University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

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

Lynn Morley Martin

21st Secretary of Labor

U.S. Rep, 1981-91

Jeff Huber

CEO, Grail

Former Google exec

Scott Atlas

Stanford’s Hoover Institution

Alumni Achievement Award

Andrea Evans

Soap opera actress

Tina on ‘One Life To Live'

Freeman Hrabowski

President, UMBC

One of Time’s ‘Most Influential'

Dave Eggers

Best-selling author

Time Book of Year winner

Tim McCarthy

Former Secret Service agent

Retired Orland Park; police chief

Bill Nack

Sports Illustrated legend

Died in April 2018

Dan Savage

Sex-advice columnist

Writes ‘Savage Love´

Jeff Johnson

President, Hearst newspaper division

Former San Francisco Chronicle publisher

Irl Engelhardt

Energy executive

Peabody CEO, 1990-2005

Tom Siebel

Software entrepreneur

Donated $157 million-plus

Rick Kaplan

TV executive

Ex-president, CNN, MSNBC

Don Wilmeth

Brown professor

Alumni Achievement Award

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Oscar nominee for 1986's 'The Color of Money'

Played Gina Montana in ‘Scarface’ in first movie role