- William James
William James (born William James Peterson, Jr. June 15, 1979 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania) is an American football cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles. He was selected with the 16th pick of the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft out of Western Illinois University by the New York Giants. Peterson attended the University of Michigan for two years, one of them with the school's 1997 national championship team, … - Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly (born May 20, 1929) is a well known American sociologist who has written a large number of books on the relationship between politics, economics and society. Tilly was educated at Harvard and Oxford before teaching at University of Delaware, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, University of Michigan, the New School, and Columbia University, where he now is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science. - Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 Kinsman Township, Trumbull County, Ohio - March 13, 1938 Chicago) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes in the so-called "Monkey" Trial (1925), in which he opposed the famous statesman William Jennings Bryan. - Kevin Sullivan
Kevin Sullivan (born March 20, 1974 in Brantford, Ontario) is a world class middle distance runner. Sullivan competes in 1000 metre, 1500 metre, and mile events and represents Canada. His personal best times are 3:31.71 for the 1500 (set in June 2000) and 3:50.36 for the mile. He is the Canadian record-holder at both distances as well as the indoor 3000 m, 7:40.17 (set February 9 2007). His best Olympic showing is a fifth-place finish at Sydney. - Michael Davis
Michael Davis (born 11 April 1990 in Merseyside, England) is a philosopher of law, ethics, and political philosophy, author, and Professor of Philosophy, at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Before coming to IIT in 1986, he taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, at Illinois State, and at Case Western Reserve. Davis is perhaps best known among philosophers for his position in the theory of criminal justice, which can be seen as a form of retributive justice. - Nancy Cantor
Nancy Cantor is the 11th chancellor and president of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. She received her A.B. in 1974 from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. in psychology in 1978 from Stanford University. She became chancellor upon the retirement of Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw. Previously, Cantor served Provost at the University of Michigan, and as chancellor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cantor is married to sociology professor Steven R. Brechin, … - Sam Zell
Samuel Zell , 66, has been a Director since 1984, and Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1985. He has served as Chairman of Equity Group Investments, L.L.C., a private investment company, since 1999 and its President since 2006; Zell has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Tribune Co., a diversified media company, since December 2007 and has been a Director since May 2007. - Gary Moeller
Gary O. Moeller (born January 26, 1941 in Lima, Ohio) is an American football coach best known for being head coach at the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1994. During his five seasons at Michigan, he won 44 games, lost 13 and tied 3 for a winning percentage of .758. In Big Ten Conference play, his teams won 30 games, lost 8 and tied 2 for a winning percentage of .775, and won or shared conference titles in 1990, 1991 and 1992. - 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. - Robert W. Vishny
Robert W. Vishny is an American economist and the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He received his A.B. with highest distinction (economics, mathematics, and philosophy) from the University of Michigan in 1981 and Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. He is one of the prominent representatives of the school of behavioural finance. - Steve Fisher
Steve Fisher (born March 24, 1945 in Herrin, Illinois, USA) is a basketball coach currently at San Diego State University. Fisher attended Illinois State University, where he helped lead the Redbirds to the 1969 Division II Final Four. After school, he became a high school coach in Park Forest, Illinois. In 1979, he accepted an assistant coaching position at Western Michigan University. - 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. - Fritz Crisler
Herbert O. "Fritz" Crisler (born January 12, 1899 near Earlville, Illinois; died August 19, 1982) was a head football coach, best known for his tenure at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1947. He also coached at the University of Minnesota (1930-1931) and Princeton University (1932-1937). Before this, he played football at the University of Chicago under Amos Alonzo Stagg, who nicknamed him Fritz after violinist Fritz Kreisler. - David E. Goldberg
David E. Goldberg is a professor at the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is most noted for his seminal works in the field of genetic algorithms. He is the director of Illinois genetic algorithms laboratory (IlliGAL) and also the chief scientist of Nextumi Inc. He is also the author of Genetic algorithms for search, optimization, and machine learning, … - Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee is an author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues and drug politics. Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University and the American University in Paris. - Frank H.T. Rhodes
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (b. 1926) was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995. Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England on October 29, 1926. He attended the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He also holds three other degrees from Birmingham, including a Doctor of Philosophy. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois in 1950, which he held for a year. - Jon Burgstone
Mr. Burgstone is Managing Director of Symbol Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, where he leads the firm's activities in portfolio management and research. Mr. Burgstone also served as Founding Faculty Chair and is currently Adjunct Professor of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier in his career he was co-founder and CEO of SupplierMarket, a leading internet supply chain software provider. - Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater (b. May 27, 1950) is an American Jazz singer. She is a two-time Grammy Award Winner, Tony Award Winner and Host of NPR's Syndicated Radio show "JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater". She is a United Nations Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). - Ralph Cicerone
Ralph J. Cicerone became president of The National Academy of Sciences in 2005. His research in atmospheric chemistry and climate science has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels, nationally and internationally. - Peter Fitzgerald
Peter G. Fitzgerald (born October 20, 1960) was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 1999 until 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Illinois State Senate from 1992 to 1998, where he was a member of the 'Fab Five' group of conservative state senators who often challenged the leadership of the Illinois Republican party. The group also included Steve Rauschenberger, Dave Syverson, Patrick O'Malley, and Chris Lauzen. - Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 - May 9, 1981) was an American writer. - Armando Ghitalla
Armando Ghitalla (June 1, 1925 - December 14, 2001) was an American orchestral trumpeter. He studied at the Juilliard School, and performed in the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, and the Houston Symphony. He was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for twenty eight years, and served as principal trumpet (succeeding Roger Voisin) for fifteen. - David Bowens
David Walter Bowens (born July 3, 1977 in Denver, Colorado) is an American football defensive end and Linebacker for the New York Jets. He most recently played for the Miami Dolphins, and collegiately at Western Illinois and the University of Michigan. - Richard Yates
Richard Yates (December 12, 1860 - April 11, 1936) was governor of Illinois from 1901 to 1905. From 1919 to 1933, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois. Although he failed to receive his party's nomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress, he was later appointed nominee and elected in place of Henry R. Rathbone who died prior to the election. In 1932, he was unsuccessful in his bid for reelection to the Seventy-third Congress. - James J. Martin
James J. Martin (September 18, 1916 - April 4, 2004) was an American historian. He was educated at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Michigan, earning a Ph.D. in history in 1949. He is best known for his work on the history of American individualist anarchism, "Men Against the State", first published in 1953. His 1964 book "American Liberalism and World Politics, 1931-1941" is also well known. - Miles Harvey
Miles Harvey is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his 2000 book, "The Island of Lost Maps", which recounted the strange story of a Floridian named Gilbert Bland, who stole many old and precious maps from various libraries across America. Harvey graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 with a B.S. degree in journalism and earned an M.F.A. degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1991. - Johnny Orr
John M. "Johnny" Orr (born June 10, 1927 in Yale, Kansas) is a retired American basketball player and coach, best known as the head coach of men's basketball at the University of Michigan and at Iowa State University. - Mark Daniels
Dr. Mark R. Daniels is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. on Political Science (Public Policy, Public Administration, Political Philosophy) from the University of Georgia in 1979, MA in Political Science (Political Philosophy) from Southern Illinois University in 1975, and BA in Political Science from Valparaiso University in 1973. - Vic Heyliger
Victor Heyliger (September 26 1912 - October 4 2006) was a National Hockey League center and the head coach of the University of Michigan ice hockey team. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, he attended the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts and as an All-American at Michigan set a school record of 116 goals. He played for the Chicago Blackhawks in 1938 and 1944, bookending his tenure as coach at the University of Illinois from 1939-43, posting a record of 59-29-4. - Stuart L. Deutsch
Stuart L. Deutsch has been dean of Rutgers Law School-Newark since the summer of 1999. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1969, and his L.L.M. from Harvard Law School in 1974, where he was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities. He is a 1966 graduate of the University of Michigan. - P. Q. Phan
P. Q. Phan, (b. Vietnam 1962) is a Vietnamese composer of contemporary classical music living in the United States. Phan holds a B.M. from the University of Southern California (1987), and an M.M. (1989), M.A. (1993), and D.M.A. (1993) from the University of Michigan. He has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet and American Composers Orchestra. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Cleveland State University. - Dan Crane
Daniel Bever Crane (born January 10, 1936) is an American politician. He served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1979 to 1985. Crane, a native of Cook County, Illinois, attended Chicago public schools, received his A.B. from Hillsdale College in 1958, graduated from Indiana University in 1963 with a degree in dentistry, did graduate work at the University of Michigan in 1964-1965, … - Dorothea Brande
Dorothea Brande (1893-1948) was a well respected writer and editor in New York. She was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago, the Lewis Institute in Chicago (later merged with Armour Institute of Technology to become Illinois Institute of Technology), and the University of Michigan. Her book "Becoming a Writer", published in 1934, is still in print and offers advice for beginning and sustaining any writing enterprise. - Neely Bruce
Neely Bruce (b. 1944), Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, is a composer, conductor, pianist and scholar of American music. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa; he received his DMA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His principal teachers were Ben Johnson, Hubert Kessler, J. F. Goossen, Lara Hoggard, Charles Hamm, Byrnell Figler, Roy McAllister, Soulima Stravinsky and Sophia Rosoff. - James Ingo Freed
James Ingo Freed (June 23, 1930-December 15, 2005) was an American architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic. His family, which was Jewish, fled to the United States when he was 9 to escape the regime of Nazi Germany. In 1953 Freed received an architectural degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He then worked in Chicago and New York, including work with Mies van der Rohe. - Mike Kenn
Michael Lee Kenn (born February 9, 1956 in Evanston, Illinois), is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the 1st round (13th overall) of the 1978 NFL Draft. A 6'7", 275-lb. offensive tackle from the University of Michigan, Kenn played his entire 17-year NFL career with the Falcons from 1978 to 1994. He was a promise to the Atlanta Falcons, but injuries took him off the field to often. - Charles Odegaard
Charles E. Odegaard (Born on January 10, 1911 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Died on November 14, 1999 in Seattle, Washington) was the 19th president of the University of Washington from 1958-1973. Odegaard is credited in transforming the University of Washington from an average state university to among the top public universities in the United States. - David Laro
David Laro (born Michigan, 1942) is a judge of the United States Tax Court. Laro graduated from the University of Michigan in 1964, earned a J.D. from the University of Illinois Law School in 1967 and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University Law School in 1970. He was admitted to Michigan Bar, and United States District Court (Eastern District) in 1968. He was a partner in the law firm of Winegarden, Booth, Shedd, … - Irving Copi
Irving Marmer Copi (born Copilowish, July 28 1917-August 19 2002) was an American philosopher, author and logician. He was born in Duluth, Minnesota, and died at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii. Copi had appointments at the University of Illinois, the United States Air Force Academy, … - Bobby Rosengarden
Robert Marshall (Bobby) Rosengarden (April 23, 1924 - February 27, 2007) was a jazz drummer, percussionist and bandleader. A native of Elgin, Illinois, he was a solid and versatile contributor on countless recording sessions and playing in TV network orchestras and talk-show bands. Rosengarden began playing drums when he was 12, and later studied at the University of Michigan. After playing drums in Army bands in World War II, he moved to New York City, …
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