University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Justin Gordon

Actor

‘Age of the Living Dead’

Ngozi Okorafor

Director of employment actions

Cook County Sheriff's Department

Ahmed Abukhater

Digital aviation, Boeing

Palestine powerlifting champ

Bruce Blair

Nuclear security expert

Won 1999 'Genius' grant

Parisa Tabriz

'Browser Boss'

Google

Tom Lamont

Assistant Army Secretary

Obama Administration

Eboo Patel

Faith advisor

Obama Administration

Larry Beyah

Stand-up comedian

Gotham Comedy Club

Michael Coates

Former Twitter chief information security officer

Co-founder & CEO, Altitude Networks

David Wrone

Author, historian, professor

Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Tonya Williams

2-time All-American

1995-96 Dike Eddleman Award

Craig Vodnik

Co-founder

Cleverbridge

Alexander Djordjevic

Concert pianist

Grace Welsh Prize for Piano

Mark Bartelstein

NBA, NFL agent

Priority Sports/Entertainment

Steve Stricker

PGA Tour star

2013 Byron Nelson Award

Mike Kerns

Discovery lead, wheat

Bayer CropScience

Marty Casey

Rock singer, guitarist

The Lovehammers

Tatyana McFadden

Record-breaking Paralympian

17 Summer Games medals

Florence Pak

Design director

Conde Nast Wired

Javier Cevallos

University president

Framingham State

Susan Nagele

Medal of Valor winner

Maryknoll Lay Missioner

Steve Raquel

Chief Illiniwek 29

President, IOVMedia

Scott Brakenridge

Chief Illiniwek 32

Florida surgeon

Matt Gawne

Chief Illiniwek 22

Procter & Gamble