List of University of Illinois 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 [1]. 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

Phillip Allen Sharp with President George W. Bush

• 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 — Commentary, 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
• Th. Emil Homerin B.A. '77, M.A. '78 - Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester.

Performing arts

• Barbara Bain, B.S. — Winner of three consecutive Emmy Awards for the role of Cinnamon Carter in Mission: Impossible
• 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

Steven Nagel

• 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 Loco, 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
• Matthew Songer, 1981 - Founder and CEO of Pioneer Surgical Technology
• 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

Panorama of the Bardeen Quad

• 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 — 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, founder of Amati Communications (sold to Texas Instruments), IEEE Fellow
• Dan Dobberpuhl B.S. 1967 - Founder of semiconductor compiany P.A. Semi (acquired by Apple Inc. for $278 million )
• 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 — 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
• B.Peter Bolek 2005 Daily Southtown

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
• Archie R. Clemins, B.S. 1966, M.S. 1972 — Commander in Chief United States Pacific Fleet, United States Navy

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 artist

Dan Fogelberg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Fogelberg

Politics

Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker

• 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)

Science 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.
• 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.
• Bimel Thomas , eminent doctor and noted pretty man

Sports

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, currently a free agent
• Dee Brown, National Basketball Association player, guard for the Washington Wizards
• 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
• Eddie Johnson, former National Basketball Association player
• 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
• Donn Pall, former Major League Baseball pitcher
• 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 Kansas City Chiefs
• 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
• Adam Lingner, former NFL Football player, long snapper for Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills where he appeared in Super Bowl XXV, Super Bowl XXVI, Super Bowl XXVII, and Super Bowl XXVIII.

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 Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
• 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)
• Kevin Toomey

References

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