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People 319 Award winners

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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

Dan Balz

Chief correspondent

The Washington Post

Clifford Saper

Harvard professor

Groundbreaking neuroscientist

Ayala Donchin

New York restaurant owner

Founded Evelyn’s Kitchen

Betty Mohlenbrock

President, Reading Legacies

Alumni Humanitarian Award

Sheldon Siegel

Author

2012 Illini Comeback Award

Bill Geist

Author, columnist, humorist

Won Emmys in 1992, 2005

Ang Lee

Movie maker

3 Oscar wins with 3 movies

Roxanne Decyk

Former oil industry executive

Held top posts at Shell, Amoco

Mary Doria Russell

Science fiction author

2-time Pulitzer nominee