List of University of Chicago alumni

This list of University of Chicago alumni consists of notable people who either graduated from or attended the University of Chicago.

Nobel laureates

• Luis Alvarez (A.B. 1932, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1936) - Physics, 1968.
• Emily Green Balch (attended) - Peace, 1946.^[1]
• Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - Economics, 1992.
• Saul Bellow (X. 1939) - Literature, 1976.
• Herbert Brown (S.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1938) - Chemistry, 1979.
• James M. Buchanan (Ph.D. 1948) - Economics, 1986.
• Owen Chamberlain (Ph.D. 1949) - Physics, 1959.
• John Maxwell Coetzee (Professor) - Literature, 2003.
• James Cronin (S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - Physics, 1980.
• Clinton Davisson (S.B. 1909) - Physics, 1937.
• Jerome Friedman (A.B. 1950, S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1956) - Physics, 1990.
• Milton Friedman (A.M. 1933) - Economics, 1976.
• Ernest Lawrence (X. 1923) - Physics, 1939.
• Tsung-Dao Lee (Ph.D. 1950) - Physics, 1957.
• Robert Lucas, Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) - Economics, 1995.
• Harry Markowitz (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) - Economics, 1990.
• Robert Millikan (X. 1894) - Physics, 1923.
• Robert Mulliken (Ph.D. 1921) - Chemistry, 1966.
• Irwin Rose (S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1952) - Chemistry, 2004.
• F. Sherwood Rowland (S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1952) - Chemistry, 1995.
• Jack Steinberger (S.B. 1942; Ph.D. 1949) - Physics, 1988.
• Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) - Economics, 1970.
• Myron Scholes (M.B.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1970) - Economics, 1997.
• Herbert 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.
• George Stigler (S.B. 1942, Ph.D. 1949) - Economics, 1982.
• Edward Lawrie Tatum (X. 1931) - Medicine, 1958.
• Daniel Tsui (S.M. 1963; Ph.D. 1967) - Physics, 1998.
• James Dewey Watson (S.B. 1947) - Medicine, 1962.
• Frank Wilczek (A.B. 1970) - Physics, 2004.
• Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. 1948) - Physics, 1957.

Government

Heads of state

General

• Saul Alinsky (Ph.B. 1930) - Labor Organizer and Political Activist.
• John Ashcroft (J.D. 1967) - Attorney General of the United States (2001–2005).
• David Axelrod (A.B. 1977) - Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama.
• Paul Bloom (1939–2009), lawyer who recovered $6 billion for the United States Department of Energy.^[4]
• 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 the Los Angeles City Council between 1965 and 1997
• Lisa Brown (J.D. 1986) - White House Staff Secretary (2009–present).
• William Holmes Brown (J.D. 1954) - Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives (1974–1994).
• Ahmed Chalabi (Ph.D. 1969) - Interim Oil Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq.
• 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.
• Jon S. Corzine (M.B.A. 1973) - Governor of New Jersey (D) (2006–2010); United States Senator (D-NJ) (2001–2006); former 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.
• Frank H. Easterbrook (J.D. 1973) - Circuit Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
• 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).^[5]
• 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.
• James Hormel (J.D. 1958) - United States Ambassador to Luxembourg.
• 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).
• Patricia Kabbah (A.M. 1963) - Former First Lady of Sierra Leone.
• Zalmay Khalilzad (Ph.D. 1979) - United States Ambassador to the United Nations (2007–2009); former United States Ambassador to Afghanistan.
• Amy Klobuchar (J.D. 1985) - United States Senate (D-MN) (2007–present).
• Koh Tsu Koon (Ph.D. 1977) - Third Chief Minister of the State of Penang, Malaysia (1990–2008).
• Jewel Lafontant (J.D. 1946) - United Nations delegate.
• Lien Chan (Ph.D. 1965) – Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under President Lee Teng-hui (1996–2000).
• Edward Levi (A.B. 1932, J.D. 1935) - Attorney General of the United States (1975–77).
• Justin Yifu Lin (Ph.D. 1986) - Senior Vice President and first Chief Economist from a developing country for The World Bank (2008–present).
• Jack Markell (M.B.A. 1985) - Governor of Delaware (2009–present).
• Eliot Ness (A.B. 1925) - Secret Service agent.
• Omar Ramadhan Mapuri (A.M. 1985) - Minister of Education and Minister of Home Affairs of Tanzania.^[6]
• Michael W. McConnell (J.D. 1979) - Circuit Judge, United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Abner J. Mikva (J.D. 1951) - Illinois Congressman (1956–1966). United States Congressman (1969–1973, 1975–1979); United States Court of Appeals Judge (1979–94).
• Patsy Mink (J.D. 1951) - United States House of Representatives (D-HI) (1965–1977, 1990–2002).
• Carol Moseley Braun (J.D. 1972) - United States Senate (D-IL) (1992–1998); United States Ambassador (1999–2001).
• William Niskanen (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1962) - Chairman of the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.
• James B. Parsons (A.M. 1946, J.D. 1949) - First African-American Federal District Court Judge (1991–1992).^[6]
• Peter George Peterson (M.B.A. 1951) - United States Secretary of Commerce (1972–1973).
• Bernie Sanders (Sc.B. 1964) - United States Senator (VT). United States House of Representatives.
• David Schuman (Ph.D. 1974) – Oregon Court of Appeals Judge.^[7]
• Masaaki Shirakawa (A.M. 1977) - Governor, Bank of Japan (2008–present).
• John Paul Stevens (A.B. 1941) - United States Supreme Court Justice (1975–2010).
• Jim Talent (J.D. 1981) - United States Senator (R-MO).
• Thomas Sowell (Ph.D. 1968) - Winner of the National Humanities Medal (2003); Economist and Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• Paul Wolfowitz (Ph.D. 1972) - President of the World Bank (2005–2007); United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001–2005).
• Kateryna Yushchenko (M.B.A. 1986) - First Lady of Ukraine (2005–present).

Arts and entertainment

• Ed Asner (X. 1948) - Emmy Award-winning actor.
• David Auburn (A.B. 1991) - Playwright; winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Proof.
• Lester Beall (A.B. 1926) - Modernist graphic designer.
• Anna Chlumsky (A.B. 2002) - Actress; starred in My Girl.
• Misha Collins (A.B. 1997) - Actor; currently stars in TV series Supernatural.
• Jan Crull Jr. (A.M. 1984) - Enigmatic documentary filmmaker.
• Katherine Dunham (Ph.B. 1936) - Dancer and choreographer. National Medal of Arts winner.
• Roger Ebert (X. 1970) - Film critic and Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Kurt Elling (X. 1992) - Jazz singer and nine-time Grammy Award nominee.
• George R. Ellis (A.B. 1959, M.F.A. 1962) - author, art historian and director of the Honolulu Museum of Art
• Philip Glass (A.B. 1956) - Academy Award-nominated composer and musician.
• Sessue Hayakawa (A.B. 1913) - Academy Award-nominated silent film actor; starred in Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat.
• Marilu Henner (X. 1974) - Actress; starred in TV series, Taxi.
• Mark Hollmann (A.B. 1985) - Tony Award winning Composer.^[8]
• Celeste Holm (X. 1934) - Academy Award-winning actress.
• Rebecca Jarvis (A.B. 2003) - Runner-up on the fourth season of The Apprentice.
• Indiana Jones (fictional) - Studied archaeology under professor Abner Ravenwood.
• 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.
• Wolf Kahn (A.B. 1950) - Artist.
• Greg Kotis (A.B. 1988) - Tony Award-winning playwright.
• Aaron Lipstadt (A.B. 1974) - Director.
• Joshua Marston (A.M. 1994) - Film director, Maria Full of Grace.
• Tucker Max (A.B. 1998) - Internet celebrity and New York Times bestselling author.
• Elaine May (A.B. 1953) - Writer, actress, and director.
• Mike Nichols (X. 1953) - Film director; winner of a Tony Award and an Academy Award; directed The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Silkwood; co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe.
• Korla Pandit - Musician
• 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
• 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.
• Jason Shaw (A.B. 1995) - Male model and former boyfriend of Paris Hilton.
• Eddie Shin (A.B. 1998) - Television actor.
• Paul Sills (A.B. 1951) - Co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe.
• Fritz Weaver (A.B. 1951) - Actor.

Athletics

• Jay Berwanger (A.B. 1936) - First Heisman Trophy winner.
• Willie D. Davis (M.B.A. 1968) - Professional Football Player and former university trustee.^[1]
• Kim Ng (A.B. 1990) - Assistant General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• Craig Robinson (M.B.A. 1992) - Head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University; older brother of Michelle Obama.

Business

• Robert V. Adams (M.B.A. 1961) - Former Executive Vice President of Xerox Corporation.
• John S. Watson (M.B.A. 1980) - Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation
• Andrew M. 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.
• Basil Lawson Anderson (M.B.A. 1971) - Vice Chairman of Staples.^[1]
• Steve Barnhart (A.B. 1984, M.B.A. 1988) - CEO and President, Orbitz Worldwide.
• David G. Booth (M.B.A. 1971) Philanthropist, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors
• Chey Tae-won (S.M.), Chairman and CEO of SK Group
• Norton Clapp (Ph.B. 1928, J.D. 1929) - An original owner of Space Needle; University trustee.
• L. Gordon Crovitz (A.B. 1980) - Publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
• Casey Cowell (A.B. 1975) - Co-founder of U.S. Robotics; Chairman and President of Durandal Inc.; University trustee.^[6]
• Daniel Doctoroff (J.D. 1984) - President of Bloomberg L.P.; former Deputy Mayor of New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
• 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).
• David W. Fox (M.B.A., 1958) - Former Chairman of the Chicago Stock Exchange; former Chairman and CEO of Northern Trust Corporation.^[1]
• Gerald Gidwitz (Ph.B. 1927) - Cofounder of Helene Curtis Industries, Inc..
• Scott Griffith (M.B.A. 1990) - CEO of Zipcar (2003–present).
• Daniel S. Hamermesh (B.A. 1969) - Professor in the Foundations of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Associate and Program Director at the Institute for the Future of Labor (IZA).
• Timothy E. Hoeksema (M.B.A. 1977) - founder of Midwest Airlines.
• Mark Hoplamazian (M.B.A. 1989) - CEO, Global Hyatt Corporation (2006–present).
• John H. Johnson (X. 1942) - Founder of Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines.
• Karen Katen (A.B. 1970, M.B.A. 1974) - President of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group; University trustee.^[6]
• Dennis Keller (M.B.A. 1968) - Chairman and CEO of DeVry, Inc.; University trustee.^[6]
• James M. Kilts (M.B.A. 1974) - Chairman, President, and CEO of Gillette Company.
• Michael Klingensmith (A.B. 1975, M.B.A. 1976) - Executive Vice President of Time, Inc.; University trustee.^[6]
• Sherry Lansing (Lab 1962) - Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures.
• Joe Mansueto (A.B. 1978, M.B.A. 1980) - Chairman and CEO of Morningstar, Inc..
• John Meriwether (M.B.A. 1973) - CEO and Principal of JWM Partners; former CEO of Long Term Capital Management.
• Joseph Neubauer (M.B.A. 1965) - Chairman and CEO of Aramark.
• John Opel (M.B.A. 1949) - President of IBM (1974–1983); CEO of IBM (1981–1985); Chairman of IBM (1983–1986).
• Philip J. Purcell (M.B.A. 1967) - Former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
• Thomas S. Ricketts (A.B. 1988, M.B.A. 1993) - CEO of Incapital LLC; Director of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation; Chairman of the Chicago Cubs
• David Rockefeller (Ph.D. 1940) - Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969–81); former trustee of the University of Chicago.
• John W. Rogers, Jr. (Lab 1976) - Chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management; University trustee.^[1][6]
• David Rubenstein (J.D. 1973) - Co-founder of The Carlyle Group
• Nassef Sawiris (A.B. 1982) - CEO of Orascom Construction Industries (OCI).
• 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.
• Frederick D. "Sandy" Sulcer, (M.B.A. 1963) -- advertising, wrote Put a Tiger In Your Tank for ExxonMobil^[9]
• Marion A. Trozzolo (PhB 1947, M.B.A. 1950) - First United States manufacturer to apply teflon to cookware.
• Dean Valentine (A.B. 1976) - Former President of Walt Disney Television and UPN.^[6]
• B. Kenneth West (M.B.A. 1960) - Former Chairman and CEO of Harris Bank; Senior Consultant for TIAA-CREF.^[6]
• Clifford R. Wharton, Jr. (Ph.D. 1958) - Chairman and CEO of TIAA CREF (1987–1993); President of Michigan State University (1970–1978); Chancellor of the State University of New York System (1978–1987); Deputy Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton (1993).^[6]

Education

• John Alroy (Ph.D. 1994), Paleobiologist and researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, UCSB, 2007 Charles Schuchert Award from The Paleontological Society.
• 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.), the 2nd chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (1973-1979) and the 7th president of University of Rhode Island (1968-1973).
• Henry Bienen (A.M. 1962, Ph.D. 1966) - President of Northwestern University (1995–2009).
• Leon Botstein (A.B. 1967) - President of Bard College (1975–present); Principal Conductor of American Symphony Orchestra.
• 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).
• Rebecca S. Chopp (Ph.D. 1983) - President of Swarthmore College; President of Colgate University (2002–2009); former dean of Yale Divinity School; former provost of Emory University; feminist theologian.^[1]
• Elizabeth Coleman (A.B. 1958) - President of Bennington College (1987–present).
• May Louise Cowles - Economist; researcher, and nationwide advocate of Home Economics study.
• Peter Dorman (Ph.D. 1985) - President, American University of Beirut (2008–present).
• Luther H. Foster (A.M. 1941, Ph.D. 1951) - President of the Tuskegee Institute (1953–1981).^[6]
• Robert Franklin (Ph.D. 1985) - President of Morehouse College (2007–present).
• Adam Gamoran (A.B. 1979, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1984) - Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
• Marvin L. Goldberger (Ph.D. 1948) - President of California Institute of Technology (1978–1987).
• Clifton Daggett Gray (Ph.D.) - President of Bates College (1920–1944).
• 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.
• Chimere Ikoku (S.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1964) - Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria.^[6]
• Howard Wesley Johnson (A.M. 1947) - President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966–1971).
• 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.
• Werner Krieglstein (Ph.D. 1972) - Professor and philosopher; recipient of the CCHA's Distinguished Regional Humanities Educator Award in 2008 and a Fulbright scholar.
• John S. Kyser (post-graduate) - President of Northwestern State University (1954-1966)^[10]
• Benjamin E. Mays (A.M. 1925, Ph.D. 1935) - President of Morehouse College (1940–1967); recipient of the American Educator Award (1980); civil rights activist.
• Deborah Meier (A.M. 1955) - Founder of small schools in New York and Boston; recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.
• Herman Clarence Nixon, Professor, member of the Southern Agrarians.
• Edison E. Oberholtzer (A.M. 1915) - Founder and 1st 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)- immunologist, Senior Vice President & University Provost and Professor of Pediatrics & Biology, University of Cincinnati.
• William L. Pollard (Ph.D. 1976) - President of Medgar Evers College (2009–present).
• James Monroe Smith (graduate work, 1922) - President of Louisiana State University, 1930-1939^[11]
• Samuel L. Stanley (A.B. 1976) - President-elect of Stony Brook University (beginning July 1, 2009).
• Vince Tinto, a noted theorist in the 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).

Historians

• Allan Berube (X. 1968) - Founder of the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian History Project, now the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society; author of Coming Out Under Fire (1990) [Lambda Literary Award]; MacArthur Fellow (1996).
• Constance B. Bouchard (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) - Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Akron; Guggenheim Fellow (1995) and Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
• Antoinette Burton (A.M. 1984, Ph.D. 1990) - Catherine A. and Bruce C. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Henry Steele Commager (Ph.B. 1923, A.M. 1924, Ph.D. 1928) - noted American historian.
• Avery Craven (Ph.D. 1923) - Professor of History; Civil War expert.
• 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.
• 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.
• Stéphane Gerson (A.M. 1992, Ph.D. 1997) - Associate Professor of French and French Studies, New York University; Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies (best book published 2003-05) and Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (year’s most distinguished book in American or European cultural history) for The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (2003); Co-editor of Why France? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination (2007).
• Dena Goodman (A.M. 1978, Ph.D. 1982) - Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan; Guggenheim Fellow (2006).
• Anthony Grafton (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) - Prominent Renaissance historian and Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University.
• 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]).
• Mark Edward Lewis (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1985) - Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture, Department of History, Stanford 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).
• 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).
• Francesca Rochberg (Ph.D. 1980) - Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley; MacArthur Fellow (1982).
• Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ph.D. 1974) - Professor of Medieval History and Chair of the Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago; Guggenheim Fellow (1991) and author of numerous books, including To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909-1049 (Cornell University Press, 1989), Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (Cornell UP, 1999), and Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Cornell UP, 2006).
• Eileen Southern (A.B. 1940, Ph.D. 1941) - National Humanities Medal (2001); first African-American female professor 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).
• Gerhard Weinberg (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1951) - Historian, World War Two expert; William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
• Carter G. Woodson (A.B. 1908, A.M. 1908) - Historian and founder of Negro History Week (1926), which evolved into Black History Month; civil rights activist.
• Richard S. Wortman (A.M. 1960, Ph.D. 1964) - Bryce Professor of European Legal History, Columbia University; pioneering historian of imperial Russian history; 2007 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

Journalism

• Rick Atkinson (A.M. 1976) - Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
• David Blum (A.B. 1977) - Editor-in-Chief of the Village Voice (2006–present).
• David Broder (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1951) - Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary (1973); political correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post.
• David Brooks (A.B. 1983) - Noted political commentator; columnist for the New York Times; senior editor of The Weekly Standard; regular commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• Ana Marie Cox (A.B. 1994) - liberal columnist, founding Editor of the Wonkette weblog, correspondent for Air America Media.
• Roger Ebert (X. 1970) - Pulitzer Prize winner for film criticism (1975); columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
• Thomas Frank (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1994) - Editor-in-chief of The Baffler; author of The Conquest of Cool (1997) and What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004).
• Katharine Graham (A.B. 1938) - Head of the Washington Post for over two decades; Pulitzer Prize winner for her memoir Personal History (1998).
• Jan Crawford Greenburg (J.D. 1993) - Legal correspondent for ABC 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.^[6]
• Dave Kehr (A.B. 1975) - Film critic for The New York Times.
• Harvey Levin (J.D. 1975) - Former investigator reporter, Managing Editor of TMZ.com.
• Roderick MacLeish (A.B. 1947) - National Public Radio political commentator; journalist and author.
• John G. Morris (A.B. 1937) - Photoeditor 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) - Formerly Foreign Editor, TIME; Managing Director, Kissinger Associates^[6]
• David E. Reed (A.B. 1946) - Roving Editor, Reader's Digest. Author: "111 Days in Stanleyville" (Harper & Row, NY, 1965); "Up Front in Vietnam" (Funk & Wagnalls, NY, 1967); "Save the Hostages," (Bantam, NY, 1988).
• 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) - Writer, editorialist, and member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.
• Ray Suarez (A.M. 1993) - Senior correspondent on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
• Kenneth Allen Taylor (Ph.D. 1984) - Co-host of radio program Philosophy Talk; Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University.
• Neda Ulaby (A.M. 1996) - National Public Radio reporter.

Literature

• Jessica Abel (A.B. 1991) - Comic book writer and artist.
• Saul Bellow (X. 1939) - Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize winner.
• Allan Bloom (Ph.B. 1949, A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) - Influential author.
• Paul C. Borgman (Ph.D. 1973) - Religious author and professor.
• Ernest Callenbach (Ph.B. 1949, A.M. 1953) - American writer.
• Paul Carroll (A.M. 1952) - American poet.
• Hayden Carruth (A.M. 1947) - Winner of National Book Award in poetry.
• Will Cuppy (Ph.B. 1907, A.M. 1914) - Humorist.
• Mu Dan (A.M. 1951) - Chinese poet and literary translator.
• Joseph Epstein (A.B. 1959) - Essayist, literary critic, and short story writer.
• James T. Farrell (X. 1929) - Novelist, short story writer, journalist, travel writer, poet and literary critic.
• Richard Garfinkle (X. 1980) - Science fiction and fantasy author, author of Celestial Matters. Also science popularization.
• 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) - Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Sebastian de Grazia (A.B. 1944, Ph.D. 1948) - Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Bette Howland (A.B. 1955) - Writer and literary critic: MacArthur Fellow.^[12]
• Greg Jao (B.A. 1990) - Christian author
• Robert Pirsig (attended but did not graduate) - Philosopher, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals.
• Patrick Larkin (A.B. 1982) - Author of espionage, military, and historical thrillers.
• Luis Leal (A.B. 1941, Ph.D. 1950) - Literary scholar and winner of National Humanities Medal.
• Seth Lerer (Ph.D. 1986) - Former Stanford professor; Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (effective January 1, 2009).
• Naomi Lindstrom (A.B. 1971), Latinamericanist 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.
• Campbell McGrath (A.B. 1984) - MacArthur Fellow.
• Sterling North (A.B. 1929) - Author.
• Norman Panama (A.B. 1936) - Screenwriter.
• Sara Paretsky (A.M. 1969, M.B.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1977) - Author.
• Elizabeth Peters (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1952) - Mystery author.
• Lyle Roebuck, author/classicist
• Richard Rorty (A.B. 1949, A.M. 1952) - Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stanford University; MacArthur Fellow.
• Philip Roth (A.M. 1955) - Pulitzer Prize and National Medal of Arts winner.
• Leo Rosten (Ph.B. 1930, Ph.D. 1937) - Humorist.
• John Scalzi (B.A. 1991) - Novelist.
• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (B.A. 1961, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1966) - Novelist, Poet & Professor.
• Susan Sontag (A.B. 1951) - MacArthur Fellow.
• George Steiner (A.B. 1948) - Prominent literary critic.
• Herman Voaden (X) - Playwright and social activist.
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (A.M. 1971) - Author of Cat's Cradle.
• Edward F. Wente, (Ph.D 1959), professor and Egyptologist
• Yvor Winters (attended) - Influential poet and critic. [1]

Mathematics

• Abraham Adrian Albert (B.S. 1926, S.M. 1927, Ph.D. 1928) -
• George Birkhoff (Ph.D. 1907) - Bôcher Memorial Prize winner.
• Gilbert Ames Bliss (Ph.D. 1900) -
• Alberto Calderón (Ph.D. 1950) - Cofounded the Chicago school of mathematical analysis. Winner of Bôcher Memorial Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science.
• Paul J. Cohen (S.M. 1954, Ph.D. 1958) - Fields Medal winner.
• David Eisenbud (Ph.D. 1970) -
• Bernard Galler (Ph.D. 1955) -
• Richard Hamming (B.S. 1947) -
• Thomas W. Hungerford (Ph.D. 1963) -
• John Irwin Hutchinson (Ph.D. 1896) -
• Saunders MacLane (A.M. 1931) - Cofounder of category theory.
• Anil Nerode (Ph.D. 1956) -
• Isadore Singer (Ph.D. 1955) - Abel Prize winner.
• Elias M. Stein (Ph.D. 1959) - Fields Medal winner.
• John Thompson (Ph.D. 1959) - World leader in group theory. Fields Medal and National Medal of Science winner.
• Oswald Veblen (Ph.D. 1903) -
• George W. Whitehead (Ph.D. 1941) -

Medicine

• David Talmage {Professor of Medicine}- Discovered The Clonal Selection Theory
• Robert Gallo (Resident in Medicine 1963-1965) - Identified first retrovirus in humans. [2]
• Maurice Hilleman (Ph.D. 1941) - Microbiologist, specialising in vaccinology.
• Donald Hopkins (M.D. 1966) - MacArthur Fellow (1995); Acting director (1985) of the Centers for Disease Control.^[6]
• 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.
• 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.
• Ulysses G. Mason (M.D. 1936) - Founder of the first integrated hospital.^[6]
• 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.

Religion

• Thomas J. J. Altizer (A.B. 1948, A.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1955) - Prominent "Death of God" theologian.
• Donald Eric Capps (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) - Scholar and Professor of Pastoral Theology.
• 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.
• 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.
• Elenie Huszagh (A.B. 1957) - First woman to serve as President of the National Council of Churches.
• Martin Marty (Ph.D. 1956) - National Humanities Medal (1997); national figure in non-sectarian religious studies.
• Ingrid Mattson (Ph.D. 1999) - First female president of Islamic Society of North America; a professor of religion at Hartford Seminary.
• David Novak (A.B. 1961) - Prominent Jewish legal theorist at the University of Toronto; a founder of the Institute of Traditional Judaism; author of Covenantal Rights.
• Jaroslav Pelikan (Ph.D. 1946) - Preeminent historian of Christian thought; Sterling Professor of History at Yale University; winner of the Library of Congress' Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences; author of the now-classic The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine.
• Emilie M. Townes (A.B. 1977, A.M. 1979, D.Min. 1982) - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology, Yale Divinity School; President of American Academy of Religion (AAR), first African-American to assume this position at AAR (2007).
• Mordecai Waxman (A.B. 1937) - prominent rabbi in the American Jewish Conservative movement. Responsible for opening dialogue between American Jews and Pope John Paul II in 1987

Social sciences

• Janet L. Abu-Lughod (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950) - Professor Emerita of Sociology at the New School for Social Research.
• Guillermo Algaze (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) - MacArthur Fellow (2003); Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego.^[12]
• Anne Allison (A.M. 1979, Ph.D. 1986) - Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University.
• Elijah Anderson (A.M. 1972) - William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University.
• Arjun Appadurai (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1976) - 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.
• 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
• Gregory Chow (A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1955) - Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
• Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (A.B. 1960, Ph.D. 1965) - C.S. and D.J. Davidson Professor of Psychology and Management, Claremont Graduate University; pioneer of the concept of flow.
• Nicholas de Genova (A.B. 1982, Ph.D. 1989) - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.
• Claudia Goldin (Ph.D. 1972) - Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University
• Eugene Fama (Ph.D. 1964) - Father of efficient market theory. Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago.
• Alexander L. George (A.M. 1941, Ph.D. 1958) - MacArthur Fellow (1983); Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Emeritus, Stanford University; pioneering scholar in political psychology and foreign policy.
• Erving Goffman (A.M. 1949, Ph.D. 1953) - Former Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania.
• Zvi Griliches (A.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1957) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1965); economist.
• Sanford J. Grossman (A.B. 1973, A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1975) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1987); economist.
• Charles V. Hamilton (A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1964) - Civil rights leader and Professor in Political Science, Columbia University.^[6]
• 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).
• Ukshin Hoti (1943-1999?) professor of international law at the University of Pristina
• Samuel P. Huntington (A.M. 1948) - Albert J. Weatherhead Professor of Government at Harvard University; author of The Clash of Civilizations (1998).
• 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.
• 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
• Frederick B. Lindstrom (Ph.D. 1950) --sociologist and historian of the Chicago School of sociology
• Antonio Martino (Ph.D. 1968) - Professor of Economics at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, former Italian Ministry of Defense
• Adeline Masquelier (Ph.D 1993) - Cultural Anthropologist at Tulane University
• Tracey Meares (J.D. 1991) - Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale Law School; first African-American women hired at Yale's law school; authority on race, crime, and law based on empirical research.
• Richard Thacker Morris (Ph.D) - Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Los Angeles
• John V. Murra (A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1956); anthropologist and researcher of the Inca Empire.
• Kevin M. Murphy (Ph.D. 1986) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1997); George J. Stigler Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.
• Marc Leon Nerlove (A.B. 1952) - John Bates Clark Medalist (1969); economist.
• Esther Newton (A.M. 1964, Ph.D. 1968) - Kempner Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology 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).
• Sherry Ortner (A.M. 1966, Ph.D. 1970) - MacArthur Fellow (1990); Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Paul Rabinow (A.B. 1965, A.M. 1967, Ph.D. 1970) - Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
• James M. Redfield (A.B. 1954, Ph.D. 1961) - Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1976–present).
• 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); noted sociologist.
• Philip Carl Salzman (Ph.D. 1972) - Professor of Anthropology, McGill University.
• Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) - Institute Professor, MIT. Bank of Sweden Prize in Econonomics in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1970.
• Ritch Savin-Williams (A.M. 1973, Ph.D. 1977) - Professor of developmental psychology at Cornell University; prolific sexual orientation researcher.
• 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.
• Orin Starn (A.B. 1982) - Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University.
• Edwin Sutherland (Ph.D. 1913) - Former Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.
• Robert Thompson (A.B. 1981) - Director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television.
• 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 B. Watson (Ph.D. 1903) - established behaviorism and pioneered rat-in-maze laboratory research.
• 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.
• Charles Miller Leslie (M.A., Ph.D. in Anthropology)- Notable Anthropologist in Medical Anthropology.

Science and technology

• Robert McCormick Adams (Ph.B. 1947, A.M. 1952, Ph.D. 1956) - Archeologist. Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution.
• 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 his contributions to the solar neutrino problem and the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
• Robert Bell (S.M. 1973) - Research Scientist at AT&T Research Labs and AT&T Science and Technology Medalist (2003).
• Ralph Buchsbaum (Ph.D. 1938) - Invertebrate zoologist.
• William Cottrell (A.B. 2002) - Former Ph.D. candidate at 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.
• 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.
• Frank Edwin Egler (S.B. 1932) - Plant ecologist. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955.
• Larry Ellison (X.) - Co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.
• Robert Floyd (A.B. 1953, S.B. 1958) - Computer scientist. Turing Award winner.
• T. Theodore Fujita (S.B. 1953) - Influential meteorologist. Developed 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 the magazine Scientific American.
• 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.^[6]
• Warren E. Henry (Ph.D. 1941) - Physicist and professor; developed video amplifiers used in portable radar systems on warships during World War II.^[6]
• Seymour L. Hess (Ph.D. 1950) - Meteorologist and planetary scientist who designed the weather instruments for the Viking 1.
• Edwin Hubble (S.B. 1910, Ph.D. 1917) - Astronomer who found the first evidence for the big bang theory.
• Donald Johanson (A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1974) - Paleoanthropologist who discovered "Lucy", a link between primates and humans.
• Jason Jones (X. 1997) - Co-founder of Bungie Studios, the company behind Halo.
• Ernest Everett Just (Ph.D. 1916) - Noted zoologist, biologist, physiologist, and research scientist.
• Robert Kowalski - Eminent computer scientist in the field of logic programming.
• Martin Kruskal (S.B. 1945) - Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Famous for starting the soliton revolution in Mathematics. Made a number of important advances, including Kruskal-Shafranov Instability, Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) Modes and the MHD Energy Principle, which laid the theoretical foundations of controlled nuclear fusion, and the Kruskal coordinates in the theory of relativity.
• Stephen Lee (Ph.D. 1986) - Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. MacArthur Fellow.
• George Willard Martin - Mycologist and professor at the University of Iowa
• Lynn Margulis (A.B. 1957) - Distinguished professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Contributed to development of Gaia theory.
• Stanley Miller (Ph.D. 1954) - Performed the classic Miller-Urey experiment on the origin of life in collaboration with Harold Urey in 1953.
• William Wilson Morgan (S.B. 1927, Ph.D. 1931) - Astronomer who co-developed the MK system for the classification of stars, as well as classification systems for galaxies and clusters. Director of Yerkes Observatory.
• Donald Osterbrock (A.B., Ph.D.) Leading astrophysicist known for his contributions to the body of knowledge on interstellar matter, gaseous nebulae, and the nuclei of active galaxies. President of American Astronomical Society. Director of Lick Observatory.
• Fushih Pan, (M.D. 1986, Ph. D. 1989)- Plastic Surgeon, Developer of the MIRA Procedure
• Jeannette Piccard (S.M. 1919) - Balloon aeronaut, speaker for NASA, teacher, scientist and Episcopal priest
• Raymond R. Rogers (Ph.D. 1995) - geology professor
• Carl Sagan (A.B. 1954, S.B. 1955, S.M. 1956, Ph.D. 1960) - Noted astronomer. Author of Contact. Pulitzer Prize winner.
• John T. Scopes (X. 1931) - Proponent of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution that led to the Scopes Trial and the inspiration for the play and film Inherit the Wind.
• Alex Seropian (S.B. 1991) - Co-founder of Bungie Studios, the company behind Halo.
• David Suzuki (Ph.D. 1961) - Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation. Award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.
• 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.
• Richard Wassersug (Ph.D. 1973) Professor of anatomy at Dalhousie University.
• George Wetherill (Ph.B. 1948, S.M. 1949, S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1953) - National Medal of Science winner. Known for his seminal work on the formation of planets and the solar system

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