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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Angela Alioto
Politician
20-Oct-1949   San Francisco politician and pundit
Phil Angelides
Politician
12-Jun-1953   Chair, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Dennis Archer
Politician
1-Jan-1942   Mayor of Detroit, 1994-2001
David Axelrod
Government
22-Feb-1955   NBC talking head
Mario L. Baeza
Business
c. 1951   Baeza & Co.
Elizabeth F. Bagley
Diplomat
13-Feb-1952   US Ambassador to Portugal, 1994-97
Dusty Baker
Baseball
15-Jun-1949   Ex-Manager, Cincinnati Reds
Ernie Banks
Baseball
31-Jan-1931 23-Jan-2015 National League MVP 1958 and 1959
Roy Barnes
Politician
11-Mar-1948   Governor of Georgia, 1999-2003
Andrew C. Barrett
Government
14-Apr-1942   FCC Commissioner, 1989-96
Karen Bass
Politician
3-Oct-1953   Congresswoman, California 33rd
Jere Beasley
Politician
12-Dec-1935   Lt. Governor of Alabama, 1970-78
Joshua Bekenstein
Business
c. 1958   Bain Capital
Sandy Berger
Government
28-Oct-1945 2-Dec-2015 National Security Advisor for Bill Clinton
Jeffrey L. Bewkes
Business
25-May-1952   CEO of Time Warner
Frank Biondi
Business
9-Jan-1945   Former CEO, Viacom, Universal Studios
Stephen F. Bollenbach
Business
c. 1943   CEO of Hilton Hotels, 1996-2007
Barbara L. Bowles
Business
c. 1946   The Kenwood Group
Beth L. Bronner
Business
c. 1950   Mistral Equity Partners
Jackson Browne
Singer/Songwriter
9-Oct-1948   Running on Empty
Ronald W. Burkle
Business
c. 1953   Supermarket Billionaire
Roland W. Burris
Politician
8-Aug-1937   US Senator from Illinois, 2009-10
LeVar Burton
Actor
16-Feb-1957   La Forge on Star Trek: TNG
Linda Walker Bynoe
Business
c. 1953   CEO of Telemat Limited
Debra A. Cafaro
Business
15-Dec-1957   CEO of Ventas
Kate Capshaw
Actor
3-Nov-1953   Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Peter Cartwright
Business
6-Jan-1930   CEO of Calpine, 1984-2005
Michael Chabon
Novelist
24-May-1963   The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Kenneth Chenault
Business
2-Jun-1951   CEO of American Express
Henry Cisneros
Politician
11-Jun-1947   Secretary of HUD, 1993-97
Frank M. Clark
Business
c. 1946   CEO of Commonwealth Edison
George Clooney
Actor
6-May-1961   E.R.
Johnnie Cochran
Attorney
2-Oct-1937 29-Mar-2005 Successfully defended O. J. Simpson
Ben Cohen
Business
18-Mar-1951   Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.
Timothy C. Collins
Business
c. 1956   Private equity, Ripplewood Holdings
Jeffrey Connaughton
Attorney
c. 1959   Lobbyist, Quinn Gillespie
Don Cornelius
TV Personality
27-Sep-1936 1-Feb-2012 Soul Train
W. Don Cornwell
Business
1948   CEO of Granite Broadcasting
Jon Corzine
Politician
1-Jan-1947   Governor of New Jersey, 2006-10
Molly J. Coye
Business
c. 1946   Founder, Health Technology Center
James Q. Crowe
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Level 3 Communications
James S. Crown
Business
25-Jun-1953   Henry Crown and Company
Susan Crown
Business
c. 1958   VP at Henry Crown and Company
Lloyd Cutler
Attorney
10-Nov-1917 8-May-2005 White House Counsel for Carter, Clinton
William M. Daley
Government
8-Aug-1948   White House Chief of Staff, 2011-12
Ronald E. Daly
Business
c. 1947   CEO of Oce USA Holding
Robert C. Davidson, Jr.
Business
c. 1945   Surface Protection Industries
Gordon J. Davis
Attorney
7-Aug-1941   Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf
Alan Dershowitz
Attorney
1-Sep-1938   Lawyer, represented Klaus von Bulow
Daniel A. Dickinson
Business
c. 1961   Thayer Capital Partners
Barry Diller
Business
2-Feb-1942   CEO of USA Interactive Corp.
James Dimon
Business
13-Mar-1956   CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Wayne Dowdy
Politician
27-Jul-1943   Congressman from Mississippi, 1981-89
Thomas J. Downey
Politician
28-Jan-1949   Congressman from New York, 1975-93
Mervyn M. Dymally
Politician
12-May-1926 7-Oct-2012 Congressman from California, 1981-93
Michael Eric Dyson
Scholar
23-Oct-1958   Know What I Mean?
Warren Eisenberg
Business
c. 1930   Co-Founder, Bed Bath and Beyond
Larry Ellison
Business
17-Aug-1944   Founder of Oracle
Susan E. Engel
Business
c. 1946   CEO of Lenox Group, 1996-2007
Debrah Farentino
Actor
30-Sep-1959   Devon Adair on Earth 2
Dianne Feinstein
Politician
22-Jun-1933   US Senator from California
Alan H. Fishman
Business
c. 1946   Meridian Capital Group
William C. Foote
Business
c. 1951   CEO of USG
Charles T. Fote
Business
1949   CEO of First Data, 2002-05
A. D. Frazier, Jr.
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Danka Business Systems
Brenda J. Gaines
Business
c. 1949   CEO of Diners Club NA, 2002-04
Peter Galbraith
Diplomat
31-Dec-1950   The End of Iraq
Mark T. Gallogly
Business
c. 1957   Former Managing Director, Blackstone
David Geffen
Business
21-Feb-1943   Music and movie industry mogul
Kirsten Gillibrand
Politician
9-Dec-1966   US Senator from New York
Sue Ling Gin
Business
23-Sep-1941   Flying Food Group
Donald A. Glaser
Physicist
21-Sep-1926 28-Feb-2013 Inventor of the bubble chamber
Charles H. Goodman
Business
c. 1934   Vice Chairman of Henry Crown & Co.
Bruce S. Gordon
Business
15-Feb-1946   President of the NAACP, 2005-07
Berry Gordy
Business
28-Nov-1929   Founder of Motown Records
Earl G. Graves
Business
c. 1935   Black Enterprise magazine
Melanie Griffith
Actor
9-Aug-1957   Mom from Lolita redux
Lani Guinier
Educator
19-Apr-1950   The Tyranny of the Majority
Jasmine Guy
Actor
10-Mar-1962   A Different World
David W. Haas
Business
c. 1956   Chairman, The William Penn Foundation
Herbie Hancock
Jazz Musician
12-Apr-1940   Innovative jazz/fusion composer and pianist
Christie Hefner
Business
8-Nov-1952   CEO of Playboy, 1988-2009
John B. Hess
Business
5-Apr-1954   CEO of Amerada Hess
Michele J. Hooper
Business
c. 1951   Co-Founder, The Directors' Council
Norman Hsu
Philanthropist
Oct-1951   Notorious Democratic donor
Reed E. Hundt
Business
3-Mar-1948   FCC Chairman, 1993-97
Glenn H. Hutchins
Business
c. 1955   Co-Founder, Silver Lake Partners
Stanley O. Ikenberry
Educator
1935   University of Illinois President, 1979-95
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Politician
11-Mar-1965   Congressman from Illinois, 1995-2012
M. Christine Jacobs
Business
c. 1950   CEO of Theragenics
Edgar D. Jannotta
Business
27-Apr-1931   Chairman, William Blair & Company
Valerie B. Jarrett
Business
14-Nov-1956   White House Office of Public Liaison
Robert L. Johnson
Business
8-Apr-1946   CEO of BET
Sheila Crump Johnson
Business
1949   Billionaire
Dale E. Jones
Business
1959   Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles
Vernon Jordan
Business
15-Aug-1935   Advisor to Bill Clinton
Elena Kagan
Judge
28-Apr-1960   US Supreme Court Justice
Bruce Karatz
Business
1945   CEO of KB Home, 1986-2006
Juliette Kayyem
Government
16-Aug-1969   Counterterrorism wonk
Dennis J. Keller
Business
c. 1941   DeVry Institute of Technology
Lydia H. Kennard
Business
c. 1954   Los Angeles World Airports
Martin S. Kimmel
Business
9-Apr-1916 15-Apr-2008 Founder of Kimco Realty
Lester B. Knight
Business
c. 1958   CEO of Allegiance Corporation, 1996-99
Kay Koplovitz
Business
c. 1945   Co-Founder, USA Network
Orin Kramer
Business
c. 1945   Chair, New Jersey State Investment Council
Sherry Lansing
Business
31-Jul-1944   Former Paramount executive
Norman Lear
Film/TV Producer
27-Jul-1922   Creator of All in the Family
Debra L. Lee
Business
1955   CEO of BET Networks
Tom Lehrer
Comic
9-Apr-1928   Comedic songwriter
Richard G. Lesser
Business
c. 1936   COO of TJX, 1994-99
Lawrence Lessig
Attorney
3-Jun-1961   Constitutional and internet law
William M. Lewis, Jr.
Business
30-Apr-1956   Co-Chair Investment Banking at Lazard
William G. Little
Business
c. 1941   Quam Nichols Co.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Author
23-Feb-1942   Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?
Ellen Malcolm
Activist
2-Feb-1947   Founder, EMILY's List
Philip A. Marineau
Business
c. 1946   CEO of Levi Strauss, 1999-2006
R. Eden Martin
Attorney
1940   Former Partner, Sidley Austin
Caroline S. Matthews
Business
c. 1960   Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia
Michael B. McCallister
Business
27-May-1952   CEO of Humana
John W. McCarter, Jr.
Business
c. 1938   CEO of the Field Museum
Gabrielle K. McDonald
Judge
12-Apr-1942   US District Court Judge, Texas, 1979-88
Raymond J. McGuire
Business
1957   Citigroup M&A executive
Rose E. McKinney-James
Business
c. 1951   Energy Works Consulting LLC
Gary A. Mecklenburg
Business
c. 1946   Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
Kendrick Meek
Politician
6-Sep-1966   Congressman from Florida, 2003-11
Thomas J. Meredith
Business
c. 1950   CFO of Dell, 1992-2000
Abner J. Mikva
Politician
21-Jan-1926   Illinois Congressman, Clinton Counsel
Newton N. Minow
Government
17-Jan-1926   FCC Chairman, 1961-63
Steven T. Mnuchin
Business
c. 1963   Dune Capital Management
Walter Mondale
Politician
5-Jan-1928   US Vice President under Jimmy Carter
Regina Montoya
Business
25-Dec-1953   CEO of New America Alliance
John P. Morgridge
Business
23-Jul-1933   CEO of Cisco, 1988-95
Roger B. Myerson
Economist
29-Mar-1951   Mechanism design theory
Bernard W. Nussbaum
Attorney
23-Mar-1937   White House Counsel for Bill Clinton
Martha Nussbaum
Philosopher
6-May-1947   The Fragility of Goodness
Stanley O'Neal
Business
7-Oct-1951   CEO of Merrill Lynch, 2002-07
Barack Obama
Head of State
4-Aug-1961   44th President of the United States
Charles Ogletree
Attorney
31-Dec-1952   Law professor
Lyndon L. Olson
Diplomat
1947   US Ambassador to Sweden, 1998-2001
William A. Osborn
Business
14-Oct-1947   CEO of Northern Trust, 1995-2008
Sara Paretsky
Novelist
8-Jun-1947   V. I. Warshawski detective novels
Deval Patrick
Politician
31-Jul-1956   Governor of Massachusetts
Frank H. Pearl
Business
27-May-1943 4-May-2012 CEO of Perseus LLC
John Podesta
Government
c. 1949   White House Chief of Staff for Pres. Clinton
David S. Pottruck
Business
c. 1948   CEO of Charles Schwab, 1998-2004
Hugh B. Price
Activist
1941   President of the Urban League, 1994-2003
Penny Pritzker
Business
2-May-1959   US Secretary of Commerce
Stephen R. Quazzo
Business
c. 1960   Transwestern Investment Company
Franklin Raines
Government
14-Jan-1949   CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004
Harold Ramis
Comic
21-Nov-1944 24-Feb-2014 Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters
Steven Rattner
Business
5-Jul-1952   Quadrangle Group
Steven S. Reinemund
Business
6-Apr-1948   CEO of Pepsi, 2001-06
Rob Reiner
Actor
6-Mar-1947   Meathead
Linda Johnson Rice
Business
22-Mar-1958   CEO of Johnson Publishing
Roy S. Roberts
Business
c. 1940   Former GM executive
Chris Rock
Comic
7-Feb-1965   Everybody Hates Chris
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Business
10-Dec-1944   CEO of WETA Public Broadcasting
Johnathan A. Rodgers
Business
c. 1946   CEO of TV One
John W. Rogers, Jr.
Business
c. 1958   CEO of Ariel Capital Management
Steven S. Rogers
Educator
c. 1955   Finance Profesor, Northwestern University
Felix Rohatyn
Business
29-May-1928   Financier, Lazard Frères
Edward W. Rose
Business
c. 1941   Cardinal Investment Co.
Sheli Z. Rosenberg
Business
2-Feb-1942   Equity Group Investments
John W. Rowe
Business
c. 1945   President and CEO of Exelon
William C. Rudin
Business
c. 1957   Rudin Management Company
Ellen A. Rudnick
Business
c. 1950   Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship
Edward B. Rust, Jr.
Business
3-Aug-1950   CEO of State Farm Insurance
Paul Sagan
Business
c. 1959   CEO of Akamai
John F. Sandner
Business
3-Nov-1941   Past Chairman, Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Roger W. Sant
Business
c. 1930   Billionaire, AES
Kurt L. Schmoke
Politician
1-Dec-1949   Mayor of Baltimore, 1988-99
Robert W. Scully
Business
c. 1950   Morgan Stanley Asset Management
Nicole K. Seligman
Attorney
1957   General Counsel of Sony
Terry Semel
Business
24-Feb-1943   CEO of Yahoo, 2001-07
Ajay B. Shah
Business
c. 1961   Co-Founder, Smart Modular Technologies
Stanley K. Sheinbaum
Activist
12-Jun-1920   Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly
Jon A. Shirley
Business
1938   President and COO of Microsoft, 1983-90
Stanley S. Shuman
Business
c. 1934   Allen & Company
Adele Simmons
Administrator
21-Jun-1941   President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99
James D. Sinegal
Business
1-Jan-1936   Co-founder of Costco
Jack Skolds
Business
c. 1950   EVP at Exelon, 2003-07
Jada Pinkett Smith
Actor
18-Sep-1971   A Different World
Paula A. Sneed
Business
10-Nov-1947   Retired EVP, Kraft Foods
Hugo F. Sonnenschein
Economist
1941   President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000
George Soros
Business
12-Aug-1930   Financial speculator
Jerry I. Speyer
Business
23-Jun-1940   Tishman Speyer Properties
Steven Spielberg
Film Director
18-Dec-1946   E.T.
Paul T. Stecko
Business
c. 1945   CEO of Packaging Corporation of America
Adlai E. Stevenson III
Politician
10-Oct-1930   US Senator from Illinois, 1970-81
Mike Stoller
Songwriter
13-Mar-1933   Hitmaker for Elvis
Barbra Streisand
Singer
24-Apr-1942   You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Pamela B. Strobel
Attorney
c. 1953   Former CAO, Exelon
Cass Sunstein
Scholar
21-Sep-1954   Why Societies Need Dissent
Stuart A. Taylor II
Business
28-Nov-1960   The Taylor Group LLC
Franklin A. Thomas
Attorney
27-May-1934   President of the Ford Foundation, 1979-96
Andrew H. Tisch
Business
c. 1950   Loews Corporation
Laurence Tribe
Attorney
10-Oct-1941   Harvard Law Professor
Chris Tucker
Comic
31-Aug-1972   Rush Hour
Scott Turow
Novelist
12-Apr-1949   Presumed Innocent
Robert Venturi
Architect
25-Jun-1925   Postmodernist architect
Lillian Vernon
Business
18-Mar-1927 14-Dec-2015 Mail-order maven of America
Patricia K. Vincent
Business
c. 1959   Executive at Xcel Energy
David J. Vitale
Business
c. 1952   CAO, Chicago Public Schools
Stephen R. Volk
Attorney
c. 1935   Vice Chairman of Citigroup
Marilou von Ferstel
Business
c. 1938   Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart
George Vradenburg
Attorney
14-Mar-1943   Strategic Advisor for AOL Time Warner
Elizabeth Warren
Educator
22-Jun-1949   US Senator from Massachusetts
Alice Waters
Chef
28-Apr-1944   Chez Panisse
Togo West
Government
21-Jun-1942   US Secretary of the Army, Veterans Affairs
Kelvin R. Westbrook
Business
1955   Millenium Digital Media
Fletcher H. Wiley
Attorney
29-Nov-1942   Of Counsel, Bingham McCutchen
Harris Wofford
Politician
9-Apr-1926   US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1991-95
Tom Wolfe
Author
2-Mar-1931   Bonfire of the Vanities
Deborah C. Wright
Business
c. 1957   CEO of Carver Bancorp
Jeffrey Wright
Actor
7-Dec-1965   Basquiat
Jeremiah Wright
Religion
22-Sep-1941   Trinity United Church of Christ
Matthew Zell
Business
c. 1967   Equity Group Investments


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