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This list of University of Chicago alumni consists of notable people who graduated or attended the
University of Chicago . 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, 1946
[1]
Moungi Bawendi (Ph.D. 1988) – Chemistry, 2023
Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – Economics, 1992
Saul Bellow (X. 1939) – Literature, 1976
Herbert Brown (S.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1938) – Chemistry, 1979
James M. Buchanan (Ph.D. 1948) – Economics, 1986
Owen Chamberlain (Ph.D. 1949) – Physics, 1959
John Maxwell Coetzee (Professor) – Literature, 2003
James Cronin (S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – Physics, 1980
Clinton Davisson (S.B. 1909) – Physics, 1937
Eugene Fama (M.B.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1964) – Economics, 2013
Jerome Friedman (A.B. 1950, S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1956) – Physics, 1990
Milton Friedman (A.M. 1933) – Economics, 1976
Claudia Goldin (Ph.D. 1972) – Economics, 2023
John B. Goodenough (Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 2019
Ernest Lawrence (X. 1923) – Physics, 1939
Tsung-Dao Lee (Ph.D. 1950) – Physics, 1957
Robert Lucas Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) – Economics, 1995
Harry Markowitz (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – Economics, 1990
Robert Millikan (X. 1894) – Physics, 1923
Robert Mulliken (Ph.D. 1921) – Chemistry, 1966
Paul Romer (S.B. 1977, Ph.D. 1983) – Economics, 2018
Irwin Rose (S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 2004
F. Sherwood Rowland (S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 1995
Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) – Economics, 1970
Myron Scholes (M.B.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1969) – Economics, 1997
Herbert A. Simon (A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1943) – Economics, 1978
George E. Smith (Ph.D. 1959) – Physics, 2009
Roger Sperry (Ph.D. 1941) – Medicine, 1981
Jack Steinberger (S.B. 1942; Ph.D. 1949) – Physics, 1988
George Stigler (S.B. 1942, Ph.D. 1949) – Economics, 1982
Edward Lawrie Tatum (X. 1931) – Medicine, 1958
Daniel Tsui (S.M. 1963; Ph.D. 1967) – Physics, 1998
James Dewey Watson (S.B. 1947) – Medicine, 1962
Frank Wilczek (A.B. 1970) – Physics, 2004; MacArthur Fellow (1982)
Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. 1948) – Physics, 1957
Government
Heads of state or government
Other government officials
Shimon Agranat (J.D. 1929) – President of the Supreme Court of Israel (1965–1976)
Prince Chad Al-Sherif Pasha (M.A.P.S.S. 2006) – of the
Hijaz and Turkey
[4]
Saul Alinsky (Ph.B. 1930) – labor organizer and political activist
Daniel Ankeles (Bachelor's 2004) – Member of the
Maine House of Representatives
[5]
Bernard W. Aronson (A.B. 1967) – United States
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1989–1993)
John Ashcroft (J.D. 1967) –
Attorney General of the United States (2001–2005)
David Axelrod (A.B. 1977) – author and former Senior Advisor to President
Barack Obama
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
United States Department of Energy
[6]
Robert H. Bork (A.B. 1948, J.D. 1953) –
Attorney General of the United States (1973–1974);
United States Court of Appeals Judge (1982–1988)
Marvin Braude (1920–2005) – member of Los Angeles City Council (1965–1997)
Lisa Brown (J.D. 1986) –
White House Staff Secretary (2009–2011)
William Holmes Brown (J.D. 1954) –
Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives (1974–1994)
Charles W. Bryan –
20th and 23rd
Governor of Nebraska
[7]
Lindsey Burke (M.A. 2012) – lawyer and member of the Kentucky house of representatives
John E. Cashman – Member of the
Wisconsin Senate from the 1st district
Ahmed Chalabi (Ph.D. 1969) – interim Oil Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of
Iraq
Elizabeth Cheney (J.D. 1996) – head of the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group (ISOG) and daughter of former U.S. Vice President
Richard Cheney
Ramsey Clark (A.M. 1950, J.D. 1951) –
Attorney General of the United States (1967–1969)
Benjamin V. Cohen (
Phi Beta Kappa 1913, Ph.B 1914, J.D. 1915) – member of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt 's
brain trust
James Comey (J.D.) – seventh director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lycurgus Conner (B.A., J.D.) – member of the
Illinois House of Representatives (1961–1963)
Richard Cordray (J.D. 1986) – 1st Director of the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , 49th Attorney General of Ohio, 46th Treasurer of Ohio
Jon S. Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) –
Governor of
New Jersey (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
United States Air Force (1954); Assistant
Secretary of Transportation under
Nixon
Francisco Gil Diaz (Ph.D. 1972) – Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of
Mexico
James I. Dolliver (J.D. 1921) – Republican U.S. Representative from
Iowa's 6th congressional district
Jon Dudas (J.D.) – Director of the
United States Patent and Trademark Office , Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
Frank H. Easterbrook (J.D. 1973) – Circuit Judge, United States
Seventh Circuit
Court of Appeals
Allison H. Eid (J.D. 1991) – 95th Justice of the
Colorado Supreme Court
Troy Eid (J.D. 1991) – United States Attorney for the District of Colorado (2006–2009)
Harvey Feldman (A.B. ?, A.M. 1954) – drafter of the
Taiwan Relations Act , United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (1979–1981)
[8]
Noel Francisco (B.A. 1991 J.D. 1996) – 47th
Solicitor General of the United States
Jerome Frank (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 (B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956) – nuclear physicist, UFOlogist
Douglas H. Ginsburg (J.D. 1973) – Chief Judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jackie Goldberg (M.A.T. 1973) – California State Assembly member (2000–2006)
Paulo Guedes (Ph.D. 1978) – Brazilian Minister of the Economy
Avril Haines (A.B. 1992) –
Deputy Director of the CIA (2013–2015),
Deputy National Security Advisor (2015–2017),
Director of National Intelligence (2021–present)
William J. Holloway (A.B. 1910) – 8th
Governor of Oklahoma (1929–1931)
James Hormel (J.D. 1958) – United States Ambassador to
Luxembourg (1999–2001)
Constance Horner (M.A. 1967) – member of the
United States Commission on Civil Rights (1993–1998); public official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations,
independent director of
Pfizer ,
Prudential Financial , and
Ingersoll Rand
[9]
Thomas W. Hyde – major general of volunteers in the
American Civil War ,
Maine state senator, founder of
Bath Iron Works
Harold LeClair Ickes (A.B. 1897 J.D. 1907) –
United States Secretary of the Interior (1933–1946)
Fred Ikle (A.M. 1948, Ph.D. 1950) – former
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy ; 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
Slovenia (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
Sierra Leone
Anne Kaiser (B.A. 1990) – Member of the
Maryland House of Delegates , 2003–present
Zalmay Khalilzad (Ph.D. 1979) – United States Ambassador to the
United Nations (2007–2009); former United States Ambassador to
Afghanistan
Ro Khanna (B.A. 1998) – Member of the
United States House of Representatives from California's 17th district
Koh Tsu Koon (Ph.D. 1977) – third Chief Minister of the State of
Penang ,
Malaysia (1990–2008)
Andy Kim (B.A. 2004) – politician and former national security adviser for Barack Obama
Amy Klobuchar (J.D. 1985) –
United States Senate (D-MN) (2007–present)
Larry Krasner – federal public defender, running for District Attorney of Philadelphia
Alexander Krasnoshchyokov (J.D. 1912) – Soviet politician, first Chairman of the Government of the
Far Eastern Republic
Jewel Lafontant (J.D. 1946) –
United Nations delegate
Brad Lander (B.A. 1991) – New York City Council Member, 39th district
Rex E. Lee (J.D. 1963) – 37th
Solicitor General of the United States
Thomas Rex Lee (J.D. 1991) – Associate Justice of the
Utah Supreme Court
Edward Levi (A.B. 1932, J.D. 1935) –
Attorney General of the United States (1975–1977)
Lori Lightfoot (J.D. 1989) – Mayor of Chicago
Lien Chan (Ph.D. 1965) –
Vice President of the Republic of China (
Taiwan ) under President
Lee Teng-hui (1996–2000)
Justin Yifu Lin (Ph.D. 1986) – Senior Vice President and first Chief Economist from a developing country for
the World Bank (2008–present)
Robert Todd Lincoln (J.D. 1867) – 35th
United States Secretary of War
T. D. A. Lingo – folk singer, radio personality, and brain researcher
Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo – Kenyan trade unionist and politician
Jack Markell (M.B.A. 1985) – Governor of
Delaware (2009–2017)
Antonio Martino (M.B.A. 1968) – Italian Minister of Defence (2001–2006), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994–1995), and scholar
Michael W. McConnell (J.D. 1979) – Circuit Judge, United States
Tenth Circuit
Court of Appeals
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
Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez –
Governor-elect of Tlaxcala
Abner J. Mikva (J.D. 1951) –
Illinois Congressman (1956–1966); United States Congressman (1969–1973, 1975–1979);
United States Court of Appeals Judge (1979–1994)
Patsy Mink (J.D. 1951) –
United States House of Representatives (D-HI) (1965–1977, 1990–2002)
Carol Moseley Braun (J.D. 1972) –
United States Senate (D-IL) (1992–1998); United States Ambassador (1999–2001)
Richard A. Mugalian – Illinois state representative and lawyer
[10]
Eliot Ness (A.B. 1925) –
United States Treasury and
Bureau of Prohibition agent, head of
The Untouchables
William Niskanen (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1962) – Chairman of the
Cato Institute in
Washington, D.C.
Ajit Pai (J.D. 1997) – Chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission (2017–2021)
James B. Parsons (A.M. 1946, J.D. 1949) – first African-American Federal District Court Judge (1991–1992)
[11]
Peter George Peterson (M.B.A. 1951) –
United States Secretary of Commerce (1972–1973)
Abraham A. Ribicoff (J.D. 1933) – 4th
United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare , 80th Governor of Connecticut
Pete Ricketts (A.B. 1986, M.B.A. 1991)
[12] –
40th
Governor of Nebraska (2015–2023);
United States Senate (R-NE) (2023–present)
Paul Romer (B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983) – Chief Economist of the World Bank
Kyle Sampson (J.D. 1996) – Chief of Staff and Counselor of United States Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales
Bernie Sanders (A.B. 1964) – United States
Senator (VT);
United States House of Representatives ; 2016 and 2020 presidential candidate
David Schuman (Ph.D. 1974) –
Oregon Court of Appeals Judge
[13]
Masaaki Shirakawa (A.M. 1977) – Governor,
Bank of Japan (2008–present)
Thomas Sowell (Ph.D. 1968) – winner of the
National Humanities Medal (2003); economist and Senior Fellow at
Hoover Institution ,
Stanford University
John Paul Stevens (A.B. 1941) –
United States Supreme Court Justice (1975–2010)
Jim Talent (J.D. 1981) –
United States Senator (R-Mo) (2002–2007)
Jennifer Stewart –
Democratic member of the
Rhode Island House of Representatives
John Thomas (J.D. 1970) – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Joe Walsh –
conservative talk radio host; former
Republican
Representative from
Illinois's 8th congressional district (M.P.P. 1991)
[14]
Paul Wolfowitz (Ph.D. 1972) – President of the
World Bank (2005–2007); United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001–2005)
Todd Young (M.B.A. 2000) – U.S. Senator from
Indiana (2017–present)
Kateryna Yushchenko (M.B.A. 1986) – First Lady of
Ukraine (2005–2010)
Arts and entertainment
Ed Asner (X. 1948) –
Emmy Award -winning actor,
The Mary Tyler Moore Show ,
Lou Grant ,
Up ,
Elf
David Auburn (A.B. 1991) – playwright; winner of the
Pulitzer Prize and
Tony Award 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
Misha Collins (A.B. 1997) – actor; star of TV series
Supernatural
Kahane Cooperman (A.B. 1980) – documentary filmmaker and television producer
[15]
Jan Crull Jr. (A.M. 1984) – documentary filmmaker
Katherine Dunham (Ph.B. 1936) – dancer and choreographer,
National Medal of Arts winner
Roger Ebert (X. 1970) – film critic and Pulitzer Prize winner
Kurt Elling (X. 1992) – jazz singer and nine-time
Grammy Award nominee
Jonathan Elliott (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
David B. Eskind (X. 1934) – radio scriptwriter, producer
Irwin Leroy Fischer (A.B. 1924)
[16] – classical composer, former Dean of Faculty
American Conservatory of Music and former principal organist
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Alyce Frank (1950) – artist
Melvin Frank (A.B. 1935) –
Academy Award -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 during World War II; director of mass communications for
UNESCO , 1948–50
Sessue Hayakawa (A.B. 1913) – Academy Award-nominated film actor; starred in
Cecil B. DeMille 's
The Cheat and
Bridge on the River Kwai
Marilu Henner (X. 1974) – actress; starred in TV series
Taxi
Daryl Hine (Ph.D. 1967) – Canadian poet and translator
Mark Hollmann (A.B. 1985) – Tony Award-winning composer
[17]
Celeste Holm (X. 1934) –
Academy Award -winning actress,
Gentleman's Agreement ,
All About Eve ,
High Society
Irene Whitfield Holmes (Ph.D. 1924) – Ethnomusicologist and collector of French language American folk songs
Rebecca Jarvis (A.B. 2003) – runner-up on the fourth season of
The Apprentice
Tyehimba Jess (A.B. 1991) – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Wolf Kahn (A.B. 1950) – artist
Philip Kaufman (A.B. 1958) – film director,
The Right Stuff ,
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Rose Kaufman (X. 1959) – screenwriter,
The Wanderers and
Henry & June
Greg Kotis (A.B. 1988) – Tony Award-winning playwright
Leopold and Loeb (attended) – murderers
Brian Liesegang (A.B. 1992) – guitarist, former member of
Nine Inch Nails and
Filter
[18]
Aaron Lipstadt (A.B. 1974) – director
Joshua Marston (A.M. 1994) – film director,
Maria Full of Grace
Peter Marzio – former director of
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Tucker Max (A.B. 1998) – Internet celebrity and New York Times bestselling author
Elaine May (audited) – screenwriter, actress, and director, comedian with
Nichols and May , Oscar-nominated writer of
Heaven Can Wait and
Primary Colors , director of
A New Leaf and
The Heartbreak Kid
Amy Meyers (A.B. 1977) – art historian and museum director
Mike Nichols (X. 1953) – film and stage director; winner of a Tony Award and an Academy Award; directed
The Graduate ,
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ,
Catch-22 ,
Silkwood ; co-founder of
The Second City comedy troupe
Sheldon Patinkin (A.B. 1953) – theater director
Kimberly Peirce (A.B. 1990) – film director,
Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award for Best Actress,
Hilary Swank ) and
Stop-Loss
Dan Peterman – artist
Gordon Quinn (A.B. 1965) – filmmaker, founder of
Kartemquin Films
Bernard Sahlins (A.B. 1943) – co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe
Hayden Schlossberg (A.B. 2000) – writer,
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Eddie Shin (A.B. 1998) – actor
Paul Sills (A.B. 1951) – co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe
Arieh Smith (A.B. 2012) – polyglot and creator of Youtube Channel Xiaomanyc
David Steinberg – comedian, actor, writer, director, and author
Michael Stevens – creator of educational YouTube channel Vsauce
Fritz Weaver (A.B. 1951) – actor,
Holocaust ,
Fail-Safe ,
Black Sunday
Gavin Williamson – harpsichordist
Arthur Zegart – documentary film producer
[19]
Athletics
Business
Pericles Abbasi
Andrew Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A., 1981) – President of the
New York City Economic Development Corporation , youngest
Goldman Sachs partner in company history, university trustee
Roger Altman (M.B.A. 1969) – founder and senior chairman of
Evercore ,
United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
José Antonio Alvarez (M.B.A. 1996) – vice chairman and CEO of
Santander Group , the largest Eurozone banking group by market value
Cliff Asness (M.B.A, Ph.D.) – billionaire founder of
AQR Capital
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
Paul G. Blazer (A.A. 1915) – founder of Ashland Oil & Refining Company (
Ashland, Inc. )
David G. Booth (M.B.A. 1971) – billionaire philanthropist, co-CEO and co-founder of
Dimensional Fund Advisors
Bill Browder (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
Debra Cafaro (JD 1982) – Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of
Ventas , minority owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins
Agustín Carstens (Ph.D. 1985) – Head of the
Bank for International Settlements known as "The Bank for Central Banks"; former Governor of
Bank of Mexico ; current member of
Group of Thirty (G-30)
Tae-won Chey (Ph.D. 1989) – billionaire Chairman of the
SK Group , son-in-law of Korean president
Roh Tae-woo
[20]
Norton Clapp (Ph.B. 1928, J.D. 1929) – an original owner of
Space Needle ; university trustee
William E. Conway Jr. (MBA) – billionaire co-founder of
The Carlyle Group
L. Gordon Crovitz (A.B. 1980) – publisher of
The Wall Street Journal
Daniel Doctoroff (J.D. 1984) – President of
Bloomberg L.P. ; former Deputy Mayor of New York City under Mayor
Michael Bloomberg
Arnold W. Donald (M.B.A. 1980) – CEO of
Carnival Corporation & plc
Brady Dougan (A.B. 1981, M.B.A., 1982) – CEO of
Credit Suisse First Boston ; CEO-elect of
Credit Suisse Group in Zurich (beginning May 2007); youngest CEO on Wall Street (2004)
J. Patrick Doyle (M.B.A. 1988) – President and CEO of
Domino's Pizza
Larry Ellison (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
Eugene Fama (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
Group of Thirty (G-30); former David Rockefeller Professor of International Economics at the
University of Chicago ; former Governor of the
Bank of Israel
Diane Garnick (M.B.A. 2012) – Chief Income Strategist of
TIAA (2016–present)
Gerald Gidwitz (Ph.B. 1927) – co-founder of
Helene Curtis Industries, Inc.
Scott Griffith (M.B.A. 1990) – CEO of
Zipcar (2003–present)
Timothy E. Hoeksema (M.B.A. 1977) – founder of
Midwest Airlines
Gary Hoover – founder of
Bookstop and
Hoover's
[21]
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 ; 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 Company , publisher of
Ebony and
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
Gillette Company; founding partner of
Centerview Partners
Bon-Joon Koo (M.B.A.) – billionaire Vice Chairman of
LG Electronics Corporation
Carlos Langoni (PhD) – former President of the
Central Bank of Brazil
Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) – Chairman and CEO of
Paramount Pictures
Michael Larson (M.B.A. 1981) – Chief Investment officer of
Cascade Investment , the investment vehicle for Bill Gates and his foundation
John Liew (BA 1989, MBA 1994, PhD 1995) – billionaire co-founder of
AQR Capital
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 Europe and
Smirnoff
[22]
[23]
Matt Maloney (M.B.A. 2010) – co-founder and former CEO of
Grubhub
Joe Mansueto (A.B. 1978, M.B.A. 1980) – billionaire Chairman and CEO of
Morningstar, Inc.
Harry Markowitz (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – "father of modern portfolio theory"; 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics
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
University of Chicago
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 (M.B.A. 1991) – CEO of
The Parking Spot , Treasurer of
Barack Obama 's
2008 presidential campaign
Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) – Chairman and CEO of
Aramark
Victor Niederhoffer (Ph.D. 1969) – hedge fund manager
Merle Norman – founder of
Merle Norman Cosmetics
[24]
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 Peterson (M.B.A. 1951) – billionaire co-founder and former Chairman of
Blackstone Group ; 20th United States Secretary of Commerce
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
Michael Polsky (M.B.A. 1987) – billionaire founder of
Invenergy , a multinational power generation development firm
Matthew Prince (J.D. 2000) — billionaire 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 Corporation
Nicholas Pritzker (J.D. 1975) – billionaire member of the
Pritzker family ; former president of
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 Corporation
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
Pete Ricketts (M.B.A. 1991) – 40th
Governor of Nebraska , 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
University of Chicago
Emmanuel Roman (M.B.A. 1987) – CEO of
PIMCO
David Rubenstein (J.D. 1973) – billionaire co-founder of
The Carlyle Group
David O. Sacks (J.D. 1998) – entrepreneur and venture capitalist; former COO of
PayPal ; former CEO of
Zenefits and
Yammer ; co-founder and CEO of
Craft Ventures
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
Masaaki Shirakawa (M.A. 1977) – former Governor of the
Bank of Japan ; current member of the
Group of Thirty (G-30)
Rex Sinquefield (MBA) – billionaire co-founder of
Dimensional Fund Advisors
Patrick Spain (A.B. 1974) – founder of
Hoover's and
HighBeam Research
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 , 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 (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
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Education
John Alroy (Ph.D. 1994) –
paleobiologist and researcher at the
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis ,
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
Frances R. Brown (M.A. English) – president of
Chevy Chase Junior College and dean of
Radcliffe College
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
[1]
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
[26]
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) – sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist; associate professor at the University of Chicago
[27]
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
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
U.S. Supreme Court
Eleanor Churchill Gibbs – educator, writer
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)
[28]
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
[29]
[30]
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
[31]
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
[32]
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 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 (Kobi) Metzer –
economic historian , professor, eighth President of the
Open University of Israel
Clara Worst Miller (1876–1970) (M.A.) –
Ashland College professor of Latin and writer
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
Chen Hengzhe (M.A) – writer of modern vernacular Chinese literature
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
[33]
Angie Debo (A.M. 1924, international relations) –
Oklahoma and
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) – scholar of American religion and society
Gertrude Himmelfarb (Ph.D. 1950) –
National Humanities Medal (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
[34]
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
University of Chicago ; 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
University of Chicago '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 ; 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)
Joel T. Rosenthal (PhD 1963) – Distinguished Professor and Emeritus at
SUNY
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) –
National Humanities Medal (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);
National Humanities Medal (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
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 (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
[35]
[36]
Janet Flanner – writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975
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)
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
The Wall Street Journal
[11]
DeWitt John (A.M. 1937) – 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)
The Wall Street Journal (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
Tal Kopan (A.B.) – political reporter for CNN
Sarah Langs (A.B. 2015) – reporter and statistician for
MLB.com and
ESPN
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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 ,
Ladies' Home Journal ,
The Washington Post ,
The New York Times ,
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
[11]
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 , 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
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 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
The Wall Street Journal ; winner of the 2013
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) – host of
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
Mickey Waldman (A.B. 1965) –
WBAI radio host and producer
Literature
Jessica Abel (A.B. 1991) – comic book writer and artist
Saul Bellow (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 (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 (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 (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
Bette Howland (A.B. 1955) – writer, literary critic, MacArthur Fellow
[38]
Fenton Johnson – poet
Cyril M. Kornbluth – science fiction author
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 (A.B. 1941, Ph.D. 1950) – literary scholar and winner of
National Humanities Medal
Seth Lerer (Ph.D. 1981) – former
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
University of Chicago , author of
A River Runs Through It
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
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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
[40]
Marguerite Young – novelist and poet
Mathematics
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
[42]
Maurice Hilleman (Ph.D. 1941) – leading
microbiologist specialising in
vaccinology , whose vaccines save nearly 8 million lives each year
[43]
Donald Hopkins (M.D. 1966) – MacArthur Fellow (1995); acting director (1985) of the
Centers for Disease Control
[11]
Kathy Hudson (MSc) –
microbiologist specializing in
science policy
[44]
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
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 Stanley –
MD ,
immunologist ,
biomedical researcher and 5th President of
Stony Brook University
David Talmage – Professor of Medicine, discovered the
clonal selection theory
Eve van Cauter – sleep medicine director; one of the first people to discover that sleep deprivation affects the body
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 (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
[45]
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 (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
[46]
Martin Marty (Ph.D. 1956) –
National Humanities Medal (1997); national figure in non-sectarian religious studies
Lena B. Mathes (Ph.B. 1911, A.M. 1912, B.D. 1914) – educator, social reformer, ordained Baptist minister
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
[47]
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
Jewish Conservative movement , responsible for opening dialogue between American Jews and
Pope John Paul II in 1987
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
[38]
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 (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) –
National Humanities Medal (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
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
Sophonisba Breckinridge (JD, 1904) – Dean of the College of Arts, Literature, and Science,
University of Chicago
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 ; 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 "
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
Eugene Fama (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
Claudia Goldin (Ph.D. 1972) – Winner of the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, 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
[48]
Charles V. Hamilton (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) – civil rights leader and Professor in Political Science, Columbia University
[11]
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
University of Pristina
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
Keiichiro Kobayashi (Ph.D. 1998) – Professor of Faculty of Economics,
Keio 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 linguist who developed the first
stemming algorithm for word matching
Antonio Martino (Ph.D. 1968) – Professor of Economics at
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
[49]
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
UCLA
Kevin M. Murphy (Ph.D. 1986) –
John Bates Clark Medalist (1997); George J. Stigler Professor of Economics,
University of Chicago
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
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
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)
Walter Oi (Ph.D. 1961) – Elmer B. Milliman Professor of Economics at the
University of Rochester
Sherry Ortner (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) – MacArthur Fellow (1990); Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,
University of California, Los Angeles
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)
James M. Redfield (A.B. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) – Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of the Committee on Social Thought at the
University of Chicago (1976–present)
Albert Rees (Ph.D. 1950) – former
University of Chicago and
Princeton economics professor, former
Provost at
Princeton , advisor to President
Gerald Ford
[50]
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 (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
Paul Samuelson (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
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 (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
J Harlen Bretz (Ph.D. 1913) – geologist, Penrose Medal 1979
Ralph Buchsbaum (Ph.D. 1938) – invertebrate zoologist
Facundo Bueso Sanllehí (M.S. 1929) – Guggenheim Fellow, physicist and educator
Albert Chan (Ph.D. 1979) – fellow of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences , president of
Hong Kong Baptist University
[51]
Jane C. Charlton (M.S. 1984) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics
[52]
Mihir Chowdhury (post doc 1962–64) – physical chemist,
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 (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
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
Larry Ellison (dropped out) – co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company
Harvey Fletcher (Ph.D. 1911) – collaborator with
Robert Millikan on the Nobel Prize-winning experiment on the charge of an electron; father of
stereophonic sound
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 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 Jr. (S.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1963) – first African-American to obtain a Ph.D. in Geology; founding advisor of the
NABGG in 1981; consultant to NASA
[11]
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 L. Hess (Ph.D. 1950) – meteorologist and planetary scientist who designed the weather instruments for the
Viking 1
Marie Agnes Hinrichs (Ph.D. 1923) – zoology, editor for the
Journal of School Health from 1954 to 1959
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
J. Allen Hynek (B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1935) – astronomer, professor, and ufologist known for developing the
close encounter classification system of UFO experiences
Deborah S. Jin (Ph.D. 1995) – physicist; MacArthur Fellow in 2003
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 , the company behind
Halo and
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
Clark R. Landis (Ph.D. 1983) – chemist and professor of chemistry at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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; 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
Darwinian principles of shared evolutionary kinship
William Wilson Morgan (S.B. 1927, Ph.D. 1931) – astronomer who co-developed
MK system for classification of stars, as well as classification systems for galaxies and clusters; director of
Yerkes Observatory
Stuart Newman (Ph.D., 1970) – developmental and evolutionary biologist
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
aeronaut , speaker for
NASA , teacher, scientist and
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 ;
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 ; 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
Nadrian Seeman (S.B. 1966) – physicist,
Kavli Prize laureate, inventor of
DNA nanotechnology
Alex Seropian (S.B. 1991) – co-founder of
Bungie , the company behind
Halo and
Destiny
Herbert A. Simon (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
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
Verner E. Suomi (Ph.D. 1953) – educator, inventor, and scientist and professor at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison ; considered the father of
satellite meteorology
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
Moddie Taylor (Ph.D. 1943) – chemist, known for contribution to the
Manhattan Project while working in the
Metallurgical Laboratory
Richard Thieme (M.A., 1967) – priest, technology consultant, author
Richard E. Tracy (Ph.D. 1961) –
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 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
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
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
Fictional
Sally Albright and
Harry Burns , portrayed by
Meg Ryan and
Billy Crystal , in the film
When Harry Met Sally...
Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. , archaeologist and adventurer portrayed by
Harrison Ford in the
Indiana Jones film series
Dr. Richard Kimble , MD, vascular surgeon wrongly convicted of his wife's murder, portrayed by
Harrison Ford in the film
The Fugitive
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
Mark Watney , astronaut and titular main character in the novel
The Martian , portrayed by
Matt Damon in
the film adaptation
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c NNDB list of notable people affiliated with the
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"Deaths" . University of Chicago. Retrieved February 19, 2011 .
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