- 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.
- Bruce Weber
Bruce Weber (born October 19, 1956 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the head coach of the University of Illinois men's basketball team. Through his first four seasons at Illinois, Weber has led the program to an 112-28 win-loss record, two outright Big Ten Conference championships, and four trips to the NCAA Tournament, including an appearance in the championship game of the 2005 NCAA Tournament. Weber's teams are known for motion offense and quick ball movement.
- Francis Boyle
Dr. Francis Anthony Boyle, is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. He also received a Ph. D. in political science from Harvard University. Between 1988 and 1992 Boyle was a member of the board of Amnesty International USA.
- Ann Marie
Ann Marie (born 1953, Wood River, Illinois, USA) is the stage name of the now retired big-bust model, stripper and actress, Kathy Ayers. She attended the University of Illinois before dropping out to pursue a career in nightclub dancing in Sarasota, Florida in 1974. As a feature dancer she earned up to US$3,500 a week. In 1975, she appeared as the "Fisherman's wife" and "Pink bikini woman" in the Russ Meyer movie "Supervixens".
- 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.
- Ron Zook
Ron Zook (born April 28, 1954 in Loudonville, Ohio) is an American football coach and the current head coach at the University of Illinois.
- Jimmy Collins
James E. "Jimmy" Collins (born) is a retired American basketball player and current coach. He has been the head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1996. Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at the University of Illinois. He played college ball at New Mexico State University and had a brief professional career with the Chicago Bulls of the NBA and the Carolina Cougars of the ABA. He was raised in Syracuse, New York.
- 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.
- Eric Gordon
Eric Gordon (born December 25, 1988 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American basketball player. The 6-4, 205 lb. Gordon played his High School basketball at North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has committed to play college basketball at Indiana University and is considered one of the top incoming freshman in the nation.
- Deron Williams
Deron Michael Williams (born June 26, 1984 in Parkersburg, West Virginia) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Utah Jazz of the NBA. He is also a former collegiate player for the University of Illinois.
- Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers (b. 1944) is a former member of the Weather Underground who is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Luther Head
Luther Head (born November 26, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Houston Rockets. Standing 6'3" (1.91 m) and weighing 185 lb (84 kg), Head plays primarily point guard but played shooting guard and small forward as a college basketball star at the University of Illinois.
- Roy Williams
Roy Williams (born August 1, 1950 in Marion, North Carolina) is head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina. After averaging about an 80% win percentage in 15 seasons at the University of Kansas, he became the eighteenth head coach at North Carolina when he replaced Matt Doherty in 2003. He is second all-time for most wins at Kansas behind Phog Allen, and third all-time in the NCAA for winning percentage.
- James R. Thompson
Governor Thompson has served on the board of Navigant Consulting, Inc. since 1998. As Illinois' longest-serving chief executive (14 years), Governor Thompson was noted for his skill in settling difficult labor-management problems, his ability to manage one of the nation's largest public budgets while maintaining one of the nation's highest state bond ratings, and his leadership among his peers.
- John Hope
John Raymond Hope (May 14, 1919-June 13, 2002) was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel. Born in Pennsylvania, Hope served as a flight navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After returning to civilian life, Hope earned a degree in meteorology from the University of Illinois. He then worked as a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Memphis, Tennessee, …
- B. Joseph White
Bernard Joseph White is the current president of the University of Illinois. Born in Detroit, Michigan on April 6, 1947, White was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. White graduated magna cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1969. He holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, and a PhD from the University of Michigan.
- Jiawei Han
Jiawei Han is a renowned computer scientist who specializes in research on Data Mining. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously he was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. In 2003 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- David Williams
David Williams (born 1963) is a former American football player and wide receiver. Williams was named consensus All-American twice at the University of Illinois, and is an inducted member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Williams was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2005. Williams attended Serra High School in Los Angeles, California.
- 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, …
- Brian Randle
Brian Randle (born February 8, 1985 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American basketball player. He currently plays college basketball at the University of Illinois and wears the number 42. Randle graduated from Peoria Notre Dame High School in 2003 and had an outstanding senior season averaging 22.9 points, 12.8 rebounds, 5.2 blocks and 3.1 assists. He finished fourth in voting for Illinois Mr. Basketball in his senior season, and was recruited by Bill Self.
- Wen-Mei Hwu
Wen-mei W. Hwu is the Walter J. ("Jerry") Sanders - Advanced Micro Devices Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Hwu served as the chairman of the Computer Engineering Program at the University of Illinois. His research interest is in the area of architecture, implementation, and software for high-performance computer systems.
- Robert Brown
Robert "Buck" Brown (born c1936 - died 2 July, 2007) was an African American painter and cartoonist best known for creating "Playboy Magazine's" "Granny" character. Brown was born in Morrison, Tennessee in the 1930's and moved to Chicago as a child. He graduated from Englewood High School in 1954. He joined the United States Air Force and later studied at the University of Illinois.
- J Leman
J Leman is an All Big Ten linebacker for the University of Illinois. Sports Illustrated also named him to their honorable mention All-American team. He has one season of college eligibility left. J graduated from the U of I with a degree in speech communications in the summer of 2006. Currently, he is pursing a master's degree. "Personal Info" J is currently 21 years old and was born in 1985. He comes from a family of 4 other siblings.
- Dick Butkus
Dick Butkus (born December 9, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American football player and actor. Butkus starred as a football player for the University of Illinois and the Chicago Bears. He was best known for his punishing tackles. Terry Bradshaw once claimed Butkus to be "a killer on the field, but an angel sent by God from heaven above off the field".
- Michael Collins
Michael Collins (born 1964) is an Irish-born author of novels and short stories. The film rights to several of his books have been purchased, and he has also written a screenplay titled "Julia". He was born in Tipperary, Ireland and is a distant relative of the Irish patriot Michael Collins. He grew up in Ireland, where he was a distance runner.
- James Augustine
James Augustine (born February 27, 1984 in Midlothian, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player. He eventually moved to Mokena, Illinois where he attended Lincoln-Way Central High School in New Lenox, Illinois where he graduated in 2002. While at Lincoln-Way, Augustine played both football and basketball. Augustine played for the University of Illinois men's basketball team from 2002 to 2006. Playing both the power forward and center positions, …
- Ray Ozzie
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- 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.
- Timothy Johnson
Dr. G. Timothy Johnson, frequently called Tim Johnson, is the current main medical editor/contributor for ABC News. He provides on-air medical ABC's "World News Tonight", "Nightline" and "20/20". He also appears on "Good Morning America". Johnson is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital. Johnson received his undergraduate degree from Augustana College, …
- Walt Harris
Walt Harris (born November 9, 1946 in South San Francisco, California) is a football coach. Most recently, Harris was the head coach of the football team at Stanford University. In his first season as head coach there he posted a record of 5-6. In his second season as head coach he posted a 1-11 record, the school's worst since going 0-10 in 1960. He was fired on December 4, 2006, two days after Stanford's regular season ended.
- Walt Harris
Walt Harris (born November 9, 1946 in South San Francisco, California) is a football coach. Most recently, Harris was the head coach of the football team at Stanford University. In his first season as head coach there he posted a record of 5-6. In his second season as head coach he posted a 1-11 record, the school's worst since going 0-10 in 1960. He was fired on December 4, 2006, two days after Stanford's regular season ended.
- Brandon Lloyd
Brandon Matthew Lloyd (born July 5, 1981 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American football wide receiver in the NFL for the Washington Redskins. Lloyd graduated from Blue Springs High School in Blue Springs, Missouri. He attended the University of Illinois. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 4th round (124th overall) in the 2003 NFL Draft. He was traded to the Redskins on March 11, 2006 for a 3rd round draft pick in 2006, and a 4th round draft pick in 2007.
- Brian Cook
Brian Joshua Cook (born December 4, 1980 in Lincoln, Illinois) is a power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. Cook was drafted out of the University of Illinois with the 24th pick of the first round of the 2003 NBA Draft. He led his high school team, the Lincoln Community High School Railsplitters, to the quarterfinals of the Illinois High School Association class AA state boys basketball tournament
- Norv Turner
Norval Eugene "Norv" Turner (born May 17, 1952 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) is the head coach for the National Football League's San Diego Chargers. He also has served as head coach of the Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders, and as offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, and San Francisco 49ers.
- Michael Gorman
Michael Gorman (b. 1941), grew up in London, England and gained an interest in libraries in part through his experiences at the Hendon library run by Eileen Colwell. He attended Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University) in London from 1964-1966.
- Warren Carter
Warren Carter (born April 23, 1985) is an American college basketball player. He currently plays at the University of Illinois. For much of his early life and that of his brother's his mother was in prison. In an interview at a Champaign, Illinois middle school, he said that he got through these hard times with help from his neighbors. Carter graduated from Lake Highlands High School in Dallas, Texas, where he won the National High School Player of the Year Award.
- Paul Lauterbur
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible. Born and raised in Sidney, Ohio, Lauterbur graduated from Sidney High School, where a new Chemistry, Physics, and Biology wing was dedicated in his honor.
- Arrelious Benn
Arrelious Benn (born September 8,1988) is a wide receiver who used to play for Dunbar High School's football team. According to his profile on Scout.com, Benn is a 5-star recruit and is ranked number 2 amongst all high school wide receivers in the United States. Benn is widely known as the greatest player in Dunbar's history. On November 9, 2006, Benn verbally committed to the University of Illinois.
- Salvatore Martirano
Salvatore Giovanni Martirano was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Yonkers, New York, he taught for many years at the University of Illinois. He also worked in electronic music and invented electronic musical instruments. A music composition award in his name, the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award, has been given annually since 1996.
- Tim Finin
Tim Finin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has over 30 years of experience in the applications of Artificial Intelligence to problems in information systems, intelligent interfaces and robotics and is currently working on the theory and applications of intelligent software agents, the semantic web, and mobile computing. He holds degrees from MIT and the University of Illinois.