| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Angela Alioto |
Politician |
20-Oct-1949 |
|
San Francisco politician and pundit |
| Phil Angelides |
Politician |
12-Jun-1953 |
|
Chair, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission |
| Dennis Archer |
Politician |
1-Jan-1942 |
|
Mayor of Detroit, 1994-2001 |
| David Axelrod |
Government |
22-Feb-1955 |
|
NBC talking head |
| Mario L. Baeza |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Baeza & Co. |
| Elizabeth F. Bagley |
Diplomat |
13-Feb-1952 |
|
US Ambassador to Portugal, 1994-97 |
| Dusty Baker |
Baseball |
15-Jun-1949 |
|
Ex-Manager, Cincinnati Reds |
| Ernie Banks |
Baseball |
31-Jan-1931 |
23-Jan-2015 |
National League MVP 1958 and 1959 |
| Roy Barnes |
Politician |
11-Mar-1948 |
|
Governor of Georgia, 1999-2003 |
| Andrew C. Barrett |
Government |
14-Apr-1942 |
|
FCC Commissioner, 1989-96 |
| Karen Bass |
Politician |
3-Oct-1953 |
|
Congresswoman, California 33rd |
| Jere Beasley |
Politician |
12-Dec-1935 |
|
Lt. Governor of Alabama, 1970-78 |
| Joshua Bekenstein |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
Bain Capital |
| Sandy Berger |
Government |
28-Oct-1945 |
2-Dec-2015 |
National Security Advisor for Bill Clinton |
| Jeffrey L. Bewkes |
Business |
25-May-1952 |
|
CEO of Time Warner |
| Frank Biondi |
Business |
9-Jan-1945 |
|
Former CEO, Viacom, Universal Studios |
| Stephen F. Bollenbach |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Hilton Hotels, 1996-2007 |
| Barbara L. Bowles |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
The Kenwood Group |
| Beth L. Bronner |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Mistral Equity Partners |
| Jackson Browne |
Singer/Songwriter |
9-Oct-1948 |
|
Running on Empty |
| Ronald W. Burkle |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Supermarket Billionaire |
| Roland W. Burris |
Politician |
8-Aug-1937 |
|
US Senator from Illinois, 2009-10 |
| LeVar Burton |
Actor |
16-Feb-1957 |
|
La Forge on Star Trek: TNG |
| Linda Walker Bynoe |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Telemat Limited |
| Debra A. Cafaro |
Business |
15-Dec-1957 |
|
CEO of Ventas |
| Kate Capshaw |
Actor |
3-Nov-1953 |
|
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
| Peter Cartwright |
Business |
6-Jan-1930 |
|
CEO of Calpine, 1984-2005 |
| Michael Chabon |
Novelist |
24-May-1963 |
|
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
| Kenneth Chenault |
Business |
2-Jun-1951 |
|
CEO of American Express |
| Henry Cisneros |
Politician |
11-Jun-1947 |
|
Secretary of HUD, 1993-97 |
| Frank M. Clark |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Commonwealth Edison |
| George Clooney |
Actor |
6-May-1961 |
|
E.R. |
| Johnnie Cochran |
Attorney |
2-Oct-1937 |
29-Mar-2005 |
Successfully defended O. J. Simpson |
| Ben Cohen |
Business |
18-Mar-1951 |
|
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. |
| Timothy C. Collins |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
Private equity, Ripplewood Holdings |
| Jeffrey Connaughton |
Attorney |
c. 1959 |
|
Lobbyist, Quinn Gillespie |
| Don Cornelius |
TV Personality |
27-Sep-1936 |
1-Feb-2012 |
Soul Train |
| W. Don Cornwell |
Business |
1948 |
|
CEO of Granite Broadcasting |
| Jon Corzine |
Politician |
1-Jan-1947 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 2006-10 |
| Molly J. Coye |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Founder, Health Technology Center |
| James Q. Crowe |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Level 3 Communications |
| James S. Crown |
Business |
25-Jun-1953 |
|
Henry Crown and Company |
| Susan Crown |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
VP at Henry Crown and Company |
| Lloyd Cutler |
Attorney |
10-Nov-1917 |
8-May-2005 |
White House Counsel for Carter, Clinton |
| William M. Daley |
Government |
8-Aug-1948 |
|
White House Chief of Staff, 2011-12 |
| Ronald E. Daly |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Oce USA Holding |
| Robert C. Davidson, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Surface Protection Industries |
| Gordon J. Davis |
Attorney |
7-Aug-1941 |
|
Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf |
| Alan Dershowitz |
Attorney |
1-Sep-1938 |
|
Lawyer, represented Klaus von Bulow |
| Daniel A. Dickinson |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Thayer Capital Partners |
| Barry Diller |
Business |
2-Feb-1942 |
|
CEO of USA Interactive Corp. |
| James Dimon |
Business |
13-Mar-1956 |
|
CEO of JP Morgan Chase |
| Wayne Dowdy |
Politician |
27-Jul-1943 |
|
Congressman from Mississippi, 1981-89 |
| Thomas J. Downey |
Politician |
28-Jan-1949 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1975-93 |
| Mervyn M. Dymally |
Politician |
12-May-1926 |
7-Oct-2012 |
Congressman from California, 1981-93 |
| Michael Eric Dyson |
Scholar |
23-Oct-1958 |
|
Know What I Mean? |
| Warren Eisenberg |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Co-Founder, Bed Bath and Beyond |
| Larry Ellison |
Business |
17-Aug-1944 |
|
Founder of Oracle |
| Susan E. Engel |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Lenox Group, 1996-2007 |
| Debrah Farentino |
Actor |
30-Sep-1959 |
|
Devon Adair on Earth 2 |
| Dianne Feinstein |
Politician |
22-Jun-1933 |
|
US Senator from California |
| Alan H. Fishman |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Meridian Capital Group |
| William C. Foote |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of USG |
| Charles T. Fote |
Business |
1949 |
|
CEO of First Data, 2002-05 |
| A. D. Frazier, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Danka Business Systems |
| Brenda J. Gaines |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Diners Club NA, 2002-04 |
| Peter Galbraith |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1950 |
|
The End of Iraq |
| Mark T. Gallogly |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Former Managing Director, Blackstone |
| David Geffen |
Business |
21-Feb-1943 |
|
Music and movie industry mogul |
| Kirsten Gillibrand |
Politician |
9-Dec-1966 |
|
US Senator from New York |
| Sue Ling Gin |
Business |
23-Sep-1941 |
|
Flying Food Group |
| Donald A. Glaser |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1926 |
28-Feb-2013 |
Inventor of the bubble chamber |
| Charles H. Goodman |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
Vice Chairman of Henry Crown & Co. |
| Bruce S. Gordon |
Business |
15-Feb-1946 |
|
President of the NAACP, 2005-07 |
| Berry Gordy |
Business |
28-Nov-1929 |
|
Founder of Motown Records |
| Earl G. Graves |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Black Enterprise magazine |
| Melanie Griffith |
Actor |
9-Aug-1957 |
|
Mom from Lolita redux |
| Lani Guinier |
Educator |
19-Apr-1950 |
|
The Tyranny of the Majority |
| Jasmine Guy |
Actor |
10-Mar-1962 |
|
A Different World |
| David W. Haas |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
Chairman, The William Penn Foundation |
| Herbie Hancock |
Jazz Musician |
12-Apr-1940 |
|
Innovative jazz/fusion composer and pianist |
| Christie Hefner |
Business |
8-Nov-1952 |
|
CEO of Playboy, 1988-2009 |
| John B. Hess |
Business |
5-Apr-1954 |
|
CEO of Amerada Hess |
| Michele J. Hooper |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Co-Founder, The Directors' Council |
| Norman Hsu |
Philanthropist |
Oct-1951 |
|
Notorious Democratic donor |
| Reed E. Hundt |
Business |
3-Mar-1948 |
|
FCC Chairman, 1993-97 |
| Glenn H. Hutchins |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Co-Founder, Silver Lake Partners |
| Stanley O. Ikenberry |
Educator |
1935 |
|
University of Illinois President, 1979-95 |
| Jesse Jackson, Jr. |
Politician |
11-Mar-1965 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1995-2012 |
| M. Christine Jacobs |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Theragenics |
| Edgar D. Jannotta |
Business |
27-Apr-1931 |
|
Chairman, William Blair & Company |
| Valerie B. Jarrett |
Business |
14-Nov-1956 |
|
White House Office of Public Liaison |
| Robert L. Johnson |
Business |
8-Apr-1946 |
|
CEO of BET |
| Sheila Crump Johnson |
Business |
1949 |
|
Billionaire |
| Dale E. Jones |
Business |
1959 |
|
Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles |
| Vernon Jordan |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
|
Advisor to Bill Clinton |
| Elena Kagan |
Judge |
28-Apr-1960 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Bruce Karatz |
Business |
1945 |
|
CEO of KB Home, 1986-2006 |
| Juliette Kayyem |
Government |
16-Aug-1969 |
|
Counterterrorism wonk |
| Dennis J. Keller |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
DeVry Institute of Technology |
| Lydia H. Kennard |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Los Angeles World Airports |
| Martin S. Kimmel |
Business |
9-Apr-1916 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Founder of Kimco Realty |
| Lester B. Knight |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Allegiance Corporation, 1996-99 |
| Kay Koplovitz |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Co-Founder, USA Network |
| Orin Kramer |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Chair, New Jersey State Investment Council |
| Sherry Lansing |
Business |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Former Paramount executive |
| Norman Lear |
Film/TV Producer |
27-Jul-1922 |
|
Creator of All in the Family |
| Debra L. Lee |
Business |
1955 |
|
CEO of BET Networks |
| Tom Lehrer |
Comic |
9-Apr-1928 |
|
Comedic songwriter |
| Richard G. Lesser |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
COO of TJX, 1994-99 |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Attorney |
3-Jun-1961 |
|
Constitutional and internet law |
| William M. Lewis, Jr. |
Business |
30-Apr-1956 |
|
Co-Chair Investment Banking at Lazard |
| William G. Little |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Quam Nichols Co. |
| Haki R. Madhubuti |
Author |
23-Feb-1942 |
|
Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? |
| Ellen Malcolm |
Activist |
2-Feb-1947 |
|
Founder, EMILY's List |
| Philip A. Marineau |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Levi Strauss, 1999-2006 |
| R. Eden Martin |
Attorney |
1940 |
|
Former Partner, Sidley Austin |
| Caroline S. Matthews |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia |
| Michael B. McCallister |
Business |
27-May-1952 |
|
CEO of Humana |
| John W. McCarter, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of the Field Museum |
| Gabrielle K. McDonald |
Judge |
12-Apr-1942 |
|
US District Court Judge, Texas, 1979-88 |
| Raymond J. McGuire |
Business |
1957 |
|
Citigroup M&A executive |
| Rose E. McKinney-James |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Energy Works Consulting LLC |
| Gary A. Mecklenburg |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare |
| Kendrick Meek |
Politician |
6-Sep-1966 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 2003-11 |
| Thomas J. Meredith |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CFO of Dell, 1992-2000 |
| Abner J. Mikva |
Politician |
21-Jan-1926 |
|
Illinois Congressman, Clinton Counsel |
| Newton N. Minow |
Government |
17-Jan-1926 |
|
FCC Chairman, 1961-63 |
| Steven T. Mnuchin |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
Dune Capital Management |
| Walter Mondale |
Politician |
5-Jan-1928 |
|
US Vice President under Jimmy Carter |
| Regina Montoya |
Business |
25-Dec-1953 |
|
CEO of New America Alliance |
| John P. Morgridge |
Business |
23-Jul-1933 |
|
CEO of Cisco, 1988-95 |
| Roger B. Myerson |
Economist |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Bernard W. Nussbaum |
Attorney |
23-Mar-1937 |
|
White House Counsel for Bill Clinton |
| Martha Nussbaum |
Philosopher |
6-May-1947 |
|
The Fragility of Goodness |
| Stanley O'Neal |
Business |
7-Oct-1951 |
|
CEO of Merrill Lynch, 2002-07 |
| Barack Obama |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1961 |
|
44th President of the United States |
| Charles Ogletree |
Attorney |
31-Dec-1952 |
|
Law professor |
| Lyndon L. Olson |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Sweden, 1998-2001 |
| William A. Osborn |
Business |
14-Oct-1947 |
|
CEO of Northern Trust, 1995-2008 |
| Sara Paretsky |
Novelist |
8-Jun-1947 |
|
V. I. Warshawski detective novels |
| Deval Patrick |
Politician |
31-Jul-1956 |
|
Governor of Massachusetts |
| Frank H. Pearl |
Business |
27-May-1943 |
4-May-2012 |
CEO of Perseus LLC |
| John Podesta |
Government |
c. 1949 |
|
White House Chief of Staff for Pres. Clinton |
| David S. Pottruck |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Charles Schwab, 1998-2004 |
| Hugh B. Price |
Activist |
1941 |
|
President of the Urban League, 1994-2003 |
| Penny Pritzker |
Business |
2-May-1959 |
|
US Secretary of Commerce |
| Stephen R. Quazzo |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
Transwestern Investment Company |
| Franklin Raines |
Government |
14-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1999-2004 |
| Harold Ramis |
Comic |
21-Nov-1944 |
24-Feb-2014 |
Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters |
| Steven Rattner |
Business |
5-Jul-1952 |
|
Quadrangle Group |
| Steven S. Reinemund |
Business |
6-Apr-1948 |
|
CEO of Pepsi, 2001-06 |
| Rob Reiner |
Actor |
6-Mar-1947 |
|
Meathead |
| Linda Johnson Rice |
Business |
22-Mar-1958 |
|
CEO of Johnson Publishing |
| Roy S. Roberts |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Former GM executive |
| Chris Rock |
Comic |
7-Feb-1965 |
|
Everybody Hates Chris |
| Sharon Percy Rockefeller |
Business |
10-Dec-1944 |
|
CEO of WETA Public Broadcasting |
| Johnathan A. Rodgers |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of TV One |
| John W. Rogers, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Ariel Capital Management |
| Steven S. Rogers |
Educator |
c. 1955 |
|
Finance Profesor, Northwestern University |
| Felix Rohatyn |
Business |
29-May-1928 |
|
Financier, Lazard Frères |
| Edward W. Rose |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Cardinal Investment Co. |
| Sheli Z. Rosenberg |
Business |
2-Feb-1942 |
|
Equity Group Investments |
| John W. Rowe |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
President and CEO of Exelon |
| William C. Rudin |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
Rudin Management Company |
| Ellen A. Rudnick |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship |
| Edward B. Rust, Jr. |
Business |
3-Aug-1950 |
|
CEO of State Farm Insurance |
| Paul Sagan |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
CEO of Akamai |
| John F. Sandner |
Business |
3-Nov-1941 |
|
Past Chairman, Chicago Mercantile Exchange |
| Roger W. Sant |
Business |
c. 1930 |
|
Billionaire, AES |
| Kurt L. Schmoke |
Politician |
1-Dec-1949 |
|
Mayor of Baltimore, 1988-99 |
| Robert W. Scully |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Morgan Stanley Asset Management |
| Nicole K. Seligman |
Attorney |
1957 |
|
General Counsel of Sony |
| Terry Semel |
Business |
24-Feb-1943 |
|
CEO of Yahoo, 2001-07 |
| Ajay B. Shah |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
Co-Founder, Smart Modular Technologies |
| Stanley K. Sheinbaum |
Activist |
12-Jun-1920 |
|
Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly |
| Jon A. Shirley |
Business |
1938 |
|
President and COO of Microsoft, 1983-90 |
| Stanley S. Shuman |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
Allen & Company |
| Adele Simmons |
Administrator |
21-Jun-1941 |
|
President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99 |
| James D. Sinegal |
Business |
1-Jan-1936 |
|
Co-founder of Costco |
| Jack Skolds |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
EVP at Exelon, 2003-07 |
| Jada Pinkett Smith |
Actor |
18-Sep-1971 |
|
A Different World |
| Paula A. Sneed |
Business |
10-Nov-1947 |
|
Retired EVP, Kraft Foods |
| Hugo F. Sonnenschein |
Economist |
1941 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000 |
| George Soros |
Business |
12-Aug-1930 |
|
Financial speculator |
| Jerry I. Speyer |
Business |
23-Jun-1940 |
|
Tishman Speyer Properties |
| Steven Spielberg |
Film Director |
18-Dec-1946 |
|
E.T. |
| Paul T. Stecko |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Packaging Corporation of America |
| Adlai E. Stevenson III |
Politician |
10-Oct-1930 |
|
US Senator from Illinois, 1970-81 |
| Mike Stoller |
Songwriter |
13-Mar-1933 |
|
Hitmaker for Elvis |
| Barbra Streisand |
Singer |
24-Apr-1942 |
|
You Don't Bring Me Flowers |
| Pamela B. Strobel |
Attorney |
c. 1953 |
|
Former CAO, Exelon |
| Cass Sunstein |
Scholar |
21-Sep-1954 |
|
Why Societies Need Dissent |
| Stuart A. Taylor II |
Business |
28-Nov-1960 |
|
The Taylor Group LLC |
| Franklin A. Thomas |
Attorney |
27-May-1934 |
|
President of the Ford Foundation, 1979-96 |
| Andrew H. Tisch |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Loews Corporation |
| Laurence Tribe |
Attorney |
10-Oct-1941 |
|
Harvard Law Professor |
| Chris Tucker |
Comic |
31-Aug-1972 |
|
Rush Hour |
| Scott Turow |
Novelist |
12-Apr-1949 |
|
Presumed Innocent |
| Robert Venturi |
Architect |
25-Jun-1925 |
|
Postmodernist architect |
| Lillian Vernon |
Business |
18-Mar-1927 |
14-Dec-2015 |
Mail-order maven of America |
| Patricia K. Vincent |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Executive at Xcel Energy |
| David J. Vitale |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CAO, Chicago Public Schools |
| Stephen R. Volk |
Attorney |
c. 1935 |
|
Vice Chairman of Citigroup |
| Marilou von Ferstel |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart |
| George Vradenburg |
Attorney |
14-Mar-1943 |
|
Strategic Advisor for AOL Time Warner |
| Elizabeth Warren |
Educator |
22-Jun-1949 |
|
US Senator from Massachusetts |
| Alice Waters |
Chef |
28-Apr-1944 |
|
Chez Panisse |
| Togo West |
Government |
21-Jun-1942 |
|
US Secretary of the Army, Veterans Affairs |
| Kelvin R. Westbrook |
Business |
1955 |
|
Millenium Digital Media |
| Fletcher H. Wiley |
Attorney |
29-Nov-1942 |
|
Of Counsel, Bingham McCutchen |
| Harris Wofford |
Politician |
9-Apr-1926 |
|
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1991-95 |
| Tom Wolfe |
Author |
2-Mar-1931 |
|
Bonfire of the Vanities |
| Deborah C. Wright |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of Carver Bancorp |
| Jeffrey Wright |
Actor |
7-Dec-1965 |
|
Basquiat |
| Jeremiah Wright |
Religion |
22-Sep-1941 |
|
Trinity United Church of Christ |
| Matthew Zell |
Business |
c. 1967 |
|
Equity Group Investments |
