List of University of Chicago Laboratory Schools people
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This is list of notable people who attended, taught at, or were otherwise affiliated with the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
Alumni
Name | Year | Notability | Reference |
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Ray Anderson | 1969 | Jazz trombonist, composer, bandleader, artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University | [1] |
Robert Orville Anderson | 1935 | American businessman and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. | |
W. Kamau Bell | 1990 | Stand-up comic | |
Rishi Bhat | 2002 | Former child actor, starred in The Indian in the Cupboard; internet entrepreneur | [2] |
Charles Bidwell | 1946 | Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Chicago | |
David Bloom | 1962 | Jazz musician and instructor | |
Chesa Boudin | 1999 | San Francisco district attorney | |
Bill Bradbury | 1967 | Oregon Secretary of State | |
Torrey C. Brown | 1957 | Maryland Secretary of Natural Resources | |
Paul Butterfield | 1960 | Blues musician and bandleader | |
Erwin Chemerinsky | 1971 | Law professor at Duke University; dean of the law school at University of California, Irvine; dean of UC Berkeley School of Law | |
Joyce Chiang | 1988 | Murder victim, INS attorney | |
Daniel Clowes | 1979 | Author, screenwriter, and cartoonist of alternative comic books | |
Selma Jeanne Cohen | 1939 | Dance historian and dance critic for The New York Times | |
Bill Bradbury | 1967 | Oregon Secretary of State | |
Barbara Flynn Currie | 1958 | Former member of the Illinois House of Representatives | |
Michael DeSombre | 1986 | Ambassador to Thailand | |
Carol Kreeger Davidson | 1945 | Sculptor | |
Arne Duncan | 1982 | Chicago Public Schools CEO, US Secretary of Education | |
Elizabeth Fama | 1981 | Children's author | |
Castle Freeman, Jr. | 1962 | Author, contributor to The Old Farmer's Almanac | |
David D. Friedman | 1961 | Economist, physicist, legal scholar and libertarian theorist | |
Andrea Ghez | 1983 | Astrophysicist, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2008), Nobel Prize winner (2020) | |
Langdon Gilkey | 1936 | Professor of Theology and comparative religions, University of Chicago | |
Leslie Hairston | 1979 | Chicago alderman | |
Matthew Headrick | 1990 | 1990 winner of the Intel/Westinghouse Science Talent Search | |
Hal Higdon | 1947 | Writer and runner, longtime contributor to Runner's World | |
Maria Hinojosa | 1979 | Journalist | |
Valerie Jarrett | (attended) | Senior advisor to United States President Barack Obama | |
Denise Jefferson | 1947 | Dance educator, former director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | |
Margo Jefferson | 1964 | Pulitzer Prize-winning author, former theater critic at the New York Times, professor at Columbia University and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts | |
Nancy Johnson | 1951 | Connecticut congresswoman (1983–2006) | |
Lucy Kaplansky | 1978 | Folk singer and songwriter | |
Leon Kass | 1954 | Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago | |
Sam Kass | 1998 | President Barack Obama's Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy and Let's Move! Executive Director | |
Leo Katz | 1974 | Law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School | |
Robert Keohane | 1958 | Political scientist | |
Shahar Kober | (attended) | Illustrator | |
Lily Koppel | 1999 | Journalist and writer | |
Sherry Lansing | 1962 | Former chief of Paramount Studios and Academy Award winner (2007) | |
David F. Levi | Judge and dean, Duke University Law School | ||
Edward H. Levi | 1928 | President of the University of Chicago, United States Attorney General | |
John G. Levi | 1965 | Chairperson of Legal Services Corporation | |
George Lewis | 1969 | Trombonist, composer, author, Columbia University professor, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2002), AACM member | |
Wendell Lim | 1983 | Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco | [3] |
W. Ian Lipkin | 1970 | Infectious disease epidemiologist at Columbia University | |
Richard A. Loeb | 1920 | Murderer of Bobby Franks (along with Nathan Leopold) | |
Emily Mann | 1970 | Playwright; artistic director of McCarter Theater | |
Lynn Margulis | 1952 | Biologist, University of Massachusetts Amherst | |
William Hardy McNeill | 1934 | Professor emeritus, University of Chicago History Department, National Humanities Medal winner | |
Daniel Meltzer | 1968 | Principal Deputy White House Counsel to the U.S. President; Professor, Harvard Law School | |
David O. Meltzer | 1982 | Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago | |
Diane E. Meier | 1969 | Geriatrician, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2008) | |
Muffie Meyer | 1972 | Peabody Award and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker | |
Clark Blanchard Millikan | Aeronautical engineer | ||
Elliot Mincberg | 1970 | Chief Counsel for Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House Judiciary Committee; director and lawyer at People for the American Way | |
Graham Moore | 1999 | Academy Award-winning screenwriter and author | [3] |
Bill Morrison | 1983 | Director and artist | |
Stephanie Neely | 1983 | Treasurer of the City of Chicago | |
Paul Nitze | 1923 | Public servant, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom, namesake of Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University | |
Malia and Sasha Obama | (attended until December 2008) | Daughters of United States President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama | [4] |
Mark Patinkin | 1970 | Newspaper columnist and author | |
Eric Posner | 1984 | Professor of Law, University of Chicago | |
Kwame Raoul | 1982 | Illinois Attorney General | [3] |
James M. Redfield | 1950 | Professor, classics and social thought, University of Chicago | |
Salli Richardson | 1985 | Film and television actress | |
John Rogers, Jr. | 1976 | Founding chairman and chief executive officer of Ariel Investments | [5] |
Ned Rorem | 1940 | Pulitzer prize-winning composer and author | |
Sarah Rose | 1992 | Reality TV star, Wall Street Journal contributor, historian, and author | [6] |
Carlo Rotella | 1983 | Non-fiction writer, academic, professor at Boston College | |
Ari Roth | 1978 | Artistic director, playwright, Theater J, Washington, D.C. | |
Janet Rowley | 1942 | Geneticist, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom | |
Paul Sagan | 1977 | Businessman, journalist, three-time Emmy award winner | |
Peter Sahlins | 1975 | Professor, history department, University of California, Berkeley | |
Eugene Scalia | 1981 | U.S. Secretary of Labor | |
Robert A. Sengstacke | (attended) | Photojournalist | [7] |
Amity Shlaes | 1978 | Author and newspaper and magazine columnist | [8] |
Jonathan Simon | 1977 | UC Berkeley School of Law professor and scholar of crime and punishment | |
Justin Slaughter | 1998 | Member of the Illinois House of Representatives | |
John Paul Stevens | 1937 | United States Supreme Court Justice | |
Robert Storr | 1967 | Curator, critic, painter, dean of Yale School of Art | |
Eleanor Swift | 1962 | Law professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law | |
Garrick Utley | 1956 | Television journalist | |
Bert Vaux | 1987 | Professor of phonology and morphology at University of Cambridge | |
Geoffrey Ward | 1957 | Seven-time Emmy award-winning screenwriter and author | |
David B. Wilkins | 1973 | Professor, Harvard Law School | |
Amanda Williams | 1992 | Artist and architect | [9] |
Christopher Wool | 1972 | Artist | |
Amy Wright | 1967 | Actress |
Faculty
- Blue Balliett, former 3rd grade teacher, author of acclaimed children's books Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3, among others.
- Barbara T. Bowman, early childhood education expert and advocate.
- Wayne Brasler, former U-High Journalism adviser, awards annual Brasler Prize for outstanding high school journalism.
- Langston Hughes, author.
- Vivian Paley, former teacher and noted child psychologist.
- Craig Robinson, former head basketball coach, former Oregon State University head basketball coach; brother of Michelle Obama.
References
- ^ "Ray Anderson | Department of Music". www.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ Shankarkumar, Shanthi (1999-11-25). "Chicago Kid Writes Software Program, Sells It to Canadian Firm". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ a b c "RISING STAR PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD". University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Archived from the original on November 11, 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
- ^ Lee, Carol E. "And the winner is: Sidwell Friends". POLITICO. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ "John W. Rogers Jr., business and education leader, named chair of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools board | the University of Chicago". Archived from the original on 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
- ^ "U Highlights". U Highlights. 1992. OCLC 43114715.
- ^ "Robert Sengstacke's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ "Merit Semifinalists". Hyde Park Herald. Chicago, Illinois. September 28, 1977. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
- ^ "Chicago's most significant cultural export isn't Chance". Crain's Chicago Business. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-18.