University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Mannie Jackson

Basketball Hall of Famer

CEO, Harlem Globetrotters

Stan Ikenberry

UI’s 14th president, 1979-95

Longest-serving president

Colleen Callahan

Director, Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Distinguished Service Award recipient

Rob Kennedy

President

C-SPAN

Phillip Sharp

Renowned geneticist, biologist

Shared 1993 Nobel Prize

Judi Nash

Miss America 1969

Delta Gamma alumna

Jason Febery

Product manager

Google

Bill Baker

Structural engineer

Alumni Achievement Award

Samuel Skinner

Chief of staff

White House, 1991-92

Linda Birnbaum

NIEHS director

Distinguished Alumni Award

Mohamed El-Ashry

Senior fellow

United Nations Foundation

Carol Ross Barney

Pioneering architect

Thomas Jefferson Award

Paola Boivin

Selection committee member

College Football Playoff

Grace Woo

Pixels.IO founder

Graduated at age 19

Bruce Goodwin

National security expert

Engineering alumni award

Jean Driscoll

8 Boston Marathon wins

USOC Hall of Famer

Tonja Buford-Bailey

3-time Olympian

1992 NCAA hurdles champ

Barry Bearak

Pulitzer-winning reporter

The New York Times

Ryan Hoch

Forbes 30-under-30

Overgrad CEO

Katharine Hayhoe

Climate scientist

One of Time’s 'Most influential'

Annie Crawley

Underwater photographer

Women Divers Hall of Famer

Al Roth

Shared Nobel in Economics

UI professor, 1974-82

Edna Greene Medford

Lincoln Laureate

2013 LAS Alumni Award

John Cioffi

‘The father of DSL’

Internet Hall of Famer