List of University of Chicago alumni

This list of University of Chicago alumni consists of notable people who graduated or attended the University of Chicago. The alumni of the university include graduates and attendees. Graduates are defined as those who hold bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degrees from the university, while attendees are those who studied at the university but did not complete the program or obtain a degree. Honorary degree holders and auditors of the university are excluded. Summer session attendees are also excluded from the list since summer terms are not part of the university's formal academic years.

Nobel laureates
  • Luis Alvarez (A.B. 1932, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1936) – Physics, 1968
  • Emily Green Balch (attended) – Peace, 1946[1]
  • Gary Becker (A.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – Economics, 1992
  • Saul Bellow (X. 1939) – Literature, 1976
  • Herbert Brown (S.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1938) – Chemistry, 1979
  • James M. Buchanan (Ph.D. 1948) – Economics, 1986
  • Owen Chamberlain (Ph.D. 1949) – Physics, 1959
  • John Maxwell Coetzee (Professor) – Literature, 2003
  • James Cronin (S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1955) – Physics, 1980
  • Clinton Davisson (S.B. 1909) – Physics, 1937
  • Jerome Friedman (A.B. 1950, S.M. 1953, Ph.D. 1956) – Physics, 1990
  • Milton Friedman (A.M. 1933) – Economics, 1976
  • Ernest Lawrence (X. 1923) – Physics, 1939
  • Tsung-Dao Lee (Ph.D. 1950) – Physics, 1957
  • Robert Lucas, Jr. (A.B. 1959, Ph.D. 1964) – Economics, 1995
  • Harry Markowitz (A.B. 1947, A.M. 1950, Ph.D. 1955) – Economics, 1990
  • Robert Millikan (X. 1894) – Physics, 1923
  • Robert Mulliken (Ph.D. 1921) – Chemistry, 1966
  • Irwin Rose (S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 2004
  • F. Sherwood Rowland (S.M. 1951, Ph.D. 1952) – Chemistry, 1995
  • Paul Samuelson (A.B. 1935) – Economics, 1970
  • Myron Scholes (M.B.A. 1964, Ph.D. 1970) – Economics, 1997
  • Herbert A. Simon (A.B. 1936, Ph.D. 1943) – Economics, 1978
  • George E. Smith (Ph.D. 1959) – Physics, 2009
  • Roger Sperry (Ph.D. 1941) – Medicine, 1981
  • Jack Steinberger (S.B. 1942; Ph.D. 1949) – Physics, 1988
  • George Stigler (S.B. 1942, Ph.D. 1949) – Economics, 1982
  • Edward Lawrie Tatum (X. 1931) – Medicine, 1958
  • Daniel Tsui (S.M. 1963; Ph.D. 1967) – Physics, 1998
  • James Dewey Watson (S.B. 1947) – Medicine, 1962
  • Frank Wilczek (A.B. 1970) – Physics, 2004; MacArthur Fellow (1982)
  • Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. 1948) – Physics, 1957

Government

Heads of state or government
Name Year Notability Reference
William Lyon Mackenzie KingA.M. 1897Prime Minister of Canada (1935–1948)
Geoffrey PalmerJ.D. 1967Prime Minister of New Zealand (1989–1990)
Gonzalo Sánchez de LozadaA.B. 1952President of Bolivia (1993–97, 2002–2003) [2]
Álvaro MagañaA.M. 1955President of El Salvador (1982–1984)
Hastings BandaPh.B. 1931Prime Minister of Malawi (1964–1966), President of Malawi (1966–1994) [3]

Other government officials

Arts and entertainment

Athletics

Business

Education

Historians

Journalism

Literature

Mathematics

Medicine

Religion

Social sciences

Science and technology

Fictional

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