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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
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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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