List of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign people

This is an incomplete list of notable people associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States of America. Bill Gates noted in a February 2004 speech that Microsoft hires more alumni of the university than from any other university in the world [http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2004/02-24UnivIllinois.asp] . Notable people associated with the U of I have founded Oracle Corporation, Playboy, Netscape, PayPal, YouTube, AMD, and Siebel Systems. Notable people have invented the LED, integrated circuit, transistor, MRI, and the plasma screen.

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

Nobel Prize winners

*Edward Doisy, B.S. 1914, M.S. 1916 — Physiology or Medicine, 1943
*Vincent Du Vigneaud, B.S. 1923, M.S. 1924 — Chemistry, 1955; also served as faculty member
*Robert W. Holley, B.A. 1942 — Physiology or Medicine, 1968
*Jack Kilby, B.S. 1947 — Physics, 2000; inventor of the integrated circuit
*Edwin G. Krebs, B.A. 1940 — Physiology or Medicine, 1992
*Polykarp Kusch, M.S. 1933, Ph.D. 1936 — Physics, 1955
*John Schrieffer, M.S. 1954, Ph.D. 1957 — Physics, 1972; also served as faculty member
*Phillip Sharp, Ph.D. 1969 — Chemistry, 1993
*Wendell Stanley, M.S. 1927, PhD. 1929 — Chemistry 1946
*Rosalyn Yalow, M.S. 1942, Ph.D. 1945 — Physiology or Medicine, 1977

Pulitzer Prize winners

*Barry Bearak, M.S. 1974 — International Reporting, 2002
*Michael Colgrass, B.A. 1956 — Music, 1978
*George Crumb, M.A. 1952 — Music, 1968
*Carl Van Doren, B.A. 1907 — Biography, 1939
*Mark Van Doren, B.A. 1914 — Poetry, 1940
*Roger Ebert, B.S. 1964 — Criticism, 1975
*David Herbert Donald, M.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1946 — Biography, 1961 and 1988
*Paul Ingrassia, B.S. 1972 — Beat Reporting, 1993
*Allan Nevins, B.A. 1912, M.A. 1913 — Biography, 1933 and 1937
*James Reston, B.S. 1932 — National Reporting, 1945 and 1957
*Robert Lewis Taylor, B.A. 1933 — Fiction, 1959
*George F. Will, B.A. 1933 — Comentary, 1977

Academia

College presidents and vice-presidents

*John L. Anderson M.S., Ph.D. — Eighth President, Illinois Institute of Technology, Former Provost Case Western Reserve University
*Robert M. Berdahl M.A.— Current President of American Association of Universities, Former Chancellor of UC Berkeley, Former President of University of Texas at Austin
*Alvin Bowman Ph.D. - President, Illinois State University
*Tom Buchanan Ph.D., Twenty-third President University of Wyoming
*David L. Chicoine Ph.D. - President, South Dakota State University
*Lewis Collens B.S., M.A. — Seventh President, Illinois Institute of Technology
*Ralph J. Cicerone M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1970 — President, National Academy of Sciences, Former Chancellor UC Irvine
*Lois B. DeFleur Ph.D. — President, Binghamton University, Former Provost University of Missouri
*Tori Haring-Smith Ph.D - President, Washington & Jefferson College
*Freeman A. Hrabowski III M.A., Ph.D. - President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
*Philip Handler Ph.D. 1939 — President, National Academy of Sciences
*Robert W. Kustra Ph.D. - President, Boise State University
*John Niland Ph.D. 1970 - Fourth President, University of New South Wales, Australia
*J. Wayne Reitz M.S. 1935 — President, University of Florida
*Steven B. Sample B.S. 1962, M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1965 — Tenth President, University of Southern California
*Michael Schwartz B.S. 1958, M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962 - President Cleveland State University
*James J. Stukel M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1968 — Fifteenth President, University of Illinois
*David J. Schmidly Ph.D., - Twentieth President University of New Mexico
*William D. Underwood J.D. - Eighteen President, Mercer University
*Marvin Wachman Ph.D. - President, Temple University, Former President Lincoln University
*Herman B Wells - President, Indiana University

College provosts and vice provosts

*Joseph A. Alutto M.A. - Provost, Ohio State University
*Richard C. Lee Ph.D. - Vice Provost, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
*John J. Pauly Ph.D. - Provost, Marquette University

Distinguished professors and scholars

*James Thomson B.S. 1981, - Professor of Microbiology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
*Nick Holonyak B.S., Ph.D. - Professor of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*Warren Ambrose B.S. 1935, M.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1939 - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the MIT.
*Arnold O. Beckman B.S. 1922, M.S. 1923 - Former Professor of Chemistry at Caltech.
* David M. Rosen Professor of Anthropology and Law

Performing arts

*Barbara Bain, B.S. — Winner of three consecutive Emmy Awards for the role of Cinnamon Carter in ""
*Nancy Lee Grahn, briefly attended. Daytime Emmy-winning actress
*Gene Hackman — Actor
*Arte Johnson, 1949 — "Laugh-In" television personality
*Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, 1980 — Actress
*Ang Lee, 1980 — Academy Award-winning movie director (Best Director, 2005, Brokeback Mountain)
*Donna Mills, — Movie and TV actress
*Jerry Orbach, B.A. — Broadway actor, actor in "Dirty Dancing", Detective Lennie Briscoe in "Law & Order"
*Peter Palmer — Actor/singer; played "Li'l Abner" on Broadway and film
*Larry Parks — Academy-Award-nominated actor; blacklisted in Hollywood after testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee
*Andy Richter, briefly attended — Actor and former Conan O'Brien sidekick
*Alan Ruck — Actor ("Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Star Trek Generations", "Spin City")
*Lynne Thigpen, B.A. 1970 — 1997 Tony Award-winning actress ("Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?")

Architecture

*Max Abramovitz, B.S. 1929 — Architect on many campus and prominent international buildings including the United Nations Building, Assembly Hall (Champaign) and the Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City
*Temple Hoyne Buell — Architect for the first American central mall
*Henry Bacon — Architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
*Jeanne Gang, B.S. - Architect
*Ralph Johnson, B.Arch 1971 — Principle architect of the Perkins+Will
*Charles Luckman, designer of Madison Square Garden and Aon Center
*David Miller, M.Arch 1972 — Principle architect of the Miller/Hull partnership, FAIA
*César Pelli, M.Arch. 1954 — Architect for the Petronas Twin Towers
*Nathan Clifford Ricker, D.Arch. 1871 — First architect to receive a degree in Architecture from an American institution
*William L. Steele, Architect of the Prairie School during the early twentieth century
*John Hanna — Architect- Chicago Illinois

Art

*Mark Staff Brandl, B.F.A. 1978 — artist, art historian and critic
*Leslie Erganian - artist and writer
*Deb Sokolow, B.A. 1996 — artist
*Lorado Taft - sculptor, writer and educator

Astronauts

*Scott Altman, B.S. 1981
*Lee J. Archambault, B.S. 1982, M.S. 1984
*Dale A. Gardner, B.S. 1970
*Steven R. Nagel, B.S. 1969
*Joseph R. Tanner, B.S.

Business

*Jim Cantalupo, 1966 — Chairman and CEO of McDonald's (1991-2004)
*Jerry Colangelo, B.S. 1962 — President & CEO of Phoenix Suns and managing general partner of Arizona Diamondbacks
*Jon Corzine, A.B. 1969 — Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs (1994-1999), "cross listed in Politics section"
*Stephen Carley, A.B. "circa" 1973 - CEO of El Pollo Lococite web|url=http://www.qsrmagazine.com/articles/news/story.phtml?id=3252|title=El Pollo Loco Names President|date=2001-04-10|publisher=QSR Magazine] , former president and chief operating officer of Universal City Hollywood
*Martin Eberhard, 1960 - CEO and co-founder of Tesla Motors
*George M.C. Fisher, 1962 — CEO of Eastman Kodak
*John Georges, 1951 — CEO of International Paper
*Robert L. Johnson, — Founder of Black Entertainment Television; principal owner of the Charlotte Bobcats
*Michael P. Krasny, B.S. 1975 — Chairman Emeritus and founder of CDW
*Tom Murphy, B.S. 1938 — Chairman of General Motors
*Ron Popeil, 1957 — Inventor of the Infomercial (left after one year)
*Abe Saperstein, — Creator of the Harlem Globetrotters
*Jack Welch, M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1961 — CEO of General Electric (1981-2001)
*C. E. Woolman, 1912 — Founder of Delta Air Lines
*John D. Zeglis, B.S. 1969 — Former President of AT&T; Former Chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless

Engineering and technology

*Shoaib Abbasi, B.S. 1980, M.S. 1980 — President and CEO of Informatica
*Richard Blahut
*Marc Andreessen, B.S. 1993 — Co-creator of Mosaic, and later co-founder of Netscape
*Bruce Artwick, M.S. 1976 — Creator of Microsoft Flight Simulator
*Anna Patterson, Ph.D. 1998 — Creator of the search engine Cuil
*Ken Batcher, Ph.D. 1969 - ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award winner for work on parallel computers
*Arnold O. Beckman, B.S. 1922, MS 1923 — Inventor of pH meter, founder of Beckman Instruments; major donor to U of I, the Beckman Institute and Beckman Quadrangle are named after him
*Eric Bina, B.S. 1986, M.S. 1988 — Co-creator of the Mosaic and among the first employees of Netscape
*Donald L. Bitzer B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1960 [cite web|url=http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/current/ugrad/awards/bit.html|title=Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards|author=The Board of Trustees at the University of Illinois|date=2007] — 2003 Emmy Award in Technical Achievement for the invention of the plasma display
*Ed Boon, B.S. 1986 — Creator of the Mortal Kombat video game series
*Steve Chen — Co-founder of YouTube
*Ven Te Chow, Ph.D. notable professor of hydrology
*John Cioffi B.S. 1978, father of DSL (broad band internet connection), Marconi Prize winner [cite web|url=http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=1015&article=tionline/legacy/inst2006/dec06/memrec.xml&|title=Marconi Award Goes to DSL Pioneer|author=Nancy Salim|date=2006-12-05|publisher=IEEE] , founder of Amati Communications (sold to Texas Instruments), IEEE Fellow
*Dan Dobberpuhl B.S. 1967 [cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/eds/apr03/field_award.html|title=EDS Members Named Winners of the 2003 IEEE Technical Field Awards|publisher=IEEE|date=2003-04|author=Afred U. MacCrae] - Founder of semiconductor compiany P.A. Semi (acquired by Apple Inc. for $278 million [cite web|author=Bridget Maiellaro|date=2008-24-08|url=http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/news/?xId=074108000700|title=ECE alumnus' company purchased by Apple|publisher=University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign] )
*Steve Dorner, B.S. 1983 — Creator of Eudora
*Alan M. Davis, M.S. 1973, Ph.D. 1975 — IEEE Fellow for contributions to software engineering, author, entrepreneur
*James DeLaurier, B.S. - designed the first microwave-powered aircraft, the first engine-powered ornithopter, and the first human-carrying ornithopter
*Russell Dupuis B.S. 1970, M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1972 - professor at Georgia Tech, co-recipient of the 2002 National Medal of Technology, awarded the 2007 IEEE Edison Medal, pioneer in metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and the commercialization of LEDs
*Lawrence Ellison — founder of Oracle Corporation (left after sophomore year)
*Michael Hart, B.A. 1973 — Founder of Project Gutenberg
*Tomlinson Holman, B.S. 1968 — creator of THX, professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts
*Jawed Karim, B.S. 2004 — Co-founder of YouTube
*Fazlur Khan, Ph.D. 1955 — Designer and builder of the Sears Tower, tallest building in the world when it was built in 1973
*Ed Krol - author of "Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog"
*Max Levchin, B.S. 1997 — Co-founder of PayPal
*Robert McCool, B.S. 1995 - author of the original NCSA HTTPd web server, later known as the Apache HTTP Server.
*Bob Miner, B.A. (mathematics) 1963 — Co-founder of Oracle Corporation
*Ray Ozzie, B.S. 1979 — Creator of Lotus Notes cofounder of Lotus, co-President of Microsoft
*Cecil Peabody, writer, graduate of MIT (1877) and professor at MIT
*Jerry Sanders, B.S. 1958 — Co-founder and former CEO of Advanced Micro Devices
*Thomas Siebel, B.A. 1975, M.B.A. 1983, M.S. 1985 — Founder of Siebel Systems
*H. Gene Slottow, Ph.D. 1964 [cite web|url=http://wwwold.ece.uiuc.edu/alumni/w02-03/plasma_history.html|title=Plasma display panels: The colorful history of an Illinois technology|author=Jamie Hutchinson|publisher=University of Illinois Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Association|date=2002-2003 Winter] — 2003 Emmy Award in Technical Achievement for the invention of the plasma display
*Bill Stumpf — Designer of the Aeron and Ergon ergonomic chairs
*Kevin Warwick, Senior Beckman Fellow, 2004 - Cyborg Scientist, University of Reading.

Literature

*Nelson Algren, B.S. 1931 — Author of 1950 National Book Award-winning "The Man With the Golden Arm"
*Ann Bannon, B.A. 1955 - Pulp fiction author of "The Beebo Brinker Chronicles"
*Dee Brown, M.S. 1951 — Author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
*John F. Callahan, M.A., Ph.D. — literary executor for Ralph Ellison
*Iris Chang, B.A. 1989 — Author of "The Rape of Nanking"
*Dave Eggers, attended 1980s and 90s, B.S. 2002 — Author of "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
*Stanley Elkin, B.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1961 — National Book Critics Circle Award winner for "George Mills" in 1982 and for "Mrs. Ted Bliss" in 1995
*Lee Falk, 1932 — Creator of The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician
*Irene Hunt, B.A. 1939 — Newbery Medal winning author of "Up a Road Slowly"
*Richard Powers, M.A. 1979 — Novelist and writer

Journalism and non-fiction broadcasting

*Dan Balz, B.A. 1968, M.A. 1972 - Washington Post national political reporter and editor; author
*Chris Britt - Editorial cartoonist
*John Chancellor, — Political analyst and newscaster for NBC Nightly News
*Roger Ebert, B.S. 1964 — Film critic
*Bill Geist, 1968 — CBS News correspondent
*Robert Goralski, 1949 - NBC News correspondent
*Bob Grant — Radio talk show personality.
*Herb Keinon - Columnist and journalist for "The Jerusalem Post"
*Frederick C Klein, B.A. 1959 — sportswriter "Wall Street Journal' and author
*Carol Marin, A.B. 1970 — Former news anchor, "60 Minutes" correspondent, and Illinois Journalist of the Year (1988)
*Robert Novak, B.A. 1952 — Political commentator and columnist
*Suze Orman, B.A. 1973 — Financial adviser and author
*Ian Punnett, — Radio talk show personality, and Saturday night host of Coast to Coast AM
*B. Mitchel Reed, B.S., M.A. — Popular radio personality in Los Angeles and New York
*Dan Savage, advice columnist (Savage Love) and theater director
*Gene Shalit, 1949 — Film critic
*Douglas Wilson — Television personality/designer

Media

*Robert "Buck" Brown - "Playboy" cartoonist, creator of the libinous "Granny" character, and whose drawings also regularly addressed racial equality issues
*Dianne Chandler — "Playboy" Playmate of the Month, 1966
*Erika Harold — Miss America 2003
*Judith Ford (Judi Nash), B.S. — Miss America 1969
*Hugh Hefner, B.A. 1949 — Founder of "Playboy" magazine
*Nicole Hollander, B.A. 1960 — Syndicated cartoonist of "Sylvia"
*Henry Petroski, Ph.D. 1968 — Civil engineer and writer
*Irna Phillips, 1923 — Creator of the soap opera

Military

*Lew Allen, Jr., M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1954 — Chief of Staff, United States Air Force

Music

*Marty Casey, B.A. — Lead vocalist of the band Lovehammers
*Neal Doughty, attended late 1960s — Keyboard player and founding member of REO Speedwagon
*Curtis Jones- House music singer, songwriter, and producer and founder of Green Velvet
*Jerry Hadley — opera singer
*Bob Nanna — indie rock musician, founder of the bands Friction, Braid (band), Hey Mercedes, and The City on Film
*Psalm One- hip hop artistDan Fogelberg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Fogelberg

Politics

*John Anderson — Former U.S. Representative and 1980 presidential candidate
*Berhane Abrehe, M.S. 1972 - Third Minister of Finance of Eritrea
*Fidel V. Ramos, 1951 — Former President of the Philippines (1992-1998)
*James Brady, 1962 — White House Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan, hand gun control advocate
*Nancy Brinker, 1968 — Founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure; Chief of Protocol of the United States, United States ambassador to Hungary 2001-09-06 to 2003-06-19
*Henry M. Britt, 1941 and 1947 (Law) - Arkansas Republican pioneer and circuit judge in Hot Springs
*Edwin V. Champion - a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
*Rafael Correa, Ph.D. 2001 — President and Former Secretary (Minister) of Finances of Ecuador.
*Jon Corzine, A.B. 1969 — Governor of New Jersey (2006-"present") and U.S. Senator from New Jersey (2001-2006), "cross listed in Business section"
*Dorothy Day, 1918 — founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
*Alan J. Dixon, B.S. - United States Senator from 1981 until 1993.
*Atef Ebeid, Ph.D. 1962 — Former prime minister of Egypt (1999-2004)
*Tom Fink, J.D. 1952 - Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives (1973), Mayor of Anchorage (1987-1994)
*Chuck Graham, B.S. 1987 - Missouri House of Representatives (1996-2002), Missouri State Senate 2004
*Jesse Jackson — Civil rights leader, presidential candidate and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition -Expelled before graduation.
*Jesse Jackson Jr., J.D. 1993 — U.S. Representative from Illinois (1995-"present")
*Victor Kamber, B.S. 1965 - formed The Kamber Group, working for Democratic Party candidates and labor unions
*Annette Lu, — Former Vice-president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (2000-2008)
*Lynn Morley Martin, B.A. 1960 — U.S. Representative from Illinois (1981-1991) and Secretary of Labor in the cabinet of George H.W. Bush (1991-1993)
*Oran McPherson — Former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and Minister of Public Works for the United Farmers of Alberta government.
*Maxwell Mkwezalamba - Commissioner for Economic Affairs for the African Union Commission
*Samuel K. Skinner, 1960 — Secretary of Transportation (1989-1991); White House Chief of Staff during the George H. W. Bush Administration (1992)

cience and mathematics

*Murray S. Blum — Entomologist, authority on chemical ecology and pheromones
*John Carbon, B.S. 1952 - Biochemist, United States National Academy of Sciences member
*Stephen S. Chang, Ph.D. 1952 - Food scientist, IFT Stephen S. Chang Award for Lipid or Flavor Science
*Karl Clark, Ph.D - discovered the hot water oil separation process
*Cutler J. Cleveland, Ph.D - Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy and the Encyclopedia of Earth.
*Ronald Cohn, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1971 — Researcher and cameraman who helped document Koko, the mountain gorilla
*Alfred Y. Cho, B.S. 1960, M.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1968 — Father of molecular beam epitaxy; received the National Medal of Science in 1993
*Gene H. Golub, B.S. 1953, M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1959 - B. Bolzano Gold Medal for Merits in the Field of Mathematical
*Joseph Leo Doob - mathematician
*Richard Hamming, Ph.D. 1942 — mathematician, who developed Hamming code and Hamming distance, winner of 1968 ACM Turing Award. IEEE's Richard W. Hamming Medal is named after him.
*Donald G. Higman, Ph.D. 1952 - mathematician, discovered the Higman–Sims group
* Charles Hirsch B.S. 1958, New York City Chief Medical Examiner. [ [http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcpt/News/2003_05_Hirsch.htm Charles Hirsch MD receives Distinguished Alumnus Award at 2003 Commencement] , University of Illinois College of Medicine. Accessed September 16, 2008.]
*Donald Johanson, B.S. 1966 — Anthropologist, discoverer of oldest known hominid, "Lucy"
*Michael Lacey, Ph.D. 1987 - Awarded the Salem Prize for solving conjectures about the Bilinear Hilbert Transform
*Francine Patterson, B.S. 1970 — Researcher who taught a modified version of American Sign Language to a mountain gorilla named Koko
*Allan Sandage, B.S., 1948 — Influential astronomer and cosmologist; winner of 1991 Crafoord Prize
*Charles W. Woodworth, B.S. 1885, M.S. 1886 — Founder of the Division of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley; the PBESA gives the C. W. Woodworth Award
*Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Ph.D. 1975 — computer scientist, winner of 2000 ACM Turing Award
*David Blackwell, Ph.D. 1941 — Rao–Blackwell theorem. In 1965 he was the first African American to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.

ports

Administration

*Ron Guenther, B.S. 1967, M.S. 1968 - Director of Athletics, hired coaches Ron Zook and Bruce Weber for football and basketball
*Chester Pittser, B.S. 1924 - Miami University football and basketball coach (1924-1931), Montclair State College football, basketball and baseball coach (1934-1943)

Basketball

*Nick Anderson, former National Basketball Association player, Orlando Magic's career scoring leader
*James Augustine, National Basketball Association player, forward for the Orlando Magic
*Dee Brown, National Basketball Association player, guard for the Utah Jazz
*Brian Cook, National Basketball Association player, forward for the Orlando Magic
*Kendall Gill, former National Basketball Association player
*Derek Harper, former National Basketball Association player
*Luther Head, National Basketball Association player, guard for the Houston Rockets
*Roger Powell, National Basketball Association player, currently a free agent
*Deron Williams, National Basketball Association player, guard for the Utah Jazz
*Frank Williams, National Basketball Association player, currently a free agent

Baseball

*Jason Anderson, Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs
*Fred Beebe, late Major League Baseball player
*Lou Boudreau, late Major League Baseball player; member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
*Mark Dalesandro, former Major League Baseball catcher and third baseman
*Darrin Fletcher, former Major League Baseball catcher
*Tom Haller, former Major League Baseball catcher
*Ken Holtzman, former Major League Baseball pitcher and current Israel Baseball League manager
*Scott Spiezio, Major League Baseball infielder and former World Series Champion (2002-Anaheim Angels) (2006-St. Louis Cardinals)
*Matt Hewitt, Edwardsville High School baseball

Football

*Dick Butkus, National Football League linebacker; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
*Luke Butkus, National Football League coach, Offensive line coach for the Chicago Bears, nephew of Dick Butkus
*Rashard Mendenhall, National Football League running back drafted in 2008 to the Pittsburgh Steelers
*Danny Clark IV, National Football League player, linebacker for the New Orleans Saints
*Jameel Cook, National Football League player, fullback for the Houston Texans
*David Diehl, National Football League player, offensive guard for the New York Giants
*Moe Gardner, former National Football League player, former defensive line for the Atlanta Falcons
*Red Grange, charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
*George Halas, former National Football League coach for the Chicago Bears; charter member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
*Kelvin Hayden, National Football League player, cornerback for the Indianapolis Colts
*Greg Lewis, National Football League player, wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles
*Brandon Lloyd, National Football League player, wide receiver for the Chicago Bears
*Aaron Moorehead, National Football League player, wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts
*Ray Nitschke, National Football League player, former linebacker for the Green Bay Packers
*Tony Pashos, National Football League player, offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens
*Neil Rackers, National Football League player, kicker for the Arizona Cardinals
*Simeon Rice, National Football League player, defensive end
*Marques Sullivan, former National Football League player, offensive line for the New England Patriots
*Steve Weatherford, National Football League player, punter for the New Orleans Saints
*Eugene Wilson, National Football League player, defensive back for the New England Patriots
*Fred Wakefield National Football League player, offensive guard for the Arizona Cardinals
*Pierre Thomas National Football League player, running back for the New Orleans Saints

Golf

*Steve Stricker, Professional golfer

Olympics

*Avery Brundage, B.S. 1909; Olympian, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President (1952-1972)
*Abie Grossfeld, Olympic, Pan Am, and Maccabiah Games gymnast and coach
*Daniel Kinsey, gold medal in men's 110 m hurdles, 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris
*Harold Osborn, gold medal in decathlon and high jump, 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris
*Herb McKenley, silver medal in 400m, 1948 Summer Olympics in London; silver medal in 100m and 400m, gold medal in 4x400m relay, 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki
*Craig Virgin, 3-time Olympian in men's 10,000 meters, 2-time World Cross Country Champion
*Michael Velazquez, bronze medal in men's two man luge, 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He excelled at both top and bottom, front and behind.

=Notable faculty=

Presidents

*Selim Peabody (1880-91)

Nobel laureates

*John Bardeen, 1951-1991 — Awarded Nobel prizes for Physics in 1953 for co-inventing the transistor and again in 1972 for work on superconductivity (one of the only 4 people in the world to win multiple Nobel Prizes and the only one who won twice in Physics.)
*Elias James (E.J.) Corey, 1951-59 — Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1990)
*Paul Lauterbur, 1985-2007 — Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2003)
*Anthony J. Leggett, 1983- — Nobel laureate (Physics, 2003)
*Salvador Luria, 1950-59 — Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1969)
*Rudolph Marcus, 1964-68 — Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1992)
*Franco Modigliani, 1948-1952 — Nobel laureate (Economics, 1985)
*Leonid Hurwicz, 1950-1951, 2001 — Nobel laureate (Economics, 2007)

Pulitzer Prize winners

*Leon Dash, Faculty - Explanatory Journalism, 1995
*Bill Gaines, Emeritus Faculty - Investigative Reporting, 1976 and 1988

Other

*Jean Bourgain, Faculty — Fields Medal in Mathematics of International Mathematical Union, 1994
*Ira Carmen, 1968-present — First political scientist elected to the Human Genome Organization and co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics.
*Arthur Byron Coble — Professor of mathematics (1918-47)
*Ron Dewar - Music educator, noted jazz saxophonist, leader of influential Memphis Nighthawks
*David Gottlieb, 1946-1982 - discovered chloramphenicol, Guggenheim Fellow, Biology-Plant Science, 1963;
*David Grove, b.1935 - Professor (now Emeritus) of Anthropology (since 1970); Mesoamericanist scholar and archaeologist
*Nick Holonyak Jr. — Lemelson-MIT Prize (2004), National Medal of Technology (2002), National Medal of Science (1990); credited for the invention of the LED and the first semiconductor laser to operate in the visible spectrum
*Francis Wheeler Loomis, Head of Physics Department 1929-57 - former Guggenheim Fellow that established schools Physics Department.
*Abram L. Sachar, 1923-1948 — Founding President of Brandeis University
*Fred W. Tanner, 1923-56 - Food microbiologist, charter member of the Institute of Food Technologists, and founder of scientific journal "Food Research" (now the "Journal of Food Science").
* Brian Wansink, 1997-2005 — Julian Simon professor and author of ""
*Carl Woese — Crafoord Prize recipient (Bioscience, 2003); professor of microbiology, foreign member of the Royal Society
*Stephen Wolfram — adjunct professor of physics, co-founder of Wolfram Research and creator of Mathematica
* Wallace Hume Carothers - organic chemist, inventor of nylon and first synthetic rubber (Neoprene)

References

http://www.danfogelberg.com/biography.html