University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Paul Stanton

Senior strategist

Google

Dan Capron

Big Ten football official

Chicago attorney

Josh Nizzi

Entertainment designer

Designed ‘Iron Man 3’ robots

Bill McKay

Director, business operations

Ellington & French LLC

Cindy Dallas

Actress

21st pick, ’04 WNBA draft

Ashley Predith

Senior technical advisor

U.S. Department of Energy

Deb Neubek

Human systems engineering

NASA

Grace Woo

Pixels.IO founder

Graduated at age 19

Diane Pearse

Hickory Farms CEO

Ex-Crate & Barrel CFO

Jean Driscoll

8 Boston Marathon wins

USOC Hall of Famer

Annie Crawley

Underwater photographer

Women Divers Hall of Famer

Evangelos Benos

Senior economist

Bank of England

Keith Kizer

Nevada Athletic Commission

Executive director, 2006-14

Joe White

UI’s 16th President

Professor since 2009

Scott Altman

NASA astronaut

Flew 4 shuttle missions

Alex Tirapelle

All-American wrestler

Former Penn coach

Tony Waldrop

Former UI vice chancellor

South Alabama President

Michael Schwartz

President at 2 universities

Kent State, Cleveland State

Chuck Staben

Former president

University of Idaho, 2014-20

Tori Haring-Smith

Former president

Washington & Jefferson

Kyung Lah

National correspondent

CNN

Donn Pall

Former MLB pitcher

VP, Morgan Stanley

Sheldon Siegel

Author

2012 Illini Comeback Award

John McDonald

U.S. ambassador

Died in May 2019