This list of University of Chicago alumni consists of notable people who graduated or attended the University of Chicago . The alumni of the university include graduates and attendees. Graduates are defined as those who hold bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degrees from the university, while attendees are those who studied at the university but did not complete the program or obtain a degree. Honorary degree holders and auditors of the university are excluded. Summer session attendees are also excluded from the list since summer terms are not part of the university's formal academic years.
Luis Alvarez (A.B. 1932, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1936) – Physics, 1968
Emily Green Balch (attended) – Peace, 1946[ 1]
Moungi Bawendi (Ph.D. 1988) – Chemistry, 2023
Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – Economics, 1992
Saul Bellow (X. 1939) – Literature, 1976
Herbert Brown (S.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1938) – Chemistry, 1979
James M. Buchanan (Ph.D. 1948) – Economics, 1986
Owen Chamberlain (Ph.D. 1949) – Physics, 1959
J. M. Coetzee (Professor) – Literature, 2003
James Cronin (S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – Physics, 1980
Clinton Davisson (S.B. 1909) – Physics, 1937
Eugene Fama (M.B.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1964) – Economics, 2013
Jerome Friedman (A.B. 1950, S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1956) – Physics, 1990
Milton Friedman (A.M. 1933) – Economics, 1976
Claudia Goldin (Ph.D. 1972) – Economics, 2023
John B. Goodenough (Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 2019
John M. Jumper (Ph.D. 2017) - Chemistry, 2024
Ernest Lawrence (X. 1923) – Physics, 1939
Tsung-Dao Lee (Ph.D. 1950) – Physics, 1957
Robert Lucas Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) – Economics, 1995
Harry Markowitz (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – Economics, 1990
Robert Millikan (X. 1894) – Physics, 1923
Robert Mulliken (Ph.D. 1921) – Chemistry, 1966
Paul Romer (S.B. 1977, Ph.D. 1983) – Economics, 2018
Irwin Rose (S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 2004
F. Sherwood Rowland (S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 1995
Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) – Economics, 1970
Myron Scholes (M.B.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1969) – Economics, 1997
Herbert A. Simon (A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1943) – Economics, 1978
George E. Smith (Ph.D. 1959) – Physics, 2009
Roger Sperry (Ph.D. 1941) – Medicine, 1981
Jack Steinberger (S.B. 1942; Ph.D. 1949) – Physics, 1988
George Stigler (S.B. 1942, Ph.D. 1949) – Economics, 1982
Edward Lawrie Tatum (X. 1931) – Medicine, 1958
Daniel Tsui (S.M. 1963; Ph.D. 1967) – Physics, 1998
James Dewey Watson (S.B. 1947) – Medicine, 1962
Frank Wilczek (A.B. 1970) – Physics, 2004; MacArthur Fellow (1982)
Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. 1948) – Physics, 1957
Heads of state or government [ edit ]
Other government officials [ edit ]
Shimon Agranat (J.D. 1929) – President of the Supreme Court of Israel (1965–1976)
Prince Chad Al-Sherif Pasha (M.A.P.S.S. 2006) – of the Hijaz and Turkey[ 4]
Saul Alinsky (Ph.B. 1930) – labor organizer and political activist
Daniel Ankeles (Bachelor's 2004) – Member of the Maine House of Representatives [ 5]
Bernard W. Aronson (A.B. 1967) – United States Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1989–1993)
John Ashcroft (J.D. 1967) – Attorney General of the United States (2001–2005)
David Axelrod (A.B. 1977) – author and former senior advisor to President Barack Obama
Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill (1919–1974) – judge and academic; justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (1971–1972)
Paul Bloom (1939–2009) – lawyer who recovered $6 billion for the United States Department of Energy [ 6]
Robert H. Bork (A.B. 1948, J.D. 1953) – Attorney General of the United States (1973–1974); United States Court of Appeals Judge (1982–1988)
Marvin Braude (1920–2005) – member of Los Angeles City Council (1965–1997)
Lisa Brown (J.D. 1986) – White House Staff Secretary (2009–2011)
William Holmes Brown (J.D. 1954) – Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives (1974–1994)
Charles W. Bryan – 20th and 23rd Governor of Nebraska [ 7]
Lindsey Burke (M.A. 2012) – lawyer and member of the Kentucky house of representatives
John E. Cashman – Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 1st district
Ahmed Chalabi (Ph.D. 1969) – interim Oil Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
Elizabeth Cheney (J.D. 1996) – head of the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group (ISOG) and daughter of former U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney
Ramsey Clark (A.M. 1950, J.D. 1951) – Attorney General of the United States (1967–1969)
Benjamin V. Cohen (Phi Beta Kappa 1913, Ph.B 1914, J.D. 1915) – member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's brain trust
James Comey (J.D.) – seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lycurgus Conner (B.A., J.D.) – member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1961–1963)
Richard Cordray (J.D. 1986) – 1st director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , 49th attorney general of Ohio, 46th Treasurer of Ohio
Jon S. Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) – Governor of New Jersey (D) (2006–2010); United States Senator (D-NJ) (2001–2006); former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs ; University trustee
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (X. 1933) – General of the United States Air Force (1954); Assistant Secretary of Transportation under Nixon
Francisco Gil Diaz (Ph.D. 1972) – Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico
James I. Dolliver (J.D. 1921) – Republican U.S. representative from Iowa's 6th congressional district
Jon Dudas (J.D.) – Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office , Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
Frank H. Easterbrook (J.D. 1973) – Circuit Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Allison H. Eid (J.D. 1991) – 95th Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
Troy Eid (J.D. 1991) – United States Attorney for the District of Colorado (2006–2009)
Harvey Feldman (A.B. ?, A.M. 1954) – drafter of the Taiwan Relations Act , United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (1979–1981)[ 8]
Noel Francisco (B.A. 1991 J.D. 1996) – 47th solicitor general of the United States
Jerome Frank (A.B. 1909, J.D. 1912) – legal philosopher, Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Stanton Friedman (B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956) – nuclear physicist, UFOlogist
Douglas H. Ginsburg (J.D. 1973) – Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jackie Goldberg (M.A.T. 1973) – California State Assembly member (2000–2006)
Anastasia Golovashkina (A.B. 2015) – social media director for Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign
Paulo Guedes (Ph.D. 1978) – Brazilian Minister of the Economy
Avril Haines (A.B. 1992) – Deputy Director of the CIA (2013–2015), Deputy National Security Advisor (2015–2017), Director of National Intelligence (2021–present)
William J. Holloway (A.B. 1910) – 8th governor of Oklahoma (1929–1931)
James Hormel (J.D. 1958) – United States Ambassador to Luxembourg (1999–2001)
Constance Horner (M.A. 1967) – member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1993–1998); public official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, independent director of Pfizer , Prudential Financial , and Ingersoll Rand [ 9]
Thomas W. Hyde – major general of volunteers in the American Civil War , Maine state senator, founder of Bath Iron Works
Harold LeClair Ickes (A.B. 1897 J.D. 1907) – United States Secretary of the Interior (1933–1946)
Fred Ikle (A.M. 1948, Ph.D. 1950) – former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy ; Director of U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1973–1977)
Peter Jambrek (Ph.D. 1971) – President of the Constitutional Court (1991–1993) and Minister of the Interior of Slovenia (2000), member of the European Court for Human Rights (1993–1999)
Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963 Social Anthropology) – twice in charge of the Haiti Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1990–1991 and 2004–2010)
Patricia Kabbah (A.M. 1963) – former first lady of Sierra Leone
Anne Kaiser (B.A. 1990) – Member of the Maryland House of Delegates , 2003–present
Harold C. Kessinger – newspaper editor and publisher, lecturer, and Illinois state legislator
Zalmay Khalilzad (Ph.D. 1979) – United States Ambassador to the United Nations (2007–2009); former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
Ro Khanna (B.A. 1998) – Member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 17th district
Koh Tsu Koon (Ph.D. 1977) – third Chief Minister of the State of Penang , Malaysia (1990–2008)
Andy Kim (B.A. 2004) – politician and former national security adviser for Barack Obama
Amy Klobuchar (J.D. 1985) – United States Senate (D-MN) (2007–present)
Larry Krasner – federal public defender, running for District Attorney of Philadelphia
Alexander Krasnoshchyokov (J.D. 1912) – Soviet politician, first chairman of the Government of the Far Eastern Republic
Jewel Lafontant (J.D. 1946) – United Nations delegate
Brad Lander (B.A. 1991) – New York City Council Member, 39th district
Rex E. Lee (J.D. 1963) – 37th solicitor general of the United States
Thomas Rex Lee (J.D. 1991) – Associate Justice of the Utah Supreme Court
Edward Levi (A.B. 1932, J.D. 1935) – Attorney General of the United States (1975–1977)
Lori Lightfoot (J.D. 1989) – Mayor of Chicago
Lien Chan (Ph.D. 1965) – Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan ) under President Lee Teng-hui (1996–2000)
Justin Yifu Lin (Ph.D. 1986) – senior vice president and first chief economist from a developing country for the World Bank (2008–present)
Robert Todd Lincoln (J.D. 1867) – 35th United States Secretary of War
T. D. A. Lingo – folk singer, radio personality, and brain researcher
Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo – Kenyan trade unionist and politician
Jack Markell (M.B.A. 1985) – Governor of Delaware (2009–2017)
Antonio Martino (M.B.A. 1968) – Italian Minister of Defence (2001–2006), minister of foreign affairs (1994–1995), and scholar
Michael W. McConnell (J.D. 1979) – Circuit Judge, United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
David M. McIntosh (J.D. 1983) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 2nd district, President of the Club for Growth
Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez – Governor-elect of Tlaxcala
Abner J. Mikva (J.D. 1951) – Illinois congressman (1956–1966); United States congressman (1969–1973, 1975–1979); United States Court of Appeals Judge (1979–1994)
Patsy Mink (J.D. 1951) – United States House of Representatives (D-HI) (1965–1977, 1990–2002)
Carol Moseley Braun (J.D. 1972) – United States Senate (D-IL) (1992–1998); United States Ambassador (1999–2001)
Richard A. Mugalian – Illinois state representative and lawyer[ 10]
Eliot Ness (A.B. 1925) – United States Treasury and Bureau of Prohibition agent, head of The Untouchables
William Niskanen (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1962) – chairman of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.
Ajit Pai (J.D. 1997) – chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (2017–2021)
James B. Parsons (A.M. 1946, J.D. 1949) – first African-American Federal District Court Judge (1991–1992)[ 11]
Peter George Peterson (M.B.A. 1951) – United States Secretary of Commerce (1972–1973)
Abraham A. Ribicoff (J.D. 1933) – 4th United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare , 80th governor of Connecticut
Pete Ricketts (A.B. 1986, M.B.A. 1991)[ 12] – 40th Governor of Nebraska (2015–2023); United States Senate (R-NE) (2023–present)
Paul Romer (B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1983) – Chief Economist of the World Bank
Kyle Sampson (J.D. 1996) – chief of staff and counselor of United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Bernie Sanders (A.B. 1964) – United States Senator (VT); United States House of Representatives ; 2016 and 2020 presidential candidate
David Schuman (Ph.D. 1974) – Oregon Court of Appeals Judge[ 13]
Masaaki Shirakawa (A.M. 1977) – governor, Bank of Japan (2008–present)
Thomas Sowell (Ph.D. 1968) – winner of the National Humanities Medal (2003); economist and senior fellow at Hoover Institution , Stanford University
John Paul Stevens (A.B. 1941) – United States Supreme Court Justice (1975–2010)
Jim Talent (J.D. 1981) – United States Senator (R-Mo) (2002–2007)
Jennifer Stewart – Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
John Thomas (J.D. 1970) – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Joe Walsh – conservative talk radio host; former Republican Representative from Illinois's 8th congressional district (M.P.P. 1991)[ 14]
Paul Wolfowitz (Ph.D. 1972) – president of the World Bank (2005–2007); United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001–2005)
Todd Young (M.B.A. 2000) – U.S. senator from Indiana (2017–present)
Kateryna Yushchenko (M.B.A. 1986) – First Lady of Ukraine (2005–2010)
Arts and entertainment [ edit ]
Ed Asner (X. 1948) – Emmy Award -winning actor, The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Lou Grant , Up , Elf
David Auburn (A.B. 1991) – playwright; winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Proof
Lester Beall (A.B. 1926) – modernist graphic designer
Elvin Bishop (X, 1972) – rock musician; blues icon
JoAnne Carson – painter and sculptor, Guggenheim Fellow (2016)
Anna Chlumsky (A.B. 2002) – actress; film My Girl and TV series Veep
Misha Collins (A.B. 1997) – actor; star of TV series Supernatural
Kahane Cooperman (A.B. 1980) – documentary filmmaker and television producer[ 15]
Jan Crull Jr. (A.M. 1984) – documentary filmmaker
Roger De Koven (1930) – Actor on stage, radio, film and TV; star of Peabody Award -winning radio drama Against the Storm [ 16] [ 17]
Katherine Dunham (Ph.B. 1936) – dancer and choreographer, National Medal of Arts winner
Roger Ebert (X. 1970) – film critic and Pulitzer Prize winner
Kurt Elling (X. 1992) – jazz singer and nine-time Grammy Award nominee
Jonathan Elliott (Ph.D. 1988) – classical composer
George R. Ellis (A.B. 1959, M.F.A. 1962) – author, art historian and director of the Honolulu Museum of Art
David B. Eskind (X. 1934) – radio scriptwriter, producer
Irwin Leroy Fischer (A.B. 1924)[ 18] – classical composer, former dean of faculty American Conservatory of Music and former principal organist Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Alyce Frank (1950) – artist
Melvin Frank (A.B. 1935) – Academy Award -nominated filmmaker and screenwriter, A Touch of Class
Philip Glass (A.B. 1956) – Academy Award-nominated composer and musician
Leon Golub (A.B. 1942) – artist
John Grierson (A.M. 1927) – coined the word "documentary"; founder of the British documentary film movement; founded and headed Canada's National Film Board during World War II; director of mass communications for UNESCO , 1948–50
Sessue Hayakawa (A.B. 1913) – Academy Award-nominated film actor; starred in Cecil B. DeMille 's The Cheat and Bridge on the River Kwai
Marilu Henner (X. 1974) – actress; starred in TV series Taxi
Daryl Hine (Ph.D. 1967) – Canadian poet and translator
Mark Hollmann (A.B. 1985) – Tony Award-winning composer[ 19]
Celeste Holm (X. 1934) – Academy Award -winning actress, Gentleman's Agreement , All About Eve , High Society
Irene Whitfield Holmes (Ph.D. 1924) – Ethnomusicologist and collector of French language American folk songs
Rebecca Jarvis (A.B. 2003) – runner-up on the fourth season of The Apprentice
Tyehimba Jess (A.B. 1991) – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Wolf Kahn (A.B. 1950) – artist
Philip Kaufman (A.B. 1958) – film director, The Right Stuff , The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Rose Kaufman (X. 1959) – screenwriter, The Wanderers and Henry & June
Greg Kotis (A.B. 1988) – Tony Award-winning playwright
Leopold and Loeb (attended) – murderers
Brian Liesegang (A.B. 1992) – guitarist, former member of Nine Inch Nails and Filter [ 20]
Aaron Lipstadt (A.B. 1974) – director
Joshua Marston (A.M. 1994) – film director, Maria Full of Grace
Peter Marzio – former director of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Tucker Max (A.B. 1998) – Internet celebrity and New York Times bestselling author
Elaine May (audited) – screenwriter, actress, and director, comedian with Nichols and May , Oscar-nominated writer of Heaven Can Wait and Primary Colors , director of A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid
Amy Meyers (A.B. 1977) – art historian and museum director
Mike Nichols (X. 1953) – film and stage director; winner of a Tony Award and an Academy Award; directed The Graduate , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , Catch-22 , Silkwood ; co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe
Sheldon Patinkin (A.B. 1953) – theater director
Kimberly Peirce (A.B. 1990) – film director, Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award for Best Actress, Hilary Swank ) and Stop-Loss
Dan Peterman – artist
Gordon Quinn (A.B. 1965) – filmmaker, founder of Kartemquin Films
Bernard Sahlins (A.B. 1943) – co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe
Hayden Schlossberg (A.B. 2000) – writer, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Eddie Shin (A.B. 1998) – actor
Paul Sills (A.B. 1951) – co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe
Arieh Smith (A.B. 2012) – polyglot and creator of Youtube Channel Xiaomanyc
David Steinberg – comedian, actor, writer, director, and author
Michael Stevens – creator of educational YouTube channel Vsauce
Fritz Weaver (A.B. 1951) – actor, Holocaust , Fail-Safe , Black Sunday
Gavin Williamson – harpsichordist
Arthur Zegart – documentary film producer[ 21]
David Medina – political advisor[ 22]
Pericles Abbasi
Andrew Alper (A.B. 1980, M.B.A., 1981) – president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation , youngest Goldman Sachs partner in company history, university trustee
Roger Altman (M.B.A. 1969) – founder and senior chairman of Evercore , United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
Victor J. Andrew (M.S. 1928, Ph.D. 1932) Founder of Andrew Corporation .
José Antonio Alvarez (M.B.A. 1996) – vice chairman and CEO of Santander Group , the largest Eurozone banking group by market value
Cliff Asness (M.B.A, Ph.D.) – billionaire founder of AQR Capital
Edward M. Baker (A.B. 1898) – investment broker
Robert Barnett (J.D. 1971) – partner at the law firm Williams & Connolly LLP
Bart Becht (M.B.A. 1982) – CEO of Reckitt Benckiser
Paul G. Blazer (A.A. 1915) – founder of Ashland Oil & Refining Company (Ashland, Inc. )
David G. Booth (M.B.A. 1971) – billionaire philanthropist, co-CEO and co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors
Bill Browder (A.B. 1985) – CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and human rights activist
Patrick O. Brown (AB 1976, PhD 1980, MD 1982) – CEO and founder of Impossible Foods
Debra Cafaro (JD 1982) – chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Ventas , minority owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins
Agustín Carstens (Ph.D. 1985) – Head of the Bank for International Settlements known as "The Bank for Central Banks"; former governor of Bank of Mexico ; current member of Group of Thirty (G-30)
Tae-won Chey (Ph.D. 1989) – billionaire chairman of the SK Group , son-in-law of Korean president Roh Tae-woo [ 23]
Norton Clapp (Ph.B. 1928, J.D. 1929) – an original owner of Space Needle ; university trustee
William E. Conway Jr. (MBA) – billionaire co-founder of The Carlyle Group
L. Gordon Crovitz (A.B. 1980) – publisher of The Wall Street Journal
Daniel Doctoroff (J.D. 1984) – president of Bloomberg L.P. ; former deputy mayor of New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Arnold W. Donald (M.B.A. 1980) – CEO of Carnival Corporation & plc
Brady Dougan (A.B. 1981, M.B.A., 1982) – CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston ; CEO-elect of Credit Suisse Group in Zurich (beginning May 2007); youngest CEO on Wall Street (2004)
J. Patrick Doyle (M.B.A. 1988) – president and CEO of Domino's Pizza
Larry Ellison (did not graduate) – billionaire founder of Oracle; reportedly wealthiest person in California, third-richest in United States
Marcel Erni (M.B.A. 1991) – billionaire co-founder of Partners Group
Eugene Fama (Ph.D. 1964) – "father of modern finance"; 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economics
Jacob A. Frenkel (M.A., Ph.D.) – chairman of JPMorgan Chase International ; chairman of the board of trustees of the Group of Thirty (G-30); former David Rockefeller Professor of International Economics at the University of Chicago ; former governor of the Bank of Israel
Diane Garnick (M.B.A. 2012) – Chief Income Strategist of TIAA (2016–present)
Gerald Gidwitz (Ph.B. 1927) – co-founder of Helene Curtis Industries, Inc.
Scott Griffith (M.B.A. 1990) – CEO of Zipcar (2003–present)
Timothy E. Hoeksema (M.B.A. 1977) – founder of Midwest Airlines
Gary Hoover – founder of Bookstop and Hoover's [ 24]
Mark Hoplamazian (M.B.A. 1989) – CEO, Global Hyatt Corporation (2006–present)
Daniel Ivascyn (M.B.A. 1998) – CIO of PIMCO
Kenneth M. Jacobs (B.A. 1980) – chairman and CEO of Lazard ; university trustee
Stephen A. Jarislowsky (M.A. 1946) – billionaire founder of Jarislowsky Fraser Limited, one of Canada's largest investment management firms
Porter Jarvis (M.B.A. 1932) – president, then chairman of Swift & Co., 1955–1967
John H. Johnson (X. 1942) – founder of Johnson Publishing Company , publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines
Karen Katen (B.A. Political science, M.B.A.) – pharmaceutical executive
James M. Kilts (M.B.A. 1974) – chairman, president, and CEO of Gillette Company; founding partner of Centerview Partners
Bon-Joon Koo (M.B.A.) – billionaire vice chairman of LG Electronics Corporation
Carlos Langoni (PhD) – former president of the Central Bank of Brazil
Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) – chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures
Michael Larson (M.B.A. 1981) – chief investment officer of Cascade Investment , the investment vehicle for Bill Gates and his foundation
John Liew (BA 1989, MBA 1994, PhD 1995) – billionaire co-founder of AQR Capital
Dave MacLennan (M.B.A.) – CEO of Cargill , the largest privately held corporation in the US
Dennis Malamatinas (M.B.A. 1979) – former CEO of Burger King , Priceline Europe and Smirnoff [ 25] [ 26]
Matt Maloney (M.B.A. 2010) – co-founder and former CEO of Grubhub
Joe Mansueto (A.B. 1978, M.B.A. 1980) – billionaire chairman and CEO of Morningstar, Inc.
Harry Markowitz (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – "father of modern portfolio theory"; 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics
Howard Marks (M.B.A. 1969) – billionaire founder of Oaktree Capital Management
James O. McKinsey (B.Phil 1917, M.A. in Commerce 1919) – founder of McKinsey & Company ; also served on the faculty of University of Chicago
Peter Mensch (X, 1975, Masters in Marketing) – rock impresario
John Meriwether (M.B.A. 1973) – CEO and Principal of JWM Partners; former CEO of Long Term Capital Management
Satya Nadella (M.B.A. 1997) – CEO of Microsoft
Martin Nesbitt (M.B.A. 1991) – CEO of The Parking Spot , Treasurer of Barack Obama 's 2008 presidential campaign
Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) – chairman and CEO of Aramark
Brian Niccol (M.B.A. 2003) – CEO of Starbucks
Victor Niederhoffer (Ph.D. 1969) – hedge fund manager
Merle Norman – founder of Merle Norman Cosmetics [ 27]
John Opel (M.B.A. 1949) – president of IBM (1974–1983); CEO of IBM (1981–1985); chairman of IBM (1983–1986)
Ferdinand Peck – businessman and philanthropist, best known for financing Chicago's Auditorium Building
Peter Peterson (M.B.A. 1951) – billionaire co-founder and former chairman of Blackstone Group ; 20th United States Secretary of Commerce
Renaud de Planta (M.B.A. 1987) – the sole senior partner of the Pictet Group , a 215-year-old Swiss bank catering to the world's wealthiest individuals
Michael Polsky (M.B.A. 1987) – billionaire founder of Invenergy , a multinational power generation development firm
Matthew Prince (J.D. 2000) — billionaire co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare
Anthony Pritzker (M.B.A. 1987) – billionaire member of the Pritzker family ; founder and managing partner of the Pritzker Group
Donald Pritzker (J.D. 1959) – member of the Pritzker family ; former president of Hyatt Corporation
Nicholas Pritzker (J.D. 1975) – billionaire member of the Pritzker family ; former president of Hyatt Corporation and co-founder of Tao Capital
Thomas Pritzker (J.D./M.B.A. 1976) – billionaire member of the Pritzker family ; chairman and CEO of The Pritzker Organization and Executive Chairman of Hyatt Corporation
Philip J. Purcell (M.B.A. 1967) – former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Roberta Cooper Ramo (J.D.) – private practice lawyer, president of the American Law Institute
Jay Rasulo (M.B.A. 1984) (AM 1982) – senior executive vice president and CFO of The Walt Disney Company
Samuel Reshevsky (A.B. 1934) – accountant and chess grandmaster
Laura Ricketts (A.B. 1994) – co-owner of Chicago Cubs , board member of Lambda Legal , gay rights activist
Pete Ricketts (M.B.A. 1991) – 40th governor of Nebraska , former COO of TD Ameritrade
Thomas S. Ricketts (A.B. 1988, M.B.A. 1993) – CEO of Incapital LLC; Director of TD Ameritrade ; chairman of the Chicago Cubs
David Rockefeller (Ph.D. 1940) – billionaire chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969–81); former trustee of the University of Chicago
Emmanuel Roman (M.B.A. 1987) – CEO of PIMCO
David Rubenstein (J.D. 1973) – billionaire co-founder of The Carlyle Group
David O. Sacks (J.D. 1998) – entrepreneur and venture capitalist; former COO of PayPal ; former CEO of Zenefits and Yammer ; co-founder and CEO of Craft Ventures
Álvaro Saieh (AM’76, PhD’80) – billionaire chairman of the CorpGroup; seventh richest man in Chile
Nassef Sawiris (A.B. 1982) – billionaire member of the Sawiris family ; CEO of Orascom Construction ; sixth richest man in Africa
Evan Sharp (A.B. 2005) – billionaire co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pinterest
Masaaki Shirakawa (M.A. 1977) – former governor of the Bank of Japan ; current member of the Group of Thirty (G-30)
Rex Sinquefield (MBA) – billionaire co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors
Patrick Spain (A.B. 1974) – founder of Hoover's and HighBeam Research
Robert Steel (M.B.A. 1984) – CEO of Wachovia Bank (2008–present); former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs ; former Under Secretary for Domestic Finance within the United States Department of the Treasury
Dick Stoken (M.B.A., 1958) – founding partner in Lind-Waldock, head of Strategic Capital Management
John Studzinski (M.B.A., 1980) – vice chairman of PIMCO , former vice chairman of The Blackstone Group , former head of the European investment banking division and Deputy Chairman of Morgan Stanley
Anthony Tan (B.A. 2004) – co-founder and chief executive officer of Grab , a Nasdaq-listed e-hailing turned superapp technology company and first unicorn in Southeast Asia
Marion A. Trozzolo (PhB 1947, M.B.A. 1950) – first United States manufacturer to apply teflon to cookware
Vivian Tu (B.A. 2016) – founder and CEO of Your Rich BFF, a multi-media company that provides financial education
Susan Wagner (M.B.A. 1984) – co-founder, former vice-chairman, and COO of BlackRock
John S. Watson (M.B.A. 1980) – chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation
Jon Winkelried (A.B. & M.B.A. 1982) – CEO of TPG Capital and former COO of Goldman Sachs
Changhong Zhu (Ph.D. 1998) – CIO of State Administration of Foreign Exchange manages China's $3.8 trillion reserves[ 28]
John Alroy (Ph.D. 1994) – paleobiologist and researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis , UCSB , 2007 Charles Schuchert Award from the Paleontological Society
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby – former Master of Clare College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of University of Cambridge
Richard C. Atkinson (Ph.B. 1948) – president of the University of California (1995–2003)
Marguerite Ross Barnett (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1972) – first African-American and female president of the University of Houston (1990–92); first African-American chancellor of the University of Missouri (1986–90)
Werner A. Baum (Ph.D.) – second chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1973–1979) and the 7th president of University of Rhode Island (1968–1973)
Laird Bell (J.D.) – lawyer, chairman of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, chairman of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees, and of Carleton College
Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (born 1949) – Israeli philosopher and president of the University of Haifa
Richard J. Bernstein (A.B.) – philosopher, professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research , former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association
Henry Bienen (A.M. 1962, Ph.D. 1966) – president of Northwestern University (1995–2009)
George W. Bond (M.A. 1923) – president of Louisiana Tech University , 1928–1936
Leon Botstein (A.B. 1967) – president of Bard College (1975–present); principal conductor of American Symphony Orchestra
John W. Boyer (A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1975) – dean of the college at the University of Chicago
Frances R. Brown (M.A. English) – president of Chevy Chase Junior College and dean of Radcliffe College
Tom Campbell (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1980) – dean of Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley (2002–2008)
King Virgil Cheek (J.D. 1969) – president of Shaw University (1969–1971); president of Morgan State University (1971–1974)
Rebecca S. Chopp (Ph.D. 1983) – former chancellor, University of Denver; former president of Swarthmore College ; president of Colgate University (2002–2009); former dean of Yale Divinity School ; former provost of Emory University ; feminist theologian[ 1]
John Royston Coleman (Ph.D. 1950) – labor economist; president of Haverford College ; former dean of Carnegie-Mellon University ; author of Blue-Collar Journal ; host of CBS program Money Talks
May Louise Cowles – economist; researcher, and nationwide advocate of home economics study
Peter Dorman (Ph.D. 1985) – president, American University of Beirut (2008–present)
Mary Elizabeth Downey – director of the Chautauqua School for Librarians who established and promoted library science education courses across the Western and Midwestern United States
Herman Dreer (Ph.D. 1955) academic administrator, educator, educational reformer and activist, author, editor, minister, and civil rights leader[ 29]
Christopher L. Eisgruber (J.D. 1988) – 20th president of Princeton University
Norman Ericson (Ph.D.) – Bible scholar, faculty at Trinity International University
Eve Ewing (BA) – sociologist, author, poet, and visual artist; associate professor at the University of Chicago[ 30]
Ward Farnsworth (J.D. 1994) – dean of University of Texas School of Law
Paul Finkelman (Ph.D. 1976) – president of Gratz College (2017–present)
Michael Gerhardt (J.D. 1982) – Constitutional Law Professor at UNC School of Law ; Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee for the nominations of Sonia Sotomayor (2009), Elena Kagan (2010), and Neil Gorsuch (2017) to the U.S. Supreme Court
Eleanor Churchill Gibbs – educator, writer
Benjamin Ginsberg (B.A. 1968, A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1973) – professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University
Edgar Godbold (Ph.D. 1907) – president of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas (1923–1929), and Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana (1942–1951)[ 31]
Marvin L. Goldberger (Ph.D. 1948) – president of California Institute of Technology (1978–1987)
Clifton Daggett Gray (Ph.D.) – president of Bates College (1920–1944)
W. G. Hardy (Ph.D. 1922) Professor of Classics of University of Alberta , writer, ice hockey administrator, Member of the Order of Canada [ 32] [ 33]
Carla Hayden (Ph.D. 1977) – 14th Librarian of Congress
Susan Henking (Ph.D. 1988) – president of Shimer College (2012–present)
Laurin L. Henry – academic and educator[ 34]
Leo I. Higdon Jr. (M.B.A. 1972) – president of Connecticut College (2006–present); president of the College of Charleston (2001–2006); president of Babson College (1997–2001); dean of Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia
William E. Holmes – former president of Central City College; faculty of the Atlanta Baptist Institute, now called Morehouse College , for 25 years
Sheila Miyoshi Jager 1994 (PhD): professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College[ 35]
Howard Wesley Johnson (A.M. 1947) – president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966–1971)
Annie Kennedy – first member of the faculty elected at the Alabama Girls' Industrial School (now, University of Montevallo )
David Aaron Kessler (J.D. 1978) – dean of the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine; former dean of Yale School of Medicine ; former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner
Robert Kibbee (masters 1947, doctorate 1957) – chancellor of the City University of New York
Thomas W. Krise (Ph.D. 1995) – 13th president of Pacific Lutheran University (2012–2017)
H. Gregg Lewis (A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1947) – professor and labor economist
Guy A. Marco (M.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1956) – musicologist, professor, and librarian[ 36]
Benjamin E. Mays (A.M. 1925, Ph.D. 1935) – president of Morehouse College (1940–1967); recipient of American Educator Award (1980); civil rights activist
Alice Rebecca Brooks McGuire (Ph.D. 1958) – professor of library science, president of the American Association of School Librarians (1953–1954)
William Parker McKee (B.Div., 1887) – second president of Shimer College
Deborah Meier (A.M. 1955) – founder of small schools in New York and Boston; recipient of MacArthur Fellowship
Jacob (Kobi) Metzer – economic historian , professor, eighth president of the Open University of Israel
Clara Worst Miller (1876–1970) (M.A.) – Ashland College professor of Latin and writer
Eric Muenter (A.B. 1899) - German-American political terrorist, activist, spy, Cornell University professor and would-be assassin .
Herman Clarence Nixon – professor, member of the Southern Agrarians
Daniel Nugent (Ph.D. 1988) – Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Dallin H. Oaks (J.D. 1957) – former president of Brigham Young University
Edison E. Oberholtzer (A.M. 1915) – founder and first president of the University of Houston
G. Dennis O'Brien (Ph.D., 1961) – former president of Bucknell University and the University of Rochester
Leo J. O'Donovan (postdoctoral fellow at University of Chicago) – 47th president of Georgetown University
Santa J. Ono (A.B. 1984) – 15th president University of Michigan ; 15th president and Vice-Chancellor University of British Columbia ; 28th president University of Cincinnati
Vivian Paley (Ph.B. 1947) – teacher and early childhood education researcher
Don Patinkin (1922–1995)) – Israeli-American economist, and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
William L. Pollard (Ph.D. 1976) – president of Medgar Evers College (2009–present)
Clayton Rose (B.A. 1980, M.B.A. 1981) – president of Bowdoin College (2015–present)
Thomas Sakmar (A.B. Chemistry 1978, M.D. Medicine 1982) – Senior Physician, professor and former acting president of The Rockefeller University
Barbara Snyder (J.D.) – president of Case Western Reserve University
Gerhard Spiegler – former president of Elizabethtown College
Samuel L. Stanley (A.B. 1976) – president of Stony Brook University (2009–2019) and Michigan State University (2019–)
Teresa A. Sullivan (Ph.D.) – sociologist and university administrator, 8th president of the University of Virginia
Vince Tinto – theorist in field of higher education , particularly concerning university student retention
David Truman (A.M. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) – president of Mount Holyoke College (1969–1978); president of Russell Sage Foundation (1978–1979)
Richard R. Wright Jr. – sociologist; president of Wilberforce University
Solange Ashby (PhD 2016) – egyptologist and nubiologist
Allan Berube (X. 1968) – founder of the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian History Project, now the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society; author of Coming Out Under Fire (1990) [Lambda Literary Award]; MacArthur Fellow (1996)
Antoinette Burton (A.M. 1984, Ph.D. 1990) – Catherine A. and Bruce C. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chen Hengzhe (M.A) – writer of modern vernacular Chinese literature
Henry Steele Commager (Ph.B. 1923, A.M. 1924, Ph.D. 1928) – American historian
Avery Craven (Ph.D. 1923) – Professor of History; Civil War expert
Herrlee G. Creel (Ph.B. 1926, A.M. 1927, Ph.D. 1929) – sinologist
Frances Gardiner Davenport (Ph.D. 1904) – editor of the series European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies [ 37]
Angie Debo (A.M. 1924, international relations) – Oklahoma and Native American history, author of And the Waters Still Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes (1940)
Nicholas Dirks (A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1981) – Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology; vice-president for Arts and Sciences at Columbia University
Paul Finkelman (M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1976) – President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, Albany Law School and president of Gratz College ; legal historian and author of Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court (2018)
James L. Fitzgerald (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1980) – Purandara Das Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Classics, Brown University
Lawrence M. Friedman (A.B. 1948, J.D. 1951, LL.M. 1953) – Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School ; legal historian and author of Crime and Punishment in American History
David Fromkin (A.B. 1950, J.D. 1953) – University Professor of International Relations, History, and Law at Boston University
Anthony Grafton (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) – prominent Renaissance historian and Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University
Vincent Harding (A.M. 1956, Ph.D. 1965) – scholar of American religion and society
Gertrude Himmelfarb (Ph.D. 1950) – National Humanities Medal (2004); Professor Emeritus of History at the City University of New York
Kenneth T. Jackson (A.M. 1963, Ph.D. 1966) – Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University
Russell Jacoby (S.M. 1978) – Professor in Residence at Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles ; author of The Last Intellectuals (1987 [2000])
KC Johnson (M.A. 1989) – Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York , known for his work exposing the facts about the Duke lacrosse case [ 38]
Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963) — led a psychological campaign against the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti via Radio Vonvon (1965-69); author of For Whom the Dogs Spy: Haiti, From the Duvalier Dictatorships to the Earthquake, Four Presidents, and Beyond (2014)
John Komlos (Ph.D. 1978) – professor emeritus, University of Munich economic historian and founder of the journal Economics and Human Biology
Judith Walzer Leavitt (Ph.D. 1966) – Professor Emerita, History of Medicine Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison , author of Typhoid Mary
Mark Edward Lewis (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1985) – Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture, Department of History, Stanford University
Muhsin Mahdi (A.M., Ph.D.) – Iraqi-American islamologist and Arabist, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University
Walter A. McDougall (A.M. 1971, Ph.D. 1974) – Professor of History and Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania ; Pulitzer Prize Winner (1986)
William Hardy McNeill (A.B. 1938, A.M. 1939) – Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago ; author of The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963)
John Victor Murra (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1956) – prominent anthropologist and researcher of the Incan Empire
Saul K. Padover (Ph.D. 1932) – historian and political scientist at the New School for Social Research in New York City
Richard Anthony Parker (Ph.D. 1938) – Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University ; director of the University of Chicago 's epigraphic survey studying the mortuary temple of Ramses III
Rick Perlstein (B.A. 1992) – author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Vijay Prashad (A.M. 1990, Ph.D. 1994) – George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College ; author of The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (2007)
Nicolas Rasmussen (A.M. 1986) – Professor of History at the University of New South Wales
Francesca Rochberg (Ph.D. 1980) – Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley ; MacArthur Fellow (1982)
Joel T. Rosenthal (PhD 1963) – Distinguished Professor and Emeritus at SUNY
Ovid R. Sellers (A.B. 1904) – Old Testament scholar and archaeologist who played a role in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Gertrude Smith (BA 1916, MA 1917, PhD 1921) – Edwin Olson Professor of Greek (1933–1961) and chair of the Department of Classics (1934–1961)
Eileen Southern (A.B. 1940, A.M. 1941) – National Humanities Medal (2001); first African-American female professor at Harvard University
Studs Terkel (Ph.B. 1932, J.D. 1934) – oral historian and radio host; Pulitzer Prize winner for the Good War: An Oral History of World War II (1985); National Humanities Medal (1997)
Richard H. Timberlake (Ph.D. 1957) – economist, author, and economic historian
Gerhard Weinberg (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) – historian, World War II expert; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Irene J. Winter (M.A. 1967) – Ancient Near East Art historian, professor at Harvard and chair of the department of Fine Arts from 1993 to 1996; MacArthur Fellow (1983), Radcliffe Fellow (2003–04), Mellon Lecturer (2005)
Carter G. Woodson (A.B. 1908, A.M. 1908) – historian and founder of Negro History Week (1926), which evolved into Black History Month ; civil rights activist
Rick Atkinson (A.M. 1976) – reporter and author, four-time Pulitzer Prize winner
David Blum (A.B. 1977) – editor-in-chief of the Village Voice (2006–present)
David Broder (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1951) – Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary (1973); political correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post
David Brooks (A.B. 1983) – political commentator; columnist for The New York Times ; senior editor of The Weekly Standard ; regular commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Ana Marie Cox (A.B. 1994) – liberal columnist, founding editor of the Wonkette blog , correspondent for Air America Media
Roger Ebert (X. 1970) – Pulitzer Prize winner for film criticism (1975); columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times
Zilfa Estcourt (A.M. 1905) – newspaper columnist and editor at the Tacoma Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle [ 39] [ 40]
Janet Flanner – writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975
Thomas Frank (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1994) – editor-in-chief of The Baffler ; author of The Conquest of Cool (1997) and What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004)
Katharine Graham (A.B. 1938) – publisher of The Washington Post for over two decades; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir Personal History (1998)
Virginia Graham (A.S. 1934) – television news correspondent; prosecution witness in the Tate-LaBianca murders trial
Jan Crawford Greenburg (J.D. 1993) – chief legal correspondent for CBS News
Nathan Hare (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1962) – author, activist, and sociologist; founding publisher of The Black Scholar , later cited as "the most important journal devoted to black issues since the Crisis " by The New York Times
Seymour Hersh (A.B. 1958) – Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author, most famous for exposing the My Lai Massacre , which greatly changed public opinion of the Vietnam War ; frequent contributor to The New Yorker
Daniel Hertzberg (A.B. 1968) – Pulitzer Prize winner 1988; Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal [ 11]
DeWitt John (A.M. 1937) – journalist and editor
Richard Lloyd Jones (LL.B. 1897, LL.M. 1898) – longtime publisher of the Tulsa Tribune
Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963, Social Anthropology) The Wall Street Journal (1971–1984), Co-founded in 1971 with his brother Leopold, the Haiti-Observateur , a trilingual weekly (French, Haitian Creole and English), for which he still writes, more than 50 years later.
Dave Kehr (A.B. 1975) – film critic for The New York Times
Sarah Koenig (A.B. 1990) – creator of the award-winning Serial podcast
Tal Kopan (A.B.) – political reporter for CNN
Sarah Langs (A.B. 2015) – reporter and statistician for MLB.com and ESPN [ 41]
Harvey Levin (J.D. 1975) – Managing Editor of TMZ.com
Roderick MacLeish (A.B. 1947) – National Public Radio political commentator; journalist and author
John G. Morris (A.B. 1937) – photo editor for Life , Ladies' Home Journal , The Washington Post , The New York Times , National Geographic
Greg Palast (A.B. 1974, M.B.A. 1976) – progressive investigative journalist
John Podhoretz (A.B. 1982) – conservative commentator for the National Review , the New York Post , and The Weekly Standard
Joshua Cooper Ramo (A.B. 1992) – former foreign editor, Time Magazine ; managing director, Kissinger Associates [ 11]
David E. Reed (A.B. 1946) – roving editor, Reader's Digest ; author, 111 Days in Stanleyville (1965); Up Front in Vietnam (1967); Save the Hostages (1988)
Emmett Rensin – contributor to the Los Angeles Times ' "Opinion Blog", USA Today , Salon , New Republic , and the Los Angeles Review of Books
Edward Rothstein (Ph.D. 1994) – cultural critic at The New York Times ; former music critic at the New Republic and The New York Times
Nate Silver (A.B. 2000) – sabermetrician and inventor of PECOTA ; writer for Baseball Prospectus ; and founder of FiveThirtyEight.com
Robert B. Silvers (A.B. 1947) – co-founding editor of The New York Review of Books
Brent Staples (A.M. 1976, Ph.D. 1982) – editorial writer for The New York Times (1990–present); winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his memoir Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White (1994)
Bret Stephens (A.B. 1995) – foreign-affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal ; winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) – host of Inside Story on Al Jazeera America , former senior correspondent on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Kenneth Allen Taylor (Ph.D. 1984) – co-host of radio program Philosophy Talk ; Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
Neda Ulaby (A.M. 1996) – National Public Radio reporter
Mickey Waldman (A.B. 1965) – WBAI radio host and producer
Jessica Abel (A.B. 1991) – comic book writer and artist
Saul Bellow (X. 1939) – author, Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize winner
Allan Bloom (Ph.B. 1949, A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – author
Paul C. Borgman (Ph.D. 1973) – religious author and professor
Dmitri Borgmann (Ph.B.) – writer
Alice C. Browning (Ph.B. 1931) — writer, editor of Negro Story (1944–1946)
Ernest Callenbach (Ph.B. 1949, A.M. 1953) – writer
Bonnie Jo Campbell (A.B. 1984) – novelist and short story writer
Paul Carroll (A.M. 1952) – poet
Hayden Carruth (A.M. 1947) – winner of National Book Award in poetry
Robert Coover (A.M. 1965) – novelist and short story writer
Will Cuppy (Ph.B. 1907, A.M. 1914) – humorist
Mu Dan (A.M. 1951) – Chinese poet and literary translator
Sebastian de Grazia (A.B. 1944, Ph.D. 1948) – Pulitzer Prize winner
Caitlin Doughty – mortician , author, and promoter of death acceptance
Phyllis Eisenstein – author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels
Joseph Epstein (A.B. 1959) – essayist, literary critic, and short story writer
James T. Farrell (X. 1929) – novelist, short story writer, journalist, travel writer, poet and literary critic
Richard Garfinkle (X. 1980) – science fiction and fantasy author, author of Celestial Matters
Paul Goodman (Ph.D. 1954) – social critic
Gerald Graff (A.B. 1959) – president-elect of the Modern Language Association (2008)
Katharine Graham (A.B. 1938) – author, Pulitzer Prize winner
Sam Greenlee (1954–57) – writer, author of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Bette Howland (A.B. 1955) – writer, literary critic, MacArthur Fellow[ 42]
Fenton Johnson – poet
Cyril M. Kornbluth – science fiction author
Patrick Larkin (A.B. 1982) – author of espionage, military, and historical thrillers
Stephen Leacock (Ph.D. 1903) – Canadian humourist and professor of economics at McGill University
Luis Leal (A.B. 1941, Ph.D. 1950) – literary scholar and winner of National Humanities Medal
Seth Lerer (Ph.D. 1981) – former Stanford professor; dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego (2009–2014)
Naomi Lindstrom (A.B. 1971) – Latin American literary critic
Jackson Mac Low (A.A. 1943) – poet, winner of Wallace Stevens award
Norman Maclean (Ph.D. 1940) – William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago , author of A River Runs Through It
Tom Mandel – contemporary poet whose work is often associated with the language poets
Campbell McGrath (A.B. 1984) – poet, MacArthur Fellow
Susan Murphy-Milano (B.A. 1981) – non-fiction author and victims' advocate
Sterling North (A.B. 1929) – children's author
Norman Panama (A.B. 1936) – screenwriter and film director
Sara Paretsky (A.M. 1969, M.B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1977) – crime novelist
Elizabeth Peters (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1952) – mystery author
Joseph G. Peterson (A.B. 1988) – author and poet
Robert Pirsig (attended but did not graduate) – philosopher, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
Edouard Roditi – writer and translator[ 43]
Richard Rorty (A.B. 1949, A.M. 1952) – Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stanford University ; MacArthur Fellow
Leo Rosten (Ph.B. 1930, Ph.D. 1937) – humorist
Philip Roth (A.M. 1955) – author, Pulitzer Prize and National Medal of Arts winner
Aram Saroyan (X c.1965) – writer, poet, and dramatist, author of famous minimalist poems such as "lighght"
John Scalzi (B.A. 1991) – novelist
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1966) – novelist, poet and professor
Susan Sontag (A.B. 1951) – author, filmmaker and activist, MacArthur Fellow
George Steiner (A.B. 1948) – literary critic
Nancy Tilly (M.A.) – children’s author
Carl Van Vechten (1903) – writer of novels such as Nigger Heaven and prolific portrait photographer
Herman Voaden (X) – playwright and social activist
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (A.M. 1971) – author of Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five , Breakfast of Champions
Cecelia Watson (A.M. 2005, Ph.D. 2011) – nonfiction author and academic
Edward F. Wente (Ph.D. 1959) – professor and Egyptologist
Yvor Winters (attended) – poet and critic[ 44]
Marguerite Young – novelist and poet
Charles F. Barlow (B.S. 1945, M.D. 1947) – pediatric neurologist and professor at Harvard Medical School
Marion Danis (M.D. 1975) – bioethicist and physician-scientist at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center .[ 46]
Robert Gallo (Resident in Medicine 1963–1965) – identified first retrovirus in humans[ 47]
Maurice Hilleman (Ph.D. 1941) – leading microbiologist specialising in vaccinology , whose vaccines save nearly 8 million lives each year[ 48]
Donald Hopkins (M.D. 1966) – MacArthur Fellow (1995); acting director (1985) of the Centers for Disease Control [ 11]
Kathy Hudson (MSc) – microbiologist specializing in science policy [ 49]
John D. Hunter 2004 – neurobiologist
Sarah H. Kagan – Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania; MacArthur Fellow in 2003
Leon Kass (S.B. 1958, M.D. 1962) – chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics ; Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought ; Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute
Andrew S. Levey (B.A. 1972) – nephrologist, medical researcher, and professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Anne L. Peters – physician, diabetologist and professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC
Joseph Ransohoff (M.D. 1941) – pioneer in the field of neurosurgery; founder of the first neurosurgical intensive care unit ; chief of neurosurgery at NYU Medical Center
Maurice H. Rees – medical educator, dean of University of Colorado School of Medicine 1925–1945
Janet Rowley (Ph.B. 1944, S.B. 1946, M.D. 1948) – discovered translocation on chromosome 9 resulted in the Philadelphia chromosome , and had implications for specific types of leukemia; her work has influenced further research into cancer genetics
Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind – neurologist and psychiatrist
Samuel Stanley – MD , immunologist , biomedical researcher and 5th president of Stony Brook University
David Talmage – Professor of Medicine, discovered the clonal selection theory
Eve van Cauter – sleep medicine director; one of the first people to discover that sleep deprivation affects the body
Thomas J. J. Altizer (A.B. 1948, A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) – "Death of God" theologian
M. Craig Barnes (Ph.D. 1992) – president of Princeton Theological Seminary
George Ricker Berry (Ph.D. 1895) – Semitic scholar, author, archaeologist, and Professor Emeritus of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School
Nigel Biggar (A.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1986) – Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford
Jonathan Butler (Ph.D. 1975) – historian of religion, lecturer for the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Donald Eric Capps (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) – scholar and Professor of Pastoral Theology
Jesse Lee Cuninggim – Methodist clergyman, head of the Department of Religious Education at Southern Methodist University and moved the Scarritt College from Kansas City, Missouri to Nashville, Tennessee as its president
Frederick William Danker (Ph.D.) – New Testament lexicographer, editor of Bauer's Lexicon , professor at Concordia Seminary , Seminex , and Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago [ 50]
Mary Ann Glendon (A.B. 1959, J.D. 1961, L.L.M. 1963) – president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (highest-ranking female advisor to the Pope); Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School ; member of the President's Council on Bioethics
Andrew Greeley (A.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1962) – Senior Study Director at the National Opinion Research Center ; Roman Catholic priest; sociologist; best-selling novelist
Charles Richmond Henderson (Old University A.B. 1870) – sociologist of religion, president of the National Prison Association
Don Wendell Holter (Ph.D. 1934) – Professor of Church History and Missions at Garrett Theological Seminary ; founding President of Saint Paul School of Theology ; Bishop of the United Methodist Church
Vernon Johns – civil rights activist, pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Raymond A. Joseph (M.A. 1963) – first translation of the New Testament and Psalms of the Bible into Haitian Creole under the auspices of the American Bible Society (1960)
Jeffrey Kaplan (Ph.D. 1993) – Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Douglas Laycock (J.D.) – Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, expert of religious liberties
Felix A. Levy (Ph.D. 1917) – Rabbi of Emanuel Congregation
Jeffery D. Long (A.M. 1993, PhD 2000) – Hindu expert and author of A Vision for Hinduism: Beyond Hindu Nationalism [ 51]
Martin Marty (Ph.D. 1956) – National Humanities Medal (1997); national figure in non-sectarian religious studies
Lena B. Mathes (Ph.B. 1911, A.M. 1912, B.D. 1914) – educator, social reformer, ordained Baptist minister
Ingrid Mattson (Ph.D. 1999) – first female president of Islamic Society of North America ; professor of religion at Hartford Seminary
John Warwick Montgomery (Ph.D. 1962) – lawyer, theologian and academic known for his work in the field of Christian apologetics [ 52]
David Novak (A.B. 1961) – Jewish legal theorist at the University of Toronto ; a founder of the Institute of Traditional Judaism; author of Covenantal Rights
Dallin H. Oaks (J.D. 1957) – Apostle; member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
Jaroslav Pelikan (Ph.D. 1946) – historian of Christian thought; Sterling Professor of History at Yale University ; winner of Library of Congress ' Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences; author of The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine
Mordecai Waxman (A.B. 1937) – rabbi in American Jewish Conservative movement , responsible for opening dialogue between American Jews and Pope John Paul II in 1987
Janet L. Abu-Lughod (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950) – Professor Emerita of Sociology at the New School for Social Research
Guillermo Algaze (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) – MacArthur Fellow (2003); Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego [ 42]
Anne Allison (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) – Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Alfred C. Aman Jr. (J.D. 1970) – professor of administrative law; author; dean of Indiana University Maurer School of Law – Bloomington and Suffolk University Law School
Elijah Anderson (A.M. 1972) – William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) – Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Robert Axelrod (A.B. 1964) – MacArthur Fellow (1990); Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Howard S. Becker (Ph.B. 1946, A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) – former Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and the University of California, Santa Barbara
Walter Berns (A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1953) – National Humanities Medal (2005); John M. Olin University Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (Ph.D. 1988) – member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank ; economist
Leonard Bloomfield – linguist who led the development of structural linguistics
Larry Bourne (Ph.D. 1966) – Professor Emeritus of Urban Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
Sophonisba Breckinridge (JD, 1904) – dean of the College of Arts, Literature, and Science, University of Chicago
Michael Burawoy (Ph.D. 1976) – Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Lynton K. Caldwell (A.B. 1934, Ph.D. 1943) – Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Stephen Cameron (Ph.D. 1996) – financial analyst , economist and Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Marvin Chirelstein (J.D. 1953) – Professor at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School
Gregory Chow (A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1955) – Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Princeton University
L. Zenobia Coleman (1898–1999) – librarian
Ann Weiser Cornell (Ph.D. 1975) – authority on focusing ; author of The Power of Focusing
Carol Blanche Cotton (Ph.D. 1939) – early African-American female psychologist
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (A.B. 1960, Ph.D. 1965) – C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology and Management, Claremont Graduate University ; pioneer of the concept of "flow "
Werner J. Dannhauser (Ph.D. 1971) – Professor of Government at Cornell University and Michigan State University, expert on Nietzsche and on Judaism and politics
Nicholas de Genova (A.B. 1982, Ph.D. 1989) – Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Stefanie DeLuca (A.B. 1998) – Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University ; author of Coming of Age in the Other America
Kristina Durante – chaired professor at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick
Paul Ekman – professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco , pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions
Eugene Fama (Ph.D. 1964) – father of efficient market theory. Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago
Marianne Ferber (Ph.D.) – Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George P. Fletcher (J.D. 1964) – Professor at Columbia Law School
Roland G. Fryer Jr. – Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Marc Galanter (J.D.) – Professor Emeritus at University of Wisconsin School of Law
Alexander L. George (A.M. 1941, Ph.D. 1958) – MacArthur Fellow (1983); Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, Stanford University ; pioneering scholar in political psychology and foreign policy
Erving Goffman (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1953) – former Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania
Claudia Goldin (Ph.D. 1972) – Winner of the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Zvi Griliches (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1957) – John Bates Clark Medalist (1965); economist
Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975) – John Bates Clark Medalist (1987); economist
Daniel S. Hamermesh (B.A. 1965) – Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin [ 53]
Charles V. Hamilton (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) – civil rights leader and Professor in Political Science, Columbia University[ 11]
Robin Hanson (A.M. 1984, M.S. 1984) – associate professor of economics at George Mason University , research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University
Edward C. Hayes (Ph.D. 1902) – president of the American Sociological Association
Susanna Hecht (A.B. 1972) – Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA ; a founder of "Political Ecology" approach to forestry ; Guggenheim Fellow (2008)
Carolyn Heinrich (Ph.D. 1995) – Sid Richardson Professor and economist at University of Texas at Austin
Ukshin Hoti (1943–1999?) – professor of international law at the University of Pristina
Michael Hudson (born 1939) – economics professor
Samuel P. Huntington (A.M. 1948) – Albert J. Weatherhead Professor of Government at Harvard University ; author of The Clash of Civilizations (1998)
Harold Innis – founder of the Toronto School of Communication
Robert Kates (A.M. 1960, Ph.D. 1962) – MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor Emeritus of Geography and Director Emeritus of the World Hunger Program at Brown University
Vytautas Kavolis – sociologist, literary critic, and cultural historian
Frances Kellor – social reformer and sociologist, specializing in immigrants' rights
V. O. Key Jr. (Ph.D. 1934) – taught at UCLA , professor at Johns Hopkins University , Alfred Cowles Professor of Government at Yale University , Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government at Harvard University
Bruce M. King (Ph.D. 1978) – psychologist and professor at Clemson University
Keiichiro Kobayashi (Ph.D. 1998) – Professor of Faculty of Economics, Keio University
John Komlos (Ph.D. 1978) – professor emeritus, University of Munich economic historian and founder of the journal Economics and Human Biology
Rose Hum Lee (Ph.D. 1947) – first woman and first Chinese American to head a US university sociology department, appointed such at Roosevelt University , 1956
Charles Miller Leslie – anthropologist
Frederick B. Lindstrom (Ph.D. 1950) – sociologist and historian of the Chicago School of sociology
Julie Beth Lovins (Ph.D. 1973) – computational linguist who developed the first stemming algorithm for word matching
Antonio Martino (Ph.D. 1968) – Professor of Economics at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, former Italian Ministry of Defense
Vivian Carter Mason (A.B. 1925) – gender and civil rights advocate
Adeline Masquelier (Ph.D. 1993) – cultural anthropologist at Tulane University
Nolan McCarty (A.B. 1990) – Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
Zoila S. Mendoza (M.A. 1987, PhD 1993) – Professor and Chair of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis [ 54]
Thomas W. Merrill (J.D. 1977) – Charles Evans Hughes professor at Columbia Law School
Richard Thacker Morris (Ph.D.) – Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the UCLA
Kevin M. Murphy (Ph.D. 1986) – John Bates Clark Medalist (1997); George J. Stigler Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
John V. Murra (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1956) – anthropologist and researcher of the Inca Empire
Marc Leon Nerlove (A.B. 1952) – John Bates Clark Medalist (1969); economist
Esther Newton (A.M. 1964, Ph.D. 1968) – Kempner Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at SUNY ; pioneer in gender and sexuality studies ; author of Mother Camp
Harold L. Nieburg (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1960) – Professor of Political Science at SUNY ; author of In the Name of Science
Anne Norton (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1982) – Alfred L. Cass Term Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania ; author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire (2004)
Walter Oi (Ph.D. 1961) – Elmer B. Milliman Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester
Sherry Ortner (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) – MacArthur Fellow (1990); Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
William Padula (M.Sc. 2015) – professor of Pharmaceutical & Health Economics, University of Southern California
George L. Priest (J.D.) – John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics and director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School
Enrico Quarantelli (Ph.D. 1959) – founder of disaster science
Paul Rabinow (A.B. 1965, A.M. 1967, Ph.D. 1970) – Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Renee Rabinowitz (A.M. 1969, Ph.D. 1974) – psychologist and lawyer
Amien Rais (Ph.D. 1984) – professor; former chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) of the Republic of Indonesia
Jonathan Rapping (A.B.) – professor of law at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School and Harvard Law School, criminal defense attorney, founder and president of Gideon's Promise, MacArthur Fellow (2014)
James M. Redfield (A.B. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) – Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1976–present)
Albert Rees (Ph.D. 1950) – former University of Chicago and Princeton economics professor, former Provost at Princeton , advisor to President Gerald Ford [ 55]
Harriet Lange Rheingold (Ph.D. 1955) – developmental psychologist and professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philip Rieff (A.B. 1946, A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1954) – Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania ; author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959); sociologist
Mario J. Rizzo (Ph.D. 1977) – professor of economics [New York University]
Lawrence Rosen (Ph.D. 1968, J.D. 1974) – William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University ; Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia University
Philip Carl Salzman (Ph.D. 1972) – Professor of Anthropology, McGill University
Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) – Institute Professor, MIT. Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1970
Ritch Savin-Williams (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1977) – Professor of developmental psychology at Cornell University ; prolific sexual orientation researcher
Thomas Sebeok (A.B. 1941, A.M. 1943) – semiotician and linguist
Richard Sennett (A.B. 1964) – Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics , Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology at MIT , and Professor of Humanities at New York University
Richard B. Spencer (A.M. 2003) – white supremacist, alt-right leader
Orin Starn (A.B. 1982) – Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Daniel Stokols (A.B. 1969) – Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
Edwin Sutherland (Ph.D. 1913) – former professor of sociology at Indiana University
Wenfang Tang (Ph.D. 1990) – Presidential Chair Professor and the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen , former chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa and head of the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Robert Thompson (A.B. 1981) – director of Syracuse University 's Center for the Study of Popular Television
Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay (Ph.D. 1990) – professor of political science and former provost, University of Victoria
Jeffrey K. Tulis (Ph.D. 1982) – Professor of Government and Law, The University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan Turley (A.B. 1983) – professor of law at The George Washington University Law School
Sudhir Venkatesh (A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 1997) – William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Loïc Wacquant (A.M. 1986, Ph.D. 1994) – MacArthur Fellow (1997); Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
John M. Wallace Jr. (A.M. 1987) – Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Althea Warren – president of the American Library Association 1943–1944
John B. Watson (Ph.D. 1903) – established behaviorism and pioneered rat-in-maze laboratory research
Mildred Mott Wedel (M.A. 1938) – scholar of Great Plains archaeology and ethnohistory
James Q. Wilson (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1959) – Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University ; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (2003)
Michael Woodford (A.B. 1977) – MacArthur Fellow (1981); Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Henry Tutwiler Wright (A.M. 1965, Ph.D. 1967) – MacArthur Fellow (1983); Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology, University of Michigan
Theodore O. Yntema (Ph.D. 1929) – economist, director of the Cowles Commission
Science and technology [ edit ]
Robert McCormick Adams (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1956) – archeologist, Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution
Warder Clyde Allee (S.M. 1910, Ph.D. 1912) – zoologist and ecologist
Abhay Ashtekar (Ph.D. 1974) – pioneer in the field of loop quantum gravity
Zonia Baber – geographer and geologist
John N. Bahcall (S.M. 1957) – known for contributions to solar neutrino problem and development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and development of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
Asish Basu (M.Sc. 1969) – geologist, Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Texas at Arlington
J Harlen Bretz (Ph.D. 1913) – geologist, Penrose Medal 1979
Ralph Buchsbaum (Ph.D. 1938) – invertebrate zoologist
Facundo Bueso Sanllehí (M.S. 1929) – Guggenheim Fellow, physicist and educator
Albert Chan (Ph.D. 1979) – fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , president of Hong Kong Baptist University [ 56]
Jane C. Charlton (M.S. 1984) – professor of astronomy and astrophysics[ 57]
Mihir Chowdhury (post doc 1962–64) – physical chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Margaret S. Collins (Ph.D. 1950) – invertebrate zoologist, professor and dean of the zoology department at Florida A&M University
William Cottrell (A.B. 2002) – former Ph.D. candidate at the California Institute of Technology , described by scientists as a "genius", convicted in April 2005 of conspiracy to arson of 8 sport utility vehicles and a Hummer dealership in the name of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
George Cowan (Ph.D. 1940) – scientist of the Manhattan Project , founder of the Santa Fe Institute
Harmon Craig (Ph.D. 1951) – winner of Balzan Prize , the first in geochemistry; pioneer in Earth sciences
James Dahlberg (Ph.D. 1966) – professor emeritus of biomolecular chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Norman Davidson (B.S. 1937, Ph.D. 1941) – Caltech molecular biology professor, received a National Medal of Science
Savas Dimopoulos (Ph.D. 1978) – theoretical physicist at Stanford ; with Howard Georgi, he formulated the supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model, the leading theory for particle physics beyond the Standard Model
Eleftherios Economou (Ph.D. 1969) – theoretical physicist at Univ. of Crete , Greece; known for his contributions in the field of surface plasmons ; founder and chairman of the Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (1983–2004)
Frank Edwin Egler (S.B. 1932) – plant ecologist, winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955
Larry Ellison (dropped out) – co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company
Harvey Fletcher (Ph.D. 1911) – collaborator with Robert Millikan on the Nobel Prize-winning experiment on the charge of an electron; father of stereophonic sound
Robert Floyd (A.B. 1953, S.B. 1958) – computer scientist, Turing Award winner
Jeannette Howard Foster (Ph.D. 1935) – librarian, professor, and researcher
T. Theodore Fujita (S.B. 1953) – meteorologist, developed the Fujita scale for measuring tornadoes
Gerald Gabrielse (Ph.D. 1980) – Professor of Physics at Harvard , known for his techniques of creating antimatter
Martin Gardner (A.B. 1936) – author and columnist of "Mathematical Games " in Scientific American
Richard Garwin (Ph.D. 1949) – physicist, author of first hydrogen bomb design, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom
Greg Gbur – author and physicist who studies classical coherence theory in optical physics
Piara Singh Gill (Ph.D. 1940) – physicist, pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics
Mack Gipson Jr. (S.M. 1961, Ph.D. 1963) – first African-American to obtain a Ph.D. in Geology; founding advisor of the NABGG in 1981; consultant to NASA[ 11]
Richard Gordon (BSc Mathematics 1963) – adapted Kaczmarz method to create the Algebraic Reconstruction Technique
John M. Grunsfeld – physicist and NASA astronaut
Gu Yidong (Ph.D. Organic Chemistry 1935) – chemist and one of the founders of inorganic chemistry in China
Mary Hefferan (Ph.D. Zoology 1903) – bacteriologist
Caroline Herzenberg (S.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1958) – physicist
Seymour L. Hess (Ph.D. 1950) – meteorologist and planetary scientist who designed the weather instruments for the Viking 1
Marie Agnes Hinrichs (Ph.D. 1923) – zoology, editor for the Journal of School Health from 1954 to 1959
Brian M. Hoffman (S.B. 1962) – bioinorganic chemist at Northwestern University
Marian E. Hubbard (S.B. 1894) – zoology professor at Wellesley College
Edwin Hubble (S.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1917) – astronomer who found the first evidence for the Big Bang theory
Christina Hulbe (Ph.D. 1998) – Antarctic researcher, geophysicist, glaciologist
J. Allen Hynek (B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1935) – astronomer, professor, and ufologist known for developing the close encounter classification system of UFO experiences
Deborah S. Jin (Ph.D. 1995) – physicist; MacArthur Fellow in 2003
Donald Johanson (A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1974) – paleoanthropologist who discovered "Lucy ", a link between primates and humans
Jason Jones (X. 1997) – co-founder of Bungie , the company behind Halo and Destiny
Ernest Everett Just (Ph.D. 1916) – zoologist, biologist, physiologist, and research scientist
William Tinsley Keeton (B.A. 1952, B.S. 1954) – zoologist known for work in animal navigation , and a popular professor at Cornell University
Reatha Clark King (Ph.D. 1963) – research chemist whose work in flame fluorine calorimetry contributed to NASA's successful Apollo 11 Moon landing
Vern Oliver Knudsen (Ph.D. 1922) – co-founder of the Acoustical Society of America ; Chancellor of UCLA from 1959 to 1960
Robert Kowalski – computer scientist in field of logic programming
Martin Kruskal (S.B. 1945) – Professor Emeritus at Princeton University , started the soliton revolution in mathematics; advances included Kruskal-Shafranov Instability, Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) Modes and the MHD Energy Principle, which laid theoretical foundations of controlled nuclear fusion, and Kruskal coordinates in theory of relativity
Clark R. Landis (Ph.D. 1983) – chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen Lee (Ph.D. 1986) – Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University ; MacArthur Fellow
Lynn Margulis (A.B. 1957) – distinguished professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ; National Medal of Science 1999 for Endosymbiotic Hypothesis; developed Gaia theory with James Lovelock
George Willard Martin – mycologist and professor at the University of Iowa
Kirtley F. Mather (Ph.D. 1915) – Professor of Geology at Harvard University; president, American Association for the Advancement of Science ; civil libertarian
Sara Branham Matthews – microbiologist
Stanley Miller (Ph.D. 1954) – performed classic Miller–Urey experiment on origin of life in collaboration with Harold Urey in 1953
J. Howard Moore (A.B. 1898) – zoologist, philosopher, educator and socialist who was an early advocate for animal rights based on Darwinian principles of shared evolutionary kinship
William Wilson Morgan (S.B. 1927, Ph.D. 1931) – astronomer who co-developed MK system for classification of stars, as well as classification systems for galaxies and clusters; director of Yerkes Observatory
Stuart Newman (Ph.D., 1970) – developmental and evolutionary biologist
Donald Osterbrock (A.B., Ph.D.) – astrophysicist known for his contributions to the body of knowledge on interstellar matter, gaseous nebulae, and the nuclei of active galaxies; president of American Astronomical Society; director of Lick Observatory
Saundra Herndon Oyewole (M.S.) – microbiologist, professor at Trinity Washington University , and Program Director of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation
Fushih Pan (M.D. 1986, Ph.D. 1989) – plastic surgeon; developer of the MIRA procedure
Clair Cameron Patterson (Ph.D. 1951) – geochemist accurately determined the age of the Earth and discovered significant lead contamination of the environment
Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik – Indian scholar, scientist, and science author
Jeannette Piccard (S.M. 1919) – Balloon aeronaut , speaker for NASA , teacher, scientist and Episcopal priest
Edith Abigail Purer (M.S. 1921) – botanist
Ida Kraus Ragins (B.A. 1918, M.S. 1919) – biochemist
Raymond R. Rogers (Ph.D. 1995) – geology professor
Nancy Grace Roman (Ph.D. 1949) – astronomer, NASA's Chief of Astronomy, planning of the Hubble Space Telescope
Arthur H. Rosenfeld (Ph.D. 1954) – physicist; professor at University of California, Berkeley ; energy efficiency pioneer
Meyer Rubin (S.B. 1947, S.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1956) – geologist
Carl Sagan (A.B. 1954, S.B. 1955, S.M. 1956, Ph.D. 1960) – astronomer, author of Contact ; Pulitzer Prize winner
Ann Linnea Sandberg (Ph.D. 1964) – immunologist at National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
John T. Scopes (X. 1931) – proponent of Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution that led to the Scopes Trial and the inspiration for the play and film Inherit the Wind
Nadrian Seeman (S.B. 1966) – physicist, Kavli Prize laureate, inventor of DNA nanotechnology
Alex Seropian (S.B. 1991) – co-founder of Bungie , the company behind Halo and Destiny
Herbert A. Simon (A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1943) – computer scientist, Turing Award winner; economist, Nobel Prize winner
Joanne Simpson (Ph.D. 1949) – meteorologist
Pierre Sokolsky (B.A. 1967) – astrophysicist, Panofsky Prize Laureate, directed the HiRES Cosmic Ray Detector project and pioneer in ultra-high-energy cosmic ray physics
Eugene Stevens (Ph.D. 1965) – known for research in biodegradable plastics
Otto Struve (Ph.D. 1923) – astronomer, Fellow of the Royal Society
Verner E. Suomi (Ph.D. 1953) – educator, inventor, and scientist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ; considered the father of satellite meteorology
David Suzuki (Ph.D. 1961) – Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation; award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster
David Tannor (born 1958) – theoretical chemist , Hermann Mayer Professorial Chair in the Department of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science
Shiro Tashiro (B.S. 1909, Ph.D. 1912) – Japanese-American biochemist and professor
Moddie Taylor (Ph.D. 1943) – chemist, known for contribution to the Manhattan Project while working in the Metallurgical Laboratory
Richard Thieme (M.A., 1967) – priest, technology consultant, author
Richard E. Tracy (Ph.D. 1961) – forensic pathologist
Sherry Turkle (attended Committee on Social Thought , 1971) – Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adah Elizabeth Verder (B.S. 1923, Ph.D.1928) – medical bacteriologist and researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Chi Che Wang (M.S. 1916, Ph.D. 1918) – biochemist, professor at Northwestern University and University of Cincinnati
Delia M. Sosa (B.A. 2019) – prominent transgender/intersex medical activist in the Endocrine Society
Gerald J. Wasserburg (B.S. 1951, M.S. 1952, Ph.D. 1954) – John D. MacArthur Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus at California Institute of Technology
Richard Wassersug (Ph.D. 1973) – professor of anatomy at Dalhousie University
Alvin M. Weinberg (B.S. 1935, M.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) – nuclear physicist, administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during and after the Manhattan Project
George Wetherill (Ph.B. 1948, S.M. 1949, S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1953) – National Medal of Science winner, known for seminal work on formation of planets and solar system
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (B.S. 1940) – nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer, and mathematician known for contribution to the Manhattan Project
Erik Winfree (B.S.) – computer scientist, bioengineer, and professor at California Institute of Technology; MacArthur fellow in 2000
Sally Albright and Harry Burns , portrayed by Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal , in the film When Harry Met Sally...
Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. , archaeologist and adventurer portrayed by Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones film series
Dr. Richard Kimble , MD, vascular surgeon wrongly convicted of his wife's murder, portrayed by Harrison Ford in the film The Fugitive
Drixenol "Drix" Koldreliff , a stoic cold pill in the movie Osmosis Jones , played by David Hyde Pierce
Kitty Pryde , member of the superhero group the X-Men
Dr. Mark Taylor, ER director in the TV series Code Black
Mark Watney , astronaut and titular main character in the novel The Martian , portrayed by Matt Damon in the film adaptation
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