- Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is a professional civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, and is a prominent leader of the American Christian left. He is the father of Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.
- Jesse Jackson Jr.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. (born March 11 1965) is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing (map). He is the son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.
- Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software.
- Dee Brown
Daniel (Dee) Brown (born August 17, 1984 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American professional basketball player. Brown played at the University of Illinois from 2002 to 2006, receiving many awards and accolades. Brown was selected in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz.
- Edwin G. Krebs
Dr Edwin Gerhard Krebs (born June 6, 1918) is an American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1989 and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. Krebs was born in Lansing, Iowa, the third child of William Carl Krebs, …
- Polykarp Kusch
Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics. He received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1931 from the Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University).
- Erika Harold
Erika Harold was Miss America 2003 and was the Miss Illinois 2002. Her platform is "Preventing Youth Violence and Bullying: Protect Yourself, Respect Yourself." Her platform is said to have grown out of personal experience; she claims to have been the subject of racial and sexual harassment while growing up. Erika is of Greek, German and Welsh (father) and Native-American, African-American and Russian (mother) descent.
- Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, …
- Arte Johnson
Arte Johnson (born January 20, 1929), full name Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson, is a comic actor. He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan and attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949 after working on the campus radio station and the U of I Theater Guild with his brother, Cos. He initially sought employment in Chicago working for advertising agencies, but left for New York to work for Viking Press.
- Allan Nevins
Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 - March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist. Nevins earned an M.A. in English in 1913 from the University of Illinois. He worked as a journalist in New York City and began writing books on history. Nevins was appointed Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University in 1931, two years after he joined the faculty there.
- Ray Ozzie
Ray Ozzie Encyclopedia Search: in Tutorials Encyclopedia Dictionary Entire Web Store
- Steve Stricker
Steven Charles Stricker (born February 13 1967) is an American professional golfer. Stricker was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin. A 1990 graduate of the University of Illinois, Stricker turned professional in 1990 and has won three times on the PGA Tour. His most successful season on tour came in 1996, when Stricker notched two victories (Kemper Open, Motorola Western Open) and seven top ten finishes on his way to finishing fourth on the 1996 PGA Tour money list.
- Jerry Colangelo
Jerry Colangelo (born November 20, 1939 in Chicago Heights, Illinois) is a respected American businessman and former sports mogul. He is the former majority owner of the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He was also instrumental in the relocation of the Winnipeg Jets of the NHL to Phoenix to become the Phoenix Coyotes.
- Michael S. Hart
Michael Stern Hart (b. 1947 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American best known as the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG) which makes electronic books freely available via the Internet. At least one version of each book is a plain text file that can be displayed on virtually any computer. Most of the early postings were personally typed in by himself. Today, the e-texts are produced (usually scanned) by Project Gutenberg's many volunteers.
- Lorado Taft
Lorado Zadoc Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator, born in Elmwood, Illinois in 1860. After being homeschooled by his parents, Taft earned his bachelor’s degree (1879) and master’s degree (1880) from the University of Illinois where his father was a professor of Geology. The same year he left for Paris to study sculpture. In Paris he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied with Augustin Dumont, …
- David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald (b. 1920, Goodman, Mississippi) is a historian of the American Civil War. Donald took his PhD in 1945 under James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. He taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and, from 1973, Harvard University. He also taught at Smith College, the University of North Wales, Princeton University, University College London and served as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.
- Vincent du Vigneaud
Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 - December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955. For the isolation, structural identification and total synthesis of the cyclic peptide oxytocin.
- Larry Parks
Larry Parks (13 December 1914, Olathe, Kansas - 13 April 1975, Studio City, California), was an American stage and movie actor. His career was virtually ended when he admitted to having once been a member of a Communist party cell, an admission that led to his blacklisting by all Hollywood studios. Parks grew up in Joliet, Illinois, and graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1932. He attended the University of Illinois as a pre-med student, …
- Robert Goralski
Robert Stanley Goralski was a news correspondent for NBC News for fifteen years in the 1960s and 1970s during a thirty-five year career in communications. Of Polish descent, he was born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 2, 1928. He served in the United States Navy during World War II in Pacific shipboard service as a Quartermaster. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Illinois, …
- Mark van Doren
Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 - December 10, 1972) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic. He was born in the town of Hope in Vermilion County, Illinois. The son of the county's doctor, he was raised on his family's farm in eastern Illinois. He was the younger brother of the academic Carl Van Doren. Mark Van Doren earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1914 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1920.
- Thomas Murphy
Thomas A. Murphy was former CEO of General Motors during the 1970s. Murphy began with GM as a clerk in the controller's office after graduating in 1938 from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in accountancy. During World War II, Murphy served in the Navy for three years before returning to work for GM. He moved up the ranks from controller's office, …
- James J. Stukel
James J. Stukel served as the 15th President of the University of Illinois. He was born on March 30, 1937 in Joliet, Illinois. He earned his B.S. degree from Purdue University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After the completion of his Ph.D., President Stukel joined the faculty of the Engineering College. He rose to the level of Associate Dean before transferring to the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Wendell Meredith Stanley
Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 - June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel prize laureate. He was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, and earned a BS in Chemistry at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He then studied at the University of Illinois, gaining a MS in science in 1927 followed by a Ph.D. in chemistry two years later.
- Jeanne Gang
Jeanne Gang (b. 1964) is the founder and principal of the Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang. As the leader of the design team at Studio Gang, she focuses on materials, technology and sustainability in the innovative and award-winning work of the firm. Gang earned a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois.
- Nathan Clifford Ricker
Nathan Clifford Ricker, D.Arch, (July 24, 1843-March 19, 1924) was a professor and architect known for his work at the University of Illinois. He was born on a farm near Acton, Maine July 24, 1843. In 1875, he was married to Mary Carter Steele of Galesburg, Illinois. His only child, Ethel, was born in 1883. He died March 19, 1924.
- Herb McKenley
Herbert ("Herb") Henry McKenley (born July 10, 1922) is a former Jamaican athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x400 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Born in Pleasant Valley, Clarendon, Jamaica, Herb McKenley enrolled the University of Illinois, and won the NCAA championships in 220 yd and 440 yd in 1946 and 1947. He was also the AAU champion in 440 yd in 1945, 1947 and 1948, and was also the head of the list of world best times in 100 m (10.3), …
- Ken Batcher
Ken Batcher is a professor of Computer Science at Kent State University. He also worked as a computer architect at Goodyear Aerospace in Akron, Ohio for 28 years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1969.
- Jason Anderson
Jason Roger Anderson (born June 9, 1979 in Danville, Illinois) is a Minor League Baseball pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He has split the 2007 season between the Triple-A Ottawa Lynx and the Double-A Reading Phillies. Anderson attended the University of Illinois for two years, earning All-American honors, and he was drafted by the New York Yankees in 2000.
- Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin (May 11, 1930 - May 31, 1995) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships.
- Stephen S. Chang
Stephen S. Chang (1918-1996) was a Chinese-born, American food scientist who was involved in the research of lipid and flavors in food, including the development of technology transfer between the United States and Taiwan.
- Lew Allen
General Allen graduated from high school in Gainesville, Texas, in 1942. He entered the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., in 1943 and graduated in 1946 with a bachelor of science degree and commission as a second lieutenant. He also was awarded pilot wings upon graduation.
- Allan Sandage
Allan Rex Sandage (born June 18 1926 in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American astronomer.
- Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain (born 13 September 1931) is an American actress. Bain was born Millicent Fogel in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and moved to New York City where she was a dancer and high fashion model. Bain studied with Martha Graham, thus cementing her interest in dancing. After attending Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, she changed careers to acting.
- John Carbon
John A. Carbon, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He got his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1952 at the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 1955 from Northwestern University. He did basic research in taking new drugs at Abbott Laboratories (North Chicago, IL) for 12 years (1956-1968). He joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, …
- Lowell Selvin
Lowell Selvin (born April 15, 1959) is the chairman and CEO of PlanetOut Inc.. He oversaw the merger of PlanetOut Corp. and Online Partners, and acquisitions of LPI Media and RSVP (a travel company). Selvin graduated from the University of Illinois with bachelor's degrees in psychology and aeronautical and astronautical engineering. He later worked for Arbonne International and Arthur Andersen.
- Peter Palmer
Peter Palmer (b. 20 September, 1931, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Li'l Abner both on Broadway and on film. He was offered scholarships to a number of universities; however, he chose the University of Illinois to study voice under Bruce Foote; he was the first music major to letter in football at the university. While at Illinois his team won the Big Ten championships in1951 and 1953, and the Rose Bowl in 1952.
- Fred Beebe
Frederick Leonard Beebe (December 31, 1880 - October 30, 1957) was a professional baseball player. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Beebe played baseball for the Hyde Park High School in Chicago, Illinois and the University of Illinois. He played Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1916. In his rookie year, Beebe led the major league's with 171 strikeouts. He played for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indians.
- John F. Callahan
John F. Callahan is literary executor for the late Ralph Ellison, and was the editor for his posthumously-released novel "Juneteenth". In addition to his work with Ellison, Callahan has written or edited numerous volumes related to African-American literature, with a particular emphasis on 20th century literature. Some of Callahan's other works include "In the African-American Grain: The Pursuit of Voice in 20th Century Black Fiction", …
- Lois B. Defleur
Lois B. DeFleur is the current president of Binghamton University. She came to the university after being provost at University of Missouri-Columbia. Before that she had served as a sociology professor at Missouri State University and Washington State University. She has a doctorate in sociology from the University of Illinois. She studied juvenile deliquency in Latin America and has done extensive work in the fields of deviant behavior and occupational socialization.
- Karl Clark
Dr. Karl Clark was a chemist and oil sand researcher. He is best known for perfecting a process that uses hot water to separate oil from tar sands. Clark earned Bachelor and Master’s degree from McMaster University before obtaining a Doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Illinois. He then became a Professor at the University of Alberta. In 1925, while working for the Alberta Research Council, he discovered the hot water oil separation process, …