- List of University of Chicago people
The following is a list of people affiliated with the University of Chicago, including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. The
University of Chicago was founded in 1890 by American industrialist and philanthropistJohn D. Rockefeller . Since then, a large number of prominent individuals have been affiliated with the school, including 80Nobel Prize laureates.Notable people affiliated with the
University of Chicago include current Supreme Court justicesJohn Paul Stevens andAntonin Scalia ; senatorBarack Obama ; Nobel Prize-winning economistsMilton Friedman andGary S. Becker ; foreign policy architectPaul Wolfowitz ; Academy Award-winning directorMike Nichols ; astronomerEdwin Hubble ; writersKurt Vonnegut ,Saul Bellow , andSusan Sontag ; philosophersBertrand Russell ,John Dewey , andLeo Strauss ; and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistsDavid Broder andSeymour Hersh .Notable Alumni
"The following is a list of notable alumni of the University of Chicago."
Nobel Laureates
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Luis Alvarez (A.B. 1932, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1936) - Physics, 1968.
*Emily Green Balch (attended) - Peace, 1946. [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1946/balch-bio.html]
*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.
*James Cronin (S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - Physics, 1980.
*Clinton Davisson (S.B. 1909) - Physics, 1937.
*Jerome Friedman (A.B. 1950, S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1956) - Physics, 1990.
*Milton Friedman (A.M. 1933) - Economics, 1976.
*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.
*Irwin Rose (S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1952) - Chemistry, 2004.
*F. Sherwood Rowland (S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1952) - Chemistry, 1995.
*Jack Steinberger (S.B. 1942; Ph.D. 1949) - Physics, 1988.
*Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) - Economics, 1970.
*Myron Scholes (M.B.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1970) - Economics, 1997.
*Herbert Simon (A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1943) - Economics, 1978.
*Roger Sperry (Ph.D. 1941) - Medicine, 1981.
*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.
*Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. 1948) - Physics, 1957.Government
Heads of State
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Marek Belka (attended) - Prime Minister ofPoland (2004-2005).
*Ahmed Chalabi (Ph.D. 1969) - Interim Oil Minister and Deputy Prime Minister ofIraq .
*Lien Chan (Ph.D. 1965) – Vice President ofTaiwan under PresidentLee Teng-hui (1996-2000).
*Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (A.B. 1952) - President ofBolivia (1993-1997, 2002-2003).
*Alvaro Magaña (A.M. 1955) - President ofEl Salvador (1982-1984).General
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John Ashcroft (J.D. 1967) - Attorney General of theUnited States (2001-2005).
*David Axelrod (A.B. 1977) - Chiefpolitical consultant toSenator Barack Obama .
*Robert H. Bork (A.B. 1948, J.D. 1953) - Attorney General of theUnited States (1973-1974);United States Court of Appeals Judge (1982-1988).
*William Holmes Brown (J.D. 1954) -Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives (1974-1994).
*Ramsey Clark (A.M. 1950, J.D. 1951) - Attorney General of theUnited States (1967-1969).
* Benjamin V. Cohen (Phi Beta Kappa 1913, Ph.B 1914, J.D. 1915) - Member of PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt 'sBrain Trust .
*Jon S. Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) - Governor ofNew Jersey (D) (2006-present);United States Senator (D-NJ) (2001-2006); formerCEO ofGoldman Sachs ; University trustee.
*Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (X. 1933) - General of theUnited States Air Force (1954); AssistantSecretary of Transportation under Nixon.
*Francisco Gil Diaz (Ph.D. 1972) - Secretary of Finance and Public Credit ofMexico .
*Daniel Doctoroff (J.D. 1984) - Deputy Mayor ofNew York City under MayorMichael Bloomberg .
*Frank H. Easterbook (J.D. 1973) - Circuit Judge,United States Seventh CircuitCourt of Appeals .
*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.
*Charles V. Hamilton (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) - Civil rights leader.
*James Hormel (J.D. 1958) -United States Ambassador toLuxembourg .
*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) - FormerUnder Secretary of Defense for Policy ; Director ofU.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1973-1977).
*Patricia Kabbah (A.M. 1963) - Former First Lady ofSierra Leone .
*Zalmay Khalilzad (Ph.D. 1979) -United States Ambassador to theUnited Nations (2007-present); formerUnited States Ambassador toAfghanistan .
*Amy Klobuchar (J.D. 1985) -United States Senate (D-MN) (2007-present).
*Jewel Lafontant (J.D. 1946) -United Nations delegate.
*Edward Levi (A.B. 1932, J.D. 1935) - Attorney General of theUnited States (1975-77).
*Justin Yifu Lin (Ph.D. 1986) - Chief Economist,The World Bank (2008-present); first World Bank Chief Economist from a developing country.
*Eliot Ness (A.B. 1925) - Secret Service agent.
*Omar Ramadhan Mapuri (A.M. 1985) - Minister of Education and Minister of Home Affairs ofTanzania .
*Michael W. McConnell (J.D. 1979) - Circuit Judge,United States Tenth CircuitCourt of Appeals .
*Abner J. Mikva (J.D. 1951) -Illinois Congressman (1956-1966).United States Congressman (1969-1973, 1975-1979);United States Court of Appeals Judge (1979-94).
*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).
*William Niskanen (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1962) - Chairman of theCato Institute inWashington, DC .
*James B. Parsons (A.M. 1946, J.D. 1949) - Federal District Court Judge (1991-1992).
*Peter Peterson (M.B.A. 1951) -United States Secretary of Commerce (1972-1973).
*Bernie Sanders (Sc.B. 1964) -United States Senator (VT).United States House of Representatives .
*Masaaki Shirakawa (A.M. 1977) - Governor,Bank of Japan (2008-present).
*John Paul Stevens (A.B. 1941) - United States Supreme Court Justice (1975-present).
*Jim Talent (J.D. 1981) -United States Senator (R-MO).
*Fernando Sanchez Ugarte (Ph.D. 1977) - President of the Mexican Federal Competition Commission. Former Deputy Minister of Industry and Foreign Investment inMexico .
*Thomas Sowell (Ph.D. 1968) - Winner of theNational Humanities Medal (2003); Economist and Senior Fellow atHoover Institution ,Stanford University .
*Paul Wolfowitz (Ph.D. 1972) - President of theWorld Bank (2005-2007);United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005).
*Kateryna Yushchenko (M.B.A. 1986) - First Lady ofUkraine (2005-present).Arts and Entertainment
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Ed Asner (X. 1948) -Emmy Award -winning actor.
*David Auburn (A.B. 1991) - Playwright; winner of thePulitzer Prize andTony Award for "Proof ".
*Lester Beall (A.B. 1926) - Modernist graphic designer. [http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-lesterbeall]
*Anna Chlumsky (A.B. 2002) - Actress; starred in "My Girl ".
*Katherine Dunham (Ph.B. 1936) - Dancer and choreographer.National Medal of Arts winner.
*Roger Ebert (X. 1970) - Film critic andPulitzer Prize winner.
*Kurt Elling (X. 1992) - Jazz singer and six-timeGrammy Award nominee. Vice Chair of theNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences .
*Philip Glass (A.B. 1956) -Academy Award -nominated composer and musician.
*Sessue Hayakawa (A.B. 1913) - Academy Award-nominated silent film actor; starred inCecil B. DeMille 's "The Cheat ".
*Marilu Henner (X. 1974) - Actress; starred in TV series, "Taxi ".
*Mark Hollmann (A.B. 1985) - Composer.
*Celeste Holm (X. 1934) - Academy Award-winning actress.
*Rebecca Jarvis (A.B. 2003) - Runner-up on the fourth season of "The Apprentice".
*Philip Kaufman (A.B. 1958) - Film director, "The Right Stuff", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being ".
*Wolf Kahn (A.B. 1950) - Artist.
*Greg Kotis (A.B. 1988) -Tony Award -winning playwright.
*Aaron Lipstadt (A.B. 1974) - Director.
*Joshua Marston (A.M. 1994) - Film director, "Maria Full of Grace ".
*Tucker Max (A.B. 1998) - Internet celebrity and "New York Times" bestselling author.
*Elaine May (A.B. 1953) - Writer, actress, and director.
*Myron Meisel (A.B. 1972) - Producer.
*Mike Nichols (X. 1953) - Film director; winner of aTony Award and anAcademy Award ; directed "The Graduate ", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ", "Silkwood "; co-founder ofSecond 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 ".
*John Phillips (A.B. 1960, Ph.D. 1966) - Artist.
*Bernard Sahlins (A.B. 1943) - Co-founder ofSecond City comedy troupe.
*Hayden Schlossberg (A.B. 2000) - Writer, "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle ".
*Jason Shaw (A.B. 1995) -Male model and former boyfriend ofParis Hilton .
*Eddie Shin (A.B. 1998) - Television actor.
*Paul Sills (A.B. 1951) - Co-founder ofSecond City comedy troupe.
*Fritz Weaver (A.B. 1951) - Actor.Athletics
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Jay Berwanger (A.B. 1936) - FirstHeisman Trophy winner.
*Willie D. Davis (M.B.A. 1968) - Professional Football Hall of Fame member (1981). President of All Pro Broadcasting. Former University trustee.
*Kim Ng (A.B. 1990) - Assistant General Manager of theLos Angeles Dodgers .
* Craig Robinson (M.B.A. 1992) - Head men's basketball coach atBrown University ; older brother ofMichelle Obama .Business
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Robert V. Adams (M.B.A. 1961) - Former Executive Vice President ofXerox Corporation .
* Andrew M. Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A., 1981) - President of theNew York City Economic Development Corporation , youngestGoldman Sachs partner in company history, trustee of theUniversity of Chicago .
*John P. Amboian (A.B. 1983, M.B.A., 1984) - President ofNuveen Investments .
*Basil Lawson Anderson (M.B.A. 1971) - Vice Chairman of Staples.
*Russel Baker (A.B. 1920, J.D. 1950) - Founder ofBaker & McKenzie , the largest law firm in the world.
*Norton Clapp (Ph.B. 1928, J.D. 1929) - An original owner ofSpace Needle ; University Trustee
*James A. Cour (M.B.A. 1986) - President and COO of Aastrom Biosciences, Inc.
*L. Gordon Crovitz (A.B. 1980) - Publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
*Casey Cowell (A.B. 1975) - Co-founder ofU.S. Robotics ; Chairman and President ofDurandal .
*Brady Dougan (A.B. 1981, M.B.A., 1982) - CEO ofCredit Suisse First Boston ; CEO-elect ofCredit Suisse Group in Zurich (beginning May 2007); youngest CEO on Wall Street (2004).
*Scott Durchslag (A.B. 1987) - CEO ofSkype (2008-present).
*Mark Ernst (M.B.A. 1986) - President, Chairman, and CEO ofH&R Block .
*Joseph J. Fitzsimmons (M.B.A. 1974) - Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer ofWal-Mart .
*David W. Fox (M.B.A., 1958) - Former Chairman of theChicago Stock Exchange ; former Chairman and CEO ofNorthern Trust Corporation .
*Gerald Gidwitz (Ph.B. 1927) - Cofounder ofHelene Curtis Industries .
*Melvin R. Goodes (M.B.A. 1960) - Former Chairman and CEOWarner-Lambert Company .
*Scott Griffith (MBA) - CEO ofZipcar .
*Timothy E. Hoeksema (M.B.A. 1977) - founder ofMidwest Airlines
*John H. Johnson (X. 1942) - First African-American billionaire; founder of Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of "Ebony" and "Jet" magazines.
*Thomas L. Kalaris (M.B.A. 1978) - Chief Executive of Barclays Wealth Management, former CEO ofBarclays Capital Americas.
*Karen Katen (A.B. 1970, M.B.A. 1974) - President ofPfizer Pharmaceuticals Group; trustee of theUniversity of Chicago .
*Dennis Keller (M.B.A. 1968) - Chairman and CEO of DeVry, Inc.; trustee of theUniversity of Chicago
*James M. Kilts (M.B.A. 1974) - Chairman, President, and CEO of Gillette Company.
*Michael Klingensmith (A.B. 1975, M.B.A. 1976) - Executive Vice President ofTime, Inc. ; trustee of theUniversity of Chicago .
*Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) - Chairman and CEO ofParamount Pictures .
*Joe Mansueto (A.B. 1978, M.B.A. 1980) - Chairman and CEO ofMorningstar .
*John Meriwether (M.B.A. 1973) - CEO and Principal of JWM Partners; former CEO of Long Term Capital Management.
*Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) - Chairman and CEO ofAramark .
*John Opel (M.B.A. 1949) - President ofIBM (1974-1983); CEO ofIBM (1981-1985); Chairman ofIBM (1983-1986).
*Philip J. Purcell (M.B.A. 1967) - Former chairman and CEO ofMorgan Stanley Dean Witter .
*David Rockefeller (Ph.D. 1940) - Chairman ofChase Manhattan Bank (1969-81); former trustee of theUniversity of Chicago .
*John W. Rogers, Jr. (Lab 1976) - Chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management; trustee of theUniversity of Chicago .
*David Rubenstein (J.D. 1973) - Co-founder ofThe Carlyle Group
*Nassef Sawiris (A.B. 1982) - CEO ofOrascom Construction Industries (OCI) .
*Thomas W. Sidlik (M.B.A. 1973) - Board of Management Member and Executive Vice President ofDaimlerChrysler AG .
* Robert Steel (M.B.A. 1984) - CEO ofWachovia Bank (2008-present); former Vice-Chairman ofGoldman Sachs ; formerUnder Secretary for Domestic Finance within theUnited States Department of the Treasury .
*Marion A. Trozzolo (PhB 1947, M.B.A. 1950) - First United States manufacturer to applyteflon to cookware.
*Dean Valentine (A.B. 1976) - Former President ofWalt Disney Television andUPN .
*Roger M. Vasey (M.B.A. 1970) - Former Executive Vice President ofMerrill Lynch .
*B. Kenneth West (M.B.A. 1960) - Former Chairman and CEO ofHarris Bankcorp .
*Clifford R. Wharton, Jr. (Ph.D. 1958) - Chairman and CEO ofTIAA CREF (1987-1993); President ofMichigan State University (1970-1978); Chancellor of theState University of New York System (1978-1987); DeputySecretary of State under PresidentBill Clinton (1993).Education
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Alan Altshuler (A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1961) - Dean of Graduate School of Design and Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning atHarvard University (2005-present) [http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Alan_Altshuler] .
*Richard C. Atkinson (Ph.B. 1948) - President of theUniversity of California (1995-2003).
*Marguerite Ross Barnett (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1972) - First African-American and female President of theUniversity of Houston (1990-92); first African-American Chancellor of theUniversity of Missouri (1986-90).
*Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (Ph.D. 1981) - President ofHaifa University , Israel (2004-present).
*Henry Bienen (A.M. 1962, Ph.D. 1966) - President ofNorthwestern University (1995-present).
*Leon Botstein (A.B. 1967) - President ofBard College (1975-present); Principal Conductor ofAmerican Symphony Orchestra .
* Tom Campbell (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1980) - Dean ofHaas School of Business at theUniversity of California, Berkeley (2002-2008).
*Rebecca S. Chopp (Ph.D. 1983) - President ofColgate University (2002-present); former dean ofYale Divinity School ; former provost ofEmory University ; feminist theologian.
*Grant H. Cornwell (A.M. 1982, Ph.D. 1989) - President of theCollege of Wooster (2007-present).
*May Louise Cowles - Economist; researcher, and nationwide advocate ofHome Economics study.
*Peter Dorman (Ph.D. 1985) - President,American University of Beirut (2008-present).
*Robert Higgins Ebert (S.B. 1936, M.D. 1942) - Dean of Harvard Medical School (1965-1977). [http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/05.15/FacultyofMedici.html]
*Luther H. Foster (A.M. 1941, Ph.D. 1951) - President of theTuskegee Institute (1953-1981).
*Robert Franklin (Ph.D. 1985) - President ofMorehouse College (2007-present).
*Adam Gamoran (A.B. 1979, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1984) - Professor of Sociology,University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
*Marvin L. Goldberger (Ph.D. 1948) - President ofCalifornia Institute of Technology (1978-1987).
*Clifton Daggett Gray (Ph.D.) - President ofBates College (1920-1944).
*Leo I. Higdon, Jr. (M.B.A. 1972) - President ofConnecticut College (2006-present); President of theCollege of Charleston (2001-2006); President ofBabson College (1997-2001); Dean of Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at theUniversity of Virginia .
*Chimere Ikoku (S.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1964) - Vice Chancellor of theUniversity of Nigeria .
*Howard Wesley Johnson (A.M. 1947) - President ofMassachusetts Institute of Technology (1966-1971).
*Herma Hill Kay (J.D. 1959) - Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law and former Dean ofBoalt Hall School of Law at theUniversity of California, Berkeley (1992-2000).
*David Kessler (J.D. 1978) - Dean of theUniversity of California at San Francisco School of Medicine; Former Dean ofYale School of Medicine ; FormerFood and Drug Administration Commissioner.
*Christopher W. Kimball (A.M. 1983, Ph.D. 1989) - President ofCalifornia Lutheran University (2008-present).
*Larry D. Kramer (J.D. 1984) - Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor atStanford Law School (2004-present).
*Benjamin E. Mays (A.M. 1925, Ph.D. 1935) - President ofMorehouse College (1940-1967); recipient of theAmerican Educator Award (1980); civil rights activist.
*Deborah Meier (A.M. 1955) - Founder of small schools in New York and Boston; recipient of theMacArthur Fellowship .
*Edison E. Oberholtzer (A.M. 1915) - Founder and 1st President of theUniversity of Houston
*Leo J. O'Donovan (postdoctoral fellow at University of Chicago) - 47th President ofGeorgetown University .
*S.J. Ono (B.A. 1984)- immunologist, Vice-Provost Academic & Deputy Provost and Professor of MedicineEmory University
*Gerardo della Paolera (A.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1988) - President of theAmerican University of Paris (2002-present).
*David Truman (A.M. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) - President ofMount Holyoke College (1969-1978); President ofRussell Sage Foundation (1978-1979).Historians
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R. Scott Appleby (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1985) - Professor of History and John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,University of Notre Dame .
*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).
*Constance B. Bouchard (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) - Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at theUniversity of Akron ;Guggenheim Fellow (1995) and Fellow of theMedieval Academy of America .
*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 theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .
*Henry Steele Commager (Ph.B. 1923, A.M. 1924, Ph.D. 1928) - noted American historian.
*Avery Craven (Ph.D. 1923) - Professor of History; Civil War expert.
*Nicholas Dirks (A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1981) - Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology; Vice-President for Arts and Sciences atColumbia University .
*Caroline Ford (A.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1987) - Professor of History,University of California, Los Angeles ; former Professor of History atHarvard University (1988-1995); author of "Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France" (Cornell University Press, 2005).
*Lawrence M. Friedman (A.B. 1948, J.D. 1951, LL.M. 1953) - Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law atStanford 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 atBoston University .
*Stéphane Gerson (A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 1997) - Associate Professor of French and French Studies,New York University ; Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies (best book published 2003-05) and Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (year’s most distinguished book in American or European cultural history) for "The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France" (2003); Co-editor of "Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination" (2007).
*Dena Goodman (A.M. 1978, Ph.D. 1982) - Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at theUniversity of Michigan ;Guggenheim Fellow (2006).
*Anthony Grafton (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) - ProminentRenaissance historian and Henry Putnam University Professor atPrinceton University .
*Gertrude Himmelfarb (Ph.D. 1950) -National Humanities Medal (2004); Professor Emeritus of History at theCity University of New York .
*Kenneth T. Jackson (A.M. 1963, Ph.D. 1966) -Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences atColumbia 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] ).
*Herbert S. Klein (A.B. 1957, A.M. 1959, Ph.D. 1963) - Professor of Latin American History,Stanford University .
*Julien Victor Koschmann (Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of History,Cornell University .
*Mark Edward Lewis (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1985) - Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture, Department of History,Stanford University .
* Terry Martin (A.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1996) - Pioneering historian of theSoviet Union ; George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies atHarvard 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 McNeill (A.B. 1938, A.M. 1939) - Professor Emeritus of History at theUniversity of Chicago ; author of "" (1963).
*Richard Anthony Parker (Ph.D. 1938) -Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor ofEgyptology atBrown University ; director of theUniversity of Chicago ’s epigraphic survey studying the mortuary temple ofRamses III .
*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).
*Michael Puett (A.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1994) - Professor of Chinese History, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,Harvard University .
*William M. Reddy (A.B. 1969, A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1974) - William T. Laprade Professor of History and Professor of Cultural Anthropology,Duke University .
*Francesca Rochberg (Ph.D. 1980) - Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies,University of California, Berkeley ;MacArthur Fellow (1982).
*Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ph.D. 1974) - Professor of Medieval History and Chair of the Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago;Guggenheim Fellow (1991) and author of numerous books, including "To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049" (Cornell University Press, 1989), "Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe" (Cornell UP, 1999), and "Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2006).
*Eileen Southern (A.B. 1940, Ph.D. 1941) -National Humanities Medal (2001); first African-American female professor atHarvard University .
*Michael P. Steinberg (A.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1985) - Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History and Music and director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities atBrown University (2005-present); former professor of History atCornell University (1988-2005).
*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).
*Gerhard Weinberg (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) - Historian, World War Two expert; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .
*Carter G. Woodson (A.B. 1908, A.M. 1908) - Historian and founder of Negro History Week (1926), which evolved intoBlack History Month ; civil rights activist.
*Richard S. Wortman (A.M. 1960, Ph.D. 1964) - Bryce Professor of European Legal History,Columbia University ; pioneering historian of imperial Russian history; 2007 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.Journalism
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Rick Atkinson (A.M. 1976) - 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) - Noted 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) - Editor of theWonkette weblog .
*Roger Ebert (X. 1970) -Pulitzer Prize winner for film criticism (1975); columnist for the "Chicago Sun-Times ".
*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) - Head of the "Washington Post " for over two decades;Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir "Personal History" (1998).
*Jan Crawford Greenburg (J.D. 1993) - Legal correspondent forABC 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 theMy Lai Massacre , which greatly changed public opinion of theVietnam War ; frequent contributor to "The New Yorker ".
*Dan Hertzberg (A.B. 1968) -Pulitzer Prize winner for reporting on the 1987 stock market crash (1988); Managing Editor of "The Wall Street Journal ".
*Dave Kehr (A.B. 1975) - Film critic for "The New York Times ".
*Carl H. Lavin (A.B. 1979) - Deputy Managing Editor of "The Philadelphia Inquirer ".
*Harvey Levin (J.D. 1975) - Former investigator reporter, Managing Editor ofTMZ.com .
*Roderick MacLeish (A.B. 1947) -National Public Radio political commentator; journalist and author.
*Daniel Nasaw (A.B. 2002) - U.S. political reporter, "The Guardian .
*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) - Senior editor of "Time " magazine; later Managing Director Kissinger Associates.
*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) - Sportswriter and Managing Partner ofBaseball Prospectus .
*Robert 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 theAnisfield Wolff Book Award for his memoir "Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White" (1994).
*Bret Stephens (A.B. 1995) - Writer, editorialist, and member of the "Wall Street Journal " Editorial Board.
*Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) - 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 .
*Kinsey Wilson (A.B. 1979) - Executive editor of "USA Today ".Literature
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Jessica Abel (A.B. 1991) - Comic book writer and artist.
*Saul Bellow (X. 1939) -Pulitzer Prize winner.
*Allan Bloom (Ph.B. 1949, A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - Influential author.
*Paul C. Borgman (Ph.D. 1973) - Religious author. [http://www.gordon.edu/page.cfm?iPageID=544&iCategoryID=82&English&English_Faculty]
*Ernest Callenbach (Ph.B. 1949, A.M. 1953) - American writer.
*Paul Carroll (A.M. 1952) - American poet.
*Hayden Carruth (A.M. 1947) - Winner ofNational Book Award in poetry.
*Will Cuppy (Ph.B. 1907, A.M. 1914) - Humorist.
*Tony Curtis Fox (A.B. 1970) - American writer.
*Mu Dan (A.M. 1951) - Chinese poet and literary translator.
*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.
*Paul Goodman (Ph.D. 1954) - Social critic.
*Gerald Graff (A.B. 1959) - President-elect of theModern Language Association (2008).
*Katharine Graham (A.B. 1938) -Pulitzer Prize winner.
*Sebastian de Grazia (A.B. 1944, Ph.D. 1948) -Pulitzer Prize winner.
*Bette Howland (A.B. 1955) -MacArthur Fellow .
*Patrick Larkin (A.B. 1982) - Author of espionage, military, and historical thrillers.
*Luis Leal (A.B. 1941, Ph.D. 1950) - Literary scholar and winner ofNational Humanities Medal .
*Seth Lerer (Ph.D. 1986) - Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature,Stanford University .
*Marjorie Levinson (A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1978) - Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of English,University of Michigan .
*Barbara Lewalski (A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1956) - Professor of English,Harvard University .
*Naomi Lindstrom (A.B. 1971), Latinamericanist literary critic.
*Jackson Mac Low (A.A. 1943) - Poet. Winner ofWallace Stevens award.
*Norman Maclean (Ph.D. 1940) -William Rainey Harper Professor of English at theUniversity of Chicago .
*Campbell McGrath (A.B. 1984) -MacArthur Fellow .
*Sterling North (A.B. 1929) - Author.
*Norman Panama (A.B. 1936) - Screenwriter.
*Sara Paretsky (A.M. 1969, M.B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1977) - Author.
*Elizabeth Peters (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1952) - Mystery author.
*Richard Rorty (A.B. 1949, A.M. 1952) - Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature atStanford University ;MacArthur Fellow .
*Philip Roth (A.M. 1955) -Pulitzer Prize andNational Medal of Arts winner.
*Leo Rosten (Ph.B. 1930, Ph.D. 1937) - Humorist.
*John Scalzi (B.A. 1991) - Novelist.
*Susan Sontag (A.B. 1951) -MacArthur Fellow .
*George Steiner (A.B. 1948) - Prominent literary critic.
*Herman Voaden (X) - Playwright and social activist.
*Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (A.M. 1971) - Author of "Cat's Cradle ".
*Yvor Winters (attended) - Influential poet and critic. [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/695]Mathematics
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Abraham Adrian Albert (B.S. 1926, S.M. 1927, Ph.D. 1928) -
*George Birkhoff (Ph.D. 1907) -Bôcher Memorial Prize winner.
*Gilbert Ames Bliss (Ph.D. 1900) -
*Alberto Calderón (Ph.D. 1950) - Cofounded the Chicago school of mathematical analysis. Winner ofBôcher Memorial Prize , theWolf Prize , and theNational Medal of Science .
*Paul J. Cohen (S.M. 1954, Ph.D. 1958) -Fields Medal winner.
*David Eisenbud (Ph.D. 1970) -
*Bernard Galler (Ph.D. 1955) -
*Richard Hamming (B.S. 1947) -
*John Irwin Hutchinson (Ph.D. 1896) -
*Saunders MacLane (A.M. 1931) - Cofounder of category theory.
*Anil Nerode (Ph.D. 1956) -
*Isadore Singer (Ph.D. 1955) -Abel Prize winner.
*Elias M. Stein (Ph.D. 1959) -Fields Medal winner.
*John Thompson (Ph.D. 1959) - World leader in group theory.Fields Medal andNational Medal of Science winner.
*Oswald Veblen (Ph.D. 1903) -
*George W. Whitehead (Ph.D. 1941) -Medicine
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Robert Gallo (Resident in Medicine 1963-1965) - Identified first retrovirus in humans. [http://www.nndb.com/people/913/000117562/]
*Maurice Hilleman (Ph.D. 1941) -Microbiologist , specialising invaccinology .
*Donald Hopkins (M.D. 1966) -MacArthur Fellow (1995); Deputy Director of International Health of theCenters for Disease Control .
*Leon Kass (S.B. 1958, M.D. 1962) - Chairman of thePresident's Council on Bioethics ; Addie Clark Harding Professor in theCommittee on Social Thought ; Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at theAmerican Enterprise Institute .
*Ulysses G. Mason (M.D. 1936) - Founder of the first integrated hospital.
*Joseph Ransohoff (M.D. 1941) - Pioneer in the field of neurosurgery; founded the first neurosurgicalintensive care unit ; chairman ofNew York University medical school.
*Michael Terry (M.D. 1998) - team physician for Chicago Blackhawks, United States Volleyball Team, United States Ski TeamReligion
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Thomas J. J. Altizer (A.B. 1948, A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) - Prominent "Death of God" theologian.
*Davíd Carrasco (Th.M. 1970, A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1977) -Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America atHarvard Divinity School ; historian of Mesoamerican religions.
*Mary Ann Glendon (A.B. 1959, J.D. 1961, L.L.M. 1963) - President of thePontifical Academy of Social Sciences (highest-ranking female advisor to the Pope); Learned Hand Professor of Law,Harvard Law School ; Member of thePresident's Council on Bioethics .
*Andrew Greeley (A.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1962) - Senior Study Director at theNational Opinion Research Center ; Roman Catholic priest; sociologist; best-selling novelist.
*Amy Hollywood (A.M. 1986, Ph.D. 1991) - Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies atHarvard Divinity School .
*Don Wendell Holter (Ph.D. 1934) - Professor of Church History and Missions atGarrett Theological Seminary ; founding President ofSaint Paul School of Theology ;Bishop of theUnited Methodist Church .
*Elenie Huszagh (A.B. 1957) - First woman to serve as President of theNational Council of Churches .
*Martin Marty (Ph.D. 1956) -National Humanities Medal (1997); national figure in non-sectarian religious studies.
*Ingrid Mattson (Ph.D. 1999) - First female president ofIslamic Society of North America ; a professor of religion atHartford Seminary .
*David Novak (A.B. 1961) - Prominent Jewish legal theorist at theUniversity of Toronto ; a founder of the Institute of Traditional Judaism; author of "Covenantal Rights".
*Jaroslav Pelikan (Ph.D. 1946) - Preeminent historian of Christian thought;Sterling Professor of History atYale University ; winner of theLibrary of Congress 'Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences; author of the now-classic "The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine".
*Emilie M. Townes (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, D.Min. 1982) - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology,Yale Divinity School ; President ofAmerican Academy of Religion (AAR), first African-American to assume this position at AAR (2007).
*Mordecai Waxman (A.B. 1937) - prominent rabbi in the American Jewish Conservative movement. Responsible for opening dialogue between American Jews andPope John Paul II in1987 ocial Sciences
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Janet L. Abu-Lughod (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950) - Professor Emerita of Sociology at theNew School for Social Research .
*Guillermo Algaze (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) -MacArthur Fellow (2003); Professor of Anthropology at theUniversity of California, San Diego .
*Anne Allison (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) - Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology,Duke University .
*Elijah Anderson (A.M. 1972) - William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology,Yale University .
*Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) - John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences and former Provost at theNew School for Social Research .
*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 atNorthwestern University and theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara .
*Walter Berns (A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1953) -National Humanities Medal (2005); John M. Olin University Professor Emeritus atGeorgetown University .
*Michael Burawoy (Ph.D. 1976) - Professor of Sociology,University of California, Berkeley .
*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 ".
*Nicholas de Genova (A.B. 1982, Ph.D. 1989) - Assistant Professor of Anthropology,Columbia University .
*Eugene Fama (Ph.D. 1964) - Father of efficient market theory. Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago.
*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 theUniversity of California, Berkeley and theUniversity of Pennsylvania .
*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.
*Edward C. Hayes (Ph.D. 1902) - President of theAmerican Sociological Association .
*Susanna Hecht (A.B. 1972) - Professor of Urban Planning,UCLA ; a founder of "Political Ecology" approach toforestry ;Guggenheim Fellow (2008).
*Samuel P. Huntington (A.M. 1948) - Albert J. Weatherhead Professor of Government atHarvard University ; author of "The Clash of Civilizations " (1998).
*Lucille I. Johnson (A.M. 1950) psychologist and writer
*Stathis Kalyvas (A.M. 1990, Ph.D. 1993) - Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence,Yale University .
*Robert W. Kates (A.M. 1960, Ph.D. 1962) -MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor Emeritus of Geography and Director Emeritus of the World Hunger Program atBrown University .
*Frederick B. Lindstrom (Ph.D. 1950) --sociologist and historian of the Chicago School of sociology
*Adeline Masquelier (Ph.D 1993) - Cultural Anthropologist atTulane University
*Tracey Meares (J.D. 1991) - Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law,Yale Law School ; first African-American women hired at Yale's law school; authority on race, crime, and law based on empirical research.
*John V. Murra (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1956); anthropologist and researcher of theInca Empire .
*Kevin M. Murphy (Ph.D. 1986) -John Bates Clark Medalist (1997); George J. Stigler Professor of Economics,University of Chicago .
*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 atSUNY ; pioneer ingender and sexuality studies ; author of "Mother Camp".
*Harold L. Nieburg (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1960) - Professor of Political Science atSUNY ; author of "In the Name of Science ".
*Anne Norton (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1982) - Alfred L. Cass Term Chair and Professor of Political Science,University of Pennsylvania ; author of "Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire" (2004).
*Sherry B. Ortner (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) -MacArthur Fellow (1990); Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,University of California, Los Angeles .
*Paul Rabinow (A.B. 1965, A.M. 1967, Ph.D. 1970) - Professor of Anthropology,University of California, Berkeley .
*James M. Redfield (A.B. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) - Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of the Committee on Social Thought at theUniversity of Chicago (1976-present).
*Philip Rieff (A.B. 1946, A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1954) -Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology at theUniversity of Pennsylvania ; author of "Freud: The Mind of the Moralist" (1959); noted sociologist.
*Philip Carl Salzman (Ph.D. 1972) - Professor of Anthropology,McGill University .
*Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) - Institute Professor, MIT. Bank of Sweden Prize in Econonomics in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1970.
*Ritch Savin-Williams (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1977) - Professor ofdevelopmental psychology atCornell University ; prolificsexual orientation researcher.
*Richard Sennett (A.B. 1964) - Centennial Professor of Sociology at theLondon School of Economics , Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology atMIT , and Professor of Humanities atNew York University .
*Orin Starn (A.B. 1982) - Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology,Duke University .
*Edwin Sutherland (Ph.D. 1913) - Former Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.
*Robert Thompson (A.B. 1981) - Director ofSyracuse University 's Center for the Study of Popular Television.
*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 B. Watson (Ph.D. 1903) - establishedbehaviorism and pioneered rat-in-maze laboratory research.
*Kath Weston (A.B. 1978, A.M. 1981) - Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies,University of Virginia (2008-present); former lecturer in anthropology and director of the Women's Studies Committee atHarvard University ; author of "Families We Choose" (1997).
*James Q. Wilson (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1959) -Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy atPepperdine University ;Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (2003).
*Daniel L. Wisecarver (A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1974) - Professor and Academic Director at Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios-ESEN, in El Salvador, since 1997.
*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 .cience and Technology
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Robert McCormick Adams (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1956) - Archeologist. Secretary Emeritus of theSmithsonian Institution .
*John N. Bahcall (S.M. 1957) - Known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem and the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and for his leadership and development of theInstitute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
*Robert Bell (S.M. 1973) - Research Scientist atAT&T Research Labs and AT&T Science and Technology Medalist (2003).
*Ralph Buchsbaum (Ph.D. 1938) - Invertebrate zoologist.
*William Cottrell (A.B. 2002) - Former Ph.D. candidate at theCalifornia Institute of Technology , described by scientists as a "genius", convicted in April2005 of conspiracy to arson of 8sport utility vehicles and a Hummer dealership in the name of theEarth Liberation Front (ELF).
*Harmon Craig (Ph.D. 1951) - Winner ofBalzan Prize , the first in geochemistry. Pioneer in Earth sciences.
*Savas Dimopoulos (Ph.D. 1978) - Theoretical physicist atStanford . With Howard Georgi, he formulated the supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model, the leading theory for particle physics beyond the Standard Model.
*Frank Edwin Egler (S.B. 1932) - Plant ecologist. Winner of aGuggenheim Fellowship in 1955.
*Larry Ellison (X.) - Co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.
*Robert Floyd (A.B. 1953, S.B. 1958) - Computer scientist.Turing Award winner.
*T. Theodore Fujita (S.B. 1953) - Influential meteorologist. Developed theFujita scale for measuring tornadoes.
*Gerald Gabrielse (Ph.D. 1980) - Professor of Physics atHarvard . Known for his techniques of creating antimatter.
*Martin Gardner (A.B. 1936) - Author and columnist of "Mathematical Games" in the magazine "Scientific American ".
*Piara Singh Gill (Ph.D. 1940) - Physicist. Pioneer incosmic 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 theNational Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists in 1981.
*Warren E. Henry (Ph.D. 1941) - Physicist and professor in magnetism and superconductivity. Developed video amplifiers used in portable radar systems on warships duringWorld War II .
*Edwin Hubble (S.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1917) - Astronomer who found the first evidence for thebig 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 ofBungie Studios , the company behind "".
*Ernest Everett Just (Ph.D. 1916) - Noted zoologist, biologist, physiologist, and research scientist.
*Robert Kowalski - Eminent computer scientist in the field of logic programming.
*Martin Kruskal (S.B. 1945) - Professor Emeritus atPrinceton University . Famous for starting the soliton revolution in Mathematics. Made a number of important advances, including Kruskal-Shafranov Instability, Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) Modes and the MHD Energy Principle, which laid the theoretical foundations of controlled nuclear fusion, and the Kruskal coordinates in the theory of relativity.
* Stephen Lee (Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Chemistry atCornell University .MacArthur Fellow .
*William Lester (A.B. 1958, A.M. 1959) - Professor of Chemistry atUniversity of California, Berkeley
*Lynn Margulis (A.B. 1957) - Distinguished professor at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst . Contributed to development ofGaia theory .
*Stanley Miller (Ph.D. 1954) - Performed the classic Miller-Urey experiment on the origin of life in collaboration with Harold Urey in 1953.
*D. Franklin Ogletree (A.B. 1978) - Physicist noted for coding the program which runs thescanning tunneling microscope . Currently a physicist at theLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory material sciences division.
*Donald Osterbrock (A.B., Ph.D.) Leading 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 ofLick Observatory .
*Jeannette Piccard (S.M. 1919) - Balloon aeronaut, speaker forNASA , teacher, scientist and Episcopal priest
*Carl Sagan (A.B. 1954, S.B. 1955, S.M. 1956, Ph.D. 1960) - Noted astronomer. Author of "Contact ".Pulitzer Prize winner.
*John T. Scopes (X. 1931) - Proponent ofCharles Darwin 's theory of evolution that led to the "Scopes Monkey Trial " and the inspiration for the play and film "Inherit the Wind ".
*Alex Seropian (S.B. 1991) - Co-founder ofBungie Studios , the company behind "".
*David Suzuki (Ph.D. 1961) - Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation. Award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.
*Sherry Turkle (attendedCommittee on Social Thought , 1971) - Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology atMassachusetts Institute of Technology .
*Paul Volberding (A.B. 1971) - Co-discoverer of HIV. Director of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California, San Francisco.
*George Wetherill (Ph.B. 1948, S.M. 1949, S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1953) - National Medal of Science winner. Known for his seminal work on the formation of planets and the solar systemNotable Faculty
"The following is a list of notable faculty who have taught at the University of Chicago."
Literature
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Saul Bellow (X. 1939) - Former Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and English. Winner of thePulitzer Prize and theNobel Prize in Literature.
*Lauren Berlant - George M. Pullman Professor of English.
*Homi K. Bhabha - Former Professor of English.
*Allan Bloom - Author of "The Closing of the American Mind "; former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
*Wayne C. Booth - George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus.
*Kenneth Burke -
*John Maxwell Coetzee - 2003Nobel Prize laureate in Literature; Distinguished Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
*T. S. Eliot - Influential poet, dramatist and literary critic. Member of the University of Chicago's famedCommittee on Social Thought .
*Ralph Ellison -National Book Award winner for "Invisible Man", one of the most important novels since World War II.
*Gerald Graff (A.B. 1959) - Former Professor of English and Education.
*Mark Strand - Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.Pulitzer Prize winner.
*Thornton Wilder - Professor (1930-1937). Winner of theNational Book Award , and thePresidential Medal of Freedom , and three-time winner of thePulitzer Prize .
*Chicago School of literary criticism - Group of faculty members at the University of Chicago (R.S. Crane, Elder Olson, Wayne Booth) who founded neo-Aristotelianism. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_School_of_literary_criticism]Law School
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Gerhard Casper - Former Dean of the Law School and Provost at the University of Chicago. President Emeritus of Stanford University.
*Ronald Coase - Professor Emeritus of Law. Nobel laureate in Economics. Co-founder of law and economics movement, arguably the most influential intellectual movement in legal scholarship in the second half of the 20th century.
*Aaron Director - Played a central role in the development of the law and economics movement. Founded the Journal of Law and Economics, which he co-edited with Ronald Coase.
*Richard Epstein - Currently the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law
*Elena Kagan - Former Professor and now Dean of Harvard Law School.
*Leon Kass -
*Karl Llewellyn - Major figure in the school of legal realism.
*Catharine MacKinnon - American feminist.
*Michael W. McConnell - Federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Leading constitutional originalist.
*Barack Obama -
*Richard Posner - Helped start law and economics movement.
*Roberta Cooper Ramo -- First woman PresidentAmerican Bar Association
*Antonin Scalia - United States Supreme Court justice; Professor at the Law School (1977-1982).
* David Strauss -
*Cass Sunstein -
*James Boyd White - Founder of "Law and Literature" movement.Mathematics
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Abraham Adrian Albert -
*László Babai - Known for work in computer science and discrete mathematics, especially for his work oninteractive proof system s.Gödel Prize winner.
*Alexander A. Beilinson -
*Gilbert Ames Bliss -
*Oskar Bolza -
*Luis Caffarelli - World leader in the field of partial differential equations.
*Alberto Calderón - Cofounded the Chicago school of mathematical analysis. Winner ofBôcher Memorial Prize , theWolf Prize , and theNational Medal of Science .
*Arthur Byron Coble -
*Shiing-shen Chern - One of the most influential figures in differential geometry. Famous for Chern classes.National Medal of Science andWolf Prize winner.
*Leonard Eugene Dickson - First recipient of theCole Prize in algebra.
*Vladimir Drinfeld -Fields Medal Winner.
*Charles Fefferman - Received full professorship at the University of Chicago at age 22, making him the youngest ever appointed in the United States.Fields Medal Winner.
*Robert A. Fefferman -
*Victor Ginzburg - Known for his works in geometricrepresentation theory .
*George Glauberman -
*Paul Halmos - Noted mathematician and mathematical expositor.
*Israel Herstein -
*Lars Hörmander -Fields Medal Winner.
*Irving Kaplansky -
*John L. Kelley -
*Robert Kottwitz -
*Serge Lang -
*William Lawvere - Known for his work in category theory, topos theory, and the philosophy of mathematics.
*Saunders MacLane - Cofounder of category theory.
*J. Peter May - Algebraic topologist.
*E. H. Moore -
*Robert Lee Moore -
*Raghavan Narasimhan -
*Madhav Nori -
*Andrei Okounkov - Former Dickson Instructor in Mathematics and the College.Fields Medal winner.
*Paul Sally - Influential mathematics educator.
*Irving Segal -
*Robert Soare - Known for work in mathematical logic.
*Stephen Smale -Fields Medal andWolf Prize winner.
*Norman Steenrod - Leadingtopologist .
*Marshall Stone -
*André Weil - Known for seminal work in number theory and algebraic geometry. Leader of influential Bourbaki group.Fields Medal andWolf Prize winner.
*Efim Zelmanov -Fields Medal Winner.
*Antoni Zygmund - One of the most influential mathematicians in the field of analysis in the 20th century. Cofounder, with student Calderón, of the famed Chicago school of mathematical analysis.Philosophy
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Hannah Arendt - Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
*Rudolf Carnap - Professor of Philosophy. Leading member of the Vienna Circle.
*Arnold Davidson - Professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Committee on Historical and Conceptual Studies of Science, and the College.
*Donald Davidson - Professor of Philosophy (1976-1981).
*John Dewey - Former Professor of Philosophy.
*Charles Hartshorne - Former Professor of Philosophy.
*John Haugeland - David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy.
*Jonathan Lear - John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy.
*Jean-Luc Marion - Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Theology in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought.
*George Herbert Mead - Former Professor of Philosophy.
*Martha Nussbaum - Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Divinity School; also in the Law School, the Department of Philosophy, and the College.
*Paul Ricoeur - John Nuveen Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School (1971-1991).
*Bertrand Russell - Visiting Professor of Philosophy (1938-1939).
*Leo Strauss - Professor of Political Philosophy (1949-1967).
*Paul Johannes Tillich - Professor of Religion (1962).
*James Hayden Tufts - Former Professor of PhilosophyReligion
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Wendy Doniger -
*Mircea Eliade - Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions (1958-1986), seminal figure in the study of myth and religious experience; perhaps best known for his "myth of the Eternal Return" and his book "The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion".
*Joseph Kitagawa -
*Bruce Lincoln -
*Martin K. Marty -
*Shailer Matthews - Professor of New Testament Studies and Dean of the Divinity School (1894-1941); leading modernist theologian and advocate of historical criticism of the Bible.
*David Tracy - Professor of Theology (1970-); leading figure in theological hermeneutics and proponent of theological pluralism in works such as "Plurality and Ambiguity" (University of Chicago Press, 1986).
*Jeremiah Wright - Former pastor ofBarack Obama cience
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Luis Alvarez -
*Ralph Buchsbaum - Invertebrate zoologist.
*Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin - Influential geologist. Developed planetesimal theory.
*Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1983Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
*Enrico Fermi - 1938Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
*James Franck - Nobel laureate.
*T. Theodore Fujita -
*James Hartle - Theoretical physicist at theEnrico Fermi Institute .
*Gerhard Herzberg - 1971Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry.
*Edwin Hubble -
*Ole J. Kleppa -Pioneer in High Temperature Thermochemistry; inventor of the Kleppa Calorimeter
*Bruce Lahn
*Ernest Lawrence -
*Richard Lewontin - Pioneered use of molecular biology on questions of evolution and genetic variation.
*Murray Gell-Mann - 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics
*Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Developed model for nuclear shell structure at the University of Chicago, for which she received a Nobel in Physics in 1963
*Albert Abraham Michelson - First American Nobel laureate in the sciences. Known for the famed Michelson-Morley experiment, a cornerstone of Relativity Theory. Measured the speed of light.
*Robert Millikan - Nobel laureate in Physics. Known for his measurement of the charge of the electron and the photoelectric effect. Performed famed oil-drop experiment at the University of Chicago's Ryerson Laboratory, which has been designated a historic physics landmark by the American Physical Society.
*Yoichiro Nambu - Winner of Sakurai Prize, Wolf Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, and the National Medal of Science. Considered founder of string theory. Known for "color charge" in quantum chromodynamics and work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics
*Stuart Rice - Chemist. National Medal of Science winner.
*Paul Sigler - Former Professor. Worked out the structure of the RNA molecule responsible for the initiation of protein synthesis. [http://www.yale.edu/opa/v28.n17/story8.html]
*Edward Teller - "Father of the hydrogen bomb"
*Harold Urey - Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
*Frank Wilczek -
*Sewall Wright - National Medal of Science winner. One of the founders of population genetics. [http://www.nndb.com/people/234/000103922/] [http://usna.usda.gov/history/photos/1910_3.html]ocial Sciences
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Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) - Former Professor of Anthropology.
*Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - University Professor in Economics, Graduate School of Business, and Sociology.
*Donald Bogue (A.M., Ph.D.)- Current professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
*Dipesh Chakrabarty - Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages & Civilizations.
*Ronald Coase - Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics, The Law School.
*Karin Knorr-Cetina - George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology.
*Constantin Fasolt - Professor of Early Modern European History.
*Robert Fogel - Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions.
*John Hope Franklin - John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History.
*Milton Friedman - Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics.
*Susan Gal - Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics; a leading scholar in studies of Eastern Europe, linguistic anthropology, and gender.
*Clifford Geertz - Professor of Anthropology (1960-1970).
*Chauncy Harris - Pioneering geographer at the University of Chicago in the first department of geography in the United States.
*Friedrich Hayek - Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
*James Heckman - Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in2000 .
*Lawrence Kohlberg (A.B. 1949, Ph.D. 1958) - Professor in the Committee on Human Development (1962-1968).
*Maynard C. Krueger Socialist Vice-Presidential Candidate and Professor of Economics 1933? - ??
*Harold Lasswell - One of the most influential political scientists of the 20th century.
*Steven Levitt - Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics.
*Mark Lilla - Professor in the Committee on Social Thought (1999-2007).
*Robert Lucas Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) - John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor in Economics.
*John Mearsheimer - R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science.
*Charles Edward Merriam - Founder of the behavioral approach to political science.
*Merton H. Miller - Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Business.
*Hans Morgenthau - One of the most important International Relations theorists; his seminal book "Politics Among Nations" defined the International Relations field.
*Robert Pape (Ph.D. 1988) - Professor of Political Science.
*Robert E. Park - Professor of Sociology (1914-1936).
*Alfred Radcliffe-Brown - Professor of Anthropology (1931-1937); developed theory of Structural Functionalism.
*Robert Redfield - Professor of Anthropology (1927-1958).
*Marshall Sahlins - Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology.
*Edward Sapir - Creator of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Sapir is arguably the most influential figure in American Linguistics.
*Saskia Sassen - Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology (1998-2007).
*David M. Schneider - Professor of Anthropology (1960-1986).
*Theda Skocpol - Former Professor of Sociology (1981-1986). Now Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.
*George Stigler - Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Graduate School of Business.
*William I. Thomas (Ph.D. 1896) - Professor of Sociology (1896-1918).
*Victor Turner - Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
*Thorstein Veblen - Professor of Political Economy (1892-1906).
*Stephen Walt - Former Professor (1989-1999) and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences (1996-1999). Dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government after tenure at the University of Chicago.
*William Julius Wilson - Lucy Flower University Professor of Sociology (1972-1996).
*Albert Wohlstetter - Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. Influenced prominent neoconservatives, includingPaul Wolfowitz . Prominent theorist of the Cold War.
*Frederic Thrasher - Notable sociologist and prominent member of theChicago School of Sociology
*Iris Marion Young - Former Professor of Political ScienceHistory
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Robert Bartlett - Professor of Medieval History (1984-1992), and currently Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History, University of St. Andrew's; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and author of many books, including "The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Social Change" (Princeton University Press, 1994).
*Daniel Boorstin - Professor at the University of Chicago for 25 years;Pulitzer Prize winner (1974); Librarian of Congress. [http://www.nndb.com/people/387/000032291/]
*James Henry Breasted - Professor of Egyptology and Oriental History
*Fred M. Donner - Professor of Near Eastern History. Guggenheim Fellow (2007).
*Sheila Fitzpatrick - Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History; ground-breaking historian of modern Russian and Soviet history; mentor to several established and up-and-coming "revisionist" historians of the Soviet Union, constituting a "Fitzpatrick School of Soviet History" (http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/publictn/acta/24/roundtable.pdf).
*Cornell Fleischer - Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies. MacArthur "Genius" Fellow (1988).
*John Hope Franklin - Pioneering scholar of African-American history and civil rights leader; Professor of History from 1964, and John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, 1969-82. President of theAmerican Historical Association (1979). Winner of thePresidential Medal of Freedom and thePulitzer Prize .
*Ramón A. Gutiérrez - Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of United States History; author of award-winning book "When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846" (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991);MacArthur Fellow (1983).
*Harry D. Harootunian - Max Palevsky Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Japanese History; groundbreaking scholar of Tokugawa history, Japanese modernism, and historical theory.
*Akira Iriye - Professor of History until 1989; now Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American History at Harvard; leading diplomatic and international historian, specializing in U.S.-Japan relations during the twentieth century;Guggenheim Fellow (1974) and President of theAmerican Historical Association (1988).
*Tetsuo Najita - Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Japanese History; specialist in Tokugawa Japan and Japanese intellectual and political history; past president of theAssociation for Asian Studies (1993-94).
*William McNeill -
*Hans Rothfels - Professor of History (1946-1951).
*Bernadotte E. Schmitt - Winner of thePulitzer Prize .
*Noel Swerdlow - Winner of a Macarthur Fellowship.
*James Westfall Thompson - Professor of History (1895-1933), leading American historian of the European Middle Ages and early modern period; president of theAmerican Historical Association , 1941 (died in office).
*Karl Weintraub - Professor of History (1954-2004) and leading scholar of European cultural history and the history of autobiography.
*John Woods - Professor of Iranian and Central Asian HistoryArts and Entertainment
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Shulamit Ran - William H. Colvin Professor of Music, 1973--present. Winner of thePulitzer Prize . Student ofRalph Shapey .
*Roger Ebert (X. 1970) - Film critic and lecturer at Graham School. Winner of thePulitzer Prize .
*Ralph Shapey - Composer,MacArthur Fellow in 1982.Laboratory School Faculty
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Blue Balliett - Acclaimed children's author.
*Langston Hughes - Major figure in theHarlem Renaissance .
*Vivian Paley - Noted child psychologist.University Presidents
:"See also: [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/centcat/pres/ The Presidents of the University of Chicago] , [http://presidentialsearch.uchicago.edu/ University of Chicago Presidential Search Committee] "
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Andrew M. Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A. 1981) - President of theNew York City Economic Development Corporation .
*David G. Booth (M.B.A. 1971) - Chairman and CEO ofDimensional Fund Advisors .
*John H. Bryan - Former Chairman and CEO of Sara Lee Corporation.
*Thomas A. Cole (J.D. 1975) - Chairman of the Executive Committee and Partner ofSidley Austin LLP , the sixth-largest law firm in the world.
*E. David Coolidge III - Vice Chairman of William Blair & Company, LLC.
*Jon Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) - Governor ofNew Jersey .
*James S. Crown - President ofHenry Crown and Company .
*Katharine Darrow (A.B. 1965) - Former Senior Vice President of the New York Times Company.
*Erroll B. Davis, Jr. (M.B.A. 1967) - Chancellor of theUniversity of Georgia .
*Jamie Dimon - President and COO ofJPMorgan Chase & Co. .
*Strachan Donnelley - President of the Center for Humans and Nature.
*Craig J. Duchossois - CEO of Duchossois Industries.
*James S. Frank - President and CEO of Wheels, Inc.
*Jack W. Fuller - Former president of theTribune Company
*Eric J. Gleacher (M.B.A. 1967) - Chairman of Gleacher Partners, LLC.
*Stanford J. Goldblatt (Lab 1954, X. 1958) - Partner of Winston & Strawn.
*Mary Louise Gorno (M.B.A. 1976) - Vice President and Global Account Director ofA.T. Kearney .
*Kathryn C. Gould (M.B.A. 1978) - Founder and General Partner of Foundation Capital.
*Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975) - Chairman of Quantitative Financial Strategies, Inc.
*King W. Harris - Chairman of Harris Holdings, Inc.
*Kenneth M. Jacobs (A.B. 1980) - CEO ofLazard North America and Deputy Chairman and Managing Director ofLazard LLC.
*Valerie B. Jarrett - Managing Director and Executive Vice President of theHabitat Company .
*Karen L. Katen (A.B. 1970, M.B.A. 1974) - Executive Vice President of Pfizer, Incorporated and President of Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals.
*Dennis J. Keller (M.B.A. 1968) - Chairman of DeVry Inc.
*Arthur L. Kelly (M.B.A. 1964) - Managing Partner of KEL Enterprises, L.P.
*James M. Kilts, Jr. (M.B.A. 1974) - Chairman, President, and CEO of Gillette Company.
*Michael J. Klingensmith (A.B. 1975, M.B.A. 1976) - Executive Vice President ofTime Inc.
*Michael L. Klowden (A.B. 1967) - President and CEO of Milken Institute.
*Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) - CEO of theSherry Lansing Foundation .
*John Martin (S.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1978) - President and CEO ofGilead Sciences .
*Walter E. Massey - President ofMorehouse College until2007 .
*Peter W. May (A.B. 1964, M.B.A. 1965) - President and COO of Triarc Companies, Inc.
*John W. McCarter, Jr. - President and CEO of theField Museum .
*Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) - Chairman and CEO ofAramark .
*Emily Nicklin (A.B. 1975, J.D. 1977) - Partner ofKirkland & Ellis .
*Harvey B. Plotnick (A.B. 1963) - President of Paradigm Holdings Inc.
*Thomas J. Pritzker (M.B.A. 1976, J.D. 1976) - Chairman and CEO ofHyatt Corporation .
*George A. Ranney, Jr. (J.D. 1966) - President and CEO of Chicago Metropolis 2020.
*John W. Rogers, Jr. (Lab 1976) - Chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management.
*Andrew M. Rosenfield (J.D. 1978) - President and CEO of Leaf Group LLC.
*Steven G. Rothmeier (M.B.A. 1972) - Chairman and CEO of Great Northern Capital.
*Richard P. Strubel - Vice Chairman of UNext, Inc.
*Byron D. Trott (A.B. 1981, M.B.A. 1982) - Vice Chairman ofGoldman Sachs .
*Marshall I. Wais, Jr. (A.B. 1963) - CEO of Marwais International L.L.C.
* Paula Wolff (A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1972) - Senior Executive of Chicago Metropolis 2020.
*Paul G. Yovovich (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1975) - President of Lake Capital.
*Francis T.F. Yuen (A.B. 1975) - Deputy Chairman of PCCW Limited.
*Robert J. Zimmer - President of theUniversity of Chicago .Fictional Characters
"The following is a list of fictional characters associated with the University of Chicago. Only characters who are integral to their respective films or books are listed."
* "Chain Reaction": Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves ), undergraduate student at the University of Chicago. The entire film is about fictionalnuclear fusion research at the University of Chicago.
* "Chasing Vermeer ": Petra and Calder, two junior detectives at theUniversity of Chicago Laboratory School .
* "The Core ": Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart ), professor at the University of Chicago.
* "Forever Knight ": Nick (Geraint Wyn Davies ) living in 1954 Chicago as Professor Nicholas Girard, professor at the University of Chicago.
* "The L Word ": Jenny Schecter (Mia Kirshner ), introduced as a recent graduate of the University of Chicago in thepilot episode .
* "The Lake House": Dr. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock ) is a graduate of the University of Chicago and is employed by theUniversity of Chicago Hospitals .
* "Law & Order ":Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy is a graduate of the University of Chicago.
* "Manhunter" and "Red Dragon ": Dr. Sidney Bloom, introduced in both films as apsychiatry expert from the University of Chicago.
* "My Best Friend's Wedding ": Kimberly Wallace (Cameron Diaz ), anarchitecture major at the University of Chicago (no such major exists at the University of Chicago).
* "Proof": Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal ) and Robert (Anthony Hopkins ), a student at the University of Chicago and amathematics professor there, respectively.
* "Raiders of the Lost Ark " and subsequentIndiana Jones films:Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford ), undergraduate student at the University of Chicago who eventually became an archaeology professor there.
* "Rope": Brandon Shaw, based on University of Chicago graduateNathan Leopold (Ph. B. 1923) of the infamous duoLeopold and Loeb .
* "Runaway Jury ": Lawrence Green (Jeremy Piven ), the plaintiff's jury consultant who graduated from the University of Chicago with apsychology degree.
* "Stargate SG-1 ": Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks ), a graduate of the University of Chicago.
* "Syriana ": Bryan Woodman (Matt Damon ) is a graduate of the University of Chicago.
* "Torn Curtain ": Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman ), University of Chicagophysics professor.
* "What's Up, Doc?": Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand ), studied "general semantics" at the University of Chicago.
* "World of Darkness ": (Dr. Ebenezer Darkov ) - Professor of Philosophy and parapsychology in the popular series of novels based on the world of darkness universe written by celebrated author, (Gavin Carville )
* "When Harry Met Sally... ": Harry Burns (Billy Crystal ) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan ), University of Chicago undergraduate students who met at the University gates.
* "X-Men ":Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page in ""), attended the University of Chicago in an attempt to give herself a "normal life."Resources
* [http://www.nndb.com/edu/520/000068316/ Notable Names Database: University of Chicago] – A comprehensive list of notable people affiliated with the University of Chicago.
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