| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Grace Abbott |
Activist |
17-Nov-1878 |
19-Jun-1939 |
Advocate against child labor |
| Walter S. Adams |
Astronomer |
20-Dec-1876 |
11-May-1956 |
Long-time director of Mt Wilson Observatory |
| Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator pioneer |
| Aldrich Ames |
Spy |
26-Mar-1941 |
|
CIA agent, divulged names to the Soviets |
| Basil L. Anderson |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Vice Chairman of Staples, 2001-06 |
| Regina M. Anderson |
Playwright |
21-May-1901 |
5-Feb-1993 |
Climbing Jacob's Ladder |
| Robert O. Anderson |
Business |
13-Apr-1917 |
2-Dec-2007 |
CEO of ARCO, 1966-86 |
| Lori B. Andrews |
Attorney |
c. 1953 |
|
Genetics and biotechnology law |
| Bernard W. Aronson |
Business |
16-May-1946 |
|
ACON Investments LLC |
| John Ashcroft |
Government |
9-May-1942 |
|
US Attorney General, 2001-05 |
| Ed Asner |
Actor |
15-Nov-1929 |
|
TV's Lou Grant |
| William J. Avery |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Crown Cork & Seal, 1990-2001 |
| David Axelrod |
Government |
c. 1954 |
|
Obama's chief political advisor |
| Horace W. Babcock |
Astronomer |
13-Sep-1912 |
29-Aug-2003 |
Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model |
| William Bagley |
Educator |
15-Mar-1874 |
1-Jul-1946 |
Opponent of Dewey's progressive education |
| Emily Greene Balch |
Activist |
8-Jan-1867 |
9-Jan-1961 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Thomas A. Balmer |
Judge |
1952 |
|
Justice, Oregon Supreme Court |
| Reginald Bartholomew |
Diplomat |
17-Feb-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to Italy, 1993-97 |
| Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1940 |
|
Human Capital |
| Marek Belka |
Head of State |
9-Jan-1952 |
|
Prime Minister of Poland 2004-05 |
| Saul Bellow |
Novelist |
10-Jun-1915 |
5-Apr-2005 |
The Adventures of Augie March |
| Stephen Berger |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Chairman of Odyssey Investment Partners |
| Jay Berwanger |
Football |
19-May-1914 |
26-Jun-2002 |
First Heisman Trophy winner |
| Ann C. Berzin |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of FGIC, 1992-2001 |
| Henry S. Bienen |
Educator |
1939 |
|
President, Northwestern University |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| Elvin Bishop |
Musician |
21-Oct-1942 |
|
Fooled Around and Fell In Love |
| Adriaan Blaauw |
Astronomer |
12-Apr-1914 |
|
Evolving galaxies |
| John Blatnik |
Politician |
17-Aug-1911 |
17-Dec-1991 |
Congressman from Minnesota, 1947-75 |
| Allan Bloom |
Philosopher |
14-Sep-1930 |
7-Oct-1992 |
The Closing of the American Mind |
| Eric Bogosian |
Actor |
24-Apr-1953 |
|
Talk Radio |
| Wayne C. Booth |
Critic |
22-Feb-1921 |
10-Oct-2005 |
The Rhetoric of Fiction |
| Robert Bork |
Government |
1-Mar-1927 |
|
Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked |
| Elsbeth Bothe |
Judge |
17-Oct-1927 |
|
Baltimore Circuit Court Judge, retired |
| Ira S. Bowen |
Astronomer |
21-Dec-1898 |
6-Feb-1973 |
Debunked nebulium |
| Barbara L. Bowles |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
The Kenwood Group |
| Carol Moseley Braun |
Politician |
16-Aug-1947 |
|
First black female US Senator |
| David Broder |
Journalist |
11-Sep-1929 |
|
Washington Post reporter |
| David Brooks |
Columnist |
11-Aug-1961 |
|
Shields and Brooks |
| Herbert C. Brown |
Chemist |
22-May-1912 |
19-Dec-2004 |
Discovered organoboranes |
| Peter C. Browning |
Business |
2-Sep-1941 |
|
CEO of Sonoco Products, 1998-2000 |
| Ivan Brunetti |
Cartoonist |
3-Oct-1967 |
|
Schizo |
| James M. Buchanan |
Economist |
2-Oct-1919 |
|
Public Choice Theory |
| E. Margaret Burbidge |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1919 |
|
Synthesis of the elements in stars |
| Geoffrey Burbidge |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1925 |
|
Quasi-steady state cosmology |
| Ernest Burgess |
Sociologist |
16-May-1886 |
27-Dec-1966 |
Introduction to the Science of Sociology |
| Mary Elizabeth Burton |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Zale |
| Mary K. Bush |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Bush International |
| Caroline H. Byrd |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
GlobalTech Financial |
| Debra A. Cafaro |
Business |
15-Dec-1957 |
|
CEO of Ventas |
| Tom Campbell |
Politician |
14-Aug-1952 |
|
Congressman from California, 1995-2001 |
| Hayden Carruth |
Poet |
3-Aug-1921 |
|
Brothers, I Loved You All |
| William Caton |
Business |
31-Jan-1951 |
|
CFO of Navistar International |
| Ahmed Chalabi |
Government |
30-Oct-1944 |
|
Prominent on the Iraqi Provisional Council |
| Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Timothy Y. Chen |
Business |
? |
|
Microsoft CEO Greater China Region |
| Liz Cheney |
Relative |
28-Jul-1966 |
|
Dick Cheney's daughter |
| Anna Chlumsky |
Actor |
3-Dec-1980 |
|
My Girl |
| Rebecca S. Chopp |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
President, Colgate University |
| Ramsey Clark |
Government |
18-Dec-1927 |
|
US Attorney General, 1967-69 |
| Charles I. Clough, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Chief Investment Strategist at Merrill Lynch, 1987-2000 |
| Stephen P. Cohen |
Scholar |
c. 1946 |
|
Foreign policy analyst |
| Thomas W. Cole, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Clark Atlanta, 1989-2002 |
| James Comey |
Government |
c. 1961 |
|
Deputy US Attorney General, 2003-05 |
| Henry Steele Commager |
Historian |
25-Oct-1902 |
2-Mar-1998 |
The American Mind |
| Jeffrey Connaughton |
Attorney |
? |
|
Lobbyist, Quinn Gillespie |
| George Conrades |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Akamai, 1999-2005 |
| Robert A. Cornog |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Snap-on, 1991-2001 |
| Jon Corzine |
Politician |
1-Jan-1947 |
|
Governor of New Jersey |
| George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
c. 1919 |
|
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
| Ana Marie Cox |
Journalist |
23-Sep-1972 |
|
Wonkette |
| James W. Cronin |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1931 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
| L. Gordon Crovitz |
Publisher |
c. 1959 |
|
Publisher, Wall Street Journal, 2006-07 |
| Robert F. Cummings, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Senior Managing Director, GSC Group |
| Kenneth W. Dam |
Government |
10-Aug-1932 |
|
Deputy Treasury Secretary, 2001-03 |
| Robert J. Darnall |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Inland Steel, 1992-98 |
| Erroll B. Davis, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Chancellor, University System of Georgia |
| Willie D. Davis |
Football |
24-Jul-1934 |
|
Businessman, former football player |
| Clinton Davisson |
Physicist |
22-Oct-1881 |
1-Feb-1958 |
Diffraction of electrons |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| William Dembski |
Religion |
18-Jul-1960 |
|
Intelligent Design proponent |
| Christopher DeMuth |
Activist |
5-Aug-1946 |
|
American Enterprise Institute |
| Daniel A. Dickinson |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Thayer Capital Partners |
| Bernardine Dohrn |
Activist |
12-Jan-1942 |
|
Weather Underground leader |
| Katherine Dunham |
Dancer |
22-Jun-1910 |
21-May-2006 |
Dunham School of Dance |
| John T. Dunlop |
Government |
5-Jul-1914 |
2-Oct-2003 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1975-76 |
| Anthony S. Earl |
Politician |
12-Apr-1936 |
|
Governor of Wisconsin, 1983-87 |
| Roger Ebert |
Critic |
18-Jun-1942 |
|
Corpulent film critic |
| John A. Edwardson |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of CDW |
| Allison H. Eid |
Judge |
1965 |
|
Justice, Colorado Supreme Court |
| Larry Ellison |
Business |
17-Aug-1944 |
|
CEO of Oracle |
| Stephen J. Entin |
Activist |
? |
|
Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation |
| Tamara J. Erickson |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Management Consultant |
| Robert A. Essner |
Business |
26-Oct-1947 |
|
CEO of Wyeth, 2002-07 |
| James T. Farrell |
Novelist |
27-Feb-1904 |
22-Aug-1979 |
Studs Lonigan trilogy |
| Janet Flanner |
Journalist |
13-Mar-1892 |
7-Nov-1978 |
The New Yorker |
| David W. Fox |
Business |
c. 1931 |
|
CEO of Northern Trust, 1990-95 |
| Thomas Frank |
Author |
1965 |
|
Founding editor, The Baffler |
| E. Franklin Frazier |
Sociologist |
24-Sep-1894 |
17-May-1962 |
Black Bourgeoisie |
| Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
| Milton Friedman |
Economist |
31-Jul-1912 |
16-Nov-2006 |
1976 Nobel Prize for Economics |
| Robert C. Gallo |
Doctor |
23-Mar-1937 |
|
Identified first retroviruses in humans |
| Robert W. Galvin |
Business |
9-Oct-1922 |
|
CEO of Motorola, 1959-90 |
| Martin Gardner |
Mathematician |
21-Oct-1914 |
|
Mathematical games, Scientific American |
| Philip Giraldi |
Government |
c. 1946 |
|
Former CIA officer |
| Tom Gjelten |
Journalist |
? |
|
NPR correspondent |
| Philip Glass |
Composer |
31-Jan-1937 |
|
Master of arpeggiation |
| Erving Goffman |
Sociologist |
11-Jun-1922 |
19-Nov-1982 |
The Presentation of Self |
| Robert W. Goldman |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CFO of Conoco, 1998-2002 |
| Paul Goodman |
Anarchist |
9-Sep-1911 |
2-Aug-1972 |
Growing Up Absurd |
| Katharine Graham |
Publisher |
16-Jun-1917 |
17-Jul-2001 |
Washington Post publisher, 1966-79 |
| Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
| Dwight H. Green |
Politician |
9-Jan-1897 |
20-Feb-1958 |
Governor of Illinois, 1941-49 |
| Judson C. Green |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of NAVTEQ |
| Jan Crawford Greenburg |
Journalist |
c. 1965 |
|
Chicago Tribune legal reporter |
| Jesse L. Greenstein |
Astronomer |
15-Oct-1909 |
21-Oct-2002 |
Co-Discoverer of quasars |
| Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| Ulu Grosbard |
Film Director |
9-Jan-1929 |
|
The Subject Was Roses |
| Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
| John Gunther |
Journalist |
30-Aug-1901 |
29-May-1970 |
Inside Europe |
| Trygve Haavelmo |
Economist |
13-Dec-1911 |
28-Jul-1999 |
Economic forecasting |
| Victor Halperin |
Film Director |
24-Aug-1895 |
17-May-1983 |
White Zombie |
| Michael Harrington |
Activist |
24-Feb-1928 |
31-Jul-1989 |
The Other America |
| Patricia Roberts Harris |
Government |
31-May-1924 |
23-Mar-1985 |
Cabinet Secretary under Jimmy Carter |
| Sessue Hayakawa |
Actor |
10-Jun-1889 |
23-Nov-1973 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| F. A. Hayek |
Economist |
8-May-1899 |
23-Mar-1992 |
Austrian economist |
| James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| Morton Heilig |
Inventor |
1926 |
1997 |
Early virtual reality pioneer |
| Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
| Seymour Hersh |
Journalist |
8-Apr-1937 |
|
Uncovered the My Lai Massacre |
| Raymond Hide |
Geologist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
| John P. Hiler |
Politician |
24-Apr-1953 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1981-91 |
| Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Historian |
8-Aug-1922 |
|
Victorian Minds |
| Deane R. Hinton |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1923 |
|
US Ambassador to Panama, 1990-94 |
| James F. Hoge, Jr. |
Editor |
25-Dec-1935 |
|
Editor of Foreign Affairs |
| Celeste Holm |
Actor |
29-Apr-1919 |
|
Gentleman's Agreement |
| Michele J. Hooper |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Co-Founder, The Directors' Council |
| James C. Hormel |
Diplomat |
1-Jan-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1999-2001 |
| Constance J. Horner |
Government |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Former Civil Rights Commissioner |
| Roman Hruska |
Politician |
16-Aug-1904 |
25-Apr-1999 |
US Senator from Nebraska, 1954-76 |
| Edwin Hubble |
Astronomer |
20-Nov-1889 |
28-Sep-1953 |
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law |
| Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. |
Diplomat |
1-Jun-1920 |
6-Feb-2001 |
US Ambassador to China, 1981-85 |
| David R. Hunter |
Administrator |
17-May-1916 |
25-Nov-2000 |
Progressive fund advisor |
| Samuel P. Huntington |
Author |
18-Apr-1927 |
|
The Clash of Civilizations |
| Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Harold Ickes |
Government |
15-Mar-1874 |
3-Feb-1952 |
U.S. Secretary of the Interior 1933-46 |
| Jack B. Jacobs |
Judge |
c. 1942 |
|
Justice, Delaware Supreme Court |
| Neil H. Jacoby |
Economist |
19-Sep-1909 |
31-May-1979 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 |
| Richard R. Jaros |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
President of Level 3 Communications, 1996-97 |
| Raymond A. Jean |
Business |
23-Aug-1942 |
|
CEO of Quanex |
| Donald Johanson |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1943 |
|
Discovered "Lucy" fossils |
| Charles S. Johnson |
Sociologist |
24-Jul-1893 |
27-Oct-1956 |
The Negro in Chicago |
| David W. Johnson |
Business |
7-Aug-1932 |
|
CEO of Campbell Soup, 1990-97 |
| Eric G. Johnson |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Baldwin Richardson Foods Co. |
| Phillip Johnson |
Author |
1940 |
|
Intelligent Design theorist |
| David Cay Johnston |
Journalist |
c. 1949 |
|
Perfectly Legal |
| Ann Dibble Jordan |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Professor, University of Chicago |
| June Jordan |
Poet |
9-Jul-1936 |
14-Jun-2002 |
Who Look At Me |
| Ernest Just |
Biologist |
14-Aug-1883 |
27-Oct-1941 |
Cell surfaces and egg fertilization |
| Jonathan Kaplan |
Film Director |
25-Nov-1947 |
|
Over the Edge |
| William E. Kassling |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Twice CEO of Wabtec |
| Karen L. Katen |
Business |
1948 |
|
Senior Pfizer executive |
| Philip Kaufman |
Film Director |
23-Oct-1936 |
|
The Right Stuff |
| Daniel P. Kearney |
Business |
1939 |
|
EVP at Aetna, 1991-98 |
| Dennis J. Keller |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
DeVry Institute of Technology |
| Arthur L. Kelly |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Partner, KEL Enterprises |
| Majid Khadduri |
Scholar |
1908 |
25-Jan-2007 |
Middle East scholar |
| Zalmay Khalilzad |
Diplomat |
22-Mar-1951 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN |
| James M. Kilts |
Business |
10-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of Gillette, 2001-05 |
| Reatha Clark King |
Business |
11-Apr-1938 |
|
President of Metropolitan State, 1977-88 |
| Lawrence R. Klein |
Economist |
14-Sep-1920 |
|
Macroeconometric modeling |
| Amy Klobuchar |
Politician |
25-May-1960 |
|
US Senator from Minnesota |
| C. M. Kornbluth |
Novelist |
23-Jul-1923 |
21-Mar-1958 |
The Space Merchants |
| Murray Krieger |
Critic |
27-Nov-1923 |
|
The Play and Place of Criticism |
| Bud Krogh |
Government |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Nixon's plumbers |
| Michael L. Kubacki |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Lakeland Financial Corporation |
| Robert W. Lane |
Business |
14-Nov-1949 |
|
CEO of Deere |
| Katherine Lanpher |
Radio Personality |
27-May-1959 |
|
Al Franken's sidekick on Air America |
| Stephen Leacock |
Author |
30-Dec-1869 |
28-Mar-1944 |
Literary Lapses |
| Tsung-Dao Lee |
Physicist |
25-Nov-1926 |
|
Investigated parity law |
| Fritz Leiber |
Author |
24-Dec-1910 |
5-Sep-1992 |
Ship of Shadows |
| Edward H. Levi |
Government |
26-Jun-1911 |
7-Mar-2000 |
US Attorney General, 1975-77 |
| Daniel B. Levin |
Government |
4-Mar-1956 |
|
Justice Department attorney |
| Jerry W. Levin |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of American Household, 1998-2005 |
| Meyer Levin |
Novelist |
8-Oct-1905 |
9-Jul-1981 |
Compulsion |
| Sandy Levin |
Politician |
6-Sep-1931 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 12th |
| Ted Levine |
Actor |
29-May-1958 |
|
Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs |
| David B. Lewis |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Partner, Lewis & Munday |
| Willard F. Libby |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1908 |
8-Sep-1980 |
Carbon-14 dating technique |
| Joseph Limprecht |
Diplomat |
22-Jul-1946 |
19-May-2002 |
US Ambassador to Albania, 1999-2002 |
| Robert Todd Lincoln |
Politician |
1-Aug-1843 |
26-Jul-1926 |
US Secretary of War, 1881-85 |
| Tod Lindberg |
Columnist |
1960 |
|
Policy Review editor |
| John Lott |
Economist |
8-May-1958 |
|
More Guns, Less Crime |
| Lee Lozano |
Painter |
5-Nov-1930 |
2-Oct-1999 |
Misogyny as art form |
| Deborah J. Lucas |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
Finance Professor at Northwestern |
| Robert Lucas |
Economist |
15-Sep-1937 |
|
Theory of rational expectations |
| Anthony Luiso |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
International Multifoods Corporation |
| Staughton Lynd |
Historian |
22-Nov-1929 |
|
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism |
| Jeb Magruder |
Government |
5-Nov-1934 |
|
Nixon's deputy campaign director |
| Harry M. Markowitz |
Economist |
24-Aug-1927 |
|
Portfolio theory |
| Jerry L. Martin |
Educator |
? |
|
American Council of Trustees & Alumni |
| William L. McComb |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
CEO of Liz Claiborne |
| Gale W. McGee |
Politician |
17-Mar-1915 |
9-Apr-1992 |
US Senator from Wyoming, 1959-77 |
| David McIntosh |
Politician |
8-Jun-1958 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1995-2001 |
| Kevin M. McMullen |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO of OMNOVA Solutions |
| William H. McNeill |
Historian |
31-Oct-1917 |
|
The Rise of the West |
| John W. Meriwether |
Business |
10-Aug-1947 |
|
Long-Term Capital Management |
| Abner J. Mikva |
Politician |
21-Jan-1926 |
|
Illinois Congressman, Clinton Counsel |
| Perry Miller |
Historian |
25-Feb-1905 |
9-Dec-1963 |
The New England Mind |
| Stanley Miller |
Chemist |
7-Mar-1930 |
20-May-2007 |
Miller-Urey Experiment |
| David Minge |
Politician |
19-Mar-1942 |
|
Congressman from Minnesota, 1993-2001 |
| Patsy Mink |
Politician |
6-Dec-1927 |
28-Sep-2002 |
Congresswoman from Hawaii |
| Wesley Clair Mitchell |
Economist |
5-Aug-1874 |
29-Oct-1948 |
Business Cycles |
| Franco Modigliani |
Economist |
18-Jun-1918 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Life-cycle theory |
| Philip Montgomery III |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO, P.O'B. Montgomery & Co. |
| Barrett Moore |
Business |
? |
|
Triple Canopy founder |
| Thomas Gale Moore |
Economist |
6-Nov-1930 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 |
| Harry Morgan |
Actor |
10-Apr-1915 |
|
Col. Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Studied molecular structure |
| Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
| Michael L. Mussa |
Economist |
15-Apr-1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88 |
| Robert C. Nakasone |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Toys R Us, 1998-99 |
| Jim Neal |
Politician |
6-Nov-1956 |
|
Running against Elizabeth Dole in 2008 |
| Ralph Neas |
Activist |
17-May-1946 |
|
People for the American Way |
| Paul Nelson |
Religion |
1952 |
|
Leading Intelligent Design advocate |
| Eliot Ness |
Government |
19-Apr-1903 |
16-May-1957 |
Treasury Agent, The Untouchables |
| Joseph Neubauer |
Business |
19-Oct-1941 |
|
CEO of ARAMARK |
| Mike Nichols |
Film Director |
6-Nov-1931 |
|
Primary Colors |
| James B. Nicholson |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO, PVS Chemicals Inc. |
| William Niskanen |
Administrator |
? |
|
Chairman of the Cato Institute |
| Ken Nordine |
Radio Personality |
19-Jan-1920 |
|
Word Jazz |
| Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
| Jim Oberweis |
Business |
1946 |
|
Republican dairy magnate |
| Elder Olson |
Critic |
9-Mar-1909 |
25-Jul-1992 |
Critics and Criticism |
| William G. Ouchi |
Educator |
1943 |
|
Theory Z |
| Geoffrey Palmer |
Head of State |
21-Apr-1942 |
|
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1989-90 |
| Jaime Chico Pardo |
Business |
14-Feb-1950 |
|
CEO of Teléfonos de México |
| Sara Paretsky |
Novelist |
8-Jun-1947 |
|
V. I. Warshawski detective novels |
| Chong Sup Park |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Maxtor, 2004-06 |
| Kimberly Peirce |
Film Director |
8-Sep-1967 |
|
Boys Don't Cry |
| Charles H. Percy |
Politician |
27-Sep-1919 |
|
US Senator from Illinois, 1967-85 |
| Brock Peters |
Actor |
2-Jul-1927 |
23-Aug-2005 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Peter G. Peterson |
Business |
5-Jun-1926 |
|
Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Joseph A. Pichler |
Business |
2-Oct-1939 |
|
CEO of Kroger, 1990-2003 |
| Charles Plosser |
Economist |
19-Sep-1948 |
|
President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed |
| John Podhoretz |
Columnist |
18-Apr-1961 |
|
Conservative columnist |
| Bill Poole |
Economist |
19-Jun-1937 |
|
President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| Myrtle Potter |
Business |
1958 |
|
COO of Genentech, 2000-04 |
| Vasant M. Prabhu |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CFO of Starwood Hotels |
| Philip J. Purcell |
Business |
5-Sep-1943 |
|
CEO of Morgan Stanley, 1997-2005 |
| James Purdy |
Author |
17-Jul-1923 |
|
Eustance Chisholm and the Works |
| David Rasche |
Actor |
7-Aug-1944 |
|
Sledge Hammer! |
| Susan P. Read |
Judge |
1947 |
|
Judge, NY Court of Appeals |
| George E. Reedy |
Government |
5-Aug-1917 |
21-Mar-1999 |
LBJ's press secretary |
| Joseph Banks Rhine |
Paranormal |
29-Sep-1885 |
20-Feb-1980 |
Father of modern parapsychology |
| James Ford Rhodes |
Author |
1-May-1848 |
22-Jan-1927 |
History of the Civil War |
| Abraham Ribicoff |
Politician |
9-Apr-1910 |
22-Feb-1998 |
Senator and Governor from Connecticut |
| William C. Richardson |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
President of Johns Hopkins, 1990-95 |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts |
Author |
30-Oct-1881 |
13-Mar-1941 |
The Great Meadow |
| David Rockefeller |
Business |
12-Jun-1915 |
|
Founder of the Trilateral Commission |
| Richard Rorty |
Philosopher |
4-Oct-1931 |
8-Jun-2007 |
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
| Irwin Rose |
Scientist |
16-Jul-1926 |
|
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| Leo Rosten |
Author |
11-Apr-1908 |
19-Feb-1997 |
The Joys of Yiddish |
| Philip Roth |
Novelist |
19-Mar-1933 |
|
Portnoy's Complaint |
| Steven G. Rothmeier |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Northwest Airlines, 1985-89 |
| F. Sherwood Rowland |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1927 |
|
Ozone depletion |
| David M. Rubenstein |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Director of the Carlyle Group |
| Ellen A. Rudnick |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship |
| William C. Rusnack |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Premcor, 1998-2002 |
| Carl Sagan |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1934 |
20-Dec-1996 |
Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos |
| Paul Samuelson |
Economist |
15-May-1915 |
|
1970 Nobel Prize in Economics |
| Bernie Sanders |
Politician |
8-Sep-1941 |
|
US Senator from Vermont |
| John Scalzi |
Novelist |
10-May-1969 |
|
Old Man's War |
| Dean A. Scarborough |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of Avery-Dennison |
| Myron S. Scholes |
Economist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Black-Scholes options pricing model |
| Mary M. Schroeder |
Judge |
4-Dec-1940 |
|
Judge, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| William F. Schulz |
Activist |
14-Nov-1949 |
|
Director, Amnesty International, 1994-2006 |
| John T. Scopes |
Educator |
3-Aug-1900 |
21-Oct-1970 |
Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial |
| Peter Sebastian |
Diplomat |
19-Jun-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1984-87 |
| Donald J. Shepard |
Business |
1946 |
|
Chairman of Aegon NV |
| Charles R. Shoemate |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Bestfoods, 1990-2000 |
| Milton Sills |
Actor |
12-Jan-1882 |
15-Sep-1930 |
The Sea Hawk |
| Robert B. Silvers |
Editor |
31-Dec-1929 |
|
The New York Review of Books |
| Herbert A. Simon |
Economist |
15-Jun-1916 |
9-Feb-2001 |
Administrative Behavior |
| Joseph J. Sisco |
Diplomat |
31-Oct-1919 |
23-Nov-2004 |
Kissinger's Mideast Deputy |
| Emil Skodon |
Diplomat |
25-Nov-1963 |
|
US Ambassador to Brunei |
| Melanie Sloan |
Activist |
16-Dec-1965 |
|
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington |
| Louis Slotin |
Physicist |
1-Dec-1910 |
30-May-1946 |
Died tickling the dragon's tail |
| Richard E. Smalley |
Chemist |
6-Jun-1943 |
28-Oct-2005 |
Co-Discovered first fullerine |
| Tony Snow |
Government |
1-Jun-1955 |
|
Fox News pundit, White House press secretary |
| Barbara R. Snyder |
Educator |
23-Jul-1955 |
|
President, CWRU |
| Lewis C. Solmon |
Economist |
? |
|
Education reformer |
| Ezra Solomon |
Economist |
1920 |
9-Dec-2002 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1971-73 |
| Susan Sontag |
Author |
16-Jan-1933 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Novelist, critic, intellectual |
| Thomas Sowell |
Economist |
30-Jul-1930 |
|
Conservative economist, Hoover fellow |
| Roger W. Sperry |
Scientist |
20-Aug-1913 |
17-Apr-1994 |
"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology |
| William T. Spitz |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Investment Manager for Vanderbilt, 1985-2007 |
| Beryl W. Sprinkel |
Economist |
20-Nov-1923 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 |
| Herbert Stein |
Economist |
27-Aug-1916 |
8-Sep-1999 |
Economic adviser for Nixon |
| Jules Stein |
Business |
26-Apr-1896 |
29-Apr-1981 |
Founder of MCA |
| David Steinberg |
Comic |
9-Aug-1942 |
|
Second City alumnus |
| Jack Steinberger |
Physicist |
25-May-1921 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| George Steiner |
Critic |
23-Apr-1929 |
|
After Babel |
| John Paul Stevens |
Judge |
20-Apr-1920 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| George J. Stigler |
Economist |
17-Jan-1911 |
1-Dec-1991 |
Economic Theory of Regulation |
| Steven J. Strobel |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Senior VP at Motorola |
| Ray Suarez |
Journalist |
5-Mar-1957 |
|
Correspondent for Lehrer News Hour |
| David Suzuki |
Naturalist |
24-Mar-1936 |
|
Television nature host |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Phillips Talbot |
Diplomat |
c. 1914 |
|
US Ambassador to Greece, 1965-69 |
| Jim Talent |
Politician |
18-Oct-1956 |
|
US Senator from Missouri |
| Peter Tarnoff |
Government |
1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1986-93 |
| Edward Tatum |
Scientist |
14-Dec-1909 |
7-Nov-1975 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
| Richard F. Teerlink |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Harley-Davdison, 1989-97 |
| Studs Terkel |
Author |
16-May-1912 |
|
Wrote working class book Working |
| Mary A. Tolan |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Accretive Health |
| Jean Toomer |
Author |
26-Dec-1894 |
30-Mar-1967 |
Cane |
| Daniel C. Tsui |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1939 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Mary Jean Crenshaw Tully |
Activist |
15-Dec-1925 |
27-Dec-2003 |
Feminism activist |
| Jonathan Turley |
Scholar |
1967 |
|
GWU law professor |
| David A. Twardock |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Prudential Mortgage Capital |
| Thomas Unterman |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former CFO of Times Mirror |
| Viron P. Vaky |
Diplomat |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to Venezuela, 1976 |
| Carl Van Vechten |
Novelist |
17-Jun-1880 |
21-Dec-1964 |
Patron of the Harlem Renaissance |
| Mike Vaska |
Activist |
1960 |
|
Discovery Institute |
| David J. Vitale |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CAO, Chicago Public Schools |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1922 |
11-Apr-2007 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
| Dale Wainwright |
Judge |
19-Jun-1961 |
|
Justice, Texas Supreme Court |
| George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Richard F. Wallman |
Business |
1951 |
|
CFO of Honeywell, 1999-2003 |
| Neil Clark Warren |
Business |
18-Sep-1934 |
|
Founder, eHarmony |
| James Watson |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1928 |
|
Co-discoverer of DNA |
| John Watson |
Psychologist |
9-Jan-1878 |
25-Sep-1958 |
Founder of Behaviorism |
| Fritz Weaver |
Actor |
19-Jan-1926 |
|
Fail Safe |
| Matthew E. Welsh |
Politician |
15-Sep-1912 |
28-May-1995 |
Governor of Indiana, 1961-65 |
| Glenway Wescott |
Novelist |
11-Apr-1901 |
22-Feb-1987 |
The Pilgrim Hawk |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. |
Business |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92 |
| Leslie A. White |
Anthropologist |
19-Jan-1900 |
31-Mar-1975 |
The Science of Culture |
| Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Steven V. Wilkinson |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Former Partner, Arthur Andersen |
| Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Biologist |
19-Oct-1856 |
3-Mar-1939 |
The Cell in Development and Inheritance |
| James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
|
The Moral Sense |
| Lanford Wilson |
Playwright |
13-Apr-1937 |
|
The Hot L Baltimore |
| Jon Winkelried |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Co-COO of Goldman Sachs |
| Yvor Winters |
Poet |
17-Oct-1900 |
25-Jan-1968 |
Primitivism & Decadence |
| Harris Wofford |
Politician |
9-Apr-1926 |
|
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1991-95 |
| Timothy V. Wolf |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CFO of Molson Coors Brewing |
| Paul Wolfowitz |
Government |
22-Dec-1943 |
|
World Bank president, 2005-07 |
| Howard Wolfson |
Government |
c. 1967 |
|
Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman |
| Victor Wong |
Actor |
31-Jul-1927 |
12-Sep-2001 |
Egg Shen |
| Robert W. Wood |
Physicist |
2-May-1868 |
11-Aug-1955 |
Physical Optics |
| Jeremiah Wright |
Religion |
22-Sep-1941 |
|
Trinity United Church of Christ |
| Basilis Xanthopoulos |
Physicist |
1951 |
27-Nov-1990 |
Gravitational physics |
| Chen Ning Yang |
Physicist |
1-Oct-1922 |
|
Particle physicist |
| Herbert O. Yardley |
Scientist |
13-Apr-1889 |
7-Aug-1958 |
U.S. cryptographer during WWI |
| Sidney Yates |
Politician |
27-Aug-1909 |
5-Oct-2000 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1949-99 |
| Frank Yerby |
Novelist |
5-Sep-1916 |
29-Nov-1991 |
The Dahomean |
| Byron York |
Columnist |
? |
|
National Review columnist |
| Marguerite Young |
Author |
28-Aug-1908 |
17-Nov-1995 |
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling |
| Stephen M. Young |
Diplomat |
1952 |
|
Director of the American Institute in Taiwan |
| Morton Dauwen Zabel |
Educator |
10-Aug-1901 |
28-Apr-1964 |
Craft and Character |
| Donna F. Zarcone |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Former Harley Davidson executive |
