List of University of Chicago Laboratory Schools people explained

This is a list of notable people who attended, taught at, or were otherwise affiliated with the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Alumni

NameYearNotabilityReference
1969Jazz trombonist, composer, bandleader, artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University[1]
1935American businessman and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co.
1990Stand-up comic
2002Former child actor, starred in The Indian in the Cupboard; internet entrepreneur[2]
1946Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Chicago
1962Jazz musician and instructor
1999San Francisco district attorney
1967Oregon Secretary of State
1957Maryland Secretary of Natural Resources
1960Blues musician and bandleader
1971Law professor at Duke University; dean of the law school at University of California, Irvine; dean of UC Berkeley School of Law
1988Murder victim, INS attorney
1979Author, screenwriter, and cartoonist of alternative comic books
1939Dance historian and dance critic for The New York Times
1967Oregon Secretary of State
1958Former member of the Illinois House of Representatives
1945Sculptor
1982Chicago Public Schools CEO, US Secretary of Education
1981Children's author
1962Author, contributor to The Old Farmer's Almanac
1961Economist, physicist, legal scholar and libertarian theorist
1983Astrophysicist, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2008), Nobel Prize winner (2020)
1936Professor of Theology and comparative religions, University of Chicago
1979Chicago alderman
19901990 winner of the Intel/Westinghouse Science Talent Search
1947Writer and runner, longtime contributor to Runner's World
1979Journalist
1977Pathologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
(attended)Senior advisor to United States President Barack Obama
1947Dance educator, former director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
1964Pulitzer Prize-winning author, former theater critic at the New York Times, professor at Columbia University and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
1951Connecticut congresswoman (1983–2006)
1978Folk singer and songwriter
1954Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago
1998President Barack Obama's Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy and Let's Move! Executive Director
1974Law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
1958Political scientist
2006NBA executive
(attended)Illustrator
1999Journalist and writer
1962Former chief of Paramount Studios and Academy Award winner (2007)
Judge and dean, Duke University Law School
1928President of the University of Chicago, United States Attorney General
1965Chairperson of Legal Services Corporation
1969Trombonist, composer, author, Columbia University professor, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2002), AACM member
1983Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco
1970Infectious disease epidemiologist at Columbia University
1919Murderer of Bobby Franks (along with Nathan Leopold)
1970Playwright; artistic director of McCarter Theater
1952Biologist, University of Massachusetts Amherst
1934Professor emeritus, University of Chicago History Department, National Humanities Medal winner
1968Principal Deputy White House Counsel to the U.S. President; Professor, Harvard Law School
1982Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago
1969Geriatrician, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2008)
1972Peabody Award and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
Aeronautical engineer
1970Chief Counsel for Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House Judiciary Committee; director and lawyer at People for the American Way
1999Academy Award-winning screenwriter and author[3]
1983Director and artist
1983Treasurer of the City of Chicago
1923Public servant, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom, namesake of Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
(attended until December 2008)Daughters of United States President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama[4]
1970Newspaper columnist and author
1984Professor of Law, University of Chicago
1982Illinois Attorney General
1950Professor, classics and social thought, University of Chicago
1985Film and television actress
1976Founding chairman and chief executive officer of Ariel Investments[5]
1940Pulitzer prize-winning composer and author
1992Reality TV star, Wall Street Journal contributor, historian, and author[6]
1983Non-fiction writer, academic, professor at Boston College
1978Artistic director, playwright, Theater J, Washington, D.C.
1942Geneticist, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom
1977Businessman, journalist, three-time Emmy award winner
1975Professor, history department, University of California, Berkeley
1981U.S. Secretary of Labor
(attended)Photojournalist[7]
1978Author and newspaper and magazine columnist[8]
1977UC Berkeley School of Law professor and scholar of crime and punishment
Justin Slaughter1998Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
1937United States Supreme Court Justice
1967Curator, critic, painter, dean of Yale School of Art
1962Law professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law
1956Television journalist
1987Professor of phonology and morphology at University of Cambridge
1957Seven-time Emmy award-winning screenwriter and author
1973Professor, Harvard Law School
1992Artist and architect[9]
Andrew Hill(attended c. 1945)Jazz pianist and composer[10]
1972Artist
1967Actress

Faculty

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ray Anderson Department of Music. www.stonybrook.edu. en. 2019-07-19.
  2. Web site: Chicago Kid Writes Software Program, Sells It to Canadian Firm. Shankarkumar. Shanthi. 1999-11-25. www.rediff.com. 2019-07-19.
  3. Web site: RISING STAR PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD . University of Chicago Laboratory Schools . November 11, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141111093100/http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/alumni/alumni-weekend/young-alumni-professional-achievement-award/index.aspx . November 11, 2014 .
  4. Web site: And the winner is: Sidwell Friends. Lee. Carol E.. POLITICO. en. 2019-07-19.
  5. Web site: John W. Rogers Jr., business and education leader, named chair of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools board | the University of Chicago . 2009-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100610031510/http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1651 . 2010-06-10 . dead .
  6. U Highlights.. U Highlights.. English. 1992. 43114715.
  7. Web site: Robert Sengstacke's Biography. The HistoryMakers. en. 2019-07-19.
  8. News: . Merit Semifinalists . Hyde Park Herald . Chicago, Illinois . September 28, 1977 . August 15, 2019 .
  9. Web site: Chicago's most significant cultural export isn't Chance. 2018-04-12. Crain's Chicago Business. en. 2019-04-18.
  10. News: Ratliff . Ben . February 24, 2006 . Andrew Hill: One Man's Lifelong Search for the Melody in Rhythm . The New York Times.