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 |
Howard Aiken |
Physicist |
8-Mar-1900 |
14-Mar-1973 |
Designer of early computers |
Saul Alinsky |
Activist |
30-Jan-1909 |
12-Jun-1972 |
Rules for Radicals |
Robert J. Alpern |
Doctor |
c. 1950 |
|
Dean, Yale School of Medicine |
Roger C. Altman |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Evercore Partners |
Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs |
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 |
Politician |
9-May-1942 |
|
US Attorney General, 2001-05 |
Ed Asner |
Actor |
15-Nov-1929 |
|
Lou Grant |
William J. Avery |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Crown Cork & Seal, 1990-2001 |
David Axelrod |
Government |
22-Feb-1955 |
|
NBC talking head |
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 |
Hastings Banda |
Head of State |
1898 |
25-Nov-1997 |
First President of Malawi |
Peter K. Barker |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
Robert B. Barnett |
Attorney |
26-Aug-1946 |
|
Washington literary agent, debate coach |
Reginald Bartholomew |
Diplomat |
17-Feb-1936 |
26-Aug-2012 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1993-97 |
Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1930 |
3-May-2014 |
Human Capital |
Robert L. Beisner |
Historian |
8-Mar-1936 |
|
Twelve Against Empire |
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 |
Bruce A. Beutler |
Biologist |
29-Dec-1957 |
|
Lipopolysaccharide receptors |
Henry S. Bienen |
Educator |
5-May-1939 |
|
President, Northwestern University, 1995-2009 |
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 |
1-Dec-2010 |
Evolving galaxies |
John Blatnik |
Politician |
17-Aug-1911 |
17-Dec-1991 |
Congressman from Minnesota, 1947-75 |
James M. Blaut |
Historian |
20-Oct-1927 |
11-Nov-2000 |
The Colonizer's Model of the World |
Robert J. Blendon |
Educator |
c. 1943 |
|
Professor, JFK School of Government |
Allan Bloom |
Philosopher |
14-Sep-1930 |
7-Oct-1992 |
The Closing of the American Mind |
Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguist |
1-Apr-1887 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Structural linguistics of Tagalog |
Norman R. Bobins |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of ABN AMRO North America, 2002-07 |
Leo Bogart |
Sociologist |
23-Sep-1921 |
15-Oct-2005 |
Preserving the Press |
Danny J. Boggs |
Judge |
23-Oct-1944 |
|
6th Circuit Court of Appeals |
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 |
19-Dec-2012 |
Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked |
Elsbeth Bothe |
Judge |
17-Oct-1927 |
|
Baltimore Circuit Court Judge, retired |
Leon Botstein |
Educator |
14-Dec-1946 |
|
President of Bard College |
Ira S. Bowen |
Astronomer |
21-Dec-1898 |
6-Feb-1973 |
Debunked nebulium |
Barbara L. Bowles |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
The Kenwood Group |
William Reynolds Braisted |
Historian |
14-Mar-1918 |
|
The United States Navy in the Pacific |
Carol Moseley Braun |
Politician |
16-Aug-1947 |
|
First black female US Senator |
Sophonisba Breckinridge |
Activist |
1-Apr-1866 |
30-Jul-1948 |
Suffragette and abolitionist |
David Broder |
Journalist |
11-Sep-1929 |
9-Mar-2011 |
Washington Post reporter |
Beth L. Bronner |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Mistral Equity Partners |
David Brooks |
Columnist |
11-Aug-1961 |
|
Conservative pundit |
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 |
9-Jan-2013 |
Public Choice Theory |
E. Margaret Burbidge |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1919 |
|
Synthesis of the elements in stars |
Geoffrey Burbidge |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1925 |
26-Jan-2010 |
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 |
Ernest Callenbach |
Author |
3-Apr-1929 |
16-Apr-2012 |
Ecotopia |
Tom Campbell |
Politician |
14-Aug-1952 |
|
Congressman from California, 1995-2001 |
LeRoy T. Carlson |
Business |
15-May-1916 |
23-May-2016 |
Founder of Telephone and Data Systems |
Doyle E. Carlton |
Politician |
6-Jul-1885 |
25-Oct-1972 |
Governor of Florida, 1929-33 |
Ellen Carnahan |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
Seyen Capital Management |
Hayden Carruth |
Poet |
3-Aug-1921 |
29-Sep-2008 |
Brothers, I Loved You All |
Jocelyn Carter-Miller |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
President of TechEdVentures |
William Caton |
Business |
31-Jan-1951 |
|
CFO of Navistar International |
Ahmed Chalabi |
Politician |
30-Oct-1944 |
3-Nov-2015 |
Prominent on the Iraqi Provisional Council |
Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
Astronomer |
19-Oct-1910 |
21-Aug-1995 |
Evolutionary stages of stars |
Jule Charney |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1917 |
16-Jun-1981 |
Quasi-gesotrophic theory |
Charles Chatfield |
Historian |
11-Mar-1934 |
15-Jan-2015 |
Pacifism in America, 1914-1941 |
Timothy Y. Chen |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
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 |
|
Merrill Lynch Investment Strategist, 1987-2000 |
Stephen P. Cohen |
Scholar |
c. 1946 |
|
Foreign policy analyst |
Thomas W. Cole, Jr. |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of Clark Atlanta, 1989-2002 |
Lewis M. Collens |
Educator |
c. 1938 |
|
President of Illinois Tech, 1990-2007 |
Misha Collins |
Actor |
20-Aug-1974 |
|
Castiel on Supernatural |
James Comey |
Government |
14-Dec-1960 |
|
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Henry Steele Commager |
Historian |
25-Oct-1902 |
2-Mar-1998 |
The American Mind |
Jeffrey Connaughton |
Attorney |
c. 1959 |
|
Lobbyist, Quinn Gillespie |
George Conrades |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Akamai, 1999-2005 |
Terence Cardinal Cooke |
Religion |
1-Mar-1921 |
6-Oct-1983 |
Archbishop of New York, 1968-83 |
Janet K. Cooper |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Senior VP and Treasurer of Qwest |
Anthony H. Cordesman |
Government |
2-Aug-1938 |
|
The Lessons of Modern War |
Richard Cordray |
Government |
3-May-1959 |
|
Acting Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
Robert A. Cornog |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Snap-on, 1991-2001 |
Jon Corzine |
Politician |
1-Jan-1947 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 2006-10 |
Jay Cost |
Columnist |
1978 |
|
Spoiled Rotten |
George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1920 |
20-Apr-2012 |
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
Ana Marie Cox |
Journalist |
23-Sep-1972 |
|
Wonkette |
Charles W. Cramb |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CFO of Avon |
Avery O. Craven |
Historian |
12-Aug-1885 |
21-Jan-1980 |
The Growth of Southern Nationalism |
James W. Cronin |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1931 |
25-Aug-2016 |
Time not necessarily reversible |
John T. Crotty |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CroBern Management Partnership |
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 |
Patrice M. Daniels |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Blue Sky Advisors |
Severn Darden |
Actor |
9-Nov-1929 |
27-May-1995 |
Second City |
Robert J. Darnall |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Inland Steel, 1992-98 |
Robert C. Davidson, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Surface Protection Industries |
Erroll B. Davis, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Chancellor, University System of Georgia |
Steven A. Davis |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
CEO of Bob Evans Farms |
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 |
Arnold W. Donald |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of Merisant, 2000-03 |
James L. Doti |
Educator |
26-Sep-1946 |
|
President of Chapman University |
Robert Drivas |
Actor |
21-Nov-1938 |
29-Jun-1986 |
Bad Habits |
Bruce W. Duncan |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Equity Residential, 2002-05 |
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 |
Frank H. Easterbrook |
Judge |
3-Sep-1948 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Roger Ebert |
Critic |
18-Jun-1942 |
4-Apr-2013 |
Siskel and Ebert |
Wallace J. Eckert |
Astronomer |
19-Jun-1902 |
24-Aug-1971 |
First scientist hired by IBM |
John A. Edwardson |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of CDW |
Allison H. Eid |
Judge |
1965 |
|
Justice, Colorado Supreme Court |
Paul Ekman |
Psychologist |
15-Feb-1934 |
|
Facial Action Coding System |
Larry Ellison |
Business |
17-Aug-1944 |
|
Founder 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 |
Maureen A. Fay |
Educator |
c. 1934 |
|
President, University of Detroit Mercy, 1990-2004 |
Janet Flanner |
Journalist |
13-Mar-1892 |
7-Nov-1978 |
The New Yorker |
James R. Flynn |
Scholar |
18-Apr-1934 |
|
Flynn Effect |
Dan Fortmann |
Football |
11-Apr-1916 |
23-May-1995 |
NFL Hall of Fame Guard |
David W. Fox |
Business |
c. 1931 |
|
CEO of Northern Trust, 1990-95 |
Tenney Frank |
Economist |
19-May-1876 |
3-Apr-1939 |
An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome |
Thomas Frank |
Author |
21-Mar-1965 |
|
Founding editor, The Baffler |
E. Franklin Frazier |
Sociologist |
24-Sep-1894 |
17-May-1962 |
Black Bourgeoisie |
A. Stone Freedberg |
Doctor |
30-May-1908 |
25-Aug-2009 |
Found H. Pylori near stomach ulcers |
Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
Milton Friedman |
Economist |
31-Jul-1912 |
16-Nov-2006 |
Free market economic theorist |
Robert C. Gallo |
Doctor |
23-Mar-1937 |
|
Identified first retroviruses in humans |
Robert W. Galvin |
Business |
9-Oct-1922 |
11-Oct-2011 |
CEO of Motorola, 1959-90 |
Martin Gardner |
Mathematician |
21-Oct-1914 |
22-May-2010 |
Mathematical games, Scientific American |
Will Geer |
Actor |
9-Mar-1902 |
22-Apr-1978 |
Zebulon Walton in The Waltons |
Douglas H. Ginsburg |
Judge |
25-May-1946 |
|
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit |
Philip Giraldi |
Government |
c. 1946 |
|
Former CIA officer |
Tom Gjelten |
Journalist |
? |
|
NPR correspondent |
Philip Glass |
Composer |
31-Jan-1937 |
|
Einstein on the Beach |
Mary Ann Glendon |
Diplomat |
7-Oct-1938 |
|
US Ambassador to the Vatican |
Erving Goffman |
Sociologist |
11-Jun-1922 |
19-Nov-1982 |
The Presentation of Self |
Robert W. Goldman |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CFO of Conoco, 1998-2002 |
Daniel J. Good |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Good Capital Co. |
Paul Goodman |
Anarchist |
9-Sep-1911 |
2-Aug-1972 |
Growing Up Absurd |
Thomas A. Gottschalk |
Attorney |
5-Jul-1942 |
|
General Counsel of General Motors, 1994-2006 |
David Graeber |
Anthropologist |
12-Feb-1961 |
|
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology |
Norman A. Graebner |
Historian |
19-Oct-1915 |
10-May-2010 |
Empire on the Pacific |
Katharine Graham |
Publisher |
16-Jun-1917 |
17-Jul-2001 |
Washington Post publisher, 1966-79 |
Ronald Graham |
Mathematician |
31-Oct-1935 |
|
Mathematician, Computer Scientist |
Sebastian de Grazia |
Author |
11-Aug-1917 |
31-Dec-2000 |
Machiavelli in Hell |
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 |
19-Mar-2012 |
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 |
Ralph F. Hake |
Business |
25-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Maytag, 2001-06 |
Victor Halperin |
Film Director |
24-Aug-1895 |
17-May-1983 |
White Zombie |
Harry J. Harczak, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
EVP at CDW, 2002-07 |
Guillermo Haro |
Astronomer |
21-Mar-1913 |
26-Apr-1988 |
Herbig-Haro objects |
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 |
22-Dec-1926 |
14-May-1997 |
Early virtual reality pioneer |
Jordan Heller |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Schonbraun McCann Group |
Marilu Henner |
Actor |
6-Apr-1952 |
|
Taxi |
Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
Seymour Hersh |
Journalist |
8-Apr-1937 |
|
Uncovered the My Lai Massacre |
Melville J. Herskovits |
Anthropologist |
10-Sep-1895 |
25-Feb-1963 |
The Myth of the Negro Past |
Martha O. Hesse |
Business |
14-Aug-1942 |
|
Chairman of Enbridge Energy Partners |
Raymond Hide |
Physicist |
17-May-1929 |
|
Earth's rotation |
John P. Hiler |
Politician |
24-Apr-1953 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1981-91 |
Linda A. Hill |
Educator |
c. 1957 |
|
Harvard Business School |
Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Historian |
8-Aug-1922 |
|
Victorian Minds |
Deane R. Hinton |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1923 |
|
US Ambassador to Panama, 1990-94 |
David F. Hoffmeister |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CFO of Invitrogen |
James F. Hoge, Jr. |
Editor |
25-Dec-1935 |
|
Editor of Foreign Affairs |
J. Rogers Hollingsworth |
Historian |
26-Jul-1932 |
|
A Political Economy of Medicine |
William J. Holloway |
Politician |
15-Dec-1888 |
28-Jan-1970 |
Governor of Oklahoma, 1929-31 |
Celeste Holm |
Actor |
29-Apr-1917 |
15-Jul-2012 |
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 |
Henry Horner |
Politician |
30-Nov-1878 |
6-Oct-1940 |
Governor of Illinois, 1933-40 |
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 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Clash of Civilizations |
Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
24-Jun-2008 |
Mechanism design theory |
Harold Ickes |
Government |
15-Mar-1874 |
3-Feb-1952 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1933-46 |
Harold Innis |
Scholar |
5-Nov-1894 |
8-Nov-1952 |
Empire and Communications |
Joi Ito |
Business |
19-Jun-1966 |
|
Director, MIT Media Lab |
Jack B. Jacobs |
Judge |
c. 1942 |
|
Justice, Delaware Supreme Court |
Kenneth Jacobs |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Lazard North America |
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 |
Robert Jewett |
Theologian |
31-Dec-1933 |
|
Pauline scholar |
Deborah S. Jin |
Physicist |
15-Nov-1968 |
15-Sep-2016 |
Created a fermionic condensate |
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 |
Robert David Johnson |
Historian |
27-Nov-1967 |
|
Congress and the Cold War |
David Cay Johnston |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1948 |
|
Perfectly Legal |
William E. Johnston |
Business |
1940 |
|
President of Morton International, 1995-2000 |
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 |
Peter R. Kagan |
Business |
c. 1968 |
|
Partner at Warburg Pincus |
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 |
Frances Oldham Kelsey |
Doctor |
24-Jul-1914 |
7-Aug-2015 |
Prevented countless thalidomide babies |
Majid Khadduri |
Scholar |
1908 |
25-Jan-2007 |
Middle East scholar |
Zalmay Khalilzad |
Diplomat |
22-Mar-1951 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 2007-09 |
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 |
Peter D. Kinnear |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of FMC Technologies |
Lawrence R. Klein |
Economist |
14-Sep-1920 |
20-Oct-2013 |
Macroeconometric modeling |
Philip S. Klein |
Historian |
10-Jun-1909 |
15-Feb-1993 |
President James Buchanan |
Amy Klobuchar |
Politician |
25-May-1960 |
|
US Senator from Minnesota |
Lawrence Kohlberg |
Psychologist |
25-Oct-1927 |
17-Jan-1987 |
Stages of moral development |
C. M. Kornbluth |
Novelist |
23-Jul-1923 |
21-Mar-1958 |
The Space Merchants |
Robert P. Kraft |
Astronomer |
16-Jun-1927 |
26-May-2015 |
Lick Observatory |
Murray Krieger |
Critic |
27-Nov-1923 |
5-Aug-2000 |
The Play and Place of Criticism |
Bud Krogh |
Government |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Nixon's plumbers |
Mary Anne Krupsak |
Politician |
26-Mar-1932 |
|
Lt. Governor of New York, 1975-78 |
Michael L. Kubacki |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Lakeland Financial Corporation |
Robert W. Lane |
Business |
14-Nov-1949 |
|
CEO of Deere, 2000-09 |
Katherine Lanpher |
Radio Personality |
27-May-1959 |
|
Al Franken's sidekick on Air America |
Ernest Lawrence |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1901 |
27-Aug-1958 |
Inventor of the cyclotron |
Stephen Leacock |
Author |
30-Dec-1869 |
28-Mar-1944 |
Literary Lapses |
Rex Lee |
Attorney |
27-Feb-1935 |
11-Mar-1996 |
US Solicitor General, 1981-85 |
Tsung-Dao Lee |
Physicist |
25-Nov-1926 |
|
Violations of parity law |
Fritz Leiber |
Author |
24-Dec-1910 |
5-Sep-1992 |
Ship of Shadows |
Jeffrey M. Leiden |
Doctor |
c. 1953 |
|
Clarus Ventures |
Ralph Lerner |
Scholar |
2-May-1928 |
|
The Thinking Revolutionary |
Pierre E. Leroy |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Retired executive, Deere |
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 |
Harvey Levin |
TV Personality |
2-Sep-1951 |
|
Prince of the paparazzi |
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 |
9-Jun-1944 |
|
Partner, Lewis & Munday |
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 |
Bruce C. Lindsay |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
2117 Associates LLC |
John Lott |
Economist |
8-May-1958 |
|
More Guns, Less Crime |
Mark Loughridge |
Business |
1953 |
|
CFO of IBM |
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada |
Head of State |
1-Jul-1930 |
|
Twice President of Bolivia |
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 |
George MacKenzie |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CFO of Hercules, 1996-2000 |
Jeb Magruder |
Government |
5-Nov-1934 |
11-May-2014 |
Nixon's deputy campaign director |
Lynn Margulis |
Biologist |
5-Mar-1935 |
22-Nov-2011 |
Origin of eukaryotic organelles |
Robert A. Mariano |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Roundy's Supermarkets |
Jack A. Markell |
Politician |
26-Nov-1960 |
|
Governor of Delaware |
Harry M. Markowitz |
Economist |
24-Aug-1927 |
|
Portfolio theory |
Jerry L. Martin |
Educator |
? |
|
American Council of Trustees & Alumni |
Andrew Mason |
Business |
c. 1980 |
|
Groupon |
Megan McArdle |
Blogger |
29-Jan-1973 |
|
Atlantic Monthly blogger |
William L. McComb |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
CEO of Liz Claiborne |
Michael W. McConnell |
Attorney |
18-May-1955 |
|
Stanford Constitutional Law Center |
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 |
Monroe G. McKay |
Judge |
30-May-1928 |
|
10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1977-93 |
Kevin M. McMullen |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO of OMNOVA Solutions |
William H. McNeill |
Historian |
31-Oct-1917 |
8-Jul-2016 |
The Rise of the West |
Gary A. Mecklenburg |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare |
John W. Meriwether |
Business |
10-Aug-1947 |
|
Long-Term Capital Management |
Frank S. Meyer |
Author |
9-May-1909 |
1-Apr-1972 |
In Defense of Freedom |
Abner J. Mikva |
Politician |
21-Jan-1926 |
4-Jul-2016 |
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 |
Hyman Minsky |
Economist |
23-Sep-1919 |
25-Oct-1996 |
Inherently unstable markets |
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 |
7-Dec-2011 |
Col. Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H |
William W. Morgan |
Astronomer |
3-Jan-1906 |
21-Jun-1994 |
Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy |
Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
Michael L. Mussa |
Economist |
15-Apr-1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88 |
Satya Nadella |
Business |
1967 |
|
CEO of Microsoft |
Robert C. Nakasone |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Toys R Us, 1998-99 |
Yoichiro Nambu |
Physicist |
18-Jan-1921 |
5-Jul-2015 |
Spontaneous broken symmetry |
Jim Neal |
Politician |
6-Nov-1956 |
|
Sought Elizabeth Dole's Senate seat in 2008 |
Ralph Neas |
Activist |
17-May-1946 |
|
People for the American Way |
Paul Nelson |
Religion |
1952 |
|
Leading Intelligent Design advocate |
Ted Nelson |
Computer Programmer |
17-Jun-1937 |
|
Hypertext pioneer, Xanadu |
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 |
19-Nov-2014 |
Primary Colors |
James B. Nicholson |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of PVS Chemicals, Inc. |
Luis P. Nieto, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
ConAgra executive |
Daniel A. Ninivaggi |
Business |
c. 1966 |
|
CEO of Icahn Enterprises LP |
Frank A. Ninkovich |
Historian |
19-Dec-1944 |
|
The Diplomacy of Ideas |
William Niskanen |
Administrator |
13-Mar-1933 |
26-Oct-2011 |
Chairman of the Cato Institute |
A. W. Norblad |
Politician |
19-Mar-1881 |
17-Apr-1960 |
Governor of Oregon, 1929-31 |
Ken Nordine |
Radio Personality |
19-Jan-1920 |
|
Word Jazz |
Anne Norton |
Educator |
1954 |
|
Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire |
Anthony Noto |
Business |
2-May-1968 |
|
CFO of Twitter |
Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
Richard T. O'Brien |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Newmont Mining |
Jim Oberweis |
Business |
1946 |
|
Republican money manager |
Elder Olson |
Critic |
9-Mar-1909 |
25-Jul-1992 |
Critics and Criticism |
Donald E. Osterbrock |
Astronomer |
13-Jul-1924 |
11-Jan-2007 |
Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81 |
William G. Ouchi |
Educator |
1943 |
|
Theory Z |
Frank Lawrence Owsley |
Historian |
20-Jan-1890 |
21-Oct-1956 |
King Cotton Diplomacy |
Ajit V. Pai |
Attorney |
10-Jan-1973 |
|
FCC Commissioner |
Greg Palast |
Journalist |
26-Jun-1952 |
|
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy |
Geoffrey Palmer |
Head of State |
21-Apr-1942 |
|
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1989-90 |
R. R. Palmer |
Historian |
11-Jan-1909 |
11-Jun-2002 |
The Age of the Democratic Revolution |
Thomas L. Pangle |
Scholar |
29-Nov-1944 |
|
Leo Strauss: An Introduction |
Jaime Chico Pardo |
Business |
14-Feb-1950 |
|
CEO of Tel�fonos de M�xico |
Sara Paretsky |
Novelist |
8-Jun-1947 |
|
V. I. Warshawski detective novels |
Chong Sup Park |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Maxtor, 2004-06 |
Everett C. Parker |
Activist |
17-Jan-1913 |
17-Sep-2015 |
Civil rights advocate, UCC official |
William C. Pate |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
Equity Group Investments |
Kimberly Peirce |
Film Director |
8-Sep-1967 |
|
Boys Don't Cry |
Jaroslav Pelikan |
Historian |
17-Dec-1923 |
13-May-2006 |
The Christian Tradition |
Charles H. Percy |
Politician |
27-Sep-1919 |
17-Sep-2011 |
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 |
Alfred A. Piergallini |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Gerber, 1990-99 |
Frances Fox Piven |
Activist |
10-Oct-1932 |
|
Regulating The Poor |
Gilbert Plass |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1922 |
1-Mar-2004 |
Climate change scientist |
David M. Pletcher |
Historian |
14-Jun-1920 |
22-Feb-2004 |
The Diplomacy of Involvement |
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 |
Julius W. Pratt |
Historian |
25-Feb-1888 |
28-Jan-1983 |
Expansionists of 1812 and 1898 |
Steven C. Preston |
Government |
4-Aug-1960 |
|
US Secretary of HUD, 2008-09 |
Philip J. Purcell |
Business |
5-Sep-1943 |
|
CEO of Morgan Stanley, 1997-2005 |
James Purdy |
Author |
17-Jul-1914 |
13-Mar-2009 |
Eustance Chisholm and the Works |
James A. Quella |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Blackstone Group |
Mike Quigley |
Politician |
17-Oct-1958 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 5th |
Homer P. Rainey |
Educator |
19-Jan-1896 |
19-Dec-1985 |
President of UT-Austin, 1939-44 |
David Rasche |
Actor |
7-Aug-1944 |
|
Sledge Hammer! |
Burton Rascoe |
Critic |
22-Oct-1892 |
19-Mar-1957 |
The New York Tribune |
Susan P. Read |
Judge |
1947 |
|
Judge, NY Court of Appeals |
George E. Reedy |
Government |
5-Aug-1917 |
21-Mar-1999 |
LBJ's press secretary |
Morris Renek |
Novelist |
12-Mar-1925 |
10-May-2013 |
Heck |
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 |
Oscar Riddle |
Biologist |
27-Sep-1877 |
29-Nov-1968 |
Prolactin |
Elizabeth Madox Roberts |
Author |
30-Oct-1881 |
13-Mar-1941 |
The Great Meadow |
Arthur R. Robinson |
Politician |
12-Mar-1881 |
17-Mar-1961 |
US Senator from Indiana, 1925-35 |
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 |
2-Jun-2015 |
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
Alan Rosskamm |
Business |
6-Jan-1950 |
|
CEO of Charming Shoppes |
Leo Rosten |
Author |
11-Apr-1908 |
19-Feb-1997 |
The Joys of Yiddish |
Donald C. Roth |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
EMP Global |
Philip Roth |
Novelist |
19-Mar-1933 |
|
Portnoy's Complaint |
Steven G. Rothmeier |
Business |
4-Oct-1946 |
14-May-2014 |
CEO of Northwest Airlines, 1985-89 |
F. Sherwood Rowland |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1927 |
10-Mar-2012 |
Ozone depletion |
David M. Rubenstein |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Director of the Carlyle Group |
Barnett R. Rubin |
Educator |
10-Jan-1950 |
|
The Fragmentation of Afghanistan |
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 |
13-Dec-2009 |
Theory of revealed preference |
Bernie Sanders |
Politician |
8-Sep-1941 |
|
US Senator from Vermont |
Adarsh K. Sarma |
Business |
c. 1974 |
|
VP at Warburg Pincus |
John Scalzi |
Novelist |
10-May-1969 |
|
Old Man's War |
Dean A. Scarborough |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of Avery-Dennison |
Frank Schlesinger |
Astronomer |
11-May-1871 |
10-Jul-1943 |
Stellar parallaxes |
Myron S. Scholes |
Economist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Black-Scholes options pricing model |
Mary M. Schroeder |
Judge |
4-Dec-1940 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
William F. Schulz |
Activist |
14-Nov-1949 |
|
Director, Amnesty International, 1994-2006 |
Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
John T. Scopes |
Educator |
3-Aug-1900 |
21-Oct-1970 |
Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial |
Hal S. Scott |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Professor, Harvard Law School |
Peter Sebastian |
Diplomat |
19-Jun-1926 |
22-Mar-2011 |
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1984-87 |
Louis Michael Seidman |
Scholar |
16-Feb-1947 |
|
Our Unsettled Constitution |
Dan Seymour |
Actor |
22-Feb-1915 |
25-May-1993 |
Return of the Fly |
Maurice M. Shapiro |
Physicist |
13-Nov-1915 |
27-Feb-2008 |
Composition and origin of cosmic rays |
Donald J. Shepard |
Business |
1946 |
|
Chairman of Aegon NV |
Charles R. Shoemate |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Best Foods, 1990-2000 |
Milton Sills |
Actor |
12-Jan-1882 |
15-Sep-1930 |
The Sea Hawk |
Nate Silver |
Blogger |
13-Jan-1978 |
|
Baseball Prospectus, FiveThirtyEight.com |
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 |
Isadore Singer |
Mathematician |
3-May-1924 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
James L. Singleton |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
The Cypress Group LLC |
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 fullerines |
George E. Smith |
Scientist |
10-May-1930 |
|
Digital photography |
Milan D. Smith, Jr. |
Judge |
19-May-1942 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Rick Smith |
Business |
c. 1972 |
|
CEO of TASER International |
Tony Snow |
Government |
1-Jun-1955 |
12-Jul-2008 |
Fox News pundit, White House press secretary |
Barbara R. Snyder |
Educator |
23-Jul-1955 |
|
President, CWRU |
Lewis C. Solmon |
Economist |
17-Jul-1942 |
17-Dec-2007 |
Education reformer |
Ezra Solomon |
Economist |
20-Mar-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 |
Jonathan Sperber |
Historian |
26-Dec-1952 |
|
The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 |
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 |
22-Aug-2009 |
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, 1975-2010 |
George J. Stigler |
Economist |
17-Jan-1911 |
1-Dec-1991 |
Economic Theory of Regulation |
Jerome A. Stone |
Philosopher |
1935 |
|
The Minimalist Vision of Transcendence |
Steven J. Strobel |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Senior VP at Motorola |
Bengt Strömgren |
Astronomer |
21-Jan-1908 |
4-Jul-1987 |
Hydrogen stars |
Otto Struve |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1897 |
6-Apr-1963 |
Hydrogen in the interstellar medium |
Ray Suarez |
Journalist |
5-Mar-1957 |
|
Correspondent for Lehrer News Hour |
Teresa A. Sullivan |
Educator |
9-Jul-1949 |
|
President, University of Virginia |
David Suzuki |
Naturalist |
24-Mar-1936 |
|
Television nature host |
Phillip Swagel |
Government |
c. 1965 |
|
Bush economist |
Gregory T. Swienton |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Ryder |
Phillips Talbot |
Diplomat |
7-Jun-1915 |
1-Oct-2010 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1965-69 |
Jim Talent |
Politician |
18-Oct-1956 |
|
US Senator from Missouri, 2002-07 |
Peter Tarnoff |
Government |
1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1986-93 |
David S. Tatel |
Judge |
16-Mar-1942 |
|
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit |
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 |
31-Oct-2008 |
Working |
Burr Tillstrom |
Performance Artist |
13-Oct-1917 |
6-Dec-1985 |
Puppeteer, Kukla, Fran and Ollie |
Mary A. Tolan |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Accretive Health |
Susan J. Tolchin |
Political Scientist |
14-Jan-1941 |
18-May-2016 |
To the Victor... |
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 |
c. 1961 |
|
GWU law professor |
David A. Twardock |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Prudential Mortgage Capital |
Theodore W. Ullyot |
Attorney |
c. 1968 |
|
Chief of Staff to Alberto Gonzales, 2005 |
Thomas Unterman |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Former CFO of Times Mirror |
Viron P. Vaky |
Diplomat |
13-Sep-1926 |
22-Nov-2012 |
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 |
David F. Walker |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Former Partner, Arthur Andersen |
Amy Wallman |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Retired Partner, Ernst & Young |
Richard F. Wallman |
Business |
1951 |
|
CFO of Honeywell, 1999-2003 |
Joe Walsh |
Politician |
27-Dec-1961 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 2011-13 |
Neil Clark Warren |
Business |
18-Sep-1934 |
|
Founder, eHarmony |
H. Thomas Watkins |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Human Genome Sciences |
James Watson |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1928 |
|
Co-Discoverer of DNA |
John Watson |
Psychologist |
9-Jan-1878 |
25-Sep-1958 |
Founder of Behaviorism |
John S. Watson |
Business |
Oct-1956 |
|
CEO of Chevron |
Fritz Weaver |
Actor |
19-Jan-1926 |
|
Fail Safe |
Alvin M. Weinberg |
Physicist |
20-Apr-1915 |
18-Oct-2006 |
Nuclear scientist |
Gerhard L. Weinberg |
Historian |
1-Jan-1928 |
|
The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany |
Donald Weinstein |
Historian |
13-Mar-1926 |
13-Dec-2015 |
Savonarola and Florence |
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 |
Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
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 |
X and Y chromosomes |
James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
2-Mar-2012 |
The Moral Sense |
Lanford Wilson |
Playwright |
13-Apr-1937 |
24-Mar-2011 |
The Hot L Baltimore |
Jon Winkelried |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Formerly Co-COO of Goldman Sachs |
Alison A. Winter |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Personal Financial Services, Northern Trust |
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 |
|
President of the World Bank, 2005-07 |
Howard Wolfson |
Government |
c. 1967 |
|
Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman |
Victor Wong |
Actor |
31-Jul-1927 |
12-Sep-2001 |
Egg Shen |
Frank Wood |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Secret Communications LLC |
Robert W. Wood |
Physicist |
2-May-1868 |
11-Aug-1955 |
Physical Optics |
Leona Woods |
Physicist |
9-Aug-1919 |
10-Nov-1986 |
Physicist at University of Chicago |
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 |
c. 1956 |
|
Former National Review columnist |
Marguerite Young |
Author |
28-Aug-1908 |
17-Nov-1995 |
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling |
Ray G. Young |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
CFO of General Motors |
Stephen M. Young |
Diplomat |
1951 |
|
Director of the American Institute in Taiwan |
Todd Young |
Politician |
24-Aug-1972 |
|
Congressman, Indiana 9th |
Paul G. Yovovich |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Lake Capital |
Morton Dauwen Zabel |
Educator |
10-Aug-1901 |
28-Apr-1964 |
Craft and Character |
Donna F. Zarcone |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Former Harley Davidson executive |
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Grace Abbott |
Activist |
17-Nov-1878 |
19-Jun-1939 |
Advocate against child labor |
Mortimer J. Adler |
Philosopher |
28-Dec-1902 |
28-Jun-2001 |
How to Read a Book |
William Foxwell Albright |
Archaeologist |
24-May-1891 |
19-Sep-1971 |
Biblical archaeologist at Johns Hopkins |
Hannah Arendt |
Philosopher |
14-Oct-1906 |
4-Dec-1975 |
Origins of Totalitarianism |
Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
Katherine Baicker |
Economist |
23-May-1971 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 2005-07 |
Edward Barnard |
Astronomer |
16-Dec-1857 |
16-Feb-1923 |
Self-taught scientist |
Reginald Bartholomew |
Diplomat |
17-Feb-1936 |
26-Aug-2012 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1993-97 |
Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1930 |
3-May-2014 |
Human Capital |
Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
25-Jan-2011 |
The End of Ideology |
Saul Bellow |
Novelist |
10-Jun-1915 |
5-Apr-2005 |
The Adventures of Augie March |
Bruno Bettelheim |
Psychologist |
28-Aug-1903 |
13-Mar-1990 |
Fraudulent child psychologist |
Konrad Bloch |
Scientist |
21-Jan-1912 |
15-Oct-2000 |
Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
Allan Bloom |
Philosopher |
14-Sep-1930 |
7-Oct-1992 |
The Closing of the American Mind |
Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguist |
1-Apr-1887 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Structural linguistics of Tagalog |
Roy Blough |
Economist |
1901 |
2000 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1950-52 |
Sally Blount |
Educator |
c. 1961 |
|
Dean, Kellogg School of Management |
Daniel Boorstin |
Historian |
1-Oct-1914 |
28-Feb-2004 |
The Creators |
Wayne C. Booth |
Critic |
22-Feb-1921 |
10-Oct-2005 |
The Rhetoric of Fiction |
Ira S. Bowen |
Astronomer |
21-Dec-1898 |
6-Feb-1973 |
Debunked nebulium |
James Henry Breasted |
Archaeologist |
27-Aug-1865 |
2-Dec-1935 |
A History of Egypt |
Sophonisba Breckinridge |
Activist |
1-Apr-1866 |
30-Jul-1948 |
Suffragette and abolitionist |
John Brewer |
Historian |
22-Mar-1947 |
|
The Sinews of Power |
Herbert C. Brown |
Chemist |
22-May-1912 |
19-Dec-2004 |
Discovered organoboranes |
E. Margaret Burbidge |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1919 |
|
Synthesis of the elements in stars |
Ernest Burgess |
Sociologist |
16-May-1886 |
27-Dec-1966 |
Introduction to the Science of Sociology |
Pastora San Juan Cafferty |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
University of Chicago Professor |
Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
Dennis W. Carlton |
Economist |
c. 1950 |
|
Economics Professor, University of Chicago |
Rudolf Carnap |
Philosopher |
18-May-1891 |
14-Sep-1970 |
The Logical Syntax of Language |
Alexis Carrel |
Doctor |
28-Jun-1873 |
5-Nov-1944 |
Sutured blood vessels |
Gerhard Casper |
Educator |
25-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1992-2000 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
Astronomer |
19-Oct-1910 |
21-Aug-1995 |
Evolutionary stages of stars |
Rebecca S. Chopp |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
President, Colgate University |
Alonzo Church |
Mathematician |
14-Jun-1903 |
11-Aug-1995 |
Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis |
Ronald H. Coase |
Economist |
29-Dec-1910 |
2-Sep-2013 |
Transactions costs and property rights |
Morris Raphael Cohen |
Philosopher |
25-Jul-1880 |
28-Jan-1947 |
Reason and Nature |
James S. Coleman |
Sociologist |
12-May-1926 |
25-Mar-1995 |
Foundations of Social Theory |
Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
Avery O. Craven |
Historian |
12-Aug-1885 |
21-Jan-1980 |
The Growth of Southern Nationalism |
James W. Cronin |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1931 |
25-Aug-2016 |
Time not necessarily reversible |
Paul J. Crutzen |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1933 |
|
Ozone depletion |
Haskell Curry |
Mathematician |
12-Sep-1900 |
1-Sep-1982 |
Combinatory Logic |
Richard Dalitz |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1925 |
13-Jan-2006 |
Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots |
Kenneth W. Dam |
Government |
10-Aug-1932 |
|
Deputy Treasury Secretary, 2001-03 |
Donald Davidson |
Philosopher |
6-Mar-1917 |
30-Aug-2003 |
Actions, Reasons And Causes |
John Dewey |
Educator |
20-Oct-1859 |
1-Jun-1952 |
Pragmatist philosopher, education reformer |
William E. Dodd |
Diplomat |
27-Oct-1869 |
9-Feb-1940 |
US Ambassador to Nazi Germany |
Paul H. Douglas |
Politician |
26-Mar-1892 |
24-Sep-1976 |
US Senator from Illinois, 1949-67 |
Frank H. Easterbrook |
Judge |
3-Sep-1948 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Stanley M. Elkins |
Historian |
27-Apr-1925 |
16-Sep-2013 |
Slavery |
Ralph Ellison |
Novelist |
1-Mar-1914 |
16-Apr-1994 |
Invisible Man |
Richard A. Epstein |
Scholar |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
Takings |
Charles L. Evans |
Economist |
15-Jan-1958 |
|
President and CEO, Chicago Fed |
Daniel A. Farber |
Educator |
16-Jul-1950 |
|
Retained by the People |
Enrico Fermi |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1901 |
29-Nov-1954 |
First controlled nuclear chain reaction |
Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
11-Jun-2013 |
Cliometrics |
James Franck |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1882 |
21-May-1964 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
John Hope Franklin |
Historian |
2-Jan-1915 |
25-Mar-2009 |
From Slavery to Freedom |
Richard Freeman |
Economist |
29-Jun-1943 |
|
Labor economist |
Milton Friedman |
Economist |
31-Jul-1912 |
16-Nov-2006 |
Free market economic theorist |
Clifford Geertz |
Anthropologist |
23-Aug-1926 |
30-Oct-2006 |
Thick Description |
Ignace J. Gelb |
Scholar |
14-Oct-1907 |
22-Dec-1985 |
A Study of Writing |
Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
Maria Goeppert-Mayer |
Physicist |
28-Jun-1906 |
20-Feb-1972 |
Shell nuclear model |
Jack Goldsmith |
Government |
26-Sep-1962 |
|
The Terror Presidency |
Austan D. Goolsbee |
Economist |
18-Aug-1969 |
|
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers, 2010-11 |
Robert J. Gordon |
Economist |
3-Sep-1940 |
|
The Rise and Fall of American Growth |
Stedman Graham |
Author |
6-Mar-1951 |
|
Oprah's boyfriend, self-help author |
Hanna Holborn Gray |
Educator |
25-Oct-1930 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1978-93 |
Sebastian de Grazia |
Author |
11-Aug-1917 |
31-Dec-2000 |
Machiavelli in Hell |
Abbie J. Griffin |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
Business Professor at UIUC |
Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
Melissa Harris-Perry |
Author |
2-Oct-1973 |
|
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET |
S. I. Hayakawa |
Politician |
19-Jul-1906 |
27-Feb-1992 |
Semanticist and US Senator |
James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
Gerhard Herzberg |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
Charles B. Huggins |
Scientist |
22-Sep-1901 |
12-Jan-1997 |
Hormonal treatment of prostate and breast cancers |
Leonid Hurwicz |
Economist |
21-Aug-1917 |
24-Jun-2008 |
Mechanism design theory |
Akira Iriye |
Historian |
20-Oct-1934 |
|
Across the Pacific |
Douglas A. Irwin |
Economist |
c. 1962 |
|
Free Trade Under Fire |
Neil H. Jacoby |
Economist |
19-Sep-1909 |
31-May-1979 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 |
J. Franklin Jameson |
Historian |
19-Sep-1859 |
28-Sep-1937 |
Dictionary of United States History |
Ann Dibble Jordan |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Professor, University of Chicago |
Leo P. Kadanoff |
Physicist |
14-Jan-1937 |
26-Oct-2015 |
Second-order phase transitions |
Elena Kagan |
Judge |
28-Apr-1960 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
Nicholas Katzenbach |
Government |
17-Jan-1922 |
8-May-2012 |
US Attorney General, 1965-66 |
Frances Oldham Kelsey |
Doctor |
24-Jul-1914 |
7-Aug-2015 |
Prevented countless thalidomide babies |
Lawrence A. Kimpton |
Educator |
7-Oct-1910 |
1-Nov-1977 |
Chancellor, University of Chicago, 1951-60 |
Galway Kinnell |
Poet |
1-Feb-1927 |
28-Oct-2014 |
Selected Poems |
Lawrence Kohlberg |
Psychologist |
25-Oct-1927 |
17-Jan-1987 |
Stages of moral development |
Tjalling C. Koopmans |
Economist |
28-Aug-1910 |
26-Feb-1985 |
Linear programming |
Masatoshi Koshiba |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1926 |
|
Detected cosmic neutrinos |
Randall S. Kroszner |
Economist |
22-Jun-1962 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
Arthur B. Laffer |
Economist |
14-Aug-1940 |
|
Reagan advisor, Laffer curve |
Edward Lazear |
Economist |
1948 |
|
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors |
Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
Yuan T. Lee |
Chemist |
29-Nov-1936 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
Jeffrey M. Leiden |
Doctor |
c. 1953 |
|
Clarus Ventures |
Ralph Lerner |
Scholar |
2-May-1928 |
|
The Thinking Revolutionary |
Lawrence Lessig |
Attorney |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
Edward H. Levi |
Government |
26-Jun-1911 |
7-Mar-2000 |
US Attorney General, 1975-77 |
Steven Levitt |
Economist |
1968 |
|
Freakonomics |
Willard F. Libby |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1908 |
8-Sep-1980 |
Carbon-14 dating technique |
Susan L. Lindquist |
Biologist |
5-Jun-1949 |
|
Protein folding |
Jacques Loeb |
Doctor |
7-Apr-1859 |
11-Feb-1924 |
Investigator of artificial parthenogenesis |
John Lott |
Economist |
8-May-1958 |
|
More Guns, Less Crime |
Robert Lucas |
Economist |
15-Sep-1937 |
|
Theory of rational expectations |
Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Natural selection in bacteria |
Paul W. MacAvoy |
Economist |
21-Apr-1934 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1975-76 |
Catharine MacKinnon |
Activist |
7-Oct-1946 |
|
Anti-pornography activist |
David Mamet |
Author |
30-Nov-1947 |
|
Glengarry Glen Ross |
Jean-Luc Marion |
Philosopher |
3-Jul-1946 |
|
Phenomenologist, God Without Being |
Michael W. McConnell |
Attorney |
18-May-1955 |
|
Stanford Constitutional Law Center |
Daniel L. McFadden |
Economist |
29-Jul-1937 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
Gale W. McGee |
Politician |
17-Mar-1915 |
9-Apr-1992 |
US Senator from Wyoming, 1959-77 |
William H. McNeill |
Historian |
31-Oct-1917 |
8-Jul-2016 |
The Rise of the West |
George Herbert Mead |
Philosopher |
27-Feb-1863 |
26-Apr-1931 |
Pragmatist, social behaviorist |
John J. Mearsheimer |
Political Scientist |
14-Dec-1947 |
|
Conventional Deterrence |
Charles E. Merriam |
Scholar |
15-Nov-1874 |
8-Jan-1953 |
American Political Ideas |
Albert A. Michelson |
Physicist |
19-Dec-1852 |
9-May-1931 |
Measured the speed of light |
Merton H. Miller |
Economist |
16-May-1923 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Modigliani-Miller theorem |
Robert A. Millikan |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1868 |
19-Dec-1953 |
Determined the charge of an electron |
Frederic S. Mishkin |
Economist |
11-Jan-1951 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
Wesley Clair Mitchell |
Economist |
5-Aug-1874 |
29-Oct-1948 |
Business Cycles |
William Vaughn Moody |
Playwright |
8-Jul-1869 |
17-Oct-1910 |
The Great Divide |
William W. Morgan |
Astronomer |
3-Jan-1906 |
21-Jun-1994 |
Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy |
Lisel Mueller |
Poet |
8-Feb-1924 |
|
The Need to Hold Still |
Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
Michael L. Mussa |
Economist |
15-Apr-1944 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88 |
Roger B. Myerson |
Economist |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
Yoichiro Nambu |
Physicist |
18-Jan-1921 |
5-Jul-2015 |
Spontaneous broken symmetry |
Martha Nussbaum |
Philosopher |
6-May-1947 |
|
The Fragility of Goodness |
Barack Obama |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1961 |
|
44th President of the United States |
Elder Olson |
Critic |
9-Mar-1909 |
25-Jul-1992 |
Critics and Criticism |
Robert Endicott Osgood |
Historian |
14-Aug-1921 |
28-Dec-1986 |
Limited War |
David W. Oxtoby |
Educator |
1951 |
|
President, Pomona College |
Robert E. Park |
Sociologist |
14-Feb-1864 |
7-Feb-1944 |
Race and Culture |
Eugene Parker |
Astronomer |
10-Jun-1927 |
|
Solar winds |
Jaroslav Pelikan |
Historian |
17-Dec-1923 |
13-May-2006 |
The Christian Tradition |
Jean Piccard |
Aviator |
28-Jan-1884 |
28-Jan-1963 |
Extreme balloonist |
Robert Pirsig |
Author |
6-Sep-1928 |
|
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
Richard Posner |
Judge |
11-Jan-1939 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Roscoe Pound |
Judge |
27-Oct-1870 |
1-Jul-1964 |
Sociological jurisprudence |
Edward C. Prescott |
Economist |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown |
Anthropologist |
17-Jan-1881 |
24-Oct-1955 |
Father of modern social anthropology |
J. Fred Rippy |
Historian |
27-Oct-1892 |
10-Feb-1977 |
Historical Evolution of Hispanic America |
Carl Rogers |
Psychologist |
8-Jan-1902 |
4-Feb-1987 |
Non-directive theory of psychology |
Bruno Rossi |
Astronomer |
13-Apr-1905 |
21-Nov-1993 |
Rossi curve and magnetopause |
Edward Sapir |
Anthropologist |
26-Jan-1884 |
4-Feb-1939 |
Anthropological linguist |
Thomas J. Sargent |
Economist |
19-Jul-1943 |
|
Rational expectations theory |
Myron S. Scholes |
Economist |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Black-Scholes options pricing model |
Robert Schrieffer |
Physicist |
31-May-1931 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
Michael Schudson |
Sociologist |
3-Nov-1946 |
|
Discovering the News |
Theodore W. Schultz |
Economist |
30-Apr-1902 |
26-Feb-1998 |
Investment in Human Capital |
Judith Shapiro |
Educator |
24-Jan-1942 |
|
President, Barnard College |
Karl Shapiro |
Poet |
10-Nov-1913 |
14-May-2000 |
Person, Place and Thing |
Milton Sills |
Actor |
12-Jan-1882 |
15-Sep-1930 |
The Sea Hawk |
Theda Skocpol |
Educator |
4-May-1947 |
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Harvard sociologist, political scientist |
Anne-Marie Slaughter |
Educator |
27-Sep-1958 |
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President and CEO, New America |
Abbie J. Smith |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
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Accounting Professor, University of Chicago |
Ezra Solomon |
Economist |
20-Mar-1920 |
9-Dec-2002 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1971-73 |
Roger W. Sperry |
Scientist |
20-Aug-1913 |
17-Apr-1994 |
"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology |
Beryl W. Sprinkel |
Economist |
20-Nov-1923 |
22-Aug-2009 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1985-89 |
Richard G. Stern |
Novelist |
25-Feb-1928 |
24-Jan-2013 |
Other Men's Daughters |
John Paul Stevens |
Judge |
20-Apr-1920 |
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US Supreme Court Justice, 1975-2010 |
George J. Stigler |
Economist |
17-Jan-1911 |
1-Dec-1991 |
Economic Theory of Regulation |
Leo Strauss |
Philosopher |
20-Sep-1899 |
18-Oct-1973 |
Patron saint of Neoconservatism |
Bengt Strömgren |
Astronomer |
21-Jan-1908 |
4-Jul-1987 |
Hydrogen stars |
Otto Struve |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1897 |
6-Apr-1963 |
Hydrogen in the interstellar medium |
Cass Sunstein |
Scholar |
21-Sep-1954 |
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Why Societies Need Dissent |
Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
Phillips Talbot |
Diplomat |
7-Jun-1915 |
1-Oct-2010 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1965-69 |
Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
Paul Tillich |
Religion |
20-Aug-1886 |
22-Oct-1965 |
Systematic Theology |
Victor W. Turner |
Anthropologist |
28-May-1920 |
1983 |
The Drums of Affliction |
Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
Thorstein Veblen |
Economist |
30-Jul-1857 |
3-Aug-1929 |
The Theory of the Leisure Class |
Bernard Wasserstein |
Historian |
22-Jan-1948 |
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Vanishing Diaspora |
Henry Nelson Wieman |
Philosopher |
19-Aug-1884 |
19-Jun-1975 |
The Source of Human Good |
Thornton Wilder |
Novelist |
17-Apr-1897 |
7-Dec-1975 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
William Julius Wilson |
Sociologist |
20-Dec-1935 |
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Poverty in America's inner cities |
Albert Wohlstetter |
Scholar |
19-Dec-1913 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclear strategist |
Diane P. Wood |
Judge |
4-Jul-1950 |
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7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Leona Woods |
Physicist |
9-Aug-1919 |
10-Nov-1986 |
Physicist at University of Chicago |
Sewall Wright |
Biologist |
21-Dec-1889 |
3-Mar-1988 |
Mathematics of evolution |
Morton Dauwen Zabel |
Educator |
10-Aug-1901 |
28-Apr-1964 |
Craft and Character |
Robert J. Zimmer |
Educator |
5-Nov-1947 |
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President, University of Chicago |