University of Chicago Alumni

The University of Chicago is a private university in Chicago, Illinois and is consistently ranked as one of the best universities of the United States and even of the world. The athletic teams of UChicago are called the Maroons. Name these famous people who attended University of Chicago.

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Attorney General from 2001 to 2005, Senator from Missouri from 1995 to 2001 and Governor of Missouri from 1985 to 1993

John Ashcroft

President of the World Bank from 2005 to 2007 and United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005

Paul Wolfowitz

Director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017

James Comey

Director of National Intelligence from 2021 to 2025

Avril Haines

Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010 and Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006

Jon Corzine

Governor of Delaware from 2009 to 2017

Jack Markell

Senator from Illinois from 1993 to 1999 and first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate

Carol Moseley Braun

Senator from Vermont since 2007 who sought the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020

Bernie Sanders

Senator from Missouri from 2002 to 2007

Jim Talent

Senator from Minnesota since 2007

Amy Klobuchar

Senator from Indiana since 2017

Todd Young

Senator from Nebraska since 2023 and Governor of Nebraska from 2015 to 2023

Pete Ricketts

Associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010

John Paul Stevens

Prime Minister of Canada from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930 and 1935 to 1948

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Premier of Taiwan from 1990 to 1993 and Vice President of Taiwan from 1996 to 2000

Lien Chan

Economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered one of the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics

Milton Friedman

Economist and first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Paul Samuelson

"Father of modern portfolo theory" who received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Harry Markowitz

"The father of modern finance" who received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Eugene Fama

Founder of McKinsey

James O. McKinsey

Co-founder of Oracle and one of the wealthiest people in the world

Larry Ellison

Co-founder of Pinterest

Evan Sharp

CEO of Microsoft since 2014

Satya Nadella

Astronomer, a space telescope was named after him in recognition of his work

Edwin Hubble

Astronomer, narrator of "Cosmos", author of popular science books and the science-fiction novel "Contact"

Carl Sagan

Nobel Prize winning geneticist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

James Watson

Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone, portrayed by Kevin Costner in "The Untouchables"

Eliot Ness

Writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "Henderson the Rain King" "The Adventures of Augie March" "Humboldt's Gift"

Saul Bellow

Writer, "A River Runs Through It"

Norman Maclean

Writer, "Slaughterhouse-Five"

Kurt Vonnegut

Writer, "Goodbye, Columbus" "Portnoy's Complaint" "The Human Stain"

Philip Roth

Film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 to 2013 and first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize

Roger Ebert

Director, "The Graduate" "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" "Catch-22"

Mike Nichols

Director, "The Unbearbale Lightness of Being" "The Right Stuff"

Philip Kaufman

Actor best known for his role as Castiel in "Supernatural"

Misha Collins

Actress best known for her roles as Vada Sultenfuss in "My Girl" and Amy Brookheimer in "Veep"

Anna Chlumsky

Commissioner of the NBA since 2014

Adam Silver

Owner of the Baltimore Orioles

David Rubenstein

Chairman of the Chicago Cubs

Thomas Ricketts

Co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and first openly gay owner of a major-league sports team

Laura Ricketts

General manager of the Miami Marlins from 2021 to 2023 and first female GM of a team in the Big Four leagues of North America

Kim Ng

Former football player and first Heisman Trophy winner

Jay Berwanger

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