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The following is a list of notable alumni who attended Northwestern University

Contents 1 Academia 2 Actors/Celebrities 3 Business 4 Journalism 5 Law 6 Medicine 7 Music, literature and the arts 8 Politics, government, and public policy 9 Sports 10 Other

• Robert J. Alpern, dean, Yale School of Medicine
• Elijah Anderson, The Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
• Cheshire Calhoun, Charles A. Dana professor of Philosophy, Colby College
• Juan Cole, professor of Middle East history, University of Michigan, prominent blogger
• James Hal Cone, professor of theology, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, father of black liberation theology
• Mitchell Duneier, professor of sociology, Princeton University, author of Sidewalk and Slim's Table
• Troy Duster, professor of sociology, New York University and University of California, Berkeley
• Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University
• Jonathan Freedman, professor of English and American Culture, University of Michigan
• Susan H. Fuhrman, dean, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Simon Gikandi, professor of English, Princeton University
• Barry Glassner, professor of sociology, University of Southern California, author of The Culture of Fear
• Cynthia Herrup, professor of history and law, University of Southern California
• Rosanna Hertz, Luella LaMer Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wellesley College
• Michael J. Hopkins, professor of mathematics, Harvard University
• Louis Kaplow, Finn M.W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard University
• Jonathan D. Katz, former head of Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Yale University
• Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University
• John Malmstad, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
• Susan E. Mayer, dean, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
• Mark Crispin Miller, professor, New York University (NYU), author of The Bush Dyslexicon
• David J. Skorton, president, Cornell University
• Graham Spanier, president, Pennsylvania State University
• Charles Payne, director of African American and African Studies, Duke University
• John Pople, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998
• Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop professor of history, Harvard University
• Jacques Vallee, computer scientist, astronomer and UFO researcher

• Claude Akins, actor (Inherit the Wind, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo)
• Ann-Margret (Olsson) (Class of 1963), actress and singer (never graduated)
• Sharif Atkins, actor (ER)
• Warren Beatty (dropped out), actor (Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Shampoo)
• Lee Phillip Bell 16 time Emmy winning talk show host and soap opera creator (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful)
• Richard Benjamin, actor
• Craig Bierko, Tony-nominated actor
• Karen Black (attended for two years), actress
• Zach Braff, actor (Scrubs), director (Garden State)
• Charles Busch, actor, Tony-nominated playwright
• Bruno Campos, actor (Nip/Tuck)
• Stephen Colbert, comedian (The Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
• Kate Collins, popular soap opera actress.
• Tony Colton, actor, fitness model
• Amanda Congdon, former hostess of Rocketboom
• Cindy Crawford, model (never graduated)
• Stephanie D'Abruzzo, actress, puppeteer (Avenue Q)
• William Daniels, actor (Boy Meets World)
• Zooey Deschanel, actress (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (never graduated)
• Nancy Dussault, Tony-nominated stage and television actress ("Too Close for Comfort")
• Gregg Edelman, musical theatre actor and Tony-award nominee (Into the Woods)
• Jennie Eisenhower, off-broadway actress, film Mona Lisa Smile [principal]
• Temi Epstein, child actress (North and South, Book 1)
• Daniele Gaither, actress, comic (MADtv)
• Frank Galati, Tony-winning, Oscar-nominated director, Northwestern professor
• Ana Gasteyer, actress, comic (Saturday Night Live, Mean Girls, Wicked)
• Zach Gilford, actor ("Friday Night Lights")
• Mamie Gummer, stage and screen actress ("Mr. Marmalade," "Evening")
• Anna Gunn, actress (Deadwood)
• Heather Headley, Tony Award-winning actress and singer (Aida, The Lion King)
• Marg Helgenberger, actress (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
• Charlton Heston, Academy Award-winning actor (Ben-Hur), National Rifle Association President
• Harry J. Lennix, actor (The Matrix Revolutions, "Commander in Chief" (2005) TV Series, Ray, The Matrix Reloaded)
• Martha Hyer, Oscar nominated actress (Some Came Running)
• Laura Innes, actress (ER)
• Brian d'Arcy James, actor (Tony Award nominee for Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical)
• Spencer Kayden, Tony Award-nominee for "Urinetown," performer on "MADTv"
• Clinton Kelly, television personality (What Not To Wear)
• Richard Kind, actor (Mad About You, Spin City)
• Robert Knepper, actor (Prison Break) (never graduated)
• Clyde Kusatsu, actor (All American Girl)
• Sherry Lansing, former CEO of Paramount Pictures
• Cloris Leachman, actress (The Facts of Life)
• Laura Linney, actress (The Truman Show) (attended for a year then transferred)
• Shelley Long, actress (Cheers, The Money Pit) (never graduated)
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress (Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld)
• Paul Lynde, actor, comic (Hollywood Squares)
• Stephanie March, actress (Law & Order: SVU)
• Garry Marshall, director, producer (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley)
• Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Paths of Glory)
• Josh Meyers, actor (MADtv)
• Seth Meyers, comic (Saturday Night Live)
• John Cameron Mitchell, writer, performer, director (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• Jason Moore, Tony-winning director ("Avenue Q")
• Megan Mullally, Emmy-winning actress (Will and Grace) (never graduated)
• Dermot Mulroney, actor (About Schmidt, My Best Friend's Wedding)
• Patricia Neal, actress (A Face In The Crowd, Hud)
• George Newbern, actor (Father of the Bride (1991))
• Jamie Ray Newman, actress (Stargate Atlantis)
• Agnes Nixon, four time Emmy winning soap opera writer/producer (All My Children, One Life to Live, Another World, As the World Turns, Loving)
• Denis O'Hare, Tony Award-winning actor ("Take Me Out")
• Jerry Orbach, actor (Law & Order) (never graduated)
• Mary Beth Peil, actress (Dawson's Creek)
• Paula Prentiss, actress
• Lily Rabe, Broadway actress ("Heartbreak House," "Steel Magnolias")
• Charlotte Rae, actress (The Facts of Life)
• Tony Randall, actor, (The Odd Couple) (never graduated)
• Tony Roberts, actor, (Annie Hall, Serpico)
• Jeri Ryan, actress, (Boston Public, Star Trek: Voyager)
• David Schwimmer, actor (Friends)
• Katherine Shindle, Miss America 1998
• Jerry Springer, host of The Jerry Springer Show, former mayor of Cincinnati
• McLean Stevenson, actor ("M*A*S*H")
• Peter Strauss, actor
• Nicole Sullivan, actress (MADtv)
• Inga Swenson, actress (The Miracle Worker, Benson)
• Jason Tyne, actor (Tony n' Tina's Wedding)
• Billie Lou Watt, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Astro Boy)
• Michael Weston, actor (The Last Kiss, Six Feet Under}
• Kimberly Williams, actress (Father of the Bride, According to Jim)
• Fred Williamson, athlete, film actor (MASH, Three the Hard Way, Black Caesar)

• Edwin G. Booz, founder of Booz Allen Hamilton
• Nick Chabraja, chairman and CEO, General Dynamics
• Alvin V. Cheeks, Chairman & CEO of ClinDev Global Inc., minister, and conservative civic activist
• Terri Dial, former CEO of Wells Fargo Bank
• Craig Donohue, CEO of Chicago Mercantile Exchange
• D. Cameron Findlay, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Aon Corporation
• Christopher Galvin, former CEO of Motorola
• Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Enterprises, Inc.; editor-in-chief for Playboy magazine (semester of graduate sociology courses)
• John H. Johnson (briefly attended), founder of the Johnson Publishing Company (Ebony and Jet magazines)
• Sherry Lansing, chairman, Paramount Pictures
• Kathy Kolbe, author and entrepreneur
• Joseph Levy Jr., Levy Venture Management
• Jeffrey McClelland, COO, US Airways
• Blythe McGarvie, former CFO of a Fortune 500 company and director of several corporations including Accenture, Lafarge NA, Pepsi Bottling Group, St. Paul Travelers and Wawa
• John Meriwether, founder of Long-Term Capital Management
• George Nemhauser, noted Operations Research figure
• David R. Nissen, President and CEO, GE Consumer Finance
• Morgan E. O'Brien, founder, Nextel Communications, Inc. and chairman, Cyrel Call Communications
• Steve Odland, Chairman & CEO, Office Depot, Inc.
• Peter George Peterson, former Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers (1973-1984), co-founded the Blackstone Group (*also listed under Politics, government, and public policy)
• Christine Poon, vice chairman and worldwide chairman of medicines & nutritionals, Johnson & Johnson
• Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox
• Patrick G. Ryan, chairman and CEO, Aon Corporation
• Alfred Steele, President of Pepsi-Cola & actress Joan Crawfords last husband. (class of 1923)
• Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner, former Vice Chair, Estee Lauder International
• William A. Woodburn, President and CEO, Strategy & Integration, Infrastructure for GE

• J.A. Adande, ESPN contributor Around the Horn and Los Angeles Times sports columnist
• Allison Beach, commentary page editor, Austin American-Statesman
• Kevin Blackistone, ESPN contributor Around the Horn and Dallas Morning News sports columnist
• Steve Bogira, journalist, author of Courtroom 302 (Knopf, 2005)
• Christine Brennan, USA Today columnist and NBC commentator
• Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times White House Correspondent
• David Chalian, deputy political director, ABC News
• Pauline W. Chen, author of Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality (Knopf)
• Carina Chocano, film critic for the Los Angeles Times
• Benoit Denizet-Lewis, contributor to the New York Times Magazine and author of the forthcoming book America Anonymous
• Gregg Easterbrook, author and journalist
• Leo Ebersole, writer, Chicago Tribune RedEye
• Rich Eisen, NFL Network anchor
• Mike Greenberg ESPN Sportscenter Host, Co-Host of Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio
• Stephen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Washington Post and novelist
• Michael Isikoff, investigative journalist for Newsweek magazine
• Jeff Jarvis, creator of Entertainment Weekly, columnist, professor at CUNY Journalism program
• Clara Jeffery, editor-in-chief, Mother Jones Magazine
• Walter Kerr, Broadway theater critic, playwright, and author
• Rikki Klieman, Court TV anchor and legal analyst
• Katherine Lanpher, writer and radio personality, author of Leap Days
• Nicole Lapin, anchor, CNN Pipeline
• Steve McGonigle, The Dallas Morning News writer and investigative reporter
• Rachel Nichols, ESPN and Washington Post reporter
• Barry Petersen, foreign correspondent, CBS News
• Kathy Reichs, best-selling novelist and forensic anthropologist.
• Jamie Samuelsen, radio personality (WDFN)
• Anatole Shub, journalist for Washington Post and New York Times, author*
• David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover and political strategist
• Michael Wilbon, ESPN analyst (Pardon the Interruption) and Washington Post sports columnist

For more notable alumni visit the Medill School of Journalism's Hall of Achievement: http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/alumni/honors/

• Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Georgetown University
• Richard Ben-Veniste, former Watergate counsel and 9/11 Commission member
• Vincent Blasi, Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia University Law School, and James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
• David Boies, counsel, Bush v. Gore; founding partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
• Erwin Chemerinsky, professor at Duke University School of Law, prominent legal scholar
• G. Marcus Cole, professor of law and associate dean for curriculum, Stanford Law School
• Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Joel D. Joseph, Washington-Based Attorney, Author (including Black Mondays: Worst Decisions of the Supreme Court)
• Lawrence C. Marshall, professor of law and director of clinical education, Stanford Law School
• Seymour Simon, Illinois Supreme Court justice.
• Simeon R. Acoba, Jr., Hawaii Supreme Court Justice
• Michael L. Yang, Proskauer Rose LLP Associate
• Derrick M. Thompson, Jr., Trial Attorney, Taylor Miller LLC
• Wynn Silberman, Sports Agent

• Cheddi Jagan, dentist/Guyanese president
• Charles H. Mayo, doctor (Mayo Clinic)
• Robert F. Furchgott, Ph.D., 1940, Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1998)
• Daniel Hale Williams, first person to perform open heart surgery

• Steve Albini, recording engineer, musician
• Marie Arana, editor of Washington Post Book World, author of National Book Award-finalist American Chica and the novel Cellophane
• Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize-winning novelist
• Andrew Bird, singer-songwriter
• Anthony Bozza, music journalist, author of Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem and Tommyland.
• Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano
• Charles Busch, Tony Award-nominated playwright, actor, and filmmaker, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
• Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
• William Butler, member of indie rock band Arcade Fire
• Dan Chaon, author of You Remind Me of Me and Among the Missing
• Steven Conrad, screenwriter, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man
• Lydia R. Diamond, playwright
• Cynthia Dobrinski, handbell composer and clinician
• Ivan Doig, novelist
• Tananarive Due, novelist and journalist, The Living Blood
• Andy Duncan, former member of OK Go
• Wilma Dykeman, writer
• Timothy Ferris, science author
• Gerald Freedman, theatre director
• George Furth, Tony Award-winning playwright (Company) and actor
• Kyle Gann, composer, microtonalist
• Chester Gould, cartoonist
• Michael Greif, Tony Award-nominated director of Rent and Grey Gardens
• Ayun Halliday, columnist and author of No Touch Monkey!
• Howard Hanson, composer
• Aleksandar Hemon, author and MacArthur Fellow, Nowhere Man, The Question of Bruno
• Sheldon Harnick, lyricist
• Brigid Hughes, former editor-in-chief of The Paris Review and editor-in-chief of A Public Space
• Myron Hunt, architect
• David Ives, acclaimed playwright, All in the Timing
• Brendan Kelly, member of the The Lawrence Arms
• Mark Lamos, theatre and opera director
• Martha Lavey, Artistic Director, Steppenwolf Theatre Company
• John Logan, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, The Aviator, Gladiator
• George R.R. Martin, author
• Sherrill Milnes, baritone
• Robert McHenry, encyclopedist and author
• Karen Moncrieff, filmmaker; writer and director of The Dead Girl and Blue Car
• Audrey Niffenegger, novelist and artist; author of bestselling The Time Traveller's Wife
• Bruce Norris, playwright, The Pain and the Itch, Purple Heart
• Tawni O'Dell, acclaimed novelist, Sister Mine, Coal Run, Back Roads
• Karen A. Page, writer
• Marge Piercy, novelist and poet
• Neal Pollack, satirical author and journalist
• Keith Reddin, playwright
• Steve Rodby, jazz bassist
• Ned Rorem, composer
• Tina Rosenberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist
• Karen Russell, author of the acclaimed St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
• David Sanborn, saxophonist
• Joseph Schwantner, composer
• Sidney Sheldon, author (never graduated)
• Jon Solomon, DJ / record label owner
• Warren Spector, game designer
• Michael Sprinker, late literary theorist
• Augusta Read Thomas, composer
• Paul Winter, musician
• Rachael Yamagata, musician
• Mary Zimmerman, Tony Award-winning theatrical director

• George Ball, former Undersecretary of State
• Judy Biggert, Republican congresswoman
• Rod Blagojevich, Governor of Illinois
• Judy Baar Topinka, former State Treasurer of Illinois; Republican Gubernatorial candidate, 2006 election
• William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic presidential nominee
• Salem Chalabi, ex-General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal (resigned in September 2004)
• Steven Matthew Cook, Warrenville Park Commissioner, Natural Areas Commissioner of Warrenville,Illinois
• Nathan Daschle, executive director, Democratic Governors Association, son of Tom Daschle
• Rahm Emanuel, former aide to Bill Clinton and Democratic congressman
• D. Cameron Findlay, former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (2001-2003)
• Chrissy Gephardt, prominent LGBT-rights political advocate, daughter of Dick Gephardt
• Dick Gephardt, former House Democratic leader
• Jim Kolbe, former U.S. Representative from Arizona, served 11 terms
• George McGovern, South Dakota Senator and 1972 Democratic candidate for president
• Eduardo Mondlane, Revolutionary leader of Mozambique
• Newton Minow, former director of the Federal Communications Commission
• Peter George Peterson, former chairman of the Council On Foreign Relations, United States Secretary of Commerce (1972-1973) (*also listed under Business)
• Adlai Stevenson, Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential nominee
• Harold Washington, first black Chicago mayor

• Katrina Adams, tennis player
• Mike Adamle, football player and sportscaster
• Darnell Autry, football player and actor
• D'Wayne Bates, football player
• Harold Blackmon, former football player, Seattle Seahawks
• Luis Castillo, San Diego Chargers football player
• Javiar Collins, football player, Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns
• Barry Cofield, New York Giants Defensive Lineman
• Luke Donald, golfer
• John L. "Paddy" Driscoll, football player
• Evan Eschmeyer, former basketball player
• Pat Fitzgerald, former 2-time All-American football player, current Northwestern head football coach
• Barry Gardner, professional football player
• Joe Girardi, former baseball player and manager
• Grant Golden, tennis player
• Jim Golliday, track
• Otto Graham, professional football player
• Mike Greenberg, sportscaster, ESPN
• Seymour Greenberg, tennis player
• JA Happ, baseball player
• Napoleon Harris, football player, Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings
• Noah Herron, Football Player, Green Bay Packers
• Nathan William Linkon, basketball coach, Infosys
• Mark Loretta, baseball player
• Todd Martin, tennis player
• Brent Musburger, sports announcer, ABC
• Matt O'Dwyer, football player
• Matt Pearl, sportscaster
• Ted Phillips, Chicago Bears President and CEO
• Dave Revsine, sportscaster, ESPN
• Marty Riessen, tennis player
• Darren Rovell, CNBC Sports Business Reporter
• Rick Sund, General Manager, Seattle Supersonics
• Steve Tasker, football player, sports announcer, Buffalo Bills
• Rick Telander, sportswriter

• H. Peter Anvin, Linux kernel hacker
• Richard Skrenta, creator of the first computer virus, Elk Cloner.
• Jade Smalls, Miss Illinois 1999 and concert pianist
• Joseph Staten, writer and director of the Halo video games
• Kyle Wojotanowicz, philanthropist

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