software) by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. ... Halo: Combat Evolved, or simply Halo, is a video game in the first-person shooter (FPS) genre, created by the Microsoft-owned Bungie Studios. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Leon Kass Leon Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor of Social Thought and in the College at the University of Chicago. ... A controversial entity, created by George W. Bush, whose purpose is to regulate (or, at least, tell the president how he ought to regulate) biotechnology and biomedical research. ... The Committee on Social Thought, one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago, was started in 1941 by the historian John U. Nef along with economist Frank Knight, anthropologist Robert Redfield, and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins. ... The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a think tank founded in 1943 whose stated mission is to support the foundations of freedom - limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense. ... A respected astronomer and dogged critic of pseudoscience, Carl Sagan is best known for his enthusiastic efforts at popularizing science. ... A Contact is part of the active component of an electric switch. ... Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was the name of a thirteen part television series produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan which was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980. ... Alex Seropian was the creator of Bungie, (legal definition of the company was known as the Bungie Software Products Corporation, after it was aquired by Microsoft, it then became Bungie Studios), developer of Marathon. ... Bungie Studios is a video game developer founded in 1991 under the name Bungie Software Products Corporation (or in the non-legal definition Bungie Software) by two undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, Alex Seropian and Jason Jones. ... Halo: Combat Evolved, or simply Halo, is a video game in the first-person shooter (FPS) genre, created by the Microsoft-owned Bungie Studios. ... Isadore Singer (born 1924) is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... The Abel Prize is awarded annually by the King of Norway to outstanding mathematicians. ... David Suzuki Dr. David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian geneticist who has attained prominence as a science broadcaster and an environmental activist. ...

Social Sciences and Religion

• Thomas Altizer (A.B. 1948, M.A. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) Prominent "Death of God" theologian
• Andrew Greeley (A.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1962) Senior Study Director at the National Opinion Research Center; Roman Catholic priest; sociologist; best-selling novelist
• Elenie Huszagh (A.B. 1957) First woman to serve as President of the National Council of Churches
• Alfred R. Lindesmith (Ph.D 1937) Sociologist, author of The Addict and the Law.
• David Novak (A.B. 1961) Prominent Jewish legal theorist at the University of Toronto; a founder of the Institute of Traditional Judaism; author of Covenantal Rights
• Jaroslav Pelikan (A.M., Ph.D. 1946) Preeminent historian of Christian thought; Sterling Professor of History at Yale; Winner of the Library of Congress' Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences; Author of the now-classic The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine

Andrew M. Greeley (born February 5, 1928, in Oak Park, Illinois) is a Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and prolific author. ... The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (or National Council of Churches USA, NCC) is religious organization currently (2005) consisting of 35 Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox Christian denominations. ... David Novak is a scholar of Jewish philosophy, law (Halakha) and ethics. ... Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto (U of T), in Toronto, Ontario, is the largest university in Canada. ... Jaroslav Jan Pelikan (born 17 December 1923 in Akron, Ohio) is one of the worlds leading scholars in the history of Christianity and has authored more than 30 books including the five volume The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (1971-1989). ... A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his field. ... Library of Congress, Jefferson building The Library of Congress is the unofficial national library of the United States. ... The John W. Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences will be awarded for lifetime achievement in the humanistic and social sciences to celebrate the importance of the Intellectual Arts for the public interest. ...

Business

• Casey Cowell (A.B. 1975) Co-founder of U.S. Robotics Corporation; Chairman and President of Durandal Inc.; University trustee
• Larry Ellison (X. 1966) Founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation (attended for one semester during junior year)
• John H. Johnson (X. 1942) Founder of Johnson Publishing Company; publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines
• Karen Katen (A.B. 1970, M.B.A. 1974) President of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group; University trustee
• Michael Klingensmith (A.B. 1975, M.B.A. 1976) Executive Vice President of Time Inc.; University trustee
• Sherry Lansing (LAB 1962) Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures
• John Meriwether (M.B.A. 1973) CEO and Principal of JWM Partners, Former CEO of Long Term Capital Management
• James B. Parsons (A.M. 1946, J.D. 1949) First African-American Federal District Court Judge (1991-92)
• Peter G. Peterson (M.B.A. 1951) Chairman of merchant banking firm The Blackstone Group; United States Secretary of Commerce (1972-73)
• David Rockefeller (Ph.D. 1940) Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969-81); University trustee
• John Rogers (LAB 1976) Chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management; University trustee
• Dean Valentine (A.B. 1976) Former President of Walt Disney Television and UPN
• B. Kenneth West (M.B.A. 1960) Former Chairman and CEO of Harris Bankcorp
• Clifford R. Wharton, Jr. (Ph.D. 1958) Chairman and chief executive officer of TIAA CREF (1987-93); President of Michigan State University (1970-78); Chancellor of the State University of New York System (1978-87); Deputy Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton (1993)
• James A. Cour (M.B.A., 1986) President and COO of Aastrom Biosciences, Inc.
• Russel Baker (B.A. 1920, J.D. 1950) Founder of Baker & McKenzie, the largest law firm in the world.
• John R. Opel (MBA) President of IBM between 1974 and 1983. CEO of IBM from 1981 to 1985. Chairman of IBM between 1983 and 1986.
• James M. Kilts (M.B.A., 1974) Chairman, President, and CEO of Gillette Company
• Robert V. Adams (M.B.A., 1961) Retired Executive Vice President of Xerox Corporation
• Andrew M. Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A., 1981) President of the NYC Economic Development Corporation
• John P. Amboian (A.B. 1983, M.B.A., 1984) President of Nuveen Investments
• Basil Lawson Anderson (M.B.A., 1971) Vice Chairman of Staples
• Mark Ernst (M.B.A., 1986) President, Chairman and CEO of H & R Block
• Joseph J. Fitzsimmons (M.B.A., 1974) Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer Wal-Mart Stores
• David W. Fox (M.B.A., 1958) Retired Chairman, Board of Governors of the Chicago Stock Exchange. Retired Chairman and CEO Northern Trust Corporation. Melvin R. Goodes*
• Melvin R. Goodes (M.B.A., 1960) Retired Chairman and CEO Warner-Lambert Company
• Thomas L. Kalaris (M.B.A., 1978) Chief Executive Americas Barclays Capital
• Roger M. Vasey (M.B.A., 1970) Retired Executive Vice President Merrill Lynch & Company
• Thomas W. Sidlik (M.B.A., 1973) Board of Management Member and Executive Vice President ofDaimlerChrysler AG
• Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A., 1965) Chairman and CEO of ARAMARK Corporation
• Joe Mansueto (A.B. 1978, M.B.A., 1980) Chairman and CEO of Morningstar
• Brady Dougan (A.B. 1981, M.B.A., 1982) chief executive of Credit Suisse First Boston
• Philip J. Purcell (M.B.A., 1967) retired chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

U.S. Robotics (popularly nicknamed USR), based in Schaumburg, Illinois and founded in 1976, is a company that makes computer modems and related technologies. ... Durandal (Italian Durindana) is the legendary sword of the French hero Roland (Italian Orlando). ... Larry Ellison Oracle Logo Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944, Manhattan, New York) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software firm. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), one of the major companies developing database management systems, tools for database development, and enterprise resource planning software, dates from 1977 and has offices in more than 145 countries around the world. ... John H. Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company, an international media and cosmetics empire that includes Ebony, and Jet magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics and EBONY Fashion Fair. ... Snubbed by advertisers when he founded his company 60 years ago, John Johnson has pushed his magazine company to the front of the pack. ... Ebony, a magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has been published since the autumn of 1945. ... Jet magazine is a popular African-American publication founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1951 by John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company. ... Pfizer, Incorporated (NYSE: PFE), is a global pharmaceutical company, with headquarters in New York City. ... 8:17 am, August 6, 1945, Japanese time. ... Sherry Lansing (born July 31, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois as Sherry Lee Heimann) is the former CEO of Paramount Studios. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used since 2003. ... John Meriwether, born in Chicago August 10, 1947, was a bond trader at Salomon Brothers, where he became the head of the domestic fixed income arbitrage group in the early eighties and the vice-chairman of the company in 1988. ... This article is about the Pete Peterson who was a U.S. government official during the Nixon administration; there is also a Pete Peterson who was a former Florida Congressman and ambassador to Vietnam. ... The Blackstone Group L.P. (not to be confused with investment management firm BlackRock, Inc. ... The office of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the mid-20th century. ... David Rockefeller, (b. ... The Chase Manhattan Bank was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955. ... John Rodgers or John Rogers may refer to: John Rodgers John Rodgers (1772 - 1838), U.S. Naval officer during the War of 1812 John Rodgers (1812 - 1882), U.S. Naval officer during the Civil War, son of the first John Rodgers John Rodgers (1881 - 1926), U.S. Naval officer during... Walt Disney For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) is a television network in the United States, owned by Viacom Inc. ... TIAA-CREF is one of the largest financial services companies in the United States, with some $320 billion in assets under management as of the second quarter of 2004. ... Michigan State University Michigan State University is a university in East Lansing, Michigan near the state capital of Lansing. ... The State University of New York (acronym SUNY; usually pronounced SOO-nee) is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe, III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and the 2nd to be impeached. ... Baker & McKenzie is one of the worlds largest and most renowned law firms, and regularly rotates through the top spot with its biggest competitor, Clifford Chance. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... CEO who sold Gillete for 165 Million Dollars Profit. ... Gillette may refer to: Gillette, Wyoming The Gillette Company, founded by King C. Gillette. ... Staples can refer to several things: The common office and woodworking material, a staple fastener. ... H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) is a tax preparation and personal finance management company founded by brothers Henry W. and Richard Bloch in Kansas City in 1955. ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... The Chicago Stock Exchange, located in Chicago, Illinois, is the third most active stock exchange in the United States by volume. ... Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank plc. ... Merrill Lynch & Co. ... DaimlerChrysler AG (FWB: DCX, NYSE: DCX) has its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany and is a prominent automobile and truck manufacturer and financial services provider (through DaimlerChrysler Financial Services). ... Joseph Neubauer is Executive Chairman of the Board of Aramark, a world leader in managed services. ... The phrase Morning Star can refer to several things. ... Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is an investment banking and financial services firm. ... Philip J. Purcell headed Sears’ 1981 acquisition of Dean Witter, helping to create the Discover Card. ...

Historians

• Henry Steele Commager (Ph.B. 1923, A.M. 1924, Ph.D. 1928) U.S. historian
• Luther H. Foster (A.M. 1941, Ph.D. 1951) Former President of the Tuskegee Institute (1953-1981)
• Anthony Grafton (A.B. 1971, M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) Prominent Renaissance historian and Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University
• William McNeill (A.B. 1938, A.M. 1939)
• Carter G. Woodson (A.B. 1908, A.M. 1908) Historian and founder of Negro History Week (1926), which evolved into Black History Month

Henry Steele Commager (October 25, 1902 - March 2, 1998) was a noted American historian who wrote (or edited) over forty books and over 700 journalistic essays and reviews, and taught at New York University, Columbia, and Amherst College. ... There is also the Tuskegee Airmen, a corps of African-American military pilots trained there during World War II Tuskegee University is an American institution of higher learning located in Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Anthony Grafton (born 21 May 1950) is an American historian. ... Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. ... William H. McNeill (born 1917, Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian historian. ... Carter G. Woodson was a historian, author, journalist, professor and the founder of Black History Month. ... Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in the month of February. ...

Literature

• Allan Bloom (Ph.B. 1949, A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) Charles Frankel Prize (1992); Professor in the Committee on Social Thought (1979-92); author of The Closing of the American Mind
• Will Cuppy (Ph.B. 1907, A.M. 1914) Humorist; author of How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, How to Become Extinct, How to Attract the Wombat, and The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
• Joseph Epstein (writer) (A.B. 1959) Former editor of Phi Beta Kappa Society's The American Scholar; essayist, literary critic, short story writer, popular English lecturer at Northwestern Univ.
• Jackson Mac Low (A.A. 1943) Wallace Stevens award 1999, Sound poet
• Norman Maclean (Ph.D.1940), William Rainey Harper Professor of English, University of Chicago, author of A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire
• Mu Dan (A.M. 1951), Chinese poet and literary translator
• Thomas Sterling North (A.B. 1929), Author of Rascal, The Wolfing, and So Dear to My Heart
• Leo Rosten (Ph.B. 1930, Ph.D. 1937) Polish-American writer and social scientist; author of The Joys of Yiddish and Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations
• Susan Sontag (A.B. 1951) Social critic and author
• George Steiner (A.B. 1948) Literary critic
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (A.M. 1971) Author of Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions

Allan Bloom, in his middle age. ... Charles Frankel(1917-1975) was a philospher. ... The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom (published 1987 ISBN 5551868680), describes how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of todays students. ... Will Cuppy, born William Jacob Cuppy (August 23, 1884 - September 19, 1949) in Auburn, Indiana, was an American humorist and journalist known for his satirical books about nature and historical figures. ... Joseph Epstein is a Chicagoan essayist, short story writer, and editor, best known as a former editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Societys American Scholar magazine or for his recent essay collection, Snobbery: The American Version. ... The Phi Beta Kappa Key The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic honor society with the mission of fostering and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922-December 8, 2004) was an American poet. ... Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Sound poetry is a form of literary or musical composition in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded at the expense of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; verse without words. By definition, sound poetry is intended primarily for performance. ... Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902 – August 2, 1990) was born in Clarinda, Iowa. ... William Rainey Harper ( 1856- 1906) Noted academic; organizer and first President of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. ... Movie poster A River Runs Through It is a semi-autobiographical novella by Norman Maclean (1902-1990). ... Mu Dan (穆旦; 1918-1977) was one of the most important poets of 20th century China. ... Thomas Sterling North was the author of childrens books including the famous Rascal. ... So Dear to My Heart is a feature film produced by Walt Disney and originally released on January 19, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures. ... Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908–February 19, 1997) was an American teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school prodigy Hyman Kaplan (first published in the New Yorker in the 1930s, and later reprinted in two volumes—The Education of H*Y*M*A... Susan Sontag Susan Sontag (January 28, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was a well-known American essayist, novelist, left-leaning intellectual, and activist. ... George Steiner, prominent literary critic, was born on April 23, 1929 in Paris to Viennese parents. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (born November 11, 1922) is an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. ... Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Childrens Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Cats Cradle (ISBN 038533348X) is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. ...

National Humanities Medallists

• Luis Leal (A.M. 1941; Ph.D. 1950) National Humanities Medal (1997); Literary scholar
• Martin Marty (Ph.D. 1956) National Humanities Medal (1997); national figure in non-sectarian religous studies
• Thomas Sowell (Ph.D. 1968) Economist; Winner of the National Humanities Medal (2003); Senior Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (1980-present)
• Eileen Southern (A.B. 1940, Ph.D. 1941) First African-American female professor at Harvard University; National Humanities Medal (2001)

Luis Leal (born March 21, 1957), born Luis Enrique Leal Alvarado, is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in the American League for the Toronto Blue Jays between 1980 and 1985. ... The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the humanities, broadened citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities. ... Martin E. Marty (b. ... Thomas Sowell (born 30 June 1930) is a writer, economist, and prominent conservative[1] libertarian commentator. ... Hoover Tower The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a conservative public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. ... For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ... Eileen Jackson Southern (born 1920 in Minneapolis - died October 13, 2002 in Port Charlotte, Florida) was an African American musicologist, reasearcher, author and teacher. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...

Arts and Entertainment

• Ed Asner (X. 1948) Actor and social activist
• Katherine Dunham (Ph.B. 1936) National Medal of Arts (1989); Dancer and choreographer
• Philip Glass (A.B. 1956) Composer and musician
• Mark Hollmann (A.B. 1985) Composer of the score of Tony Award winning musical Urinetown
• Philip Kaufman (A.B. 1958) Director of films The Right Stuff, Quills and The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Greg Kotis (A.B. 1988) Playwright of Tony-award winning musical Urinetown
• Eliot Ness (A.B. 1925) Co-author and inspiration of The Untouchables
• Mike Nichols (X. 1953) Director of films Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate; co-founder of comedy troupe Second City
• Sara Paretsky (A.M. 1969, M.B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1977) Author of V.I. Warshawski detective novels
• Kimberly Peirce (A.B. 1990) Director of Boys Don't Cry (1999)
• Tucker Max (A.B. 1998) Founder of popular website www.tuckermax.com

Ed Asner Yitzhak Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929 in Kansas City, Kansas) is a Jewish-American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on Mary Tyler Moore, and later continued in a spinoff series, Lou Grant. ... Katherine Dunham born 24 June 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, USA is a dancer, choreographer, songwriter and anthropologist known for her many innovations. ... The National Medal of Arts is an award and title bestowed on selected honorees by the National Endowment for the Arts. ... Philip Glass looks upon sheet music in a portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ... Urinetown is a musical, the title sometimes given as Urinetown the Musical. ... Philip Kaufman (October 23, 1936-) is a film director and screenwriter from Chicago, Illinois. ... The Right Stuff is both a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe, and a 1983 film adapted from the book. ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czech language: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a novel written by Milan Kundera in 1984. ... Autographed drawing of Eliot Ness Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903–May 16, 1957) was an American Treasury agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois as the leader of a legendary team nicknamed The Untouchables. ... The Untouchables is the name of a 1947 book by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, and also of two television series and a motion picture that it inspired. ... Mike Nichols (born Michael Igor Peschkowsky) is an Academy Award winning movie director of films such as The Graduate and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He was born on November 6, 1931 in Berlin, to a Jewish Russian family. ... Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. ... The Graduate is a novel by Charles Webb, made into a 1967 film of the same name directed by Mike Nichols from a screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. ... The second city of a country is the city that is (or was) the second-most important, usually after the capital or first city, according to some criteria. ... Sara Paretsky (b. ... Kimberly Peirce (born on September 8, 1967) is a film director, notable for her first and, thus far, only feature film, Boys Dont Cry (1999). ... Movie poster for Boys Dont Cry Boys Dont Cry is a 1999 movie based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgendered young man who was raped and murdered by his male friends, after they found out he was physically female. ... Tucker Max, (b. ...

John Bates Clark Medallists

• Zvi Griliches (A.M. 1955; Ph.D. 1957) John Bates Clark Medalist (1965)
• Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1975). John Bates Clark Medalist (1987).
• Kevin M. Murphy (Ph.D. 1986) John Bates Clark Medalist (1997). George J. Stigler Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Graduate School of Business
• Marc Leon Nerlove (A.B. 1952) John Bates Clark Medalist (1969)

Zvi Griliches (1930-1999) was an economist at Harvard University. ...